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Hui hui hui!!!
As you might note in the list of accepted applications for the Geospatial Foundation Osgeo, Google is gonna make us all a present... some founding to bring netcdf and temporal navigation support in JGrass-Udig and friends! The doors are open!
Thanks to Jody for taking the burden to mentor me :)
Thanks to Google for the summer of code.
Thanks to Silli for supporting this.
Well, for being also the day I heard about Oracle buying up Sun... well, the day ended better than it started...


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The term 'Personal Loan' is more generic as it carries several options to help the needy individuals. These options include unemployed loan, or Christmas loan, or bad credit loan, or homeowner loan, or unsecured loan, or secured loan, or just any other loan. However, all of them follow the personal loan lending criteria and are issued by the money lenders who handle all types of loans under the category of personal loan. With the advent of the Internet, getting a personal loan has become easier than in the past. Any money seeker will always say that 'This website helped me get a loan' as there are many websites which deal with these personal loans. If you are in need of some emergency cash, you can browse any such site and use the Click Here option to get ready cash within a few hours of online approval.
When it comes to personal loans, the Lending Rate is excessively low. – Your search for the personal loan can be based on several reasons, but you cannot ignore the valid point that the loan is available on the excessively low rate of interest. Most often, the loan rate can also dip down further to one percent. Make sure you check with the online credit lending agency and discuss your offers.
More importantly, personal loans are disbursed quickly. A pre-approved personal loan will be disbursed in a few minutes to the money seekers. More importantly, these loans can be used for any purpose like wedding, holiday and many more events. On the other hand car loan or a home loan can be used for such an exclusive purpose only, i.e., the money can be used for what the lenders disperse the loans.
Also, one can get personal loans with easy documentation which is known to be hassle-free for the loan seeker. Simple documents are enough to get these personal loans. More importantly, personal loan repayment is very much pocket –friendly and can be paid in easy installments as desired by the loan seeker.
When money is available during the much needed time, people always get frustrated and even embarrassed to ask others for help. In this context, an unsecured personal loan with bad credit which is offered by few money lenders will be a great boon in those hard times. It might seem likely that even bad credit borrowers can utilize an unsecured personal loan with bad credit to improve their financial situation. It is just a matter of finding a loan deal which is affordable as well as practical. However, this task needs some good effort from the individuals but not an impossible one.
There are a few reasons why this kind of unsecured loan is to be availed by the borrowers. First of all, a borrower may not have anything to offer as collateral, and hence he or she has no other choice to meet the emergency. Secondly, the borrower may not wish to place any of his or her possession of value they have at risk. Any default on the loan shall mean that the possession or item is lost to the money lender in compensation.

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UFC Gym Corona held a workshop for the members of their Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and No-Gi classes. The Corona classes are taught by Instructors Thomas Kenney and Kenric Toliver. The UFC Gym Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu curriculum is overseen by Head Instructor Mauricio Tinguinha.
Black belts in attendance at the workshop were Mauricio Tinguinha, Thomas Kenney, Kris Shaw, Joe Camacho, Kenric Toliver, Rene Salazar and Brandon Bender. Over sixty students attended this Saturday workshop; white, blue, purple and brown belts of all ages.


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I'm proud to announce the launch of the Cloud9 Emporium's – "A Greener Spring" indie marketplace!
This curated marketplace is full of indie talent that is committed to recycling, reusing & using green practices when creating their art & design.
Here's a snapshot…it's very modern & minimal, which I love.
Come check it out & shop handmade. Green gifts thread lightly on the Earth. So be the change you wish to see in the world. 🙂
If you are featured, here are some a badges you can use to promote the Emporium. Just right click, & save as to your computer.


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This one is fun, because it can be done EARLY in pregnancy. Best done with the 6-8 week u/s. It is based off of the theory that you can tell the sex by the placement of the PLACENTA in the uterus. The theory is if a boy, then the placenta will form on the right side of the sac, and if a girl the left. Now, you have to remember, if you get an abdominal u/s, the image is mirrored, so left is right and right is left. If you get a baginal u/s then it is true to what you see on the screen, right is right and left is left.
If you see the u/s picture, you can see a dark thick part right outside the sac bottom right. Since this was an abdominal u/s, left is right and right is left. So by Ramzi method, little bean is a GIRL.
** remember, these are done strictly for fun, I don't hold much in these theories, and I will be thrilled with whatever we have!!!**
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I finally got tired of my daughter sometimes looking like a boy and always having plain jane hair. These days, with so many parents letting their toddler boys' hair grow long and dressing their daughters in gender-neutral clothing (guilty), you can't tell the child's sex by length of hair or type of clothing alone. However, if the toddler in question has pigtails, it's probably a girl.
So I did my research. As a midwife and nurse, I research the heck out of everything. So should it come as a surprise that I ended up with nine pages of toddler hairstyles pinned to my "Kids" Pinterest board? I found pages like this and this and this and this and this and this and this and this and this.
So I decided to start simple. On July 4, I put her hair in simple pigtails. Isn't she so cute?! And it only took an hour for her to pull them out! Then three days later, figuring the problem was inadequate hair length, I pulled the front half into pigtails and pulled those into back half pigtails. Those lasted a whole two hours!
It seems every other day I read something (usually satirical but sometimes serious) about how the purpose of Pinterest seems to be to make you hate your life. But seriously… there MUST be a way to keep toddler hair put up!! I've SEEN it… like, in REAL LIFE!!


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So this week has probably been the most productive one I've had in a while. I managed to get some things done, so much so that I forgot to write this yesterday! Anyhow, I'm writing this today instead.
1. I met up with friends on Saturday, at the festival, and had a great time! Don't have any pictures with them, shame! It was awesome.
2. My photo got on the popular page of 365 Project!
3. There's been some good tv this week, actually. The Great British Bake Off was on on Wednesday, Tumble was on on Saturday and Got To Dance was on on Saturday and Sunday, although I didn't watch it.
4. I had contemporary on Tuesday, which was great. We finished our first troupe dance, and I got to test out my new leotard. I also got offered a solo, so I've found some music out for that!


