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Factors Influencing Behavior of Overwintering Brown Marmorated Stink Bugs (Halyomorpha halys) in Human Dwellings
Chambers, Benjamin D.
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The brown marmorated stink bug (Halyomorpha halys) (Stål) is known for overwintering in human homes. Studies were conducted to understand the behavior of adult bugs in response to characteristics of potential overwintering structures including gap sizes, light, and presence of dead conspecifics. In a test where bugs were placed in increasingly tight boxes, most bugs settled in gaps 4.5 - 5.5 mm high. None settled in a space less than 3.5 mm high. In boxes with constant tightness, bugs tended to move to the back, and primarily settled along walls and in corners. In both box types, bugs tended to turn and face the cavity entrance during settling. In tests of responses of disturbed overwintering bugs to common household light bulbs over the course of a year, bugs were taken from shelters and exposed to lit bulbs. Bug responses were seasonal, with attraction to light bulbs in spring and summer, but little or no consistent response in fall or winter. The lack of response occurred more often at night than in afternoons. Because not all bugs survive the winter, corpses can accumulate. Single shelter-seeking H. halys were found not to respond to the presence of dead aggregations from the previous years unless touch was possible, in which case aggregations were joined. Dead aggregations from the same year had a repellent effect. Presence of a single dead bug from the same year did not provide any survivorship advantage to overwintering bugs. Results suggest possible improvements to trap shelters.
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The brown marmorated stink bug (Halyomorpha halys) is known for overwintering in human homes. This research investigated the responses of these bugs to some characteristics of overwintering structures, including crevice tightness preference, light sources, and dead bugs leftover from previous years. Tightness experiments indicated that bugs in crevices with hard walls prefer to settle in spaces between 4.5 and 5.5 mm high. Bugs also tended to stay on the floor, go back as far as they could, and face the entrance of the crevice. These findings will help improve overwintering box designs for collection and research, and will help pest control professionals focus their efforts. When bugs were disturbed and exposed to common household light bulbs, they tended to move toward the bulbs in late summer and in spring, but responded less in fall and winter, and responded more often in the afternoon than at night. Bugs were also exposed to other dead bugs in several ways. When lone bugs were exposed to groups of dead bugs from previous years, they went to them only if they could touch them. Single dead bugs had less of an impact. Exposure to groups of dead bugs from the same year drove live bugs away. Overwintering brown marmorated stink bugs do not appear to eat other bugs that have recently died. These results suggest several possible improvements to the designs of trap shelters used for research and control.
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The husband snatching scandal story between Actress Oge Okoye and Nkiru Slyanus came as a shock to many as some of her fans thought that the reason Oge Okoye never showed off her husband as others was because she wanted to remain private. Unknown to many that the foundation of the marriage was never built on a solid rock.
According to a family source who spoke to Ynaija said that Oge Okoye and her husband officially parted ways since 2012 after she cheated on Stanley.. Nkiru Slyvanus came into light after the split between Oge and Stanley.... Read more
"It is funny how the media is blaming Nkiru when it is actually a complicated affair. Oge and Nkiru used to be close friends, they met Stanley at the same time in Enugu in 2006. Nkiru and Stanley fell in love and Oge the back stabber, knew this yet somehow she sheepishly let Stanley impregnate her. Nkiru was hurt but she let go of the love of her life for a friend, she didn't want her to be put to shame and mocked for having a child out of wedlock. So, Oge Okoye and Stanley Duru moved to Amsterdam and got married."
"Of course a dog will always return to its vomit, after having their first son, Oge cheated on Stanley with a friend of his and he paid her back by dating one Dutch lady, Barbara with whom he now has a child, Uchechi, but let's leave that story for another time.
They somehow reconciled and she took in again and delivered a baby girl in 2010 but they officially parted ways in 2012, you media people didn't know that, did you? On realizing they were both single again, Nkiru and Stanley reconnected and they regretted letting each other go. They got really close after Nkiru escaped from the kidnappers' den," the source added.
On the postponed wedding, our source said: "They have done the family introduction already. They were actually planning a secret wedding for December 27 but it has been postponed, they didn't plan for the news to get out, so that changed everything"
When asked why the wedding was postponed, the source declined and said
"That's how much information I can give my dear, Nkiru's media people are working on a press statement already, everything you need to know will be revealed there"
Contrary to reports that actress Oge Okoye is unhappy with the development, the source claimed otherwise.
"She is not furious, she is not devastated at all. She and Stanley parted ways since and she has moved on. Moreover she has no reason to be hurt, after all she snatched Stanley from my cousin first"
Nkiru has said more than a few times, that she would not mind being a second wife.
While speaking on a TV programme months ago, she said:
" If the situation and the person is good, I'll go for it. I've said it before that if ladies don't stop this nonsense they call 'one-man-one-wife', many of them will get to 40 and still remain single. There are more women than men. Go to churches, the number of single ladies in most cases is three times the number of single guys".
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Oge Okoye And Husband Officially Parted Ways Since 2012- Insider Spills
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kamify when I told you that Oge is no longer married you didn't research well now you see I was right.
This story is getting interesting
- Eddy Duke said...
women you people are the cause of your problems, even if Stanley was her boyfriend before Oge snatched him from her, is she happy to born for a man who already has 4 children?
- Eddy Duke said...
I mean 3 children. Nkiru's child will be baby number 4.
Just like in the movies. First is Nuella na it's Nkiru so who is next?~Jady
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Rather not a positive take on the Challenge, I wish I could go for the traditional A for apple and written about Steve jobs or rather the inflation of the apple prices! But then a more prominent "A" word shone today for I had been angry and frustrated for a while and thanks to that, it led me to write a post on how grateful I am for the emotion . It recited the importance of peace and calmness in my life.So ,here is what I think about this!
Anger is known to be damaging but from what I know, it helps as well. I wasn't a temperamental as it would have come across, a soft heart is what people used to tell but then anger and being impulsive came in as I grew up. I reckon, we all , at one time or the other would have bowed down in front of Anger and let it in our life.
Yet , with all the satisfaction it gives my ego, I still was dumbfound to find me disturbed. If anger could find me a way to be gloomy and frustrated all day then what might a grace of smile would bring. Hence started my journey to mitigate the temperamental attitude, slowly, removing them brick by brick for I knew an empire wouldn't be built with flawed bricks. And relationships can never be cured with anger alone and that is how I always meant to see the way to repair them. Albeit sometimes, everything goes wrong and we are left with " I just shouldn't have done that" feeling that secures a place of guilt in the warm heart weighing it more than a ton.
Yet I have come to understand that anger is contagious, I start it and like a forest fire it spreads and so is the calmness. I have come to understand that more the calmness , lesser the brain-aches. For that moment we may have the loathing feel where life seems to be unfair and people incorrigible but still life can be more beautiful with the fragrance of the smile.
For that smile can set many things straight if and only if they come from the heart, that is what the famous poets have always told about. A perfect smile is the one that starts from the heart and ends as a sparkle in the eyes.
So yes, I have learnt as I grow, I have known about happiness and contentment, peace and satisfaction, sleep and meditation. And I have come to know of all these from that impulsive moment of anger. And life might be just an algorithm of highs and lows. But I am too young to define life in all it's glory, while some say that death is a mystery , I find life itself to be a huge mystery.
Hence amidst the chaos , uncertainties and vastness of life. I thank the emotions that brew inside us. Some of them teach us, yet some of them gives us our serenity . There are no negative emotions as such, just premonitions of what might happen. With it , we all need to deal with the variations.And like every one of you, I have embraced my emotion and morphed it into a smile.
With today being a new year for us, I would love to say bevu bella thindu olle maathadone.* let us share the sweetness and sourness of life in equal quantities and let's talk good*
So Happy ugadi, Let's forget the anger strikes and go in for a new life in a full fledged flow.


