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Opening Remarks from Barbara Byrne
Barbara Byrne is the Vice Chairman of Investment Banking at Barclays and a member of the Barclay's senior leadership group. Her long career included four decades at Lehman Brothers, where she was the first and only woman to rise to the position of Vice Chairman. She supports women's advancement at Barclays, evidenced by her launch of the "Women in Leadership" index, which allows investors to back companies that have at least 25% of their chief executive roles held by women.
Byrne graduated from Mount Holyoke College with a degree in economics. After deciding not to finish an MBA in NYU, she spent the beginning of her career focusing on finding her ideal work environment. She decided to go into investment banking because she found her co-workers were smart, creative, and energetic. She has passion for finance as she finds it tells stories through numbers and is inherently geopolitical – she enjoys understanding global situations through economic thought. Moreover, she is a client-focused worker who strives at building bridges between individuals and organizations through finding key commonalities. However, she finds creativity exists when people respectfully disagree, as she finds innovation causes people to push their thinking.
She started her career working in natural resources at Mobile. She went onto Lehman Brothers, and was ultimately devastated by its collapse. She lost 60% of her net worth, forcing herself to rebuild mid-career. She chose to think of herself as "10 years younger" and continue to dedicate himself to new opportunities. At Lehman Brothers, she was initially quiet – she did great behind-the-scenes work but struggled to assert herself. At the beginning of her career, she learned to talk and pushed herself to more actively engage in meetings. She found that questioning ideas on the edge helped create engagement with colleagues that allowed her to open up to opportunities for advancement. She finds that her wry sense of humor helped her create a voice for herself.
When she started her family, she found that people expected her to restrain her work. However, these expectations caused her to only further dedicate herself to advance her career. She also notes that her strong relationship with male businessmen helped her gain more leadership positions. She was mentored and often sponsored by men, though she was friends with women who supported each other through business struggles.
Throughout her experience, she noted there some industries consistently fail to advance women. With the Women in Business index, she shows the dynamic measurement that describes companies that have significant female leadership. Certain industries, however, fail to meet that qualification, such as natural resources and media. Her goal is to highlight this disparity in certain fields and celebrate companies that have significant female leadership. She wants companies to feel compelled to created more gender-balanced leadership. She finds people are naturally competitive – if you give awards, they'll make changes.
Moreover, she emphasizes the importance of creating a successful team for success. She joined the technology team in the late 1980s at Lehman Brothers, though she knew very little about technology. She ended up working with the account for nine years, staffing with an almost all-female team and achieving incredible success. She found she had a skillset for taking broken relationships – companies and executives that the firm disappointed and helping ameliorate them. She also likes working with a team and figuring out who the right people in the room are.
She advises students to consider education as ongoing and to continually adapt to new technologies. She values passion and engagement over GPA. She notes you need to be a member of a team and need to play well and work well with others. One of the best ways to have life balance is to have friendships and to have the ability to rely on others. Mentorship is explaining and giving background, whereas sponsorship is about relationships. One cannot ask for sponsorship, but only a good reputation and advocacy will yield sponsorship. Trust takes a long time to rebuild, so quality friends are essential for helping work through career and other struggles.
She believes the key to success is ongoing active engagement. Even if you know you won't win the proximate assignment, you should play to win for the longer period of time. Choose partners wisely, and understand you cannot be all things to all people. Be kind to yourself. Stand up. Take a seat at the middle of the table. Women tend to strive to be perfect; for men, good is good enough but even better if you can get someone else to do it. Admire and emulate that skillset – delegate and trust that they will be so good that your team will not fail. Trust people who are smarter than you to think as a team.
Remember to engage your life in a variety of ways. If its important to be a CEO, that's fine but you'll have to make trade-offs. Personally, she chose to balance a high stature position with a family. Generally, she hopes to see more diversity in the voices at the table in meetings. If you have 20% of any minority in a group it will change the dynamic at the table. If she's the only person who's the other it makes it harder to be heard. In any job, there are various and surprising ways to create space for yourself and earn respect. Men tend have ability to isolate themselves from failure – that's how you get admired. Your capability and potential are more central than someone's actual numbers.
As a woman, she has exhibits greater compassion than some of the men she has worked with. She argues that women tend to have strong perspective and the ability to read a room a little bit better than men. She says that she was better at bringing teams together through encouraging diversity – background, age, etc. Women notice when someone doesn't look them in the eye. Men don't perceive people quite as well. However, women also tend to be harder on each other. Women tend to assume they're all in competition with each other, even when they are meant to work together. She's always been a supporter of women and fully believes in the power of putting people forward. Overall, Barbara Byrne encouraged the attendees to use their strengths as women to their advantage but to also observe and learn from their male counterparts in order to become the best business executives they can be.


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United World Order Ways & Means To Achieve It
For any society to be utopian, it firstly must be functional, stable, and achievable with the technology and belief systems. Everyone would have to compromise to a certain degree and we would have to shed our fear of change or the unknown. The fear of change is perhaps the single greatest factor that has stunted our growth as a species, and it is a direct insult to our own capabilities. By fearing change, we show mistrust in ourselves to be able to recover from any possible mistakes we make along the way, so instead of making those mistakes, we prefer never to try at all.
Can We Achieve It
The following points, are how I think we can change that very fear of change. Rather than having a society being pushed forward reluctantly by an elite few, people instead are rewarded for embracing change and growth. I.e. changing from the current negative enforcement to a positive reward. This would still allow for each individual to have free will, setting their own limits to how fast or slow they wish to grow:
As you see, we already have the technology to do this; our biggest issue is we have to embrace the changes not fight them.
- Each individual would have to be identified by the system in a way that does not discriminate by sex, sexual preference, race, religion, disability, country of origin or language spoken. The simplest way to do this is to use a unique alpha-numeric code for each individual not based on any distinguishable metric, the easiest would be the alpha-numeric equivalent of DNA and possibly derived from the persons' DNA. If you own a passport or driving license, you already have a simplified version of one of these.
- Government and religious organisations must either be unified, or controlled by computer AI that does not base its decisions on emotion. This is perhaps the hardest part to achieve as those currently in power will not want to give up that power and will use fear to try and hold onto it. Governments may well take up this idea fairly quickly, however some religious organisations may be very stubborn and resist this change as much as they can.
- We need to organise ourselves to have a common set of rules. This will be part of the unification of governments and religions, not necessarily to replace them but to define how they must compromise with everything else in order to allow peace overall. Anyone not following the unified ruleset, is what we currently view as a criminal/terrorist and must be removed from the general population in order to keep the overall peace. This will include how we currently use reprimands, prisons and capital punishment only for the worst of the worst that refuse to reform themselves.
- Once organised and with a shared set of human resources of multiple different skillsets, we need to have free movement over the entire planet. Just as the United States was founded on the free movement between states, and Europe was built on free movement between EU countries; this new world order needs to be based on free movement of any individual over the entire planet which requires that the first three points are finalised first or chaos would ensue.
