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Travel Booking Tool Goes Gaming SERKO applies gamification to its self-booking tool, to great success. See this post for the original idea.
Verbal Translation via iPhone Covers a pre-Siri method of translating speech from one language to another. See this post for a related view on voice-based flight search.
Direct Connect by Google – Oh Yes Implications of Google's Flight Search on the distribution of airfares, especially for corporations.
AirPlus Gets an A+ on Ancillary Fees Report A product review of a tool aimed at quantifying how much a company spends on ancillary fees.
Short's BookIt: A Brilliant Booking Breakthrough Describes the most innovative idea I've seen in the corporate self-booking arena. See this post for more implications.
TIILTS: Better Travel Data Reporting What's wrong with today's travel data reporting tools, and what's needed. In a word, prescriptive.
New Types of Hotel Rates Ahead Predicts the emergence of rates more similar to airfares – non-refundable and dynamically priced. See this post for the rationale.
An Open Approach to Travel Distribution? Uses a clever video to illustrate the advantages of open systems and the implications for travel distribution.
Four Barriers to Travel Innovation Explains why there has been so little innovation, with a capital I, in the managed travel space lately.
Free Tools Includes the Stages of Excellence for Managed Travel toolkit, category-specific travel savings "What If" models, an airline CO2 calculator and fuel cost model, and popular education decks.


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Guilhem Velvé Casquillas: ELVESYS SAS CEO founder
Guilhem Velve Casquillas is a former physics researcher passionate about entrepreneurship. He is a founding partner of ELVESYS SAS, Black Hole Lab SAS , E-Brumair SAS, LongLongLife SAS and Darwin Microfluidics SAS .
Guilhem Velve Casquillas is in charge of ELVESYS management as well as the support of the sisters companies arising from ELVESYS. Inside of ELVESYS, he is also in charge of the R&D on the scientific projects with strong potential of creation of new companies. Notably, he's PhD thesis enabled the development of the world fastest pathogenic detection system (FASTGENE technology). In 2014, this FASTGENE project won the Worldwide 2030 Innovation Contest organized by the French government.
Guilhem is a member of « Réseau Entreprendre" (Undertake Network) and also gives voluntary entrepreneurship lessons inside research institutes in order to help young scientists create their enterprise.
Entrepreneurship and me
If death wasn't a fatality anymore, would we still live the same ?
I think the 21st century offers a beam of technologies which will enable the ending of the ageing process. Ageing, this self-destructiveness process starting around the twenties leading to a scheduled death of each and every human a few decades later.
Entrepreneurs don't like limits and human longevity remains the steadiest of them. Surely, human life expectancy have constantly increased for centuries but in the same period, the maximum longevity of our species sticked to a little bit more of 120 years.
Among all those technologies, there is one which appears central to me since it allow to miniaturize and control precisely all biochemicals applications currently realized in a whole laboratory on a single chip. This technology is called microfluidics and by multiplying the capabilities of investigation in biotechnology, it allows to make progress faster the majority of the research projects related to human species longevity.
By creating ELVESYS Microfluidic Innovation Center, my goal is to build an independent and eminent research center in the field of microfluidics and to utilize this latter as a tool to accelerate all research projects engaged in these goals:
- Increasing human species longevity
- Increasing human life expectancy
- Improving health and quality of life for all
Beyond ELVESYS, by fostering by all means available to me, the creation of innovative companies within what I call the "Microfluidic Valley", I hope encouraging the rise of technologies which may will enable better solutions than the ones we propose to boost our species longevity. Finally, what matters is not to know who will initiate technologies which will change our vision of life and death, but to ensure that our loved ones close their eyes as late as possible.
Enterprise creation: ELVESYS SAS, Au tour des rêves SARL, Microfluidic Technologies Network SAS, C.Biotech SAS, E-brumair SAS, Black Hole Lab SAS
Physics lessons : Ecole Polytechnique Paris, Ecole Centrale Paris (France)
Search missions UPENN (Philadelphiy Wuhan University (China)
Junior vice-president enterprise ESIEE
2011 Course innovative company creation (EM Lyon, France)
2010 Entrepreneur Cycle (Ecole centrale Paris)
2010 Cellular biology post doctorate (Institut Curie Paris)
2008 PhD in microfluidics (Ecole Normale Supérieure de Paris, LPN CNRS)
2005 2005 Microelectronics engineer (ESIEE Paris) (ESIEE Paris)
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Latin dances, world exploration, stymieing of contemporary artists

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'Hospitals would eliminate variations in care if they worked more like supermarkets'
Salford Royal chief executive believes group working would help standardise care
Salford Royal chief executive believes group working would help standardise care
A supermarket-style operational model could be the key to improving failing hospitals, said the head of one of England's highest-rated trusts.
Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust chief executive Sir David Dalton said hospitals should work in groups to implement best practice – much like supermarket chains.
'Too much variation'
He said care standards vary 'dramatically' across the NHS because organisations have 'different ways of doing things'.
Writing in The Times, Sir David said: 'We tolerate too much unwarranted variation in our health services and as a consequence the NHS spends huge sums on management consultants and expensive 'turnaround directors' in troubled hospitals.
'Surely it would be better to encourage trusts in difficulties to join a chain, so they can learn and implement best practice.'
The idea of standardising care in the NHS is not a new one, with one initiative, the CapitalNurse programme, working to reduce variability of nursing training and care across London since 2015.
CapitalNurse programme
CapitalNurse director Chris Caldwell, said: 'One of the core objectives of the programme is to reduce unnecessary variation in training for nurses beyond registration so that all patients continue to receive the same high-quality, evidence-based, patient-centred care wherever they are across the capital.
'A good example of this is the 'systemic anti-cancer training' passport, which is provides a single approach to training nurses to give specialist medicines to people with cancer. This approach was developed and tested in London in collaboration with the UK Oncology Nursing Society and has now been rolled out nationally.
'We have also launched a standard approach to training nurses in emergency care and a number of other clinical specialism are similarly in process.'
CapitalNurse was extended for a further two years in April.
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Relating and healing yourself
What is an inner child?
We all have an inner child. It is who we are when we were born, our natural relational core self. That includes our natural feelings, personality, playfulness, intuition, spontaneity, curiosity, passion, joy, sense of wonder and creativity. Our inner child is our right-brain, inner experience as felt through our bodies. It is the place of our gut feelings.
So the question is, how do we work with our injured inner child; an individual whose profound needs have not been met at a young age and continues to feel alone, empty and struggle to relate in a safe and secure way with others?
This requires revisiting the history by accessing the primal wound that the self has experienced.
Overcoming defences/cognitive distortions.
However, as it is a painful experience, automatically your self is sending signals to activate your defences in order to avoid connecting with the pain. This can be done in by triggering negative automatic thoughts (NAT's) or by removing you from the present moment in the form of thinking about the future by worrying or ruminating.
Negative automatic thoughts can be worked with thought diaries, behavioural experiments to challenge them and replace them with more helpful ones and rumination with distraction and relaxation.
Relating to the inner child.
However, it is a necessity to be able to bring yourself back to the present moment so you can get in touch with the wounded inner child, connect with the void, the loneliness that he had experienced and offer to that part of yourself re-assurance and comfort. Relate to that younger part of yourself from an adult position and engage in a nurturing dialogue. Therefore, the healing comes from acknowledging, accepting, and taking responsibility for loving and parenting your inner child. Remember, if you had a critical parent, it is likely that you will have internalised that resulting to an inner critical voice towards the inner child!
Adult (present) -> inner child (past).
The more you visit that painful part of yourself the more you diffuse its intensity. You need to remind your inner child that you are safe now and that the pain will pass. As an adult you are more resilient, you have more resources to use and reach out to other people to meet your needs.
