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When I was newly married, I remember the firm opinion of a wise older friend who stressed the importance of separate retreats for men and women. The problem with sharing such religious activities, she said, is that each tends to listen on behalf of the other (i.e. "Whew, I'm so glad Father mentioned that — I've been telling him that for years!"). With that in mind, one might suggest that as a woman I should politely ignore the letter that Phoenix' Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted has just written to the men of his diocese, but that would neglect an amazing document that has much to teach women as well. The lessons for women are peripheral to the text, but essential none the less, and so abundant that I'd like to take a few columns to unpack the wisdom therein.
Bishop Olmsted begins his work, "Into the Breach," by reminding his readers that we are all engaged in a massive two-pronged battle. The spiritual realm -- in which lies assault eternal truths, darkness seeks to quench the light, and death stalks life at every turn — manifests itself in the concrete realities of everyday life. Unfortunately, without understanding the larger narrative, distinguishing both the importance of the struggle and how various choices play into the dichotomy becomes muddled. Only with a true devotion to Christ and the spiritual gifts provided by the Church is a soldier able to distinguish the authentic battle lines.
The Bishop never devolves into stereotypes, but does rely on a key theme: Men are encouraged by the call to heroism. We have noticed this in recent times, as most people were riveted by the firefighters rushing to help those trapped in New York's Twin Towers, are edified by young men who protect their weaker peers from bullies, and are wholesomely entertained by good literature in which a man on a quest perseveres against tremendous odds. The fact that much of our toxic culture has been invested in corroding the ideal through cynicism and deconstruction is telling; furthermore, distracting men through materialism, sloth, and lust is a pernicious tactic in pulling them away from the ultimate battle to which they're called.
It's not that women don't rise in the face of important challenges, but their inclination is slightly different from that of men, who are usually more mission-oriented. When women act heroically, it usually reveals a dedication immediate to the person himself, and the necessary tasks become relative to the love involved. This establishes a key area of collaboration, for men — who do remarkably well in tactics — benefit by the vision of women, which should be focused on the individual needs of those around them. If he understands where the breach is and how to defend against it, it is often because she has pointed out the harms — particularly as they relate to those entrusted to her care. She senses the urgency and the damage, he flies into action to safeguard in practical terms that which they both believe to have serious moral and practical implications.
There is a long, sordid history of why this template is so foreign to contemporary ears, but suffice it to say that with two generations seriously damaged by the sexual revolution, trust and collaboration between men and women are in shreds. At this point, to suggest that women should simply trust men often invites sneers, ridicule, or outright hostility — but it cannot be stressed too strongly that both are at fault. Each has been guilty of manipulation, betrayal, and failure to love. For every anecdote of men failing to meet their responsibilities is another example in which women have taken advantage of men. Despite monumental damage, the challenge remains: Society is in a death spiral. There is one template that works, and we must return to it or descend further into alienated chaos.
Bishop Olmsted's letter, found at intothebreach.net, is a lifeline to Catholic men everywhere, and women should trust that it will lift men out of the quicksand of depravity and ruin. Our best response is to be grateful for his wisdom, to pray for its widespread dissemination, and to step back so that men can do what they're called to do -- shore up a battered civilization so that the family can flourish in the task entrusted to it, namely to create a shared life of love and collaboration that gives proper glory to God.
Mrs. Kineke lives in East Greenwich and can be found online at feminine-genius.com.


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The Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin, turned 70 on Sunday. At her birthday celebration on Saturday at New York's Helmsley Park Lane Hotel, she announced that next month she plans to start work on a new project with former music mentor, Clive Davis.
On what it feels like to be 70:
I was wondering, `What is it going to be like to be 50?' I can tell you now it feels like 40. So remember Benjamin Buttons? Ree Ree Buttons!
I am excited to see Aretha still going strong. I had the privilege of seeing her perform live at President Obama's inauguration in that now infamous giant bow hat. It was frigid and hard to hear, but I can say I was graced by her presence - and left with hope that I would see her again under more comfortable conditions. I'm hoping with her resent weight loss that will happen.
Give Aretha a birthday shout out and enjoy some of her hits after the jump.

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Happy Tuesday Friends! Hope everyone is having a great week! We have a fun challenge over at Loves Rubberstamps for you all and the theme is "Wings"!!! This could be Fairies, Angels, Butterflies...You name it! Just have fun with it!
Here is my card:
The sweet image on my card is "Shiny Bean" who is part of the Bean collection from The Greeting Farm. What is so awesome is that she is now part of the Magical Kit which has all of the Bean gals included in one set!!! How cool is that?!! :) These images are all of my favorites and they're so adorable!!! For this challenge, I had fun creating a shaped card using one of my Spellbinders as a base. I added some pretty polka dot paper in the background, some trims and of course some Wild Orchid Craft flowers to embellish my card! The sentiment is also from this fun kit!
Here are some other supplies used on my card:
Picked Raspberry - Tim Holtz Distress Ink
Please check out the Loves Rubberstamps store to find this wonderful Magical Kit along with other TGF stamp sets. Also, check out the Loves Rubberstamps Challenge blog to see the other fun projects made by the DT! If you want to join this fun challenge, I'll post the details below and you could have a chance to win some great prizes from the store!
Thanks so much for stopping by and have a great week! :)
This Weeks Challenge is Blankina's Choice:
Wings - Faires, Angels, Butterflies, you name it
How to play:
Just upload a creation that follows this week's challenge to your online blog or gallery. Then leave a link to your project in the linky widget at the bottom of this post. If you upload to online galleries, please also use the tag or keyword LRSBC117 Our challenge is open to everyone, you can use any stamps and products that you would like, and you can enter as many times as you want.
The linky entry widget will close at 9PM CST on Monday, August 25th so all entries need to be in before then.
Prize Information:
One lucky participant will be chosen using a random number generator will be able to proudly display ourWinner's Badge on their blog!
We will have two different possibilities for a gift voucher prize from Loves Rubberstamps for the winner as well.
$10.00 - If the stamp used is from a company that we do not carry in our store
$20.00 - If the stamp used is from a company that we DO carry in our store
If you want to see what companies we carry visit our store Loves Rubberstamps
WINNER OF THIS WEEK'S CHALLENGE WILL BE ANNOUNCED WITH THE NEW CHALLENGE ON AUGUST 26th!


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A collection of more than 800 exclusive London homes, sites and buildings are to open their doors in September.
As part of the annual Open House London, members of the public will be granted exclusive access to some of the capital's grandest mansions, most impressive gardens and innovative public venues, timeout.com reports.
Open House London sees buildings and sites which are usually closed to the public open their doors for just one weekend. Now in its 22nd year, the not-for-profit organisation has grown from simply promoting London's existing architecture to educating architects on sustainable building design, allowing them to pick up the necessary skills to produce great work in the future.
This year's locations are split into five categories: Green Exemplar, Infrastructure/Engineering, Landscape and Public Realm, Design for Living and The Changing Skyline. Those currently confirmed include The White House, Ealing (home to Polish Prince Janek Zylinski), 55 Baker Street, the Abbey Mills Pumping Station and Lloyd's of London.
While many venues either have free entry or are usually open to the public anyway, there are several which require pre-booking, such as 10 Downing Street and the Antony Gormley Room at The Beaumont, getwestlondon.co.uk reports.
Open House London 2014 takes place on September 20 and 21, with the full list of venues available online on Friday, August 15.