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Today, we went to Palace Market and showed Brittany our straw collection that were found on West Marin beaches.
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Brittany said that they still had plastic cups and plates, but that they are hoping to remove those by next year. She said they are working to replace their plastics with compostables. We are concerned about compostables because they do not decompose without lots of heat and processing. We told Brittany there are other alternatives besides compostables, because our trash collector cannot compost them, instead they go to the landfill, and end up in the ocean.
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Even though the weather was dreary, the Conservation Corps of Minnesota was persistently working on the Chester Creek Trail on Monday, Oct. 31.
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|Three arenas and community centres operated by Township of Brock * located in Beaverton, Cannington and Sunderland * each facility has a minor hockey and figure skating organization * ice time is used regularly by men's and women's leagues of all ages for hockey, figure skating, ringette and broomball * each arena also offers public skating, mom's and tots, and shinny hockey
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In 2013, Washington Nationals veteran outfielder Jayson Werth got caught looking when then-Chicago Cubs pitcher Carlos Villanueva unleashed a 57 mph "eephus" pitch. Three years later, it happened again and Werth's reaction was priceless.
Now pitching for the San Diego Padres, Villanueva threw another eephus, this one at 56 mph. The eephus is a pitch that works best when it is hardly ever used and it worked perfectly against Werth who gave up before the pitch even crossed the plate.
That comes from this video which also shows Werth falling for the eephus in 2013.
The eephus pitch, which was first made famous by Rip Sewell in the 1940s who would throw the ball as much as 25 feet up in the air, likely received its name as a result of a misunderstanding.
After throwing the pitch during a spring training game, Sewell's manager wanted to know what type of pitch it was. Outfielder Maurice Van Robays reportedly called it an "eephus."
It is believed by some that Van Robays actually used the Hebrew term "efes" which means "nothing," as in "that pitch isn't anything, it is nothing." A reporter who transcribed the exchange may have been unfamiliar with the Hebrew term and gave the word his own spelling.
Ted Williams famously hit a home run off Sewell's eephus pitch in the 1946 All-Star game.