By engaging in an internal dialogue with that younger part of yourself as an adult to a child and offering to that inner child what you lack of only then, integration of the self comes and true adulthood and completeness is reached.
True adulthood hinges on acknowledging. For most adults, this never happens.
If you are interested more in this type of work, take action and contact a counsellor or a psychotherapist.
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About Chryssa Chalkia
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You can just imagine the remake with Paul Rudd and Zack Galifianakis…
Randomly reunited in their thirties for the first time since their college hell-raising days, married yuppie Ben (Mark Duplass) and bearded wild-man Andrew ( Joshua Leonard, The Blair Witch Project's cameraman) find they both have something to prove.
So when they drunkenly bet each other they can have on-camera sex to win an art-movie contest, it's not gay – it's "beyond gay". Neither of them really likes the idea of "two dudes straight-balling". Neither of them wants to be the one to pussy out.
Sure, you can argue that the premise is a little far-fetched. But shooting raw and loose without a script, director Lynn Shelton and her game cast confidently plot an intriguing voyage of discovery through the male psyche.
Fresh, funny and subtly insightful, this daring little indie bromance feels like the movie Hollywood wouldn't have the balls to make.
Humpday review
Bromance taken to the next level...
You can just imagine the remake with Paul Rudd and Zack Galifianakis…
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China Is Turning Ethiopia Into a Giant Fast-Fashion Factory at Risk of Civil War
(This facility, built on farmland, is the largest of four new textile and apparel centers. Photographer: Nichole Sobecki for Bloomberg Businessweek)
We know since the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), was implemented in the mid 90s there has been a massive shift to overseas apparel production resulting in destroyed communities, bankrupt businesses and tens of thousands of unemployed people. But to add insult to injury, is Ethiopia letting China throw another low-cost curve ball into the apparel production chain?
Bloomberg writer Bill Donahue writes: "We've arrived at a new moment for the global apparel industry. This drought-afflicted, landlocked country of 100 million on the Horn of Africa is transforming itself into the lowest rung on the supply chain that pours out fast fashion and five-for-$12.99 tube socks. Lured by tax incentives, promises of infrastructure investment, and ultracheap labor, countries the Western world once outsourced production to, particularly China and Sri Lanka, are now the middlemen ramping up production here for Guess, Levi's, H&M, and other labels. These industrialists like Ethiopia because the government wants them as much as they want cheap labor and tax breaks. The Hawassa Industrial Park's inauguration is only the most recent part of a vast centralized scheme: Since 2014, Ethiopia has opened four giant, publicly owned industrial parks; it plans eight more by 2020."
Clearing viable farmland once used to produce food to feed the region, these new fast fashion manufacturing complexes have displaced 500 subsistence farmers that are ethnically Sidama, a group that pulls little political weight.
"But their accusations of land grabs echo the Oromo's. Urese Dinsa, a 69-year-old farmer and ex-chairman of the political ward where the park stands, says he was tricked by a promise of $37,000 and jobs for his children in exchange for leaving the 2.5-acre plot he'd farmed for 17 years. He actually received $6,000, which was more than many other farmers got," writes Donahue.
Ethiopian Investment Commission's Belachew Mekuria says "The plan is to create a total of 2 million jobs in manufacturing by the end of 2025…we are an agrarian nation now, but that will change."
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VIDEO: Bailey Noble Stars in Priory Video Clip
September 6, 2014 by Rachel Tsoumbakos
Priory's New Song, Weekend, Stars a True Blood Fairy:
Fans of HBO's True Blood and Portland's electro-pop duo Priory are in for a treat with the following video clip. Weekend is the latest clip released by this band and includes Bailey Noble (who played Adilyn, the fairy daughter of Andy Bellefleur in True Blood) playing the part of a roller rink teen. Nick Krause (The Descendants) is dreaming about winning over Bailey's affections via his slick roller skating moves – even if those moves only occur in his mind.
Recently, Priory's Brandon Rush and Kyle Sears discussed the video clip with Idolator and had this to say about it:
We wrote and recorded the song 'Weekend' at our homebase, Loudwar studios in Portland, Oregon. The song idea came from the notion that everyone feels oppressed by an authority figure at some point in life. It could be a controlling parental figure, a boss at work or the unrealistic standard forced upon us by western culture. We use escapism to feel empowered (for better or worse), and it's always been a part of our life. The video for 'Weekend' was directed by our friend, David Vincent Wolf AKA White Ghandi, and is about a kid's over the top daydream. We had a great time hanging with Nick Krause and Bailey Noble. There was definitely some chemistry on set, just saying.
You can view the video clip for Weekend by Priory below:
Download "Weekend" on iTunes: http://bit.ly/1pHOxjK
Stream "Weekend" on Spotify: http://bit.ly/1qBX6hA
Connect With Priory:
Website: http://prioryband.com
Facebook: http://facebook.com/prioryband
Twitter: http://twitter.com/prioryband
Instagram: http://instagram.com/prioryband
Sources: YouTube – Priory – Weekend [Official Music Video]
Idolator – Watch Priory's "Weekend" Video, Featuring Bailey Noble & Nick Krause: Idolator Premiere
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Caltex's decision to close its Kurnell refinery is a blow to skilled trades jobs in NSW, with hundreds of contractors and casuals to lose work in addition to over 300 permanent employees, the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union says.
As well as the permanent workforce of refinery operators, maintenance workers and staff, around
200 additional tradespeople employed via contractors work at the Kurnell site. Three to four
hundred more do stints of heavy maintenance at Kurnell during shut-down periods.
AMWU State Secretary Tim Ayres said today's job losses at Kurnell were another black mark
against the State Government, which has failed to stand up for the state's manufacturing
"These are highly skilled workers. Today's announcement is a blow to them. It will also have
knock-on effects for industry supply chains across NSW and undermine prospects for the next
generation of skilled blue collar workers in NSW."
During the O'Farrell Government's short term in office, Sydney has lost both its major refineries,
hitting jobs and leaving the state dependent on imported refined oil products.
"Barry O'Farrell has not lifted a finger to ensure jobs and production capacity were maintained at
Sydney's Kurnell and Clyde refineries," Mr Ayres said.
"This government appears to have no plan for supporting local jobs and industry."
The closure of the Kurnell refinery, on top of the Shell Clyde refinery which will become a storage
facility for imported product, leaves NSW dependent on imported petrol and vulnerable to price
"The Union is worried that leaving the state reliant on imported oil products will leave us
vulnerable to supply threats and result in higher prices at the pump," said Mr Ayres.
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Jul 26, 2012
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What is Love Inc.
What if Christians of all denominations got together and used their love and devotion to help change Gallatin County? What if everyone in your church did their best to help those in need, and valued helping those in need? Imagine the change that could be made, and the difference that could be had in lives around you. That's what Love Inc. strives to do. So, what is Love Inc., exactly? Love Inc. is a way for churches to join together and use their resources and masses to better the lives and environments around them, specifically the devastating problem of poverty in the valley. One church cannot do it alone, but with the culmination of many and many more churches, a change can be had, and love can be spread.
Change Through Togetherness
Just as it is important for an individual church and it's congregates to reach out and help those around them, it is also important for churches across denominational lines to group together to help each other help their neighbors. It is a "method, network, collection, movement, collaboration" for churches to band together and help make a change in the complexity that is poverty.
Change Through Belief
Love Inc. believes that there is no greater love than God's, and there is no better way to help your fellow man than through spreading the word and ways of God. They believe that you truly live your best self, and engage fully in your faith by helping those in need around you. By spreading the word of God, and perpetuating Christ-like relationships you bring a greater change to individuals and in turn a greater change to the community as a whole.
