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On a busy sidewalk in town, Bree carries a box of books from her car toward what looks like a large mailbox with glass doors. The idea for a lending library was Bree's, and with a little carpentry help from Trace, she's now able to see her vision come to life. As she unloads boxes of books from the car, a handsome young man approaches her and asks about the lending library. Bree explains the concept and the two strike up a friendly conversation about writing and literature. Still reeling from her breakup with Martin, Bree is taken with the young man's endearing smile and genuine interest in her passion for writing and literature. But while Bree is hoping to learn more about the handsome stranger, he's late for his shift at Sally's. As he heads into work Bree waves and tells him that she'll see him later.
Nearby at the hardware store, Mick loads bags of mulch into his truck when Trace, passing by on the sidewalk, stops to talk to him. Still stinging from Mick's surprise purchase of the abandoned warehouse, Trace asks if Mick that he was interested in the property. Mick acknowledges that he knew Trace wanted to buy the property, but Mick had his own plans for property and certainly didn't feel the need to talk to Trace first. There's not much else for Trace to say and he turns to leave. Just then, Mick asks what Trace had in mind for the property and Trace tells him about his idea for a music venue. To Trace's surprise, Mick is intrigued by the idea and proposes that the two of them go into business together. Mick tells Trace that he wants the property to be something useful and, after he works out the deal with the bank, he thinks the two of them should talk more. Trace's anger turns to confusion and a lingering question as to what Mick is really up to.
Back at Sally's, at an outdoor table away from the other customers, Wes and Abby sit across from each other. Earlier Wes called Abby and begged her to meet him and she's now eager for an explanation as to why. Wes takes a deep breath before telling Abby that an investigator from the Department of Justice may be contacting her. Abby tells him that the investigator already contacted her and that she still has no idea why. Wes then reveals that that the SEC is looking into a failed merger that involved Wes and his now ex-girlfriend Gabrielle. In an instant Abby realizes that Wes and Gabrielle were involved in a highly illegal insider trading scheme. Hoping to garner some pity, Wes tells Abby that he and Gabrielle have since broken up, but Abby is furious and could care less about Wes' love life. Facing the loss of his license and with it, his ability to support his daughters, Wes sheepishly asks Abby if she will help support him financially. Abby is stunned by the situation she now finds herself in and can only ponder what this revelation means for her, her daughters, and the new life she's trying to build.


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Someone, a non-sports fan, asked me just today, "WHY is this a big story?"
Good question. My answer is that it reflects on every one of us. It's not just that a hoax was committed or that a lie (series of lies) were told, but it is because before yesterday no one I know in the media or who is a fan of college football even thought to suggest that Lennay Kekua was a charade. And hence, we are all involved. That's part of it.
The other half is the reveal, when something that could not sound any more absurd is true (What? Verbil Kint does not walk with a limp? Tiger Woods, who's married to one of the world's most beautiful women, is a serial adulterer??? But he's such a "good guy!"). Manti Te'o came across as the most sincere and earnest person we'd seen in college football, if not sport, in some time. Would he really dupe us for months?
Finally, in the 21st century, we all get to be private investigators. We can all go on-line, watch videos, try to suss out the truth ourselves.
And this is where it gets sticky for Notre Dame. Athletic director Jack Swarbrick, a man for whom I have the ultimate respect, is 100% behind Te'o and the story that he is the victim here. But some things –many things –simply do not add up.
If Te'o received a phone call from the same number and the same voice as Lennay Kekua while he was in Orlando, Fla., for ESPN's awards show (December 6), why did he need three weeks before he spoke to Notre Dame? His parents were with him in New York City for the Heisman ceremony that weekend, and Swarbrick has posited that Te'o wanted to return to Hawaii and discuss the matter with his parents. That doesn't really add up.
And even if we are to give Te'o and Swarbrick the benefit of the doubt, are we really to believe that Te'o never realized he was misleading the national media by never, NOT ONCE, informing them that he and Kekua had never actually spent real time together in each other's presence? With all of the stories, and with all of the interviews that he was doing –and talking about someone whom he believed was deceased — he never thought it would be a good idea to add the qualifier, "I should inform you that we never actually met in person."
Who behaves this way?
Why did Te'o tell ESPN's Gene Wojciechowski that "I see the most beautiful girl that I've ever met" when he had never seen Lennay Kekua in person? It is, at best, misleading. Or it is duplicitous.
Concerning that December 6 phone call, if indeed it occurred. Let's take Teo's word for it for the time being. Why did the perpetrator of the hoax place that call? They did so for the same reason a serial killer writes a letter to the police or to a newspaper. If you ever read or saw the movie Zodiac, a true story about a serial killer who terrorized San Francisco for years (and was never actually apprehended), you know that the killer had a near-perfect method in which to dispose of his victims. And yet he still toyed with the police and the San Francisco Chronicle.
