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Managing Director and Lead Financial Planner
Ian has been practicing as a Financial Planner for nearly 30 years and is one of the most highly qualified people in his field. As well as having overall responsibility for the strategy and direction of the business as a whole, from an advice perspective he specialises in Comprehensive Wealth Management, Investment, Pensions and Estate Planning.
Investment Director and Chartered Wealth Manager
Andrew has worked in financial services for nearly 30 years and for the past 20 years has been assisting Clients in achieving their financial aspirations and goals through detailed financial planning.
Prior to joining Affinity Integrated Wealth Management, Andrew worked for Coutts as a Wealth Manager, looking after a portfolio of High Net Worth Clients, assisting with their wealth management, investment and estate planning needs. Andrew specialises in working with entrepreneurs and helping them sell their businesses and plan for "Life after Exit".
Andrew regularly presents on his specialist subjects as well as helping to manage our relationships with fellow professionals such as Solicitors, Accountants, Bankers etc.
He is a member of the Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment and has been awarded Chartered Wealth Manager status.
Andrew is also a registered Foster Carer and he and his wife Nicola are presently caring for 3 wonderful children.
Outside of work, Andrew's interests include Golf, Travel and spending time with the family.
Practice Manager and Ian's Personal Assistant
Anita is responsible for the Client Journey and for the day to day operation of the business. As well as handling Ian's diary, she deals with all financial, accountancy and personnel functions within the business and leads the administration behind the Client Journey, Planning Meetings and Client Appreciation Events.
Retirement Specialist Paraplanner
Tracey's responsibilities include assisting with the Client Journey, in particular the research and planning around both Pensions and Investments, report preparation, Client liaison, data input and administration. Tracey also deals with the editing and issuance of Planning and Review documentation, Newsletters and Market Commentaries.
Samantha works part time for us, dealing with general office functions such as Client liaison, database entry and maintenance, document printing and photocopying. She also assists with the preparation and issuance of Integrated Wealth Management Plans and associated reports such as Pension Checker™ and Affinity Pure™.
Compliance Officer
Melony has worked in the Financial Services profession for sixteen years and is our compliance officer. Her experience ranges from working in the offices of Royal London in the Industrial Branch department to reviewing complaint cases with the Investors Compensation Scheme (now the Financial Services Compensation Scheme).
Compliance Consultant
Phil has worked in the Financial Services profession for the last 18 years. Phil started his career as a Sales Agent for Pearl Assurance, before moving on to become a mortgage advisor. Later in Phil's career he spent 12 years as a Wealth Management Advisor specialising in later life planning. Before joining CATS, Phil worked as a Compliance Consultant, working with a number of small IFA firms.
Phil has attained the Diploma Qualification.
Client Services Manager
Lisa has worked in the banking, investment and Financial Planning area for over 23 years with her experience ranging from Client Services Officer at Royal Bank of Scotland to Specialist Wealth Assistant at Coutts Private Bank. Lisa joined the Affinity team in 2018 as Client Services Manager with a remit to enhance all aspects of our interaction with Clients and their journey with us. Having worked with Andy for many years in the past, she feels passionate about going the extra mile and having a meaningful impact on those we touch.
Lisa is a member of The Personal Finance Society "PFS" and has already undertaken a number of professional qualifications. She is also the WoWW implementor for Affinity and carries responsibility for overall Quality measures in the business. She helps pull together all Client Briefing and Client Appreciation Events and acts as a facilitator and coordinator for the AIWM Client Advisory Board.
In her personal life Lisa enjoys spending time with her young family and shopping and has been known to win an award or two for her ballroom dancing skills.


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Just as the new year is starting, thousands of people worldwide will be picking up a new guitar and strumming away, trying to teach themselves how to play. Often, people will be disheartened by their lack of skill to start with and end up quitting before they can even play a couple of songs. This is really disappointing as being able to play an instrument is a very rewarding experience and often people like to have someone that can play around. Being able to play not only gives you something to show off and talk to people about, it brings a lot of musical joy and can even make you some extra cash by performing!
If you have recently bought a guitar and want to learn quickly, I always think that having tutorials are helpful and will advance your skill with the guitar in no time. In particular, this course on Beginner to Advanced Techniques will help you become a better player.
Whilst it takes a very long time to become highly proficient at any instrument or skill for that matter, you can get to a respectable level in guitar playing in less than a single year of regular practice. The rate you progress at really depends on how often you practice and what you practice. With the advent of YouTube and other video lesson websites, you can quickly find out how to play any song you want, with little to no fuss.
Most guitarists want to learn how to play rock songs, and we find that this Rock Course helps them play their favorite songs quickly and expertly. Generally, rock music is pretty easy to learn, as it is often simple and requires less skill than playing Country or Jazz music. If you just want to reach the level of guitar where you can play along with the rhythm sections of most guitar based songs, you might be able to do so in less than three months!
Practicing every day, or as regularly as possible is what makes you a good guitar player in the long run. If you manage to practice every day for 15 minutes, with proper practice methods, you will be a far superior guitar player than someone who practices for 60 minutes and doesn't challenge himself or herself. Most people who try to teach themselves guitar will "practice" by playing things they already know how to play over and over again. This isn't efficient and wastes a lot of time that you could use to teach yourself more advanced techniques or tracks.
The proper way to learn guitar is by figuring out specific patterns inside any song or technique that you want to learn and practicing only the pieces that you cannot do. A metaphor for this would be drawing. If you struggle with drawing noses, you don't erase your entire drawing of the rest of the face each time you mess up when you draw a nose. It's very difficult to stop yourself from reverting back to the start of the song and reassuring yourself by playing the pieces of music that you already know. Increasing your repertoire takes time and hard work and often people don't want to spend the time improving their skills through practice.
Learning guitar is incredibly gratifying, yet very difficult once you get to the higher levels. Most musical instruments are graded from 1 – 8 and beyond 8 are equivalent to a PHD in that instrument. Time taken to attain these grades varies wildly from student to student but often it takes a month or two to reach Grade one and two. To reach the higher grades, with constant practice can take up to two or three years. Often, people like other genres than rock and try to learn fingerstyle guitar. This course in fingerstyle is a fantastic place to start
An often-cited piece of research is that to become a true expert in any given area, you must spend 10,000 hours actively practicing the skill. This is so true of guitar. I, myself, have been playing guitar since the age of around 6 and am only reaching the expert stage of guitar playing now, at 22. I have probably spent over 8,000 hours playing and practicing guitar and my progress has been fairly linear throughout this time. There's no quick fix to becoming a guitar god, only long hours of hard practice.
There are other ways of gauging how far along the guitar skills scale you are, such as the RockSchool Musical Grading system, which is similar to standard ABRSM grades, yet they are focused on Rock music in general. Learning how to read sheet music and to read sheet music whilst playing along is less important when you are undertaking a RockSchool curriculum, whereas there is a much greater emphasis on technical proficiency and learning whole songs.
Don't buy in to the hype and believe the advertisements that you see on the Internet about " Unlocking The Secrets Of Guitar Playing In Just 5 Easy Steps". These ads are just that – ads. There are no secrets, just good tutorials and lots of hard work with practice.
Overall, it can take just a few months to become fairly proficient at guitar. Often, once you start playing you will want to get better and better over time, spending years to master the art and craft of playing and trying to learn music theory. This is a fantastic course in the theory of music and will be a great foundation to launch your musical career on. I wish you the best of luck and remember, play to enjoy yourself!

