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- Virginity like bubble, one ***** - all gone.
He who steps on others to reach the top has good balance.
I refuse to tie my hands behind my back and hear somebody say "Bend Over, Boy, Because You Have It Coming To You".
-- Linus Torvalds
The trouble with being punctual is that people think you have nothing more
important to do.
I have never understood the female capacity to avoid a direct answer to
any question.
-- Spock, "This Side of Paradise", stardate 3417.3
Kirk to Enterprise -- beam down yeoman Rand and a six-pack.
You can pick your friends, and you can pick your nose, but you can't
pick your friend's nose.
"Looking back over the years that we've been together, I can't
help but wonder: What the f**k was I thinking?"
"I've always wanted to have someone to hold, someone to love.
After having met you, I've changed my mind."
"Yes son."
"Wha-wha-wha-what does regret mean?"
"Well, son, a funny thing about regret is that it's better to regret
something you have done, than to regret something you haven't done. And
by the way, if you see your Mom this weekend, would be you sure and tell
her, `SATAN, SATAN, SATAN!!!'"
-- Butthole Surfers, "Sweat Loaf"
"I must admit, you brought Religion in my life. I never believed
in Hell until I met you."
Programmers do it until it goes down.
"If I get only one thing for Christmas, I hope it's your brother."
"The hell with the prime directive! Let's kill something!"
"As the days go by, I think of how lucky I am that you're not
here to ruin it for me."
9 reasons a taco is better than a woman:
(1) Tacos don't put frilly covers on the toilet seat so the lid won't
stay up.
(2) Tacos don't use your razor on their legs.
(3) Tacos don't say "That's okay, it doesn't have to be good for me."
(4) Tacos don't get upset if you eat another taco, "Just for fun."
(5) Tacos will never contest a divorce, demand a property settlement,
or seek custody of anything.
(6) Tacos won't ask you about your last lover, or speculate about your
next one.
(7) A taco will never make a scene because there are other tacos in the
(8) It's easy to drop a taco.
(9) Tacos don't want to sleep on your chest.
"As you grow older, Mum, I think of all the gifts you've given me. Like the need for therapy..."
A man is driving down the road on his way to Salerno. By the roadside he
sees a man hitchhiking and stops to pick him up. As the man gets into his
car he suddenly pulls out a gun and makes the driver get out of the car.
"All right, buddy," says the man, "I want to you jerk off."
"What!?" says the man, disbelievingly.
"Go ahead, do it!" says the hitchhiker.
So the driver masturbates, and when he is through, says, "All right,
I did what you wanted, can I go now?"
"Nope," says the hijacker. "Do it again."
"Again?" the driver exclaims. "I just did it."
"Do it again."
It takes a little longer this time, but he manages to come again.
Panting, he turns to his tormenter and again asks if he can leave.
"Yes," the man replies, "but only after you've done it one more
The guy is really scared now; he's starting to sweat. It takes him
twenty minutes, this time, but he finally comes a third time.
"Listen, buddy, can I please leave now?"
"Yeah," says the man, lowering his gun. "And this is my daughter;
I want you to drive her into Salerno."
Man who pull out too fast leave rubber.
Little Red Riding Hood was walking through the woods on her way to
visit her grandmother when a wolf jumped out from behind a tree.
"Aha!" the wolf said, "Now I've got you, and I'm going to eat you."
"Eat, eat, eat," said Little Red Riding Hood angrily, "Damn it,
doesn't anybody **** anymore?"
Woman who slide down bannister make monkey shine.
"Thanks for being a part of my life! I never knew what evil was before this!"
After we made love he took a piece of chalk and made an outline of my body.
-- Joan Rivers
I'd like to meet the man who invented sex and see what he's working on now.
Man who dance in crowded ballroom dance cheek to cheek with woman behind him.
"You are such a good friend that if we were on a sinking ship and there was only one life jacket... I'd miss you heaps and think of you often."
Snow White
Dear Snow White:
Thanks for last night.
Sleepy, Doc, Grumpy, Sneezy, Happy, Dopey, Bashful
Things you wish you could say at work
1. Ahhh...I see the mess-up fairy has visited us again...
2. I don't know what your problem is, but I'll bet it's hard to pronounce.
3. How about never? Is never good for you?
4. I see you've set aside this special time to humiliate yourself in
5. I'm really easy to get along with once you people learn to worship me.
6. I'll try being nicer if you'll try being smarter.
7. I'm out of my mind, but feel free to leave a message...
8. I don't work here. I'm a consultant.
9. It sounds like English, but I can't understand a word you're saying.
10.I can see your point, but I still think you're full of ****.
