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Things You Probably Should Know for Better Confidence
Hey y'all! You're probably thinking, "oh my gosh she uses hey y'all at the beginning of every post". Well if I say "hey guys" I feel like that seems like I am talking to just guys. But if I say hey y'all then I'm talking to everybody. Anyways, Today I am going to talk about Confidence.
Confidence is something that definitely did not come easy for me and I am still working on it. You know I really was not totally confident with myself until this past December of 2016. We were in Las Vegas for the National Finals Rodeo. I held my head up high, and walked with confidence, just that alone helped a lot, because if you act a certain way eventually you will become that. Now, it was not a cocky I'm all that walk, but it was simply a confident walk. I put on my Ranch Dress'n daiquiri jeans, and my Glam & Grit cowboy hat and I had so much confidence.
You might be thinking how could a pair of jeans and a hat give you confidence just like that. Well, the thing is I was finally wearing clothes that were my style, and clothes that I loved to wear. I used to stay in my comfort zone with my clothes but I realized that I became more confident when I broke out of my comfort zone.
Something I have learned over time is that confidence is ultimately something that you have to find within yourself. You probably hear people say "fake it, till you make it." but honestly it helps. If you act or pretend you are confident, then eventually you will actually become confident. That was on of the biggest things that helped me.
Remember chin up, shoulders back. Think about dogs. If a dog walks into a pack with a unsure body language then that dog probably won't be the dominant one. At least, not easily. But if a dog walks in with a good posture it will be taken more seriously. So it is that same with people and we just need to think a little bit animalistic. If there is a person who intimidates you, and you walk by slouching, with your head down, and mumbling, then they just became more confident themselves and just "leveled up". So, if you walk with your shoulders back, chin up, smile and say hello, they will know that you are confident yourself and they won't have that power over you.
So, overall confidence is something that will have to come to you from you, not from somebody else. It is easier said than done but don't think about what other people are thinking about you because it simply does not matter. Remember chin up, stand tall. You can and will become confident, just believe in yourself!


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Siren is a hybrid system for algorithmic composition and live-coding performances, based on the marriage of a tracker-based user interface and elements of live coding. It uses the functional programming language TidalCycles as its core pattern creation system, and augments the pattern creation process through various UI features.
Siren is an open source projec hosted on Github, with Can İnce as its initiator and principal developer and Mert Toka as a core contributor. It has been featured on the TOPLAP website (the "home of live coding"), as well as in the crowdfunded 2017 book PUSH TURN MOVE: Interface Design for Electronic Music. A screencast video of Can İnce performing with Siren at Algorave's "5th birthday live stream" is available online, showing how an earlier version of the software is used in action.
Can İnce's Algorave 5th birthday live stream screencast on YouTube
İnce, C., Toka, M., Baytaş, M.A. (2018). Siren: Interface for Pattern Languages. In Proceedings of the 2018 International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME 2018).

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Here we are, in the region of Hauts-de-France. To break that down even further, we are staying in a small commune just out of Fruges, in the department of Pas-e-Calais.
Today, being the 6th January is precisely one week since we hopped off the train at Calais and arrived at our next French housesit. Our first weekend was filled with social get-togethers and having a quick introduction to the local surrounding communes. The time has whizzed by, no doubt due to the fact we have been busy assimilating all the information and new surroundings.
This will be our fourth housesit in France which should make it easier to sort out what is the more suitable places to visit for food and to top up the cash. Plus the patience to work out the idiosyncrasies of French life.
A previous housesit was on the other side in Northern France, from where we are now.
More pleasurable, will be the familiarisation with the local Pâtisserie, it's the small things in life, you know!
As we have a few months here, I will write more about the different things that have stood out for us. In the meantime, let's start off with why we are here, which is to care for two cats and two dogs plus their home.
Our day starts off with an unusual alarm going off, this alarm clock is uncommon in the fact that it needs feeding. Let me introduce you to LouLou [left] and David [yes well not too many cats are named David and conceived in Dodge Stadium in the USA].
The other family members are Louie and Nellie, black siblings, full of energy and lovers of long walks. More importantly, they now understand kiwi English.
It's going to be an interesting three months taking Louie and Nellie for long walks, checking out some local villages, visiting people we have met so far and just enjoying this small part of France.
Until the next instalment, I bid you
Bonne Nuit/Goodnight


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In 2014 and 2015, NORC at the University of Chicago conducted the Nationwide Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS) Survey for Adults Enrolled in Medicaid, known also as the Nationwide Adult Medicaid CAHPS. This survey, sponsored by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), is the first of its kind. It captured baseline national and state-level estimates of adult Medicaid enrollees' experiences with the health care system beginning in 2014, when many Affordable Care Act provisions took effect. The rigorous CAHPS survey design, data collection effort, analytic plan, and strategy for documentation and dissemination of findings are critical to facilitating quality improvement efforts for the adult Medicaid population at the state and national levels.
NORC and its partner Thoroughbred Research Group sampled approximately 1.5 million Medicaid beneficiaries nationwide and administered a multi-mode (mail/telephone) CAHPS questionnaire. The samples were stratified into four subgroups:
The survey has produced measures of timely access to care, barriers to care, satisfaction with providers, ratings of customer service, and the accessibility and usability of program information and materials, among other important topics for adults in Medicaid fee-for-service and managed care delivery systems.
This project provides CMS with uniform national figures on the health care experiences and related impressions of the adult Medicaid population. It also gives comparable information for beneficiaries in all states across different program models. Results from this work will inform the development of standard measures anchoring a robust health care quality strategy for the adult Medicaid population, in alignment with HHS' National Quality Strategy's three-part aim of achieving better care, healthier people and communities, and more affordable care.
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LBGTRC Scholarships & Awards
LGBTQ+ Leadership and Service Awards
APPLICATION DEADLINE: Sunday, April 15th, 2018 at 11:59 p.m.
About the Award
This award:
•celebrates rapidly changing times for LBGT persons everywhere
•recognizes the shaming of, struggles endured by, and opportunities denied to LBGT persons
•acknowledges the invaluable and tireless work of LBGT persons and their allies in advancing civil rights
•represents the hope of obtaining equality and ending LBGT discrimination
•and seeks to support opportunities for MSU students with the ambition and vision to achieve equality
Each scholarship will be awarded to support student participation in internships, service-learning, volunteerism, campus leadership, funds to support a program you want to create to benefit the community this summer, or study away and abroad programs related to social justice issues that impact the LBGT community. Approximately 10 awards of $1000 will be made.
How to Apply
Each candidate must email their letter of application to firstname.lastname@example.com. Please send as PDF. Letters of recommendation and other supplemental materials will not be accepted for consideration. Preference will be given to applicants who have at least a 3.0 GPA and are in financial need. Prior award recipients remain eligible to receive the same or other awards in subsequent years. Included in each application is a personal statement, which must not exceed 1200 words (4 pages), and MUST address each of the following:
1. Describe the service or learning opportunity that that you are seeking support for.
2. What is the relevance of this activity to the LBGTQ+ community?
3. How will the award funds be used?
4. How do you anticipate that this award will impact your life and personal development?
5. How will this experience be shared with or meet the needs of the campus community.
6. Describe your involvement or commitment to the LBGT community.
7. Tell us about your need for financial assistance through this award.
This award would be available for expenditure in Summer 2018 or Fall 2018.
Application Deadline: Sunday, April 15th, 2018 at 11:59 p.m.
Questions: Call 517-353-9520 or email email@example.com with questions.
Please write Award in your subject line.
Information for Spring 2018 scholarship is below.
The LBGT Resource Center is incredibly grateful to our donors and alumni who make our scholarships and awards possible. To learn more about a particular scholarship, click the corresponding link below:
Spring 2018 Scholarships & Awards
- The Pride Scholarship
- The Pride Scholarship has a value of approximately $20,000 for tuition assistance and was founded in 2000 by Bill Beachler, an MSU Alumnus. Candidates should demonstrate academic achievement and involvement with, or contributions to, the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community. Preference is given to an incoming, first year (or transfer) student, although all undergraduate students are encouraged to apply.
- The Stephen P. Pougnet and Christopher J. Green Endowed Scholarship
- This scholarship is valued between $3,500 and $7,000 of tuition assistance, is awarded to a currently enrolled student of junior or senior standing (preference is given to students enrolled in The Eli Broad College of Business at Michigan State University). Candidates must demonstrate academic excellence and involvement with or contributions to LGBT communities.
There is one central website for all scholarships affiliated with the Division of Student Affairs and Services, including The Pride Scholarship and The Stephen P. Pougnet and Christopher J. Green Endowed Scholarship. There, you can also explore some of the other scholarship opportunities offered through the Division of Student Affairs and Services.
All scholarship applications must be submitted through the Student Affairs and Services scholarship website.
The LBGT Resource Center also has a fund to help students who are in financial need. To learn more, check out this fact sheet (link) and/or head to the Unconditional Love Fund page (link).


