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|2012-12-23, 12:17
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Join Date: Dec 2012
Location: At a Place you won't ever find me.
Age: 27
Searching For New Anime Series!!!
Hy there People, I´m AyzarC and I´m Actually really new to this Forum and I hope you can Help me to find a new anime series to watch.
I´m looking for animes that are set in the near future like Darker than Black, Guilty Crown or Psycho-Pass to name a few i watched recently.
If possible than there should be no Mecha involved as the only mechas i liked so far were from Evangelion (Rebuild of Evangelion to be exactly), Cyborgs are ok as i do not see them as mecha.
Supernatural animes like Fate/Zero (and Stay Night), Ao No Exorcist and Hellsing are welcome to.
The Art-style and Storytelling should be also similar to those mentioned above.
Any suggestions will be appropriated.
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|2012-12-23, 12:45
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Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: Paris, France
Here's the following titles I'm going to recommend :
- Steins;Gate (although the beginning is slow, but gets better a lot later on)
- [C] : The Money of Soul and Possibility Control
- Fate/Zero
- Future Diary
- Zetman
- Jormungand
- Code: Breaker
|2012-12-23, 17:10
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Join Date: Jul 2007
I know you said no mech, I hate mecha myself but Code Geass fits well especially since Guilty Crown is compared to it a lot.
It has interesting story and memorable MC, worth a check.
You mostly want darker stuff, right?
Deadman Wonderland could work.
Fate/Zero are great series.
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within is a movie. Not many people like it though but I think it is good and worth a check especially of you are into futuristic setting.
Mirai Nikki
Phantom: Requiem for the Phantom - it is more based in our world but it reminds of DTB quiet a lot.
Steins;Gate - better in second half.
Tekken: Blood Vengeance - duno if it will be of your liking but you can give it a try. Story is a bit weak though but action scenes are great as well as animation.
Wolf's Rain is set in depressing future.
Something on more light hearted note, you could try Toaru Majutsu no Index.
|2012-12-24, 11:37
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Join Date: Dec 2012
Location: At a Place you won't ever find me.
Age: 27
Just watched Fate/ Zero up to ep.13 going to watch the second season right now, the only thing is that I just do not like the storytelling thus far It´s kinda lame to me (hopefully it gets better), but the fighting scenes are not Bad.
I already saw the Final Fantasy and Tekken Movie, loved the FF movie but not tekken.
|2012-12-24, 13:40
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Join Date: Dec 2012
Location: At a Place you won't ever find me.
Age: 27
As a Gamer myself I still can say that I disliked the Tekken movie because i´m not fixed on the action stuff alone, the story matters to me to.
For example if a game has not the best gameplay mechanics but a good story i would not dislike it (as it was with Uncharted 1 for me), but if its the other way around i would most likely dislike it (for me it was Dragons Dogma).
|2012-12-24, 17:53
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jul 2007
Story is always the most important factor for me in anything, I care about it more than about gameplay.
Fighting games are the only exception since they usually don't have much of a story. It is more about designs and fighting techniques
But I know what you mean. The only reason why I like FF XIII is the story since game play wise it is a disaster.
|2013-01-03, 06:15
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Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Idaho
Age: 27
Again, obligatory Phantom: Requiem for the Phantom plug. Basically the same as DTB, but with guns and assassinations.
Have you tried Ghost in the Shell? It fits within your timeframe and it's a darker and grittier sort of show. It's also one of the animes that most people will recommend everyone watch.
I somewhat loosely recommend Gunslinger Girl. It has near-modern setting, and has a dark story. I say loosely because it's balanced between its dark setting and that it's about younger girls killing people and so when they're not killing people the show isn't as dark. It's also more episodic, and spends most of its time not following a central plot like DTB.
Appleseed is another classic like Ghost in the Shell. Near-future, gritty, etc.
Death Note is a modern setting, but it fits in most other respects. You might demo it to see if you like it.
Again, not my best recommendations but I don't recommend bad shows to people so give them a glancing.
|2013-01-03, 09:13
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Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Hokkaido
Age: 69
I'm going to suggest you broaden your horizons a bit and watch one of the best near-future anime in the past decade, Dennou Coil. The characters are ten, but that doesn't really matter. The story has a dark side, and the visuals and music are impressive throughout.
|2013-01-05, 13:36
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Join Date: Dec 2012
Location: At a Place you won't ever find me.
Age: 27
I have already seen Death Note, but still thank you for that one.
I going to watch Gunslinger Girl but before that i´m going to watch Ghost in the Shell.
My only question to you is in which order should i watch Ghost in the Shell as there are 3 movies in between the 2 seasons?
|2013-01-05, 14:04
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Here are some of the people in the sports world celebrating birthdays on November 6:
Erik Kramer
Age: 48
Profession: Retired NFL Player
Best Known For: A veteran of 13 NFL seasons, Erik Kramer played quarterback for the Atlanta Falcons, Detroit Lions, Chicago Bears and San Diego Chargers from 1987 to 1999. He was the starting quarterback for the Lions in the 1991 NFC Championship Game.
Adam LaRoche
Age: 33
Profession: MLB Player
Best Known For: Adam LaRoche is a first baseman for the Washington Nationals. Since making his major league debut in 2004, LaRoche has played for the Atlanta Braves, Pittsburgh Pirates, Boston Red Sox, Arizona Diamondbacks and Nationals. He won a Gold Glove Award in 2012. LaRoche is the son of former MLB pitcher Dave LaRoche and the brother of MLB third baseman Andy LaRoche.
Lamar Odom
Age: 33
Profession: NBA Player
Best Known For: Lamar Odom is a power forward for the Los Angeles Clippers. Since debuting in the NBA in 1999, Odom has played with the Clippers, Miami Heat, Los Angeles Lakers and Dallas Mavericks. Odom was a member of the Lakers' teams that won the NBA title in 2009 and 2010. He was selected to the NBA All-Rookie Team in 2000 and named the NBA's Sixth Man of the Year in 2011. Odom was a member of the U.S. men's national team that won a bronze medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. Odom married reality TV star Khloé Kardashian in September of 2009.
Ricky Romero
Age: 28
Profession: MLB Player
Best Known For: Ricky Romero is a starting pitcher for the Toronto Blue Jays, with whom he made his major league debut in 2009. Romero was selected as an 2011 American League All-Star.
Ana Ivanović
Age: 25
Profession: Tennis player
Best Known For: Winner of the 2008 French Open, Ana Ivanović is a former world No. -ranked tennis player.
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The Daily Mail generally speaking, doesn't like women very much and they love to pick on certain celebrities.
They are forever bitching about (and giving backhanded comments to) Victoria Beckham, Christine Bleakley, Cheryl Cole (Tweedy?) and Catherine Zeta Jones et al.
Today's Daily Mail bitchy reporting says that something is "up" with Catherine's face:
Oh Catherine, whatever is going on with your face? That photograph taken on Monday as you arrived at the Film Society's Chaplin Award Gala in New York was attention-grabbing for all the wrong reasons.
Dull, lifeless skin with open pores and blemishes, puffy eyes, and a curiously smooth-looking forehead.
Take ONE GOOD LOOK at Catherine's eyes in the photo and tell me they haven't been photoshopped. Badly.
Its actually AWFUL photoshopping, like the stuff I did when I started my Photography Lessons "How to use burn/dodgy tool". Her eyes have been whitened, the patch at the bridge of her nose has also been lightened and they've done something weird to the colour so her eyelids look all red and puffy.
Now, let's take another look at Catherine in another photo, taken at the same event:
Not too shabby, huh?
When the Daily Mail dislike someone, usually because they are beautiful, skinny and rich, they will find any excuse to pull them down.
Note: Whilst we take the mickey out of badly applied make up on Cosmetic Candy (hey, you have a make up artist and a mirror, don't you?!) dissecting someone in such a personal way, tearing about every feature of a person's face is just cruel.
Especially when the photograph that is being used as a reference is questionable, it's just plain nasty and unprofessional. But this is The Daily Fail I guess.
Read the article, if you can stomach it, here.


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Bridgeport, Stratford sign agreement on airport upgrade
8 died in 1994 crash
STRATFORD -- Two decades after eight people died in an airplane crash at Sikorsky Memorial Airport, local, state and federal officials finally agreed Wednesday to create a safety zone at the end of the runway where the Piper twin hit a blast fence.
