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With a stay at Likinia Hotel in Monemvasia, you'll be minutes from Agia Sofia Church and Archaeological Collection of Monemvasia. This 4-star hotel is within close proximity of Church of Christ in Chains and Mitropolis. Make use of convenient amenities, which include complimentary wireless Internet access and tour/ticket assistance. Make yourself at home in one of the 16 air-conditioned rooms featuring minibars. Your pillowtop bed comes with Egyptian cotton sheets. Complimentary high-speed (wired) Internet access keeps you connected, and satellite programming is available for your entertainment. Private bathrooms with showers feature designer toiletries and complimentary toiletries.

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Traditional BI and analytics solutions offer fragmented experiences for dashboards, discovery and mobile that target distinct audiences (for example: dashboards for information "consumers" and discovery for information "producers"). This approach locks people into rigid user roles that don't reflect how the modern business person works with data.
Birst 5X is here to change that, delivering an Adaptive User Experience designed to support how people interact with data and enabling them to seamlessly transition between dashboards, discovery and mobile, connected or disconnected. With Birst 5X, every information consumer becomes an information producer.
Now Elekta is teaming up with Birst to improve quality of care, reduce healthcare costs and help patients get the right treatment right away.
In this webinar, you will:
- Find out how Birst 5X breaks down the wall between dashboards and visual discovery
- Learn how its enhanced mobile experience supports disconnected analysis to deliver insights anywhere
- Understand why interoperability is essential to adapt to heterogeneous analytics environments
- Learn how Elekta helps healthcare providers make more informed decisions around the quality of care and business practices
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text: Cheese is meant for sharing – whether through a well-composed cheese board or a gathering over fondue. In the same spirit, authors Andrew Tarlow – owner of Brooklyn's Diner, Marlow & Sons, Marlow & Daughters, and Reynard – and Anna Dunn join host Diane Stemple to discuss debut cookbook: Dinner at the Long Table. The book details seasonal dishes meant to be shared amongst friends.


text: Blogging has come a long way across the past couple of decades. Blogs are no longer an outlet for people to observe, vent, and review products/services. Blog marketing is a critically important tool that connects businesses to the masses. Let's take a look at some specific benefits of blogging: Blogging


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Winnie Couture Bridal Collection 2016
One of our favorite gown shops, Winnie Couture, just released photos of their 2016 bridal collection, we are giving you a first peak. Winnie Couture in known for having over the top, luxurious gowns. We love their high quality materials, beading, and lace. AND it helps that the employees are the sweetest people you will ever meet. Don't forget to come see them at Wedding Salon Beverly Hills this January and March!
The Elianna
The Wendolyn
The Jewel
The Grace
The PaviaShop Winnie Couture in Beverly Hills, Atlanta, Dallas, Houston, and Charlotte.
Which one of these gowns is your favorite?


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Desolation Chapter Masterlist
Pairing: James Bond/Olivia Mansfield
Summary: Several months after the events of Skyfall, James is still mourning over the loss of the woman he loves. Trying to bury his past and move on, he continues to pursue the leads left for him in a cryptic message, which have led him to a hidden facility in the Morocco desert. James realises that the past though buried; can have a way of rising to the surface when one least expects it…
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Maker Faire was AWESOME!!
Thanks to the organisers and everyone that came along on the day and took part, we had lots of fun.
We have photos from A4's exhibit here and from A4 members exhibits here if you want to have a look.
Maker Faire was AWESOME!!
Thanks to the organisers and everyone that came along on the day and took part, we had lots of fun.
We have photos from A4's exhibit here and from A4 members exhibits here if you want to have a look.
Clever crafts, inventive gadgets, homemade products and unusual works of art will be on display in the Science Gallery this weekend as the Dublin Mini Maker Faire showcases the work of tech enthusiasts, crafters, artists, hobbyists, science clubs and students to more than 5,000 visitors.
Works to be exhibited include a giant tape deck by art collective A4 Sounds, an open-source home automation system from the Bedroom Laboratory, and a pair of wireless force-sensitive Irish dancing shoes created by David McKeown and Mick Donegan.
Full article by Elaine Burke here.
Our Hong Kong Captain is in Dublin for the week!! We are preparing our records for you to make your own for Maker Faire on Sat!! Come along between 10am and 5pm and have a go on our Giant Tape Deck!
We have uploaded all the Wolf Visuals from our Wolf Party to Vimeo so you can have a gawk!!
We will do it again with sillier visuals for our next fundraiser. Thanks to Maeve Brosnan and Lisa Crowne we have lots of brightly coloured and glittered T.VS ready to go!!
Thanks again to Wolfgang NoesArt; Pauliina Jokenin, Maeve Brosnan, Donal Holland and Lisa Crowne for putting together the animations. I think you will agree you can't tell who works in the industry and those that maybe just winged it the week before!!
Special Thanks to everyone that sent us wolf images
Bit Thompt
Bronadh O'Brien
Loreana Rushe
Pippa O'Neill
Adam Power
Donal Holland
Alex Mclean
Aukse Petruliene
Eleanor Phillips
Dale O'Brien
John Donlon
Grainne Mc Hale
Sarah Mix Tapes
Jojo Hynes
Finn Williamson and The Hong Kong Wolfgang
If you didn't come along but would still like to help us out you can make donation here or pick up some merch over at our shop!! Donations over 20 euro will recieve a signed A3 Screen-print by one of our Artists!
If you'd like to take part in more A4 Sounds Projects we have one running at the minute; A4 Warped Records: Help Us Build The Biggest Record Collection Ever
A4 Team
A4 Sounds are now a record label of sorts! A4 Warped Records.
A4 members Lisa Crowne and Andy Edgar have been working on a project over the last few months and now they want you to take part. In March they built a GIANT Tape Deck made from lots of recycled materials; cardbaord, wood, tape player, old cassettes, bicycle and plumbing parts. Lisa with a few A4ers will be showcasing the Tape Deck at Dublin Mini Maker Faire this Sat 27th July.
Now we want you to get involved and make this a fully participatory project. Over the next year we are aiming to build the biggest record collection to accompany our giant record player. We want you to send us Band Names and album titles around the idea of DIY, building and making art, all nighters before an art show, the tears, the materials used e.g Plaster of Paris and the Bandages, Casting Doubt or The Cardboard Boxes, Against the Rain. You get the idea. We have full faith you can do better than this!
We also invite people to design record sleeves and we will turn them into 36 inch records and covers. You can download pdfs of the logos by clicking on the images below;
We'll be posting more about this soon. But for now you can add band names and album titles to the comments below or to our event page on facebook.
We have a number of studio spaces available at A4 Towers to suitable candidates starting from 50 euro per month including bills. We welcome applications from a wide range of artists. Our current members work in the fields of Fine Art, Design, Illustration, Engineering, Education, Electronics, Music and Socially Engaged Art.
If you would like to apply please send an expression of interest and some examples of your work or links to websites to email@example.com.
A full list of our facilities can be found here including Screen-printing, dark room, and workshop. More details on each membership type can be found here.
A4 Towers Weekday Membership – 50 euro per month
A4 Towers Weekend Membership – 50 euro per month
A4 Towers Week Membership – 100 euro per month
A4 Towers Resident Membership – 140 euro per month
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Our lovely Killian Redmonk and Shane Mc Kenna, Trevor Finnegan and Brian-Michael Thornton of DabbledooMusic have a Fund:it project at the minute to create an interactive website to help schools, teachers, community groups and parents make music with children. Their approach is hands on, collaborative and fun so we at A4 Sounds are extremely excited and very much encourage you to support them if they can.
"At DabbledooMusic we are all about music. Music for listening, music for dancing, music for playing and music for working. Music for collaboration, creativity and music learning. DabbledooMusic aims to encourage more music making for children in the classroom and at home by creating a new system of online, interactive music education.
Dabbledoomusic is a multimedia musical experience for young music makers, combining words, illustration, sound, performance and animation.The project is the result of a collaboration between music maker Shane Mc Kenna and visual artist Killian Redmonk with help from graphic designer Trevor Finnegan and tech whiz Brian Michael Thornton. It aims to make music more accessible and fun for children and teachers alike, through free online musical activities.
Dabbledoomusic uses a unique system of colour-coded, animated musical notation. Unlike conventional notation this system is designed to encourage people of all musical backgrounds and levels of experience to participate through collaborative performance and composition.
The next step in making this system accessible and engaging for all users is to create a new website to replace the blog which now exists. The new resources will be fully interactive so that teachers and children in schools can create and compose their own animated musical scores for listening and performing. The website will remain free for all users.
The funding will go towards:
– Designing and creating a new range of interactive audio-visual content.
– Optimizing the website for use with interactive whiteboards in schools.
– Testing the new content in schools with children and teachers.
– Hosting website and online network for teachers and students to record and share compositions and performances.
We are looking for your contribution to help our team create new and innovative online resources for music education in Ireland and around the world. We believe this is the most effective and relevant way to teach music in primary schools and with your help its about to get even better.
The money raised will go directly to the design and construction of the new website and the creation of interactive resources.
This project is one which we are fully committed to and your contributions will be used with our full effort and our thanks."
Fund:it Project
Thanks to everyone that has submitted photographs to Matt's Portrait Project already. For those that still want the final deadline is 20th July.
If you missed the first call out' Matt is looking for people to email him an interesting photograph of themselves, from any angle or in any position. He is aiming for 100 images in total which he will then draw, ink or paint in a range of style which will be exhibited in September. Sales from the exhibition will be in aid of the A4 Sounds Studio in Harold's Cross.
"I'm going to spend 30 seconds on some, maybe an hour on others so hopefully there will be a fairly wide spectrum. Some of them might actually be alright, a lot of them will more than likely be dodgy as fuck. Buts that's grand."
Rules for submissions;
No crap selfies please.
No pictures of you scoring a goal for your local Under11′s team, taken by your dad, you get the idea.
A picture you took especially for this project, sitting down, standing up, profile, whatever you think really.
You can email photos to firstname.lastname@example.com.


