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After having to forfeit their last two games for safety reasons due to an increased number of injuries, the Dayton Bulldogs can't wait to get back on the field for their Nov. 4 home game vs. South Hunterdon.
"We're very excited," Dayton head coach Dominic Cuniglio said. "We're practicing out there with the players that are able to and we got some players back.
"The last two weeks have been tough, not being able to play, but we're looking forward to a great game and want our seniors to go out and play one more time at home."
Dayton (1-7) is also looking to play one more time after this weekend, which would be a sectional consolation game. The Bulldogs will not qualify for the North 2, Group 1 playoffs.
With a record of 1-5, Dayton decided it would be best to not play games at Group 2 Roselle and at Mid-State 38 Conference Union Division champion Bound Brook the last two weekends. No coach wants to give up any game at all in a season where you play only 10, 11 or 12.
"The competitor in me always wants to go out there and coach," Cuniglio said.
South Hunterdon is 0-6 and has lost seven straight going back to last year.
"I think it's a good matchup," Cumiglio said. "We've had some good games with them in the past.
"We're looking to win our second game and they are looking to win their first. I think it will be a battle."
Dayton's win is over Pingry 19-6 at Pingry, while South Hunterdon's closest game is a 21-14 loss at Pingry.
"We want to send the seniors off on the right foot," Cuniglio said.
Brearley (5-3) has now qualified for the playoffs four years in a row – all in North 2, Group 1 – while head coach Scott Miller has guided the Bears to the playoffs 11 times in 15 seasons.
Brearley snapped a two-game losing streak last week by handling New Providence 27-13 at home.
A Brearley team hit hard by graduation managed to put it all together to produce a winning season so far.
"We've been able to run our veer option a lot better," Miller said.
Junior running back Khalid Bonnet is having a sensational season, accumulating close to 1,200 yards rushing in eight games.
Brearley has one shutout and two other wins where it gave up only one score.
"Our defense has been starting to play better," Miller said. "Our kids who came into the season inexperienced have matured."
Brearley has a close win at Dayton 22-21 and a week later a close loss at Manville (6-2) by the score of 28-21. Manville scored the winning touchdown in the fourth quarter after Brearley tied the game at 21-21 with a field goal by Nick Arcieri.
"We missed three extra points and then had first-and-goal at the Manville 5 with four minutes left, but was called for off sides," Miller said. "We got pushed back and had to kick a field goal instead of having a chance to take the lead."
All in all it's been a pretty solid season for the Bears, who will most likely be on the road for the first round of the North 2, Group 1 playoffs.
"Coming off last year with the kids we had to replace these kids have responded," Miller said. "The goal was to make the playoffs and we accomplished that."
Brearley wraps its regular season Nov. 4 at home against Group 2 Hillside (3-5).
Roselle Park started the season with two double-digit, shutout victories, but since then has lost five straight, including games by four, seven, one and 11 points.
The Panthers are next at Manville Nov. 4.
After having to forfeit their last two games for safety reasons due to an increased number of injuries, the Dayton Bulldogs can't wait to get back on the field for their Nov. 4 home game vs. South Hunterdon.


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Vintage photos of coal miners in America
According to the U.S. Department of Energy, coal has been used as a source of heat as far back as early humans walked the earth. It wasn't until the 1700s that the English discovered that coal could be used as a cleaner energy source compared to the wood charcoal that they were currently using. The Industrial Revolution in the 1700s brought coal to the forefront of energy supply with the endless amount of inventions that required coal to run.
See American coal miners below:
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Coal was originally used in America in the 1300s by the Hopi Indians as a way to cook their food, warm themselves and fire their clay. Coal did not resurface in the United States until 1673. Commercial coal production wouldn't start until the 1740s in Virginia.
In the 1800s, the Industrial Revolution spread to America, where coal became the main source of energy just as it had years earlier in England.
While coal helped to power forms of transportation, such as steamboats and steam-powered trains, it also came with negative consequences. By inhaling soot and toxic gasses in the mines, workers were at risk for developing horrific conditions such as tuberculosis, black lung and cancer. Not only were they risking their health, but just being inside the mine was incredibly dangerous. Accidents involving the improper use of equipment and collapsing mines were frequent occurrences.
Coal-mining was also one of the many dangerous jobs that employed child workers. Children were perfect for squeezing into tight spaces in mines that adults could never reach. During the Industrial Revolution, child labor was at an all time high, but would later become restricted in the 19th century.

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text: Source: (2005) Vermont Bar Journal and Law Digest. 31(3).Peace is not merely the absence of war. We have learned a few things in the last 350 years since Hobbes wrote his famous treatise. It is more than the cessation of hostilities or the suppression of violence. True peace—shalom—is the presence of mutual respect and cooperation. It is the basis of a productive life lived in harmony and dignity. Peace is a basic social good. A deep understanding of peace together with skills in building, maintaining, and restoring it is a necessary part of mature citizenship in a liberal democracy. Knowing how to make, build, and keep peace is a primary citizenship skill. (excerpt)


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Do cars look as good today as they looked in the past?
Recently, in several magazine and website articles I found comments of automotive journalists and simple car enthusiasts talking about the car design of the previous decade. They were not very excited about it and overall the opinion was that car design didn't reach the levels of the previous decades.
Most of the last ten years represented an economic boom which, by definition, means a period when companies spend more than normal to develop and expand their products. It's the time when innovation gets much more attention. That's when one would expect a large number of very exciting designs to come to the market. It is interesting, if not strange then, to hear people saying that in the last decade car design was not as exciting as before. What happened? Is this true? » Read the rest of this entry «
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"Can't Get Shot In The Back (If You Don't Run)."
How do you follow a month-long stretch of writing about a rock band like Bush on your blog? The only way you can — by writing about other kickass music.
Matthew Good is one of Canada's most celebrated rock personalities, and he's recently begun posting selections from his albums on SoundCloud — 24 tracks from various stages in his career, including brilliant b-sides like the above called "Can't Get Shot In The Back (If You Don't Run)" from 2004… which I'll just let speak for itself.
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It is fascinating to take note of the role that campervan hire agencies play when it comes to contracting different kinds of campervans for the needs of their customers.
The choice of having a campervan rental provides a free inclination and flexibility to travelers venturing out yet would want to be able to enjoy their own particular comforts, without necessarily stressing over any prepared or discussed plans. Plus, if you are really looking for that flawless vacation full of enterprising experience, energy, extravagance, and solace all rolled together, employing a campervan would be the best thought with or without a car in tow. Picking privileged campervans to contract for your travels is an important choice as it is able to combine the comfort and luxury that you get to enjoy today yet, will never fail to bring you back to those olden days where life was so easy and carefree, and traveling in campervans is the highlight of the journey.
Flexibility and joyful living is what these surf trip van are known to stand for. They are, by and large quite updated with all the trappings needed for that extra comfort and convenience called for when traveling and yet still manage to stay in vogue. Therefore, campervans are less demanding to drive and appropriate for both long or short rides at most. The solace and the sentiment obtained simply by living in a campervan is, to a great degree, quite homelike as if you were able to transport your abode together with you wherever you go – with ample cooking space, an inside office, equipped with satellite television, and other necessary trappings that your modern way of living would call for too.
In choosing which motorhome portugal area to go with, make sure that you go with the one that is open and completely outfitted with the best quality accessories and frills that you would need for your journey. Aisde from that, these campervans area available in various sizes so the bigger it is the more trimmings it will definitely have inside, which translates to extra amount too – so you would definitely be at a liberty to choose which ones you would like to go with in the end.
The best time to go and hire a surf trip van is when you deem the most days that you will be on the road. To get more tips on how to choose the best campervan, go to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campervan_hire_agency.


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12 Disney Mugs to Make a Statement at Work
A mug is not just for holding your favourite drink, it's also the perfect way to showcase your unique personality and style.
Ditch the boring plain office mug and add that touch of magic to your day. There's a Disney mug for all fans and right now Disney Store have selected mugs from £5 so get sipping!
No matter who your superhero is, there's a Marvel mug for you. Strike fast with the Black Panther mug, rule the office with the Infinity Gauntlet mug or make a big smash at tea time with the Hulk.
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Raise a toast to the First Order, pledge your allegiance to the Dark Side or just show how much you love Porgs with these Star Wars inspired mugs...and to be fair, who doesn't love Porgs?
From cute character shaped mugs, to fun and funky designs featuring your favourite Disney stars, there's a kitchen full of Disney mugs to explore and something for everyone.


