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NBA Playoffs – West First Round Prediction & Preview
The NBA West will produce one team standing in the end, but what a battle it will be to whittle things down.
All eight teams are good, some excellent, but perhaps no great team in the bunch. The reason may be they have punched the hell out of each other during the regular NBA season, and the playoffs will be more of the same, but jack up the intensity several notches and there you are.
Easily the best matchup of the first round is the San Antonio Spurs versus the Phoenix Suns. Shaquille O' Neal has been traded for this express reason, to produce against the likes of Tim Duncan. These teams do not like one another, and it seems like Duncan and Shaq have stood in each other's way going on a decade for the right to be called the best. I had the Spurs upending the Suns in 6 in the West Finals before the season started, so let's stay with Spurs in 6, just at an earlier date. The Spurs and Suns will use one another out. Watch the effect on the winner as the playoffs progress.
The New Orleans Hornets let the #1 seed slip away late, and they get the Dallas Mavericks in the opening round. It is ironic that the Mavericks come in this season as the low seed, not much being expected. Last year, it was the Mavericks as the #1 seed that got pasted and wasted by the Golden State Warriors, an embarrassing loss for Dallas. I like Chris Paul a lot, but I smell an upset here. Dirk Nowitzki is one of the best when healthy, and he has been playing in MVP form the past associate of weeks. Dallas has the experience, and they have something to prove to themselves and the NBA. Go with Dallas in 6 to upset the up and coming Hornets. New Orleans having to earn their bones, and learning to win at this level.
The Utah Jazz and Houston Rockets are both really good teams, but just not at the elite level that it will take to win the NBA West. This is a rematch in addition from a year ago, when the Jazz defeated the Rockets in 7 games, including a game 7 win on the road. I think the Rockets had a great season, especially the way they played without Yao Ming at the end. It ends here, with the Utah Jazz pecking away and taking the Rockets out in 5.
The Los Angeles Lakers maneuvered by injuries and drama to capture the #1-seed in the West, no easy feat. They get the Denver Nuggets, a terrific assembly of talented players, but something is missing when the sum is tallied. Allen Iverson and Carmelo Anthony can score with anyone, but they can't cover anybody either. Lakers have too much team, and too much Kobe Bryant. Go with the Lakers in 5.
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One of the fine dining restaurants at the Montage Hotel has a new chef at the helm. Not Studio, where Craig Strong continues to lead the kitchen, but The Loft—Michael Campbell is now chef de cuisine. Campbell replaces Casey Overton, who's moving into different responsibilities at the resort. Campbell is already familiar to Orange County diners, having served as opening chef of Costa Mesa's Pueblo, where he applied his Barcelona tapas experience. He's also a veteran of Michael Mina's RN74 in San Francisco, after beginning his career in the Pacific Northwest. "This restaurant is known for its creativity," says Campbell, "and I look forward to working with the team to further enrich the welcoming culture and incredible dining experience it provides."
Overton's work at The Loft made him a favorite of the Orange County foodnoscenti, who'll be happy to know he remains on the scene. He's now executive sous chef for the Montage, working with executive chef Rob Wilson overseeing day-to-day culinary and beverage operations. Overton joined the Montage in 2005, working as a cook at Studio before becoming the Loft's chef de cuisine. "I'm really happy about my new role," Overton says, "and am excited to add my influence to the whole of the hotel."

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For this month's next review for Genre Grandeur – Found Footage Movies, here's a review of Cybernatural (Unfriended) (2011) by Kim of Tranquil Dreams
Thanks again to Tim of FilmFunkel for choosing this month's genre.
Next month's Genre has been chosen by Natasha of Life of This City Girl We will be reviewing our favorite Sci-Fi Movies.
Please get me your submissions by the 25th of January by sending them to email@example.com Try to think out of the box! Great choice Natasha!
Let's see what Kim thought of this movie:
Cybernatural (Unfriended) (2014)
Found Footage films are quite new to me. I haven't seen the iconic ones like The Blair Witch Project for example. I always picture amateur filming and a painful movie experience full of nauseating sentiments. It didn't help that I started this genre off when I saw Area 407, which is a ridiculously bad horror found footage and you definitely should not go check out. However, what did peak my interest was two years ago for Fantasia Film Festival 2014 when I unexpectedly chose two new-age modernized Found Footage genres which impressed me quite a bit. While one of them is great and probably has a much better script and movie experience, I really enjoyed the second one. It could be the premiere hype because in wide release, many people didn't like it. That movie was called Cybernatural when I saw it which was then now more commonly known as Unfriended.
Cybernatural (aka Unfriended) (2014)
Director: Levan Gabriadze
Cast: Heather Sossaman, Shelley Hennig, Courtney Halverson, Moses Storm, Will Peltz, Matthew Bohrer, Jacob Wysocki, Renee Olstead
A year after a humiliating video was posted of their friend Laura Barn which caused her commit suicide, six friends get together for a online meeting. Except someone using the account of Laura forcefully joins the chat. They try to get rid of them but the mysterious person coerces them into playing a game that turns out to be more deadly and it starts making them wonder if its something supernatural and evil that is happening.
Cybernatural (which I think is a much better name) is not a perfect movie but it has a lot to say about the world we live in. In a world full of technology, our lives are monitored easily through the many technologies that we have. In this movie, we live through Blaire's computer screen during the whole situation. Sure, they are all teenage characters with their high school problems and their feuds and all that stuff. Except these characters are believable and they exist. Most of us at one point or another chatted on Skype and the thought that someone can hack into your computer or someone else's account and stalk you is a legitimately scary thought. Its with this concept that I enjoyed Cybernatural. My expectation is that if I rewatched it on my computer, it would enhance the experience even more. On a big screen, it was pretty convincing as its like peeking into someone's personal space, which is pretty much the modern-day PC that we own. Blaire is like a normal girl with her relationships and friends and her wandering multitasking habits. And we're sitting right behind her as she does this.