Change Through Service
Love Inc. works to serve "anyone with a manageable need", which is determined by the time and resources the local church has to offer. Acting as a uniter, educator, and provider to churches and leaders, Love Inc. can assist by giving church leadership the skills to better assist their congregation in assisting the community. They educate churches on the specific needs of their areas. They advocate on behalf of Christian churches with the surrounding agencies and governments so that the churches can be an important part in the change for poverty in their community. And they also assist churches starting new ministries so they can be as successful and helpful as possible.


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The stock horns on scooters sound cute but can be pretty weak in warning cagers that they are about to run over you. There is a solution. Upgrade your horn.
There are various upgrades one can do. Some are a quick switch out while others are a major operation. The more time or money invested in the upgrade generally results in a louder scooter horn.
All the upgrades will require messing around with the electrical system. If you haven't done much electrical work, read up. You could short out parts in your scooter if you don't know what you're doing.
Some horns are louder than others. Quality can vary too. Do your research and find out what will work for your needs.
Many scooterists regard the best scooter horn upgrade to be a Stebel Nautilus. One honk on this and the cager next to you will think a Mack truck is about to run them over. Other drivers will start looking around.
Installing a Stebel Nautilus is rather a major operation. You'll need to pull off alot of panels and do some extra wiring. Where it will fit and the best way to install one will depend upon your scooter.
Most scooters have fan forums that have how-to installation guides. Follow the directions and ask questions if you get lost. It's important for it to be mounted level.
One scooterists installed horn comparison.
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The boy took me to Portabello Road market to walk around, look at the people, fashions and have a nose around the antique stalls and stores along the way. Besides buying a toaster rack (I couldn't resist, I hate sweaty toast), we searched for sustenance along the way. So we took a little detour to find a shop selling some snacks when we came across a sweet little shop/cafe named Tom's. Inside we found Poilane bread (yipee) as well as a variety of imported snacks from all over Europe. The cafe was full but we only stopped in for a peek as well as to pick up some drinks. However, at the cashier, the boy spotted Scotch Eggs and couldn't resist picking one up.
Two steps outside of Tom's the boy eagerly took a huge bite into the Scotch egg, rolled his eyes, took another bite and ran a little bit away from me. A sign that it was good.
I had a look and eventually wheedled a bite out of him. Yep, it was a good one, with a molten yolk, good quality sausage meat lightly crumbed studded with onions, it was quite delicious.
The boy declared it the best Scotch egg he had ever had. A bold statement which he asked me to challenge you all to beat. I do suspect, however, that he simply wants to know where else to find good Scotch eggs.
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Bride: Ailene
Bride: Ailene
Airbrushed Make up : Nybie Ng of Nybie Ng Make Up Artistry
Hairstylist : Pao La Ramirez of Nybie Ng Make Up Artistry
Photo: Mark Vitasa Photography
Location : Caleruega, Tagaytay
Beauty, Sophisticated and Elegant.
One of the most important and happiest day in a woman's life is the day she walks down the aisle. A fairy tale with a happy ending. We are glad to play part on Ailene's wedding day as her Fairy godmothers.
James and Ailene thank you for making us part of your fairy tale.
Best wishes,
Team NNM
BRIDE: Ms. Ann Michelle
BRIDE: Ms. Ann Michelle
Airbrushed Make up by: Nybie Ng
Hair by : Pao la Ramirez
Photocredits: Mark Vitasa and Christian De Jesus (Love and Arts Studio)
Congratulations Mr. and Mrs. Octa!
Best Wishes! 🙂
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TING HUN: Wynn and Eren
Ting Hun (Engagement Party). In Chinese, this symbolizes that both families formally accepts their new son/daughter-in-law into the family.
Congratulations Wynn and Eren! ❤
Thank you for making us part of your special day!
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Actually members of the rhododendron family, native azaleas differ from the popular hybrid varieties primarily in their habitat, preferring more shade than sun. In the wild, native azaleas are more likely to be found growing as a forest understory shrub, standing out from the background only during its blooming period. Relying on the plant's leaves for identification can be tricky, as they are often quite similar from species to species. But through careful observation of the leaf as well as other of the plant's major characteristics, most plant scouts should be able to identify several species of native azalea.
About Native Azaleas
United States is home to 16 distinct species of native azalea, though numerous hybrids between native species exist. Bloom time can vary drastically, with some species coming into flower before their leaves unfurl in the spring, while others bloom after leaves have emerged, from spring into midsummer. Native azaleas are generally classified by bloom color: white, pink and red-orange. Fifteen of the native azalea species are found on the East Coast; the lone standout, Rhododendron occidentale, is a resident of the western states. Most species grow to between 8 and 15 feet in height.
List of Native Azaleas
Determining when the specimen in question blooms, as well as the number of petals, color and number of stamens, and texture of flower can quickly narrow down the list of potential candidates, though overall color is the primary identifier. White-flowered species are the Alabama (R. alabamense), sweet (R. arborescens), coastal (R. atlanticum), swamp (R. viscosum) and May white (R. eastmanii) azaleas, as well as the lone West Coast native azalea (R. occidentale). Pink-flowered species are the Piedmont (R. canescens), mountain (R. canadense), pinxterbloom (R. periclymenoides), roseshell (R. prinophyllum) and pinkshell (R. vaseyi) azaleas. Red and orange-flowered species consist of the Florida (R. austrinum), flame (R. calendulaceum), Cumberland (R. bakeri), Oconee (R. flammeum) and plum-leaf (R. prunifolium) azaleas.
Leaf Identification
A relative majority of native azaleas have leaves that are described botanically as being glabrous, or smooth. Leaves are generally 1 to 2 inches in length, oblong in shape and pointed at the tip. Leaf margins are smooth and unbroken by serrations or dentations. Roseshell azalea (R. prinophyllum) differs slightly in that the undersides of its leaves are pubescent, or covered in short, soft hairs. The plum-leaf azalea (R. prunifolium) differs from other species of azalea in that its leaves have short, bristly hairs along the leaf veins, as opposed to being entirely smooth. The western azalea also differs, having short, fine hairs along its leaf margins.
Several species grow as dwarf or compact species, notably the pinxterbloom and Cumberland azaleas. Coastal azalea is one of several species with a stoloniferous growth habit, where the plant spreads to cover large areas of land via underground stolons, or runners. New plants, which are actually clones of the original plant, spring up along the stolons, giving the impression of a large mass of the same plant. Most other types of azaleas grow as individual, multi-stemmed shrubs.
Habitat and Range
The vast majority of native azalea species can be found growing in mountain forests, forest bogs, swamps and along streams in the hills of the East Coast from Newfoundland to Georgia.
Several other species occur in a more limited range in the lowland swamps and bogs of Alabama, Georgia and Florida. Some, such as the Oconee azalea are vanishing rapidly due to extensive development throughout their limited native range. Species that are concentrated in the North Carolina and Virginia stretches of the Appalachian Mountains include the Piedmont, pinxterbloom and swamp azaleas.
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LITERATURE» Full Dark, No Stars - Stephen King's new novella questions mankind's ability to trust others.
MUSIC» The Top 30 Albums of 2010 - Fashionably, fabulously late, our favorite music (and believe me, there was a LOT) of 2010, the year that some have called the best year for music ever. And only some of those fools work here. Plenty of usual suspects, lots of ties and a few surprises that I won't spoil, including our unexpected #1.
MUSIC» Live: Surfer Blood/The Drums at Lincoln Hall, Chicago, IL - Remember when Weezer used to put together records that you could sing along to and rock out to? That's what Surfer Blood's show was like!
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Castle Talk
Don Giovanni
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The Social Network [Original Soundtrack]
The Null Corporation
Halcyon Digest
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Everything in Between
Sub Pop
Body Talk Pt. 1/ Body Talk Pt. 2
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Fat Possum
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As much as I love languages and being able to switch between two foreign languages plus my native language on a daily basis, it's going to be a bit of a relief not to have to!
