text:
Thursday, February 19, 2009
Thoughtless Thursday
37 comments:
Wait, let me find the pic of Bitchy with her dad's underwear on HEr head!! She used to love to come in our room and put his undies (clean) on her head!ReplyDelete
OMG that is hysterical!!!!ReplyDelete
Does he have any UnderRoo's or CareBear Underwear that he could try for the next photoshoot?
He's going to kill you one day for this picture you know Capt.
I tell ours that we are supposed to embarrass them.....just the way they embarrassed us, right?
Right?? (well, perhaps thaty's why one of them isn't speaking to us right now. Maybe)
Steady On
Reggie Girl
I was wondering how early the "underwear on the head" infatuation started with boys.ReplyDelete
Whew! See, I'm not the only one!ReplyDelete
The caption for this photo:
Just wait until the day he brings his first girlfriend home to meet you...
You should buy him one of these for his backpack... http://www.blackjackinc.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWPROD&ProdID=1699ReplyDelete
He is so cute!
You are such a lucky man. I bet you have him married off in no time.ReplyDelete
YES! We love Bones!ReplyDelete
Is is wrong to wear a diaper on your head?
Hey! That is a lot of tv to watch! He's just prepared...ReplyDelete
Tell the truth, O Captain, my Captain, he's only doing what he saw you do moments before the pic was shot..
thought so.
I am assuming you were doing the same thing on the other end of the camera. Diaperhead is awesome.ReplyDelete
Hahaha!! Love that picture! What a terrific blackmail shot to keep that kid in line when he's a teen.ReplyDelete
And Cap'n and Irish... men after my own heart... Lost, Bones, Leverage... good tv. No Life On Mars for me.... I'm busy.. uh.. going to sleep.. yeah that's what I'm doing after Lost. ;)
A mans gotta do what a mans gotta do....ReplyDelete
Is there a problem with any of this?
I hope you're not implying that the kid has shit for brains. If you are, the diaper seems appropriate but he seems like a smart kid otherwise.ReplyDelete
Yet another photo that will come back to haunt him on his wedding day....ReplyDelete
You, sir, are a liar. That is no diaper, but a Cars (T) pull-up if ever I saw one.ReplyDelete
"Captain Underpants" to the rescue!!! Heee...my boys loved those books!!!ReplyDelete
I'll take a diaper on your kids head any day. Especially since it means you posted something.ReplyDelete
Cause a day w/out the Captain is like a day w/out coffee. Or something like that.
It's way better than when my son used a sanitary pad to cover his friends eyes once!ReplyDelete
(They start young, don't they?)
J has the very same pull-ups. Just sayin'.ReplyDelete
"Son, you got a panty on your head."ReplyDelete
I can't believe you threw away the opportunity to insert a quote from one of the greatest movies of all time.
I watched Life last night. Is it on two nights in a row? Do you think he shot that guy? Can't wait for Bones. You know why...
I have a picture of myself sort of like this exceot I was at a franternity party and I was 19 : )ReplyDelete
Cute kid!
Oh and you can get the MyVu glasses at Best Buy or online.
Maybe his ears were cold?ReplyDelete
I love Thoughtless Thursday! Perfect after Wordless Wed. some people do (though you forgot Office, 30Rock and ER.)ReplyDelete
We're not even to pull-up diapers yet, but I can already predict this is in my future.
Brilliant! It was clean, wasn't it??ReplyDelete
I'm definitely in agreement with MamaDawg on this one. :)ReplyDelete
Hey - your son is a 'diaper genie'!! hardy-har. I kill me.ReplyDelete
I post pictures of me with diapers on my head all. the. time. That's a good kid you've got there.ReplyDelete
what a fabulous photographer thatReplyDelete
took that photo!
The acorn doesn't fall far from the tree, does it?ReplyDelete
Well, um...he looks like he's having fun.ReplyDelete
Oh dear. I've seen this a time or two. BTW: Can you believe how they got back to the island? Wowsers.ReplyDelete
diaper? I'm pretty sure that's a pull-up. Pull-ups on the head are the gateway drug to those beer holding hats with the straws...ReplyDelete
My boys will put almost anything on their heads to make me sing Laurie Berkner. Maybe you should learn the lyrics before this takes a really bad turn.ReplyDelete
i used to LOVE lost and now i'm ...lost.ReplyDelete
rad diaper head.
we have the same pull ups right now.ReplyDelete
Although I tend to put them on the other end of my son...
- AnonymousFebruary 26, 2009 at 8:09 PM
COOl!!! Someone else who likes Life!!!ReplyDelete


text:
Senator Sanders while speaking about his presidential campaign mentioned how much Americans are spending on its prisons, he claimed the following:
Bernie Sanders on Twitter
We are spending $80 billion a year to lock up 2.2 million people, disproportionately African Americans, Latinos and Native Americans. We need real, comprehensive criminal justice reform. We must invest in jobs and education, not more jails and incarceration. https://t.co/7tn2uHVmCq
Claim 1:
" We are spending $80 billion a year to lock up 2.2 million people"
Fact check 1: True.
A report by the committee for a Responsible Federal Budget has previously investigated this issue in 2015, it cited a report by the Hamilton Project at Brookings Ins that found " In 2010, federal, state, and local agencies spent a combined $80 billion on corrections or $260 per U.S. resident".
Claim 2:
"disproportionately African Americans, Latinos and Native Americans"
Fact check 2: True
Because Hispanic and Latino Americans are not considered a race but an ethnicity this part of the claim must be compared separately. However, when strictly comparing the 2010 U.S. Census data on the racial makeup of the U.S. population and the racial statistics of federal prison inmates per the Bureau of Federal Prisons we find that the majority of people in the U.S. identified as White and no other race at 72.40% while the Federal Bureau of Prisons lists the inmate population as 58.20% White. Comparing this to the clearly disproportionate 12.60% of individuals who identified as Black or African American in the 2010 U.S. Census and the overwhelming 38% which make up the federal prison population we see this is the greatest impact to a single racial group with more than three times the number of incarcerated individuals per capita. Finally combining both Native Americans and Alaska Natives at 0.9% and Native Hawaiians and Other Pacific Islanders at 0.2% for a total of 1.10% per the U.S. Census statistics we find that double that amount 2.20% are imprisoned in federal penitentiaries.
Addressing the ethnic makeup of federally incarcerated individuals the Bureau of Federal Prisons lists inmates by ethnicity at a ratio of nearly one third or 32.2% of all inmates are of Hispanic and/or Latino ethnicity. Where the U.S. Census Bureau in 2017 found that 18.1% of the total U.S. population is Hispanic and/or Latino.
So Senator Sanders' claim of impacting these specific ethnic and racial groups disproportionately is clearly demonstrated in these figures.

subset: commoncrawl


text:
Bath fixtures that are great for any home
Whether you are planning a bath home remodel or you need to make a few repairs, you can count on us to have all the materials you need to get the job done right and save you money. No matter what part you need, trust us, the oldest supply house in the valley, to have it at an affordable price.
We also offer
- Bath fixtures
- Special care fixtures
- Sinks
- Faucets
- Commercial faucets and parts
- Restaurant faucets and parts
- Virtually all faucet cartridges and stems
- Urinals
- Urinals
- Urinal Repair Parts
- Toilets
- Toilet Repair Parts


text:
Series 1 - Black & White
I believe there is a certain poetry in life that only black and white photography can truly express and do justice to. It reminds us of an older, simpler time, while still keeping its nuances and subtleties safe. Black and white photographs are what first inspired me to start photography, and I found myself quite surprised at the range of emotion they portrayed even though they lacked color — which for me had always played a big role in expressing emotions on the big screen. Black and white allows us to really, sincerely look at what is in front of us for what it is, without getting carried away by the follies of the colorful. It also creates a nostalgic atmosphere, and I have always been a sucker for nostalgia.
Series 2 - Peeping
This series is one of the first I ever created, and one I hold dear. Despite its possibly disturbing name, this series is a celebration — a celebration of being in hiding. Hiding to capture, without being noticed. Not only does this allow for subjects to be in their natural environment and for candid shots to occur, it also aims to express the feeling of being trapped, in a cage of sorts. From within this cage, the eye and the lens wish to entrap its subjects as they are — to capture them in a single moment, from which they may never escape again. From time to time, the subject does notice the eye, and the lens, and there is a beauty in that moment as well — all of a sudden, they are trapped in my eye, but they also have a choice as to how to react to this entrapment. Some smile, or laugh, some ask to see the picture, and some say "no photo" or look away. Either way, I am interested in the results. As far as inanimate subjects go, I also believe there is a beauty is trapping them, and depicting them from this imaginary cage I have created for myself.
Series 3 - In Motion
Though photography is to some extent the art of being in motion while portraying stillness, there is beauty is motion captured in a still image. This series depicts movement, whether that be from the photographer's point of view or the subject's. Despite the effort to capture a single instant in one image, life keeps on going, and people and things keep moving along after the photo is taken. Once the moment has passed, the train leaves, the boy turns around, the lights go off…This series is simply a celebration of movement, and motion.
Series 4 - Perspective
I've been told repeatedly that photography is mostly about luck — about being in the right place at the right time. I've also been told it's all about where the photographer choses to position themselves in order to get the shot. This series thus explores the variety of emotions and thoughts which a particular choice of perspective can create in the viewer, but also for the photographer. Shooting the lake from the front of the boat may give us a sense of being all-seeing and powerful, while capturing someone alone on the beach from afar might create in us a feeling of emptiness and peace. I decide where to stand, you decide what to see.
Series 5 - Intimité
This series aims at something very simple: my desire to share the small, yet beautiful moments of my own life, the ones I think about when I lay in bed at night, and the ones we write poetry about. These photographs allow me to remember these moments, and to stay grounded in them forever. It is important to note I am still expanding it.
Series 6 - Montauk
After seeing the small Long Island town depicted in various films and TV series, it had been a dream of mine to go there. I didn't just want to visit it in the summer though, when the town is in full boom — I wanted to see it in the winter time, desolate and empty, and really feel what it's like to be at "The End of The World". Here is that.