The $46 million deal, signed by Gov. Dannel P. Malloy, Bridgeport Mayor Bill Finch and Stratford Mayor John Harkins, also signaled a thaw in relation between Bridgeport and Stratford over the airport, which is owned by Bridgeport, but sits entirely in Stratford near the Lordship section.
The agreement will create a 300-foot-long "Engineered Materials Arrestor System," or EMAS, at the end of runway 6-24, reconfigure a southern portion of Stratford's Main Street and will mean that the runway will be rebuilt as well. New runway lights will be installed, too.
"This airport is an asset to the region and to Stratford, and this is a reasonable agreement," Mayor Harkins said. "Main street will be fixed, and its flooding will be reduced dramatically, and the footprint of the airport will be reduced. This agreement makes so much sense."
EMAS is essentially a paved area made of weak-walled concrete blocks. When an aircraft runs over it, it collapses to a specified depth, slowing and stopping the aircraft in a predictable manner and with minimal damage.
Ninety percent of the $46 million project will be paid for by the Federal Aviation Administration, with the state and city of Bridgeport evenly splitting the remaining 10 percent.
"This agreement is partly because of the great working relationship that John and I had passing bipartisan bills when we were both in the Legislature together, and having trust in one another." Finch said.
Harkins agreed, saying said that it's time to move beyond the vitriol that has defined relations between Stratford and Bridgeport owing to airport arguments.
"The dynamic of this airport has changed dramatically and times have changed," Harkins said.
Malloy called the agreement a "win-win-win" for the region.
"This is a common-sense approach to solve a long-standing problem," Malloy said. "It took patience and understanding, and for relatively few dollars, this will be an airport that will have a larger economic impact for Stratford and Bridgeport."
Wednesday's agreement also transfers about 40 acres of airport property to the town of Stratford; most of it either in the Long Beach West parking lot or marshland.
It's expected the project project will be completed in 2016.
"It's a great story -- jobs, improved safety," said Mary Walsh, FAA division manager. "Nobody loses."
Harkins noted the airport no longer features commercial flights, calling it an asset to the region.
"This is an opportunity for the town of Stratford to work with the city of Bridgeport to create a vibrant airport that suits everyone's needs," Harkins said.
Runway 6-24 and its ominous blast fence have been cited as a factor more than a half-dozen accidents over the years, the most tragic of which occurred on the foggy night of April 27, 1994. Eight people died in the fiery crash of a chartered twin-engine Piper that night; the lone survivor was the co-pilot, who was badly burned.
Although that crash was blamed on pilot error, the FAA concluded at the time that had the blast fence not been there, the crash would have been survivable.
Experts today say that had the EMAS system been in place, there quite likely would not have been serious injuries that night.
Another pilot died after an encounter with the blast fence on Oct. 23, 1990. Yet another plane, a Pilatus PC-12 commuter turboprop, struck the fence on July 19, 2009, although no one was hurt in that incident.
At the time of the 1994 crash, EMAS didn't exist. The FAA recommended in the fall of 1999 that runway 6-24 get a 1,000-foot gravel "runway safety area" at each end. This suggestion wasn't well-received in the Stratford Town Council chambers and there was anger aplenty over the runway extension issue.
The other runway, 11-29, isn't affected by this latest agreement. Both runways will remain at the same length they are now -- 4,677 feet for 6-24 and 4,761 feet for 11-29.
With the new configuration, the blast fence will no longer be necessary, as Main Street won't be adjacent to the end of 6-24, officials said.
The agreement covers other territory, too, calling for discussions to make Sikorsky a regional, state-operated facility; requiring the removal of tainted soil from the former Raymark plant and giving Stratford the ability to collect taxes from any new structures at the airport.
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The rising starlet has her own cult in Sound of My Voice. Luckily for our writer, she isn't inclined to use her powers off-screen, as well
Brit Marling plays a cult leader in Sound of My Voice, a movie she co-wrote with director Zal Batmanglij, and although it would surely horrify her if she ever read profiles such as this, it's hard to not to want to follow her around like a duckling after meeting her. As we shake hands, she admires and asks to touch my necklace (a giant piece of quartz crystal, make of that what you will) and bam, I'm a goner.
"I think we're always looking for an excuse to connect," she tells me, "And we can do it over the strangest things—give us an excuse, like, dog parks, and the way that the dogs will get together and just start sniffing each other, and so then we are like, 'Okay, I guess we can have a conversation.' I think we're scared of intimacy—all of us, a little bit."
In March, I'd received a mysterious e-mail. The subject line was, "Have You Met Maggie? Are You A Believer?" The e-mail had a GIF of hands locked in an intricate handshake, and the last few lines read, "The first night is always the most difficult. But, as our other members can attest, an unforgettable experience. And remember. BE THOROUGH WITH THE SOAP."
Even though I'd missed the screening at Sundance, I'd read enough to know it probably had something to do with Sound of My Voice. The e-mail address sort of gave it away, but nevertheless, it's the kind of marketing that hits my sweet spot. Spooky, weird, and, of course, giving the hint of being specially chosen for an event. I replied immediately, and I was not disappointed. The movie was shot in the confines of a basement built in a warehouse, and so it feels claustrophobic, intimate, dizzying. It was everything I'd hoped it to be, and I wanted to watch it again immediately.
We were not blindfolded and taken to a secret location, although that would have been a nice touch. Instead, we were treated to a Skype chat with Marling and Batmanglij after the screening. As we gathered in a conference room, there was a plain white shirt and a bar of soap for each of us, among other talismans from the movie, and when our video chat went through, we'd each put on the white shirts. The woman we'd watched charm and command a group of adults, break them down emotionally, inspire them, and convince them of the impossible from the safety of a basement in SoCal clapped her hands in glee at us. As a group, we were smitten. As the release date of the movie approached, plenty of my colleagues and I interviewed her and Batmanglij, either together or one-on-one, and we all came out glowing.
Of course, Brit Marling's story is catnip to the media. The young woman with a glowy halo of blond hair was an economics major who declined a sweet gig at Goldman Sachs to make movies; finding the available roles lacking, she wrote her own. Her first two movies, Another Earth and Sound of My Voice, premiered the same year at Sundance; the co-writer and star was crowned It Girl of the Year, alongside Elizabeth Olsen. She and Batmanglij collaborated on the upcoming movie The East, about a cell of eco-terrorists starring Alexander Skarsgård, Ellen Page, Julia Ormond, and Patricia Clarkson; she's also in the Richard Gere drama Arbitrage, and has a role in Robert Redford's thriller The Company You Keep, about a former member of the Weather Underground. So, more cults, more malleable identities, more questions about that central conundrum of how we connect.
Marling is mystified when I tell her she has a similarly ineffable quality as Maggie—"That's so crazy to me"—but it's not surprising that she's unaware of it.
"I get uncomfortable when people give me presents and watch me open them," she says, almost ducking her head at the idea. "I don't have birthday parties, because the idea of a group of people singing and looking at me while I'm blowing out candles gives me hives." She adds, "Even after all that time playing Maggie, I still don't know that I got to the center of how or why, but I suspect it has a lot to do with giving people something they need that they can't get anywhere else."
Sure, it could be a long con, and I'm a gullible person, but somehow I doubt that Brit Marling is pretending to be anything other than who she presents herself to be, even to a journalist. It seems like working so hard on so little budget and then receiving the interest and excitement from others makes it hard not to beam that excitement back at us. And then the very nature of the things she writes about indicates an interest in the esoteric, the mystical, things plenty of people are searching for but aren't quite getting in day-to-day life. All things that are hard to admit, but not for her—or when talking to her.
When I ask her about their research and the insidiousness of cults, she says that they didn't infiltrate any themselves. Then again, it seems that being in Los Angeles (or, I'd argue, any major city where people are harried, isolated, and striving for a professional or personal breakthrough) lends itself to exploration.
"You know on some physiological level you can explain what transcendental meditation or certain types of yoga or sitting cross-legged and staring into someone's eyes for 45 minutes, you know, what that is doing? What is that unlocking with you? And is that just a physiological thing, or is there some intangible, extraordinary thing happening at the same time?" she asks.
Occasionally, she turns the tables on me. One of the main characters in Sound of My Voice is a disbeliever out to expose Maggie and her group, but it doesn't go the way he planned. Maggie sees him for who he is and breaks him down like all the rest. "If you're Peter, you are terrified and vulnerable and also, like," and here she gasps, "enticed that somebody is going to see you in all of your brokenness and glory and love you. Scary."
"It's simultaneously what we all desire most and fear, is to be truly seen," I say.