No more booking restaurant tables using my less complicated maiden name, or the name of easy-name friends, or my name translated to French (quite funny though), or spell my actual last name 5 times and they still don't get it right and can't find the reservation. And no longer will I be mistaken for a hotel – Holtedahl very easily turns into Hotel Dahl.
No more UK and US English mix-ups, like when that nice British mom – sorry, mum! – I met at the playground on a surprisingly warm autumn/fall day ran away when I said I had to go take my pants off (this was back in the day when you'd wear tight jeans with a long tunic). Good thing I didn't use the word "fanny" as well, which to me is obvious since I used to watch the good Nanny Fine!
Anyway, so much for that potential expat friendship… the playground is a good place to look for them by the way! Just get the words right; is your baby sleeping in a stroller with a pacifier and a dirty diaper, or in a pushchair with a dummy and a dirty nappy?
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I had gotten out of bed this beautiful morning, had my bath, gotten dressed and ready to glam my face up, only for me to realize that my make up purse had just about five to six items in it. Panic mood set in immediately, then I took a closer look at the purse and realized it had the essential items in it.
However, what I find interesting about this thing called make-up is that it allows us express our creativity and also gives us room to improvise without seeming like we did. Here are the five essentials that came to my resuce and are a must have for every lady.
1. Pencils: what's a glammed face without drawn brows, either perfectly or none perfectly drawn brows help in popping out your face. The pencils can also be improvised as lip liners.
2. Foundation: a perfect face isn't complete without a nicely and smoothly applied foundation. The foundation helps in retaining the powder longer on the face. They can also serve as concealer it your good at it.
3. Powder: you can't do without this ever. Even if all things are missen, make sure a have a powered even if its white powder.
4. Lip stain or Lip gloss: you most definitely don't want to leave the house looking pale and dull, cause a dull looking lips is a dull going day especially when you've got black lips. Note that for days where your make up items go missen, the nude lip stain or gloss is preferable.
5. Mascara: except you have long standing lashes, make sure you never got of of stock on this item, the help add volume and edge to our eye especially on bad, mimimal or no make up days.
While all these are essentials in every lady's make up purse most have, always make sure to have your powder brush and beauty blender. You wouldn't want to get yourself all stained while glaming up your face for the day's hustle.
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For the past few evenings, as Mr. Palindrome and I sip wine and talk about our days, wafts of weed have quickly taken over the living area necessitating a swift closing of the balcony door. That makes us sound like wet rags. Whatevs, I'm not a fan of the smell. At first we thought it was a skunk. But that didn't make any sense in the middle of San Francisco high rises. You can take the girl out of Carolina, but you can't take the skunk suspicions out of the girl.
Even though it's not my bag, I was totally curious about drugs for the cat. Cat nip is perfectly legal, readily available and completely intriguing to me. Mr. Palindrome told me not to drug his cat. But like a mother with a fussing baby on an airplane, I looked longingly at the drugs wondering if the effects were just like everyone said.
When we were cheapskates on scratching posts and opted for the cardboard version, it came with a bag of the good stuff. Hehehe. My opportunity for experimentation had arisen. When Mr. Palindrome was still at work, I carefully sprinkled the bag into the corrugated weave. "Here kitty, kitty," I lured Olliver to the forbidden.
I leaned the scratching board on the table legs and let him get his first whiff. Within seconds the board was flipped, the nip was strewn about the carpet and his eyes were wild.
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Note: In the spirit of classic Twins Chatter dualism, both John and I have posted our thoughts about yesterday's big signing. Make sure you read John's post as well, located direcly below this one (or click here).
No matter what your political affiliation, this is one return that you have to support.
Yesterday morning, it was announced that the Twins had indeed come to terms with 2004 AL Cy Young award winner Johan Santana on a 4-year, approximately $40 million contract. Johan will receive around $5 million this season, $9 million in 2006, $12 million in 2007 and then $13.25 million in 2008 (according to the Star Tribune).
My initial reaction (which was probably shared by nearly every Twins fan, save one) was that of extreme jubilation. It truly made my day!
This signing was a huge day in Twins history. Some people were criticized the Twins' front office because they failed to sign Corey Koskie (I don't consider Guzman much of a loss anymore), but locking Santana up long-term more than makes up for that. This was perhaps the team's only chance to retain Johan past 2006, because if he has another Cy Young-type season his price may very well skyrocket out of the Twins' range.
It also signifies an important commitment on the part of Carl Pohlad. I have to admit that I have been pleasantly surprised recently by the amount of money our notoriously stingy owner has allowed Terry Ryan to spend this winter in multi-year contracts. Some decisions have been questionable (i.e. $4 million for the duo of Juan Castro and Mike Redmond through 2006) but $58 million for six seasons of Santana and Brad Radke is most definitely a good deal in today's market.
Still, 40 million dollars is an awful lot of money. There is no doubt that the Red Sox or Yankees would have happily doled out $15+ million a season for the game's best starting pitcher in 2007, but for a small market team like the Twins this is the penultimate financial commitment. If Johan performs at the level that we've seen the past two seasons (and there is no reason to believe he won't) then he is worth the money, but there is still a degree of risk involved. The injury bug can strike and strike hard at any time, and such large contracts can severely handicap small market teams (see Mays, Joe).
Despite the risks involved, I still firmly believe this was the right decision on the Twins' part. I believe there was little chance the team could have retained Santana past 2006 had a deal not been done this winter. The Yankees may actually need an ace by then (as opposed to simply acquiring one for the heck of it), and a $100 million dollar contract may not have been out of the question for a rare talent like Johan. Who knows? Maybe by 2009 circumstances will have changed enough (*cough* new stadium *cough*) and the Twins will be able to keep Santana well into his prime.
In my mind, here is what Monday's resigning has a few key implications.
1.) The Twins were able to reward their best player with a fair market value contract that will allow them to keep him two years longer than they otherwise would have.
2.) Santana is finally being paid what he is worth ($1.6 million, Johan's 2004 salary, is verifiable high robbery for a Cy Young award winner this day and age) and gets the added security and stability of a long term deal.
3.) Twins ownership shows that they are willing to spend money liberally on an irreplaceable commodity that is absolutely essential to the franchise's continued success.
4.) Have I mentioned this one enough yet? Baseball's best pitcher will take the mound for the Twins every five days until the end of the Bush administration!
Unlike many politicians, I have no doubt this is one candidate who will actually live up to all his promises.
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One of my favorite blog posts to follow is Momfessionals' Teacher Tuesday's. Inspired by those posts I thought I'd share some of my college teacher essentials! I teach communication courses, and I've collected quite a few book ideas, shows/movies, and learning games over the last fourteen years.
First up are books that we have read, discussed, or I've incorporated into classroom concept connections:
1. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind highlights intrapersonal and interpersonal communication usage, and how it can create change.
2. Creativity, Inc. is one of my favorite books about organizational collaboration and how it creates a creative environment that employees can effectively communicate ideas within.
3. The Spirit Catches You And You Fall Down is a book I read in a sociology course in college and have carried with me sense. It's one of the best books on intracultural communication you'll ever read, and one of my favorite books overall.
4. We discuss things "going viral" in our discussion of mass media and communication and Contagious is a great in-depth read of this idea.
Next up is some of my favorite shows or movies that we have discussed, critiqued, or done classwide activities on:
1. My go to for our discussion of metacognitive strategies to avoid burnout. In Two Week's Notice Sandra Bullock's character end up quitting her job after suffering from workplace burnout. We watch segments of it and I usually try to skip the ending because it's not really relevant, but my students almost always convince me to let them watch the end (the romantic comedy part).