- Once we have free movement and common values we can start to strip away all forms of finance; all debt would be cancelled as owing money to the same organisation would be stupid. Jobs would no longer be about being paid to survive but rather a person willingness to be a part of the whole and help the whole in their own specific ways. This could be as simple as helping clean up the planet, furthering scientific research, managing personnel or travel. Each person would primarily contribute based on the areas they can help the best in, however it also allows for people to try out different areas; for example, a physics teacher taking a gap year from teaching children in one country to help teach in another (like Africa), or to help clean up pollution in the local community. We have so many people on this planet, each person would have to contribute very little to make the whole system work well. If everyone contributed close to what they are required to now, the human race would advance in all areas at an exponentially higher rate than we currently do, as we would not be competing against each other.
- Rather than financial gain, the individual gains trust, respect and status. Examples being larger more elaborate accommodation, ability to manage or teach others and participate in larger and larger projects. This rewards people for participation and growth, and encourages them to progress as far as they can without overloading them with responsibility, causing stress and the increasing possibility of failure. How fast they progress is up to the willingness and capabilities of the individual. There is another bonus to this, if an individual is injured they can concentrate on recovery without any financial worries and those currently homeless are not forgotten and can get a fresh start and work their own way back to what they are capable of. No individual will ever be penalised for simple mistakes, this is perhaps the single most important part how this system will work and be accepted by all.
As you see, we already have the technology to do this; our biggest issue is we have to embrace the changes not fight them.
Let us all embrace change to bring order from this chaos and save ourselves, not just the elite few having to drag us kicking and screaming in an effort to save not just this planet but as many people as possible. You need to be a part of this change, or you are just a waste of space and a hindrance.
Also please let's call the first star ship Serenity, because the crew didn't fear change or what they called the big black.
Also please let's call the first star ship Serenity, because the crew didn't fear change or what they called the big black.


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Arguments can never be won if we can't agree on value.
In March of this year, former Indian Wells tournament director, Raymond Moore, referred to the women's game as inferior to the men's game. He resigned soon afterwards. In the immediate aftermath, world number one Novak Djokovic piped up to implore the men's game to do more to promote itself – essentially – as worthy of more money than female tennis players.
Djokovic, who has since made a partial U-turn on that stance, misses the point, I think, on why many millions of people around the world love watching professional tennis. He has, perhaps, as many others before him have also, been sucked into believing the rhetoric that has long stacked the odds against women's tennis. When one thinks that women's tennis is probably one of the most equal sports on the planet in terms of gender equality: in terms of pay, broadcast coverage and spectator crowds. In some ways that makes the pre-historic argument that men's tennis has more value than women's tennis even more depressing.
One argument is around the concept of 'strength in depth' (good quality tennis players deep into the rankings, from 1 to 50, let's say). The more strength in depth, the better the quality of all matches in a tournament is likely to be; if it's feasible that the player ranked 30 in the world can beat a player inside the top 10 then more exciting and unpredictable matches are the result.
Media have their own pre-historic (and un-changing) ideas about strength in depth', though. If Djokovic, Nadal, Federer, Murray or Wawrinka are defeated in the early rounds of a tournament, 'strength in depth' is quoted as the reason. The men's game is 'strong' and the public is informed that 'any player can beat the top players on any given day'. If Williams, Sharapova, Azarenka or Kerber or Muguruza lose early, strength in depth is never the reason. Ever. This is despite the fact that the last two years in particular has seen a lot of seeds going out early in the majors on both the men's and women's side. On the women's side, if top seeds lose in the early rounds of a major it is because they had a 'shocker'. They played badly, nothing to do with the relative strength of their opponent. Conversely, when Djokovic, Nadal, Wawrinka and Murray get to the semi finals of a major, we are told how great these players are, how far ahead of the rest of the pack they are. When the same happens on the women's side it is because the there is no quality in women's tennis lower down the rankings, and the pundits generally bemoan the 'predictability' of the women's game.
The term 'strength in depth' (not one I'm fond of in any case), is used only as a positive in the men's game, only as a negative in referring to the women's game. There is a qualitative blindness that follows the women's game that is quite shameful and, possibly, quite unconscious.
The second argument that hangs around the 'women's tennis is inferior to men's tennis' camp is the amount of tennis played. Men play best-of-five sets and women play best-of-three, therefore men should be paid more. Many people will know that men only play best-of-five in the Grand Slam events (four per year), plus Davis Cup. Now let's consider the fact that up until around 2007, Master Series events (high-ranking events just below Grand Slams in terms of stature) played best-of-five sets for the men. They no longer do. There weren't too many male tennis players complaining about the change. Best-of-five set tennis can be exciting, but can also be a dull as dishwater. Women have tried it. They did it, but I suspect they didn't like it, which is possibly much the same as the men, really.
The final argument tends to pop up around 'popularity': more spectators are at the grounds to see men's tennis than women's tennis. I think, generally, your average tennis spectator would prefer to watch a men's match where they had little idea who one or either of the players is, than a women's match where they have little idea who one or either of the players. This is purely anecdotal, though. So in one sense that argument does hold up. However, like many other sports, tennis spectators are a diverse bunch, and there will be tribes who know exactly who they're following, ones who just like to be at the grounds watching lots of matches, and others who enjoy watching tennis but don't follow it that closely and aren't aware of many tennis players (male or female) outside of, say, the top 20. When you have a marquee match it doesn't matter whether it's a men's match or women's match: people who love tennis will want to watch it, as will the more casual sports fan. That's value and that's what all the best players bring, male or female.


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Which Character do you think has the best singing voice?
I think Pixel does it sounds like a R&B singer and R&B is my favorite type of music
Which Character do you think has the best singing voice?
I think Pixel does it sounds like a R&B singer and R&B is my favorite type of music
Steph singing by Julianna of course
Robbie is my favorite hands down, I love Stefan's voice. Although I also really enjoy the guy who does the singing for Sportacus, Matthias Matthiasson? Hearing him just makes me happy.
Pixel and Trixie (In the voice of Kobie and Sarah)
Pixel (with the voice of Kobie) Julianna and Chloe as Stephanie, Stefan Karl, And Matthias Matthiasson
I love Sportacus ' voice. Matthías did such a great day especially In No One's Lazy, the passion was perfect! And as an added bonus, he sounds like Magnus! ?
I think Robbie has the best sing voice
Stepixel, Meansbody, Sportarobbie, and Strixie FOREVER EVER EVEr EVer
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I would have to agree and say Robbie, I think Stefan is just naturally talented at it
Robbie is the best singing for me, then Sportacus and Stephanie are tied second i think
Stingy/Jodi. He can't hit high notes as well as Matthias, but his voice sounds so much better.
I think Robbie's voice is the most enjoyable to listen to, it's so nuanced and has a lot of personality to it. It was one of the things that got me interested in the show, if Robbie was a bad singer his songs definitely wouldn't hold your attention for as long. You can hear he's good in We Are Number One and You Are a Pirate but the first time I heard Master of Disguise I was actually really impressed and pleasantly surprised because in that one he gets to show off more how talented he really is. More examples of his singing at its best (in my opinion) include Time to Start the Show, It's Fun to Be the Mayor and Good to Be Bad. Sportacus and both Stephanies sing great too and I also like the singing of Stingy and season 1-2 Pixel, but for me Robbie's is the one that stands out the most. Jodi is a Broadway singer if I remember correctly?
