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I shall be flying to Cape Verde in a week's time and have therefore been collecting the last presents to take for the children of Calheta.
Sérgio has today given me two T-shirts for Ismael and a toy that made the delight of many over the years. He has also given me the money to provide for the school material he might need. Surama has also given me a two piece outfit (shirt and cardigan) for Neuza, to which I have added a doll bought with some of the money Luisa provided me with. It will soon be my protegée's birthday, so I couldn't help but buying her a present as well (a pair of long red shorts and a T-shirt) to add to the things I had already bought for her.
Ismael's presents (Left). Neuza's presents(Right).
Taking into account some of the latest photos sent from Calheta and having realised that some of the children have really grown since I last saw them (September) Surama and I decided to get some bigger size T-shirts, so as to have them for children (just in case). So Surama has got an additional blouse for Neuza (with little flowers) and a white sleeveless shirt which fastens around the neck, a blue embroiderd blouse and a colourful dress for Simone (another of her "protegées" ) and I got two extra shirts thinking of children like Rosana and Tarine.
These are three photos from Cape Verde depicting the "softball girls" group (I shall soon be working with) getting and wearing their new "lettuce green" T-shirts, which we feel proud of having sent.
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I just started watching Project Runway's "Under The Gunn" a couple of weeks ago. If you watch, who are your favorite designers?
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I can't answer that question because I don't watch TV. I hope one of your favourites wins though. :-)ReplyDeleteReplies
I understand. I just started watching myself a couple of weeks ago. :-). Hopefully it won't be addictive. :-)Delete
I've not got a favorite designer. Its too much drama on this show and its getting to be too much reality in all of the PR shows instead of seeing the designers design. However, I still watch and it will continue because of my love of fashion.ReplyDelete
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|Reviews for One Shot
| Guest chapter 1 . 10/5/2013
I enjoyed this short story. Also thought it was a true testament to this episode that Amanda would hide something like that bullet grazing her skin from Lee. Wonder what would happen if Lee ever found out how close he came to shooting Amanda and the ramifications of it afterwards.
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| adare1 chapter 1 . 10/11/2012
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New York Jets Lose 2nd Home Game This Season by 30-Plus PointsNovember 23, 2012
The 49-19 beatdown the New York Jets suffered last night at the hands of the New England Patriots was the second home game this season they lost by 30 or more points. The Jets lost 34-0 at home to the San Francisco 49ers on Sept. 30.
This was the second time since 1966 (start of the Super Bowl era) that the Jets have lost two games at home in a season by 30-plus points. The Jets also lost two games by 30-plus points at home in 1975 (43-0 to Miami and 37-6 to St. Louis).
It was also the ninth home game since '66 that they lost by 30-plus points.
Following are the number of home games each of the NFL teams have lost by 30 or more points since 1966.
17: Atlanta
13: Cleveland, New Orleans
12: Philadelphia
9: Cincinnati, New York Jets, Tennessee
8: Buffalo, New England, San Diego
6: Arizona, Chicago, Washington
5: Indianapolis, Seattle
4: Carolina, Dallas, Kansas City, Minnesota, Oakland, Pittsburgh, San Francisco, Tampa Bay
3: Miami, New York Giants
2: Green Bay
1: Houston, Jacksonville
0: Baltimore
There have been six games this season where the home team has lost by 30-plus points. As mentioned above, the Jets have done it twice. The other teams were Jacksonville, Miami, St. Louis and Tennessee. You noticed above that the Baltimore Ravens have not lost a home game by 30 or more points in their franchise history. Their biggest defeat at home was a 27-point loss to the Kansas City Chiefs on Oct. 21, 1999.
The Indianapolis Colts have the second-longest time frame since suffering a 30-point loss at home; the last time it happened was on Dec. 1, 1991.
Twelve teams have not lost a home game by 30-plus points since 2007. They are (with the last time they lost a home game by 30-plus points):
- Green Bay: Nov. 19, 2006
- Atlanta: Jan. 1, 2006
- Philadelphia: Dec. 5, 2005
- Chicago: Nov. 21, 2004
- New Orleans: Sept. 28, 2003
- Arizona: Sept. 14, 2003
- Houston: Nov. 3, 2002
- San Diego: Nov. 3, 2002
- Minnesota: Dec. 23, 2001
- New England: Nov. 8, 1998
- Pittsburgh: Aug. 31, 1997
- Indianapolis: Dec. 1, 1991
Note: The Jets became the fourth team since 1966 that lost two home games by 30-plus points (in a season) in two different seasons. The other teams are Atlanta (they lost three home games by 30-plus points in 1966 and two in 1967), Cleveland (two such games in 1975 and 1999) and Philadelphia (1975 and 1998).
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The Upsize Growth Challenge, presented by Winthrop & Weinstine, is a contest created by Upsize magazine to match two winning business owners with the expert advice they need to reach their goals. From nominations, judges select two winners based on the ambition of the growth goal and the quality of the work already completed to meet it. They participate in two workshops with expert advisers supplied by the sponsoring companies: Dean Willer and Deb DuBois of Winthrop & Weinstine and Bridget Manahan of Western Bank. Upsize presents an interview with Cheryl Alexander & Associates in this issue, complete with advice from experts that applies to all growing firms, from the newUpsize Growth Challenge blog (check it out at www.upsizemag.com/blog.) Nominations for next year's contest open in spring 2014.
· Iron ladies
· interview by Beth Ewen
On the way to rebranding her 40-year-old firm, Upsize Growth Challenge winner Cheryl Alexander, CEO, put some steel in her company's spine as advised by our experts. With her daughter, Executive Vice President Tami Sulistyo, she doubled her prices, dedicated resources to business development, and insisted on creating hard metrics so clients could measure results of her company's leadership development training services.
She also committed fully to "owning" their expertise, which is developing women leaders, that allows them both to charge more and be right on trend with today's "lean in" mantra. In the end, the company's new brand—an iron orchid, both tough and tender, and new tag line "leaders engaging hearts and minds"— became an apt description for their personal transformation as business owners, as well.
Upsize: We're in your orchid room, where you do your one-on-one and small group coaching. Tell me what the metaphor of the orchid means to you.
Cheryl Alexander: My team of coaches has said, What do you love about orchids? And I said, They bloom magnificently in their own time. When we got our first orchid, we took a class and we learned at least once a year you re-pot it and take care of the roots. And that's kind of what happens in business.
What it means for the company, we had used an image of an orchid and people said that's pretty. It looked soft, feminine, and isn't that nice. There's a perception that orchids are fragile, but there are 20,000 species. We had to get past the fragile and fussy stereotype.
Tami Sulistyo: So when we hired Steve Twite of Lime Creek Marketing to do our re-branding work, he's an artist in his own right. We kept hearing from women about the dynamic tension of needing to be tough and tender. That's the balance. That's the challenge. When Steve was listening, he threw out, What about an iron orchid?
Cheryl Alexander: At first I had trouble with 'iron.' It's too inflexible. And then I thought about Ironman and Ironwoman, and you're always stretching to go further. That evolved into the image and foundation of our rebranding.
Upsize: Why did you set out to rebrand now?
Cheryl Alexander: We've done it three times before, and we have been successful. From clients, we were running into statements like, No time, no money. Can you give us something quick? But coaches hold you accountable and help you develop new habits, and that takes time.
Upsize: How did the process go?
Tami Sulistyo: The three of us met frequently, starting in January. We had focus groups. We did a ton of research, looking at competitors and milling it around. Then honestly, participating in the Upsize Growth Challenge, and listening to what the experts had to say, helped us get there.
Here were people who didn't know us well, who were saying to us, Claim your niche, claim your women-centric expertise. Why not roll with it? they were saying. Combined with what's going on in the world—you have Sheryl Sandberg of Facebook and her book "Lean In." It pushed us over the edge.
Cheryl Alexander: Our way has been, it's so needed, what we do, let's just give it to everyone. Talking with Dean Willer was one of the turning points.
Upsize: That's the Winthrop & Weinstine attorney who's one of our Upsize Growth Challenge experts.
Cheryl Alexander: He said, Claim your women-centric mission and you can charge for your expertise. He said, You're not a beginning company. You can charge two to five times what you do. I thought, well, I can't do five times, but I can do two.
Tami Sulistyo: Because this is our mission, our passion, we weren't charging what we should.
Cheryl Alexander: People get the confidence to claim what they want. That happens in our leadership coaching, and it happened with us, too.
Tami Sulistyo: Now we're working with a metrics expert, who puts solid metrics around the things we do.
Cheryl Alexander: We're trying to get to, what are the economics of this type of training?
Upsize: The Upsize Growth Challenge experts also talked about your need to spend time on business development. Before, both of you spent a lot of time coaching. Have you found a rainmaker?
Cheryl Alexander: We've made significant changes, working with one of our coaches, for example, with deep connections in large corporations. We've arranged with her to retain a percentage of business over time, so she can develop clients for us.
Tami Sulistyo: We have a few other people doing the same thing. It still makes sense to have me do day-to-day operations, and Cheryl is out there doing keynotes and lunch and learns, which we charge for at appropriate rates.
Cheryl Alexander: One of the key takeaways from Western Bank's Bridget Manahan was, Why don't you go to businesses run by women? Oh, of course! Why not go to the women-owned companies, where they're already receptive to what we do? We had been going to the harder clients, the male-dominated companies.
And Deb DuBois, of Winthrop & Weinstine, talked about using social media more effectively. We need a social media strategy, and we're going to be hiring an intern to live-tweet for us, for example, when I'm doing keynotes.
Upsize: Where do you think your company will be in five years?
Tami Sulistyo: I'm excited about launching an iron orchids growing society, because we're on the edge of being a nice little company working with leaders, to creating a movement of iron orchid leaders.
It's exciting, being on a train. This is the work we've been doing for years, but it's so obvious the world is calling for this. That's gratifying, to feel like you're in the right place at the right time.
Cheryl Alexander: I think we're hurting as a society—all the trust that's been broken since the financial crisis. But all the research shows, before I will follow you, you have to care about me, and then I'll give you everything I've got. You open that up and it just spreads.
Cheryl Alexander Stearns is CEO and Tami Sulistyo is executive vice president of Cheryl Alexander & Associates in Maple Grove: 763.416.4570; firstname.lastname@example.com; email@example.com; www.calexanderassociates.com
…about maintaining a sales culture
"You've developed in a short time a sales culture, and it's obviously successful," says Bridget Manahan, executive vice president with Western Bank in St. Paul and the Upsize Growth Challenge finance and operations expert. "And a key part of maintaining a sales culture is doing what you coach others to do."
In other words, the mother-daughter team who runs Cheryl Alexander & Associates needs to develop the habits that allow them to get measurable results, day after day and month after month.
"I applaud the strategy you're developing of bringing metrics to what you do," Manahan says. "The discipline will be keeping that going when you see the results."
Specifically, she likes their new focus on looking for coaches who aren't only about "compassion and character," as they used to do, but who also want to gain a piece of business, which they're paid 10 percent to obtain.
"So they're thinking bigger, they're hungry," says Tami Sulistyo, executive vice president of Cheryl Alexander & Associates.
Bridget Manahan, Western Bank: 651.290.8140; email@example.com; www.western-bank.com
…about becoming a thought leader
Nailing down return on investment is a big deal to Deb DuBois, marketing director at Winthrop & Weinstine and the Upsize Growth Challenge marketing expert, and she encourages business owners to spend time doing it, like Cheryl Alexander & Associates has.
"If you're just measuring the soft stuff, it's hard for you to use it later to market yourself," she says. "The ROI piece, it's something that helps executives think of this as an investment in their workforce and they need the return."
She encourages Alexander to keep doing speaking engagements, and she suggests hiring a "young person to come in and do social media for you."
For example, when Alexander gives a keynote address, an intern could be in the audience, tweeting. Or when Sheryl Sandberg, the COO of Facebook, visits the Twin Cities as she did in October, Alexander could weigh in as an expert on women's leadership.
"Put out a tweet. Cheryl Alexander says this about that," DuBois recommends.
She approves their effort to create an app to reinforce accountability among peer groups of leaders. "I love that. It's a good idea to differentiate yourself," she says, but cautions them against revealing too much about the idea before it's launched, so as not to tip the competition.
DuBois notes one other significant change from the first Upsize Growth Challenge workshop, in May, to the second, in September: a succinct explanation of who they are and what they do. "I'm so happy for you. It's great to hear all the progress," DuBois says.
Deb DuBois, Winthrop & Weinstine: 612.604.6688; firstname.lastname@example.com; www.winthrop.com
WHAT THE EXPERTS SAY…about charging what you're worth
When Cheryl Alexander sat down with Dean Willer, the Winthrop & Weinstine attorney who advises our winners, he was blunt: Her leadership development consulting firm should be charging two to five times its current rates.
"You're an expert and a leader in your field," he said, Alexander recalls. "Why are you charging like a beginner?" Alexander, who founded Cheryl Alexander & Associates 40 years ago, gulped hard, then took the leap.
"I couldn't see five times more, but we've now doubled our rates," she says proudly, and she's thinking about working toward the quintuple figure.
In the past, she said, she wasn't accounting for the overhead, administration, development and other functions that go into her firm's work, and so was under-pricing services.
Further, she's begun taking a more strategic approach to getting new business. She does frequent "lunch and learn" sessions to introduce potential clients to her services, but she's not giving everything away in those sessions anymore.
Rather, she's giving a "taste" of what her firm has to offer, including valuable takeaways that her audience can use. But she's not sharing every single bit of information she has. Instead, her eye is toward bringing in new business.
Dean Willer, Winthrop & Weinstine: 612.604.6633; firstname.lastname@example.com www.winthrop.com