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During this time we will be focusing on our Firearms promoting relationship process, along with our new, used / consignment products and Safety projects. As our store continue to grow we will add more focus to other store products.
We support our Law Enforcement, Military personnel, and Government agencies.
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Once again the debate of divine authority which has been argued throughout the centuries is being debated by Trump Christians who use the text of Romans 13 to force their agenda upon all Christians. First most of the Christians who are trying to pedal this agenda do not have any understandings of hermeneutics and allow a literal reading of the text to suffice which actually greatly distorts the meaning.
God did not put Trump or any other president in power. Voters did. It is my opinion that God when he gave us freedom to do as we wish that freedom extended to all parts of our lives and God rarely intervenes. Let us look at how God spoke to Cain about his frustrations with his brother Able.
"Then the Lord said to Cain, "Why are you so angry? Why is your face downcast? If you do what is right, will you not be accepted? But if you do not do what is right, sin is crouching at your door; it desires to have you but you must rule over it." (Genesis 4:6-7, NIV).
As we know God did not stop Cain from killing his brother. It was not God's will that Cain kill his brother as the verses above attest to that. It was Cain's will and his actions. God may warn us, and we have the law of love written on our hearts, but in the end the actions we take are our own.
Let us look at the lifestyle of Daniel. Daniel defied the authority that was above him throughout his life in captivity. We find examples of Daniel refusing to eat what he was ordered (Daniel 1) We find Daniel refusing to bow to the image in which he was ordered by the king to do. (Daniel 3). Daniel refuses to cease his prayers in defiance of the king (Daniel 6).
What may seem odd is the fact that Daniel also wrote, "He changes times and seasons; he disposes kings and raises them up." (Daniel 2:21, NIV). Yet here we do not have a dilemma, we have the very reason why the Jews loved the book of Daniel. The text was a motivational story in which the Jews clung to in their time of distress. It is understandable to want to have some sort of rational explanation as to why God seemingly abandoned them. Yet the truth is God never abandoned, they were taken captive as many nations were and for a time they were forced into exile. You may disagree with me on this although many scholars have come to the same conclusion.
One more example before I focus directly upon Romans 13. According to Samuel God did not desire the people of Israel to even have a king. Samuel the prophet may have been saying this because he thought his place of authority was in jeopardy and like many invoke the name of God to strike fear into the hearts of men, or he may have heard actually from God. I don't know. I know Samuel was wise in stating that if the people receive a human king he would take their sons and daughters demand taxes and also take their lands (1 Samuel 8:10-22).
Who then brought about the King? Not God, but the people demanded it and they received it. Look back at Cain and Abel. The freewill of man is mostly littered with sin.
Romans 13 seems to be a very clear-cut text of the Apostle explaining to the often dysfunctional church how to keep their heads attached to their bodies. Written during a time in which claiming to be a member of the new cult of Jesus would bring one severe punishment if not death. Paul in writing to the Roman to warn them of earthly punishment as well as to help them to realize that even though they are children of God, and citizens of heaven it is still important to live a life of peace. Paul invokes the name of God although like many preachers and prophets. Invoking the name of God is always beneficial to validate an argument in which you desire no other sentiments. Paul was a wise man as was Daniel and Samuel, and himself defied the government of his day because of his convictions.
What we cannot do is use the text as a blanket statement in which can be translated to our lives today. I think we may be able to pull out many great points within Romans 13. Obeying the law is a good thing. Paying taxes and being fearful of doing evil because generally in most cultures the same laws against theft, murder, etc. exist. While it is clear that Christians should respect authority, we must also as Jesus pointed out be wise as serpents. To blindly follow a government that is wrong and ungodly is in itself foolish. Paul was not telling the Roman church to follow the orders of Rome, or to worship their Gods because they commanded it. If that was the case they would have converted back to the Pagan gods. He for all practical purposes wanted the Roman church to live in peace with the authority as much as they could.
In the United States today we have a drastically different type of Government than that of 1st century Rome. We choose our leaders such as the President through an election. God does not choose the leaders the people do. God is not going to interfere with the free will of the people. In the United States a country in which the very foundations were based on rebellion, how dare Jeff Sessions try to quote Romans 13 to obtain the obedience of the people! It is our very duty as Americans to protest and seek justice in which we feel is right in our eyes. We will not always get it right, but if we do nothing then nothing will get done.
Just as God did not raise up Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Saddam, or the Queen of England, God did not raise up Trump. What God did do was give us the free will to choose our leaders; that is if we are lucky enough to be born in a country in which that is possible. I am tired of Trump Christians praising him more than they do Jesus and thinking that this is all apart of some prophecy leading towards the end of the world. No, what it is should be a call for Evangelicals to start to learn to properly interpret the Bible.


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Step 1Combine the sugar, 3 cups water, vanilla bean, cinnamon stick, orange peel and lemon juice in a 2-quart saucepan. Simmer until the syrup is clear, 2 minutes.
Step 2Add the pears; bring to a simmer. Place a circle of parchment paper over the pears. Cover the pan and simmer until the pears are tender, 30 minutes. Add the port. Place the pears and liquid in a bowl so that the pears are submerged. Place another parchment round on the pears. Cover; chill overnight.
Step 3Remove the pears from the syrup. Reduce the syrup in a small saucepan over medium-high heat to 1 cup. Cool, then chill.
Step 4To serve, cut the pears in half and scoop out the seeds. Cut each pear half into thirds and fan out on top of each spongecake round. Place a teaspoon of yogurt on top, then a half teaspoon of the honey. Drizzle the chilled syrup around each cake round.