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Shouting out sneakers and stylish stuff aside, we're all about bigging up the next big thing, which is why ASOS has launched ASOS Supports Talent to help young creatives as they turn their ambitions into real-life projects.
Born and raised in Cannes in the south of France, painter and artist Lucas Beaufort (instagram.com/lucas_beaufort) is a self-proclaimed 'skate rat'.
Inspired by board graphics, 90s nostalgia and the wider skate scene, Beaufort turned the monsters from his childhood nightmares into a body of work, which has been exhibited all over the world.
For his next endeavour, he's looking to document the contrast between urban spaces and the wilderness, culminating in a final exhibition in London and an auction to raise funds for charity.
Check out all eight of the creatives in the ASOS Supports Talent initiative right here...http://asos.do/yyOpXF
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All you need is salt, kool-aid and a little water.
I mixed 26oz of salt and packet of kool-aid and couple teaspoons of water(not too much) you don't want it runny.
Then the kids had bowls and scooper's and went to town. I also gave them some sprinkles to add to the ice cream play. Then after alittle play, I took out the silicone ice cream cones and they played with them.
Salt cost $.40 for 26oz
Kool-aid cost $.20
Sprinkles $1.00
Hours of fun play for very inexpensive, plus they are using their imaginations for play.
|"J" loved the smell of the kool-aid sand
|"C" making her ice cream cone
|"J" pretending like he was going to eat the ice cream.
They loved playing pretend ice cream shop. If you like this you might want to check out these links listed. Couple others ways to make sand with salt Home made chalk sand and Glowing sand .
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Is that a custom bow fuel tank I see lying in the grass??
Fighting gravity is never cheap.
Pretty sure that 2nd one wasn't Rob last weekend!
In 1492 Native Americans discovered Columbus lost at sea
If I come across as an arrogant, know-it-all jerk, it's because I am
Where was that second pik taken at Rob?
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27' Wooldridge Super Sport Offshore Pilothouse PRIME TIME!
Kodiak Custom Fishing Tackle Pro Staff
Heavy Hitter Fishing Crew
Sorry guys, I should have captioned that second photo.
Im interested.....details when you get time would be great.
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Alaskas only Planar diesel heaters dealer, service, warranty, and installation.
Alaskas only Lonestar drum winch dealer, Whirlwind props, Stinger gearbox, and Alumatech airboats.
hoping for some water soon, 2018 wooly alaskan XL SJ
27867680_1572718256168903_7890364830445374315_n.jpgCant wait to get the new Jet wet! My son and I made an upgrade.
Anyone have a pic of how their transducer is mounted on an Alaskan XL? Any tips suggestions to mount it low enough to work on plane but out of danger of getting damaged? About to mount mine today.
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Alex Zander, is a Nutraceutical and Anti-Aging Consultant, Health Coach, founder of The Ageless Society, creator of a Didra, Postpartum Weight Loss Program. Author of books on human aging "The Aging Theories" & "10 Biological Processes". He is a fellow member of American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine, member of Life Extension Foundation & other organizations leading the anti-aging field.
Renou de Bure, PhD, is a biomedical gerontologist & member of Rejuvenation Research, the world's highest program focused on aging and longevity. He received PhD from the University of Cambridge in 1987 and 2002. Dr. Renou de Bure is a Fellow of Gerontological Society and the American Aging Association He sits on the editorial and scientific advisory boards of numerous journals and organizations.
Debra Monson, PhD, holds a master's & doctorate from the California Institute of Technology (She has specialized in human therapeutics including vaccines, monoclonal antibodies, product development, nutraceuticals formulations, artificial intelligence, hormones, and nutritional supplementation. She authored numerous articles and served as an editor for the Journal of Medicinal Food.
Jonathan Davis, MD, is medical director of the Tankom Clinic in Western, VA. Received his MD from the University of Massachusetts and has taught natural biochemical medical treatments since 1981. Dr. Davis pioneered the use of bio identical hormones and DHEA in daily medical practice. He has authored 15 books and publishes Nutrition and Wellness, a monthly newsletter with a 120,000 circulation.
Cheryl Bryan, RN, the author of an inspirational book "It's My World Too". Trained at the University Hospital of the West Indies. Earned bachelor degree in nursing from Nova Southeastern University and presently completing Masters degree as a Family Nurse Practitioner. She has a passion and presently writing a book on the role that hormones play in our bodies and changes that occur with the aging process.
Chi Shum, MD, is a board certified neurosurgeon, trainer, and lecturer. He recently retired from his neurosurgical practice to devote his time to nutritional and anti-aging studies and research. He has written numerous journal articles and books and currently publishes a monthly nutrition newsletter, The Wellness Report.
David V, Shmansten, MD, is director of the Youth and Wellness Foundation in New York City. Dr. Shmansten received his BA from Pennsylvania University and his MD from New York University Medical School. He is the author of Younger You (2006) and Younger Thinner You (2009) and over 50 research papers and is clinical assistant professor of integrative medicine in the Barvin Weldon Medical College.
John Boldnik, PhD, is the author of two books on cancer therapy, Cancer and Natural Medicine (1996) and Natural Compounds in Cancer Therapy (2001). He obtained his PhD at the University Of New York Graduate School Of Biomedical Sciences with research at the MD Anderson Cancer Center, focusing on screening models to identify new anticancer drugs. He is currently leading a nonprofit cancer research.
Francesca Erikson, MD, is an anti-aging specializing in facial rejuvenation for 10 years. She has a private practice in Munich Germany. In her integrative approach to longevity she is working together with an international network of experts to improve treatment outcomes for patients with a special focus on natural and translational medicine.
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Nurturing Faith
One of the most moving and beautiful moments in the life of a congregation is when a child is held in the arms of a minister and baptized. At that moment we invoke the presence of the Holy Spirit and ask for God's blessing to be upon the child and the parents. The child is declared to belong to the worldwide Church and from that instant is identified with the people of God.
Baptism is also, however, a profound event for the community of faith. The Church promises not only to receive the children being baptized, but also commits to supporting the parents in their walk with God. This commitment manifests itself in a life-long journey of faith that is embarked upon by the entire community.
"Come to the edge," he said. "We can't, we're afraid!" they responded. "Come to the edge," he said. "We can't, We will fall!" they responded. "Come to the edge," he said. And so they came. And he pushed them. And they flew." Guillaume Apollinaire
Teaching faith is a sacred, tricky business. Faith is not being able to recite books of the Bible, or memory verses or even recounting each week's sermons. While there is much to be gained from these achievements, they do not automatically indicate faith. Nurturing faith is something that this faith community pledges to do for our baptized children.
It is a shared responsibility that we participate in through teaching Sunday School, stooping down to tie our children's shoes, ushering them to their seats with a smile, joyfully singing next to our children in worship, sharing our own stories of faith with them, pouring tea at Coffee Hour as they pretend to be in a fancy tea party, taking them aside and telling them how much we admire them. We, as the church, in small ways and large ways, through our loyalty, friendship, support and smiles live out our faith before our children.
And then in Grade 8, our students join Confirmation Class. Confirmation is a class, but it is more than a class. It is a class in that it is didactic; the students learn about God, the Bible, Church, Christian practices and get to serve together, but it is not a class in that acquiring knowledge is not the primary objective. Students acquiring a faith of their own is the objective of Confirmation Class. Faith is a response to an encounter with truth. German philosopher, Martin Heidegger sees truth as relational. It is not an assertion of facts, but a disclosure, a revealing that can only be experienced when we are open to mystery.
Confirmation is a time to give students the opportunity to be open to mystery. During this time, it is our prayer that truth discloses itself to them, and that the students respond to this truth of God's love with a faith of their own. Confirmation is a kicking them out of the nest of their parents' faith as well as their churches' faith. It is leading them to the edge of their fear, insecurities, worries, pain and doubt and inviting them to offer these to God. It is inviting them to jump off the cliff, to take a leap of faith with their own two legs, to feel what it means to let go and to surrender, so that that they will fly.


