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A confident Dana White defends policy of confidentiality on fighter pay and welcomes government scrutiny
CHICAGO -- Dana White has his mind made up. You're never going to know what UFC fighters truly make and that's just the way it has to be.
"So just because you don't know everything, you don't have to know anything, and to be honest with you? It's none of your [expletive] business how much these guys are making. They're making a lot of money. [...] How much money is none of your business. I'm not asking how much money you're making," said White (3:10 mark).
White believes that the salary information, so readily available in the other pro sports has ruined things for the athletes. He pointed to the recent $214 million megadeal inked by Detroit Tigers first baseman Prince Fielder.
"His whole life is going to change. He thought it was bad before with the (expletive) he had going on in his life? Everybody and their mother is coming after that 214," White said (2:10 mark). "Believe me when I tell you. Mark my words, Prince Fielder talk to me in five years and tell me what it was like when the news put out there that you were making $214 million dollars. I'm not going to do that to my guys."
The UFC often gets a bad rap for fighter pay because the only numbers revealed are those given to state commissions. The promotion beefs up the pay with behind-the-scenes discretionary and pay-per-view bonuses. White is often asked if all the complaints about pay would go away if Zuffa simply revealed all the details.
"Even when we sat down and had that first FOX meeting, the guys at FOX were like, holy [expletive]! They're like, 'Why don't you plaster this everywhere? This is the thing that will put you guys over the top. This is the thing that people love to see and talk about. Look at Mike Tyson.' And I said, 'Yeah, look at Mike Tyson,'" White said. "I've had these conversations with Mike. Mike said that when his money was reported, his [expletive] life was miserable. I'm not doing it."
Some believe the UFC's reluctance to be more transparent prompted the Federal Trade Commission to open an anti-trust violation investigation to look into Zuffa's practices.
"My understanding is that yes [the FTC has] opened a non-public investigation based on the acquisition we made of Strikeforce," said UFC owner Lorenzo Fertitta.
CBSSports.com's Gregg Doyel said this is a sign of awful things to come for the UFC.
The FTC vs. the UFC? That's a heavyweight fight. That's Dana White's worst nightmare. The FTC looks for antitrust violations, picking apart monopolies as the unfair bullies they are -- and as far as I'm concerned, the UFC is guilty as charged.
The story set off White.
"There was guy yesterday, he wrote this story and you could tell this thing was like 'I want some attention. I want some attention. Maybe he'll get mad and say some [expletive].' [...] When we get stories written about us like that, I know it seems like I get crazy and come off too personal ... well, [expletive] yeah it's personal! What you're saying is untrue," said White (0:51 mark).
White said everything about the promotion is on the up and up.
"If the government wants to come in and look inside and take a peak and look around, they're more than welcome," White said. "Many of you have heard stories and all kinds of things ... mark my [expletive] words right here, right now, today ... we're not going anywhere. And everything we say is true."
As far as we know the FTC is still looking at Zuffa. White certainly came off sounding very confident nothing will come from the investigation.
White pointed out that there is no sport that has been more heavily scrutinized by governments all levels. The promotion has survived and thrived to become what White called the best sports story of the last 50 years.


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Users must maintain an account as usual. Twitter will select tweets for promotion, excluding retweets and replies to messages from other users. It is expected that the new tool will benefit not only the company, but ordinary users.
Subscription-based company wants to increase revenues. The recent report of the company even surpassed the expectations of analysts, but still brought down the company's shares by 14 percent. In the second quarter of 2017 advertising revenues amounted to 439 million dollars, compared with 535 million dollars in the same period last year.
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Michael RosenthalSpecial Research Scholar in the Department of English and Comparative Literature
Areas of Interest :Late Victorian and Edwardian popular culture; Bloomsbury; the modern British novel
B.A., Harvard (1958); M.A., University of Wisconsin (1959); Ph.D., Columbia (1967). Professor Rosenthal is interested in British literature and culture of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He is the author of Virginia Woolf and The Character Factory: Baden-Powell's Boy Scouts and the Imperatives of Empire.


