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Recipe: Yields 6 Individual Mini Pies
- 2 cups almond flour
- 2 cups coconut flour
- 1/2 teaspoon sea salt
- 1/2 teaspoon unflavored gelatin
- 2 tablespoons coconut palm sugar
- 4 tablespoons coconut oil*, cold Note: Alternatively, you can use 6 tablespoons of Earth Balance Buttery spread in the red container which is GF/DF and soy free. *Note: You may need to add a little more coconut oil if the dough appears too dry.
- 1 tablespoon coconut oil or or 2 tablespoons Earth Balance
- 5 Granny Smith apples, peeled, cored and cut into 1/4 inch thick slices Note: Granny Smith is one of the most well known apple varieties around, known for its bright green color and tart flavor. Great for baking as well!
- 5 Gala apples, peeled, cored and cut into 1/4 inch thick slices Note: With a crisp bite and a mellow sweetness, the Gala complements any recipe. You can even get away with using less sugar because of its natural sweetness. The crispness helps it retain its shape throughout baking so it does not become mealy.
- 1/4 cup coconut palm sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1/8 teaspoon sea salt
- 1/2 cup coconut milk
- 1 cup almond flour
- 2 tablespoons coconut flour
- 1 tablespoon arrowroot flour
- 1/2 teaspoon unflavored gelatin
- 1/3 cup coconut palm sugar
- 3 tablespoons coconut oil, cold or 6 tablespoons Earth Balance
- Crust: Place almond flour, coconut flour, sea salt, sugar and gelatin in the bowl of a food processor. Process to combine. Add the coconut oil and pulse with 10 quick pulses and then let the food processor run until the mixture comes together to form a dough. Pour dough onto a sheet of plastic wrap. Wrap then press the dough into a large disk. Refrigerate for at least 30 minutes.
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees and adjust rack to middle position. Remove plastic wrap from the dough.
- Roll out the pie crust dough on a lightly floured (can use a little almond flour for this) surface until it is about 1/8-inch thick. Cut dough into 6 rounds about 1 inch larger than the size of the mini pie pan that you will be using. (I used 5 x 1 1/2 inch pans) Press dough into each pan and up the sides. Chill in the refrigerator for about 20 minutes. Place a piece of parchment on the bottom of each mini pie crust and cover with pie weights or beans. Bake for 10 minutes. Remove pie weights and parchment and bake for an additional 8 minutes or until the crust begins turning golden brown. Please note that cooking time may be less if you use smaller pie tins.
- Filling: Melt coconut oil in a large pot over medium heat. Add apples, coconut sugar, cinnamon and sea salt. Increase heat to medium high and cook, stirring occasionally, for about 5 minutes until apples release their moisture and sugar is melted. Pour coconut milk over the apples and continue to cook, stirring frequently until apples are soft and liquid has thickened, about 7 minutes.
- Topping: Place almond flour, coconut flour, arrowroot, gelatin and coconut sugar in the bowl of a food processor. Process to combine. Add coconut oil. Pulse with several one second pulses and then let the food processor run until the mixture just comes together (you want it to be a crumbly mixture). Spread crumbs onto a baking sheet lined with parchment paper. Bake for 10 minutes in a 375 degree oven. Remove from oven. Carefully remove sheet of parchment with hot crumbs to the counter and place the pie crust (still in the pie dish) on the baking sheet. Pour the apple filling into the crust and then top with hot crumbs. Place strips of foil over the edges of the crust to avoid burning. Bake for 10-15 minutes until topping is just turning golden brown. Cool for 30 minutes and serve. Serve with homemade coconut cream if desired. Enjoy!
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OCPD Investigating Card Skimmers At Two Gas Stations
Last Thursday, Ocean City Police Department (OCPD) detectives began investigating recent reports of credit and debit card theft involving skimmers inserted into the payment mechanism at gas pumps in two locations in the resort that allow suspects to gain access to personal bank account information of unknowing victims. An inspection of gas pumps at two locations, including the Sunoco at 129th Street and the Exxon pumps at Oceans Market on 141st Street revealed technically-advanced skimming devices inserted in the payment mechanism at the pumps.
The OCPD this week is continuing to investigate the credit and debit card skimmer cases along with other allied agencies in the resort area and beyond to determine if the thefts are more widespread than initially believed. The credit and debit card skimming cases are certainly not a new trend and similar cases involving gas pumps and even ATM machines have been reported in and around the area for the last few months. OCPD public information specialist Lindsay Richard said this week some locations are more susceptible than others for the scam.
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Most Debit cards permit them to be used as a regular Visa credit card. The Sunoco in particular that's mentions specifically asks if this is a Debit card. Respond with NO and you won't risk compromising your PIN.
- July 22, 2017 at 3:02 PM
- July 22, 2017 at 3:45 PM
O.C. is fair game for scammers and tourists are the meat on the hoof.
- July 22, 2017 at 4:23 PM
Actually Cubans
- July 22, 2017 at 4:25 PM
Yeah, because cuba is at the fore front of technology.
- July 22, 2017 at 6:58 PM
Can anyone writing this article delve into educating us general consumers as to how to recognize a skimmer? I mean, supposedly it is inserted from the outside of a gas pump and must have a visible clue to be able to defend myself from a skimmer should I see one.
Is there anyone out there who can tell us how to be on the lookout for these?
Obviously, the police have no clues for us. They are only here to tell us we've already been ripped off.
- July 23, 2017 at 12:14 AM
google can.
- July 23, 2017 at 12:50 AM
yes Google has pics of them and how to tell the difference...google what do atm skimmers look like...you will find a lot of them. Thats what i did after my sister got hit for almost a thousand bucks and it was traced back to a card slot on a machine...and not in a store but it didnt get her until a few days after she had used that machine. Be very careful of where you use your cards, unless its in legit stores!
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The Meaning of Security Hype
We have many new infosec professionals joining the workforce every year who have been schooled in product configurations, best practices, and vendor whitepapers as to what security is. Everything they know about protection has been carefully cultivated through marketing relationships with colleges and training centers with insights specially prepared and spoon fed through sponsored news headlines.
What does it mean?
After the third part of our article series Is Your Security Hurting Your Security came out, we received many questions and comments on what it all means. Questions like: What products do you need to protect something with a complicated attack surface like a mobile phone? What new tech exists to get us out of the patch rat race? How do you balance security if you don't have the money or resources? Are you a robot?
If you haven't seen the articles, check here:
Part 1: Three Ways Your Security is Actually Hurting Your Security
Part 2: Unbalanced Security is Increasing Your Attack Surface
Part 3: Security Solutions that Fight for the Same Resources
I think this kind of marketing-based security has completely changed the landscape of what most expect from security and, in this interconnected world, what we all will get for security – but in a bad way.
Now there are companies that are marketing responsibly and doing better than most to match their products to the actual security landscape. Yet, for the most part, you'll see vendors who are manufacturing a particular landscape, painting an illusion, and then showing how their products make that imaginary landscape more secure.
Now you might think, who will fall for that? Or maybe you think, the cybersecurity landscape is so bad who would need to make anything up? Well that's marketing for you. It's called market differentiation and it ensures a company can compete against other products of similar nature while keeping their own customers buying more of their same products they already have.
A good example of market differentiation in action is the use of segmented classifications. This lets a vendor sell more of the same type of products by segmenting the types of threats by what they are (classification) rather than what they do (operational end effect).
In the consumer space which many are familiar with, we see this:
"How do you prevent viruses?"
"With anti-virus software
"How do you prevent spyware?"
"With anti-spyware software"
"How do you prevent hackers hiding files on my computer?"
"For that buy our antispywareware and set it to high heuristics. That will give you total protection. But hackers will get in if they really want to."
In these marketing-fueled imaginary landscapes you may be shown a world where you need different software for different ways attackers can manipulate files on your computers. That is despite the fact that there are well documented and very finite ways a file can be changed. And there are well defined and specific integrity controls to counter file manipulation.