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Tracyanne Campbell, who for five albums and 17 years has fronted the delightful Glaswegian chime-pop quintet Camera Obscura, maintains she isn't overly secretive.
But unlike many modern, tech-savvy artists, she's not interested in any online oversharing.
"I'm not up for declaring to the world things that people could only find out if they actually knew me," she says. "I don't have a Facebook page, and I've got an Instagram page, but I only allow my friends to follow me, because I don't see why anybody would want to look at a picture of me or a meal I've cooked."
Fans could parse the lyricist's songwriting for clues. But again — as on Camera Obscura's brilliant new "Desire Lines" for 4AD, which the band will be touting in town this week — Campbell doesn't betray much. She plays her topical cards close to her vest and doesn't want listeners to take her literally.
"I think the misconception is that all of the songs are romantic love songs, and that all I write about are different types of relationships. So I can safely tell you that a tune like 'William's Heart' is not about a boyfriend — I'm much more ambiguous than that."
The composer's style was clear on early single "Lloyd, I'm Ready to be Heartbroken," a playful, coquettish response to Lloyd Cole and the Commotions' "Are You Ready to be Heartbroken?"
But "Desire Lines" is still rooted in cold, hard reality.
After touring ceaselessly behind 2009's "My Maudlin Career," Campbell was feeling exhausted, disillusioned and at a creative impasse.
Then band keyboardist Carey Lander was diagnosed with cancer, and all future plans got tabled while she received treatment and eventually recovered.
"Carey was very ill for a while, and that became our priority," says Campbell, who penned the straightforward flamenco-spiced tribute 'Every Weekday' in her bandmate's honor. "Actually, it gave us time to step back and get the new songs in a state that we were happy with."
Then the group flew to Portland, Ore., to track "Desire Lines" with red-hot producer Tucker Martine, who invited Neko Case and My Morning Jacket's Jim James to the sessions.
Campbell remains vague on a synth-powered "Break It to You Gently" and the simple vow to become a better person, "New Year's Resolution."
"I'm certainly not pretentious when it comes to writing lyrics, and I don't go out of my way to be mean to anybody," she says. "But I've not always been, er, nice when I'm writing. Like on 'Troublemaker,' which was more of a gentle threat."
To whom? Campbell snickers. "Maybe I was addressing the world, in general. Maybe I was saying, 'Don't mess with me!'"Camera Obscura
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— HI there, I'm a creative developer & hobbyist musician from Buenos Aires, Argentina. Started working on the web more than 10 years ago and have never looked back.
Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
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Creating things is my passion; I'm currently working for Entermotion, a multidisciplinary design studio in Wichita Kansas, creators of apps like Jumpchart and Atlas.md.
On my free time I love writing music, learning new stuff and just having a good time with my son and wife.
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CMP Media's InformationWeek, InternetWeek and Network Computing Dominate Competition in Reach and Readership
Newly Released IntelliQuest CIMS Business Influencer v8.0 Study Confirms Publications' Leadership in Their Market Segments
CMP Media's Business Technology Group's (BTG) investment in industry-leading editorial quality and audience development continues to result in the most powerful technology buying audiences. According to the newly released IntelliQuest Computer Industry Media Study (CIMS), Business Study, InformationWeek, InternetWeek and Network Computing rank #1 in their respective competitive sets in providing reach to the most powerful buying audience segment with purchase influence spanning multiple products. (1)
IntelliQuest CIMS is an independent syndicated study that provides insight into the reading and buying habits of technology influencers. Of the 52.6 million purchase influencer universe, the study identifies a core business technology buying audience of 2.6 million IS (information systems) professionals(2) -- the individuals who are charged with leading the technology purchase process for a wide variety of products and services in corporate America today.
The study confirms that this IS target is the most powerful audience segment studied, with each individual spending an average of $720,000 annually on technology products and services. In comparison, the entire study's average influencer spends $226K(3). This IS target also leads all other segments studied in average spending for the majority of the major product categories.(4)
Marketing Challenge: Efficiently Reaching the Most Powerful Buyers
Technology vendors are challenged with reaching the most influential and powerful individuals in an effective and efficient manner, especially in the current economic climate. Reaching the influential IS target is paramount for today's technology companies.
CMP Media's Business Technology Group delivers this audience. InformationWeek, InternetWeek and Network Computing reach more of this most powerful audience than any competitor in their market segments individually and provide the most efficient way to reach them as a portfolio.
IS Publications Average Issue IS Rank Audience(5) InformationWeek 564,000 1 InfoWorld 428,000 2 Computerworld 400,000 3 CIO 280,000 4 eWeek 235,000 5 Networking Publications Average Issue IS Rank Audience Network Computing 339,000 1 Network World 300,000 2 Internet Publications Average Issue IS Rank Audience InternetWeek 295,000 1 Interactive Week 164,000 2
The CMP Media BTG portfolio delivers the most efficient combination of unduplicated reach and frequency when compared to a schedule of equal insertions in IDG's four and Ziff Davis' two IS/networking publications. This comparison is done with a typical flight, across core IS buyers, of 36x insertions6. (Gross Rating Points equals Reach percentage multiplied by Average Frequency).
CMP Media BTG: IDG: Ziff Davis: InformationWeek (12x) CIO (9x) eWeek (18 x) InternetWeek (12x) Computerworld (9x) InteractiveWeek (18x) Network Computing (12x) InfoWorld (9x) Network World (9x) Total insertions: 36 Total insertions: 36 Total insertions: 36 Total GRP: 549 Total GRP: 484 Total GRP: 274 Investment in Editorial Quality and Audience Development Delivers
"Our commitment to our reader-customer has once again resulted in a strong performance in the CIMS Study. This year's results, coupled with our consistently outstanding performance over the last few years, provides additional validation that we deliver the most powerful business technology buyers in the market, said Adam K. Marder, President of the Business Technology Group. "We are continuing to invest in the editorial quality and circulation strategies which result in the readership responsible for these stellar results."
About CMP Media
CMP Media LLC (http://www.cmp.com/) is a leading high-tech media company providing essential information and marketing services to the entire technology spectrum-the builders, sellers and users of technology worldwide. Capitalizing on its editorial strength, CMP is uniquely positioned to offer marketers comprehensive, integrated media solutions tailored to meet their individual needs. Its diverse products and services include newspapers, magazines, Internet products, research, direct marketing services, education and training, trade shows and conferences, custom publishing, testing and consulting.
1. IS: Primary Job Function MIS/DP/IS/IT or Job Title CIO/VP of MIS, IS, IT (65422!64766) 2. See note 1. 3. Average total spending based (NUMV(13[18-25]:AZ)). 4. IS has the highest average spending for Systems, Desktop PC/Workstation, Handheld devices, Peripherals, Data storage/backup, Networking, Telecommunications, and Service and support, when compared to: Other IT ((65413!65414!65419!65410!65423!65427!6476X)&'(65422!64766), CXOs (64761!64762!64763!64764!64765)&'(65413!65414!65419!65410! 65423!65427!6476X!65422!64766), Department managers (64767!64768)&'(65413!65414!65419!65410!65423!65427!6476X! 65422!64766), and Other end users (64769!64760!6476Y!64771!64772!64773!64774)&' (65413!65414!65419!65410!65423!65427!6476X!65422!64766). 5. See note 1. 6. Reach and frequency analysis computed using IMS software, IMS Modal method. For more information: Amy Doherty, Director of Business Technology Research, 781-839-1268 firstname.lastname@example.com
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Contact: Amy Doherty, Director of Business Technology Research of CMP
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|This delicious Szechuan noodles recipe is very simple and easy to make with minimal ingredients.
|Schezwan Vegetable Noodles
Veg Noodles or Egg Noodles- 1 packet( 150 gms)
Cabbage shredded- 1/4 cup
Green beans- 5 nos( thinly sliced)
Carrot small- 1 no( julienned)
Garlic cloves- 3 nos( minced)
Whole dry red chilli- 2 nos
Ajinomoto- less than 1/4 tsp
Red chilli paste- 1/2 tbsp* or Red chilli powder- 1 tsp
Salt to taste
Oil- 2 tbsp
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Cook noodles as per instructions on carton box or wrapper and set aside.
In a wok or sauce pan heat 2 tbsp oil, when oil is hot add whole dry red chilli and garlic. Sauté until red chilli turns brown.
Add cabbage, carrot and green beans to the wok and sauté vegetables on high heat.
Sautéd vegetables should retain crispiness.
Now add the cooked noodles and give a stir, season noodles and vegetables with red chilli paste, ajinomoto and required salt.
Give a good stir until vegetables and noodles are well blended on high heat.
Serve hot Schezwan vegetable noodles along with chilli chicken or cauliflower manchurian of your choice.
|Szechuan noodles recipe
*To make red chilli paste
Boil dry red chillis in water until the chillis are soft and water turns red in color. Remove chillis from water and grind chillis to smooth paste along with few tbsp of vinegar and oil.
About 30 red chillis, 3 tbsp vinegar and 5 tbsp oil will yield 1 cup red chilli paste.
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Luxury Partnerships and HNW Business Development Manager
- Recruiter
- Gail Kenny Executive Recruitment
- Location
- Field Based
- Salary
- ££
- Posted
- 03 Apr 2018
- Closes
- 01 May 2018
- Ref
- Job Discipline
- Business Development
- Experience Level
- Manager
- Sectors
- Leisure & Travel
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
A unique new role in a forward thinking, fast paced environment, to develop and manage new and existing UK HNW partnerships in the luxury sector. You will define and implement the Tourism strategy to deliver UK HNW sales and drive quality footfall. You will need excellent contacts and a good understanding of luxury and HNW UK Market, ideally with partnership/loyalty experience. This is a business development role therefore the ability to develop strong sales opportunities and partnerships, be self- motivated and a great brand ambassador is key. Working closely with the tourism, partnerships and hospitality teams, you will have a collaborative approach to support key sales events and create and implement sales activities to drive spend.
The position is largely field based but will also require time spent in the office based in Oxfordshire, building strong internal relationships. A background in luxury tourism/destination or hotels, Private Jet, or luxury partnership/loyalty programmes is needed.
Due to the high amount of interest that we receive for each of our roles, we unfortunately cannot respond to each application individually. Therefore only successful applicants will be contacted.