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Hey Curt, What's the testing process? How do we the users get involved on that and what sort of committment do we need to make? I think it's important I eke out some testing time out of my schedule to help out on that front, since, hey I'm using developer builds of log4cxx on FreeBSD, openSUSE, SUSE Enterprise, Fedora, Red Hat Enterprise, White Box, and I want to bring it over to Mac OS X Server. As for the voting process, is there a process there too? Do we need to subscribe to firstname.lastname@example.com to participate? Thanks for the update! - Stephen -----Original Message----- From: Curt Arnold [mailto:email@example.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2007 6:27 PM To: Log4CXX User Subject: Re: Most stable version of log4cxx? On Dec 5, 2007, at 4:09 PM, firstname.lastname@example.com wrote: > I know... I wish I could personally contribute time/energy/ > resources... > during the project in question we actually hired both omniEvents > developers full time to 'help out'... but am not in a position right > now. > > Would putting a "bounty" on it incentivise anyone to help? > > Renny Koshy > President & CEO > I think we are close enough that getting a new developer ramped up would likely delay things unless someone wants to take on the ODBC/ DBAppender in the next week or so. However, having a configure/ autotools guru on call could be helpful. Andreas Fester has done that role in the past and I was planning on nagging him when doing the release candidate preparation. Testers checking various build platforms and testing with apps that use log4cxx 0.9.7 however would be very helpful and timely votes on any release candidates would be essential to encouraging the LS PMC to support the release.
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Your name: Simon Nisbet
Your agency: Gilson Bailey
Where does your agency sit in the local market? Gilson Bailey, over the last 13 years of trading, has attracted a wide selection of property from studio flats to country homes.
What is your opinion of the local market? The local market to date is fantastic with plenty of good quality purchasers including first time buyers eager to get on the property ladder, investment buyers enjoying better returns with the lowest interest rates for years, and of course those people who sold at the height of the market now returning to hopefully pick up a bargain.
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What is your opinion on the scrapping of first day marketing? As far as first day marketing goes or not as the case is, this is creating many problems for sellers who have found their dream home when all they want to do is get their property on the market as soon as possible. Instead they are getting completely frustrated by the delay and as the market improves, many may lose these dream homes having wasted considerable time and money. Personally, I don't think this is in the consumer's interest as it not only slows the process down when a HIP is meant to speed up the selling of your home but often includes duplicated costs. It needs to change and fast!
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By: Alyssa Curran
For the newly curious, the tarot conjures images of clairvoyant fortune tellers, crystal balls shrouded in smoke and secret ceremonies conducted by moonlight. The magic is seductive.
The history behind the practice and accompanying symbolism live up to this mystical narrative, but the realities of tarot readings today are more practical and healing in nature than bohemian folklore.
A novice to the practice, I wasn't sure what to expect from my first tarot reading with Holly, but I was pleased to find the experience to be fulfilling. Holly guides a restorative conversation, much like a therapy session, letting the cards guide theme and dialogue. She is an empathetic listener and dynamic storyteller who facilitates natural connections between symbolism and reality. Maybe it's the burnt sage or dimly lit space, but there's something about the spellbinding energy that melts away walls and leads to meaningful discussion.
In this interview, I connected with Holly to talk about ways she utilizes the tarot deck as a therapeutic tool, her thoughts on the ever-growing healing community in Nashville, and why women, in particular, are drawn to these practices.
When did you first started practicing yoga, reiki and tarot and how did these practices lead to your substantial career shift?
In 2008, I was working in sales in New York. I began practicing and teaching yoga as a way to relieve stress, and that practice was the gateway into the other mystical things.
Through practicing and teaching restorative yoga, I found reiki. I noticed that I could feel my clients' energy in my hands when I was adjusting them. At that time, I didn't know much about reiki. In fact, if you would have told me what it was I would have been skeptical. I signed up for a reiki session, and I could tell that my body was sensitive to this type of work. It came quickly into my life because it was the most natural thing that I've ever done. Even the process of teaching yoga took many years – to find my voice and to feel skilled enough to stand in front of a group of people and tell them what to do. With reiki, it was something where all I had to do was get out of my own way and feel the energy grow through my hands.
I discovered tarot in a similar way to reiki. I went to a local shop in Brooklyn and booked a session with tarot reader. I felt connected to the practice and, for the purpose of personal exploration, signed up for an intensive tarot study. During that time, I was also in the process of opening a healing space in New York called Medicine Space. I started offering readings there. The more you read, the more the deck shows you. You start to see and recognize certain symbols and ways the deck speaks to you. I've come to learn that no one card ever has a hard and fast interpretation.
For those, like myself, who are still learning about these practices, can you briefly explain reiki?
Reiki is an energy healing treatment that works holistically on the whole body, mind and spirit. It is now being used in medical facilities throughout the US to relieve stress and pain, promote relaxation, release emotional blockages and balance our energy centers.
What about tarot? Give us the run-down.
Tarot shows you how to see situations in your life from a different perspective and can bring unprocessed emotions into light - therefore, helping you to move forward and often facilitating mental, emotional and spiritual release.
I love tarot because it is a more specific tool to work with people. When I give reiki, I do feel specific blockages in the chakras that we can talk about. When I give a tarot reading, though, it can uncover a full range of human experience and human emotion. I don't predict the future, but through the deck, I can help you see your situation through another lens.
A growing number of women across the country are becoming drawn to healing practices like yoga, reiki, crystals and tarot. Why do you think these are resonating with women, in particular?
When I think of the time we're in it right now, I recognize that there's a real movement for change. There's a universal shift happening where we're leaving the patriarchy behind and returning to a matriarchal time. Women are standing in their personal power. These practices: yoga, reiki, even tarot, allow women to rely on natural elements, and the power within their bodies, to heal themselves rather than relying on the system.
These practices have existed for long before this and they'll exist long after these practices are en vogue. Medicine women and witches have used basic energies, intuition, and elements found in nature to heal themselves and heal others for centuries.
How would you describe the healing movement in Nashville compared to Brooklyn, where you practiced for many years?
You can't swing a bag in Brooklyn without hitting a witch. These practices have had a strong-hold in New York for many years now, but here in Nashville there is a budding community that is interested in the work and has a hunger to dive into it deeper. There aren't as many resources here, but I think that's going to change over the next few years. In fact, I'm actively trying to help foster this change.
How would you recommend that a first-timer approach a tarot reading?
Tarot can be very therapeutic. In one reading, for example, you may be able to see what is going in your love life, your career, and your relationship.Bring an open mind and don't be afraid of it. Tarot has interesting connotations and has historically been associated with practices like fortune telling and even devil worship, but I truly believe the symbols and archetypes are familiar to everyone and they transcend religion and specific beliefs about spirituality. Bring a clear intention of what you want out of the reading. Then try to be receptive to hearing some guidance.
Holly Ramey is an intuitive healer, tarot reader and yoga instructor based in Nashville. Connect with Holly on Instagram: @HollyDRamey, and read about her service offerings by visiting her website: http://www.hollydramey.com/.
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Victoria pledges $90 million over three years for primary health-care teams
KAMLOOPS — Health Minister Terry Lake has committed another $90 million in the next three years to expand team-based primary health care throughout the province.
The financial announcement was made Monday as Lake attended the opening of a new primary-care and seniors health centre at Northills Centre on Kamloops's North Shore.
It's the third team-based clinic to open in the city since February and will provide a range of supports for seniors, including a home health program that incorporates community nursing, community-allied health and a community bathing program, a lab collection centre and a primary-care clinic where nurse practitioners will care for patients ages 65 and older from the Kamloops primary-care wait list.
In addition, the Interior Health Authority partnered with the Thompson Region Division of Family Practice to open a seniors health and wellness centre, where patients can be referred by their family doctor, nurse practitioner or specialist.
The team is expected to include family physicians with a special interest in geriatrics, a geriatrician, mental-health clinician, physiotherapist, occupational therapist, registered dietitian, rehabilitation assistant, speech and language pathologist, pharmacist, registered nurse, social worker, respiratory therapist and medical office assistant.
The new money being put into the health-care system will be targeted at redesigning how health care is provided to use more team-based, primary-care teams working with patients.
It could see more nurses and nurse practitioners in primary-care clinics who will work with existing doctors in communities to provide care and supports. Other health professionals like pharmacists, occupational therapists and social workers will also become involved in the team approach.
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Last Friday, we caught The Specials at this year's Timbre: Rock and Roots Music Festival!
If you don't listen to; have not heard of the band, I apologize and invite you to freely click on this link to read a very good write- up by one who had actually seen them come out when he was just 12, in England (which is the best age to get into music in general, as I've learned that despite one's musical taste changing over time, one never forgets one's "first record ever". Mine was a cassette tape of TLC's CrazySexyCool and/or Ace of Base's The Bridge. No Judgment please!).
In a nutshell, The Specials could possibly be one of the greatest Ska- revivalists of all time. They headed that music genre's Second Wave (a.k.a. Two Tone) in 1979 towards the 80's. I think their appeal, aside from the obviously great music, was the whole new movement they had brought forth. As Mark Lamarr wrote:
"Before the birth of the woeful sports casual, the working class dressed up for the weekend and the easily attainable and striking evocation of mid 60's Jamaica was too irresistible for those who found punk's sartorial alienation just that bit too alienating. "
Everybody wanted a piece of it- the jumpy, melodic music, the dancing (or moonstomping, I should say), wearing black and white preppy/Mod/plaid get- ups, etc.
I bought boot legs of their records in college- I'm sorry!– I was a poor, but nevertheless, rabid fan back then. I'm not so much the richer now, but I do remain rabid. Never did I think I was ever going to see them playing live. It was so awesome. We danced the whole night away at the Marina Promenade, under the crazy midnight sky. I had sweat running down all over. There were hundreds of sweaty bodies pushing me here and there- a wild sea of black and white, Doc Martens, fedoras, 3- piece suits (in the crazy tropics, man!), Rudies, a lot of old British Rudies,etc!!!
My clothes were all wet and soiled when they ended the set way past 1 AM. At least four of my toenails were throbbing for being stepped on all night. I almost fainted from lack of air, exhaustion, and dehydration. I got a small bloody cut on my lower lip when someone accidentally elbowed me. Jawo and I moonstomped in unison all night, non- stop. Our band plays "Monkey Man" in every single gig! And there we were, listening to the original version, sang by the original band! So surreal.
And just real bloody special!
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tokyotOSAKA pt3
2011/12/21 - I heard Tsuda-san (Owarikara Ba) started a side-project that pays homage to krautrock pioneers Can. The name of his new band is BIN (which means "bottle" in Japanese). Tsuda looks a bit like Damo Suzuki... in a fistfight with Bootsy Collins so the development of this project is not the least bit surprising.BIN consists of: Tsuda Fuhimiko (OWARIKARA) - vocals Kameda Taku (OWARIKARA) - keyboards Hatakeyama Kenji (H Mountains, ex-FAR FRANCE) - guitar Takahashi Kyouhei aka Tonjiru (ex-FAR FRANCE, Kulu Kulu Garden) - drums Sato Zembu (Tokyo Karan Koron; ちくわテイスティング協会) - bass Wataru Miyata (otori) - bass En-chan - sax
All I can say is やばい!! Bin were playing a show at Shinjuku Motion that I would have killed to attend but I had already made plans to travel to Osaka to watch tricot.
The shinkansen ride to Osaka took three hours. Part of the fun of riding the bullet train is picking out an "ekiben" (train station bento box) I went with an omurice bento:
Tonight's live was held inside a massive shopping mall at a venue called Abeno Rocktown. Rocktown is fairly new and still has that "new car smell." It's sleek with a tall stage allowing great sightlines from anywhere in the room. The sound is also spectacular. The only problem is it feels more like a miniature Zepp Tokyo than a true livehouse such as 20000 V or Shelter. Music fans in Osaka are famous for their boisterousness but because of the innocuous atmosphere of the livehouse itself most of the audience seemed uncomfortable making noise.
tricot was the first band to perform. They got the show to an energetic start with the song "爆裂パニエさん"
At a regular venue the crowd would have been going apesh*t but because we were inside a shopping mall everyone was on best behaviour. tricot's music is a cross between 9mm Parabellum Bullet and the band apart... except it's three girls shredding on guitars and bass (with a male support drummer). The four are incredibly tight as musicians and play with lots of passion and intensity. As mentioned, the main reason I came all the way to Osaka for this show was to watch tricot. 赤い公園 has become my favorite band and for the next tour (NMFT vol 4) I've been looking for another female-fronted band of similar calibre. Alot of fans of Akai Ko-en are also fans of tricot and this catalyzed my interest in them.
What makes 赤い公園 such a great band is Tsuno Maisa's powerful and emotionally intense songwriting. Effortlessly weaving the catchiest melodies with supremely dark, twisted undertones. Her songs are profoundly intricate, full of surprises and stark contrasts with unrivalled attention to detail.
Comparing the two bands, tricot are impeccibly tight, fantastic musicians who play with the same impassioned style as Akai Ko-en. However, Akai Ko-en are much further ahead in the songwriting department. tricot write songs that are effective in flaunting their impressive musicianship and technical chops. They take these songs and play them with a sh*tload of energy and intensity and lead singer Ikkyu does her best to animate the vocals with "whooooahs," wailing and screaming. But underneath all the guitars and bombast the songs lack the sophistication and substance to impact you emotionally the way Akai Ko-en's music does.
Having said that tricot are awesome to watch live just based on their talent and energy on-stage. They're one of the friendliest and funniest groups of musicians I've ever met. Ikkyu has a strikingly crude, zany and warped sense of humor that's rubbed off on the two other girls, Hiromi and Kida. (just watch their monthly Youtube videos!) If they harness and incorporate more of that "off-the-wall" spontaneity and creativity into their music I think they have a really bright future.
Other bands that played this night include:
Mugwumps - I was expecting straightforward pop/punk but they've evolved to add shoegaze/post-rock/ 凛として時雨-esque riffs to tweak up their sound. They were surprisingly good.
キドリキドリ - play aggressive, intricate rock with English lyrics. Here's a clip of their song "Say Hello!!(I'm not a slave)"
環ROY - emcee/lyricist who plays his own beats without a DJ. I didn't really get along with him at the uchiage.
Qomolangma Tomato These guys were my favorite band ~3 years ago but I lost track of them somewhat after "Camouflage." They've recorded a new album which will be released ~April 2012 and half the songs tonight were off this album. Qomolangma write some of the most powerful, heartfelt songs and I'm glad to see they're still going strong.
This event was curated by a 22 y.o. guy named Shogo Habata. He organizes a ton of shows and also started writing his own 'zine named Snooze Mag. You can download issues of Snooze Mag for free here. Snooze Mag is incredibly sleek and well designed with awesome photos. Even if you can't read Japanese it's worth taking a peek into. Especially if you like tricot since Ikkyu goofs off in her own column each issue. Issue 0 features キドリキドリ and issue 1 has a great interview with tricot.
After the show we all went to Za Watami (an izakaya chain). I have to reiterate that the members of tricot are some of the most personable, laid back and hilarious people you will come across. Their music is a little bit generic compared to bands I've chosen in the past for the Next Music from Tokyo tours but they're fantastic musicians with great stage presence and energy and awesome people to boot. I know Geoff and Vish aren't too happy with my choice but I've asked around and lots of people in the scene including Qomolangma and Owarikara have nothing but great things to say about tricot's music and live shows. As it stands, tricot are on the roster for NMFT 4.
2011/12/22 - This was an incredibly busy night where I went back and forth between two shows in Shimokitazawa and a show in Sangenjaya. I started off at an event called "Borderless" (at Shimokita Club 251) which was partly curated by one of my friends. The concept of the show was to invite bands from all over Japan (but primarily Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya, Kyoto, Kobe where the event organizers reside) and unite band and audience members regardless of regional, financial, social borders. Bands of all types played irrespective of genre and there was homecooked food being served all night. I caught the first two bands, Memento森 who came all the way from Kobe and johann (from Kashiwa). mementomori are a phenomenal live band whose sound and stage presence I would describe as a hybrid of OWARIKARA and uhnellys but that would be selling them too short since they have their own unique style. I saw them earlier this year in Osaka and if they didn't have 6 members with two drum kits I would strongly consider them for NMFT in the future.
Right after memento森 were done on stage in front of us, johann started playing on the floor right behind us. (I love set ups like this!!) I had never heard of johann before but they KILLED it! They play straightforward, highly melodic and powerful instrumental rock in the vein of And So I Watch You From Afar
(sorry for the darkness of the footage)
After johann, I booted it to Shimokita Garden (~2 blocks away) to watch a bit of Kominami Yasuha and to say hi and give omiyage to Tsuno Maisa (Akai Ko-en) and チーナ. チーナ wouldn't start until ~9pm so I then took a cab to Sangenjaya Heaven's Door to watch 385.
At Heaven's Door, 打首獄門同好会 (aka uchikubi), URBANフェチ and 385 were having a 3-man show. The three bands are connected by the fact that the guitarists of 打首獄門同好会 and URBANフェチ both take turns playing support guitar for 385. I missed Uchikubi's performance but caught the tail end of Urbanfeti's set (who have now have a female bassplayer in addition to a female drummer).
Ousawa of Uchikubi played guitar for 385 this time around but I heard that Noda Kouhei of URBANフェチ joined later on for a twin guitar attack. Their was a great crowd response for 385.
I caught 3.5 songs by 385 then had to leave to make it in time for チーナ's set at Shimokita Garden. It's great to see members of Akai Ko-en and チーナ going to support each other's shows. チーナ put on an amazing performance and everyone notices a huge change in them since returning from Canada as they play with more intensity, confidence and power. Hajime (ex- Midori) currently plays keyboard for Kominami Yasuha. I had a chance to talk with him and Kawano Kenta (drummer for Owarikara) who tries to catch any shows where 蜜 (mitsu) are performing. After チーナ, I went back to Shimokita 251 and met up with my friends Lana, Hiro and Yuri. We watched mothercoat put on funky, high-intensity set that had the crowd going nuts. Then we went to Za Watami to get something to eat. Yes, I was just at a Za Watami the night before in Osaka!! We took quite a bit of time at Za Watami so I missed out on 六畳人間 who are known for their crazy performances. The band I really wanted to see this night went on last at 3:30am. It was viridian from Nagoya who I am STRONGLY considering for NMFT vol 4. I loved them as a 3-pc band but haven't had the chance to see them properly since they added a bassist. Unfortunately, for this event's show they were going to do an acoustic set. Just before viridian were about to start one of my friends felt faint/sick so we decided to take her home. Even though it would have been nice to see viridian I was getting hella tried myself and welcomed the opportunity to go home and get some sleep. :)