But in this marketer's dream world you are prompted by one company to buy anti-virus and at another buy anti-spyware and so on when what you really need is file integrity maintenance. Now, let's put the logistics on home users implementing integrity controls and their inability or unwillingness toward whitelisting aside, one software could still incorporate all those types of file manipulations, even if still using a blacklist. And we know because they exist! But that just spawns even newer dream landscapes so there's a place for the next product.
I don't think most security professionals aware of this even have a problem with using those same marketing tactics to sell security. After all, every industry has their marketing tricks like this. But does every industry integrate their marketing stories into regulations and universities?
At medical school do they teach you to prescribe maximum strength headache medicine to middle-aged women who are juggling careers and parenthood as the commercials suggest? Or do they actually instruct dental students which gum to recommend for their patients who chew gum as the commercials suggest?
Well, they do that in the security industry.
The worst thing in all of this is that these made-up landscapes have gotten so much marketing hype that they are believable for many people as real and true. They, including many security professionals, believe that the scenario, products and the processes have become default requirements for every computer in nearly every situation.
That is how they wormed their way into regulatory standards (aka "product catalogs") and are taught in universities. From there they became the basis- the foundation- of further infosec research and thereby becoming what information security is supposed to mean. The hype in infosec has become the meaning.
This has become industry wide. Here's some examples:
The meaning in firewalls was originally to reduce human resources (and errors) for hardening systems by choking a central point. This was sometimes worth the trade-off where having a single point of failure was preferable to the human errors (and resources) involved in hardening many systems correctly. But then came the hype to push each technological advance in the firewall.
Now we're sold the firewall as a default necessity (and regulatory requirement). Yet you're told it's CRAZY not to have one despite today having roll-out tech and virtualization which allows for a way to do system hardening and mass changes from a single operation point and eliminate the single point of failure. Of course one can say that brings a new attack surface challenge of its own… in which another one can say has already been solved in network segmentation and server-side, controlled authentication – and it doesn't have to cost any more cash to add or change routing info.
Then there's the Web Application Firewall which originally took the idea of the firewall combined with the IDS and applied it at a different layer to web apps. This worked because web technology had gotten so complicated and spun in so many different ways through competing tech that the WAF's gave a feeling of control back to the admins who need to wrestle with web technologies and a regular storm of patches.
But through hype it became the solution for Authenticating good traffic versus bad as it came and left the website. Which it kind of does despite the fact that it actually does so poorly and at the expense of increasing the network's attack surface. Yet there it is in neon day-glo on LEGAL MANDATORY REGULATORY frameworks like HIPAA, SOX, PCI….
Another standard we're stuck with due to the hype is antivirus which went from a virus clean-up tool using signature blacklists to a real-time virus clean-up tool still using signature blacklists. To be fair, AV also does other things now like lock down certain areas of the system by asking the user if they're sure they want to click that, report how many bugs matched signatures, and use heuristics to assume more things are viruses because the blacklist signature is similar but not exact. Which is why heuristics often leads to the occasional newly updated system file getting quarantined and thereby crashing the system.
But heuristics does detect more malware than blacklist signatures alone. And it does this all by just increasing the attack surface a little (a lot if you allow auto-updates) and throttling system speed and memory (the marketing way of saying "slowing down") because it competes with the same resources of what it's protecting.
Then there's network monitoring. It's where the struggle to turn network life into big data for threat analysis has succeeded immensely despite inheriting the combined problems of firewall's single point of failure, AV's "throttling," and WAF's poor ability to authenticate good traffic vs. bad. It does this while being as efficient as can be when asking humans to react timely to things moving at near the speed of light.
What most security implementers don't think about is that infosec monitoring includes making a new out-of-band attack surface – the humans. So just to mention again for clarity, with network monitoring, you're expecting humans to react timely to packets which travel near the speed of light. Even if it's to verify and react to alarms sussed out by algorithms, which, by the way, makes the human the tool. And it still means you are purposely introducing human error into the mix. So as you scale more you fail more.
So what does it all mean? It means we need to stop addressing security in terms of "what works" and instead focus on knowing "how it works" for our infrastructures. We shouldn't be getting security solutions because of their name but because of what they do and how they work.
We need to find where the interactions are across the network, the systems, and the people to make sure they are separated or controlled. We need to remember that penetration testers will only be able to tell us if some of the security is working from a particular perspective but what you need is to know where all the interactions are as that will show you where your attack surface includes the VPN authentication to the maintenance firm you hired (but it could if companies asked pen testers to map their attack surface in their reports as shown and required in the OSSTMM).
We need to stop sharing our "likely already out of date" network map topology with infosec consultants and pen-testers and instead hand them the latest business consulting reports on efficiency, vendors, and partnerships to help them grasp and secure the things that interact across channels in our organization. Addressing security this way will get you much further than the current regulatory product catalog will and for much less money.
As a bonus, this is the kind of thing you need to do to address BYOD, insider threats, phishing, social engineering, fraud, deception, and so many of the other problems that seem too difficult for companies even if they have money to burn.
The truth is that a whole generation of infosec professionals created on a steady diet of vendor whitepapers and product hype will not save us from cybercrime. Company executives need to be smarter in what they ask of infosec personnel and penetration testers. They need to implement solutions based on what they do to protect and not the hype. And they need to think of security in terms of a quality of controls over interactions and not quantity of vulnerabilities discovered.
If it's money that's bending what the infosec industry offers now then it's going to be money that makes it right. So executives, demand quality. And while you're at it, support the OSSTMM, the open research manual for analyzing how security works. There's a class coming June 2014 to RVAsec that you will want to send your security and IT people to. It will be worth it!
About the Author: Pete Herzog is the co-founder of ISECOM, and as Managing Director is directly involved in all ISECOM projects. In 2000, Pete created the OSSTMM for security testing and analysis. He is still the lead developer of the OSSTMM but has also leads the organization into new research challenges like Smarter Safer Better, the Bad People Project, and the Home Security Methodology. Pete's strong interest in the properties of trust and how it affects us and our lives has led to trust metrics and has brought ISECOM more deeply into Human Security. In addition to managing ISECOM, Pete taught the Masters for Security at La Salle University in Barcelona which accredits the OPST and OPSA training courses and Business Information Security in the MBA program from ESADE which is the foundation of the OPSA. In addition to security, Pete is an avid Maker, Hacker, and reader.
Editor's Note: The opinions expressed in this and other guest author articles are solely those of the contributor, and do not necessarily reflect those of Tripwire, Inc.
Related Articles:
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Photodynamic therapy (PDT) involves the administration of photoreactive drugs (photosensitizers) that are exclusively localized around the diseased tissues followed by light exposure. Upon exposure with a light source that can penetrate deeply into the tumor tissues and absorbed by the sensitizer will then lead to the generation of highly reactive species that cause cell death. In the first step, the photosensitizer is injected into the patient intravenously. After a required period of incubation, the photosensitizer gets accumulated in the tumor cells. The period of incubation optimizes the ratio of the concentration of the sensitizer in the malignant cells to that in normal cells and varies from a couple of hours to a few days depending on the nature of the sensitizer. After the incubation period, the tumor tissue is exposed to light of an appropriate wavelength where the photosensitizer has the maximum absorption. The excited state of the sensitizer produces highly reactive species such as singlet oxygen that reacts with biomolecules and causes tumor necrosis.
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The study of interactions of various ligands with DNA has been the subject of considerable interest because of its importance in the design of drugs targeted to DNA as well as in understanding the electron and energy transfer properties of DNA. Of the various types of interactions, the intercalative interactions of ligands with DNA is particularly important because of the fact that many anticancer drugs and antibiotics exert their biological activity through DNA intercalation. A better understanding of the factors that govern the binding mode of ligands with DNA is not only essential for the design of efficient drugs targeted to DNA and development of probes for various DNA structures but also for the use of DNA in electronic materials applications.