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Years ago, I asked my mom to make a few pair of lounge pants. I wanted them big and baggy and really really comfortable. This was part of my transition from corporate world to writer – and because I was "working at home" I wanted/needed a new type of wardrobe.
So, mom makes them, and seems to be pretty disappointed because they hung really low and the crotch was even lower. I think she hated them – I loved them! Over the years, they've worn out and gotten unwearable.
I have begun looking at making harem pants – because the crotch is low and they will be comfortable for sitting around reading and writing. I found a great tutorial with easy steps on how to make harem pants.
I will probably attempt to make a few pairs – but I also think that since my mom gave me the pattern for the original set of lounge pants, maybe I could use that as a template and then modify.
Anyway, I'm pretty excited and can't wait to use some of the new fabrics I was given. I think maybe Japanese Cotton would be a wonderful fabric for lounge pants/harem pants.


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In the august surroundings of the Royal Society of Arts and Sciences, in a lecture theatre decorated with 18th Century paintings, a crowd gathered on Tuesday morning to celebrate the birth of a new science.
It's called Web Science, and is an attempt to start understanding and exploring the ever growing phenomenon of the world wide web. Who better, then, to be the main speaker at today's event than Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the web?
Sir Tim began with a vivid picture of the way his baby has grown: "There are more pages out there on the web than there are neurons in your brain." He went on to explain that he hadn't been sure about using the word "science" in this new discipline because web science needed to reach out and include sociologists, philosophers and artists as well as the technical community.
"When we build the web," he explained, "we choose a lot of the answers to philosophical questions. We are constructing a whole new world and we are writing down the rules. And a huge amount of the design involves the psychology of the user." As an example he described how e-mail had taken off because users trusted each other to send only valuable material – but was now under threat because of spam: "The social assumptions have changed – people no longer assume that messages they are getting are messages they need."
Sir Tim is working with the Southampton University computing science department, which along with Boston's MIT, is leading the Web Science Research Initiative.
Professor Wendy Hall from Southampton (you can see an interview with her above) explained. "The web is the elephant in the room – it has transformed our lives, but we never see it. We feel the time has come to study it – to see its benefits and understand its possible dis-benefits."
Her colleague Professor Nigel Shadbolt sketched out some early projects to illustrate the areas the new science might investigate. He showed a map of the blogosphere – "it's a butterfly shape" – which illustrated the way communities coalesce around certain blogs. He showed why research into Wikipedia needed a sociological angle – what drives the users to write entries? – As well as technical analysis of the patterns of its growth.
Professor Shadbolt also gave some insights into the semantic web – a project which Tim Berners-Lee and the Southampton University academics have been pursuing for some time, to a degree of scepticism from other parts of the web community. He described plans to give every fact on the internet its own web address, with the aim of building a "data web" where every connection was more clear and more searchable. "So you could ask questions like show me all the tennis players in Moscow," he explained.
Of course, scientists have been examining the web for some time. Now, though, they are trying to work out how they can guide its future growth. Tim Berners-Lee puts it like this: "The web is basically a web of people. Because it's something we created, we have a duty to make it better."
But the web has grown and prospered without any real guiding hand, despite the attempts of governments and businesses to bend it to their will. So can the web scientists really do anything to shape its future?


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Epic Dragons can be said as a new mechanic of the tower defense genre which is avaialble both on the ios and android devices
In this game, you will take a role as the master of dragons where you will need to help your fellow dragons out.
Here, you will build the environment and you must place your dragons in strategic locations to block your enemies and collect 3 stars in each stage.
When you are about to place your dragons, never put all your dragons at the beginning of the path as this will not be effective in the long run if you want to get all three stars.
It is caused by if the enemies die before reaching the stars, you will not get them
For such reasons, you can take the Path Blocker ability and set rocks down near the beginning to funnel the enemies into a path with the stars
There, you can place your dragons.
When trying to protect your territory, be sure to always bring the Ice Dragon as this species will have longer range than most other dragons
However, this kind of dragon will not deliver too much damage toward enemies.
Moreover, using this dragon will be useful to slow down enemies since they will be really slowed when being hit by the Ice Dragon
In this game, some type of enemies will be more vulnerable to specific dragons.
According to this, the minotaurs will be equipped with a ton of health and they can extra damage from Fire Dragons.
On the other side, you must also learn every range of each dragon so that you can carefully place the dragons in strategic spots
Here, the fire dragon will have the shortest range of all the starting dragons.
And, the ice and lightning dragons will come with a pretty long range.
Meanwhile, you will be equipped with hearts and coins along the game
You will have 3 hearts in each stage, so be sure to use them wisely before running out of them when trying to complete each stage
Later on, after going through the battle with enemies, you will collect gold coins and star as your achievements
After having tough battle and get gold coins, you must upgrade your existing dragons
You can also purchase new ones with your gold coins.
Doing some upgrades to the dragons will increase their damage and range, since these circumstances will be handy to take out enemies in the level


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Handbook of Alternative Theories of Economic Growth
Edited by Mark Setterfield
Chapter 4: The Post-Keynesian Theories of Growth and Distribution: A Survey
Heinz D. Kurz and Neri Salvadori
* Heinz D. Kurz and Neri Salvadori 1 Introduction The main idea underlying the post- or neo-Keynesian theories of growth and distribution is that of aggregate savings adjusting to an independently given volume of aggregate investment. The adjustment of savings to investment, rather than the other way round, is seen to be a central, if not the central, message of Keynes's General Theory (see Keynes, CW, VII). As Keynes emphasized in the year following the publication of his book, "the initial novelty" of The General Theory "lies in my maintaining that it is not the rate of interest, but the level of income which ensures equality between saving and investment" (Keynes, 1937, p. 250). The idea that investment, governed by "animal spirits", is independent of savings, was dubbed the "Keynesian hypothesis" by Nicholas Kaldor (1955–56, p. 95). The following argument will be largely based on this hypothesis. Since many of the ideas that play an important role in the field of research surveyed in this chapter can be traced back to contributions by Michal Kalecki, one could also speak of a post-Kaleckian theory. The post-Keynesian theories of growth and distribution are essentially an offspring of the principle of the multiplier, developed by Richard Kahn (1931) and then adopted by Keynes (CW, VII, Chapter 10). There are essentially two channels by means of which the adjustment of savings to investment can take place. As Kaldor pointed out, the principle of the multiplier can be "alternatively applied to a determination of the...
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Welcome to the world of the future! But it is not as beautiful as the optimists and dreamers imagine. Natural resources are almost exhausted, the population needs basic, not even enough normal food. Globalization has reached the level of the world's corporations, which have enormous influence on governments, and are guided solely by their interests. One of these corporations - "SPIGA" she specializiruetsya on the developments in the field of genetic engineering. The company is a real state in the state, it has its own real army, its own territory, and its clear government. Under the guise of good causes, the company and its CEO, Elizabeth Kraus, have one goal — unlimited power, and cold calculation.Ben Larson, the protagonist, one of the best employees of the all-powerful Corporation, he is disciplined and talented, behind him there is no complaint, like all employees, Ben lives in excellent conditions. But in fact, his goal is to expose the Corporation.
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Welcome to this blog series about Self-Service and Automation where we will discuss different aspects; end user, business, process, technology etc. Our intention is to keep the information valid for a broad audience disregarding what solution you will choose. We will split the big picture into smaller posts for you to digest "on the go". As we are most interested in your opinion, comments are more than welcome as we see that the topic has no "right answers".
For our Swedish readers, we would like to promote a previous blog which will give you an overview on the subject.
"Maybe you should promote selected and efficient laziness"
If you tell a manager that his/her coworkers should be lazy, perhaps it will lift his/her eyebrows. Who wants lazy employees? But if you dig into the details, maybe you should promote selected and efficient laziness.
From time to time we visit customers where we see a lot of endless manual job performed in consoles. Other customers have active plans on how to automate repetitive tasks in different levels and ways. In some cases, we also see that there are tasks which are delegated all the way to the end user thru Self-Service. Take a guess on which are the laziest and most efficient.
Manual work will give you a number of drawbacks:
- You will have dependencies on certain coworkers who are specialized in a task. This will create friction during holidays, when someone is sick, if a coworker is retired or if he/she leaves the company for any reason.
- The work will notscale when your business is expanding.
- You will experience lack of data quality due to manually entering data and manually executing the process.
- This reactive work will block you to work proactively and focusing on business needs.
- There will probably be lack of documentation on the work performed.
The time to perform the tasks will be to long both when it comes to execution but also regarding lead time. The business will be frustrated, waiting for their tasks to be performed, instead of being productive.
"The big question is where to implement laziness, how to start the lazy journey"
Within all organizations it´s common that we inherit work tasks and approaches without questioning the tasks. Why not start challenge these processes and find synergies through automation?
One place where customers normally don't question how sub-tasks are performed is the "Hire and Fire" process for new employees. Included steps are often manual with many sub-processes that require a lot from the person who is executing the task in both time and knowledge.
Another approach is to challenge the organization in finding "low hanging fruits". Start with identifying candidates within the business support groups such as IT (Service Desk, server admins etc.), HR, Facility etc. After that you can engage these groups to list their top five workflows performed based on volume (per group). When you look into each and every workflow, identify manual time consuming tasks for the particular service. Note that you should address all parties included in the workflow; the support organization (IT, HR, Facility etc.), the end user, the manager and any other persons involved.
You could also look for quality issues within the data and the service. Any data quality problems could end up in new time consuming, "cleanup" tasks, to correct the data afterwards. It is advised to look into all data handled during the workflow. When you dig into the details, identify if there are any repetitive time-wasting tasks to correct and if tasks (or whole workflow) can be distributed all the way out to the organization (e.g. end users and managers). Note that all tasks do not need to be fully automated as semi automation could give a great value.
"A structured approach, will help you find bottlenecks easier"
It is common that data within helpdesk systems is not stored in a good, structured way. Some customer unfortunately mixes incidents and requests together which makes it hard to measure them accurately. A structured approach is to to divide the tasks and define them as requests and sort them into categories.
To enable laziness and save time and money over time, you need to make an initial investment. But choose wisely where to be lazy = where to invest. This blog series will include additional methods on how to choose where to start and how to evaluate these investments in financial and other values.
In the upcoming blogs we will also look more deeply into what positive effects self-service and automation could have on your business, how to get a great plan and how to avoid common pitfalls.
Until next time – keep up the lazy work!
About the authors:Anette Larsson is an advisor at Enfo Zipper focusing on business value for Self-Service and automation Anette can be reached at email@example.com
Mikael Svennungsson is an advisor at Enfo Zipper focusing on Infrastructure, Self-Service and automation. Mikael can be reached at email@example.com or follow him on Twitter at @zupermik
ZervicePoint is a Self-Service portal with automation from Enfo Zipper. More detailed information can be found at http://zervicepoint.com