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Hello everyone. I am new in goddady, I have a asp.net mvc site here, but email sending not working. In server code I write the following
var emailmessage = new System.Web.Mail.MailMessage() { Subject = subject, Body = body, From = from, To = to, BodyFormat = MailFormat.Html, Priority = MailPriority.High }; SmtpMail.SmtpServer = "relay-hosting.secureserver.net"; SmtpMail.Send(emailmessage);
In web config I added the code
<system.net> <mailSettings> <smtp from="firstname.lastname@example.com"> <network host="relay-hosting.secureserver.net"/> </smtp> </mailSettings> </system.net>
What can I do else?
Solved! Go to Solution.
One thing you can do is to stop ignoring exceptions. Look at the sample in SmtpMail Class (System.Web.Mail). It shows extensive use of try/catch. In your situation, you might not be getting an exception but you should catch exceptions anyway.
Developers don't want to be bothered with exceptions and we often don't write enough code for exceptions. Beginners often don't think to check for exceptions before asking for help. The sample code in the MSDN shows how complicated cose such as that can be but code like that can make problems much easier to diagnose.
Also note that there is a separate forum in the GoDaddy forums for developers. Questions such as this about code should be there, but I am not a moderator; I am just another customer. However if I want to only answer developer questions then I would never see a developer question posted in a non-developer forum.
This code work fine from local machine and send email but in godaddy production environment
not sending email.
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Net;
using System.Net.Mail;
using System.Web;
/// <summary>
/// Summary description for MailSer
/// </summary>
public class MailSer
public MailSer()
String MailFrom;
String MailTo;
String Subject;
String Body;
public String sendMail(String MailTo, String Subject, String Body)
String str = "0";
using (SmtpClient smtpClient = new SmtpClient())
smtpClient.Host = "outlook.office365.com";
smtpClient.EnableSsl = true;
smtpClient.Port = 587;
MailMessage message = new MailMessage();
MailAddress fromAddress = new MailAddress("");
MailAddress toAddress = new MailAddress(MailTo);
smtpClient.Credentials = new System.Net.NetworkCredential("", "");
message.From = fromAddress;
message.IsBodyHtml = true;
message.Subject = Subject;
message.Body = Body;
str = "1";
str = "Connect TO Mail Failed";
return str;
Where is the proper solution for sending email from a hosted plesk account?
Well, i have spent many days trying to figure out what caused this issue? Why it is working locally and it doesn't work after published!!
1) Firstly
You need to follow the code written above by Artush
2) if you are working locally:
You need to set SMTP server name as your server name "which is the logic and normal way" that's why it is working locally lol
3) To make it works on godaddy
YOU NEED TO CHANGE SMTP SERVER NAME TO MATCH GODADDY SMTP SERVER "relay-hosting.secureserver.net"
Please notice that if you try to run your application using godaddy smtp server name "locally" it wont work but it will after published


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To answer this question effectively, we first need to lay a foundation. There is a great need in the world for fathers. We are not talking spiritually here, just in terms of natural life. The majority of people in prison in western nations come from homes with no father. Statistics show that children do better at school, and achieve higher grades and better careers when there is a father present. That is not the subject of this section, but is simply an illustration of the need for fathers.
There are so many things we derive from our fathers. Every son and daughter needs to hear the voice of a father, for a father's voice speaks love, affirmation, affection, approval, motivation, correction, success, permission to succeed, blessing, identity, courage, and security. Let us consider a few of these points briefly.
A son or daughter gets their sense of identity in the main from their father. The question of "Who Am I?" is answered in a child's heart by their interaction with their father. It has been said that 85% of what a person thinks about themselves comes from dad.
A father supplies the motivation that a child needs, and gives the discipline by which a child overcomes a lack of motivation.
It is a father that gives his son or daughter 'permission to succeed'. This 'permission' is written subconsciously upon a child's heart by what a father says, and by the attitude he takes to them. Some face life with confidence and some struggle. It is the father who has the power to speak and release in a child this subconscious inner sense of approval that tells them they have permission to succeed in life.
Whilst we could elaborate much, these are some of the things fathers provide, and they are very necessary. Spiritually this is the same too. The need for spiritual fathers is immense.
Many pastors on their own in the ministry have struggled, having to work hard without a "spiritual father" who encourages, supports, and loves through it all. We are not meant to walk alone.
When Jesus turned 30 years of age, the time had come to commence His public ministry. He came to be baptised by John. Upon this occasion the voice of God was heard audibly, an unusual event, and evidently important. "This is my son, whom I love; with Him I am well pleased." (Matt 3:17)
Why did God the Father speak like this? Because He knew the importance of a father's voice for a son. Jesus was receiving the approval of His Father, and it was done publicly so we would also know how important that is.
A father's blessing helps establish a faith system in the heart, but quite apart from the approval, security, identity, and the rest that comes with a father's love, spiritual power also flows with the blessing.
So a spiritual father is a man or woman in the ministry (the term father is inclusive) and refers to a leader or someone in the ministry who cares for sons. (also inclusive) In the same way we need a father in natural life (and cannot be born without one) so we also need a spiritual father for us to really live and do well.
God Himself is the model in that He was a Father, and as God the son, He needed a father. We should not be so proud as to assume that we don't need a spiritual father if Jesus Himself had one. At the same time we realise that we must ourselves become fathers so as to provide love and blessing for those given to us to care for.
A spiritual father is a person God provides to help bless and care for those in a personal (not an organisational or denomination) way and help them to grow and find life by loving and walking with them.
The last verse in the Old Testament says that if the hearts of the fathers don't turn to the children, and the children's back in return, then the land would be cursed. This verse indicated to us how great and important a need this is.


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South African big-wave charger Grant 'Twiggy' Baker powered his way through three heats of 10-metre plus surf to finish third in the Pe'ahi Challenge in Hawaii on Sunday.
With his top finish, Baker retained his number one spot in the 2016-17 World Surf League (WSL) Big Wave Tour (BWT) rankings.
Baker, the 2013 BWT champion and winner of the Puerto Escondido Challenge in Mexico in June, stayed busy in the inconsistent rising swell in his Round 1 heat where he finished second to advance to the semi-finals. There the Durbanite again caught the first ride of the 50-minute encounter but had to wait until just four minutes from the end before finding a backup ride that saw him grab third place and a berth in the one-hour final.
Maui local and defending Pe'ahi Challenge champion Billy Kemper (HAW) and Baker shared a wave to open up the final, with Baker getting the best of the exchange. Greg Long (USA) followed quickly on the second wave of the set and posted an excellent 8.83, which he backed up on one of the bigger waves of the day with another excellent ride for 8.93.
Kemper pulled into a barrel at the halfway mark to earn the only perfect 10-point ride of the event, taking the lead from Long and pushing Baker into third place, despite an excellent 8-point ride from the South African for a late drop. A final attempt from Nic Lamb (USA) moved him up into fourth place over Pedro Calado (BRA) and Will Skudin (USA) who finished in fifth and sixth places respectively.
Kemper held the lead through the remainder of the final and closed with a 9.07 for pulling into a deep pit which sealed his second consecutive win at Pe'ahi. The result sees Kemper move up nine places to No 4 in the BWT rankings while Baker retains the lead with only two possible events remaining in the 2016-17 season.
"I've trained so hard for the last eight weeks," Kemper said. "I'm over the moon and I just surfed with a few of my heroes and pioneers of this sport – Greg (Long) and Twiggy (Baker). I didn't know I was winning, so I just went for it on that last wave. This is what I live for right here. I've put a lot of work and effort into this and thank you to everyone that's ever supported me. Thanks again for putting on such a wonderful event."
Pe'ahi local Paige Alms (HAW) has become the first-ever WSL Women's Big Wave Tour Champion after taking a commanding victory in the final of the Pe'ahi Challenge.
The world's best female big-wave surfers, including South Africa's Tammy-Lee Smith (Salt Rock), made history as 12 individuals took to the water to compete in a WSL Big Wave Tour event for the first time ever and contest for the maiden women's title in heavy conditions at the break aptly known as Jaws.
The final saw Alms, Justine Dupont (FRA) and Felicity Palmateer (AUS) take to the water for a 60-minute match-up. Keala Kennelly (HAW), Emily Erickson (HAW) and Laura Enever (AUS) had also qualified for the final after placing in the top three in their respective Round 1 heats but were unable to compete after sustaining injuries in the powerful surf.
Dupont led the charge, opening her account with a 3.17 but Alms found an incredible wave and took off with perfect positioning to be rewarded with 6.00 and then added another impressive ride for a 7.83, one of the day's top scores. Dupont tried to fight back but ended runner-up with Palmateer taking third place.
"What a blessing to be out there with just a couple of girls, that was very special," said Alms. "The support feels so good and it's so cool to have all my friends here and do this at home. This has been a dream to have an event for the women here. To have an empty lineup is a real blessing, win or lose. A few of the girls got hurt and I'm bummed that they weren't out there with us but they'll be back for more. I hope we get more opportunities, so thank you WSL, this was really big."
Smith, who received a late call-up as a wildcard for the event and was surfing on Maui for the first time, caught one wave as the wind-affected waves made her Round 1 heat extremely challenging. But it wasn't enough to advance to the final and she was eliminated from the competition.
– African News Agency (ANA)


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Since the Reagan years, both major parties have prized the kind of scripted, regimented, highly predictable presidential nominating conventions that have made conventions fairly boring news events to cover.
But in recent cycles, Republicans have been off their game. When John McCain accepted the GOP nomination in 2008, the screen behind him cycled at some point on to an image of the well-manicured quad of Walter Reed. Not the Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C., but Walter Reed Middle High School in North Hollywood, CA. The effect when viewed through television cameras, which smoothed out the rough blades of grass on the lawn, was to make McCain appear to be speaking before a green screen.
Then in 2012, Mitt Romney's aides allowed Clint Eastwood to give an extemporaneous prime time speech, during which he conversed with an empty prop chair like a grand old man of the psych ward. Thanks to some sloppy advance work, the term "Eastwooding" is now commemorated on urban dictionary as "the act of speaking to an empty chair."
Keep in mind that while no campaign is perfect, and McCain's in particular was beset by problems, both the McCain and Romney campaigns were incomparably more professional than is Donald Trump's campaign, which has neither the organizational capacity, nor the internal cohesion, to make sure things like this don't happen.
The level of micromanaging these events require is kind of mind boggling. For instance: In 2004, John Kerry's staff had to ask then state Senator Barack Obama to snip a line from his famous red-and-blue America keynote speech so that Kerry could have it all to himself. I would bet hard money that the proceedings of the GOP convention in Cleveland won't be so tightly controlled.