Thats what the new age found footage is about though. Its being oblivious and ignorant to the technology we are engaged in. Its about how effective cyberbullying is even without us actually knowing it. Youtube, Facebook and all those social media networks are dangerous because they are just words and you aren't even engaging in face to face contact and yet it could be a factor. On top of that, the unknown is the person on the other side. That stranger that hacks into your life and disturbs you and there is the helplessness and threat that occurs.
Cybernatural is just through one computer but it also is effective in revealing the true dangers of social media and the unknown world hidden behind a computer screen. Sure, it hints at a possible supernatural being haunting the teens with a few scenes (and maybe you might even believe it), or you might find these teens completely annoying and the things they talk about stupid or even that they deserved their outcome, but fact is, the message rings clear on the dangers. This is just the normal concept of found footage but its being able to observe many places at the same time, and really step into many places just sitting in one spot. It brings out the point that even thought you are connected with others, how much do you know and actually, there are still many distances despite the accessibility of all this technology.
Its that raw and new concept of found footage and the effective message that Cybernatural sends out that makes me really enjoy this movie.


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(Update 9 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 26) — Common Council unanimously approved Myrick's appointment. He will be sworn in at 11 a.m. Friday, Sept. 27.)
ITHACA, N.Y. — Mayor Svante Myrick has appointed Dennis Nayor as Ithaca's next chief of police.
Nayor has served as acting chief since Pete Tyler's retirement in May. He joined the Ithaca Police Department as a deputy chief about a year ago after working for more than 20 years as a police officer for the City of Oneonta. He was police chief in Oneonta for about five years.
"The Police Chief Search Committee, which included former Police Chief John Barber, has done an excellent and thorough job, vetting and interviewing both internal and external candidates. They narrowed the field to two extraordinarily qualified candidates and it's my pleasure to nominate one of them – Acting Chief Dennis Nayor – to be our next permanent Chief of Police. AC Nayor has proven his enthusiasm, commitment, and professionalism are peerless and I have the utmost confidence in him," Myrick said in a news release Monday.
Following the news Monday, Nayor said of the appointment, "It's a huge honor. I think this is a great city, a great community and a great department. To have the privilege to lead the IPD to the next level is something I take very seriously."
He said there are many challenges facing the law enforcement profession as a whole, but said he looks forward to collaborating with the community and other departments to "find ways to make Ithaca as safe as possible and build a department that could be a model for policing nationally."
In recent months, community tensions have been high after the arrest of two young black Ithacans on the Ithaca Commons — in one case charges were dropped while another is going through Tompkins County Court. Nayor has said in a statement previously that officers had acted in accordance with department policies and the law. Asked about the case, Nayor said, broadly speaking, he is looking forward to working with all segments of the community "to find ways to bridge relationships and find ways to have a better understanding of each other. I'm always going to be open to dialogue and finding ways to respectfully see the challenges we all face."
According to a news release in 2016 when Nayor announced his retirement in Oneonta, under Nayor's leadership, the department received New York State accreditation, meeting 133 standards for best practices in policing, when fewer than 8 percent of police departments of comparable size in New York had received the accreditation. Nayor became a patrol officer in 1995, and served as DARE officer, sergeant, interim detective sergeant and lieutenant before being promoted to chief in 2012, according to an article in The Daily Star in Oneonta.
"I am proud of the fact that I have the ability to leads this department and be a part of a department of officers that does really care about the job and the services they provided. (It's) what motivates me to helping us ascend to the next level," Nayor said.
Nayor's appointment will need to be approved by Common Council, but if approved, will become effective Oct. 2.
Featured image: From left, Svante Myrick, Dennis Nayor, Lt. John Joly, and Deputy Chief Vincent Monticello.


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Dad's Sacrifice For Daughter
This is an emotional one. When Shannon Larrison's daughter Katelyn decided she was going to go over seas to serve our country she was a mess. But, than her father did something that Shannon says made her very "happy and sad" at the same time.
Father Tim Larrison, who came home over a year ago from serving decided that if his daughter was going to serve, he was going back with her. "He thought this would be a great way to keep me out of trouble," she joked to the crowd at the ribbon-cutting ceremony last February.
"My head and my heart don't match," Shannon told WJRT-TV last year. "I'm happy that he's going to be with our daughter, because to me she's just a little girl. But at the same time, I don't want them to go. I'm happy and sad."
When Katelyn,19, first heard the news of her dad going she was shaking and in tears. "I think it's comforting for her that I'll be there and she'll have someone to go to," Msg. Larrison said. "The pair served in the same unit, though in different capacities: She's in communications, while he's with the military police".
This is one of only a couple times in history that a father-daughter duo has served our country together. But, the best part was their welcome home and their entire Michigan hometown coming to welcome them at the airport.
"Oh man, a lot of people, it was very exciting, it's nice to be welcomed home. Just seeing the support and the flags, it was bigger than I imagined ", said Katelyn.


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The big scoop: Dream custard cream
Have ready 10 custard cream biscuits. Place 600ml whipping cream, 250g condensed milk and 1 tsp vanilla bean paste in a large mixing bowl and whisk together using an electric whisk until the mixture forms soft, fluffy peaks (this can takes some minutes – be sure to use a roomy bowl to catch any spatters). Cut the biscuits into 1.5cm dice and fold them in. Transfer to a container, seal and freeze for at least half a day. If freezing overnight, remove from the fridge 20-30 minutes ahead of serving to allow it to soften, and serve sliced or scooped dusted with cocoa. You can also make a strawberry version by whizzing 300g strawberries to a purée and folding into the whipped creamy mixture, as above, with the biscuits.


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Procedía Engineering 97 (2014) 902 - 908
Procedía Engineering
12th GLOBAL CONGRESS ON MANUFACTURING AND MANAGEMENT, GCMM 2014
Experimental Investigation for Welding Aspects of Stainless Steel 310 for the Process of TIG Welding
V.Anand Raoa , Dr.R.Deivanathanb**
aM. Tech student, SMBS, VIT University, Chennai-600127, India bAssociate Professor, SMBS, VIT University, Chennai-600127, India
This work aims at the analysis and optimization of joining similar grades of stainless steel by TIG welding. The parameters like current, filler materials, welding speed are the variables in the study. The mechanical properties and micro structure of 310 austenitic stainless steel welds are investigated, by using stainless steel filler material of different grades. Higher tensile strength was achieved with a current 120A and 309L filler rod and also the weld has fewer defects.