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A Guide to Pressure Cookers and Choosing the Best One for You
A pressure cooker is a very important and helpful kitchen appliance that you should not be without. Pressure cookers give us excellent cooking results with foods that are thoroughly cooked with no loss of flavor or goodness, and they are also very easy to use. When we cook food in a pressure cooker, the air or liquid does not easily escape out of the pot while cooking.
Pressure cooker cooks foods faster since there is pressure inside and the liquid is able to reach a higher temperature before it boils. Because cooking time is greatly reduced, they are very energy efficient. Bacteria and viruses are killed inside the pressure cooker and so you come up with really healthy foods. Baby bottles can be sterilized in a pressure cooker.
Pressure cookers are also very safe to use. The pressure cookers of today has many locks and safety features unlike the old models of pressure cookers. In old models, you are able to open the cover even while there is high pressure inside and this has led to may exploding incidents in kitchens in the past.
Since cooking with a pressure cooker is fast, it is ideal for this fast-paced world. Since it is very useful in the kitchen, most home cooks, chefs, and restaurant owners recommended the use of pressure cookers.
If you are able to know what you want to use a pressure cooker for, then you will easy find the best one for your needs. You can find pressure cookers of different sizes, designs, and materials so choose the best for your intentions. The ideal pressure cooker for a small household is the 3 to 4 quart cooker while for the medium sizes household, a 6 quart cooker will do. Large families will do well with 8 to 10 quarts which can easily feed everyone.
Pressure cookers also come in different materials. Two of the most common materials are stainless steel and aluminum. A stainless steel pressure cooker is durable and elegant looking. They are resistant to scratch and warp and the material does not react with foods. If you want a cheaper cooker that conducts heat well, then you need an aluminum pressure cooker. But, they react with acidic foods and they can easily scratch and dent.
Today there is a one button digital pressure cooker which is the latest in pressure cooker and this is the power pressure cooker. It is easy to use since you only put all the ingredients in, turn the settings, and it will do all the cooking. Check out power pressure cooker xl reviews it know if this latest model will fit your lifestyle.


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Winter break in review
Behold the Corona snowman! Found only in the sweetest of pubs in Taiwan, I suppose. This was at Saints & Sinners, during a Christmas dinner Mark and I had courtesy of my aunt. Thanks 大姨!!
One of many animals pasted on the walls of the Taipei Zoo MRT. He just makes you want to say, "Hyuk!" for him.
The only real hiking we got to do over break was to 象山 again. It was another grey, cloudy day, which made for good hiking. Unfortunately, there was a dearth of wildlife that day. Gone were the giant snails and even stray cats I remember from over the summer.
My second uncle enjoying his dinner with a glass of whiskey. He's a great guy, really hilarious when he starts to drink. He says some pretty ridiculous stuff. Here's to your health and long life, uncle! Cheers.
Happy 2008.


