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Maui could not be better even with rain came rainbows! The air is so magical and healing here. I just wish we could stay for a month. We have been doing everything and anything and laughing, smiling all the way. We have been celebrating our anniversary every day! Nothing is better than family time. We definitely hit the symptoms with a sledgehammer of drugs, so I was fine but very drugged for some days. It is better than any side effect! At least for next time, there will be a lesser drug plan, so I can see the daylight earlier rather than later. Looking forward to enjoying the remaining days in Maui! Just thought I would post a note so you would know how much we are ALL enjoying this and that everything is going, going, going, Aloha!
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Aloha!October 29, 2010
"Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it." Groucho MarxOctober 23, 2010
Yesterday, was standing room only in the chemo closet. Thank goodness I wasn't a minute late or I would have been sitting in a folding chair. Was it a 2 for one special? Or were people trying to get their chemo in before Halloween? It wasn't a pretty picture, but at least it did not smell that bad. There was only one nurse for the entire closet. There was my friend from last time who ran out of the closet waving for pain meds, but it took a lot of waving to get the drugs. He was the only one making me laugh besides my cousin Margie and he was in pain. He has a great attitude and told me all about his way of thinking. He convinced me to avoid really looking around the closet of people because it will really depress you. I got the last chair and it was what I call the Alice and Wonderland chair (not to be confused with Alice in Wonderland because the closet is no wonderland). This is more the sinking in the chair never to get out unless you have a lift out. It is better than the eject chair which basically kicks you out of the chair. The wonderland part is more about my body being a wonderland similar to the song by John Mayer. At least, a relaxing thought for my avoidance of all grey, bald, smileless people in the closet. Of course, things turned a bit worse when they were out of soap, paper towels, and toilet paper. Being the only mobile one who was able to go to the toilet and not have a "crisis", I became maintenance for the day, but I did not clean the toilet, just re-stocked. With the addition of the pre-meds, I was there longer than I wanted to be…especially when I encountered some of the people from my day of over medicated and chemo while texting incidents. Of course, they reminded me how out of it I was…one told me that her daughter was very concerned. So as for tonight, I do not recommend doing a chemo closet visit prior to vacation. Things took me a lot longer to do today and my mind is fuzzy, but hey, I am not itching. So, in honor of the musical South Pacific or heading towards it, I am going to wash that chemo right off of my body (not my hair since it is still sprouting). Aloha! I will dream of tropical drinks, floral breezes, and the three R's, Relax, Refresh, and Rest!
Mascara here I come, well, almost!October 17, 2010
I am seeing the sprouts of potential eye lashes. They are far from being lashes, but it is nice to see something other than the naked eye. Plus, my brows have sprouts too. My only complaint is the sprouts on the head are so ugly looking and are growing back in a strange pattern. You would think that after this, cancer chemo patients would get a free pass to the Bosley hair clinic or would automatically get the hair color, texture, style of their choice. It could come in a pill form since the iv is too much. At this rate, I look forward to my halfway mark in February 2011 and am thinking that I will have lush nice texture sprouts versus what is happening on the head. I know it is bad since Alex has this look he gives me when he sees it and says, "it will grow back soon Mommy". I hate to tell him that this is the grow back. All I know is that when the eye lashes grow back, I will be applying many layers of mascara and never curse mascara again!
With Thursday coming up and now my short visit turning into a longer visit with the pre-drugs, I am doing a little dancing, a little praying, a little singing, a little of anything, that this plan works as I would rather not take steroids and want to be itch and swollen free during my flight to Maui. I will definitely do what I have to, but I am also bringing some dark sunglasses in case I have to witness the "yech" in the closet again, so maybe I will not have to see so clearly. I will also bring several small bottles of perfume to sniff. Plus, eating is a must BEFORE the visit to the closet. I am definitely focused on the days instead of the weeks ahead. While it is raining in So Cal (or is this spit or mist), I will enjoy the coolness of the air before the warm tropical breezes of Maui!
I am the mom of that lizard baby!October 11, 2010
It is now confirmed with the scaling skin on my hands and feet that the lizard baby was mine! This allergic reaction or whatever it is called depending on which of my doctors you talk to is just delightful. I will just add this to my list of weird ailments. Of course, my itching and swelling took 3 days of steroids to start diminishing. After finishing my steroids, I am only left with the scales. (okay, it is just dry peeling skin) We were waiting to hear from the team at UCLA what the plan would be and they decided that I should definitely continue, but do the pre-drugs before the infusion. Hmmm…I never understand why they did not give those to me, but things are like this. Oh, you are really really nauseous, then we give you a pill. Oh, you have a rash on your body, guess we will give you those meds before your treatment next time. No one really knows, but this is what we are going to try since I did not have a rash before….AND I cannot be on a plane to Maui itching for 5 hours. Yes, the countdown begins for Maui. In just 2 weeks, I will be breathing that clean floral air and really doing nothing. It is strange that I used to run around like a crazy person trying to get things done, but instead I seem to get barely anything done these days. My list gets longer and I am focused on the every day tasks of getting myself ready to exit the house and being with Jim and Alex. I don't really want to stress myself out, so I ignore the list as it continues to grow. Who knows if it is important stuff because I really don't look at it much. I just quickly add another item without really looking at the items above…not sure how this will all end up. When you end up with weird ailments, the simple things become important like tasting your food. I still cannot taste my food and I think the steroids did not help. Yesterday, I enjoyed just walking along the beach with Alex and Jim and feeling that very cold Pacific Ocean on my feet. So, I think if "the list" was important, someone would be calling me to remind me about something, right? Otherwise, it will all get done some day!
The 7 day itch?October 5, 2010
All weekend long I was trying not to itch this rash, but in my sleep I had no control. Sleep became more difficult and benadryl did not do anything, so Monday I called all my doctors and my male nurse. Of course, my male nurse told me to see the doctor. The rash was creeping up my legs and arms and wasn't pretty. I went to my local doctor and she called UCLA as I was sitting there. Oh, yes, this is an auto-immune response to my chemo drug. Oh great! I decided not to panic and just focus on not scratching. I was then told that nothing will help, but steroids which I did not want to take, but after the disgusting description of what this type of rash would do, I chose to take the steroids. After many a phone calls with my doctor team, they had to tell me that this was extremely rare. My local doctor had taken photos to send to UCLA via email. If I would have known, maybe a manicure/pedicure would have been a better sight for them. So, I am still itchy and it is a tiny bit better. I was so happy to not have the shot and bad nausea, but I did not think I would have to trade it for an itchy rash. My doctor reminded me one day at a time, but I had to think that I cannot be on steroids for a year. It just figures. No hair and then, I would have chest hair and a mustache? This definitely does not seem to be right. Since the rash is on the soles of my feet, I am just hoping that clears up fast so I can stop looking like a 100 year old walking. Instead, I look forward to going to Maui itch-free and without facial hair and a deep voice!
Chemo Closet stinks…literally!October 2, 2010
Ooh, never before have I smelled such a smell. I should have known from a conversation I had with a new patient who almost ran out of the closet to where I was waiting in the waiting area. The nurse was telling him to sit down and he asked me 3 times if he looked grey or bad or "not right". After several times of having the nurse tell him to come back to the closet and he kept refusing, I should have known that there was something not so special in the closet today. He was chanting, "I am going to beat this" . As he walked out, I told him he would since he seemed pretty feisty! I did enjoy my drive with a friend who made the drive go very quickly! The closet was filled with a stench that made me want to be sick and the visual was to match. There were hairless women who all appeared to be very grey and some men too. Luckily there were 2 chairs empty on the other side of the bathroom which "splits" the closet in two. This way, I did not have to look at the depressing visual even though I was still smelling the smell. Like the man I met outside in the waiting room, I started chanting to myself too and thought there are those who are worse off than me. I was the only one who could walk to the bathroom fully erect. Most of these people were not old, but in such frail health. My chanting stopped once the nurse told me that my platelets were NORMAL! So, my red count is not, but it will be eventually. Things got much better when my cousin, Margie arrived after searching all closets for me. We laughed a lot and before we knew it, it was over. Unfortunately, the smell still stayed with me. I was happy to have a short infusion and they told me that I could expect to be tired and maybe a little bit nauseous, but nothing like before. They were right except that I have no appetite and would not call it full nausea. I am fine with this. I also learned that the lovely rash I have on my body is from the chemo. It will eventually go away. Good to know! So, lesson learned again about feeling good to feel as good as I feel?! I know I can do this and I will not let the "stinks" get me down.