Why? Because he wanted adulation for what he was "achieving", as sick as that sounds.
Likewise, whoever inveigled Te'o into believing he had an on-line girlfriend was not simply satisfied with getting away with the crime. Otherwise they would have left him alone after her "death." Instead, they phoned him back. They wanted more. They wanted to get caught so that the story of the hoax would find a public forum. If a hoax falls in a forest and nobody hears it, did it ever fall?
And so they contacted him. They may have even been the ones to contact Deadspin. After all, they did nothing illegal, just unethical. They're not just liars, they're narcissists. Sociopaths.
What do I believe? Full disclosure, I am an alumnus of Notre Dame. And so you may roll your eyes when I say that I do believe that, at least initially, he was duped. But I'm not sure that I'm buying that he only found out about being duped on December 6 and I certainly don't believe he was forthright with us. For example, if he sent Lennay Kekua white flowers for her funeral, where did he send them? Who told him where to send those and is there a bill? Did someone pick them up?
That's just one question of many.
The silence on Twitter from Te'o's former Notre Dame teammates today, as regards this issue, has been deafening. That is also intriguing.
We will leave you with this: One of the first stages in growing up, unfortunately, is learning not to accept things at face value. Learning, sadly, not to trust ("Don't take candy from strangers!"). This is a story in which the media has had to learn, or retrain itself at least, not to trust anything it hears, even if the source has what seems to be unimpeachable integrity. Whether Manti Te'o has had to learn a similar lesson is something that, until he addresses this issue at length, remains up for debate.
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When I found out John Green wrote a new book I about lost it. His books were my childhood, they changed me as a person. I remember crying during my Genetics class in high school because I was secretly reading Fault In Our Stars during lecture. When I was 19 John green came to Indiana for a movie tour of Paper Towns I waited hours in a line to see him. This obsession might seem a little weird, however if you've ever read one of his books you would understand.
John always has an interesting dynamic in this books, either an interesting plot twist or character development. In his newest book, Turtles All The Way Down, depicts a young teenage girl who is just tightly wound in her anxiety disorder. The whole premise of the book focuses on mental illness and the title itself is a metaphor for the world and how the whole world sits on the back of a turtle and then that turtle sits on the back of another turtle and therefore in theory its turtles all the way down. This expression comes from the unmoved mover theory proposed by Aristotle in which it is believed "that there must be an immortal, unchanging being, ultimately responsible for all wholeness and orderliness in the sensible world" – Aristotle's Metaphysics Book 12. John has the main character express this idea when she's trying to find herself and understand her mental disease.
Personally, I enjoyed the book and having a general anxiety disorder was able to greatly connect with Aza. However, for the overall plot of the book, I felt a little let down. I went into reading this book with way too high of expectations and therefore was expecting a large twist and a rollercoaster of a book when really it was a general story. The main character and her struggle with her illness is definitely the highlight of the book and for others with a similar disorder will love and relate to this book on a deep level.
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"Your now is not your forever"
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Episode 130 – What's Bruin?Posted: June 10, 2013 Filed under: Podcast Comments Off on Episode 130 – What's Bruin?
Ha, did you see what I did there? What's Bruin? Its funny because they beat the Penguins. Ok, enough with the stupid stuff. Here is what's on tap for todays show. I give you a rundown on XFCE and all things XFCE. Your links are here:
http://www.xfce.org/ The website
http://wiki.xfce.org/ The Wiki
http://wiki.xfce.org/tips Tips
http://blog.xfce.org/ Extremely helpful blog which includes additional tips
http://forum.xfce.org/ Yes they have forums too!
http://www.xfce.org/about/releasemodel The XFCE development release roadmap
Next up I give you a short how to on how to setup your keyboard shortcuts.
First go into Applications Menu, then choose Settings, then Keyboard. There will be a pop up box and the keyboard box will have three tabs – Behavior, Application Shortcuts and Layout. Select the Application Shortcuts tab. For this tutorial I will setup a keyboard shortcut for Thunderbird. So, in the bottom left corner of the keyboard popup box, select ADD. You will have another popup box titled Shortcut Command. The command box will be empty. To the left will be a button titled OPEN. Select the button and yet another box will open up and this will be to all your application executables. This should be in the directory /usr/bin. This directory will be in alphabetical order. Scroll down until you see Thunderbird and select OPEN. Notice that the command box now has the path for the thunderbird executable. Click OK. The popup box now shows the path and now you need to select the keyboard combination you wan to use. I chose the alt button and the letter t. You will see as you select the key combination, this will confirm you keyboard combination. That's it. You will also see this in your Application shortcut section of your keyboard settings. Of course if you want to remove a combination, just open the keyboard dialog box again, navigate to the Application Shortcut tab, highlight the shortcut you want to remove and then choose the remove button. It is really that easy. For more tips and tricks, checkout the XFCE tips and tricks website – http://wiki.xfce.org/tips
I then move on to go over four distros for the linux beginner. As stated this was not meant to be a comprehensive list, just a start. Those three were:
Linux Mint – http://www.linuxmint.com/
Pinguy OS – http://pinguyos.com/
Bodhi Linux – http://www.bodhilinux.com/
Trisquel – http://trisquel.info/
Thats all for now folks.
