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What Your Friends Never Knew About You (a horror story)
Part 1: Instructions on how to read What Your Friends Never Knew About You
This story contains numerous, unintelligible sounds. Including:
HWUAHOOOOPHESTO – This sound is like the feeling of walking through a graveyard with a former love interest, an ex, if you will. Perhaps the two of you have are slightly drunk after a mutual friend's party. She/he has asked you to walk them home and of course, the two of you have decided to take a shortcut through the graveyard. You begin talking about the past the two of you once shared. He/she asks if there was anything they could have done to change how things ended up. It's at that moment where you see a human form pass between two large headstones, but with more a brilliant luminance than any person could possess. You ask him/her if they saw that. He/she says "See what? You're trying to dodge the question." But you know they saw it. Then you realize that it was their idea to take the graveyard shortcut all along. That sudden loss of breath you experience—the feeling of not having the wind knocked out of you, but having your ribcage punctured and your lungs pushed up into your esophagus—is how to pronounce that word.
HATHEEEETHAHAASHHHH – Pretty self-explanatory, really. This is the sound that your three-year old son makes when you ask where he got those scissors. He doesn't respond, but turns and begins stabbing the air toward you. "Stop it," you say, laughing at his misappropriation of the scissors because he is far too young to know the harm they can do, how they can be used as a weapon. He doesn't stop. You reach for the scissors and he stabs your hand deep enough to break the skin. The boy laughs maniacally and comes at you. You run to the bathroom and lock the door to wait for your spouse to come home.
COOOWOOSHAROOAGH – This sound is a little trickier to describe, but think how it must feel to bring dead tissue back to life. Popular literature and movies have not dissuaded you from pursuing the gift of eternal life. This is especially true when your best friend becomes involved in a horrific, decapitating car accident. You wait it out, keep the head on ice while you endure the obligatory mourning/therapy sessions to convince yourself and others around you that doing anything rash would be crazy, mad even. You are not a mad scientist. But time for getting your best friend is nigh—it's not your fault that it happens to be on a dark and stormy night. Right when the head achieves consciousness, there is a knock at your door. You throw a sheet over it and see who it is. It turns out to be the wife of your best friend. Despite the time since the accident, she still can't shake her husband's tragic death and has sought your companionship for comfort. The rain has soaked her. She begins to cuddle. She's confused, possibly drunk. You run your fingers through her hair and she stares up at you. You know she's not seeing you, but her husband, whose head is buried under a sheet in your room. Then, she begins to kiss you and you don't stop it. You kiss so passionately that you don't notice the thump from other room, the strained rolling. When the head of your best friend finds you kissing his wife, it emits the COOOWOOSHAROOAGH. It's a passing of air meant for a scream, the sound of a heart breaking where there is no heart.
CTSHCTCHKIII – The sound of scuttling. Terrible, unholy scuttling.
PIBTHSH – This would be the soundtrack to those dreams you have where your teeth fall out.
GHAWHOOOR – Finally, this is a sound you've heard, but you don't know it. It's a subliminal sound that signals the release of the endorphins usually ascribed to fear (or sometimes excitement or orgasm, which is easy to see why it's so easy to get all three confused). But this sound is fear building inside. The sight of blood triggers it. You don't know where the blood is coming from, but your body is telling you "something's wrong". And then you see it. The non-sound rings in your ears, deafens you. Makes you blind the broken windows, lamps and glass around you, but not the resting place of your childhood doll, which is not where it was when you left.
Part 2: What Your Friends Never Knew About You
"I know how to summon ghosts," you say. "I bet you never knew this about me." You summon a terrible ghost and it says COOOWOOSHAROOAGH! Sally keeps saying "Look at those eyes! Look at those eyes!" and cries HATHEEEETHAHAASHHHH. She's almost too scared to talk: GHAWHOOOR. You try to make it stop but the ghost is just too terrible. HWUAHOOOOPHESTO! You think it's gone, but then one last PIBTHSH and then CTSHCTCHKIII. The ghost appears to be gone. For now.
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Isaiah Webb, better known as "Incredibeard" on the interwebs, once told Birchbox that he felt like his beard was his child - and after seeing just how dedicated he is to its care and keeping, that kind of starts to make sense.
Webb uses the Incredibeard Instagram account to chronicle his facial hair-heavy journey. It's chock-full of photos of his chin scruff shaped into new and ingenious styles. In one, his beard looks like a sea creature about to engulf his face. In another, it's fashioned into a bow tie.
"The greatest and most profound thing a man can do is grow a beard," Webb told Mashable, adding later, "A true beard is not on your face, but in your heart."
