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Once upon a time, the world was populated by undergrowth and trees. This as a complex seemed to pursue out beautiful well. Trees are some male and female, so location was no undo. Life was simple, here wasn't any predators maddening to eat you either, so existence was a ecstasy. But consequently Life decided to lob out this nonmotile on the face of it superlative designing in charge for a new template totally..
The fish, our ancestors, and the fashioning of an totally new decoration to enter the garden. But why this desperate change? why transferrable at all? what was erroneous near the manufacturing works design, and why this new incomprehensible male/female split?
More bizarrely this new ornamentation was born in the binary compound areas, without risk distant from the in existence plants, in inclusive seclusion. Life must have been relatively dovish what beside the foliage on the land, and this new testing shape trapped in the oceans. But natural life had favoured this new test design, the trees were useless at their function, but why?. Why not evolve trees that could think?, or move?. It would be easier than creating an all new mammal.Post ads:
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Evolution does have a mean...the likelihood of the chelonian reptile not evolving for 60 a million eld is staggering, and flora haven't varied overmuch for millions either, about like an forsaken shape. So why are mammals the relevant favorite? they're faster, mobile, use up more liveliness. And more importantly why the priapic / pistillate design, we all know today that women are resourceful of males duties and frailty versa, an hermaphroditic stop would be more prompt.
I provoke you to ask yourself these questions, and you will discover the gist of life, it's purpose, it's cruelty, it's teemingness. Make no nonachievement time has evolved itself to compile more conflict, thence mobility, predators, masculine/female divisions...but recollect..Post ads:
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Life in the plot of ground was past a paradise, but nirvana wasn't unblemished. Maybe we can get a greater orientation on energy present next to it's conflicts and torture and gain a higher understanding, peradventure it was intended to be this way, or perchance we're lacking the prickle.
You determine.
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As someone who is fluent in English, French, and Japanese as well as a lawyer and financial expert, Sam Tabar is uniquely qualified to work in international finance. His present position is at FullCycleFund in the city of New York as a Partner at this global firm.
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Sam Tabar has a prestigious education, starting with graduating with a Jurisprudence Bachelor's degree from the University of Oxford. He also attended Columbia Law School and in 2001 graduated with a Master's degree in Law. He started out his professional career working almost six years at a New York law firm, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP and Affiliates. This position shaped the rest of his career as he became very experienced with the financial industry.
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We have a long term Waterloo project and everybody in our group is painting different battalions. In 2015 this should result in a massive game after visiting the anniversary.
One of my contributions are some Prussian battalions. So please welcome the I Musketier Battalion, 18th Infantry Regiment ´6th Reserve´. Part of the 15th Infantry Brigade under General Major von Losthin in Bulow´s IV Corps. Next up will be the II Musketier Battalion but it won´t start them until I finished my ACW over the next two months or so. I also want to do a step by step for the Prussians to remind myself what colors I used and in what order.
The miniatures are from Calpe and are a painters dream. Easy to paint, endless poses, no flash, no mouldlines. Just perfect IMO. I know Warlord has plastic Landwehr now and the Perries are about to release Prussians but these will be very, very difficult to beat in quality. I already decided I won´t switch.