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Big Gains for Campbell County in 2012 Session of the General Assembly
Big Gains for Campbell County in 2012 Session of the General Assembly
By Rep. Dennis Keene – With the General Assembly's 2012 session behind us, I want to let you know some of the things we were able to accomplish to move the state forward.
I'm very happy to report that I was able to secure funding for some important projects in Campbell County. In fact, the transportation budget ranks Campbell County ranks 18th out of 120 counties.
The first is $1 million for spot improvements and repair work in and around the City of Newport.
We also have $1.8 million coming in 2013 for Taylor Creek to extend the culvert under KY 8 and Riverboat Row.
And I was able to secure $650,000 for the Purple People Bridge for improvements so it can continue to be the popular conveyance and special event site it has become.
These projects will support travel and tourism, infrastructure and our economic vitality for years to come.
While much of the session was taken up with redistricting and the budget, I was successful in passing two important pieces of legislation.
House Bill 308 will help address problems at proprietary or "for-profit" colleges uncovered in an audit conducted last year, which was initiated by complaints about high tuition, lack of job assistance and education, and a gross lack of financial accountability.
It was determined that the current board, which regulates the state's 122 for-profit colleges, provided inadequate oversight, had not conducted an outside financial audit in 10 years and lacked a clear understanding of its role.
House Bill 308 will abolish the current State Board for Proprietary Education (BPE) and establish the Kentucky Commission on Proprietary Education, an independent agency of the Commonwealth attached to the Education and Workforce Development Cabinet for administrative purposes.
The commission will be fully funded by the schools and will not cost Kentucky taxpayers one dime.
The legislation requires the new Kentucky Commission on Proprietary Education to establish membership of commission reducing the number of proprietary school representatives.
I believe Kentuckians choosing to enroll in for-profit institutions deserve the same protections afforded students in state-funded colleges and universities. House Bill 308 provides those protections and will result in a better, more productive experience for the students as well as the schools.
Another bill, Senate Bill 40 helps the restaurant business across Kentucky. Because of an archaic law on Kentucky's book, restaurants are required to be located at street level.
Many years ago, this was mandated so that police officers and other security forces could see inside the windows for illegal activity.
Over the years as the concept of multi-level entertainment and dining complexes have grown, the old law prohibited developers from adding restaurants above the street level, limiting the option of having more than one dining choice. Senate Bill 40 lifts that regulation allowing for restaurants on multiple floors of a building.
Senate Bill 40 will help places like Newport on the Levee – that are looking to re-position and re-invent for the future – opportunities to attract new businesses to the property.
Senate Bill 40 also changes restaurant reporting practices dealing with the sale of alcoholic beverages and food.
Previously, in order to be licensed to sell alcoholic beverages, restaurants had to get 50% of their gross receipts from the sale of food. Senate Bill 40 changes that regulation to state that restaurants must get at least 50% of their food and beverage receipts from the sale of food.
This change means that restaurants like the Hard Rock Café or Jimmy Buffet's Margaritaville will no longer have to include gift shop sales in with their alcohol sales.
Other restaurants that sell items like t-shirts or hats also would not have to include those receipts into the calculation. The food and beverage receipts will now be separate from everything else and half of that would have to come from food, while the other half would be from beverages.
Senate Bill 40 is an important tool that will support our restaurant and entertainment industry, which is becoming one of Kentucky's more profitable economic engines. Building or adding more restaurants to places like Newport on the Levee creates jobs, increases our travel and tourism opportunities and contributes to our overall economy.
The Kentucky General Assembly did enact the state's two-year budget. This spending plan is balanced, as our constitution requires, but what is especially important is that it continues to protect the classroom and services for our most vulnerable.
It also doesn't raise any taxes or lay off any teachers or state employees, and it features low levels of borrowing. In short, it has us living within our means without sacrificing our future.
That doesn't mean it will be an easy budget to carry out; after more than $1 billion in cuts during the last four years, there is little fat left to trim. Nevertheless, there have been encouraging signs of economic growth in recent months, and there is broad consensus that the worst is truly behind us.