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Fruits and vegetables that are grown organically are not only healthy and delicious, but also far surpasses any produce you will find in any supermarket. Rather than purchasing it from stores, you can choose to grow it yourself. Keep reading to learn how to grow organic fruits and vegetables at home.
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You don't have to buy inferior produce. Apply the tips from this article today to start producing your own fruits and vegetables!


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Psychological Portrait
The first thing that comes to mind is how hard I am on myself. I put myself through the ringer when it is not required because I have the bar set extremely high. When I don't reach it, I feel like a failure, no matter the situation.
I define a psychological portrait as one that forces the viewer to think more about the mental and emotional aspects of the image. For me, it is dark and definitely negative. Conceptually, it makes a statement about the state of mind of the artist.
My first idea was a reflection of myself while doing a long exposure. I wanted the blur of a long exposure to capture my emotional turmoil. My second idea was to use my proposal for my final project by photographing a tumultuous image of myself and place it in a bottle, then re-photograph it in a tough environment. My final idea is to do a multiple exposure where I'm fighting myself. That is the idea I essentially went with.
My image depicts how hard I am on myself. I am my own worst enemy. It is how I have been able to develop a thick skin; I beat myself up worse than anyone else ever could.
That last idea sparked an artist for me, Claude Cahun. I loved that image because she looked like she is judging herself.


