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Tim Brook, Professor, PhD. Harvard University, 1984
Prof. Brook teaches the history of the Ming dynasty and of China in the twentieth century, and is the author of 14 books on Chinese history. Of the 10 that have been translated into Chinese, three having to do with civil society, collaboration, and the rape of Nanking have been held back for political reasons. Best known are The Confusions of Pleasure: Commerce and Culture in Ming China and Vermeer's Hat: The Seventeenth Century and the Dawn of Globalization.
Carla Nappi, Assistant Professor, PhD. Princeton University, 2006
Prof. Nappi's research focuses on practices and institutions of knowledge-making in early modern China. Her first book, The Monkey and the Inkpot: Natural History and its Transformations in Early Modern China (Harvard University Press, 2009), explored the construction of evidence and belief about plants and animals through the lens of the Bencao gangmu [Materia medica in Categories General and Specific] (1596), a massive encyclopedia of medical and natural knowledge composed by Li Shizhen (1518-1593). She is actively working on two book projects that make use of Chinese, Manchu, Mongolian and Tibetan sources to create a globally situated and translingual history of early modern China. Illegible Cities: Translating Early Modern China is devoted to understanding the institutional, textual, social and epistemic history of translation in China from the fifteenth through mid-eighteenth centuries. Recipes for Exchange: Drugs and Empire in Chinese Early Modernity explores early modern Chinese relationships with borderland medical and scientific cultures in an attempt to understand how the history and modern study of Chinese materia medica is shaped by the continuing reverberations of Chinese imperial expansion in the period 1600-1800. In addition, Nappi has spent several years studying classical and modern Arabic language for a long-term project, tentatively titled Rihla: Science and Medicine Along the Silk Routes, that will be a focused study of Chinese-Islamic knowledge exchange in early modernity.
Leo K. Shin, Associate Professor, PhD. Princeton University, 1999
Prof. Shin is an associate professor of History and Asian Studies at UBC. A cultural historian of later imperial China, he is particularly interested in how the sociology of culture – the production, transmission and consumption of beliefs and practices – has shaped not only how the boundaries of China have been drawn but also how China itself has been historicized. He is the author of The Making of the Chinese State: Ethnicity and Expansion on the Ming Borderlands (Cambridge University Press, 2006) and is writing a book on the uses of the images of a Chinese martyr from the twelfth century to the present.
Glen Peterson, Associate Professor, PhD. University of British Columbia
Prof. Peterson is a social and cultural historian who specializes in the history of Guangdong and South China. For the past two decades he has studied the history of what is now increasingly referred to as "maritime China": that is, the South China littoral region with its traditions of seafaring, emigration and economic and cultural exchange. His research interests include Chinese education and literacy, Chinese migration to Southeast Asia, especially Malaysia and Singapore, and the role of Chinese overseas in the modernization of China. His books on these subjects include The Power of Words: Literacy and Revolution in South China (1997); Historical Dictionary of Guangdong and Guangzhou (Canton) (1999); Education, Culture and Identity in Twentieth-Century China (2001) and Motherland! Overseas Chinese in the People's Republic of China (2011). His current research examines the significance of the People's Republic of China in the emergence of the postwar international refugee regime in Asia.
Henry Yu, Professor, PhD. Princeton, 1994
Prof. Yu is involved in the collaborative effort to reimagine the history of Vancouver and of British Columbia through the concept of "Pacific Canada," a perspective that focuses on how migrants from Asia, Europe and other parts of the Americas engaged with each other and with First Nations peoples historically. Read "Our Own Not-So-Quiet Revolution" and Prof. Yu's essay "Global Migrants and the New Pacific Canada," written for the 25th Anniversary of the Asia Pacific Foundation. Also visit Yu's blog Past Present.
Prof. Yu is also the Director of the Initiative for Student Teaching and Research in Chinese Canadian Studies (INSTRCC), the first stage of a long-term commitment at UBC to the study of trans-Pacific migrations and the long history of interactions between Asian and European migrants and First Nations peoples in Pacific Canada.
Prof. Yu is committed to expanding the engagement between academic research and the communities that the university serves. He is the Project Lead for a $1.17 million project entitled Chinese Canadian Stories: Uncommon Histories from a Common Past which will create a one-stop web portal for the reinterpretation of Canadian history through the lens of Chinese Canadians. Receiving $900,000 from the Community Historical Recognition Program of the Canadian Federal government, this project aims to gather the ignored histories of one of the "founding peoples" of Canada and to use the latest in new media technologies to present a new understanding of our common history.
In 2005, Prof. Yu and Teaching Assistant Jennifer Lau took students from classes at UBC and UCLA in a unique six-week summer field course comparing Asian migration and its effects on Vancouver and Los Angeles. Entitled "Eating Our Way from Vancouver to LA," the popular course focused on food and restaurants as a way of understanding cultural change. In the summer of 2007, Prof. Yu took an even larger group of UBC students on a joint field course with University Scholar Program students from the National University of Singapore. Entitled "Eating Our Way Across Southeast Asia," the 20 UBC and NUS students, along with TA Jennifer Lau and fellow UBC Professor emeritus Graham Johnson, literally ate their way through Hong Kong, Guangzhou, Singapore, Malacca and Kuala Lumpur. The summers of 2009 and 2010 saw students from UBC and from NUS each spending two weeks in Vancouver and Singapore in group research projects comparing the two cities, and of course sampling their cuisine. Watch a film made by the students examining how the two cities have dealt with their historic Chinatown districts.
Prof. Yu and Prof. Peter Ward were co-investigators in a project involving the creation of a digital database of the approximately 96,000 Chinese Canadians who paid the discriminatory Head Tax between 1885-1923. This project involved student research assistants Jason Chan, Mary Chan, Denise Wong, and PhD student Feng Zhang. Put online in 2008, this database enables Chinese Canadians whose ancestors were Head Tax payers to search digitally for their records.
In 2007, UBC officially launched the Initiative for Student Teaching and Research in Chinese Canadian studies (INSTRCC). Built from the ground up by students over a three-year period, INSTRCC is the first stage of a permanent commitment to teaching and research focused on the role of Asian Canadians in the building of Pacific Canada. Supported by the commitment of its participating students, faculty and community donors, INSTRCC focuses on recovering the complex story of Chinese Canada as both a geographical concept – capturing the long-standing ties of the west coast of Canada with the Pacific region – and as a historical framework built from processes of migration and trade that have linked North America to Asia and the Pacific for hundreds of years.