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Scottish and English: habitational name from a place called Arnot, near Kinross. Scottish and English: variant of Arnold. Respelling of German Arnot, Arnoth or Arnodt, variants of Arnold.
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I Quit Sugar – Week 6
I haven't posted for a couple of weeks due to there only being seven days in the week. This post is a catch up for week five and week six of my I Quit Sugar program
I think I would like an extra day at least, just to write, sew and rest. Attending to those self care strategies has been so important to my physical and mental health and now I find myself a teeny bit resentful they have slipped.
Rather than sook and complain about it, I have hidden myself in my den and sewn for a few hours and hey presto; the jumbled up thoughts have sorted themselves out a bit.
While sewing, I have been thinking a lot this morning about professional accountability and professional conduct. My professional integrity is something I value highly and I can safely say I have never been considered a "bag dropper".
What's a bag dropper? I hear you ask.
A bag dropper is someone, in my profession a nurse or midwife, who comes to work, dumps their bag, attends to the shift in a disengaged, negative way, grabs their bag at the end of the shift and heads off. Bag droppers tend to complain about their managers or exec, are passive aggressive, need repeated prompts to do their work and certainly cannot be relied upon to go the extra mile, help out their colleagues, take on a portfolio or do any extra professional development.
We all have bad days. Sometimes we have bad weeks. I am quite happy to acknowledge this and make allowances for variations in people's level of professionalism. I have had days in my professional career where I have not been an engaged employee. However, it's a fixed bagged dropping attitude I don't have much tolerance for.
I know last year I needed to move on from my role when my health and personal issues interfered with my ability to be a productive employee. Remember my post called Quitting as an elite for of self care I will not allow myself to become unprofessional.
Being a Midwife Again
I did promise you I would not write about my current workplace but will say that my move back to Midwifery has been a good one so far.
Anyway, back to sugar. It is 6 weeks since I quit!
As the I Quit Sugar team suggest, week one was quite easy, a novelty and an interesting challenge. I did not really have any symptoms of headache etc because I had gradually cut table sugar out of my cooking for a week or so before. Week 2- 5 were a lot harder. My main symptom was irritability. My mood was low and it took an effort to be nice to people, even the ones I like!
I did not blog last week (week 5) but will say things did begin to stabilise. While I find I don't physically miss sugar but the emotional addiction remains. Waiting for my coffee I gaze at the cake and they look great and yes I would like one please. I love lollies and know the deep internal satisfaction my tummy and brain would get as the sugar hits the blood stream. However, my wonderful stubborn Taurean personality has helped me stay strong and firm.
On two separate occasions I have had a nip of Baileys on ice with Rod in the evening. I think one was week 3 and one in week 4. Both times I felt ill and really did not enjoy it. In week 5 we went away with a group of friends and each evening for 4 nights I had 2 G&T's which I did thoroughly enjoy.
Apart from those few drinks I have not wavered, not one bit. Now at the end of week 6 I seem to be used being sugar free. I have reintroduced fruit. and I have 1 serve most days and sometimes 2. Without refined sugar, and food with heaps of added sugar, my body can handle the natural fructose in fruit.
Menu planning
Life on any sort of changed diet works so much better with menu planning. For me if I am not prepared with snacks and meals for the day ahead I am more likely to grab whatever I can and that is a danger zone.
If I start work before my stomach is ready to have breakfast I have a portion of healthy fruit free muesli in my bag ready. That way when I can take a quick breakfast break I have a healthy option ready to go. Previously a coffee scroll with 40.1gms (10 teaspoons) of sugar would have been my breakfast substitute. Ouch.
My snacks throughout the working day include granola, using the yummy I Quit Sugar version from Sarah Wilson's cookbook, yogurt and sometimes a piece of fruit.
If I am hungry with breakfast and these snacks I will have a salad, sandwich, soup or leftovers for lunch but it depends on what's happening and the timetable at work.
I did not quit coffee
While this all sounds terribly healthy remember this is my I Quit Sugar Program NOT the I Quit Coffee program. That my friend is unlikely to happen anytime soon! So added to my health diet is 3-4 cafe lattes per day. This I justify as a contribution to my protein intake at 8gm per latte and a contribution to the safety and sanity of my friends, family and work colleagues.
Coffee is the liquid hug for my brain which on days off I use for recreational purposes and work days for medicinal purposes.
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France drops prostitution case against Russia's richest man
French prosecutors have dropped a case against Russia's richest man, Mikhail Prokhorov, two years after he was arrested on suspicion of running a prostitution ring, officials say.
Police arrested Prokhorov on January 9, 2007, along with about 25 others in the upscale Alpine ski resort of Courchevel and later released him without charge.
Prosecutors in Lyon decided on August 7 to close the case after a two-year investigation and no charges were laid against Prokhorov, the billionaire's lawyer said in a statement.
The lawyer welcomed the decision but took a swipe at French justice, saying he regretted that officials "did not come to terms with their initial mistake earlier".
But Lyon prosecutor Xavier Richaud blamed Russia for the drawn-out process, saying Moscow authorities had been uncooperative in the investigation.
Russian prosecutors turned down requests for information, saying that since the probe targeted "one of Russia's most important companies", it could "undermine the Russian federation's interests".
Now Russia's richest man at the head of the Onexim Group investment fund, Prokhorov was chairman and chief executive of Norilsk Nickel, the world's largest nickel producer, at the time of the Courchevel scandal.
The 44-year-old bachelor is listed as the world's 40th richest man on the Forbes list with an estimated fortune of $US9.5 billion ($A11 billion).
Prokhorov recently signed a provisional agreement to become majority owner of the US National Basketball Association's New Jersey Nets.
About 50 police officers raided the upmarket hotel where Prokhorov and his entourage were staying in 2007 and arrested 26 people, eight of whom were women in their 20s who said they were models accompanying the tycoon.


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Blogging about baseball cards, the Atlanta Braves, Carolina Panthers, Charlotte Hornets and trading cards/sports in general.
Wednesday, November 14, 2012
The beginning of a new PC: Ben Sheets
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Very nice. Being a Brewers fan I'm very aware of the rise and fall and hopefully return of Mr. Sheets. When he was healthy he was in the top tier of starters, but unfortunetly he seemed to always be hurt. And for some reason down the road you don't want to collect him anymore I'd always be willing to take those off your hands.ReplyDelete
His comeback was one of two that I had my eye on this year (Lew Ford of the Orioles was the other). I am glad he got to comeback and have a successful year. I was a little surprised to see him retire so quickly this offseason though. I thought he had at least a little more gas in the tank.ReplyDelete


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In the future, automatic sliding doors are a lot more intelligent than they are today. We're not going to see the kind of doors that annoyed Zaphod Beeblebrox or the voice-activated doors from Airplane 2 any time soon. Japanese researchers are, however, working on doors that are a bit more aware — like the ones on Star Trek.
The Intelligent Automatic Door system gets its smarts from a 3d time-of-flight laser scanner which can scan more than a million points every second. It's capable of tracking multiple people near the door and can monitor the direction they're moving, as well as the speed of their gait. It's probably not advisable to run at one full speed, unless you're aiming to become an overnight YouTube sensation.
The door won't open if someone merely walks by, the way today's archaic auto-open doors do. Its panes only part when the sensor observes someone heading towards it. As you can see in the demonstration video, though, it's not a perfect system. Around the 48 second mark, when they're testing the door's ability to reject a passerby and open for a patron you can see that it doesn't open quite wide enough before he tries to walk through. That's likely a minor algorithmic tweak, and one that will no doubt be made before these doors and sensors are installed outside of the lab environment.
All that's missing is the trademark "pssht" sound that space doors make, but that should be easy enough to add. They've got plenty of time to do it, though. NASA has only just showed off the concept drawings for the first real Enterprise with warp drive, after all. In the meantime we might just have to make do with looking at pictures of someone's incredibly geeky (and expensive) house where they've added these doors to a Star Trek-themed room or two.