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"What?" you say, "The Special Election was that MASSacre where the teabaggers elected one of their own to fill Ted Kennedy's Senate seat!"
But No. Now it's Connecticut's turn, so Wake up Connecticut!
There is a Special Election on March 2nd for State House of Representatives seat for the 120th District in Stratford!
This is the reverse-Teddy Kennedy seat on a local level. It was held for too many years by a Republican seat warmer. Now that this character is going to do nothing as Mayor of Stratford his seat is growing cold and there will be a special election. Take It Back!
Janice Andersen is the candidate. You may remember her from her valiant if not ultimately successful run for State Senate in 2008. [As an aside, if we had won that race we might not have to contend with Dibecella running against Jim Himes. Sorry, I digress...]
As a lifelong Democrat, I have stood up for these values. As a member of the Board of Education, I fought for fiscally responsible budgeting and greater transparency. As Deputy Director of a regional non-profit, I've worked day in and day out to create and support numerous youth development programs. I have a record of advocating for child and families both as a member of the Department of Children and Families State Advisory Council and past Co-Chair of Connecticut Children's Behavioral Health Advisory Council.Here is our chance for pushback - let's prove that we are not smothered by the Massachusetts special Election. Let's get Janice Andersen elected March 2nd and let's not wait until a week before the election to get to work.
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Look you guys already have the Super majority, you guys own the mess we're in. The last thing we need is to pad the ranks with more of the same.
If the last administration has taught the voters anything, it's that Republicans have a problem with "fuzzy math". It's not your fault...it goes back to Ronald Reagan (as George H. W. Bush - Bush '41 to you guys - informed us back then.)
Use your toes as well as your fingers & thumbs -- Democrats have a 57-41 majority in the Senate, with 2 independents (supposedly) siding with them: for a (nominal at best) 59-41 majority in the Senate.
When I went to school, 59 was less than 60, the putative "super-majority". But maybe you guys changed that law as well.
Of course, you'll keep on saying this...after all, if you say it often enough, it must be true!
Uh, Bob, he was talking about the super majority in the State Assembly, not the US Senate.
However, if there's one lesson that the Democrats need to get through their heads, it's that a "super majority" won't get squat done if they don't have solid and dependable leadership.
Look at the current state budget process; if there was EVER an opportunity for a party with a super majority to lead and make a real difference, this is it. However, we seem to only be wallowing our way towards an expensive and long overdue solution.
This is gonna be a blown opportunity, and the voters will realize it. We're gonna get creamed in November, mark my words.
And we deserve to be creamed...unless we get our act together in the upcoming session.
(And the putative super-majority in the State Senate is as illusory as was the national one) Same-same issue.
Just to be sure that everyone knows, this map of Stratford shows its three Connecticut House districts. The further north you go, the more Republican it seems to get.
OS, thanks for the map. I live in the 118th, but I can see the 120th from my house (much easier than Sarah Palin can see Russia from her house!)
OK, maybe I got to drive about 1/2 mile to see the 120th, but it's close enough that I'd like to see it be in Democratic hands.
You can also see the 121th, home to salty Democrat and oysterman, Terry Backer.


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Its been well over a decade since the Norwegian Symphonic Black Metal outfit Dimmu Borgir were in their prime, I would consider 2004's Death Cult Armageddon to be the groups last truly great record. Since then the bands activity has slowing, their records In Sorte Diaboli and Abrahadabra haven't lived up to the former glory. With a worrying eight year gap between albums I welcome anything from my favorite band but reserve any excitement as it would be foolish to expect them to rekindle the old flames. This newest adventure embarks us on a ritualistic journey through ancient astral lore as its tone and track listing would suggest.
This new chapter been a fair listen, an easy, enjoyable record that does little wrong but lacks the intensity and atmosphere to elevate its core ideas to epic proportion. Further exaggerating what they have done before, Eonian is finely tuned with its crisp and gleaming production, polished to a fault. It takes a real hammering of blast beats and guitar trashing to create anything remotely overwhelming. Instead the record often indulges in this sleek sound with eruptions of lush atmospheres that lean on its light, audible guitar licks, comforting symphonics and expansive drums that conjures a sense of scale with its lumbering pace packed with arranged fills.
Either its crutch or a crux the record continually embellishes many of its climatic and powerful passageways with these strong choirs, often effeminate voices soaring with a touch of devilish mischief and between them plenty of choral synths line much of the musics design. Often its fantastic, on a few instances a little soar but most of all its an obvious progression from a trend on Abrahadabra that leaves the guitars playing second fiddle to everything else. Its not something to take issue with, just an observation that they are toned down by these musicians who used to bring so much venom and exhilarating annihilation through their power chord shredding riffs.
Behind the aesthetics and nuances of composition we have some fantastic song writing that tends to stray towards cosmically majestic and uplifting moments as opposed to the hellish plunges into darkness they would so commonly do in the past. Essentially these are seasoned musicians evolving their sound in the opposite direction yet holding onto their "extreme" identity. It results in mixed feelings, an appreciation of the now more expansive music, yet an attachment to how these songs might of once played out decades ago in a more to the point manor. With lingering elements of their old identity holding on it sounds like they aren't quite through a transitional period, however Eonian clearly reaches the other side with quite a few strides on this decent record.
Favorite Tracks: I Am Sovereign, Archaic Correspondence, Rite Of Passage
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Accounting firm saves big bucks with big IT strategy
Grant Thornton finds cost-saving benefits through consolidation and networked storage technology
(Editor's note: This is the final of three profiles of the SearchStorage Innovator Award winners, which were presented March 20 in Chicago. This week we take a look at one of the winners in the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) category.)
Before Dave Johnson joined Grant Thornton, LLP, the sixth-largest accounting firm in the world, as Director of Technology, its IT infrastructure was a scattered hodgepodge of remote offices and localized networks. Today the firm has a standardized, centralized network that shares four EMC storage systems with 100% automated data backup, and it's saving the company more than $850,000 per year.
So how did Johnson and his team revamp Chicago, Ill.-based Grant Thornton's infrastructure and manage to bag such a huge savings in Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)? The answer, said Johnson, was consolidation.
"Five years ago we had 44 remote office locations each buying its own software. It was all over the place," Johnson said.
The firm faced a choice - gut and consolidate its nationwide IT infrastructure and implement networked storage, or face the future with a direct-attached, disparate IT environment. The choice, as it turns out, was no choice at all.
The project, dubbed the National Information Technology Initiative, began with the company's headquarters and spread to the rest of the organization.
"They had copper running up the elevator shaft," Johnson said. "Every time the elevator went by, there were error messages. None of the backups worked." In other words, the infrastructure in use was poor at best.
The team was to implement a geocentric design that nationalized the organization. Johnson and his team went to each of the 44 remote locations, one-by-one and replaced every IT gizmo in operation in approximately 18 months.
Grant Thornton consolidated all 44 locations into a clustered Exchange environment. The storage portion of the project utilized an EMC Clariion system with an automated backup solution featuring a StorageTek 480 tape library and Commvault's Galaxy software in each of four regional data centers.
The results were astounding.
"We went from offering five services to 50 using the same budget," said Johnson. The company was able to deploy unified voice and data messaging throughout its business, allowing users to download all e-mail, voice mail and faxes remotely.
Grant Thornton got a handle on its nationwide network usage and now records close to perfect results with its data backup operations.
The initial layout for the project was $18 million, not a number to scoff at, even for the sixth-largest accounting house on the planet. But the payback was huge.
The end result of the company's consolidation was four Exchange servers, a single database with SAN underpinnings, and a yearly savings of $850,000, with disk savings of $150,000 right out of the chute.
"We had a lot of challenges getting to the point we're at right now," said Jim Moore, Grant Thornton's head engineer.
Moore said there was a fair amount of guessing going on around the EMC implementation. "We weren't sure which RAID configurations to use or how much capacity we would need. We're glad we didn't max out the [capacity of the storage] cabinets. That would have been like shooting yourself in the foot," he said.
Moore recommends that users use a partial implementation strategy to avoid any major issues.
It would have been really helpful if we had found someone who was doing what we were doing at the time," added Moore.MORE INFO LINKS
For more information about Grant Thornton, visit its Web site.
For additional information about EMC, visit its Web site.
For more information:
- SearchStorage Best Web Links: Enterprise Storage Management
- Planning, communication keys to controlling budget and reducing TCO
- Additional information on the three Storage Innovator award winners for 2002