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Okie from Muskogee
Okie from Muskogee is the first live album by Merle Haggard and the Strangers released in October 1969 on Capitol Records.
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The album was a recorded performance at the Civic Center in Muskogee, Oklahoma on October 10, 1969, the day before the studio version of "Okie from Muskogee" hit the national country charts.
In the documentary Beyond Nashville, Haggard claims the song, which he wrote with drummer Eddie Burris on his bus, was more of a wistful tribute to his late father than any kind of political statement: "My dad passed away when I was nine, and I don't know if you've ever thought about somebody you've lost and you say, 'I wonder what so-and-so would think about this?' I was drivin' on Interstate 40 and I saw a sign that said "19 Miles to Muskogee", while at the same time listening to radio shows of The World Tomorrow (radio and television) hosted by Garner Ted Armstrong[1]. Muskogee was always referred to in my childhood as 'back home.' So I saw that sign and my whole childhood flashed before my eyes and I thought, 'I wonder what dad would think about the youthful uprising that was occurring at the time, the Janis Joplins...I understood 'em, I got a long with it, but what if he was to come alive at this moment? And I thought, what a way to describe the kind of people in America that are still sittin' in the center of the country sayin', 'What is goin' on on these campuses?'", as it was the subject of this Garner Ted Armstrong radio program. "And a week or so later, I was listening to Garner Ted Armstrong, and Armstrong was saying how the smaller colleges in smaller towns don't seem to have any problems. And I wondered if Muskogee had a college, and it did, and they hadn't had any trouble - no racial problems and no dope problems. The whole thing hit me in two minutes, and I did one line after another and got the whole thing done in 20 minutes." In the American Masters episode about his life and career, however, a more defiant Haggard states that the song was more than a satire: "That's how I got into it with the hippies...I thought they were unqualified to judge America, and I thought they were lookin' down their noses at something that I cherished very much, and it pissed me off. And I thought, 'You sons of bitches, you've never been restricted away from this great, wonderful country, and yet here you are in the streets bitchin' about things, protesting about a war that they didn't know anymore about than I did. They weren't over there fightin' that war anymore than I was."
Haggard began performing the song in concert in the fall of 1969 and was astounded at the reaction it received. As David Cantwell notes in his 2013 book Merle Haggard: The Running Kind, "The Haggard camp knew they were on to something. Everywhere they went, every show, "Okie" did more than prompt enthusiastic applause. There was an unanticipated adulation racing through the crowds now, standing ovations that went on and on and sometimes left the audience and the band-members alike teary-eyed. Merle had somehow stumbled upon a song that expressed previously inchoate fears, spoke out loud gripes and anxieties otherwise only whispered, and now people were using his song, were using him, to connect themselves to these larger concerns and to one another."[2] The studio version topped the charts in the fall of 1969, where it remained for a month, and also hit number 41 on the pop charts, becoming Haggard's all-time biggest hit (until his 1973 crossover Christmas smash "If We Make It Through December") and signature tune.
In Haggard's episode of CMT's Inside Fame, Brian Mansfield of USA Today insists, "I think between 1966 and 1969/1970, when he's doing "Okie from Muskogee" and "Fightin' Side of Me," that period was every bit the match of Hank Williams from about 1950 to 1952. I think it's that good..."
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The album topped the Billboard country albums chart and hit number 46 on pop chart and won the Academy of Country Music award for Album of the Year in 1969. It also received the CMA Award for Album of the Year in 1970. Haggard also won Single of the Year for "Okie from Muskogee" as well as Top Male Vocalist.
Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic wrote, "While the record isn't necessary, it is a hell of a lot of fun and not bad evidence of why Hag was the most popular figure in country music at the end of the '60s."[3] Music critic Robert Christgau wrote "Despite some slack performances, this album.. is a passable sampler.... But The Best of Merle Haggard is a lot more representative of a great iconoclast who's keeping it under wraps these days."[4]
Track listingEdit
All songs by Merle Haggard unless otherwise noted:
- "Introduction by Carlton Haney" – :35
- "Mama Tried" – 2:25
- "No Hard Times" (Jimmie Rodgers) – 2:20
- "Silver Wings" – 2:39
- "Merle Receives Key to Muskogee" – 1:20
- "Merle's Introduction to Medley" – :23
- "Swinging Doors" – 1:16
- "I'm a Lonesome Fugitive" (Liz Anderson, Casey Anderson) – 1:37
- "Sing Me Back Home" – 1:24
- "Branded Man" – 2:18
- "In the Arms of Love" (Buck Owens, Gene Price) – 2:08
- "Workin' Man Blues" – 2:35
- "Merle's Introduction to "Hobo Bill"" – 1:07
- "Hobo Bill's Last Ride" (Waldo LaFayette O'Neal) – 2:38
- "Billy Overcame His Size" – 3:05
- "If I Had Left It Up to You" – 2:36
- "White Line Fever" – 3:03
- "Blue Rock" (Norman Hamlet, Roy Nichols) – 1:09
- "Introduction to Okie from Muskogee" – 1:47
- "Okie from Muskogee" (Merle Haggard, Eddie Burris) – 4:05
- Merle Haggard– vocals, guitar
- Roy Nichols – lead guitar
- Norman Hamlet – steel guitar, dobro
- Gene Price – bass, vocals
- Eddie Burris – drums
- Bonnie Owens – harmony vocals
Chart positionsEdit
|Billboard Country albums
|Billboard Pop albums
|Billboard Canadian Albums Chart[5]
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- ^ Cantwell, David (2013). Merle Haggard: The Running Kind. University of Texas Press. ISBN 978-0-292-71771-8.
- ^ a b Erlewine, Steven Thomas. "Okie from Muskogee > Review". Allmusic. Retrieved February 22, 2015.
- ^ a b Christgau, Robert (1981). "Consumer Guide '70s: H". Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies. Ticknor & Fields. ISBN 089919026X. Retrieved February 24, 2019 – via robertchristgau.com.
- ^ "Merle Haggard Album & Song Chart History - Canadian Albums". Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. Retrieved May 17, 2016.