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The phototransformations of organic molecules have been intensively investigated in the literature; the most common process is the photorearrangement. In recent years, we have investigated the photoisomerization of several dibenzobarrelene derivatives with a dibenzoylalkene functionality, in an effort to understand mechanistically the control of regioselectivity displayed by bridgehead substituents. Moreover, photochromic materials have attracted considerable attention in recent years due to their applications in holography and three-dimensional memory information storage; their mechanistic elucidation has been of major concern. In this context, we have been interested in organic based systems that can exhibit photochromic properties.


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Hey! The Invitation Card Party took place at the Culture House last Thursday in collaboration with the graphic designer Tiny Risselada. The guests had a unique opportunity to create invitations of all sorts of events using letterpressed cards.
Hulda Sif reported the event for us! Check it out:
Images by Hulda Sif


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The AcuRite® Color Digital 3-in-1 Weather Center brings new meaning to the phrase "local forecast." We're talking local as in your own backyard local. This pro weather station uses patented "Self-Calibrating Technology" to provide you a personalized forecast of 12 to 24 hour weather conditions, generated from weather data measured by a sensor in your yard.
The wireless weather station's illuminated color display features indoor/outdoor temperature and humidity, wind speed, wind chill, dew point, heat index and barometric pressure updated every 18 seconds. Built-in Intelli-Time clock automatically adjusts for Daylight Saving Time (DST). Display stands upright for tabletop use and will run on batteries (not included) but it is recommended that you use the 5V power adapter for optimal color display.
The patent-pending 3-in-1 wireless weather sensor features 3 different technologies—thermometer, hygrometer, wind speed anemometer—in one easy-to-mount unit with mounting hardware included. The sensor runs on four AA batteries (not included) and features a 2-year battery life for maintenance-free operation.
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Scarlett Johansson Matched Her Purple Eyeshadow to Her Dress
Scarlett Johansson was looking so bombshell-like at the TIFF premiere of Under the Skin that it's no wonder so many men's heads were exploding as I walked by the Princess of Wales Theatre in Toronto last Monday night. I mean, look at her:
I feel like this is one of those instances where "guy hot" and "girl hot" kinda intersect. There's the strapless, cleavagey dress, the softly curled hair, the smoky eyes and the nude, pillowy lips—all typical "guy pleasers" for sure. But I'm more interested in how her hair has been tucked behind one ear and perhaps parted on the opposite side so that it gets that neat, '80s-esque height at the front. (Think vintage Christie Brinkley.) And most of all, I'm interested in the eye makeup.
It's hitting several trends here. First, it's a smoky eye but not in the expected grey, brown or black. It's purple—and as you know, we've been seeing that particular colour take off like crazy lately (see: Keira Knightley and Rose Byrne).
Also, it's totally matchy-matchy to her dress:
This is why you just never say never in this business. Only what—four, five years ago?—oo much matching used to be a major fashion and beauty crime. But now it's actually the thing to do. I'm encouraging it. Doesn't the purple smoky suit this outfit better than any other colour—or even makeup look—would have? I think a colourful eye is a much more "current" look than straight neutrals. (Not that neutrals are ever a mistake, mind you, but this is really on trend.)
What's extra-great is that the purple acts almost as a neutral because it's so deep and slightly brown. So it's more just a mini makeup risk instead of a major one, like it would be if the dress were bright blue or green. I think absolutely anyone could wear this shade of purple.
Here's the close-up:
The makeup artist behind this was Mai Quynh again. (She also did Reese Witherspoon at TIFF, whose mega-fresh,"works anywhere" tangerine and bronze look we just talked about last week.) Mai was kind enough to share with me the products used here, all Dolce & Gabbana since ScarJo's their face.
Let's focus on the eyes first. They're not as complex as I thought because the shadow I think is just a mono colour, softly blended up above the crease and underneath the lower lashes. Mai used this palette—I think just the colour in the bottom left corner.
In the interest of keeping things soft, she used a brown, not black, liner all the way around the eyes.
Notice the lack of false lashes—just this jet black mascara:
On her skin, she is wearing this foundation:
A touch of this powder prevents shine:
And this peachy shade on her cheeks:
Finally, this hybrid lipstick/lip gloss on the lips:
I haven't tried any Dolce & Gabbana makeup yet, but OMG it looks gorge. And I swear, next time I have to buy a dress, imma gonna buy purple just so I can replicate this.
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Joe Segura Jr. was one happy camper Tuesday night.
That's because the councilman got to vote "yes" on having South Main Street both repaved and built out completely between Burlington Avenue and the coming new Acoma Avenue.
In fact, when Segura seconded Councilwoman Lisa Northrup's resolution to approve having city officials negotiate with sole bidder ECI Site Construction Management, Inc. for getting the South Main Street project completed for up to $1.3 million, he did so "with gusto."
As one of the Ward 2 councilmen, Segura represents much of the south side of Fort Morgan, and he has been quite vocal for many years about wanting to see improvements to South Main Street and its extension further south.
Now, that project is officially part of the city's plan, with rebuilding the current roadway and extending it all the way down to the new Acoma being built out from Main to West streets by the new Fort Morgan Middle School.
The project is going to be about more than just new and longer roadway, though, according to Fort Morgan Engineering/Public Works Director Brad Curtis.
"This will be a design-build project," he told the council, pointing to the demolition of some existing paved roadway and then construction of around 2,400 feet of new roadway from the railroad tracks to Acoma.
That roadway will vary from 52 feet wide by Burlington Avenue and narrow down to 24 feet wide near Southridge and Acoma, with new curb and gutter, sidewalks along at least one side of the whole stretch, waterline replacement, new waterline installation, storm drainage improvements and sanitary sewer improvements all included, Curtis said.
The existing waterline that goes through to Gateway Avenue will be replaced and then extended down to Acoma. This will help out with the city's planned water distribution "looping system," Curtis said, as well as getting the city prepared for growth and development to the south in the annexed land near the new middle school.
"We're also trying to address some of the drainage issues down there," Curtis said. "We know there's a lot of ponding and things. We're going to have to be a little bit creative on that aspect, thus the design-build project."
This will be a big project that will interrupt the normal flow of traffic, both vehicular and pedestrian.
"As everyone's aware, this is a well-travelled route and is adjacent to several businesses and residential areas," Curtis said. "I feel it's a really good project to take on at this time because again with Acoma and the new school coming on board, it's going to see a lot of activity on West Street, Acoma and South Main from what we've ever seen from the past."
The city hoped to get proposals for the "magnitude of cost" of the project from many contractors, Curtis said, but only one company submitted such a proposal, which totaled about $1.26 million. That company, ECI of Loveland, is the same one building Acoma and that did the recent Riverside Park ball fields restoration and the city's downtown project in 2009, and Curtis also pointed to the intended use by ECI of local subcontractor Ransom Boone Excavation for the South Main project.
Curtis said ECI had done an "amazing job" on Acoma and was under budget and on schedule, and he recommended the council accept their proposal and allow him to negotiate for a total project cost of up to $1.3 million, which is about how much funding the city had available. That amount would allow for contingencies and any additions to the project's workload, such as extended asphalt edges on the side of the street that is not planned to get sidewalks due to costs.
"We want to have that flexibility as we construct because we may be making modifications as we and move along," he explained. "Hopefully we can use a lot less, but we want to have the room and do the best we can with the funds we have available."
This will not be short project, but it's one that will benefit the city for a long time, and Segura is far from the only resident who wants to see these improvements and extension of paved roadway on South Main happen.
"It's been on everyone's list for a long time," Curtis said. "We want to get as much done as we can."
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By the Numbers
South Main Street project
City budget funding sources:
Capital Improvement Fund – New Streets Projects
Streets – Curb & Gutter
Streets – Storm Drainage
Water Distribution Fund – Water Distribution Mains
Sewer Collection Fund – Wastewater Collection Main Replacement
Contractor's projected specific project costs:
Site Demolition/Grading/Paving
Hardscapes (sidewalks, curbs, etc)
Water Distribution
Stormwater Improvements (allowance)
Landscape/Irrigation Restoration (allowance):
Professional Services (allowance)
General Conditions
Total projected cost
Council authorization for negotiated total cost (including extra for contingencies)
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Seriously- Why don't men like Curly hair?