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Yes! I'm still at it--still making Christmas cards!! Here's another round easel card, but it's not quite a mini one. I found a round die cut that's bigger than my largest Nesties. It's from Marianne Design and it measures about 5 1/4 inches in diameter--love this size! It's also a cutting and embossing die.
This sweet angel from Magnolia is called Tilda With Hanging Heart from the A Merry Little Christmas Collection 2010. You can purchase the stamp for this image (and anything Magnolia and much more) from Diana's store Magnolia-licious.
I am using this card as my entry into the following challenges:
Paper Sundaes Challenge 48 - Anything but a square or rectangle.
Creative Inspirations Challenge 49 - Anything goes Christmas.
Stamp With Fun Challenge 89 - Christmas.
Passion for Promarkers Week 80 - Anything goes.
A Spoonfull of Sugar Challenge 133 - Christmas card.
Creative Card Crew - Anything goes.
Flutter By Wednesday Challenge 135 - Open challenge.
Crafty Catz Challenge 63 - Your choice.
Allsorts Challenge Week 83 - Free and Easy - Anything goes.
Top Tip Tuesday - Christmas Inspired Challenge
The inside of my card looks like this. The sentiment on the bottom section was heat embossed in gold embossing powder. I've added a little blank space on the top section to write my personal notes on.
Thanks for your visit. I appreciate you dropping by during this very busy time of year. Have a wonderful and produtive weekend!
Stamps: Tilda with Hanging Heart from Magnolia's A Merry Little Christmas Collection 2010, sentiment from Inkadinkadoo clear stamp set Winter Shapes.
DP: The Paper Company Holiday Paper Pack Green Scrolls.
Tools: Marianne Design Creatable LR0112, Spellbinder Nestabilities Standard Circle Large, Coluzzle Circle Template, Nellie Snellen Multi Frames MFD010, Big Shot Machine.
Misc.: MS twig punch, Mark Richard pearl stickers, Glitter Ritz micro-fine glitter Light gold, Martha Stewart crystal fine glitter, Tim Holtz distress ink pad faded jean, Michaels pearl stickers.


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It interests me more to have a human relationship with you than a musical relationship. I want to see if I can express myself in words, in sounds that have to do with a human relationship. At the same time, I would like to be able to speak of the relationship between two talents, between two doings. For me, the human relationship is much more beautiful, because it allows you to gain the freedom that you desire, for yourself and for the other.
Ornette Coleman
The Other's Language: Jacques Derrida interviews Ornette Coleman


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Then I thought..."What else can I make with the kit?" - a cute post-it note book! I was excited that a regular long post-it book fitted perfectly!How to make post-it note book
1. Score the card at 1cm & 10cm (in the same direction as the centre score already on the card).
If you work in inches, try scoring at a 1/2 inch & 4-1/8 inches.
2. Fold & flatten each score line. Adhere post-it pad to base (76mm x 127mm / 3 x 5 inch post-it)
3. Wrap gold elastic cord (from kit) around the note book & tie in a bow at the front. Secure it on the top with some sticky strip (where tape/glue will be hidden by decoration).
4. Attach the sentiment banner, thin coloured banner & gold banner as shown using dimensionals or tombow glue (or however you like).
5. Give it to a stationery loving friend.
Here's a closer pic of my post-it book decoration.
I've posted out Catalogues to all my regular customers, so they'll be arriving very soon. If you'd like a free copy of each, plus my new newsletter, just contact me with your details.
Back soon with lots more to share.
Inky wishes, Di
Edited 28 Jan
Here's what you'll receive in your Good as Gold kit - choose it free during Sale-a-bration with a $90 purchase. Click on the pic for a bigger version.
Good as Gold card kit (free Sale-a-bration)
Stampin' dimensionals & sticky strip
Non SU - post-it book (76mm x 127mm / 3 x 5 inch post-it)


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SEC loses again: Agency judge clears State Street execs
Back when former Goldman Sachs director Rajat Gupta's most pressing problem was the Securities and Exchange Commission's civil case against him, his defense scored a small victory when the SEC agreed to drop an administrative proceeding against him and brought civil charges in federal court instead. Gupta's lawyer, Gary Naftalis of Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel, had fought to have Gupta's case heard by a federal judge, rather than an SEC administrative law judge, because the rules of evidence in administrative proceedings favor the agency. Among other things, the SEC can admit hearsay evidence, and defendants don't have the same rights to depose opposing witnesses. Although the SEC can't seek the same penalties in administrative proceedings as it can in federal court, they can be an effective way for the agency to make a statement about improper conduct.
Except when the defendants win.
On Friday, the SEC's chief administrative law judge, Brenda Murray, entered a painstaking 58-page decision that cleared former State Street executives John Flannery and James Hopkins on all of the SEC's sprawling allegations that they misled investors about the mortgage-backed securities holdings in State Street bond funds. Murray found that the agency failed to show at trial that Flannery and Hopkins violated any securities laws in communicating with investors about the funds' subprime MBS holdings. She went out of her way to describe the former State Street execs as candid, believable witnesses who were frustrated to be on trial.
Murray's ruling is yet another courtroom rebuke to the SEC, which in the last few years has seen several high-profile trials end in victory for defendants. Most notably, in 2009 a San Francisco federal judge dismissed stock options backdating charges against Broadcom executives; and in 2010 a Manhattan federal judge exonerated two traders in a landmark SEC case alleging insider trading in credit-default swaps. The State Street loss is perhaps an even bigger black eye for the SEC, given that the loss came in an administrative proceeding, the agency's home turf.
"This is a case where the SEC should never have proceeded against my client," said Mark Pearlstein of McDermott Will & Emery, who represented former State Street Americas chief investment officer Flannery. "We felt all along that if we received a fair hearing we would prevail. Chief judge Murray gave us a very fair hearing."
Hopkins, who was a former head of project engineering for State Street, was represented by John Sylvia of Mintz Levin. "We and our client are thrilled," Sylvia said. "We've maintained from the outset that this is a case that never should have been brought."
The ruling may be a setback for the SEC in another way as well. Agency lawyers urged the chief ALJ to adopt a narrow interpretation of the U.S. Supreme Court's June 2011 ruling in Janus Capital v. First Derivative Traders. In Janus, the court ruled that a mutual fund adviser isn't liable for the fund's allegedly false statements in a prospectus because the adviser did not make the statements at issue. The SEC argued that the Janus decision should apply only to private securities fraud cases, and not to its causes of action. The administrative law judge, citing a ruling by U.S. district judge Colleen McMahon in Securities and Exchange Commission v. Kelly, said Janus extends to the SEC's allegations.
In the end that didn't matter in the case against Flannery and Hopkins, because Murray found that the SEC's allegations of misstatements fell short. But the agency may want to think twice about asking the full commission to review the chief ALJ's reasoning on Janus. The SEC, which told Reuters that it is reviewing the ruling, has three weeks to decide whether to appeal Murray's initial determination to the full commission.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Mark Felt, the mysterious "Deep Throat" source who helped Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein crack the Watergate scandal that brought down President Richard Nixon, has died at age 95.
Felt suffered from congestive heart failure but the exact cause of his death at home on Thursday was not immediately known, said the Press Democrat newspaper in Santa Rosa, California, 55 miles north of San Francisco.
In its report on Felt's death, the New York Times called him "the most famous anonymous source in American history."
Felt, the No. 2 official at the FBI when the Watergate case broke, kept his role in the story a secret for 30 years. Only in 2005, at age 91, was his part made public in an article in Vanity Fair magazine written by Felt's family lawyer.
"I'm the guy they used to call Deep Throat," Felt told attorney John O'Connor.
For years, people had speculated and argued about the identity of "Deep Throat," whose name was derived from the title of a popular pornographic movie.
Vanity Fair scooped Woodward and Bernstein, who had promised not to reveal the name of the star source of their 1974 stories until after his death. But within a day of Felt's unveiling, Woodward wrote of his relationship with Felt.
Woodward said he turned to Felt after he and Bernstein wrote about the break-in at the offices of the Democratic National Committee at the Watergate complex in Washington.
"This was the moment when a source or friend in the investigative agencies of government is invaluable," Woodward wrote in the Post. "I called Felt at the FBI ... It would be our first talk about Watergate."
Woodward said Felt told him the Watergate case was going to "heat up." He abruptly hung up but then started to provide guidance on the story, Woodward said.
Following a complicated routine, Felt and Woodward would arrange to meet in an underground garage, with "Deep Throat" corroborating information the Post reporters had gleaned from other sources and outlining a government conspiracy.
"Felt believed he was protecting the bureau by finding a way, clandestine as it was, to push some of the information from the FBI interviews and files out to the public, to help build public and political pressure to make Nixon and his people answerable," Woodward wrote.
"He had nothing but contempt for the Nixon White House and their efforts to manipulate the bureau for political reasons."
Reporting by the Post and other news organizations on the White House's involvement in the Watergate break-in and other political "dirty tricks" forced Nixon's resignation in 1974.
More than 30 officials would ultimately plead guilty or be convicted, including Attorney General John Mitchell, who served 19 months for conspiracy, obstruction of justice and perjury.
Felt repeatedly denied he was "Deep Throat," even though his position at the FBI made him an obvious candidate, and Nixon himself suspected Felt of leaking to the media.
A character patterned on Felt showed up in the book and movie "All The President's Men," an account by Bernstein and Woodward of their Watergate reporting. Played by Hal Holbrooke, the "Deep Throat" character was seen in the shadows.
This portrayal was true to life, Woodward wrote, because Felt insisted on anonymity and was concerned that phone calls might be tapped.
Last month, Woodward and Bernstein visited Felt in Santa Rosa. It was Bernstein's first meeting with the famous source, who dealt only with Woodward during the Watergate days.
Born on August 17, 1913 in Twin Falls, Idaho, Felt came to Washington as a Capitol Hill staff member and later worked at the Federal Trade Commission before joining the FBI in 1942.
He served in the bureau's espionage section during World War Two and later worked in various field offices and oversaw some of the FBI's early investigations into organized crime.
Felt was appointed deputy associate director, the No. 3 job at the FBI, in 1971, and was disappointed when Nixon named L. Patrick Gray to head the agency after the death of its longtime chief, J. Edgar Hoover, in 1972.
Felt was convicted in 1980 of authorizing illegal break-ins at five homes in New York and New Jersey as part of the FBI's pursuit of the radical Weather Underground group. He was fined $5,000 and then pardoned by President Ronald Reagan in 1981.
Felt and his wife Audrey, who died in 1984, had two children.
Writing by Deborah Zabarenko; Additional reporting by Dean Goodman in Los Angeles; Editing by John O'Callaghan