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Perhaps you've probably written it off as getting older or pain that everyone has. Perhaps you've asked your physician about it and, seeing normal looking legs without bulging varicose veins, he's reassured you that it's nothing. Perhaps you've even had an ultrasound of your legs, only to be told you "don't have a blood clot."
These are all things we hear frequently from people who have leg heaviness, pain, cramping, and fullness – people who have Chronic Venous Insufficiency (CVI). CVI is a condition where some of the veins of the legs have a defect resulting in inability to circulate blood from the legs back to the heart, against the force of gravity. In addition, blood may actually flow backwards down these veins (venous reflux), resulting in the calves and lower legs becoming engorged with fluid by the end of the day.
CVI sometimes results in obvious varicose veins, leg swelling, darkening of the skin, and ulceration. It can also occur with no obviously visible findings – the legs may look completely normal – causing patients and doctors to dismiss the symptoms. Left untreated, CVI can progress to injure the skin of the lower legs, resulting in frequent infections (cellulitis), skin damage (venous stasis), and even chronic wound (venous ulcers).
About 80% of patients with CVI have a parent with circulatory issues like varicose veins. Exacerbating factors include occupations with prolonged standing (nurses, flight attendants, and restaurant workers are regularly affected), multiple pregnancies, excess weight, and advanced age. About 1 out of 5 people over 70 years of age may be affected.
The diagnosis of CVI can be made definitively by an ultrasound performed by a credentialed physician (look for someone with an RVT or RPhS designation) with the patient in the standing position, the position being critical to assessing the function of the veins under the force of gravity. During testing, your physician should be able to demonstrate to you where veins are weakened or blood flow is reversed (reflux), the cardinal sign of CVI.
Treatment for CVI, EndoVenous Laser Ablation (EVLA), is performed in the office in about
30 minutes with no subsequent downtime and is covered by Medicare and commercial insurance. Once treated, 98% of patients have a lifelong cure with many commenting afterwards, "I didn't realize my legs were supposed to feel this way!
I feel great!"
M. Albert Malvehy, MD, RVT, dABVLM, specializes exclusively in the diagnosis and treatment of venous disease and sees patients in Delray Beach at the Delray Vein Center at Feinstein Dermatology.
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Courtney Elkin Mohler is Assistant Professor of American Studies and the Founding Director of the Office of Intercultural Literacy, Capacity and Engagement. Mohler teaches courses in American Cultural Studies, Native American Studies, American Theater, Critical Race Theory and Performance Studies.
Due to her lifelong obsession for making theater, she has acted in and directed over forty productions. Some of her recent directing credits include "What Would Crazy Horse Do?" by Larissa FastHorse, Michael Redhill's "Goodness," and "Burning Vision" by Marie Clements (SCU Fess Parker Studio Theater.) Bridging her research and artistic interests, she has worked closely with Project HOOP (Honoring our Origins and our Peoples through Native American Theater) and the professional Native American theatre company Native Voices at the Autry.
Specializing in Native American Theater, Critical Race Theory, Performance Studies and Historiography, Mohler has contributed a chapter to American Indian Performing Arts: Critical Directions (2009) and The Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Indian Issues Today (2013), and has published articles, performance and book reviews in Theatre Topics, Theatre Journal, Modern Drama, Platform, Theatre Research International, Latin American Theatre Review and Text and Presentation.
Dr. Mohler holds a Ph.D. in Critical Studies in Theater from the University of California, Los Angeles, where she was awarded the Cota Robles Diversity Fellowship from 2002-2006 and the Institute of American Cultures Pre-Doctoral Fellowship in American Indian Studies from 2006-2007. She arrives to Indy by way of California, where she served as an Assistant Professor of Theatre and Dance at Santa Clara University before deciding to trade in traffic and sunshine for corn and basketball.


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Danube Flood 2013 in Pictures
For the past few days Budapest's top attraction has been the Danube (Duna). Many cities throughout Europe have been hit recently with severe flooding due to record-breaking water levels. High water on the Danube is already affecting Budapest, some roads are closed, the metro doesn't stop at Battyhány tér and Margaret Island has been evacuated. Even though the water level hasn't reached its peak yet, it's already at record highs. According to the latest news, the Danube is expected to peak in Budapest on Monday, June 10th. I have been taking photos for a few days now to record the floodwaters.
Important notice: There are traffic changes in effect due to the floodwaters. Info in English with the latest updates is available at the Budapest Transport Company's website.
Photos by Márk Mervai
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On the web you can find alot of articles that describe various tricks & tips on how to increase the number of your twitter followers. Additionally lots of companies have created software & services that can help you automate the whole procedure. Even if some of those programs and techniques do work in some cases, it is highly recommended not to base a social media campaign on spammy techniques because it can really affect your company image.
In this article I will focus on well-tested white-hat techniques that can be used to increase the number of your followers. I stress that these are not magic tricks that will increase your followers in one single day. These are good techniques that can help you on the long-term increase the number of your twitter followers, maintain them and build a loyal target audience.
1. Be an active user on twitter
If you want to increase your follower count, make sure you post regularly & send most of your tweets during the right hours of the day when most people are online.
2. Place relevant social media buttons in your blog
If are an active blogger you should place relevant social media buttons on a strategic position of your blog. Do keep in mind that usually the best position for a button is on the top of the article, near the title. Also it is recommended to use the standardised buttons that people know and trust. Finally it is recommended to use buttons that let your readers see how many shares or likes a particular post has. This will encourage them to share it with all their followers.
3. Add a twitter badge on your website
Adding a "follow me" twitter badge on a visible area of your site will help you attract more users. Also it is a great idea to add your social media profiles in your Contact page. This is because some people might find it easier to contact you through these channels rather than sending you an traditional email.
4. Add your twitter account in your email signature
This encourages the people that contact you by email, to find you on twitter. Also adding your other social media profiles like LinkedIn and Facebook is a great way to increase your business connections.
5. Add your twitter username to your business card
This can help you increase the number of followers from your own industry.
6. Using hashtags
Twitter uses #hashtags to group together tweets or add additional information about a message. For every topic, industry or event the community will use alot of different hashtags. Here are some examples: #SEO #socialmedia #SEM #Digitalmarketing #Google #followfriday etc.
7. Participate on #FollowFriday
Every Friday twitters will recommend other interesting users to their followers. Make sure you recommend other important followers to the people that connect with you. In alot of cases you will see that they will do the same for you. The 2 most popular #hashtags about Follow Friday are the #ff and #followfriday.
8. Interact with other people in twitter
If you want to be popular on twitter you must interact with other people. Chat. discuss, provide feedback, retweet messages, ask and reply questions. Do not forget that the main aim of social networks is to socialize with others, not only to promote your company.
9. Update your bio, image & Background
Adding accurate bio & information in your profile can assist other people find you and follow you. Selecting a good profile image & background can also help you to show users that you are a professional. Also don't forget that first impressions are very important. It like getting a management job in Malaysia .
10. Follow people with similar likes & interests
Twitter is a great place to find new internet friends, exchange ideas & participate on discussions. By socializing with other people you will not only increase your followers count but also be able to influence other people on twitter.
11. Send high quality tweets
Sharing high quality content and messages with your followers is very important in order to become popular. By sharing your views, news, trends, quotes, links & websites that you found useful, you can slowly increase your followers and become a more influential user.
12. Don't send 140 char twitter messages
People usually give credit to the original author of a tweet, when they Retweet (RT) a message. Many times they choose not to use the ReTweet button because they want to add their comments. But by sending messages shorter than 140 chars you give the chance to other people to give credit to you by placing your username in the tweet or to add their comments. This will help you generate conversation and increase your twitter followers.
13. Add yourself in some Twitter directories
There are a lot of twitter directories out there, where people can find other twitter users with similar interests. But not all of them are worth using, but there are few such as WeFollow that receive lots of traffic and is pretty good.
14. Conduct a contest on twitter
Conducting contests on social networks can help you increase your business brand awareness, your followers & the traffic of your site.
15. Connect your Facebook profile with Twitter
There are many applications that can assist you connect your Facebook or LinkedIn profile with Twitter. In this way you can post the same messages to all the people that connect with you on the many different social networks and increase your total social connections.
16. Use your twitter profile when commenting on Blogs
When posting a comment on a blog, it is a good practice to add your twitter profile as the link. This can help you start a conversation with the authors and thus increase your followers.
17. Tweet mentions and Thank the people that help you
When people ReTweet, mention you or help you, make sure you thank them. Not only is this the proper thing to do, but also they will appreciate it and they will continue support you.
18. Don't Spam you followers
If you start to spam your followers they will unfollow you and you will kill your reputation. Keep in mind that honest & transparent behaviour can help you not only increase your twitter followers and keep the ones that you have.
19. Create a separate list of useful tweets
As we said above it is important to tweet often and send quality messages. Due to the fact that you can't be on Twitter 24/7 or you might not have always something useful to send, you can create a list of interesting topics, tips, techniques, articles and references and use them when you are stack. This list can contain useful information about your industry how-to articles, tutorials and references to your blog.
20. Use Twitterfeed or a similar services
TwitterFeed & similar services or programs can help you automate your tweets, connect to your blog with Twitter & Facebook and schedule your future tweets. These services can increase your follower count because they can help you tweet more often. Nevertheless remember that these services should not be replacing you on social media & that you must remain an active user.