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1. There is nothing casual about being a Tool fan.
2. Tool will demand a lot of your time.
3. Sometimes it can seem like these are the only CDs you will ever need.
4. You need to focus when you're listening to Tool.
5. You can't listen to Tool on Pandora because you need to hear the songs as they are sequenced on the albums.
6. It is actually painful to hear the songs any other way.
7. You just don't mess around with perfection, ok?
8. You have to be very, very, very patient to be a Tool fan.
9. But your patience is often tested.
10. Your feelings for Maynard James Keenan can be a sorta complex emotional thing.
11. But you know that Maynard is actually a really, really cool name.
12. And you've spent maybe a lot more time than you'd care to admit thinking about his penis.
13. And you truly appreciate his humility.
14. Basically, MJK can do whatever he wants and it's cool.
15. After all, you've learned a lot about romance from the guy.
16. And he's taught you a lot about science and philosophy.
17. And comedy, too.
18. You have some pretty complicated feelings about Los Angeles.
19. This might be the best tattoo in the entire world.
20. Though these come pretty close.
21. This is a work of art suitable for framing.
22. This is the best sports joke ever.
23. This is A+++ graffiti.
24. Tool inspires some Siri requests that you might end up regretting.
25. Pandora telling you that you can buy Tool albums on iTunes is hilarious.
26. This is how you hope to meet your future spouse.
27. And this is what you hope your children will be like.
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FBI agents have recorded raids by operatives in China and in Russia and Iran, all apparently looking for security weaknesses that could be employed to disrupt the delivery of water and electricity and impede other functions critical to the economy, according to former intelligence officials with knowledge of the investigation. The incursions spurred a debate in the Obama administration over whether and how to respond, and raised alarms among lawmakers briefed on the incidents.
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A Conversation Between RACHEL ROY and BETH MELILLO
Rachel Roy by Beth Melillo
February 2011
I'll never forget the very first TV shoot I was producing for Patrick McMullan's Full Frontal Fashion show back in 2008. We were at the Bowery Hotel for a Vogue event, and when we saw Rachel Roy, Patrick took her photo. There was a moment of appreciation friends share, and we all smiled and laughed. Rachel Roy is such a talented designer and a very exceptional woman. I truly respect how hard she has worked. It makes me smile when I see her photo in the department store for her Rachel Rachel Roy line and think: "that's my friend."
Patrick has hosted TV segments at the Rachel Roy Collection presentations in the past for some of his fashion segments, and so Patrick's newest venture, PMc Magazine, decided to ask me to take a moment to feature Rachel Roy, our friend, in order to let you meet the woman that we respect so much.
Beth Melillo: I'm so proud of your evolution. When you think back to your very first pieces that you designed for RR in department stores and boutique stores, did you dream it would become this large? Did you imagine you would have such a massive designer collection and junior line in department stores around the world?
Rachel Roy: I always dreamed of reaching all types of women and as many as possible, but to be able to touch such a wide range of women through my designs is something I say "thank you" for daily. I just hope women find encouragement, confidence and good energy in wearing my clothes, and are able to be more prepared for whatever tasks they are trying to overcome.
BM: I know you enjoy picking seashells with your daughters. What's the joy of finding new inspirations and bringing them to the runway? What's an insight to your latest inspiration and how do you stay true to yourself and your vision?
RR: I do love collecting seashells with my girls. It is the idea that there is no two alike that keeps me motivated in my search–similar to my fascination and curiosity with always looking for new silhouettes. Sometimes the simplest things can encourage me to create one of my most intricate designs.
BM: I know that you appreciate powerful women and their accomplishments, what is the message that you want to send to young entrepreneurs today?
RR: Be strong and be confident in your point of view. The only thing that makes you truly irreplaceable is being unique, kind and hard-working. As a designer it is very important to stay true to what inspires me and keeps me moving. Always know what you want to accomplish and have a plan of how to do that.
BM: Today you have 2 lines, Designer line: Rachel Roy New York and Rachel Rachel Roy, this is the first time your Designer Collection is about to be sold online? Please tell me about it and what your expectations are?
RR: I am very, very excited to be launching the Rachel Roy collection on my website RachelRoy.com. For our customers to be able to have instant gratification in seeing something they like from the line and going online to purchase it, to then having it days later in their hands, is both convenient and a way that I love to shop as well. It also allows customers in all regions of the nation to have access to the entire line and that is very important to me. And who doesn't like a little online shopping late night?
BM: You are so creative and have such a clear vision to represent your ideas, Please tell me about the Diffusion line, secondary collection for Macy's and how you came up with the idea to use real dancers (not models) to represent your vision for your spring look book and it's presentation? What's the film clip about and where will we see it?
RR: RACHEL Rachel Roy is sold at Macy's and it is a great way to get a taste of the Rachel Roy line but with a nod to the trendier more daring styles, she is the younger sister to my designer collection.
The Dance video will be going live on RachelRoy.com on February 16th and will also be appearing on Taxi TV's around the city. We had an open casting call and were able to select such a great wide range of dancers to showcase the RACHEL Rachel Roy Spring 2011 lookbook. It is important to me to showcase hard-working talented young people that, although they are at the top of their game, don't necessarily have a voice. As much as possible I want to be their voice. I am so proud of them!!
BM: How have you prepared for your Presentation at Lincoln Center this February Fashion Week?
RR: Preparation begins months ahead building the collection, working on the collection, fine-tuning the collection into a story that I believe is relevant and inspirational for the upcoming season.
BM: You always bring such a fresh and entertainment-style of art and dynamic to your marketing. What are some of the other projects you're working on to represent your lines? Please explain your Valentine's Day Dress for yourself not a man promotion?
RR: Leandra Medine, the Man-repeller and I worked together for a Valentine's Day pop-a-shop on our website. I have been following Leandra's blog for a while now–so witty, clever and empowering. She helped style 4 girls from the RACHEL Rachel Roy team in these great videos.
Dressing for yourself and not a man is definitely something I advocate. You should always feel confident in everything you wear, no matter what trend you fit / don't fit into. It was fun to be able to work with Leandra and fashionably attack their problems in such a funny way–laughter in life is key for me in the company I keep and the quality of life I am looking for.
BM: You have such a strength and determined vision, what's the one thing you have learned about the fashion business that you use everyday?
RR: Have a strong point of view that you truly believe in, stick to it–and don't doubt yourself at what you know to be true…fashion is the one area that I never doubt.
BM: Last, what's the one thing you want your fans to know about you that they may not?
RR: That I adore and appreciate their support and the work that I do is truly for them.
Rachel Roy is a fashion designer. She approaches the design of her eponymous collection with a feminine and modern point of view. Her goal is to create clothing for women who embrace fashion and dress with an effortless elegance and confidence. The results encapsulate a fresh version of glamour that evades the standard protocol for dressing today.
Beth Melillo is a freelance TV producer that produces content for various TV Networks & website platforms on Music, Fashion, History, Documentaries, Children, etc.
Rachel Roy interviewed by Beth Melillo
Written by Beth Melillo
Photography by Clint Spaulding for PatrickMcMullan.com
Design by Marie Havens
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Rachel Roy, 2010 CFDA Awards, Red Carpet, Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center, NYC, June 7, 2010, Photography by Clint Spaulding for PatrickMcMullan.com


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This is a straightforward presentation of what the authors believe that people with a master's in business degree (MBA) know. The listener feels as if he is in the classroom as each point is enumerated, then expanded upon. Mario Machado delivers the curriculum like a practiced professor. Each chapter is written by a different expert, but Machado offers a consistency of voice that makes the viewpoints sound compatible. Topics range from managing people and methods of analysis to micro and macro economics and efficient inventory control. Complex subjects are clearly defined. This is a good overview, or review, of basic business principles narrated in a clear and concise production. D.L.M. (c) AudioFile 2002, Portland, Maine [Published: AUG/SEP 02]
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Baby groups, they aren't as daunting as you may think.
Now if you've never been to a baby group let me set the scene they are usually held In a village hall, church or sure start center. You walk into the room and there are lots of parents/grandparents sitting round with their baby's and toddlers playing with a random selection of toys that have been donated. Sometimes they have a coffee, at our baby group you get lovely warm croissant's!
Once you've settled in found somewhere to put your bag and your baby is playing happily it's time to start taking to people. I like the fact that there are unspoken rules, you know where you are, and what's expected!
This is a typical conversation you can expect at a baby group:
You: Hi 'How olds your little one' – [never say little girl/boy!!! You don't want to get it wrong! Even if they are wearing blue/pink just don't risk it !! ]
New Mummy: She/He is 17 weeks
You: awww he/she is lovely/beautiful/handsome
This is Elijah he is 14 weeks.
I'm Jess by the way.
New Mummy: Hi I'm (Emma)
Aww he's lovely
How's Elijah sleeping ? . . . .
There's so many things you can talk about, feeding, sleeping, wether your little one is rolling over, how your dealing with sleep deprivation, nap times, bedtime routines, co-sleeping, weaning, baby products, Going back to work, being a stay at home mummy.
It's so important to have some Mummy friends, because they will know better than anyone what your going through at the moment, the highs and lows!
So if you've been putting off going to any groups go! You might find some new Mummy friends!


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Hafler PH60 Phonostage|As every audiophile knows, David Hafler is a hi-fi legend. Among other advances, he's known for his work, along with Herbert Keroes, on Blumlein's ultra-linear circuit. In 1954 he founded Dynaco and soon became a ...read more
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Honey Bee Lyrics
Artist: Jane Siberry
Album: Maria
everyone has their own story
you have yours I have mine
today mine happens to be about a...
a yellow dress
and behind the yellow dress
lies a warm and beating heart
that longs to tell a story
of which we are all a part
oh oh oh I love these things
so these things shall I bee
the honey bee
it has taken me so long to get up to speed
a looooonnnggggg winter
but the sun is slowly warming me
and ssssooo here I go towards the garden of love
oh oh oh I love these things
so these things shall I bee
the garden of love I can see it now
I am meandering as fast as I can
want to sip the nectar
I am making my way back to where I belong
oh oh oh I love these things
so these things shall I bee
and when I lay me down to sleep
in my flowery keep
the moon upon my face
I dream of bowls of milk
sailin' towards a sea of
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A new changing bag brand has recently appeared on my style radar. Hey there Pacapod, most specifically the Pacapod Moab. I received one a couple of weeks ago to sample and am very impressed.
Not only is the Moab chic and stylish, I am loving the satchel design with a nod to the highlands in grey tweed and leather, but it also features a clever mini-rucksack organisational element that is something a little different. This is the Pacapod USP and kinda explains the name pack – a – pod? Two little pods for separate bits and bobs that can be added or removed to the main bag, depending on your requirements. Say you are just nipping out and only need to take the essentials. One could be a snack pod the other a toiletry pod for nappies and wipes. One to be carried by you and the other your toddler? Cute. However you want to organise it, it's a great idea and does seem to make life that little bit easier. Having a baby is all about organisation.
Something to add, my husband actually took notice of this bag when I showed it to him. 'That's pretty cool. It's different, I like it'. Now he will have no excuse not to take the little ones out solo thanks to a cool new arm-candy.
Pacapod have a great range of luxury and everyday styles suitable for all budgets. So take a look and let me know what you think?
Jess x
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A special thank-you to Jason Hobbs (ZeeWulf) for sending me a copy of his notes he took during this seminar. With his and my notes, I reconstructed the seminar.
Our mercenary company has been captured by the Khadorans, implicated in a plot to kill a Khadoran commander. They are being transported through Khador along the rail system
Khador is a massive nation. They have built the Iron Highway, a set of train tracks that go all the way across the country. This has been hugely beneficial for them during wartimes, as it has allowed for quick movement of troops throughout their (very large) country.
Most of the country's arable land is in the south. The northern region is some of the most inhospitable in the Iron Kingdoms. Because of this, the vast majority of the population live in the southern part of the kingdom.
As they are carried along the railway, they pass through Korsk.
About Korsk:
- Capitol of Khador
- Has the central palace
- Huge morrowan temple
- The Strakoya (Greylord training center)
- Lots of industry
- Very modern – likely the most modern of Khador cities
Continuing on their journey, the Mercenaries continue on to Khardov
About Khardov:
- Major industrial city
- Nearby is a prison work camp, where much of the labor for the industry comes from
- Lots of pollution
- To the point people wear soaked rags on their faces on really bad days
- Think early industrial London
- There is a cache of Orgoth artifacts beneath Khardov, so there is a large Greylord presence
- Center of the criminal underground
- The bosses are all in the nearby prison
The mercenaries are not put to hard labor – instead they meet with some Greylords, who put runes on their skin, and all of a sudden they feel like doing anything for the Motherland. They head south to Ord.