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At UNSW Arts & Social Sciences, our high completion rates for Higher Degree Research (HDR) and proven record of excellence in research supervision sets us apart.
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Collaborative Fusion partners with San Francisco to develop and launch secure online stakeholder response tool
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January 29 '08: In San Francisco last October, the city announced a new secure web-based information-sharing portal for first responders and community stakeholders, a press release announced. Working with Collaborative Fusion, a consulting, technology, first response and homeland security firm, the city has developed the www.HelpBayArea.org.
The HelpBayArea.org site "offers the 10 Bay Area counties' disaster and volunteer organizations a highly effective means for notifying and managing emergency responders -- from the initial registration and credential verification, through mobilization, on-site check-in, tracking and demobilization," the press release read.Much like the Essential Public Network, the HelpBayArea.org site will allow San Francisco City officials the ability "to assign city employees and volunteers to provide disaster response assistance where they are needed most," Laura Phillips, Executive Director of the San Francisco Department of Emergency Management and Chair of the Bay Area's SUASI's Approval Authority. Collaborative Fusion developed the website's platform as well as website itself. Currently, the platform underpinning the HelpBayArea.org site is able to sync with other systems and can be adaptable to other needs. The platform is being used in nine states currently.
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FISHERS, IN / ACCESSWIRE / April 24, 2018 / American Resources Corporation (OTC PINK: AREC), through its wholly-owned subsidiary Quest Energy Inc. and McCoy Elkhorn Coal LLC, has entered into an agreement to acquire certain coal assets from Empire Coal Processing, LLC, including the currently operating PointRock Surface Mine in Phelps, Pike County, Kentucky. Under the agreement, McCoy Elkhorn Coal will immediately assume operational control of the PointRock Mine as well as the associated leases, permits, government approvals, reclamation bonds, and equipment.
American Resources Corp. will integrate the PointRock Surface Mine into its McCoy Elkhorn Coal subsidiary to be managed by Quest Energy's Surface Operations Team, utilizing their operational expertise and core operating principles focused on safety, quality, efficiency, and low-cost. Management plans on using surface, auger and highwall-mining methods to access various coal seams including the Pond Creek, Upper Alma, Lower Alma, and Cedar Grove; all of which have excellent metallurgical characteristics and are well-known within the metallurgical coal market. Production from the PointRock Mine will be trucked to McCoy Elkhorn's Bevins Coal Preparation Plants and rail loadout facility, enhancing American Resources' coal blending capabilities and sales volume from its McCoy Elkhorn subsidiary.
"We're excited to be adding PointRock to our portfolio of high-quality coal mines and strategically it makes a lot of sense," stated Thomas Sauve, President of American Resources Corporation. "Given its close proximity to McCoy Elkhorn Coal and that PointRock has been operated as a stand-alone mining operation, we are confident that by implementing our operating philosophy with the support of our processing and transportation infrastructure, we will be able to materially improve the operational efficiencies and profitability at PointRock." "Additionally, the added volume of High-Vol A and B coal qualities will enable us to increase our metallurgical coal sales and help fulfill some of our customers' demand at McCoy Elkhorn, while allowing us to expand our operating margins."
American Resources Corporation continues to focus on its growth objective by leveraging its 35 controlled, core mining permits while also looking for additional supplemental, strategic acquisitions. American Resources Corporation continues to evaluate other mining operations where they can implement their unique and efficient operating culture to reduce costs and improve efficiencies, and remains committed to being one of the lowest cost operators in Central Appalachia and throughout all its coal mining, processing, and transportation operations.
About American Resources Corporation
American Resources Corporation is engaged in diversified energy services including mining, processing and logistics, with a primary focus on traditional energy sources such as coal and oil and gas. American Resources Corporation plans to expand its business by continuing to develop its currently leased properties and further expanding its processing and logistics business, and through the pursuit of strategic acquisitions.
Mark LaVerghetta
Vice President of Corporate Finance and Communications
Special Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties, and other important factors that could cause the Company's actual results, performance, or achievements or industry results to differ materially from any future results, performance, or achievements expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements. These statements are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties, many of which are beyond the control of the Company. The words "believes", "may", "will", "should", "would", "could", "continue", "seeks", "anticipates", "plans", "expects", "intends", "estimates", or similar expressions are intended to identify forward-looking statements, although not all forward-looking statements contain such identifying words. Any forward-looking statements included in this press release are made only as of the date of this release. The Company does not undertake any obligation to update or supplement any forward-looking statements to reflect subsequent events or circumstances. The Company cannot assure you that the projected results or events will be achieved.
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I found this recipe in Laurie David's The Family Dinner under the title Vietnamese Soup in a Teapot. yeah… it's Pho. The good stuff too.
This site has copied the recipe exactly. YUM!
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MacGuffin is a new and unusual design & crafts magazine. It features fabulous stories about the life of ordinary, often anonymously designed things.
Each biannual edition takes an object and explores the manifold stories it generates. It uncovers the personal and sometimes curious relationships we have with the objects that surrounds us. Like the MacGuffins in Hitchcock films, these things are not the main characters, but the plot devices that set the story in motion.