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First, the name they chose for their school (Kito) means something along the lines of "rise and fall," or since I almost always prefer looser, more westernized translations, I call it "waxing and waning." See, the most distinctive philosophical principle of the old Kito school seems to have been that everything is always waxing and waning.
Our strength rises and falls. Our enemy's strength rises and falls. What seems strong in one sense is weak from another point of view. If you can figure out how to survive the ride until your strength is waxing and your enemy's strength is waning, then you will crash over him like a wave.
You can mainly see this idea represented in the kata in the first section (omote). The first section is composed of matched pairs of techniques which mostly start the same way, but reach a branch in the stream where they either flow one way or the other.
Take the first technique pair, for instance. Uke attempts something along the lines of tsurigoshi and tori disrups uke's balance backward. Tori and uke stumble backward several steps until uke is toppled backward (technique #1) or uke resists and changes the flow of the technique (technique #2).
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This guide to the Euro to Icelandic Krona exchange rate with 90-day chart & alerts, historic rates, forecasts and EUR to ISK comparison tables for foreign transfers and travel money rates and fees on offer by banks and foreign exchange providers. If you want to calculate equivalent amounts in foreign currencies or rate margins then use our EUR/ISK Quick Calculator.
EUR and ISK in the Markets
When determining the best time to make a foreign exchange transaction, in this case the EUR vs ISK, you should pay attention to the recent market trends for both currencies.
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Euro sentiment dipped in mid-June after the ECB, like other major central banks of the world, ramped up its dovish rhetoric. It said that there was "considerable room" for further quantitative easing and that it would consider negative interest rates. Ordinarily, this would spark an extended euro decline but since other major currencies are also wrestling with easier central bank policies, euro depreciation may be contained.
In spite of Brexit, a slowdown in economic growth, Italian risks and persistently weak inflation — an important measure of inflation expectations fell in June to a record low — the euro did fantastically well against the Australian dollar, New Zealand dollar and British pound between mid-April and mid-June. Due to a stronger US dollar, EUR/USD was down 2 percent on the year at $1.12, close to long-term lows.
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text: Welcome At Large Members of the Paralegal Association of Florida, Inc. Welcome to At LargeSunday, June 10, 2018 By: This is the chapter for members that live too far from the closest PAF chapter. The goal of At Large is to assist these members in forming new PAF chapters. So if you and several other engaged paralegals in your area want in, we want you! PAF wants you to become Charter members of the next up and coming Chapter of PAF. For more information contact: Mike Hamrick