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Bacon and Egg Burger on Mixed Greens is always a hit. I love it when you take your fork and cut through the egg and then the burger and the yolk runs all over the burger.
Amazing Bacon Wrapped Burgers with some interesting ingredients. Trust me. You'll love it. Makes me smile. Got a video on how we constructed the burgers.
Prep Time: 22-25 min
Serves: 5
- 2 lbs. ground beef
- 1 red onion, roughly chopped
- 2 cloves garlic
- 1/2 c. green olives with pimentos
- 1 jalapeno, seeded and roughly chopped (optional)
- 1/2 tsp. red pepper flakes
- 1 egg, slightly beaten, plus 6 more for topping
- 6 slices of bacon
- Guacamole
- Salsa
- Mixed salad greens
- Preheat grill to medium high.
- Place onion, garlic, olives, & jalapeno, in food processor and pulse until finely chopped but not pureed.
- In a large bowl, add beef, onion mixture, red pepper flakes, and egg. Use your hands to thoroughly combine.
- Form mixture into 6 patties.
- Wrap one slice of bacon around a burger, overlapping ends about 1 inch. Trim excess bacon and reserve for another use. Repeat with remaining burgers.
- Grill for 4-5 minutes on each side, or until bacon is cooked through.
- While burgers are cooking, fry or poach eggs.
- To serve, place mixed greens on each plate. Top with burger, egg, guacamole, and salsa.
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Prior to falling pregnant, I never really imagined myself as a mother. As my friends and I grew up and they started having children, I found it difficult to picture a child in my life. I just felt like I had no motherly instincts. Fast forward to early 2017, when Anthony and I decided to add to our household by means of a puppy. Ziggy was half impulse buy half planned purchase. Basically we knew we wanted a puppy but never really took the steps to go out and get one. Then one day we decided to check out the local pet store and fell in love with little Zigs immediately.
It was like having our very own baby! Well, fur baby. He needed lots of love and attention, our lives (and even work schedules) revolved around taking care of him, feeding him, playing with him and taking him for walks, vet appointments, vaccinations etc. Adding Zigs to our family really brought out my motherly instincts. My family always had dogs while we were growing up but now having our own is very different as we are jointly responsible for this dog's well being.
I fell pregnant about two weeks after Zigs joined our family. We were overjoyed at the news and the prospect of being a real mother actually became exciting to me. And that is when my protective motherly side really started to show. Normally I am not a big softy, I thought Anthony would be the soft one and I would have to be the disciplinarian. But our roles were reversed. I would fuss over Ziggy and spoil him like he was my baby. I was quite shocked at my instincts and constantly wondered, "Who is this person that I've turned into?"
When it was time to get him desexed I actually cried and was worried that he might not survive the surgery! And as we prepared to leave for our overseas holiday recently I dreaded the thought of him spending two weeks away from us in a dog kennel where it would be cold and dark. Everyday while we were away I checked the kennel's Facebook page for pet updates and eagerly waited for an update email to say that Zigs was just fine. And I don't think a day went by on our holiday that we didn't spend at least a few minutes doting on old photos of Ziggy on our phones. Now that's what I call motherly behaviour. Or perhaps it's just me being a deranged dog lover. Either way it gives me a bit of comfort to know that I do have some capacity to care for and love my real baby when he is born 🙂


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Founded in 2004, De-ID Data Corp is a leading provider of automated software for HIPAA compliant de-identification of unstructured textual and narrative medical record data.
Daniel Wasserstrom, Founder and Chairman
Dan Wasserstrom is an executive with over twenty years of proven success in sales management, business development, operations, M&A and strategic alliances. Dan is an astute business strategist with a track record in startups, turnarounds and rapid growth; an innovative, hands-on manager who delivers growth through relationship management and contract negotiations; and a results-driven leader at award-winning sales performance and relationship building. Dan has a unique ability to provide organizational results through understanding customer needs while commanding respect and commitment from business associates.
Dan's entrepreneurial acumen and spirit has been the fuel for many accomplishments which include starting up NA operations for Language and Computing, a Belgium software company; building a new home health care division for Integrated Health Services; creating an online health community concept which he sold to VerticalNet; and founding De-ID Data Corp LLC.
Dan has devoted his career commercializing new technologies, delivery channels, and analytical techniques to EMR, Healthcare, Pharmaceutical, and Transcription companies to help measure outcomes, determine best practices and facilitate clinical research. Dan founded De-ID Data Corp, LLC in 2004 which has become the foremost technology used for the de-identification of clinical text. Currently he serves as the Chairman of the Board.
Dan has become an industry thought leader by successfully bringing scientific, technology-based approaches to solving the toughest data processing challenges facing healthcare today.
Steven Merahn, MD, Chief Medical Officer
Steven Merahn, MD, is the Chief Medical Officer responsible for use case strategies, clinical strategies, professional relations, business development, clinical affairs and health policy programs for De-ID Data Corp. LLC.
Dr. Merahn has started several technology companies in the healthcare space including Clinical Decision Sciences (CDS), a Philadelphia-based healthcare product design and market development consultancy, where he worked with IBM Business Consulting Services on their healthcare IT services practice, as well as with other companies working on the development and adoption of IT products in hospitals and other healthcare organizations.
Dr Merahn's background in healthcare includes, Vice President of Clinical Technology Products for Elsevier, CEO of UK-based Physicians Decisions Ltd, and over 10 years of experience in healthcare marketing communications. He served as a senior executive for some of the world's largest marketing communications companies, including the Young & Rubicam, Omnicom and Interpublic families of companies.
A Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics, Dr. Merahn is a graduate of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. After completing his residency at Einstein/Montefiore Medical Center in New York, Dr. Merahn spent seven years as a senior policy and program development specialist with the New York City Department of Health.


text: Saira Stencil has slits in their strokes that make them appear as though they've been cut. Saira Stencil has the same structure as Saira. That's why it's sharp and powerful. Their cuts are interesting because they do not seem mechanical: they are located where necessary. Some are logical, such as "B" or "N". Others do not align in an obvious way, as in "6" and "S", which seem inconsistent with their direction. There are also signs that play with alternative forms: "A", "R" and "G". When you need it, Saira Stencil offers attractive options for composing brands or titles. Saira Stencil offers 904 glyphs and diacritics with support for more of 30 languages including Afrikaans, Albanian, Azerbaijani, Basque, Bosnian, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Faroese, Filipino, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malay, Norwegian Bokmål, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Turkish, Vietnamese, Welsh, Zulu.