Bethabubble Posts: 2Registered UsersMy man absolutely loves my curly hair, he even loves the "first thing in the morning" curls (maybe even loves them more, actually). He's curly too which is amazing because he understands what it's like and what a hassle it can be. He doesn't agree with me on the days when I think it looks awful, but then I don't agree with him when he has those days either (perhaps we could both learn something here?). We're getting married next year and one of the only things I know is that my hair will be curly that day. I straighten it quite often (probably half and half straight/curly but I really want to stop) but I always feel more me when it's curly, and I don't get stressed if it starts raining!
For me it hasn't been men that have made me feel bad about my curls but the girls at high school. Going out without make-up is no problem, but there are very few people I'll let see me with my hair in its natural state (without any help from frizz taming products) because I was teased for so long about it. I count myself really lucky to have found a man to love me and my curls :-)0
whirlyhair Posts: 194Registered UsersThe guy I like right now has naturally straight hair, and he seems to like me a whole lot, even on my bad hair days. (Oh my, is he "the one", you guys? :love10: )
Another guy I went out with over a year ago has straight hair too, and found my curly hair to be very sexy.
So, I think men do love curly hair, they just don't like the whole... you know... frizzy stuff about it. I think that's one advantage the straight haired girls have over us- the frizz.
But let me tell you, when a curly girl walks in with her hair frizz-free, shiny, and healthy... she'll have more attention on her than the average straight haired girl.
There, I said it!CG since 3/11/2012
Engaged. :love5: Wedding date: 02/26/2016
Type 2C (Botticelli according to Curly Girl: The Handbook)
iii Density
Medium-Coarse Texture
Normal Porosity
Normal Elasticity
HATES: Traditional sulfates/cones.
LOVES: Lots of moisture and homemade FSG! :love10:
(Many thanks to http://www.livecurlylivefree.com/ for helping me figure out my texture, porosity, and elasticity properties! Check them out sometime!)0
dedede Posts: 78Registered UsersI don't know. To me, I think wavy, curly, and coily hair is sexy! (no homo, lol) And straightening it makes it flat and nothing special. If a guy can't like me in my natural state, then he can't really like me for me, that's my opinion. Why should I have to change my hair for anybody but myself???4.5"-5"
4 months natural
8 months post
4a/4bMy go-to styles: Wash-N-Go Pony puffs0
I don't get it. Who are these guys who don't like curly hair? I'd say they're backwards and lack a sense of style, not to mention are just plain jerks if they tell you they don't like it and ask you to straighten it. It really must be different depending on what part of the country or what kind of community you live in. All my boyfriends have been ca-raaazy over my curls, most say my hair was the first thing they noticed about me. They even like it when it frizzes. I consider my curls one of the most attractive physical things about me, and I think guys (and women) do too.Formerly Urbancurl.
Medium-high density, fine-medium, low-normal porosity, 3b/c, permanent color.
CG, no heat, combs, brushes, parabens.
Fall/Winter HG=Alba Botanica Soft Hold Style Cream.
Spring/Summer HG=MGA Sculpting Gel
Current fave LI=Madre Labs Made by Nature for Baby Conditioner.
Limit oils, butters, glycerin.0
pamm3la Posts: 70Registered UsersWell my boyfriend loves my curly hair, he was one of the reason i went natural! And guys always compliment my hair and that never happened when i had straight hair.
Sent from my SGH-T959V using CurlTalk App3B/3C Recovering from heat damaged ... almost like transitioning because most of my hair is straight it won't curl, thsi is due to sooo many years of using heat without stoping.
Braid out and twist out are my staple styles right now! Not using heat since December 2011. Still experimenting with products!0
Well my boyfriend loves my curly hair, he was one of the reason i went natural! And guys always compliment my hair and that never happened when i had straight hair.
Sent from my SGH-T959V using CurlTalk App
Yes, yes, yes!! Myself and MANY other guys love women with curly hair. I actually recently threw my girlfriends hair straightener away..."Life is too short to keep your hair short"
Click here to visit - GRO YO FRO!0
Wavyshibby Posts: 165Registered UsersGood news guys! I found a boy who prefers curly girls! My best friend (guy) says he likes girls with curls because they are different and fun, and that straight hair has no volume and is boring. He has curls too, which he hates, but I think his curls are super sexy. (he has perfect golden ringlets!) Anyway, the girl he likes now is a redheaded curly- he's definetly into curly girls!2c/3a, fine texture, normal porosity, medium-to-thick
Co wash: Vo5 Extra Body
Conditioners: Deva One Condition, GVP CB, Loreal Evercurl
Stylers: Devacurl ArcAngel, KCCC, AG Recoil, Iso Bouncy Creme, Ecostyler Krystal, CCCCL, KCKT
Low Poo: Devacurl NoPoo, GTTT
Hair likes: plopping, diffusing, SMaster's, coconut and argan oil, honey, protein
"What makes a woman unforgettable? Her mind...surrounded by lots of naturally curly hair"0
SILLY-DISCO Posts: 6Registered UsersI have known too many people who have hated on my curls and it lead to me wearing my hair straight a lot. It actually took a few months after we started dating for me to show my boyfriend my curls. He likes them.
You'll find someone who will love you no matter what your hair looks like. You just take care of yourself and be happy with who you are.0
lj_princess Posts: 46Registered UsersI heard alot of guys hate curly hair...but my bf doesnt seem to mind it! Ive worn it straight for years and just started letting it natural and he said "it looks nice". So thats all that mattersfinally starting to love my hair ^.^
cleanse: Dr.Bronner mild castile soap
condition: tresemme naturals (sometimes used as styler)
LI/style: curl cream mixed with coconut oil (current cream by andalou naturals)
product minimalist :sunny:0
Mwah Lynx Posts: 61Registered UsersOkay let's look at something...
Boys like girls.
Girls have straight hair, curly hair, wavy hair.
Boys still like girls.
Particular boy does not like GIRL with curly hair because of curly hair.
Boy obviously doesn't like girls.
Lol! Naah, anyway it's a matter of personal preference but honestly, even the guys that preferred my straightened hair thought I was fantastic with it curly.. They just liked it straight better.
I didn't care. It's MY hair..
And any guy that can't seem to get over the fact that your hair is curly is obviously not as obsessed ya as he should be and should promptly be dropped off at the pound.
Just be you. Guys can really disrupt a happy esteem but you just have to realize that ALL of you is beautiful and shake your curls out and keep smiling xD
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Kiaraa Posts: 30Registered UsersI'm actually to have a boyfriend that adores my hair when it's curly. :cheers: He even buys me hair products to help me feel better about my curls (I love curly hair, just not mine at the moment lol). Among other things as well, he's amazing.
Straight hair is beautiful, but so is curly hair! anyone that says otherwise probably has very boring or mainstream tastes.3c/3b - Hair Goal: Grow curls to midback:love5:0
CurlyJulia Posts: 38Registered UsersI just read this entire thread - my boring Monday night! - and decided two things.
1 - I will continue to embrace my curly crowning glory.
2 - I will grow it out, LONG. I've been single for too long!
xox to all the curly girls out there! Rock those waves!
Dye free since 8/2/12
CG since 6/29/12
Type: 2c/3a, medium, thick
Cowash: Suave TC Conditioner
Poo: SM Coconut-Hibiscus Shampoo
Curl Enhancment: CJCCCC!!,
Gels: HETT, BRHG, EcoStyler
Mousse: Deva Frizz-free Volumizing Foam
PT: IA Girl's Gelatin PT
Experimenting with VO5 Kiwi-Lime for Condish styling, as well as looking for an affordable substitute for Deva FFVF.0
ravenm721 Posts: 80Registered UsersI'm 19, and I'm kind of glad that I grew my relaxer out early (junior year of high school) cos when I find a person whois interesting... then my natural hair will be a part of the first impressions that they will see and have to deal with.