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The Upper West Region is one of the ten regions of Ghana. It is located at the North Western corner of Ghana, bounded to Burkina Faso to the North. It covers a geographical area of 18,476 square kilometres which represents 12.7% of the total land area of Ghana. The northern Ghana-Burkina Faso border, on the east by the Upper East region and Northern region, on the south by the Northern region, and on the west by the western Ghana-Burkina Faso (formals Upper Volta) border borders the Upper West region on the north.
It is the seventh largest region in Ghana in total area, and it is made up of eleven (11) districts. By virtue of its location, it has the potential for international and inter-regional trade and other bi-lateral relations, but the spillover of criminal activities and disaster, such as bush fires, diseases and pestilence, some armed robbery etc., from our neighbors also pose a threat to the region.
The Wechiau Hippopotamus Sanctuary is located South West of Wa, along the Black Volta River in the Wa West District. There is also the Gwollu Wall in the Sissala District, which also serves as the hometown of one of Ghana's late president - Dr. Hilla Limann.
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Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] delivered another C-130J Super Hercules to Dyess Air Force Base, Texas, today. This aircraft was the 19th of 28 C-130Js being delivered to Dyess. Maj. Gen. Scott M. Hanson, commander, Carl A. Spaatz Center for Officer Education, and commandant, Air War College, Maxwell Air Force Base, Ala., accepted delivery of the aircraft and flew it to Dyess.
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After the OB appointment we went over to the hospital to do the hospital tour. That went great. The guys really liked the hospital and they said they had had other surrogates deliver with them and some with gay couples too so it's not anything that's foreign to them. I think that made the guys feel better too.
Then we went to dinner with them at this really nice restaurant on the water. Tommy and I had never been there before but we'd heard it was good, what we hadn't heard was how expensive it is. If I had known it was going to be so expensive I never would have suggested we go there. It wouldn't have bothered me if we had paid for our own food but they always insist on paying. Anyways, dinner was delicious and I gave the guys an early Christmas present. I had an ornament made for them and they loved it. And I showed them a picture of the one I had made for me too and they thought it was really cute.
Then Saturday we all went to the Ga Aquarium and had a great time. Zoe did pretty good. There was no screaming or crying so that's always a good thing. When the kids first met "I and A" when we got to the aquarium Alyssa was being kinda shy (Zoe's never shy) but it didn't take her long to warm up to them and she latched onto "I" the rest of the day and I got lots of pictures of them together. They were really good with the kids and it was nice to see how quickly they warmed up to "I and A". Before we got halfway through the aquarium you would think they had always been part of the family. We all had a really nice time and they didn't have any problem lending an extra hand and would jump right in there and chase Zoe down if she ran off. They are going to be great dads :)
After the aquarium we met a bunch of our family for dinner at a buffet/hibachi restaurant. My mom and dad came, my aunt and uncle, my brother and his girlfriend, my best friend and her husband and Tommy's mom and aunt. Everyone really liked the guys and thought they were really super sweet. It went really well and everyone talked and got along. I couldn't have asked for more, it went really well. When Tommy's aunt was hugging me and telling me bye she told me how proud of me she is and started to tear up. It was super sweet, she is a really nice lady. She has been so excited and happy about the surrogacy since the beginning. Even my mom is finally coming around. She really likes the guys and bought them a little gift and card and gave it to them at dinner. It was really sweet and it really makes me feel better seeing her come around as much as she has and really accept them.
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This is the ornament I had made for them. I put one of the u/s pictures in it for them too :)
This is the ornament I had made for my tree :)
All of us at the Ga Aquarium ("A" is on the far right and "I" is next to him, holding Alyssa). After seeing this picture I'm wishing I had worn the shirt I had on in my 21 week belly picture. More flattering I think. I'm not a big fan of shirts that float away from the belly at the bottom (especially during pregnancy) but hubby said it looked good so I wore it. Men, what do they know?