Although the budget requires some tough choices, there are some positive initiatives that deserve mention. About $20 million extra is set aside, for example, to provide much-needed help for our social workers, whose caseloads are well beyond the national average. We also give a much-needed tax break to victims of the early spring tornadoes, making it more affordable for them to rebuild, and we boost programs helping the elderly and our state parks.
In terms of lasting legislative accomplishments, this session will undoubtedly be remembered for the far-reaching work done to combat illegal drug use. We now have important tools to take on the epidemic of prescription drug abuse, and other new laws will help us limit the production of meth and the sale of dangerous synthetic drugs.
There are other numerous other accomplishments worth mentioning.
We cracked down on copper thefts, we laid the groundwork for a new memorial to honor our fallen soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan, and we gave our schools added flexibility should they want to pursue innovative approaches to improve their academic standing.
We also call for standardized local tax forms, to make it easier for companies to pay these taxes if they do business in more than one community; we now require life insurance companies to work harder to find beneficiaries of unclaimed policies; and we will have social workers provide more information to help foster children transition into adulthood.
The General Assembly covered a lot of ground in a relatively short amount of time, and while I wish we could have done more, I appreciate what we were able to do in a challenging environment nationally. In the months ahead, as the legislative committees begin meeting again, we will look for more ways to help Kentuckians succeed.
Representative Dennis Keene represents the 67th House District in Campbell County that includes the cities of Newport, Bellevue, Dayton, Wilder, Southgate, Woodlawn and Highland Heights. He is chairman of the House Licensing and Occupations Committee, vice chairman of Economic Development and a member of the Banking & Insurance and is the Budget Subcommittee on Transportation. Keene is a small business owner and an economic development advisor for EGC. For more information, visit: www.DennisKeene.com.


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The Essay is a daily personal piece submitted by readers. Have a story to tell? See our guidelines at tgam.ca/essayguide.
Like most children, I used to dream about being 32 and stuck in a low-paying customer service job with no hope for advancement.
No, wait, I used to dream about being a cyborg bounty hunter. That's what it was. Anyway, that first thing happened instead.
Now, like 99.9 per cent of adults, I'm thinking about pulling a screeching U-turn with my life and going back to school.
People think that university is like the Time-Turner from Harry Potter: It magically lets you turn back the clock, erase your mistakes and try again. But university can also be like Quidditch: a huge waste of time that doesn't make any sense when you stop to think about it.
There is one good reason to give school another shot, and a lot of bad ones. Here are three of the worst:
1. Everyone else is doing it.
This wasn't a good enough reason to do the Harlem Shake, and it's certainly not a good enough reason to study anthropology.
Thirteen years ago, I worked in a fast food restaurant with a bunch of people who hated working in a fast food restaurant. We thought the job was a prison, and each of us believed education was the dessert spoon with which we would tunnel out. I was in university but had switched my major from psychology to sociology to history, which is to say from useless to pointless to aimless.
Everyone around me was doing the same thing. We'd complain about our dead-end jobs, then pin our hopes on the vague promise of getting a degree. There was one guy in the restaurant who wasn't in school. One day he said: "I think I want to be a pilot." He quit the job, enrolled in flight school, got his licence and started flying planes. As far as I know, he spent the rest of his life walking majestically away from an F-15 Eagle at sunset, helmet under his arm, while the Top Gun theme song played.
This guy escaped his job as quickly and easily as the Road Runner escapes Wile E.Coyote. The rest of us were left standing there, mouths open, saying: "How did he do that?" It's taken a long time, but I finally get it. He went to school because he wanted to be a pilot. The rest of us were in school because we didn't want to work in fast food.
2. You want to look like you're moving upward.
Here's a question: If you could buy the respect of every person you know or will ever meet, how much would you pay? Now, take that number, multiply it by 20 and you'll have something closer to the real number. The admiration of others is way more important than most of us would like to admit.
Unless you've moved to a hidden monastery in the mountains of Nepal, you probably run into people you used to know sometimes. And when you do, the awkward chat usually goes like this:
"So, what are you up to?" (What job do you have?)
"Oh, just working." (The fact that I won't tell you what my job is implies that it's unskilled, low-paying and I hate it.)
"Oh. Cool." (I'm sorry to hear that you are mired in a bog of your own failure.)
Now, watch what happens when we add school to the equation.
"So, what are you up to?" (What job do you have?)
"Actually, I'm finishing my degree." (I'm staking thousands of dollars and years of my life on a Hail Mary pass to respectability.)
"Nice!" (Jeepers, I'd better leave before I get permanently blinded from the dazzling success of this superstar.)
3. You like going to school more than you like going to work.
You know what I like more than going to work? Mixing a bunch of M&M's with Reese's Pieces in a bowl then eating them in a blanket fort while watching The NeverEnding Story. But you can't do that for four years and expect your life to get better.