Btw, based on singing voice alone, my favourite Stephanie is Linda Ásgeirsdóttir. I would also like to add that I think Matthías sounds better singing in Icelandic even though his English pronunciation is better than Magnús'. Icelandic No One's Lazy in LazyTown (the show version) and Icelandic Let's Go are both a joy to listen to, he has so much enthusiasm.
Robbie, hands down, no questions asked.
rip stefan
I think I would have to agree on Stingy, like previously mentioned he did broadway before LazyTown and just jumping from there to here is just so great, also I really like the almost rubbery voice he puts on as Stingy but still keeps singing greatly.
Also if foreign dubs would count I would have to say icelandic Pixel/Goggi, because Runar Freyr Gislason is my hero
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LazyTown music is definitely more about instrumentals for me, but I would have to say that Stephanie (Julianna) has the best voice, even tho I do think Chloe sang pretty well and I do enjoy her songs I just prefer Julianna way more.
Funny. not
Pixel IMO. I don't really know why, but his voice just sounds... right. I dunno how to explain it more depthfully than that :/
The German voices of Stephanie and Sportacus are also wonderful when singing. Also the speaking voice fits the two very well.
Sportacus and Stephanie fit very well together as a team. Friends are friends since.
I really like sportacus's voice. Wish he had more songs.
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This recipe for Homemade Cornbread comes from an old Better Homes and Gardens Cook Book. This book was Amber's grandmothers that was originally published in the 1930's and we have the 1981 version. We love these older, classic recipes and this Homemade Cornbread is delicious and so easy to make. Make a complete cold day dinner with some Crock-Pot Turkey Chili and try our homemade Chili Seasoning recipes.
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- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- 1 cup yellow cornmeal
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 4 teaspoons baking powder
- 3/4 teaspoon salt
- 2 eggs
- 1 cup milk
- 1/4 vegetable oil
- Gather ingredients, 9x9 baking pan, hand mixer, 2 bowls, whisk, and measuring cups and spoons.
- Preheat oven to 425 degrees.
- Whisk 2 eggs, 1 cup milk and 1/4 cup vegetable together in a small bowl.
- In a large mixing bowl, combine 1 cup yellow cornmeal, 1 cup flour, 1/4 cup sugar, 4 teaspoons baking powder, and 3/4 teaspoon salt.
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- Bake for 20-25 minutes.
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The increasing demand for inexpensive services for office cleaning in Bellfield has heightened the company's commitment to fulfilling the client's expectations. We only use harmless cleaning products. Brilliant Office Cleaning is dedicated to ensuring that the working environment is ready for its occupants as soon as the workday starts as such. Every single crew used for the workplace is very experienced, police cleared, hard-working and trustworthy. All of the cleaning equipment used is at top working other. Cleaning solutions are chosen with safety in mind. The organization goes the extra mile so that the client's business is not interrupted at all. Therefore, brilliant Office Cleaning has earned high reputation for office cleaning in Bellfield.
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If you're doing regular running and following a training program, it's likely that you will be doing speed work. The track is a great place to practice this, and a chance to meet and learn from other runners doing the same.
During the summer season Wellington Scottish runners, walkers, jumpers and throwers compete with other Wellington running clubs at Athletics Wellington organised events. These are held at Newtown Athletics Park track, and other venues across the region.
Anybody can give track a go, we have several club members who compete at a national level and they as well as our coaches are on hand to offer guidance to those who are trying it out for the first time.
Alex Jordan winning 400m Championship - Image from Athletics New Zealand
Events at the track are a way to test your skill and to see how your training is progressing. It's a great way to catch up with running friends from around New Zealand, and to see some of the elite athletes in action!
A full calendar of events is available at the Athletics Wellington site, and any club member is welcome to take part in the regular Black and Gold programme events.
In December we host the Scottish Night of Miles, an annual event open to everyone which raises money for a local charity. The highlight of this event for some is the mile race, while for others it's the chance to race Santa round 4 laps of the track. At last year's event Santa Claus was pretty quick!
For competitive members, regional league competitions build through the season to the National Track & Field Championships in March 2017.- link
All athletes wishing to enter the NZ Track & Field Championships will need to enter online themselves. Here is the link to the entry form.
Junior members compete at junior interclub events, followed later in the season by the Colgate Games. Most also compete for their schools at zone and interzone events, and beyond.


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September 07, 2004
Who is Kitty Kelley?
Kitty Kelley's new book The Family is causing quite a storm. Perhaps the biggest revelation in the book is that George W. "Bush did coke at Camp David when his father was President, and not just once either." Quite a shocking revelation, if true, and sure to reinforce the convictions of those who believe that George W. Bush is an overgrown frat boy who never really grew up. But who is Kitty Kelley and can her work be trusted? Is this, as she claims, a family biography or does her work represent nothing more than the National Enquirer in book length form?
Kitty Kelley's books include the 'biographies' of Nancy Reagan, Frank Sinatra, and Jackie Kennedy. Kelley once coined herself 'the Queen of sleeze' and if the subject matter of her books doesn't warn you of the type of reading material she supplies than this might: her book which 'researches' dirt on the House of Windsor has been banned in Brittain for it's libelous accusations.
Kitty Kelley has a penchant for ascribing inflamatory quotes to famous people, often relying on scorned lovers or others who have a bone to pick with her biographical subjects. For instance, in her unauthorized biography of Nancy Reagan she claims Nancy said that President Reagan:
orders killings like he orders linguine.Kelley also accused President Reagan of abandoning a girlfriend after impregnating her. According to Kelley, Reagan denied the child was his and walked away from the relationship.
If that wasn't bizarre enough, Kelley also accused the President of being a rapist:
He pushed his way inside and said he just had to see me. He forced me on the couch . . . and said, 'Let's just get to know each other.' It was the most pitched battle I've ever had, and suddenly in a matter of seconds I lost. . . . They call it date rape today.Kelley also accused Nancy Reagan of having an affair with Frank Sinatra, and that the two had sex in the Governor's Mansion while Reagan was Governor.
As you can see, Kitty Kelley is no stranger to using unreliable sources to make her point: she has never met a celebrity without a sordid past. Kelley herself has been the subject of at least one unauthorized biography Poison Pen, written by former Reagan aid George Carpozi, Jr. The book is not one I can heartily recommend, as it uses Kelley's own libelous tactics against her, but it does debunk much of the myth that Kelley does her homework. This book documents case after case where Kelley uses unreliable sources to put her subjects in the most unflattering light.