"Totally," she replies. "To be truly seen. I mean, has anyone ever done that for you in your life? Has there ever been somebody who's, like, just got you, you know?" This is the kind of talk you have with a friend at 3 a.m. at a bar. Because, no, not really, not that I can remember, and definitely not in a professional context. I am armed with notes, a pen, and a recorder.
When I point out how intoxicating her own story is, she practically cringes. "I guess also what happens is that things become very simple and reductive. As people are looking to tell narratives, we just do this; even in screenwriting you throw out all the stuff that doesn't fit and you cherry-pick the evidence," she says. "We're always just telling stories, and stories are always just approximations of the truth. It's never the truth exactly."
Sound of My Voice_ is now playing across the country. Interested viewers would be wise to avoid more information about this twisty flick, but you can see the first 12 minutes of the movie and explore Maggie's world at soundofmyvoicemovie.com._


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Cannabis Is Generating So Much Money For Colorado That They May Literally Give Money Back To Residents
Colorado's cannabis liberation was intended to generate tax money to be spent on schools and other state programs, but now a finicky state law may refund excess tax revenue back to the people, causing many politicians and lawmakers to scratch their heads over their next course of action.
The mandate, titled the "Taxpayers' Bill of Rights," was passed in 1992 with the purpose of having taxes appear before voters. It states that the state of Colorado must pay back taxpayers "when the state collects more than what's permitted by a formula based on inflation and population growth."
Over the years, Colorado has issued refunds six times, totaling more than $3.3 billion," High Times reports.
That means Coloradans may each get their own cut of the $50 million in recreational pot taxes collected in the first year of legal weed. Colorado residents have mixed feelings about the refund, however, explaining they felt good about the decision to spend tax revenue on schools and other state programs.
But one medical cannabis buyer told High Times that pot taxes are too high, and that a refund to pot buyers makes the most sense.
"I don't care if they write me a check, or refund it in my taxes, or just give me a free joint next time I come in. The taxes are too high, and they should give it back," he said.
Political parties have been quick to share their stance on the issue, stating there is no good reason to put the money back in people's pockets, and that a vote should be cast to exempt the refund from the bill.
Many republicans feel that marijuana should pay for itself – that general taxes shouldn't pay for things like increased drug education and better training for police officers to identify stoned drivers.
Following the legalization of cannabis in 2012, voters decided to excise a 15 percent tax on pot to go towards schools, with an additional 10 percent to go to lawmakers. But due to a quickly growing economy, Colorado is now obligated to give back about $30.5 million.
As a simpler solution, Colorado's marijuana industry doesn't understand why they won't just lower pot taxes, which wouldn't require a state vote.
When lawmakers meet to talk about pot refunds after taxes are collected this spring, they'll have to figure out if the money would go to all taxpayers, or just those who bought pot. Previous refunds have generally been paid through income tax returns, but Colorado has also reduced motor vehicle fees or even reduced sales taxes on trucks.
Political parties agree, though, that if pot is what the people want, then it most definitely should be taxed properly.
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New Study Links Acetaminophen (Tylenol) To Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity
Another damning study indicates it is simply time to pull the plug on this outdated drug.
The study just published in JAMA Pediatrics once again indicated that women who take acetaminophen during pregnancy are more likely to have a child with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). The researchers also found that prenatal exposure to the medication was associated with a higher risk of having children who exhibit other emotional or behavioral symptoms.
Recent detailed analysis of clinical studies on acetaminophen (Tylenol) have concluded that this popular drug was ineffective for low back pain and provided no significant clinical relief of hip or knee osteoarthritis (OA) pain, while quadrupling the risk for liver damage.
All together, the results from all of these analyses further calls into question whether this drug should still be on the over-the-counter market or at all.
Background Data:
Acetaminophen is the only remaining member of the class of drugs known as "aniline analgesics" that is still on the market, as the rest were discontinued long ago. Acetaminophen only blocks the feelings of pain and reduces fever, it exerts no significant anti-inflammatory or therapeutic action.
It is well-known that acetaminophen is very hard on the liver. About 40% of regular acetaminophen users show signs of liver damage. Acetaminophen reduces the liver's store of the important detoxifying aid and antioxidant glutathione. When acetaminophen is combined with alcoholic drinks or other compounds toxic to the liver including other medications, its negative effects on the liver are multiplied. It should definitely not be used in anyone with impaired liver function and given the stress the liver experiences during pregnancy, it appears unwise to use it while carrying a child for both mother and the developing fetus.
Acetaminophen is often the drug of choice in children to relieve fever. However, use for fever in the first year of life is associated with an increase in the incidence of asthma and other allergic symptoms later in childhood. Asthma appears to be another disease process that is influenced greatly by antioxidant mechanisms. Acetaminophen severely depletes glutathione levels not only in the liver, but presumably other tissues as well, and should definitely not be used in people with asthma.
Each year acetaminophen causes over 100,000 calls to poison control centers; 50,000 emergency room visits, 26,000 hospitalizations, and more than 450 deaths from liver failure. In addition, regular use of acetaminophen is linked to a higher likelihood of Alzheimer's disease, infertility, and hearing loss (especially in men under 50 years of age). Acetaminophen use during pregnancy has also been linked to the development of ADHD confirming animal studies showing acetaminophen use in pregnancy can disrupt normal brain development.
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To more closely assess the associations between maternal prenatal acetaminophen use and behavioral issues in their children, researchers in the United Kingdom collected and analyzed data 7,796 mothers along with their children. The data included acetaminophen use and behavioral assessments of the children were 7 years old. From this data the estimated risk ratios for behavioral problems in children after prenatal exposure to acetaminophen was determined.
The results showed that prenatal acetaminophen use at 18 and 32 weeks of pregnancy was associated with a 42% increased risk of the child having conduct problems and hyperactivity symptoms, while maternal acetaminophen use at 32 weeks was also associated with a 29% increased risk of the child having emotional symptoms and a 46% increase in total behavioral difficulties.
Obviously, the researchers concluded "Children exposed to acetaminophen prenatally are at increased risk of multiple behavioral difficulties, and the associations do not appear to be explained by unmeasured behavioral or social factors linked to acetaminophen use."
The results from this study and others are clear. Stay away from acetaminophen. Most people consider acetaminophen (e.g., Tylenol) as being an extremely safe pain reliever for both children and adults. The reality is that it can be extremely dangerous and causes significant side effects. The FDA has done a poor job alerting the public to the dangers of acetaminophen. In my opinion, it is a drug that serves no real medical purpose in the 21stcentury. Bottom line, it is time to pull it from the market.
As far as alternatives to acetaminophen during pregnancy, I would recommend ginger. Historically, the majority of complaints for which ginger (Zingiber officinale) was used concerned the gastrointestinal system as well as pain and inflammation. Several double-blind studies have shown ginger to yield positive results in a variety of gastrointestinal issues, especially those related to nausea and vomiting including severe morning sickness. In regards to pain and inflammation, dozens of clinical studies have supported this use with positive results in various forms of arthritis, chronic low back pain, muscle pain, and painful menstruation.
Ginger powder, ginger tea or a shot of fresh ginger juice added to any fresh fruit or vegetable juice is certainly a much better option to acetaminophen anytime, but especially during pregnancy.
My overall interpretation of the study is that depletion of glutathione caused by acetaminophen leaves cells, especially brain cells, susceptible to damage. I believe that future studies will not only show more evidence of a link to ADHD, but also autism as well. Glutathione is absolutely critical in protecting cellular function. Any factor that depletes glutathione is obviously going to alter proper development. In addition to acetaminophen, the following factors can deplete glutathione:
- Alcohol
- Pesticides, herbicides
- Acetone, cleaning solvents, paint removers
- Heavy metals (mercury, lead, cadmium, copper, etc.)
- X-rays, UV radiation, and electromagnetic fields (EMF)
To boost your glutathione level it is important to focus on a diet rich in colorful fruits and vegetables. Their rich source of antioxidant phytochemicals and nutrients spare the use of glutathione and help to keep cellular levels high.
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'Targeted Individuals' Activist Getting Stonewalled In Seeking Anti-'Organized Torture' Legislation
In Brief
- The Facts:
Dr. Tomo Shibata, who has asked 9 California legislators to introduce a bill that specifically criminalizes 'Organized Covert Torture,' has uncovered evidence of undue influence from the perpetrators over the legislative process.
- Reflect On:
How can those of us within the awakening community take the efforts of Dr. Shibata and use them to help us all better understand the truth about 'Organized Covert Torture' in a way that we are empowered to put an end to it?