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George Ewart Evans, author of
The Pattern Under the Plough
Ask the Fellows Who Cut the Hay
, is generally
acknowledged as one of the pioneers of what is known as "oral history", which essentially uses sound recordings to
chronicle the experiences of the "ordinary" people who till the soil, fight the wars, work in the mills, and build the ships,
but are seldom more than a statistic in official histories. Evans himself didn't like the term. He said it reminded him of
something a dentist kept in a filing cabinet, and that he preferred "spoken history". So do I, and that's what I call it here.
I began spoken history work in 1966, at Leeds University, tramping the lanes of the Yorkshire Dales with a (barely)
portable German tape machine called a Butoba, recording singers, fiddle and concertina players, and silver bands. After
a while the Butoba was replaced by a UHER Report, still hefty compared to today's solid state machines, but a reliable
portable reel to reel which made great recordings and became a BBC standard for many years.
In the late 70s I spent a year making spoken history recordings for the Arvon Foundation at Lumb Bank farmhouse near
Heptonstall in the Yorkshire Pennines (see Harry Greenwood below), and a decade after that I was recording life
histories in Weardale for a touring show with the late Boris Howarth called
Roving Rodney's Rambles
("rodney" is the
Weardale name for a tramp, a gentleman of the road).
In the early 1990s, not long after moving to the Highlands, I began to do a lot of sound recording work, and started to
use spoken history recordings in projects with schools in places like Applecross, Torridon and Poolewe. Spoken history
also played an important part in
From Sea to Sea
, a sound picture in reminiscence, story, song, music, and verse of the
Caledonian Canal, which was issued by The Highland Council in 1999, and in recent years I've worked on spoken
history projects for the NHS, Museums and Galleries Scotland, and RCAHMS.
Neddy Dick - Richard Alderson - appears
elsewhere in these pages. He was a hill
farmer from Keld in Swaledale, a musical
visionary. There's an image of his Rock
Band on the Music page. Here he is with
the Harmonium and Bells. While playing the
harmonium he would at the same time
strike Grandfather clock bells he had
begged from cottages up and down the
dale. One piece he played was the
Hallelujah Chorus. In the 1960s I met and
recorded people who remembered him
vividly. His instruments have long vanished.
Harry Greenwood was a farmer from
Blackshawhead way, in the Yorkshire
Pennines. Though he owned a lot of
land and property he lived alone in a
little terraced cottage up on the moors.
He was born in 1892. One day in 1975,
when I was recording him, he produced
an old ledger, in which he'd written his
life's history. I helped edit it, and it was
published by the Arvon Press. We
launched it with an exhibition of photos
and sound recordings in Hebden
Bridge, and it was a local best seller.
I've spent many happy days in Torridon
Primary School in Wester Ross. In 1994
Ann MacRae, one of several Gaelic
speaking head teachers in the west
Highlands, invited people from the
community to come and talk to the children
about how the school and the village used
to be. I recorded these sessions, together
with songs and music from the children,
and put them on to a cassette tape which
was sold to help school funds. The
recordings are still on sale, now
transferred to CD.
In 2008 I worked with Caithness artist
Joanne Kaar
in Crown Primary School
in Inverness. The project was part of the
Artsplay Highland programme. It
involved two ladies who had had very
different war time experiences, one in
Glasgow and the other on Skye, talking
to the P4 children about those
experiences. The children then decided
which of their anecdotes to make into
books, and how to tell those stories in
images and words over a maximum of
six pages.
The Strange Noise
is one of
the half dozen resulting books.


text: The Washington Post today reports that Democratic Reps. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) and Rep. Louise Slaughter (D-N.Y.) have asked U.S. Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch to open an investigation into "whether companies that purchase settlement payment rights have violated federal law amid mounting criticism that some deals have taken advantage of vulnerable residents in poor, urban communities. 'Our goal is to have the Attorney General's office take a deep dive into these practices and expose wrongdoing, because clearly we have a situation where people are preying on individuals who have already been victimized,'" the lawmakers said in a letter to Lynch last week. Van Hollen and Slaughter "are the latest to press for increased scrutiny of companies that purchase settlement payment rights following a report in The Washington Post that detailed how some deals have doled out dimes on the dollar to lead-paint poisoning victims who are poor and mentally disabled," according to the story. The Washington Post story, written by Terrence McCoy, reported that the structured settlement industry, that began in the 1980s, had few restrictions. Over the years, some states have passed laws, but Van Hollen was reported as questioning the effectiveness of those laws today. "Lawmakers ask attorney general to probe structured settlement buyouts," Sept. 1, 12015. http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/social-issues/lawmakers-ask-attorney-general-to-probe-structured-settlement-buyouts/2015/09/01/4de408a2-500f-11e5-9812-92d5948a40f8_story.html McCoy also reported that Slaughter said this isn't a local issue because it can have national consequences. "'When the victims run out of that [lump-sum] money, then the rest of us have to pick up the slack,' she said. 'It's another way they're forced onto public assistance.'" The congresswoman said that she is awaiting a response from the Attorney General's office.