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May 1, 1988, Section 7, Page 1Buy Reprints
I stand in awe of my body, this matter to which I am bound has become so strange to me. I fear not spirits, ghosts, of which I am one . . . but I fear bodies, I tremble to meet them. What is this Titan that has possession of me? Talk of mysteries! - Think of our life in nature, - daily to be shown matter, to come into contact with it, - rocks, trees, wind on our cheeks! the solid earth! the actual world! the common sense! Contact! Contact! Who are we? where are we? - Thoreau, ''Ktaadn and the Maine Woods,'' 1848.
Of our classic American writers Henry David Thoreau is the supreme poet of doubleness, of evasion and mystery. Who is he? Where does he stand? Is he to be defined even by his own words, deliberately and fastidiously chosen as they are, and famously much revised? The facts of his life, available in any Thoreau chronology, seem more detached from the man himself than such facts commonly do. Thoreau warns us that the outward aspect of his life may be ''no more I than it is you.'' He boasts of having the capacity to stand as remote from himself as from another. He is both actor and spectator. He views himself as a participant in Time as if he were a kind of fiction - ''a work of the imagination only.'' We know with certainty of the historical man, born July 12, 1817, in Concord, Mass., deceased May 6, 1862, in Concord, Mass.; what lies between is a mystery.
Perhaps for these reasons and because of the redoubtable tone of Thoreau's voice, he is the most controversial of American writers. Whether he writes with oneiric precision of thawing earth, or a ferocious war between red and black ants, or the primeval beauty of Mount Katahdin in Maine, or in angry defense of the martyred John Brown (''I do not wish to kill or be killed but I can foresee circumstances in which both of these things would be by me unavoidable''), he asserts himself with such force that the reader is compelled to react: what compromise is possible? Where his fellow Transcendentalists, particularly Emerson, spoke of self-reliance as a virtue, Thoreau actively practiced it, and gloried in it: ''Sometimes, when I compare myself with other men, it seems as if I were more favored by the gods than they.'' Where most writers secretly feel superior to their contemporaries, Thoreau is blunt, provoking: ''The greater part of what my neighbors call good I believe in my soul to be bad.'' Yet his own position is frequently ambiguous and even what he meant by Nature is something of a puzzle. Who is the omniscient ''I'' of ''Walden''?
So intimately bound up with my imaginative life is the Henry David Thoreau of ''Walden,'' first read when I was 15, that it is difficult for me to speak of him with a pretense of objectivity. Any number of his pithy remarks have sunk so deep in my consciousness as to have assumed a sort of autonomy: ''As if you could kill time without injuring eternity. Be it life or death we crave only reality. God himself culminates in the present moment, and will never be more divine in the lapses of all the ages. Why so seeming fast, but deadly slow?'' So close to my heart is ''Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes,'' I might delude myself it is my invention. Eventually I would read other works of Thoreau's and even teach ''Walden'' numberless times (in startling but always fruitful juxtaposition with, among other texts, Freud's ''Civilization and Its Discontents,'' Nietzsche's ''Thus Spake Zarathustra,'' ''The Jungle,'' by Upton Sinclair, Lewis Carroll's ''Alice'' books and ''The Hunting of the Snark''), but it is the ''Walden'' of my adolescence I remember most vividly - suffused with the powerfully intense, romantic energies of youth, the sense that life is boundless, experimental, provisionary, ever-fluid and unpredictable, the conviction that, whatever the accident of the outer self, the truest self is inward, secret, inviolable.
''I love to be alone,'' says Thoreau. ''I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.'' The celebrant of earthly, and of earthy, mysteries, Thoreau is also a celebrant of the human spirit in contradistinction to what might be called the social being - the public identities with which we are specified at birth and which through our lifetimes we labor to assert in a context of other social beings similarly hypnotized by the mystery of their own identities. But ''self'' to Thoreau appears to be but the lens through which the world is perceived and as the world shifts on its axis, as season yields to season, place to place, one enigmatic form of matter to another, the prismatic lens itself shifts. ''Daily to be shown matter'' - what does it mean? If there is a self it must be this very shifting of perspective, this ceaseless transformation and metamorphosis. If in 1854, the very year ''Walden'' was published, Thoreau could note in his journal, ''We soon get through with Nature. She excites an expectation which she cannot satisfy,'' the testament of ''Walden'' is otherwise. What more radical perspective: ''Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself?''
Thoreau's appeal is to that instinct in us -adolescent, perhaps, but not merely adolescent - that resists our own gravitation toward the outer, larger, fiercely competitive world of responsibility, false courage and ''reputation.'' It is an appeal as readily described as existential as Transcendentalist; the voice making it is individual, skeptical, rebellious. The greatest good for the greatest number - the sense that we might owe something to the State - the possibility that life is fulfilled, not handicapped, by human relationships: these are moral positions not to be considered. ''I have lived some thirty years on this planet,'' Thoreau says boldly, ''and I have yet to hear the first syllable of valuable or even earnest advice from my seniors. They have told me nothing, and probably cannot tell me any thing, to the purpose.''
Can it be true, or is it a useful fiction, that the cosmos is created anew in the individu-al? That one can, by way of a defiant act of self-begetting, transcend the fate of the species, the nation, the community, the family, and - for a woman - the socially determined parameters of gender? Surely it is doubtful that Nature is a single entity, a noun congenial to capitalization: ''The indescribable innocence and beneficence of Nature, -of sun and wind and rain, of summer and winter, -such health, such cheer, they afford forever! and such sympathy have they ever with our race, that all Nature would be affected, and the sun's brightness fade, and the winds would sigh humanely, and the clouds rain tears, and the woods shed their leaves and put on mourning in midsummer, if any man should ever for a just cause grieve.''
How to reconcile this Nature with the Nature of lockjaw and tuberculosis, of agonizing deaths and prolonged griefs? (Thoreau himself was to die young, at age 44, of consumption.) Yet these fictions, these willed metaphors, very nearly convince within the total argument of ''Walden.'' We believe even while disbelieving, even as we cannot entirely believe, but do, or wish to, in what Thoreau tells us repeatedly of the autonomy of the human soul. Quite apart from his mastery of the English language - and certainly no American has ever written more beautiful, vigorous, supple prose - Thoreau's peculiar triumph as a stylist is to transform reality itself by way of his perception of it - to transmute it into his language. What is the motive for metaphor in any poet - in any poetic sensibility - but the ceaseless defining of the self and of the world by way of language? In his journal for May 6, 1854, Thoreau writes: ''All that a man has to say or do that can possibly concern mankind, is in some shape or other to tell the story of his love, - to sing; and, if he is fortunate and keeps alive, he will be forever in love. This alone is to be alive to the extremities.''
To read Thoreau in adolescence is to read him at a time when such statements carry the weight, the promise, of prophecy: ''To be alive to the extremities'' with no fixed or even definable object for one's love seems not merely possible but inevitable, and desirable. As existence precedes essence so emotion precedes and helps to create its object. If the human world disappoints us - as in adolescence it so frequently does, not only in falling short of its ideals but in failing to grant us the value we wish for ourselves - we have the privilege of repudiating it forever in exchange for the certainty of a far different kind of romance, or religious mission. ''We should be blessed if we lived in the present always, and took advantage of every accident that befell us,'' Thoreau says, but such vigilance is possible only if one has broken free of human restraints and obligations - plans for the future, let's say, or remorse over one's past acts; only if the object of one's love is not another human being. Thoreau proposed marriage to a young woman named Ellen Sewall in 1840, was rejected, and forever afterward seems to have turned his energies - his ''love'' - inward to the mysterious self and outward to an equally mysterious Nature.
But all art is a matter of exclusions, rejections. To write of one subject is to ignore all others. To live one life passionately - to drive it into a corner, reduce it to its elementary terms, see whether it be ''mean or sublime'' - is necessarily to detach oneself from other lives. If Henry David Thoreau is an emblematic and even a heroic figure for many writers it is partly because the ''Henry David Thoreau'' of ''Walden'' is so triumphant a literary creation - a fiction, surely, metaphorical rather than human, pieced together as we now know by slow painstaking labor out of the journals of many years. (At the time of his death Thoreau left behind an extraordinary record - 39 manuscript volumes containing nearly two million words, a journal religiously kept from his 20th year until his death.) In fact ''Walden'' is mosaic rather than narrative, a carefully orchestrated symbolic fiction and not a forthright account of a man's sojourn in the woods.
More important still, we should understand Thoreau's ''I'' to be a calculated literary invention, a fictitious character set in a naturalistic but fictitious world. Surely the bodiless and seemingly nameless persona who brags for humanity rather than for himself had no historical existence, and might be set beside Hawthorne's Hester Prynne, Melville's Ahab and Twain's Huckleberry Finn as one of the great literary creations of the 19th century. Like his Transcendentalist companions, Thoreau scorned the art of fiction (''One world at a time'' he might have said wittily in this context too), without acknowledging that the art of fiction takes many guises, just as telling the truth requires many forms.
Certainly the meticulous craftsmanship of ''Walden'' - reminiscent of the obsessive, fanatic, inspired craftsmanship of Joyce's ''Ulysses'' and ''Finnegans Wake'' - gives the book another dimension, another angle of appeal, of particular interest to writers. Writing is not after all merely the record of having lived but an aspect of living itself. And if there are those to whom living is a preparation for writing - why not? Only a sensibility hostile to the act of writing, or doubtful of writing's validity to life, would wish to criticize Thoreau as, oddly, many critics have done, for the very precision of his prose! - as if writing poorly were a measure of sincerity.
Thoreau is, as I have suggested, the quintessential poet of evasion, paradox, mystery. If like Walt Whitman he contradicts himself - very well, he contradicts himself. A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, but disparity itself may well lie in the mind of the beholder.
Who are we? - where are we? Thoreau repeatedly asks. He confesses or brags that he knows not the first letter of the alphabet, and is not so wise as the day he was born. Though the voice of ''Walden'' is the voice of Thoreau's other works as well, one is hard put to characterize the self behind it. And even the object of his ecstatic love, Nature, is elusive, teasingly undefined. Richer and more palpable in every respect than Emerson's Nature, Thoreau's Nature is at times airily Platonic, at other times minute, graphic, gritty, unsparing. It is Transcendentalist and sentimental, Puritan and ''obscene,'' existential and amoral, by turns. All we know with certainty is that it is mute: ''Nature puts no question and answers none which we mortals ask.''
In one of the didactic chapters of ''Walden,'' ''Higher Laws,'' Thoreau speaks of an unsettling experience: ''As I came home through the woods . . . I caught a glimpse of a woodchuck stealing across my path, and felt a strange thrill of savage delight, and was strongly tempted to seize and devour him raw; not that I was hungry then, except for the wildness which he represented. [ At another time ] I found myself ranging the woods, like a half-starved hound, with a strange abandonment, seeking some kind of venison which I might devour, and no morsel would have been too savage for me. The wildest scenes had become unaccountably familiar.'' Thoreau tells us he finds in himself an instinct toward the higher, or spiritual, life; and another toward a primitive and savage one. He reverences them both: ''I love the wild no less than the good.'' For wildness and goodness must ever be separate.
As the chapter develops, however, Thoreau repudiates the physical life with the astounding statement, in ''Walden'' of all books: ''Nature is hard to be overcome but she must be overcome.'' In this new context it appears that Nature is abruptly aligned with the feminine, the carnivorous and the carnal; though a man's spiritual life is ''startlingly moral,'' one is nonetheless susceptible to temptations from the merely physical, or feminine; urges to indulge in a ''slimy beastly life'' of eating, drinking and undifferentiated sensuality. Thoreau speaks as a man to other men, in the hectoring tone of a Puritan preacher, warning his readers not against damnation (in which he cannot believe - he is too canny, too Yankee), but against succumbing to their own lower natures: ''We are conscious of an animal in us, which awakens in proportion as our higher nature slumbers.'' Sensuality takes many forms but it is all one - one vice. All purity is one. Though sexuality of any kind is foreign to ''Walden,'' chastity is evoked as a value, and a chapter that began with an extravagant paean to wildness concludes with a denunciation of the unnamed sexual instincts: ''I hesitate to say these things, but it is not because of the subject, - I care not how obscene my words are, - but because I cannot speak of them without betraying my impurity.''
Did Woman exist for Thoreau except as a projection of his own celibate soul, to be ''transcended''? Though a radical thinker in so many other regards, he is profoundly conservative in these matters, as his conventional trope of Nature as ''she'' suggests. In the chapter ''Reading,'' for instance, he differentiates between spoken and written languages, the language we hear and the language we read. The insight is profound, the expression crude and unexamined: ''The one is commonly transitory, a sound, a tongue, a dialect merely, almost brutish, and we learn it unconsciously, like the brutes, of our mothers. The other is the maturity and experience of that; if that is our mother tongue, this is our father tongue, a reserved and select expression, too significant to be heard by the ear, which we must be born again in order to speak.'' The expression ''born again'' suggests the fundamentally religious bias of this classic misogyny.
Elsewhere Thoreau's Nature is unsentimental, existentialist. In the chapter ''Brute Neighbors,'' for instance, Thoreau observes an ant war of nearly Homeric proportions, and examines two maimed soldier-ants under a microscope; the analogue with the human world is too obvious to be emphasized. In the rhapsodic passage with which ''Spring'' ends, wildness and Nature are again evoked as good, necessary for our spiritual wholeness. We need to witness our own limits transgressed: ''I love to see that Nature is so rife with life that myriads can be afforded to be sacrificed and suffered to prey on one another; that tender organizations can be so serenely squashed out of existence like pulp - tadpoles which herons gobble up, and tortoises and toads run over in the road; and that sometimes it has rained flesh and blood!. . . The impression made on a wise man is that of universal innocence.'' And we have no doubt who the ''wise man'' is. Similarly unsentimental but cast in a Transcendentalist mode is the long and brilliantly sustained passage in ''Spring'' in which Thoreau studies the hieroglyphic forms of thawing sand and clay on the side of a railroad embankment. In this extrordinary prose poem Thoreau observes so minutely and with such stark precision that readers experience the phenomenon far more vividly than they might ever hope to in life. As the earth thaws, numberless little streams are formed to overlap and interlace with one another, taking on the quality of leaves and vines, and resembling ''the laciniated lobed and imbricated thalluses of lichens'' -or do they rather evoke coral, leopards' paws, birds' feet? brains or lungs or bowels? excrements of all kinds? The grotesque vegetation possesses such beauty Thoreau imagines himself in the very presence of the Artist who made the world and himself: ''I feel as if I were nearer to the vitals of the globe, for this sandy overflow is something such a foliaceous mass as the vitals of the animal body.'' In Nature all forms mimic one another. The tree is but a single leaf - rivers are leaves whose pulp is intervening earth - towns and cities are the ova of insects in their axils!
Where in later life Thoreau would become obsessed with facts, data, matter (''the solid earth! the actual world!''), here he argues for so compelling a correspondence between human beings and the fantastical designs on the embankment, that we are led to see how mysticism is science, science mysticism, poetry merely common sense. The earth is not a fragment of dead history, ''stratum upon stratum like the leaves of a book,'' but living poetry like the leaves of a tree; not a fossil earth but a living earth. In these lines Thoreau is writing at the very peak of his inimitable powers, yet the result, the elaborate metaphor in sand and clay, reads smoothly, ''naturally.''
The universe is after all wider than our views of it. Adapted from ''The (Woman) Writer: Occasions and Opportunities,'' a collection of essays by Joyce Carol Oates to be published in July by E. P. Dutton.