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PIQUA — In what they plan to make an annual event, the Piqua Arts Council will host their first Arts and Ale Festival on Saturday, Sept. 1, from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. at McColloch Square, 110 W. High St., in downtown Piqua. The event will offer live music, food trucks, a kids' activity zone, a painting competition for artists, plus arts and craft vendors. The event will also feature 10 Ohio craft breweries with at least 25 craft beers on tap.
Arts and craft vendors will be on hand from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., with arts and crafts ranging from original watercolor paintings, ceramics and glass, to photography and even painting activities. Vendors will have their works priced to sell.
The painting competition will take place starting at 8 a.m. Over 25 artists from across Ohio and Indiana will converge on Piqua and paint around the area. They will return to the Arts and Ale Festival around 4 p.m. and display their paintings in a Wet Paint Sale, where they will also be judged and the winners will take home $2,000 in cash prizes. Artists can pre-register for the competition on the Piqua Arts Council website at PiquaArtsCouncil.org.
The Kids' Activity Area, sponsored by PNC Bank and the United Way, will offer free activities to kids. With multiple options for aspiring young artists, kids will have the ability to paint, draw, and sculpt with the help of PNC Bank and Piqua Arts Council volunteers from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Live music will be played throughout the festival. Taking the stage at 10 a.m. will be John Simon from Dayton. Simon is an accomplished guitarist who has performed many times for the Piqua Arts Council both solo and with singing partner Corinna Nix. Next, Quintessential Winds will take the gazebo stage at noon, featuring five of the area's most talented instrumentalists — Tamela Tennison on flute, Dr. Mike Houser on clarinet, Deb Powers on oboe, Julie Swank on French horn and Linda Reitmann on bassoon.
Following Quintessential Winds will be Mark Cantwil at 2 p.m., fresh off the Country Concert Hometown Stage and Down a River, Down a Beer. Next up will be Drab Irish Band. Recently playing their first gig at PiquaPOP, Drab Irish Band is growing a fan base very quickly in the area with their amazing harmonies and tight instrumentation. Finally, taking things to another level at 6 p.m. will be Karma's Pawn, a Sidney rock group playing hits from the '80s through today.
Craft breweries signed on to participate are Rhinegeist, Mother Stewart's, Warped Wing, Crooked Handle, Moeller Brew Barn, Fig Leaf Brewing, Multiple Brewing, Hareless Hair Brewing and Tailspin Brewing. Each brewery will have two to four beers on tap and each will be $5 per pint. All IDs will be checked and no one will be permitted to drink without proper identification.
The Piqua Arts and Ale Festival is sponsored by grants through the Miami County Visitor and Convention Bureau, PNC Bank, The Piqua Area United Way, Miami County Foundation, the Piqua Community Foundation and the Ohio Arts Council.


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Belen with Art & Whimsy back again to share with you my memory keeping layout using the latest kit from the Fairytale Club, "Sweet!" Memory keeping is very important to me. As someone who used to do traditional scrapbooking many years, the desire to document not only special occasions but also everyday moments is still strong. These days I do my memory keeping in my planners, both ringbound and TN style, which really works for me.
I have two mini photo printers that I use regularly, but for this layout I used my HP Sprocket.
After printing a few photos of a Sunday drive that Patrick and I took to Julian, CA for some pie, I trimmed down some cardstock, just a bit bigger than my photos, to create a layered border effect.
I trimmed some cardstock to size and began working on my layout. I used various elements from the ephemera pack to add visual interest around each photo.
I used more bits and pieces from the ephemera pack to embellish my page.
For the opposite side of my memory keeping layout, I added one of the A5 dashboards from the planner kit. This definitely was a fabulous & fun day, so it seemed appropriate.
I couldn't let those pockets go empty, not with so much of that ephemera just waiting to by enjoyed!
Our pie road trip was now memorialized in my planner and sure to make my smile at the warm memory whenever I see it.
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Children should remain in rear-facing car seat as long as possible
Children should remain in rear-facing car seat as long as possible
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The American Academy of Pediatrics has announced some new guidelines for transporting kids in a car from one point to another.
Nothing much has actually changed but the main update is on car safety seats is that parents should choose the type of seat to use judging by their child's size, not age.
Adding on, the organisation believes that children should be strapped into a rear-facing car seat as long as possible, till they reach the highest weight or height stipulated by the seat. Before this, the organsiation recommended that the children should remain rear-facing at least until they are 2-years old.
This is because when in a frontal car crash, the head, neck and spine are all supported by the hard shell of the car safety seat in contrast to front-facing seats whereby the kids' heads are thrown forward, increasing the risk of spine and head injuries.
The organisation also said that as the kids outgrow the seats, the transition from from rear-facing to forward-facing, from forward-facing to booster seat, and from booster seat to seatbelt alone - reduces the protection to the child.


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I ordered this book on Amazon a few weeks ago and just finished it the other day. I like self-help books, especially ones filled with humor and realistic examples. This is by far my favorite (along with You Are A Badass). One thing this book likes its readers to to is create a list of things they don't give a %#@! about. I thought I would share mine with you 🙂
- Reality TV: I don't care about what the Kardashians are doing, The Real World is a cesspool of disease usually, and The Duggers are a bunch of brainwashed loonies. I don't care what anyone of these 15 minutes of fame-ers are up to.
- Differences of opinions: Not all of us agree on everything, and that's okay. What's not okay is grown adults throwing temper tantrums to try and get their point across. Hear it, respect it, move on. I refuse to let my blood pressure rise over nonsense.
- Pleasing everyone: You really just can't. We've even had to cut out some significant people from our lives because they wanted us to be a certain way and drag us down to a pit of misery, well to that I say no thank you. Life is better when you worry about how YOU feel, not how others feel about you.
- Big weddings: Nope.
- Explaining my decisions: If I say no to an event, does it really matter if I have a reason? Do I really NEED to be at your brothers-girlfriends-cousins going away party? Does it really matter to why I chose to get married at 23? Or why we don't want kids anytime soon? Not one bit.
I'd love to know some things that you guys don't give a %$#! about! It really is therapeutic to express it ❤