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11. The Beard Of Spades
12. The Beard Hearted
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Now that Congress seems due to pass this horrible bailout bill, let us reflect a little on one provision that seems to have sweetened the deal: limits to executive compensation. CEO pay has been controversial for a while now, so it is natural to ask whether they are worth it.
This is what Marko Terviö does using an assignment model and data from 1000 publicly traded US firms. First about the assignment model: its idea is to match firms and CEOs with different characteristics. Outcomes depend on the distribution of those characteristics, and as they are in fixed supply, the price of ability does not necessarily reflect marginal productivity.
The market value of a firm is pivotal here, as it is not only dependent on its current characteristics (and CEO), but future ones as well. Also, a firm contains capital that can be transferred to others. The current surplus of a firm is the product of CEO ability, firm size, a growth factor and capital. This may seem oversimplifying, but you needs to keep managerial ability observable by deduction.
Matching this model with Compustat data, the top 1000 CEOs appear to contribute between US$21 and 25 billion in 2004 (about 0.15% of market capitalization), and they have been paid $7.1 billion for it, including option packages. CEOs seem to be of little impact, but still a bargain. But what if all CEOs were replaced with the best one? The surplus gain would be $3.2-3.4 billion, rather modest. The reason is that the best are already matched with the largest firms.
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Music insiders have been predicting for awhile that local rapper Kid Sister was ready to blow up, and finally, after plenty of mixtape buzz and hit singles, the mainstream will see what she's all about when her long-delayed album, Ultraviolet, is released on Tuesday.
Kid Sister, 29, whose real name is Melissa Young, was born in Chicago Heights, raised in south suburban Markham and studied film at Columbia College.
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To follow is a great strategy that I've personally used to increase the topical trust flow of sites. It involves leveraging your skill set as an SEO or web designer to obtain links from sites in relevant industries that you'd otherwise have no hope of getting a link from.
It's important to note that a lot of SEO practitioners misunderstand topical trust flow. They think if they obtain a link from a site that has content on it similar to their website that this will help to increase their site's topical relevancy.
Topical trust flow is a measure of the topical relevancy of the inbound links that are pointing to the site where your link is coming from. It doesn't matter if the site is about the same subject, the topical relevancy of the inbound links pointing to that site is what really matters.
Although a website may have content on it very similar to a site you're trying to promote, the actual inbound links pointing to that site may be coming from other sites that are completely unrelated and also have non-related inbound links.
This is why it's important to realise that just because you get link from a site that has similar content to your site, it doesn't mean that this will increase your topical trust flow in the correct category.
It's easier to understand the topical trust flow concept if you just think of it as a measure of your site's Tier 2 links. Your sites primary Tier 1 links may be on sites that cover the same topic as your site, but the inbound links pointing to that site, which are technically your Tier 2 links, may be coming from completely unrelated industries.
An inbound link from a site about web design could potentially increase your topical trust flow in the category of 'online games'. This is because all of the inbound links pointing to that web design site are coming from online gaming sites. This is why the strategy I'm about to explain to you is so effective because you'll be able to get links from sites that have topically relevant trust flow.
This strategy requires work and it's definitely not an easy solution, but you can get some fantastic results from it if you persist and work hard at it. The first step involves finding your target websites. The most effective strategy for doing this is simply to search for your primary keyword, but just add a different city to the end of the keyword. Now you can extract the URLs for the top 10 results using a tool like Oscar Scraper and bulk check them for topically relevant trust flow using Majestic's bulk checker here, or you could just do a search for that keyword using the SerpWorx toolbar.
You can see here that I've found a site in the top 10 results for 'web design city' that has topically relevant trust flow behind it. This site gets added to your master list of sites. You now want to repeat the keyword search with a variety of different cities and areas on the end of the keyword so you get as many sites added to your master list as possible.
The next step involves some clever over the phone negotiations to secure a link from the target website. What I do is briefly examine each site and find obvious optimisation faults before I contact the business owner. This way I actually know what I'm talking about when I contact the site owner. Errors can range from no schema markup, missing site map, multiple H1's, and scores of other possibilities.
The idea is to offer to repair these SEO deficiencies for the business owner in exchange for a link that points back to the site you're trying to promote. Here's how a typical phone call goes when you use this strategy.
"Hello (business owner name), I won't take a minute of your time and the reason for the call is that I have a client in (City) that is in exactly the same business that you're in. (This starts to build rapport as people don't often meet people that work in the same industry)
I'm hoping this could be a win-win situation for the both of us as I think we could scratch each other's back and the benefits are definitely tilted in your favour. The best way for me to promote my client is to obtain mentions (don't call it a link) from sites in the same industry such as yours.