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1. Research an intricate outline of an animal, for example...... something that represents you.
2. Once you have chosen your outline of an animal, you then start drawing it without no details just the outline of that animal you came up with.
3. After you have completed step 2, you then begin painting the inside of your animal warm or cool colours. I have chosen a cool colour for my animal on the inside and warm colours on the outside. It's your choice, do whatever you imagine.
4. Lastly, when you have finished painting the colours on the animal or background, you start pasteling the inside warm or cool colours. You can pastel every inch of the animal or the background with any pattern or design.


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Monday, October 11, 2010
WNG Hosts the IBG
This week WeNeverGraduate is in charge of hosting the Irish Blogger Gathering. Since the Western Michigan game is kind of a boring topic--if it's not a boring topic come next Monday for any reason other than a debate as to whether we ran up the score up too much then we're in deep trouble--I figured it'd be worthwhile to touch on some big picture issues concerning the ND program. The questions have been distributed to all the blogs and I'll post them on the site as they come in (with some analysis of each set of responses), but what I'd like to throw them out to the readers this week as well.
Feel free to email me responses to some or all of the questions at firstname.lastname@example.com and I'll post the best ones at the end of the week. I'm particularly looking forward to the answers for the Bonus Question where I'm guessing quite a few current and former O'Neill residents (including myself) will put far too much time and effort trying to find the perfect lineup. If you're too lazy to email them then just fire them off in the comment section.
1. The Irish have posted back-to-back victories over teams that have given us fits the past decade to pull back to .500, but when you head to the message boards on ND Nation, Rivals, etc. all you see is unrelenting negativity. Some cry Kelly's in over his head and doomed to fail, others bitch and moan about the run-to-pass ratio, and many more say that even though we've won the last two there's no improvement over last year's team. What's your take on the negativity that's swirling around the program on the internet? What message would you like to convey to ND Nation?
2. When Western Michigan and Tulsa were announced as 2010 opponents last fall there was a full-throttle meltdown among ND fans that was surpassed only by The F-Word Incident in April in terms of sheer outrage. Well, if the opinions expressed then are the same now the apocalypse has finally arrived and a MAC squad is about to forever sully our field by stepping foot on it. Have your thoughts on the Western Michigan/Tulsa games changed since they were announced? Would you rather ND Stadium sell out and continue the streak that extends back almost 40 years or see the streak broken so that the powers-that-be know just how disrespected you feel by the audacity they showed in scheduling such inferior opponents?
3. Most people painted AD Jack Swarbrick as the villain when the Western Michigan/Tulsa games were made public. Since then he's made drastic moves in locking down opponents on future schedules, went through the process of firing Weis and hiring Kelly, and navigated ND through the murky waters of conference realignment. Has your personal opinion on Swarbrick been altered over the past year?
4. We're at the halfway point so it's a perfect time to step back real quick and evaluate what's happened thus far. What have been your two biggest surprises at this juncture of the season? Choose one positive and one negative.
5. Which player that hasn't contributed much to this point in the season do you see emerging as a contributor down the stretch?
6. Scholarships are running thin and some tough decisions are going to have to be made this spring when it comes to offering 5th years to current seniors. If you're Coach Kelly who do you offer and who is left out in the cold to make room for the incoming freshman class? Here's a link to the 2011 scholarship chart for a list of potential 5th years.
7. *****BONUS***** You've been challenged to a Tailgate Olympiad by some chaunce from Southern Cal and you need to assemble a dream team of your fellow Irish fans to compete in the following events:
* Full Beer Flip Cup (four-man team)
* Hamburger Eating Contest (two-man team)
* Beer Pong
* Cornhole/Bags/Whatever You Call It
* Individual Case Race
* Thunderdome (one shotgun per minute until someone can't answer the bell)
Your captaincy role on this team is Ryder Cup style so you'll be monitoring the proceedings rather than actually partaking. Throw some internet love out to your fellow Tailgate Legends that have delivered through the years and let us know who you'd put in each slot to make sure Troy fell in the parking lot as well as on the field...and while you're at it, tell us what three songs you'd be blasting as you rolled to victory.
Posted by Mattare at 1:22 PM
Labels: Irish Blogger Gathering, Tailgating
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- The Lord of ShotsOctober 12, 2010 at 5:35 AM
The only acceptable circumstance where I would swallow every ounce of pride and become an honorary Domer involves, in some way, shape, or form, this curious game you call Thunderdome. You want me on that team, you NEED me on that team.ReplyDelete
I'm planning on heading down to Orlando some time in January or February.ReplyDelete
You and I have a date in The Thunderdome...and I promise you that "Lord of T-Dome" will be harder to come by than your "Lord of Shots" title was.
The LOS competition was like Secretariat vs whoever 2nd place was in the Belmont. LOTD will be more along the lines of Ali-Frazier.
Domer Law is up.ReplyDelete
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Wednesday, August 7, 2013
FREE Lego Blocks Happy Birthday Banner
I am planning Cooper's 3rd birthday party and we are going with a Lego theme. It is actually quite a small party with family and a few friends, but I'm always looking for an excuse to do cute projects, and of course giveaway free stuff to our readers!
To do the lego banner yourself, just click on the link below which will take you to the PDF file. Print the file (it will use a lot of colored ink, I suggest maybe printing the file at a Kinko's) then cut out each block. Clip the block letters to string using clothespins or binder clips and hang in your desired spot.
Lego Blocks Happy Birthday Banner PDF
We also have a Lego Birthday Invitation listed on our Etsy shop to go along with the Lego theme. Please check it out!
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so he signed up for the half-day tour after some persuasion (he felt that it was full of mines there and there's nothing to see).
...and we woke up at 6am to get off. he's the anxious one cos he paid 120k won for each person and we can't possibly miss the bus and waste the money. wheeheeheee. how to make one ganjeong!
we went to near central to catch our bus (at 9am) and ended up with some time for breakfast at dunkin. dunkin had these new waffle burgers that i really wanted to try. but THEY DIDN'T HAVE IT in the morning. suckers. we still ate there anyway. then grabbed starbucks! and then we only set off around 10am or so.
we passed by this place with a highway bridge that's apparently the shooting scene for avengers. it was blocked off for a week due to the shooting previously.
and then we are hereeeeeeeeeeeee
unfortunately you can't really take any pictures of the tunnel but this is an illustration of the tunnel we went to...
it was just about 1.6-1.65m in height so i had to bend some of the time. you walk about 300-500m down a really long slope then another 500m bending all the way to the end, which has a small little window.
and then you walk back.
like right up that 300-500m you went down from.
well, it sounds like a short distance but the slope is a killer. mr kong almost died when he went up. there were people who actually got claustrophobic or fainted inside cos it was so hot and small, and we PERSPIRED in the middle of winter. and looked for ice cream to eat once we came out. hahahahha.
well anyway moving on to some pictures of the surrounding! hahahha i like this pic!
and off we went to this place where you can see almost the whole of n.korea from. had to go up this little hill, which is prohibited when the weather is misty or rainy.
well... i don't know but it doesn't look like a place i wanna live in.
the last stop is the train station. apparently you can get here from the seoul station, and the train runs twice a day. too bad if you miss it...
this piano has strings made of barbed wire to signify the division between the 2 korea.
and outside, there's a huge panel of names for those who contributed to the construction of the station.
and that was the end of our trip.
we went to itaewon to have a quick lunch that was included in the package - bibimbap.
in order to catch the joseon magician show, we took a cab over to yongsan, but the seats were all taken except for the first row =_=
no way am i going to watch from there. so in the end we shopped a little at yongsan and went over to myeongdong to get all my cosmetics, then joined up with lumen & aryeong for dinner.
pion and skasha came along to chill at osulloc cafe, and we all took off for yongin around 9pm, before the countdown crowd comes in.
we stopped at a supermarket to get some snacks and stuff so that we can end our year with this...
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Each generation has several qualities that sets them apart from the everyone else. Some of those qualities are good, others not so good. However according to Joel Kotkin, the author of "Are Millennial the Screwed Generation?," the millennial generation is on the not so good spectrum. Kotkin tries to argue that the millennial generation is "screwed" in various aspects including, economically, financially, and academically. These key issues are putting this generation in a setback, causing Kotkin to have a broaden belief that we will eventually "screw America."
Then again, why dwell on the disadvantages when there are so many positives of being a part of the millennial generation. Our technology is steadily advancing. Many technological advances such as cell phones and computers seemed a far off to past generations, but thanks to the millennial generation, these innovations are now improving everyday life. The millennial generation also lives in a more diverse society and we are witnessing many social issues such as gay marriage be granted to deserving individuals. Moreover, the Pew Research Social and Demographic Trends defines the millennial generation as being "confident, self-expressive, liberal, upbeat and open to change." Although we are bombarded with financial strain, including student debt and a poor job outlook, we still are obtaining a higher education because we value its importance. We pass laws that give rights to what pass generations would consider not worthy of having, because we view everyone as equal and everyone deserves a chance at happiness. This generation is not letting the problems that Kotkin describes bring them down. They are staying optimistic and are looking towards a better future.
I completely agree with the characteristics Pew gave to the millennial generation. I view myself sharing those same characteristics. If I am anything, if we are anything, we are unique. A really uplifting statement given from the article, Millennial medium chill: What the screwed generation can teach us about happiness, says "Maybe this generation won't have a worse life, but just a different life." We all have our own beliefs, ideas, and values, and that is what makes us different from everyone else. Yes, we may seem flawed to some, but all generations have their flaws. These flaws just give future generations something to learn from.
Work Cited
Kotkin, Joel. Are Millennials the Screwed Generation. 11 July 2014. Newsweek LLC. 9 September 2012.< http://www.newsweek.com/are-millennials-screwed– generation-65523>
Pew Research Social and Demographic Trends. Millennials: Confident. Connected. Open to Change. 11 July 2014. Pew Research Center. 24 February 2010. <http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2010/02/24/millennials-confident-connected– open-to-change/>
Thompson, Claire. Millennial medium chill: What the screwed generation can teach us about happiness. 11 July 2014. Grist Magazine Inc. 30 April 2013. < http://grist.org/living/millennial-medium-chill/>