2. Full of communication issues and workplace breakdowns, Parks and Recreation is a show I pull lots of examples from. One of my favorites is Kaboom where they are convinced to build a playground just based on a persuasive pitch.
3. The episode Conflict Resolution from The Office is one we do a classwide activity on, breaking down the win-win-win strategy.
4. And for when we talk about SCADFISH nonverbal communication, I'm looking forward to us watching and discussing Inside Out!
You probably wouldn't think of playing games in a college classroom, but there are several that I use to help break the ice at the beginning of the semester, help students strategize speech topics, prepare students for delivering speeches, and working on group collaboration. Here are some of my favorites!
1. Top that Toast Card Game. I'm so excited to add this one into the mix next semester. We are going to use it when we discuss ceremonial and impromptu speaking.
2. Snake Oil is a game idea shared with me by a fellow faculty member. We don't play by the traditional rules, but mix and match the cards that the students have to then turn into one minute persuasive presentations.
3. Taboo is a great game to work on effective delivery, where students have to maintain eye contact, avoid vocalized pauses, and keep a steady rate while trying to get students to guess the word.
4. Every semester I do a marshmallow challenge group collaboration activity. However, I found the collaborative game "Junk Art" while Christmas shopping and my creativity wheels started turning with an idea to make a more permanent group collaboration activity. I've got it on my teacher fund list!
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Moroccan Christmas
"Moroccan Christmas" is the eleventh episode of the fifth season of the television series The Office, and the show's eighty-third episode overall. The episode aired in the United States on December 11, 2008 on NBC.
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Episode 11
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|December 11, 2008
It is the third Christmas-themed episode of The Office and the first in two years, as 2007's planned edition was abandoned due to the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike.
In this episode, Phyllis throws a Moroccan-themed Christmas party as head of the Party Planning Committee, infuriating former head Angela. The party takes a dark turn when Meredith gets drunk and accidentally sets her hair on fire. Meanwhile, Dwight makes money by taking advantage of the latest toy craze, a Princess Unicorn doll.
Phyllis (Phyllis Smith) throws a Moroccan-themed Christmas party, her first Christmas party as head of the Party Planning Committee. Alcohol is served at the party, of which Meredith (Kate Flannery) takes full advantage—she gets so intoxicated that she accidentally sets her hair on fire while she is dancing. Dwight (Rainn Wilson) puts out the fire with an extinguisher and the party comes to a halt. Michael (Steve Carell) then stages an intervention by gathering everyone in a circle to discuss how Meredith's alcoholism affects them. When Meredith continues to deny her alcoholism, the rest of the office find it best to go back to the party. Michael then talks with Meredith in his office before leaving the building. Meredith is told by Michael that they are going to a bar, but he actually takes her to a rehabilitation center. When Meredith sees this, she tries to escape, but Michael grabs her and drags her into the center. However, Michael learns that the staff will not check anyone in against their will, so he and Meredith leave and head back to the office.
Dwight has been performing research to determine what will be the most popular toy of the current Christmas season: a doll named "Princess Unicorn".[2] Dwight has bought every doll he could find in the local toy stores and explains he is going to sell the dolls to desperate parents for an enormous profit. Jim (John Krasinski) is skeptical that people would pay a high price for a doll, but he watches numerous customers come in throughout the day to purchase a doll from Dwight, all paying his asking price of $200. Toby (Paul Lieberstein) wants to buy a doll for his daughter, Sasha, so he can be the hero this Christmas, which would irritate his ex-wife. When he goes to Dwight to purchase one, he finds that Darryl (Craig Robinson) has already purchased the last one. Toby begs Darryl to the verge of tears, and Darryl offers to sell it to him for twice the price. Toby tells him that he does not have the money with him, but Darryl allows him to pay him back later, and Toby becomes visibly happy. He is, however, slightly shocked when the doll he gets from Darryl is a black version of the doll, but he decides not to complain.
Throughout the day, Phyllis continues to order Angela (Angela Kinsey) to do various tasks for the party, such as preparing a plate of bread and hummus, or putting away her Nativity scene and removing the Christmas tree (as neither of those is in the theme of Moroccan Christmas). When Phyllis tells Angela to bring back the Christmas tree after Michael and Meredith leave, Angela refuses. She points out that Angela's affair with Dwight is the one hold Phyllis has on her, and she is confident that Phyllis wouldn't give that up over something so minor. However, Phyllis immediately announces Angela and Dwight's affair to the office. Everyone is shocked by the revelation, except for Dwight, who is amused. Andy (Ed Helms), however, is absent for Phyllis' announcement, having been in the annex teaching himself to play a sitar. At the end of the episode, he returns to the party to play "Deck the Halls" for Angela on the sitar, before she asks him to take her home. The rest of the office are still speechless at Phyllis' announcement and neglect to reveal Angela's secret to Andy.
"Moroccan Christmas" was written by Justin Spitzer and directed by Paul Feig. Kate Flannery said shooting this episode was "maybe the most fun I have ever had working in front of a camera".[3] Although Flannery has done her own stunts in previous episodes, including when she was struck by a car in the fourth season premiere "Fun Run", a stuntwoman was used for the scenes in which her hair catches fire in "Moroccan Christmas".[3]
Cultural referencesEdit
Shortly after Meredith's hair catches fire, Kevin calls her "fire girl". This is a reference to the second season episode "The Fire", in which then-temp Ryan Howard accidentally sets a fire in the office, earning himself the nickname "fire guy".[4] When Meredith angrily declares she is fine during her intervention, Michael refers to two entertainers when he responds, "Was John Belushi fine? Was Bob Hope fine?"[5] While Michael is bar tending during the party, he makes Jim a drink containing orange juice and vodka. Though commonly known as a Screwdriver, Michael ignorantly refers to it as an "Orange-Vod-Juice-Ka", implying that he was the first person to concoct it.
Phyllis's takeover of the Party Planning Committee and the subsequent fight with Angela ranked number 9 in phillyBurbs.com's top ten moments from the fifth season of The Office.[7] However, "Moroccan Christmas" was voted the second lowest-rated episode out of 26 from the fifth season, according to an episode poll at the fansite OfficeTally; the episode was rated 7.08 out of 10.[8]
Brian Howard of The Journal News was mixed in his review of "Moroccan Christmas". He praised the cold open scene, Toby's reaction to the doll and Andy's reaction at the end of the episode. But Howard said he did not enjoy the Moroccan Christmas party theme, and felt scenes of Meredith's alcoholism and Michael dragging her to rehab were more awkward than funny.[5] "Moroccan Christmas" received generally mixed reviews. Alan Sepinwall, television columnist with The Star-Ledger, was highly complimentary toward "Moroccan Christmas", which he said featured "consistent hilarity mixed in with some of the sharpest emotion we've ever gotten from a non Jim & Pam story". Sepinwall called it a strong episode for the Dwight, Andy, Meredith, and Phyllis characters, and particularly complimented the acting of Phyllis Smith.[4] TV Guide writer Shahzad Abbas called it an "excellent episode all around", referring to intervention scene and the fighting among Phyllis and Angela as "really intense stuff". Abbas said she looked forward to seeing the new developments unfold, and said Ed Helms had "never been better with his 'where's these people's Christmas spirit' reaction".[9]
New York magazine writer Will Leitch criticized the episode, claiming the main story between Meredith and Michael seemed forced and did not work. Leitch particularly disliked the Phyllis subplot, claiming her negative behavior toward Angela was out of character and ineffective.[6]
- ^ Wilson, Rainn (December 13, 2012). "Remember all of these? #FinalSeason". Facebook.com. Retrieved December 13, 2012.
- ^ "The Office | NBC". Archived from the original on December 24, 2013. Retrieved August 16, 2015.