In a previous article, "New California Bill Proposal Aims To Protect 'Targeted Individuals'," I described how Dr. Tomo Shibata proposed a bill to members of the California legislature entitled 'The Organized Torture Act,' which seeks to criminalize many of the types of attacks that are clandestinely made on targeted individuals.
Now, it appears that Dr. Shibata is getting stonewalled by the California lawmakers she has approached to introduce the bill. And it is Dr. Shibata's belief that the very forces she is fighting against, including the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Fusion Center intelligence contractors in coordination with local law-enforcement officials, are influential in dissuading these politicians from introducing the bill.
What Is 'Organized Covert Torture'?
This article by Ramola D explains the genesis of Dr. Shibata's bill proposal and helps us better understand the attacks that 'targeted individuals' are facing:
This proposal was made, Dr. Shibata states, on the basis of complaints to human rights groups from high numbers of residents across California from various cities including San Diego, Berkeley, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Palo Alto, and others, of "organized covert torture" whereby, in lieu of outright abduction, victims are kept under constant control of the covert torture organizations by organized stalking, sustained surreptitious monitoring, cyberstalking, and stealth physical assault and battery with radiation weaponry such as microwave/radar surveillance weapons. Different sources offer varying estimates, running into hundreds of thousands, of the numbers of organized covert torture victims often labeled "Targeted Individuals" within the USA and around the world.
It may be hard for some to believe that this phenomenon is real, let alone affecting hundreds of thousands, and possibly millions of individuals on the planet. But that is why this is such a diabolical process. It is designed to appear to outsiders as though it is not happening at all, while some of the tactics are not fully hidden from the victims themselves, when the desire is to inflict a sense of helplessness and paranoia upon the victim.
What is beyond doubt, for those who have researched into this matter, is that technology does indeed exist to remotely target individual people with invisible weapons that cause physical pain as well as debilitating mental and auditory stimulation (source).
This form of torture and human experimentation has the most power when the general public does not believe in its existence. This is why the awakening community must stand behind victims and give their stories credence, as I outlined in a previous article 'Targeted Individuals Need The Awakening Community To Believe Their Stories.' And this may be one reason why Dr. Shibata is working tirelessly to get this bill proposal introduced in the California legislature, since just the introduction of the bill (let alone the passing of it into law) will bring it into the public domain and give this issue the legitimacy it desperately needs.
The Culprits
However, 'legitimacy' is the last thing that the perpetrators of organized covert torture want. This is why Dr. Shibata believes that these perpetrators are playing a direct role in overtly and covertly discouraging California State legislators from introducing 'The Organized Torture Act.'
In Dr. Shibata's email to me (which is the source of all the quotes from her in this article), she specifically points to local law enforcement in concert with Fusion Centers as the most visible culprits of 'Organized Covert Torture':
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Fusion Center intelligence contractors "empower frontline law enforcement…to understand local implications of national intelligence, thus enabling local officials to better protect their communities." (source)—the Fusion Center's rationale for the organized surveillance and covert torture operations of those who are wrongfully named as criminals and/or terrorists without any due process, as per Former FBI Special Agent Geral Sosbee's testimony.
Dr. Shibata believes that these intelligence contractors could "empower" police groups as a front organization to mind-control the California legislature:
The police have very strong lobbying groups at the California state legislature. The Fusion Center intelligence contractors could help police lobbying groups in becoming so "strong" in influencing the California legislature, by deploying the following technique: covertly manipulate those who exert the most influence on the target-legislators, who might introduce the bill to prohibit organized covert torture, in order to safeguard the excessive privileges of the police/intelligence contractors to torture targeted individuals.
And indeed, her experience dealing with legislators bears this out.
Stonewalled By Legislators
In total, Dr. Shibata has asked 9 California legislators to review the bill proposal and introduce it to the legislature. Any bill that amends the Penal Code is required to go through an 'analysis' by the Public Safety Committee Counsel. This analysis, according to Dr. Shibata, 'exerts considerable influence on the voting outcome of the members of the committee.' The committee majority approval is needed first before the bill is introduced to all members of the legislature for voting. So, although the proposed bill has not yet been introduced, the legislative director of Assembly Member Shirley Weber went ahead and asked the Assembly Public Safety Committee Counsel to issue a provisional analysis of the proposed bill, in order for Dr. Weber to find out the prospects for the proposed bill in the legislature. Dr. Shibata believes that the opinions of this counsel have resulted from the undue influence of police lobby groups that front the intelligence operations behind covert organized torture.
In communication with Dr. Weber's legislative director, Dr. Shibata was made aware that Weber's office received the following advice from Assembly Public Safety Committee Deputy Chief Counsel Sandy Uribe:
1. The acts of organized covert torture and organized stalking, which the proposed bill prohibits, are already proscribed by the current Penal Code. There is no need for an addition law.
2. The incident, where a civilian complained about his inner ears injured by the police's ongoing act of using an ultrasonic weapon at him, shot and killed a rookie female police officer in Davis, CA (20-minute driving distance from Sacramento) on January 10, 2019, would discourage the legislature from voting favorably on the proposed bill. The location of the incident is so close to the California capitol that this incident would considerably influence the voting results of the proposed bill.
Dr. Weber decided not to introduce the proposed bill upon receiving this advice. Yet, Dr. Shibata finds the advice highly questionable, and refuted it as follows:
Assembly Public Safety Committee Counsel Deputy Chief Uribe's above advice prejudicially interprets the proposed bill text and the recent police officer's murder incident in the light that is most protective of the excessive privileges of the police to torture targeted individuals. Please note that the police abuse discretion vested in them and elect not to enforce the existing laws against organized covert torture and organized stalking. The socio-legal context of the proposed legislation parallels that of the anti-domestic violence legislation, because the police abused their discretion vested in them and did not enforce the pre-existing law against battery in domestic relations, prior to the anti-domestic violence legislation. Just as many police officers themselves committed domestic violence at home back then, many police officers commit organized covert torture themselves today, along with the Fusion Center contractors and under the supervision of the FBI, as per Former FBI Special Agent Geral Sosbee's aforementioned testimony.
The anti-domestic violence legislation established the rule of law in domestic relations and drastically reduced the killings of husbands by the battered wives at home. The proposed bill will establish the rule of law surrounding organized covert torture and thus will substantially prevent the killings of the police officers by the civilian victims of organized cover torture by the police, as exemplified by the aforementioned Davis police shooter, who had a violent criminal record. Indeed, L.A. law enforcement officers fire electronic weapons remotely at prison inmates, which the ACLU describes as "tantamount to torture," according to CBS News. Therefore, the recent Davis police officer's lethal shooting incident only casts light on the urgent need for the rule of law surrounding organized covert torture, instead of discouraging the legislature from voting against the proposed bill.
Another legislator Dr. Shibata asked to introduce the bill was Ed Chau, the chair of the Privacy and Consumer Protection Committee, and a former judge and an engineer, who has successfully authored bills against the technological invasion of privacy and is already aware of one of the most sophisticated technologies used against targeted individuals, "synthetic telepathy," which is known to have been researched by the University of California at Irvine and funded by the Army (source). The task of preparing an internal report to Chau on the proposed bill was delegated to Privacy and Consumer Protection Committee Consultant/Attorney Nichole Rapier Rocha. In a phone conversation with Rocha, Dr. Shibata found out that Rocha had received unsolicited advice from Sandy Uribe similar to the advice she gave Dr. Weber's office, which led Dr. Shibata to ask the following question:
Why did super busy Sandy Uribe go out of her way to identify/trace which influential staffer at the legislature was still reviewing the bill proposal for potential recommendation and further to "warn" that influential staffer of the said "problems" of the bill proactively?
While Ed Chau has not yet decided whether to sponsor the bill, the following legislators have already declined: Assembly Member Reginald Jones-Sawyer, Senator Nancy Skinner, Senator Jim Beall, and Senator Chris Holden. Their refusal to take up the challenge, according to Dr. Shibata, is partly "due to their apathetic complicity in leaving thousands of victims, in California alone, continuously and indefinitely exposed to irreversibly maiming torture and slow-kill murder." But she also has seen telling signs of infiltration within legislators' committees and the possible influence of the pharmaceutical industry in discouraging these legislators from introducing the bill.