I'm part of the "millennial" generation, and we love going to school. If we get a flat tire, our first response is to take out a student loan to get a masters degree in Flat Tire Theory.
It's easy to get addicted to education. From the age you stop peeing your pants to the age you get tired of binge drinking, school is the solid ground. It has a feel and a rhythm. You get clear goals from a clear authority. Your achievement is expressed with a number, and you can compare other people's numbers to know who's winning.
Have you seen those trained seals that can balance on one flipper and push a ball through a hoop? Imagine if you took one of those and said: "All right, Cinnamon, you've completed all the tricks we've taught you. It's time for you to leave the aquarium and live in the ocean. It's way colder, there are lots of sharks, and all the skills we've been rewarding you for are now completely useless. Good luck!" That seal might just be applying for a post-graduate program.
I said at the beginning that there's one good reason to go to school, and here it is: You want to do something that needs specific skills. That's it. Anything else is a hobby. And going to university while you decide what you want to do is like skipping your skydiving lesson because you want to figure out the parachute during free fall.
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Thank You To Stacey And Anxiety Centre For Everything!
I joined the Anxiety Centre website over a year ago. I found it so encouraging - gave me answers to all my questions in regards to my health and explained why I felt the way I did. After studying the information, listening to every recorded Skype message, I had so much information that I became anxious just trying to figure it all out.
I knew I needed to speak to a counsellor to sort out my thoughts and all the information that I had been learning, but took me awhile to finally make that decision to do so. After reading about each of the anxiety counsellors, I chose Stacey Ellertson because it seemed he had struggled with the same type of anxiety symptoms. Nervously, I awaited his call - but right from the start of our conversation, he was kind and easy to speak with. He explained how the body works - and that this was simply "biology". It is really interesting to look at how our bodies are created perfectly - and that if we over-tax them with too much stress (which could be a physical stress, emotional stress or even too much caffeine and sugar), there is no balance and we become "over-stimulated". When we become over-stimulated - it causes many bizarre sensations, that eventually will lead to symptoms (because the body doesn't ever get a chance to calm down). Stress comes in many different forms, our thoughts, our actions, health issues etc., which leads to an un-balanced life.
Stacey was great at giving me the tools I needed to realize that my thoughts and actions - and the way that I looked at situations were causing my stress. He helped me to create a new file folder in my brain - what used to be FEAR is now a file folder called FREEDOM. This file folder contains the information that I go to when I was feeling anxious and stressed.
I am a perfectionist, over-responsible and have high expectations of myself and others …. do you think that could cause stress?? YES! My overly anxious behaviours caused an anxious mind. Stacey's greatest advice was to have a life that is balanced and have rhythm. Now I take the time to think about what I am thinking about and use the tools to calm my mind - which in turn - calm the body and vice versa.
If you are thinking of talking to someone but too afraid - or embarrassed - don't be! I cannot encourage you enough to speak to someone about the fears and struggles that you are having. Speaking to a counsellor that has gone through the same issues is so awesome - they understand - have beaten the anxiety and have the compassion to know what it feels like to struggle.
I use my new folder everyday - do my relaxation everyday and my so grateful for the encouragement and help that Anxiety Centre has been! I have always looked at life as a challenge - now I am choosing to look at life with joy - and it is wonderful. Thank you to Stacey and Anxiety Centre for everything!
Donna, Canada
The combination of good self-help information and working with an experienced anxiety disorder therapist is the most effective way to address anxiety disorder and its many symptoms. Until the core causes of anxiety are addressed - the underlying factors that motivate apprehensive behavior - a struggle with anxiety disorder can return again and again. Identifying and successfully addressing anxiety's underlying factors is the best way to overcome problematic anxiety.
Additional Resources:
- For a comprehensive understanding of: Anxiety Disorders Symptoms & Signs, Types, Causes, Diagnosis, and Treatment.
- Anxiety and panic attacks symptoms can be powerful experiences. Find out what they are and how to stop them.
- How to stop an anxiety attack and panic.
- Free online anxiety tests to screen for anxiety. Two minute tests with instant results. Such as:
- Anxiety 101 is a summarized description of anxiety, anxiety disorder, and how to overcome it.
Return to Anxiety Testimonials.
Authors: Jim Folk, Marilyn Folk, BScN. Last updated February 25, 2019.


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As claimed earlier, Meizu has finally launched the Meizu M5s in China. It is the successor of Meizu M5 which was launched in October last year. The Meizu M5s gets an all-metal unibody design and comes in four different colors – Champagne Gold, Moonlight Silver, Rose Gold and Star Grey.
Talking about specs, the Meizu M5s sports a 5.2-inch HD display with a resolution of 1280 x 720 pixels and 2.5D curved glass on top. The device is equipped with an octa-core 64-bit MediaTek MT6753 processor clocked at 1.3GHz coupled with 3GB of RAM. The phone comes in two different storage variants of 16GB and 32GB. The storage is further expandable up to 128GB with a MicroSD card.