text:
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. (Feb. 5, 2015)-- Kory Dajuan Carter's mother called her son "a jokester."
"He was a fun loving child. Everybody in the neighborhood loved him," said Carol Carter, sitting in the backroom of the east side house on the same street where the 16-year-old died.
Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department (IMPD) cold case detectives are working on a theory that Kory Carter caught a bullet meant for another kid on Schick Drive by the same name.
"It may have been a case of mistaken identity," said Lt. Roger Spurgeon, "as there was another Dajuan who lived in the neighborhood."
An investigator told FOX59 News that Carter had been with friends and had just pulled up outside his mother's home at about 10 p.m. on August 25, 2000, in order to run inside and change clothes before attending a party.
Carter had just finished his second day of his sophomore year at Broad Ripple High School, not long enough to make anyone mad in class, after a peaceful summer of video games and basketball.
Dajuan's mom had been out at the store buying groceries for a family reunion the next day.
"It just so happened I had came home just before he came home," she said, "so he had pulled up and I didn't know that he had pulled up until I heard the shot."
According to the original detective on the case, Carol Carter may have been the only one who heard the shot that killed her son.
"I heard a shot and...living in this neighborhood you might hear a shot every once in a while so it didn't really dawn on me to even look outside and two of his friends came to the door and told me Dajuan got shot."
"They just told me that a truck had sped past and that Dajuan had gotten shot."
It's when Carol describes what happened next that her voice cracks as the words get caught in her throat.
"When I finally (got) downhill to see him in the car when I see that he got shot right here with a single shot," she says, pointing to the left part of her chest.
"When I opened the door he was just slumped over. I guess I just freaked out."
"Were you able to talk to him at all?" she was asked.
"Just me saying, 'Hold on, hold on, hold on Dajuan,'" Carol said like a mother who still second guesses what she did one night nearly 15 years ago, wondering if she shouldn't have done more. "He wasn't talking. He was just slumped over."
"I heard the shot but what if I had run to the window and saw anything? You know, you do think that."
Carol recalls that her son's friends confessed they don't know why he was shot and she believes them.
Dajuan Carter's death happened on a Friday night, which meant it got little coverage in the press that weekend and by Monday morning was likely forgotten by almost all except the friends, mother, sister and nieces left behind.
"I feel like that we're the only ones, family and his close friends are the only ones that actually care," said Keyiona Carter, who would still be four years older than her brother if he were here today.
"It's heartbreaking, senseless. You would think people would have more care about people's lives and things like that."
Apparently someone didn't in a quiet neighborhood on the east side where a dead son's picture still hangs on a mother's walls alongside a touching Thanksgiving Day letter written the year before in which a teenager expressed his love and appreciation for the woman who raised him.
"I just wonder what he would be like," said Carol. "Would he be that veterinarian that he talked about being? Would he be a professional? I just wished good things for him."
There were 96 murders in Indianapolis in 2000, far fewer than there were last year.
Hundreds of mothers have grieved over lost children since then.
Carol Carter's heart breaks for each one of them.
"It's just a mother's pain is different," she says. "It's just different knowing that something happened to your child and you don't know why, you don't know why stuff happens."
"You can't explain it unless you're in these shoes."
It's at this point that Carol Carter turned to the camera to address not only the mothers who lost children but the sons who took lives away in such a meaningless manner.
"It's crazy because of as much violence as is going on, when are you all going to wake up? Us mothers is going through this. Families are going through this."
"It just affects the whole community. It still affects me when I hear about another senseless killing murder of a young male. Especially a black male. It's crazy."
"I'm here today because I want everyone to know that I am Dajuan Carter's mother. This has happened over 15 years of a case being unsolved and my family wants closure. People talk so I know somebody knows what's going on."
"What happened to my son?"
If you know what happened to Dajuan Carter on August 25, 2000, at approximately 10 p.m. on Schick Drive when a truck sped by and a single shot was fired into a car with three teenage boys, call central Indiana Crime Stoppers at (317) 262-TIPS. Depending on what you know, your tip could be worth $1,000 and might provide some answers to a mother in pain.


text:
Project Description
Sugar Mill Valley
Visit the historic and almost ghostly Sugar Mill Valley, a relic to Cuba's slave trade. Take a ride on the steam train (if it's working!). Transfers from your Trinidad accommodation are included, total time around 4 hours.
The Valley was a centre of sugar production in the 18th century, and still preserves the mills and technology used at the time to produce the sugar that would later be exported to Europe. Learn how to squeeze the juice from the sugar cane using a trapiche (hand-operated mill) and taste the sweet result of your effort. Colonial mansions or haciendas were the land owners used to live can still be seen in the area. The Macaca Iznaga tower, part of a former hacienda, still remains intact and can be climbed to the top for some amazing views over the valley.
Learn also about the darker side of this valley's history. Sugar production was based on slavery, and some of the ghostly barracones ( slave quarters) still remain.
The ride on the steam train is a must – if working – and kids will love it.
A beautiful valley haunted by the dramatic history of slavery in Cuba under the Spanish rule. Memorable, and enlightening.
Frequency: Daily
Duration: 4 hours approx
Shared Excursion
Kids under 2 go free
Pre-Book Today
Alternatively, please leave us and email using our contact us pages,and we will respond as soon as possible.


text:
Generally, I actually simply wish to throw my cellphone into the ocean and by no means fear about calling or texting anyone once more. Forget about sending her simple and boring messages like: What's up?" " How are you doing?" or Anything new?" If you want to maximize your possibilities for a reply attempt to be artistic and provide you with something fascinating. Be mindful the rules, which I'll briefly explain below.
Exploring Quick Systems Of GoDateNow
When she has nothing to hide from you, she will probably be tickled pink to speak about her day. If she is providing you with all the small print, you've actually acquired nothing to fret about. In some cases godatenow the place a man is hitting her up consistently, the girl might welcome the attention , however over time understand that she has no intention of really sleeping with the individual giving it to her.
Step 1. Select an company or site which can present you the service. It is important to use one of the well-known and with the good interface. You need to perceive easily easy methods to use it and be sure that their database is broad, so you will discover somebody who will match you. Attempt to avoid free websites, as a result of the level of deceit there may be normally extraordinarily excessive. Pay providers confirm that the deed is finished seriously and expert are concerned. It ensures you the great result and, what's vital, security to your cash and personal data.
Okay, before we trigger any outrage, allow us to clarify: In healthy relationships, housework is split up, however it's not always cut up down the middle. What with jobs, children and, uh, a life within the combine, generally certainly one of you ends up cleansing more than the opposite. Which is cool — as long as it gets balanced out down the street, says Syrtash. And even when it is "his activity" to do the laundry , if he is tremendous swamped that week, do your greatest not to hem and haw about dealing with it. Tossing in a load sans grievance will show him you are a workforce, she says, and it's all about that ebb and stream.
In relation to a time to say goodbye for the evening: guys, all the time be trustworthy and ask her out on a second date if you want to. Do not listen to the outdated delusion about ready three days because you don't need to look too keen or no matter. Belief me, if you wish to see her again, almost certainly she feels the same too. And she or he positively needs godatenow you to make the move and say it. And even if she does not, you realize it then, as an alternative of torturing and doubting your self for an additional three days. Girls, if a man does not point out a second date, properly, that is ok. Possibly he is too shy or nervous to think at that second. Give one another a superb hug and say goodbye. My rule is no kissing (on lips anyway) on a first date. It's too fast.
A Russian girl shall be very impartial in a relationship, and very stubborn, too. But on the other hand, expect bravery in danger and trouble, and the strength that will help both of you overcome probably the most difficult occasions. On-line dating sites generally is a good place to meet like-minded individuals; you just need to find the right site to hitch. So take your time to seek out the perfect site for you.
It is more than doubtless that she'll need to look through your texts and chat historical past, and he or she'll most likely comb through your social media to see if there may be even a tiny bit godatenow of evidence that suggests that you're a womanizer. If there is, you're accomplished. If there isn't, she'll slowly however absolutely begin to belief your intentions and your interest in her (and solely her).
I simply cannot perform sexually in a relationship except I can hold the companion at arm's size emotionally. Something that is impossible if you stay with someone in a marriage. I'd love to be able to seek intercourse exterior the marriage godatenow. I talked to my wife about having an open marriage explaining there was no manner I would ever have any emotions for my extramarital sexual companions because if I did it will imply complete sexual shutdown bodily and mentally. But she would have none of it and refused dooming us both to not having intercourse for the rest of our lives.
When you've carried out my ideally suited partner" train, you in all probability have a good suggestion of what kind of person you in the end wish to find yourself with. But your solely job on this date is to be open to whatever the universe is handing you. As an alternative godatenow of worrying about whether or not the particular person is going to be your excellent match, what if as a substitute you gave yourself permission to simply be excited concerning the date? Sometimes we're making an attempt so laborious to guard ourselves from the concern of it not understanding that we miss the very best part, which is the anticipation.
Comparing Convenient GoDateNow Solutions
1. Find out how a lot intercourse your wife actually desires to have underneath optimal circumstances. As an example she says once every week. And as an instance that your splendid is 5 instances every week. Don't be concerned about that discrepancy – the necessary factor right here is that she is still imagining herself wanting sex. Good! Your focus can now be to shift your expectations in your godatenow sex life together with her all the way down to as soon as per week, perhaps masturbating the opposite four nights, and looking forward to trying to make that one time with her wonderful for both of you. Naturally, a huge part of why you're prone to be pissed off and angry about your intercourse life is that you simply preserve hoping and anticipating to have extra of it.
LW, it looks as if you might be doing what is in your management now and that's great. You really sound like a few my exes and it's…heartening?…to learn that folks could ultimately wish to make these adjustments. I completely agree with Wendy about the whole godatenow lot she stated, though. Life is meaningful with or without organic youngsters, and one of the best ways to search out that's to present again and sow into other individuals.