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It came complete with eye rolling on the part of D. He doesn't get the blog thing. He doesn't get why I have to share ridiculous little details of our lives. He finds it rather annoying, especially when he's reprimanded by friends for things I've written here. ha ha
It's a good lesson in treating your blogger wife nicely.
After I put my foot down (and made a pouty faced plea to please just play along), he rolled his eyes a few more times and set some ground rules for
1. No one is allowed to repeat the same gratitude.
2. I'm not allowed to post specifically what each one is grateful for on the blog.
This rule was seconded and carried before I even had a chance to protest!
With this in mind, the general lack of support I was having on this task, I was more than surprised that tonight after we had read Scriptures together and said prayers, the CHILDREN said "Wait! We haven't done gratitudes!" And they took their turns, and some of them actually thought about it before blurting out an answer.
It was one of those days where I wasn't feeling particularly grateful for anything. I was home all day with the two little girls. I talked to a friend on the phone. I made a quick in and out trip to the grocery store. Nothing magical or special happened. It was just one of those going through the motions days.
I was struggling to find something to be grateful for. A story. A crazy incident with the girls. There weren't any.
And that in itself is something to be grateful for, I suppose. But better than all of that, my kids are supporting me and are learning to be grateful. I'm teaching THEM something through this silly little blog project.
And that's something to feel pretty darn grateful for.


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After debuting the song in recent live performances, breakout UK folk-rock outfit Mumford & Sons have released the first single, "I Will Wait," from their much-anticipated second album, Babel.
The buoyant, upbeat tune is catchy and rich with vocal harmonies, much like the songs on their double-platinum 2009 debut, Sigh No More. Fans of the band will be happy to hear no traces of any Black Sabbath influence, which bassist Ted Dwane joked to Rolling Stone late last year had the band moving in a more "doom folk" direction.
"As a band, we've never been closer or more collaborative, all working to our strengths. And so we feel that this record is a natural progression that we're proud of," the band said in a press release about the album.
The official video released for the song is nothing more than a rolling shot of freeway passing beneath the wheels of a vehicle, with the clip ending on the words "Road To Red Rocks" and a plug for their special "Gentleman of the Road" dates on their current tour. Those shows are described as "a day-long event, celebrating the music, food and people of the places we're visiting." Upcoming stops include Dixon, Illinois on August 18th and Monterey, California on August 25. Both events are sold out.
Babel comes out via Glassnote Records on September 25.
Mumford & Sons – Summer Tour Dates
August 7 – Canandaigua, NY @ Marvin Sands Performing Arts
August 9 – Portsmouth, VA @ nTelos Wireless Pavilion
August 11 – Bristol, VA @ Gentlemen of the Road Stopover
August 13 – Louisville, KY @ Louisville Waterfront Park
August 14 – Columbus, OH @ The LC Pavilion
August 18 – Dixon, IL @ Gentlemen of the Road Stopover
August 20 – Lincoln, NE @ Pinewood Bowl Theatre
August 21 – Laramie, WY @ Gryphon Theatre
August 22 – Magna, UT @ The Saltair
August 25 – Monterey, CA @ Gentlemen of the Road Stopover
August 28 – Morrison, CO @ Red Rocks Amphitheatre
September 1 – Snowmass Village, CO @ Jazz Aspen Snowmass Festival
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By Alma Soongi Beck, J.D. LL.M. Taxation, California State Bar Certified Specialist in Estate Planning, Trust and Probate Law
With so much attention on the marriage cases, practitioners advising same-sex couples may be missing two crucial changes in property tax rules from 2013 affecting co-owners of property who are not married to each other or registered in the state as domestic partners.
The issue is Property Tax Reassessment, which has often been bad news for same-sex couples. California state property taxes have been governed by Proposition 13 since 1978, which in most cases sets property taxes based on the acquisition value, increasing the taxes only 2% a year until the property undergoes a "Change of Ownership." Upon Change of Ownership (e.g. sale), the new owners are "Reassessed" based on the current market value. This means that when the property has appreciated faster than 2% a year, "Reassessment" can result in a huge increase in the property taxes, depending on how large the increase.
Change in Ownership also occurs at death, which is where same-sex couples have been burned in the past. In fact, Reassessment can be one of the most serious issues for same-sex couples who inherit real property from each other. Reassessment can result in such a large increase in the property tax that the surviving partner can no longer afford to keep the home.
Thankfully, Exemptions from Reassessment were extended to state-registered domestic partners (SRDPs) in 2006 under SB 565, and to same-sex married couples in 2008 when same-sex marriages were recognized and then upheld.
However, for couples who are not married or registered as SRDPs , the issue of possible future Reassessment still looms. In these situations, two options to avoid Reassessment are still available:
A. 2013 Cotenancy Rule, AB 1700 (effective January 2013)
Under AB1700, which amended Section 62.3 of the Revenue and Taxation Code, a surviving co-owner can avoid Reassessment if all of the following conditions are met:
- Only two owners (or "cotenants") had owned the property before death, and together they had owned 100% of the property either as joint tenants or tenants in common.
- Both cotenants had lived in the property as primary residence for at least one year prior to the death of an owner.
- Transfer of property is due to death of an owner, and after transfer, the remaining cotenant owns 100% of the property.
- The remaining cotenant signs an affidavit proving that he/she consistently lived in the property as primary residence at least one-year prior to death of the first owner.
B. 2003 Joint Tenancy Transfer Rule 462.040 – partly expired October 2013
While AB1700 will help many same-sex couples who are not married or SRDPs, for those cases not addressed by AB1700, the 2003 Joint Tenancy Transfer Rule might be the only other option for same-sex couples to avoid Reassessment upon death of a co-owner (other than getting married or registering as SRDPs).
Rule 462.040 was expanded in October 2003 in a way that allowed unmarried and same-sex couples the ability to avoid Reassessment upon death of a co-owner for the first time ever in California history. Specifically, in 2003, 462.040 was expanded to allow two additional ways to qualify for Exemption: (A) transfer from co-owners as non joint tenants (e.g., tenancy in common) to joint tenancy; and (B) transfer from joint tenancy into trusts (e.g., revocable trusts) where the other owner is named as beneficiary of the property upon death.