The Meizu M5s also gets a fingerprint scanner mounted on the home button. The phone runs on Android 6.0 Marshmallow wrapped under Flyme OS 6.0. It packs in a 3000mAh battery which is clubbed with fast charging technology. Meizu claims the device to get charged from 0% to 19% just under 10 minutes of charging.
Coming on to camera front, the Meizu M5s features a 13-megapixel primary camera with PDAF and dual-tone LED flash. The phone also flaunts a 5-megapixel shooter on the front for capturing selfies. It is a dual SIM phone and get the connectivity options such as 4G VoLTE, WiFi 802.11 a/b/g/n (2.4GHz/5GHz), Bluetooth 4.0 LE, GPS / GLONASS. It is priced 799 Chinese Yuan (Rs 7,000) for 16GB variant and 999 Chinese Yuan (Rs 10,000) for 32GB variant.


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"1:25 a.m.: Recent partying has totally effed with my sleep schedule, so I'm wide awake. Decide the best option would be to catch up on the Jezebel articles I missed today and lull myself to sleep with my Hitachi magic wand. I've developed a bad habit of buzzing while I read Jezebel, which seems weird, but I can't be the only one who does it. I think it improves my comprehension."
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Former Taliban hostage arrested in Canada on 15 charges including assault
A Canadian man who was held captive by a faction of the Afghan Taliban for five years has been arrested on 15 charges including sexual assault, illegal confinement and issuing death threats, according to reports on Tuesday.
Joshua Boyle was freed last October along with his American wife Caitlan Coleman and their three children born in captivity.
The identity of the alleged victim was being withheld by a court, according to Mr Boyle's lawyer Eric Granger.
Mr Granger added his client was "presumed innocent" and had never been in any form of legal trouble before.
"We look forward to receiving the evidence and defending him against these charges," he said, adding Mr Boyle would appear before a court in Ottawa on Wednesday.
According to news channel CTV, Mr Boyle is facing eight counts of assault, two counts of sexual assault and two counts of unlawful confinement, as well as one each of misleading police to "divert suspicion from himself," uttering a death threat, and administering a noxious substance, Trazodone.
In a statement to The Toronto Star and published on the newspaper's website, Mr Boyle's wife would not comment on the specific charges, "but I can say that ultimately it is the strain and trauma he was forced to endure for so many years and the effects that that had on his mental state that is most culpable for this".
She said "with compassion and forgiveness that I... hope help and healing can be found for him."
Ms Coleman added that she and the children were healthy.
Mr Boyle and Ms Coleman, who have been married since 2011, were kidnapped by the Taliban during what they described as a backpacking trip through war-torn Afghanistan in 2012, and were later transferred to the custody of the Haqqani faction, known for its alleged ties to the Pakistani military.
They were freed on October 12, but refused to board a US military plane. Mr Boyle, a Muslim convert and long-time advocate of freed Guantanamo inmate Omar Khadr, cited fears over his background.
Upon his arrival in Toronto two days later Boyle accused his captors of killing his baby daughter, a fourth child - allegations swiftly refuted by the Taliban's spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid.
Mr Mujahid admitted a baby had died but said it was a result of a natural miscarriage.
A month later Ms Coleman spoke of a sexual "assault" by two of her captors in an interview with ABC news.
Mr Boyle has been an outspoken advocate for Khadr, a Canadian captured at the age of 15 in 2002 in Afghanistan and held at Guantanamo Bay before being transferred to Canada and later released. Mr Boyle was married for a short time to Khadr's sister.
Pakistan's military says the family was freed in a daring rescue operation.
But some US and Canadian officials have questioned that account, suggesting to news outlets it may have involved a "negotiated handover" with the Haqqani network which Islamabad is said to covertly back.
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The kids grew up and stunned the whole world by becoming each and everyone themselves a grandmaster in chess. In particular, Judit Polgár is the strongest woman player in history. She achieved the title of Grandmaster at the age of 15 years and 4 months, the youngest person to do so until then. She has been ranked as high as eighth (in 2005). She is the only woman to have won a game from a current world number one player, and has defeated nine current or former world champions in either rapid or classical chess: Anatoli Karpov, Garry Kasparov, Boris Spassky, Vasily Smyslov, Veselin Topalov, Viswanathan Anand, Ruslan Ponomariov, Alexander Khalifman, and Rustam Kasimdzhanov.
Later, Laszlo wrote a book, titled "Bring Up Genius", advocating that geniuses are made, not born.
Early interventions improve IQ by as much as 20 points
A child can be make stupid by parents even if the child is congenitally clever or can be make clever by parents providing good positive intervention. If a child is abused day in day out, eventually he will be a moron. Also poverty is likely to impact a child's IQ negatively.