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Compare with other top iPad slideshow apps on Apple store, this iPad slideshow app has many outstanding features.
Photo Slideshows iPad App
Most of the iPad slideshow apps have the main features.
1. Add multiple photos & send email. People can easily adjust photos with a single tapusing Auto Correct . Most of iPad slideshow apps have powerfull editing tools.
2. Experiment with fun & innovative filters like Drama, Vintage, Grunge, and Tilt-Shift
3. Dramatic transition effcts & colourful slideshow themes.
4. Effortless Sharing. Directly upload to Facebook, Twitter, Picasa, Flickr, Email, Print or save to photo library.
5. High-resolution output.
About Photo Slideshow Director HD Pro
Photo Slideshow Director HD Pro is a perfect assistant for showingfabulous photos on HDTV in full screen. With this cool iPad app, you can make a slideshow out of your favoritephotos. Like other slideshow makers, background music is also enabled. Besides, there are a variety oftransition effects and themes to choose from, which will surely make your slideshow dynamic and professional.Sometimes, photos only cannot fully deliver the story behind. In this case, you can add a subtitle or a short text to the photos to help your audiences understand better whatthe slides are showing. Last but not the least, you can use pan&zoom effects and gestures like rotate/pinch to bring your photos to life in minutes!
Photos, whether taken with the built-in camera in your iOS device or synced to your iDevice, you can simply tap to add them into your project. Everything is within your fingertips - applying transitions, selecting themes, adding background music, previewing the project and a lot more. With just taps and drags on iPad, you can turn your photo collections and music into dynamic slideshows with ease. With Photo Slideshow Director HD Pro, you just need to add photos and music to a project and then your slideshow is ready for showing.
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Choose from up to six themes to decorate your slideshow. Each theme includes optimized presets for background color and pan & zoom effect and will definitely enhance the professional looking of your slideshow.
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Transitions will be randomly applied to the slideshow project by default. Alternatively, you are enabled to choose from up to 57 transition effects to make your slideshow more dynamic.
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Add a line of meaning text for each photo so that your audience can better understand what the slide is showing. Specify the photo duration and transition duration to control the timing of the slideshow. Choose music/theme/background image for your slide shows, change the order of each slide, adjust the transion time/effects and show time, sync the time of the photos and music, add subtitle or text narration to photos, or blank images to the slideshow, set the first and last frame and their effects, etc. Costomize your slideshow as you like!
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Browse and select one or several songs from your own music library as the background music of the slideshow. In the timeline, you will exactly know where the song begins and ends. You can also organize the background music by adding another song, deleting an existing song, moving songs up and down, etc.
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Everything is ready? Now it is time to show your work to your audience. And this is easy! Connect your iPad with Apple Digital AV Adaptor and HDMI cable or with a Apple VGA Adaptor and the slideshow will be streaming to the big screen of your TV. Photo Slideshow Director HD Pro is designed to show the best quality of your photos, all photos are processed with highest quality settings and played with a screen resolution as high as 1920x1080.
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You can import Picasa albums,Facebook Photos and Flickr albums to this app and play your Picasa,facebook and Flickr web album or transform them to slideshow movies as easy as 1,2,3.
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Baby Bum is Here!
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Congratulations again and welcome Baby R! You sure are adorable :)ReplyDelete
Congrats! She's beautiful!!!ReplyDelete
She is perfect and you look amazing! And I'm not just saying that because it's the nice thing to say :)ReplyDelete
Congratulations, I'm so happy for you and Jordan! Welcome baby R!ReplyDelete
Mazel all the tovs! Welcome to the world, Baby R! You are already so loved. <3ReplyDelete
Congratulations! I'm confident with parents like you and Jordan, she will grow up to love Jesus AND be a blessing to everyone she meets. No questions asked. :) Congrats again! Enjoy this precious time with R.ReplyDelete
CONGRATS!!!!!! And I'm impressed that you got this blog post up this soon! :))))ReplyDelete
Congratulations! I'm happy to hear that everything went well. She's so pretty! I love her cute little baby hair!ReplyDelete
So many congratulations!!!!!!!ReplyDelete
Congratulations again! So happy for you guys! :)ReplyDelete
Ahhh! So exciting!!! Congrats to you both!ReplyDelete
Congratulations!!!!! So so happy for you:)ReplyDelete
Congratulations!! Your family is so sweet! I hope you enjoy every second with her and I can't wait to read about your adventures in parenting!ReplyDelete
Congratulations!! She is absolutely beautiful! Wishing you Jordan and Miss R lots of sleep filled nights! I can't wait to hear more about her!ReplyDelete
Okay, but seriously, don't you kind of feel like you can do anything now? Congratulations! I'm so happy for you and Jordan. I hope you are able to get some rest and just enjoy being a family of three.ReplyDeleteReplies
I do kind of feel like I could do anything. At the hospital they kept asking me for my pain scale. Like, for breastfeeding or how it felt to go to the bathroom after, etc. Ten being worst pain ever. And I was like AFTER GOING THROUGH LABOR EVERYTHING IS A ZERO.Delete
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Congratulations!!! I have a picture of myself in the hospital after giving birth to my first with one finger in the air. I remember my mother in law asking what that meant (one day old?)--it meant I only intended to do this once. Obviously, that feeling fades (only to resurface immediately when you see the pink lines on another pregnancy stick!) It's a huge adjustment, but it's awesome and amazing. So happy for you.ReplyDelete
I find it so charming that Baby Bum's debut picture is one of her baby bum. Hope you're all doing really well! (Oh- I'm the one who thought I picked up on her name hints but it sounds like I was wrong!)ReplyDelete
Yay!!!!!! Sweet baby bum is so precious!! I'm so happy for y'all and the adventure your family is on!!ReplyDelete
Congratulations on the arrival of healthy baby R. She looks so tiny and precious, and there's just something amazing about new baby smell.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 15, 2015 at 4:56 PM
Congratulations!!!! Yes, of course I want to know the name! Enjoy the newborn stage, it flies by!ReplyDelete
I knew you would name her after me! Never tell me the name, I'll just call her Rachel in my head. I've never had a namesake before. :PReplyDelete
In all seriousness, congratulations!!! Enjoy that tiny human of yours.
So exciting!! I love the pictures and so glad she is here :) I DO want to know her name :) Congrats again - what a sweet family!ReplyDelete
Congratulations x 1000! :) Isn't it amazing? I'm so happy for you that all went well and is well with little R. Definitely curious about that (ahem ahem n o s y), so I might just send you an email ;) I hope you get the rest and recovery you need!ReplyDelete
Adorable! Congratulations you guys!!ReplyDelete
Congrats!! What a blessing and she looks so precious! Wishing you all the happiness and naps when you can! Feel free to respond with her name! ;)ReplyDelete
So happy for you both! She is a blessing, and will change your lives forever.ReplyDelete
Congrats to you all! :)ReplyDelete
So precious!! Love the family pic :)ReplyDelete
Congratulations! She's adorable!ReplyDelete
I'm so excited for you guys. She is adorable. Enjoy parenthood, friend!ReplyDelete
Congratulations! I'm so happy for you guys. And seriously? You look amazing in this pic!ReplyDelete
YIPEE... so glad she's here. You look so happy .. probably relief - right? :)ReplyDelete
I'd love to know the name. (Fingers crossed its my name) :) haha
Congratulations!!!! SO SO happy for you and your sweet little family!ReplyDelete
So so so exciting. She's BEAUTIFUL!!!!! Seriously. R names rock. We have one picked out for each future gender we may have ;)ReplyDelete
awww congrats to you all! she is so sweet. can't wait to creepily read the birth story when you post it. sorry it was so hard, i hope it fades from your memory ;)ReplyDelete
How precious! Congratulations!!ReplyDelete
when i saw this on social media i immediately lifted up a prayer for good health and happiness for all of you!
i'm soooo happy she is finally here!
YAY!!!! So unbelievably excited for you! A little terrified to read the birth story, but so very happy that everyone is happy and healthy! Best of luck adjusting to the newborn life! :)ReplyDelete
Blessings to you and I echo your prayers for her life.ReplyDelete
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CONGRATULATIONS! I am so, so happy for you. She is so loved already! Now--WHAT'S HER NAME?!ReplyDelete
I'm so behind but congratulations! I'm so happy for you guys!ReplyDelete
Ahh I am late but congratulations!!! So so happy for you and your sweet family! If you don't mind me asking, I would love to know her name! :)ReplyDelete
Congratulations! I laughed a little at the "I'll decide if you're a creeper or not" line. How about we just play a game where we guess her name? :P I'm guessing Rebecca...ReplyDelete
Hope everything is going smoothly in your recovery :)
Congratulations!!! She is so cute!!!! Enjoy this special time! :)ReplyDelete
Oh my goodness, I am SO happy for you guys! I couldn't believe that I had missed it! I was on baby watch for days and then suddenly got caught up with packing and getting ready to leave and then being gone. I saw this on Instagram while I was so sick and it was definitely a bright spot for me! So so happy for you guys! :)ReplyDelete
Okay, just now catching up on blogs (obviously). This is amazing! congratulations to you and your sweet family!ReplyDelete
Gaaah! I'm so excited for you! I know I'm way late to the party (like 2 months late) but as you know with a newborn... things get behind! Haha! So I'm working on catching up! And I hope yall are doing great! Congrats!ReplyDelete
Thanks for the comment! I will respond via email and also occasionally in the post thread if you are asking a question that other readers might be interested in.