11.I like you. You remind me of when I was young and stupid.
12.You are validating my inherent mistrust of strangers.
13.I have plenty of talent and vision. I just don't give a damn.
14.I'm already visualizing the duct tape over your mouth.
15.I will always cherish the initial misconceptions I had about you.
16.Thank you. We're all refreshed and challenged by your unique point of
17.The fact that no one understands you doesn't mean you're an artist.
18.Any connection between your reality and mine is purely coincidental.
19.What am I? Flypaper for freaks!?
20.I'm not being rude. You're just insignificant.
21.It's a thankless job, but I've got a lot of Karma to burn off.
22.Yes, I am an agent of Satan, but my duties are largely ceremonial.
23.No, my powers can only be used for good.
24.You sound reasonable... Time to up the medication.
25.Who me? I just wander from room to room
26.And your crybaby whiny-butt opinion would be...?
27.Do I look like a people person?
28.This isn't an office. It's Hell with fluorescent lighting.
29.I started out with nothing & still have most of it left.
31.You!... Off my planet!
32.Does your train of thought have a caboose?
33.Errors have been made. Others will be blamed.
34.A PBS mind in an MTV world.
35.Allow me to introduce my selves.
36.Whatever kind of look you were going for, you missed.
37.Well, this day was a total waste of makeup.
38.Not all men are annoying. Some are dead.
40.I'm trying to imagine you with a personality.
41.A cubicle is just a padded cell without a door.
42.Stress is when you wake up screaming & you realize you haven't fallen
asleep yet.
43.Can I trade this job for what's behind door 1?
44.Too many freaks, not enough circuses.
45.Nice perfume. Must you marinate in it?
46.Chaos, panic, & disorder - my work here is done.
47.How do I set a laser printer to stun?
48.I thought I wanted a career, turns out I just wanted the paychecks.
49.If I throw a stick, will you leave?
50.Sarcasm is just one more service we offer.
Originally posted by parksie
I'd like to meet the man who invented sex and see what he's working on now.
This is the best one so far!!!!!!!!!
Women prefer 30-40 minutes of foreplay. Men prefer 30-40 seconds of
foreplay. Men consider driving back to her place as part of the foreplay.
Women mature much faster than men. Most 17-year-old females can
function as adults. Most 17-year-old males are still trading baseball cards
and giving each other wedgies after gym class. This is why high school
romances rarely work out.
To their credit, men do not decorate their penmanship. They just
chicken-scratch. Women use scented, colored stationary and they dot their
"i's" with circles and hearts. Women use ridiculously large loops in their
"p's" and "g's". It is a royal pain to read a note from a woman. Even
when she's dumping you, she'll put a smiley face at the end of the note.
Would you rather have a 5-inch hard or an 8-inch floppy?
She was only a mortician's daughter but anyone cadaver.
Originally posted by barrk
"You are such a good friend that if we were on a sinking ship and there was only one life jacket... I'd miss you heaps and think of you often."
I like this one
Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in
the country. -- Mayor Marion Barry, Washington, DC
Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would
not live forever, because we should not live forever, because if we were
supposed to live forever, then we would live forever, but we cannot live
forever, which is why I would not live forever. -- Miss Alabama in the
1994 Miss Universe contest
I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
--David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he
failed to pay his taxes.
Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your
life. --Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a
federal anti-smoking campaign
I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
--Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward
Whenever I watch TV and see those poor starving kids all over the world, I
can't help but cry. I mean I'd love to be skinny like that but not with all
those flies and death and stuff. -- Mariah Carey
The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them
unsafe. -- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia
After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the
school board is extremely pleased to announce the appointment of David
Steele to the post. --Philip Streifer, Superintendent of Schools, Barrington,
Rhode Island
Success is like a fart -- only your own smells nice.
-- James P. Hogan
Originally posted by parksie
Would you rather have a 5-inch hard or an 8-inch floppy?
Are these my only choices????
"I have credit with this madam who runs a string of super callgirls,"
the executive reminisced at his club bar, "but when I got the bill for
the great head session one of them pleasured me with, I must say that
it was enough to make a blown man cry."