© 2014TheAuthors.PublishedbyElsevier Ltd. Thisisan open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/).
Selection and peer-review under responsibility of the Organizing Committee of GCMM 2014 Keywords.-tensile strength, bend strength, ultrasonic testing;
1. Introduction
Stainless steel or corrosion resisting steels are a family of iron base alloys having excellent resistance to corrosion. Because of high corrosion resistance, stainless steel sheets are progressively used for kitchen, transportation, building constructions, etc. Austenitic steels are one of the best choices, as they combine good mechanical properties and corrosion performance[10]. As they have low carbon percentage, intergranular corrosion can be prevented. Stainless steel sheets are the preferred material of use in many areas like automotive exhaust systems, steel pipes, chemical industrial equipments, etc.
310SS is selected for fabrication works mainly because the material contains low carbon and good weldability factor and also because it has high temperature service factor with good ductility. It resists oxidation in continuous
* Corresponding author. Tel:+919677108743, +919789092344; fax: 044 3993 2555. E-mail address:anandraov. mech@gmail. com, deivanathan. r@vit. ac.in
1877-7058 © 2014 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/).
Selection and peer-review under responsibility of the Organizing Committee of GCMM 2014 doi: 10.1016/j.proeng.2014.12.365
service at temperature up to 1150OC, provided the reducing sulphur gases are not present. It is also used for intermittent service at temperatures up to 1040°C. Further, 310SS grade is resistant to sulphidation and carburization.
Until the end of the 19th century, forge welding was the only welding process the blacksmith had used years together, to join iron and steel by heating and hammering. Arc welding, oxy fuel welding and electric resistance welding processes followed soon after. Due to technology advance, several modern techniques were developed by welding engineers, such as semi automatic and automatic processes, gas metal arc welding, submerged arc welding, and electro slag welding. Among them one of the best welding technique is gas tungsten arc welding[ 11], commonly referred as TIG welding.
Gas Tungsten Arc Welding (GTAW) is a process in which an electric arc is produced and maintained between non consumable tungsten electrode (DCEN) and the part to be welded. The inert gas which passes from GTAW torch acts as a shield from atmospheric contamination for the heat affected zone, molten metal and tungsten electrode. Generally Argon and Helium are the preferred inert gases in TIG welding as they do not react with metals being joined. The shielding gas serves as a blanket to the weld and excludes the active properties in the surrounding air[1,5]. MIG welding of austenitic steels was attempted with proportion of H-Ar as the gas shielding[10].
The weld quality is dependent on the right choice of key welding parameters like the welding current, filler material, welding speed[7,11]. An attempt to increase the mechanical properties by initially annealing can be significant when the welding parameters i.e. groove design, filler angle etc. are considered[3]. Based on the literature survey, many researchers have worked on welding of 310 stainless steels, but were conservative in choosing the same 310SS as the filler material. Now in this work, different filler materials viz., 309L, 347 and 316L are tested to investigate the better filler material for welding 310SS and to determine the best mechanical properties in severe conditions.Austenitic stainless steels are particularly prone to the hot cracking phenomenon. It has been determined however, that hot cracking may be reduced in austenitic stainless steel weldments by using filler materials that contain a small percentage of retained ferrite [4].
2. Experimental procedure
310 austenitic steel with a chemical composition presented in Table1 was used to conduct the test. Specimen of 50 x 50 x 3 mm dimension, were prepared and welded in butt joint configuration with single groove of 45OC groove angle. The root gap was kept at 1mm uniformly for all specimens.
Table 1.Chemical compositions of base metals and filler materials
Elements(%wt) Base metal(310SS) 316L(filler) 347(filler) 309L(filler)
Cr 24-26 0.25 16-18 2-3 17-19 24 0.15
Ni N 18.96 10-14 0.1 0.1 9-13 13.0
Si 1.58 0.75 0.5
Al 0.68
Welding was performed in single pass by the manual gas tungsten arc welding procedure with direct current electrode negative (DCEN), using Argon gas shielding. For this study, a total of 9 specimens were prepared. Each one of the three different stainless steel filler rods, namely 316L, 347 and 309L were used to weld three pairs of SS310 plates respectively. The welding current was the other parameter varied for each experiment thus giving a range of heat input for welding.
The weld quality was assessed using ultrasonic flaw detector (across the thickness of the specimen) as well as through micro structure study using optical microscope [8,9]. For microscopic observation, the specimen was carefully cut into 10mm width, polished and then etched with picric acid. Further, in order to determine the
mechanical properties of the welded plates, all the specimens were subjected to tensile strength test and three point bend test[6].The specimen was further cut into 10mm width for tensile testing and the remaining 30mm width of specimen was used for the bend test. A 310SS welded specimen is shown in Fig. 1(a) and the tensile test specimen is prepared as shown in Fig.1(b).
Fig 1. (a)Alignment of specimens in welding; (b) specimen for tensile test.
Heat input at the weld zone is calculated by the formula, Q= (V*I*60)/(S*1000), where Q is the heat input (KJ/mm), Vis the applied voltage(V), I is the current(Ampere) and S is the welding speed (mm/min).
Speed of welding, S, varies with the change in root gap; for 1.0mm root gap, the welding time is 50sec. Thus, as per the experimental conditions for specimen A, Q = (19*80*60)/(50*1000) = 1.824 KJ/mm. The heat input and welding parameters values are given in Table 2 for all the 9 specimens named A through I.