But, I will say that ever since I've started wearing my hair natural..I've had many guys of various backgrounds try to hit up on me compared to when I was relaxed or transitioning. Anyway, if a guy chooses to judge me to because of my hair..then he is NOT worth my time. I prefer my natural hair so much more these days. It's so versatile and makes me stand out from the ordinary.Hair Type: 4D/5A living in sub-tropical humidity hell
•BC'ed after 22 months of transitioning (May 2012)
•Check out my YT playlist for Transitioning Styles :glasses1::0
blulight Posts: 131Registered UsersI heard a few times men saying they don't like curly hair on women because they can't run their fingers through it. They assume all women must like and be ok with with someone pawing their hair. Even if mine was straight I wouldn't let anyone run their hand through it, just thought of someone's fingers in it makes me cringe. When it used to be straight I use to love when someone was brushing my hair, it was so relaxing, but someone's fingers in it just grosses me out. I can deal with hair stylist touching it, but not anyone who thinks it's a toy for them.3b/fine/thick/normal porosity/bsl0
kolochita Posts: 118Registered UsersOf the guys I've dated, only said he preferred my hair straight, but because I looked like his sister when I wore my hair curly lol (note: physically his sister and I didn't look similar at ALL). I guess the hair resemblance was too much for him XD
The last guy I was with loved my curly hair (he saw me with both straight and curly hair), funny thing though, he had curly hair himself, which I loved but which he recently chopped off
So, yeah, preferences vary...I do agree with what some curlies said before about the media...it has a huge influence on how we are seen. But change takes time, and it's already started (little curlies can now relate to curly princess Merida in Brave :P)Latina
Type: 3a
Dense, fine/medium texture, low porosity
Low-poo: Devacurl No-Poo/ Yes to Carrots Nourishing Shampoo/ Elacel Aloe Vera Shampoo
Conditioner: Garnier Fructis Triple Nutrition Conditioner
Leave-in: Devacurl Set It Free/Lush R& B
Styling: Herbal Essences Set Me Up Spray-Gel/ L'Oreal Silk & Gloss Curl Power Mousse0
GingerBear Posts: 10Registered UsersWow I feel bad for all the girls who have had to deal with boys that didn't like their beautiful curls!
I guess I've just been lucky, because I've never dated a guy who didn't like my curls. My boyfriend and I have been together for seven years and the only complaint he has is that it gets in his face when we sleep lol
But he has curly hair also--which for some reason always seems to be in better shape than mine. So frustratingBeen CG for 2 years
3A/Botticelli/low porosity
New favorite product:
It's a 10 Miracle Leave-In Plus Keratin0
MrsHKnits Posts: 1Registered UsersMy Hubby absolutely LOVES natural curly hair. If it was up to him, I would walk around with the biggest curly natural afro ever. (I wouldnt I prefer my hair in twists - easier to manage!!). :love6:
If a girl with straight hair tried to hit on him, I'd let her knowing she wouldn't stand a chance but a natural curly haired girl now - well I would have to fight for man...lol....although she still wouldn't have a chance.
Seriously though if a man keeps mentioning that he hates the natural you (i.e. curly haired and natural), get out of that relationship fast!! How can he love you but not love who you are, (if you get what I mean)?0
cinimonstk Posts: 35Registered UsersI'm lucky, my hubby loves my hair curly, wavy, unruly, whatever. What he doesn't like is how much time & money I spend on my hair lol! This gorgeous head of hair takes work!Getting to know my hair!
2c/3a, Med/high porosity, Fine hair, Still trying to figure out elasticity, Colored
Products I am auditioning:
Co-wash & LI: Suave Nat. Trop Coco
Low Poo: Pure Elements Sulfate-Free Color Protect Shampoo
Stylers: Biotera Curl Creme, Argan Oil, Aussie Sydney Smooth Gel, AIF
PT: GVP Kpak
DT: PE Intensive Repair0
NaturalRemedy Posts: 371Registered UsersHow did you guys date in the first place? Haha, I'm so confused... My ex actually liked my curly hair and hated when I would make it look straighter. Try going for guys that like your hair. All the guys I know love my hair, never had a guy who told me I should straighten it. But then again I NEVER straighten my hair, so they've never seen it straight. That might be another reason as well.Mostly 3c and lovin' my curls
This is not a fashion trend, it's not a statement, it's pride for who we are and what we look like. And that is where our true beauty shines.
fefe912 Posts: 570Registered UsersI'm blessed to be with a guy who prefers my natural curls/coils. When I was considering going natural he was one of the peeps who encouraged me to go ahead and do it and said I'd still be beautiful natural or not. After I finally chopped my hair off he loved it and compliments me all the time. Before I went natural there was also another gentleman that I met who comes into the store I work in all the time. We got on the topic of natural hair one day and I was telling him how I was scared to chop my hair off and he said he didn't know y because I was so pretty that it wouldn't change anything. Then he started telling me about his fiance's hair journey and showed me some of the pics during her transformation and her hair is soooooo beautiful now so that made me want to go natural even more. Other than that I get compliments from a lot of other guys when I'm out and about running errands or hanging out with friends. I've only had one guy say he doesn't like natural hair, but he doesn't matter so it didn't bother me lol0
gauri Posts: 3Registered Usersi rarely get compliments from men when my hair isn't straightened. luckily it doesn't bother me, because my partner likes my hair no matter what it's like.0
DepressedCurls Posts: 836Registered UsersThey don't? In my personal experience, my curly hair is what got me attention and was part of what attracted men to me. I get complimented daily and my boyfriend is in love with it. He's always loved curly hair, but every girl he knew straightened it or had straight hair to begin with. So I never really knew guys didn't like curly hair. But race wise, I do notice the men who are more open and like curly hair are ethnic. Black, hispanic, exotic in some way. White men tend to lend towards straight more. That's only in my observance. I've met white men who liked my hair. Not all are anti curly. But majority make their opinions vocal.0
bcody09 Posts: 115Registered UsersMy man likes my curls because he knows how much I love them. He has asked me to straighten my hair every once in a while, but it's not something thats a big deal in our relationship.CG since Mar 2, 2012!
CoWash: V05 Tea Therapy in Vanilla Mint Tea
RO:Tresemme Naturals: Nourishing Moisture
LI: Kinky Curly Knot Today
Gel: CVS Sport Gel or Xcess Sport Hold Gel
Mouse: Pantene Curl-Defining Mousse
Product Application:
Scrunch out water with random t-shirt
Apply products
Long sleeve shirt plop.0
Bookworm5 Posts: 102Registered UsersThey don't? My experience has been quite the opposite. My husband ADORES my curls. Every time I've gotten frustrated and talked about wearing it straight again, he's the one who talks me out of it!48 y/o married mom of 3 :binky:
3a Baby fine Cherub Curls! Low porosity, normal elasticity
No longer CG - I use cones & shampoo every 2 - 3 days
Currently trying: Aveda Shampure Shampoo & Conditioner, Aveda Be Curly Shampoo & Conditioner, Suave Captivating Curls Mousse, Condition 3 in 1 Mousse0
proudcurlygirly Posts: 478Registered Users:notworthy:A major salute to guys who love our curls!:icon_smile: UK Curly
Curl type : Boticelli, 3a, loose curls
Porosity : High
Texture : Fine/medium (I think!)
Co-wash/rinse out/leave in : L'oreal Full Restore 5, GFR&S, Schwarzkopf Bio Pomegranite
Gels : Umberto Giannini Flirty Curls Scrunching Jelly
Finish product : Boots Naked Style Frizz Fighter Serum or a pea-sized blob of condish smoothed over canopy
CG since Feb 20110
dummeeule Posts: 11Registered UsersMen and boys my age avoid me like the plague so I wouldn't really know.
But I was at the mall a few weeks ago and one of those men selling straighteners stopped me to ask me about straightening my hair. I just told him, "Nah, I'm keeping it natural." And then some other man who was standing next to me smiled at me and was like, "Right?!" And we kinda just laughed together leaving the other dude confused.
I don't know why I'm sharing this story with ya'll...
:happy2:I'm never using chemicals on my hair again.
Men and boys my age avoid me like the plague so I wouldn't really know.