It must be admitted that we English have sex on the brain, which is a
very unfortunate place to have it.
-- Malcolm Muggeridge
Are these my only choices????
What else do you want?
There's nothing like a good pun....and that was nothing like it.
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The aim of the study was to establish the association of genetic variants of the ARNTL1 gene with the onset of myocardial infarction.
Study design. Case-control study
Key words: ARNTL1 gene; circadian rhythm; myocardial infarction
Participants and Methods
The research is conducted on a total of 400 participants. In the first group there were 200 patients with myocardial infarction type 1 hospitalized at the University Hospital Osijek. The second group consisted of 200 healthy controls recruited by a family physician. The goal of the study was to determine the association between single nucleotide polymorphisms of ARNTL1 gene and myocardial infarction. All participants were genotyped for three single nucleotide polymorphisms in the ARNTL1 gene (rs3789327, rs4757144, rs12363415).
There was no statistically significant difference between polymorphisms of ARNTL1 gene in patients and controls. Research showed that there is no direct link between infarction and single nucleotide polymorphisms in the ARNTL1 gene, but rs3789327 and rs12363415 polymorphisms are associated with cardiovascular risk factors. Diabetes mellitus type 2 was associated with rs12363415 polymorphism, while a history of previous cardiovascular diseases was related to rs3789327 polymorphism. Type 2 diabetes mellitus is a significant risk factor because it has a major role in the development of atherosclerosis and coronary artery disease.
The results show that there is no association between SNP's of ARNTL1 gene and myocardial infarction. However, association of SNPs and risk factors for the development of the infarction was found. Based on this, polymorphisms in the ARNTL1 gene has a certain role in the emergence of myocardial infarction.
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Recently, Facebook has become synonymous with online social interactions. With 1.55 billion monthly active users, it's undoubtedly the dominant social media platform that reels in millions of monthly advertising revenue. A 2014 Shareaholic Study reveals Facebook drives 25% of all social referral traffic online compared to just 0.88% for Twitter, making it the juggernaut of referral traffic. As it continues to branch out and reach more audience, would it be so far-fetched to say this social media site is trying to compete with the online behemoth known as Google? Is Facebook trying to become an actual search engine?
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In 1993,
just as I was about to leave Melbourne to make another
trip to Malaysia and India, I came down with the 'flu,
so decided to delay my departure for a week, preferring
to be sick in Australia than overseas. Two days after
I did so, my father, who had been very ill for over
a year, and in and out of hospital quite frequently,
died. For him, it was a release as he was 84 and had
suffered a lot through his illness; moreover, it was
clear that there was little chance of him recovering.
It was not a shock for me to learn of his death, therefore,
as I had been expecting it.
I returned to Adelaide for the funeral,
which I would not have done if I had already left
the country; and it was good that I went back, as
I could feel his presence around the place as if he
were still there, as he might well have been. I lay
on his bed and meditated, trying to tune in to him
and send him positive thoughts; at night, I sat outside
his work-shed where he used to potter around, and
sang his favorite song: "English Country Garden".
I got a lot of energy coming through, and felt good.
Because my mother is a Christian, the funeral
was conducted accordingly, with a minister of the
Salvation Army presiding. But I stated my intention
to speak, too. The minister spoke first, and said
quite a lot about God, Jesus, life-after-death, Heaven,
and so on. Then it was my turn to speak, and though
I had prepared some notes beforehand, I spoke extemporaneously.
The gist of my talk was as follows:
"It is not a strange thing that we
should grow old and die. The strange thing, on the
contrary, is that we should live as long as we do!
And who would wish to live forever? We get bored with
our limited lives as it is!
"My father couldn't complain
that life had short-changed him; he lived for 84 years
and witnessed many momentous changes in the world
in this most-momentous century of all. And it is appropriate
that the father should precede the son into the Unknown;
this is the natural order of things; it would be more
sad if it were the other way around.
"I am of the opinion, after many years
of experience, that a funeral-ceremony is more for
the living than for the dead, as the dead have left
us to follow their destiny, while the living remain,
hopefully to learn more about the life that is ours
for just a while. At a funeral-ceremony, the living
are faced with the stark reality of life: that we
will all go the same way as the one who has just gone.