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And for the end consumer, we have a wide selection of innovative recipes for fish and seafood delicacies as well.
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Our group fitness timetable gives you the flexibility to choose classes to suit your lifestyle
We offer more than 40 group fitness classes each week, giving you the chance to find a class that suits you, at a time that suits you.
Group Fitness Timetable -
Christmas Group Fitness Timetable
Feel the burn and see results fast with our new class SWITCH 45. Integrated functional, strength, conditioning and cardio exercises to challenge your fitness and commitment. This kind of training is great for you to improve your overall fitness, strength and endurance.
Intense Strength Express
Use this express 30-minute class to build strength and muscle tone fast.
Low to medium intensity resistance class in the water. A fun and exhilarating class for all ages. Ideal for people who have never participated in a group fitness class before. Guaranteed to work you hard while having a lot of fun with friends.
Challenge Fit
Designed to improve functional strength and endurance using compound movements, this class comprises of high intensity interval training with weight lifting. Suitable for all levels from beginner to advanced.
Les Mills CX Worx
Based on cutting-edge scientific research, CX Worx is the ultimate way to get a tight and toned core. A class that really hones in on torso and sling muscles that connect your upper body to your lower body. It's ideal for tightening your tummy and butt, while also improving functional strength and assisting in injury prevention.
Fit boxing
A combination of fit boxing and circuit training. This class incorporates high-intensity interval training and areas of body resistance training. This is a fantastic class to spike your heart rate to increase fitness while building muscle strength and endurance.
HIIT is a type of cardio training in which you alternate short, very high intensity intervals with longer, slower intervals to recover. This training can comprise of bodyweight exercise, weight-based exercise and plyometric exercise. These short, intense workouts provide improved athletic capacity and condition, improved glucose metabolism, and improved fat burning.
A high-intensity class involving speed, plyometric and strength training. Designed to increase cardiovascular fitness and strength endurance.
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A sports-inspired cardio workout for building strength and stamina. This high energy interval training class combines athletic aerobic movements with strength, agility and stabilisation exercises.
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A fusion of Yoga, Tai Chi, and Pilates. This program builds flexibility and strength and leaves you feeling centered and calm
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The original barbells class that strengthens your entire body. This workout challenges all your major muscle groups by using the best weight-room exercises like squats, presses, lifts and curls.
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A combination of yoga and Pilates that builds flexibility and strength. Yogalates is a fusion of yoga and Pilates; a perfect class for people to combine the strength and flexibility of yoga while developing abdominal core strength through the basic principles of Pilates.
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Home Remedies for Foul Smelling Gas
Gas, or flatulence, is a natural body reaction 2. According to MayoClinic.com, most people pass gas at least 12 times a day 1. Still, foul smelling flatulence can cause embarrassment and awkwardness in social situations. The foul odor associated with flatulence is caused by gas passing through the large intestine; bacteria releases small amounts of sulfur 2. A variety of home remedies and treatment may aid in reducing gas and decrease discomfort.
If you are experiencing serious medical symptoms, seek emergency treatment immediately.
According to the University of Maryland Medical Center, peppermint is a common remedy for gas and other digestive disorders. Specifically, peppermint soothes and relaxes the digestive tract allowing gas to pass without discomfort. Peppermint may be ingested as a tea or by taking enteric coated tablets. The university suggests patients drink peppermint tea between meals, four to five times a day. Herbs, such as peppermint, should be consumed with oversight by a medical professional due to potential side effects. Specifically, peppermint should not be consumed by someone suffering from gastroesophageal reflux disease or a hiatal hernia. Pregnant women and people who commonly suffer from gallstones should also avoid peppermint.
Decrease Swallowing Air
A variety of simple lifestyle changes will reduce belching and flatulence. According to MedlinePlus, a service of the National Institutes of Health, a person experiencing a large amount of gas should avoid chewing gum or consuming hard candy 2. A person should remain upright and not lie down immediately after eating. Walking and moving the body for 10 to 15 minutes after eating is recommended. Relaxing and chewing food slowly during meal times decreases the amount of air swallowed. A person may also be wearing dentures that are too large, causing him to swallow excess air. Dentures should be checked for the correct size.
Dietary Changes
Certain foods often cause foul smelling gas. However, each food reacts differently for each person. While garlic or broccoli may be a common culprit for one person, these foods may not cause foul gas for another person. MotherNature.com suggests starting with a plain salad and each day adding an additional vegetable to discover what foods are causing gas issues. Common foods that cause flatulence include cabbage, beans, corn, citrus fruits and potatoes. Beans often produce less flatulence if they are soaked in water for about 12 hours before cooking, according to MotherNature.com.
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Safe Farms, Safe Homes…(turning back before we hit the COLLAPSE…)
Every time I talk to someone about the COLLAPSE…whether it's caused by climate change or the deteriorating health of the human race or the degrading environment around the developing and consuming world, I hear one of these responses:
- "But that comes along with development, it will happen, don't we need to develop?"
- "No, all these are passing phases, a technology will come that will change the course."
- "Yes, it's frightening, "society" has to change, but what's the use of me alone changing?"
These and other arguments, stem from the simple fact that most of us now are closely related to those actions that are poisoning or destroying the earth, directly or indirectly: meaning, we may be actually doing it or we may be funding or promoting it, and hence we are forced by conviction or vested interests to fanatically question the COLLAPSE. Two things we forget. One, that our actions hurt the earth, at the micro level (like pollution, loss of water availability etc.) and the macro level (climate change, elimination of species etc.). Two, that this impact is eventually and almost imminently going to affect our life and life support systems – our air, water, food, natural resources and hence our homes, offices, parks, roads, mobiles, laptops, vehicles…everything that we use to support ourselves simply becomes a dangerous source or cause of the COLLAPSE. True, we are seeing an ever increasing number of families suffering from a whole range of problems, starting from the lack of basic needs like food and water, to major health problems making this society look from the surface like an "upward mobile" one but in reality highly depressed and morbid. And we are also seeing people fighting on the streets for access to basic necessities, even while we know for sure that such resources are being exploited – acquired, hoarded, monopolised – by the very very few ( let's remember the 1% vs. the 99% struggles in many parts of the world ). And lastly, look at the reflections of all these crises at the macro level. The worst effects are already there – climate change on one side, and degraded and chemically poisoned natural resources and humanity on the other. We are living on a planet whose daily demands from each one of us is increasing at increasing rates, and in the process of production to satisfy these demands, we are degrading, depleting and poisoning the planet, totally blind to the fact that a) we have only one planet – earth and b) that we have only one capital – nature.
Let me point out to you a very worrying fact…
Which is the most polluted river in the world?
Factually, we have such a range of choices – Citarum River in Indonesia, the worst, competes well with the Ganga and the Yamuna in India, and not too far off are some from the developed world – the Yellow River in China, the Mississippi in the USA…The list could be easily as long as all the rivers flowing in all the major cities and towns of the world. And why are they polluted? With what? Factory waste, city drains, urban waste disposals, pesticides, fertilisers and so on…in fact in all of these rivers together, humanity has detected as many toxic chemicals as have probably been invented or formulated. Many of these rivers are also drains of the throw-away culture – the convenient, packaged, one-time-use-and-throw plastic material that's become so "important" in our lives. Obviously these rivers are not any longer causes of natural disasters, for which the whole world is so worried. These are purely man-made (read with the gender!) disasters. Now, how does all this affect us? One long term study being done by the Centre for Disease Control in the United States tells it all – they have been monitoring the chemical contamination in human blood and tissues, and have come up this year with the Fourth Report on Human Exposure to Chemical Contamination. The study found that every new born American could be contaminated with 287 chemicals, all of which should not be there at all in the first place. And of these 287 chemicals that they detected in the umbilical cord blood, 180 is known to cause cancer in humans or animals, 217 are toxic to the brain and nervous system, and 208 cause birth defects or abnormal development in animal tests. And the list and studies are being updated periodically. Almost all these chemicals are industrial chemistry products, produced intentionally as a product, or unintentionally as a by-product, but invariably turns up in some consumer good that we use – starting from pesticide and chemically produced and preserved food, to your home and body care products, kitchen utensils, paints, construction materials, fabric and clothes, furniture, toys,…the list is long and shocking…it could simply be everything that we use! But the point is that these toxic materials are a direct result of what I would like to call a convenient ignorance (simply "I didn't know! Or I don't have the time!! That's all!!" ) or a casual arrogance (simply "Why should I care?") of the modern human race. And as late as 2010, the American Presidents' Cancer Panel came up with another shocking report. It was one of the most rattling reports that any Presidents' Panel has ever brought out. It found that "the true burden of environmentally induced cancers has been grossly underestimated" and strongly urged President Obama "to use the power of your office to remove the carcinogens and other toxins from our food, water, and air that needlessly increase health care costs, cripple our nation's productivity, and devastate American lives." They found that about 41 percent of all Americans will be diagnosed with cancer during their lifetime, and about 21 percent will die from it! If this is the situation in the well regulated and monitored US, can you imagine what the situation is in a chaotic country like India!
Coming back to the metaphorical question – Which is the most polluted river in the world? Beyond those streams that flow to give life and water to millions of people across the world, there is a stream that flows within each of us – our own blood stream! And our bodies. And these today are possibly the worst polluted, carrying such a decoction of chemicals, all waiting in there, ticking, to one fine day turn our healthy lives into cancers, endocrine disruptions, neurological disorders etc, maybe now, maybe generations down the line. Just like this wonderful blue planet, our home, is on a ticking time bomb, so also are each one of us…waiting for it to happen.