text:
Plein Air Painting: Potomac River Series at River Farm
Potomac River Series XXVI - River Farm
{approx. 5" x 7" (12.7 x 17.8 cm) – oil on gessoed paper}
Today was a beautiful day! Which meant that Ann, Naomi, and I went out to do a bit of painting, this time we met at River Farm along the Potomac River.
I am having to become a "quick draw" artist because even though I was out there for almost two hours I really only got about 45 minutes total to dedicate towards painting, my "little helper" kept needing attention.
For this painting I blocked in the drawing using perm. alizerin crimson, which is a great foil for all the greens that will end up being in the painting. To create a sense of atmospheric depth I laid in a deep red/purple underpainting for the background trees.
Naomi's stroller also doubles as a pack horse, where I sling some of my plein air supplies on it, so I do not have to physically lug much around, which works out well...


text:
Legendary singer/songwriter Janis Ian is a nine-time Grammy Award Nominee. She is best known for "At Seventeen," a song that brought her five Grammy nominations (the most any solo female artist had ever garnered) in 1975, and now, it's reaching its third generation of listeners. She is also the writer of "Jesse," a song recorded by many artists, but few remember Janis wrote it. "Stars" is another one of Janis' big songs which has been recorded by such artists as Mel Torme and Cher.
Janis Ian was born April 7, 1951, and started playing the piano at age two. Far from being a child prodigy on that instrument, she hated scales and studying, and switched to guitar at age ten. ("I figured out that while you couldn't carry a piano, you could carry a guitar, and that was it"). Janis' first song was written at twelve and recorded on her first album for Verve-Folkways in 1965, which also featured her first hit, "Society's Child." The song ignited controversy from coast to coast, resulting in the burning of a radio station, the firing of disc jockeys who played it, and a generation hungering for the truth finally having a female songwriter to stand beside Bob Dylan.
At the age of eighteen, Janis took a break, retiring to Philadelphia for three years "to find out if I had it in me to be a good songwriter, or if I should just go to school and become a veterinarian." Janis returned to singing in 1973 with the stunning "Stars" album, and went on to cover the decade with number one records worldwide. Her follow-up to "Between the Lines," titled "Aftertones," was #1 in Japan for an astonishing six months, a record still unbroken by a female artist. "Night Rains," featuring the Giorgio Moroder collaboration "Fly Too High," managed to go platinum throughout Europe, Africa, and Australia.
In 1983, after ten unbroken years of making records and touring, Ian took an unprecedented nine year hiatus from the visible music world, studying acting with the legendary Stella Adler and "in general, learning how to be a person." During that period, she married and divorced, suffered two emergency surgeries, lost all her savings and home to an unscrupulous business manager, and moved to Nashville, TN in 1988 "penniless, in debt, and hungry to write." She returned to the music business with 1992's "Breaking Silence," which immediately garnered her ninth Grammy nomination.
"It was good to start young," says Janis. "It was good to learn, early on, that what matters is the music. I got most of my big mistakes over with before I was twenty-one. When people say 'Didn't you miss having a teenage life?' I just say 'I only know the life I lived. I was a teenager, working. A hundred years ago, no one would have thought anything of it. At least I got to do something I loved! I could have been working in a factory, or a day job where every day is the same thing, day in and day out. Instead, I got to deal with everything from doing coke with Jimi Hendrix to death threats. I lived an entire life in my teen years, and I don't regret a second of it."
2008 saw a double-whammy: "Society's Child: My Autobiography," released in North America by Tarcher/Penguin, received stellar reviews; O Magazine called it "Hugely readable" and recommended it as one of 27 "must-reads." Mojo Magazine gave it a four star review, and Booklist a starred review that ended with "painfully candid, and hard to put down." The accompanying double CD-set, "Best of Janis Ian: The Autobiography Collection," contains 31 tracks, and is the first "best of" Janis has ever released in North America. From start to finish, it unearths such gems as Janis' very first demo recording ("Hair of Spun Gold," sung into her father's tape recorder when she was thirteen years old), and features all the classics, completely re-mastered from the original sources, as well as never-before-heard bonus tracks.
Janis is not an artist for the faint of heart, for timid souls who prefer Britney Spears auto-tuned vocals to the voice of real experience. Both the book and the CD set offer an outspoken look behind the scenes, not just of her life, but of the music industry as well. Her story of an agonizing "showcase" for Clive Davis makes you appreciate your own day job. The harrowing years she spent watching her ex-husband decline, from loving partner to threatening her life, are as truthful and straightforward as they are painful to read. And don't forget the good! The end of "Society's Child" is particularly poignant, as Janis finally meets the love of her life, Patricia. The two were married in Toronto in 2003 and have been together for over twenty years.
Now Janis is once again going back on tour with a stop a New York stop at Queens Theatre on April 21 at 2pm and 8pm! Come hear the songs of your youth or introduce this legend to the next generation. Click here for tickets!
For more on Janis be sure to visit http://www.janisian.com!
1. Who or what inspired you to become a singer/songwriter? I grew up in a family filled with music. My parents listened to jazz, folk, classical all the time, so it was a natural thing that, when my father began subscribing to Broadside Magazine, I take note of the songwriters.
2. Who haven't you worked with that you would like to? Gosh. Everyone. David Bowie. Levon Helm. Joe Henry. Bonnie Raitt. The list goes on...
3. What excites you about your upcoming concert at Queens Theatre on April 21? I've been a performing artist since the age of 14, in 1965 -- and I've never, to my memory, done a solo show in Queens! Plus, you're near Flushing, right? My best friend, Janey Street, is from Flushing. We used to meet "under the clock" all the time, then go get egg creams.
4. What will you bring to this concert that you haven't brought to previous concerts? A map of Queens...
5. What do you hope audiences come away with after seeing your concert? The desire to make me president?
6. One of your many hit songs include "At Seventeen." Looking back, what did it meant to you to be nominated for 5 Grammy Awards? Now you have 9 Grammy nominations. What does an honor like this mean to you now? It was, and is, a huge thing to be nominated for that many at once. At the time, only four other females had that distinction - Aretha Franklin was one of them. Heady company. And it was recognition from my peers, which, after the hard times of "Society's Child", meant a great deal.
It means the same thing now - peer recognition. One of the absolute highlights of my life was seeing Ella Fitzgerald stand up to lead my standing ovation. I'll never forget it!
7. You started the Pearl Foundation, named after your mother. What made you want to start this foundation and what personal satisfaction have you received from it? My mother went back to school in her 40's, with my financial assistance. Despite having multiple sclerosis, over the course of fourteen years she managed to earn a college degree. It meant more to her than anything in her life but her children. I put her through college, I helped put my brother through college, I put my partner through college, so I've seen first-hand the enormous generational changes education brings. I was raised to believe in giving back. This is my way to do that.
8. In addition to your music and foundation, you are also a successful author from writing your autobiography to science fiction. What made you want to start writing? Writing prose, you mean? My friend Mike Resnick signed me up for an anthology, and I suddenly had a deadline...
9. What did you learn about yourself from writing your autobiography, "Society's Child"? What was like to go back through your catalog of music for the accompanying "Best of Janis Ian" album? I learned that writing is writing, be it songs, articles, fiction, or an autobiography- I love writing, period.
Going back through my old catalogue was enlightening, and sometimes painful! There was work I'd forgotten, work that made me sit back and think "Wow. That's pretty good!" There was other work I'd forgotten that should remain forgotten.
10. What's the best advice you've ever received? Slow down.
11. If you could dream about anyone while you sleep, who would it be? My partner, Pat!
12. Favorite way to spend your day off? Laying by the water, reading, then cooking lobster for dinner.
13. Favorite skin care product? Water.
14. If you could have any super power, which one would you choose? Eternal health.


text:
ETF投資,美股投資,臺股ETF投資,西洋情歌,西洋音樂,閱讀與興趣 [ラブソング, песня любви][ETF inversión, ETF投資します, ETF инвестиции], all investment and interesting stuff I touched, experienced;
2013年5月18日 星期六
伊凡·史漢基美麗的穿著樣式 ( Yvonne Strahovski beautiful dressing style with seal love songs )
Yvonne Strahovski (born 30 July 1982) is an Australian actress. After graduating from the University of Western Sydney, she featured in a number of Australian television shows. She then starred as CIA Agent Sarah Walker in the American television series Chuck, a role for which she is widely known. She is also noted as the voice and model of Miranda Lawson in the Mass Effect trilogy. She is featured in season 7 & 8 of the Showtime series Dexter as Hannah McKay.
訂閱: 張貼留言 (Atom)