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This summer something close to a metric tonne of improvisers from the UK descend on Chicago, Illinois to check out the improv scene and study at one (or more) of the improv schools.
We at London Improv think that's quite a notable thing, so we decided to interview as many of those folk as we could. First up - Jason Blackwater. Yes, he might sound like a character from Game of Thrones, but he's also a jolly nice man. And a giant.
I'm Jason Blackwater. I'm in The Maydays and Silly String Theory.
I started performing improv at drama school under the brief tutorship of Ken Campbell, Sean McCann and Adam Megiddo where I toured improvised musicals for just over a week. To finally realise that it was possible to be a professional improviser was a revelation and I intended to find a way, once I graduated, to perform improv as a sideline to my acting. I even had my own troupe for a while, Improv's Dog, doing all of my favourite short form games. I then put the idea to the side for a while until I moved to brighton and immediately joined The Maydays and it's been like that ever since. Acting is now my sideline to the improv and shall remain so for the foreseeable.
What's the best improv call-out you've ever heard?
In one of The Maydays' student showcases recently, upon a request of a topic of study someone yelled "Speleology". I played the old, "Well, of course I know what speleology is, and of course the cast know what speleolgy is but for the benefit of the one or two people in the audience who don't know..." routine. The audience member DID know and it is, as you will of course realise, the study of caves.
Which improv course are you doing, and what made you choose that one?
iO summer intensive [5 weeks]. The Maydays learn through the skills from the iO school of thought and thought I'd go and learn from the source.
When/how did you start planning your trip?
It had been in the back of my mind to go since I'd been with The Maydays for a few months.. so 2010? I never really knew how I was going to afford it but at the beginning of this year I just thought about this summer more seriously. Then Jason Chin came to Brighton and agreed that if enough Maydays got over there he'd allow us to do the second half of Whirled News Tonight [Chicago's longest running improv show] and it was set. by hook or by crook I was going this summer and I just booked it.
What are you most excited about?
The shows. seeing more improv than I can imagine and seeing people I've only seen before on YouTube, on stage.
Are there any shows you HAVE to see while you're over there?
TJ & Dave, Assscat 3000 (I've got a few days in NY too), Baby Wants Candy (again), Improvised Shakespeare, Too Much Sun Will Make Baby Go Blind
What are you going to do in chicago when you're not improvising?
I've resolved to find a steakhouse with a steak big enough to win a t-shirt. Mainly, though, I'll be meeting up with new people and the dozen or so British improvisers who'll be out there too.
I'm hoping to go up a gear in my improv. 5 weeks away from my usual crutch of singing will really improve my scene work, and with a bit of luck bring back some understanding of what I'm doing beyond the instinctual. Plus any adventure will change you in unexpected ways and I'm looking forward to those too
Do you think you'll go back another time?
My original plan in 2010 was to do the year at Second City and I'd still like to do that. I also want to go to LA and Austin and check out the scenes there as well
If you could name a new impro group anything you like, what would it be?
I don't know. I think improv companies need to arrive at their name organically. There's a common feeling in the company and a sense of ownership but a wonderful opportunity was missed in a beginners class I was witness to. They'd hit upon the idea that the really whacky and ungrounded thoughts came from the Big Banana Place and wished they'd gone for that as their name but it wasn't to be. Still my favourite and it's up for grabs!
Jason Blackwater appears regularly in The Maydays and Silly String Theory.
His Twitter name is @jblackwater
Follow all the improvisers at #ChicaGoUk


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Background & Bio
Mark has been involved in the insurance industry since 1986. He began his career with Hartford Insurance Company as a claims trainee handling workers' compensation claims under the California State Act. Mark began working in the maritime industry in 1992 with Eagle Insurance Group. While at Eagle, he handled a full case load of U.S. Longshore & Harbor Worker's claims, which included exposure to marine claims that fell under the Jones Act while performing duties as a claims supervisor. Mark's claim adjusting experience includes TPA oversight for various insurance carriers that involved multi-state workers' compensation claims and required comprehension of various state jurisdictions. Mark's experience extends to working with and for various reinsurers and pool managers from both the domestic and foreign markets.
Mark also holds his Hawaii state workers' compensation adjuster's license and is a member of the Honolulu Association of Insurance Professionals, Hawaii Claim Association and the Longshore Claim Association.Return to Profiles
Glendale Community College, 1988
Did you Know...?
Mark became an Eagle Scout at 15 years old; the youngest in his troop to achieve it.