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Sunday, 12 July 2015
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20 comments:
- Sonja said...
Love all the interesting Jane Austen variations. Lots of fun to read!
- 12 July 2015 at 18:30
I am so looking forward to reading this book! Such an interesting twist on our familiar plot.
Thank you for the giveaway. I really hope to win a copy. :-)
- 12 July 2015 at 18:54
- Laurie Iglesias said...
I loved the excerpt, especially when Darcy says to Georgiana regarding Anne - It Was Lucky Our Cousin Was Dead? LOL!! I could picture Darcy saying that. (Sorry if my quote isn't exactly correct). I just finished a Pride & Prejudice sequel and it was fantastic. This one sounds terrific too. Always enjoy Georgiana's vivacious nature.
- 12 July 2015 at 19:05
- Lynn Bischoff said...
Enjoyed this variation very much, but I have really enjoyed all of Linda's variations.
- 12 July 2015 at 23:36
- Pamela Hunter said...
I love the premise of this one! Can't wait to read it!
Thanks for the giveaway!
Pamh5230 at yahoo dot com
- 12 July 2015 at 23:39
- Ceri T said...
'..... Why she held so fast to this opinion, she did not choose to ponder.' I find this part very intriguing!
- 13 July 2015 at 00:45
- dstoutholcomb said...
interesting twist on P&P
- 13 July 2015 at 02:31
- Linda Beutler said...
Thanks, everyone, for your interest in the story. Denise: "twist" is the operative word! Ceri: I debated about leaving that line in the excerpt. Poor conflicted Charlotte! Pam: this is an unusual premise, alrighty, in that I've killed off a pivotal if minor charactor! Lynn: thanks for your support. This one is very different, and I hope funnier. Please let me know what you think when you've read it! Laura: I just cannot write a completely timid an meek Georgiana, especially when she is alone with her brother. Georgiana is just one of the Pucks in this story. Ginna: Best of luck with the giveaway! This is indeed a P & P what-if on the twisted side. And it got twistier the more I wrote! Sonja: I hope you find this one fun, too. It was great fun to write!
- 13 July 2015 at 06:04
- Lúthien84 said...
This is an enticing excerpt, Linda. I love the twist in this book and hope to discover who the father of Anne's baby is. Can't wait to find out the contents of Anne's last will.
- 13 July 2015 at 07:39
- Vesper Meikle said...
Who would have thought that Anne was so aware of her surroundings - I like that - Georgiana seems outgoing
- 13 July 2015 at 15:12
- Linda Beutler said...
Luthien: It is amazing, given the reviews already published, that no one has spoilered this little nugget of interest. In the story, it is revealed to Charlotte and Lizzy as they begin reading Anne's journals, and so the readers learn the truth early-on. Other characters, like Darcy and the colonel do not learn until much later. Even Georgiana is told before her brother!
Vesper: Yes, Anne was a keen observer, adept spy, and her personal servants kept secrets from Lady Catherine. Yes, Georgiana is outgoing within her family circle. She is quieter amongst her new lady-friends in the Hunsford vicarage, but she soaks up their conversations like a little sponge! However, she doesn't always know what to make of what she hears.
- 13 July 2015 at 18:06
- cyn209 said...
I need to read this!!!
thank you for the giveaway.......
cyn209 at juno dot com
- 14 July 2015 at 04:34
- Teri Blackburn said...
Very intriguing excerpt! What a wonderfully happy accident to stumble joyfully onto this blog! I truly love all things P & P, though some are much better then others of course. Am now chomping at the bit as it were to read this story! Love the take on Georgiana, I always felt there was much more to her. The interaction with her brother (mmmmm....Darcy) seems true to how I always felt they would be in private with each other. Who knew with Anne! Can not wait to read of the havoc she invokes! Truly hope to win a copy, but either way, will be reading this story, and back tracking to your others Linda. Enjoyed your bio! All the best to you with your surrogate children, of both species. Always the most entertaining when behaving badly, but best not to let them catch on to that, lol!
- 14 July 2015 at 04:35
- BeckyC said...
Enjoying the blog tour. Thank you for the giveaway.
- 14 July 2015 at 05:17
- Linda Beutler said...
Cyn: Hope you enjoy it when you get it! Even with all the death and mayhem, there is romance at the heart of the story. In fact, falling in love can save your life! It certainly saves Lizzy's!
Teri: Between reviews and excerpts and guest posts, it is a miracle some of the major spoilers have not been given away. None the less, I want to stress that for all of the farce and funerals, this is a romance. Sometimes love comes slow and sneaky, sometimes like a ton of bricks!
Becky: Glad you're following the blog tour! We still have nearly a week to go, and much more to learn!
- 15 July 2015 at 05:09
- Deborah Ann said...
This book sounds so intriguing. I have loved all of Linda's stories, especially the Red Chrysanthemum. This story seems to promise many twists and turns out of the ordinary. I am looking forward to reading it. Thank you for the generous give away. skamper25 (at) gmail (dot) com
- 15 July 2015 at 13:04
- Caryl Kane said...
Loved the excerpt! Sounds like a fabulous book.
- 15 July 2015 at 16:57
Awesome excerpt
- 16 July 2015 at 21:20
- Dung Vu said...
Another great excerpt and journal entry. I love how witty Anne's comments are about Darcy, Elizabeth, and Col Fitzwilliam. Looking forward to reading this novel!
- 20 July 2015 at 08:19
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The Liberty Flames ended a defensive struggle with a golden goal late in the first overtime for a 1-0 win over the Gardner-Webb Runnin' Bulldogs in the Big South Conference schedule opener for both squads, Tuesday night at Osborne Stadium.
Despite outshooting the Runnin' Bulldogs, 11-3, in regulation, the Flames broke through for the game-winner at 98:50. Defender Alex Dominguez kept the ball from going out of bounds at the end line, sending the ball into the middle of the 18-yard box. Midfielder Pepe Segarra tipped the crossing pass to the left post for an open Tresor Mbuyu, who blasted home his sixth goal of the season, for a 1-0 victory.
Liberty moves to 1-0 in conference play and 5-2-1 overall. Gardner-Webb drops to 0-1 in conference and 3-3-1 overall.
An expected high-scoring affair between two of the top scoring offenses in the country, the match turned into a tightly played defensive match. Liberty held Gardner-Webb, the nation's top scoring team entering the night, to just three shots during the 98:50 of play. The shutout is the Flames' third of the year.
Play was confined to the middle of the field during the first 20 minutes. Each team did garner two corner kicks each, but neither came away with a shot attempt.
Big South Attacking Player of the Week Severin Soerlie fired the first shot of the game for Gardner-Webb during the 22nd minute. However, the attempt was easily turned away by Liberty goalkeeper James Knoebel.
Fouls by the visitors gave the attacking Flames several free kicks during the opening 45 minutes. A shot attempt from 25 yards out by midfielder Shaun Stocker during the 26th minute sailed high and later another attempt after a free kick by Stocker in the 31st minute was stopped by Runnin' Bulldogs' keeper Jacob Beyer.
During the final two minutes of the half, a ball lofted from the left sideline to the far post found Liberty defender Nico Bellarde for a header. But, his attempt went wide.
Neither team was able to break through for a goal in the second half. After Gardner-Webb opened the half with pressure in the attacking zone, Liberty's Mbuyu worked free by dribbling around a defender and ripping a shot, which Beyer knocked down with his hands and then smothered to keep the contest scoreless during the 60th minute.
The Flames did not allow the Runnin' Bulldogs a shot over the final 37:27 of the second half. During the span, Liberty attempt five shots, including a liner from the top of the box during the 79th minute which Beyer saved.
Gardner-Webb got off the first two shots of overtime, both high over the goal, during the first four minutes of the extra session.
During the 99th minute, the Flames found the game-winner on their first shot. Midfielder Kevin Mendoza burst into the open along the left sideline near midfield and lifted the ball into space near the right side of the 18-yard box, where Dominguez ran it down and started the eventual golden goal.
Liberty outshot Gardner-Webb, 12-5, and held an 8-3 edge in corner kicks.
Knoebel made two saves in the contest, while Beyer recorded five for Gardner-Webb.
Liberty next travels to Buies Creek, N.C., for a Big South Conference match against the Campbell Fighting Camels, Friday. Match time at Eaker Athletic Complex is scheduled for 7 p.m.
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"I've been dumped!" (Post #36) Lessons Learned by a Dating Widower
[A sincere 'thank you' to 'George', 'Marie', and 'Elmer' who contributed invaluable insights for this post.]
Like a piece of garbage… I'VE BEEN DUMPED! How else can I say it? For those who don't understand the clichés of the English language, let me put it this way. A girl said 'goodbye' to me. She doesn't want to see me. She said it's over. So, 'I've been dumped.'
So, what's a widower to do?
After enduring this latest dumping, and after talking to a couple of friends who are in the 'same boat', let me share some insights. These suggestions are not extrapolated from any scientific study I've conducted. It's just logical lessons learned by this dating widower.
1) Some temperaments aren't meant to coexist.
I'm sure you've played with magnets as a kid, and felt the repelling force when two north-poles or two south-poles get close to each other. Just as similar poles repel, similar temperaments will too. Sometimes YOU will initiate the push when you realize the reality of the similarities, and sometimes it'll be HER. It's inevitable. Get over it!
2) I'm convinced that all people that are brought into our life for a God-given reason. (see poem 'A Reason, A Season, or Lifetime' at end of this post).
Evidently the woman that tells you 'goodbye' wasn't there for a lifetime. Let's face it. Not all women that you date will be your wife (hopefully). I know that happens with some men & women. The first one, and the only one that they've dated, ends up being their spouse. But the odds for that happening are about as common as me buying the first car I see on a car lot.
With that in mind, when she gives you the 'pink slip', LEARN from the experience. Don't consider it a failure. Don't place unrealistic expectations on a relationship that was just meant for a 'reason' or a 'season'. Consider the relationship a stepping stone; a launching pad; a molding experience that the Lord used to shape you into the man he wants you to be.
3) When it happens, YOU WILL BLAME YOURSELF. YOU WILL SECOND GUESS YOUR ACTIONS AND WORDS, AND ACCUSE YOURSELF FOR SCREWING UP. AND YOU'LL ASK YOURSELF "WHAT'S WRONG WITH ME?"
But I look at it this way. If your relationship with God is what it should be; if you're walking close to the Lord, YOU WANT THIS TYPE OF PRUNING TO HAPPEN! If the relationship would never result in good 'fruit', you want that branch pruned – and God just did. Your female friend may want to take the credit for dumping you – but if/when it happens to me, I know that my Lord was behind it. He knows the future, and he holds the lopper in my life.
If you want God to be in control, and truly want His will, DON'T FORCE THAT DOOR OPEN! THERE'S NOTHING YOU COULD or SHOULD HAVE DONE DIFFERENTLY TO HAVE KEPT THE RELATIONSHIP TOGETHER. (Re-read that sentence. Memorize that sentence! Believe that sentence!)
4) Realizing all of the above, react creatively or constructively, not with self-destruction.
When it happened to my dear friend, 'Elmer', he responded with what he called "Gluttony Therapy". He went to Dairy Queen, and made a meal out of two Blizzards and an ice cream cone!!!
Now a creative response would have been for him to go to Dairy Queen, and create a "Suicide Sundae" – a mixture of ALL of their sundae flavors thrown together in a bowl the size of a bathtub. (OK, OK . . . not a good idea.)
For me, a healthy 'constructive' reaction would be to do something physically exhausting, exorcising those negative emotions you are feeling. I'd also follow that up by building something in my wood shop; or maybe purging my emotions by playing my piano for an hour. For you, it might be taking a walk with your camera, and creatively capturing God's creation as He is talking to you. Or it might be grabbing your paint brush and expressing yourself with that medium.
5) Get back on the lift!
I remember wearing snow skis for the first time in my life. I must have fallen 25 times skiing down that first hill. When I reached the bottom, I had two choices. Burn the skis in the lodge fireplace and go home, or get back on the lift and try again.
Remember, a woman saying 'goodbye' to you is INEVITABLE. When it happens, GET BACK ON THAT LIFT. Don't withdraw into that cocoon. You'll never receive God's blessings for you inside that isolating and protective 'egg shell'.
6) Remember that the woman who said 'Goodbye' to you IS HERSELF STRUGGLING.
A) She may have said that 'Goodbye' because she, HERSELF, is afraid of commitment; afraid of being hurt again (coming off of another relationship where she was hurt by a suitor); or she may be actually falling for you, and is afraid of losing her identity (her friends, family, or her vocation); or she could be afraid of sharing her finances with you.
B) She may be afraid of being totally truthful with you (not wanting to reveal the skeletons in her closet and exposing past mistakes to you)
C) She may realize that she can't manipulate you as planned; she can't get what she wanted; she can't be in control (maybe, she can't get to your money!); and if she can't get what she wants, she's going to 'abandon ship'.
D) She may be struggling with feelings of insecurity, feeling like she will NEVER measure up to your former spouse; or feeling like she will never measure up to YOUR expectations for HER in a relationship or marriage.
7) Another grieving journey???
Age differences, past relationships, and differences in faith walks; all are factors that will cause you and your lady friend to be on different emotional levels. Depending on those factors, her 'Goodbye' could feel like a 'sucker punch' in your stomach. You'll feel betrayed and depressed. You'll be consumed with asking "Why?"
And depending on the length of your relationship and the level of 'involvement' with her, you will actually begin another journey of grieving.
8) Our 'Plan A', who just said good bye, many times is God's 'Plan Z'.
God has someone exceeding your wildest dreams who will meet needs in your life that you don't even know about! So, don't be kicking yourself when you're dumped by a 'Plan Z'. With God in control, you have nothing to fear or fret.
So, what does it take for a widower to appropriately handle a 'Goodbye'?
Well, it'll take a certain level of emotional stability. It'll take a man who knows how to handle rejection; who knows he is worthy and worthwhile in spite of just being rejected. It'll take a man who is willing to learn from the experience, and become wiser in the next relationship; better at recognizing 'red flags', and better at decision making in the next relationship.
But more than any of the above qualities, I've personally learned that it takes a man who has a close relationship with his creator. A man who is grounded in the scriptures. A man who is willing to drop to his knees in prayer. A man who is willing to admit his mistakes, and willing to forgive when he is wronged. And last but certainly not least, it takes a man who has a support group of fellow believers to hold him up in prayer.
Reason, Season, or Lifetime
People come into your life for a reason, a season or a lifetime.
When you figure out which one it is,
you will know what to do for each person.
When someone is in your life for a REASON,
it is usually to meet a need you have expressed.
They have come to assist you through a difficulty;
to provide you with guidance and support;
to aid you physically, emotionally or spiritually.
They may seem like a godsend, and they are.
They are there for the reason you need them to be.
Then, without any wrongdoing on your part or at an inconvenient time,
this person will say or do something to bring the relationship to an end.
Sometimes they die. Sometimes they walk away.
Sometimes they act up and force you to take a stand.
What we must realize is that our need has been met, our desire fulfilled; their work is done.
The prayer you sent up has been answered and now it is time to move on.
Some people come into your life for a SEASON,
because your turn has come to share, grow or learn.
They bring you an experience of peace or make you laugh.
They may teach you something you have never done.
They usually give you an unbelievable amount of joy.
Believe it. It is real. But only for a season.
LIFETIME relationships teach you lifetime lessons;
things you must build upon in order to have a solid emotional foundation.
Your job is to accept the lesson, love the person,
and put what you have learned to use in all other relationships and areas of your life.
It is said that love is blind but friendship is clairvoyant.
— Unknown