And what kind of sources does Kitty Kelley use? Kelly claims that Bush used coke at Camp David based on Neil Bush's scorned ex-wife's word. Professor Bainbridge quotes the Mirror article cited above as naming the source:
She quotes his former sister-in-law Sharon Bush who claims: "Bush did coke at Camp David when his father was President, and not just once either."And Talk Left exposes the relationship Sharon Bush has with George:
The former President Bush refused Sharon's request for a $467,000 loan to keep her Houston mansion, telling her to find something cheaper. "The divorce is final," the elder Bush wrote, "[and] the best thing for you to do is get on with your life. Close the unhappy chapter with Neil, find a job, and look to the future, not the past."Sharon is also not the most stable person:
After Sharon pulled some hair out of Neil's head, his lawyers accused her of practicing voodoo. But Sharon shot back: "I pulled Neil's hair out because I wanted to get it tested for cocaine, not because of voodoo."Kitty Kelley has a history of using unreliable sources to make her subjects look bad. Her books are inflammatory and filled with half-truths, lies, and inuendos. Kelley's work represents the worst of the worst in writing, a cross between the fiction of the Weekly World News and the gossip of the National Enquirer. If ever there was an author worthy of contempt, Kitty Kelly is it.
Update: The source for the cocaine allegation is publicly saying she never made the statement. Kitty Kelley just makes things up.
Others ripping this book apart: Prof. Bainbridge, Talk Left, Say Anything, Jeff Goldstein, Tac Jammer, Everything I know is Wrong, Captain Ed
Others who say inane and stupid things: Wonkette (right, who cares if the accusation is true....In that spirit my 'sources' tell me that Kerry of kills puppies for fun.)


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When I first started writing this column, it was kind of cool to put swear words in it, just because I could. However, somewhere along the way that became no longer cool to me, so for a long time I tried not to use any. I use one here, but it's related to the subject matter, so it was worth the joke.
Luke Furman | Columnist
It's rare that someone would take shots at something they love, yet alone something that covers their mortgage and car payments. But rappers do it all the time.
In a trend exclusive to their music, rappers are often heard belittling or dismissing exactly what they're doing, which acts as a fairly meta lyrical technique, but one that has been around for a while. A common phrase that spans many songs in hip-hop's canon is the proclamation "F–k rap," which can be heard as early as Slum Village's 2000 track "Fall In Love" (F–k this rap s–t/ I listen to classical) to songs released this year such as Vince Staples' "Norf Norf" (F–k gangsta rap/ where the ladies at?).
Other artists have expressed this same sentiment, such as Kendrick Lamar on "R.O.T.C.," ScHoolBoy Q on "Break the Bank," Jay Z on a cut off "Vol. 2… Hard Knock Life" and Pusha T, who on "Numbers On the Boards" criticizes people who rely only on rap money to feed their family.
So what's the point of this? Well, mainly, it's a progressively meta style of bragging.
Rather than rappers building their larger-than-life, king-of-the-game image by talking about their material possessions or pronounced rapping abilities, they dismiss rap as a whole, which creates a persona that appears they would have been successful even if they never faced a microphone.
This braggadocious trend can be summarized in a line from Mac Miller's 2013 track "Watching Movies," where he raps "I got so many ways I can make money/ I'll always be straight, I just thought you should know." Miller also more bluntly raps "F–k rap/ make a million off a shitty app" in his 2015 song "Ascension." By claiming that other rappers rely specifically on one source of income, it elevates their status to the equivalent of a utility player in baseball.
Bragging and building up one's personality has always been a staple of hip-hop, and as the genre nears a more mature age, methods used to brag have changed accordingly and will most likely continue to change in more lyrically clever and self-aware ways. Long gone are the days when simply rapping about money paid the bills. Now it's all about rapping about money but doing it in a witty and conscious way like in Childish Gambino's "Sweatpants" where he quips "I got a penthouse on both coasts/ pH balance."
Post-2000s hip-hop is reaching a point where rappers want the public to perceive them as so careless that they don't even care about their day job a.k.a. rapping. They want to make it seem as easy and effortless as possible. So, if that's what works, then all I have to say is f–k columns.
Luke Furman is a sophomore studying journalism and a reporter for The Post. What do you think of this lyrical rap style? Tweet him @LukeFurmanOU or email him at email@example.com.


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This announcement will be used to fill (1) one full-time permanent vacancy in Mounds View, MN. The shift will be rotating which includes evenings and weekend hours.
The Behavior Modification Assistant (BMA) is responsible for assisting in assessing individual's needs by performing direct care duties, developing and implementing residential and habilitation support plans with goals and methods. Communicating with team members and other agencies, evaluating and documenting out-comes, and maintaining or modifying the plan and performing related work as required. The BMA serves as a principal provider of behavior modification services to the work site team. Similar and/or related private-sector's job titles: Human Services Technician (HST), Direct Support Professional (DSP) Mental Health Worker, Behavior Technician II, Mental Health Caregiver, and DSP-Caregiver.
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- knowledge of behavior modification theory/techniques sufficient to design and/or implement behavior management components of treatment plans;
- knowledge of developmental disabilities and behavior problems sufficient to understand the physical and psychological limitations they put on human development;
- knowledge of therapeutic intervention techniques sufficient to control aggressive or violent behavior
- ability to provide ongoing work direction and training to other staff;
- ability to perform basic health care procedures, such as taking vital signs and administering medications.
- ability to read and write English sufficient to understand and follow directions, assist in the delivery of client programs, and write instructions for subordinate staff;
- ability to collect and summarize data sufficient to document program delivery and client progress by observing and charting behaviors and measuring the duration and frequency of inappropriate behavior;
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GREAT BENEFITS PACKAGE! The State of Minnesota offers a comprehensive benefits package including low cost medical and dental insurance, employer paid life insurance, short and long term disability, pre-tax flexible spending accounts, retirement plan, tax-deferred compensation, generous vacation and sick leave, and 11 paid holidays each year.
Our mission as an employer is to actively recruit, welcome and support a workforce, which is diverse and inclusive of people who are underrepresented in the development of state policies, programs and practices, so that we can support the success and growth of all people who call Minnesota home.
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Barbados Part Deux
The best part of being back is being able to share our trip with everyone else. I know it makes people jealous and wish that their job flew them to exotic locales, but it's not all fun and games. It's hard work! We had to drive around in taxi's and go to unfamiliar locations. Eat unfamiliar food. Swim in unfamiliar beaches with unfamiliar waves. Did we really want to swim in that crystal clear water and eat that juicy chicken curry Roti? You mean we have to get out of our air-conditioned hotel rooms and take pictures in warm sunny weather? What if a shark comes up behind me while I'm exploring a sunken ship while snorkeling?
Man, that's just too stressful! Despite all that, we had such a great time going around taking pictures all over Barbados. We literally drove around the whole island! Valdez, our driver, was so fun and welcoming. He took us to old slave homes, sugar cane factories, huge island resorts, the best beaches, the golf resort that Tiger Woods got married at, just everywhere.
All that unfamiliarity and hard work was worth it! Marianne and Duane's parents even followed us around too, to give us encouragement. Or was it to make sure that I was taking good pictures? hmmm. Well I'm glad they came, because both their moms are fun to hang out with.
If you haven't caught on by now, there's a little sarcasm about the unfamiliarity. I LOVE traveling. That's why I got into wedding photography in the first place.
TO ALL FUTURE CLIENTS: If you're not having a destination wedding, then we can still do a destination engagement session! Ask me about it.
This was one of my favorite locations to shoot at. I love architecture like this.
This place housed the Queen of England twice, but each time it burned down. Lucky for us.
Valdez thinks that this looks like a postcard of Barbados. Maybe I can start selling it as one!