What I'm proposing is that I could fix quite a few SEO errors that I've found on your website such having no site map, four H1 tags and having no schema mark-up. Now I can clearly see that these errors would be holding back your site's rankings and I'd be happy to fix all of these free of charge for you in exchange for a small mention about my client on your website.
I'd usually charge at least a few hundred dollars for this as I'm sure you can understand, but if I could get a small mention somewhere on your site that's about four words long, I'd be happy to fix up those errors on your site free of charge for you."
Now there's a myriad of counter questions they may ask you in return which you'll have to answer on the fly, but it's important to reiterate and affirm to them that you're an expert in this industry and you can clearly see that those errors on their site are holding back their rankings to a degree.
It helps to mention your clients name as you'll have to divulge that information anyway, but the idea is to mention some good keywords you already have them ranked for. Because this prospect is in the same industry they'll be able to appreciate the benefit that those keywords could provide.
For example that part of the conversation may go something like this;
"I already have them ranked on the first page for 'e-commerce websites city' and 'business websites city', but I'm just reaching out to progressive business owners such as yourself in an attempt to improve my clients visibility for a couple of other keywords as well. This is why I know that if you let me fix the errors I mentioned for your site, you should also see a nice little improvement."
Sometimes you may even get another SEO client from these phone calls as they can often be impressed with the other keywords you have already ranked your client or similar clients for.
As you can imagine there's just too many variables that could potentially occur during this phone call for me to document the perfect call script, but all you really need is the theory behind the call and the drive to follow through.
On one hand you may make 10 phone calls without a single bite. But, you may also achieve some fantastic results with this strategy as it can be one of the fastest and easiest ways to secure high-quality topically relevant inbound links to your sites. It all comes down to how well you can sell the idea to the site owner.


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Grant's TED talks on original thinkers and givers and takers have been viewed more than 7 million times. He received a standing ovation at TED in 2016 and was voted the audience's favorite speaker at The Nantucket Project. His speaking and consulting clients include Facebook, Google, the NBA, Merck, Goldman Sachs, Pixar, the U.S. Army and Navy, and the World Economic Forum, where he has been honored as a Young Global Leader. He writes on work and psychology for the New York Times, where his articles on raising moral and creative children have each been shared over 300,000 times on social media.
Grant was profiled in The New York Times Magazine cover story, "Is giving the secret to getting ahead?" He was tenured at Wharton while still in his twenties, and has received the Excellence in Teaching Award for every class that he has taught. He is the founder and host of the Authors@Wharton speaker series, and co-director of Wharton People Analytics. He has designed experiential learning activities in which students have raised over $325,000 for the Make-A-Wish Foundation while developing leadership, influence, networking and collaboration skills. He is a passionate feminist who serves on the Lean In board and the Defense Innovation Advisory Board at the Pentagon.
Grant earned his Doctor of Philosophy in Organizational Psychology from the University of Michigan, completing it in less than three years, and his B.A. from Harvard University, magna cum laude with highest honors and Phi Beta Kappa honors. He has earned awards for distinguished scholarly achievement from the Academy of Management, the American Psychological Association, and the National Science Foundation. His pioneering research has increased performance and reduced burnout among engineers and sales professionals, enhanced call center productivity, and motivated safety behaviors among doctors, nurses and lifeguards. His studies have been highlighted in best-selling books such as Quiet by Susan Cain, Drive by Daniel Pink, and David and Goliathby Gladwell. He is a former magician and Junior Olympic springboard diver, and lives in Philadelphia with his wife, two daughters, and son.


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Emerging Professionals Summer Internship Program for College Students (EPSIP)
Program Overview
The Emerging Professionals Summer Internship Program (EPSIP) is a ten-week paid internship experience for talented underrepresented minority college students. Program begins May 31, 2019 until August 9, 2019. This "pipeline" program is designed to provide students with the opportunity to explore potential administrative careers in an academic health science center. This is an exciting opportunity for individuals seeking to apply their skills in a team setting that is dedicated to advancing the health and well-being of the people in Massachusetts and the world through ground-breaking development in education, research, and health care delivery. UMass Medical School (UMMS) is a group of professionals serving the public interest within a flexible, challenging environment built on innovation. To learn more about UMMS, click here.
The Program design offers students a:
- 10 week, paid summer business internship at UMMS with an administrative focus in: Community & Government Relations, Educational Affairs, IT Engineering, IT Engineering Community Engagement, Marketing Communications, Office of Advancement, Public Safety, RNA Therapeutics Institute, Video/Multimedia, Work Without Limits.