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Kate Somerville on Why Career Mistakes Are a Blessing
The one thing that holds back many aspiring entrepreneurs from chasing their dreams is the . But what if we told you it's often the mishaps along the way that contribute to your success and provide crucial business lessons? In fact, most made mistakes along the way that actually benefited their . Los Angeles–based esthetician to the stars believes "a mistake is really a blessing because you learn from it"—and when Kate offers career advice, we listen.
After suffering "horrible eczema" as a child, Kate embarked on a personal search for remedies to heal her own skin. She turned her passion into a hugely successful business with an adoring celebrity fan base that includes actors Ruby Rose, Lily James, Vanessa Hudgens, Rebel Wilson, Anna Kendrick and Bella Thorne. From her popular Skin Health Experts clinic on Melrose Place to self-titled global skincare line and best-selling book, , we can't help but wonder what her secret is. Well, our inquisitive nature finally got the better of us, and we asked her. From her morning routine to the mistakes she's made along the way, scroll down to discover Kate Somerville's key business advice and tips for success.
MYDOMAINE: When did you first discover beauty could be a business and a career?
KATE SOMERVILLE: Skincare is more to me than just my job; it's my calling. Growing up, I had horrible eczema, and I looked for different remedies to solve my own skin issues. That's how I got into skincare, because I knew what it was like to feel uncomfortable in your own skin, and I wanted to help people. Changing skin really does positively impact lives. When I began my education in the field of esthetics over 20 years ago, I knew I wanted to focus on skin health, so I decided to work side by side with doctors to complement their services. I then made my dream of having my own clinic a reality.
MD: How has the beauty industry changed since you first launched?
KS: When I opened my Skin Health Experts clinic, we didn't have any budget for advertising (I still have never advertised), so all of our awareness came from PR and our large celebrity fanbase. The retailers came to me because my celebrity clients were talking in the press: I was really fortunate. The bigger brands had huge marketing and advertising dollars, and it would have been really hard to compete. Now niche brands have the ability to promote their products and build awareness for free through digital and social media. It has completely changed the playing space.
MD: Do you think it's harder or easier for beauty entrepreneurs to start out today?
KS: In some ways harder, in other ways easier: It's harder because there is so much competition today. If you're going to play in the big arena, you have to have money behind you. When I opened my clinic 11 years ago, celebrities would talk about my brand in the press because they genuinely believed in it. Now everyone is being endorsed, and in many cases, you have to pay just to get a mention. Organic mentions are much harder to get. It's easier because digital media has allowed small brands a free advertising platform.
MD: Do you think women need a mentor in order to break through the glass ceiling?
KS: I do think it's great to have a mentor to help guide you through the process, but you must have your own compass no matter what. I was told "It can't be done" many times, but I was determined to do it, and I did it. If you have a vision, you need to stick with it. Get opinions, but follow your heart and intuition first.
MD: Who has been your greatest mentor?
KS: The greatest mentor in my life was a woman named Barbara Wells. She was my boyfriend's mother, and she took me in young. She had unconditional love, but tough love. I had a tumultuous upbringing, and my mom was an alcoholic. When I was 20, she told me, "You have a choice of what you want your life to be. You can either dwell on your childhood and the past or you can make your life what you want it to be." You don't know that there are choices when you're a kid and your life feels out of control. Barbara let me know I had a choice and changed my life personally and professionally from that moment on.
MD: What's your morning ritual? How does it set you up for a successful day?
KS: I like to take time in the morning to reflect and meditate or spend time soaking in the tub. Disconnecting from technology and being focused on my family in the morning is another way I stay centered and happy.
MD: How do you adjust to scale as your business grows?
KS: Learn to delegate! You have to know when you're not servicing the business to your capacity. I'm not a great numbers person, so I knew when I needed to get a CFO. Know your strengths and weaknesses and bring in the right management to help you.
MD: How important has your book, , been to your professional profile and building the Kate Somerville brand?
KS: The greatest honor with my book was when schools started using it as a textbook for estheticians. I wanted to write this book for consumers but also for my fellow estheticians. I helped pioneer paramedical esthetics and I wanted to share what I learned. My book definitely helped reinforce the Kate Somerville brand as an authority in paramedical esthetics.
MD: What does "having it all" mean to you?
KS: When I was in my 20s, "having it all" meant building a brand and being married with kids. I was really driven to do something big. Now that I've achieved that, "having it all" to me is having time. A lot of my time has been spent building the dream of my 20s. Now I want to spend my time being a wife and a mother and in nature (where I think most creatively). My idea of success now is less about the "things" and more about the time.
MD: If there was one lady boss you could power brunch with who would it be?
KS: Oprah. She's one of the most powerful women in the world, and she overcame so many obstacles to get there. Who wouldn't want a brunch with her?
MD: Do you have a group of women around you that inspire and drive you?
KS: What inspires me most is hearing the personal skincare stories of my clients, friends, and the Kate Somerville team. It's such an emotional thing, to feel comfortable in your own skin. Everyone has their own personal skincare journey, but seeing someone overcome their skin challenges is what this is all about for me. It feeds my soul and is what I love most about what I do.
Girlfriends are so important to my happiness. They're your sounding board, the people you can celebrate with and lean on when you need a pick-me-up. My girlfriends (whether or not they have kids and/or husbands, work or stay at home) all understand. What we find out with girlfriends is that we are not alone.
MD: What advice do you have for women looking to achieve your success in business?
KS: Take time for yourself. I love being a wife and a mother and a businesswoman, but with so much going on, it's important to take time for yourself in order to be your best. Small luxuries (like relaxing in a beautiful bath with candles lit) allow me to recharge so I can continue to give to my family and my business. Also, delegation is key. Know what your strengths and weaknesses are, and hire the people you need to. I am an esthetician first and businesswoman second, so it's important to have the right team in place.
MD: What attributes do you look for in your staff at Kate Somerville?
KS: I look for people who are passionate and will fit in well with my team. It's really important that everyone works well together. I have so many team members who have been with me from the very beginning. What's most important to me is that they are authentic and a giver. At Kate Somerville, we heal people (whether you're on the marketing team or an esthetician), so you have to be a giver.
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MD: What mistakes have you learned from and even benefited from in your career?
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• If you hire someone and it's not a fit, don't let it linger too long.
• Success can be a negative thing. You have to manage your cash flow. Too much of a good thing can hurt you.
• Don't ever put all your eggs in one basket. Focusing on just one retailer/client is too risky. Make sure to diversify your retailers or clients.
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You aren't who you think you are.
"I am not who you think I am; I am not who I think I am; I am who I think you think I am " ~Thomas Cooley
When you commit to deep work within yourself – and are courageous enough to go deep – you discover the Truth about yourself and who you really are.
What I mean by this is – there is a you that you formed long ago – a you that you *thought* would be acceptable to those around you – those that you wanted approval and acceptance from.
A you that wouldn't ruffle feathers. A you who wouldn't shine too bright and certainly wouldn't outshine others.
No, your main M/O was to become who you *thought* others wan
ted you to BE.
At the time, you probably *thought*, "I'll only need to wear this mask for a little while – just to get through this experience". But then, unconsciously, you forgot that you put the mask on – and in turn, thought you were who you *thought* you were.
What I mean by *thought* you were/are is – our heads think up all sorts of things to make sense of what is happening. You may have heard the term; we're meaning making machines. Yes, very true.
So, if you consider that who you *thought* you were/are isn't who you really are, then who are you and who are you hiding from the world and most importantly, yourself?
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You'll know that you're hiding when you feel discontent. When you feel like there has to be something MORE to life than this.
You'll know that you're hiding when you know deep within that you're meant to walk a different path -a more authentic path where you may be in a different relationship, different work, or a different locale.
Whatever it is – your soul knows the way – but you've been too busy believing your thoughts to really listen.
Here's the thing – your soul speaks to you in silence. How can this be? How can anything be spoken in silence? How can you hear anything if it's complete silence?
In silence you hear the TRUTH through knowing. You know who you really are and where you're meant to go.
In silence you know deep within who you are – and you feel at complete peace.
Notice I didn't say – you feel good or you feel worthy, or you feel positive, or you feel abundant. Nope, you just KNOW you're at peace without needing anything outside of you to make you feel this way – not even a positive affirmation!
See, there was a time when you knew who you were – you knew deep within the REAL YOU who probably came into this world as a knower already.
You knew things and adults around you told you that you didn't. These same adults were programmed with a belief that adults know, children don't. And so, the legacy of disempowerment continued. Until now…
But, if you can give yourself the opportunity to get out of your head and stop listening and believing your thoughts about who you *think* you are , you'll remember the Truth.
You'll remember a free-spirited, courageous, confident open and uninhibited little child who was FREE before you began to wear a mask that you thought others would find more acceptable.
You don't need a mask, you never did. You don't need labels or identities – or job titles – or big bank accounts – to give you worth. You are worth, just as you are – nothing added.
Give yourself a great GIFT to get quiet and sit in the silence and I promise you the Truth without your thoughts will astound you.
You aren't who you *think* you are – you're far greater than your mind could ever make up.
Choose Truth and your life will fall into place.
Your soul never forgets who you are – and where you're meant to go.
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Hello everyone !!!
It has been a long time since my last post due to a very impotant fact... The summer holiday!!! :)
Meanwhile, a lot has happend...
In this post I would like to share with you all some pictures from my visit to Sibiu, a lovely city in the hart of Romania, were we celebrated the mariage of two close friends. Due to the old style of the city, for the daytime ceremony, I was inspired to choose a casual retrostyle outfit that also combine the bright colors of the moment.
I hope you all like my choices !! Stay tuned for the folowing post that will contain my nighttime outfit... ;)
Love, Nadejda!
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Blouse - H&M
Skirt - Asos
Necklace - Nadejda (handmade by me)
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If you have never wept bitter tears because of dreams ending; if you have never been a part in the shaping of the future in order to bring an end to suffering and an elevation of the human race; if you have never lived in tomorrow's world and cannot envision a time in which you are well and truly free along with those whom you love and care for, who have shared your hopes and fears, and without whose company life seems empty and meaningless.
If such things have not been part of your own experience, you probably won't understand what happened next.
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We added a nice green for the hills, and painted the trees back in.
We added a mix of blue and white to the sky, so that we could cover up the red trees.
Afterwards, we sanded off some of the green paint on the hills, so the yellow could peek through.
And here they are! Isn't it much better? They definitely go better with her decor. After we finished them, my aunt saw the finished pictures and loved the new look, so we gave the paintings back gladly. It wasn't very hard to redo these paintings, because all you have to do is paint right over what you already had with colors you like. Just make sure you refer back to a before picture, so you get the right objects in the right spot.