This is their I'm relaxed and having fun in front of a bus stop pose. They are highly trained models for sure.
This is their Banana Republic pose.
Marianne was able to lift him off for almost one second. Duanne imagined he was flying.
One of my favorite shots that Ingrid took.
The sky and beaches there were amazing. I love nighttime photography, it adds so much drama.


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Wed, 12 December 2012
Fall finale. John Small ('70), the only Bulldog to ever be drafted in the NFL's first round (Falcons), dies at the age of 66. Jeff Hartsell reports on Bulldog hoops. And we have snippets of some of the great GrayLine guests of 2012: Paul Maguire, Stump Mitchell, Chuck Driesell, Harvey Schiller, and a tribute to the late Harvey Dick.
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Wed, 5 December 2012
Stump Mitchell ('81) discusses his days as a Citadel Bulldog and St. Louis/Phoenix Cardinals running back in the 1980s. We also learn what the player-turned-coach is working on, as well as his current relationship with The Citadel. PostandCourier.com's Jeff Hartsell reports on Bulldog basketball. And the College of Charleston is saying goodbye to El Cid and the Southern Conference.
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Wed, 28 November 2012
Sam Hines, The Citadel's provost and dean of the college, discusses the Institutional Program Assessment Committee (IPAC) report, which has drawn questions from many Citadel alumni. Also, PostandCourier.com's Jeff Hartsell shares info on Bulldog football, basketball and wrestling.
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Wed, 21 November 2012
Jim Waddill returns for this Thanksgiving weekend edition. The former co-host and Class of 1960 member gives us an update on how retired life's been this past year. "Brute" also weighs-in on Kevin Higgins and the Bulldog football team. The Citadel (7-4, 5-3 SoCon) ended its best season in years last weekend, beating Furman in Greenville in the finale.
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Wed, 14 November 2012
Paul Maguire ('60) discusses his days playing for the Bulldogs in the late 1950s, his time with the Chargers and Bills in the AFL, and his four decades in the broadcast booth for NBC and ESPN. And after holding on to the Silver Shako for another year, PostandCourier.com's Jeff Hartsell helps us get ready for The Citadel's regular season finale at Furman -- a chance for the Dogs to finish 7-4!
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Wed, 7 November 2012
Chuck Driesell discusses his 2012-13 Citadel Bulldog basketball team, which tips-off with the All-Miltary Classic this weekend. We also talk about the third-year coach's adjustment to being top dog at El Cid. Also, football skipper Kevin Higgins looks back on the Homecoming win over Elon, and ahead to this weekend's Silver Shako battle at VMI.
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Wed, 31 October 2012
MSNBC political contributor Jimmy Williams ('89) gets us ready for Election 2012. The Florence native discusses his cadet days, playing on The Citadel tennis team, and his journey into political talk. The Post and Courier's Jeff Hartsell reviews the 14th consecutive loss on the gridiron to Wofford. And we preview this week's Homecoming 2012 game against Elon.
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Wed, 24 October 2012
Beat Wofford Week. Can the Bulldogs beat the Terriers for the first time since 1998? PostandCourier.com's Jeff Hartsell has the complete preview of this weekend's game, aka the "Beacon Iced Tea Bowl VII." We also hear thoughts from head coach Kevin Higgins. And Lowcountry mustard-based barbecue baron Melvin Bessinger ('51) passes away.
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Wed, 17 October 2012
Media relations director Mike Hoffman recalls his first stint at The Citadel in the early '90s, and talks about his new gig as the chief publicist for the Bulldog sports teams. Jeff Hartsell reports on Kevin Higgins' team, which won on Parents' Day 2012 over Western Carolina. The Dogs now enjoy an open weekend, before travelling to Wofford next week.
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Wed, 10 October 2012
Running back Rickey Anderson and head coach Kevin Higgins talk about the rough day in Birmingham, as The Citadel lost at Samford, 38-7. Also, Marc Buoniconti ('88) returns to Charleston for Parents' Weekend, helping to promote The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis. Joel Thompson ('87) joins us this week to honor his '80s teammate and friend. Plus, we learn about Thompson's own collegiate merchandise company, headquartered in Johns Creek, Ga.
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Wed, 3 October 2012
Lee Glaze ('86) discusses his new role as sideline reporter on The Citadel radio broadcast. The Citadel Athletic Hall of Famer also talks about his playing days, the Sumter-Citadel connection and his take on the 2012 team on this Band of Gold Spotlight. Plus, sensational sophomores Carson Smith and Aaron Miller review the tough loss to UTC, and look ahead to this week's game at Samford.
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Wed, 26 September 2012
Kevin Higgins, safety Davis Boyle and fullback Darien Robinson review the N.C. State loss, and how to get back to the Dogs' winning ways as Chattanooga heads to Johnson Hagood Stadium this week. Col. John Olshefski ('80) is the Band of Gold Spotlight. We learn about the retired Army colonel's devotion to his alma mater, including the "Bulldog Battleship."
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Wed, 19 September 2012
Les Robinson, former basketball coach and athletics director at The Citadel, is this week's special guest. The recent Citadel Athletic Hall of Fame inductee recalls his days on the Charleston campus, as well as his connection to both the Bulldogs and the Wolfpack of N.C. State (this weekend's football opponent). Kevin Higgins reviews his team's impressive 52-28 win over No. 7 Appalachian State, moving the Dogs to 2-0 in SoCon play. And Jeff Hartsell was a cadet this week...for a half-day.
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Wed, 12 September 2012
No. 3 Georgia Southern falls to The Citadel in dramatic form, 23-21. We hear play-by-play clips from The Citadel Sports Network, as Kevin Higgins' ballclub eeks out a last-second win. Also, Georgia Southern head coach Jeff Monken isn't too happy after the game. Now in the polls for the first time in years, the No. 21 Bulldogs are getting ready to travel to Appalachian State. But The Citadel is ranked No. 1 -- in the latest U.S. News & World Report publication. Plus, Dr. Bob McNamara, associate dean of the evening undergraduate studies, discusses the new 2+2 program The Citadel has launched throughout South Carolina.
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Wed, 5 September 2012
SouthernPigskin.com's SoCon writer Russell Varner discusses The Citadel's conference opener against Georgia Southern. Kevin Higgins looks back on the 49-14 win over Charleston Southern, and ahead to this week's battle with GSU. We also hear from PostandCourier.com's Jeff Hartsell.
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Wed, 29 August 2012
Fall premiere. PostandCourier.com's Jeff Hartsell previews the season opener against Charleston Southern, as "Citadel GrayLine" begins its fifth season. We also get Hartsell's projection of how the Dogs will fare this year. And host Jon Rawl reminds us of an "international incident" involving Citadel cadets at the 1991 Ryder Cup at Kiawah Island.
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Wed, 23 May 2012
Spring finale. The Bulldog baseball team pulls out a dramatic win over the College of Charleston in the SoCon tournament. Also, we have encores of some of GrayLine's great interviews this school year: head football coach Kevin Higgins; play-by-play voice Danny Reed; wide receiver-turned-PayPal® exec Cornell Caldwell ('93); and The Citadel's 2012 commencement speaker -- Harvey Schiller, Ph. D. ('60).