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Natalie loves this thing. It's $2 for 5-10 minutes of sliding. Total rip off, but it wears her out. I look at it as a good night's sleep investment. ;)
If only this picture wasn't blurred, it'd be going on our Christmas card. She can be seriously cute.
Daddy and his girls:
Monnie trying to not look like she's restraining the little one:
The hay ride was better than ever this year. Lexi loved EVERY moment, and was so easy to entertain. She sat still the whole time. I enjoyed her excitement.
A favorite of mine:
Once we got off the hayride, it got really chilly. We let the kids play on the cars for just a bit before we left.
Here is Daddy about to get run over:
She loved this and threw a tantrum when we pried her out of the car.
On our way out, a sweet old farm dog found us.
I love the connection kids seem to have with animals. So tender and loving:
Natalie wanted to take him home with us.
We had Natalie take our picture with the fall stuff. This one turned out pretty good, but there were several outtakes.
Like this! Ha!

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- 2. Sold it to the Devil: The Great Migration, Lost Generations, and the Perils of the Urban Dance Hall
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74 2 Sold It to the Devil The Great Migration, Lost Generations, and the Perils of the Urban Dance Hall The road to hell is too often paved with jazz steps. —John R. McMahon, "Unspeakable Jazz Must Go!" (1921) Feeling Devilish This study is premised on the claim that the devil's presence in the blues has, in our own day, become overidentified with crossroads mythology and a fictive Deep South soul-selling location as a result of specific imaginative and financial investments in the figure of Robert Johnson. It may come as a surprise, then, when I suggest that the nation's metropolitan center, New York City, played a key role in thrusting both the blues- devil and the trope of soul- selling into the national imagination, and more than a decade before Johnson cut his first sides. Migrant southerners, black and white, helped drive this process, with black female blues singers taking the lead. The morals of newly urbanized youth were at stake—irreverent young moderns who paved the way for their peers in Mississippi, including Johnson. In 1923, an Indiana- born, Texas- and- Virginia- schooled preacher named John Roach Straton set up a radio station in the basement of Calvary Baptist Church in midtown Manhattan with the express purpose of fighting the devil that had been loosed by a Prohibition- flouting, jazz- dancing, flapper- driven Lost Generation. "I hope that our radio system will prove so efficient," he thundered, "that when I twist the Devil's tail in New York, his squawk will be heard across the continent. . . . The people will not get any doubts or negations or question marks from the Calvary pulpit. . . . I shall try to continue to do my part, as the Bible expresses it, in tearing down the strongholds of Satan."1 The following year, a migrant blues singer from Spartanburg, South Carolina, named Clara Smith entered the studios of Columbia Records, only a mile from Straton's pulpit, and threw down the gauntlet in symbolic terms, recording the very first devil- themed blues, "Done Sold My Soul to the Devil" (1924).2 The song spoke to the condition of migrant black women in the urban environment—some of whom had The Great Migration and the Urban Dance Hall 75 "fallen" and become prostitutes, others of whom were merely rejoicing in the freedom of after- work dance hall life, still others of whom (especially in Holiness and Pentecostal congregations) had become more religious when confronted with urban disarray and might well have heard the song as a scandalous but instructive example of the wages of sin. But the song resonated more broadly, enabled a wider range of identifications, than this invocation of a black female public suggests. And dance, not just song, was a pivotal issue. Kathy Ogren has argued that jazz in the 1920s became "the specific symbol of rebellion" for a disillusioned younger generation, and the devil—as a trickster, a good- timer, an instigator of nighttime revels—haunts that generation 's soundtrack, especially at the moment when white feet (and black and white feet intertwined in a black- and- tan bohemia) find themselves propelled by "hot" black rhythm and the urgings of black voices.3 Smith's inaugural devil-blues becomes legible when framed within this larger tradition , a "discourse of disbelief," in Ann Douglas's words, that "became the only thoroughly accredited modern mode" for a Lost Generation striving to throw off Victorian repression.4 The devil, along with his temptations and his unholy congregants, waltzes through "Devil Dance Blues" (1925), "Hellish Rag" (1927), "I'm Feelin' Devilish" (1930), "There's Going to Be the Devil to Pay" (1935), and "The Devil with the Devil" (1939), and . Blues and jazz were deeply intertwined during the 1920s—not just with each other, but as emergent forms subsumed within then- dominant pop styles. Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey, Lizzie Miles, and other soon- to-be-recorded blues stars toured the Mississippi Delta during the 1910s with black minstrel troupes and tent shows; billed as "Southern coon shouters" and "up- to- date coon shouters," they were far more likely to be backed by minstrel bands or jazz combos than barrelhouse pianists or rough- edged blues guitarists such as Charley Patton.5 It is impossible to disentangle North and South, urban and rural, male and female, black and white, when constructing an accurate genealogy of the devil figure in the blues. He—or she—is an overdetermined presence haunting both the blues lyric tradition...


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text: Entertainment The Hills: 15 Best Moments! By Glamour 10 Nov 2009 15. Happy New Year Lauren! Lauren and Jason head out to celebrate New Year's Eve together, but it develops into (big surprise), a huge fight. 14. We meet the new Lauren, trouble-maker Kristin Cavallari. She might be a new face on the scene, but she certainly isn't shy about making herself heard. Not an instant hit with the ladies! 13. Audrina is confronted by Brody's girlfriend after the pair hook up on holiday. If you love girl fights, then this is the scene for you, but frankly, we were a little confused with the situation. Why was Audrina getting all the blame? Surely Brody is the one who cheated! 12. Paris changes everything... as Lauren and Whitney find out when on a Teen Vogue assignment to the French capital. We loved watching Lauren scooting around Paris with a handsome Frenchman, and Whitney decided it was time to move on. 11. Just as Lauren is getting settled into her internship (and trying to make a good impression), a loud Heidi crashes a Teen Vogue party and gets her into trouble. See how Lauren's editor reacts here: 10. Justin Bobby kisses another girl in front of Audrina, and in the very same episode we meet Spencer's sister – when she yells in Lauren's face! Who knew they would become the best of friends? 9. The wedding, part one! Heidi and Spencer get married in Mexico. But the marriage may not be as legal as they thought... 8. The wedding, part two! (Or three if you count the time they almost went through with it...) But did Lauren make it? We were on the edge of our seats waiting to find out! FYI: she did, of course. 7. As a reward for all her hard work at Teen Vogue, Lauren is offered the chance to complete an internship in Paris. Instead, she opts to stay in LA and hang out with her volatile boyfriend Jason. Needless to say, this probably wasn't the right choice – and the pair soon broke up! 6. The moment we first laid eyes on Brody Jenner. We need say no more. 5. Whitney steps up to be a model when asked by her bosses, but takes a fall on live TV! She handles it like a pro... 4. Jen hooks up with Brody (Lauren's ex) in front of LC. The resulting fight between Heidi and Lauren was a classic: we learnt once and for all that Spencer was a 'sucky person'. 3. Spencer Pratt being a, er, prat. There are so many moments we could pick to best celebrate the 'interesting' character of Mr. Pratt – from re-gifting a bunch of red roses to both Heidi and Audrina, to hooking up with Playmates at a club – he never fails to entertain us. 2. "I want to forgive you, and I want to forget you." Heidi tries to resolve her issues with Lauren, but the damage is done. The enviably diplomatic and strong-minded Lauren deals with it perfectly... 1. Heidi and Lauren used to be best friends until some rumours started surfacing about Lauren's personal life. Lauren suspects that Heidi is behind them, and this was the resulting fight. EPIC.