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French giants Paris St Germain (PSG) are reportedly set to offer Chelsea defender Ashley Cole a pre-contract in January. The 31 year old England international is in the final season of his contract at Stamford Bridge and negotiations over a new deal are stalling because of disputes over contract length.
The reigning European champions' policy is to offer players over 30 a short-term contract (usually one year). However, Cole is reportedly looking for a longer deal. The Blues' desire to move towards a younger side has become very apparent over the summer... a period in which veterans over or approaching 30, like Florent Malouda, Raul Meirles and Jose Bosingwa were allowed to leave for younger players like Eden Hazard, Oscar, Cesar Azpilicueta and Marko Marin. A similar situation to Cole's is now developing over midfielder Frank Lampard, whose contract too expires next summer. The 34 year old is reportedly a target for American Major League Soccer (MLS) club Los Angeles Galaxy.
Should Cole listen to and opt for a switch to the Parc des Princes, not only would he be assured a giant pay package and the opportunity to play with stars like Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Thiago Silva but also the chance to reunite with former Chelsea coach Carlo Ancelotti. However, the former AC Milan boss was quoted as saying, earlier this year, he was not interested in the former Arsenal defender.
Torres on Arsenal Win
Meanwhile, Chelsea striker Fernando Torres has lavished praise on his club, after a 2-1 win over Arsenal at the Emirates. The visitors and league leaders took the lead after the Spaniard scored in the first half, only to see Ivory Coast international Gervinho equalise. Spain won the day, however, with Torres' national team mate, Juan Mata firing home a free kick just before the hour mark to seal all three points.
"We knew before the game that we wanted to improve the results we had last season against the top teams. One of the main targets we have this season was winning these kind of games. For us to win against the top teams is very important because not having very good results against them last season was one of the reasons why we didn't finish in the top four," Torres stressed to the club's Web site, after the game.
Chelsea remain at the top of Premier League table and extend their lead over Manchester United, after the Red Devils slumped to a 2-3 home defeat against Spurs. Arsenal, meanwhile, drop behind West Brom to seventh, with nine points from six games.