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If you are going back to school after summer or Christmas breaks, remember that you might need some Retro sweets and candies to be your constant companion in your study periods. They are good energy boosters and are helpful in making you concentrate on your lessons. These sweets can bring you to action and they appeal to every taste bud.
When you are engaging in any school activity such as late night assignments, a licorice or a Retro candy can aid in controlling the call of sleep. You can even share these sweets with your classmates and make friends easily. Just offer a bonbon or a mint will be a way to initialize friendship with your new classmates.
Here are samples of sweets you can keep handy while studying.
- Coconut Ice
These pink and white are very appealing to everybody, especially to ladies. This is a sweet coconut iced with sugar.
- Treacle Toffee
This confectionary is very tasty and welcoming treat for the autumn season. This can be a great sweet for the Halloween and Bonfire nights.
- Scottish Tablet
The taste of this sweet is fudgy with crumbly caramel inside it. The buttery flavor of these sweets makes them special. The great taste dates back as early as the 18th century.
- Curly Wurly
This is classified as classic chocolate bar. This is one retro sweet that should always be stashed in your pocket to start the year right. This is a long bar that has lattices of chocolate and caramel.
- Refresher
Gobstopper refers to these sweets as refreshing start for going back to school. These refreshers remain to be the most refreshing retro sweet. They come in small colorful tubes that can be easily kept inside the pocket. Its small size will allow you to pass it around the class without being noticed.
- Victory V
This classic confectionary is compared to a British kept in your bag. These are lozenges that are very strong. Every piece in the pack has licorice taste.
- Monster Gobstopper
This is the confectionary that is best fitted to munch during break time. This is for break time because you have to suck this. Obviously, it is not good to eat when you are inside a classroom. A bag contains plenty of pieces that can last for the whole school year. But as it is desired, it may not.
Confectionary or sweets are indeed great treats when you are going back to school. These are items that should be inside your bag at all times. By offering these amazing sweets to your classmate and friends, you can become a popular personality in your class.
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Angela owns and runs Billy Bonkers Sweets a UK old fashioned e-commerce store.


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okay, not super-literally. it's more of a question before i start nuts-and-bolts-ing things: would y'all be interested in being able to obtain your own squishy?
'cause, i thought i might have for sale on my storenvy, etsy, or at cons if that were a thing people would be interested in?
so, in the more important, more immediate sort of thing, i'm going to be at arti gras (at the shopko center in green bay, wi) tomorrow from 10-1:30 doing the arting thing at the ARTgarage booth–wherever that it in the thing. there are several of us doing the art thing on these canvas bags that are then going to be raffled away to support the ARTgarage.
(remember, we're a not-for-profit, so this is fundraising and charitable donation sorta territory.)
i mean, we're going to have/be doing other things too, but the raffled bags are what i'm being brought in for. and! i've been working on tests and sketches so that things go more quickly and smoother.
but, they've kinda been evolving?
but, this one's evolving into this–
so, yeah, everything's still set like custard~
but, other event-wise, i'm going to be at gallery nite (at the ARTgarage) on april 21st, and then, may 6th-8th, i'm going to be at minnesota comic con.
it's all very exciting. (i'm still trying to decide if i want to do definitely depere this year? i decided there were too many conflicts going on to do the broadway farmers market this year because gnome has a class that day, so i wouldn't have any help or minions~)
i do, however, still need to make all the buttons and order more prints and corrected business cards and sort out print-presentation because, well, i'm not sure that the way that i'm doing it is best? (if y'all have suggestions, please feel free to leave them in the comments.)
alright, i'm behind on my drawings because reasons and need to do some final tests for tomorrow and try and do some work in my studio today.
first step: not being in my jimjams~
remember that i have all sorts of support options if y'all would like to support tentacle-made studios (or just follow us on all the socmed):
- tentacle-made studios & projecTransparency's Patreon
- tentacle-made studios on storenvy
- tentacle-made studios on redbubble
- tentacle-made studios' commission page
places where y'all can follow tentacle-made studios:
- 'trie's tumblr
- 'trie's instagram
- 'trie's twitter
- 'trie's studio blog
- 'trie's online portfolio (i.e., flickr)
- projecTransparency on tumblr


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Our Call…
… to have a National Prayer Weekend, for the 4th Year running.
Dates for 2019 is the weekend of 22 – 24 February 2019 : any hour-slot.
Prayer Points all across our Country, mobilizing as many Towns and Cities as possible. We as Christians need to persist in Prayer, this is another opportunity to unite for an hour in Prayer for our Nation. More than 160 Towns/Communities registered in 2016, 230+ in our second year (2017) and 250+ in 2018. We trust the Lord for an even greater unified effort in 2019…
We acknowledge a definite Prayer movement blowing through our Country with many strong, active and powerful Prayer Networks. The Up4SA Prayer initiative are extremely blessed to be part of IFSA "Intercessors for South Africa".
This body consists of more than 40 Prayer Networks across South Africa.
For this, we praise the Lord! God is on the move! South Africa will be saved!
In 2019, we will continue covering "crucial areas" in Prayer, concerning South Africa. At an IFSA (Intercessors for South Africa) Prayer and Prophetic Meeting held in September 2018, Prayer Network Leaders from across South Africa strongly felt in their spirit that for 2019 we need to place specific focus in prayer for our Nation, on the truth that Jesus Christ is our Cornerstone and Foundation!
Registered Area Coordinators will receive a Resource & Media Pack and will be empowered to coordinate each Towns' Prayer Point.
Contact us
For more information regarding this Event or to Register as an Area Coordinator : Contact us on firstname.lastname@example.com


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2013 was a great year for Sky Sabin Productions. Thank you to everyone for their support. There are already some awesome projects in the works for 2014. Cheers to another productive and exciting year to come.
Here is quick time-lapse I put together on my recent trip to Turks and Caicos with my family.


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Reducing print costs
DPG Plc are one of the UK's largest training companies.
- Delivered a full print audit
- Identified key areas for improvement
- Provided an online ordering system
- Annual savings were more than £20,000
Brand design
We worked with the Jude Brady Foundation to create a fresh and inspiring brand which would be a vehicle for its fundraising efforts.
- Contemporary design for mass appeal
- Flexible for use across many assets
- Implemented within new website
- More than £100,000 raised
Website redesign
We worked with Virtual PA Services to support their online business development objectives and to enhance their client sign up process.
- Developing an online strategy
- Using a platform to support social media
- Integrating multimedia
- Optimised for organic search
Engaging students
We designed and supported the print for the Abertay University 2011 Prospectus and have just completed the 2012 version.
- Concept design with key messaging
- In line with brand guidelines
- Short project timescales
- Excellent project management
Need a bath?
We worked with BC Designs to improve their product brochures following the decision to increase their marketing efforts ahead of the anticipated recession.
- Review of existing material
- Recommendations and concept design
- Implementation of new design and structure
- Huge return on investment


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There is no single business metric that is crucial to every business nor every industry.
Most metrics are historical measures of ratios and relationships that the business deems critical to their success. The metrics may be financial but more often are measurements of volume or utilization of employees. In service industries metrics often focus on utilization of the billable personnel and billable hours versus paid hours. Call volumes are common metrics for sales personnel as are quote conversions into actual sales.
One metric that I think is important for all businesses to consider tracking is the projection of cash requirements. The term "Cash is King" is a well worn business statement, but the fact remains that cash is the lubricant that keeps business flowing. If a firm is projecting their cash needs for the next 13 weeks, they can have a reasonable picture of the risks to their cash position. And the projection gives them visibility in time to address and concerns. Without a projection, they are guessing. While experienced owners may be able to make reasonable educated estimates, documenting the thought process involved in the estimate will allow for refinement in the future.
A cash projection starts with an understanding of anticipated cash receipts from sales, receivables, and other sources such as tax refunds. These receipts are matched to anticipated expenditures to show the net cash generation/usage each week. Expenditure categories should be customized to each business. In many businesses payroll and benefits are a category. Payments for inventory purchases, rent, major insurance charges, capital equipment, and large variable costs also make sense to estimate on a weekly basis. Always include a miscellaneous category of expenditures and receipts to capture the unusual large items such as large quarterly or monthly payments. I recommend that a company track their weekly actual performance as a feedback to improve their estimating process.
If you don't have a cash projection process or are not satisfied with the results you are seeing, I would be happy to meet with you and explore how to improve the process.
Jeff Matthews, CPA, CGMA is a partner with B2B CFO® and a member of The Sunrise Alliance. The Sunrise Alliance is a network of experienced professionals who provide support to small and medium-sized businesses, with the development and implementation of their strategic business objectives. You can explore The Sunrise Alliance at www.TheSunriseAlliance.com and visit Jeff's website at www.JeffMatthewsCFO.com