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HTC is taking far too long with their promised bootloader unlock! I got my hands on an EVO 3D and wrote a kernel module to overclock it (along with the Sensation, I think) with just temp root. I had no kernel sources or the ability to flash custom kernels, and you don't need to overclock your phone, either. This was all done with a Linux loadable kernel module.
EDIT: This is reported not to be working on the Sensation (or at least some Sensations) just yet. I'm investigating the issue, but don't have a Sensation on hand. It might have to do with the Sensation using an older kernel. I'll try to borrow one from a friend. If any devs are good at this sort of thing and want to take a crack the source of this module is at the bottom of the thread.
At 1782MHz (nearly 1.8GHz), a dual core Android phone is truly a force to be reckoned with. This module also gives you the flexibility to try to go even higher, or specify a lower overclock. See below for instructions and download. SetCPU has also been updated to support the EVO 3D and Sensation better. I'll be doing a technical writeup on how this was accomplished soon, as well as an explanation of the MSM 8x60 clock architecture for future kernel devs.
Disclaimer: Overclocking your phone is always a risk! Please know what you are doing before trying this. The kernel module is licensed under the GNU GPL and comes with no warranty. The relative safety of overclocking similar ARM processors to such speeds and voltages is generally known, but I can't be held responsible if you damage your phone with this hack.
Download the kernel module appropriate for your phone If you're not sure which one to download, check /proc/version and find the version string and then check the part that contains the localversion, which is right after 220.127.116.11 and looks like this: "gb7a86da" or "gcb1cf83"
Download: Latest EVO 3D OTA gcb1cf83: http://setcpu.com/files/8x60_oc.ko
T-Mobile HTC Sensation 4G gb7a86da: http://setcpu.com/files/8x60_oc_gb7a86da.ko
EVO 3D pre-OTA g93c03bf: http://setcpu.com/files/8x60_oc_g93c03bf.ko
Anyone good with a hex editor and your device hasn't been added: Just download the first link above and replace the "gcb1cf83" with whatever your version is - it's hacky, but it works. We can't build a "real" ko anyway, since we don't have kernel source.
(To add support for your EVO 3D/Sensation kernel, send me the kernel version string (cat /proc/version) and I'll upload a kernel with support).
1. Temp root the phone using fre3vo, and install everything you need to run root apps. If you lost temp root due to /system/bin/su becoming unlinked (root apps don't detect root anymore), do it again. Thanks #teamwin!
2. Decide which frequency and voltage you want. Frequencies have to be a multiple of 54MHz. For example, 1512MHz = 54MHz*24. Remember how much you have to multiply 54 by to get the frequency you want. For 1782MHz, as I reached, use 33 (54MHz*33 = 1782MHz).
3. Push the kernel module to your device: adb push 8x60_oc.ko /data/local/tmp/8x60_oc.ko
4. Use SetCPU (you must be 2.2.4 or above for proper MSM 8x60 support!) to set the max frequency to 432MHz and min to 384MHz.
6. Go back to the home screen, press the power button, and count to ten.
7. Load the kernel module with the following command, replacing the scpll_l_val with the value you got above and the vdd_uv with the voltage you want (in microvolts). Here is a valid command for around 1.8GHz: adb shell insmod /data/local/tmp/8x60_oc.ko scpll_l_val=33 vdd_uv=1375000
If you do not specify any parameters, the module defaults to 1512MHz and 1250000 uV! (scpll_l_val=28 vdd_uv=1250000) This should be safe for everybody, since that's the MSM 8x60's native speed (of the higher speed bin anyway ).
8. If it crashes right after you insmod the kernel, reboot and try again - the second core was likely still active. This doesn't necessarily mean your overclock settings were unstable.
9. Now go into SetCPU and it will autodetect the new max frequency. Set it and try it out. If your phone crashes at or after this point, the scpll_l_val and vdd_uv combination was not stable enough. Reboot and try another combination.
Note: the maximum scpll_l_val supported currently is 37 (1998MHz, or 2GHz!). Let me know if you actually managed to reach this with a semblance of stability, if you want to push for higher... Also, you can undo this mod just by rebooting.
Enjoy! Of course, this would all have been easier if we were just given an unlocked bootloader. Please bother HTC about it! Yeah, we'll get it without them, but they have to keep their end of the deal.
Follow me on twitter: http://twitter.com/coolbho3k
Sources for the overclock module: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/36553/8x60_oc.tar.gz I'll be uploading it to my github soon. It's messy at the moment.


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Happy Thursday! Today I want to introduce you to five of my favorite things that get me through most days, if not the weeks.
My sister started selling Rodan + Fields a couple of years ago and admittedly, I first bought some to show my sisterly support, but quickly became hooked when I saw what it does. RF offers several different lines depending on your skincare needs, but I opted for Redefine, which helps defend against visible signs of aging. (I bought it the year I was going to turn 30, hehe.) RF was created by the same scientists who made Proactiv. The results speak for themselves (I don't have my own photos, shame), but check them out here. It's an investment, but the products last for about 3 months if you use them properly, and you won't be able to stop using it once you start! Contact my sister for more information!
It's summertime, so I don't use this at all right now, but for those of you with full-time jobs who maybe can't
What are some of your favorite products?


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Dunya Shipping - Since 1973
"Dunya" in Turkish means "the Globe"
and this is a reflection of a company that prides itself
upon being a first class operator of oil and chemical
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As part of my writer's "training," if you will, I became a member of the Kansas Writer's Association (KWA) a few months ago. Of course I didn't join solely for the "training." I joined partly as a result of gentle nudging from my good friend April, but also for the support, guidance, encouragement, networking, and friendship that was sure to follow. And also because I know myself, and I know I need to have a little accountability. I need to set goals and surround myself with other writers who will challenge me and give me a kick in the pants every so often and who will help me celebrate my successes. Even teeny tiny ones. Like writing this post.
This afternoon I attended the KWA Holiday Party and spent some time with my ever growing circle of writer friends. As I listened to them share their various successes, both professionally and personally, I was in awe of the sheer talent, determination, dedication, enthusiasm, and energy that filled the room. I felt inspired, and maybe a little guilty because I've been so neglectful to my own writing. When I decided to write this post, I could hardly believe it has been more than a month since I've posted anything. There seems to aways be something that stands in the way: several stacks of papers that need grading, lesson planning, Facebooking, dinner to make, episodes of NCIS to watch, the family to tend to…the list goes on and on. Now don't get me wrong. I've added bits and pieces of various word counts to my WIP (work in progress) at the rate of about once a month thanks to my Newton Community Writing Group's fearless leader, Mollie Sultenfuss, who gives us the gift of writing time whenever we meet as a group. Mollie, you've earned yourself a spot in my acknowledgements when I finally finish this novel and get published. You've got it black and white.
Unfortunately, dabbling with my WIP and only adding a few hundred to a thousand words a month will certainly not get me very far. I must, therefore, commit myself to write regularly and consistently. This will be much easier said than done, but Christmas break is just around the corner and so is a opportunity for some marathon writing. My characters have been begging for some attention, and I can hardly wait to give them some.