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Greeks want Gato on loan
Somewhat surprise news coming out of Ewood Park with information coming out that suggests Greek side Olympiakos are in talks with Blackburn over the loan signing of Mauro Formica.
It is of course no secret that our Ewood Park lot are skint and badly need to reduce the wage bill at the club prior to making anything resembling a proper signing but the loaning out of one of the blue and white's better players would still register as something of a surprise.
Formica himself has admitted that he was 'homesick' but since the news of the Greek's interest has come out that stance has changed to 'has struggled to settle in England' but with very little in the way of a fee coming our way from a loan deal to let the Argentine leave this way would come as a baffling decision.
Venky's have been silent through January so far over the situation at the club but it is known that Rovers need to raise cash/save money from somewhere and Formica could be one of the first ones to make his way out.
Olympiakos seem confident he'll be their player by the end of the week but it still remains to be seen whether Rovers will let them have one our more promising member os the playing staff.
The two clubs do have previous as it was the Greeks who took Matty Derbyshire off our hands a few years back when Sam Allardyce was in charge.


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CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) – Solicitor Scarlett Wilson is urging jurors in the Michael Slager murder trial to ignore what she calls defense attempts to divert attention from the cellphone video that shows the officer shooting Walter Scott five times in the back.
"You've seen lots of smoke and you have seen lots of mirrors" she said after the defense made its closing arguments. Slager's lawyer said Scott attacked the officer and got control of his stun gun, making him fear for his life.
But Wilson showed jurors pictures of Slager with his radio and earpiece still in place after the shooting.
She said "that is not the sign of a violent, throw-down, life-threatening fight."
She accused Slager of inventing a story about the fight, and said his fellow officers "bought everything he said that day, hook, line and sinker."
Wilson said "our whole criminal justice system rides on the back of law enforcement," and because of that, "they have to be held responsible when they mess up."


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Research results from the 2011 Fusarium head blight evaluations are now available on the University of Illinois Variety Testing website for growers to consider when choosing wheat varieties this fall.
Aaron Draege, in the combine, and Allen Handigan, in the tractor pulling grain cart, harvest corn Monday in a field southwest of Vandalia.
Area fields are yielding up to 180 bushels per acre, with some spots producing considerably less due to the difficult weather conditions this growing season.
This week's Mystery Banks Photo: This young man, pictured 73 years ago, grew up in the Mulberry Grove area.
15 Years Ago
1996 – The Vandalia City Council rejected proposed pay increases for the mayor, city clerk and city treasurer, but approved an ordinance setting all alderman salaries at $4,000. Before, half of the aldermen were making $4,000 and half were making $3,600.
The Vandalia Vandals football team earned a spot in the postseason playoffs by trouncing Shelbyville, 48-0.
The first murder of Ramsey Township took place early in the evening of Nov. 22, 1872. It was a cowardly act, and the perpetrator was never found and charged.
Thomas Francis "Frank" Little was sitting in the front room of his home with his sisters, Laura, Sarah Deborah and 12-year-old Emily. A lamp was lit, and Frank and the girls were seated around the room, spending the evening in song.
Suicide. Few other topics leave us with more questions and fewer answers.
It's a problem that isn't discussed enough to allow us to understand the causes, let alone give us tools to help prevent those around us from seeing it as a way out when the going gets tough.
Dr. Elizabeth Laden-Gross hopes to change all that.
A volunteer with the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, Laden-Gross will be addressing students, teachers and community residents in Farina and Vandalia next week.
Mayor Rick Gottman signed a proclamation declaring this Saturday as Shriners' Hospitals Newspaper Days Roadblock Day in Vandalia. With Gottman is Tim McMillan, president of the Old National Trail Shrine Club. This Saturday, local Shriners will be handing out newspapers telling the story of Shriners' Hospitals for Children and accepting donations.
Dr. Elizabeth Ladin-Gross, a volunteer with the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, will visit the South Central and Vandalia school districts next week.
Ladin will speak to physical education students at SCHS throughout the day on Tuesday, will meet with faculty and staff after school and make a community/parent presentation from 6-7 p.m. in the SCHS gym.
A Vandalia man charged with taking an exhaust fan from outside a downtown business was acquitted by a Fayette County jury earlier this week.
After deliberating only a short time on Tuesday morning, the jury returned a not guilty verdict in the trial for Jeremiah R.L. Kenner.
Kenner, 33, 318 N. Fifth St., was charged in March with theft more than $500. The charge alleged that Kenner stole an exhaust fan from outside Old Capitol View Restaurant and Lounge at 401 W. Gallatin St.
• Scott P. White, 39, 106 S. Maple St., Mulberry Grove, was arrested on Oct. 4 for failure to appear in court on a misdemeanor charge and a small claims matter. Bond was $5,300.
• Isa A. Abdur-Rahman, 37, Jamaica, N.Y., was arrested on Oct. 3 on charges of driving while his license is suspended and speeding. Bond was $1,500.
• Marvin A. Rodriguez, 41, Castlerock, Colo., was arrested on Oct. 3 on a charge of driving while his license is suspended or revoked. Bond was $1,500.
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Ports Authority Tonga employees, Mrs. Audrey Laura Pina Liti awarded with a Gold Medal & HFC Bank Prize for Most Outstanding Master in Business Administration 2017
Ports Authority Tonga would like to announce and express its warmest congratulations to one of its own employees, Mrs. Audrey Laura Pina Liti of Vaini, who recently received the Gold Medal & HFC Bank Prize for the Most Outstanding Master in Business Administration (MBA) graduate at the University of the South Pacific's (USP) graduation on the 31st March 2017 in Suva, Fiji.
Audrey Liti has been with PAT since 2009 and currently the Deputy Manager of Corporate Services. She studied MBA at USP on a part-time basis for about 2 years, and under the Authority's staff training and development program. The Authority is very pleased with Audrey's achievement as it strives to encourage and motivate all its employees for further training and development.
Our best wishes to Mrs. Audrey Liti who has set today's standard of excellence for our other employees to follow suit.