text:
Are you ready to get the most out of your 4th quarter affiliate marketing?
From Halloween (now at a record $8.4 billion in retail spending) to the winter holidays, now's the time to make your list and check it twice… your content marketing plan checklist, that is.
Assuming you've got your overall content marketing plan in place – you're clear on your audience, know how to write for people (with search engines in mind), picked your most effective social channels, and have a handle on your SEO, here are four action items to help you hone in on your content strategy for the rest of the year.
1) Customize your content marketing mission statement so it directly speaks to your audience.
For starters, take the words "content" and "marketing" out of the equation. Your goal isn't just to write content or just to market to your audience; your mission is to deliver to your clients exceptional, valuable information that they can't get anywhere else.
For example, if you blog about shoes, you need a strong, specific mission statement: I want to help people find the best deals on designer shoes. Now, hone it in for your 4th quarter marketing mission: I want to help people find the best deals on the hottest designer shoes for the holiday season. This level of detail clarifies your niche and allows you to laser beam focus on the hottest trends and topics of the season.
2) Tailor your topics to address your audience's biggest challenges, questions and concerns.
At Social Media Marketing World, Marcus Sheridan of the Sales Lion cautioned publishers to get away from the fluff and grab the gusto with his "Big 5" blog or article topics that will "move the needle." In order to drive traffic, traction and clicks -- not just year round, but especially during the holidays when everyone is vying for consumers' time, attention, and wallet -- the types of posts Sheridan recommends are those that:
● Solve readers' problems
● Provide information about cost/price
● Offers clear, comprehensive comparisons
● Gives honest, meaningful reviews
● Ranks the "best of" or "top"
If you need help anticipating your readers' queries, check out BuzzSumo's new Question Analyzer. This helpful tool allows you to input a keyword or phrase, and then scours hundreds of thousands of forums and websites to deliver the most commonly asked questions related to that topic – plus links to the best answers. For example, if you put in "Halloween costume," you'll find the most searched questions revolve around "best Halloween costume ideas," "Halloween costume for a(n) x year old," and "cute Halloween costumes." This tool can help you hone in on your readers' burning questions to develop valuable, "Big 5" content.
3) Leverage eBay's marketing efforts to amplify your own.
You want to deliver the best, most relevant results and information to your audience… and we're with you every step of the way. Take for example Halloween: eBay's online Halloween hub, aka "Costume Closet," makes it easy for buyers to quickly find the exact costume they're looking for. It also makes it simple for you to find great recommendations for costumes to share with your readers.
As Black Friday (November 24th), Cyber Monday (November 27th) and all holiday shopping points in between draw near, be sure to read the EPN blog regularly, as we will continue to spotlight special promotions and earnings opportunities on eBay for the season's hottest and hardest to find gifts.
4) Review your analytics and reports to identify your best opportunities and audience.
From traffic to demographics, your site analytics to date, as well as those from 4th quarter 2016, will give you rich insight into what makes your audience tick – and click. Your social media analytics should also give you an idea of the content and themes that are most engaging to your followers. And take a good look at your EPN reports to see sales trends so you know what's worked over time, and what hasn't. Don't just skim the surface; take a deep dive into your stats. As we advised in our previous post on how to earn double commissions by converting high quality buyers, make sure you examine data from rich reports like the Transaction Download Report (TDR), which helps you determine which categories, pages and listings are producing new or reactivated buyers – and thereby earn double commissions during the busiest time of the year by targeting these buyers.
Set your sights on holiday content marketing success by making sure you've hit all the highlights on this holiday prep checklist. And let us know in the comments what you're doing to get ready to rock your 4th quarter marketing plan.


text: Lisa's 365 Project 152/365 – iPhone Pic Posted on August 18, 2013August 18, 2013 by Lisa Well. I ran out of time tonight so I'm just took an iPhone picture of my little one…my uncooperative little one. She's using her card as a camera to take a picture of me. Advertisements Share this:Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Like this:Like Loading... Related


text:
The Studios of Cocoa Beach, 165 Minuteman Causeway in downtown Cocoa Beach, highlights the work of Cocoa Beach resident Sally Auman as their August Featured Artist. An experienced traveler and award winning photographer, Sally combines Encaustic (Wax) Painting with Digital Photography to create unique images.
Sally explains." Photography has always been part of my life since my father was a professional photographer in Cocoa Beach. For me photography is the beginning of my creative process. I may edit and print the photo, or alter the photo digitally, use photo transfer techniques, add oil paint, or embed it in encaustic wax. I am captivated by both my Florida surroundings and different places, cultures and history. My work always reflects my personal interpretation and my fascination with contemporary art prompts me to keep trying new things."


text:
The UK's hidden handcuffs/
UPDATE: a new article in CapX updates these estimates for the latest research, with graphs
If you live in the UK, you are getting by at three quarters of your full strength. So is everyone else, but most people don't know yet.
The UK as a whole is running at three quarters of its potential, because of the shortage of homes. To put that in perspective, that's more damage to the economy than anything since the Black Death.
As Matt Rognlie, a young economist at MIT, has pointed out, housing is the biggest cause of inequality. Half of the UK is worse off than 14 years ago because of housing costs.¹
But that is not all. The shortage of homes in the UK is now so bad that it hurts the economy by 25-30%.
Heard of the UK's 'productivity puzzle'? There's less of a puzzle than you might think. There's good evidence that low UK productivity is mainly down to lack of housing near the best job opportunities. That means everyone in this country is 25-30% worse off than we would be if we had a proper housing supply.
That makes us less competitive against other countries, like China and the US. It's also a great reason for us all to get together and fix the problem. It doesn't have to be about us vs. them, or one group against another. We can fix the problem and make the whole country better off.
What's the evidence?
In 2015 two talented professors, Enrico Moretti at Berkeley and Chang-Tai Hsieh at Chicago Booth, got together to measure the effect of shortage of housing on US productivity. They concluded that lack of housing had impaired the US economy by between 9.5% and 13.5%.
How? Mainly by stopping people getting the best jobs that they want. Lack of housing also causes stressful insecurity and long commutes. Expensive offices and factories damage businesses and growth as well, of course.
Is the UK any better? Not by a long way.
The value of land under US houses is about $10 trillion,² or 12.5% of US total net wealth. That gives some measure of the artificial shortage of homes, because many more great homes should fit into a square mile than you'll find in sprawling Palo Alto or London's zone 5. Think of the beautiful terraces of Kensington & Chelsea, or central Paris. If homes in London as a whole were more like one of those places, land for housing would be much cheaper.
The same number for the UK is £3.7 trillion,³ or 40% of UK net wealth: more than three times as bad as the US proportion. If we take the total market value of UK housing from Savills rather than the ONS, the number is more like £5 trillion.
That probably means that the damage to the UK economy and GDP is somewhere around three times as bad. It may not be 39.5%, but 25-30% is a reasonable estimate.
That's an incredible amount of self-inflicted damage, every year. 30% of GDP is about £600 billion, more than central government spends in a year. Of course, it's a rough estimate until someone does a proper UK study.
Has anyone done a proper study? We sent a Freedom of Information request to HM Treasury, asking for their estimate of the impact of the housing crisis on UK GDP. Despite being supposedly focused on the housing shortage, they answered that they had no idea.
What gets measured, gets improved. If we recognize how much damage the lack of homes is causing to the UK as a whole, and to our competitiveness against other nations, perhaps we can finally all get together to build enough homes.
1 Resolution Foundation, The Housing Headwind, Figure 21
2 See, for example, William Larson, New Estimates of Value of Land of the United States, Bureau of Economic Analysis, 2015, and the studies cited in Table 6.
3 UK Office for National Statistics, Blue Book data series for 2015, CGLK minus MJF8. The actual number may be higher because permissions on land not under dwellings are counted separately. Value of land under buildings and other structures was £453 billion. The value of land currently used for agriculture (including the value of planning permissions on greenfield land) is currently combined within AN.115 and will be disclosed separately for the first time in autumn 2017.


text:
Signing up for credit cards through partner links earns us a commission. Terms apply to the offers listed on this page. Here's our full Advertising Policy.
If you've got a side-hustle setup to make a little extra cash, you can also rack-up lots of miles & points with small business credit cards. For example, the Ink Business Preferred℠ Credit Card has a sign-up bonus that is worth at least $1,000 in travel (you can read our full review of the card here)!
But that's not the only way to earn extra rewards. Sometimes banks will offer bonuses for opening a business account with them. And right now, Chase banking has a deal, and it comes with a $200 cash bonus.
First, you'll need to open a new Chase Business Total Savings (or higher tier) account. Then you'll need to deposit $15,000+ in new money into your account within 10 business days of opening the account. Once you've had at least $15,000 in your account for 90 days, you'll receive the $200 bonus!
Here's what you need to know:
- This offer is NOT available to folks who already have a Chase Business Savings account or fiduciary account
- NOT available to anyone who has closed their account within 90 days or closed with a negative balance
- New money you deposit can NOT be funds held by Chase or Chase affiliates
- You can receive 1 new business savings account opening bonus every 2 years
- You can receive 1 bonus per account
- You must keep your account open for at least 6 months, or Chase will take the bonus back
Note: Bank account bonuses are taxable, because they are considered income.
These bank accounts have a fee of $10 per month, but you can waive that fee as long as you keep a balance of at least $1,000 in your account. You'll also have the fee waived if you maintain a Chase Business Total Checking account linked to this new account.
Chase will deposit the bonus into your account within 10 business days of completing the above requirements. Here's a link to the offer!
We're always looking for deals to help you earn Big Travel (or cash in general), so let us know if you find these kinds of deals useful!
And remember, you do NOT need to do your business banking with Chase in order to be approved for a Chase business card. Depending on your business structure, you can apply using just your social security number and name instead of an EIN and formal business name on your application!
If you want to stay on top of fun deals like this you can enroll in our daily newsletter!