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Wednesday, 4 January 2017
PREGNANCY #2: Early Symptoms
I wrote this blog post back when I had first found out I was pregnant. Back when I had no idea what was to come.
A few days ago I found out some both exciting and terrifying news...we're pregnant with our second baby! Exciting because we're having another little bundle of joy, yet terrifying because life with two children must be challenging at times. This baby is very much planned and wanted, so when that faint second line appeared we were both so excited.
I did a First Response pregnancy test at around 3 weeks 3 days, which is incredibly early I know. I actually wasn't planning to test for another few days but I became ill and wanted to know whether I could take ibuprofen or not. Turns out I couldn't and just had to curl up on the sofa with a hot water bottle to try and feel better.
One of the first symptoms I had was sore boobs, which started around a week after ovulation. We were using OPK's, so I know exactly when I ovulated in my cycle. I also started feeling strange twinges in my womb area, had a back ache and came down with tonsillitis. I never really get ill, so this made me wonder if I was pregnant or not. I also started getting bad headaches, again something I don't usually suffer with and started feeling sick in the morning. This was all before 4 weeks, which just shows the power of hormones.
I'm apprehensive about what's to come, I know how exhausting and horrible the first trimester can be! The naivety of your first pregnancy is bliss in many ways because you simply don't know what's to come. However, I do now and not all of it is pleasant. But then again I know how amazing it is when you meet your baby for the first time so I'll be focusing on that when times get hard.
What were your earliest pregnancy symptoms?
Feel free to leave a comment :)
Helen x
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Labels: Baby, pregnancy, pregnancy #2, second pregnancy, symptoms
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They varied with every pregnancy but sore boobies always and just a strange hardness when I laid on my tummy.ReplyDelete
I always knew straight away- and I have been pregnant four times.
One day i stood up from sitting on the sofa and immediately felt dizzy and needed to sit down. Straight away my mum said "i bet your pregnant!" and low and behold i was 2 weeks pregnant. From then on it was nausea and fussy eating... i think i got off pretty lightly. thank you for sharing your precious experience #ablogginggoodtimeReplyDelete
Congratulations!! Amazing news. My early signs were sore nipples, exhaustion and constant vomiting from about 3 weeks!ReplyDelete
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National Broadband and Web Hosting provider Digiweb today announced that it is now officially the largest Irish owned hosting company in Ireland. Following the relaunch of Digiweb's hosting services and products and recent acquisition of Novara as well as other industry events, Digiweb is now the largest 100% Irish owned hosting provider in the Irish Market, powering tens of thousands of websites and domain names for their customers.
According to industry observer John McCormac from www.whoisireland.com, Digiweb hold over 10% of market share of hosting in Ireland following it's acquisition of Novara in April. The acquisition of Novara now means that Digiweb have a growing customer base of over 32,000 webhosting and Datecentre customers in Ireland. Digiweb also continues to operate the highly successful brands register.ie and hosting.ie under the Digiweb group umbrella.
Digiweb is now seeking to build on its rapidly growing organic growth through further acquisition of complementary businesses in the Irish and UK voice, hosting and broadband industry. The company currently have a number of acquisitions under active consideration, with a view to achieving the company's stated objective of achieving number one position in the Irish telecoms and ISP market.
Dan King, hosting and managed services manager with Digiweb, commented on this announcement.
'We're delighted with our progress in this market. There have been a lot of very interesting developments in the Irish hosting market recently; Digiweb's take over of Novara was the first acquisition in the Irish Hosting Market in over 10 years and this appeared to prompt other companies to exit this market. Following Digiweb's re-entry into the Irish hosting market in 2006 we have captured significant market share and gained big brand customer wins hosted from our custom-built Irish Datacentre in Blanchardstown. We will continue to deliver hosting products designed specifically for the Irish market.'


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Tom Ford, Karl Lagerfeld, Hedi Slimane: all three designers have tried their hand at campaign photography, whether for their own brands, or in Slimane's case, other brands like Prada (though that could change with his new Yves Saint Laurent appointment).
Now, a new designer has turned campaign photographer. Olivier Theyskens snapped Constance Jablonski for the moody new Spring 2012 Theyskens' Theory ad, the model Tweeted. "What a pleasure to work w/ Him," she added. And Theyskens isn't totally camera-shy himself: he appears on the very right side of the campaign shot, reflected behind the lens.