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Stock markets in the Gulf may rise on Tuesday as both crude oil prices and Asian bourses start their first trading day of 2017 with a firm tone.
MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan is up 0.4 per cent as most regional markets reopen after New Year holidays. Brent crude oil is at $57.16 a barrel, close to last year's high of $57.89, hit on Dec. 12.
Most activity in Dubai, where the index rose 0.2 per cent on Monday, was by short-term speculative investors as many institutional and foreign funds were away for the holidays. They may start returning on Tuesday, bidding up prices of large-cap shares.
The petrochemical sector in Saudi Arabia, which lagged slightly on Monday, may get a boost from the rise in oil prices. Many analysts expect the sector's fourth-quarter earnings to show improvement from the prior-year period.
Aljazira Capital said in a note that it expects sales in the final quarter of 2016 to have increased on a quarter-on-quarter basis, though margins may have contracted because of higher feedstock prices.
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Join us for an hour of unforgettable, spirit-lifting tunes from Show Boat, Camelot, South Pacific, The Phantom of the Opera, Into the Woods, and more. Featuring sopranos Erin Stewart and Thea Tullman Moore, tenor Joseph Regan, baritone David DeWitt, and pianist Patricia McKewen Amato. A wine reception will follow the performance.
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Mercenaries - Characters
There are five playable characters in The Mercenaries. Whe you first unlock The Mercenaries, Leon S. Kennedy will be the only player you can use. Get at least a four star rating on each stage to unlock another character. Each character has a specific amount of health, certain weapons, and special melee attacks.
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Boulder Swing Dance sat down with Auliya to learn more about her and how she got involved with swing dancing.
by Vicky Youcha
Tell us how you got started swing dancing.
I'd always been interested in cultural aspects of the past, specifically America from the 1940s-1960s. I'd grown up listening to oldies music and going to car shows with my friend's family. When I heard of the 1940s ball in Boulder I had to go. But after trying unsuccessfully to make it to the dance lesson three events in a row I let it go. At the 2012 Summer Ball my friend was ready to leave so we did, but on my way back home from dropping her off I just had to turn around and go back to watch the dancers swing the night away until far past midnight. I started lessons at Boulder Swing Dance that summer.
How long have you been with Boulder Swing Dance? What's your role?
As I mentioned before, I started taking lessons at Boulder Swing in 2012. I started working the front desk just before Stephen Newcomb left Boulder Swing and then with Krister. Over time I've developed a more participatory role doing blog posts and updating Facebook and the website and taking pictures. I also plan and host most of our social activities.
Mostly though, I like to joke I'm the bouncer.
This is what I wanted to ask you first – where do you get all your fabulous clothes? How do you find vintage swing dance outfits? What advice do you have for a newbie dancer who wants to start dressing the part?
I try to wear a dress every day I don't work, and consequently my wardrobe is probably the most expensive thing I own beyond camera equipment.
I do a ton of shopping - online, at consignment shops and other clothing stores. For vintage you really just have to keep your eyes peeled and know your measurements. Estate sales often have authentic vintage clothing at great prices. And my local go-to shops are the Brass Armadillo Antique mall, the shops on Broadway in Denver, Buffalo Exchange in Boulder and Denver and Rockin' Robins in Longmont (and my grandma's closet.) My style is definitely "retro" and consequently I wear more vintage-inspired than true vintage. The best brands are Pinup Girl Clothing, Heart of Haute and Freddies of Pinewood. I rarely buy anything brand new. Most of my finds are second hand through instagram shops and facebook groups, which I recommend for anyone starting out. And for those nervous about getting dressed up, I love this quote, "If you're overdressed people will just assume you're coming from somewhere better or going somewhere better."
You take such great pictures. What's the secret to taking pictures of people dancing that makes them look good?
That's so nice of you to say! I often look at Krister's and Ceth's images from dances and think they capture an utterly different experience than what my images do. Regardless of style, it's all in the faces. I try to capture smiling faces and people enjoying themselves in addition to cool dance moves. And it's not easy! It's the only time as a follow I really have to anticipate the lead's moves to get the shot.
Your name is so beautiful. What's the origin? Is there a story about how you came to be named Auliya?
Again, another compliment; thanks for saying so Vicky. My name is Arabic in origin, though I obviously am not. (Scotch-Irish and German if you're curious). It means highest or most exalted which I try not to let go to my head. And it's from the book Dune. My parents quite liked how it was phonetically spelled out in the glossary so that's how I got the unique spelling. It causes much trouble when ordering food so I often just request the name "Red" for obvious reasons.
What advice do you have for folks taking their first swing dance lessons?
My advice is you don't need a partner! I was so nervous to try dance lessons in the beginning that I made my friend, who had no interest in dancing, go with me. Thankfully I fell in love and didn't need the crutch of friend to get me to continue. But Boulder Swing has such a kind, welcoming community that friends will quickly be made if you open yourself up to it. Also go to different venues and see how they teach dance. And for goodness sakes, go dance to a rockabilly band!
What do you do for fun outside of dancing? What would we be surprised to learn about you?
Dancing definitely consumes the largest amount of my spare time, and I try to see a band at least every other weekend. I frequent Rockabillies in Arvada and the Skylark in Denver, and The Lucky Few are my favorite local band to catch. I do my fare share of shopping of course, online or out and about. I also spend time with my cat who's enjoying our move to a more remote part of Boulder County where he can explore and prowl. I enjoy going to the gym, or at least I tell myself I do, and practice yoga. I've been setting a book goal for the last three years and have already met this year's goal in June. And once a week I host a game night where we stay up till all hours playing board games and arguing over the rules.
As for a fun fact, I'm a tattoo! I did a space-girl pinup shoot last year and a friend saw them on Facebook asked if they could use my likeness for a tattoo. How could I say no?


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The struggle is real! It can be down-right frustrating to find great places for your Christian retreats.
In this episode of Gather and Glean, we'll tackle the topic of retreat planning.
Whether you've already begun to plan your next retreat or you're debating how best to get started, you'll want to check out these tips and ideas on retreat planning.
Creating a photo booth has become a popular trend at women's ministry events and with good reason!
Photo booths encourage women to smile and laugh.
Today I'm going to share some actual, real-life retreat schedules with you.
I hope you'll find them helpful as you plan.
For some of us (myself included) food is a big deal.
Decorations can be a fun way to play up the theme of your women's ministry retreat.
Lighthouses, oversize coffee cups, mason jars with flowers, bowls of fruit, and princess crowns.
Forgive me if this comes across as a little blunt or bossy, but I believe you need to set up a separate Retreat Planning Team.
It goes without saying that praying for your retreat is paramount.
Your speaker, your team, and your attendees will likely confront spiritual opposition during the weeks and days prior to your retreat.
You've got your date picked, your theme set, and the budget to hire a speaker.
But how do you find one? And how do you ensure they're going to be a good fit for your church?
Retreats come in many shapes and sizes.
Prayerfully consider which type of retreat God is asking you to plan for your women in this season.
You may host one time of retreat this year and a different type of retreat the next.
We've covered the WHEN, WHERE, and the WHY of planning a women's ministry retreat.
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The organizers of this year's FIGMENT festival were hoping for clear skies this past weekend, but there was one cloud they welcomed with open arms. After months of hard work, STUDIOKCA's "Head in the Clouds" pavilion made of 53,780 reclaimed plastic water bottles finally popped up on Governors Island for the participatory art fair, and invited festival-goers to enter the pillowy structure to experience it from within. Click through our gallery to take your own tour through this dreamy, eco-art installation.
"For this year's city of dreams pavilion, we wanted to create a space where dreamers could dream – putting your head (and body) inside of a huge cloud felt right," STUDIOKCA's Jason Klimoski told Inhabitat. "You can lose yourself in the light as it shifts through the blue and white re-purposed bottles that we used to construct the exterior and interior of the cloud-shaped pavilion."
300 volunteers from the Emerging NY Architects Committee, the Structural Engineers Association of NY, and the FIGMENT arts organization joined hands with STUDIOKCA's Jason Klimoski and Lesley Chang to construct the recycled pavilion, which was the winner of this year's "City of Dreams" design competition. STUDIOKCA sourced the thousands of bottles that make up the installation from all over the city from both individuals and businesses. While Head in the Clouds was designed to be a light-hearted, fun experience for visitors to the island, it also calls attention to the nearly 48 million plastic bottles thrown away every day in the US. In fact, STUDIOKCA took great care to size the pavilion to represent the number of plastic bottles thrown away in New York City in just one hour – about 53,000 bottles. Kind of makes you think, doesn't it?
Head in the Clouds was built upon a 40 ft long x 18 ft wide x 15 ft high frame of curved aluminum tubes fitted together with clamps that was then covered with "pillows" made of 1 gallon water jugs woven with netting. The inner ceiling of the pavilion was lined with smaller plastic water bottles filled with blue water dyed with organic food coloring to glint and glitter in the sun. At first, we weren't quite sure if STUDIOKCA would be able to achieve the effect they wanted to with this method (the idea was to create a dream-like atmosphere inside the cloud), but we're believers now after viewing the final execution for ourselves.
Don't forget to click through our gallery to find your own head in the clouds for just a little while.
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Gondwana has kicked off with a bang this game capture season with many exciting wildlife introductions taking place. Herds of Eland and Gemsbok have already arrived with hundreds of Blue Wildebeest, Springbok, Red Hartebeest and Waterbuck to set hoof on the reserve in June and July! These introductions will take Gondwana Game Reserve's wildlife population to the 4highest density it has even been. We also have several exciting Big Five and other large game releases on the horizon including a breeding herd of elephant, a pod of hippo, and a new female cheetah, which is a critically endangered species.
Gondwana has introduced a large family herd of Cape Eland. In spite of its heavy physique, eland are remarkably agile. Being Africa's largest antelope, bulls can weigh as much as 900kg. One of the most interesting characteristics of an Eland herd is that it includes a nursery for the calves. When threatened by predators, the herd forms a front with these large males taking the lead positions while the calves and pregnant females are protected behind the fortress of large males.
A family herd of twelve Gemsbok also known as oryx with their distinctive long dagger shaped horns and striking black and white facial markings have made Gondwana home in the last few weeks, in addition another 200 blue wildebeest are expected to arrive in the near future. These shaggy large herbivores are a favoured prey species by predators on Gondwana. It is expected that by introducing such a large blue wildebeest population, that pressure induced by predation will be suppressed through a reduced regulating effect. However, the equation wildebeest eats grass, lion eats wildebeest is not always as straight forward as expected.
The renegade cosmopolitan hippo bull recently introduced to the reserve has settled in well. He has learnt to deal with competition from other hippo bulls, and has learnt that lions and hippos do not sit around the same campfire. We have managed to find him some voluptuous ladies for some companionship. Two lovely ladies will be reintroduced at the end of May within his territory.