text:
Montreal Journal: La Chronique
Interior shot (left); Chefs Marc de Canck and Olivier de Montigny (right)
My girlfriend and I spent a fun long weekend in Montreal last year. We enjoyed it so much that she suggested a return visit to celebrate my birthday. The question was: where to eat? Last time, we had a terrific meal at Toqué, and we wanted another meal in that class. An eGullet contributor suggested La Chronique.
The restaurant, located well apart from the central business district, occupies a fairly humble-looking space that belies the ambitious food. Belgian chef Marc de Canck has been at the helm since it opened in March 1995, joined more recently by his assistant Olivier de Montigny. It has garnered a mention in various international publications, including a favorable write-up from New York Times critic Eric Asimov in 1999.
The à la carte menu offers appetizers from CA$15–25 and entrées $34–45; there are only about half-a-dozen of each. We chose the seven-course degustation for $100 per person, with wine pairings another $50 or $100 (we had the latter). The explanations of the wines were unusually detailed, extending at times to full-blown tasting notes à la Wine Spectator.
I present the menu selections and paired wines below in French, followed in each case by our notes:
La mise en bouche en surprise du moment [above left]
La Lotte farcie de homard, crème de ptd et pois verts à la truffe [above right]
France, Saint-Aubin 1er Cru Les Frionnes, Hubert Lamy 2004
The amuse-bouche was a small daub of gravlax with crème fraîche. The first appetizer was a fairly complex presentation of monkfish stuffed with lobster, with a potato foam, green peas, and purple basil. The lobster had a nice sweeness, balanced by peach and almond notes in the paired wine.
Bar de ligne rôti, ravioli d'artichauts et sa vinaigrette tiède aux tomates séchées [above left]
France, Sancerre, Les Culs De Beaujeu, François Cotat 2005
La noix de ris de veau aux cèpes, foie gras et courge musquée [above right]
Amerique, Santa Rita Hills, Foley Pinot noir, Foley Estate 2005
Next came artichoke ravioli with red peppers and dried tomatoes, accompanied by the very smooth François Cotat Sancerre, which offered hints of grapefruit, green tea, aged in oak. I'm no great fan of artichokes, but I could appreciate the artistry of the dish.
After that, sweetbreads and foie gras in a chocolate and butternut squash purée. If you put so many ideas into one dish, the result could very well be mush. Instead, our note at the time was: "This is incredible." The accompanying pinot noir offered hints of cherry and vanilla.
Le duo de boeuf Angus, endive caramélisée et girolles [above left]
Italie, Bolgheri, Ornellaia, Tenuta san Giudo 2002
Le plateau de fromages fermiers d'ici et d'ailleurs [above right]
Italie, Monferrato Rosso, Pin, La Spinetta 2003
The last savory course was a filet of black angus beef, with a braised beef tail, braised endive, onion, and veal jus. This seemed less memorable than some of the other dishes. The accompanying Italian wine came with a tasting note that almost defied detection by mere mortals: black olives, leather, plum, blackcurrant, strawberry, and cherries.
The server brought around a cheese platter, from which we chose six, all of which were wonderful, including a couple of unpasteurized cheeses that could not legally be served in the U.S.. The tasting note for the wine: tobacco, coffee, chocolate, red fruits, and blackcurrant.
La clafoutis aux pêches, caramel salé et glace vanille
France, Barsac-Sauternes 1er Cru, Château Climens 1995
Dessert was a light pastry with peaches, salted caramel, and vanilla ice cream, along with a sauterne. Tasting note: pineapple, mango, fig, and honey.
Service throughout was first-rate, and the timing of the courses—always tricky with a tasting menu—was just about right. The food at La Chronique has a bit less of the "wow" factor than at Toqué, but it must surely be one of the top handful of dining experiences in Montreal.
La Chronique (99 rue Laurier Ouest, Montreal)
Food: ***
Service: **½
Ambiance: **
Overall: **½


text:
I run a digital marketing agency, and here's why I signed up for Marketing Week's Mini MBA
There I was, on a conference call with a prospective client, when I heard a question I wasn't expecting: > Your technical credentials are fine, but do you have any marketing qualifications? Immediately I knew where the conversation was going to go. I could feel the scope of the engagement... Read More


text:
Dinner with Stefan in Spiekeroogs' smallest Dining Room
A few hours ago I returned from the Spiekeroog-treffen in Germany. I have just finished rinsing out most of the salt and sandy gear. I am tired but satisfied, had a real good time. Sun-burnt face, slight headache - I will take a shower and go to bed early! Here are my first pictures. I didn't take much photos this time: no need to do this with Andreas in the group - it's a unique luxury to have a personal professional outdoor-photographer in your team! Andreas' pictures will follow soon!


text:
WA women to be exposed to 40 days of harassment outside abortion clinics/
The safety, wellbeing and dignity of women seeking reproductive health care in Western Australia will be at risk over the next 40 days, as anti-abortionists commence a 40 day picket for Lent.
A group of anti-abortionists, referred to as '40 Days for Life', have been given a permit to undertake a 'prayer vigil' outside Marie Stopes' Midland clinic from 7am to 5pm daily for 40 days starting today. It is understood a similar permit has also been issued for a 40 day vigil outside the Nanyara Clinic in Rivervale.
Past 'vigils' have included anti-abortionists yelling abuse at staff, such as calling them 'murderers', patients and staff being stopped when trying to enter or exit the clinics and women being handed rosary beads, baby booties and leaflets that contain medically misleading claims.
Adrianne Walters, Senior Lawyer at the Human Rights Law Centre, said that women should not be confronted with crowds of strangers criticising their decision to access private medical care.
"The McGowan Government must introduce safe access zone laws now so that no woman in Western Australia has to run a gauntlet of intimidation and harassment just to see their doctor."
"The activities of anti-abortionists outside clinics have caused serious distress, fear and anxiety to patients and staff. There have been a number of instances of violence outside abortion clinics around Australia, including the murder of a security guard in Victoria," said Walters.
Safe access zones laws have been introduced in every other state and territory of Australia except for South Australia. They prohibit conduct such as harassment, intimidation and filming of patients and staff outside reproductive health clinics that provide abortion services.
"Safe access zones are a straightforward and sensible solution. It's outrageous that in 2019 women in Western Australia face being harassed, blocked and filmed when trying to see their doctor. It's difficult to understand how this behaviour has been allowed to continue for so long," said Walters.
The High Court is currently considering a challenge to the constitutionality of aspects of Victoria and Tasmania's safe access zone laws.
"Free speech is not a license to harm others with impunity. Our position is that sensible and proportionate safe access zone laws strike the right balance between the freedom of political communication and a woman's right to privately and safely see her doctor," said Walters.
For interviews call:
Michelle Bennett, Director of Communications, Human Rights Law Centre, 0419 100 519


text:
发布于:2017-12-3 18:58:49 访问:1069 次 回复:1 篇
版主管理 | 推荐 | 删除 | 删除并扣分
Why Smoke Cigarettes? 3 Factors Why People Smoke and Why These Are False
It almost seems common knowledge today that smoking is unhealthy for you. Why smoke cigarettes then? What benefit could there be to smoking? Although most smokers know the danger of their habit they might have formed their own good reasons to continue smoking.
Make no mistake that smoking is bad and negatively impacts all areas of any smoker's life from their health with their finances. Yet again, smokers know this but could have visit certain conclusions to warrant continuing to smoke.
Most of these reasons are not true and may even make them continue smoking unnecessarily. Listed here are three with the significant reasons that folks consistently smoke and why they are certainly not true.
Smoking Relaxes Me
A lot of people continue smoking since they feel smoking relaxes them. This is simply not true. As a matter of fact nicotine can be a stimulant and raises blood pressure. Any relaxation the smoker feels once they glow is temporary and is also only as they are giving their body the nicotine is craves, which leads us to reason number 2.
I am just Enslaved by Nicotine
Plenty of smokers excuse themselves from seeking to stop smoking cigarettes mainly because they believe they are just too enslaved by nicotine to quit. The truth of the matter that the only thing that feeds the addiction to nicotine is smoking that next cigarette. The physical addiction to nicotine passes with under a week of quitting smoking. By this time all of the nicotine has passed from the smoker's system.
It can be Too Hard to stop Smoking
Lots of people feel it is just too much to give up smoking. Maybe they also have aimed to quit during the past and failed and feel they only do not possess the "will power" to stop. Look at it in this way, every single day many people give up smoking cigarettes. They are really by no means stronger or possess more will power than other people. There are numerous various ways to help smokers kick their habit. Methods like NLP, or Neuro Linguistic Programming give smokers a very great potential for quitting smoking with their first, or next, attempt.
We all know smoking is bad for them why smoke? Cigarettes destroy your state of health, your image, plus your finances. Tend not to succumb to the trap of justifying your habit. You will find no excellent reasons to smoke. Stop smoking is the greatest decision you might make inside your lifetime. Obtain the help you need and stop smoking cigarettes, you deserve it.
In case you looking to find out more about order3, visit our website.
共1篇回复 每页10篇 页次:1/1
- 1
共1篇回复 每页10篇 页次:1/1
- 1


text:
Kincade writes an essay (or two)
We had 15 minutes of fame on ABC's show Wife Swap, where the show was quite fascinated with our discipline technique of assigning our children five-paragraph essays (with intro and conclusion) for breaking major family rules. In Albuquerque, in the Espinosa-Marquez home, several of the "tribe" of skaters wrote essays I assigned about why using the "F" word is inappropriate.
We actually don't do this very often. But, we do find that our kids all ace English and don't experience writer's block at all, thanks to their copious home writing experience. I keep their essays to entertain them in the future when they are adults (or to entertain all of us if they continue to not learn the lesson, by reading us all their original essay out loud).
My 14-year old son, Kincade, had a bad day on Sunday and wrote not one, but TWO, essays. Because I thought one of them was hilarious, I share it here for your enjoyment. Note the skilled use of lots of "filler," which will come in handy for high school length requirements:
Are Fathers Important, and Do They Deserve Our Respect?
Fathers are very important in a family, and so we should be respectful to them. In my second essay of the day, I will discuss why fathers are so important to families.
In our family and in most families in our country, and the United States, and the world, and probably the universe, the fathers bring home the bacon; or, in our family, it's more like the lettuce. Fathers all around the world work very hard to provide the "lettuce" for the family and they work too hard for their snot-nosed kids to be disrespectful to them. I think this is pretty much the reason why fathers are so important, but because I need to fill up this page, I guess I'll need to make some more stuff up.
Fathers are also important because as a clinical study shows, families with fathers who take an active role are less likely to have children who become juvenile delinquents. I think that 86% of these "clinical studies" are just made up, but fathers are important because if we didn't have fathers, we would probably drive our mothers crazy.
Fathers are also incredible role models. They set examples for their children like being responsible, working hard, and being a stud. These are some of the examples that my father has showed me, even though I have picked up only on the last one. If a father were a gang member, then the child would probably show some type of interest in joining a gang. Fathers' examples are the most important because every child looks up to his father. This is why I think fathers' examples are important.
Now I have told you why I think that fathers are so important. I feel bad about being disrepectful to Dad last night, and I know that I should try harder to be more respectful.
By Kincade Pay
Posted in: Relationships
8 thoughts on "Kincade writes an essay (or two)"Leave a Comment
That is priceless!! Got a good chuckle reading it,but also think I'll start my daughter learning to write essays on things she may do to give her a better idea on how she may act.
"the fathers bring home the bacon; or, in our family, it's more like the lettuce"
I laughed so much at that quote! It is absolutely hilarious! It might be my weakness once I have kids- they'll say something funny and then I'll start laughing rather than giving them their due punishment.
But since I studied home and family living at BYU I can add to the essay a little. When a father is present in a home, the kids have been shown to have higher GPAs, more social-emotional intelligence about others, more friends, less children that drop out of school, and relationships with others that last longer.
Whereas, father absence has been attributed to less stable relationships, a greater likelihood of children using drugs, alcohol, and having premarital sex to name a few.
Anyway, after reading that letter from your son, I've considered doing that in my future family one day. My parents used physical punishments a lot of the time and I want to avoid that in every way. So this sounds like a good alternative.
As a homeschool mom I'm going to remember this one!! That's great! Thanks for sharing.
That was amusing, but I have a question, Robyn — if your kids do a silly essay when it's been assigned as a consequence, do you make them redo it more seriously, or you accept it as fulfilling the requirement? (this is a genuine question — I can be such a hardnose, and my first thought is they should rewrite it — however, I know sometimes I need to lighten up, so I was just wondering if this is one of those times, in your opinion).
Also, just wanted to share that your 12-step food program has inspired me to carry out a one-month-at-a-time discipline modification program (as in child-rearing). So we don't get overwhelmed (me and DH, OR our kids), and give up too soon, we're going to address one discipline issue a month so we can change our current habits into more healthy ones. Hopefully this will lead to a more peaceful home in one year :o)
Thank you for the laugh – I needed that! And…what a fantastic way to handle things with kids. Writing it down is such a sealant. And a healant. Maybe they'll someday parlay that into love letters with their special someone, in adulthood. Or apology letters to the spouse, if ever needed. Then your D/S-in-law can thank you profusely!! :o)
Hillarious!! My favorite: "They set examples for their children like being responsible, working hard, and being a stud. These are some of the examples that my father has showed me, even though I have picked up only on the last one." That is classic 14 year old!
Awesome strategy-and i totally agree on the humor thing, that is wonderful that he can express the overall theme of the essay, while managing to elicit some laughs. Great writing!