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Rhone-Poulenc, Inc., Hess & Clark Div. v. Food & Drug Admin.
ELR Citation: 11 ELR 20457
Nos. Nos. 79-1694, -1706, 636 F.2d 750/(D.C. Cir., 11/24/1980)
The court rules that the Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) acted properly in banning the use of diethylstilbestrol (DES) as an animal drug and in declining to prepare an environmental impact statement (EIS) prior to the ban. The Commissioner had withdrawn his approval of DES, as required by §512 of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, based on new evidence that the drug was not safe for use under the conditions as originally approved. The court first rules that the Commissioner provided substantial evidence that DES was present in the edible portions of animals in sufficient quantities to meet the "new evidence" standard of §505(h) of the Food and Drug Act, which would allow FDA to reconsider its approval. Second, FDA studies, which concluded that it is impossible to determine a safe level of DES in humans, provided sufficient evidence to shift the burden of showing the safety of DES to the manufacturers. Third, the court affirms the Commissioner's finding that defendants have not shown that the benefits of DES outweigh the risks associated with its continued use as an animal drug. Finally, the court agrees that banning DES would not significantly affect the quality of the human environment; thus an EIS is not required under the National Environmental Policy Act.
The full text of this opinion is available from ELR (6 pp. $1.25, ELR Order No. C-1240.
Counsel for Petitioners
Eugene I. Lambert, Richard F. Kingham
Covington & Burling
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(202) 452-6000
Frederick S. Hird Jr., James L. Kaler
Kaler, Worsley, Daniel & Hollman
710 Ring Bldg., 1200 18th St. NW, Washington DC 20036
(202) 331-9100
Counsel for Respondents
Donald O. Beers, Robert M. Spiller Jr.; Richard M. Cooper, Chief Counsel for Enforcement
Food and Drug Administration
5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville MD 20857
(301) 443-4380
Robert B. Nicholson, Susan J. Atkinson
Antitrust Division
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Disodium Phosphate is the disodium salt of phosphoric acid. This product appears as a white crystalline powder. It can be used as a protein stabilizer, buffer, dispersant, and coagulation accelerator in instant puddings, cream sauce, macaroni, etc.
Shanghai Yancui Import and Export Corporation is a company dealing with chemical international trading. They are highly knowledgeable in the Chinese chemical market and with business regulations abroad. They offer many products for many industries. They produce about 40 products for Food Additives. These include Calcium Lactate, Benzoic Acid, Disodium Phosphate and Sodium Gluconate.
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Although the name change to Syfy signaled the erstwhile Sci-Fi Channel's move beyond mere science fiction, and enabled it to embrace a broader creative palette that can encompass shark attacks, shark attacks on Jersey Shore, and shark attacks by a shark that is also an octopus, it's never quite reached the pinnacle that was its Battlestar Galactica reboot. And so it's considering picking up the laser-riddled corpse of Terry Nation's influential cult British series Blake's 7 and giving it a similar remake, presumably turning the already plenty pessimistic and morally gray series about a group of space-faring prison escapees into another gritty, Battlestar-like modern drama, one that will also remind you of Firefly and how it's still canceled. (Or, maybe a lighthearted farce with puppets, given that Syfy seems to like reversing formulas on these things.)
Should the remake go forward, the pilot would be helmed by Casino Royale and Green Lantern director Martin Campbell from a script by Heroes writer Joe Pokaski—two people who know about rebooting classic British things and weathering fan scrutiny and disappointment. It would also mark Syfy's tentative return to shows set in space. "I'm just spitballing here, but is there any scientific evidence that says space can't support a sharktopus?" one network executive has already asked Pokaski at one of these development meetings, only to be reminded that science is stupid, so it's definitely worth considering.


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Step right up, ladies and gentlemen! The latest edition of the gluten free makeup list is here!
I've been busy as a bee this time around, but thankfully nothing earth shattering happened. Just a little clean up and some new additions to the list.
- Gluten Free Beauty has been removed from the list. The company is out of business, though word on the street is that they may come back. If you have any products of theirs left, they're still safe, no worries! I just don't want to leave a dead link in the list.
- Lily Lolo has been added to the list. Everything of theirs is safe except for the mascara. It's processed in a different facility, so no worries about cross contamination!
- Nourish Organics has been added to the list! Cool skin care company that can actually be found in some stores, such as Target.
- Savvy Boheme has been added to the list. And there may or may not be a review of them coming soon... 😉
- Sensible Organics has been added to the list.
- Shea Touch has been added to the list. They have all kinds of skin care and hair care.
- TEMPTU has been added to the list. I'm really excited about this addition because they're an AIRBRUSH COMPANY Y'ALL!!! They make an at-home airbrushing system that looks really cool. I haven't tried it yet, but I'm kinda dyin' to.
So there 'ya have it! Pretty good update to the list and I'm really excited about several of these companies in particular. Check 'em out for yourself!
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We hear that women hold up half the sky, but we have yet to see women hold half the power.
This blog is by a feminist who is making a film on the women's liberation movement.
Hope the tumultuous change in the publishing industry will work to women's advantage!!!! The status quo is as bad as it is in every other field.


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Madinah, which lies 447 kilometers north of the Holy City of Makkah, is the second holiest city in Islam. It was to Madinah that the Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, and his followers, faced by the hostility and persecution of the Makkhan merchants, departed in 622 AD - and, when the citizens of Madinah asked the Prophet to live amongst them and to arbitrate in their affairs (an invitation taken to mean their rejection of polytheism and submission to the will of the one God, Allah), it was in Madinah that the Islamic era began.
Madinah is then the city of the Prophet. As the place in which the Holy Qur'an was compiled and from which the Prophet's companions administered the affairs of the Muslim community, it was the seat of the first Islamic state. From Madinah, armies, spreading the word of the Prophet, were dispatched to Egypt, Persia and Syria.
Madinah is also the place in which the Prophet, peace be upon him, was buried.
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§ Mr. Ernie Ross
asked the Secretary of State for Scotland (1) what was the average annual number of unemployed in Dundee in each year since 1980; and what was the average annual number of job vacancies;
(2) what has been the number of unemployed in Dundee in each of the past six months; and what has been the corresponding number of vacancies.
§ Mr. Allan Stewart
Table 1 shows for the Dundee jobcentre area the average annual number of unemployed registrants in each year from 1980 to 1982, the average number of unemployed claimants in 1983 and the annual average number of notified vacancies remaining unfilled.
Table 2 shows the number of unemployed claimants in each of the last six months together with the number of notified vacancies remaining unfilled at the date of the count.
Vacancies notified to jobcentres are estimated to be about one-third of all vacancies in Great Britain. The number of vacancies remaining unfilled at a particular date takes no account of the flow of vacancies being notified, filled or withdrawn which would reflect activity more closely; for example during the 12-month period to December 1983 the number of people placed in jobs by the Dundee jobcentre was 4,876; it is estimated that nationally the public employment service accounts for about one in four of all placings.
Dundee Jobcentre Area Table 1—Unemployment and Vacancies 1980–1983 1980 1981 1982 1983 Average number of Unemployed 10,861 14,723 15,611 15,943 Average number of unfilled vacancies 418 298 358 383
Table 2—Unemployment and Vacancies August 1983 to January 1984 Date of Count No. of Claimants Unemployed Claimants 11 August 1983 15,996 8 September 1983 16,479 13 October 1983 15,980 10 November 1983 15,912 8 December 1983 15,817 12 January 1984 16,536
Date of Count No. of Vacancies Unfilled Vacancies 5 August 1983 310 2 September 1983 317 7 October 1983 425 4 November 1983 415 2 December 1983 382 6 January 1984 339