When couples properly understand the rule (usually upon consultation with legal counsel), they can qualify for Part A directly upon acquisition of a new property. Specifically, they can acquire the property as tenants in common and then immediately transfer to themselves as joint tenancy.
In many cases, however, Part A is not possible, such as when the property is already in Joint Tenancy. In fact, most couples are still completely unaware of the 2003 rule expansion, as are many of their realtors, mortgage brokers, title officers, and in some cases, their legal counsel. In these cases, the opportunity to qualify for Part A can be easily missed upon purchase of a new property.
So basically, on the one hand, the passage of AB 1700 is great news for same-sex couples who co-own primary residences, with no other people other than themselves. But, on the other hand, the repeal of Part B of 462.040 now severely limits options for other same-sex couples whose situation falls outside the scope of AB1700.
People who are most affected include:
- Couples who own real property that is not a primary residence for one or both;
- Couples who own with other people, even if it is their primary residence (e.g., "tenancy-in-common" ownership of multi-unit buildings);
- Couples who have owned real property for less than one year, where one person may be terminal and possibly passing away before the one year mark;
- Couples who may have relied on Part B in previous years, and who removed the property from Trust (e.g., during a refinance), but may not have put it back.
For these situations, and given that the October 1, 2013 partial repeal of Rule 462.040 has already occurred, practitioners may want to offer the following considerations:
(1) Property tax protection is still available for transfers between married couples and California state domestic partners. If your clients missed their opportunity to qualify for the now-repealed rule, they may want to re-think your decision regarding marriage or state domestic partnership.
IMPORTANT NOTE: While marriage and California state domestic partnership both bring with them tremendous advantages under state and (for marriage, now federal) laws, there are some situations where either or both are not a good idea for a couple. In some instances, the reasons are as simple as not wanting to be "out" about your relationship in the workplace due to concerns about discrimination. In other cases, the reasons are financial or tax-based, such as the impact on federal or state income taxes, or the impact on qualifying for state Medicaid (or in California, Medi-Cal) in the event skilled nursing care is needed.
(2) If your clients decide not to marry or register as state domestic partners, and they have already done a transfer from Joint Tenancy into Trust (where the Trusts each name the other owner as beneficiary upon death), and that transfer was done prior to October 1, 2013, they can still qualify for Rule 462.040 protection if they never take their property out of their Trusts, even for refinance purposes.
If any of your clients are relying on Part B of Rule 462.040 for future property tax protection, the repeal of this part of the Rule requires extra vigilance to make sure the property is never removed from the Trusts. This situation could arise unexpectedly such as:
- During estate planning, if you assist your clients to set up new trusts instead of amending and repealing their current trusts;
- During refinance, if the clients' lender or title officer says, sometimes casually or at the very last minute, that they can "just take the property out of the trust and put it back."
(3) If your clients decide not to marry or register as state domestic partners, and they have previously already transferred from Tenancy in Common to Joint Tenancy (with the exact same co-owners), they still qualify for the part of Rule 462.040 that was not repealed and that is still on the books. However, if they then do a subsequent transfer from Joint Tenancy into Trust and that transfer was done October 1, 2013 or later, they will then disqualify themselves from property tax protection under this rule.
The problem with this result is that it is counter-intuitive. The exact thing that used to bring more protection before October 1, 2013, is not the very thing that eliminates the clients' protection now.
This situation would most commonly arise during estate planning, such as when a practitioner suggests that the couple set up revocable living trusts, and then suggests to transfer the real property into the trusts.
Such advice is understandable for practitioners, who have historically disfavored joint tenancy for nonmarried, non-domestic partners has for several reasons, such as the double counting of joint tenancy property under Internal Revenue Code 2040, or the lack of control over who inherits after the second co-owner dies, or the probate risk upon the second death.
However, now that Part B of Rule 462.040 has been repealed, these factors have to be weighed against the potential impact of the increase in the Property Taxes. The potential increase can be massive, depending on how much the Property has appreciated beyond its current assessed value.
For these reasons, practitioners will want to assist our clients in this situation regarding the pros and cons of each option. This could also be an important opportunity to help our clients revisit the option of marrying and/or registering as California state domestic partners.


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Math could help cure chronic myeloid leukemia? - CML
In a study that combined math and medicine, researchers have shown that patients with Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia (CML) may be cured of the disease with an optimally timed cancer treatment, where the timing is determined based on their own immune response.
Mathematician Doron Levy of Univ. of Maryland details findings in June 20, 2008 edition of PLoS.
Applying Mathematical Models to study the role of the immune system in CML
2016, University of Maryland
Model-based prediction of patient-specific residual disease levels for imatinib-treated CML
June 2011, ASCO 2011
Tyrosine kinase inhibitor therapy can cure CML without hitting leukemic stem cells
June 2010, Haematologica
Dynamics and Potential Impact of the Immune Response to Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia (html) (pdf version)
June 2008, PLoS
Combining math and medicine to treat leukemia from Science News from Science News
Math Could Aid in Curing Cancer from National Science Fondation
Math Could Help Cure Leukemia from MedicalNewsToday
Math could help cure leukemia from EurekAlert
Math Could Help Cure Leukemia from News Wise
Learning Maths may Help Treat and Cure Leukemia from Medindia
Math may help treat leukemia from Thaindian News
Combining math and medicine to treat leukemia from HULIQ
Dynamics and Potential Impact of the Immune Response to CML from PubMed Central
Drug Has Ability To Cure Type Of Leukemia from ScienceDaily


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Hey everyone, it's August 12th and it is time for brushing your tech factor. Let's begin with the week's tech news. This week's news includes Microsoft's next iteration of Windows 10 Update, Russia fining Google for pre-loading apps on Android, Tesla's Autopilot, Adblock Plus beating Facebook's new restrictions, Microsoft's latest acquisition and following the weekly trend, your favorite piece, the new Pokémon Go update.
Microsoft Already Began Working On it's Next major Windows Update : Redstone 2
The Anniversary update to Windows 10 was released only a few weeks ago and the company is already head over heels for the operating system's next iteration. Codenamed "Redstone 2", the update may coincide with Microsoft's hardware updates to Microsoft Surface Pro and Surface Book devices. The internal builds are already out for testing. The new blog post details not one but two feature updates coming to Windows in 2017. The second update, "Redstone 3" would be the more significant of the two and will arrive later in 2017. The Anniversary update marked the second big update to Windows 10 since the launch, and it looks like Microsoft is all set to release two big updates per year for Windows 10.