Table 2. Experimental data regarding the TIG welding process
Specimens Current,/ Electrodes root-gap Heat
(amperes) (mm) input (J/mm)
3. Results and discussions
3.1. Tensile test
The welding process was analyzed using the test pieces with respect to parameters incurred in Table 2. The tensile strength of the specimen was determined by UTM (Universal Testing Machine) as shown in Fig.2 and the corresponding stress-strain graph for 'specimen I' is given in Fig.3. The tensile strength of specimen A through H are tabulated in Table 3.
Ductility of the material can also be determined by the tensile test. It can be seen that, the tensile strength of specimen welded with 316L filler rod is low compared to that welded with 347 or 309L. Further, 309L yielded the best joint in terms of tensile strength. Strength of weld is proportionately increasing with the welding current while using 316L and 347 filler rods. Whereas the said effect is absent in case of 309L filler rod (having Cr content same as base metal) which gives better fusion of weldment.
Figure 2. Specimen under a Tensile Test
Table 3. Tensile strength and bending strength of different specimens
Specimen Tensile Bending Strength(MPa) strength(MPa)
Figure 5. Bend test graph for specimen I
3.2. Bend test
Bending strength of the material can be determined by using 3 point bend test. The specimens are made into U shape by the bend test as shown in Fig.4. The results were analyzed and tabulated in the Table 3. The bend test graph corresponding to 'specimen I' is shown in Fig.5. Specimen welded with 316L and 309L produced joints of good quality with bending strength over 370 MPa, whereas the filler material 347SS is seen to give lower bending strength and are associated with surface cracking.
3.3. Micro structural study
Table 4. Micro structure of three regions of the SS310 weldment at 200X
Specimen Weld zone Base metal Heat affected zone
Dendritic structure Light structure Dark structure
(austenite) (austenite/ferrite)
After the welding operation was performed on the specimen, the micro structural study was made in order to understand the effect of welding heat across the specimen. The equipment used is optical microscope with a magnification is 200X. The three main zones of microstructure of specimens C, F, I are presented in Table 4, i.e. the structure of heat affected zone, weld zone and base metal respectively. Dark microstructure could be due to the presence of delta ferrite in the material after high temperature welding. According to Schaeffler diagram 5-15% ferrite has been forecast for the given compositions.
3.4. Ultrasonic testing of defects
This test was conducted to determine the welding defects more accurately and to know whether any other flaw exists in the welded specimens[2]. The ultrasonic test was performed using the Ultrasonic Flaw Detector. The ultrasonic test results showed defects of penetration, even though delta ferrite in 309L could dissolve Sulphur which causes the penetration defects. From the images shown in Table 6, the specimens G& H are observed to have fewer defects when compared to other specimens.
4. Conclusions
Experiments were carried out with accuracy in order to keep the error minimum and determine the results appropriately. The results are prone to deviations due to some uncontrolled conditions, but are not taken into consideration during this work.
• Welding current 120A and electrode 309L has produced greater tensile strength of 454.6MPa while a welding current 80A and electrode 316L has produced minimum tensile strength of 51.79MPa for the specimen studied.
• In bend test the welding current with 120A and electrode 316L has produced maximum bending strength of 646.55MPa while the same welding current with electrode 347 has produced minimum bending strength of 211.37MPa for the specimen studied.
• The filler material 309L has produced better tensile and bending strength.
• The ultrasonic test results showed defects of penetration, but in general results indicate that the defect does not create much impact.
• Microstructure images show that 309L has prominent second phase formation because of varying chromium percentage retarded transformation and uncontrolled heat input.
5. References
[1] Sajjad Gholami Shii, Mohsen Nazarzadeh, Mahmood Sharifitabar and Mehdi Shafiee Afarani, Gas tungsten arc welding of CP-copper to 304 stainless steel using different filler materials, Trans. Nonferrous Met. Soc. China 22 (2012) 2937-2942.
[2] B. Ramesh Kumar, Weld quality analysis of TIG, laser and electron beam welded SS 304 and 316 materials with NDT techniques, Proceedings of the National Seminar & Exhibition on Non-Destructive Evaluation NDE, Chennai, 2011, pp346-349.
[3] M.T.Z.Butt, M.S. Ahmad and M.Azhar, Characterization for GTAW AISI 316 to AISI 316 & SA 516 grade 70 steels with welded & pre-welded annealing conditions, Journal of Quality and Technology Management, 8(2) (2012) 119-133.
[4] Kondapalli Siva Prasada, Chalamasetti Srinivasa Rao, and Damera Nageswara, An investigation on weld quality characteristics of pulsed current micro plasma arc welded austenitic stainless steels, International Journal of Engineering, Science and Technology 4(2) (2012) 159168.
[5] Balaji Chandrakantha, S.V.Abinesh Kumar, S.Ashwin Kumar and R.Sathish, Optimization and non-destructive test analysis of SS316L weldments using GTAW, Material Research,17(1) (2014) 190-195.
[6] C.Balaji, S.V.Abinesh Kumar, S.Ashwin Kumar and R.Satish, Evaluation of mechanical properties of SS 316L weldments using tungsten inert gas welding, International Journal of Engineering Science and Technology 4(5) (2012) 2053-2056.
[7] Ravinder Singh, Vanraj, Kant Suman and Suri N.M, Perameter optimization for tensile strength of spot weld for 316L stainless steel, International Journal of Scientific & Engineering Research 4(7) (2013) 2443-2446.
[8] H.Shah Hosseini, M.Shamanian, and A.Kermanpur, Characterization of microstructures and mechanical properties of Inconel 617/310 stainless steel dissimilar welds, Material Characterization 62 (2011) 425-431
[9] H.T.Zhang and JQ Song, Microstructure evolution of aluminium/magnesium lap joints welded using MIG process with zinc foil as an interlayer, Materials Letters 65 (2011) 3292-3294.
[10] Behcet Gulenca, Kaya Develib, Nizamettin Kahramanc and Ahmet Durgutlua, Experimental study of the effect of hydrogen in argon as a shielding gas in MIG welding of austenitic stainless steel, International Journal of Hydrogen Energy 30 (2005) 1475-1481.
[11] Akash.B.Patel and Satyam.P.Patel, The Effect of Activating Flux in Tig Welding, International Journal of Computational Engineering Research 4(1) (2014) 65-70.