But I was at the mall a few weeks ago and one of those men selling straighteners stopped me to ask me about straightening my hair. I just told him, "Nah, I'm keeping it natural." And then some other man who was standing next to me smiled at me and was like, "Right?!" And we kinda just laughed together leaving the other dude confused.
I don't know why I'm sharing this story with ya'll...
It's a good story! Public support for natural curls from a stranger!
But I'm in the camp anyway who rarely has experienced curly-haters, but clearly they're out there and we're way underrepresented in Hollywood. So I guess I'm lucky that my experience has been the opposite-- men and women comment on how much they love my hair regularly. All of my boyfriends have adored it, even more when (to me) it's frizzy, for some reason.
Another random note: I saw a foreign film recently (Italian) and there was a noticeably larger amount of curls and waves in the actors, in the extras, everywhere. (Way more natural looking makeup, eyebrows, etc. too.) I think it's more an American tendency towards looking plastic, the same as everyone else-- straighten, straighten, straighten, must be blond, overly-arched, drawn on eyebrows, fake lips, fake tans, etc.... No offense to people into those looks. But, I'm happy looking like the best me I can, I don't want to look like somebody else.Formerly Urbancurl.
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Men and boys my age avoid me like the plague so I wouldn't really know.
But I was at the mall a few weeks ago and one of those men selling straighteners stopped me to ask me about straightening my hair. I just told him, "Nah, I'm keeping it natural." And then some other man who was standing next to me smiled at me and was like, "Right?!" And we kinda just laughed together leaving the other dude confused.
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Last night at the University of Houston Anderson Library, participants in Mat Johnson's Graphic Novel spring workshop displayed the fruits of their labor. The workshop is a unique collaboration between the UH School of Art and the Creative Writing Program.
Johnson (follow him on Twitter), a faculty member in the UH Creative Writing Program, has published two graphic novels, the Hellblazer Special: Papa Midnite series and Incognegro.
For those who were fortunate enough to attend TEDx this summer, Johnson (a speaker at the conference) provided a thorough tour of the experience involved in the creation of these graphic novels. One of the most interesting things Johnson described was the part of the process out of his control, the duties of the artist.
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The students' work--solo and collaborative efforts--covered the walls at the Honors Commons. The exhibiting writers and artists come from surprisingly different backgrounds. Some are undergraduates, some are graduate students, and some have impressive lists of professional experience. Overall, the quality of the work was excellent and professional in nature. The turnout was fantastic, and there was a good deal of conversation. Some of the artists were on hand to answer questions and discuss their work.
The artists/writers showcased include Ted Closson, Chuck Ivy, Grant MacManus, Brandon White, Dean Haspiel, Jonathan Niles Gill, Joe Infurnari, James Roberts and Mike Cavallaro.
The next Graphic Novel Workshop will take place spring 2011.
Below are a couple images from James Roberts and Mike Cavallaro's Pawny.


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Jennifer Lopez -- J.Lo, Jenny from the block -- isn't just going to be an artist on Hillary Clinton's campaign rally playlist anymore. She's going to sing on her behalf, live, later this month in South Florida.
Details are sketchy, but here's what's known so far:
Lopez will perform at Miami concert for Clinton Oct. 29, according to a Clinton campaign source The concert is billed as a "get out the vote" event; early voting will begin Oct. 24 in Miami-Dade and Broward counties and by Oct. 29 all across the state.
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When you talk about Web tools- certain names strike you as the best, whether it was Dreamweaver in the past, or NotePad++, Sublime or even Text Editors such as Gedit(Linux) or IDE's such as Netbeans. As a Web Design in India, based, on the language you use you can create webpages in almost any language from PHP, ASP or Ruby on Rails. Most of us had forgotten of the existence of Environment such as Dreamweaver or Frontpage.
We all must have used the default editor years ago when we started developing website such as Dreamweaver, this was popular because of its WYSIWYG approach which made it a hit with the novices as did its integration to deployment but it produced very messy and invalid code with pages tending to be optimized for Internet Explorer. Even when landing the first job many of us are given a copy of the easiest and most robust development platform to develop mostly static webpages for the businesses. The main gripe people had with using such development environment was that it came with a WYSIWYG editor which facilitated the production of invalid markup and bloated code, and the code maintainability was a problem.
As a Website Designing Company in India, most developer when changing systems from Windows to Linux try hard to get Dreamweaver and Frontpage work with Windows Emulators such as Wine but it also cause many problems with the websites. Hence, you need to understand the new OS and download alternatives such as Bluefish, Kompozer and NVU but find it hard to be productive on such environment.
When you do take this step try to invest some time to understand a text editor, which at this point needs to start programming for the web. Settle for a development editor such as Sublime which has packages for any programming language, comes packed full of features, such as multi-edit, goto anything( method hopping in large files). This all seemed like black magic at first, but once mastered is something you'll wonder that you were able to live without.


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You've all always been part of my extended family. In the past eight years that I've had the privilege of being Epicurious' Editor-in-Chief, you helped us grow from a little recipe database with some repurposed magazine content to the most award-winning food site on the web, with 67 awards and counting, more than half of which, I am proud to say, were bestowed upon us during my watch.
I have had the great privilege of meeting some of you at the many events we've created, such as Epicurious Entertains, Wine.Dine.Donate, and our Farmer's Market tours. I've gotten to know some of your talented children at the Kids' State Dinners at the White House during the last two years. I've been incredibly lucky to be at the head of the Epicurious table, whilst a brilliant, extremely hard-working, and unbelievably talented staff has churned out innovative tools and compelling content. For all of that, for all of the amazing people I've had the great fortune to work with, and for all of you inviting me virtually into your kitchens and homes every day for eight years, I am exceedingly grateful.
But there comes a time when you know you are ready for another challenge, and I am at that point. So, I'm taking a leap whilst still keeping a comforting tie to my Epi family. Starting mid November, I will assume a new role here, that of Special Projects Contributor, helping to further develop and grow all of the external manifestations of the Epicurious brand. This will also enable me to follow some personal passions: inspiring and empowering kids to cook and eat healthy, and to appreciate their own cultural heritage--and the heritages of others around the world--through food. And I'm passionate about working to help the 50 million Americans, 20 million of them children, who do not know where their next meal is coming from.
I realize that I may be just one person, but I can help others in my own way. As President Barack Obama once said, "Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek."
In the coming months and years I hope to create more innovative programs to enrich and embolden others. From a cooking show for kids to recipes for food banks, from speeches at schools to annual trips to the White House with brilliant junior chefs, I wish to make my own small difference in the world. In the meantime, you will be in the best of hands. Nilou Motamed is joining the staff as the new Editor-in-Chief. I welcome her with open arms and I know you will, too.


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It's an undisputable fact that children learn better if they understand the language of instruction. When the school curriculum is delivered in a language that students are familiar with, and through which they can receive support from their parents, the potential to achieve better learning outcomes increases.
There are many benefits associated with mother tongue instruction. In addition to children learning better and faster, mother tongue education can also increase school access while reducing repetition and dropout rates.
GPE supports mother tongue education as a key component of the foundation of learning. On International Mother Tongue Day we review how three partner countries—Eritrea, The Gambia and Uzbekistan—with help from GPE, are implementing mother tongue programs.
Recognizing the benefits of mother tongue instruction, the government of Eritrea is determined that all children should receive their elementary education in their mother tongue. GPE supported the country's efforts with a US$25.3 million grant, which had as an overarching goal to improve the access and quality of education.
The lack of textbooks in local languages and of qualified teachers were two key challenges that hindered Eritrea's ability to deliver mother tongue education. What's more, teachers lacked the pedagogy training to teach in local languages or were not familiar with the orthography system of the ethnic languages.
To help Eritrea overcome these challenges, GPE helped train 186 teachers on mother tongue education to enhance their competencies. Additionally, GPE financed the reprinting and distribution of over 1 million textbooks and teachers' guides; these included materials for math, science, English, and mother tongue studies in nine languages. Nearly 214,000 children have benefitted from this initiative, which also contributed to reducing the high student-textbook ratio.