Russia Fines Google $6.75 Billion for Pre-Loading Apps on Android
Google has been fined for requiring phone manufacturers to ship devices with Google apps pre-installed. The fine of $6.7 million, however, small it may be for a company like Google, is an indication of the state of affairs between Google and Europe. The complaint was filed by Yandex, a domestic search engine serving Russia. Google may be big globally but it faces a tough competition in Russia by Yandex, which has 60 percent of the total market. The majority of the phones sold in Russia are Android based and shipping Google services along with those devices is quite obvious for Android. This only looks like a situation waiting to get worse for Google.
Tesla's Autopilot is Going to Get New Sensors
Tesla's Autopilot is one of the great things that have happened in recent years to autonomy. And the system is only going to get better. According to a report from Electrek, the Autopilot platform is getting new sensors. The new system is said to have 4 more radar modules in addition to the current front facing radar. The report doesn't confirm when will the company roll it out. Tesla denied commenting on the news but didn't decline the speculation altogether. The Autopilot is going to get an update with the new onboard software suite.
Adblock Plus is Already Beating Facebook's New Ad Formats
2 days ago Facebook rolled out a new form of ad that blends in with a user's news feed making it difficult for ad blocking software to distinguish between regular posts and ads. Adblock Plus, the leading ad blocking software/extension has already found a way around the restriction and anyone with the latest version of the extension will be able to remove ads from the news feed and the sidebar. Facebook made a statement regarding this and said it's bad for users as the ad blocking software are not just blocking ads but other posts from pages as well. The solution may be imperfect but it's still bad news for Facebook as it introduced the new ad format only days ago. This is the sort of battle that's always on between advertisers and ad blocking software.
Microsoft Acquires Beam, an Interactive Live Streaming Service
Microsoft has acquired Beam, a Seattle-based interactive game streaming service. Beam lets viewers play along with the person streaming the video. Beam has a model which is very different from something like Twitch which is mostly passive. Players interacting through Beam can directly the play of the person. Beam will join the Xbox team of Microsoft. Beam launched at Tech Crunch Disrupt NY 2016. Beam finds use in the Xbox ecosystem as the company is investing more than ever on making the experience great for users. The deal is however, undisclosed as of now but it's worth noting that Beam had raised $420,000 in seed funding. You can imagine how useful Beam can be in a game like Minecraft.
Niantic Launched a New Feature in Pokémon Go : Sightings
Last week we covered how Niantic screwed up big time by removing the three footsteps tracking system for Pokémon Go and pissed off all of the users. They probably learned a lesson and have come up with a new feature dubbed Sightings. The new system fixes a lot of confusion that was earlier present with the footsteps feature. Sightings work with a much higher refresh rate. So the possibility of actually catching one is higher than ever. Pokémon no longer appear in any order, which is a big difference compared to the old tracker where the closest Pokémon appeared on the top. It is worth mentioning, however, that this is not a permanent situation, Niantic is testing out the new tracker in select markets only as of now, but the move is certainly an attempt to calm down the users aggravated over the demise of the three footstep mechanism.
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A Disney-made prequel to "The Wizard of Oz" directed by Sam Raimi, "Oz the Great and the Powerful", takes us to the fantastic adventure of Oscar Diggs. A small-time magician, who was hurling away from Kansas to the enchanted land of Oz, has ambitions of being a great man. But first, he must learn how to be a good one! Diggs is assumed to be a powerful wizard, until he meets the three witches. The journey is long and he must find out who is good and who is evil before it's too late! James Franco, Mila Kunis, Rachel Weisz, Michelle Williams and Zach Braff star, and give a note of magic with their performances and costumes.
In a fairytale mood and by using our magical arts, we transferred the vibrant Land of Oz into the Fashion Workshop by Vicky Kaya. And the project begun.
Feel Good Entertainment and Fashion Workshop by Vicky Kaya collaborated in a fashionable project and took the movie and its premier in Greece to a higher level. Inspired by the «Oz the Great and the Powerful», the Workshopacholics made an in depth research on the costumes of the movie's protagonists and recreated their very own haute-couture version of the outfits.
Three weeks ago, and after the project was announced, we were organized into four teams. Approaching this project with modern ideas and lots of imagination, we started our mission. A whole research for the costumes of the main characters of the movie took part: Glinda, Evanora, Theodora, Wicked Witch and the Wizard of Oz. Under the guidance of our teachers Dada Ionannidou and Genevieve Manjari and after a versatile study on the fashion history, we decided the final outfits.
The team, during the preparation
The challenge was to create handmade accessories made out of ordinary everyday objects, that would be also fashionable and fit to the total look. Headpieces, jewelry, ruffs, hats, feathers, pearls, clay, metal, mesh were all part of our creations and led as to the final outcome of the costumes.
Snapshots from our shooting
The top Greek designers on board, Celia Kritharioti, 5226 Hommes by Nikos Krithariotis, Deux Hommes, Atelier Loukia, Konstantinos Melis by Laskos dressed the models with their amazing pieces and Kalogirou shoes completed the magic outfits. Adding the final touch, MAC Cosmetics and Yiannis Michailidis, ESSIE nails and hairstylist Stefanos Vassilakis transformed our models and brought our creations to life.
Yiannis Michailidis, Stefanos Vassilakis and ESSIE nails working on the looks
The clock was ticking and there was a lot of pressure, in order to be ready for the big premier. Models were especially casted to fit the part of the witches and Oz, after the fitting we did a few days earlier, fixing final details and confirming that everything was perfect. Magic happened!
The students' creations
A very private and special premier for fashion bloggers and editors was held in Michael Cacoyiannis Foundation on Friday, March 1st, where the models with our very own and unique creations walked down the catwalk, while the students of the Fashion Workshop by Vicky Kaya presented and analyzed the influences and inspirations that led us to the final outcome of the costumes.
And the big day had come. Village World at the Mall Athens opened its doors on Monday 4th of March, for the Big Premiere. And of course we were there to offer a magical ride into our world full of fashion. The venue was filled with our creations. People were there to get a picture with the models and get in the magic mood of the movie.