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Hamburg's Chamber of Commerce has renewed its 2008 strategic partnership agreement with the Dubai Chamber of Commerce & Industry (DCCI) on the occasion of the Dubai Hamburg Business Forum (20.-24.3.). Both chambers seek to deepen co-operation at the Dubai Hamburg Business Forum, at the maritime trade fair SMM, the ARAB Health medical fair and between the University of Dubai and the Hamburg School of Business Administration (HSBA). Closer collaboration is also planned as part of Expo 2020 in Dubai. Fritz Horst Melsheimer, Chamber of Commerce President, is heading a delegation from Hamburg and has expressed hopes of making several new contacts and sealing business deals for Hamburg-based firms at the huge event. Plans are also underway to include Hamburg in the German pavilion at the Expo.
Milestones: non-stop flight & Dubai Hamburg Business Forum
In his welcoming speech at the Dubai Hamburg Business Forum, Melsheimer recalled milestones in the cities' bilateral relations. The Chamber of Commerce's office in Dubai and the senate are celebrating their tenth anniversaries this year as well as the non-stop flight between Dubai and Hamburg. He noted: "Only a year later, both our chambers established the Dubai-Hamburg Business Forum." Other milestones in co-operation include the strategic partnership agreement between both chambers (2008), opening the Health Care Industry Service Centre (2012), a Memorandum of Understanding with Dubai's maritime industry as well as its participation in SMM, and Hamburg and northern German's attendance at the Arab Health fair. Last January, 56 exhibitors from the Hamburg metropolitan region took part in the fair.
Internet of things – innovation to connect
This year's Business Forum is being held under the theme of "The internet of things – innovation to connect" with special emphasis on the potential and challenges of digitalisation. Several Hamburg-based start-ups will also attend the event.
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Or…. Welcome to Winding Circle folks. 🙂 Today I have for you an author whose work I fell in love with a few years back. Doesn't matter that these are for a YA audience, I just think the world of them. So what is this?
Well…. It's Tamora Pierce's third fantasy series, The Circle of Magic.
Circle of Magic: Sandry's Book
by Tamora Pierce
My review copy was snagged at a local store….a couple four or five years back now.
Released in 1997, The Circle of Magic: Sandry's Book introduced another set of characters, a little younger than her beloved Alanna. Here, four children are rescued by a mage and taken to a place of learning, and refuge. Sandry, Briar, Tris, and Daja.
To spare her from the mob that blames her family for a deadly plague, Sandrilene fa Toren's nursemaid places her in a tower. Alone, in the dark, she learns to weave strips of cloth, and light, to spare herself from insanity. Until the mage Niklaren Goldeye (AKA. Niko) comes and releases her from her prison with the awful news that her entire family, her nursemaid, everyone she knew has perished. He takes her to the Winding Circle Temple to heal, and offers her a chance to learn what to do with her weaving magic if she will only agree to live peacefully among the varied children there.
Trisana Chandler's family reviles and casts her out. Her crime? She never manifested her magic. But little did her family know what her magic would consist of once it did manifest. Niko has noticed that potential, her affinity for the weather, and what trouble she may cause, if her power is left unchecked. So he takes her under his wing, and gives her a new home at the Winding Circle Temple.
Daja is a Trader, who lost her entire family in a shipwreck, only to be rescued by Niko and likewise given refuge and instruction in Winding Circle.
And lastly, Briar Moss (nee Roach) is a boy with a puzzling affinity for growing things, puzzling, as he is also thief. And having been arrested two times already, for his deeds, he's in very big trouble. But as Roach/Briar is facing the judges, Niko comes forth and offers the boy a choice. He can submit to the banishment the court is about to hand down, or he can go with Niko to his school at Winding Circle, take on a new life (which is where the new name Briar Moss gets taken up) and learn a new trade and possibly become a priest, in the future.
All four of these children set up at Winding Circle, not without trouble, and soon the instructors decide to move them to their own accommodations, away from the rest of the school's population. Here, they begin to build bonds, as Niko and his fellow mages begin to curtail the children's inner demons. Along the way, the children learn to control a little of their powers, which may come in handy when disaster strikes, putting their new home in jeopardy.
So what happens in this book? Once again, you can find out just by reading. Again, like the Alanna series, it is a YA novel, but one a little less complicated than Ms. Pierce's previous series. I gather it was written for a younger audience (her site says ages ten and up). Nonetheless, I found Sandry's Book a very enjoyable read (even though I'm far older than the target age group!), full of everything that makes for a good high fantasy, and even some hints that this new world is tied into Tortall.
My rating? Well, I've loved everything I've read by Tamora Pierce (*forgive the momentary fangirl Squee*), and I intend to read more in this series, as I have in her previous Alanna, so this should come as no surprise:
I purchased my copy so long ago (four or five years ago…. or heck, maybe it's been longer than that) I don't remember where around Town I snagged it (either a thrift store or some local used bookstore, I can't recall). But, I recently purchased a second copy at the Barnes and Noble for my nephews ;), so I know it is still available in brick and mortar stores. Or, of course, you can find a copy from Amazon.com or barnesandnoble.com, if you'd like to check it out.


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School districts throughout the country are becoming more reliant on data to monitor student's performance to insure that students are making adequate progress in accordance with No Child Left Behind law. Results from quarterly assessments are used as a key data component for the student. When this same data illustrates that a student may be at risk of failing in an academic area, a team of educators should create a documented intervention plan that helps that student to be successessful and to prevent them from failing.
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This plan is known as Response to Intervention (RTI). Although this process was introduced in the 1070, s (Ortiz, 2006), it has been reshaped and reintroduced as a best practice to meet the needs of students today. Many educators are unfamiliar with the process or lack the training needed to implement it (Fuchs. 2009). In some cases, teachers bypass this important step, which can trigger the student who is at risk academically to behave inappropriately in class. At this time the student has both academic and behavior issues.
The chain reaction now starts to unfold, leading the teacher to believe that the student should be considered as candidate for special education, and in some instances the child is inappropriately placed in special education system. This may result in taking resources and place of anther child more in need of service. It is of high importance that all educators have knowledge of the RTI process to help those who are at risk and to prevent students from being placed in special education.
Response to Intervention is a process that implemented in stages, or tiers. Most Models have three tiers and the explanation of the tier process was consistent in each article I read. In tier 1, all students receive appropriate standards- based instruction of high quality, and include any classroom, grade level or school wide interventions, as well as monitoring and screening for potential problems. Tier 1 interventions are provided in the general education classroom. If the