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Wed, 16 May 2012
The Citadel Success Institute (CSI) is a summer program designed to help incoming knobs make it through their first year. Jeff Perez, The Citadel's vice president for external affairs, shares info on the success rate of the program and its academic regimen. We have a special snippet of Ronald Reagan's 1993 commencement address at The Citadel, where the late president spoke about Harvey Dick, ERWs and Congress. Plus, PostandCourier.com's Jeff Hartsell has a Diamond Dogs and hoops recruiting report.
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Wed, 9 May 2012
Conway Saylor, the 2012 Governor's Professor of the Year, talks about her 20-year career teaching in The Citadel's psychology department. We also learn about her role in Leadership Day, which over 2,000 cadets participated in. Jeff Hartsell reports on the arrival of former Bulldog football player Scott Yielding ('93), who leaves behind an assistantship at Oklahama State to come be the Dogs' tight ends coach. And Furman is this weekend's opponent at The Joe.
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Wed, 2 May 2012
Dr. Harvey Schiller ('60) talks about the honor of being this weekend's Class of 2012 commencement speaker. The former Bulldog football player, retired Air Force general, Southeastern Conference commissioner, United States Olympic Committee executive director, cable television executive and the current head of Global Options Group highlights his stellar career. Plus, the Post and Courier's Jeff Hartsell updates us on Bulldog baseball and former wide receiver Kevin Hardy, who signed a free agent deal with the New Orleans Saints.
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Wed, 25 April 2012
Brad Felder ('11), a former Bulldog and current Clemson Tiger outfielder, is this week's special guest. The Bowman, S.C., native chats about his playing days in Charleston; and how he ended up in Death Valley as a graduate student/baseball player. Jeff Hartsell has the latest news on Fred Jordan's 2012 club, which hosts Georgia Southern this weekend. And 11 Citadel Men are memorialized in this week's "Echo Taps."
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Wed, 18 April 2012
Tennis coach Kemper Baker joins the show to talk about his team, as The Citadel hosts the SoCon men's tennis championships this weekend. The Diamond Dogs are on a four-game win streak, including a dramatic six-run, two-out 9th inning rally over UNCG. And PostandCourier.com's Jeff Hartsell has an update on Bulldogs playing in the Minor League.
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Wed, 11 April 2012
150th Episode. Jim Scott ('69), former Bulldog baseball pitcher and retired Air Force colonel, is the Band of Gold Spotlight. We also learn about his role as the president of the Diamond Dogs Club, which supports Citadel baseball. Speaking of the Dogs, PostandCourier.com's Jeff Hartsell reports on their series loss at Samford, as well as the midweek shellacking at South Carolina.
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Wed, 4 April 2012
Kevin Higgins recaps spring drills, answers an e-mail question about uniform changes, and informs us that his football team will be playing Clemson, East Carolina and Florida State in the next few years. Also, Jeff Hartsell reports on the recent hot streak Fred Jordan's baseball team has enjoyed, including an upset of No. 28 Coastal Carolina.
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Wed, 28 March 2012
No. 10 South Carolina downs The Citadel in baseball play, 7-3. Post and Courier Bulldog beat writer Jeff Hartsell reports on the 9-15 Diamond Dogs, and he has info on a coaching departure on Kevin Higgins' staff. And host Jon Rawl shares info on this year's commencement weekend -- and he has fun remembering the struggle to stay awake in the classrooms of El Cid.
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Wed, 21 March 2012
Spring game recap. The Blue team edges the White, 24-21. PostandCourier.com's Jeff Hartsell reports on the progress of the Dogs' new shotgun formation. Also, the Diamond Dogs are swept at Appalachian State, but blank Charleston Southern in midweek action at The Joe.
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Wed, 14 March 2012
Corps Day 2012 and the Blue-White Spring Football Game take place at The Citadel this weekend. Citadel Football Association president John Carlisle ('64) talks about his group's events this week, including the "Beautiful Bulldog Contest." PostandCourier.com's Jeff Hartsell reports on the injury to all-SoCon defensive lineman Derek Douglas, as well as the departure of defensive coordinator Josh Conklin to the Tennessee Vols.
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Wed, 7 March 2012
Board of Visitors spotlight. We listen-in to the most recent BOV meeting, where we hear committee reports from Ben Legare, Fred Price and Glenn Addison. Will The Citadel finally get a parking garage? In sports news, the basketball team falls in the first round of the SoCon tourney. And Jeff Hartsell files a report on the football team's spring drills.
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Wed, 29 February 2012
SouthernPigskin.com editor Matthew Osborne talks Bulldog spring football. We also listen to Osborne's interview with SoCon Football All-Conference defensive lineman Derek Douglas. And El Cid basketball coach Chuck Driesell previews his team's voyage to this week's SoCon basketball tournament.
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Wed, 22 February 2012
Chance Smith ('07), a former Bulldog baseball player, is killed in a car wreck in Atlanta; and Capt. Ryan Hall ('04) becomes the 16th Citadel alum to die in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. On the sports front, Chuck Driesell shares info on the Dogs dramatic win at Chattanooga. And SouthernPigskin.com's Matthew Osborne went to spring practice and got interviews with coach Kevin Higgins and junior quarterback Ben Dupree.
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Wed, 15 February 2012
Jeff Stevenson ('91) helps preview this weekend's trebuchet competition on The Citadel's parade ground. Now an executive with Google, Stevenson also talks about his days as a Citadel bagpiper and Navy submarine officer in this Band of Gold Spotlight. Plus, Bulldog running back Rickey Anderson gets good news as the Dogs start spring practice. And Fred Jordan's baseball team launches its 2012 campaign.
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Wed, 8 February 2012
Chuck Driesell discusses his struggling basketball team, losers of eight straight SoCon games. We have the Q. & A. portion of Kevin Higgins' Signing Day press conference. And we get a report on the Bulldog rifle teams from co-host and Post and Courier Bulldog beat writer Jeff Hartsell.
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Wed, 1 February 2012
Col. Harvey M. Dick ('53) dies of cancer at the age of 84. We have clips from a 2008 interview with the former assistant commandant of cadets and 12-year Board of Visitors member. Paul Tamburrino ('89) shares his own thoughts on this Citadel legend. We also have a portion of Kevin Higgins' Signing Day press conference, where 29 future Bulldogs are now part of the 2016 class.
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Wed, 25 January 2012
Bestselling author Brad Taylor discusses his new book "All Necessary Force." The former Special Forces officer was the executive officer in the Army ROTC department at The Citadel before retiring in 2010. On the Bulldog beat, Chuck Driesell discusses his team's tough double-overtime loss at Georgia Southern. And Jeff Hartsell has a 2012 football recruiting update.
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Wed, 18 January 2012
Brett Doster ('93) discusses his role in the world of presidential politics, as South Carolinians vote this weekend in the GOP primary. We also hear about his background working with Jeb Bush, the Bush-Cheney campaign, and now Mitt Romney's bid in this Band of Gold Spotlight. Jeff Hartsell shares insight on the Bulldog basketball team's heartbreaking last two-tenths of a second loss to UNCG. And we have an update on 2012 football commits.