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Bad Kissing Could Make You Loose a Girl
If you are a bad kisser, what a woman will never, ever say to you she was going to have s*x with you until just that moment. This is one of the ways in which men and women differ. If a man is very attracted to a woman but discovers she's a bad kisser and if he is presented with the opportunity, he'll probably have s*x with her anyway. A woman can't get past a bad kiss. After all, if he hasn't mastered kissing and fails to see its sensual possibilities, what hope is there for anything else?
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Why Some People are Quiet All the Time
There are times where you will meet people who are just inherently quiet all the time. They are the types of people where you have no idea what they have in mind. I am an example of a person that is also quiet. I know how those people feel and why they aren't talking. Thus, this article would answer why some people are quiet all the time.
In general, some people are quiet all the time because they see no reason to talk. There are just people who value the words coming out of their mouth thus, they only talk when necessary. For others, it can be that the person is shy or not confident enough to speak for themselves.
Although there are many reasons why people are generally quiet, those are the most common reasons. As you can see, there is no one size fits all reason. Being quiet can also be caused by something good such as they value their words, or bad such as the lack of confidence.
Here, we would expand this topic in greater detail. Let's begin.
Why you're quiet all the time
What causes a person to be so quiet is usually because they see no reason to talk. These people are generally the people who prefer listening rather than speaking. For others, it can be caused by past mistakes causing them to completely do their best to talk less.
One reason why some people are just quiet all the time is simply that they find no reason to talk at all. These are the people that prefer listening rather than talking.
I belong to this category. I know that being quiet is a powerful tool to show dominance and it just helps me get into conversation easier.
In my other article, I talked about how to stop being so quiet. One of the things I talked about is that we need to learn how to listen if we want to be better at communicating.
The reason is that we can only respond well to conversations if we know what the topic is all about. Thus, we need to be immersed first before responding.
This is what most people fail to realize. They always think about what to respond but actually, what you would respond would come naturally if they just listen.
For more tips on how to stop being so quiet, feel free to check out my article. Here is the link: How to Stop Being so Quiet.
So here's my point.
Sometimes, a person just sees no reason to talk. If a person is comfortable with being quiet, he or she would just be silent which is not at all bad.
These are the people who prefer to listen instead because they know that it will be better to listen to what others are saying instead of continuously talking.
As you've noticed, I said that "If a person is comfortable to be quiet."
The reason is that a person being quiet also depends on their personality.
There are just some people who feel that being quiet is awkward which is in their personality. That is actually the majority of people. Most would just feel uncomfortable with silence.
Thus, they prefer to add more into the conversation by speaking.
But there are also people like us who are comfortable with silence. Most of us are what people call introverts and we think of socializing differently from others.
We don't mind silence and we are usually not a fan of small talks which people usually do to prevent this awkward silence.
But as I said, it is in their personality and neither is right or wrong. This depends on the person's preference whether they want to be quiet or not.
I actually have an article that got viral on Reddit where I talked about how introverts socialize. You can find there how introverts are different from extroverts. It is a good read if you're interested: How do Introverts Socialize
However, those are not all the reasons why a person may get quiet all the time.
Sometimes, there are just people who are not confident enough to speak.
The lack of confidence is one of the most noticeable reasons why a person is always quiet. There are a lot of reasons why this can happen.
A common reason why there are people who lack confidence in themselves is just that they made some mistakes in the past which caused some sort of trauma.
For example, a kid that's active in recitation got scolded by their teacher, or classmates making fun of them can cause them to lose their confidence.
This kind of trauma can cause someone to lose confidence and be quiet every time.
Generally, it is wise to learn social skills and confidence. This is because there are just people who still don't know how to build their social skills.
I was one of them. So, I made a guide for you to check out if you're interested in learning social skills and build confidence. In that article, I gave 25 tips for you to check out. Here is the link: How to build social skills and confidence
It might also be that the person is just shy. Which is neither a good nor a bad thing.
A person can also be shy. That's why they aren't talking. This usually happens when it is your first time meeting each other or it may be just in their personality.
Is being quiet all the time bad?
Being quiet all the time is not inherently bad. The reason is that there are just people who prefer listening and being immersed in a conversation. However, there are also people who are quiet because they can't speak up for themselves which can be bad on certain occasions.
Being an introvert, I know the current stigma we face that a lot of people are telling us that being quiet is bad and we should be more extroverted.
Here's the thing.
Being an introvert or an extrovert is a matter of personality and both have different pros and cons.
What we need to understand is that being quiet all the time is not bad. There are just people who value their words.
It is a general rule that the rare it is, the more valuable it can get.
It's the same for words. The more you speak, the lesser its value. That's what I learned from the people I look up to.
Thus, being quiet is not inherently bad. There is nothing wrong with it except if the cause of you being quiet is your lack of confidence.
I have made an article discussing this in greater detail as I've explained silence being good or bad. I think it is a good article to read if you're really interested in the various pros and cons of being silent. Here is the link: Is silence good or bad?
If the source of you being quiet is that you lack confidence, make sure to differentiate it from being shy.
Being shy is normal especially if it's your first time meeting a person.
However, being too shy is different. If that's the case, maybe you need to do something about it.
Other than that, there is nothing wrong with being quiet. There are lots of people who talk less but are successful.
There are also people who listen a lot and are considered to be good at socializing.
In terms of a career where communication is important, one of the key essentials on those jobs is that you should know how to listen.
This makes being quiet not at all bad even on careers or jobs that require communication.
As a saying goes in sales, "You have two ears and one mouth." Thus, you have to listen twice as more as speaking.
As you can see, it is important to also stay quiet in conversations. That's why excellent communicators are also great listeners such as Sigmund Freud.
If you're interested in the advantages of introverts and being quiet, you may check out my video on YouTube.
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Here, I will be listing my favorite books in different categories.