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Even better, I'll have a few advance copies of my next book, The Case of the Red Handed Rhesus (due out this November) to give to a few lucky winners!
However, I will not be wearing my Halloween Costume. The literary world can only take so much of my awesome at once.
Hope you can come out for a fantastic event!
Jessie Powell is the Jester Queen. She likes to tell you about her dog, her kids, her fiction, and her blog, but not necessarily in that order.


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Oklahoma has made a living in the Big 12 of late on the back of its offense. The Sooners have the raw talent on this year's team, but the pieces have a lot of gelling to do in the weeks to come, or Oklahoma may be depending on its defense a whole lot in 2012.
The Sooners scored just 10 points in the first three quarters of their 24-7 victory over UTEP that had everybody in the crimson and cream justifiably sweating.
The 10:30 p.m. ET road kickoff was a weird one, and the Sooners looked out of sorts from the start. The biggest problem? The offensive line. The unit lost starting center Ben Habern to retirement because of nagging injuries and starting guard Tyler Evans for the season after a knee injury. That left them looking to replace 59 starts on the line, and Saturday night, it showed.
Landry Jones looked good moving, but you can't count on a quarterback to put up good numbers if he's rarely given a chance to set his feet and throw. That was Jones' night.
His numbers dipped late last season after Ryan Broyles' injury, and coach Bob Stoops spent the offseason defending his quarterback, reminding all who asked that a quarterback needs support for success.
Jones, yet again, didn't get it. His receivers and backs dropped passes, and his offensive line often looked helpless against a defense that ranked 104th nationally in 2011.
He finished with just 230 yards on 22-of-37 passing with two scores and no turnovers.
For now, Oklahoma can chalk it up to a young line and young receivers still getting used to their first real action. It's still plenty of reason to be concerned. Can it change by Big 12 play? Certainly. Oklahoma won't be tested until Sept. 22. The Sooners face FCS opponent Florida A&M next week, then have a bye before their Big 12 showdown with Kansas State.
The offense will have to be straightened out by then, not to mention a special-teams unit plagued by mistakes including a missed field goal and a blocked punt that gave UTEP its only points of the night.
The brightest spot was the defense that pitched a shutout, even though it got help in the form of three missed field goals from the Miners. Nathan Jeffery's 177 rushing yards are a red flag for sure, but the Sooners defensive backs were solid from start to finish, and UTEP quarterbacks combined to complete just 7-of-26 passes for 48 yards. That's got to make Mike Stoops, the man in charge of revitalizing Oklahoma's secondary, smile. Not many big busts in the secondary that became a hallmark of the Sooners' 2011 failures.
At least he'll get back some major pieces on his defensive line back soon. Defensive tackles Casey Walker (illness) and Stacy McGee (suspension) were missing, and we'll see how OU defends the run next week and in three weeks against Kansas State, one of the league's best running games.
Oklahoma's naturally going to be disappointed with its debut. It should be. The Sooners would have lost to every Big 12 team except Kansas playing like they did tonight, and the Jayhawks might have come close.
There's lots of work to do, but as always at Oklahoma under Bob Stoops, there's lots to work with.


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Yasiel Puig hit with $12 million lawsuit, accused of being 'informant' for Cuban government
It won't always be smooth sailing for Yasiel Puig. According to Dylan Hernandez of the Los Angeles Times, the Dodgers rookie sensation is being sued for $12 million by Miguel Angel Corbacho Daudinot, who claims Puig knowingly made false allegations against him and gave false testimony during his 2010 trial in Cuba.
Puig's testimony helped lead to a guilty verdict that resulted in Corbacho Daudinot receiving a seven-year prison sentence. Corbacho Daudinot is now seeking damages for "prolonged arbitrary detention and torture" and through his lawyers has filed his complaint in a federal district court in Florida.
The complaint refers to Puig and his mother as "informants" for the government.
Puig and his mother testified in a 2010 trial in which Corbacho Daudinot was convicted of human trafficking – basically, of plotting Puig's escape from Cuba. Corbacho Daudinot denies he ever offered to help Puig defect.
Corbacho Daudinot alleges that Puig knowingly made false claims against him to demonstrate allegiance to the Cuban government, and be reinstated in the country's top baseball league and national-team program. According to the suit, Puig was demoted to his Cuban league team's developmental squad because the government suspected him of wanting to flee the island.
The lawyers representing Corbacho Daudinot filed similar lawsuits last year against Cincinnati Reds pitcher Aroldis Chapman on behalf of different plaintiffs.
Yahoo! Sports Jeff Passan recently wrote about Puig's numerous attempts to defect from Cuba. It's a worthwhile read that sheds light on the process Puig had to go through before finally defecting successfully in June 2012.
As for Corbacho Daudinot, after serving 3 1/2 years of his sentence in prison, he'll serve the next 3 1/2 under Cuba's "provisional liberty" program, which means he's free but his travel is restricted and he cannot return home to the Dominican Republic, where he's a permanent resident. Corbacho Daudinot's lawyers also contest their client is in poor mental and physical health because of his incarceration.
Though he remains in Cuba, Corbacho Daudinot was able to file his lawsuit in Florida under the Torture Victim Protection Act of 1991.
I'm not much of a legal expert, so I'm not exactly sure what the next step will be in this case, but we'll definitely keep an eye on it and let you know as the story either unfolds or quietly fades away.
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Catherine Brahic, environment news editor, Copenhagen
Money usually helps. So amid the fractious chaos here, a few extra billions of dollars put on the table on Wednesday evening could encourage a more conciliatory atmosphere. Japan promised to stump up $15 billion, most of it from public funds, to help developing countries cope with climate change - provided there is a deal here. Meanwhile, Britain, Australia, France, Japan, Norway, and the United States announced that they will put up $3.5 billion to compensate developing countries that can show they are reducing emissions from deforestation.
This "fast-track finance" is intended to be paid out if there is an agreement here, but before the laborious process of getting the deal ratified in parliaments across the world is played out - a good thing too, since it took seven years to get Kyoto Protocol ratified by enough countries to bring it into formal force.
But some think the pledges on fast-track finance are a way of avoiding talking about the really big price tag involved in providing long-term finance to climate-proof vulnerable countries and help the poor world develop in a low-carbon way. Most agree that by 2020 that will require more than $200 billion each year. Not something ministers want to talk about when their people back home are hurting as a result of the fallout from the world financial crisis.
Read more: New Scientist's full coverage on the latest Copenhagen and climate change news


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Davis Happy He Stayed
Southampton were near the brink and Kelvin held back from leaving for as long as he could. It looked as though the club would fold and still Kelvin delayed hissearch for a new club.
Finally West Ham United came in for him and it looked ever more likely that he would be going to them. He even went training with them for three days as he considered his options.
Kelvin was so close to signing that it looked a certainty. A minor snag in the contract held things up and then Saints were able to make a move. Saints contacted Kelvin and the rest is history. Two hours later he had signed.
Kelvin is convinced he made the right decision and says,'Aster a game win, lose or draw, I'll sit on my sofa with aching muscles and know I made the roght decision.'
'This will be my first time at the new Wembley, but I went to Wembley with Luton years ago,' he recalls. 'I played in a game before an U15 international and we won 1-0. Though I have never played there as a professional so the fact the final is at Wembley is massive.'
The fans stood by the team when they were needed and now we have 44,000 of them going to Wembley. This should be a magnificent day out for us and I know we will roar Kelvin and the boys home in our best festive manner.