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MTG closed system intermittent catheters, inclusive of our soft introducer tip, are designed to reduce risk of recurrent Urinary Tract Infections. For many potential users, catheter insertion is very difficult using ordinary closed systems, since the tube will slip back into the bag. Fine motor use of the fingers, the ability to pinch, and then to hold the tube stable, are required to use other brands. With the patented MTG EZ-Advancer® valve, holding the tube in place, there is no retraction. If you've experienced difficulty advancing any other catheter, we ask you to try MTG.
Kit contains sterile MTG EZ-Advancer® catheter, pair of latex-free gloves, underpad, gauze pad, BZK cleansing prep, and privacy bag (privacy bag is included only in Mini-Pak versions).
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Selfies: A Young Girl's Deviancy
Self portraiture is a tradition that spans back many centuries. As with many traditional activities, it was revolutionized with the advent of social media. The selfie, which is a photograph of the self, taken with the intent to be shared immediately on a social network, is a result of the marriage between the internet and self portraiture. There are certain presumptions about who are the main "perpetrators" of the selfie: narcissistic, consumerist "Millennials," generally female, who are taking a selfie with the intent to get attention of some sort of audience - generally presumed to be male. They are condemned as narcissistic demands for affirmation but deserve a closer examination; selfies have the potential to enhance empathy in digital discussions and promote a healthy development of self awareness.
There has been quite a lot of press about selfies lately but they are by no means a new phenomenon. I remember taking my first purposeful webcam selfies at the age of sixteen, in 2010 - but most of my friends at school had started taking them long before that. When I put out an open call for selfies on facebook, the earliest webcam portrait I received was from 1998 (Appendix 1). I was also sent selfies taken by digital cameras (Appendix 2), polaroid selfies, and selfies taken with traditional film cameras. It is interesting; many people qualified their submission of selfies by telling me they were embarrassed of them and that they did not consider them to be a work of art.
History of Selfies
In order to delve deep into the subject of selfies, it is important to contextualize them within the human tradition of self representation. It is also important to analyze the potentially problematic aspects of the way in which this tradition is documented. A cursory Google search of "self portrait" displays first a block of related images and then a link to a Wikipedia article on selfies (See Appendix 3). Of the first eleven Google image results, six are self portraits by Van Gogh, two are by Frida Kahlo, one is by Rembrandt, one is by Picasso, and one is by Lucien Freud (See Appendix 4). The Wikipedia page is similar; there is a heavy focus on European men and their contributions to art. Whoever wrote the article acknowledges that there is a "longer continuous history [of self portraiture] in Asian art than in Europe," but there is only one miniscule paragraph and eight examples of Asian self portraits included, none of them of women. The bias towards European males as creators of "fine art" self portraits is obvious.
Women painters from Europe are cordoned off, and given a slightly beefier paragraph to explain their contributions. The article states that "almost all significant women painters have left" a self portrait; it is curious that this section is not included in "European Art," as all of the artists discussed are a part of the European artistic tradition. There is no examination of self portraiture by women of other cultures at all. Because Wikipedia is one of the most common places for non-academics who are interested in learning about a subject to visit first (and many academics too) this europhallocentrism is incredibly problematic; all discussions of selfies will be coloured by it.
Self portraiture, when examined through the lens of canonical European art history, is typically viewed as a rigorous examination of the self - not aesthetically, but psychologically. Van Eyck is celebrated as cerebral for including himself, hidden in the mirror (See Appendix 5); Rembrandt, "the most frequent self-portraitist" of his time, is not described as self-obsessed, but as prolific. Many women artists are excluded from discussions of the European canon, but they were some of the most prolific creators of self portraiture, a clear indication of the value that is placed on the physical appearance of women.
Photography revolutionized the idea of "reality" in art; because it was easy to pretend that photography was an exact duplication of a scene and could be substituted for actually being there, the boundary between fiction and reality in visual art was blurred. Photography allowed people to preserve themselves as they were, without any flattering touches from a painter. Self portraits created with cameras brought this new concept of "reality" to people's depictions of themselves. Cindy Sherman used self portraits taken with cameras to subvert this sense of reality by dressing up in costume.
Now, photoshopping pictures is commonplace and the ability to use Instagram filters comes with every smartphone. People's credulance when viewing photographs is tempered by an awareness of the ease with which they can be digitally retouched. When someone takes a self portrait and runs it through a filter on Instagram, it is analogous to any painter who alters the colours he sees before him to create a more harmonious painting. When someone takes a self portrait with a phone and shares it on a social network, they have taken a selfie.
Selfies, before they were called selfies, were called a variety of names. On tumblr, they were often referred to as GPOY, or "gratuitous pictures of yourself;" on 4chan, girls who posted pictures of themselves were accused of "camwhoring." The way we view a selfie is very much based off of context: Who took it? Where was it posted? What were they wearing? Through these questions, we try to interpret what the selfie means to us. Most people do not consider selfies to be works of art; considering the fact that "art" is often defined by the European Canon, this is not surprising. Given that many artists who are widely acclaimed for their artistic creations are also prolific creators of selfies, such as Ai Wei Wei (Appendix 7), it makes sense to classify selfies as an artistic endeavor, or at the very least, an attempt to communicate through visual media.
Potential Developmental Benefits of Selfies
Interpreting and communicating through visual media is an important part of human socialization. Huk explains that "Although seeing feels like an easy and automatic process, it turns out that a very large proportion of the brain is involved in visual processing." Before infants reach the age of two, their brain is not able to process the visual phenomenon of mirrors. They behave socially, as if interacting with another infant. By the age of two, they begin to demonstrate embarrassment, "tucking their head into their shoulders or hiding their face behind their hands." Rochat attributes this embarrassment to the discrepancy between the way "the child represents herself within, and how he or she is actually perceived by others as reflected in the mirror." Throughout life, most people eventually develop a tolerance for images of themselves; after "adults of an isolated Papua New Guinea tribe" were exposed to their reflection for the first time, "the anthropologist [who] recorded their reactions...describes reactions of terror and anguish." Although many people in cultures where mirrors are commonplace describe a certain discomfort when confronted with a mirror, most do not react with "terror and anguish."
Selfies, then, serve as an ideal method for developing an accurate image of oneself. By examining the image of the self extensively, one becomes more self aware and thusly more able to self regulate and grow. People who take selfies often become more aware of what they look like in a variety of situations; it serves as a feedback loop which allows for a higher level of self control. Staring at oneself for hours in the mirror may not, in fact, be a sign of vanity, but a way of exploring the self as it is presented visually to others. In fact, while most children are able to identify the child in the reflection as themselves by the age of two, they typically struggle to identify the self as seen in photographs or movies as "me" until the age of about four. Selfies serve to reinforce accurate self image; if a person takes many selfies throughout the day, they are effectively submitting themselves to biofeedback therapy.
As selfies are a good way to examine oneself, they are often used by people who are confused about identity. Selfies taken by girls often examine their physical presentation; on the photo sharing website Instagram, it is very common for girls to upload pictures of themselves wearing outfits they are proud of, new hairstyles, or makeup they recently applied. It is also very common for girls to take selfies together; this is a way for them to examine not only themselves, but the way they present themselves within a group. By posting this photo onto a social networking website, it reaffirms their connection to the other person and makes it public. Girls may also run fashion blogs and post selfies within these. Instead of reaffirming a connection with another person, they are examining themselves within the visual culture of fashion and the brands they label themselves with.
While it is not true that only girls take selfies, it is definitely true that more girls take selfies than boys. In my discussions with prolific takers of selfies, there seems to be a trend for people who are more concerned with their identity to be predisposed to take selfies. People who identify as non-gender conforming or queer display a much higher concern with identity on a regular basis; as they don't "fit" the norm of what society wants them to be, how they are viewed by others is of constant concern to them. As my friend Micco explained to me over Facebook chat, "I didn't have the language for it, but in hindsight, I totally see that a lot of my selfies were documentations of gender performance and gender fluidity. And I think I didn't take nudes because a) I was scared of my body and b) that seemed like a "girl" thing to do, and I wasn't able to do that yet." Taking selfies was a way for her to become comfortable with her body and with her identity.
Selfies are not only useful for getting to know oneself; they encourage empathy across digital barriers. One of the largest criticisms of digital communication was that it's much more difficult to determine intent and that tone becomes muddled. Initially, ways of clarifying online included emoticons and special modes of typing, e.g., typing in all caps. Now selfies can be used to communicate as well. A lot can be communicated with facial expression - and now, there are many social media applications that emphasize visual communication, especially via selfies, over pure verbal communication.
Narcissism and "Generation Me"
Contemporary academics engaged in the study of the development of adolescents and young adults are currently embroiled in a vicious debate: are Millennials, the youngest generation, self absorbed to a point which is unhealthy? Although it is definitely a fair argument that Millennials are more self aware than previous generations had been, if only because so much of their life is documented and then immediately reviewable, Twenge makes the argument that this generation is also incredibly narcissistic.
Twenge has dubbed Millennials "Generation Me" and then explains that it is a generation filled with an unprecedented amount of narcissists. Unfortunately for Twenge, none of the metrics she uses to determine "narcissism" are particularly accurate. Arnett breaks down her statistics, and reveals that, if anything, the younger generation is moving towards more positive trends:
[R]ates of risk behavior have undergone a remarkable decline in the past 20 years over a wide range of behaviors. At the same time, emerging adults today show unprecedented acceptance for people who are different from themselves and are participating in community service at record high rates.
Twenge's charges of narcissism are irrelevant if the youth's narcissism does not show any measurably negative effect on their behaviors. Young adults using the word "I" more during discussions does not matter when they are more engaged in their community and less likely to harm themselves and others.
Twenge, in her article, also claims that there are "increases in mental health issues among high school and college students," while concurrently noting that "the youth suicide rate declined between the 1990s and the 2000s." Her conclusion is that "more positive self-views have not made us happier." Arnett responds that "meta-analysis of epidemiological studies of depression over the last 30 years reported no changes in prevalence of depression in childhood and adolescence"and that it's natural for young adults to be more neurotic than their older counterparts. It's hard to be emotionally stable when "most young Americans [are trying to] find a life partner...but in the course of finding that partner they make and break a series of relationships." He also adds "[u]nemployment rates among 16- to 24-year-olds are consistently twice as high as the overall rate;" overall, it is a stressful time to be alive.
It is important to also examine the potential ways in which the benefits of selfies could be co-opted by industries that do not prioritize the mental health of young adults. Douglas, in her book "Where the Girls Are," brings up important points about how narcissism and a focus on the self can be detrimental. She examines how an excessive focus on personal achievements derailed the feminist movement. Advertisers appropriated portions of the feminist movement in order to sell their products; "[u]nder the guise of addressing our purported new confidence and self-love, these ads really reinforced how we failed to measure up to others." The women featured in these ads were heralded as role models because of their ability to adhere to traditional success narratives for men; "[t]hey were self-satisfied and self-assured, yet their value came from male admiration and approval." Women were told that in order to be "successful," they had to compete with the boys - and win - in male dominated workplaces, and thusly "instead of seeing personal disappointments, frustrations, and failures as symptoms of an inequitable and patriarchal society we saw these, just as in the 1950's, as personal failures, for which we should blame ourselves." While it's certainly a step up from advertisements that characterized women as "stupid," this attempt to categorize problematic ads as "pro-women" is disturbing.
Dove, a brand of Unilever, made an advertisement highlighting how Photoshop creates unrealistic standards of beauty in an attempt to appeal to general dislike of Photoshop for reinforcing unrealistic standards of beauty. It is unfortunate that Unilever is able to promote their products using overtly racist and sexist advertisements while still getting widespread "feminist cred" for their popular "Dove Campaign for Real Beauty" ads. The Dove Campaign for Real Beauty epitomizes how advertisers are taking feminist tropes and turning them into campaigns. While the Dove campaign is definitely a step up from body-shaming in advertisements, a trend that hopefully continues, the industry definitely has many areas for improvement. I do predict that campaigns with an intense focus on selfies will become more normative; while this may not seem like a positive, in the long term, this is definitely a step in the right direction. Campaigns which highlight the agency of the people participating participating in them are incredibly important.
Many fashion bloggers seem to be in the avante-garde of this movement in advertising. Bebe Zeva, for example, whose archives on her blog "Fated to be Hated" start in 2010, describes her views on fashion:
Contrary to popular belief, fashion isn't superficial. It requires a great deal of talent to accurately execute a theme, as well as dedication to an aesthetic. It's more than what meets the eye- it's what meets the mind, and how the mind manipulates its fabric environment. Fashion icons shouldn't be lambasted for caring about the way they look; they should be lauded for their stylish sagacity... To me, a good outfit is something practical, well-constructed, and artistic.
Zeva, who has teamed up with various brands such as Maybelline and H&M, is more than just a model; she offers brands a chance to tap into her following. She occupies a space that is different than, say, a tennis star who helps to advertise tampons; she critically analyzes the clothes that she wears and the makeup that she applies. A brand that teams up with a fashion blogger gets access to a model, stylist, and PR expert all rolled into one. Douglas wrote about how "[w]omen's magazines, movies, and TV shows have been especially effective in alienating women from their faces and bodies;" by partnering with fashion bloggers instead, brands are able to engage in a more positive and personal mode of advertising.
It is not only fashion brands that are able to use the platform of fashion blogging to propagate themselves. Jayinee Basu, at her blog visualinput.me, uses images of herself to explore everything from Foucauldian theories of discourse to body schema. Basu's engaging and informal writing and gorgeous sense of style make the experience of reading her thoughts on intellectual subjects so much more palatable; reading through her website is more like grabbing coffee with a friend than drudging through a textbook. While her photos do not expressly appeal to the male gaze, she uses the attention she achieves by being conventionally attractive and uses it to address issues in society that she considers important.
Contrary to Twenge's assertions, Millennials use images of themselves to communicate more effectively with others. Their goal is not solely self promotion, although that may be a factor. Arnett's characterization of Millennials as "Generation We" rings true; if anything, most selfies seem to express a desire to connect with others across digital barriers.
Online Presentation and Self Esteem
Selfies were not always characterized as self-indulgent; in the nascent days of the internet, the discourse about selfies and self esteem was markedly different. Instead of girls being accused of narcissism, they were criticized for having low self esteem. Girls who took selfies, especially selfies of a sexual nature, were warned that their activities were dangerous and could cause them to be stalked, harassed, or even murdered. In the early days of socialization on the internet, among newly burgeoning modes of communication, girls were encouraged to not identify themselves as female, creating an atmosphere in which women were erased from discourse.
Girls are encouraged to not take overtly or suggestively sexually photos; the method of eradicating these "sexts" is raising girls' self esteems. Sexual photos of boys, however, considered normal and expected, and are not a sign of poor mental health.
Now that technology has improved, and it has become easier to send information via digital images versus pure text, selfies immediately push gender to the forefront.
ridiculous amounts of time spent on facebook - how does that point to self absorbtion, if the whole point is socialization? people may be expressing themselves more, but that is more assertive than narcissistic delineating an area wherein they can express themselves freely is important and valid. also adds to democratization of discussion, allowing other voices to be heard more easily, allows for easier deconstruction of narrative created by media.
4chan was an online image board created in 2003. People who identified themselves as women were told that "there are no girls on the internet," and women who posted pictures of themselves were accused of camwhoring for attention out of low self esteem.
Some of these women amassed large followings and fanbases and are referred to as "Chans."
4chan's response to my piece of art was particularly classic, analysis of that lalalaa
On Tumblr, which is known for having a women-heavy population, people began a trend of posting "GPOY"s. These pictures could then be reblogged (shared or responded to) or liked. People developed fanbases, asked for compliments, and served as inspiration for others.
"Thinspo," or pictures depicting often unhealthily skinny women as inspiration for losing weight, became a trend as well. "Proana" is a tumblr movement devoted to promoting/bonding over an anorexic lifestyle. There are, however, due to the nature of tumblr, also anti-anorexia communities, in addition to other positive communities. There are flourishing trans*, people of colour, queer, and other social justice communities. Many of these communities make heavy use of GPOY, or selfies, to promote solidarity.
Instagram propelled the selfie into the spotlight. Due to the nature of the website, which elevates image over text as a mode of communication, selfies have become an integral part of how one is perceived.
Facebook has created a "likes culture" in which women post beautiful photos of themselves for likes - but there is a phenomenon in which each "like" does not mean as much as it used to, chasing the dragon in a sense.
Selfies in the News
The media seems unsure of what to make of selfies, like that one lady who thought they were narcissistic, they all went along that line, although now they are opening up to the potential that selfies are good.
History of Narcissism
The word "narcissism" is derived from the Greek myth of Narcissus, a man who was so beautiful and self absorbed that he was cursed to forever love himself - without satisfaction. In Ovid's telling of the tale, Narcissus is a beautiful boy who scorns all: the nymphs, young men, and everyone in between. The one person to whom he appears to show any interest is Echo - but this is only when she repeats his words back at him. As soon as Echo presents her physical form to him, Narcissus rejects her. Rhamnusia, a goddess, decides that the only course of action is to have him fall madly in love with himself, but never be able to have himself.
After Rhamnusia lays her curse upon him, Narcissus happens upon a pool of water in the forest, and when he catches his reflection in it, he falls madly in love. Narcissus at first does not realize that it is himself whom he loves; "what he has seen he does not understand, but what he sees he is on fire for." Ovid decries Narcissus' foolishness - he is in love with an image, who will never be able to return Narcissus' love. Eventually, Narcissus realizes that what he is seeing is but an image of himself, and he bemoans his presence in his physical body, describing his intense desire to be separated from it, that he might love it properly. Eventually, Narcissus' longing for himself becomes so overwhelming that he turns into a flower.
This myth applicable to selfies taken by girls in two ways: the selfie exAamined through the lens of Echo, and the selfie examined through the lens of Narcissus. when exmained through the lens of ech, it becomes immediately clear that echo is only appealing to narcissus when she reflects him. young girls are only good/appealing when they reflect men. there are no girls on the internet. Narcissus is totally that too, cuz narcissus staring at self in pool analogous to what the media thinks young girls are doing.
Lacan and Narcissism
Freud viewed narcissism as a psychological retardation, and a sign that the child had not fully developed. Lacan reinterpreted Freud's psychoanalytic techniques, taking Freud's descriptions of the body as symbolic metaphors. Lacan had an intense fascination with what he called the "Mirror Stage," which he constructed out of a dissection of the myth of Narcissus.
lacan was like sup my homies i will interpret everything as symbols
Deviancy of Narcissism
Rubin, in her essays, delves into an examination of why society views certain actions as "bad," and how deviating from expected gender roles threatens to undermine the traditional structure of society.
WOMEN WHO ARE FOLLOWING MALE ROUTES FOR SUCCESS DO NOT THREATEN MEN AS MUCH BECAUSE THEY ARE STILL DOING THE THINGS, SERVES AS A DISTRACTION,, while its still not "good" for women to take on a mans role, its better than subverting gender roles completely (see: transwomen/transmen and the percieved need to adhere to traditional gender roles, Nuer women who become "men"