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I went to the life celebration for Bert Wilson, founder of Las Pilitas Nursery, a week ago Sunday. Penny Nyant, his daughter and Ian Wilson, his son, were there to talk, reminisce and fondly remember Bert and all his witticisms and contributions to California native plant horticulture.
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The 80-year-old man was by all measures relatively fit, maintaining a three-mile-a-day treadmill regimen. So no one was more surprised than he when he began falling, finally breaking his hip.
It puzzled Melissa Banta, doctor of physical therapy, too, when she began treating the aging athlete. "I discovered that the ankle opposite his repaired hip had poor strength," something that can be addressed with an ankle brace, says Banta, who works at Sheltering Arms Physical Rehabilitation Hospital in Richmond, Virginia.
Leading cause of elder injury
Falls are the leading cause of injuries to older people in the United States, and the resulting broken bones often set off a downward spiral in health. But despite their frequent occurrence, falls are not an inevitable outcome of aging.
A fall can be a dramatic turning point for an older person. According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), up to 25% of people who lived independently before their hip fracture have to stay in a nursing home for at least one year. About 50% of the elderly who sustain a fall-related injury will be discharged to a nursing home rather than return home.
What you can do
Making sure the living environment is safe is only half the battle when it comes to fall prevention. Ensuring an older person is in the best possible physical condition goes a long way toward making sure falls never happen.
First things first: Get all physical systems checked. According to the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, there are lots of medical problems that lead to falls, including:
- Impaired musculoskeletal function, gait abnormality, osteoporosis
- Irregular heartbeat, blood pressure fluctuation
- Depression, Alzheimer's disease and senility
- Arthritis, hip weakness or imbalance
- Neurological conditions such as stroke, Parkinson's disease, multiple sclerosis
- Urinary and bladder dysfunction
- Vision or hearing loss
- Cancer that affects bones
A doctor should review all medicines – use of more than four is often associated with increased risk of falling, and out-of-date drugs, wrong dosages or side effects can all cause problems. Other potential causes include the need for oxygen, or having vertigo. Treatment can prevent many of these from turning into a fall. For example, with vertigo, "we can often treat that with physical therapy, doing maneuvers to reposition the inner ear," Banta says. Good health also means maintaining a diet with adequate dietary calcium and vitamin D and avoiding smoking or excessive alcohol. Next, encourage your parent to exercise regularly. The CDC's National Center for Injury Prevention and Control recommends engaging regularly (e.g., every other day for about 15 minutes each time) in exercise designed to increase muscle and bone strength, and to improve balance and flexibility. Many people enjoy low-impact activities such as walking and swimming. Lastly, it's important to remember that how you move matters. Consider discussing the following fall-prevention techniques with your parent:
- Take your time getting up. Getting out of bed quickly can cause blood pressure to drop, triggering fainting and a fall. Before getting up, a person should sit up for a moment, and then stand up slowly.
- Push up, don't pull. It's best to push up from the seat surface, rather than grabbing a walker or other object positioned in front.
- Use a walker or rollator in the house, not just outside. Walkers can be outfitted with seats or hooks to transport things around the house. "If you use a walker there is more chance to catch yourself," says Banta. "Get good training with the walker."
- Reach smarter. "Don't stand on a chair or table to reach something that's too high — use a "reach stick" instead,— advises the National Institute on Aging. "Reach sticks are special grabbing tools that you can buy at many hardware or most medical supply stores."
- Grab on. The Institute also recommends holding the handrails when using the stairs. "If you must carry something while you're going up or down, hold it in one hand and use the handrail with the other."
- Learn how to fall. "What hits first gets the most damage," says Banta. An aging parent "should try to curl up and not put an arm out, or fall on the bottom instead of side. But often people who have fallen say they have no idea they were falling until it happened, so that can be difficult." Home monitoring systems are useful to summon help should a fall occur.
Most falls do not result in serious injury, the CDC says. "However, there is often a psychological impact. Approximately 25% of community-dwelling people 75 or over unnecessarily restrict their activities because of fear of falling." Preventing a parent from becoming one of these statistics means taking action before that first misstep.
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The Mustache Fights Back
By Joanna Sugden
The mustache has been on the decline in India, traditionally one of its boom markets, in recent years as women have begun to prefer their men with clean-shaven upper lips and Bollywood hunks have sported stubble rather than handlebar mustaches.
But the mustache competition at the Pushkar Camel Fair this weekend was one of the most popular events at the annual festival in Rajasthan, signalling perhaps that the mustache is fighting back.
Having a full-bodied mustache has long been a symbol of virility and masculinity for Indian men. It was also once an indicator of caste status: the way a mustache was trained (a term used by the Handlebar Club ) to grow -- upwards, downwards or across -- was a visual sign of a person's position in society, according to this account in William Dalrymple's book "The Age of Kali – Indian Travels and Encounters".
Harijans, known as untouchables, were not permitted to have a mustache at all, while other lower castes had to grow theirs with the ends drooped.
The winner of the competition at this year's Pushkar Camel Fair was Girdhar Vyas, with a mustache that he usually keeps twirled into spirals fixed to his cheeks with a large elastic band stretched over his head and under his chin.
He claims that his mustache measures eight-and-a-half feet on either side. This would make it longer than the 14-foot of facial hair belonging to the Guinness World Record holder Ram Singh Chauhan. Mr. Chauhan is also from India and starred in the James Bond film Octopussy. He says it is important to start young if you want a long mustache, because hair becomes more brittle as you age.
Mr. Vyas, 52, a civil servant from Bikaner in western Rajasthan, has been growing his mustache for 29 years and has never used shampoo or soap to maintain it. "I use only multani mitti," he told Wall Street Journal's India Real Time after claiming his 1,500 rupee ($27) prize for coming first in the competition.
Multani mitti is a mixture of soil, lime, cereal and milk and is traditionally used by Indian women as a face pack. Archaeologists have also used it to clean the Taj Mahal.
At the Pushkar competition, judges awarded marks out of 300 based on three criteria: presentation on the face, quality and color, and
maintenance. There were 11 entrants this year including one from the U.S. and one from Scotland.
A trend for clean shaven or stubbly Bollywood heroes has been cited as a reason why younger generations eschew facial hair. But the Indian film industry has recently seen a return of the mustachioed leading man.
A charity movement known as Movember is also helping the mustache cause around the world. People are encouraged to grow mustaches throughout November to raise money and awareness for men's overall health.
The Movember movement, which began in 2003 in Australia, has so far raised $295 million worldwide from 1.9 million participants, and is becoming popular in India.
But it'll take a lot longer than one month of growth to challenge Mr. Vyas for his Pushkar crown.
Joanna Sugden is freelance journalist living in Delhi. Before coming to India in 2011 she spent four-and-a-half years as a reporter at The Times of London, covering religion and education. You can follow her on Twitter @jhsugden.
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Readers have a lot to say
Vote Yes to Dissolve on Nov. 4
Residents of Silver Lake, are you happy with the state of things? Are you happy with no new business, rundown buildings in the center of our community, the lack of planning, lack of money and lack of ethics? Are you happy with a Milwaukee TV station comparing our village board meetings to "a dysfunctional family at Thanksgiving dinner?" We can no longer just wait for change.
We must be proactive to achieve change. The village will go broke; we'll be facing the financial aftermath of bankruptcy. Would you sit by and let your family go bankrupt if a solution to avoid it was right in front of you? And what if that solution would benefit you?
Not one solid argument against dissolution has been presented. There are no good reasons not to dissolve.
Are you happy? If you are, then it must be because you've been so busy building a good life for yourself and your family you haven't been paying attention to where your tax dollars are and are not going.
Now imagine yourself even happier but now you have a little more money in your pocket, your community is being guided by a professional administrator and as you are busy building that good life, paying attention to local government is not so pressing.
Can you picture it? Then, vote Yes to Dissolve on Nov. 4.
Chris Laas
Silver Lake
Silver Lake can survive without a village government