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Send Word Now Announces SWN Direct, A Revolutionary New Mobile App for Employee and Customer Communications
NEW YORK, N.Y., June 19, 2014 – Send Word Now®, the leading worldwide provider of emergency notification and critical communications services, announced today its release of SWN Direct, the company's latest innovation for urgent corporate communications and collaboration. SWN Direct is a groundbreaking recipient mobile app that enables rapid, secure and encrypted interactions between an organisation and its employees, customers and stakeholders.
"Our customers have told us they want an innovative mobile platform for communicating across the enterprise, and we listened," said Tony Schmitz, Send Word Now President and CEO. "Building on our deep understanding of technology, SWN Direct delivers a revolutionary set of recipient mobile-oriented tools for voice, text and file delivery for a much lower total operating cost than previously available."
SWN Direct utilises IP networking end to end for the secure delivery of voice, text and files seamlessly to recipient mobile phones anywhere in the world.
"Unlike other applications in the market, we decided to take a dramatically different approach," said Alex Tsepetis, Send Word Now CTO. "One of the challenges with global emergency communications is you are heavily reliant upon applications such as SMS, email or even traditional phone calls, where delivery is never assured, and you're uncertain if the audience you are trying to communicate with is even online or available. With SWN Direct, our customers know in advance what percentage of their recipient target audience is reachable before they communicate. And since we are IP end to end, we simply need IP connectivity to deliver all types of data directly to our app."
The SWN Direct app includes: SWN Express Messenger, SWN Express Voice, SWN LockBox and SWN One-click Connect.
SWN Express Messenger is an SMS alternative that delivers two-way, high capacity, encrypted, rich-text capable alerts directly to the app with return receipts, delivery scheduling and real-time message vanish.
SWN Express Voice offers fully integrated and richly featured voice and call conferencing services via SIP/RTP over a Wi-Fi or cellular data connection anywhere in the world.
SWN LockBox allows administrators to send encrypted files directly to the recipient's device with version control, auto-sync and built-in audit reports. Documents are accessible even when users are offline and there is no available data connection.
SWN One-click Connect provides for a one-touch voice connection via Wi-Fi, cellular data or PSTN to Send Word Now's Customer Support centre, voice alert mail box or Send Word Now's IVR service platform. Send Word Now customers use this service when travelling abroad and want to avoid paying expensive phone charges when accessing the service.
"The key is, we are using IP end to end over a persistent connection, not brokered by push notification or any other intermediary systems. This provides us real-time visibility on two fronts," said Tsepetis. "First, we can tell you before a message is sent who is on-net and will instantaneously receive the message. You do not have that capability with Push Notification. Second, since we also control the delivery path end to end, we are not dependent on third-party applications that might impact successful delivery. We know in real-time if the message was delivered successfully, and we are no longer dependent on external parties to triage non-delivery problems. "
The app is currently available on iPhone® mobile devices. Other mobile operating systems will be added in July of this year.
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Headquartered in New York City, Send Word Now is the leading worldwide provider of critical communications solutions. The company's easy-to-use web-based and mobile solutions are deployed by businesses, government agencies, universities and non-profit organisations to ensure fast, effective, collaboration and response when it is needed the most.
Send Word Now's enterprise-class emergency notification system is capable of transmitting tens of thousands of voice and text messages in minutes while providing a full audit trail for after-action reporting and follow-up. Its conferencing, Interactive Voice Response (IVR) and workflow solutions keep employees informed and connected to the people and information they need.


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Sep 05 2006
Conversation with Israeli Peace Activist
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GUEST: Aliyah Strauss, Chair of the Israel section of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, long-time member of Women in Black, performer with The Raging Grannies in Israel
Israeli Vice-Prime Minister Shimon Peres announced a meeting with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to discuss the so-called "road-map for peace." According to Abbas, an agreement had been reached on swapping a captured Israeli soldier for Palestinian prisoners. This was the same soldier in whose name Israel continued its brutal repression in Gaza earlier in the summer, killing hundreds of Palestinians. Yesterday Israel invited tenders for nearly 700 new housing units in the occupied West Bank. This would be the largest expansion of Jewish settlements in the occupied territories since Prime Minister Ehud Olmert took office in May. Meanwhile, International peace keepers are moving into Lebanon in the aftermath of a ceasefire agreement in August. Israel has continued a unilateral air and sea blockade of Lebanon, in violation of the ceasefire. The brief war killed 1200 people in Lebanon who were mostly civilians and one-third children. One hundred and sixty, mostly soldiers, were killed in Israel.
Aliyah Strauss is a longtime member of Women in Black in Israel, a women's organization founded in 1988 to oppose the Israeli occupation of Palestine. She is also the chair of the Israel section of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF).
Aliyah will be speaking on Sunday, September 10 at 7 p.m. at the Liberty Hill Foundation Community Room, 2121 Cloverfield Ave., Santa Monica, CA 90404.
Parking and entrance in rear of building.
The event is sponsored by Women in Black-Los Angeles and co-sponsored by Palestine Aid Society and Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) Los Angeles Branch. For more information call (323) 993-3322.
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Several weeks ago we invited three other families over to try out some products from Leap Frog. We had a total of 4 moms and 41 kids over for some playtime and snacks.
The afternoon was a marvelous success and, for the record, a half acre lot looks very small when you add 4 large vans and 41 children. The kids had a great time running around
and learning how to use some of LeapFrog's popular products.
We had the opportunity to play with the new LeapPad Explorer Learning Tablet (a 2011 award winner) and the TAG Reading System.
The LeapPad Learning Tablet is an iPad for kids. It has a touch screen, stylus and boasts tilt technology. In addition to multiple apps, it has 100's of play and learning options. From the ability to watch movies, a built-in camera and video recorder, handwriting practice and game playing options, the LeapPad offers a little bit of everything.
The kids enjoyed the ability to take and edit photos. They took turns taking pictures of each other
and then editing them to end up with the funniest picture possible.
They also made use of the video recording feature, acting like news anchors and conducting humorous interviews with their friends.
After the party was over, Nicholas (3) and I played with the digital scrapbook feature. This feature allows you to choose a different template for each page of the book and children can add photos, digital drawings and audio recordings. One of Nick's pages has a picture of each member of his family and an audio recording of 3 year old Nick saying, "I wuv my mommy and daddy, and I just wuv my family."
All photos, videos and digital scrapbooks can be loaded to a computer and saved.
Although we're not big on video games in our family, the LeapPad provides many educational options that even fit our tastes. Another feature that we've put to good use is the handwriting app. Colby (5) uses this often and even Nick (3) can practice some of the easier letters. There are many other educational options that we look forward to trying.
Another big hit at the party was the LeapFrog TAG World Map. The children gathered around the large map
then worked together as teams taking turns to see who could find the most locations before time ran out. This game even kept our high energy group of 5-9 year old boys entertained.
This is a wonderful way to learn or review geography basics and it's just one of many games to play with the TAG World Map.
The other side of the map offers more information about cultures, animals and significant geographic features around the world. The LeapFrog Tag USA Map is on our short list for Christmas this year.
In quieter moments (when there are less than 41 children running about) the TAG system is a good way to help beginning readers become independent readers. This does require supervision and discernment (otherwise the children are liable to overuse the system).
Colby (5) is able to read the TAG books and when he comes to a word that is too difficult for him to sound out independently, he is able to let the TAG pen help him by either sounding it out for him or telling him the word. This enables him to spend time reading even when mom is occupied with something (or more frequently someONE) else.
The LeapFrog Learn, Create and Share Party was a success. The children had a blast playing with each other and with TAG and LeapPad.
Our family has continued to use and enjoy both the LeapPad and TAG Reading System (especially that map) as a supplement for our homeschooling studies and playing a fast-paced geography game with the TAG map remains a favorite break when other academic work gets a little intense.
Our family received LeapFrog products in addition to a LeapFrog party kit in order to host a Learn, Create and Share Party. All opinions expressed are my own.