A study (1999) by Capron and Duyme of French children adopted between the ages of four and six examined the influence of socioeconomic status (SES). The children's IQs initially averaged 77, putting them near retardation. Most were abused or neglected as infants, then shunted from one foster home or institution to the next. Nine years later after adoption, when they were on average 14 years old, they retook the IQ tests, and all of them did better. The amount they improved was directly related to the adopting family's socioeconomic status. "Children adopted by farmers and laborers had average IQ scores of 85.5; those placed with middle-class families had average scores of 92. The average IQ scores of youngsters placed in well-to-do homes climbed more than 20 points, to 98."
The median score of IQ is around 100. Roughly 2% is 130. A IQ of around 80 is consider quite dumb. An exceptionally gifted person has IQ of around 150. Capron and Duyme results shown that IQ of a person is volatile, and can be improved through hard work and positive childhood intervention. By putting dumb kids into a rich home, their IQ hike from moronic level, to close to 100, which is the score of an average person.
A society can have a lot of potential genius but the trick is early intervention
More and more researches are showing indications that early intervention is the key to high IQ. By early intervention, a moron can have normal IQ. A normal person could have a smart guy IQ. A gifted person could evolved into genius. Early this year, John Protzko of New York University published a research giving yet another empirical that early intervention works.
My earlier post shows the Heckman Curve. It roughly suggests similar messages, though not in qualitative terms like IQ. Heckman Curve suggest that program that target earliest years of education reaped the most benefit. When someone ages, the return of education program is much lower.
While it is certain that some program can improve the IQ of adult, but such program never make someone a genius.
Early intervention could be among one of the fact certain tribes have higher IQ
The Chinese are known to give intervention programs to their kids, in the form of tuition or programs like piano lessons. In older days, tuition can start quite late, probably when parents realize the child is failing. Today, tuition especially for the rich kid can start as early as 4 years old. This is definitely one of the main reasons Chinese perform well in schools. Nevertheless, such programs could be quite late in the child's life to form a genius.
Today, the world is getting competitive. The intervention program of 0-3 years old child is still quite underlooked and those parents who are able to educate the child at this period will unlock huge potential of the child, that will give the child a superlative edge in comparison with peers. The parents may be able to make a genius.


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When Smartsalary first started in 2001, customer service in the salary packaging industry was not particularly inspiring. In fact, about 75% of Smartsalary clients today were once with another provider and switched to us principally due to poor service delivered by their incumbent. Due to increased competition by newer entrants over the past decade, the overall service provision today within the salary packaging industry is generally better.
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Smartfleet's point of difference is to be able to offer either a totally outsourced fleet management solution, or a software solution that can be managed in-house by the client – and for our salary packaging clients, we can now offer a one-stop shop. Our long-term vision can be summed up by our tagline – to be widely recognised as the easiest fleet management company to deal with.
For a better idea of what Smartfleet can offer, have a look at our brand new website: www.smartfleetaustralia.com.au.
We think the future of Smartfleet is bright. We will pour our hearts into servicing the fleet industry, much as we have the packaging industry over the past decade . . . and we look forward to being of service.


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I am a tea addict. Now, more than ever, since I have been fighting a cold for almost a week! The Breville electric kettle is one of my favorite kitchen tools. It boils water in minutes and is much quicker than a tea kettle on the stove. I just fill it with water, flip the switch, then it automatically notifies me with a 'ding' and then shuts off once it reaches a boil. I buy loose-leaf tea from Teavana quite frequently (breaks the bank). The pink Teavana perfectea maker on the right was one of my favorite Christmas gifts. You just put your tea in there, pour in boiling water and let it steep for however long you like your tea to steep. Then simply set it on a mug (any size will work), and it strains out the tea-leaves to give you the perfect glass of tea. If you don't have any of the teaware, Teavana has a great starter kit on the link above. The video below shows you how it the perfectea maker works.
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The Speed Project meant different things to different teams; for some, it was to challenge the course record, for others it was the chance to experience something completely out of the norm. Troels Frederiksen wanted to put together a team that wasn't predominantly based on speed, rather trust. To place trust in individuals to dig deep and hold it together when things got tough, which was made even more difficult as the team would not get the chance to train together as a cohesive unit.
WOLFPACK was made up of seven runners from London, Amsterdam, New York, Gran Canaria, Paris, and Copenhagen. Bringing together distinct attributes such as leadership from both crew captains Troels and Jay Smith, running coaching of Cory Wharton-Malcolm, Military mindset of Jonas Dienstrup, as well as seasoned multi-discipline distance runners across the rest of the team.