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Boards & Governance Groups
Being a Trustee or member of a not for profit Board is one of the most challenging roles in the sector. You're there because you care. It might be the 'view from the top' but it carries most of the legal responsibility and it's more often than not voluntary.
Whether you're looking to get a clearer understanding of your various roles, sharpen your skills as Chair, recruit new members, or work more effectively with the Director of your organisation, we're here to help you develop the skills, knowledge and confidence to lead and create change.


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When: Saturday Jan. 25, 2014 -- Time: 4 P.M. to 6:30 P.M.
(We are preparing for 200 of our neighbours!)
Cost: $ 2.00 Adults
$ 1.00 Children (age of 14 and under)
(Free for children 4 and under)
Come join with your neighbours in a meal together. Our "famous roast beef, plus ham" and all the trimmings.
"To our neighbours we have installed a prayer box at our main doorway. If you would like prayers for needs or concerns please drop a note into the box and we will pray for you."


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Stationery Deluxe Handmade in England
What an inspiring collection. And how extraordinary! Discover the Stationery Deluxe charming products. A unique world beautifully pesented to you with a fine selection of handmade greeting cards, correspondence cards, party invitations, thank you notelets and decorative prints. Timeless and luxurious stationery, handmade in England mixing savoir faire with a vintage accent and aristocratic charm.