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When thinking about those who show great courage by doing what is unthinkable, unpopular, near impossible, I wonder what compels such behavior.
What makes somebody go into war zones and save children?
What makes somebody hide Jews from Nazis or Tutsis from Hutus? What makes people walk in the front of the line peacefully on a bridge in Selma knowing they could be beaten and perhaps killed? How did the people protecting Standing Rock endure water cannons in freezing temperatures?
What makes a child stand with another child who is being ridiculed by her peers? What compelled my wife to get down on the street in Austin last month to save a man's life instead of walking over him like the masses around us were doing?
Courage, from my point of view, occurs when one's integrity and heart are in alignment and perhaps it is that alignment that creates empathy. And perhaps empathy, feeling the pain that others are experiencing, is what makes us do the unthinkable, or what is humanely right, and what we deem as courageous.
The beauty and challenge of the time we live in right now is how much courage is required. How much pain we have to witness and endure at the hands of those without integrity.
How our hearts have broken wide open to bare witness to the helplessness of families whose sons are innocently murdered by police as the justice system fails. The pain of the bigotry in New Orleans over confederate statues. Imagining the fear our immigrant neighbors feel each time they leave their homes. And knowing in Chechnya, Gay people are being murdered because of who they love. That if I lived in Chechnya, my family would be encouraged to murder me.
The truth is that none of us are well, if any of us are unjustly suffering. Regardless of how many places I travel to, how many friends I have, how great my business is, even if my health is good, if any member of my human family (as Obama put it) is suffering, we all suffer.
Each time we awaken to the suffering of others, each time we donate to a cause or a campaign, each time we pick up the phone, or show up for a protest, each time we encourage each other to be kinder, each time we stop needing to be right in order to be in relationship - we are changing the course of our history.
Courage shows up in acts big and small. In loving vulnerably. In reaching out when it's hard to do. By trying different. By experiencing pain and joy as it hurts to be this awake and it's in full integrity to be this awake.
1. If you haven't yet, watch Obama's acceptance speech for the JFK Courage Award.
2. It's Town Hall season again as MoC are home for recess. Connect with your local Indivisible Group to find out what you can do when and where. And for us in blue states with blue representatives, continue expressing thanks for voting against #ACHA and for humanity.
3. The EPA and Department of the Interior are firing those with the facts. They are reducing these two agencies, whose purpose is to protect the environment and our public lands, to garbage dumps. Let your Representatives know this is acceptable. Give to environmental organizations like Greenpeace and Earth First. And call the EPA (202) 564-4700 and Department of the Interior (202) 208-3100 and demand protection for our water, air and public lands.
In love and gratitude -
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An illuminating review of this lens is found in DAP, comparing it to the following lenses:
- Canon EF 17-40mm f/4L
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- Zeiss ZE 21mm f/2.8 Distagon (see Guide to Zeiss ZE / Zeiss ZF Lenses for in-depth coverage).
- Canon EF 24mm f/1.4L II
- Canon EF 35mm f/1.4L
The Canon 16-36mm f/2.8L II (about $1520) is a solid zoom lens, but prime (non zoom) lenses offer better results in this range, sometimes much better.
The 17-40mm f/4L offers an alternative at half the price, but at the loss of one stop of brightness and hence some versatility.
The 16-35mm f/2.8L is Canon's best ultrawide zoom as of March 2010, but those looking for top quality are advised to look at fixed focal length lenses in its range .
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Litigation is the adversarial side to the practice of law. It begins by the filing of a Complaint, when efforts to settle a dispute outside of Court have failed. The litigation process continues through various methods of discovery [learning about the other side's case], motions before the Court, possible mediation, a trial before a judge or jury, and possibly an appeal. The complexity and time needed to complete a case varies dramatically, depending on the issues in dispute.
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Our firm has handled multiple difficult and complex cases, involving complex legal issues, expert testimony, and substantial amounts of time. Some of these cases have resulted in appeals that have been taken to the Supreme Court. While there are multiple published opinions where members of Burts Turner & Rhodes have handled the appeals, some of these court opinions have been recognized as being landmark cases that have significantly changed South Carolina's jurisprudence. Examples of these opinions include:


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Combine interactive maps with text, photos, video and sound to create interactive experiences to communicate your story to others.
Thanks to the superb knowledge of Lauren Scott, ESRI's primeGeoprocessing Spatial Statistics Product Engineer, here is a list of excellent resources to get you started on the road of spatial statistics.
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Please feel free to download and use these tutorials as appropriate. (Many thanks to Danielle, our GIS Lab Assistant, for her work on this list.)
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From Dissonance to Understanding
My story doesn't start when I first heard of asexuality.
I lived on this earth for nearly 21 years before I heard the term in reference to a sexual orientation, and the absence of representation I experienced during those 21 years shaped me as a person in ways I will likely never fully understand. I grew up deeply uncomfortable with my own body, and it is only recently (I am now 32) that I recognize how much of that could have had to do with my asexuality. I endured years of pain and isolation because of a cognitive dissonance brought on by watching my peers go through their lives in ways I could not understand.
But I didn't know that we were on such different planes. I thought I felt what they felt. There were no other options presented to me, but some part of me knew there was a difference. I couldn't consciously label it as such; I just knew that there was something seemingly wrong with how I was experiencing things. I felt like maybe I was missing something even though as far as I knew there was nothing for me to miss.
It didn't make sense. That's what got me. The source of my pain was largely unknowable to me. I didn't have any concepts or language to explain the disconnect I was feeling, even to myself. Because how do you know you are lacking a feeling so personal, so apparently ubiquitous? You just assume that you feel it. Or that you will, at the very least. So what if I didn't seem to be feeling the same things my peers were feeling? It would all work out. I would figure it out. I had to, at some point. This is what I would try to tell myself.
So, I spent my formative years trying to come to terms with the fact that I just couldn't seem to form relationships in the way I was supposed to — in the way that, intellectually, I felt I wanted to. My isolation and dissonance did not lead me to keep a lot of friendships. I spent most of my time at college barely speaking to anyone. When it came to talk of relationships of any kind, familial bonds were what I had to go off. I would read romance stories and watch movies and wonder what it would be like to matter to someone else that much, outside of my family. I read magazines with advice like "you'll know when you're ready" (for kissing, for sex). I trusted them and kept waiting to feel something.
But then one evening I was watching TV and there it was: asexuality. The possibility of not feeling sexual attraction was finally presented to me. It was a news segment, on 20/20, interviewing a small group of asexual people. It is still available on YouTube. If you watch it, you'll see the reporter look on in skepticism and confusion as the people she's interviewing try to explain their feelings. She then speaks with a sex therapist, who lists potential conditions or repressions that "might be to blame."
Can we call this representation? I know that I did not, at the end of the segment, think that I had finally found my place (though clearly I remembered the video itself, well enough, after all these years). This particular interview treated asexuality as a problem and the people who claimed it as deeply strange, and it was still my only source of information on the topic at that time. If you look at the first few comments under the video on YouTube, you can see that even four years ago people knew to be offended by its content. I'm encouraged by that, at least.
But my experience was still defined by a lack of representation. I didn't think I was asexual. By this point (2006) there was a small community online where I'm sure I could have learned at least a bit more if I'd tried, but the 20/20 interview wasn't any kind of impetus for me to do so. I spent another several years growing and working and trying my best. I got help for my body dysmorphia and learned to eat food and wear clothes and exist in my own body with a level of comfort I had never had before. I made some friends. I attributed my lack of any kind of dating life to my body-related issues, and tried again to be normal.
And with the rapid growth of social media and online content in general, asexuality began to get more notice. At first the articles (and the comments below them) were still more offensive than not, but eventually, in my late 20s, I came across an article on the now defunct website The Toast, written by Julie Sondra Decker. That article and the conversations it inspired led me to finally realize the truth: I am asexual, and aromantic. Things finally started making sense.
But now I am experiencing a new kind of confusion. As representation grows, it almost seems unreal to me. I watched the episode of BoJack Horseman where the character Todd says out loud "I'm asexual," and I didn't know what to do with myself. I felt elated, but also like I couldn't quite believe what I was hearing. I had gotten so used to nothing, that to have this kind of recognition was jarring.
I work on a university campus, and we have an LGBTQIAP+ group, and I want to be involved, somehow, but I don't know how. I spent so many of my years of my life without representation, without the knowledge that I could exist this way, and I do not know how to talk about it out loud. I feel like a lot of the current efforts are not for me. I can look up meetups for aces in places relatively close by, but the attendees are all 10 years younger than me. I still feel as though I am on a somewhat different plane.
But even writing that out, I don't feel sad about it. Not at this moment, anyway. I feel grateful for the understanding I get to have. For the comfort I am able to feel, in being myself, and getting to the place where I can write out this essay. I look forward to the day when I feel more comfortable saying the words out loud: I'm asexual.
Jess is an aromantic asexual cisgendered woman who does not normally write essays unless they involve pop culture analysis, and even then she prefers listening to podcasts. Professionally, she gets to nerd out all day in a library and teach students that research is both annoying and worth it. You can reach her on twitter @jessdotro.


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The Essex County 4H will sponsor a Mini and Pony Driving Clinic at the Essex County Fairgrounds, Westport, NY, on Saturday, June 22.
Pat Banker, from Franklin County, will conduct the clinic. All are welcome and invited to bring their equipment and horses and be ready to learn. Those without horses, but want to learn, are also welcome. All participants, youths and chaperones, must pre-register at:
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Sorry guys for the late update, but due to some unforeseen circumstances, I will be changing things up for tonight's live chat. I will be doing an open thread for each quarter and the intent is to have you fellow fans leave comments on how the team is doing throughout the game. Let your feelings be known about anything and everything 49ers, including, but not limited to the rest of the division, 49ers ownership, the QB situation, Mike Singletary and the coaching staff, and even the possibility of the 49ers ending up with the first pick.
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mSystems. 2017 Jun 6;2(3). pii: e00019-17. doi: 10.1128/mSystems.00019-17. eCollection 2017 May-Jun.
The Protein Interactome of Streptococcus pneumoniae and Bacterial Meta-interactomes Improve Function Predictions.
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The functions of roughly a third of all proteins in Streptococcus pneumoniae, a significant human-pathogenic bacterium, are unknown. Using a yeast two-hybrid approach, we have determined more than 2,000 novel protein interactions in this organism. We augmented this network with meta-interactome data that we defined as the pool of all interactions between evolutionarily conserved proteins in other bacteria. We found that such interactions significantly improved our ability to predict a protein's function, allowing us to provide functional predictions for 299 S. pneumoniae proteins with previously unknown functions. IMPORTANCE Identification of protein interactions in bacterial species can help define the individual roles that proteins play in cellular pathways and pathogenesis. Very few protein interactions have been identified for the important human pathogen S. pneumoniae. We used an experimental approach to identify over 2,000 new protein interactions for S. pneumoniae, the most extensive interactome data for this bacterium to date. To predict protein function, we used our interactome data augmented with interactions from other closely related bacteria. The combination of the experimental data and meta-interactome data significantly improved the prediction results, allowing us to assign possible functions to a large number of poorly characterized proteins.
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Essential Words for the TOEFL (Essential Words for the Toefl)
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Students of English as a Second Language will find vital help as they build a large English vocabulary. Nearly 500 words are listed with definitions and pronunciation help. There is also detailed advice for dramatically expanding one's vocabulary with help from a standard dictionary and a thesaurus. Practice tests with answer keys help students measure their progress as they develop increased fluency in English.


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Our 2017 Annual Summer Party!
For our second year in a row, Hypothesis took over Perry's in Santa Monica for our annual summer party. The event hosted employees, their significant others, plenty of adorable children, and the first set of Hypothesis doppelgangers (no, really). Like last year, we had a live DJ, an open bar, and delicious BBQ. We also had our annual, ultra-competitive volleyball game. Clearly, everyone had been working on their volleyball skills relentlessly since last year's epic battle.
Thanks to Abilia and the HR team for creating another epic party for the ever-growing Hypothesis family. Thanks to our Seattle office for making the trip down to LA. And finally, thanks to everyone who came and helped make another memorable celebration.