The energy was high off the starting block, with each team captain running the first leg through the streets of Santa Monica. The speed through the first handover set the tone and expectations for the crew, which carried WOLFPACK through the streets of LA through to the Californian desert. Where the buzz of the city was replaced by barren beige that stretched across all the eye could see, where the WOLFPACK was truly tested. With warnings of coyotes, snakes and rough terrain, the high risk of injury became a reality when a close call with wild dogs threatened to see WOLFPACK not make it past day one.
Regaining the rhythm was further derailed when team captain Troels became lost during a midnight trail leg, which saw him coming out of the darkness bloodied and broken after suffering a fall off of a steep rock face.
Knowing that the team couldn't take another setback, Troels (with a stoic look in his eyes) asked for ibuprofen and beer, while telling the rest of the team to keep on going.
Running into day two, the mood had changed and the RV turned into a war room; planning out the remaining miles over coffee and carrot sticks, everyone understood that there was a job to do.
The next hours fell into a blur of mountain trails and unrelenting dry heat, with Jonas telling stories of military life and training that lightened the mood and put the task ahead into an achievable prospective. UNDO co-founder, Nai Vasha, tagged herself in for the Mohave stretch as the team's energy started to fade.
Heading through Death Valley Road, WOLFPACK switched tactics to one mile runs each, a system that paid off in the unrelenting sun. Music played a big factor while on the road as our very own UNDO media vehicle became the unofficial support car; providing motivation through music on request that seemed to lighten the mood as Wolfpack went past the 36th hour.
The final hours to Vegas trekked under the cover of darkness, the mood had shifted once again as it became a war of attrition to the finish line. The toll of the last three hundred-plus miles was apparent on each runners face, as the sun rose and the bright lights of Vegas could be seen in the distance; the pace began to hasten (with some team members pushing sub-seven minute miles) and as Troels ran in the last solo run, the entire team was roadside cheering him in for the final time. The last hundred meters, running hand in hand, brought into view the iconic Vegas sign. Yet the finish line marked so much more; 350 miles, 49 hours, and 35 minutes of highs and lows, learning about themselves and each other but more importantly bonding together under the harsh conditions of The Speed Project.
Words by Harry Sandhu
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A new poll of Arkansas Democrats shows Barack Obama receiving support from only 45 percent of Democratic primary voters in Arkansas's Fourth Congressional District, while 38 percent support his underfunded and relatively unknown primary challenger, Tennessee lawyer John Wolfe, Jr. Seventeen percent are undecided in the district poll.Pundits and other political observers agree that this development is particularly disturbing for the President because his Arkansas opponent is not a felon or even currently imprisoned.
Dad always said, "Speak with authority - people will assume you know what you're talking about, even if you don't." I assume he knew what he was talking about.
Tuesday, May 15, 2012
Barack Obama Facing Serious Primary Challenge in Arkansas
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It's the 21st century and everything has evolved including wireless security systems and alarm monitoringservices. In the past older, outdated wireless security systems that used cellular communicators had some bad tendencies. They were infamous for picking up interference from other local security systems or electrical devices. This means the alarm systems could be triggered accidentally causing confusion and inconveniences for everyone. With the evolution of technology wireless security system and monitoring there are now no longer and interference issues with these types of alarm systems.
This is excellent news for all the diyers out there! This makes everything so much easier when installing your wireless alarm system. You no longer have to worry about having a dedicated land line hooked directly into your alarm system. Not only is this more convenient for the install but, this also means that you no longer need to have a dedicated phone line just for you alarm system so you can save some money.
Cellularalarm monitoring is becoming more and more popular these days not only for the reasons I listed above but, there are also a few more benefits of using cellular alarm monitoring services. Cellular alarm combined with a system from Geoarm Security you can add interactive services and have home automation. Interactive services are where you can arm and disarm your alarm system from you iPhone or ipad as long as your system is capable of supporting these features. Homeautomation is another feature which can be used in conjunction with your cellular monitored wireless security system. This feature is basically where you can open and close doors with the proper equipment; you can raise or lower the temp of your thermostat, and even open and close garage doors.


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Charlotte Anne Lopez and Adoption
Lopez was Miss Teen USA in 1993.
She was placed in care by her mentally ill mother as a baby (with her brother and sister) and lived in foster homes in Vermont state for 15 years; by the time she was three she had been in four placements. In her mid teens she left her long-term fifth foster family, the Wensleys, for a group home and then a new family, and was formally adopted by them in 1993, just before she turned 18, and just after she won Miss Teen Vermont and then Miss Teen USA.
She has had no contact with her birth mother since infancy but is close to her sister, who was in the same foster families but stayed with the Wensleys, and has contact with her brother.
She has changed her name to Charlotte Ayanna.
Lopez, Charlotte, and Dworkin, Susan. Lost in the System. (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996)
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