Aside from Assembly Member Ed Chau, those legislators who have yet to make a decision are Senator Steven Bradford and Senator Holly Mitchell. Whether or not the tremendous effort made by Dr. Tomo Shibata to get this bill introduced to the California legislature will come to fruition rests in their hands. Time is short, as the bill introduction deadline is February 22, 2019. If you would like to show your support for Dr. Shibata, please try to let your opinions be known to these three remaining California legislators or go to Dr. Shibata's GoFundMe Page.
The Takeaway
While her proposal to introduce legislation may not be accepted this time around, the time and effort that Dr. Shibata has put into this enterprise has still afforded us the opportunity to see a little more deeply into the mechanisms of control behind organized covert torture and the complicity between politics, law enforcement and intelligence that is needed to keep it in place. Her work is helping to bring the phenomena more into public awareness, and it is through growing awareness and our commitment to uncover the truth that we will one day end these kinds of operations.
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YouTube Will Stop Recommending Videos Of 9/11 'Conspiracy Theories' To Users
In Brief
- The Facts:
YouTube has decided to change its algorithm for recommending videos by excluding certain videos such as those they feel 'make blatantly false claims about historic events like 9/11.'
- Reflect On:
Can we see through the deception and come to know the truth about mainstream media's efforts to promote a false narrative and create within us a disempowering perception about our world?
Heartwarming, isn't it? Social media giants like YouTube are willing to sacrifice advertising profits in order to ensure that their cherished viewers are deterred from seeing content that YouTube deems dangerous and potentially damaging to their viewers' mental and emotional health. They're doing this even though these viewers have demonstrated that they want to see this content. It's just like having a Big Brother around to help steer us onto the straight and narrow path, isn't it?
Examples the social media giant cited include videos "promoting a phony miracle cure for a serious illness, claiming the earth is flat, or making blatantly false claims about historic events like 9/11."
Now, we can talk about any of these examples cited above for wildly different reasons, but let's stick with the 9/11 theme. While there is no denying that it was a 'historic event,' what is implied by this phrase is that 9/11 has an established, well-proven historical account based on the government's explanation of what happened and supported by the 'official' report cobbled together by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). For YouTube, this report is seen as the authoritative 'last word' on what happened in New York City on September 11th, 2001.
I could spend pages detailing how many 9/11 'conspiracy' videos, like ones done by the Architects and Engineers For 9/11 Truth, are much more coherent, objective and evidence-based than the NIST report or mainstream media coverage on the subject. But no need, as this is fairly self-evident for anyone who has done a modicum of research into the subject.
What is important to note here is to read the phrase 'making blatantly false claims' as really meaning 'making claims that deviate from the official, controlled mainstream narrative.' In this regard, the takeover of social media companies by the global elite, as with the prior consolidation of traditional media companies, has been done mainly to try to continue to have a stronghold on how human beings interpret past events, in a way that advances their agenda.
Understanding 'Recommended' Videos
Now, to be specific, YouTube is not simply deleting videos they don't want on their platform (well, they've done that too, but that's another story). They are changing the process by which YouTube 'recommends' videos to users based on that viewer's preferences.
'Recommended' videos are those videos that YouTube makes available to the viewer alongside whatever video they are watching, using artificial intelligence to come up with a selection most likely to tempt viewers to continue watching after they are done with the video they are engaged with.
Guillaume Chaslot, a former Google engineer that helped build the artificial intelligence (AI) used to curate recommended videos, said the goal of YouTube's AI was to keep users on the site as long as possible in order to promote more advertisements. What's the 'problem' with this, according to YouTube? This algorithm encouraged some people with a penchant for 'Conspiracy Theory' (to use the famed psy-op label coined by the CIA) to go down a dangerous rabbit hole of misinformation, delusion and potential violence.
Andrew Mendrala, supervising attorney of Georgetown Law's Civil Rights Clinic warns that the previous YouTube algorithm is "an echo chamber. It's a feedback loop. It creates an insular community that is continually fed misinformation that reinforces their prejudices."
Chaslot agrees with this sentiment, saying that when a user was enticed by multiple conspiracy videos, the AI not only became biased by the content the hyper-engaged users were watching, it also kept track of the content that those users were engaging with in an attempt to reproduce that pattern with other users. In a thread of tweets he recently posted, Chaslot praised the change that actually prevents flagged videos from being included within the recommended selection. His comment about this change should give us pause:
"It's only the beginning of a more humane technology. Technology that empowers all of us, instead of deceiving the most vulnerable."
Humane? Censorship and controlling information have been couched in many terms recently, but to call this change 'humane' feels like the height of hypocrisy. It truly strains credulity to imagine that a corporation like YouTube actually cares about the 'most vulnerable' people in society.
Mainstream Rationalization
Let's call this most recent change in policy by a social media giant what it is: a small step in a subtle, ongoing effort to control the minds of people and reinforce mainstream perceptions rather than letting people sift through a variety of opinions and think for themselves.
There is little the public can do about the policy change itself because YouTube is a private company with legal rights to decide what is broadcast on their platform. But it is the rationalization that we hear in the mainstream for justifying this change that is hard to endure. YouTube claims that the change "strikes a balance between maintaining a platform for free speech and living up to our responsibility to users." Here's how a Guardian article frames the mainstream narrative on this particular subject:
YouTube, Facebook and other social media platforms have faced growing scrutiny in recent years for their role in hosting and amplifying political propaganda and abusive content that spark real-world consequences and can lead to violence.
In 2016, the conspiracy theory that became known as "Pizzagate" – a popular rightwing fake news story alleging that the Comet Ping Pong restaurant was linked to a child sex ring involving the Hillary Clinton campaign – motivated a gunman to fire a weapon inside the restaurant.
It's amazing how often this one stooge firing a weapon inside Comet Ping Pong–quite possibly a staged event–is pulled out in mainstream media to try to discredit any investigations into Pizzagate. This technique is used often to bring fear and ridicule upon people following alternative narratives in an attempt to sway the public back to the mainstream perception.
Mainstream Projection
Then the mainstream parades out people like Mendrala, who will make claims that providing viewers more of what they are interested in creates an 'echo chamber' and a 'feedback loop.' In reality, these comments are pure projection, as this is what mainstream media has been and is desperately trying to continue to be: an untouchable, self-perpetuating Ministry of Truth. As George Orwell wrote in his novel 1984:
"Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past."
Accordingly, we see how the mainstream media has been working in alliance with the social media giants to 'control the present' by incrementally removing certain content from view as we move forward, a slow and patient high-tech form of 'book burning.' In controlling the present, they then control the past–i.e. they get to say what events in the past mean, creating a controlled interpretation of the past that then informs us about who we are and what life is about. This then allows them to control the future, which enables the gradual acceleration of the program to enslave humanity.
The Takeaway
Our ability to see through the mainstream deception is going to be our greatest asset in averting the agenda of global elite enslavement. While they do have the power and the wealth, we have the numbers, and we have the truth on our side. If together we truly aspire to awaken to know the truth, it will set us free.
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This letter, published in the Hampshire Gazette, is a response to a letter signed by Thomas Grover that was published on December 27, 1786. The author quite obviously is on the side of the government. K. N. views Grover and his friends as insurgents, and makes a play on words saying that instead of "defense," Grover actually meant "defiance." William Butler began publication of the Hampshire Gazette on September 6, 1786, in Northampton, Massachusetts, 18 days after the Regulators prevented the Court of Common Pleas from convening there. The newspaper often urged support of the government and was generally against the activities of the Regulators. The paper came out on Wednesdays and consisted primarily of articles reprinted from other newspapers.
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Despite continued high unemployment numbers, companies are hiring. Surprisingly, they are finding it difficult to find just the right people for positions that they need to fill. Recruiters, often called "headhunters," who took a huge hit when the economy tanked in 2008, are reporting that they are now busier than they have been in several years.
Working with a recruiter can be a great benefit in your job hunt, but only if you understand their role in the hiring process. It's time to clear the air and bust some of the myths. In my latest article in USNews & World Report I debunk 5 of the most prevalent myths about recruiters. Here's the link: http://money.usnews.com/money/blogs/outside-voices-careers/2012/09/25/5-myths-about-working-with-recruiters
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Summit Focuses on Entrepreneurismby Howard W. Hewitt • February 12, 2011 Share:
Wabash students and alums gathered Saturday to explore the close connection between an entrepreneurial spirit and the liberal arts. The Schroeder Career Center sponsored its first Entrepreneurial Summit.
The panel discussions featured CEOs who lead large and small companies and Wabash men who've started with little and built successful businesses. See photos from the summit here.