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Johnson Becomes First Four-Time Winner Of Spring All-Star Race [VIDEO]
Saturday night's Sprint All-Star Race proved you need more than a good car, or a good driver, or a good crew chief to win. You have to have a good team and that's how Jimmie Johnson became the first driver to win it four times.
Johnson started the race 18th because he overshot his pit in Friday's qualifying and was given an additional five-second penalty for a loose lug nut. But on Saturday he moved his way thru the field and was fourth heading into the pits before the final 10-lap segment. It was right there in the pits where Johnson's team won it. His stop was so quick he came back out onto the track in second place right behind teammate Kasey Kahne. After the final restart Johnson quickly passed Kahne and he was gone.
Johnson beat second place Joey Logano by 1.7 seconds to become the first four-time winner of the All-Star race in its 29-year history. And with the win Johnson takes home more than $1.3-million.
Kyle Busch led 29 of 90 laps to finish third and Kahne faded to fourth.
Kyle probably had the best car, but when they needed a big time pit stop they didn't get it.
Maybe even worse than Kyle, his older brother Kurt also led 29 laps. He was in the lead after the first and fourth segments and was first into the pits before the final segment. After his pit stop he came out fifth and that's where he finished.
Jamie McMurray won the Sprint Showdown to earn one of the final two entries into the field. He finished the All Star race in eighth place.
Danica Patrick became the first female driver in the field when she won the fan vote and was the last driver to finish on the lead lap.


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Expecting parents of a baby boy have designed this beautiful nursery by mixing old and new - baby's grandfather's display cabinet next to a modern crib - with warm vintage colors and decor that is gender-neutral. This {nursery tour} was found on Apartment Therapy's {OhDeedoh}. They gave themselves a challenge by staying away from typical light blues and greens associated with boys, even though they knew early on that they were having a boy. The bedding is from the {Litto Kids} line. The Sasquatch poster was bought from {Invisible Creature} in Seattle.
They say their biggest indulgence was the {Monte Luca Glider}, of course. Their best advice to anyone else who is looking to decorate a nursery: A baby's room doesn't have to have ducks and bunnies if you don't want it to! I couldn't agree more.