text:
Ravens and crows are often confused. They're both fairly large, black birds, and and can be hard to tell apart. Below are a few tips on telling these two winged creatures apart.
1) Ravens are bigger. With an almost 4-foot wingspan and a length of about 27", ravens are larger than your everyday crow, which has a wingspan of 3 feet and a length of 20".
2) Ravens are usually seen alone or in pairs. Crows, on the other hand, are very social and travel in larger groups, which may number into the thousands.
3) Ravens have a very large bill, while crows have a more moderate-sized bill.
4) In flight, ravens have a diamond or wedge-shaped tail as several of their central tail feathers are longer then the outer tail feathers. Crows, on the other hand, have tail feathers of equal size that spread out like a fan. Ravens' wings have four feather "fingers" while crows' wings have five feather "fingers." And ravens are known for their graceful flight, which includes soaring, gliding and slow flaps.
5) Listen to their calls: ravens make a "deep, throaty croak," while crows have more of a "strong, harsh caw," according to allaboutbirds.org.
6) Want to attract crows and ravens to your yard? Put some food out, such as peanuts (for crows) or bird seed and pet food (for ravens). Or just leave the garbage accessible.
The next time you see a big black bird, stop and take a closer look. Chances are, you'll quickly be able to figure out which of these common birds you're seeing. Try it out below...


text:
When a bunch of narcotics agents go busting into a house with guns drawn, it's hoped that they know whose house they're barging into and that they really have a need to show such violent force. Lafayette narcotics agents and deputies say that they executed two search warrants looking for synthetic marijuana at a business and a home. In Louisiana, it's not common practice to go into a residence or a business for that matter with guns drawn. In this case, the risk of danger was even higher because no drug charges were even lodged against anyone.
One search warrant was for a place called 'The Smoke Shop'. The other was the home, presumably, of the Smoke Shop owner. The raiders apparently did not find enough to make arrests, although they say that they found evidence of synthetic weed. They didn't explain why they made no arrests.
Although this display of force can be seen as a total public relations bust by the Lafayette authorities, they say that they have multiple suspects in mind and expect to make arrests very soon. There is no explanation given of the details of these two operations or what was recovered from the searches. What they did succeed in doing was scaring the willies out of the next door neighbors.
It was the neighborhood that had to watch in fear as an armed cadre stormed the next door residence. Neighbors were shocked and fearful, expressing dismay and outrage that 'something like this' goes on 'right next door'. A police captain explained that synthetic marijuana remains a problem in the area.
In Louisiana, authorities with search warrants are generally supposed to 'knock and announce' before they enter private premises. Here, they were not on the mark enough to bring drug charges, but they took the risk of causing a violent confrontation. The use of firearms, indiscriminately drawn at both locations without authorizing reasons given for such force, could have made the searches illegal and in violation of Fourth Amendment right to privacy principles. In that event, the contraband, if any, could possibly have been suppressed.
Source: katc.com, "Metro Narcotics Raid Home and Business," Steven Albritton, July 10, 2013


text:
Transportation Hub Discussed
Residents got to voice their opinions recently at the Avance Inc. offices during a meeting about a proposed West Side multi-modal transportation center just west of downtown.
The area would be a transportation hub for VIA, Greyhound, Amtrak and multiple rental car agencies and would offer a parking garage and other amenities. VIA — along with the city of San Antonio, Austin-San Antonio Intermunicipal Commuter Rail District, the Texas Department of Transportation, the Metropolitan Planning Organization, the San Antonio Mobility Coalition and the Downtown Alliance — organized the April 4 meeting to get feedback from the community and to display plans.
In previous discussions, designers had proposed removing the existing bridges on Buena Vista and Commerce streets that lead to and from the West Side. The streets then would be tunneled under the street-level railroad tracks. But because it would be too costly to remove the bridges, alternate plans were drafted, associates said.
Talks about the proposed transportation center started in the late 1990s, but the initial study for the project was done in 1999, said Priscilla Ingle, VIA's vice president of public affairs.
"According to the original study done back in 1999, it would have cost an estimated $13.2 million to remove the bridges," Ingle said. "Of course, the cost would be much higher today due to the price increase of steel and concrete."
Three additional plans were developed as possible alternatives. The current plans call for the construction of a site between Buena Vista and Commerce streets and just south on Medina Street, in the Cattleman Square area. The railway system would run beneath the West Side bridges, which would not be removed.
The start date for construction on the project will be determined at future meetings, but VIA's goal for completion is 2012, Ingle said.
Andy Scheidt, VIA's public information coordinator, said funding sources for the project are unknown, pending a feasibility study slated to be released at the next meeting June 6 at VIA Metro Center, 1021 San Pedro Ave.
"We are still looking for partners to contribute to the project," he said.
One resident, who opposed the idea of removing the bridges, stood and expressed his objections during the meeting.
"Is that a promise from you that the bridges won't be taken down?" the man, who did not want to be named, asked the evening's moderator, Andres Andujar, professional engineer and senior vice president of the design firm 3DI.
"That's a promise," Andujar said with a laugh. "We have no funding."
Many of those in attendance said they hope that the plan will be positive for the city. They agreed that the hub not only will help the area around the center, but it also will attract more visitors to San Antonio while freeing up lanes on already congested highways.
"The hope is that it (the multi-modal center) will help this area to grow," said Adrian Lopez, economic development manager for the city of San Antonio's Neighborhood Action Department.
But not everyone was convinced that the hub could revitalize the area.
Jason Mata, president of the Prospect Hill Neighborhood Association, said he is worried about the number of people who will come into the West Side if the proposed terminal is built in that area. He noted that crime in the area is "already bad" and the influx of people could make it worse.
"This is a chaotic situation here," Mata said. "So many more people will be coming through this area if they build this thing, and they are leaving the issue of safety out of the conversation. They are not worried about the neighborhood aspect, but the business aspect."
"We respect everyone's opinion on this matter," Andujar said. "We will take all the recommendations we have received tonight and discuss them at our next meeting."


text:
Comprehensive vehicle history tops list for online trade buyers
Trade buyers place highest importance on a comprehensive vehicle history when acquiring used cars and vans online, new research from epyx indicates.
The survey of 157 online buyers found 88% named vehicle history as their number one factor, followed by the ability to choose from a wide range of vehicles on 80%, minimising auction fees on 68%, access to a large number of car brands in on 63% and access to expert account management on 47%.
Vicky Gardner, remarketing commercial manager at epyx, added that the firm is seeing an ongoing shift towards online buying.
She commented: "The advantages are just too strong for most trade buyers to ignore although most also continue to like to visit physical auctions on a regular basis because of the 'feel' that it gives them for the current state of the market."