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During the holidays, it is tradtion at our house to indulge in a simple, non-alcoholic eggnog punch. When I saw this vintage Anchor Hocking Eggnog Set a few years back, I knew it would be a fun way to showcase our punch.
This is how we make our Eggnog Punch. (Please do not ask me for exact measurements. We always just adjust to our taste.)
Messick/Mowdy Family's Traditional EGGNOG PUNCH
First... put about half a carton of good store-bought eggnog into your punch bowl. On top of that... pour a good portion of 7-Up, Sprite or Ginger Ale. Then... and here is the important part... dollop generous scoops of ONLY Homemade Blue Bell Vanilla ice cream on top. Finallly... generously sprinkle with nutmeg. (Be sure your nutmeg is fresh. It makes a huge difference. Go ahead and throw out last year's can, and buy a fresh one!) You can let the ice cream melt... or like my kids do... serve up a little scoop in each cup. It is yummy!!! And at our house, it always sparks "Remember when..." conversations.
Since we had the Eggnog Punch during the Thanksgiving holiday, I have decided to try a variation during our Christmas festivities. This is for you Nick and Rebekah! We are going to have Peppermint Eggnog Punch. Boy, does that sound good.
After the punch is history, there always seems to be leftover eggnog taking up space in my frig. And I feel a bit guilty pouring it down the drain. So... this is the plan. This year I will use it up in one or more of these tempting recipes. Now... my husband and I cannot eat most of this... but I do love giving things away!
Here it comes, folks! ***drum roll please***
Lots of RECIPES for using up all that LEFTOVER EGGNOG!
Cinnamon-Eggnog Scones (I thought of you, Heather.)
Eggnog French Toast (Everybody already knows this one, right?)
Eggnog Truffles (I would leave out the rum... or add rum flavoring.)
Eggnog Waffles or Eggnog Pancakes
Eggnog Latte (Just like Starbucks! Especially if your use their brand of coffee.)
Muffins, either ones with cranberries, or a nutmeg-struesel topping
Paula Deen's Leftover Holiday Eggnog and Breadpudding Cupcakes (Again... eliminate the whiskey for us teetotalers. This recipe looks SO good!)
Eggnog Cookies or Eggnog Cookies with Rum Butter Icing
Eggnog Rice Pudding (ultra rich recipe)
Whew! That's a lotta nog recipes, I tell ya. I dare someone to tell me any other unique recipe. Okay... I already know of a friend who makes homemade nog... using goat's milk... or almond milk. But then... what to do with the leftovers?
These are just one gal's suggestions. Oh... I forgot to add this. You could pour the leftover eggnog into a cup... plain... and drink the stuff. That would work.


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Pôle Moyen Âge (Center for the Middle Ages)
Search an item about the Middle Ages in the libraries
- Latin literature
- Musicology
- Epigraphy
- Numismatics
- Paléography
- History of ideas
- History of institutions.
- Political, economic, social and intellectual aspects in medieval Western Europe
- Monastic history
- Epigraphy, paleography, numismatics, sigillography, heraldic
- Musicology
- Archéology
- Latin, Romance, Germanic and Celtic literature
- Law.
Poitiers University Library's Centre for the Middle Ages is part of Ménestrel network..
You can find Medieval collections in 3 places : BU Lettres (University Literature Library) on campus, BU Michel Foucault (Michel Foucault University library) in the city center, Documentation Centre (pôle documentaire) at the hôtel Berthelot (CESCM: Poitiers Medieval Research Center). The Medieval catalogue (old version of the catalogue) will give you an easy access to documents on the Middle Ages.
Access and borrow
For free, you can ask for a book, from another Poitiers University library to the one you are using.
- Political, economic, social and intellectual aspects in medieval Western Europe
- Monastic history
- Epigraphy, paleography, numismatics, sigillography, hieraldics
- Musicology
- Archeology
- Latin, Romance, Germanic and Celtic literature
- Law.
Type of documents and documentary offer
Type of documents
The Medieval Centre purchases three types of documents:
- Primary resources (which every study is based on)
- Secondary resources (bibliographies, encyclopedias, dictionaries, etc…)
- Research results (theses, symposiums, etc…)
Documentary offer
Printed documents :
- 50 000 books
- 6 000 individual articles
- 600 periodical titles (most of them are foreign titles).
Other formats :
The Medieval Centre provides its readers with many online documents: databases, CDs….
Accès au catalogue Moyen Âge (ancienne version du catalogue)You can find these documents as well on the following catalogues:
SUDOC (National catalogue of French University libraries)
CCFR (French National Library Collective Catalogue).
Reader services
Document access
You can find Medieval collections in 3 places : BU Lettres (University Literature Library) on campus, BU Michel Foucault (Michel Foucault University library) in the city center, Documentation Centre (pôle documentaire) at the hôtel Berthelot (CESCM: Poitiers Medieval Research Center).
Welcoming researchers
If you have any question, you can contact the head of the service: Anne-Sophie Traineau-Durozoy - 05.49.45.32.91.
The head of the Medieval Centre Anne-Sophie Traineau-Durozoy organizes courses on demand (for group of students) to help them to learn about and use the databases. She can also receive any person who wants to know more about the range of documents in Middle Ages History or University library Resources (paper or electronics).
Since 2014, every month, the SCD and the CESCM set up workshops to present electronic resources on the Medieval Era. Two instructors intervene, one academic and one librarian.
Lectures on Middle Ages are regularly given at the François Mitterrand multimedia library and the CESCM in collaboration with "La Maison du Moyen Age".
The topics of these lectures are linked to the publishing news : academics are invited to talk about a subject that they have written about and recently published on.
Thematic bibliographies are crafted for each lecture. You can find them on the website of La Maison du Moyen Age. A few days before each lecture, the books listed in these bibliographies are presented at the BU Lettres or the BU Michel Foucault. You can read or borrow them.
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This service allows users of Poitiers University libraries to obtain documents which are not located in the University Libraries for consultation or borrowing.
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Recherche directe dans les documents portant sur le Moyen Âge.
En ligne
- Acta Sanctorum
- Bibliographie de civilisation médiévale
- Cahiers de Recherches Médiévales et Humanistes
- Corpus de la littérature médiévale des origines au XVe siècle
- Ebooks "Histoire Médiévale" Numérique Premium
- Ebooks Brepols
- Ebooks Histoire - Proquest
- Encyclopaedia of medieval philosophy
- Encyclopedia of medieval warfare and military technology
- Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages
- Index of Medieval Art de Princeton
- International Medieval Bibliography
- Library of Latin Texts
- Middle English Compendium
- Monumenta Germaniae Historica
- Patrologie Latine
- Revues Brepols (1882-2012)