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Manchester Beer Fest
24/01/18 - 27/01/18 at Manchester Central, Manchester, UK
Going along to the CAMRA Manchester Beer and Cider Festival from 24th – 27th January? Hear from Christine Cryne, John Clarke and Sally Lavender; leading beer experts as they conduct tutored tastings at the event. If you're going just for the Timothy Taylor's (which we know a few of you are) you can enjoy Landlord, Boltmaker, Knowle Spring, Ram Tam and our new Poulter's Porter – part of the Taylor Made range. Find out more about the event at http://mancbeerfest.uk/


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Credibility can be destroyed in a moment or can be eroded over time. As messengers and leaders for software quality, we put ourselves in a position where our own actions can take away from our message. Something as minor as a misspelling in a presentation can cause others in the organization to say things like, "They flag every mistake we make, but they can't even proofread their own writing."
Everyone makes mistakes, but how can we as testers avoid losing our credibility? Let's start by looking at some credibility killers.
Of course, the idea is that you will avoid doing these things so you won't destroy your credibility. Consider these the pitfalls to avoid.
Credibility Killers
Lack of Knowledge or Understanding
One of my favorite television shows is called "Faking It." The premise is that a person is selected to perform the work of someone in another field so expertly that not even a panel of other experts in the field can tell the person is a novice. The person is trained and mentored by a team of experts over a period of about thirty days before the "test" arrives - often a competition of some sort. Many times, the candidate pulls off the fake, but sometimes they don't.
Interestingly, this sounds like the way many testers and test managers start in testing: We were doing something else until someone needed a tester or test team leader. To prepare, we had a crash course of learning what testing is all about (often "on-the-job" training), and then we had to do this job in front of people who can be highly critical.
This means that many of us live on a learning curve, some at steeper levels than others, but we're all learning. I hope this gives you comfort. It's all right not to know everything!
One of the worst things you can do is fake it when you really don't know something. Unfortunately, this is one of the first things people resort to when they are placed "on the spot." It's so much better just to pause a second and admit that you don't know the answer. Even experts don't have complete knowledge, but they know where to find the answer. Einstein was quoted as saying, "Never memorize anything you can look up."
That's workable with facts, but what about the broader issue of understanding? It's possible to have the facts memorized, but if you don't know why they are important, then you are missing the context of the information, which is everything.
Facts can be learned in a matter of hours. Understanding may take months or years - it depends on the complexity of the issue.
The rule here is to speak of what you know and don't go further. If you choose to venture into talking (or writing) about that which you do not truly know (and believe me, I know about this one), then you are, my friend, on thin ice.
If you are relying on other sources for your information, double check them and then think critically about other perspectives on that information. Does the source have a reason to falsify or embellish the information? How old is the information? How reliable is the source? Can the information be validated or verified?
Incongruent Behavior
Congruency means that you act in a way that is in accordance to what you say. For a tester, this means that if you talk about the importance of quality, you apply it to your own work. In other words, as the old saying goes, you "walk the talk."
When you fail to act congruently, people start to question your true beliefs. Plus, it gives the appearance of hypocrisy, which is real credibility killer. People say things like, "Why should we listen to her? She had three typos in her presentation last week?"
To prevent incongruent behavior, you have to apply the same standard to yourself that you apply to others. This requires that you stop and reflect on a regular basis about your own performance.
You can have reviews or walkthroughs of your own test plans, cases and scripts, and have a proofreader for all of your work products. In a team setting, you may choose to proofread each other's writing. You can measure what you do and study what the measurements indicate. For example, if you give a "learn at lunch" session, have a short evaluation form to ask if the information was helpful and the presentation one that added to the understanding of the topic.
I'll never forget the QA conference that temporarily did away with session evaluations. The message sent to the attendees and the speakers was two-fold: 1) we don't care about what you think and 2) we don't practice what we preach – as one of my colleagues, Bill Hufschmidt, puts it "Quality without measurement is just cheerleading."
Lack of Trust
Credibility is based on trust. If I don't find you credible, I can't trust what you're telling me.
Another quick credibility killer is to violate trust. This can happen in a multitude of ways: being inconsistent, going behind someone's back, lying, cheating, falsifying information and so forth – name your poison.
Rebuilding lost trust is very delicate and takes time. I can't tell you how long it takes to rebuild trust, but one of the best ways I've known to view it is like a bank account that you make deposits to over time. When you are deeply withdrawn, it takes a lot of work to dig out of the deficit unless you win the lottery or receive a major inheritance. When you still have a positive balance in the "trust account" you can slip up occasionally and still be in an overall good standing. Too many slip-ups, though, and you've lost trust.
Not Caring
This may seem like an odd thing, but the lack of a caring attitude can also hurt your credibility. This especially holds true for leaders. As I quoted in the first article, "People don't care how much you know unless they know how much you care."
Caring goes back to trust and relationships. It's hard to show a caring attitude is you don't know what is important to people. It's also hard to be caring if people don't trust your motives. The caring has to be genuine.
Caring can be seen in many ways, not just interpersonal. For example, people need to see that you are genuinely concerned about the outcome of the project.
An Arrogant Attitude
This is related to the lack of a caring attitude, but deserves a category all its own. People don't like those who are arrogant, but the problem is that arrogant people are often the last to know they're that way.
Arrogance is often rooted in knowledge ("I know more than you.") or past successes ("I've done more than you." Or "I've done this well in the past and you haven't."). Even though the messages aren't often said in these ways, this is the message that comes across.
Arrogance builds a wall that makes others not want to communicate across. People also tune out those who have an arrogant attitude.
On this one, listen to what you say and how you say it. It's one thing to be confident but another thing to be arrogant. The arrogant person usually disregards others' views. The confident person knows they can do the job, but also seeks collaboration. Let you confidence show, but not to the point of thinking you know it all. You don't. Nobody does.
All you have to do is exaggerate a few times and your credibility takes a big hit. If you are a known exaggerator, people assume you've overstated the case every time, so in their minds, they reduce the significance of your information.
If you are an exaggerator and say that the application has a catastrophic defect, the receiver of your report may think "Well, it's probably something we can work around."
Once again, take time to listen to yourself to see if you are prone to exaggerate. If so, practice critical thinking to question your own messages. Also, it's helpful to verify the information you plan to convey with someone you consider to be objective.
Also, understand that you don't need to make situations larger than they really are. In my observation, people exaggerate to get attention or fast action. The long-term price you pay for exaggerating outweighs any short-term gains.
Hiding Information
Some people don't lie or exaggerate, they simply omit information. It's impossible to completely include all information about a topic, but what I'm referring to here is the intentional hiding of meaningful information.
This is a credibility killer. Once people know you have hidden information, they will question future information.
If you've hidden information in the past and lost credibility due to it, you have to work to assure people the information is complete. One way to do this is by having independent verification, such as reviews and secondary sources. For example, if you are a test team leader, you might assign the tester that found a defect could be the one that reports it in a management meeting. Or, if you are a tester, you could get a fellow tester to collaborate the completeness of your information.
Like all the rest of the above credibility killers, this one also takes time to restore.
Shifting Blame
Blame is a very negative thing. Nobody likes to be blamed for something and few people readily accept blame.
Shifting blame to someone else is a sure credibility killer, especially in a team setting. However, blame shifting can also cause bad feelings on a project and hurt your credibility in the organization.
Most people expect accountability in the workplace. Whether or not accountability is realized is another thing.
If you have been guilty in the past of shifting blame, taking responsibility can turn things around quickly by showing others you are accountable. It's hard to take the heat for a mistake, but people will respect you for it.
We've seen a variety of ways you can lose credibility as a tester or test team leader. It only takes a short time to lose credibility, but may take a very long time to rebuild it.
Credibility rests on trust. If people can't trust you, they won't find you credible. People may or may not like you, but that's a different matter.
Many times people commit credibility killers as a short-term relief, but sometimes these actions become a long-term pattern of behavior. To reverse the situation and rebuild your credibility, take time to reflect about the above credibility killers and ask yourself if you are guilty of any of them. In the next article, Rebuilding Your Credibility as a Tester, we'll explore some ways to restore lost credibility.
If you have any thoughts on other "credibility killers" write me from the contact page. I would love to hear your feedback.