I have been a resident of Silver Lake for 19 years, and over the past 15 years some Silver Lake residents have made extreme efforts to try and make changes – and every time one small step is taken forward, the same 300 people come out, vote some-one in who is still trying to live in the past and send us all three giant steps back-ward.
Government in Silver Lake is the definition of backward. Village Hall is stuck in 1926 and there are people here who believe that all we need to do is wait for the next tax year, raise the taxes as much as is allowed and all our problems will eventually go away. They won't.
And even if small improvements could be made gradually, it wouldn't be enough, and we can't wait that long.
You know, your tax bill is just the base amount you must pay – you can send in more. If you truly believe in the Village and you want to save this layer of govern-ment, then make your weekly or monthly contribution to the Village of Silver Lake, 113 S. First Street.
Be sure you indicate on the memo line how you want your contribution spent. Maybe on the new library? Sewer repair? Fire department? Road improvements? Cleaning the beach? Employee raises? The list goes on and on.
But, if you have come to the realization that we can survive, and survive quite nicely, without a village gov-ernment, then be sure and vote Yes to Dissolve on Nov. 4.
If you have any questions or need the facts, contact email@example.com
Jo Lasdasky
Silver Lake
Supports VanWanggaard
I would like to thank the residents of the 61st Assembly District for their support the past two years. It has been an honor to serve the area as we continue to recover from the economic challenges that we face.
I would like to continue my work to bring more jobs, cut taxes, and expand educational choices with a new 21st District State Senator.
On Tuesday, Aug. 12, there is an important Republican primary for the senate seat. I urge district residents to join me in re-electing Van Wanggaard to the State Senate.
I am proud to say that both Van and I worked alongside Gov. Walker to pass a bold conservative agenda that has put our state back on track. We both voted for Act 10, which helped eliminate a $3.6 billion budget deficit and paved the way for nearly $2 billion in tax cuts.
Together Van and I stand with Governor Walker on many issues important to conservatives. Van has an "A" rating with the NRA, is endorsed by Wisconsin Right to Life, and will work diligently to reduce our overall tax burden. Van was also a leader in passing pro-job legislation and authored several bills that played a key role in the rapid economic development that Kenosha County has experienced.
Van stood up for the taxpayers, supported Gov. Walker's bold agenda, and was recalled because of it. For Van's support of Gov. Walker and conservative reforms, he has earned my trust and deserves the ability return to the senate and finish the job he started.
Please join me on Tuesday, Aug. 12 and vote for the proven, trusted conservative, Van Wanggaard.
Samantha Kerkman
State Representative
61st Assembly District
To Whom It May Concern:
On May 22, I attended the meeting where Mike Culat was present at Susan Milligan's home. In this meeting ATV matters were being discussed, and one of the issues that was brought up is how, quote, "…he could ride down to his neighbors for a beer or people travel to various area taverns to drink a beer."
He talked about other things, including how the times allowed for the ATV's to be driven would be from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. Concerns were there for all present.
In the July 21 meeting held at 6 p.m. at the Salem Town Hall after everyone was done speaking, Mr. Culat wanted to speak and said that Susan Milligan lied in her speech in a prior meeting held on July 9, about the meeting that was held at her home, on May 22.
He was the one that did the misrepresenting in front of more than 125 people, and should apologize publically to her (Susan Milligan) for bringing up her name in a meeting that was to have no rebuttal to the speakers in any disrespectful way.
These are residential areas with families that have young children and babies that take naps daily during mid-afternoons or various times of the day/evening, and if this ordinance passes, it will interfere with these families.
Safety needs to be the priority in residential areas where people live, and the trails are put in place for those types of recreational vehicles (ATV's).
Respect the areas where people live and use the ATV's where they were meant to be ridden, not residential areas or paved roads. We live in a quiet community, which need to stay a quiet community, where neighbors are good neighbors.
Sandra Milligan
Dissolving can be like a divorce
The residents of Silver Lake are asking for a divorce from the village government. Divorces are never easy and often times, someone inevitably gets hurt.
But it doesn't have to be that way, and if the two sides can work together, it can turn out to be best for everyone. Years later the question lingers, why didn't we do this sooner?
The village can no longer afford to provide for the needs of its residents. The divided populace continues to be at odds with one another, current leadership has blinders on regarding current and future financial realities and the lack of business growth leaves the burden of the bills on the backs of the tax payers: 1,000 homeowners and a handful of businesses who are supporting a $1.4M annual budget with increases for sewer improvement ($533,704) and library purchase ($250,000) on the horizon.
Every single reason for the marriage to have happened in the first place is gone. Life is about change, and the time has come to make a change. The village's insatiable hunger for revenue will continue to increase as costs for services rise. The town provides for their residents every benefit the residents of Silver Lake enjoy and in most cases do a better job and in essence for less money because it is shared by a larger and broader tax base.
Silver Lake residents, please go to the Town of Salem Web site and look at it, look at their annual budget, look at their fire and rescue budget, road maintenance, snow plowing, etc.
If we fold into the town, we'll be merely an additional 1.5 square mile hamlet, but as it is now, we have total financial responsibility for supporting a municipality that is only 1.5 square miles and requires us to duplicate every service.
This divorce isn't an "us against them." This dissolution is about keeping Silver Lake as the idyllic place we all love without the financial distress that continues every year.
We need to dissolve the Village of Silver Lake in order to save the Village of Silver Lake.
Bruce Nopenz
Silver Lake
Supports Wanggaard
I totally agree with Assembly Speaker Robin Vos and the Republican Assembly Campaign Committees backing of Van Wanggaard for State Senate.
Van Wanggaard is a big family man, he understands kitchen table issues which affect all of us.
Van supported Act 10 and Governor Walker from day one.
There is no substitute for experience. Van has served on the County Board and in the State Senate. Steitz has no political record. He can say he's the most conservative but has no elected record of any kind to prove it. Talk is cheap!
Van is a retired veteran law enforcement officer and believes in opportunity and fairness for all.
I don't know how anyone else feels but I don't want another attorney in elected office, like Obama and the two Clintons. All you get are more laws, more rules, more regulations and higher taxes. Soon you will have to hire an attorney to get even the simplest of things done.
It's time to say enough is enough. We don't want more roadblocks to our freedom. Steitz said he has a law degree from Northwestern University. I rest my case.
Catherine Thielen
Bohners Lake
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* this post right here! I love this poem (printing it and putting it up on my studio wall!) and agree with everything Dee says! If you are an artist/writer/seeker/creative being/lover of life...just read it! My fave part? How creating brings us closer to ourSELVES (truth/we are enough/see me true) and how consumerism takes us away from our true selves.
* President Obama routes the electoral map and wins re-election in a landslide!! Dear America: I am so proud of you...for going forward and voting a resounding NO!!! to exclusion politics. Not only that...but now there are a record number of Dem. female senators!!!
* getting back to writing. Wrapping myself up in words and rhymes. Using words to climb heights within mySELF, to open doors that have been locked, to sing songs of hope + heart + pain. It all matters!
this book off Amazon thinking it was more of a nuts and bolts guide to writing but...it turned out to be quite the opposite and...exactly what i need!!! I love it when that happens, don't you?? If you are looking to deepen your self + life and relationships...I totally recommend this book. It's so much more than a guide to journaling...it's prayer/meditation/inner wisdom via writing. Can't say enough about it!
* Loving the crisp bright days over here. Listening to the wind howling outside the windows, sunshine pouring through bare branched trees, going for walks all bundled up. We are on the cusp on winter over here...but the days are still fairly warm.
* with 2 (!!!) storms devastating the east coast...it has been heartwarming to see people helping out...raising money, donating to the Red Cross and volunteering their time. With so much focus on the country being divided...it's nice to see people coming together, reaching out and helping complete strangers.
*loved reading this wise post here . How our personal hurricanes demolish + rebuild us, eliminate some relationships while birthing new ones...and how we rise from the ashes. Absolutely true!
* Tim and Tara eating popcorn and watching movies (Mulan is Tara's absolute fave. right now!). It warms my heart to hear them giggling and sharing secrets.
* reading this post put wings on my feet. The words + images sparked a fire. "We must have the stubbornness to accept our gladness in the ruthless furnace of this world.... " - Jack Gilbert