- For Beginners – 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey – Personal development has a lot of concepts and ideas to learn. Thus it can be really hard for beginners to know where to start. Thus, I recommend this book since all the basic concepts of personal development are here(except finance, check what I recommended for that)
- Productivity – The One Thing by Gary Keller – This book teaches us the power of focusing on one thing which is the ultimate source of productivity. The concepts taught are what I am using to constantly publish YouTube videos while maintaining this website.
- Busy? – Make Time by Jack Knapp – This book teaches us how to make time for the things we love. The concept is really simple but I think that makes it a book worth reading.
- Health – Lifespan by Dr.Sinclair – This Book teaches about the latest scientific research on lifespan. In his book, he has shared numerous things he is doing to slow down his aging process. This can be as easy as eating less which he recommends.
- Finance – The Richest Man in Babylon by George Clason – Perhaps one of the first books I've read about Finance, this book for me is the best if we are talking about learning basic finance such as basic saving and investing. The concepts are very simple but effective.
Take this advice as a grain of salt.
I don't recommend buying Audiobooks one by one. I mean, audiobooks can be quickly finished by listening while working out or doing some mindless tasks.
So here is to save you some money. Just go for a monthly subscription to Audible. I believe that you will save a lot of money with that plus, they usually give freebies to anyone starting.
My Audiobook Recommendation will always be the same as my book recommendations, but I personally like The 5 Second Rule by Mel Robbins. I like how she is so casual while reading her book.


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At the Yalta conference, the heads of state of the Soviet Union, the United States and Britain successfully reached an agreement on enforcing the unconditional surrender of fascist Germany and completely eradicating the fascist system, so as to prevent the revival of militarism and threaten European security again.
In early 1945, after the Allied forces smashed the battle of Arden, they were preparing to forcibly cross the Rhine and advance to the hinterland of Germany.
At this time, the German Fascist ruling group tried to make peace with the United States and Britain alone, so as to concentrate the residual forces to fight the Soviet army to the end, and even tried to provoke the conflict between the United States, Britain and the Soviet Union.
On March 12, Soviet Molotov informed the US and British ambassadors to the Soviet Union Harriman and Kyle that the Soviet government would send representatives to participate in the negotiations on the surrender of the German army in northern Italy.
After being rejected, Molotov sent a letter to Harriman and Kyle on March 16, insisting that the US and British leaders immediately stop negotiations with Hitler's German representatives and abandon all possibilities of separate negotiations with Nazi Germany in the future.
From mid April to early May 1945, the Soviet army was carrying out the battle of Berlin, and the day of the demise of German Fascism was coming, but Hitler and other fascist culprits still dreamed of avoiding unconditional surrender.
On the afternoon of April 12, US President Roosevelt died of illness in a hot spring in Georgia.
When the news reached Berlin, Hitler and his propaganda minister Goebbels were ecstatic for a moment.
On April 16, Hitler issued a letter to all German soldiers, declaring that the death of the president of the United States would reverse the process of World War and that God wanted to save the Third Reich.
At the same time, Hitler used the troops of 59 divisions to fight the Allied forces on the western front, while the troops of 21 divisions and 14 brigades were used on the Soviet German battlefield.
He did his best to defend Berlin, hoping to delay the war and fantasize about making peace with the United States and Britain alone.
However, Hitler's hopes came to naught.
The US, British and French troops launched an offensive on the western front, and the Soviet army is successfully marching into Berlin.
The demise of German Fascism is just around the corner.
On April 20, the Soviet army not only broke through the German defense circle in the outer suburbs of Berlin, but also began to attack the defense circle in the urban area.
Berlin has become a lonely city with raging war, roaring artillery and shaking wind and rain.
The German Fascist ruling group panicked.
On the night of the 20th, after congratulating Hitler on his 56th birthday, Goering and Himmler hurriedly left Berlin.
They believed that Hitler's end was coming and tried to make peace alone through their old relations with the United States and Britain.
They carried out activities separately.
On April 23, Goering called Hitler from upper Salzburg to announce that Hitler's order appointing him as his successor on June 29, 1941 would come into force so that he could take over all the leadership of Germany.
After receiving the telegram, Hitler was furious and immediately ordered to revoke all positions and titles of Goering and arrest Goering and his accomplices.
Goering also expected to visit by plane the next day and put forward suggestions on a ceasefire in the West and continuing to fight with the Soviet army in the East.
However, a few days later, Goering became a prisoner of the US Army in upper Salzburg.
Himmler met with count Bernadotte, vice president of the Swedish Red Cross, at the Swedish Embassy in lubek on April 23.
He hoped to contact Eisenhower, the supreme commander of the Western allies, through him, and expressed that Germany was willing to surrender to the United States and Britain and continue to resist the Soviet army.
On April 26, the governments of the United States, the Soviet Union and the United Kingdom completely rejected Himmler's proposal and disclosed Bernadotte's remarks in the newspaper at the same time.
When Hitler learned that Himmler had fled the base camp, he immediately ordered him to be expelled from the party and ordered Dennis to arrest Himmler.
On May 21, Himmler was captured by the British army.
Two days later, Himmler bit through potassium cyanide and took poison to commit suicide.
On April 27, the Soviet army invaded the central area of Berlin, divided the German army into three parts, and approached the imperial prime minister's office and the parliament building from all directions.
But Hitler's base camp is still dying.
On April 29, Hitler, hiding in the bomb shelter under the presidential palace, saw that the tide was over and the end was coming, so he married his mistress Eva Braun, who had been with him for 13 years, and then dictated his will.
In his will, Hitler tried his best to exonerate himself from the crime of launching a war of aggression.
He lied that the war was "completely needed and incited by those international politicians of Jewish descent or serving the interests of Jews", clamored for the reconstruction of "National Socialism", and appointed Admiral Dennis as the president of the German Empire and the supreme commander of the armed forces, and Goebbels as the prime minister, Shawnell is commander in chief of the army.
At 15:30 on April 30, Hitler shot himself in the private room of the bomb shelter, ending his criminal life.
Eva Braun died by taking poison at the same time.
On the afternoon of May 1, after poisoning their six children, Goebbels ordered the guards to shoot them to death.