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Compilation of Comments for CReATE Press Conference
3/26/12, 11am, Hull-House Museum
(1) Kevin Kumashiro (Primary Contact Person)
Professor of Asian American Studies and Education
University of Illinois at Chicago
President-Elect, National Association for Multicultural Education
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University of Illinois at Chicago
President-Elect, National Association for Multicultural Education
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Good morning, and thank you for coming. My name is Kevin Kumashiro. I am a professor of Asian American Studies and the former chair of Educational Policy Studies here at the University of Illinois at Chicago. I am the president-elect of the National Association for Multicultural Education, and I am also a coordinator of a citywide network of educational researchers called CReATE (Chicagoland Researchers and Advocates for Transformative Education).
This morning, CReATE delivered to Mayor Rahm Emanuel, Chicago Public Schools CEO Jean-Claude Brizard, and the Chicago School Board an open letter of concern, titled "Misconceptions and Realities about Teacher and Principal Evaluation." Signed by 88 professors and researchers who specialize in education from 15 different universities throughout the Chicago and surrounding areas, this letter describes our concerns regarding Chicago's implementation of legislation for the evaluation of teachers and principals, and offers our recommendations for moving forward.
This is not the first time that we have issued a joint statement. Over a year ago, we began to issue statements and reports to contrast CPS's approaches to school reform with the research on school reform. And our messages have been consistent: that some of Chicago's school reforms lack a sound research basis, and more significantly, that research has already proven some of these reforms to be detrimental to student learning and success.
These messages similarly frame our open letter about teacher evaluation. The 2010 amendment to the Illinois School Code, known as the Performance Evaluation Review Act (PERA), requires districts to include "student growth" as a significant portion of teacher and principal evaluation. Our letter describes three main concerns:
First, timing. CPS is moving forward with plans to implement the new evaluation system in the fall of 2012, but CPS is not ready to implement a teacher-evaluation system that is based on significant use of "student growth." PERA requires the use of multiple assessments, but CPS has not yet developed all of the assessments, has not yet field-tested them, and has not yet trained teachers and principals on how to use them effectively.
Second, validity. Under PERA, "Student growth" will be measured primarily using value-added models, as by looking at changes in test scores over time. But recently, ten of the nation's leading scholars on assessment wrote a joint letter cautioning against teacher-evaluation approaches that use value-added models, because such models can be unstable (they can vary from year to year or even from test to test for the same group). Furthermore, such models were developed to assess student change, not teacher efficacy, so to use the models for a different purpose should first require more field-testing and development.
Third, impact. We have already seen the results of placing increased value on tests: a more narrow curriculum, less cooperation between teachers, less desire to work with students with special needs—that is, this overemphasis on test scores results not in increased success for our students, but the opposite.
As researchers who specialize in education, we believe that hurried implementation of teacher evaluation using student growth will result in inaccurate assessments of our teachers and decreased learning among the children in our care. We support accountability and high standards. We want what is best for our students. We believe, however, that an unproven and potentially harmful evaluation system is not the path to lasting school improvement. We therefore make two recommendations for moving forward:
1. Pilot and adjust the evaluation system before implementing it on a large scale.
2. Minimize the percentage that student growth counts in teacher or principal evaluation.
In moving to develop and implement reforms that are based in sound research and that are field-tested locally, we hope that CPS will consult with the professors and researchers among us who bring both scholarly and practical expertise on these issues, and we look forward to the opportunity to serve.
With me are several members of CReATE, who will elaborate on our open letter. Professor Isabel Nunez of Concordia University Chicago will discuss misconceptions of testing. Professor David Stovall of the University of Illinois at Chicago will discuss the impact of testing on students. Professor Therese Quinn of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago will discuss the role of teachers in a democratic society. Professor Erica Meiners of Northeastern Illinois University will discuss the relationship between this initiative and other reform initiatives, revealing the bigger picture of school reform. We also invited a response from Julie Woestehoff, executive director of PURE (Parents United for Responsible Education). And we'll conclude with time for questions.
(2) Isabel Nuñez
Associate Professor of Foundations, Social Policy and Research, Concordia University Chicago
The centrality of test scores in the new approach to teacher and principal evaluation is of particular concern to educational researchers. Testing in general is such a priority that the first CReATE research brief was devoted to countering the misconceptions that underlie its use and overuse. You can read more about some of the issues we raise today in that document, which is available on our website.
First, testing is not "the way it's always been done." Large-scale educational testing was born in the early 1900s at a particular time in history: the industrial revolution. Some might argue that the limited range of achievement that tests can measure was appropriate when preparing for the early-to-mid 20th century workforce, but in today's globalized, information-based economy, "student growth" must be more meaningfully defined and assessed.
Next, if we are going to make the mistake of reducing student growth to an ascending diagonal on a line graph, we must at the very least abide by the principles of measurement. The discipline of testing, called psychometrics, is governed by rules, and the uses of testing proposed in the new system of evaluation break some of the most fundamental of these.
The first important consideration of testing is purpose. The process of test construction is so specialized that an instrument designed for one purpose cannot be effectively used for another. As we state in the letter:
Assessments designed to evaluate student learning are not necessarily valid for measuring teacher effectiveness or student learning growth. Using them to measure the latter is akin to using a meter stick to weigh a person.
What makes this even more frightening is that many of the likely contenders to be Type I and Type II assessments were not even designed to evaluate student learning, but instead to compare performance. Most large scale standardized achievement tests are scored by norm-referencing, a process of ranking, which ensures that 50 percent of test-takers score below the 50th percentile, no matter how high the overall level of mastery.
You may hear from their defenders that tests like the ISAT also report "criterion-referenced" scores, which are not ranked. However, for scores to be able to be ranked, each item must garner only 50% correct responses, which seriously compromises the test's value for reflecting mastery of all the standards. It is incredibly inappropriate to draw inferences about student achievement based on such tests, much less to base educator evaluations on them.
Even if we use the best tests possible, it is a core truth of psychometrics that no test is completely reliable: Error is a component of every attained score. For this reason, test developers, academic bodies and professional associations alike warn against attaching severe consequences to performance on any test.
Clearly, this is not the first instance of schools systems riding roughshod over the principles of measurement. It is, however, a distressing extension of the destructive misuse of test scores, which has already brought terrible harm to the children of Chicago.
(3) David Stovall
Associate Professor of Educational Policy Studies and African American Studies
University of Illinois at Chicago
University of Illinois at Chicago
(4) Therese Quinn: firstname.lastname@example.com, 773.459.3775
Associate Professor and Chair of Art Education
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
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Over 100 years ago, Margaret Haley, the Chicago elementary school teacher who was also the founder of the first American teachers' union, argued for a vision of public schools as the center of our democracy. However, she proposed, schools can democratize society only if schools themselves are democratic. Haley and another maverick, Ella Flagg Young, a prodigy who passed her teaching examinations at age 15 and went on to become the first woman to serve as superintendent of a major American city, both argued that teachers must play central roles in school administration and policy-making, and, as professionals who are critical to the nation, must have opportunities and support to continue to grow intellectually throughout their working lives. Without this, they claimed, schools would become little more than factories, with rote assignments administered by teachers relegated to the role of automatons.
The issues and debates about education then were much the same as they are today. What's different is that we now have decades of evidence showing that Haley and Flagg were right. For example, the nation with the most successful education system by many measures, including highest students scores and smallest spread of scores between schools is Finland, a country in which all curriculum is local and developed by teachers who are charged with designing and pursuing high standards and shared targets within their professional communities. Yet these high levels of success and responsibility don't translate into top-down mandates. The schools are democratically organized and decisions are made laterally. Teachers evaluate their students, and collaboratively design ways to assess and improve school-wide successes. Students spend less time in school that those in most other industrialized nations and Finnish teachers spend less time teaching than do teachers in many other countries, and are not required to be present at their schools when they don't have classes or other duties.
The Finnish education scholar Pasi Sahlberg describes a system in which teaching is consistently rated as one of the most desirable and admired professions, ahead of doctors, architects and lawyers. Finnish teachers are considered knowledge workers, education leaders, and critical members of their communities and the nation. So what are we doing wrong?
While we should certainly learn from the successful educational systems designed by our global neighbors, we should also look back at the insights of our home-grown visionaries in education, like Margaret Haley and Ella Flagg Young. They pointed to the need for what Finland has put into practice and proven as successful for students—a public education system that supports and trusts its teachers.
Rousmaniere, K. (2005). Citizen teacher: The life and leadership of Margaret Haley. Albany, NY: State University of New York.
Salhberg, P. (2011). Finnish lessons: What can the world learn from educational change in Finland? New York: Teachers College Press.
(5) Erica Meiners
Professor of Educational Foundations, Women's Studies, and Latina/o and Latin American Studies
Northeastern Illinois University
Northeastern Illinois University
This is another example of a top down reforms that have little basis in research from Chicago's unelected school board. As we have recently seen in NYC, the forced implementation of teacher evaluation models that are based on student scores on standardized tests results in inaccurate evaluations of our teachers and a further demonization of a valuable profession. In NYC researchers and teachers voices have been uniform in critiquing the unreliability of the approximately 18 000 teachers that were recently assessed through the "value-added" teacher evaluation model. Again, research tells us what will build stronger schools for our communities - smaller class sizes, parent and guardian involvement and healthy communities. When one in four Americans lives in poverty, we need strong leadership from our city to support schools as spaces for transformation - not shifting the blame.
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Executive Director
Parents United for Responsible Education (PURE)
Parents United for Responsible Education (PURE)
Good morning. I'm Julie Woestehoff, executive director of Parents United for Responsible Education, or PURE, and co-founder of the national group Parents Across America.
I'm very glad to be here today. It's so important for parents and the general public to hear what education experts are saying about education policy. Unfortunately, most of what passes for education expertise these days comes from wealthy corporate reformers and people who make money off of education. They don't have any real education credentials, but they're too often the ones our lawmakers listen to, and too often the ones who have the most influence in decision making about the kind of education our children receive. Parents prefer to listen to educators.
I'm here representing a growing body of parents who strongly oppose the use of student test scores as significant factors in evaluating teachers, which the Chicago Public Schools is proposing to do beginning this fall.
Parents already feel that there is too much emphasis on testing in schools, and too much time wasted on testing that's taking away from teaching. In his 2012 State of the Union message, President Obama said teachers should stop teaching to the test. Yet Secretary of Education Arne Duncan has been pressuring states into making standardized tests play an even more dominant role in education, especially in his demand that states pass laws tying teacher evaluation to student test scores in order to compete for federal funds.
Last year, Parents Across America wrote a position paper and a fact sheet* about the dangers of tying teacher jobs and compensation to test scores. In preparing those reports, we found out that real education experts have been warning policy makers that judging teachers using student annual test results or score growth over time is unreliable, unfair, and counterproductive. The CReATE experts are warning us today that CPS is moving in the wrong direction with its plans.
I want to thank CReATE for including the parents' perspective in this press conference. Too often, parents are left out of these critical discussions. PURE was disappointed when the Illinois legislature defined the process for developing Chicago's teacher evaluation system as simply a negotiation between the union and the district. Teacher evaluation is not just a contractual issue. It is an issue of educational quality that will have just as much impact on our children as it will on their teachers. There is no doubt that a poorly-designed system, one that relies too heavily on existing flawed tests, or on assessments that have not even been written yet, will negatively affect our children and their educational opportunities.
It's time to listen more to real educational experts like those that have formed CReATE and less to people who are more interested in political or financial profit than in making our public schools stronger.
It's also time to listen to parents, who are demanding better, sounder education policies that are supported by research. We believe that teachers should be evaluated by robust systems that use multiple measures, as well as parent and peer input, to identify their weaknesses, help them improve, and weed out those unsuited to the profession. Concerned parents and community members should insist on fair, reliable, broad-based systems of evaluation, as well as on the other kinds of support that teachers need to succeed.
*PAA's position paper, Tying Teacher Salaries to Test Scores Doesn't Work, is here: http://parentsacrossamerica.org/performancepay/
Our related fact sheet is here:
Parents United for Responsible Education is an award-winning parent-organized, parent-run public school advocacy group established in 1987 and based in Chicago. PURE's overall goal is to assure a high-quality education for all children. Our main strategy is to support active, informed, meaningful parent participation in the public schools. PURE offers information, advocacy and other support for parents and local school councils. PURE has a special role in focusing on issues from the parents' point of view. PURE's membership and constituency are multiracial, multi-cultural and economically diverse. Find us at www.pureparents.org.
Parents Across America (PAA) is a grassroots organization that connects parents and activists from across the U.S. to share ideas and work together on improving our nation's public schools. We advocate for proven, progressive measures such as reducing class size and increasing parent involvement, and oppose high-stakes testing and corporate-style efforts to privatize our schools. PAA is committed to bringing the voice of public school parents – and common sense – to local, state, and national education debates. Visit our web site, www.parentsacrossamerica.org for more.