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Digital marketing has been around long enough for people to not only sit up and take notice, but to also realize that they need to buckle down to business if they want to get ahead. And while having all the right equipment and software is an essential part of this, you must not forget the foundation of it all: the marketing strategy. Without it, it is as good as heading out on an open road without a map, going any which way the wind blows. Which is fine if you really are backpacking, but not when you have a business at stake. So, how can you turn this around to include a marketing strategy in your efforts?
Link Your Aim To The Company
Do you want to sell just the best shampoo around, or do you want to revolutionize the industry? One of the best examples of a ridiculously successful marketing campaign is that of the diamond. Overnight, it went from being a commoner to an absolute celebrity, and to this date is the symbol of love, used for engagements all over the world. Every step you take with your strategy should link back to the company. Where do you see it by the end of the campaign? How far can it go, and how well can it grow?
Set Numerical Targets
It is fine to state things like expanding to overseas markets in 5 years and so on, but you should also set numerical targets to guide you. For instance, after spending an $x amount on Facebook advertising, you can hope to amass say, 10,000 likes, of which 5 maybe should make a sale. Of course numbers may not be precise, but calculate them close enough. The Digital Marketing Company you choose to go with should help you get an idea of what you can expect. Once you know how much you have to invest with them and their web marketing efforts for your company, you can start laying out the figures.
Learn From Your Mistakes
If you have done any digital marketing before, take a look back at your campaigns and study them. What went wrong? What went right? What can you take from those past experiences to integrate here? If you did not employ a third party agency before, you can ask them for their input on those campaigns too. The aim is to work together for a mutually beneficial working relationship. Yes you are paying them, but it is important to be on the same page. No amount of money can guarantee that except for your own sense.
Get Into The Customers' Shoes
They say you should never judge anyone until you have walked a mile in their shoes, and this could not be truer in this instance. To know how you can affect them, you have to understand them, really get into their lives and see things from their perspective. How do they view or brand in the market? What can you do to improve things? What can you offer them besides a product or service? Think about how your customers typically behave, and go with that.


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AZ Workplaces - AZ Tech Beat
Six cool tech places to work in ArizonaAugust 4, 2014 | Carlene Reyes 7
Back in June, AZ Tech Beat and Axosoft were featured on ABC's show The List as one of Arizona's coolest places to work. Inspired by the piece, we decided to put together a list of our own. These spots offer … Read More


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Last week's meal plan was a winner. I spent very little time in the kitchen and we ate vegetables every day. I'm calling it a success.
Monday & Tuesday: I'm going to be out so Shawn will do barbecued chicken on spinach salad. Easy. Healthy. Limited prep time (Shawn is a lot of things but comfortable in the kitchen he is not).
Wednesday: Chicken Coconut Milk Soup served with quinoa and steamed broccoli.
Thursday: Repeat of Wednesday. (I have a lot going on this week and don't want to spend a bunch of time in the kitchen.)
Friday: Homemade pizza. Grady will have pepperoni and cheese. Shawn will have shredded chicken on barbecue sauce with peppers, pineapple, and onions. I'll have some form of veggie pizza with extra olives.
What are you eating this week?


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Stranger Things has become one of the most important project of Netflix's. Even though the show's main cast includes a bunch of kids, adults enjoy it equally nevertheless.
The show kicks off with the investigation of a missing kid named Will of a small town in Indiana. Following that, the towners and the local authorities join forces to locate the kid. As the title suggests, strange things start to happen.
The shooting of a new season has been scheduled for April 2018 but the dates could be changed as the show appears to be in a peril. The creators of the show, The Duffer Brothers have been accused of copying the underlying idea behind Stranger Things.
Charlie Kessler, a regular Netflix creator, says that he showed his short film Montauk to The Duffer Brothers, so as to get them on-board to turn it into a full-length feature film. He claims that, the brothers experimented with his idea to create Stranger Things.
Kessler also adds that, the story that he pitched to the Duffer Brothers was also set near a military camp (which conducts experiments) just like the Stranger Things'. According to few reports, if the lawsuit is upheld, then there are chances of the third season of Stranger Things' being scraped.
However, according to The Duffer Brothers' attorney, Kessler's claims are baseless and that Stranger Things' development has got nothing to do with Montauk. He also declared that, The Duffer Brothers hadn't watched Kessler's short film.
The season 3 of Stranger Things won't makes its way to Netflix until 2019, according to David Harbour who plays the role of a sheriff in Stranger Things. Millie Bobby Brown, who plays the role of Eleven, a girl with psychokinetic and telepathic abilities says that, she'd like to see Max (played by Sadie Sink) and Eleven be friends in the next season.
The second season of Stranger Things pulled in more than 15 million views in just three days of its release. It has definitely turned into a huge project (and an important one for Netflix) and it's very unlikely that the show would be scraped.


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Poll Shows Hillary Clinton Wins Iowans' Heads, but Not Hearts
More than four out of five Iowa Democrats think Hillary Rodham Clinton can win the general election, compared with only half who think the same of Senator Bernie Sanders.
That conviction is helping to drive Mrs. Clinton's lead in Iowa in a Quinnipiac University poll released on Wednesday, which is consistent with what other recent state polls have found: While Democrats really like Mr. Sanders on the issues, they are still planning to vote for Mrs. Clinton.
More voters in the new survey said that Mr. Sanders could better handle the economy, voters' No. 1 issue, and more think he shares their values and cares about people like them.
Nonetheless, Mrs. Clinton, who scored higher on overall leadership, confronting terrorism and foreign policy, outpolled Mr. Sanders 51 percent to 42 percent among likely Democratic caucusgoers. It was a nearly identical margin from the same poll a month ago.
"Sometimes running in place is a good thing,'' Peter A. Brown, assistant director of the Quinnipiac poll, said in a statement. "The only way Secretary Clinton is going to lose the nomination is a scenario in which she drops the early Iowa and New Hampshire contests to Senator Sanders, who then might become the 'momentum' candidate. So she'll be just fine if she 'only' wins by 10 points.''
There was little good news for former Gov. Martin O'Malley of Maryland, the third candidate in the race, who was the choice of 4 percent. The poll's margin of error was plus or minus 4.2 percentage points.
The poll was released a day after Quinnipiac's survey of Iowa Republicans. Together, they showed the partisan polarization of the state's most stalwart voters, those planning to caucus on Feb. 1.
By 6-1, Democrats said Iowa should welcome Syrian refugees. Republicans opposed welcoming Syrian refugees by 5-1.
Nearly 60 percent of Democrats oppose sending ground troops to fight the Islamic State. Only 22 percent of Republicans are opposed.
Fifteen percent of Democrats named climate change was their No. 1 issue. The percentage of Republicans who said climate change was the top concern: zero.
But on one point, both sides agree: They like the chances of their front-runner beating the other team in the general election. Among Democrats, 85 percent think Mrs. Clinton can beat the Republican nominee, and 70 percent of Republicans think their current front-runner, Donald J. Trump, will defeat a Democrat.
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Established in 1987, Crisis Control Ministry's Pharmacy was the first licensed free pharmacy in North Carolina. Today, it is the largest free pharmacy in Forsyth County. It is located at our Winston-Salem office.
Who Can Use Our Pharmacy:
- Residents of Forsyth and Stokes Counties
- People who do not have health insurance with prescription coverage
- People in need of prescription medications that cannot afford them
A complete list of what is required when coming to Crisis Control Ministry for assistance can be found here. Residents of Kernersville are asked to go to the Kernersville office to be interviewed. Once approved for medication assistance, they will need to go to the Winston-Salem office to receive their medications from the pharmacy.
Visit our Locations, Directions & Hours page for information specific to each office.
For questions about Crisis Control Ministry's Pharmacy, please call 336-724-2649.
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Meet Los Angeles Lawyer
Carmen Villamor
Hi, my name is Carmen Villamor. I am an attorney focusing on immigration law for individuals and families who want to live or work in the United States. I provide all my clients with personalized service, treating each case as if it were my own.
My legal career began in the Philippines where I practiced as an attorney starting in 1994. In 2001 I moved to the United States and I became a U.S. attorney in 2004. Since then, I have been guiding immigrants, like you and me, and their families through the visa and immigration process.
I truly believe we are all part of the same journey. And everyday, I am grateful for that opportunity to connect with someone new. It's like being in the same place again for the very first time.
Beyond helping to clarify the complexity of the immigration process, I'd like to think that we build bridges between people and their dreams and we just happen to be in a law firm. Please feel free to reach out to us anytime.
You matter to us and you are never alone.
Thank you for visiting and happy journeys.
Sincerely Yours,
Meet the Team
Siegrid Solis
Office Manager
Siegrid graduated from Xavier University in Cagayan de Oro, and while studying she worked in the Xavier University Chapel as a student assistant. After college, she decided to join her parents in Papua New Guinea, and then worked in a wholesale and retail store for almost five years. This is where she met her husband. After some time, they migrated to the US. Siegrid now has two kids. Siegrid or 'Mama' as she is fondly called, takes tender legal care to a whole new level.
Jica de Guzman
Legal Assistant
Jica moved to the U.S in 2015 with her parents, after they waited a long time for their visas. Jica earned a Bachelors in Legal Studies in 2013. Her interest in the law, coupled with her ability to handle many different tasks, make her a superstar Legal Assistant. She is happy and excited to start her American adventure and to help our clients with theirs.