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Max Verstappen takes fourth career victory as Mercedes suffer double DNF
By: S. Harding, Xiro Xone News July 1, 2018 Updated: 1:11 PM PT
SPIELBERG, Austria — Red Bull driver Max Verstappen, with over 20,000 of his countrymen present, took his fourth career victory as Mercedes suffered their first double DNF of the season.
Things got off to a wild start as the pole sitter Valtteri Bottas, teammate Lewis Hamilton, and Ferrari's Kimi Raikkonen go three wide down into Turn 1 with Raikkonen sandwiched in between the two Mercedes. Hamilton was able to take the inside of Turn 1 and come out ahead of Raikkonen and Bottas.
Raikkonen locked up and ran wide at Turn 3 leaving him to fight for position with Max Verstappen. This allowed Bottas to take Raikkonen on the outside of Turn 4.
Hamilton and Bottas look set for a Mercedes one-two but disaster struck on lap 14 when Bottas suffered a loss of fuel pressure and was forced to retire his car triggering a virtual safety car.
Red bull took advantage of this stacking both of the cars in the pits. However, Mercedes chose to keep Hamilton out costing him a potential win. Later during the race, the head of strategy James Vowles apologized to Hamilton over the radio taking responsibility for the pit mistake.
But, the team would have some more apologizing to do after the reigning world champion would encounter an engine failure and his first DNF of the season.
Kimi Raikkonen finished second after taking the position from Daniel Ricciardo, who was suffering from blistering on his rear left tire. Things would worsen for the Australian as he wiould be forced to retire from the race due to a gearbox failure.
Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel finished third after taking the position from title rival Lewis Hamilton in the closing laps. Vettel started sixth due to a three spot grid penalty he received for impeding another driver. The podium finish helped the German driver retake the lead in the driver's championship by one point.
Haas had cause to celebrate after Romain Grosjean and Kevin Magnussen finished fourth and fifth with Grosjean scoring his first points since the Japanese Grand Prix last season.
Esteban Ocon and teammate Sergio Perez wrapped up te race in sixth and seventh for Force India ahead of McLaren's Fernando Alonso who finished eighth after starting the race from the pit lane.
Sauber's Charles Leclerc, who continues to impress, pulled another points scoring finish in ninth with teammate Marcus Ericsson in tenth.
Outside the top ten, Pierre Gasly was the only Toro Rosso to finish the race in 11th after teammate Brendon Hartley suffered a mechanical failure. Carlos Sainz took 12th with teammate Nico Hulkenberg retiring from the race with a suspected turbo failure after starting tenth.
The Williams pair of Sergey Sirotkin and Lance Stroll finished 13th and 14th with Stoffel Vandoorne, who sustained front wing damage at the start of the race, made the final car on the grid to finish the Austrian Grand Prix in 15th.


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This is the official electronic press kit for the classic pop rock duo, The Victims of the New Math.
Official bio of Victims of the New Math (short bio OR in-depth bio)
Band members: Thomas Young (Phoenix, AZ); Joseph "Joe" Young (Charlotte, NC)
Years Active: 30+
Major Influences: The Kinks, The Beatles, David Bowie, Tom Petty.
Free, virus-scanned ZIP of The New Victorians (download zip)
MP3 Download Link: "The Gift" from the TNV
Stream tracks from TNV on Spotify, Soundcloud and Bandcamp
Album Art: The New Victorians (800x800 - 290k) - click size to download
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It's December 1st, and it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas around the Bigler home. Christmas music is blaring and our fresh Christmas tree is up and decorated with lights, pine cones, berries and a little "sprinkle" as my niece called it. :) Right now I am taking a big deep breath....ahhh, the smell of Christmas! I've decorated the mantel, complete with stockings, and Marty has been working on our outside display of Christmas lights. I really do love this time of year, and not because of the presents (although, I'll be honest and say I do like surprises). I love the lights. I love the smells (pine and fresh baked cookies to name just two). I love how people slow down a bit. They take more time for family and friends, and perhaps reflect on what is most important in their lives. Christmas has a way of bringing people together unlike any other time of the year it seems.
It's more than just about giving a gift. The miracle of the birth of Jesus is the whole "reason for the season." I know, I sound so cliche, but I believe it with all my heart. So the wonder, joy and peace last way beyond the unwrapping of gifts for me.
Merry Christmas!
PS Here is one of my most precious gifts, and my helper this year. As I put things on the tree, she took them off. After putting things back on the tree and taking a deep breath, I realized what precious memories I will have forever!


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Fats Domino, one of the most influential rock and roll performers of the 1950s and 60s, has died aged 89.
The American rock and roll artist was best known for his songs Ain't That A Shame and Blueberry Hill.
The New Orleans singer sold more than 65 million records, outselling every 1950s rock and roll act except Elvis Presley.
His million-selling debut single, The Fat Man, is credited by some as the first ever rock and roll record.
An official from New Orleans coroner's office confirmed the death, which was earlier announced by Domino's daughter to a local television station.


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Jenny Kim has always been fascinated by the wedding and entertainment industry. But it wasn't the glamour and flashing lights - she loved working within a team to create special events and paying attention to "the little things" in life, like making people happy.
While she's not out juggling the many talents up her sleeve, she loves staying in, watching the sunset and cooking with her grandmother. Of course she wouldn't be caught dead without her eyelash curler, Chapstick and private treasure chest of sour candy.


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Tuesday, July 15, 2003
WHATEVER GOES AROUND DEPARTMENT: I read today in the NYTimes (free regsitration required) that Syrians on the Iraqi border are getting fed up with American belligerence. Frankly I have a hard time sympathising with a regime that is finally getting a taste of what it has been dishing out to its neighbors for so many years. Look at the quagmire that is the Syrian/Lebanes border or the Syrian/Israeli border for illustration. Finally the Assad family is getting cut down to size by someone it can't bully back.
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In a recent blog, Gartner analyst Jonah Kowall imagined how an IT operations center, run along gamification lines, would cope with a systems-failure alert. Each issue would be awarded a score, according to its severity, impact and the time it was reported. That score would lose points while the issue was still "live," and once it was cleared up, the remaining points would be awarded to the engineer who resolved it.
In fact, applied well, gamification in the workplace can produce "peak learning conditions and accelerated achievement," according to Aaron Dignan, author of a new book on the subject, Game Frame: Using Games as a Strategy for Success.