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Wed, 11 January 2012
Chuck Driesell talks about his basketball team's win over Samford, and the play of senior guard Cosmo Morabbi. Also, the football team picks up a 2012 commit from North Augusta. And PostandCourier.com's Jeff Hartsell shares info on Kevin Hardy's selection to the East-West Shrine Game, in St. Petersburg, Fla.
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2018 marks DSACT's 19th Buddy Walk! Join us for not just the walk, but also the special appearances and guests we have for this year. Stay tuned for more details!
The Buddy Walk® was developed by the National Down Syndrome Society in 1995 to celebrate Down Syndrome Awareness Month in October and to promote acceptance and inclusion of people with Down syndrome. Since 1995, the Buddy Walk® has become the premier advocacy event for people with Down syndrome in the United States. It is also the world's most widely recognized public awareness program for the Down syndrome community.
In 1995, there were 17 walks. As of 2017, the Buddy Walk® has grown to more than 330,000 participants raising $14.2 million in more than 250 events around the world. All money raised by the Buddy Walk® benefits local programs and services, as well as the national advocacy and public awareness initiatives of NDSS that benefit all individuals with Down syndrome.


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CAPE TOWN - Going organic can come with a high price tag. Just ask Givaudan SA.
The Swiss flavors and fragrance company agreed Monday to buy Naturex for about 1.3 billion euros ($1.6 billion), or 135 euros a share. That's 42 percent above where the supplier of natural plant extracts closed in Paris trading on Friday. The deal values the Avignon, France-based company at 20 to 22 times earnings, according to Vontobel analyst Jean-Philippe Bertschy.
"The move makes strategic sense for sure, as Givaudan is securing a leading position in naturals," Bertschy said. "That move has however a price, which seems very high for that type of transaction."
Chief Executive Officer Gilles Andrier is having to swallow the cost of Naturex to bolster Givaudan's footprint in one of the fastest-growing segments in the personal-care and food industries, as consumers increasingly look to avoid artificial coloring and flavors. Valuations placed on flavor-and-fragrance companies have soared as more chemical companies are drawn to the high-margin market. Givaudan's largest purchase for a decade will bring it extracts from green tea to the recently discovered superfood derived from the leaves of the Moringa tree.
Naturex jumped as much as 43 percent to 135.40 euros in Paris, the biggest gain ever for the company, which has been publicly traded since 1996. Shares of Givaudan were up 2 percent to 2,137 francs as of 12:12 p.m. in Zurich.
German rival Symrise AG in 2014 paid 14 times earnings for natural-flavors company Diana Group. CEO Heinz-Juergen Bertram said March 14 that, although Symrise has the balance sheet to do large acquisitions, the company exited sale processes because multiples had risen as high as 18 times.
Naturex has long been a coveted asset, attracting the interest of both private equity and rivals. A larger deal "was in the air for some time" and Naturex was a perennial name on on Givaudan's short list, Bertschy said in a note. Consumers around the world are increasingly demanding more natural and organic products from food and beverage companies, Givaudan's flavors-division head, Louie D'Amico, said in the statement.
In a first step, the Vernier-based company will acquire 40.6 percent of Naturex's shares at 135 euros each, and then will begin a tender offer for the remaining stock at the same price, Givaudan said in a statement. The companies didn't identify the sellers. Naturex declined to comment and a Givaudan representative wasn't immediately available.
Board members Paul Lippens and Olivier Lippens own about 24 percent and another director, Helene Martel Massignac, holds about 15 percent, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
Naturex's board and management support the transaction, according to Givaudan.


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Time flies!
We're so sorry it's been forever since we've updated everyone! Time truly does fly when you're having fun! ☺ We've been incredibly busy the past six months over here on Melrose as our shop continues to grow, piece by piece. We now have inspiring murals on our walls, beautiful shelving, and more tables for our guests to get some productive work done or catch up with friends.
In addition to the beautiful renovations, we've been working on tailoring our menu so that there's something for everyone. Our menu has expanded to include sandwichesand our signature waffle puffs—which, are now "award winning" waffle puffs after taking third place at LA BrunchCon this month! Our chefs have worked hard to create perfect flavor combinations to stuff inside each waffle puff—from sweet to savory—to satisfy any craving.
The latest "buzz" on our coffee is that we've added a keg fridge, which allows us to provide Melrose with refreshing Kombucha from Kombucha Culture—a wonderful team based out of San Diego. We currently have four flavors on tap! We have also perfected our Nitro Cold Brew recipe so guests can cool off with its chilled velvety, chocolaty smoothness and, of course, satisfy their need for caffeine.
Our guests have also been raving about our unique Cold Brew Soda, which is infused with carbon to create a delicious and refreshing drink. We highly recommend it with vanilla for that old-fashioned soda experience—with a caffeinated kick, of course! For those who are feeling more adventurous, we have lavender and orchid flavors that taste wonderful in it, too!
For our unlucky friends who don't live close enough to the brick and mortar Toasted and Roasted, don't worry! You can now order all our coffees on our website. We have all our in-store coffee bean options—from Brazil to Rwanda—all freshly roasted with love, from us to you.
We'll be posting soon about all the fun events we've been fortunate to take part in the last few months, so stay tuned!
Thanks to all of you, the Toasted and Roasted team has been growing and loving every minute of the last six months. Coast to coast, we've been blessed with so much support. Thank you!
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This is a warning! This blog contains semi-crude potty humor. If you are not an individual that subscribes to such humor, do not read beyond this point!
Ok, for those of you who don't like it but kept reading just to see what this is all about, this is your second warning! There will be no more, seriously.
Hello my fellow potty heads!
So I was standing at a urinal in a public toilet today doing you know what, and this man pulls up next to me and starts doing his thing. He was one of those really focused public toilet goers, which I appreciate, who just looked at the wall and minded his own business, if you know what I mean. He looked like some sort of successful businessman or something; sporting a nice Italian suit, dark tan a little out of season, a nice toupee, and one of those used car salesmen smirks.
I was also standing there, minding my own business, though it does not seem like it by my gratuitous description of the man, and all of the sudden this guy passes a good fifteen second fart; and not just any old fart, he played Reveille with his bums in a way that would have made any soldier proud! I'm talking about a real bugle blowing contest, but he was the one and only contender!
But he did not move. He kept his face like flint and continued on with the task at hand. It was at that moment I wished I wasn't an adult. Because kids can just bust out laughing and it is socially accepted that they are "just kids" and "immature" or whatever. I wanted to laugh soooo bad. I mean SOOOOOO bad! But I couldn't. I just had to stand there and hold it in. And that I did.
I mean, the man did not even respond. He just acted as though Louie Armstrong did not make a guest appearance in his back pocket! He didn't laugh. He didn't chuckle. He didn't even slightly smile. He just stared at the wall. That is what gets me about these situations, and oh yes indeed this was not a first for me! It's ok if it slips! It happens to the best of us! And when it does slip, it's the guys toilet; I am not asking for an apology, or an "excuse me", or anything polite like that!