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- "Moroccan Christmas" at NBC.com
- "Moroccan Christmas" on IMDb
- "Moroccan Christmas" at TV.com


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Vehicles with body tarp
Electric Vehicles with body tarp for freight transport.
- It can be used both in the road and indoors
- Made entirely in Italy
- It's only 127cm wide
- Loading capacity up to 1.500 Kg
- Saving on management costs and fuel
ATX vehicles with body tarp are therefore the ideal meass of transport for all kind of goods in the stations, hypermarkets, hospitals, construction sites, downtown.
ATX are equipped with rib, that can be opened in the three sides to falicilitate goods loading.
Entirely made in Italy, with Europen road omologation, our Alke electric vehicles with body tarp are approved as a heavy L7e for the transport of good. They can circulate without any restrictions both indooors (warehouses, factories,stations driveways,etc...) and outside on the public road ( goods delivery to shops, freight trasnport by couriers, etc...).
The body tarp can be assembled on all ATX models, road and heavy duty; the technical fetaures of these vans are the following:
|Tarp height
|105 cm
|Tarp opening
|3 sides
|Maximum load capacity
|1.500 kg
|100% electric
Alkè has designed a special protective steel for the cabin and cargo area to ensure a maximum security, it can repair the driver from possible falls and load imbalance.
Alké Vans with body tarp are fully electric with zero emission , furthemore they are very silent and fully in accordance with the reduction of noise polluton in urban areas. Thanks to these important characteristic have free access to limited traffic zone, downtown , pedestrian and residential areas; they also allow users in carrying out various task and operation, without disturbing residents.
With it compact dimension, just 127cm size, electric vehicles with body tarp have the opprtunity to circulate even in narrow places and dropes sides facilitate good loading.
Alke always tries always to meet customer needs, for this reason it's possible to study a custom rib, both in a graphic level and size.


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Range Cookers with a ceramic hob offer a sleek, easy clean solution in your kitchen seamlessly blending the black glass hob with your work surface either side.
This type of range cooker uses quick heating electric elements beneath the glass to heat up the pan, giving you much better heat control than a solid plate or radiant hob. The ovens and grill on a ceramic model are always electric so you will need a fairly substantial electrical connection to power it.


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Easy to use AC drives designed for unique industry requirements.
Dedicated AC Drives for energy efficient pump control and the control of multiple pumps without the need for expensive PLCs or pump controllers.
Easy to use AC Drives for the energy efficient control of fans and pumps in building automation.
Dedicated AC Drives that provide smooth, reliable carriage control in all elevator and lift applications, whether geared or gearless.
AC Drives that provide precise motor control for industrial automation including dust-proof, wash down duty and cost effective solutions for low power applications.
Energy efficient motor control for marine vessels.
Precise air modulation for efficient combustion.


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First Universalist Church
From SalWiki
- In 1805, the first meetings of the Universalist Society were held and by 1807, the membership had grown to 300. Land was purchased in 1807 on Rust St. to build a church. "The first Universalist Meetinghouse is one of the most outstanding Federal-era ecclesiastical structures surviving in Essex County. The front projecting gable pavilion, above which rises a square balustraded bell tower, is particularly noteworthy", according to Tolles in his book, Architecture in Salem.
- Modifications were made in the building in 1826 and 1839 (basement enlarged and renovated). In 1877/78, under the architect William D. Dennis (1847-1913), the sanctuary was done over.
- In front of the parish house is the Thomas Perkins House(c.1811), a two-story brick Federal dwelling, the only one of its type left in Salem. The building was saved from demolition in 1968, when its owner, Bessie Munroe, refused to vacate the premises.
- The church is a member of the Unitarian-Universalist Association, a liberal Protestant denomination.
- Some of the past ministers were Rev. Tracy Pullman from 1936-40, Rev. Arthur Webster from 1940-76 and Rev. Charles Barber 1976-1987. Rev. Marta Flanagan (the first woman to serve at that church) served from 1987. Rev. Gail Seavey took over in 1998.
- The church was forced to close its sanctuary for renovation in 1988 when a sagging support beam made it unsafe for habitation. A year and a half later, they opened the newly restored sanctuary.
- The First Universalist Church was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.
- Due to a decline in membership numbers, the First Universalist Church in Salem has stopped having church services as of May 2015. The building will still be up-kept as a non-profit with programming for the arts.
- First Universalist Church merged with First Parish Unitarian Universalist Church in Beverly.
- The building will still be used as a non-profit organization called The Bridge at 211. The programming will be to entertain, engage and educate and enrich the community in music and the arts.
See Also
- Postcard courtesy of CardCow.com
- Vertical File in Salem Collection - Churches
- "Universalist Church celebrates 200th birthday in song" Salem News, Feb. 27, 2009, p.2
- "Historic Salem church reopens its sanctuary" Salem Evening News, Sept. 9, 1989, p.1
- "New minister greets flock with open arms (Rev. Gail Seavey) " Salem Evening News, Nov. 7, 1998, p. A1
- "United in worship; Historic churches to merge after members meet on bridge to sign agreement" Salem News, Sept. 8, 2015
- Architecture in Salem by Bryant F. Tolles, p. 115-116
- "Dr. Webster ends 36 years as Universalist minister" Salem Evening News, Apr. 3, 1976.
- "Salem Universalists install new minister Sunday (Rev. Marta Flanagan)" Salem Evening News, Nov. 14, 1987, p. 7
- Committee chooses N.J. woman to lead Salem Unitarian (Universalist) church" Salem Evening News, June 27,1987, p.17


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Shakespeare's couples are mixed, matched and mended in this classic comedy directed by Georgia Shakespeare Festival's producing artistic director, Richard Garner.
Hunny's Review of Midsummerby Hunny4838
Tuesday, October 31, 2000
One word. Brilliant. I saw a special performance for my college class and I have to say I was absolutely capitivated.Saxon Palmer had us rolling in seats, as did Jonathan Davis. Klimchak's score was perfectly fitted to the moods and movements of Garner's direction, eerie in moments of fear and cheerful in moments of merriment.Janice Akers' Titania was absolutely remarkable and Mark Kincaid's performance was very worthy of praise.The entire production was hilarious and moving, enlightening and frightening.Hunny gives it a 5 out of 5 [POST A COMMENT REGARDING THIS REVIEW]
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Friday, October 20, 2000
This play was wonderful. I saw it with my High school and It was simply awsome. The set and stage makeup was beautiful. Sound efects made it even better [POST A COMMENT REGARDING THIS REVIEW]


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Focus on World Disclosure Day
Kindly let me use this page to discuss various aspects of World Disclosure Day.
The first is to ensure that we're aware of what it does and does not aim at.
It aims at providing us with an opportunity to express our welcome to the galactics who have come to Earth at the request of the local Spiritual Hierarchy.
The Hierarchy is led by Planetary Logos, Sanat Kumara, known in the Bible as the "Ancient of Days." Sheldan Nidle's sources, who style themselves the Spiritual Hierarchy and Galactic Federation, succinctly reflect the situation: "Heaven summoned us and we came."(1)
Heaven – that is, the Spiritual Hierarchy – summoned the galactics to help us oust the dark cabal of the Illuminati from power and prepare for 2012 ascension.
The galactics report to the White Brotherhood, which is the fellowship of ascended masters who've been at work planning the events of these times for probably centuries, perhaps millennia.
Atmos of Sirius confirms the partnership between the hierarchy and the galactics: "The Galactic Federation, along with the White Brotherhood and Elders, are the principal players in the process of preparing you not just for these final years to 2012, but beyond." (2)
SaLuSa tells us that "the Galactic Federation is not some marauding group of Space Beings. We are organized to police the Universe helping young civilizations evolve without interference. We carry out the bidding of those who have the ear of God, and carry out his plans for evolution." (3)
He adds:
"The Galactic Federation works with the Higher Beings, and all along have been authorized to accompany you through this cycle, as others have done before. We are your link to God, and carry out our mission with great love and dedication." (4)
The spirit and galactic masters, many of whom live in the Fifth Dimension, others higher, all obey the natural or universal law. So, with a few exceptions, they obey the natural law that says our free will shall be respected.