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By: T.R. Slyder, firstname.lastname@example.com
Wow. Check it out here. This is probably the least necessary article of all time.
It also contains one of the best lines ever to take out of context:
"....by the time I started understanding and realizing it as a young kid, I had the glove, I had the jacket, I did the whole "Beat It" routine for my sister's friends when they came over to the house for entertainment."
-Milton Bradley
I'm T.R. Slyder, and that's how you Tangueray.
Monday, July 27, 2009
The Most Important News Possible: Michael Jackson Inspired Milton Bradley
By: T.R. Slyder, firstname.lastname@example.com
Friday, July 10, 2009
By: T.R. Slyder, firstname.lastname@example.com
Holy Moley Buttholey!!! I don't know what to say. I clicked a link saying that Michael Jackson was dancing to R. Kelly. I really like both of them, so I thought this clip couldn't miss. In fact, to my friend The Diamond in Denver, you could argue this would be the best video clip possible (maybe if Tiger were playing golf with the picture-in-picture feature).
So I clicked it and it sucked. But it did worse than sucked. The best dancer in history did the worst dance move in history. That's right. The White Man's Overbite. It's at the 1:05 clip. I don't even know what to think now. Does he suck? Are all White Man's Overbitters good dancers?
This sucks. Don't watch it.
I'm so confused. I'm hurt. I'm angry. I'm not angry, I'm disappointed. But I'm also angry. I feel lied to. I feel like laughing. Then laughing maniacally while I cut my hair off with a knife in the mirror then cut myself and taste my own blood, then laugh more, then go cry and fall asleep. But at the same time, I also don't really care because he's a molester and was probably too muscularly relaxed to do any real dance moves.
The point is, I'm ambivalent.
Wednesday, July 1, 2009
United Airlines Attendant Honoring Michael Jackson
By: T.R. Slyder, firstname.lastname@example.com
Click here to see the innovative way one gentleman chose to mourn the loss of Michael Jackson.
Sunday, June 28, 2009
By Far The Best Article About Michael Jackson I've Read Yet
By: T.R. Slyder, email@example.com
This one kinda addresses everything, and appears to be very credible.
Saturday, June 27, 2009
A List of Party Favors
By: T.R. Slyder, firstname.lastname@example.com
Do you have what it takes to be the next Michael Jackson? I'm not talking about singing or dancing capabilities- can you handle all these?
It's similar to a Long Island Iced Tea, but with pharmaceuticals instead- I call it the MoonwalkerThriller, it's delicious.
Friday, June 26, 2009
Good Interview About Michael Jackson
By: T.R. Slyder, email@example.com
This interview is one that doesn't sugarcoat Jackson and tells it like it is- which has been all too rare in the death coverage. I hope VH1 replays their documentary on Michael Jackson that they did last year or two years ago. I think I'm the only person in the world that saw it, but it was very in-depth and really interesting.
Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy
Apple Stock Doing Well After Michael Jackson Got His Croak On
By: T.R. Slyder, email@example.com
Above is Apple's stock today (as of 2pm EST). Jackson's death has caused a downloading frenzy that has only helped Apple and Amazon, as mentioned in this article.
In other MJ news, The Sun is reporting that he died of an overdose of the morphine-like drug Demerol. I'm sure we'll be hearing much more about that in the days ahead. Primarily because the LIVE-IN DOCTOR that could not be found after Jackson's death.
Thursday, June 25, 2009
Which Michael Jackson Song Will you Cry and Wap to?
By: T.R. Slyder, email@example.com
For a briefing on the Cry and Wap, click here. Otherwise, the picture above ought to provide some incite.
We're all sad Michael Jackson died. The question is, which song will you cry and wap to while missing him? I have a poll in the margin for you to provide your answer.
If you selected the "I'll Cry and Wap to Another Michael Jackson Song" option please feel free to name your song in the Comments section below
Michael Jackson Now Drinking Jesus Juice Straight From the Source
(Photography courtesy of T.R. Slyder)
By: T.R. Slyder, firstname.lastname@example.com
Pretty weird.
And no, I didn't even have him in my Death Pool that I'm not in but made my draft list for anyway. I should have though.
Word out of heaven is that Jacko asked to see the Lindberg baby upon his entrance to heaven.
Update #2:
don't forget to use this opportunity to drop the two best Michael Jackson jokes on unsuspecting people/victims:
1) Knock Knock
Who's There?
Little Boy Blue.
Little Boy Blue who?
Michael Jackson
2) Q: What's the difference betwixt Neil Armstrong and Michael Jackson?
A: Neil Armstrong was the first man to walk on the moon, and Michael Jackson B.F.s little boys.
(Editor's note: After the jokes you may want to consider going with a 'Hi-oooo', 'Hel-LOooooo', or a simple 'OW' accompanied by a leg kick. Trust me.)
Update #3: I'm listening to Black or White right now and just heard the part where the rapping dude says "I'm not gonna spend my life being a color" Since white isn't technically a color, I guess Michael Jackson lived by that credo.
Friday, November 14, 2008
To Those Who Hate Japanese Moped Commercials Featuring Michael Jackson....
By: T.R. Slyder, email@example.com
You won't like this video. It's a Japanese moped commercial featuring Michael Jackson. It's from when Michael was actually cool too. He went from cool,to "Bad", to kinda weird, to molesty. Again, this was from the "cool" phase.
This is the making of the video. For those of you with finely-tuned Gaydar, check out the full-force of the gayface at the 1:20 mark. He's the only gay black dancing phenom to combine the gayface with the white man's overbite at the same time. I know you read that and are thinking "Whaaat? I really doubt that." Trust me.You'll agree. I think what Einstein did for kids getting back grades, (e.g. "What? Einstein got bad grades as a kid, he turned out just fine."), Michael Jackson just did for the white man's overbite (e.g. "What? Some of the best dancer(s) in history do it! And it isn't just a white thing either, ya know.").
At first I was gonna ask you to watch the videos only once. But on second thought: Don't Stop 'til You Get Enough! Do-do-do-loo-looo-looo-looo-looo.


text: Feature Give us your BVB new year's resolutions for 2015! It's the time of the year again, Christmas is just over and slowly, but surely 2014 ends. We look back on a very dramatic year, which had a few highlights, like the Cup Final in may, the 2-0 win against Real Madrid in April, Milos Jojic scoring with his first touch in the Bundesliga, or once again topping a Champions League group… But BVB also sit on 17th place in the league and a lot has gone wrong during the last half-series. The new year provides a clean cut and many people like to make resolutions for the next year. Stop smoking, work out, eat healthy, drink less, only drive with a licence… the usual. Now we want YOUR new year's resolutions for Borussia Dortmund! What are the little or big things, that irk you the most and that BVB need to change in 2015 to find back to old strength? What kind of habits are needless or what would you like to see continued? You can be obvious or creative, we are looking forward to you thoughts! Feel free to fire away in the comments, on Facebook or on Twitter, we'll read out the best on our next Yellow Wall Pod episode! Meanwhile I've provided some of my own: Substitutions: It's a point that has been bothering me far too long. Jürgen Klopp often bemoaned the physical shape of his team this season, but too often refused to make changes before the 80. minute or didn't even use all three options. Especially this season Dortmund were in need for some fresh impulses. Nuri Sahin's 8 minute cameo against Hertha Berlin for example did shake things up and only let's one wonder, whether an earlier substitution would have made the difference. Crossing: Especially from the left side has Dortmund's crossing has been atrocious to say the least. Doesn't matter whether it's Durm, Schmelzer or Piszczek, too many crosses look completely random and either fly over everyone or fall behind the strikers or are simply too soft. One might blame the runs of the strikers, but like some players train free kicks after the training sessions our fullbacks need to work on their crosses. The Kit: This is one for the kit-designers, who are trying hard to make state-of-the-art extravaganza black and yellow nightmares of fashion on an almost yearly basis. Maybe it's marketing to have a completely different design every year. It's seldom enough that one can take HSV for an example, but their kits at least look stylish every year. No weird dots, wild tribals, or rhombuses all over the front; All I want is a simple black and yellow kit with little changes from time to time. The current Champions League kit has been one of the best in a long time, but the Bundesliga kits have been terrible – at least the 'fragile' warning stripes have made some sort of sense, I guess. Stefan Buczko Editor-in-chief and Host of the Yellowwallpod. Freelance football writer, currently writing for ESPN FC. December 28, 2014