But what I am asking for is a little bit of acknowledgement that gas was passed, with a smile or a chuckle or boisterous laugh. You can judge your response on how long and loud the fart was, but please, oh please respond! Because if you do not respond, or even acknowledge your bum cheek applause, then it does not give the rest of us the "ok" to laugh, or smile, or even acknowledge how awesome and funny it was!
All I am asking really is this: if you are standing, or sitting, in a public toilet and you rip one, whether on purpose or by accident, just acknowledge it with some sort of humor-based response, so that the rest of us, who were subjected to your musical toot, can also share in the fun and feel free enough to fully enjoy it!


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Winding down(sorta)
Last week was a busy one. First we had the hugely successful second running of the Midsummers Cross Race at Diver Lake Park. An amazing event. Despite the heat and smoke we had a great turn out, lots of volunteers to make set up a breeze leaving plenty of time for racers to pre-ride the course. Also a huge turn out of racers with 113 taking the line and kicking up dust. That number includes the Zoom Zooms and the Half lappers that made sure Norm warmed up for his race
He had to to drop that Megaphone because they were on his wheel.
We also had Rhonda and the girls from Superstore out serving up cold snacks. The lack of a hot barbecue didn't seem to bother anyone. The Icecream sandwich and Orange slice hand ups were definitely a welcome treat to parched and dusty racers.
B race results Here
A race results Here
We followed that up with our Arrowsmith Bikes Hill climb. I'm not gonna lie, after Wednesday night I considered cancelling the hill climb because I thought who wants to race again the next night. Well I was wrong. We had a great turn out with 14 riders tackling the Jameson Road climb.
Hill Climb Results Here
Then to finish off the weekend was the Comox Valley Cycling Clubs Annual Mount Washington Hill Climb. MIVA put in a strong showing with over 25% of the field. The Weather was perfect for the climb today. Overcast and cool with just a sprinkling of rain to help cool you off half way up. The complete results shamelessly stolen from their Facebook Group page at the bottom of this post
With that it's time to start winding down our season just a bit. By that I mean we only have Two events per week until the end of August.
Tomorrow night we will once again be meeting at the Nanaimo Ice Center for our Monday night development ride.
This Thursday will continue our Arrowsmith Bikes Hill Climb Series with the Witchcraft lake Climb. Riders will once again be meeting up at the bottom of Kilpatrick Road next to the mailboxes and heading straight up.
Mount Washington Hill Climb; Hosted by Comox Valley Cycling Club
Name Tme Category Mark Grant 53:51 A Doug Merrick 53:56 A Isaac Rankin 53:57 A Keiran Neilsen 54:15 A Sean Lunny 54:16 A Thomas Kalynuk 55:09 A Brett Whitehead 56:01 A Isaac van der Vliet 56:50 A Nicolas Parlee 57:39 A Nathan Walsh 58:35 A Wade Luksay 59:23 A Emily Johnston 59:24 A Dan Wilson 59:24 A Dave Opko 1:00:40 B Harry Reddin 1:01:12 A Juan Rodriguez 1:01:31 B Chris Pullman 1:01:33 B Jamie Saunders 1:03:14 B Ken Johnston 1:03:31 B Ray Wagner 1:03:45 B Jacob Yells, 1:04:48 A James Manders 1:05:28 B Jim Brown 1:05:36 B Kerry Hale 1:07:25 B Gary Argyle 1:09:00 C Lorrie Baildhar 1:09:08 C Jamie Olsen 1:09:20 C Chris Bowman 1:09:57 B Larissa Pelleterio 1:10:05 B E.J.Duncan 1:13:47 C Tim Everets 1:14:21 B Mort Allingham 1:15:34 B Ramon Ramirez 1:16:12 B Janine Bell 1:16:54 C Jeff Lawrence 1:19:17 B Fetze Elgersma 1:19:33 C Chris Perrault 1:20:55 C Wanda Reddin 1:21:08 C Patrick Burnham 1:23:18 B Evan Luksay 1:27:09 C Brynn Johnston 1:35:03 C Lisa McLeod 1:35:03 C


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Barney is one of the most recognizable dinosaurs, costumed characters and children's show icons there is. When Barney & Friends first aired in 1992, kids went nuts and Barney merchandise flooded stores and homes alike. New episodes of the series have not run since 2009 but PBS stations still continue to show re-runs of Barney […]
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Thanks, a very merry go round.
That LM317 cct is very simple, thanks for the heads-up, I googled LM317 and found lots of similar usage so I think I will order some and have a play, they dont cost much.
But I will try it out on a spare motor first !


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Mock MRCEM Part C Feedback
After what was a rather packed afternoon of 16 mock OSCE bases we have sat down and reviewed the mark sheets. This has revealed some common themes amongst certain stations and some overall pointers for the exam in general.
All of our candidates have received individual feedback on the day, but we would like to share the following for those who couldn't make it or if our candidates would like a reminder.
We divided the stations we ran into broad themes and these will form the headings used in this post:
Practical Procedures
Avoid judgemental statements, especially when asking about drugs/alcohol/sex.
Try to keep an open mind with regards to diagnosis at the start and focus down based on patients answers.
Remember to ask about diabetic control if a patient tells you they have diabetes – this can also apply to other chronic health problems.
Practice, practice, practice... These are guaranteed to come up, so practice on patients, friends and family. You need to be able to do these with your eyes shut. Be aware examinations can come up as a teach me base.
Remember to verbalise what you are doing, explain to the patient and explain to the examiner in one move. However do make sure you are doing what you say you are.
Also consider offering a chaperone for examinations (especially if an intimate exam)
If breaking bad news remember to ask for a nurse to accompany you, and to explain your role in the situation to the career/family.
If having a difficult conversation/referral don't get angry, keep calm, consider sitting down.
ALS, APLS, ATLS are guaranteed to come up in some form during your exam.
Verbalise the algorithms and share your mental mode, this keeps the examiner and your team in step with where you are. It can also help them know where you are going.
Certain things just need to be memorised:
Resus algorithms
Resus drugs and doses
Special circumstances for in my sitting we had a pregnant trauma case.
Practical Procedures
Talk to the patient as you perform the skill (especially if there is an actor as patient).
Washing hands and PPE are easy marks, don't forget to introduce yourself (#hellomynameis).
Again consider offering a chaperone.
Remember the basics – you can't teach everything in 7 mins.
Ask what the student already knows before you start.
Have a structure to follow.
If asked to teach about an abnormal gas/ecg ask where is the patient and are they safe?
Overarching themes
The pie charts before the station are vital, they will tell you where the marks are allocated – if there is a large proportion of leadership for example you will need to be fairly hands off. You will have time to study the pie chart before beginning the base.
Don't be phased by a difficult or challenging base and when it is over move on. You don't need to pass every base to pass the exam.
Final thoughts
As with all exams with appropriate preparation it is possible to pass, this course and others like it are a good tool, but practicing is key. Part C is broadly reflective of real ED scenarios and this makes it passable. Also it has an advantage over a clinical shift as you only have on patient at a time! So go into it knowing you deal with these same things everyday and that you do have the knowledge to pass it!
Good luck to all those sitting the exam...


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