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is deplorable.
HOW do they expect you to recover if they're feeding you... poo.
*I* don't even want to eat this, so why would someone that has nausea and little appetite want to???
Believe it or not, this delectable dish is supposed to be some sort of pot pie (I think...)
Hmmm *thought*
Maybe we can try to install some sort of quality, nutritious, appetizing food program in the hospital? Cause lord knows THAT shit ain't cutting it. Calling Jamie Oliver!!!


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Cheesy Venison and Potatoes is the simplest recipe on my blog, but it's so delicious. It's very easy to make and you only need a few ingredients.
This recipe is very adaptable. You can use deer sausage or deer burger, any type of potatoes you want, any type of cheese you want, and any other ingredients you might want to add. This one recipe can turn into many different recipes.
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New England Patriots safety Patrick Chung went to yesterday's Boston Celtics-Philadelphia 76ers game with his son, Taj. What they wanted was to do was catch a basketball game. What they did was encounter the real-life Grinch, apparently in the form of referee Dick Bavetta.
There really are no words that do this photo proper justice:
Luckily, it looks like they caught this Grinch post-heart enlargement, as Bavetta appears to be giving a friendly high-five to the youngster and not trying to steal his Christmas spirit.
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Canberra SharePoint User Group
Wednesday, May 18, 2016 from 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM (AEST)
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Hello Canberra SharePoint-ers!
This month - Introducing SharePoint Server 2016 and the future of SharePoint
This month, Ishai Sagi from Extelligent Design presents on the future of SharePoint and highlights the main features of SharePoint Server 2016.
SharePoint Server 2016 is the most stable, high performing and superior SharePoint server version so far. SharePoint Server 2016 is now generally available along with Office Online Server.
Ishai discusses the improvements in SharePoint Server 2016 and the future of SharePoint event that was held recently.
This is a great session if you are looking to catch up on the future of SharePoint event, along with discussions with your peers before and after the user group.
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And, really, when you work at Kards Unlimited, EVERY DAY IS GEEK PRIDE DAY. Once upon a time, I hid my enjoyment of science fiction and fantasy stories because I was embarrassed to take such pleasure in "nerdy" novels and TV shows. (Case in point: my favorite TV show growing up was "Charmed," but whenever anyone would ask me - like in those icebreakers during the first few weeks of college - I would say it was "One Tree Hill." Although, is that really any better?) Today, however, you can find me happily discussing many magical and spaceshippy things with customers at our store - I AM SHOUTING MY LOVE OF GEEKDOM FROM THE ROOFTOPS!! Or at least over the interwebz.
Separate but related, are you watching Game of Thrones? Because you NEED to be. This is not a request. Anyways, I can hardly believe it now, but when that show first became popular, I hesitated to watch it. Not because I didn't think I would like it, but because I was at the point in my life where my desire to be "mature" and "well-rounded" (and other dumb adjectives placed inside quotation marks) had started to overwhelm my appreciation for sci-fi and fantasy. Except, LUCKILY, I was saved from such a fate. Like that scene in pretty much every action/adventure movie ever, where the hero seems just about to die or run out of ammo/time/magical energy/etc., I was completely refueled - revived, resuscitated, REINVIGORATED - by the glory that is Game of Thrones. I never thought I'd ever love anything as much as I love Harry Potter (and if you want to scare the crap out of yourself, try imagining a world without Potter and his pals), but Arya and Tyrion and Jon and Daenerys and ESPECIALLY Sansa Stark somehow swashbuckled their way into my heart, and are currently holding Ron and Hermione up for ransom. (Prospects look grim.)
Geek Pride Day is celebrated each year on May 25th to commemorate the theatrical release of Star Wars, but it also happens to coincide with Towel Day (Thank you, Douglas Adams) and the Glorious 25th of May, which I guess is celebrated on Discworld? Not really sure on that one. Pratchett's more of a work-in-progress for me.
The holiday seems to be celebrated mostly by small groups of friends and co-workers, although I don't think anyone would oppose the idea of mass geek riots in the streets. Free butterbeer for all! (Just an idea.)


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A 13,500 square foot spec home in Miami Beach with its own 43-foot long waterslide has sold for $22.5m, the highest price paid for a single family home in the city in two years.
The six-bedroom oceanfront property, named Pine Tree South, is set on an acre of land and includes staff quarters, a basketball court and 100 feet of private waterfront on Indian Creek Canal.
Douglas Elliman Florida represented both sides of the deal. Eloy Carmenate and Mick Duchon listed the property which originally had a price tag of $34m. Oren and Tal Alexander, co-founders of The Alexander Team, represented the buyer. The duo is no stranger to handling big ticket real estate deals. They're currently listing fashion designer Tommy Hilfiger's Plaza Hotel penthouse in New York for $58.9m.
The sale comes as Miami area real estate continues to soften.
In Miami-Dade County, the total number of existing home sales fell 4.3 percent year-over-year in December, according data released by the Miami Association of Realtors. In Broward County, home sales fell 3.7 percent, according to the Greater Fort Lauderdale Realtors.
The falloff is particularly acute at the top end of the market.
In Miami Beach, the number of luxury sales dropped 22 percent year-over-year in the fourth quarter of 2016, according to a report from brokerage Douglas Elliman and appraisal firm Miller Samuel. In mainland Miami, luxury sales fell 13 percent, the report found. Luxury is defined by Douglas Elliman as the top 10 percent of sales.
Declining sales is forcing some high profile sellers to offer discounts.
Calvin Klein shaved $1m off the price of his Miami Beach house, which is back on the market for $15m. New York real estate developer Joseph Moinian bought billionaire Leon Black's condo at Faena House for $12.5m after it was originally listed for $16.5m.
Yet despite the drop-off in sales, Miami-area home prices are still rising.
In Miami-Dade, the median price for a single-family home rose to $305,000 in December, up 9.5 percent year-over-year, the Miami Association of Realtors data show. Condo prices ticked up to $210,000, up 1.3 percent. In Broward, the median single-family home sold for $320,000 in December, up 5.9 percent year-over-year. Condo prices jumped to $149,700, up 13.4 percent.
The property that sold in Miami Beach was developed by Barry Brodsky and Brodson Construction and designed by SAOTA architects. The water slide, which is about 20 feet high, extends from the second floor of the home to the swimming pool. The pool has a built-in volleyball court and a basketball section. A hot tub and a barbecue area are on a terrace nearby.


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Jay Glazer of FOX reports that the Chicago Bears have made the decision to promote offensive line coach Mike Tice to offensive coordinator.
This was an idea that that came up earlier in the week but Tice has yet to hold this position at any time in his career. Tice has shown the ability to get better production out of a pretty questionable group of offensive lineman in the last two years so hopefully it will translate to the teams offense.
Glazer adds that the Bears will add a "passing game" coach to pair with Tice who will focus on the teams running game and will call plays.
Chicago is said to be going back to a "ground-based" attack next season which makes re-signing RB Matt Forte all the more important. Kahlil Bell stepped up in Forte's absence and looks to be a better option than Marion Barber for the coming years.