Mike McCarty '90 left Wabash and entered law enforcement. He is now owner and CEO of Safe Hiring Solutions, a company that checks the background of potential new employees for more than 1,500 clients.
"I'm back on campus frequently but this is the first time I've been engaged with something that wasn't athletics," the Danville, IN., resident said. "I've been talking to students thinking this would have been so valuable for me as a student. I knew I didn't really want to go to law school but I thought that was the direction I was going to head. I really didn't know what I wanted to do but I had this entrepreneurial spirit. Things like this seminar today would have been just phenomenal."
The panels included nine different presenters, eight were Wabash graduates.
"This was our first shot at creating some sort of an entrepreneurial push at Wabash," Director of Career Services Scott Crawford said. "We have a lot of alums who we know are entrepreneurs. We have a lot of students who are entrepreneurial. With the way the job market and the economy is going it pushes people to be a little more entrepreneurial. These students are not going to work for the same organization for 40 years like their parents did."
The turnout was great for a Saturday seminar with Hays 104 packed from morning until midafternoon. Crawford was particularly pleased with having 55 students registered and a big number of alums in attendance who were not on the program.
"It was sort of a quick and dirty overview in a way," Crawford said. "This kind of lays the ground work and we're going to take it from there. There is a lot of interest from the students. I think in some ways it dove tails with the Business Leaders Program.
"The liberal arts is entrepreneurial in some ways; it creates that whole 'looking at the big picture' of how can I solve this problem. I think this is where we connect that to the school and create some more intentional entrepreneurial experiences for students and alums."
Senior Joe Johnson enjoyed hearing the entrepreneur's individual stories. "For someone like me, who has an entrepreneurial focus or wanting to be an entrepreneur, I learned there are many different avenues you can take to get there. It was like learning the basics of how you plan your business, make well-educated decisions, and a lot of things we've learned before but there were a lot of new things today too."
The senior said hearing the successful alums talk about the appropriate time to buy or sell a business, the appropriate time to get into a new business, what's hot and what's not, was overall beneficial. "I think we need more of these because there are so many ideas out there," Johnson said. "Sessions like this can be very motivational to use the tools we've learned about today."
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First of all, big thanks to my favorite beverage law blog – BevLog – for bringing this to my attention. It appears that the often fearless Daniel Shelton, of famed beverage importer Shelton Brothers, has decided that the "queen mother of dirty words" (thanks Ralph) no longer meets the definition of "obscene or indecent." Because if that "F – – -" word was, the TTB certainly would not approve of it.
Thanks to Danish brewer To Ol and Shelton Brothers, we are getting a sneak peak at the TTB's new line of thinking. I am virtually certain that the TTB didn't simply miss that word in its review – because the same word appears in 4 different submissions for the same brewery.
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The man who was bullied by Fox News host Sean Hannity - triggering the spat between Hannity and Russell Brand - has had the last laugh thanks to the actor and comedian.
Yousef Munayyer, a Palestinian American lawyer and analyst, was asked by Hannity why he could not get it through his "thick skull" that Hamas is a terrorist organisation and, presumably by extension, the carnage and deaths of more than 1,700 Palestinians was justified.
Brand intervened on his YouTube channel to criticise Hannity's aggressive style, prompting a response from the host and another video by Brand.
Hannity set out to disprove allegations he was a mindless bully by calling Brand a "D List actor" and saying he was "best known for his failed marriage to Katy Perry".
But Munayyer noticed something funny - the number of people who've watched the first of Brand's video on the subject alone is higher than those who watched the Fox News segment where Hannity bullied him - a fact he decided to share with his followers.
Ratings for @seanhannity the night I was on? 1.9 million
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The video is Brand's most viewed ever, which he attributed to Hannity, whom he called "my boyfriend", and his "comrades" at Fox News.
This is the most viewed trews http://t.co/PXt6MZpYSp and it's all due to my boyfriend @seanhannity and comrades @FoxNews— Russell Brand (@rustyrockets) July 31, 2014
@rustyrockets aka Mr. Katy Perry, heard you don't like my interview style. Well, I got some professional advice for you. Tune in at 10p ET— Sean Hannity (@seanhannity) July 31, 2014
In his latest video which has had more than 600,000 views, Brand made an emotional appeal for Hannity to "return to humanity," after the Fox News anchor said Israel has shown "too much restraint" over the Gaza conflict.
Hannity and Fox news, Brand said, have trivialised one of the "worst conflicts on the planet", while Hannity's "vitriol and propaganda" is only exacerbating the crisis.
"To them it is just a game, to them it is just entertainment, that's what I find most difficult," Brand said.
Speaking directly to the camera, Brand gently addresses Hannity directly saying: "Sean, you are a human being, come back to humanity. You've lost yourself mate."
"Tonight when you go home, look in the mirror for a little while, take a deep breath, remember how you were as a child, remember how you feel about the people you love… try and speak from a perspective of love not from vengeance and hatred."


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Advia Credit Union, a billion-dollar cooperative formed by a merger effective Jan. 1, plans to expand its field of membership to include the entire state of Michigan and counties in Wisconsin and Illinois.
The 21-branch institution is based in Parchment, Mich., hometown of First Community Federal Credit Union, the surviving $700 million credit union that announced plans last summer to merge the $280 million E & A Credit Union in Port Huron, Mich.
The headquarters will remain in Parchment, a suburb of Kalamazoo, Mich., in south-central Michigan.
Advia has more than 100,000 members and serves a field of membership with more than 10 million residents, the credit union said. The name change was effective Thursday.
"The advantages of membership with Advia Credit Union will focus on community, trust, innovation and convenience," said Advia President/CEO Cheryl DeBoer, "in other words – giving, investing, volunteering, educating, advancing, improving, and dedicating ourselves to the financial wellbeing of our members."
DeBoer had been president/CEO of First Community. In the release announcing its new name on Friday, Advia said it plans to expand its membership to anyone who lives and work in Michigan.
In Wisconsin, membership will be available to anyone living or working in Rock, Green and Walworth counties, while membership is available in Illinois to those who live or work in Winnebago County, the credit union said.
Then-$474 million First Community assumed the assets and liabilities of First American Credit Union of Beloit, Wis., when that $137 million credit union was liquidated in 2010. Operations at First American locations continued under that credit union's name after its liquidation. Those locations will now carry the Advia name and branding.
In an FAQ section on its website, Advia said, "Our new name of Advia Credit Union was selected by our Board of Directors as a reflection of the value we provide our members: The ability to experience advantages via innovative financial solutions. In developing our new name, we worked to introduce one that identifies with our commitment to providing extraordinary service, as well as able to be trademarked as unique to us moving forward as we continue to grow into new communities."


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Alright, here we go. This is the proposed route to Knoxvegas:
Be ready to roll out of my place at 11 AM, full of fuel.
We will stop for lunch at approx noon:
Big D's BBQ
6566 Highway 53 E
Dawsonville, GA 30534
(706) 216-6706
They assured me they would be ready. Park in the back.
If anybody wants to meet us here, let me know in advance. Pull out of here at around 1-1:30pm.
This route involves more turns, please bring walkie talkies if you have them.
Remember, you are responsible for the person BEHIND you en route. If you do not see them and the group makes a turn, you must wait until the person behind you sees the turn. I have different locations for group catch up so don't worry.
I'll stop in strategic locations for fuel.
Atlanta Dragon Train Driver List:
1. The Captain-driver
2. Vafalla-driver/Luni-passenger
3. Metdeath-driver/Pearljammzz-passenger
4. Daniel (andy's brother)
5. Tim (renegadexxx)
6. Sergio(our friend)
7. JC (our friend)
8. Ryan(vip09)/Courtney
9. Justin(justinsw20)
10. Ben (bugs)/Melissa
11. Andy(10889)
12. Jesse(the sage)/ Sommer
14. Chris(cbarett251)/Sarah=pax
15. pearljamz
Passengers or attendees without cars:
1. Babybear
2. Luni
This is to gauge the amount of cars and to see who's riding solo. We will have out of towners needing rides.


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When deciding how to best approach the stock market, individual investors may need to figure out what their time horizon is going to be. Short-term traders may only be looking to hold stocks for a short period in order to capitalize on fluctuations. Longer-term investors may be looking at more of a buy and hold strategy, and they may not be very concerned with the day to day shifts of a stock's price. Accumulating as much knowledge as possible about specific stocks and the markets in general can help the investor prepare for success. Because there is no magic strategy that can be employed to guarantee profits, investors may need to evaluate multiple methods before choosing which one to pursue.