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Bonus payments made in 2011 were worth a median 6% of salary, according to a survey conducted by pay analysts XpertHR. When similar research was conducted in 2008 (ahead of the recession), the median bonus payment was 10.1% of salary. However, bonus payments are expected to fall in 2012, and be worth a median 5% of salary.
Only around half of the organisations surveyed operate a cap on the level of bonus payments – ranging from 10% to 150% of salary. Open-ended arrangements were more prevalent among financial services and retailing companies.
The payment pot for most bonus schemes is linked directly to company profits, with individual payments determined through an assessment of employee performance. The most common method of distributing payments is to allow management discretion, followed by operating a forced distribution of payments.
Given the amount of scrutiny bonus schemes have come under lately, it is perhaps surprising that only one-third of organisations have reviewed their bonus arrangements in the past year. 15% of schemes have never been analysed.
Survey respondents also identified a number of problems with their bonus schemes. Chief amongst these was employee disappointment with the size of payments, mentioned by almost half the organisations surveyed. Around one-third also cited a lack of employee understanding of the scheme; and a weak link between performance and payments.
Despite their problems, many survey respondents feared that removal of their bonus scheme would damage their ability to recruit and retain staff, while others mentioned a loss of employee morale, and a loss of competitive edge. However, a handful of survey respondents said that little or nothing would happen if they scrapped their current bonus scheme.
When asked what advice they would give other employers on operating a bonus scheme, communication was mentioned most often. This is best summed up in the words of one respondent: "Communication, simplicity and transparency are key."


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In following with my theories that BFS is somehow immune system related and / or Viral infection ..
I got my CD8 and CD4 test back today and my CD8 count along with my Lymphs is "HIGH" out of range ... while my Neutrophiles are Low.
There are any number of possible causes for this, but the most common explanations are clearly an overactive immune system, and / or an immune system which is fighting a viral invader. Whether or NOT its a recognized, known virus in the medical community.
This also falls perfectly in line with my experience that taking Immune system boosting supplements made my twitching go haywire. This lead me to believe that if I did not have a viral infection it was fighting, it was at least currently "overactive" on some level, and the solution would be to suppress its activity.
Additionally, this reminds me of the one supplement that has made me feel better during this experience: Quercetin. Which can only be taken in short spurts, but is well known to inhibit inflammatory cytokines (immune system hyperactivity). This obvious sense of relief from the Quercetin lent credence to the theory that my immune system was playing a role in all of this.
My HIV tests as of 3 weeks ago are negative, nearly 1 year after any possible exposure.
I did see one comment that CMV reactivation can cause high CD8 counts, and I did test positive for CMV infection as mentioned previously. Naturally my brilliant doctor told me that had nothing to do with all of this, and "CMV cant reactivate" ... fascinating the lack of education of "professionals" sometimes .
Anyways ... this is a notable test result and it may mean something significant. If anyone has any insight ..


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Sooke provides excellent educational facilities for students of all ages: There are four elementary schools, one middle school, one secondary school and a French Immersion school. Along with a future elementary school on site, Sunriver Estates is also home to a state of the art childcare center. This 3,000 square foot facility welcomes children from 5 to 12 years of age for afterschool care.
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Play as ADAM WEST & KNIGHTFALL Batman in BATMAN: ARKHAM ORIGINS
PlayStation owners will have a chance to "Go West" when Batman: Arkham Origins launches thanks to the console exclusive Knightfall Pack that includes two visually iconic Bat-Suit skins and five maps for the franchise's popular challenge system.
After over a half dozen character skins debuted in Batman: Arkham City, it was a bit of a surprise that there were any left over at all for use in the new game, but it's certainly unexpected to see that the first in this pack is the "Classic TV Series" skin that replicates, albeit in an HD render, the look of Adam West in his 1960's Batman TV series garb, complete with eyebrows.
A darker, but for different reasons, garb is the second outfit, the armored "Knightfall" skin from the landmark 90s Batman arc of the same name. In it, Jean-Paul Valley (formally Azrael) takes up the Mantle of the Bat after Bruce Wayne's spine is broken by recently introduce villain Bane. In his time as Batman, Valley crumbling mental state propels him to upgrade the Bat-Suit into a more lethal armored almost Iron Man-like outfit.
These skins will be accompanied by five challenge maps, three combat maps against waves of enemies and two maps in the franchise's signature Predator gameplay style. It is unknown if this is a timed exclusive or what the cost for the pack will be.


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'The Hidden Chamber'
This is a nice little piece that evokes the Bluebeard story effectively, while at the same time lifting it out of the expected gothic realm. We anticipate all the trappings and are instead offered washing machines and other mundane objects (which might nevertheless be rather useful for disposing of unwanted traces). Hidden chambers have developed resonances since Gaiman wrote the story, and we've become more aware that even the most prosaic suburban settings might house hidden horrors. Gaiman's known that all the time, of course, always having seen the skull beneath the skin.
'Forbidden Brides of the Faceless Slaves in the Secret House of the Night of Dread Desire'
My favourite of this week's stories is a real gem - I love the fantastically overwritten sections with their "little" jokes, several of which I'm still chuckling over. This narrative-within-narrative is like a series of Monty Python sketches, always spilling over into farce no matter how hard the young writer tries to avoid it. Meanwhile, the "outer" story, tackling its subject with a subtler humour, reminds me of Thurber's fairytales, and I can think of no higher recommendation:
Strange, scuttling things gibbered and cheetled in the black drapes at the end of the room, and high in the gloomy oak beams, and behind the wainscoting, but they made no answer. He had expected none.I get a frisson of delight from "cheetled"...
The two threads really flow into each other with the interjection of the raven (and don't you just love the raven?) but the story's construction remains most unusual, with two streams of "reality" which raise all sorts of questions, such as why the families were cursed in the first place, or what the "unusual circumstances" which brought Ethel the maid to the house were. I could happily have read more of this inspired lunacy, but it's a wise author who knows when enough is enough. Apparently, he shortened the title to the one given here...
'The Flints of Memory Lane'
I do like the way Gaiman resolutely keeps to something that's not story-shaped. He could have made it much more so but, as it is, it reminds us that we do from time to time see things we can't readily explain - and afterwards we may not even be sure how much of what we've seen is real. Memory is a tricksy thing at best, and if we start to question the detail of what we saw, we may end up questioning the whole experience. In such circumstances it's best not to try to make too much sense out of it, to force it into a story mould.
'Closing Time'
I've always liked the stories of M.R. James, even though they do rather fall into the category of "bad things happening for no reason" that I complained about in my last post. It's partly because they also follow the rather successful formula of everyone sitting around (in a club, or after dinner) and one speaker relating a tale, a device also used successfully by Agatha Christie and Robertson Davies - there's something about the gathering of people which draws you into the circle, yet releases you at the end to go out into the crisp, cold night and home to comfort with the other listeners - the stories are made doubly safe by that extra distancing. So this rather nasty little story reaches us at a remove, while following the proper Jamesian conventions of the club setting, the mysterious stranger and the lingering doubt about what exactly has taken place.