After the battle of Berlin, the newly formed Dunitz fascist cabinet and the remnants of the German army scattered in other areas were still confronting the Allied forces.
On May 1, the Dunitz government broadcast a letter to the German army and people, saying that it would continue to resist tenaciously.
At the same time, he sent representatives to contact the Soviet army and asked the Soviet Union to agree to "peace negotiations" with major countries after the establishment of the new government by Dennis, in an attempt to end the war on the premise of ensuring the fascist regime and army.
After being sternly rejected by the Soviet Union, Dunitz turned to the Western allies to seek independent surrender.
On May 2, the new commander in chief of the German Navy, Admiral Hans Friedberg, held talks with the British marshal.
On May 4, an agreement was reached to surrender all German troops in the Netherlands, northwest Germany, Schleswig Holstein region and Denmark to the British army.
On May 5, US general Jacob Devers accepted the surrender of German troops from group G in Bavaria and western Austria, including the 19th German army in folbeck and Tyrol.
On the same day, Frederick came to Eisenhower's allied headquarters to contact at the will of Dunitz and formally raised the issue of German troops' separate surrender in the south to the allied command.
Eisenhower knew that the unilateral acceptance of the German surrender by the Western allies violated the spirit of the Yalta Conference and was not conducive to unity with the Soviet Union.
The US government urgently needed to defeat militarist Japan, the last ally of fascist Germany, as soon as possible.
To defeat Japan, without the active participation of the Soviet army, the U.S. military still needs to fight hard for a year and a half and pay the cost of 1 million casualties.
So Eisenhower WiltonZhiyodel: if the unconditional and comprehensive surrender documents on all battlefields are not signed immediately, the negotiations will end immediately, the U.S. military will resume air combat, and "no individual surrender is allowed to enter" the front of the U.S. and British forces.
Otherwise, "I will blockade the entire allied front and use force to prevent any German refugees from entering our defense line.
I will not allow further delay".
The Dunitz government was forced to agree to surrender unconditionally to the allies.
The defeat of German Fascism was a great victory achieved by the anti fascist allies of the Soviet Union, the United States and Britain through countless hardships, great sacrifices and unity.
The German people were also "rescued from the cursed Hitler state".
The victory over German Fascism is a major event of world historical significance, which has had a far-reaching impact on the whole process of the development of modern history.


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Insect Hotel: Earth Day Engineering Project
Objective: We can encourage beneficial insects to our yards by making them an insect hotel.
Difficulty Level: Easy (all ages)
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A large plastic bin or box
Pine needles, Pine cones
Sticks, Bark
2 or 4 bricks
Empty 2 liter bottles
Paper towels
A trowel or shovel
Toilet paper tubes (Or paper towel tubes)
Thin cardboard from cut up boxes
Garden litter — weeds, greenery
Fruit peels/Vegetable scraps
Assorted cardboard boxes (cereal boxes, shoe boxes, other small cardboard boxes)
Entomologists are scientists who study insects. They estimate that there are over 10 quintillion insects crawling, flying, buzzing, and hopping on our planet!
Just in the average back yard or garden, there may be over 2,000 different species of insects. Most of these insects help us by pollinating plants, feeding birds and animals, and helping to clean up rotting plant matter and dead organisms.
- Find a flat, quiet spot outside that isn't right up next to your house. Good places to make an insect hotel are near bushes, plants, or trees. Your insect hotel can encourage beneficial insects to populate your garden. Think about what insects might want in their habitat: shade? A nearby water source? Food sources?
- Lay the bricks down on the ground, about 12 inches apart. Make a solid nest of pine needles in between them. If you can't find bricks, think about what you could use to raise the base of your insect hotel up off the ground.
- Place the boxes or containers you will use for your insect hotel on top of the foundation of bricks or other items. Try to use a waterproof outer container– a large plastic storage bin works well. If you want it to look more like part of the environment, think about how you could disguise it with natural materials. Could you cut soda or water bottles, fill them with soil, or hot glue them to the sides? Think of different ideas you can try.
- Put shoe boxes, cereal boxes, or other cardboard boxes inside the outer container.
- Put flower pots or 2 liter bottles cut in half into the boxes.
- Fill the flower pots or bottles with paper towel tubes or toilet paper tubes. Stack the tubes on top of each other– you can use a little tape or a drop of glue on each tube to hold them in place, if you need to.
- Put your organic materials like fruit rinds, grass, or leaf cuttings into the cardboard tubes. Be sure you don't pack the tubes so tight that insects can't get inside.
- Cover the top of your box with mulch, pine needles, lightweight sticks and bark. You may want to put down a layer of wet soil to hold them in place.
- Add a layer of pine cones on top of the sticks and bark. This will help keep everything in place.
- Fill in gaps between the flower pots or bottles with natural materials like lawn cuttings or mulch.
What Next?
Leave your insect hotel alone for a few days, without disturbing it. You want to give the hotel guests time to settle in.
After a few days, you can start making your observations. Take your science notebook, and go out each day to check on your hotel. Record what time of day you checked, and what the weather was, and whether you saw evidence of insects.
The bark and sticks will attract beetles, who will lay their eggs, which will hatch into grubs. After a few weeks, you may find creatures like fat white worms. Don't bother them– they are wood beetle grubs. See if you can observe how long it takes them to turn into beetles.
You also may find 'roly polies' (harmless woodlice), eating the bark as it decomposes. You may find centipedes, ants, worms, ladybugs, or even caterpillars.
Ladybugs and worms will be beneficial to your garden, ladybugs eat pests, and worms help compost soil.
Record how many days it took from the time you made your insect hotel until the time the first guests moved in. If you throw some Pollinator Packets (link to activity) near your insect hotel, you may attract even more beneficial guests to your garden ecosystem.
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You're really missing out. Oh, I wish you could've come; it was so much fun. You don't know what you're missing. It was like a broken record; I heard statements like these all throughout high school. My classmates would tell me about the fantastic fun that they had on Friday night or of some extravagant adventure from a trip last Saturday. They tried to make me see what they thought I was missing, and band was no different.