Technical analysts will note that the Awesome Oscillator reading is presently -0.1987353 for AMN Healthcare Services, Inc. (ASX:AMN). This oscillator may fluctuate above and below a zero line and can be used to create a wide variety of trading signals.
Traders have the ability to use many different indicators when studying stocks. The Ichimoku Cloud is a highly popular indicator that helps display support and resistance. Looking at some Ichimoku levels, we note that the Ichimoku Cloud Base Line level is 63.365. The Ichimoku Could Conversion Line reading is 62.915. From another angle, the Ichimoku Lead 1 is presently 61.645, and the Lead 2 level is 58.5375.
Scanning the levels on shares of AMN Healthcare Services, Inc. (ASX:AMN), investors might be seeing how close the current price is in relation to some historical high and low prices. Looking out over the previous 3 months, we note that the high/low is 65.805/52.12. Over the past 1 month, the high/low is 65.805/60.47. Looking back over the last full-year, the high price is 68.2, and the low price sits at 47.05. For the last six months, the high was seen at 65.805, and the low was noted at
Investors are often searching through all the numbers to help decide which stocks to purchase. Taking a closer look at shares of AMN Healthcare Services, Inc. (ASX:AMN), we see that the stock's latest close price was 63.52. Tracking historical price information can help investors see the bigger picture when looking at a stock. Since the beginning of the year, shares have seen a change of 12.089658. Over the last full year, shares have moved 19.267605. Bringing the focus in, the stock has changed 8.304912 over the past three months, 3.8423805 over the last month, and -0.11009751 over the last week. Traders will be closely watching to see what happens to the stock price over the next couple of sessions.
Traders have the ability to use many different indicators when studying stocks. The Ichimoku Cloud is a highly popular indicator that helps display support and resistance. Looking at some Ichimoku levels, we note that the Ichimoku Cloud Base Line level is 63.365. The Ichimoku Could Conversion Line reading is 62.915. From another angle, the Ichimoku Lead 1 is presently 61.645, and the Lead 2 level is 58.5375.
Traders often use pivot point analysis to calculate proper support and resistance levels. Pivot points can be used as markers for traders to identify entry and exit positions. We can now take a look at some one month pivot points:
Fibonacci: 63.06
Fibonacci support 1: 61.2646
Fibonacci support 2: 60.1554
Woodie: 62.935
Woodie support 1: 60.19
Woodie resistance 1: 64.89
Camarilla: 63.06
Classic: 63.06
Classic resistance 1: 65.14
Classic support 1: 60.44
Looking at the stock's volatility, we note that the current reading is 3.590068. High volatility may show how the stock's value can possibly be spread out over a larger range of values. Lower volatility points to the fact that a stock tends to be steadier. Weekly stock volatility clocks in at 3.2550454 while volatility for the month comes in at 2.3949075. The current Bull Bear Power reading for the stock is 0.23654574.
The Donchian Channels indicator can be used to figure out if a market is overbought or oversold. A price breakthrough of either the upper or lower band may signal these conditions. The current reading for the 20 day lower band is 60.98. The current reading for the 20 day upper band is 65.75.
When looking back historically at the stock market, it is easy to see that there are always extended periods of upturns and downturns. The speed at which the market can shift can cause even the most experienced investors stomachs to turn. When times are good and markets are rising, it can be easy to forget that a downturn may be just around the corner. Being prepared for sudden changes can help the investor plan for the unknown as best they can. Getting caught off guard can be extremely disconcerting and lead to irrational decision making. There is rarely any substitute for extensive study and focused dedication. Investors who put in the extra time to create a backup plan may be better able to traverse the road when the market environment inevitably shifts..
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This is so exciting I just had to share it...
ESPN.com featured my Etsy shop in their 2012 Uni Watch gift guide!!!
What, the what!?!?!?
I was already experiencing some major Etsy love due to holiday shopping, but this is going to take it to a whole different level. I am so pumped!
And the timing could not be better. I'm doing my first public holiday/craft show this Saturday and now I can put "As seen on ESPN.com" signs on my stuff!
Here is the link to see all the awesome sports/uniform related products they featured. There sure are some really creative sports loving people out there!
And as always, check out my shop for all these great items:


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This week's Photo Friday entry: 'Candid Shot'
This weeks theme is candid shot and I was thinking of putting in a photo of a fish yawning. It was however pointed out to me that the word candid only applied to people, so disbeliever that I am I looked it up on the oxford online dictionaries and darned if it isnt true! It makes mention specially as
"(of a photograph of a person) taken informally, especially without the subject's knowledge"
So here we are, transported back to 2008 when I first got my DSLR, location: Venice, event: Masked Ball for Carnevale di Venezia. Bear in mind four things when looking at these photos, one, I was a newbie, two, I should probably reprocess them in a newer version of LR, three, there wasn't much light and finally, four, I'm better at taking pictures of fish 😉 I hope you enjoy reliving this experience with me anyway. Below is a photo of me in my get-up (taken by Mike), the rest of the photos are all candid shots I took through an evening of opera & dinner – all done incognito:
To see more images from this ball, the gallery is here. It's great fun if you ever get a change to go.
If you do want to see my underwater photos from various places then check out the galleries in my Reef Beasties Gallery. Or my best from 2012 here.
See all the other photo Friday entries (and submit your own) for 'Candid Shot' here.
PS: I'm currently selling the my nikon gear. Click here for more details & the full list of equipment for sale or email me at firstname.lastname@example.com. Thanks for supporting my work!


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Cup4Cup Gluten-Free Flour
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- Summary
Cup4Cup flour makes it easy to prepare 100% gluten-free versions of your favorite home-baked treats. In any recipe, simply use in place of all-purpose flour in a one-to-one ration to make cookies, muffins, scones, cakes and more with the moist texture and delicate crumb you want, and none of the gluten you don't. Award-winning chef and pastry expert Thomas Keller developed the flour for us, creating a custom blend that produces delicious, gluten-free results every time.
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- Cornstarch, white rice flour, brown rice flour, milk powder, tapioca flour, potato starch, xanthan gum.
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Rated 5 out of 5 by allie from Best Gluten Free Flour EVER! Thank you, Chef Keller for creating this wonderful flour! Every year from Thanksgiving to Christmas I am especially grateful baking family recipes for all to enjoy. The taste and texture is perfect (normal).Everything I've baked has been successful. You have made my life easier, better and more delicious!Date published: 2018-11-24Rated 5 out of 5 by Glutenfreemom from Best Flour Hands Down!!! I love this flour I can bake all my Christmas Cookies that I have been doing for years and they taste almost the same my family could not tell the difference. I just use my recipes and add the same amount of flour. I will never buy another flour again. This is a MUST for anyone that has to eat Gluten Free!!!Date published: 2017-01-04Rated 5 out of 5 by Christina12345 from Best GF Flour EVER I recommend this flour to everyone that has to eat/bake gluten free. It is wonderful- you can't even taste the difference! I can now create wonderful gluten free meals for my guests and also have some for myself!Date published: 2016-12-04Rated 5 out of 5 by BAKINGINPACOIMA from THE BEST!! I have tried some many different products. Cup 4 cup is not only the best,but I am able to use all my favorites recipes without any changes to them at all. Thank you Cup4CupDate published: 2016-11-02Rated 5 out of 5 by RaisetheBarre from This flour is Gluten Freedom! For so long my kids and I wereconfined to so little options regarding baked deliciousness and the options we did have often resembled the consistency of a hockey puck or what I imagine sawdust would taste like :) With this flour we make all kinds of fun in the kitchen - the cookie recipe on the back is just like Gram's old fashioned cookies! (Thank you CUP4CUP!) *All of the other cup4cup mixes are amazing too - especially the brownies and chocolate chocolate chip bread! <3Date published: 2016-10-11Rated 5 out of 5 by Sarah0608 from Beats my sons taste test, two thumbs up! Being GF is a way of life for us now. Everything is trial and error and while the flour is expensive, my son said he cannot tell the difference between GF flour and regular flour. When you're trying to please your kids picky taste buds, sometimes is worth the extra price.Date published: 2016-05-29Rated 5 out of 5 by Cingridh from Best gluten free flour! I have tried many gluten free flours including some I made from scratch, but I found this to be the best.Date published: 2016-01-12Rated 1 out of 5 by cyuen025 from Terrible for cakes, Way overpriced This flour mix was extremely disappointing. I purchased this mainly for baking cakes and since the name implies it can be substituted 1:1 in non gluten free recipes, I tried this out with a basic vanilla cake. Result? Didn't work out as planned. The cake rose like crazy in the oven but after taking it out, it sunk back down and the texture was all hard and gummy. I suspect there is FAR too much xanthan gum in this blend for it to be suitable in cake recipes. I was hoping for a cake that would be fluffy and moist and well, resemble a cake, but this product did not quite deliver. Perhaps this flour works wonderfully for other types of baking, things which don't need a fluffy moist texture.. but I would recommend creating your own flour mix or purchasing some other blend if you want to bake cakes.Date published: 2015-08-21
Is the Cup4cup flour lactose free?Hi George Retired, This flour is not lactose-free. The ingredients are: cornstarch, white rice flour, brown rice flour, milk powder, tapioca flour, potato starch, xanthan gum. (*powdered milk contains lactose)Date published: 2018-12-26
Is this flour (Cup4Cup Gluten-Free Flour) safe for a person with food allergies (anaphylactic) to peanuts and tree nuts?Hi TahoeLu, Cup4Cup processes in a facility free of tree nuts, peanuts, and soy.Date published: 2018-12-05


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Whether and when to mediate employment disputes
Too often the work of in-house counsel resembles the triage department of a hospital emergency room: Attend to the most immediate crisis and hope the routine complaints quiet themselves with the passage of time. Whether and when to mediate an employment dispute depends on similar prioritizing.