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- This session is the only session where parents or family can take part in Wacky World with their children or under 16's..
- Family sessions are for adults (family) taking part with their children, if you attending Wacky World with friends or party that are all over 18+, please book the adult only session. Solely over 18+ groups will be refused entry to family sessions.
- All under 16's must be accompanied by an adult.
- Safety is paramount, please be aware of the size difference between yourself and a child.
- Parents / guardian are to supervise children at all times. Wacky World staff are there to maintain the safety of Wacky World equipment.
- Please arrive at least 15 minutes before your session time.
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The Trinidad and Tobago Red Force cricket team will be guaranteed a TT$3 million payout for their participation in this year's Champions League Twenty20 (CLT20) in India.
This was revealed in a Trinidad and Tobago Cricket Board (TTCB) press release yesterday, which praised the "new" leadership of the West Indies Players' Association (WIPA), led by president Wavell Hinds, for the way they handled negotiations with the Board.
The $3 million payout will come from 50 per cent of the US$500,000 CLT20 participation fee, 75 per cent of the "guaranteed prize money" of US$200,000 for reaching the group stage, and 50 per cent of the team's sponsorship contracts with NGC and the Ministry of Tourism.
The TTCB release also stated that should the team progress to the knockout round of the tournament, the players will receive more money.
Chief Executive Officer of the TTCB Suruj Ragoonath said that last year the two parties could not come to an agreement.
"This year we had both parties negotiating and understanding each other's position," he told the Express yesterday.
Ragoonath noted that WIPA had an understanding of the Board's position and of what the Board could give the players.
"For the first time we had an amicable settlement with WIPA with both parties happy," Ragoonath insisted.
He also noted that there were never any major issues with the team or threats by the players throughout negotiations.
The TTCB press release stated: "The TTCB takes this opportunity to thank the new leadership of WIPA led by Wavell Hinds for its balanced and responsible approach to matters relating to the Red Force's participation in the 2013 Champions League."
"Our Board is extremely heartened by the positive collaboration between WIPA, WICB (West Indies Cricket Board), the TTCB and the private sector and we are very optimistic that this new approach signals the beginning of a new era of success for West Indies cricket," the release added.
T&T left for India on Monday and will play their first game in the tournament on Sunday.