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We had a fantastic time at our overnight camp to…
Sovereign Hill, located in Ballarat, is often described as an 'outdoor museum', because it is like stepping back in time to the 1850s. Sovereign Hill re-creates Ballarat's first ten years after the discovery of gold in 1851 when thousands of international adventurers rushed to the Australian goldfields in search of fortune.
We saw and learnt so much at Sovereign Hill. We all participated in a 50 minute education session, where we learnt what life was like for men, women and children in the 1850s. We discovered the vast differences between how they lived back then, compared to how we live now. Some students dressed up in the old fashioned clothing, and we learnt the etiquette for behaviour in the 1850s. Students also learnt what school life was like, and they practised writing with pens and inkwells. It was so interesting to hear about a variety of aspects of daily life in the nineteenth century.
Other highlights of our Sovereign Hill camp included…
- Panning for gold at the Diggings
- Watching a $170,000 gold ingot being poured at the Gold Smelting Works
- Travelling underground at the Red Hill Mine
- Watching a sweet making demonstration
- Bowling
- Touring the goldfields cottages
- Watching redcoat soldier demonstrations
- Observing how a wheel is made
- Watching the spectacular 'Blood on the Southern Cross' sound and light show
- Exploring the shops along Main Street
- Sleeping in the Southern Barracks rooms at the Sovereign Hill hotel
- Eating meals at the New York Bakery and Sovereign Hill Cafe
- The beautiful weather!
After a very busy and enjoyable visit to Sovereign Hill, it was a (mostly) sleepy trip home on the bus!
The slideshow below features a selection of photos from our Sovereign Hill camp. Enjoy!
Miss Jordan, Mrs Kebbell and Mr Burdess were very impressed with the excellent behaviour and engagement demonstrated by the grade three students. We would also like to say a BIG thank you to our helpers, Mr Haslam, Miss Ball, Cathy and Glen.