After being in band for a few years, I knew I wanted to be in music long term, but then a brick was thrown at me. I was told that I had to go to band camp over the summer. Ordinarily that would not have been a problem, but it just so happened that the camp was during Philadelphia Youth Camp. Then our band director told us that band camp was mandatory—that if we didn't go, we couldn't be in band anymore.
I really wanted to stay in band, but I wanted to go to pyc more; I prayed about it and asked God to work it out. Not long afterward, I shocked my band director by telling her I would probably have to quit band, but after I explained the situation, she told me that she would work it out—that I wouldn't have to drop band. I was relieved!
As the school year began, we all realized we had some adjusting to do; I had to play catch up from all that I had missed at band camp, and all the while, I heard stories of what I had missed. It actually didn't sound that appealing to me: humid and hot days, marching for hours, people passing out, etc. Gone were the days of concert band. Now we had to stand at attention, mark time with our feet while we played (left, right, left, right…), memorize our music, and eventually move to the field where we had to march while playing. All was fine and dandy until I realized when our performances were: half-time shows at the Friday night football games.
I knew that I couldn't go to the football games, so I thought band really might be over this time. I took the situation to God and asked for His help. When I talked to my mom about it, she showed me that there were two options before me and I had to pick: Band and Friday night football games, or God's Sabbath. I was reminded that God promises to bless those who obey Him. I didn't know how God would work it out, but I knew my decision.
I explained to my band director that I could not go to the Friday night football games because the Sabbath begins at sunset on Friday. I braced myself for her response. After some thought (and agonizing silence) she told me that it wouldn't be a problem—that I didn't have to go to the games. Now it was my turn to be shocked.
Not only was I allowed to stay in band, I became an assistant to the band directors. While the students were marching on the field, I was in charge of the metronome, or helping with the color guard. I helped paint the field, copy music, teach middle school band students, teach incoming freshmen how to march, and I even was able to attend a drum major camp where I was taught the basics of conducting a band. By standing firm in obeying God's law, I was given so many awesome opportunities that I wouldn't have received otherwise!
Then, later in high school, I was even given the opportunity to attend a game! Because of a bad storm, our school moved one game to a Thursday night. My band director asked me if I would like to come, and I happily agreed. Not only did God provide me with many opportunities, He even gave me the opportunity to experience what I was "missing."
If I would've only looked at what I was "missing out on," it would've been really easy to believe what all the kids at school were telling me. However, looking at the entire field, I can see that I received so many opportunities I never would've received otherwise. This experience taught me that God promises to bless us if we obey Him as Deuteronomy 28:2 states, and those blessings far outweigh anything in this world.
In comparison to all that God promises, are we really missing out on anything?


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Few questions in life are as difficult as knowing when to speak and when to keep silent.
We all know there is a time to speak and a time to listen. We also know there is a time that even if we aren't listening, we should at least be quiet.
Yet when should we do which? That is always a difficult question.
It's even more difficult in the realm of parenting.
Conversation is an important aspect of parenting. It's the main "how" of parenting. You can't parent if you don't communicate. My assumption is that the greatest needs of most parents is the need to improve their communication skills. To communicate better is to parent better.
Yet no matter a person's communication ability, knowing when to speak and when not to speak is the most difficult of questions.
While I do not have a perfect answer to that question, there is one tendency which I have seen in all parents—especially myself.
The circumstances which make me most likely to speak are the same circumstances which make my children most likely not to listen.
I'm at the driving range with my son. We are there to kill some time, enjoy the outdoors, and see if he is interested in a sport I love. I hope he is, but I work hard to put no pressure upon him to like it.
As we are hitting balls, what is the most likely time for me to speak? Of course it is when he is doing something wrong. Whether he is disobeying me by not following the driving range rules or if he is struggling with his swing, both situations tempt me to speak.
And in the first scenario I have to speak. The rules of the driving range are in place for his safety and the enjoyment of others. When he violates those rules, I must correct him.
However, the second situation doesn't demand my attention. But it creates a desire within me which is very difficult to ignore.
I am most tempted to speak to my kids whenever they have done wrong or are struggling to succeed. In times of failure or frustration, I speak to them. The longing for this action is born from good intent. I love my children and I want to help them. I want them to do better, be better, and experience more. This desire creates a tremendous urge within me to speak to them whenever I see something I can fix.
Yet at the moment in which I most desire to speak, I likely most need to be quiet.
It makes sense to speak in these moments:
- the issue is top of mind
- I recognize something which can help
- to remain silent risks them continuing the wrong action
There are many reasons why I should speak in these moments, but there is one reason I should be quiet—whenever a child is struggling, they are least likely to listen.
Do you sometimes wonder why parenting is frustrating? Imagine this combination—at the moment I'm most likely to speak, my child is least likely to listen.
Of course there are times in which it doesn't matter if they are going to listen or not, I'm speaking. But most often, whenever I speak, I'm likely just speaking to the wind.
Parents would often be better served to speak to their children when their children are succeeding, happy, and quick to listen rather than trying to force attention when they are upset. Remember what you want to communicate and communicate it at another time.
This is when you talk to your kids—when they are ready to listen.
It is less frustrating and more fruitful for all parties involved.
There are times in which I will communicate to my children no matter how they feel in the moment. Yet most of the time I should put them before me and communicate at the most effective moment when they will listen.


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sheets of ice cascaded down, melting
glaciers were decreasing, the water rose
bloated, the ocean knew not what to do
it climbed on top of itself; the earth shook
the inhabitants snubbed the warnings,
and scurried about buying and selling,
but where do you run when it comes?
can you buy it off to go away from you?
I turned, looked into the beast's maw
imminent, and it almost engulfed me
but I emerged in time to warn them
but was punished for my presumption,
they laughed me to scorn; nevertheless
the breakwall is crumbing, the levee too low,
the sea will have a gruesome supper
swallow coasts, cities, cultures
of those who didn't bother.