In addition, a peoples' language committee for respective native languages was established to ensure the effective application of mother tongue instruction. The committee is in charge of conducting public campaigns to raise awareness on the importance of learning in mother-tongue languages; gathering technical terminology, vernacular sayings, grammar and new words, as well as studying differences in dialects in the languages to name a few.
Investing in early childhood education (ECE) has become a priority for the government of Uzbekistan. The government recognizes that in order to improve education quality, efforts should focus on giving children a solid foundation in reading.
With support from a US$49 million GPE grant, Uzbekistan has been taking steps to ensure more children are better prepared for primary school by improving early reading in the children's mother tongue.
To achieve this goal, GPE is supporting the distribution of storybooks to parents of young children who are not enrolled in formal ECE programs and live in rural areas.
It is expected that by the end of the GPE program in mid-2019, 200,000 parents of young children will have received at least 3 books per child. These books feature plenty of illustrations, simple story lines, and are durable. Produced in Uzbek, Russian and Karakalpak, they cover the mother tongue of 98% of all children enrolled in pre-primary education in the country.
The Gambia
With the goal of improving reading in the early grades The Gambia, with support from a US$6.9 million GPE grant and a US$11.9 million World Bank grant (2014 - 2018), aimed to enhance reading skills in children's mother tongues while providing a foundation for learning to read in English.
To ensure all children could read with fluency and comprehension, the government of The Gambia embarked on an ambitious reading reform.
In 2011, the Early Literacy in National Language (ELINL) was introduced in 125 grade 1 classes in 108 schools. Through this program, students learned to read in their national languages by ensuring that at least one hour a day was spent on this activity.
To reach students that weren't enrolled in the ELINL program, two additional programs were launched: the Jolly Phonics and the Serholt Early Grade Reading Ability. Given the success of these programs, the ministry of Education developed a new early literacy program, which integrates elements of all three reading programs, and ensures a unified approach to improving children's reading abilities.
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As my username says, this has been nothing but a pain.
I've gone through countless of phone calls to Sprint support (Including Premier Care for SWAC/Emp accounts) and have gotten nowhere. Most recently I had a representative submit a technical support ticket on their end for the following issue but never received a call back and was then told no such ticket was submitted.
For the last 10 months or so, I have been unable to access the 'Shop' or 'Upgrade' page, no prices will populate for the phones then I receive an error at the top of the page stating "Looks like you have a plan change pending on your account. Please come back after your plan change has taken effect to add a line.". Sprint support had confirmed with me during my last call that NO plan change was pending and that I was in fact on the newest available plan for SWAC accounts.
I'm tired, I just want to be able to access the site and perform my upgrades/billing without having to call a rep at Sprint and take up their time on nonsense. Some might ask why I don't just go to the store and get what I need taken care of? My schedule does not allow me to do this and on my free time I do not want to just spend an hour or so at a store but from the comfort of my own home. Please help?
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Hi Pain! I understand the frustration, but we're not able to access SWAC/Employee accounts here in the Social Care team. We do this as a security measure, and the dedicated employee care team are the only ones that are going to be able to assist remotely.
If you didn't have any luck calling into the dedicated employee plan care line, you are going to need to go into a retail location that is able to access those account types.
I have this same problem, but I'm not a Sprint employee. Like @Pain said, I don't have time to go to a Sprint store, since it always takes a long time. Is there some way for Sprint to fix this error on an account without having to go into the store in person? Not sure why someone in a franchised store would able to change my account but not Sprint Corporate when I contact support. I've chatted with a support agent and a sales agent, and talked to a sales agent and a technician, who said there is no error on my account (which isn't true).
Hey Sprintcustomer16! Are you on a SWAC, Employee or Advantage Club account? Some authorized retailers are able to access those account types.
As i advised Pain, regular customer care and social care(which is what the SMARTeam is part of) does not have access to SWAC/Employee/Advantage Club accounts. You'll need to contact the employee account care team by phone or make the time to go in-store to a Corporate Owned location or an Authorized Retailer who has access to SWAC/Employee/Advantage Club accounts. The store locator on Sprint.com will tell you which locations are able to service those account types, and if time is a concern, you're able to set an appointment online.
They said they weren't an employee, but this that doesn't mean they're not on an Advantage Club or SWAC account.
Without being able to access your account, we're not able to determine the cause of the error. With your account type, you need to contact Premier Care or make an appointment with a retail store that is able to access those account types.
I'm not sure what those account types mean. I'm just a normal customer. I contacted Sprint and the technician confirmed that there is no error on my account, but when I try to order something, there is still an error. How do I get my account fixed so that it no longer says there's an error on my account so I can order stuff online?
Can you please send us a Private Message so we can securely take a look at the account?
when someone pops in and state that they have the same problem as the OP...and the OP is having issues with their SWAC/Emp. account that tends to make one think they are ALSO either a employee OR on an employees account.
main part to look at in there is this.
I'm on an old SERO plan. I know that plan is expired but you now have the SWAC plan and I have heard that some SERO customers are getting converted to SWAC. Can I do that too?
If you are an existing customer on a SERO plan and interested in switching to a new plan, please dial *2 from your Sprint phone. An Employee Accounts team member will review options for the best fit plan, including our new Advantage plans for friends and family members. SMARTeam members who respond to customers on these forums don't have access to SERO accounts, but the Employee Accounts Group (*2 on your Sprint phone) will be happy to assist you.
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The other user clearly stated they do NOT have an employee account.
To go back to your response to my original post, I already had a conversation with Premier Care who stated THERE WAS NO PENDING CHANGE on my account, so why am I getting this error?
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If you have an account question you can create a post and one of our Social Care Agents will help you.
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KUTA SANG-AN, Labangan, Zamboanga del Sur – Through the collaboration of Joint Task Force "Ranao" and municipal officias of the different towns of Lanao del Sur, another one hundred six (106) assorted loose firearms were turned-over by the local folks of the Province in 9 days from April 29 to May 07, 2018.
Attending the activity were officials of the respective municipalities and barangays, Provincial and municipal police, and officers of the 103rd Brigade under JTF "Ranao" led by the Commanding Officer, Col Generoso M Ponio.
On April 29, 3 municipalities simultaneously turned-over the loose firearms. The municipalities of Masiu, Mulondo, and Dit-saan Ramin turned-over a total of fourty two (42) assorted high-powered and fourteen (14) assorted low-powered firearems.
On May 02, municipality of Taraca turned-over twenty (20) assorted high-powered and three (3) assorted low-powered firearms.
On May 04, municipality of Marantao turned-over two (2) high-powered and one (1) low-powered firearms.
On May 07, municipality of Butig turned-over six (6) assorted high-powered and seven (7) assorted low-powered firearms. This same day, municipality of Bubong also turned-over eleven (11) assorted high-powered firearms.
The municipal mayors led the turn-over of firearms from their respective municipalities which is a clear sign that they are fully embracing the AFP campaign against loose firearms to help attain peace in the Province of Lanao del Sur.
After the inventory, a total of one hundred six (106) assorted firearms were turned-over in LDS broken down into eighty one (81) assorted high-powered and twenty five (25) assorted low-powered firearms.
The respective Mayors deeply expressed their gratitude for the full cooperation of the local officials especially the Brgy Captains and also to their constituents for their positive response to the campaign against loose firearms. "Firearms have become cultural and status symbols for the protection of families, especially those involved in clan wars", they added.
Col Ponio, Commanding Officer of 103rd Brigade, said: "I have always emphasized that the collected firearms is the result of cooperation, coordination, and teamwork for nine (9) days" and we expect other stakeholders especially the civilians to be more supportive in this campaign.
The continuous turn-over of loose firearms in LDS is a clear indication that the civilian populace greatly acknowledged the importance of resolving conflicts through diplomatic means and not through violence which is very counter-productive", said Major General Roseller G Murillo, Commander, 1ST Infantry Division and concurrent Commander of JTF "ZamPeLan".
As the Brgy and SK election is fast approaching, this will surely lessen any terroristic acts and election-related violent incidents that may hamper the peaceful exercise of the people's right to suffrage, he added.