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10 Reasons you NEED a Travel Adviser/
Today I'm proud to officially kick off Nick Running Travel, however many of you may be wondering why you would even need a travel adviser / agent in the first place... While booking a trip yourself seems freeing and exciting, it's not all it's cracked up to be. There are nearly 400 MILLION results when you google "hotel in Paris." Who has time to sift through the results, find properties within your budget, figure out which ones are in the prime location, and then check for availability? Add researching restaurants, scheduling guides, and arranging transfers, and you might as well make planning travel your full time job. Here are 10 perks you can expect with Nick Running Travel.
1. Insider Access
Nick Running Travel has preferred supplier relations to make sure your experience is special. No more waiting in lines, we can arrange private experiences that allow you to make the most of your precious vacation time.
2. Complementary Breakfast
Breakfast is the most important meal of the day. Start your day right! When you book with Nick Running Travel, you get complimentary breakfast at more than 1000 hotels and resorts around the world.
3. Hotel Credit
Another perk that we receive at our partner hotels is $100 (or equivalent in foreign currency) hotel credit for food and beverage or spa. These credits are available at the same hotel rate that can be found online. Why would you turn down $100?
4. Upgrades
Who doesn't love upgrades!!?! Our partner hotels confirm upgrades at the time of booking or upon arrival at the hotel. Don't get stuck with a room that faces the parking lot or loading dock, with Nick Running Travel that room could turn into an Ocean View!
5. Special Occasions
Nick Running Travel works with hotels in advance for all your special occasions. Anniversary, Honeymoon, Birthdays..... we make sure the hotel is prepared in advance and knows all the details they need to make the stay special. You could try doing this on your own, but we have personal contacts with many hotels who want to make sure our clients keep coming back.
6. Free experiences
Many of our hotel partners offer complimentary experiences to our clients, like a martini class, museum tickets, bicycle tour, or picnic in a park. Just a little something to make a trip even better!
7. VIP Status
You won't be just any reservation when you book with Nick Running Travel. We make sure our partners know who you are and are aware of your unique preferences. You'll feel like a VIP — just don't blame us when you can't go back to booking on your own.
8. Authentic Experiences
Would you rather see a destination as a tourist or experience it like a local? Our on-the-ground partners aren't just familiar with a destination. They live, eat, and breathe it. They know the markets where the locals go and can guide you through it. They can arrange for you to visit a local home or learn a craft from an artisan.
Your vacation starts when you walk down the Jetway! Nick Running Travel has access to discounted first and business class airfare, so you can beat jet-lag with lay flat beds while enjoying premium wine and food. Best of all, no matter what class of service, we tie in your airfare with your other reservations so once you hit the ground everything is seamless.
10. Peace of Mind
We've all read the travel horror stories. Someone getting booked in a creepy hotel, being turned away at security because your passport expires in two months, costly trip disruptions beyond the traveler's control, and so on. There's no need to worry your vacation will be a newspaper headline when you book with Nick Running Travel. We know that your hotel is safe and clean. Your tour guide has been vetted and verified by our trusted partners. And if anything does happen, we are your advocate and only a call away to get the issue sorted out quickly and efficiently.


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June 13, 2017 02:30:39 PM
SEATTLE (Scrap Monster): According to latest trade data published by the Brazilian Ministry of Development, Industry and the Secretariat of Foreign Trade (SECEX), the country's iron ore exports rebounded during May this year. The exports were up marginally by 3.3% over the previous year. It must be noted that Brazil's iron ore exports had declined sharply by 17% in April this year.
Brazil exported 35.112 million tons of iron ore to overseas destinations during the month of May this year. This is marginally higher by 3.25% when matched with the year before. The country's ore exports had totaled 34.006 million tons during May 2016. The largest destination of Brazilian iron ore was China. The exports to China totaled 21.092 million tons, accounting for over 60% of the total Brazilian exports during the month. The second largest destination was Japan with 2.213 million tons, followed by the Netherlands with 1.993 million tons.
The combined exports during the initial five months of 2017 totaled 150 million tons. This is marginally higher by 1.3% when matched with the exports during the corresponding five-month period in 2016. The ore exports by the country had totaled 148.091 million tons during Jan-May '16. The exports of Brazilian ore to China during the first five months have increased by 5.5% over the previous year to 83.8 million tons. Also, the country's iron ore exports to the European Union rose to 17.3 million tonnes in January- May this year, as compared with 16.6 million tonnes during the same period last year. Meantime, pellet exports from Brazil to fellow Mercosur nations surged higher by over 65% year-on-year to $79.6 million during Jan-May '17.
Exports-Apr '17
As per data, Brazil exported 24.04 million tons of iron ore during the month, significantly down by 17% when compared with the same month a year before. The key destination of Brazilian iron ore was China. The Chinese imports of ore from Brazil totaled 13.035 million tons, accounting for more than 54% of total ore exports by Brazil during the month. The second largest importer of Brazilian ore was Malaysia with imports totaling 1.916 million tons in April 2017. The total value of exports amounted to $1.62 billion during the month. The export value surged higher by nearly 69% over the previous year.
Exports-Mar '17
Brazil's iron ore exports surged higher by 20% over the previous year to total 36.39 million tons in March this year. China was the largest importer of Brazilian ore. The imports by China totaled 20.486 million tons, accounting for 56.3% share of Brazilian exports. In second place was Malaysia with imports of 2.435 million tons of Brazilian ore. The other primary importers during the month were the Netherlands (2.161 million tons) and Japan (1.753 million tons).
Exports-Feb '17
Brazil's iron ore exports totaled 25.73 million tons in February this year. The exports have declined by nearly 14% during the month when matched with the previous year. The largest destination of iron ore exports from Brazil was China. The Chinese imports from Brazil totaled 13.75 million tons, accounting for more than 53% of the total Brazilian exports during the month. The other largest importers of Brazilian ore during the month were Malaysia (2.74 million tons), Oman (1.16 million tons) and Japan (1.07 million tons).


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A Seemingly "Good" Decision
Hey everyone, I am sorry for the lack of a post last week. I have been working like a dog recently and I decided to take a week off. I hope that's ok, I am back at it now. I think I am going to try to ramp up the frequency again too. I have another writing project that I am going to work on and I need the practice. Stay tuned for that by the way. I should be fun.
Ok, I am getting back to the actual story of how I ended up where and how I am right now. Which, by the way, is still a really messed up, conflicted, struggling dude but much happier and at least aimed in what I would call the right direction. If you have been following along, you know that I had descended into the pit of despair, somehow didn't lose it all, and am now clawing my way out.
Things were rolling along pretty well in life and at the shop. I finally hired another mechanic (remember this is still from years ago) and a front end guy and we were clicking right along. I was beginning to pay my debt down and my family and I were getting along pretty well. Ruth and I were starting to connect again but it was still a struggle. As you can imagine, having an affair really puts a nasty strain on a marriage and if you survive it like we did, it takes a really, really long time to heal. We are still healing from my mistake in fact.
Anyway, like most times in my life, when things were smoothing out I subconsciously decided that I couldn't have that. For some unfathomable reason, I just can't do smooth. I have to shake things up. I was moving the ball in the right direction and I figured that I had everything under control so why not try to grow my business. Not some little step up or some calculated progress but a giant step into the unknown that would cost a ton of money and be a massive risk. Yeah, that sounds like a great idea for the business and my healing marriage. So, after reading some business books and thinking for a total of 53 minutes I decided to open a second location. I mean, how hard could it be? It had only taken me 8 years to flounder through getting one shop up and running OK, so this one should be a snap right??
The crazy part about this story as it unfolds is that so very much of it seemed to be perfect. There were obstacles that just fell out of the way, tons of support, everything seemed to line up but in the end, it was still a massive mistake that I am paying for today. I guess I can't really say "in the end" yet. God's plan for me is still unfolding and will until the day I extit this drama and everything is a learning opportunity. I am going to stop here this morning and I will rejoin you in just a couple days. I am going to try to get one of these out every other day, or as often as I can. I really appreciate all of the support you guys have given me as I try to figure out how to write and how to do this whole blog thing. I know it hasn't been perfect but I think I am doing ok. If you have time, shoot me an email and let me know what you think. I am not just looking for praise, I want honesty because I really want to do this and I really want to help people who, like me, are a mess. Anyway, thanks again and stay tuned!
Oh and today I am grateful for air conditioning, getting up early and my two goofy kids. What are you thankful for???
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Our annual Chinese New Year Celebration continues as we ring in the Year of the Earth Pig! Once again, Guitarist Russell Malone, will lead his acclaimed quartet in our festivities. Russell performed with Jimmy Smith, Harry Connick Jr., and Diana Krall, whose When I Look in Your Eyes won two Grammy Awards with Russell on guitar!
These two very special evenings will offer two seatings at 6:15 and 8:35 and feature a special $69 prix fixe menu. Including:
Dim Sum Plate: marinated green beans, jicama salad, shrimp & chicken dumplings, little dragon dumplings, vegetarian sushi & California roll
Main Offerings
3 chili chicken
sesame chicken
firecracker beef
champagne prawns
Braised Beef Short Ribs ($6 supplement)
Vegetarian Pad Thai
Crisp Beijing Duck ($9 supplement)
Grilled Portobello Mushroom & Chinese Greens
Dessert Plate:
brownie sundae, NY cheesecake, ice cream spoons, flourless chocolate cake