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Kortney opens the show talking about the election, his amazement at 7 candidates, and how he voted on Proposition 1 (5:14).
He gets busy talking about college football disrespecting the University of Washington (15:30), and discovering that Washington is good (25:53).
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Meet Midnight
This bright eyed girl is the last left of our Tinksey Gang. Those who follow us may remember their story but here is a refresher for those who don't
Cold, hungry and with no home to go to, Tinksey was found in a lovely ladies back garden asking for food. It was only after a few days that it was noticed Tinksey had kittens under the shed!
We went and trapped the kittens and Tinksey (Mum) and brought them back to the shelter. With little human contact the kittens were very cautious of us and didn't trust us at first.
Lucky for Tinksey the lady who found her offered her a loving home.
It took time but we slowly won the hearts of the remaining kittens who became the 'Tinksey Gang'. Some found homes as soon as they began to come out of their shells, but up until a few weeks ago we still had 3 left. Badger, Star and Midnight.
By this time they had all developed their very own personalities, and had become a lot more confident, yet Midnight always seemed pushed to the back by her siblings.
Star and midnight found their forever homes after 6 months of being with us, and Midnight was left alone.
She took everything in her stride and has blossomed into a wonderful young cat. She would make a lovely addition to most family homes.


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Rangers clinched the Ladbrokes Championship title with four games to spare thanks to a 1-0 win over Dumbarton at Ibrox on Tuesday night.
James Tavernier scored the only goal early in the second half as Mark Warburton's side established an unassailable lead at the top of the table.
Rangers can now look forward to life in the Ladbrokes Premiership when the 2016/17 league season kicks off on the weekend of August 6.
In the night's other Championship match, Hibernian came from behind to beat Livingston 2-1 at Easter Road and move to within three points of Falkirk.
Jordan White gave Livi a first-half lead but Anthony Stokes equalised with 15 minutes left and Martin Boyle grabbed the winner three minutes later.


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It's time for our nation to reset. In the military, you don't see a person's color. I never did nor do I now. There are no colors in cockpits or on battlefields. Especially when shit is going south. The only colors you see are the colors of our flag. Red, white and blue. Good guys or bad guys. In my 20 years in the Air Force, my only thought process was "are you with me?" And, "let's do this!" I didn't really have time to think or react beyond those parameters.
That's the national dilemma. That flag represents the very reason that we have the nation that we have. Life happens. Sometimes it's good, sometimes it's not. We have our faith and we have our flag. I suppose that it might be difficult to understand the spirit of our country if you've never served it. I suppose that if you've endured unfair treatment by authority figures it would be tough. But, choosing to feel so will not improve anybody's plight. It's counterproductive.
In the end, we are a common people with a higher cause. We stand for something very uncommon. Either you're working toward the greater good or you're not. We're the "shining city on the hill" or we're not. The NFL and "kneelers" lost that message. They actually never had it because it was poorly articulated. And, they won't get it back. If you're wearing Che Guevara tee shirts at your pressers or going to practice wearing socks depicting police officers as pigs, you've lost me. Because you're an idiot.
If we lose our common bond, we lose the very essence of our existence. Respect the values and you, in turn, will be respected. It doesn't have to be this hard.
Lieutenant Colonel Robert "Buzz" Patterson, United States Air Force (Retired), is a military combat pilot, distinguished White House military aide, bestselling author, and popular conservative public speaker. Among Patterson's literary efforts include two New York Times best sellers, Dereliction of Duty and Reckless Disregard. His most recent books include War Crimes and Conduct Unbecoming. Patterson was born in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. He is a Distinguished Graduate from the Air Command and Staff College; he has his Bachelor's Degree in Political Science from Virginia Tech University and a Master's in Business Administration from Webster University in St. Louis, Missouri. He, his wife and their three children currently reside in California.
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The Experts
One of the most tiresome aspects of crypto is the continued importance placed on experts from other fields lining up to denounce the space as being for idiots who will lose all their money or would be criminals who just want to launder their money/buy drugs with it.
Mention that these people don't know what they're talking about and you are met with a aghast glance; you are not allowed to disagree with these rich or famous people.
But every comment they make is a refrain anyone who has been interested in crypto for a while has already heard. There is no originality, no new information. It is the same tired and outdated misconceptions that we have all been subjected to for years.
They have their own ideological beliefs for dismissing cryptoassets and often the underlying technology completely which no reasoned argument will ever change their mind on. But that does not mean I have to treat their views as insightful or lend any weight to them.
This week four high profile reports came out, as Nouriel Roubini debated with Ethereum co-founder Joe Lubin and the trio of Bill Gates, Warren Buffet and Charlie Munger appeared together on TV in an interview which discussed the nascent space.
Roubini went on the offensive in the debate, in a rant that forced the moderator to have to blow his whistle to a bid to stop the rambling 'Dr Doom' from a continued assault. Looking at his prior words on the subject, this should not be a surprise, as he has been a continual outspoken critic of Bitcoin and blockchain in general.
I'm not even sure what the hysterical Roubini is wittering on about here. There is perhaps no pure decentralisation but very few technologies were perfected instantly. Bitcoin remains an achievement for what it stood for and what it solved. That it has been co-opted by mining cartels exposed a flaw, certainly, but it is not a fatal flaw nor one that can't and won't be improved upon in the coming years.
Few would deny it exhibited signs of a bubble, but the history of the still young project so far has shown that it would be foolish to assume that that is the highest Bitcoin will ever reach, especially when we consider the improvement in support services and the rise in the public consciousness.
75% loss? Oh no. Crypto is so unused to that kind of drop. And superb analysis, given Bitcoin never actually fell below $6k and has subsequently recovered to near $10k again. Note the angry language used - maybe he wouldn't be so irate if he'd invested in 2014 when he noted that it wasn't safe owing to the hacking of it (presumably referring to an early hack of Bitcoin which was resolved quickly and has never been repeated - there are few technologies that have only had one hack in a decade of operations).
Bill Gates is one of the more perplexing cases. Initially very optimistic about Bitcoin, he has since changed his mind and recently stated that "I would short it if there was an easy way to do it." Exposing his lack of knowledge around the subject, he was quickly reminded that of course there is an easy way to do it.
As for his comments that "you are not producing anything and so you shouldn't expect it to go up" – obviously there are some cryptoassets which pay dividends in a manner similar to any dividend paying stock or share and the technology is producing efficiency gains. Not all cryptoassets have a purpose, but lumping the entire sector together as one is another generalisation that does not bear out. It also ignores the fact that what many projects produce is the ability to bypass other institutions - the production is the absence of fees or other negatives which other intermediaries may enforce. The 'production' of a PoW cryptoasset such as Bitcoin, for example, is the security of the network which enables anyone to use it worldwide.
Berkshire Hathaway will be remembered long after Warrant Buffet and Charlie Munger's deaths as a true success story, even if the vehicle has long been at odds with Buffett's words. Where Buffett preaches raising taxes, Berkshire Hathaway pays minimal proceeds. While he endorses the free market, his businesses benefit from oligopolies and micro-monopolies. Berkshire Hathaway has relentlessly cut costs (and jobs) and taken money out of the businesses they own and into their own pockets.
In this context it is hardly a surprise that Buffet has said that "If you buy something like bitcoin or some cryptocurrency, you don't have anything that is producing anything". Bitcoin is pretty much the exact opposite of what Buffett looks for in an investment – and this is fine. Bitcoin and other cryptoassets aren't for everyone, an 85 year old man who ranks as one of the richest men on the planet and who would be unable to invest even 1% of his wealth without causing steep rises in prices probably isn't the target demographic. But Munger's comments that "Bitcoin is worthless artificial gold, which if succeeded, would sell to hit a lot of illicit activity... I think it's a scumball activity" and likening them to faeces is so intellectually bereft it is not worth responding to.
This vulgarity is a common theme. Why is it that all these powerful and obviously intelligent men are unable to elucidate why they are so disdainful of Bitcoin? Why do they resort to insults and blanket statements? They make arguments that even the most simple of critics have made many times over. They resort to insults. They do not understand the most basic of aspects about what cryptoassets are, what the industry looks like and what it could one day be.
Their inability to separate the technology from the cryptoassets, the scams from the innovative, the potential from the dead ends is a sign of a lack of curiosity. This lack of interest is fine – just don't make me read yet another article demanding that I care about their invalid, boring and redundant opinions.