That means, with a few exceptions to the rule, that we must invite them if we wish them to disclose their presence, land on Earth, and intervene in our planet's processes.
One of those exceptions is that we must invite them up to the time when a divine deadline is reached. When the moment arrives that the Divine has set for an event, then our own free will is superseded by the divine command.
If disclosure hasn't happened before now, it is because the people of Earth have opposed it, or because they have not asked for it, or because the divine deadline has not arrived. World Disclosure Day seeks to remove the first two obstacles.
Here's SaLuSa confirming the existence of a divine deadline:
"On a number of occasions we have tried to offer our help, and it has been turned down. However, we no longer … need … your permission to arrive on Earth, as it has become a divine order with an ultimate date by which we will appear. We will do so in a perfectly correct manner and first approach those who are your legally-appointed representatives." (5)
On World Disclosure Day, we have a chance to express in a loving and appropriate way our desire for the galactics to disclose their presence and come to Earth.
It's a day of invitation, and it may very well be a day that passes without any signs of the galactic presence.
We'll have been successful if many people on Earth take a moment during the day and express their wish that the galactics reveal themselves.
I suggest, as a minimum, that everyone take three minutes of silence at 12 o'clock noon in your own time zone and spend that time quietly sending out loving energy and any words of welcome you wish to the galactics. Invite them to disclose their presence and land on Earth.
If you wish to signal those around you that you are aware of the significance of the moment, I suggest you signal them with the "V" for peace sign followed by an "OK" gesture. The two signs are illustrated here.
World Disclosure Day is not a one-time affair. We'll regroup the first Sunday of each month and express that wish again, undoubtedly growing in numbers and intensity of desire, until the galactics do show themselves and come before us.
My task will be to hold the space for the day. I intend to serve as a writer, but not as a speaker. I could go into many reasons for that, but, in the end, it boils down to the fact that I trained as a writer and not as a speaker and prefer the one to the other.
So someone else will need to serve as the "public face" of World Disclosure Day.
That's all I can think of for now but this message will change as the needs of the hour do and it's the place to come to learn what the latest is, from my viewpoint, around WD2.
(1) Spiritual Hierarchy and Galactic Federation, "Update," June 25, 2002, through Sheldan Nidle, Galactic Federation of Light: Updates Archive 1997-2007, at http://www.thenewearth.org/GalacticFederationArchive.html.
(2) Atmos, Aug. 28, 2009 at http://www.treeofthegoldenlight.com/First_Contact/Channeled_Messages_by_Mike_Quinsey.htm.
(3) SaLuSa, July 5, 2010 at http://www.treeofthegoldenlight.com/First_Contact/Channeled_Messages_by_Mike_Quinsey.htm.
(4) SaLuSa, July 12, 2010.
(5) SaLuSa, February 18, 2009.


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Big sister becomes mom to sibling
Teen adopted 1 week before 18th birthday
Selena Cantu and Karen Hernandez are half sisters who share a father.
Even though they grew up in different homes, Cantu remembers choosing to spend much of her time with Hernandez, her sister that is 15 years older.
"She's very wonderful, she's like a mother to me. She's good to her children and she's always been there for me," Cantu said.
"She's always called me 'Mommy.' She's always wanted to have that feeling that I'm her mom," Hernandez said.
Cantu was taken away from her biological mom in recent years due to abuse and a Child Protective Services intervention.
As a result, she has already been living with Hernandez, but she wants to make it official.
"We decided to adopt her. It's something she's been wanting all these years, ever since maybe she was 10," Hernandez said.
Cantu will be 18 next week, and while most high school seniors are itching to leave the nest, she wants nothing more than the security and love of a forever home.
"I want to be with my family because they're a big part of me," Cantu said.
Karen Hernandez and her husband, Mauricio, are anxious to begin filling the voids with attention, love, and discipline.
Fortunately, the bond is already there.
For a list of recent stories April Molina has done, click here.
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Blake Welch, Principal
Meet Blake Welch. Blake has over 25 years of design and communications experience under his belt. He's held positions with a wide range of firms in the industry, from advertising and design agencies to Better Homes & Gardens magazine.
Blake graduated from Colorado State University where he continues to teach design as a guest lecturer in his rare free time. His work has been widely praised and was even featured in the national design magazine of the People's Republic of China.
Blake does not hide his love for hosting and entertaining. He will find any reason to organize get-togethers. And we encourage him to do so. His scones deserve serious attention.
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Jill Hodges, Creative Director
Jill has been finding adventure in design since 1999 when she began her career as senior designer for Modern Bride Magazine. Throughout her career she has focused on identity work for brands that span such products as OxiClean, Pura Vida, the Denver Broncos, and the Butterfly Pavilion among many others.
Demonstrating her talent beyond print, Jill also designed the 2008 graphic-fashion apparel for Crocs – Men's, Women's and Children's clothing lines. During her two years with WCG she has become our "Brand Master" in the naming, branding and business development sector.
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Sam Ponce, Senior Designer
Sam's career began in Southern California (design central for some of the country's most celebrated advertising and marketing agencies), before bringing him to Denver.
Along with innovative design skills, Sam prides himself on superior customer service, welcoming shared ideas and collaboration to create products that drive demand. Through more than 10 years of creative collaboration in print, web and multimedia, Sam has helped regional, national and international clients build their brand identity and institute integrated marketing programs.
As a part-time graphic design instructor, Sam also shares a wealth of experience with budding designers at Metro State College of Denver.
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Cassel McWaters, Director Client Services/Project Management
With more than 14 years of account management experience in advertising and marketing, Cassel is one of those people who seems to anticipate client needs and wants before they do. Above all else she prides herself on understanding the clients' business and developing strong and lasting client relationships, which helps her develop the best fitting solutions for her client base.
Formerly with Lexis Nexis and Martindale Hubbell she has an extensive background in internet advertising and print media.
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Kaylee Fedel, Designer
Kaylee is a recent graduate of the Colorado State University School of Graphic Design. Her expertise is vast in spite of her short tenure. She has held numerous design positions during her years in design school including photo assistant with a well-known photographer and web-developer for numerous start-up and established Colorado companies.
She is an expert in Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign and is our on-site web guru.
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For those of you in on my December Beauty Resolution to rock fake lashes, I thought I'd share a few bits of wisdom I've learned through trial and error up through this point.
Along with Petra's tips, here are a few things you need to know.
Lesson 1) You really should trim them to the right length. I've found the width of my eye matches best with a set of falses when I snip off the outer four lashes or so. This has saved me a lot of adjusting with too-long strands. To measure, just hold the strand up against your eye before you apply the glue—the inner lashes should start where yours get thicker above the tear duct.
Lesson 2) You've got to find the right amount of glue, which from what I can tell is enough so you can see it clearly on the strand but not enough to look gloppy. I find thinning it out a little with a Q-Tip helps.
Lesson 3) Keep some liquid liner onhand. You can use it fill in any areas where you can tiny slivers of skin between your real lashes and your fake ones. Totally key.
OK, that's it for now. Any of the rest of you been experimenting yet? Discovered any tips you want to share? Spill all below.
Related: All the different kinds of falsies.
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Naruto, this pose is from the first manga, so I wont take credit for the layout, but I didnt trace it, just copied.