What complaint(s) warrant escalation and which will resolve on their own? The following questions help prioritize complaints: Does the complaint implicate a policy applicable to others, or is it individual to the complainant? Will the complaint remain inside the company, or is an administrative complaint or lawsuit likely? Does the subject matter concern a priority for the company, or is it a peripheral matter? What risks does the company face by not resolving the dispute? Companies can use various techniques to resolve complaints internally.
A manager with the proper authority can sort things out; a skilled and trusted HR representative (or ombudsperson) can listen and negotiate a solution; in-house counsel may investigate and present a proposed solution to management. Cases involving allegations of highly sensitive conduct (sexual assault, for example) warrant special attention.
Companies often turn to outside counsel or a neutral investigator to conduct a thorough investigation that prevents the chance or the appearance that politics, friendships or other irrelevant factors influenced the outcome. If internal procedures fail, information gathered during the internal resolution process can still be used to evaluate the costs and benefits of resolving the complaint. First, in-house counsel must understand what the complainant and management each think is an appropriate solution.Complaints that implicate important company policies or that pose a potential for costly litigation need to be resolved. Second, in-house counsel or, if appropriate, outside counsel, should feel comfortable to invite the complainant and/or their counsel to discuss a resolution of the complaint.
If, however, the proposed solution(s), the personalities involved or the policies implicated make it impossible to directly negotiate a resolution, in-house counsel should consider whether mediation is warranted. Mandatory mediation clauses in employment contracts make it easy to initiate a discussion with the complainant about resolution early in the process. (Collective bargaining agreement (CBA) grievance procedures typically include pre-arbitration step(s) for negotiating grievance settlements. Some CBAs also include a formal mediation step.)
In the absence of such a clause, companies often volunteer to participate in confidential mediation with a neutral mediator. The company's offer to mediate early (often at the company's expense) not only encourages the complainant to fully disclose the information that prompted the complaint, but also gives both the complainant and the company an opportunity to address a problem before litigation expenses overshadow the cost of other solutions. Complaints sometimes are supported by beliefs or hunches rather than admissible evidence.
If the dispute is significant and counsel concludes it is impossible to evaluate the relative risks without some discovery, the parties can agree to limited pre-mediation discovery, designed to zero in on the issues that frame the dispute and the critical evidence. Mediation, which can be scheduled at the end of limited discovery, can focus the parties' on settlement rather than on more expansive (and expensive) discovery. Settlement terms often need to be "sold" internally. Including key managers in the mediation process not only educates managers in techniques for avoiding future disputes, but also helps them understand why the cost of settling is less than the risk and cost of litigating. When a dispute poses a risk of litigation or significant business disruption in-house counsel should consider proposing mediation.
Early mediation, designed to control the cost and disruption of significant complaints, is a tool to keep the business focused on success in the marketplace rather than in the courtroom.


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BOULDER -- Longmont resident Jim August on Tuesday renewed his call for Boulder County's commissioners to get rid of what he now calls a "piece of junk" -- a mail ballot sorting and signature scanning machine the county bought for $220,000 last year.
August, who made a similar appeal to the Board of County Commissioners last month, expressed dissatisfaction with an emailed answer from the commissioners late Monday afternoon, in which they wrote that Boulder County Clerk and Recorder Hillary Hall "has indicated to us that the equipment served its intended function during the (2012 general) election, allowing election staff to efficiently process mail ballot envelopes as they were delivered."
Boulder County residents brought up several issues Tuesday during the Boulder County commissioners' monthly opportunity for people to comment on any county government issue, including:
Boulder County funding of Boulder Valley Women's Health Center: Robert Pries of Longmont was one of several residents who called on the commissioners to cease the county's funding contribution to the Boulder Valley Women's Health Center and its teen clinics.
"I think we will all agree that there is no good in youth experimenting with sex as young as 12," Pries said.
Said Pries: "The government should not interfere in personal and family issues" by giving young teens birth control drugs and "sex aids" without their parents' consent.
During Boulder County budget hearing last November, Pries and several others unsuccessfully urged the commissioners not to proceed with a $207,000 grant to the health center that later was included in the 2013 budget the commissioners adopted.
Fracking: Niwot resident Dick Piland presented commissioners copies of "FrackNation," a feature documentary about the process of hydraulic fracturing to free up natural gas deposits.
Piland, who said he's pro-fracking, suggested "FrackNation" would address some of the misinformation and "fear mongering" he said is promoted in the anti-fracking film "Gasland."
Piland said fracking is "good for the economy" in that natural gas exploration using the process creates jobs, provides extra cash for surface-owning farmers, produces a fuel that's cleaner than coal and "gives the nation the opportunity to be energy independent."
"Even so, Clerk Hall believes it is important to verify and review the functioning of equipment," the commissioners wrote August." They said Hall is "undertaking a review of the functioning of this system and will be issuing the findings of that review later this spring.
"Therefore, it is not appropriate for us to engage in any additional inquiry at this time," the commissioners said, adding that they'll be "reviewing all the relevant information once Clerk Hall has concluded her review."
August, a Republican Party election watcher in the county clerk's ballot processing facility last fall, has cited what he's said were numerous software malfunctions and other major problems in the Bell and Howell ballot-envelope sorting and signature-scanning machine.
On Tuesday, he referred the commissioners to clips from the clerk's own security camera videos that he said illustrated those problems as they were happening on Oct. 26.
August's call for an investigation was supported by two other people attending Tuesday's meeting: Mary Eberle, who served as an American Constitution Party member on the board that reviewed Boulder County's 2012 general election results, and Stephen Osborn, a Boulder resident who talked about the importance of the integrity of the election system and asked the commissioners to take August's concerns seriously.
August indicated afterward that he'll be showing up at the commissioners' monthly opportunity for the public to comment on any county government issue until his questions about the mail-ballot envelope sorting and signature scanning equipment are answered and his concerns are addressed by the commissioners.
John Fryar can be reached at 303-684-5211 or email@example.com.


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When I go to a theater or shopping mall, I move my wallet from from back pocket to my front pocket. This is to avoid fights.
If my wallet is in my back pocket, someone might try to steal it. Pick pockets often work in pairs, so there may well be more than one of them. If I am lucky enough to confront the thief or thieves, they might try to fight or might even be armed. To defend myself, I might have to use dangerous techniques. I could be injured. I could injure one of them or a bystander. Who knows?
So to avoid all this, I move my wallet to my front pocket where it is much more difficult to steal.
Of course, you never know what could happen. But if moving my wallet reduces the risk of theft and a possible fight, then it is wise to do so. And it is such an easy thing.
Karate is about not fighting. Self defense is not fighting. The attacker is fighting. The defender is only defending.
Karate techniques should be used as a last resort and only to the extent necessary. Prevention is the best technique.
Charles C. Goodin
Wallet In Front Pocket
When I go to a theater or shopping mall, I move my wallet from from back pocket to my front pocket. This is to avoid fights.
Posted by Charles C. Goodin on Saturday, September 15, 2007