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Topic: Spring Thaw 100
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posted February 17, 2000 07:40 AM
We'll be racing the banks of Volunteer Speedway in Bulls Gap, TN on Mar 3 and 4. Pit gates open at 1:00pm. Its the 2nd Annual Event at the Gap paying $10,000 to win for Latemodel divsion. HAT rules for this race but not HAT sanctioned. No Big races are scheduled for this weekend so let's pack the house in TN.......wooo hooo. I'm ready for some racing.
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posted February 18, 2000 01:25 PM
I'll be there bright and early. Can't wait to see the dirt flyin' and smell the fuel burnin'!!!
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What's on the Dukan Diet Menu tonight?
If you are in the first phase of your Dukan Diet or the attack phase, you may be wondering what to make for dinner tonight. With the new French diet – the options appear to be fairly limited. How many recipes do you have for lean proteins? All you can eat is protein on the diet so you definitely have to get creative.
Do you have the Dukan Diet book? Dr. Dukan has recipes in the book but get ready because he is also releasing a Dukan Diet Recipe Book. The book releases September 16th in the U.K but currently doesn't appear to have a U.S. release date.
I'd suggest watching ebay for people selling their copies once they arrive. The Dukan Diet recipe book is currently available for pre-order to the U.K. customers. Ebay is where I got my third in the "Millennium Trilogy" – "The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest" before it was available in the U.S.
Anyway – if you are looking for creative ways to eat lean protein, there are plenty of good recipes on the Internet. You are able to eat lobster and shrimp and other delicious items and Dr. Dukan is adamant that you continue to enjoy food and enjoy life while on the Dukan Method.
Although you can't have butter while on the Dukan Diet, you can use dairy that is non-fat or very low fat so you can make non-fat creamy sauces to go with your proteins. Try rich non-fat yogurt dips using herbs and spices. Try adding fresh dill or tarragon to your yogurt or quark as a dip for grilled shrimp or beef. Add a squeeze of lemon juice to the yogurt for extra flavor. Salt must be used sparingly so don't overdo it on the salt.
Obviously scrambled egg whites with any choice of fine herbs are a great option any time. You could add lobster or shrimp to you omelet for loads of flavor, texture and protein.
Don't overlook sashimi, and approved ingredient ceviches for high protein, low-fat recipes. Light and refreshing – fish is surprisingly satisfying!
If you need a Dukan Diet dessert – look no further than your egg whites. These desserts are best made with liquid egg white products that are pasteurized and safe without the worry of salmonella or other problems. Dr. Dukan offers a few egg dessert recipes like "Floating Island" but you can basically make the egg whites into a milkshake with any sugar free syrup or flavoring you want. Make sure the flavoring does not have fructose.
I recommend mixing pasteurized liquid egg whites in the blender with stevia vanilla packets or extract and ice for a frothy, sweet Dukan Vanilla shake. You can see the recipe for the stevia egg white shake Dukan Recipes. This is excellent to add to your Dukan Diet menu to have right before bed. It's great to add that extra kick of lean protein to your body right before you go to sleep.
Just remember when planning your Dukan Diet menu that the attack phase doesn't last forever. It is difficult to retrain your body at first as you are likely used to and possibly addicted to sugar and salt and chocolate and processed foods. The fewer of these that you have, the less attached to them you will be.
Try to mix your Dukan Diet menu up so that you don't get bored with the offerings. Start with the Dukan Diet Book to get recipe ideas, check some of the super easy recipes on my website, create your own and share recipes you make with others. There are some great duken diet websites that have user recipe contributions that are great resources for your meals.
Is the Dukan diet better than the South Beach Diet? That is for you to decide. Different diets work better for different people. Both diets have proven to offer great results for those who stick with them. Which diet will you stick with? For more info about Dukan Diet - Fast Weight Loss, read my article about the benefits click here. Make your Dukan Diet Menu exciting and tasty so that you will continue and be in it for the long haul!


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Kale and Mint Salad
I had some kale in the fridge that needed using up, and I was searching the internet for inspiration when I came across a recipe that I managed to doctor enough to fit in the Slimming World Plan. Normally I would just fry the kale in some Fry Light until crispy, so this was the first time we've had it raw.
Serves 2
Less than ½ syn per person*
* providing you use the cheese as your Healthy Extra A
* providing you use the cheese as your Healthy Extra A
1 packet kale, picked over to remove the thick hard stems
1 packet of mint, leaves roughly chopped
zest and juice of 1 lemon
1 small garlic clove, very finely chopped
1 tsp Dijon mustard
¼ tsp red chilli flakes
30g finely grated Parmesan cheese
2 tbsp plain fat free yogurt
1 tbsp red wine vinegar
Mix all the ingredients for the dressing together and add water until you get a dressing-like consistency. Add salt and pepper to taste. Stir in to the kale and mint leaves until thoroughly mixed.
I served mine with some chilli and garlic grillsticks from Joe'sSausages for an almost syn free lunch with lots of superfree.
We both found the texture of the raw kale a little unusual, but agreed that its chewy consistency was not unpleasant. I would definitely have it again.


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In January sisters Charlotte Woodcock and Rachel McBryde, along with their mum Pam, began an epic challenge to take on 15 gruelling events in 2015 in an attempt to raise £15,000 for Pancreatic Cancer UK in memory of their father, former Castle Morpeth Chief Planning Officer Tony Woodcock.
Their first challenge was the Morpeth Road Race on New Year's Day. Now they have completed the Woodcock Wander. Here RACHEL MCBRYDE describes the event.
"As the Sunday morning in late February dawned and I drew back the curtains my heart leapt a little. It wasn't snowing. At least not at my house. What lay before us at Simonside, high in the hills of Northumberland near Rothbury, was another question, but we'd soon have the answer.
It was the day of the Woodcock Wander, and the support we were getting for it — and 15 in 15 since we launched on New Year's Day — was way beyond all our expectations. As the day of the walk drew nearer more and more people began signing up and the fund-raising total stood at nearly £4,500.
The thing putting the fear of God into us, however, was that we knew the weather at Simonside, the beautiful but sometimes brutal fell which Dad loved so much, and where our band of merry men, women and children were to hike for six miles (or one in the case of wee ones), can be unpredictable. In fact, at this time of year Simonside is often inaccessible by car, cut off from the main road by high snowdrifts. If the snow came, the walk would be off.
So when the forecast predicted a 30 per cent chance two days before, the worry set in. Two sleepless nights followed, but as we travelled there by jeep that morning, it looked like all would be well.
As we pulled into the wooded car park, Team 15 in 15 was already out in force. Kevin and Linda Bray, along with Jimmy Tomlin and Mum, who would be leading the walks, were already there. Registration would take place out of Kevin and Linda's camper van, making sure everyone who was going up the fell was accounted for, and that everyone got back down in one piece.
Charlotte arrived with the t-shirts she'd designed for the event, kindly sponsored by Total Business Group and organised by Andrew Lees, part of our core team. Our jeep would act as the cafe, with tea and coffee supplied by our friend James Jobling at Ringtons. Meanwhile, The Great British Bake Off had nothing on us, with bakers across the county cooking up a storm – the results filling the boots of two more cars, and the tummies of our walkers at the end of their trek.