And death, strangely enough, is the key to life; instead
of being something morbid to think about, it provides
us with an incentive to live life more fully, while
we have the opportunity to do so.
"Where we came from before we entered
this world, and where we will go when we leave it,
no-one knows. There are many theories and beliefs
about this matter, but they often conflict with and
contradict each other. We may believe this or that,
but to be honest, we simply do not know.
"Buddhism, too, has its concept about
what happens after we die, but since I, as a Buddhist
monk, have had no direct personal experience of it,
I am not qualified to say anything about it; were
I to do so, I would merely be repeating what I have
read or heard from others, and to me, that is not
good enough. I prefer the answer that Confucius is
reported to have given when someone asked him: "Master,
what happens after we die?" He said: "Why
do you want to know about that? You don't even
know how to live now!"
"But, although I know nothing about
life-after-death, I have had some experience of this
life, and am therefore somewhat qualified to speak
about it.
"My father was nominally a Christian,
as that was the only religion he had been exposed
to. But a name means very little, and sometimes less
than nothing. However, he belonged to the religion
that we all belong to, and cannot get away from, but
which very few of us know much about, as it is so
ordinary and every-day: the Religion of Life and Living.
There are differences between people, of course—differences
in race, nationality, religion, politics, culture,
language and so on, but they are not nearly as important
as we make them out to be. The similarities, the common
denominators, on the other hand, are more numerous
and much more important: people everywhere wish to
be happy and free from suffering; all have hopes,
fears and aspirations. And if we understand our own
feelings, hopes and desires, we will also understand
others, and know what to do in our relationships and
dealings with them, for they feel basically the same
as we do. The practice of the Religion of Life and
Living, therefore, necessarily begins with ourselves,
but should not end there. From understanding ourselves,
we must extend our understanding outwards and expand
our horizons to embrace an ever-greater portion of
the world we live in.
"Life is precious, but the only place
and time we ever have for living is HERE and NOW,
for in reality, the past and the future do not exist.
As far as we are concerned—each one of us—there
is only the Here and Now; we cannot live anywhere
else. Just try to live anywhere other than where you
are: you will find that, wherever you are, it is always
HERE. And whatever stage of life you might be in—infancy,
youth, maturity or old age—it is always NOW.
It is therefore of great importance to live as close
to the present as possible.
Science has shown that nothing can be completely
destroyed without trace; things are merely transformed
into other things. We should consider death, therefore,
as a transformation, and that the life which informed
our bodies here will flow on into other forms.
"So now, I hope and pray—and
I'm sure you will join with me in this—that
the person, force or energy which was my father in
this life will go on into a higher and better life,
will go on fearlessly and with a light heart. May
he be well, courageous and safe now, wherever, however
and whatever he might be! Thank you for your attention".
There were no Buddhists at my father's
funeral, but after the service almost everyone there
came up to me and said things like, "You gave
us so much to think about!" The best part about
it all, however, was that both my eldest sister and
her husband—who have never been at all religious
(I am from a family of 'heathens', apart
from my mother, who have not the slightest interest
in things of the spirit)—both had tears in their
eyes, and my brother-in-law was so stuck for words
that his handshake was followed by a hug! I was amazed,
as he is an unemotional person and we have never been
close. I thought: "If only my Dad could see this
now! It would almost have been worth dying for!"
That afternoon, after we had returned home,
the phone rang and my sister answered it. It was a
Sri Lankan lady in Adelaide, wanting to know my number
in Melbourne, as some friends of hers wished to invite
me to preside at a memorial service for their late
mother the following Saturday; she was pleasantly
surprised, therefore, to learn that I was there in
South Australia. I told her that I intended to return
to Melbourne on the Friday as I was booked to fly
out to Malaysia on the Sunday. She requested me to
delay my departure yet again, assuring me that her
friends would pay any cancellation fees. To accommodate
them, and also because I saw an opportunity to propagate
Dharma somewhat, I agreed to her request, and made
a further postponement of my trip.
That Saturday, I was picked up and taken
to the house where the ceremony was to be held. Many
people had assembled, and after a sumptuous lunch
that had been prepared, I began my talk, which went
on for about two hours. At the end of it, someone
whom I didn't at first recognize came up to
me and said that he had enjoyed my talk. Recognition
then dawned: it was a man with whom I had had some
disagreement way back in 1975 and had not seen since.