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NASDAQ longest downtime adds to woes over glitches in electronic trading
The high-tech floor dominated by such great names as Microsoft, Apple and Google halted trading for three hours on Thursday. The NASDAQ attributed the disruption to a break at a feed that distributes all quotes and prices for the listed stocks.
Trading in 2,500 US-listed companies got back on track just thirty minutes before the normal market close, leaving investors outraged.
"It's positive that the market was actually up, [I] can't imagine what would have happened if this was [Wednesday] when the Fed minutes came out," as the Financial Times (FT) quotes Paul Hickey, co-founder of Bespoke Investment Group.
"These types of things happen, but it seems they happen a lot more than they used to," Paul Hickey said. "You'd think with technology you'd have less of this occurring."
The three-hour trading halt on the NASDAQ followed a series of tech-rooted disasters involving various exchanges.
They included Facebook's bungled public offering launch on NASDAQ
in May 2012, one of the largest IPOs in history. The SEC later
fined NASDAQ $10 million for that disruption - the largest
penalty it has ever imposed on an exchange.
The aftermath
The damage of such disruptions can't be overestimated, as NASDAQ -listed companies accounted for 28 percent of all shares traded so far this month, according to data from BATS Global Markets Inc.
"The NASDAQ is such a huge part of stocks that are listed and the overall volume. If you can't trade a NASDAQ-listed stock or an ETF linked to it, you are losing such a huge part of the overall equity market," a managing director at a large Wall Street trading firm told the Financial Times (FT).
Experts say the repeated disruptions could undermine investor confidence at a time when US stocks are trading close to their record high levels.
Stock trading now relies heavily on computer systems that exploit split-penny price differences. Stocks can be traded in fractions of a second, often by automated programs, which makes the markets more vulnerable to technical failures.
The NASDAQ disruption could also trigger new rounds of regulatory scrutiny on computer-driven trading, though so far almost nothing has been done in practice.
After the 2010 market break, regulators "never really developed a fix for it, and these kinds of things are going to continue to happen," said Michael Greenberger, a law professor at the University of Maryland who was the top market oversight official at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission in the late 1990s. High-speed trading commanded by mathematical formulas rather than people brings "the possibility of a calamity," Greenberger said.
Back in 2010, the Dow Jones industrial average plunged hundreds of points in mere minutes, which was later coined a "flash crash". A months-long investigation by regulators concluded that the sudden drop occurred when a trading firm executed a computerized selling program in an already stressed market. The trade, worth $4.1 billion, led to a chain of events that ended with traders swiftly pulling their money from the market, the review found.


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Open, Honest, Democratic Dialog
Op-Ed by Henry Clay Ruark
Courtesy: kioskifinansowe.pl
(SEASIDE, Ore.) - Despite their unavoidable competition brought on by their individual status economically and socially within Colonial society, our Founders worked massively to assure themselves of the essentials for any conscientious agreement on the complex issues of human relations and governing policies.
They ALL well knew the extremely high values and virtues obtainable in open discussion with honest participants willing to "tell it like it really is" and then take the full consequences, both negative and positive, for their individual views.
The still-primitive and extremely difficult and demanding essential duties of Colonial-times made that among the most massive frames for existence then, with survival all too often depending upon precisely the operation of open, honest and effective dialog and decision.
In fact, despite the historically evident --and often extremely heated-- dialog, discussion and debate massively recorded for each and every one of their working decisions, it is the strong reliance on that process and on the good faith of each participant that makes the history itself so remarkable:
It is clearly redolent with strongly expressed personal statements in the most intimate channels, yet still within the sensitive, respected and rational framework for which their mutual contributions have become justly world-famous.
For those in any doubt about this manner of massive mutual invention and development of an entirely/new concept in consensual government and the new-and old policies demanded and blended for its success, a short library-baed intervention-period is surely the best prescription: GO there...and read "with your own eyes" to satisfy your own mind of just why, when and how our Founders found for themselves the wisest --and by now well-proven-- elements for elevating the individual citizen to the most prominent and promising stature of self-rule ever yet achieved in this world. (Comprehensive book-list sidebar/listing accompanies this Op Ed.)
That is WHY the long-term/running-attack of "the ALEC process" is so strikingly and desperately dangerous and damaging to the entire working concept on which our Founders spent their most meaningful years of their lives: To create for us an exceptionally well-founded and historical-principle/tested pattern and plan for providing due and decent, honest and democratic, governing policies and procedures.
Today --every day !-- we see demonstrated by a raffish political Right, right where it can spit in the public eye, precisely the kind, capacity and concentrated-conflict tools for attack and even fatal damage to what the Founders forged in their famous fires of invention, creative combination and potent procedures set forth in their world-famous Constitution and Bill of Rights.
The GOPster-gang might well win sporadic applause if their self-immolating antics were presented as improperly "on stage" as the same selfish tactics are without fail, each and every day, for delicious devouring by a pandering press, itself deeply at fault and due for radically difficult come/up//ance.
There is no shame-level to their show, and no stopping its serial (NOT "side-splitting "!) very serious consequences, made to cut deeper and more painfully by the obvious contempt shown for the ordinary reader or viewer.
The combination --of politically-based pandering and improperly contemptuous press-and-media summary and acceptance-- is NOT "politics" by any present-or-past view or vow of what America has created.
It is most properly negated, denied attention, and valued for its demonstrated worth --practically speaking, near-to-nothing (!!) by most cogitative citizens -- the current contemporary model for the most meaningful kind intended from the first by our Founders.
Surely now --especially with the horrendous, spectacular, on-the-record national expose of the ALEC-process and all that is connected with-and-to it-- the time has come for this session of the Oregon Legislature to consider putting aside this blunted, broken and useless --as well as contrived, possibly illegal, and perverted -- poorly-designed process, perverted from the first step, and return to what we can proudly pronounce as the result of that famous Oregon policy: "She Flies With Her Own Wings !"
At 21, Henry Clay Ruark was Aroostook Editor for the Bangor, Maine DAILY NEWS, covering the upper 1/4 of the state. In the '40s, he was Staff Correspondent, then New England Wires Editor at United Press-Boston; later Editor for the Burlington, Vermont 3-daily group owned by Wm. Loeb, later notorious at Manchester, New Hampshire UNION LEADER for attacks on Democratic Presidential candidates.
Hank returned to Oregon to complete M. Ed. degree at OSU, went on to Indiana University for Ed.D. (abd) and special other course-work; was selected as first Information Director for NAVA in Washington, D.C.; helped write sections of NDEA, first Act to supply math, science, foreign language consultants to state depts. of education; joined Oregon Dept. of Education, where he served as NDEA administrator/Learning Media Consultant for ten years.
He joined Dr. Amo DeBernardis at PCC, helping establish, extend programs, facilities, Oregon/national public relations; moved to Chicago as Editor/Publisher of oldest educational-AV journal, reformed as AV GUIDE Magazine; then established and operated Learning Media Associates as general communications consultant group. Due to wife's illness, he returned to Oregon in 1981, semi-retired, and has continued writing intermittently ever since, joining S-N in 2004. His Op Eds now total over 750 written since then.
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Stephen: Just so readers know what you and Ron propose, here's definition: noun an extreme laissez-faire political philosophy advocating only minimal state intervention in the lives of citizens. The adherents of libertarianism believe that private morality is not the state's affair and that therefore activities such as drug use and prostitution, which arguably harm no one but the participants, should not be illegal. Libertarianism shares elements with anarchism, although it is generally associated more with the political right (chiefly in the U.S.). Unlike traditional liberalism, however, libertarianism lacks a concern with social justice. Anyone who accepts that flies in the face of the entire development in America since the Founders invented/developed our outre' form of democracy. The tools like ready to hand if and when Americans decide they've had enough of this stuff from both parties. Honest, open democratic dialog, following this time very closely on the principles the Founders stated for us, can and will do the job. Political subterfuge to install malign and massive distortions and perversions of true democratic process --as ALEC has been exposed to be--- should be stricken from usage within every legislative body.
agree 100% about the GOP, and its even worse than you know... Altho, I hope you write about what the democrats do also, because they are just as bad, and sometimes even worse...Lets keep the big picture here. Corruption begats corruption, and DC is is swimming in it...BOTH parties. Support Ron Paul :-)[Return to Top]


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In September 1962 an unmarried woman received this colourful postcard of Piccadilly Gardens in Manchester from a male friend.
The message on the reverse of the card read:
Dear Jen,
Here I am in the middle of the Derbyshire Moors, very flat and featureless on top but deep, steep sided valleys are fairly impressive. I came out here for a breath of fresh air, Manchester is oppressive; the top of the moor really is unbelievably flat, and certainly doesn't reward the climb.
Love Derrick.