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Interesting combination of ingredients. Don't know that I'd drink this on a regular basis, but it certainly would be nice for a special occasion or a special dinner/brunch. Enjoyed this, but f...
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Kirsten J Lampi, Eileen Yue, Larry L David; Interactions within β-crystallin complexes revealed by crosslinking and mass spectrometry. Invest. Ophthalmol. Vis. Sci. 2015;56(7 ):5879.
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Lens transparency is accounted for by the short-range order of the major structural proteins, the crystallins. In order to elucidate this order, interaction sites between crystallins were identified by chemical crosslinking βB2 and βA3 heterodimers.
Homodimers of recombinant βB2 and βA3 were mixed at equal molar concentrations overnight at 37 °C to form heterodimers that were confirmed by Blue Native-PAGE. The respective homodimers and heterodimer were then treated with equal amounts of the light and heavy isotope labeled chemical cross linker CyanurBiotinDimercaptoProprionylSuccinimide (CBDPS) (Creative Molecules, Inc. Vancouver, CAN) capable of crosslinking lysine residues 14 Å or less apart. Crosslinked peptides in tryptic digests were purified using an avidin column and analyzed by mass spectrometry using an Orbitrap Fusion (Thermo Scientific, Inc.) to generate accurate parent and daughter ion masses for the crosslinked peptides. The data was analyzed using StavroX software (version: 3.4.9 , University of Halle-Wittenberg) to identify crosslinked peptides by comparison to theoretical crosslinked peptides calculated from a protein database containing βA3 and βB2 sequences.
There were 9 and 7 confidently assigned crosslinks in βB2 homodimer and βB2/βA3 heterodimer, respectively. Crosslinks at Ser, Thr, and Tyr residues, as well as Lys were observed, as previously reported by others (J. Mass Spectrom. 2009, 44, 694-706). A crosslink within βB2 occurred between T90 in the N-terminal domain and K107 at the C-terminal end of the connecting peptide, suggesting these residues were within 14 Å of each other in the heterodimer. The predicted distance between these two residues in the extended βB2 homodimer is 39 Å. While many dead end reactions were observed in βA3 peptides, no crosslinks were detected that contained βA3 peptides in either the βA3 homodimer or βA3/βB2 heterodimer.
Chemical crosslinking of βB2 peptides within the βB2/βA3 heterodimer suggested that the linker in βB2 is bent in the βB2/βA3 oligomer and may adopt a structure analogous to the closed βB1 structure. The difficulty in finding crosslinks in βA3 are likely due to the smaller number of lysines in the protein, compared to βB2, and their lack of proximity to one another in the structure. Future experiments probing βA3 structure should use crosslinkers that are not entirely based on NHS ester chemistry.
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Does Bipolar Disorder Affect Your Physical Health and More? What You Can Do
Bipolar disorder is classified as a "mood disorder" in the DSM-5, but its impact on one's physical health should not be overlooked. It is clear that a mood disorder would impact one's mood. However, what people who are not familiar with this condition may not know is that it impacts so many more aspects of...READ MORE