We were all very passionate and dedicated to this project. Everyone worked hard in order to realize the concept and reach the final goal. The collaboration between us was excellent from the beginning until the end of this project. What an honor for us, at the beginning of our career, to have the chance to work alongside successful people and make a big and amazing project true. There is no doubt that it wasn't easy for anybody! But I think the final outcome was worth every minute of tiredness and stress. Watching our work reach the desirable result was an unbelievable sense of pride and satisfaction. Everything was finally a success!
A huge thank you to Celia Kritharioti, 5226 Hommes by Nikos Krithariotis, Deux Hommes, Atelier Loukia, Konstantinos Melis by Laskos and Kalogirou! Many thanks to MAC Cosmetics and Yiannis Michailidis, ESSIE nails and hairstylist Stefanos Vassilakis. Last but not least, thank you Lipton for the warm fashionable support!
Travel in our magical world with the video-making of the fashionable project.
Thank you all who worked for this project. It was an amazing experience!


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CRT stands for "corneal reshaping therapy," and since approved by the FDA in June 2002, these therapeutic contact lenses temporarily correct nearsightedness up to -6.00 diopters, and mild amounts of astigmatism. Referred to as "Orthokeratology," CRT Contact Lenses are a non-surgical alternative and a non-invasive procedure.
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Quality standard
This quality standard covers the prevention, assessment, diagnosis and management of skin cancer (malignant melanoma and non-melanoma) in children, young people and adults. For more information see the skin cancer topic overview.
NICE quality standards focus on aspects of health and social care that are commissioned locally. Areas of national policy, such as changes to national commissioning arrangements and legislation, are therefore not covered by this quality standard.
Why this quality standard is needed
There are 2 main groups of skin cancer: malignant melanoma, which can prove fatal, and non-melanoma skin cancers (main types: squamous cell carcinoma and basal cell carcinoma), which are rarely fatal. Over the past decade the incidence of malignant melanoma in the UK has increased by almost 50%. There were about 14,500 new cases of malignant melanoma in the UK in 2013.
Non-melanoma skin cancers are much more common than malignant melanomas, but because of current registration practices their true number is significantly underestimated.
The quality standard is expected to contribute to improvements in the following:
skin cancer prevention
skin cancer awareness
early diagnosis of skin cancer
skin cancer referrals
appropriate excisions of skin cancer
skin cancer survival
patient experience.
How this quality standard supports delivery of outcome frameworks
NICE quality standards are a concise set of prioritised statements designed to drive measurable improvements in the 3 dimensions of quality – patient safety, patient experience and clinical effectiveness – for a particular area of health or care. They are derived from high-quality guidance, such as that from NICE or other sources accredited by NICE. This quality standard, in conjunction with the guidance on which it is based, should contribute to the improvements outlined in the following 2 outcomes frameworks published by the Department of Health:
Tables 1 and 2 show the outcomes, overarching indicators and improvement areas from the frameworks that the quality standard could contribute to achieving.
Table 1 NHS outcomes framework 2016–17
Overarching indicators and improvement areas
1 Preventing people from dying prematurely
Overarching indicators
1a Potential Years of Life Lost (PYLL) from causes considered amenable to healthcare
i Adults
1b Life expectancy at 75
i Males ii Females
Improvement areas
Reducing premature mortality from the major causes of death
1.4 Under 75 mortality rate from cancer*
i One-year survival from all cancers
ii Five-year survival from all cancers
v One-year survival from cancers diagnosed at stage 1&2**
vi Five-year survival from cancers diagnosed at stage 1&2**
2 Enhancing quality of life for people with long‑term conditions
Overarching indicator
2 Health‑related quality of life for people with long‑term conditions**
Improvement areas
Ensuring people feel supported to manage their condition
2.1 Proportion of people feeling supported to manage their condition
3 Helping people to recover from episodes of ill health or following injury
Overarching indicators
Improvement areas
Improving outcomes from planned treatments
3.1 Total health gain as assessed by patients for elective procedures
i Physical health-related procedures
4 Ensuring that people have a positive experience of care
Overarching indicators
4a Patient experience of primary care
i GP services
4b Patient experience of hospital care
4c Friends and family test
4d Patient experience characterised as poor or worse
i Primary care
ii Hospital care
Improvement areas
Improving people's experience of outpatient care
4.1 Patient experience of outpatient services
Improving hospitals' responsiveness to personal needs
4.2 Responsiveness to inpatients' personal needs
5 Treating and caring for people in a safe environment and protecting them from avoidable harm
Overarching indicators
5b Severe harm attributable to problems in healthcare
Improving the culture of safety reporting
5.6 Patient safety incidents reported
Alignment with Public Health Outcomes Framework
* Indicator is shared
** Indicator is complementary
Indicators in italics in development
Table 2 Public Health Outcomes Framework 2016–19
Objectives and indicators
2 Health improvement
People are helped to live healthy lifestyles, make healthy choices and reduce health inequalities
2.19 Cancer diagnosed at stage 1 and 2*
4 Healthcare public health and preventing premature mortality
Reduced numbers of people living with preventable ill health and people dying prematurely, whilst reducing the gap between communities
4.5 Under 75 mortality rate from cancer*
Alignment with NHS Outcomes Framework
* Indicator is shared
Safety and people's experience of care
Ensuring that care is safe and that people have a positive experience of care is vital in a high-quality service. It is important to consider these factors when planning and delivering services relevant to skin cancer.
NICE has developed guidance and an associated quality standard on patient experience in adult NHS services (see the NICE pathway on patient experience in adult NHS services), which should be considered alongside this quality standard. They specify that people receiving care should be treated with dignity, have opportunities to discuss their preferences, and be supported to understand their options and make fully informed decisions. They also cover the provision of information to people using services. Quality statements on these aspects of patient experience are not usually included in topic-specific quality standards. However, recommendations in the development sources for quality standards that affect people's experience of using services and are specific to the topic are considered during quality statement development.
Coordinated services
The quality standard for skin cancer specifies that services should be commissioned from and coordinated across all relevant agencies encompassing the whole skin cancer care pathway. A person-centred, integrated approach to providing services is fundamental to delivering high-quality care to people with skin cancer.