How good it is to resolve old conflicts and allow
the wounds to finally heal!
This was yet another spin-off or follow-up
of my father's death; but there were others,
too, and I will recount some of them here in order
to show how one thing leads to another in chain-like
sequence. There is really no beginning or end to anything;
everything has causes and in turn becomes the cause
of something else. My father's death was not
an accident but an effect, and led—like everything
does—to other things.
After this talk, there was a request for
another talk that evening, also to Sri Lankans. There
is no Sri Lankan monk in Adelaide, nor, it seems,
any monk who speaks English well, and so, whenever
I'm back there and the Sri Lankans know it,
they invite me to give talks, and I comply. They are
concerned—and rightly so—that their young
people, who have grown up there and whose first language
is English, do not understand their religion well,
and might lose touch with it. Some of my talks there
have gone on for almost five hours!
Between the talks in the afternoon and evening,
the lady who had made the initial phone-call that
located me, discovered that I was suffering from pains
in my chest and left arm, so called a Sri Lankan doctor
to come over and check me. Now, for the sake of anyone
else who might be suffering from similar pains, I
would like to say that I have had these pains, on
and off, since 1976, but all the tests I underwent
in various places (I even paid US$190 in Chicago for
a stress-test), revealed nothing; all I was ever told
was that it was not my heart at fault; I was never
told what it was. The pain was so bad at times that
it felt as if I were being stabbed or having a heart-attack.
And in 1993, in Melbourne, I had a prolonged bout
of this pain that spread from my chest down my left
arm into my hand, where it had never been before,
and so concerned was I by this that I went, late one
night, to the emergency-ward of a large hospital nearby
and had an ECG, but again, it showed my heart to be
normal. The pain, this time, lasted for several months
and was quite debilitating; I could neither sit, stand
nor walk for long without the pain increasing; the
only position that I felt reasonably comfortable in
was lying down; it quite curtailed my activities.
Numerous acupuncture sessions failed to bring any
relief, nor did copious draughts of bitter Chinese
medicine, or Western analgesics.
Dr. Karunaratna—for such was the name
of the good doctor who came to check me—asked
me some questions and inquired if I had ever had a
neck x-ray. When I said 'No' he suggested
that I have one, as he felt that the trouble stemmed
from pinched nerves in my neck. Strange, but not long
before, I had thought that the pains might be caused
by nerves. Over the years, I was given various 'diagnoses',
including a blockage of the vital-energy ('chi'),
inflammation of the rib-cartilage, and even spirit-possession!
Dr Karu's explanation made more sense than even
the sanest-sounding of the others, and I resolved
to follow it up on my return to Melbourne.
When I got back to Melbourne the next day,
I was met at the airport, and on the way back to the
temple where I was staying, was asked if I would like
to visit a friend on the route. "Why not?",
I said, and so we went. Upon arriving there, I was
told that the father of someone who had been my Vietnamese
translator for some years was near to death in hospital.
I asked the man who had picked me up if we might go
to the hospital next, so we went directly there. Making
our way to the ward where the man was confined, we
found all his family gathered around his bed, on which
he was lying in a coma, connected to life-support
apparatus, with tubes running in and out of him in
all directions; it looked as though he was already
dead. His family was standing around numbly and quietly,
and I said to my translator that this was an appropriate
time for a Dharma-talk; he agreed, and called everyone
to listen. I spoke about the need at that time for
everyone to control their grief, which would not help
the departing person in any way and might even impede
him, and to think with one mind in sending him positive
thoughts. He loved you, I said, just as you loved
him, and if he is still aware of us now, he would
wish you to be happy, not sad. We cannot bring him
back but must let him go, and in doing so, you should
now focus on the good times you shared with him, and
think positively, in order to speed him on his way.
As I spoke like this, my translator noticed tears
coming from his father's eyes; had he understood
what I was saying? It is nice to think so. He died
soon afterwards, and I was requested to speak at his
funeral, which I did.