Turned-over loose firearms are now at the respective municipal police stations for safekeeping and proper disposition.


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How TELCOs Are Bullying Researchers, an Italian Story.Become a Patron!
Those of you following my blog from the beginning, know that I was actively involved in the router hacking scene, mostly during the period in which I wrote the very first implementations of both Telecom Alice ( and this ) and Fastweb routers WPA key calculators and unlockers after the great reversing job performed by another italian group.
Those scripts allowed anyone to unlock hidden services in their routers ( as for the Alice scripts ) and to compute default WPA keys having just basic informations such as mac addresses, etc, demonstrating how broken the end-user security policies were.
Despite the fact I received in the past more than one intimidatory email from representatives of those two companies, I've never wrote or talked about that … I was smarter enough to understand that this kind of legal bullshit is better to be ignored, unless you have done something truly illegal.
Today I've received a private message from a friend of mine ( I'm not going to write his name ), he asked me to spread the word about something very familiar to me.
The italian message can be found here, here's (my) English translation, as usual I apologize for crappy English:
Just out of the blue.
There's no other definition for what happened today to our community of http://ilpuntotecnicoeadsl.com/.
It's been years since we develop and port alternative firmwares on home routers from ADB,
Dial-Face Industries, Sercomm, Dlink and others.
All of these routers are **sold** from TELCOs with **strong restrictions** about the freedom of
configuration, restrictions that we seek to circumvent installing alternative firmwares that
we design in a **totally legal** way.
This morning the administrators of our community received an email from a Vodafone Omnitel legal
representative telling them that our forum board contains topics about their new Vodafone Station 2
that are violating their software license and thus are illegal.
They're accusing us of having illegally reverse engineered their software, which is not true at all,
and they're asking us to remove those posts.
Just for the record, those posts are just a bunch of Wireshark dumps of a PPPoE connection between
the Vodafone Station and the optical fiber media converter.
Those "gentlemen" forgot about one thing, THEIR software clearly violates the GPL license, being
based upon the Linux kernel and GNU applications, since they're not releasing sources of their own
customizations, as the license itself requires.
I ask you to share this message, trying to catch the "medias interest", in the name of digital
freedom, against the excessive power those huge companies have.
Thank you,
A Forum user.
I have nothing to add, this is quite self explanatory … if you're against this kind of "corporate cyberbullying", please spread the word as I did.


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Nikon Unveils Six New Coolpix Cams
Gearing up for the holiday shopping season, Nikon on Thursday unveiled its latest Coolpix line of compact cameras. Six new models in all, highlights include the slim, sexy S60 with a 3.5-inch touch screen, the Wi-Fi-enabled S610c, and the P6000, a powerful yet portable shooter with built-in GPS capability.
Billed by Nikon to be speed demons, the Coolpix S610 and S610c both have 10 megapixel image sensors, 3.6x zoom lenses offering a wide 28mm view on its wide end, and a swift promised start-up time of 0.7 seconds. What separates the S610c from the S610 is its built-in Wi-Fi capability. With it you'll be able to e-mail pictures to friends and family directly from the camera, or just upload them to Nikon's my PictureTown online storage and photo-sharing service. Expect the S610 and S610c to run for $279.95 and $329.95, respectively.
Nikon's flagship Coolpix model is the very capable S710. Decked out with an incredibly sharp 14.5-megapixel sensor and a 3.6x zoom lens with optical image stabilization, the $379.95 camera also has extremely sensitive ISO settings ranging up to 12800. Compose your shots using the S710's 3-inch LCD screen.
If outrageous features are what you're into, the $499.95 Coolpix P6000 shouldn't disappoint. The 13.5-megapixel camera offers many luxuries found in larger, more expensive D-SLR models. The device supports RAW file capture, pop-up flash, and an optical viewfinder. You can also attach external flash units to the camera for more flexible lighting control. The real showstopper here, though, is the camera's built-in GPS capability, which lets photographers "geotag" the exact position, time, and date of their shots. Even more impressive is the P6000's Ethernet port that allows for fast image-file transfer to compatible computers.
Priced at $249.95, the budget Coolpix S560 camera is designed for extreme ease of use and intended for novice shooters. The S560 is equipped with 15 scene modes to make capturing life a simple affair. The camera features a 10-megapixel sensor, a 5x zoom lens, and ISO setting that goes up to 3200. In addition, you can use the S560's 2.7-inch display for framing and sharing shots.
Nikon expects all of these models to ship in September 2008. For more info, check out www.nikonusa.com.


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Good morning!!
Happy Friday guys!
I woke up this morning feeling very refreshed and looked outside my window only to find more ice on the ground. I had great sleep and then I realized it's March and got super excited! The weather forecast is showing that it will get much warmer after the 8th of March. So glad the winter is finally going away and I can enjoy some fresh air. Speaking of a new month, that means we have some goals to write out!
Goals for March:
- Learn a new sport (already have one on mind, will make a video about it)
- Lose 10-15 pounds
- Start vlogging – post first video on Youtube
- Be consistent with my blog posts
- Make a laundry routine so we don't fall behind on laundry
- Share my blog, be more open about it
- Workout 5x a week
- Sleep 8 hours every night and wake up at 5 am every morning
- Go to bed earlier
- Clear up my acne scarring/skin
- Spend time outdoors as much as I can as soon as it gets warmer outside
- Read at least 1 book
- Get back into writing my to-do lists
- Save money from every paycheck for our future vacations
- Buy our Disneyland and Universal Studios tickets before the end of the month
- Work on myself, mentally and physically
- Only buy new clothes if I lose weight
- Have at least 3 date nights with my husband
- Spend less time on my phone and more time with my husband
That sounds like a pretty good list and things I can for sure accomplish! I didn't want to make it too goal heavy because sometimes it gets unrealistic, but I know that I could do a bunch of these. And even if I only do 50% of this list, it's still something!
Do you have any goals for March? How do you write them out and make sure you get them done? Let me know in the comments 🙂


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Having to notice that people have their Smartphone glued at the palm of their hands, it would be highly plausible to assume that mobiles are now extensions of human lives. It's a no – brainer. Mobile is huge these days and it's what's highly demanded for on website development Bahrain companies but there is a dilemma present that relationship. Mobile may be big but typography is shown small. It's all because the creation of an outstanding type on smaller screens is very challenging for web developers.
The first step to alleviating such issue is by making the most out of a mobile site's capacity to respond, the appearance of its design and the presentation of the typography. Understanding type is the basic step for this to be achieved and contemplating about how people read is the second thing. Putting these two things together will present you the success in creating a highly endowed mobile type.
Understanding mobile and responsive typography basics
As far as web development for mobile platforms is concerned, mobile and responsive typography are not entirely measured through the traditional point system like print and desktop are. Instead of opting for a typeface and using it with 14 points and 15 points of leading, they design texts through pixels (ems or rems). Flexible units like these are percentage based and they can assist the designers from web design company Bahrain more easily in order to create type for multiple devices.
Knowing how people read
Any style of typography boils down to the adherence of one definite and specific quality – readability. It's a simple IT Company logic. If people are not able to read your content then it is good as trash. This is true in all aspects of designing platforms whether it is for print, desktop and most especially, mobiles.
See, mobiles tend to have smaller screens that most website – accessing gadgets these days and it is highly essential to refine the type of a mobile site by adjusting the entirety of the site and make it friendly to the comprehensive eyes.
Applying the width of it all
Of the many website design Bahrain factors one has to consider for the development of a mobile website, the width of the screen should be taken into high priority. On that case there are two orientations that every developer would have to think about – the horizontal and the vertical widths.
A text that is too large tends to create numerous breaks in the type that will cause infinite scrolling on the side of the viewer. This is virtually annoying to the one perusing the site because reading a paragraph would appear endless and they could lose their hold on the thought of the paragraph because of so much action. Having a text that is way too small, on the other hand, will lead your readers to miss important information. Alignment is one thing you shan't dare to overlook as well.