The Health and Social Care Act 2012 sets out a clear expectation that the care system should consider NICE quality standards in planning and delivering services, as part of a general duty to secure continuous improvement in quality. Commissioners and providers of health and social care should refer to the library of NICE quality standards when designing high-quality services. Other quality standards that should also be considered when choosing, commissioning or providing a high-quality skin cancer service are listed in related NICE quality standards.
Training and competencies
The quality standard should be read in the context of national and local guidelines on training and competencies. All healthcare professionals involved in assessing, caring for and treating people with skin cancer should have sufficient and appropriate training and competencies to deliver the actions and interventions described in the quality standard. Quality statements on staff training and competency are not usually included in quality standards. However, recommendations in the development sources on specific types of training for the topic that exceed standard professional training are considered during quality statement development.
Role of families and carers
Quality standards recognise the important role families and carers have in supporting people with skin cancer. If appropriate, healthcare professionals should ensure that family members and carers are involved in the decision-making process about investigations, treatment and care.


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Pedro del Mar releases already the 23rd Mellomania on Black Hole Recordings's Songbird label.
The force behind the Mellomania brand has once again selected the best of trance for this
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Dhruv Drags Thapki! TPK Thapki Pyaar Ki 1st August 2016 Episode Written Updates :- In the last night episode of the TV series, Thapki Pyaar Ki starts with Dhruv giving Shradha the divorce papers and ask her to sign. He says that you are not my wife now I am going to marry Thapki now and Dhruv left. Shraddha torn the paper and said I won't let this happen.
Thapki Pyaar Ki Episode Written Updates
She says that I thought that with the wedding of Thapki and Bihaan everything will be fine but I won't let this happen. She said I need to kill Thapki and she put water near the bed of Thapki with open wired.
Dhruv shocked to see that Shraddha torn the paper of divorce and he shocked to see so. He thinks that hope Shraddha will not harm Thapki and rushes to Thapki's room where he shocked to see that Shraddha is trying to kill her.
Dhruv now successfully save Thapki and he asked Shraddha that he now need to reveal that Shraddha tries to kill Thapki in the front of Pandey family. Due to Suman was also there she said yes, Shraddha tries to kill Thapki.
Dhruv is on his way to the hall but Shraddha warned him that if he will not save Shraddha then Shraddha will reveal the fact to the Pandey family. So when Suman asked the family that Shraddha tries to kill Thanks Dhruv asked to them that my wife Shraddha can't do something like that.
Thapki also said yes, they were planning to kill cockroach when Shraddha says that she was in the plan to kill a cockroach. Dhruv warned to Shraddha that this is last time when I saved you but will not do the same in future.
Shraddha meet with Thapki in the midnight and says that the plan has been succeeding now and Thapki says yes, it means that perhaps Thapki and Shraddha joint hands to exposed Dhruv.
Thapki unintentionally hurt herself but Bihaan rushes to save her. Both Shraddha and Thapki are shocked now.


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God is still in control and He knows exactly what's going on. I'm reminded of the verse I Peter 5:7 "Casting all your care upon Him, for He careth for you." God still cares about America and He still hears our prayers!
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>New Cave Release – Nicole Austin
A book in the Corralled series.
Brock is cool, calm and in control. Except when it comes to the feisty hellion who pushes all his buttons for the sheer fun of watching his patience snap. Far worse than the intense desire to choke her is the alarming, all-consuming compulsion to tie Tink to his bed and fuck her into next week.
Tink is no wimpy damsel waiting for a big, strong man to rescue her or take over her life. Oh, hell no. She does her own thing, her own way, when she damn well feels like it. The last thing she wants or needs is some overbearing man bossing her around. Though she'd like to torture him with pleasure.
One night of explosive passion—starting with smokin'-hot lovin' involving three men and one lucky woman—pushes Brock's restraint past the limit. And hidden behind the cold-hearted bitch, he discovers a woman who longs to surrender to a man she can trust.
Come hell or high water, he's going to be that man.
New Cave Release – Lynne Connolly
A book in the Cougar Challenge series.
After working with sexy consultant Verill Harper for three months, Lacey Rezanov can hardly keep her hands to herself. And it seems Verill feels the same way. As soon as his contract with her company ends, he has her in a hold she has no desire to break.
Encouraged by the sassy women of the Tempt the Cougar blog, Lacey has the fling of her life with this younger man. They only have a month before Verill is due to set off on an around-the-world bike ride. Can they cram all that passion into a few weeks? No.
Verill wants Lacey more than any other woman he's ever met, but she won't agree to come with him. This isn't just a pleasure trip and he can't cancel. The heat is turned way up when Lacey poses with Verill and his mechanic Dene at a photo shoot to promo the tour. Even that can't persuade Lacey to change her mind. Can anything?
Out today! Scared by Sarah Masters
The gangster: Frost hires thugs to kidnap young boys and sells them to punters, making thousands in the lucrative sex trade. He needs taking down, but is anyone out there strong enough to do it?
The employee: Croft works for Frost, looking after the young boys held in captivity. He had been abducted himself, but Frost decided to employ him instead. Will Croft always do Frost's bidding?
The witnesses: Russell and Toby needed finding. They'd witnessed far too much. Frost isn't about to let them spill the truth on what he's really doing on the outskirts of London.
One sex ring, two lovers, and a host of other people, all bound together. All scared.
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This past fortnight I've been a bit quiet because the review site I run, Miz Love Loves Books, took off. It had been up a while, but suddenly word about it got out and we had a flurry of books come in. We've all been busy reading, and I've been busy maintaining the site and putting the reviews up. I was kept occupied with the promo offer of putting authors' book covers on the site with links to the buy pages. I also took time out to read too—a couple of ebooks and some prints I'd wanted to read for some time. Having a break from writing has been nice.
I also created two covers for Total E-Bound and will show them off once they are on the coming soon page. I was nervous about starting with a new publisher and agonised for a bit over my covers, but the publisher liked them and so did the authors, so I feel less afraid and more at home now I know my cover style is liked.
As for writing…well, you know how it goes sometimes. The urge to write disappears, and I've finally learned not to fight that. I do other things instead that fulfil my creative desires, and so long as I'm "doing" something I'm not going to fret over the lack of words. I sold over 30 books this year in my various names and have written close to 400K, which is mad now I look back on it, and I wonder how I managed that. So I think I've written enough to be going along with and when the urge comes back I'll finish the three books I have which are near completion, a revision of another, and begin yet another that has been brewing in my head since I wrote Scared.