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Let them carry water! Whiners must give Ronnie a break
Meleisa Witter, Guest Columnist
Minister Ronald Thwaites has a job very few persons, even those with much testicular fortitude, would begrudge. He seems to have got on the wrong side of almost every disparate group one can imagine - from the teachers in his ministry, to the parents of the students he caters to, and every other 'waggonist' looking for a cause to defend.
Most of the comments posted in response to the Gleaner article 'Flush fears' (August 20, 2014) ranged from ridicule to downright savagery, and the anger and annoyance were definitely palpable. But I daresay his detractors have missed the larger point. In one fell swoop, the minister of education is being blamed for the deficiencies in every aspect of the Government when, in fact, his purview lies with the matter of education, and I do believe that it is out of his concern for those whom he seeks to educate that the comments were made.
Undoubtedly, Minister Thwaites must be tired of having to report to the country that students are failing. Every single day, they are kept away from school because 'one pan knack', it is more likely that the report will remain unchanged, or if it does, it will be pointing to a worsening of the situation. The time is now dry and there is no water, so keep the children home. In a few weeks or so, as the areas of extremely low pressure over warm ocean waters form a hurricane, or several of them, another reason to keep them home some more is presented.
In the very powerful publication Profile of Excellence, co-authored by veteran journalist Ian Boyne and career strategist and author Glenford Smith, the stories speak profoundly of people who are at the top of their fields today, extraordinary achievers, who faced so many daunting situations from very early in life that if their only challenge was to carry water to school in the instance that they needed to clean up after themselves, they would perhaps not even have been eligible for Profile.
Where are the solutions?
This is what Minister Thwaites understands fundamentally, I believe, and what more of his detractors need to contemplate. As a nation, we are always ready to castigate. Is there any place for helpful solutions? Of about 30 comments I cursorily scanned, only about three revealed any that would be considered reasonable or helpful. The others, typical of our hater mentality, had evidently just happily found an avenue to broadcast their negativity and launch an attack, Courage the cowardly dog style. When will we rise above our inherent, intrinsic, negative grinding as a nation?
This may not be the ideal place or time to publicise my very bucolic beginnings, but in a bid to authenticate my later comments, I will proudly indicate that I spent many years carrying water, mind you, for preparation to go to school, and not necessarily to take to school with me as being proposed by Minister Thwaites. Nevertheless, not only did I survive, it made me stronger, physically and mentally.
What Jamaica needs right now are people who can see a problem and recognise that an opportunity is in there somewhere. It was the great Mahatma Gandhi who said, "Adversity is the mother of progress." Why must we kick against the pricks always? Where are the solution specialists and the people who refuse to quit and lie down and die at a time such as this?
Yes, I hear you: "Carrying the water is one thing; potentially exposing the children to all kinds of illnesses and diseases resulting from the lack of 'running' water is another," you retort. "Let them carry the water," I say! If we got sick and died that easily, we would not have survived beyond the dark ages when doctors were butchers and sterilisation was archaic or unheard of.
Every time it is convenient, we repeat the mantra 'Education is the key to success', but as soon as we can, we look for an excuse to disrupt the cycle. The holidays in Jamaica are already too long, lending themselves to a lack of productivity in our students. Over the holidays, children either forget or unlearn everything they were taught the term before and have to relearn before moving forward. No extension away from school can be considered a good thing.
And to worsen the situation, it is not as though the parents who are protesting are going to be teaching their children at home. What about the areas where there is no water shortage? Should they wait on the other schools so the syllabus can be completed together, or should they go ahead? When GSAT, GNAT, CSEC and CAPE results come out, there will be another hue and cry about some schools causing children to fail because the syllabus was incomplete.
Come on, people! Take a look at the big picture. As the late great Stephen Covey said, "Begin with the end in mind." It is time to awaken from this stupor. This yen to cause a ruckus over everything that is said and begrudge politicians and their SUVs needs to stop. It certainly will not put more water in the pipes and will not cause your child to learn while at home on an extended holiday.
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If you are a parent, you can determine what you really want for your child. A sheltered little life, which is in no way reminiscent of, or preparatory for, the great big world, or an opportunity to embrace a challenge and move ahead with vim, vigour and vitality.
Give them a story to tell their children. I tell my son about the many (10) miles I walked back and forth to a primary school every day since age six, and which propelled me to develop a keen desire to enter St Elizabeth's most prestigious high school that provided boarding. In my year, I was only one of three students who indeed passed for Hampton School. I was the most 'disadvantaged', having to not only walk the 10 miles to and from school, but also to walk one mile, prior to going to school, to a catchment tank to collect water for bathing. At times, this would be done without the day's meals to boot.
But God made us resilient and we need to stop behaving as though we break so easily. And yes, some do, but the broken ones cannot be nation builders, and that is what Jamaica needs right now. But they have to be 'created' from early.
This situation presents a great opportunity for the nation to come together. Parents with vehicles, your neighbour's daughter whom you usually drive past wearing a similar uniform as your precious little one, your windows rolled up, offer her a lift with her five-gallon bottle of water. The idlers on the street can use this as an opportunity to be of some value to the society. Instead of digging out your 'hand middle' so early, help a little one with the water whose bag seems heavy.
I don't expect responses to this article will be any kinder than the ones hurled at the minister. Nevertheless, I support your stance, Minister Thwaites. The reality dictates that water or not, every child can learn, and every child must learn.
Meleisa Witter is a publisher and creative and editorial director of Caribbean Wellness & Lifestyle magazine. Email feedback to email@example.com and firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Gloves off as Trump heads to Vatican
[VATICAN CITY] Billionaire President Donald Trump heads to the Vatican on Wednesday to meet man-of-the-poor Pope Francis, with all eyes on whether they will end their sparring to find common ground.
The two leaders have been at odds over issues from migration to climate change, staking out starkly opposing positions through the media, most notably in 2016 while Mr Trump was campaigning for the US presidency.
But there is a potential for reconciliation: Back in 2013, noting the pontiff's first Christmas as head of the Catholic Church, Mr Trump tweeted that "the new pope is a humble man, very much like me, which probably explains why I like him so much!"
And Pope Francis promised this month that he "won't judge" the former TV personality before hearing him out.
Security will be tight in the world's smallest state, with Swiss Guards joined by anti-terrorism police and sniffer dogs in the wake of the suicide attack at a concert in Manchester, Britain, on Monday claimed by the Islamic State (IS) group.
During his campaign, Mr Trump evoked the spectre of an IS attack on the Vatican, saying that "if and when" it happens "the pope would have only wished and prayed that Donald Trump would have been president".
Mr Trump's visit to the Vatican is part of his first trip abroad as president, and follows an initial leg in Saudi Arabia and a visit to Israel and the Palestinian territories.
"No president has ever visited the homelands and holy sites of the Jewish, Christian, and Muslims faiths all on one trip," said US National Security Advisor HR McMaster, describing it as a "truly historic" visit.
"He will bring a message of tolerance and of hope to billions."
With his poll numbers at a record low for a new president, Mr Trump may be hoping to boost his popularity by rubbing shoulders with the man who made the cover of Time and Rolling Stone.
At their meeting in the papal library at 0630 GMT, the leaders are expected to discuss issues such as efforts to promote world peace, support for religious freedom and the fight against abortion.
Mr Trump may have sparked tensions with his attempts at a travel ban targeting several Muslim-majority nations, but on Sunday he softened his tone on Islam, rejecting the idea of a battle between religions, a sentiment the pope shares.
Elected in November last year, Mr Trump has already axed rules protecting tax-funded financing of family planning clinics that offer abortions, and has filled an empty spot on the Supreme Court with an anti-abortion justice.
He may also win points thanks to his daughter and high-profile adviser Ivanka Trump, who has made a commitment to fighting human trafficking and will meet victims in Rome after her papal introduction.
But human rights groups are urging Pope Francis to raise US use of the death penalty and the issues of torture and targeted assassinations with the US president.
Mr Trump's stance on these issues "violates the sanctity of life that people of all faiths and none hold so dear," said Maya Foa, director of the British judicial rights group Reprieve.
And having vowed to make persecuted Christians in the Middle East a foreign policy priority, Mr Trump may be asked by Pope Francis to divert some US humanitarian spending to churches in Iraq and Syria, Vatican expert John L Allen Jr said.
If he agreed, it would be "a rare bit of positive news for Trump - one that should also play well with the religious voters" who elected him, he wrote on Cruxnow.com.
The elephant in the room will be the president's planned border wall with Mexico. The Argentine pope has condemned the idea of using walls to keep out foreigners and slammed those who do as "not Christian".
Mr Trump, who grew up in a Presbyterian family but is not a regular churchgoer, said the accusation was "disgraceful".
And while the pontiff is an ardent supporter of efforts to combat climate change, Mr Trump has pledged to pull the United States out of the COP21 Paris Agreement on reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
The president, who will head to Brussels later Wednesday before returning to Italy for a G7 meeting, did not initially plan to meet the pope.
When the unexpected, last-minute request came, the Vatican squeezed him into an early slot.
Holy See sources said the president would have to enter the papal palace via a side door because the weekly Wednesday mass in Saint Peter's Square takes priority.