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For the second week in a row, my newborn son's music dominated my listening charts (see chart below). I am actually beginning to enjoy Baby Einstein's peaceful versions of classical composers. I find myself humming the pieces later in the day after listening to the albums.
While not in the list below, the most listened-to track in our house has been the twenty second recording of the running bathtub sounds that I Ioop-ed into a four hour track. I don't know what it is about the loud sound of fast-running water, but @LarsFranz responds to it very quickly by calming down and even falling asleep some of the time.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-9-4)
- The Baby Einstein Music Box Orchestra (11)
- Bebo Norman (7)
- Kurtis Parks (6)
- Mumford & Sons (5)


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Would you like to know the secret to writing a novel? I've written over a dozen of them so far, so this is a secret I know well. Except it's not really a secret. Actually, it's something pretty simple when you think about it.
For Lily's Song. my latest novel, I kept a progress sheet. I don't always do this, but sometimes it helps me see how much I'm getting done so I can hold myself accountable. For those of you who might be interested, I reproduced it below. But that's not the secret either, although it can definitely help.
I typically write 5 mornings a week, from 9 or 9:30 until lunchtime (12:30 or 1). At this point, I write full time. After twenty years, writing has finally become my day job. Yay! I write Monday – Friday, and not just when the muse calls. I've been known to say that I don't get writer's block, I have a mortgage.
So here's my Progress Sheet, which reveals the secret. See if you can find it:
The Sequel to Wildflower. Working title: Lily's Song
Fall of 2014: reread The Secret Sense of Wildflower and took notes; researched 1956, when the sequel takes place. Wrote 5,000 words.
January 2015 resolution: keep a progress sheet on my novels.
Wednesday, 1/7/2015 9-12:30; have 5077 words total
Thursday, 1/8/2015 7170 words (wrote approx. 2000 words)
Friday, 1/9/2015 9154 words
Tuesday 1/13 created genogram from WF notes
Wed 1/14 9943 words
Thursday 1/15/15 9985; tweaked some
Friday 1/19/2015 10,923
Thursday 2/18/2015 13,438
Monday 2/23 16,060
Tuesday 2/24 18,000
Wednesday 2/25 19,899
Thursday 2/26 23,184
Friday 2/27 24,500
Monday 3/2 25,862
Tuesday 3/3 27,673
Wednesday 3/4 30,247
Friday 3/6 31,114
Monday/Tuesday 32,401 (restructuring)
Wednesday 3/11 34,311
Friday 3/13 36,463
Monday 3/16 37,143
Tuesday 3/17 38,800
Wed. 3/18 39,400
Thursday 3/19 42,505
Friday 3/20 43,319
Tuesday 3/24 44,445
Wednesday 2/25 46,000 (wrote chapter 20, one scene)
(switched to Trueluck novel to let the sequel breathe for a while)
Monday 4/6 47,695 (clarifying conflict)
Tuesday 4/7 48,600
Wednesday 4/8 49,296
Thursday 4/9 50,310
Friday 4/10 50,559
Monday 4/13 51,166
Tuesday 4/14 51,295 (didn't write, but revised)
Wednesday 4/15 51,346
Thursday 4/16 52,594
Friday 4/17 53,527
Saturday 4/18 (Sat.) 55,300
Monday 4/20 57,158
Tuesday 4/21 57,486
Thursday 4/23 57,566 (revision)
Wednesday 4/29 58,157
Thursday 4/30 59,512
Friday 5/1 60,888
Monday 5/4 62,385
Tuesday 5/5 63,074 (added a chapter and then deleted a chapter that didn't work)
Wednesday 5/6 66,107
Thursday 5/7 68,077
Friday 5/8 70,039 (finished first draft!!!)
Tuesday 5/26 71,163 (going back over last chapters)
Wednesday 5/27 72,351
Thursday 5/28 72,539 (finishing touches on first draft—will now print out to edit)
I revised this novel 3 more times, and read it aloud to myself the final time to catch any rhythm issues. I finished the final draft in early February of 2016. Final word count was 72,300 words. So it took well over a year to complete Lily's Song.
If you still want to know the secret to writing a novel, here it is: write a little bit every day, or one afternoon a week, or any amount of time, consistently, until it's finished. Even if you're writing in stolen moments, 20 minutes a day, it all adds up. If you keep doing this, eventually you will have the first draft of a book or a novel. That's the secret. It's the secret of everyone who has written a book. Writing. Consistently. Setting aside the time. Keeping going.
I wish the secret to writing a novel was more glamorous. But that's the simple truth of it. And like most truths, it's simple, but not the least bit easy.


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Michael Honeycutt is an ardent student of the "Lamentable Wo-ah" yet he struggles to escape its lingering undertow on Southern identity. Only when he and his girlfriend embark on a long drive to bury the Honeycutt family matriarch will Michael face an important choice and his ultimate destiny be revealed.
This is one scene from my 2015 story, and the first to use prolepsis to render interior monologue and projection. The story's six other distinct scenes include backstory, straight exposition, flashbacks, framing, and dialog passages intended to speed or slow the narrative––all told from third-person (limited) voice. I intend to rewrite at least two of the initial scenes that now seem clumsy in clearer light, and possibly add a new one at the suggestion of workshop evaluators. If you'd like to learn how it turns out, give me a shout-out in the Comments.
So, they're driving along about five miles south of Ruffin. Mike knows how it will go down. He can see it as clear as day. They'll arrive at his parents' house in Louisville and his mother will make a big fuss over Evie, how pretty she is and why hasn't Michael made an honest woman of you yet. His father will tell her to call him Big Mike and try to give her a bearhug in the driveway so he can feel her tits. Then, he'll make a big show of hospitality. He'll give her his "Red & Black Tour" of the regalia in his Bulldogs shrine and invite her to sit in his favorite lounge chair, explaining how they call the family room his "Man Cave," as if that's anywhere remotely original but says all she needs to know about the pecking order. Big Mike is very picky about letting people sit in his favorite lounge chair, but as far as Mike can tell, that just means that nobody in the family can sit in it. And, of course, the goddamn TV will be on the whole time.
If his older sister is there, she'll ask as soon as they arrive if they plan to share a bedroom during their visit or "pretend" and that will make Big Mike shoot dangerous looks at him until his mom gets all flustered and says Reece Honeycutt, you know good and well that I've made up the guest room for this sweet girl and why must you always tease your brother like that.
When dinnertime comes, Big Mike will put on an elaborate show of saying grace while they all hold hands. Then he will make her taste his damned pickled okra and tell her about the colored man that brings him a bushel or two every season on account of how good his pickling recipe is. His mother will finish her second martini and start needling Evie about making her some pretty grand-babies. She will repeat this whenever the conversation lags until Mike will say Jesus, Mom, will you lay off the grand-babies stuff? and his father will say Hey! we don't use the Lord's name that way at this table! and his mother will say something like Well, it's not as if your sister is going to bring me any anytime soon and Reece will draw herself up into a perfect Tri-Delt hissy-fit and storm out of the house, tires squealing. That's when the old man will get pissed and say something disparaging about historians. Yep, it will be a grand time, alright.
The next day at the funeral, all the local women will stare at Evie and whisper what was she thinking wearing that, bless her heart! while his uncles and male cousins will elbow him whenever she isn't looking and mime their exaggerated winks and waggle their obscene tongues, all in confirmation of her evident hotness. His sister will stand outside the church chain-smoking until everyone else has been seated, then make a dramatic, sobbing entrance, lingering at the casket until everyone has had time to admire her butt, then she'll take her own seat, a pretty embroidered handkerchief drawn to her nose so she can surreptitiously gauge her impact on the room.
Then the pastor, an agitated, red-faced man with unfortunate hair, will eulogize Addie, going on at length about her faithfulness and her lifelong certainty—as she has personally assured him on so many occasions, he will say—that Jesus Himself is the very next name on her dance card in Eternity. He won't mention how she'd fudged her genealogy until it suited her, or how she liked to drive visitors by the old Slave Market on US-1 so she could tell them how "her people" had always held that you got a better quality slave in Louisville than in Savannah, or how, at the time of her death, she was forty-five thousand dollars in arrears on her property taxes.
He will go on telling little anecdotes about Addie's generosity and churchliness until they move him so much that the man can no longer contain himself, and a full-throated sermon of repentance and redemption will pour out of all the holes in his face and wash across the assembled mourners until the organist thinks they've had enough and cues a final hymn. That's when some earnest young men from the local SCV chapter will heft old Addie onto their shoulders and slow-march her out the front door where they will convey the matriarch of the Jefferson County Honeycutts to the somber gentlemen of Stuckey Brothers Mortuary and everybody will shake Big Mike's hand and say how sorry they are and can they bring by a covered dish for the family?