I got a wonderful review of His Beautiful Wench today that made me cry (in a good way) and the reviewer asked that I write a secondary character's story, something I hadn't considered—nor did I think anyone would want to know more about her. But now it's been mentioned, of course, the plot bunny is boiling, and I may well write Matilda's story next year.
Also this week I've had two short, free tales come out, Christmas ones, so if you're interested in those, one written by Natalie, one by Sarah, you can get them here: Caught Naked and Wanton and Wicked.
Well, Christmas is rapidly approaching, but to me this is like any other week. I've been very busy and haven't had time to think about the weekend. I only just remembered I needed to get the turkey out to defrost and that I have still to buy potatoes, carrots and some beer. So, after putting up this post, I think I need to get into some form of Christmas spirit and get along with all things festive.
May you all have a great Christmas, loves!
New Cave Release – Lily Harlem
One hundred grand to babysit bad boy Logan "Phoenix" Taylor on a paradise island—seriously, how bad could he be?
Frankly, it didn't matter. Not when it would make my dreams of going to nursing school possible. I wasn't even expected to talk to him, just hang out in a luxurious villa on a private beach and study. Simple, right?
But I hadn't counted on Logan being so deliciously bad that he was oh so good. And when the temperature cranked to boiling point, he knew just how to satisfy the deepest, darkest part of my soul and give my body exactly what it needed. Amongst the sand and waves, we transported each other to an exquisite world of pleasure where only we existed, only we mattered.
But the heady mix of emotions and lust couldn't keep things from spiraling out of control back in reality, where I had to keep the secret that I'd been hired to entertain him…even if it shattered my delicate heart. Even if it cost my destiny.
New Cave Release – Anny Cook
Book 5 in the Mystic Valley series.
When ex-soldier Poussé receives an unexpected job offer from the mysterious Waterloo Group, she doesn't question the providential timing. Twelve hours later she wishes she had, when she's captured by two sexy blue-skinned warriors—Jonson and Mali of Mystic Valley.
Mali and Jonson make her an offer she can't refuse—become their bond mate. Positive she can use the new relationship to escape, Poussé accepts, but she doesn't count on the physical changes the bonding creates or her constant desire for Jonson and Mali. Their tender touches, hot kisses and even hotter sex get under her skin—which is turning blue! As they pursue other escaped team members, she learns real love and desire have no color barriers…and carnal games are best indulged with two hot bond mates.
All Good Things Come to Those Who Wait
So I subbed my rejected book yesterday to another publisher and got a fast response. An R & R—revise and resubmit for those new to the term—with the golden words telling me what was wrong with the book. Man, I was so glad to get that email. As I said yesterday, it's hard for us to see our own mistakes, and I just COULD NOT SEE where that book had gone wrong, although I knew something was off. That's frustrating, isn't it? Being in that situation? It's like: Look, Book, there's something up with you, and I can't fix it because I just can't work out what the deal is.
Well, now I do, thanks to a fabulous editor who, in one sentence, gave me a lightbulb moment. Then, after I replied with my thanks, she followed up on an easy fix—much easier than the difficult overhaul my mind came up with. I tell you, I've never understood authors who don't like outside input on their books. Sometimes I take the harder route on revisions, and if I was stubborn and said, "No, this is MY baby, not yours!" I'd be putting myself through a shitload of extra work next year when I come to revise the book. The editor's suggestion was so easy, so obvious—damn my blinkers!—that I'll have the book fixed in no time.
It doesn't even matter if, when I resubmit, it gets a rejection, because I'd have had the chance to grow and learn some more—something I love about this profession—so the work I'll be putting in will be well worth my time and effort. But I'm left frustrated at myself because of my failure to SEE. Yes, we get close to our books, I know that, but for God's SAKE! Why can I see things in other people's manuscripts yet at times, with mine, I can't? It bugs the hell out of me.
Still, with valuable people like that editor on the planet, we authors can't go wrong so long as we take their advice in the spirit it was meant—to help us.
I'm so pleased my book may not end up in a forgotten file. I'll get Christmas out of the way, hopefully finish my vampire book, and then dig in with revising the story I thought would never see the light of day.
Ah, happy days!
On another subject, but related… Today I received a contract that was a surprise to me because it was electronic. I've never had one of those before, and it's just too cool for words. You get to either have a standard "handwritten" font when you click to sign, or you can sign it yourself using the mouse. It's so immature of me, but I was well excited by this contract. It's too groovy, and I hope I'm lucky enough to get more contracts from this publisher just so I can sign my name with my mouse! HA HA!
Yes, I think I need to get out more…
On another fabulous note—man, things are just happening for me at the moment, WOOT!—I have been asked if I would like to create cover art for Total E-Bound. What a lovely thing to be asked. Of course, I can't say no to that! What more could I ask for? I get to write and also indulge in my other love—Photoshop.
And, you know, sometimes there is someone or something looking out for us. The other day I needed just 50p to put toward my boys' dinner money. I had the cash in the bank, but I didn't want to draw out a tenner just for that 50p, because you know how it is, that tenner would have just disappeared once it got into my grubby little hands. I didn't want to use the remaining £9.50 that would, to be honest, have just been whittled away on stuff like sweets for the kids or a bottle or two of Coke, when it was supposed to be paying some bill or other. And guess what? As I walked along, I'm buggered if there wasn't a shiny silver 50p on the ground. Usually it's pennies, or if you're lucky, a whole 2p (LOL), but that day it was 50p. I wondered, as I am wont to do, about fate and all that jazz, and how things work out in the end if you just have faith, and at the moment I'm inclined to believe that's true. Okay, there have been times in the past where I'd swear that was bullshit, and I'm sure there will be times in the future I think that too, but d'you know, life is just effing great for me right now, and although part of me thinks "About time too!" (long story…you don't wanna know!) I am truly grateful for this sudden turn of events.
I'm grateful, humbled, blessed and just so pleased that the "good stuff" is going on.
I hope all good things come to you guys too. That all your dreams and needs are met. That if things have been poo, they pick up 100%. We all deserve some goodness from time to time, eh?
Have a great day, folks!