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Birthday Celebration
Birthday Celebration Happy Fabulous Birthday to my Business partner & Mom! All the sneaky birthday planning was done. The limo was ordered, dinner booked, thoughtful gifts bought & awesome photographer booked to take OUR family portrait! The weather was perfect & we were ready to go surprise mom (Marnie) with a limo pick up to…Continue Reading →


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9dec - 18dec 95:00 PMdec 18THE COMMONS STREET FEAST5:00 PM - 11:00 PM (18) Commonwealth Park
Event Details
Gluttony never tasted so good
Gluttony never tasted so good as the inaugural The Commons Street Feast assembles your every guilty food pleasure into a 10-day summer celebration of street food and fun.
Eat your way around the globe with Asian, American, European and South American food vans. Vendors include Gelato Messina, Mary's and Happy as Larry.
Drink offerings come from Shaw Wines, Batlow Cider, Pact Beer, Little Creatures, Rouge Wines, Capital Brewing Co and Melbourne Martini Bar.
Treat yourself at The Commons with your very own butler. The butlers are available for hire so you can be waited on hand and foot at the event.
There's kids activities each weekend and lawn games for young and old across the grassy knolls of Commonwealth Park.


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Bollywood Buzz
It's the battle between the young brigade. At an upcoming cricket tournament, Siddharth Malhotra has ganged up with his co-stars Varun Dhawan and Alia Bhatt to be pitted against Ranbir Kapoor.
A cola company has roped in the Student of the Year actors to endorse their product. They will be competing for eyeballs against another cola company that has Ranbir Kapoor as its face.
A source says, "The cola brand was earlier endorsed by Aamir Khan. Once his contract ended, the brand signed the SOTY actors." Apparently the youth appeal of the three newbies was the reason why they were roped in. The source adds, "The company is going to spend around R 150 crore on the entire marketing campaign over the next three months."
A trade analyst on the condition of anonymity tells us, "They have a tough competition ahead as they are pitted opposite Ranbir. The fight is the lead up to the cricket tournie, as Ranbir's brand is the title sponsor." Say cheers to that!
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Recently I came across a scenario where we had a PPTP Site-to-Site VPN between two TMG servers. We were able to access the shares of one TMG server from the other but we were unable to access the shares in the opposite direction as shown in the figure below:
Live logging was enabled on TMG from Site B and there the following error was appearing:
The IP address 10.10.11.1 showing above in the above Log as the 'Source' is the IP address of Internal Network Card of the TMG server. We checked the Live Logging on the Remote TMG server from where we could access the shares on this Local TMG server and we noticed that in the 'Source' it was showing the IP address of the RAS interface of the server.
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This is where the journey starts: my old school. It is here that I first heard the name of Pyotr Tchaikovsky. I was 12, and Pjotr has become my all time favourite composer since then. Like so many other boys of that age, I was interested in bikes, girls, soccer, Formula-1 pilots etc. NOT in classical music. But our music teacher found a way to get his message through. He counted on our rising level of testosterone and our interest in all things related to war.
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