As 10.30am rolled round the car park filled with eager hikers, including two lovely ladies, Julie and Joanne who had heard us on BBC Radio Newcastle back in January and decided to get involved.
It was cold, but people were prepared, and everyone arrived with smiles on their faces, raring to go. Our walkers ranged from just a few weeks old (we had baby twins in backpacks), to toddlers, tots, well seasoned walkers and have-a-go-heroes.
We set off. The mini walk was fun — testing for two-year-olds, but not much more. Up on the high ground at the top of the fell it turned out to be another story.
By 11.30am, just as the Wee Wander was over, the weather suddenly turned. The wind picked up and icy drops of snow began to fall from the sky. Full of cake, the children and their families made an exit just in the nick of time, but on high the walkers were beginning to be battered by the biting wind and swirling snow.
At 12.20pm the first walkers came back into camp, looking a little on the cold side. In dribs and drabs more began to appear through the trees and Angus and I, along with Mum and Sally, got to work doling out hot drinks and plenty of sweet treats.
The walkers looked freezing, but no one complained. In fact, many commented on how challenging it had been, but left with a sense of achievement that they had completed Challenge 2.
What struck us most about the day was the sense of fun and adventure. No one winged, no one panicked. Everyone smiled and laughed. At heart, I think people felt good to be alive that day. That they could stand on the top of the fell, in the middle of nowhere, in the driving snow and whipping wind, and think 'I am doing this thing, it's good to be here'.
Dad would have loved every single minute of this challenge. I thought he might let the sun shine for us, but he was being a little bit cheeky (which was him all over!).
He was sending us a little reminder that life isn't always easy or comfortable, in fact sometimes it is challenging. But it is there for the taking if you're brave enough, adventurous enough, and if you can laugh with friends in the face of a storm. Sunshine would have been too simple."
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Since last April I have been very worried about my health after I had to see two different doctors in one week and gone to a CT scan after that.
The second doctor had said that I would be getting an invitation for further
examinations and to see yet another doctor about a few months after the CT
scan. About two weeks ago I got a letter from the central hospital and I was so
nervous to open it, for I knew it was an invitation because the letter was
thicker than a regular medical bill. After opening it and reading it, it
started yet another wait even I had been waiting for the letter so I can get
this thing "over with" already – I was so sick of waiting and being nervous
over this!
So, in the morning a few days ago, I went to the central hospital and had tests
done – obviously I was nervous... After the tests I had an appointment with yet
another doctor. I had a big question mark above my head at times when the
doctor was explaining the results to me. I could found out the main things I
needed and wanted to know and the rest was pure Hebrew to me. The main things
above all else were that my CT scans were normal and that there's nothing to
worry about.
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Futures vs. optionsby J Victor on July 29th, 2012
Having explained so far, we are hopeful that you'll be able to chart out the difference between a futures and options.
Both are traded in stock exchanges and both are derivative instruments. Option and futures are highly standardized and liquidity is always ensured by the exchange that stands as a guarantor of performance. Both instruments are used for protecting asset positions held and also for pure speculation. In India, both futures and options expire on the last Thursday of every month. That's the similarity. Now to the differences:
Futures contract does not require the payment of a premium by the buyer to the seller. Instead, for futures, an amount needs to be kept with the broker called margin money. Since futures are settled on daily basis, the margin money will have to be provided accordingly. Both the buyer and the seller of a futures contract have to keep margin money with the broker. Whereas in the case of options, an amount called premium will be paid by the buyer to the seller. In other words option writing is a way to make some money for option sellers. Only the seller of an option is required to give margin to the broker.
A future contract obligates the buyer to buy the underlying asset on expiry at a pre determined price. The obligation is definite. But in the case of option buyers, they are not obliged. They would buy the underlying asset only if the market movement is favorable to them. For enjoying this luxury, they have already paid a sum by way of premium to the sellers. In case they don't exercise the option, the premium is not paid back by the sellers, it's lost.
The seller of a futures contract is also obligated in the same manner. He is supposed to sell the asset at a predetermined price whatever may come. Similarly the writer of a call is also obliged to sell the asset at a predetermined price. The difference lies in the fact that the seller of futures contracts doesn't earn anything in the Deal. But the writer of a call collects the premium from the seller.
From the obligations part, futures are more destructive than options since the obligation in the case of former is already fixed.
If the price moves against a futures participant, his liability is literally unlimited unless he cuts his position in between. However, buyers of stock options lose only the premium paid in case the price of the underlying asset moves against them.
As far as the risk part is concerned, futures are more risky than options. The risk arises in futures due to the fixed obligation part. The futures trade must be closed by the trader at expiry and cannot be left just like that. As far as options are concerned, if you don't what to exercise the option, you can forget about it. there are no more formalities.
As far as understanding the intricacies are concerned, futures are far simpler to understand, but options, when compared to futures may seem to be complicated for a fresher.
These are the main difference between futures and options. That was just a quick reminder. There is a lot more to discuss in options.
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According to the South Georgia Conference of the United Methodist Church: The Ideal UMC was formed in the early past of this century. With the decline of two other churches in the area, the Lebanon Methodist Episcopal Church and the Turner's Chapel Church, there was a need for a church for the people of Ideal. Mr. George P. Brooks and Mrs. W. T. Harden directed the organization of the church on the second Sunday in May, 1908. The church began having services in the auditorium of the local school house, the Ideal High School…on November 5, 1913, the congregation hired a contractor from Oglethorpe, J. C. Stephens, to build the church…The new building was completed by May, 1914…
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2 Frieda's Quince
8 oz dried apricots, chopped
1/2 cup packed brown sugar
3/4 cup rolled oats
1/3 cup all-purpose flour
1/2 cup slivered almonds or chopped walnuts
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1 teaspoon vanilla
1/4 cup butter or margarine
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Halve and peel quince. Remove seeds and cores. Slice fruit thinly. Place fruit pieces in a non-metal pot with enough water to cover. Simmer, partially covered, about 15 minutes or until nearly tender. Add apricot pieces and cook 5 minutes more. Remove from heat and drain fruit. Add 1/2 cup of the brown sugar and toss with fruit. Place fruit mixture in the bottom of an 11×7-inch baking or casserole dish. In another bowl toss together the oatmeal, flour, remaining sugar, nuts, cinnamon, and vanilla. Cut in butter or margarine. Sprinkle topping over fruit. Bake for 25 to 30 minutes or until crisp and brown. Serve warm or cool with ice cream or whipped cream, if desired.