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Naveen (Nijam) Gara
Prime Minister Narendra Modi's picture replacing that of M K Gandhi at the charkha in an official annual calendar has kicked up a storm. Modi baiters have pounced upon this egregious 'offence' that the eternal propagandist has committed. It was one thing to appear on Reliance jio advertisements but to supersede the 'father of the nation' itself was untenable to many self-proclaimed centrists. But in some ways the evolution of Modi perhaps has its roots in the rise of Gandhi himself. This may appear to be a provocative proposition but nevertheless deserves consideration.
M K Gandhi is given credit for a lot of things but his most important contribution was to ensure status quo in the social sphere as power transferred hands between the British and the Indian elite in 1947. His magnanimous presence and carefully crafted and advertised larger-than-life image of a renunciant played a key role in bringing about an aura of unity among the inherently diverse conglomerate of castes and regions fancifully named India. His docile image of a half-naked elderly male with a walking stick in hand helped immensely in the idiomatic beating into submission of the vast majority of downtrodden people that had no stakes in the transfer of power.
As the post-1947 years and decades unfolded, it became clear that a change of guard at the helm did not change much in the lives of the lower strata, rather the stranglehold of the privileged classes became constitutionalized. A man acclaimed as a reformer vehemently opposed structural changes in the world around him. His ardent espousal of the old social order came alive when Dr Ambedkar exposed the dubiousness of Hindu religion in his 'Annihilation of Caste'. As Ambedkar suggested that 'Hindu society is a myth', Gandhi struck back in a condescendingly paternalistic tone writing '(Ambedkar) proposes to leave ...the very religion that is his and their common heritage.'
Publishing in the paradoxically named 'Harijan' (a term that dalits today have openly condemned, a term that is no longer in popular use, ironically coined by the Mahatma himself), Gandhi wrote that the law of 'Varna' and 'Ashrama' prescribes 'each one of us to earn our bread by following the ancestral calling' and defines 'not our rights but our duties.' As Ambedkar demanded separate electorates for the oppressed classes, Gandhi went on a hunger strike opposing such a move that ultimately led to the Poona pact in 1932 which eventually became the bedrock of legitimizing Hindu control over the oppressed. Another important contribution of Gandhi was spiritualization of the masses which effectively kept them ignorant and mired them in blind devotion rather than in scientific temper and rational pursuit of truth. Though this spiritualization was touted as secular, his constant invocation of 'Ramarajya' brought the Hindu god into national discourse.
A Mahatma who waxed eloquent on the meaning of freedom being complete only when women can walk freely in India at midnight chose to ignore the injustice meted out to Sita and Soorpanakha in Ramayana at the hands of the establishment heroes. Thus, effortlessly, while proclaiming love for all religions and castes, he was successful in turning inherently Aryan and Brahminical icons and concepts that were tools in the hands of oppressors into issues that a new conceptually secular nation had to embrace. A man that extolled the virtues of non-violence somehow missed out on the fact that Buddha was already a recognized torchbearer of ahimsa as opposed to warrior prince Rama who did not hesitate to kill Vali or Shambuka in pursuit of his own goals. What else other than Brahminism drove Gandhi to pick Rama as an icon instead of Buddha, the quintessential anti-Brahmin?
Thus the father of the nation buttressed hinduism in to the national psyche of a country that framed lofty constitutional ideals on paper. And as we have seen in the ensuing years, the work of the gatekeepers of hinduism such as Sangh Parivar was already half done because all they had to do was to build upon the foundation provided by Gandhi. In a population enthralled by the utopian promise of Ramarajya that their beloved Bapu dreamt of, it was a walk in the park for the Sangh to instigate mad frenzy for building a grand Ram temple in Ayodhya. And in the post-Indira Gandhi era when Congress lacked a populist leader and as the middle classes grew impatient with the Mahatma's party, political power naturally flowed into the Sangh's brainchild, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
The BJP, the proverbial camel in the grand tent that Mahatma conceptualized now engulfed the tent itself threatening the very existence of the party that anchored the tent. In a roundabout way, Mahatma's chickens in the form of blind spiritualism, love for varnashrama dharma and nominal renunciation came home to roost in a much stronger and monstrous form i.e. BJP. Thus the refusal to counteract the deleterious effects of Vedic Brahmanism when the nation was nascent cost us dear. Preaching duplicitous ideals of self-reformation rather than inculcating scientific temper in the masses led to the takeover by the rightwing since the populace was already primed for such forces.
In such a state, Narendra Modi found it utterly easy to captivate the imagination of the great Indian middle class hindu vote. He did not even have to feign non-violence because by now, the Mahatma's Indians felt self-righteous in venting their anger towards imagined threats to their beloved hindu religion. Modi just had to pay lip-service to his tea-vendor origins unlike Mahatma who had to forego modern clothing and adopt an ostentatiously simple living. While Gandhi made it difficult for the average Indian to see through his seemingly noble intentions, Modi did not have to make any such effort – he could spew venom on the constructed enemy, engage in crassly divisive rhetoric and yet garner the hindu majority middle-class vote, the same sections that eulogized Gandhi.
Just as Gandhi's yarn-spinning had no impact on saving the dignity and lives of the handloom weavers that continue to commit suicides, Modi's choreographed yoga sessions have no role in healing the sick and the poor that are dying due to lack of a dependable public health system in the digital land. Where Mahatma's ritualistic inter-caste dining and garbage cleaning in 'harijan' colonies failed to banish the scourge of caste, Modi's Swachh Bharat and stand-up India failed to alleviate the suffering of sanitation workers and other dalits or even address the hygiene problem.
In the same vein that Mahatma's steadfast support to religion obviously hindered progress of women in India, Modi's 'selfie with beti' will be an empty-handed exercise in vain while he remains firmly entrenched in the love of vedas and Manu Smriti. In both the case of the Mahatma and Modi, the lack of scrutiny and rather wilful propaganda of convivial media machinery led to their meteoric rise. In a glaring disparity, while Mahatma readily condemned openly violent and discriminatory acts to remain above the fray, Modi stood mute while students were slapped with sedition charges, driven to death, tanners assaulted by cow hooligans and innocent citizens killed for their meatarian food practices. Yet Modi remains all powerful among a sizeable section of Indians.
The icing on the cake, however, is the fact that Modi has now assumed a role that is much larger than any public figure in contemporary and recent Indian history which gave him an unassailable authority in taking decisions that will hurt the very classes that voted him to power. His demonetization move has severely hurt every single section of the society including the core BJP voters i.e. traders and middle classes while unduly benefitting a select few on the pretext of a cashless utopia. Not so paradoxically, the love for obsequiousness and unquestioned loyalty to the 'noble' leader that the Mahatma encouraged among Indians is now coming in handy for Modi. Hence, it is only obvious that he felt it right to replace the charkha king.
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Hi. I have a number of questions.
1) I ran my first ever 10k race about two weeks back (Hyde Park Jog organised by British Heart Foundation) and my time was 61 minutes 57 seconds. Here's the thing. In practice sessions, my time is roughly 67 minutes (I started running about 3 months back and am very slow unfortunately) and though I was definitely running faster at the race, I can't imagine it being that much faster. Is it possible that the distance was less than 10k?
2) I am running another one on 18th November. Is it possible for me to reduce my time to anything less than 1 hour in about 5 weeks (59m 59s will do!)? If yes, does anyone have any useful training tips?
3) Finally, I ran 13k last weekend and not only did my left foot really start hurting by the end, I also have some tightness in my right calf. Does this mean I am over-training given my current fitness level? Also, what remedial measures can I take?
Any insights on the above three questions will be much appreciated. 2) is the real priority though. Thanks!
Mt race times are much faster than my training times......It might be that it was less as I'm not sure if they state on that race that its a measured course......they should be but sometimes if they put a fun run thing in they get away with a rough distance.......
It is possible for yiou to reduce it.so much depends on how you feel on the day....I would try and get some massage on the tighness on your calf......
with the next race.its hard to know how to improve in a short time.what was tyour build up to the last one...did you rest for a couple of days......did you sleep well..did you rest up the day before...no long days standing or sightseeing etc......
good luck...
(1) Following on from seren... it is also possible that the race was exactly 10K, but your training runs have been a little longer. I'd say that the measurement of the race course would probably be more accurate than the measurement of your own practice run.
And anyway, it's normal for race-day adrenalin to speed you along, and this time difference can be biggest in newer runners... so it's not too surprising. That may well be the sole answer.
(2)How to achieve 59:59 in November? Well the most important training tip is to address your injury. You'll never beat the hour by limping round!
If you didn't have a niggle, then I'd be fairly confident you could make progress in the 5 weeks. If you've only been running 3 months, you're still in the phase where you can improve times quite quickly. Plenty of advice around on the net (just google '10K training plans' and adapt them for your situation. For me, it's a case of mixing up your training to ensure there are some short faster runs along with slower longer runs.
3) It's hard to say... but overtraining is a distinct possibility. I presume you carefully selected the right shoes, with the help of someone who really knows what they're on about. Get that injury sorted.. don't exacerbate it.
4) Good luck Enjoy it.
Thanks so much for your encouraging replies. Really really appreciate. I sincerely hope the 10k track was accurate because if my time was really 61:57, then that is very respectable for my standards. I have come across a lot of training plans on the internet and found one that I think I will follow from next week. It's basically running four times a week with a mix of short relatively fast runs and long slow ones. The calf situation is obviously not ideal, but I think with plenty of stretching over the next few days, it should be fine. I think I got it in the first place because I never stretch before or after runs.
Will keep you posted on my progress during trainings as well as the eventual race!
I would imagine that the Race Day track was an accurate 10k. I train for this distance and I'm aware that because of the layout of my route I run slightly over the 10k and log that as a 10k time. A mate of mine says (and I'm sure others do as well) that you always go quicker on the day and this seems to ring true. Whether it's adrenalin or other runners cutting the breeze for you I don't know but I'm always quicker by a few mins come race time as well, I know a few people that are. Look after that injury mate, if it's hurting you don't push it too hard.
Blue Whale... I really recommend you stretch AFTER runs. Search on YouTube to find some example of what to do, if you're unsure.
But the received wisdom nowadays is NOT really to stretch before runs. I didn't believe it at first, having always been told to stretch before football or running... but I'm a convert.
Just progressively warm up with dynamic movement.. start with a walk, then breaking in a gentle trot... do some 'high knees' and do some bum kicking (kick your OWN bum, with your heels) - when a bit warmer, you can do a bit of gentle running on your toes or whatever you feel works your calves a bit - or whatever exercise you need to warm up any niggly area. Again, you'll probably find more on youtube.
12 months ago, if I'd have had that niggly calf of yours, and wanted to run or play tennis or something, the first thing I'd have done would be to do some gentle stretches of the calf, then quite quickly move onto some somewhat more rigourous stretches. But I was stretching cold muscles. Not a good thing.
Thanks for the advice!! Will definitely check out youtube. Hope I can get rid of the niggly calf soon!
I done the BHF 10KM and have measured it via pedometer and it comes out at around 10.131KM approx.
see my Runkeeper stats. [bear in mind i didn't get a fix until the first right hand turn]
btw my chip time was 59:09
Cooooool! That is proper proof then. Yaaay! Thanks sooo much!
Thanks Crimson. After my run today, I did walk for a few minutes to cool down.
The tightness in my calf is okay now. I have been massaging it regularly and did a proper warm up today before my run and then stretching afterwards and it's not hurting at all. But unfortunately my left foot started hurting again during my run and I stopped running soon after the pain started. It's hurting quite a bit when I walk now. The pain is in my ankle joint. I am thinking of replacing running with other cardio exercises for two weeks and hopefully if it feels better, I will train in the last three weeks for my race (to get my time down below 1 hour). Feeling gutted about this, but I think this is the only way to go about it. Any suggestions?