text:
SCOTT SIMON, host:
Some encouraging signs this week that the economy may be getting better. Government data suggests that people are buying again; other data show layoffs are declining. And on Wall Street there's word that the stock market is poised for a long upward charge. NPR's John Ydstie reports on whether we've reached a tipping point to a self-sustaining recovery.
JOHN YDSTIE: John Silvia watches the economy like a hawk from his perch as chief economist at Wells Fargo. He says reports on industrial production and retail sales for November that came out this week are encouraging.
Mr. JOHN SILVIA (Chief Economist, Wells Fargo): Both of them suggest the economy actually is doing quite well. So in the fourth quarter of this year we're probably going to have growth around three-and-a-half percent.
YDSTIE: So you think right now that we are in a sustainable recovery?
Mr. SILVIA: Oh, absolutely. Now, clearly for many people it's not the traditional economic recovery or economic boom.
YDSTIE: That becomes apparent talking to shoppers at the Oak Park Mall in Overland Park, Kansas.
Ms. JEANINE BACHMAN: You know, I think it's still tough. I mean, you hear where things are getting better, but then you turn around and hear somebody's lost their job, so you know...
Mr. RIZZ BACANA(ph): It used to be before, everybody got something, but we kind of have to be a little bit choosy this time.
Ms. KATE REDENBAUGH: We're definitely more conscious of things. You know, we're shopping sales and making sure we get the best pricing and, you know, if you have to make one more stop, instead of doing it all in one place we might make multiple stops if it saves us some money and stuff, so I think it's still shaky.
Mr. BRANT PIERSON: Last year we cut back, but this year we're sitting a little better. So we're going to open up a little bit this year to make up for last year.
YDSTIE: Christmas shoppers Jeanine Bachman, Rizz Bacana, Kate Redenbaugh and Brant Pierson.
Pierson is an example of Americans who are doing better and spending more. Many of them are well-off Americans who patronize luxury shops.
Ms. PATTY EDWARDS (Trutina Financial): The high-end retailers are knocking it out of the park and they are having one heck of a good time right now.
YDSTIE: That's Patty Edwards, chief investment officer and a retail specialist at Trutina Financial in Bellevue, Washington.
Edwards says high-end stores are doing better because well-off shoppers are seeing the value of their investments and 401(k)s rise as the stock market moves up. Things are different for the middle class and lower income Americans, she says.
Ms. EDWARDS: The consumer can't come back fully with nine or 10 percent unemployment. The consumer can't come back fully if they can't get a loan, and right now they can't get a loan.
YDSTIE: Those issues, along with the foreclosure crisis, were on the mind of Federal Reserve policymakers this week. After their regular meeting on Tuesday, they called the recovery disappointingly slow. And they surprised some of the economic optimists by saying they'll continue injecting extraordinary amounts of money into the economy.
That's fine with Dyke Messinger. His firm, PowerCurbers, Incorporated in Salisbury, North Carolina builds the machines that make curbs and gutters for streets and highways.
Mr. DYKE MESSINGER (PowerCurbers, Incorporated): We're still down about 50 percent from where we were - that being mostly, the drop being mostly U.S. residential and commercial construction.
YDSTIE: With construction in the dumps, the U.S. demand for Messinger's machines has largely come from federal stimulus spending for infrastructure. He's worried about what will happen to orders when that fades in the next few months.
There is one bright spot though: foreign sales.
Mr. MESSINGER: Our hopes for international business this coming year are really quite high. We think we can put another 20 percent on top because of what's going on in the rest of the world.
YDSTIE: Foreign sales have been good for a lot of big U.S. multinationals too, from McDonald's to Hewlett Packard. That's behind the recent big jump in the stock market, which has seemed somewhat out of sync with progress in the U.S. economy.
Whether the U.S. recovery is self-sustaining remains a question. But the new tax package, with a couple hundred billion dollars in added stimulus, should help it gain traction.
John Ydstie, NPR News, Washington.
Copyright © 2010 NPR. All rights reserved. Visit our website terms of use and permissions pages at www.npr.org for further information.
NPR transcripts are created on a rush deadline by Verb8tm, Inc., an NPR contractor, and produced using a proprietary transcription process developed with NPR. This text may not be in its final form and may be updated or revised in the future. Accuracy and availability may vary. The authoritative record of NPR's programming is the audio record.


text:
Oftentimes when people grimace at the thought of "English class," it's because of their haunting memories of failed writing assignments. They think back to that time in Mrs. Baker's 10th grade ELA class when they had to explain the symbolism of the green light in Gatsby—only to receive back an essay with more red ink than black ink. But other than these scarred memories, writing is… difficult. Creating something from nothing always requires us to stretch ourselves, and with that stretching comes growing pains.
Thankfully, in this day of modern technology, we have so many awesome apps to support the writing process. These Apps can come in handy when trying to motivate struggling writers to write. They can help students manage the writing process while simultaneously inspiring new ideas. Apps are also handy because students can use them during class (if you have the technology) or outside of class on their own time. I even use a few of these apps to help me with writing, so they are not specific to education but exist to aid anyone who is writing anything at anytime.
Here are five apps real writers use that we can also use in our classes to motivate struggling writers and increase their writing productivity.
Spice Mobile is an app that supports all different kinds of writing for all different kinds of purposes and audiences. The app functions as a sort of thesaurus for writing ideas. A writer can enter a vague or cliché word or phrase, and the app will provide more vivid options to "spice" up the tone, diction, and originality of a piece of writing. For example, the word "conscience" brings up several phrases to choose from including "foghorn of salvation" and "guilt screws." The writer can go through the list and be inspired by the various choices available. SpiceMobile has a free version, but users can upgrade for an ad-free version.
Hemingway is a super useful and helpful editing app for any type of writing. It works by highlighting possible errors in writing or places where sentences and word choices can be clarified for effectiveness. The app highlights sentences that may be too long or too wordy. It also highlights adverbs, passive voice, and simple words that can be edited for sophistication. The sidebar will also give the writer a sense of the "grade level" of the piece of writing, the word count, reading time, paragraph count, and other information that is helpful throughout the writing process. Hemingway has a straightforward interface available FOR FREE with app and desktop versions available.
Written Kitten is an app designed to encourage writers to produce. It does this (hilariously) by showing pictures of cute, adorable kittens after every 100 words of writing. Students of all ages and abilities will love this app and seeing how many cute kitten pictures they can collect!
Sometimes background noise can help a writer focus. Coffitivity does just that! It provides the background noises and music of a coffee shop to help writers recreate the coffee shop atmosphere from anywhere outside an actual coffee shop! Teachers can have fun with this app and recreate a coffee shop within the classroom.
Write or Die is an App designed to keep you on task with a writing project. The App has both desktop and iOS versions in which the writer sets certain goals and then selects consequences for not meeting those goals. Yes—you either write, or you DIE! This App turns writing into a game to beat the clock that you program. But it's not just an App with negative consequences. The writer can opt for positive rewards such as kittens and purring sounds, or the writer can choose stimulus sounds (basically background noises) that help the writer focus. The App also offers a typewriter mode and other features to tailor the writing experience to the writer's likes and dislikes. While some of these features are only available in the paid version, the website offers a basic version for free when you select the "try" button. With the trial version, the writer can select "kamikaze" mode, which will literally begin to delete your writing if you aren't keeping up with the preselected pacing. Students will have fun trying to "beat the clock" with this writing App!
What Apps do you use to support struggling writers? Please share in the comments below!
About the Author
Meredith is the founder and creator of TeachWriting.org and Bespoke ELA. She has taught high school English for 10+ years in Dallas, Chicago, and New York City and holds a M.A. in Literature from Northwestern University. She has always had a connection to the written word-- through songwriting, screenplay writing, and essay writing-- and she enjoys the process of teaching students how to express their ideas. Meredith enjoys life with her husband, daughter, and sweet pups.


text:
How To Get To Sleep Faster
"Sleep is the universal pleasure." There's nothing quite like a good night's sleep.
The opposite is also true: there's nothing quite like trying to function without enough rest. Sleep is a necessity for our physiological and psychological well-being. The body and brain perform a range of important functions during different stages of sleep, from detoxification and repair to consolidating memory.
Unfortunately, these days getting enough sleep is hard. For millennia, humans lived in tune with the natural rhythms of day and night. We rose with the sun, hunting and gathering, walking and working during the day, and rested in the dark of night.
But those rhythms are disrupted when we stare into screens all night, while sitting in rooms illuminated by fluorescent bulbs.
That's why, today, insomnia is so widespread. Between 50-70 million adults in the US alone have problems sleeping. 1 in 3 people have insomnia at some point in their lives and roughly 1/3 of adults report not getting the recommended 7-8 hours of sleep a night. If you have trouble sleeping, you're not alone. I've suffered from insomnia on and off since I was a teenager.
The good news is that there are simple, concrete steps you can take to get a better night's sleep. Here are a few to get you started:
1. Develop sleep hygiene. What you do before going to sleep has a huge impact on how easily you fall asleep and how well you rest. Try to unplug an hour or two before bed (a quick meditation app session doesn't count!) winding down your day's activities and reducing your exposure to artificial light, including screens, whose blue light can wreak havoc on your body's circadian rhythms. Some gentle stretching can help, as does exercise and plenty of natural light during the day.
2. Daytime mindfulness pays off at night. You can have impeccable sleep hygiene and still find yourself lying awake into the wee hours if you're wound up too tight and spinning with stress. Having a daily mindfulness practice can help you get a handle on the backlog of thoughts and emotions that tend to pile up inside, before they come back to haunt you at bedtime. In particular, meditating in the evening or before bed can release leftover tensions from the day.
3. Meditate in bed. You can also use mindfulness to help yourself relax and drift off to sleep. Normally, meditation practices help you stay alert and be aware of what's happening – but you can also use them to do the opposite. The basic practices can be the same: mindfulness of breathing, a body scan, or loving-kindness meditation, for example. The difference is your intention to guide the mind and body toward more calm, ease and stillness. Choose fewer "objects" of meditation (e.g. just stay on the breath, rather than investigate thoughts or feelings), emphasize calm over investigation, and with practice, you can cultivate states of deep relaxation that help release physical and mental tension.
Don't try to fall asleep -- just create the conditions that enable sleep to happen.
If you're interested in learning more, head over to the 10% Happier app and check out some of our favorite meditations and guided relaxations in the Sleep section.
Ease Into Sleep: with Oren Jay Sofer
Difficulty falling (and staying) asleep is one of the most commonly reported sleep problems. In this practice, Oren – who has struggled on and off with insomnia since he was young – uses some of his best methods for helping you fall asleep and feel relaxed in the process.
The Sleep Game: with JoAnna Hardy
A body scan is a great way to progressively relax your body and prepare you for sleep. In this bedtime meditation, JoAnna shares a practice that she used to do as a child to help her fall asleep easily. We think you'll dig it, too. Happy sleeping.
Sleep River: with Jeff Warren
Imagine your bed is a raft and it's drifting down the river with a sky full of stars overhead. Sound relaxing? With Jeff's expert imagination as your guide, you'll float your way to a restful nights sleep