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Joining us this week in a quest to Dragon Bible times is Kyle McCluskey! Listen in to hear all about absentee lumberjack fathers, men who don't know what fire is, sweet makeout sessions with trees, and maybe even some stuff that happens in the actual book! Also like maybe two seconds of dragons.
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Cozy Beehive has published this interesting and timely letter to UCI President Pat McQuaid
Note : A gentleman on a Cycling News forum wrote the following, not me. I'm only helping to spread the word to other cycling fans, as I told him. The letter comes in direct response to McQuaid's statements today, denying using the money Armstrong "donated" in 2005 as bribe to cover up the latter's positive test in 2001. You guys must read this, as we're going through one of the biggest scandals in sports. NYT reports today that the investigations are going to broaden. Two unnamed individuals have already been contacted by investigators to exchange vital information in return for leniency.
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1) Read Ch 5.1-5.4 in your classical mechanics text, and review The Mathematics Companion section 2.3 on Vector Analysis for class on Monday 2/13/17
2) Read Chapter 5.5-5.6 in your Classical Mechanics text and review The Mathematics Companion sections 2.4 and 2.5 on partial derivatives and multiple integrats for class on Wednesday 02/15/17
3) Watch our videos on solving the critically damped harmonic oscillator and Springs in parallel and series by Monday 02/13/17, and on the curl of a gradient by Wednesday 02/15/17.
3) Homework #6 is due 2/22/17 4pm in Jiajie Xiao's mailbox in Olin 100. It is:
A) Problems 4.13, 4.14, 5.3, 5.6 and 5.13 from your classical mechanics textbook
- Note that the M matrix in 14a has a typo. Figure out what the typo is.
- You are welcome to solve 14b computationally, but not the rest of the assignment.
- Do 5.6b, and 5.13 using the levi-civita symbol, aka anti-symmetric tensor aka alternating tensor. Any other solutions will be counted wrong.
B) The computational problem assigned in class on 02/17/17.
4) We now have a departmental webpage with links to suggested math videos for review. I encourage you to review the ones on Cross products, Line integrals and Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors.


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Royal Automobile Club, Pall Mall
Cleaning and repair of existing white Bianco Carrara and Pentelican marble to the basement swimming pool and Turkish baths, plunge pool and treatment rooms.
The works involved:
- Refurbishment works included the reuse of much of the original material plus designing, manufacturing and installation of new material comprising:
- Recording, removal and storage and re-fix existing cladding
- New floors to falls in wet rooms but level in dry areas
- New Marble clad walls
- Treads and risers fitted with anti-slip inserts
- New Vanity units and make-up counters
- All areas were finished with marble skirtings and architraves
- New linking marble staircases
- Stones used include: -
- White Carrara
- Verdi Guatamala
- Botticino
- Pentelican
- Mosaics
- Finishes range from polished to sand blasted.
Other Internal Marble & Stonework projects
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I added some new clothespeg ladies to the shop. I will make more in a few weeks dressed in tweeds and plaids, but this first set I wanted to just be simple and elegant, maybe a little more city than country.
This weekend I'm looking forward to: a night out with friends, a 40th birthday party to attend, a bit of reading, maybe a flea market. What I really want to do is go apple picking in a beautiful orchard. But that may have to wait for the next weekend, just don't think we can squeeze anything more into this one.
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Thanks for ordering so many John Packer instruments from us.
With no website yet (even though, finally, we were able to secure "midsouthmusic-dot-com" a year or so ago), we seem to be selling, on average, a couple of JP instruments each week...mostly (seemingly) via word-of-mouth from TubeNet.
"two-per-week", obviously, isn't huge, but it (as a mom-and-pop with no website) impresses us. Again, thanks!
I'm still really enjoying my own JP379FF (remarkably resembles - in appearance and quality - a B&S gold brass PT-15...down to the fit/finish of slides, rotors, and genuine Minibal links), which potentially offers a more "foundational/ensemble" sound - and a more easily accessible medium-low range - than my aging "Symphonie Modell". I used it recently at several commencement exercises, as well as a wedding. European-model-resembling resonance/intonation aside, it's just really nice to own/use a costs-half-or-less instrument that does ~NOT~ sport any annoying costs-half-or-less mechanical issues.
...and - for those of you who are Besson/B&H Sovereign euphonium fans (yet - as many of us are - lacking the $8K to acquire one) you should be "all over" the JP-Sterling euphonium (with or without main slide trigger) or the even lower-priced JP 2XX-series compensating euphonium (which more resembles the classic "Imperial" models).
band directors and friends-of-woodwind-players-who-are-encountering-difficulty-affording-doubling-instruments: Every time (as a "wild card") I order yet-another different woodwind instrument from JP, I'm (not just pleasantly surprised, but truly) shocked as to the extraordinary quality/playability/intonation for the stupid-low prices...
ex: the (strongly-resembles-Selmer/Paris,-except-it-is-plastic) low-C bass clarinet...wow...just WOW !


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Summer Quotes
15 Great Sayings and Quotes about Summer
What is a blessing for Scandinavians might be the harshest seasons in some places of Africa and Asia. Yes, I am talking about Summer. People have said and written stuff about this season which became famous. I have collected some of these famous quotes about Summer in the article. Here they are..
A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and the lawn mower is broken.
James Dent
People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.
Anton Chekhov
In June, as many as a dozen species may burst their buds on a single day. No man can heed all of these anniversaries; no man can ignore all of them.
Aldo Leopold
If a June night could talk, it would probably boast it invented romance.
Bern Williams
In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.
Albert Camus
I wonder what it would be like to live in a world where it was always June.
L. M. Montgomery
Love is to the heart what the summer is to the farmer's year - it brings to harvest all the loveliest flowers of the soul.
Author Unknown
Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
Warren Buffett
Be like the flower, turn your face to the sun.
Kahlil Gibran
August creates as she slumbers, replete and satisfied.
Joseph Wood Krutch
One swallow does not make a summer.
There shall be eternal summer in the grateful heart.
Celia Thaxter
Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting and autumn a mosaic of them all.
Stanley Horowitz
In winter I get up at night And dress by yellow candle-light.In summer quite the other way I have to go to bed by day.
Robert Louis Stevenson
What is one to say about June, the time of perfect young summer, the fulfillment of the promise of the earlier months, and with as yet no sign to remind one that its fresh young beauty will ever fade.
Gertrude Jekyll
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I have found it impossible to carry the heavy burden of responsibility, and to discharge my duties as King as I would wish, without the help and support of the woman I love.Edward VIIIThe world is a dangerous...
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Courage plays an important role in our lives especially the lives of successful people. Here are a few inspirational and motivational quotes about courage. Read them, remember them and quote them to others. ...
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Here are some wonderful inspirational quotes on winter. I have gone through a large number of quotes on the subject but chose these few to share with you. When you live in Texas, every single time you see...