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Most active day was Weds 8/14
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Average 11,929
Best Day 16,659
Total Distance 38.40 miles
Average 5.49 miles/day
Best 8.04 Miles
Total Calories burned 22,715
Daily Average 3245
Calories in Vs Calories Out (4,796) - Shooting for (7,000)
Weight change -4.6 pounds
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Hans Boland, a Dutch translator of Russian literature, has refused to accept Russia's Pushkin Medal because of his objections to President Vladimir Putin as a 'very great danger to freedom and peace on our planet'. Established in 1999, the Pushkin Medal is awarded by the Russian government to individuals for extraordinary achievements in arts and culture. →
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Vice President Mike Pence forged ahead Sunday with his University of Norte Dame commencement speech as some in attendance walked out, encouraging the graduates to keep their religious faith, value the freedom of speech and saying "the future is yours."
Pence, a former Indiana governor, was the most recent college campus speaker to face backlash or protest from students, faculty and others over ideological differences.
He was invited to speak at the Catholic school, in South Bend, Ind., after students and faculty objected to a prospective invitation to President Trump, who would have been the seventh U.S. president to give the commencement address.
Trump has faced harsh criticism for his anti-Islamic rhetoric during his presidential campaign and for his administration's efforts to impose a travel ban on several Muslim-majority countries.
Pence didn't acknowledge the planned walkout, in which dozens of students and family members reportedly left at the start of his speech and were booed.
But he alluded to clashes at campuses elsewhere that have derailed appearances by controversial speakers, such as conservative firebrand Ann Coulter at the University of California at Berkeley.
"This university (Notre Dame) is a vanguard of the freedom of expression and the free exchange of ideas at a time, sadly, when free speech and civility are waning on campuses across America," Pence said.
The rest of Pence's speech also focused on faith and conservative principles like protecting Norte Dame and other groups from having to go against their religious beliefs to offer birth control coverage to employees under ObamaCare.
"Just as Notre Dame has stood strong to protect its religious liberty, I'm proud that this president just took steps to ensure that this university and the Little Sisters of the Poor could not be forced to violate their consciences to fully participate in American civic life," Pence said.
He also praised Trump for his speech earlier in the day to the leaders of 50 Arab and Muslim nations earlier in the day in Saudi Arabia.
Pence said the president "spoke out against religious persecution of all people of all faiths and on the world stage he condemned, in his words, the murder of innocent Muslims, the oppression of women, the persecution of Jews and the slaughter of Christians."
Earlier in the ceremony, valedictorian Caleb Joshua Pine urged a "stand against the scapegoating of Muslims" and criticized Trump's push to build a wall along the Mexican border.
Cassandra Dimaro and her parents were among those who walked out. Dimaro told the South Bend Tribune that it was a show of solidarity "for those of us impacted by the policies of the Trump administration."
"Notre Dame is exceptional," Pence also said. "This university stands without apology for human freedom and the inherent dignity of every human person, and it holds fast to the faith that gave it birth."
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It was almost a year ago when Amy told me that she wanted to have her destination wedding in Las Vegas. Amy and Ken put so much effort and thoughts on it and they made it happened. I'm honoured and glad that I was part of it.
The ceremony was held in the chapel on the 108th floor of Stratosphere and they celebrated with their close friends and family in Luxor.