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An Comunn Gaidhealach - Monthly Newsletter
This has already been sent out to choir secretaries. For those who may not have seen it, here is the direct link to the newsletter section of the ACG website.
"The Association aim to promote, develop and maintain public education in and appreciation of the art and science of music and in particular Gaelic Choral Music. It was formed purely as a representative body seeking to further the interests of all Gaelic Choirs. It is a governing body and does not interfere in any way whatsoever with the management or work of any individual choir. Our role is to negotiate on behalf of Gaelic Choirs and to strengthen the common bonds between us."
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Fàilte dhuibh uile gu larach linn Comunn nan Còisirean Gàidhlig.
Welcome to the website of Comunn na Còisirean Gàidhlig – the Gaelic Choirs' Asscoiation.
The association exists to support Gaelic choirs, foster their existence and, where possible, to encourage new choirs to be founded.
If you are in any way interested in joining a Gaelic choir you can locate your nearest choir on this site, or, alternatively, contact us for information.
Singing is Fun!
Singing is good for your health!
Singing is glamorous!
What's not to like about singing? You get to make beautiful music that speaks to your soul and to the souls of others. You get to make other people happy with your music. Singing in a Gaelic Choir is like having an extended family.
The Association has close links with An Comunn Gàidhealach in relation to Mòd events for choirs and represents the views of choirs to An Comunn.
We are delighted to provide practical help to new and existing choirs, including assisting anyone who has an interest in conducting – especially since a scarcity of conductors is the major problem which choirs encounter.
Please do not hesitate to contact me on email or by phoning me on 0776 583 4210.
Leis gach deagh dhùrachd.
Jackie Cotter, President
Pictures kindly provided by Graham Hood Photography. To purchase photos from Oban Mod 2015, visit grahamhoodphotography.com
Stirling Gaelic Choir received a highly commended award and were second in the Scotland Sings Chorus Awards arranged by the Hands Up for Trad organisation. The commendation was in the Inspiring Year category after a very successful concert celebrating the musical arrangements of Chic Bonar with our current conductor Jane McQueen at the helm. This is the second year of the massively popular Chorus Awards with a huge number of entries and the choir is delighted to be flying the flag for Stirling and all Gaelic choirs.
In the announcements by Alison Burns of Hands up for Trad she said "we loved their commitment to the Gaelic language and to keeping their original repertoire alive"
This has already been sent out to choir secretaries. For those who may not have seen it, here is the direct link to the newsletter section of the ACG website.
A new choir has emerged in the world of Gaelic Choirs. Following on from Kenny Thomson's comment at Inverness Castle during the National Mod, calling the Massed Choirs, Scotland's National Gaelic Choir, an exciting project is happening this year to open up new opportunities for singers to perform.
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Poetry & Encounter
A cadence of experience, a rhythm of expression formed by graceful attentiveness.
Graceful Attentiveness
Reality, too, is conflict neutral. You may have heard it said, in response to some situation or another; "It is what it is." This is often said in resignation, a throwing up of the spiritual hands as one gives up totally, or it can be a simple acceptance of what is, in the moment. A peaceful center can accept reality. It is not giving up or giving in. Rather, it is one's attention magnified by grace.
In conversation with a friend, Ericka was sharing about our work together, and about what she was learning about herself. Her friend made a statement about a particular personality profile, sharing her type and stating that she and Ericka were just alike. The truth is, Ericka's profile and her friend's profile are completely different.
Her friend is more on the introverted side of things, gives great energy to process and detail, and tends more toward perfectionism, doing things in the right way. Ericka is more extraverted, direct, decisive, and clear, driven to get the right things done. The friend sees Ericka similar to herself because of grace; Ericka's energy focused on this core relationship and loving her friend as she centers the best of who she is.
I can only imagine how this friend looks forward with eagerness to being in Ericka's graceful presence, their differences coming together and belonging.
The Lie of Expectation
It is quite embarrassing as I think about it, how often I allow some expectation to tell me a lie. I'm not referring to a presupposition imposed from some external source. I've become rather skilled at silencing those. More so, I point toward a self-inflicted conjecture that strays from reality.
To pay attention void of grace is to tell oneself a lie.
In the petri dish of falsity, internal violence can develop in the cultures of false expectation, judgment, and comparison. When left too long to culture, and then uncovered, the spoiled combination spreads infected messages that have nothing to do with who one is in reality.
When I launched out on my own in this work that called me, I entered with a piece of expectation-baggage; anyone in this line of work must publish a book, and quickly. So, as I thought authors do, I committed time early in the morning and began to write. This expectation, with its falsity tormenting my thinking, led me through two false starts in attempting to create a manuscript. Later, upon finding my voice and my own writing process, I looked back on what had been written during those mornings. It was useless to what I was then composing in-voice, but quite necessary in getting me to that point.
When I find a wonderful writer, I read a lot of what he or she writes. While I love studying style in these skilled writers, I know I've had to find my own way; my own rhythm with pen and page that allows my voice flow in composing. I consequently let go of the goal of being an author and embraced the diligent duty of being a writer.
The Truth of Grace
Recently in my personal journal, I found myself expressing a need to be validated as a writer. At first it was unclear as to the source of this expressed need. Then it was time to write about the lie of expectation. It then occurred to me that I was again allowing some expectation, or set of expectations, to pronounce a wholesale judgment on me as a writer.
Four books later, and this one in progress, my methodology is still evolving and teaching me in the process. It took much practice, pain, and persistence to clear my thinking and free the writer I am. My personal journaling assured me that I am the writer I'm intended to be, and the same practice, pain, and persistence will continue with only the objective of making me better at the craft. I begin most mornings with my journal. Quite often in that time I find myself simply sitting in gratitude. Is gratitude part of grace, or at least a mark of grace? I think so. And grace is much more free to flow the more I can stay on the path with my walk.
If we are not careful, not taking enough guard to refuse false expectation digresses from our path, we allow damaging interruption to the steadiness of our walk. To know everything belongs is to have come to a confident stand, and to know a more secure and steady walk on our own path. It becomes a way of being with reality, of being less distracted by any particular want of a reality other than the one we have. Wanting a reality other than the one in front of us can freeze us in a moment of real need and keep us from doing what is good and right to do in the reality of unique encounter.
Gratitude and grace are marks of a contemplative leader. This leader can confidently stand in the middle, see things without a need to separate and judge, and walk steadily with the staff of reality; blessed by the wonders expressed in the truth of poetry and the experience of encounter.
Grace and gratitude make you stronger. Freedom is nourished by the acknowledgement of specific blessings in your walk. A litany of gratitude helps you remain aware of life & living as good things gather and unfold−and this is grace. The confidence needed for traveling the path is increased by consciously consistent praise for every event and connection.
Stepping from life into living,
from internal to external,
soul flowing toward others.
Stepping from life into living,
deeply encouraged
by the fitting together,
all things working together
for good, if but allowed.
From expectation to graceful anticipation,
Trueness navigating turn and toil.
Seeing past falsity
and into the soul,
courage grows in each encounter,
holding the paradox of being
human and divine.
Reality clears a path,
a way of being true.
Attention now given,
grace within relationship,
grace within the flow.


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