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Wednesday 11 April 2012
Even though we have only just announced our 2011 winner, it's time to start thinking about what to carve for 2012's competition! In a bid to encourage more entrants, this year's competition will be online. Entries can be submitted via the dedicated website.
How to enter - online only
You will be able to find more information regarding entry at on the IWCOTY website where you will find detailed instructions on how to enter, including how to prepare and upload your images.
More categories; more prizes!
This year the online-only competition will be bigger and better, reaching more carvers than ever before. We will be introducing bigger prizes and more opportunities to win, with special awards presented for the best use of carving techniques, as well as prizes for the best carvings per category, and an overall prize for Woodcarver of the Year.
1. Categories include: In the Round, Relief, Birds & Animals, and Caricature & Whimsy.
Sub-categories include:
1. Best use of Hand Carving
2. Best use of Power Carving
3. Best use of Knife Carving
4. Best use of Pyrography
5. Best use of Colour
The winners of each category will go forward for the final selection of the prestigious overall title of 'Woodcarver of the Year'. There is a fantastic £2, 750 worth of prizes up for grabs from some of the leading names in woodcarving. The competition will be judged by leading figures in the woodcarving world. The stakes are higher than ever, and in September 2012, someone will be crowned Woodcarver of the Year.
Could it be you?
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The competition went live on 23 January, so you can begin to submit entries now. The deadline for entries is 3 September 2012. Any entries received after this date will not be considered.
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Social Growth on Instagram in 2017 and Why "The Social Media Handshake" Method Wins!
Part Two of the Sollevarsi SOCIAL Series: Pillars of Social Growth on Instagram in 2017
The mistake many people make entering into social media is confusing organic with passive. Organic growth on Social Media doesn't perform well unless you are active. The romantic notion being sold to you is that content wins. You will get on Instagram and post great pictures or videos and be off and running. First, content is a craft (Part 3 of our Pillars series). It takes time and effort for anyone to become really effective. Second, posting content simply sends it out into dark empty space, if you aren't active in growing social. Have you ever done an email campaign with a list that performs poorly? or sent out 100 resume's in a week with no replies? Inactive organic growth is like that. We see profiles with good content all the time that have 1,000 posts and 256 followers. This pillar is a guide on how we actively grow your Instagram. Knowing a little bit about what we do for you is important for your overall social media strategy. We call our methodology The Social Media Handshake.
Before we get to our methodology, let's review the four primary ways we see people grow their Instagram accounts (Twitter being very similar).
#1 Hashtag and Hope
Most on Instagram and in social media fall into this category, especially at first. Many creatives, crafts-men and women, small business owners, entrepreneurs, freelancers, and more are included in this method (if they have taken the first step of performing well in content and posting). This social growth strategy is part of the success of every other method at its core - good content, posting it the best possible way. We get into how to post good and great content as our series continues.
The difference for this social growth method is that they stop here. Let's assume for a minute you are above the curve when it comes to content and social. Well-crafted content, good copywriting, proper hashtag placement, the right hashtags, good form, best time to post, including location tags, tagging other accounts, asking questions, engaging with your followers, and much more make up a good Instagram post (or any social media for the most part). You do all this right. It's on brand and on point. You're a content and social pro! You expect your account to grow doing all these things the right way. You have heard from the experts that tell you "Good content wins!" and "the cream always rises to the top." For 99%, it doesn't. We're not talking about winning the lottery or become the next famous artist or whatever you do. You don't have to be in the 1% or the .000001% to grow a business. There are hundreds of millions of people active on Instagram. Let's stop acting like it takes a lightning strike to succeed.
Results: Unless you're in the top 1%, this strategy is very slow for most. It doesn't require any budget, a minimum amount of time, but it yields slow results. It's passive growth strategy doesn't grow for most. You're likely "most" and that's ok because what makes your business special is something else besides content and social expertise.
#2 The 2017 Advertiser
Social Media channels love this person. They spend big dollars to get revenue. This isn't organic. It's pay to play and it works, if you get it right or outsource. This profile is analytics driven and sales minded. They have put the time in to master the advertising in-channel system, like Facebook Ads, or they outsource to very costly advertising agencies. Even the freelance social ad experts are expensive $$$.
You do a good job at #1, then you add an advertising budget. This makes it active and provides good results. You're boosting your posts, using a sales funnel. You have your landing pages on point, and you're actively scaling up. You get solid results to your bottomline, but your social isn't growing and it comes with a bigger price tag than you thought. Though costly and highly specialized, this methodology works and you're short term, direct revenue is promising. Yet, there is more if you could build a true brand and not just a one time direct purchase model from ads. You have to spend money on everything, even the social proof for your posts. You aren't fully leveraging the Power of Social, but you are on a good business trajectory as long as you aren't running your funding dry before the ads really become lucrative.
Results: Big budget, active, moderate growth supported by a promising bottomline.
#3 The Reverse-so, Bizzaro Social Media Paradigm
This growth profile is active outside of Instagram and pushes traffic to Instagram for the purpose of strengthening their brand or adding social to their success. This is our out-of-channel expert. Some people and businesses come to social with a powerful brand. These are usually the ones touting loudly how much "content wins" and it's all about content. They aren't wrong but they aren't telling you the whole story. Apple recently started an Instagram channel and within a heartbeat they had over 800k followers. Now that is social growth we can't touch!
The more accessible version of this profile. They are the SEO expert, the Google Adwords pro, the expert blogger, the published author, or any personal brand or business that has achieved a high level of success outside of social. They are experts at driving traffic to their social media. They also do #1 exceptionally well.
If you're like most of us and still growing your business, you are likely looking for social to do the opposite. This paradigm is to grow your business first and then brand later. Still, unless you bring a VERY powerful brand, you will find trouble pushing traffic to social unless you are actively growing social in the channel, in Instagram.
Results: Requires major brand cache and a thriving business outside of the social media channel. Super speed social growth if you have it; near stagnant growth if you don't.
#4 The Social Media Handshake
Personally, I have done all of these extensively. Over the past 15 years as digital marketing has matured, I've spent this time working internally for companies driving these business initiatives or externally with clients supporting their efforts and consulting on the best pathways to success.
The proven success we have had with the Social Media Handshake is why we work with this methodology first and foremost for social growth. Simply put, you are not getting the most out of Instagram and other social channels if you aren't actively growing your profile. Content and proficiency is required because as you've heard before "content wins." That part is true. But now you can drop the "hope" part and substitute an active growth profile. More accurately and truthfully, active content wins.
We will get hands-on with the steps that make up our process in future articles. But here is a basic outline.
We identify people interested in your brand based on their Instagram activity. This is the same type of targeting done with social media ads but we do it organically and responsibly. We reach out to them individually in an unobtrusive casual connection. Some of them join your brand by following your page. We think of it like walking into a networking event or expo and introducing yourself to someone. You know they are interested in the same genre, industry, field, or whatever brought you to this event. We do that on a social business scale - similar to ads but more powerfully and authentically. If you have your presentation right, they will most likely be happy to meet you and want to engage.
We scale this basic premise up responsibly to accelerate your social growth by offering an affordable, time-saving, account management service. This is how we started growing some of our earliest clients at Sollevarsi SOCIAL. We have found it to be the most effective and authentically organic single method of social growth on Instagram (and Twitter).
Results: Accelerated growth. It works. Whatever you are getting from #1-3 above, we accelerate that growth substantially. Typical results have been around 10k new followers in the first six months of social growth doing only this method (and posting good content). If you're combining all of these, your growth will skyrocket with our social growth acceleration! Check out the results from some of our earliest clients here.
Check out Part 3 of the Sollevarsi SOCIAL Series: Pillars of Social Growth on Instagram in 2017 for a look at the craft of content and what you need to be doing to win on Instagram.
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Miami Beach
Tourists are rarely jailed for breaking Miami Beach laws. Not so for the homeless.
Amid a growing national movement away from jailing people for low-level crimes — which critics say can trap defendants in a cycle of poverty and incarceration — Miami Beach has taken the opposite approach.
Last January, after learning that the Miami-Dade state attorney's office was routinely dropping charges for "quality of life" offenses such as drinking in public and entering a park after hours, Miami Beach hired its own prosecutor to target people who violate city laws. The program, which is the only one of its kind in Miami-Dade County, was part of a broader effort to address nuisance crimes.
But despite residents' complaints about rampant public drunkenness during spring break and other times that draw a lot of tourists, a review of the cases prosecuted by the new program shows that few tourists have been arrested and prosecuted for drinking in public or for other nuisance crimes.
Instead, public records show, the majority of the cases have involved homeless people. An analysis of 212 cases prosecuted between mid-January and mid-August 2018 revealed that at least two-thirds involved a homeless defendant. In another 15 percent of the cases, the defendant's circumstances were unclear, although details on many of the arrest reports suggested that he or she was homeless. In contrast, just 12 arrests involved defendants who may have been tourists, based on the address listed on the arrest report. In another 13 cases, the arrest report did not include an address.
Most of the prosecutions were for drinking in public, although roughly a dozen were for urinating in public and a few were for camping in a prohibited area or entering a park or the beach after hours.