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Steam Powered Giraffe's very first album was originally released in 2009. By 2011, founding member Erin Burke (who played the robot Upgrade) had left the band to pursue other opportunities. Since the band only had one album at the time and potential gigs kept asking where the "female robot" was, the band decided to change their album in 2011 to feature just the current robot lineup. This included new cover art, the removal of Erin Burke's harmonies, and the replacement of Erin Burke's solo song "I Am Not Alone" with the song "Ice Cream Parade".
This version features the original release of Album One as it was in 2009, with the robot Upgrade, her harmonies, and her song "I Am Not Alone".
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One of the things that followed from A's persistent ear troubles over the past three weeks was a retreat into home-based, quiet indoor activity. This was necessary to spare her ear from the cold wind, and her from the misey of having to be niiiiice when all she wanted to do was be coddled. We did a lot of puzzles, a lot of reading, and, before E's gastro kicked in on Wednesday night and made food preparation a risky prospect, a lot of cooking and baking. I tend to cook a lot when feeling in need of a boost, and the girls love to cook with me, tasting, talking, stirring, rolling, cutting, icing and measuring (I retain control of the knives and appliances, of course).
One really fun thing we found to do, which brightened up last Monday considerably, was combining two of our favourite things - books and cooking - into one gorgeously messy and ultimately successful experiment. A and E possess a lovely series of picture books by British author-illustrator Helen Cooper, called Pumpkin Soup, A Pipkin of Pepper, and Delicious! These beautifully drawn stories are all about the Cat, the Squirrel and the Duck who share their lives, music, and beloved pumpkin soup in their old white cabin in the woods. Cooper's illustrations bring the gentle stories alive for the kids and they are truly a pleasure to read (fortunately, as we have read them many, many time over).
In the latest book in the series, Delicious!, the story starts with a grand catastrophe - THERE ARE NO RIPE PUMPKINS IN THE GARDEN! Oh the humanity! Pumpkin soup is all they ever cook, all they ever eat or want ... and now they have to find something else. Consulting the recipe book, they make fish soup - but the Duck won't even try it. Mushroom soup - but YUK says the Duck. The Cat and the Squirrel make Pink Soup (beetroot soup) in a valiant effort to get the Duck to eat ... but he tips the pot over, wailing "That's pink!! Pumpkin soup is orange!" Finally the Cat tricks the Duck into eating by making a mixed vegetable soup which turns out a nice rich orangey colour (with carrots, corm, tomatoes and squash).
A expressed interest when we first read the book in all of the soup-making processes and soups except the fish soup (that one extracted a flat "Oh no" from her). So on Monday, as I had some fresh beetroot in the fridge, and we'd finished an hour's reading, including Delicious!, I suggested that we should try to make ... PINK soup.
We had a ball. First, we boiled the beetroots, and the girls ooh-ed and aah-ed over the deep ruby red that the water went at the end. Then, they helped me stir the onions on a slow heat, and add the cubed beetroot to the pot. Then A measured 5 cups of water and added them in, and E added the salt and pepper, and we set the soup to boil while we turned our attention to the lamb stew for dinner and our chocolate cake-for-a-treat.
This is how it looked cooking:
This is how it looked cooking:
I wasn't convinced that, despite its undeniable prettiness, either of the kids would consent to actually eat it when it was finished. A, my 4-year-old, can be quite conservative about food, and E, at 2 years 4 months, is going through an extreme picky phase (not untypical but still can be trying).
However, it seemed that weeks of reading about the Cat, the Squirrel and the Duck in their old white cabin, and tsking over the pain the Duck puts the other two through in trying to feed him, had an effect. Because when the Pink Soup was brought to the table at lunchtime, both girls took a cautious but immediate sip, their faces brightening as the sweet, rich beetroot and sour cream taste filled their mouths. E didn't finish hers (although she did have fun painting her bread bright pink with it), but A drank every drop, commenting frequently, "It's just delicious, Mummy!"


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Hey peeps. I'm currently in the production of a new song, entitled . It's a musical piece composed for a poem (isn't that the definition of a song? bleh), and since I'd rather my unpleasant voice to not be in the song, I'm looking for a good vocalist that I could collab with. It can be either sung or spoken; it doesn't matter much. I use FL Studio 8 for the music, so editing and effects are a piece of cake. So, here's the poem:
Like water down a drain,
These colors fade away
These feelings I try feign,
Until the world is grey
Such is the hue,
That defines my days
In regret and rue,
And in shades of grey
Your visage seeping,
Through the cracks like the rain
My reflection weeping,
As this was all in vain
Such are the sights
That define my ways
Dim are the lights
In these shades of grey
Hit me up if you're interested in the collab.


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June 25, 1982
By Gerald McKelvey
Jamaica -- An Arverne man was acquitted yesterday of all homicide charges in the death of his 2-year-old son who, police said, had died of beatings, scalding and starvation.
After two days of deliberation, a jury in State Supreme Court convicted [Defendant], 30, of Edgemere Houses, of endangering the welfare of a child, a misdemeanor. The jury acquitted him of second-degree man-slaughter and two lesser felony charges, reckless endangerment and criminally negligent homicide.
Justice Ann B. Dufficy set sentencing for July 16. [Defendant] could receive up to a year in jail.
[Defendant's] attorney, Todd Greenberg, said the jury apparently was swayed by testimony by [Defendant's] wife, Mary, that [Defendant] was not aware of what she was doing to their son Anthony.
The child was dead on arrival May 22, 1981, at Peninsula General Hospital, where medics had taken him after the [Defendant] called an ambulance and said he had stopped breathing. An autopsy showed that the child suffered from malnutrition and had been beaten and scalded.
One of the police officers who investigated the case said at the time: "They said he weighed 13 pounds. If he did, the bones weighed 12 pounds."
The [Defendant's] were arrested July 1. Jury selection is under way for [Defendant's] trial before Dufficy. She faces the same charges her husband did. The [Defendant's] were not tried together because she insisted that she wanted to testify in her husband's behalf, according to a source familiar with the case. [Defendant] is suffering from "a lot of psychiatric problems," the source said, and this is expected to figure in her defense.
The [Defendant's] four other children are in foster care. After the [Defendant's] were arrested, it was learned from several sources that shortly after Anthony's birth on January 11, 1979, he was left on a neighbor's doorstep and turned over to the city's Bureau of Special Services for Children. The agency learned the [Defendant's] were the parents and charged them in Family Court with neglecting the infant. After the [Defendant's] agreed to enter therapy and be under the agency's supervision, Anthony was returned to them. According to one source familiar with the case, the supervisory visits continued until March, 1980.


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