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A form of baseball played with a rubber ball and a stick, such as one made from the handle of a broom, for a bat.
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(Team Sports, other than specified) US a team game based on baseball, played in the street using a rubber ball and the handle of a sweeping brush
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Institute on Teaching and Mentoring
2019 Institute for Teaching and Mentoring
October 24-27, 2019
Marriott Marquis
Atlanta, Georgia
Since the first conference in 1993 The Compact for Faculty Diversity sponsors the Institute on Teaching and Mentoring, a four-day conference that has become the largest gathering of minority doctoral scholars in the country. Now in its 26th year, the Institute gives the issue of faculty diversity a national focus and provides minority scholars with the strategies necessary to survive the rigors of graduate school, earn the doctoral degree and succeed as a member of the professoriate.
Video highlights from the 2018 Institute
Registration is open. Visit the Institute on Teaching and Mentoring website for more information.


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Aims (Part II)
The evidence is in. You're either moving forward or backward, but life is never stagnant. Change is the only real constant. There is no standing still in this material creation. Therefore, one must apply a strong daily directional intent to remain on point throughout time. Otherwise, your direction will be chosen for you, not by you. When you appear to stand still in doubt, confusion or fear, you are actually moving. Just not in any direction of your choosing. You are being shifted onto the tangents that streak throughout timespace, at someone else's pace, towards someone else's place. You are living someone else's dream. This is the danger zone of infiltrating your 'safety zone' of indecision, doubt, dear, confusion and inaction.
All the 'should's and 'could's are great indicators, but timespace requires your active participation. Accomplishment only takes place when you actively participate with your intentions. Therefore, fully commit to participate in the dreams of your choice and do so against all the risks confronting you.
Further, learn the living art of the martial arts. Become responsive to the defensive offensiveness of this material world without taking offense, without being offensive or defensive. Leave no track-backs in the fabric of space and time will not knock you down in its defection from, or its reaction to your projection.
Make this your daily occurrence – 'flexible consistency… persistently affirming your goals.' Experience the living affirmations of being you every day. Do not with upon time from the sidelines of life, but commit full participation in the actual, active, construction of your goals. Retrieve all the dreams that you knew in your youth, or if you are still young, never leave them. Become their guarantee daily and you will live them. This is spiritual growth in the new evolution of human consciousness.


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dead after 4 hours of diseases today (plus more on the bus), but nothing still going in my head ):
met up with the lovely Dandelion today! 1 hour just isn't enough.
finding there's not enough time to study (even though i watched avenger 2 yday, and pitch perfect 2 the week before). i had to watch them, since almost everyone has seen it, and i know i won't be able to focus on my studies if i keep thinking about movies to watch...also yesterday i had (full price) Cha time honeydew milk tea (30% ice, 80% sugar) w/ sago-exactly the same as my friend since i wanted to try something new. it's actually quite nice and not too sweet. i think i still prefer the chewiness from the pearl though.
finally tried the pasta at uni today! it took me till my third year of uni to try it. they used to come in square boxes, but now in cylindrical cardboard containers.
Romana: eggplant, bacon, mushroom, peas, pink sauce w/ spaghetti-$12
they make it fresh on the spot, so it was steaming hot when you eat it. even though i don't like eggplant, the taste was disguised by the sauce. pasta wasn't too creamy/cheesy and heaps filling (didn't manage to finish it). there wasn't heaps of toppings in it, but i guess it's decent for this type of standard. the pasta itself was cooked al dente, which is pretty good for uni food.


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Renovating or designing a bathroom may be an immense undertaking together with all of the fixture, hardware, cabinetry, and finishes to pick from. So, as a parent, you might have to almost drag your kid to the bathroom everyday. Maybe a youngster's bathroom may have a theme concerning something that the little one enjoys.
DIY accessories may be used even on your most special moment! Whoever said DIY accessories can't be celestial and heavenly didn't have the proper guide. DIY accessories through the years are influenced by them and they simply keep getting better!
Yes, accessories made from clay! Such an easy and useful accessory deserves a bedazzling therapy! There are a large selection of proper kids bathroom accessories set available on the market. You must purchase the appropriate kids bathroom accessories set depending on your theme.
No, The panels should not be fitted in an area wher water is very likely to puddle. Just make sure that they would not be sitting in water. Most panels exhibiting a little level of bow or twist can be used and aren't faulty.
Mermaid panels are an outstanding manner of covering a little region of ceiling, including above a shower enclosure. They are available in a variety of attractive textures and effects. They can be used with any type of floor suitable for a bathroom. They have been used on horizontal and sloping ceilings in the past.


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Kirkwood Atlanta Real Estate - Homes for sale in Oakhurst and Kirkwood
I am working with some very savvy sellers who understand today's real estate market and have priced their home to SELL QUICKLY. This Historic Kirkwood bungalow has oodles of charm and is one of those homes that makes my job as a real estate agent just plain FUN!
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text: Know any switchers who want to upgrade from PC to Mac? If they already have monitor, mouse, and keyboard all they need is Mac Mini. David Passell has been happily using his Mac Mini which he describes as "post September 2007 Mini (2 GB RAM) and, except for the Super Drive getting dirty and needing cleaning, has never had any problems." He recommends an article from PC magazine which links to this review, http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2342488,00.asp


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No one knows where I really came from
or got my love of pain from.
My native tongue
is clearly not exotic.
I often fly into a fearsome rage
and rattle the bars of my Borneo cage
reducing children to shivering bits.
No one who sees me likes it.
I was a castaway
on a ship that was to carry me away
from unspeakable crimes that remain unspoken,
committed on some far more Northern coast than
Borneo. I just liked it so kept it as my own.
It's generally thought that I'm from France
and my ship wrecked so I took the chance
and disappeared.
I was feared
by the natives I found
so stuck around.
I dined every day on enemy stew
and executed grisly tortures too.
The Tightrope Walker:
So he says. Though no one fully believes him,
they have to admit they can easily see him
doing any of the above.
He doesn't exactly inspire love.
The trapeze artist shudders noticeably.
for what? It's rather hard to see
until she casts a wayward glance
at the Tattooed Man's hands.
At first sight she looks like she might
go suddenly insane.
Then she looks like that again.
and again,
and again.