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This was our third Wednesday meeting in a row and, with this in mind, we weren't expecting a large turnout. However, with 20 presentations to the R.W.M. alone, the evening was indeed a great success
Bro. Les decided to make it a 'business only' meeting, after which everyone sat down to enjoy an informal harmony.
Bro. Les thanked everyone for attending and he also expressed his sincere thanks for all the support he received during his time in office.
In this last meeting as Immediate Past Master, Bro. Murrie Thomson proposed a short toast to the R.W.M. thanking him for the contribution he had made to furthering the success of Lodge Kirkliston Maitland and for all he had done over the last two years.
We're now looking forward to our Annual Installation this Saturday when Bro. Glen Brown will be Installed as our new Right Worshipful Master.
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If the inevitable success of Prometheus is going to do anything within the industry, it's convince Hollywood that prequels are the way to put some new life into old franchises. We could argue that, no, the lesson should be getting talented filmmakers to think big and be ambitious, but why fight it? Here are five ideas for prequels to resurrect those other 1980s movie series that you loved.
I've gone on record before about my distrust of prequels in general, but there's almost no way that, between Prometheus and the success of quasi-prequel/reboot Star Trek that we're not going to see more moviemakers looking way back to the beginning (or beyond) when trying to kickstart familiar characters and stories. With that in mind, here are five movies that might happen in the foreseeable future…
Police Academy: Pre-School
I'll admit that I wasn't the world's biggest Police Academy fan way back when, but if there hadn't been an installment showing what the various characters had been up to before they decided to sign up to be police officers, then it's a hideously missed opportunity. For today's filmmakers, it's right there for the taking: An ensemble piece in which each of the core characters has a story arc that leads them right to the front door of the eponymous Academy as they come to the realization that they are, indeed, destined to become the world's most inept lawmen (and -women). It's pretty much the ideal first episode for an all-new beginning.
Lethal Weapon: The Early Years
We're all used to people complaining that they're too old for this shit, but all that means is that there are stories to be told from a period where Roger Murtaugh was exactly the right age for this kind of thing. Sure, he was supposed to be a straitlaced police- and family man before Riggs showed up, but come on: You just know that there would've been at least one (or maybe more, depending on how successful the movie is) time where he would've been forced to break out his Vietnam-training to bring justice to the streets of Los Angeles in the late '70s, amid Blaxploitation in-jokes and movie references...
Back to the Past
I know, I know; the idea of a prequel to a movie franchise that goes all the way back to the Wild West seems like a difficult idea, but there's a particular period of Back to the Future chronology that's entirely open to extrapolation: What happened to Doc between 1955 and 1985? Think about it: He knows that he's going to build a time machine, and that it's going to work - oh, and also that he's going to get involved with terrorists who'll try to kill him, depending on whenever he decided to put the letter back together. If an eccentric-at-best genius had that foreknowledge, don't you think that he'd be slightly dangerous to himself and others …? There is weird and untapped comic gold in this one, if only Christopher Lloyd could be convinced to return (and/or someone younger who can do an amazing Christopher Lloyd impression could be discovered).
The First Starfighter
Okay, so The Last Starfighter wasn't exactly the world's biggest hit, but come on: A title like that is almost begging for a prequel, and with the backdrop of intergalactic war in the offing, it's surprising that no-one has thought to try and make this happen already. Instead of the 1980s kid who gets auditioned playing video games, though, why not throw back farther in time, and have the Rylan Star League kidnap a gunslinger from the Wild West into space to help them fight the Ko-Dan Empire in the beginning of their war? It could be just like Cowboys & Aliens, but, you know, good!
Before E.T.
It's the prequel that everyone expected three decades ago, but never quite got - and one that, thanks to the leads all being wrinkly aliens without a human amongst them, could be entirely CGI and no-one would be that much the wiser. Why was E.T. on Earth in the first place? Are his kind normally leaving members of their crews behind when they leave planets? And, if we had a movie where E.T. and friends could communicate in their own language and we'd have subtitles putting everything into a language we could understand, would he still be just as cute? Okay, maybe that last one's an obvious no, but for the other questions, there's really only one thing for it: Someone get Steven Spielberg on the phone. We've got the next step in his CGI empire following Tintin.


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The employers of leading companies adopt the students selected by the project, offering them the chance to work on some projects and the opportunity to do an internship after graduation.
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My WMC is no longer downloading guide/channel listings after the switch from TWC to Spectrum. The cable card and all equipment is working properly - I have no signal loss or any other issues except for WMC downloading the guides.
Is there a ticket/resolution underway for fixing this problem? If so could someone please create one.
Thank you.
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Couple of issues, mainly Microsofts cancellation of WMC support.
What OS are you running?
What capture device?
none of the above are supported... most likely
Where is your guide coming from?
It may be dead as well...
Can you use the guide at watch spectrum.net?
The guide was working fine until the exchange between TWC and Spectrum. This is not a MS issue - I can change the provider (non TWC/Spectrum) and it tries to pull in that data and program the channels for the cable card but all the data is wrong. Channel lineups - guides for non box set users are provided by the service provider; not MS
If cable card services are not provided by spectrum then I have a serious problem because the tuner services work just fine; I am paying for it through my package; and the card and the tuning adapter are TWC/Spectrum provided equipment. I also fail to see what net services has anything to do with tuner fed signals. Spectrum comes up as the service provider/channel lineup when I use the WMC setup up and it gives me that much. Upon trying to update the guide (which went without a hitch through TWC) it suggests that the guide was updated / but it was not
You still haven't answered the question.. What OS and card are you using? What is the cable card plugged into?
WMC does not use the TWC/ Spectrum guide , at least mine didn't, and I got fed up with trying to update both so they agreed. Finally killed WMC off as it lost support.
When did this actually happen?
Did something just get updated?
The TWC to Spectrum switch was last year... or did you just recently switch providers from legacy TWC to Spectrum?
This issue has been resolved. There was something wrong with one of the EPG files which was causing it to be locked and not update with data. Removing the guide files and reapplying the configurations through WMC corrected the problem and guides are back.
OS is windows 8.1 / Card is in a HDHR prime
Not sure about your experiences with WMC in general - but I personally have not had any problems with the guides up until this point. Because of the timing and the change of the guide label online (TWC Dayton) to (Spectrum Dayton) - I was under the assumption that it was something that had changed on either Spectrum side or the third party that handles the guide listings. in either case I figured I would start at the closest relative possibility.
With live TV online most people dont require an older setup; or they can use a Roku if they want to have a more box-like expererience. But there is just no other way or software to do DVR on shows that do not have an on demand option online - and do not want the extra equipment in their home. WMC is the only platform that can do this thanks to the overzealous DRM placed on almost all content. And one cannot DVR a show - without a accurate guide to set up a scheduled record.
I am having a similar problem. CableCard in personal compter with WMC and Ceton tuners working fine for about three years in Lexiington, KY. Yesterday I noticed that the program guide had not downloaded and would not download. The system has been getting the guide from Spectrum, not a third party. No recent change TWC vs Spectrum as far as I know. What files did you remove before trying to reload?
Returned to NYC after a few months away and had the same issue.
To fix it:
1. Boot into safe mode
2. cd C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\eHome
3. Rename or simply
mkdir SAVE
move *.db SAVE
4. Reboot
This fixed my frustrating problem. My system is overly complex with:
Perl Scripts for programming Onkyo and everthing else.
Ceton Tuner
So of course I had forgotten everthing.
simple fix if you are willing to do a little reading and learn , use EPG 123 for a quality tv guide listing in WMC . the service is provided by schedules direct through this software which is the company that originally provided the EPG listings through Zap 2 it (gracenote info) which was switched to a company called Rovi by microsoft a few years ago and the info and listings are not very accurate from rovi.