- unique opportunity to be guided and mentored for the world of business in academic medicine
- the program includes lectures, networking luncheons, mentoring, hands-on work sessions, resume and job search preparation, and more
- opportunity to discover their passions and interests and discern which career path is best for them


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Gastropub revolution
"Adventure. That's why." Chef Gu Jin-kwang says, smirking, in response to my question about why he first moved to London nearly 15 years ago. He's sitting in front of me wearing a traditional chef's white double-breasted jacket and black dress pants, and a flash of mischief appears underneath his otherwise reserved demeanor.
I ask how he got started, expecting an inspirational story from his childhood, but he merely shrugs. It was just a part-time job in college and he grew to like it.
Up until a few years ago, Gu worked as a sous chef all across London, gaining experience with French cuisine for more than a decade. The highlight of his time there was when he worked as senior chef de partie at the highly acclaimed Le Gavroche, which is the only restaurant in the UK to receive three Michelin stars.
Working there with chefs Michel and Albert Roux was a main source of inspiration for him, he says. Their work, along with English pub culture and Gu's own philosophy on French dishes is what he claims made him what he is today.
Since his return to Korea, Gu has been studying local ingredients and traditional cooking techniques to develop his own French-Asian style.
Now, he works at the popular Prost Pub & Grill located behind the Hamilton Hotel in Itaewon, part of the same complex as Glam Lounge and Club Mute. It's a great restaurant for all occasions and the location makes it a prime spot for nightlife. The menu features pasta, burgers, Mexican brunch, eggs benedict, seafood and dessert (Gu is also a talented pastry chef), and a lengthy drink menu.
While Prost is known as a traditional pub, Gu's expertise is turning it into more of a gastropub, serving high-end food and offering an extensive drink menu. He says that he's very aware that many people come to Prost specifically for the drinks, so he takes extra care when pairing the dishes with certain beverages.
One of the dishes is a plate of mouth-watering, oven-roasted barbecue pork ribs made with a homemade sweet and sour sauce, and served with fried rice and crispy pork skin. It's the same dish he made for Sam Kass, the senior policy advisor for nutrition policy and former personal chef of U.S. President Barack Obama, when Kass visited Seoul in July.
To challenge himself, he makes trips to the seaside or mountains every so often to sample the food made by the locals there.
"Instead of trying to follow trends, I travel outside of Seoul and try the ingredients," he says. "I want to see what's special about this or that area and what kinds of food they provide. It could be meat, vegetables, seafood or other ingredients and I create a new menu out of it. That's my challenge."
He says that since the Prost menu is seasonal, he needs to know what flavors are currently being used around Korea. Based on what he finds, he creates the first version of a dish. Then he brings it to his chefs at Prost and together they decide what works best for the course they will ultimately serve in the restaurant.
His innovations show in his dishes. Head to Prost this summer and you'll even find Salmon Gravlax, his personal favorite, which is a Nordic dish consisting of raw salmon cured in sugar, salt and dill on a bed of radicchio salad and balsamic dressing.
You'll also find Singaporean fried noodles with chicken breast, prawns, bean sprouts, bacon and his very own spicy sauce. The portions are not very big, so your best bet would be to split a few dishes with friends to get all the different varieties of flavors and textures available.
Dishes made with this much care don't come cheap, but you also get what you pay for. The food is of a quality that's much higher than your average pub. And the menu is always changing, so the ingredients are sure to be fresh.
As for where Prost is headed, Gu says that he sees it becoming the pub to go to in Seoul. With its impressive menu of food and drinks, he's sure to reach his goal in no time.
More info
Prost Pub & Grill is located out of Itaewon Station, line 6, exit 1.
Find it on Facebook at fb.com/prostpubandgrill.
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- Energetic, life-is-a-party, people-loving Tigger
- Organized, efficient, project-loving Rabbit
- Reflective,analytical, privacy-loving Eeyore
Which one best describes you?
I will be sharing about the four temperaments at Cornerstone Christian Church on February 27. Come and discover the wonder of you, uniquely created with a temperament all your own. As we examine the self-portrait we've painted over the years, we will replace misconceptions and errant brush strokes with the truth of God's Word. It's time to restore your self-portrait to reflect God's design!
Deeper Still
Friday evening, February 27
Dinner is 6:30, followed by the teaching at 7:15, ending with worship.
Come when you can, leave when you must. If you're joining us for dinner please sign up at http://www.cornerstonenj.org/specialevents/deeper-still-2/


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