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Clean Them Up—The first state-by-state ranking of corruption in local and state governments rates Mississippi as the worst and Nebraska as the best.
The Corporate Crime Reporter, a vigorous investigative newsletter, dug into each state's number of public corruption convictions from 1993 to 2002. In addition to Mississippi, the nine other states on the "10 Worst List" are: North Dakota, Louisiana, Alaska, Illinois, Montana, South Dakota, Kentucky, Florida and New York.
Rated as the 10 least corrupt states are, besides Nebraska: Oregon, New Hampshire, Iowa, Colorado, Utah, Minnesota, Arizona, Arkansas and Wisconsin.
According to Russell Mokhiber, the newsletter's editor and the author of the corruption report, "We need not just strong economies, but strong political economies—reporters, citizen groups, prosecutors, judges, religious leaders—who are willing to speak out about the rampant corruption in our midst."
The public corruption report can be seen on the Internet at www.corporatecrimereporter.com. Mokhiber can be reached by e-mail at [email protected]
A Nixon Sneak Attack—In 1974, at the height—or depth—of the controversy over President Richard Nixon's White House files, including the cover-up surrounding the damning Nixon audiotapes, Congress passed a law stating that the seized records were not to be removed from the National Archives. That blocked the Nixon family from moving them to its foundation-funded Nixon Library in Yorba Linda, CA.
We now learn that someone in the Nixon family hired Washington lobbyists to get some members of Congress to tuck a few lines of special language pertaining to the Nixon records into recent legislation. They come at the end of the thousand-page Omnibus appropriation bill, which has finally cleared Congress, four months late. So, along with the millions of dollars in "pork" appropriations for members' home state interests, there is now official authority for the long-prohibited transfer of Nixon's files. Public access to all of them is required when the 46 million pages and hours of audiotapes reach the Nixon Library, probably not before 2005.
According to Roll Call, the Capitol Hill newspaper that broke this story, the Nixon heir who hired the lobbyists and engineered the transfer was Julie Nixon Eisenhower, a Nixon daughter married to David Eisenhower, a grandson of the former President.
Covered Up—One of the environmental atrocities getting little media attention in this election year is the problem of stream stoppages in Appalachian valleys. The streams have been plugged by tons of earth dumped down-hill by strip mine operators in West Virginia.
In an underreported abomination, the Bush administration is about to help out its friends in the coal industry, which has been a major contributor to the G.O.P. These are the people who have engaged in "mountaintop removal," clogging waterways with earth and destroying thousands of miles of Appalachian valley streams.
Strip-mining the rest of the media's neglect, the New York Times reported on January 26 that a rule change is expected soon from the Interior Department's Office of Surface Mining. It would authorize the coal industry's practice of dumping earth into waterways,"if companies show they are minimizing mining waste and the environmental damage caused by it." Show who? Bush's environmental regulators, that's who.
Fairytalemandering—In the most partisan political trickery in years, the gerrymandering of congressional districts in Texas by Republicans, which we described in our November 1, 2003, issue, has been okayed by a federal appeals court. But the U.S. Supreme Court still has a chance to review it—if it can bear to look. It won't do that before this year's elections.
As it stands in Texas, incumbent Democratic state delegates are going to have to face Republican incumbents whose districts have been mangled to give them access to fewer Democrats and more G.O.P. voters. The 16-16 Democratic-Republican composition of the Texas House delegation may now end up being 22-10, in favor of favoring Republicans.
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Richard "Big Baldy" Uva, 44, of Trumbull, has pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to violate the federal Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act stemming from his involvement in organized-crime controlled gambling businesses.
Deirdre M. Daly, Acting U.S. Attorney for District Connecticut, said Uva, formerly of Stamford, entered the plea before U.S. Magistrate Judge Thomas P. Smith in Hartford.
"According to court documents and statements made in court, after a long-term investigation led by the FBI Fairfield County Organized Crime Task Force, the Internal Revenue Service – Criminal Investigation and the Stamford Police Department, UVA, Dean DePreta and 18 others were charged with various offenses related to their involvement in an illegal Internet sports bookmaking operation and illegal card gambling clubs in Stamford and Hamden," the prosecutor said.
Uva and DePreta are alleged associates of the Gambino organized crime family, Daly said.
The investigation, which included the use of court-authorized wiretaps, revealed that UVA assisted DePreta's operation of a large-scale sports bookmaking business in which gamblers placed bets with offshore Internet sports-gambling websites, particularly www.44wager.com based in Costa Rica.
"Uva served as the "master agent" for the bookmaking operation. In addition, DePreta, Uva and others operated a card gambling club at 2965 State St. in Hamden, where a house percentage, commonly referred to as a "rake," was collected from every hand played."
Uva supervised the club's operation, Daly said. "Uva also admitted that he committed acts of extortion while participating in this racketeering enterprise and collected "tribute" payments from independent sports bookmakers operating in Connecticut, which payments were subsequently delivered to Gambino Family associates in New York," she said.
Uva is scheduled to be sentenced by U.S. District Judge Vanessa L. Bryant on Oct. 24, 2013, at which time he faces a maximum term of imprisonment of 20 years. He also has agreed to forfeit $250,000.
Uva has been released on bond since his arrest on June 13, 2012. DePreta has pleaded guilty and awaits sentencing.
FBI analysis of the sports-betting web site utilized by the co-defendants has determined that the total gross revenues of the Stamford-based gambling operation were nearly $1.7 million from October 2010 to June 2011.
To date, the defendants who have pleaded guilty have agreed to forfeit more than $1.3 million.
This matter is being investigated by the FBI Fairfield County Organized Crime Task Force, the Internal Revenue Service – Criminal Investigation, the Stamford Police Department, the Bridgeport Police Department and the Connecticut State Police. This case is being prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorneys Hal Chen and Peter Jongbloed.
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BFP at 15 DPO!!
I am so excited to be able to post in the forum I have been using the past few months! I am 35, this will be my second child and have been TTC for 6 months. 3 of the months were me guessing when I was ovulating based upon my cycle and 3 were BBT charting. 1-6 DPO: No symptoms other than my daughter and dog being interested in my belly. 6 DPO: Actually hit a wall with my car and I have a backup camera. Never got in an accident before this! 7 DPO: cramps, irritable, tired, watery cm. 8 DPO: same as 7, add in dizzy spell and gas--burping. 9 DPO: same as 7&8, add in backache off and on and constipation. Had creamy cm and assume implantation today after painful sharp cramps and at end of day very slight pink when wiped. 10 DPO: creamy cm, add in headache, diarrhea, very little nausea, same symptoms as other days. 11 DPO: no noticeable cm, so sad today and couldn't figure out why. 12 DPO: sad again, bloated and slight skin breakout on chest (unusual). 13 DPO: creamy cm and sciatic nerve pain in my butt (last time was while pregnant w first). 14 DPO: same symptoms as past few days but started with constipation and ended with painful diarrhea. 15 DPO: Finally took the test and got my BFP!! Was so scared to test, FF told me to wait until 16 DPO but I really could feel it this time, I just knew. I will say there have been two other cycles where I convinced myself I was pregnant and been disappointed. Charting made me more Type A than I usually am and I was literally driving my husband crazy with when we had to BD. Regarding my BBT at about 9 DPO when implantation occurred, my temps continued to rise and dip back and forth but only slightly. There was no triphasic (according to FF) and temps were just consistently rising, no crazy high shifts. No implantation dip. My prior two BFN charts, my temps started going up and down with larger changes in temp at around 9 DPO (as compared to my BFP chart) and starting at 12/13 DPO, temps go down and don't come back up. My luteal phase was 15/16 days, I tested at 15 days for BFP. One last note, I as diagnosed with hypothyroidism after baby #1 and was worried it would affect my fertility, as long as TSH under 2 (mine was 1.5), looks like it's not a problem.
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Congrats to you! I feel you completely as I went through the same problems Except diagnosed with hyperthyroidism in February and told I would be able to conceive and my dr said my fertility was way off. But here I am 8 weeks! A happy and healthy 9 to you! :)
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The dark fiction webzine Inner Sins selected me as their featured writer in the Issue 18, Fall 2014 edition which went live on 1st October. They asked me to do an interview, which you can read here: http://www.innersins.com/innersins_202.htm
Inner Sins is an American webzine, and my answers were edited for their readers. Additionally, I thought I'd share the transcript of my original replies to their questions here on my blog:
What prompted you to become a writer?
Before wanting to become a writer myself, firstly I was an avid reader. Imagination comes in handy, and sometimes a fantasy world is more vivid and attractive than the mundane aspects of real life. I would like to think I still possess a child's sense of wonderment and pleasure in 'making stuff up' even though I am in my 30s now. I never idolised any particular writers, but in my teens I hit a moment of self-realisation that I wanted to create worlds of characters, conflicts and plot, similar to my favourite authors in horror, speculative fiction and fantasy genres. When I started trying to write, I realised that I got a buzz from it and I enjoyed the feel of crafting a story, making images with words, searching for my own style. I simply thought I had struck upon something that I might be good at. It's nothing to do with finding a way to make money or trying to be famous.
Who were the authors you read in your youth?
The writers I read as a kid evolved from children's authors like Enid Blyton – who wrote excellent adventure stories that would be classed as YA today- to my horror/SF/fantasy favourites such as Stephen King, Clive Barker, Dean R Koontz (the Big Three). I also liked, in no particular order, J.R.R Tolkien, Raymond Feist, Tanith Lee, Ursula Le Guin, Dan Simmons, Peter Straub, Brian Lumley, and Philip K.Dick. Too many to mention. I also loved comics, particularly 2000AD. I also enjoyed the graphic novels of Neil Gaiman and Alan Moore.
Favourite authors now?
In recent years I've discovered a lot of fascinating writers that I didn't read in my youth. A good example is Thomas Pynchon. I picked up Gravity's Rainbow as a teenager and tried to read it, and couldn't make head nor tail of it. I tried reading it again a few years ago, and finally I 'got' Pynchon and the weird, baroque, humorous, and garish cartoon-ish style he'd perfected in that novel. I've discovered different SF authors, such as older classic material by H.G Wells, Aldous Huxley, Robert Heinlein and Isaac Asimov. I enjoyed reading Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy. I really liked Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell, by Susanna Clarke. Everyone has discovered George R R Martin's writing now, through watching the Game of Thrones series. I just hope he can stay ahead of the TV adaptation.
Where do your ideas come from?
For horror fiction, I think a writer has to reach deep into their subconscious and early memories to tap into their childhood fears: it might be the sound of the wind shrieking in the chimney, the ominous creaking of the floorboards, a weird rustling in the attic. The way the dim light from outside the bedroom window is distorted by the curtains; creating weird shadows, maybe a curious shape in the corner. Is something going to reach out and grab our foot if we leave it outside the covers? What might that thing be? It's from these kind of impressions that ideas for creating weird fiction are formed. Every writer strives, or hopes for, originality in their work. It can be difficult to achieve that as we're inevitably influenced and shaped by what we already read and see, and the culture that exists around us. We have to get in touch with our primal selves.
What time of day do you do most of your writing?
I am a night owl by nature. My imagination seems most rich and powerful in the late evening. I like to write from 9pm right into the early hours of the morning, if I have good flow. However, I'm probably most efficient and analytical, first thing in the morning. I'd say late night is the best time for me, for plotting and putting down a first draft. Early morning to noon is good for editing, proof-reading and refining the work. Afternoon and early evening is the best period for a break!
Do you have any peculiar habits or idiosyncrasies concerning your writing?
I have certain needs which I require for a good environment for writing. I appreciate Jonathan Franzen's comments about killing the Internet connection and wearing sound-proof headphones to get totally into the creative process. I need peace and quiet to be fully focused on writing. Noise of any kind isn't really helpful at all, particularly any kind of music which I find incredibly distracting.
What genre would you say most of your writing falls into?
It's all horror, fantasy and SF- however I would use the term "speculative fiction" rather than "science fiction". If I had to pick one, that would be the genre.
Can you remember the first thing you wrote?
There was a Fantasy thing, it was a miniature hybrid imitation of Stephen King's Dark Tower 3: The Waste Lands and Tolkien's Lord of the Rings. I tried to write it in the early 1990s, but never finished it. I can't remember too much about it, except there was a group of characters who inevitably ended up going on the inevitable quest and there was a dwarf called 'Flatbit' in it. It's long since been destroyed!
Writers have many names for themselves; screenwriter, novelist, playwright, journalist, poet. What do you consider yourself?
Author. An author of novels and short stories.
What would you say to someone thinking of becoming a writer?
There's a difference between being a writer of fiction, and a writer of non-fiction, which isn't always acknowledged. Both require writing skill, but to write fiction requires extra qualities of imagination and inspiration. If you possess those, then it's all about hard work and perseverance. Keep working hard and improving your stories. Both writers of fiction and non-fiction need to find their style, or their ideal approach to writing. The fiction writer needs to have the inner desire that they have stories worth telling, and they have to passionately believe in their work. I also think it's about finding out what you're good at in life, and what skills you naturally possess. Some of the best writers had no choice, they felt compelled to write. I also think the best writers write for themselves at the beginning, not for a projected readership or 'market'. Success arrives for the lucky few as a by-product from that.


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