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The Government is monitoring concerns that the future of breast cancer screening could be at risk over legal actions and say that medical litigation in Ireland is currently being reviewed.
The director of BreastCheck has called for a mediation forum to address false negative test concerns and possible legal actions, after 15 legal letters were received in recent weeks in the wake of the cervical cancer screening controversy.
There is growing concern that there may now be cases of breast cancer diagnosis that were missed by screening.
Fianna Fáil's Dara Calleary raised the matter with Tánaiste Simon Coveney during leaders' questions.
Mr Calleary said that while BreastCheck has saved thousands of women's lives and is one of the best screening programmes in the world, the Government needs to be one step ahead and not "caught blind once again" and must guarantee that there are no other underlying issues concerning any other screening programmes.
"Professor O'Doherty [the director] is genuinely worried that if these cases are successful, it could absorb all the money from the programme and may end up jeopardising it altogether," said the Fianna Fáil deputy leader.
Arnie Hill, a consultant surgeon at Beaumont Hospital and adviser to the national cancer control plan, has also echoed Prof O'Doherty's fears. Prof Hill has said if 100 women with breast cancer underwent a mammogram, the disease would not show in 10 of them.
The Scally scoping inquiry is looking into the inaccurate cervical cancer test results scandal and the the failure of doctors and health services to tell patients. But it will also examine other cancer screening programmes.
"We have asked Dr Scally to examine our screening programmes generally in addition to CervicalCheck in his work to ensure we correct the wrongs of the past in regard to CervicalCheck and the information flow that should have happened but did not," the Tánaiste told the Dáil.
Mr Coveney said the Government is aware of the legal cost concerns for BreastCheck but that a review is also underway of medical litigation in Ireland: "On the legal issues that are of concern, the Taoiseach has set up a working group to examine tort law in respect of medical litigation. We will, of course, await the outcome of the review."
Mr Coveney moved to reassure people about the test rates and success of BreastCheck, which is internationally recognised: "It is important to reinforce the point that BreastCheck statistics are impressive by international standards.
Prof Doherty this week told an Oireachtas Committee that, during testing, 9.6 per 10,000 cases of breast cancer are not detected. Nonetheless, screening picks "up the vast majority" of breast cancer cases, she told TDs and senators.
Mr Coveney continued yesterday to reassure people about screening, telling the Dáil: "I wish to provide reassurance that, as far as we can see, BreastCheck is performing really well and saving lives, and it will continue to do so."
He also confirmed to Mr Calleary that BreastCheck won't introduce an open disclosure policy on informing patients about inaccurate results until next year. Currently, Mr Coveney noted, England is the only country in the world providing open disclosure in all its systems linked to screening.
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The doctor of an alcoholic employee argued that his patient was due FMLA leave from the time he took off work to phone his doctor and arrange an assessment to enter treatment. Treatment admission took a couple of days. Was he drunk or in withdrawal? It may not matter, FMLA leave was denied for any days prior to the admission date. The feds meant to say that treatment for alcoholism begins upon entry in to treatment or the day treatment begins. What was the patient's condition during those two days? How functional would he have been at work? Good questions. Will this discourage people from getting help if they wake up in the morning and can't be admitted at the time they are motivated with a hangover? The symptoms of alcoholism, and the dynamics that force a person with the disease to enter treatment are unique for this drug addiction or any other. The courts still aren't seeing alcoholism for the complex illness it is, it seems.
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There were 11 delegates and 2 alternates present with all districts represented. Chairman Mike Warner (D3) started the meeting at 7:30 PM.
Item 7 Al Cava (Director, Labor Relations for the TOG) and Mike Mason (Chairman, BET) presented information and answered specific questions regarding the bargaining agreement between the Town and the United Services Employee Union (bargaining unit representing school nurses and public health nurses assigned to the Department of Health).
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"Joan E. Caldwell, Chairman of District 10, made a motion on behalf of the district to postpone Item 14, the 2015 Open Space Plan, to the September meeting for the purpose of allowing other Standing Committees such as Education, Parks & Recreation and Public Works, that have oversight of Town property to determine if the Plan or any action taken under it might have a long term, negative impact or reduce the Town's options." The motion was carried upon a voice vote. (RTM April Minutes)


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PRS for Music is the home of PRS and MCPS, representing the rights of over 100,000 members in the UK. They license organisations to play, perform or make available copyright music on behalf of their members and those of overseas societies, distributing the royalties to them fairly and efficiently. They promote and protect the value of copyright.
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PRS for Music represents composers, songwriters and music publishers.
PRS for Music administers the performing right in musical works such as songs or instrumentals.
Obtaining a licence from PRS for Music ensures that royalties are paid to those that have written, composed and published the music,
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PPL represents record companies and performers.
Phonographic Performance Ltd (PPL) licenses similar rights, but in relation to copyright 'sound recordings' rather than original musical works.
So, if you play CDs, tapes or records you may also need a PPL licence as well as a licence from PRS for Music.
Obtaining a PPL licence will ensure that royalties are paid to the artists that have recorded the music and the record labels that own the recording.
The Mechanical-Copyright Protection Society (MCPS)
MCPS sits under the broader PRS for Music brand, and licenses your mechanical (reproduction) rights and pays your mechanical royalties.
Mechanical rights royalties are different and are paid to the songwriter, composer or publisher when music is reproduced as a physical product or for broadcast or www.prsformusic.com/Pages/Rights.aspx
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Performing rights royalties are paid to a songwriter, composer or publisher whenever their music is played or performed in any public space or place. This includes TV, radio, online, in a shop, an office, pub or restaurant, at a concert, a sporting event and thousands of other places.
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Who are PRS for Music and PPL?
PRS for Music collects and distributes licence fees for the use of musical compositions and lyrics on behalf of songwriters, composers and music publishers. PPL collects and distributes licence fees for the use of recorded music on behalf of record companies and performers.
In most instances, a music licence is required from both organisations when you play recorded music in public. More information can be found here.
How much does a licence cost?
A number of factors determine how much businesses pay – these include the size of premises, how you want to play music (for example, background, live or DJ) and whether music is played on hold to callers.
Research shows that wet sales increase by an average of £306 per day per venue when live music is used – this rises to £667 on Friday and Saturday nights (CGA Strategy Ltd).
What happens to the PRS Licence Fee?
The fees generated by PRS music licences ensure that songwriters, composers and music publishers – many of whom are small businesses themselves – are paid when their music is used.
PRS distribute nearly 90 percent of the licence fees they collect back to their members in the form of royalties and only deduct their administration cost.
Royalties help ensure their members can make a livelihood from their music and keep them making the music we all love.


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A third of employees are distracted at work for up to three hours a day, blaming their lack of concentration on chatty colleagues, social media and even the weather.
This adds up to 60 hours of dawdling a month, or a total of 759 hours each year, according to a survey of 2,000 people conducted by the personal financial management service Think Money.
Only half of respondents said they spend six hours or more productively working on an average day, and as many as a tenth of people admitted to achieving just half an hour of productive output per day.
Noisy workplaces were the main cause of distraction, disturbing more than three in 10 workers, while almost a quarter blamed slow computers or a bad internet connection and 23pc of respondents said looking at their mobile phone interrupts their work flow.
Other frequently-cited distractions include online shopping, social media, personal emailing, gazing out of the window, the temperature and sitting in an uncomfortable chair.
"Just as in everyday life, there are many distractions that cause the loss of valuable hours in the working day," said Think Money's Ian Williams. "Often, it's not simply a case of one burst of text messaging or internet surfing; there can be a constant stream of dipping back in and out, so concentration is interrupted throughout the day."
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Mr Williams added that "chatting to colleagues and having some banter can create a positive and productive workplace" but cautioned that "workers just need to be careful that this doesn't tip over into becoming an annoyance for others".
Chatty colleagues are more of a distraction for women than for men
The survey also found that women get more distracted by a chatty environment than men do, but men are more likely to be tempted into online shopping, to blame clunky technology for their slow performance and to grumble about an overload of pointless meetings.
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