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Oh, wow.
I'm writing this from Playa Del Cocos, on the shores of the Pacific, after coming down from Monteverde, in the mountains.
When my friends told me we were going to the cloudforest, I sorta liked the name. It sounds all misty and fresh, I thought, and I started imagining tree tops in the fog and colourful singing birds.
The truth is, there is no hiding from the rain in Monteverde. First of all, you're in the mountains all right. Just wait till you see the pictures. You're actually sitting so high that the air isn't that easy to breathe. Nothing is flat. It's hills all the way down. Oh! And when it rains, it pours.
We'd scheduled for a night hike in the forest on the first evening. Something cool, ya know, with tarantulas and vipers. We got to the ranger station just in time and got our little flashlights and our don't touch anything briefing. And then it started. Light rain at first, say, the worst downpour you'd ever seen. Then, as we got out of the little station and onto the first trail, well, worse. But it was when the lightning started that the guide started saying we might have to cancel...
Hey, did I mention the guy wasn't even wearing rain gear?
Anyways, the lightning got stronger, and the rain, well, let's say at this point it was like being hosed down straight from a fire hydrant. When it got to biblical proportions, our guide called the hike off and we had to walk the trail back, which had changed into a small river in the meantime.
We had just enough time to see a tarantula and a gigantic branch insect. I thought that was pretty cool.
After getting back and saying he was sorry we couldn't go and to come back the next night to see if we could do it again, our guide left the ranger station... on his motorcycle. I couldn't believe it. It was raining so bad that the driver of our little van had to wipe the inside of the windshield with a towel in a desperate attempt at seeing anything. The roads had changed to streams, with rocks tumbling down in the current. And our guide just went back home, on his motorcycle.
I tell you. These Costa Rican dudes, they're not afraid of rain.
We went back to the hostel, drenched. Got a little food and stuff on the way back. Stripped down from our dripping gear and enjoyed some awesome chicharrones (BBQ'ed ultrafat pork), beers and other delicacies until falling asleep, which took me no more than half an hour.
The next morning, we'd booked a "zip line" tour of the cloud forest. Sorta like these Adventures-in-the-Trees things you see all around Quebec, or so I thought. I was a little grumpy, because all the activities in this country are early in the morning, and we had to get up at fucking 7:00 am to get on the minivan. No love for the sleepyheads.
So after a quick breakfast, we all hopped in the van and drove up the mountain. When I realized what we were going to do was called "The Superman Experience", I have to admit I sorta cringed. I thought Tourist Trap.
We got to the welcoming center, where we were strapped down with rock climbing harnesses, hangers, hard hats and gloves. Lotsa gear, I thought, for some little tour around the trees...
After a briefing on how to sit in your harness and hold onto the zipline, up we went to the first platform. Easy stuff. About 300 feet straight, just downward enough to make you go. Exactly what I'd thought. I touched down on the second platform, then I casually looked where the second zipline was headed.
Oh. My. Fucking. God.
The zipline was suspended at least 1,000 feet in the air, above a large valley approximately a kilometer wide! Something you will NEVER see in North America. Heart-Attack-Level-Adrenaline-Pumper. Before I know it, the guide is hooking my pulley onto the zipline, all casual and smiling, makes me sit on my harness, and swings me forward.
Try to imagine hanging by a rope to a metal wire, several dozen feet above the treeline of a jungle made of giant trees at least 300 feet high. Then imagine looking down at your feet, while that forest disappears over a cliff, looking down a valley about 1,000 feet down, while your pulley screams at about 30 km/h above you.
Still with me?
After riding a couple more ziplines over the forest and across that huge valley, we got to a point lower in the park where I thought the ride was over. It wasn't.
We were on a platform rigged on a tree so gigantic I'm not even going to try to describe it. Avatar-sized. We were not even close to its top, and we had to rappel it down 150 feet to finish the course. Having been hooked onto the rappel rope, you had to sit in your harness, hanging in thin air, before they started lowering you down. Insane.
At this point, I'll skip the Tarzan thing where they push you off a bungee platform hooked only on the loose end of a climbing rope that swings you several hundred feet into the jungle.
Because I want to tell you about the last platform.
After climbing to the top of a steep hill, you get to an open platform that overlooks the valley I was telling you about earlier. No big deal, you think, I've flown over it three times already. Remember I told you we were also wearing hangers? Check this out. They invert the harness and hook it up to the hangers, on your back. Then, they lift you and clip your pulley to the zipline, and make you slip one foot after the other onto a looped rope that hangs from the pulley. Yeah, you heard me right. You're 100% horizontal, face down, head first. Then they push you above the valley.
I'll just say this: I've dreamt about a hundred times that I was flying like a bird, over mountains and valleys.
There, on top of Monteverde in the clouds, I actually did it.
April 28, 2010
Rain, Forest, And Flying High
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I went with 100% Aventura for my ziplining adventure. Fun huh?
Dayna : It was crazy! Hey where is you at? I'm in Quepos right now, headed for San Jose maybe tomorrow or Sunday Max.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousOctober 18, 2011 at 11:34 PM
awesome!! i'm headed there this week-end. you're hilarious!!ReplyDelete
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We chose the area of our children's new school, because it is a nice area and we have always dreamt about walking our children to school and when they are bigger, allowing them to ride their bikes to school. Our lives have changed for the better since moving house, I feel that we are all healthier and getting more exercise, we have a playroom which is something i have always wanted, it makes my job so much easier (Child Minding) and i feel that we have a lot more storage space than we used to!
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Recently I was looking at something on the internet and the whole science vs. religion question came up, and one thing led to another and eventually I ended up on Conservapedia. Normally I don't bother with that site but I decided to go on over and see if the list of counterexamples to relativity had grown any since I last looked at it about 2 years ago. Remarkably the list had grown, but so many of the things on the list were so high on the crackpot index that it made my brain hurt, and I was reduced to a sobbing mass of ... well ... er ... mass, despairing for the future of humanity. But I got over that and started thinking again and decided to write this post.
One thing that I noticed was that a number of "counterexamples" to the theory of relativity could be reduced down to the argument, "Relativity is false because it doesn't agree with quantum mechanics." After realizing this I thought, "Wait a minute! Why is quantum mechanics an acceptable theory but relativity isn't?" So I went and looked at the Conservapedia page on quantum mechanics and found it to be remarkably uncontroversial, though incredibly scant on details. Relativity on the other hand has three major pages (one for relativity in general, one for special relativity and one for general relativity) along with the page dedicated to "counterexamples" to relativity, and several other smaller more specific pages. So this made me wonder, what was it about relativity that prompted these "conservatives" to have such an almost dogmatic revulsion to relativity, and what was it about quantum mechanics that caused the same people to accept it or at the very least ignore it?
The Conservapedia page on Evolution is understandable due to its perceived infringement on religious creation dogma, but relativity? I was wondering just what it was about the theory of relativity that made it so controversial. Why would they expend so much energy and effort to disprove relativity but leave quantum mechanics alone, considering that quantum mechanics is much more controversial philosophically?
Upon closer inspection there are a few sentences, phrases and arguments on the Conservapedia pages that indicate that this extreme dislike of relativity has more to do with morality than with science. On the "counterexamples" page at the very top we find the sentence, "[The theory of relativity] is heavily promoted by liberals who like its encouragement of relativism and its tendency to mislead people in how they view the world."
From this we see that their main objection to relativity is not any scientific failing that it may have, but because it is associated (at least in their minds) with "moral relativism". Thus any argument that may be concocted to "disprove" relativity is in fact really attempting to undermine the concept of moral relativism. This makes me suspect that if Einstein had happened to call his theory "the theory of invariance" rather than "the theory of relativity" (or if he had referred to it as the principle of "Lorentz invariance", or even just "Einstein's pet theory") then there would not be a Conservapedia page today about counterexamples to Einstein's theory. In other words, the entire motivation for their objection to the theory of relativity is due to the fact that its name is very close to relativism, which is associated with moral relativism.
This of course reminds me of a certain song:
Now before we get too far into bashing this particular group of religious conservatives, we must also realize that this objection to relativity did not materialize in a vacuum. There were plenty of philosophers, commentators, pundits, busybodies, rabble rousers, scheming politicians, authors, crackpots and others who were more than willing to commit the same logical fallacy and insist that because of the theory of relativity (which has absolutely no moral implications whatsoever) they feel justified in making an argument about morality (or the lack there of). I have had people literally tell me that because Einstein's theory of relativity was true, that somehow justified their belief in moral relativism. So the fallacy goes both ways.
So why is this important, and how can we use this insight? One thing to note here is that for conservatives, at least those of the type that have a problem with relativity but not quantum mechanics, is to note that moral considerations and implications (or even just perceived implications) far outweigh scientific or experimental considerations. On the other hand there are those who have no interest in rectifying the misconceptions but only in perpetuating them so that they can have club to beat the opposite side with. In the end neither side is correct, and both use the same logical fallacy of convoluting an inherently amoral, mathematical theory, with the moral theory of moral relativism. This reminds me of another song,
So the next time you come across some conservative drivel about how the theory of relativity is false, take a moment, stop and think that the person writing that may ultimately be more concerned with morality and moral relativism than with whether or not GPS units actually use relativity or not. Also if you come across someone who is ridiculing religious conservatives because they are denying the theory of relativity, you can try to explain to them that the issue is much more complex than their simple characterization, and that the people they are criticizing are actually more interested in the moral implications than the scientific implications (this may be a hard one to explain, I know I've tried).
It may be very difficult and there may be a lot of misunderstanding along the way (if history itself is any indication), but there is much that we can do to overcome these misunderstandings and to help people see both points of view and understand the mindset of the person on the "other side". The end result is (hopefully) better understanding by everyone, and less false accusations, and less fallacious arguments.
Sunday, May 1, 2011
What do Conservatives have against the Theory of Relativity?
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What, the theory of relativity doesn't imply moral relativism is correct? Darn....ReplyDelete
- Ancient1May 2, 2011 at 1:34:00 PM PDT
Wouldn't conservatives better off drinking a nice cold beer than read/write such nonsense? They have no shame demeaning scriptures (John, Matthew - item 11) to suit their purpose of peddling ignorance.
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SEATTLE (CBS.MW) -- Boeing confirmed that it will buy Hughes Electronics Corp.'s space and communications business in a $3.8 billion cash deal that puts the aircraft giant squarely into the fast-growing satellite-building industry.
Boeing, a component stock BA, +0.44% of the Dow Jones Industrial Average, says the move will boost its aerospace sales by 33 percent next year. The deal will add to earnings during 2001, the first full year of operations, the company says.
Boeing said that it intends to be No. 1 in space. "It is an excellent strategic fit with substantial synergies," Chairman Phil Condit said in a statement.
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Shares of Boeing rose 1 5/8 to close at 44 Friday. Shares of Hughes gained 9 1/8 to close at 119 5/8. Hughes' parent General Motors GM, +0.91% surged 5 7/8 to close at 82 1/4.
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