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Films By Lionel Rogosin
Lionel Rogosin has used original techniques in gathering material for all three films he has made so far. In his first film, On the Bowery, shown at the 1957 Melbourne Festival, he used a hidden camera, a crew disguised as derelicts, and shot authentic sequences of down-and-out drunks in the slums ... Read more
"The Bowery, the infamous street of derelicts in New York, is a syndrome of human blight, waste and decay: misused and shabby men living in a stale tenement city - confusion. At the turn of the century, the Bowery was a high-life district; it has long outlived its reputation, with only faded ... Read more


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My mother is a wonderful cook who I have watched for years in the kitchen making up new recipes everyday. One of my favorite recipes of hers, is her white sauce chicken enchiladas. Before I had these I always thought that enchiladas were made with red sauce. In my hometown, every restaurant that had enchiladas had red sauce enchiladas. So when … Continue reading
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El Pato Tacos
Mmm mmm who doesn't love a delicious mouth watering taco? Well from growing up in a small town full of amazing Mexican food, I have become quite picky when it comes to my tacos. These El Pato Tacos are different than the regular ground beef tacos that your mom might have made you every Tuesday … Continue reading


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Every time i navigate to add a product I get a spinning wheel then a time out a message from chrome. I have cleared the cache, restarted chrome. I even went so far as to reset my website to start all over again. This is day two and still not able to navigate gocentral manage store. So frustrated!! ready to cancel and transfer to Wix.
Solved! Go to Solution.
Hi @harpertraci,
This sounds like a browser issue. Please make sure your browser is updated and you don't have an outdated plugin within your browser. If you're still having issues please try using another browser.
I am having the same problem right now. Its frustrating, I thought it was chrome so I decided to try the Ethernet and its the same problem.
I have the same problem as well! Mine seems to be every Sunday and it's VERY FRUSTRATING since that's the only day I am able to really work on it. Any suggestions?
did this ever get resolved as i'm having same issue as many others are
Hey Everyone. This type of issue is most often caused by difficulty with an internet connection or a browser issue. In rare occasions, it might be due to some kind of latency within our system.
To troubleshoot your connection, you can try performing a traceroute test. This will let you see if there are any timeouts in your connection. You can also use websites like fast.com or speedtest.net to test your speed. If there are, you may need to contact your internet provider
To troubleshoot your browser, I'd suggest first clearing your browser's cache and cookies. If that doesn't help, then try using a cacheless browsing window (FireFox private window, Chrome incognito, etc.), then an entirely different browser.
If you're not seeing an issue with either of the above, you can check our status page to see if there are any problems listed there. You can also connect with our Care Guides to make sure there are no problems on our end or with your account.


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Ben Dewberry was a brave engineer
He told his fireman don't you ever fear
All I want is the water and coal
Stick your head out the window, watch the drivers roll
Watch the drivers roll, watch the drivers roll
Stick your head out the window, watch the drivers roll.
Ben Dewberry said before he died
Two more roads that he wanted to ride
His fireman asked him what could they be
Said the old Northeastern and the A and B
Said the A and B, it's the A and B
Said the old Northeastern, it's the A and B.
On the fatal morning it began to rain
Around the curve come a passenger train
Ben Dewberry was the engineer
With the throttle wide open and without any fear
He didn't have no fear, he didn't have no fear
He had her running wide open without any fear.
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Ben looked at his watch shook his head
We may make Atlanta but we'll all be dead
The train was flying by the troubling switch
Without any warning then she took the ditch
Yeah, she went in the ditch. well, she took the ditch
Without any warning, then she took the ditch.
Well, the big locomotive leaped from the rail
Ben never lived to tell that awful tale
His life was ended and his work was done
When Ben Dewberry made his final run
He made his final run, he made his final run
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Logan County
Formed 30 Dec 1818, 460 square miles
Parent county: Champaign
Evolution of county from date of formation until it assumed its final form
1 Mar 1818: Erected and organized
1 Apr 1820: Diminished by formation of Union and other counties from Indian Lands. Part of Indian Lands attached
11 Apr 1883: Logan-Shelby line altered
15 Mar 1888: Logan-Auglaize line altered
For two years, 1818-1820, Belleville was the county seat of Logan County. In 1820, the county seat was moved to Bellefontaine.
Federal Population schedules extant from 1820-1940. (1890 missing)
Non-population schedules:
1820 Manufacturers; 1850 Agricultural; 1850 Industry; 1850 Mortality; 1860 Agricultural, 1860 Mortality; 1870 Agricultural; 1880 Agricultural; 1880 Defective, Dependent, and Delinquent
Bloomfield, Bokes Creek, Harrison, Jefferson, Lake, Liberty, McArthur, Miami, Monroe, Perry, Pleasant, Richland, Rushcreek, Stokes, Union, Washington, and Zane.
Jana Broglin, OGSF
Swanton, Ohio
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This is the test architecture for bigfoot, the non-cloud version of ODE. While these tests run in the cloud, bigfoot isn't intended for cloud deployment. So this is a minimalist, simple architecture rather than a comprehensive high-security and high-availability architecture.
There is one cloud computing resource that is configured with Jenkins and DBFit. It can be contacted by and configured from the Bastion, but ordinarily it operates on a schedule rather than as a result of outside input.
If we have an existing VPC, then this can be deployed there, in order to avoid the overhead of creating a new VPC and Bastion. Or a new VPC can be created. The Bastion only needs an SSH client and a web browser.
How does it work?
- The Jenkin's built-in timer triggers a build periodically. We can set this to as often as every minute.
- The build is configured to contact bitbucket. It does so. If there have been no changes, the build stops and none of the following steps are performed.
- If there have been changes Jenkins pulls the changes from bitbucket into its local copy. It then runs the ANT script from bitbucket which deletes the ODE install from the RDS SQL Server and re-installs ODE.
- Once the build is finished, either success or failure, Jenkins runs the test suite in DBFit for which it has been configured.
- DBFit connects to the SQL Server RDS database and runs the tests.
- Jenkins collects all of the output and either emails the project contact with a success message, or the most recent person to commit to git with a build failure message.


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Another £140m bailout for the NHS
David Cameron pledges £140m to nurses to ease NHS red tape
Ministers say staff will be able to spend more time with patients
6 October 2012 Last updated at 14:13
An extra £140m in funding, aimed at easing the burden of bureaucracy on nurses and midwives, has been announced by Prime Minister David Cameron.
The money is intended to give NHS nurses in England access to the latest technology and ensure cancer patients get advanced radiotherapy treatment.
Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt said most nurses and midwives wanted to "spend time caring for patients".
The government's NHS reforms have prompted controversy in the last year.
During a visit to the John Radcliffe hospital in Oxford, ahead of the start of the Conservative party conference in Birmingham, Mr Cameron said £100m will be used to ensure "brilliant" nurses and midwives can get access to the latest software and other devices so they can spend "even more time at the bedside".
"We're only able to do this because we're the only party, the only people, who said 'whatever else we have to do, whatever other cuts we have to make, we are not cutting the NHS budget, we're increasing it'.
"That was my pledge, that's what we are doing," he added.
A further £40m will be available to help ward sisters and community team leaders develop their leadership skills, with training for 1,000 staff this year.
Mr Hunt, who succeeded Andrew Lansley as health secretary in a recent reshuffle, said: "Most nurses and midwives chose their profession because they wanted to spend time caring for patients, not filling out paperwork. New technology can make that happen.
"That's better for nurses and patients too, who will get swifter information and more face-to-face time with NHS staff."
The money will initially be made available in the form of loans, although hospitals will only have to pay back a proportion depending on how well they perform.
The prime minister also announced a £15m cancer radiotherapy innovation fund, with a guarantee that from next April all cancer patients in England will get the most innovative radiotherapy where it is appropriate and cost-effective.
Conservatives are assembling in Birmingham for their party conference.