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Case Study: Copps Industries
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Industry: Industrial Epoxy Resins / Adhesives
Copps Industries is an ISO 9001-2000 Certified Custom Epoxy Resin Formulator who has been formulating and producing for the civil engineering, aggregate/mining, electrical/electronics, and adhesives markets since 1979. Guided by their commitment to environmental responsibility and an obsession for quality and excellence in all that they do, the Copps mission of "if it is not in the best interest of our employees, our customers, and the environment, we will not do it" keeps them focused on providing the finest, most consistent epoxies on the planet.
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The addition of new large-scale clients and vendors brought a host of new issues to Copps Industries that couldn't be easily met with four systems managing regulatory docs, lab, production, and accounting. According to Matt Copps, Accountant at Copps Industries, "There was simply no easy way to handle Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) and electronic Purchase Orders (POs), as required by our vendors. The best we could do was scan dot-matrix print outs and e-mail them." Their production system, which was no longer being supported, wasn't integrated with their accounting software, either. Data had to be manually re-keyed by employees into each system and automated tasks were mostly non-existent. "There wasn't an internal flag to indicate if something was off," says Copps, "And our DOS-based system actually used to lock up if two or more people were in it at the same time."
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In order to reduce these inefficiencies and improve responsiveness to existing and future customers, Copps Industries initiated an integrated Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software project to centralize its business processes. Copps' lack of an internal IT department, however, mandated the need for a simple software system. "We did not have the staff to handle a complex system," says Copps. "So 'easy' was the theme of our search: easy drill down, easy maintenance, easy interface, and easy implementation." The decision to choose Deacom was based on DEACOM's total integration of chemical specific business processes in one, easy-to use system. "DEACOM didn't require any add-ons and its interface was the most straightforward," explains Copps. "Also, we felt more comfortable with DEACOM's fixed implementation structure. We knew our implementation fee upfront, without any additional surprises."
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After licensing the DEACOM System, Matt Copps assumed the onus of implementation manager in addition to his accounting responsibilities for the four-month implementation period. He worked with Deacom's data conversion team to convert the data from their existing systems, including account and item master files and transactional data. Business processes were then planned, reviewed, and re-designed with a Deacom implementation specialist. Even without the help of IT, the implementation process was manageable for Copps. "DEACOM support was very responsive to my inquiries. They always let me know what was going on in the background," said Copps.
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A week ago I drove through our new Culvers for some comfort food after a rough day and saw a sign for Pumpkin Concrete Mixers.
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My thoughts: Slurpable Pumpkin Pie.
While I saw the caramel swirled on top, I didn't really taste it or get any big gobs of caramel stuck in the straw, and I definitely did not detect any salt. I have a feeling it was really well blended. It was delicious all the same, very rich and creamy. It tasted like real pumpkin pie, with a beautiful blend of spices. I would absolutely get this again. Read the rest of this entry »


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What are hermits? And do they have anything to do with Catholicism?
A hermit is someone who has withdrawn to a solitary place for a life of religious seclusion. The word comes from the Greek "eremos," meaning desert – hence a hermit is a person who lives in the desert. The idea of pursuing a reclusive lifestyle for religious reasons exists in many spiritual traditions.
In Catholicism, the hermit's life recalls the biblical examples of the prophet Elijah, John the Baptist, and of course Jesus, during his 40 days in the desert. As early Christian monastic life developed in the third century, many people were drawn to this lifestyle, inspired by the example of St. Anthony and the other desert fathers and mothers. The tradition continues today in cloistered, contemplative religious communities such as the Carmelites and Camaldolese.
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As you know, we long ago issued an Egotastic! fatwah against our male readers watching Glee (even though I myself have seen two episodes of the show, with extenuating circumstances, though I know someday I shall face the stones firing at my grill as a consequence).
But, there are some saving graces (and hot bodies) from the show that give it some rightful reason to exist. Including Lea Michele, one of our long standing Hebrew School hotties, who was caught candidly in a little pink bikini by our tree-sitting paparazzi down Cabo way. Sometimes, a solid bikini candid of a TV actress hottie is all you need to break into song...
Cuando caliente el sol, aqui en la playa
(P.S. Thanks to 'Vinny H.' for the last minute addition of Lea's own Twitpic from Cabo, the final picture in the gallery)


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Only the ego divides souls from one another. This is why many believe that they have only one "soul mate", because they find one person to drop (and sometimes re-form) the ego with. When ego is gone, the sense of separation from the rest of the world is gone, and the beauty of interconnectedness is revealed. Love is so omnipresent, the only thing preventing this realization is the ego and its forced rituals of romance and monogamy. Love is much too bold and daring to require such safety devices.

>>well done h♥muffins. s e xy times!
You can have many soul mates from your soul mate group - they are all karmic. Some feel very comfortable, others teach you harsh lessons and then there's the twin soul connection, which is quite unique from more convention connections. Read this article which you can find on www.debbienagioff.co.uk or www.ddpsychicevents.co.uk, which makes good reading and good sense.

As a working clairvoyant I am endlessly confronted with the entire scale of human misery and joy.

One issue I've come across time and time again is the soul mate connection. One can probably discern three different types of Soul mate connections, and all of them are karmic.

1. The regular soul mate connection in which we find we connect quite happily and comfortably with someone, with very little effort. We feel we've known them all our life.

2. Next is the real karmic soul mate connection – This can be very hard work. You may have an intense like or dislike for that person, but they come into your life to teach you something. A lesson has to be learned and a debt repaid (not literally money!). This can be extremely painful, but is necessary for our spiritual growth. Once the lesson is learned, the relationship has done its job.

3. Finally there is the connection that time never dims. The Twin Soul or Twin Flame connection.

Here there is an instant attraction of energies, the energy of the two souls connecting over time, over miles, and sometimes over years. Very often there is an initial meeting of the twin souls and often one half of the duo is more spiritually awakened and "gets it". The other may not be quite there, but nevertheless they are deeply touched by the experience.

Sometimes they remain in contact like this, and sometimes the two are "deliberately" torn apart and separated over years to go and work on their own lives and commitments and deal with karma in other relationships before finally reuniting decades down the line.

But are the twin souls destined to be together?

Synchronicity is at work here to bring the two back together again. How entrancing to find the same magical alchemy still at work, just as it was at the first meeting – a recognition of a deep rooted love so entrenched and so accepted, it could only have been forged in other lifetimes together. And probably that is what love at first sight is, recognition of an ancient love.

Inevitably in twin soul connections we come up against the "dance" the connection and the disconnection between the two that is incredibly frustrating, and cannot be rushed. We are dealing with a process here. Within the connection you often find that one party is very keen to move the relationship on to higher levels, whilst the other doesn't know what the hell is going on and doesn't want to deal with the relationship, as it touches deep and painful emotions that may have been suppressed. So they try and escape the relation
yes: as unique as you are therea re many matches that could occur. However there are only so many you can manage or simply are allowed to have ba<x>sed on what society supports and what you and your current partner values.
course yer can

wouldn't be able to live otherwise
Sure: a main one and a couple of spares.
you can have as many as you want, its your soul. dont let anyone tell you how many you can have
we have more than one soul mate. often the idea mislead only the husband or the lover is our soul mate, but, didn't we love anybody in our life other than our lover or husband,,,whoever comes to our heart and mind and could be there for our life time, irrespective of the worldly characteristics, they are our soul mates,,sure, there can be more than one soul mate, in logically and phylosophically thinking person's life.
Men and women are built to love and be loved by

More than just one....
i believe so. one who u have had in your life forever. n the one who is your mate.
If you believe that we can only have one soul mate, than you believe in predestination. If you're destined to only have one soul mate and they live on the opposite side of the world and/or speak a different language than you, will you ever meet? If you don't meet, then will you be alone for the rest of your life? If you meet somebody who isn't your soulmate and marry them, will you be unhappy? I think that according to logic, we can have many soulmates.
I really hope so (",)
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