While the number of arrests for violating Miami Beach ordinances decreased last year, the number of convictions rose dramatically. More than 40 percent of the cases resulted in jail time. Many also resulted in "stay away orders" — court orders that bar a defendant from returning to the area where he or she was arrested for a certain period of time.
The number of homeless people prosecuted raises red flags for activists and lawyers who work with this population.
"I thought my tax dollars were going to target actual crime," said Valerie Navarrete, a local activist who reviewed the Miami Herald's findings. "If you're talking about 60 to 80 percent being homeless, that's targeting."
Carey Haughwout, president of the Florida Public Defenders Association, echoed these concerns.
"There is a growing consensus that these types of prosecutions that really are prosecutions based on poverty are not appropriate," she said. "We're just housing them in the jail instead of housing them somewhere else."
Miami Beach officials said that neither the police department nor the city prosecutor are targeting homeless people or avoiding charging tourists. The city prosecutor is responsible for prosecuting all cases involving only criminal municipal ordinance violations, according to the city attorney's office. If a city law is broken and there is an accompanying state charge, the case is prosecuted by the state attorney's office.
"An important component in maintaining a high quality of life throughout the City involves the enforcement of the laws under which all citizens and guests must live and abide," the city said in a statement. "And while no such leniency is shown for felony or most misdemeanor offenses, the officers of the Miami Beach Police Department typically provide a warning to those individuals who violate the City's municipal criminal ordinances prior to effectuating an arrest."
Mayor Dan Gelber said that the people prosecuted were "mostly repeat and habitual offenders," which was the idea behind the program when it was first created. City officials did not say at the outset that most of the people prosecuted would be homeless, however, although Police Chief Daniel Oates said that police wouldn't prioritize tourists who were unaware of the city's laws.
"The people that are arrested are self-selected as people who generally refuse to comply with lawful direction from police," Gelber said. "They may include part of the homeless population but that's not why they're being arrested at all. When a police officer asks somebody to not drink in public and they refuse, it's very likely they're going to get arrested. I think tourists tend to comply. That's the difference."
Some of the arrest reports reviewed by the Herald indicated that the defendant had been previously warned or arrested for the same offense — sometimes that same week or even that same day. There were also cases in which defendants were walking in traffic or yelling at pedestrians when they were arrested for drinking.
But in other cases, according to the information on the arrest reports, homeless people were arrested for simply drinking a beer on the beach or for trying to find a place to sleep. Of the 156 people prosecuted between January and August, 78 percent were arrested only once over that seven-month period.
Nearly 88 percent of the cases were for drinking in public, which is punishable by up to 30 days in jail and carries a fine of up to $250 for a first violation.
The Miami Beach Police Department recently started a new program to help homeless people with an alcohol or drug problem get treatment. In collaboration with the South Florida Behavioral Health Network, police so far have gotten court orders to send 11 homeless people to 90-day treatment facilities.
But at least 95 homeless people were booked for "nuisance crimes" in those seven months, which advocates say isn't an effective or humane way to address homelessness.
"Arresting a person experiencing homelessness may temporarily remove that person from the streets of Miami Beach," Jeffrey Hearne, director of litigation at Legal Services of Greater Miami, said in an email. "But, in the long run, the arrest ultimately makes it more difficult for the person to access housing, jobs, and public benefits — things they need to get back on their feet."
Advocates say that prosecuting homeless people typically ends up being more expensive than providing housing and other services.
It costs Miami-Dade taxpayers roughly $230 per inmate per day to put someone in county jail, according to a spokesman for Miami-Dade County Corrections. That's in addition to court costs and, in Miami Beach, funding the municipal prosecutor program, which costs the city $129,000 a year.
Stay away
On a recent Thursday afternoon, Michael, a homeless man who asked to be identified only by his first name, was resting in Lummus Park. Michael said he'd seen "a big change" in the punishment for low-level offenses since the municipal prosecutor program started last January.
"They're giving out 'stay away orders' for a year for taking a sip of beer," he said.
But Michael, who said he was arrested last year for drinking in public, said he doesn't see police going after tourists for doing the same thing.
"They don't say anything," to the tourists, he said. "They tell them to pour it out sometimes."
Nearby, a homeless man named Alfonso complained that homeless people in Miami Beach are repeatedly arrested for minor offenses. "They don't respect the rights of the people who live on the street," he said in Spanish.
Concerns about Miami Beach's treatment of homeless people aren't confined to the new municipal prosecutor program. Homeless people on the island say they are frequently arrested for trespassing and other misdemeanors prosecuted by the state attorney's office, which can result in hundreds of dollars in fines and court fees. The arrests and fines can also limit their access to some services. Until recently, for example, homeless people in Miami Beach weren't eligible for bus vouchers through the city's relocation program if they had unpaid court fees.
But for city officials and the members of a local crime prevention group, the municipal prosecutor program has been a success. The prosecutor achieved an 81 percent conviction rate last year, the city said in a statement, compared to a success rate of less than six percent when the state attorney's office was responsible for prosecuting the same crimes. The number of arrests in which a defendant was charged with violating at least one municipal ordinance also fell from 739 in 2017 to 460 last year, a drop the city attributed to the success of the new program.
John Deutzman, a Beach activist who moderates the crime prevention group's Facebook page, said that as a result of the program and other efforts, "people who are habitual offenders or chronic offenders are now seeing more time in jail, the proper people who need rehab are being filtered to rehab and we've got a better handle on things these days."
Deutzman, who advocated for the creation of the program, said that it has created a "deterrent to lawlessness" in Miami Beach. "Essentially a lot of the drinking in public stuff leads to everything from aggressive harassment of residents and tourists to other things and most of these guys escalate to other things," he said.
Deutzman and city officials also point to "stay away orders" as a measure of the program's success.
"We may have someone who gets a conviction with no jail time penalty, but the 'stay away order' is so effective that these folks stay away or they're re-arrested if they come back, and many of them have left the beach," Oates told commissioners at a recent meeting.
Nearly a quarter of the cases prosecuted between January and August 2018 resulted in a stay away order, according to information the city provided in response to a public records request. It's unclear how long the orders last and how broad a geographic area they cover because Miami Beach did not respond to questions about their scope.
But activists and lawyers who work with the homeless question the use of "stay away orders."
"The 'Stay Away' orders only move these folks to a different area while the underlying problems of homelessness, mental illness and poverty are not addressed," Haughwout said in an email.
Miami Beach saw a 28 percent increase in the number of homeless people without shelter between August 2017 and August 2018, according to the Miami-Dade County Homeless Trust. (These figures reflect the number of homeless people at a specific point in time and not necessarily the average over the year.)
In an email, chairman Ron Book said that while the Homeless Trust recognizes that nuisance crimes can have a negative impact on residents' quality of life, "communities cannot arrest their way out of homelessness."
There are no homeless shelters in Miami Beach, but the city has roughly 100 beds set aside for its homeless population in shelters in Miami-Dade County and provides transportation. Roughly 1,400 people in Miami Beach identified themselves as homeless during the last fiscal year, according to city figures, and the city offered services, such as shelter placement and help finding a job, to 1,200 people.
The 'root cause'
Across the country, a push for criminal justice reform has seen prosecutors elected in both majority Democrat and majority Republican states on platforms based in part on less incarceration. Some cities are also moving away from sending homeless people to jail for minor crimes.
One alternative approach, known as homeless court, has taken root in dozens of places across the country. Last week, Fort Lauderdale launched Florida's first homeless community court, which is designed to help homeless people cited for minor crimes like trespassing and public drinking get mental health services and other aid. In lieu of going to jail, defendants are asked to do community service.
Miami-Dade has a similar program for people with mental health issues — known as the Criminal Mental Health Project — which diverts people with mental disorders out of the criminal justice system and sends them to treatment.
Miriam Krinsky, the executive director of national advocacy group Fair and Just Prosecution, said that the most effective solutions are ones that provide public health and housing services.
"If the effort is really to solve these problems rather than simply prosecute people for manifesting deeper concerns, then the criminal justice system isn't the player that should be responding here," she said. "I think one has to look at the question of why are these individuals homeless and how do we deal with the root cause of the problem rather than trying to put a band-aid solution on the manifestation of the problem."
But in Miami Beach, city officials are now discussing the possibility of expanding the city prosecutor program to cover additional low-level crimes. Those might include trespassing and petty theft, which are violations of state law, but which a city prosecutor could target by prosecuting the corresponding city code and ordinance violations, chief deputy city attorney Aleksandr Boksner told commissioners at the Dec. 12 commission meeting.
That would require getting approval from the state attorney's office. Some commissioners expressed concerns at the meeting about both the financial impact of expanding the program and whether the state attorney's office would be willing to relinquish that authority. The Miami Beach City Commission has not yet voted on whether to pursue this idea.
The state attorney's office doesn't appear eager to let the city prosecutor's responsibilities grow, however. Spokesman Ed Griffith said that state prosecutors already "work closely with the Miami Beach Police and citizens groups on the prosecution of state statutes."
"As you know, we have 250 well-trained Assistant State Attorneys handling all violations of state law, both felony and misdemeanor," he said in an email.
Miami Herald staff writer David Ovalle contributed to this report
UPDATE: This article has been updated to clarify that Valerie Navarrete spoke to the Herald in her capacity as a local activist and not on behalf of the city's homeless committee. Her comments were based on a review of the Miami Herald's findings.