text:
(403) 686-4567 or send us an email at …" /> (403) 686-4567 or send us an email at […]" /> (403) 686-4567 or send us an email at […]" />
And if you're looking to maintain a competitive edge, it's absolutely critical to attain IT to help automate manufacturing business processes. Fortunately, Computer Rescue offers the best manafacturing IT services and support designed to help you stay ahead of the competition. To learn more, give us a call at (403) 686-4567 or send us an email at email@example.com.
As you're operating in a highly competitive industry, your manufacturing firm must leverage innovative technologies to support, enhance, and automate your business processes – from order processing to scheduling to production and everything in between, your business processes must be streamlined to increase productivity and profitability.
Looking for Manufacturing IT Services in Calgary? Look No Further Than Computer Rescue – We're Here to Help You Realize the True Value of Your Technology!
As a leading manufacturing IT support company in Calgary, we have the experience and expertise necessary to address the unique challenges your manufacturing firm faces on a daily basis. When you choose to work with our team of manufacturing IT services experts, you're able to rest assured knowing we'll provide:
Plus, we offer various other manufacturing IT services to keep your manufacturing firm operating at it's fullest potential. And our affordable monthly fees allow you to budget accurately for your IT investment – without surprise invoices.
Looking for manufacturing IT services in Calgary? Computer Rescue helps you maximize the value of your IT to help automate manufacturing business processes. We're the trusted IT support company for manufacturing firms in Calgary. Call today.
Computer Rescue provides Calgary IT Support & Business IT Services to organizations large and small across Southern Alberta.
Computer Rescue proudly serves Calgary, Airdrie, Cochrane, Bragg Creek, Okotoks, Chestermere and other communities across Southern Alberta.


text:
Let Justice Roar Baseball
Let Justice Roar Baseball
Created in collaboration with artist Naomi McGrath, especially for our partner charity 'Jubilee House', this design communicates our hope to be a voice to the voiceless and to speak words of hope over the injustices of domestic abuse. It is on a unisex baseball tee, meaning it is perfect for every season with its ¾ length sleeves and breathable cotton fabric. For a more youthful, edgy style – this is the one for you.
Brand: Continental
Style: Unisex Baseball T-shirt:
100% Combed Cotton, Fine Jersey 4 oz/150g
*Fairwear Certified, *Confidence in Textiles
Sizes Available: S, M, L
Colour: White with Black Sleeves


text:
Browsing by Author "Mear, Fred"
Now showing items 1-2 of 2
Discourse Analysis of the Dinar Currency System and the single currency agenda in the Gulf States Mear, Fred; Lukman, Raimi; Aljadani, A. (Article)Dinar (Gold) currency system has been the focal point of monetary authorities in both medieval and modern periods. The purpose of this paper is to discuss the historical connection between the dinar currency system and ...


text:
1. Our Pets Health (the "Company"), located at 'www.ourpetshealth.com' ("the Website").
2. While the Company consists of various professional staffs including registered veterinarians and other members of the professional team, unless otherwise specified and agreed in writing between the Company and you, any information contained on the Website and/or any correspondences made between the Company and its staff and you shall not be construed as forming a patient-veterinary relationship for the purpose of rendering medical care and services whatsoever. For the avoidance of doubt, any information provided shall not be construed as specific, individual patient medical advice or treatment recommendation.
3. The contents in the Website are not, without limitations, medical advice and/or professional advice and should not be construed and/or considered to be.
4. No Veterinary Medical Advice
4.1 The Website may contain general medical information in respect of pets.
4.2 In the event that any information in the Website relates to, without limitations, any veterinary health and/or veterinary medical suggestions to be provided / advertised by any veterinary medical professionals and/or otherwise (as the case may be), in no circumstances should such content be construed and/or an attempt to be considered for the use of diagnose, treatment, cure or prevention of any conditions, health problems or illnesses in respect of your pets.
4.3 You are specifically reminded and advised to contact your pet's primary veterinary care physician for specific treatment and care.
5. No Warranties
5.1 The general veterinary medical information on the Website is provided without any representations or warranties, express or implied.
5.2 Without limiting the scope of Clause 5.1 herein, we do not warrant and/or represent that the veterinary medical information on the Website :-
(a) will be constantly available, or available at all; or
(b) is true, accurate, complete, current or non-misleading.
6. Veterinary Medical Assistance
6.1 You must not rely on the information on the Website as an alternative to veterinary medical advice from your primary veterinary physicians or other professional veterinary healthcare provider.
6.2 If you have any specific questions about any veterinary medical matter, you should consult your primary veterinary physicians or other professional healthcare provider.
6.3 If you think your pet(s) may be suffering from any medical condition, you should seek immediate medical attention.
6.4 You should never cause delay to your pet(s) in respect of seeking veterinary medical advice, disregard veterinary medical advice or discontinue veterinary medical treatment because of information on the Website.
7. Interactive features
7.1 The Website may include interactive features that allow users to communicate with us.
7.2 You acknowledge that, because of the limited nature of communication through the Website's interactive features, any assistance you may receive using any such features is likely to be incomplete and may even be misleading.
7.3 Any assistance you may receive using any of the Website's interactive features does not constitute specific advice and accordingly should not be relied upon without further independent confirmation.
8. All information contained and/or displayed on the Website is for information purposes only and is not and should not be in any way construed or interpreted as veterinary medical advice.
9. The Company is not and will not be liable, either expressly or in an implied manner, and is not responsible for any physical and/or emotional problems that may and/or could occur to you or your pet(s) from any of the information on the Website.
10. You agree that use of the Website is at your sole risk. All information and content are provided on an "as is" and "as available" basis.
11. The Company, its affiliates, agents and licensors cannot and do not warrant the accuracy, completeness, correctness, non-infringement, merchantability, or fitness for a particular purpose of the information, materials and/or content available in the Website.
12. The Company does not guarantee the Website to be error-free, secure, continuously available or free of viruses or other harmful components.
13. You also agree that if you rely on any data or information obtained through the Website, you do so at your own risk. You are solely responsible for any damage or loss that results from your use of any material and/or data.
14. The Company and the contents and/or information in the Website are provided with the understanding that neither the Company nor its users, while such users are participating in the Website, are engaged in rendering legal, medical, counselling or other professional services or advice. The contents and/or information in the Website are not substitute for professional services or advice.
15. Under no circumstances will the Company or its affiliates, agents or licensors be liable to you or anyone else for including but not limited to any loss and/or damages arising out of your use of the Website, including, without limitation, liability for consequential, special, incidental, indirect, or similar damages, even if we are advised beforehand of the possibility of such damages.
16. Without prejudice to Clause 15 herein, nothing in this disclaimer will :-
(a) limit or exclude any liability for death or personal injury resulting from negligence;
(b) limit or exclude any liability for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation;
(c) limit any liabilities in any way that is not permitted under applicable law; or
(d) exclude any liability that may not be excluded under applicable law.
17. By using the Website, you agree and consent that any loss and/or damages arising out of or in connection to, without limitation to the negligence, fault, mistake, misrepresentation and/or fraud of any third party medical professional(s) and/or any services provided to you by the third party medical professional(s) is the responsibility and liability of the individual and/or group of third party medical professional(s), and you hereby agree that you will only claim against and seek relief against the third party medical professional(s) and the Company will be free of any liability/responsibility whatsoever.
18. In the event that the Company becomes a party to the third party proceedings, you agree to indemnify, defend and hold harmless, without limitations, the Company, its officers, directors, employees, agents and third parties, for any losses, costs, liabilities and expenses (including reasonable attorneys' fees) relating to or arising out of without limitations, the negligence, fault, mistake, misrepresentation and/or fraud of the third party medical professional(s) and/or any services provided to you by the third party medical professional(s).
Effective as of 26/09/2017.


text:
The Young Gods are to play a special one off UK show at the Islington Academy on Dec 15th, The date is part of a European tour and will see the playing material exclusively from their first two records ("The Young Gods" and "L'Eau Rouge").
The line up will be Franz Treichler, Bernard Trontin and original band member Cesare Pizzi back on samplers. They have prepared a repertoire based on the first two albums 'The Young Gods' (1987) and 'Leau rouge (1989). Cesare Pizzi is an origInal member of the Young Gods and plays on both albums.
Here is a link to the first video 'Envoy'e from their debut album
The Young Gods
Date Sun December 15th
Support Inertia, Die Kur and Ventenner
Venue O2 Academy Islington
Door time: 6.30pm
Show time: TBC
Ticket are available from HERE


text:
Academic Service-Learning
Academic Service-Learning is a pedagogy based on the principles of experiential education, which integrates community service with academic study. Faculty, in collaboration with representatives from community organizations, design service projects that enhance student learning and help meet community needs. Through structured reflection, students consider relationships between the service experience, the academic content of the class, and its impact on their personal values and professional goals. Learn more about Academic Service-Learning
A growing number of departments and programs currently utilize service-learning, some having sought the assistance of Community Engagement in building community partnerships, while others developed projects independently. Community Engagement works continuously to develop a comprehensive list of service-learning courses based on information by faculty members.
Want to learn how to link your college degree to nonprofit careers? Click here!
If you want to find out more about SL courses offered at TCU, contact us at email@example.com.


text:
Kristaps Porzingis has been chosen three times as Rookie of the month for the Eastern Conference (November, December and January) and meanwhile, for the first time in his career, the #YouFirstClient, Myles Turner, of the Indiana Pacers, has been named NBA Eastern Conference Rookie of the Month for February. With 13.4 points per game, 6.6 rebounds and 1.8 blocks, Turner is also the second rookie with best percentage from the field (51.0%), and has recorded two double -doubles and nine straight games in double digit scoring in the last month. Both has been selected for the NBA All-Rookie First and second team respectively.
Meanwhile, Kyle Lowry, besides achieving the Player of the Month of January in the Eastern Conference, he accumulates several Player of the Week awards and set a new franchise record for the Toronto Raptors scoring 22 points in the fourth quarter in road win over Atlanta Hawks in past December.