I was unable to get an appointment to see
a neurologist in Melbourne before I flew out to Malaysia
a few days later, as the waiting-list was too long,
but in Kuala Lumpur, some friends took me to a doctor
who had treated me for pneumonia there in 1991. I
told him—Dr Joseph Soo—what Dr Karunaratna
had said, and he immediately made an appointment for
me to see Malaysia's leading neurosurgeon, who
was a personal friend of his. Dr Bala's clinic
was crowded and I had to wait for several hours before
being called into his examining-room, by which time,
the x-rays that had been taken on my neck while I
was waiting, were ready. Again, I was lucky to meet
a kind and sympathetic doctor—the third in a
row—and he showed me from the x-rays and explained
in terms that I could understand, the cause of the
pains that had troubled me for so long. Not only this,
but he told me it was quite a common complaint—known
as cervical spondylosis—and that, in fact, he
himself had had it some years before, but it had responded
to medication without requiring surgery. He said that
a minor operation could fix it permanently but advised
against it at my age, as it might cause complications.
He prescribed and supplied me with medication and
I was happy to pay the bill of M$150; it was such
a relief to finally know the cause of the pains, as
not-knowing was just as bad as the pains themselves!
If anyone else who has been suffering from this ailment,
without knowing what it is, reads this and gets some
insight into it, my pain will not have been in vain;
I have told of it here in case there are other sufferers
of the same thing who might get some relief.
The medication worked and, some weeks later,
the pains had subsided to such a degree that I no
longer needed to take it. I am under no illusions,
however; the pains will probably return, as they used
to do from time to time over the years, as the condition
has not been corrected. But, having discovered the
cause, when they do return, I will know better how
to deal with them, and there will not be the fear
that it is life-threatening.
To conclude: Where my father has gone, I
do not know, but I do know that I cannot now think
anything negative about him; such thoughts do not
come into my mind, and I'm happy about this,
for he had many negativities, as we all do. There
were many times when I thought badly about him, I
must confess, but now these burdens have been put
down and I must express my gratitude to him for all
the help he gave me, directly and indirectly. He wasn't
the best father in the world, perhaps, but neither
was he the worst. He was, simply, my Dad.
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ALFRED — The honors for the Alfred State baseball duo of Colin Johnson and Lucas Cornell continue to roll in. Both Alfred-Almond grads were key in the Pioneers winning five of six games last week.
Johnson has been named the AMCC Offensive Player of the Week, ECAC North Offensive Player of the Week, and has been named the catcher for the D3baseball.com Team of the Week.
Johnson was 10 for 16 this past week in five games, collecting five extra base hits and nine RBI. He had a huge Easter Sunday in a doubleheader at Pitt Greensburg. On the day he was 5 for 6 with two homers and six RBI. Both of his homers and five of his RBI came in the 5-3 second game victory.
Cornell has been named the AMCC and ECAC Pitcher of the Week. He was 1-0 with a 1.59 ERA in 11.1 innings of work. He threw a complete game shutout at Wells in which he struck out 12 while allowing just three hits. In a conference start vs. Greensburg he allowed four hits and two runs in 4.1 innings but did not factor in the decision. On the week, Cornell notched 16 strikeouts.
The Pioneers have now seven of their last nine contest and are 8-13 overall on the season.
A-State adjusts upcoming schedule
ALFRED — The wintry wet weather that has plagued the area recently has forced numerous changes to the upcoming athletic schedule at Alfred State.
Alfred State baseball will now take on Medaille on Thursday at Bolivar-Richburg High School. First pitch of the doubleheader is slated for 1 p.m.
The outdoor track & field team will now travel to the Slippery Rock Invitational on Saturday instead of going to Westminster.
The Pioneer softball team will now take on D'Youville on April 12 (was originally scheduled for 4/23) in a 3 p.m. doubleheader. The DH vs. Cazenovia will now take place on April 13 (originally scheduled for 4/15). Contest is slated to begin at 3 p.m.


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Storytron Summer 2019 Update
The End Crawford's "un-quitting" has made me question my current plans to support and enhance the Storytron code. While we currently have permission to host the Storytron source code I now realize that this permission could be revoked at any … Continue reading
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Trust & Betrayal: The Legacy of Crawford
Chris Crawford emailed me and two other people a proposal he has been working on regarding the next generation of software for interactive storytelling, asking for feedback. It sounds pretty similar to Storytron. My reply. There is already a community … Continue reading
Other Forms of Gossip
Once the Gossip tutorial is up and running it might be interesting to attempt to implement the same storyworld using some of the other interactive fiction storytelling tools out there. Tools like: Inform 7 TADS Dialog Ink Twine ChoiceScript Windrift … Continue reading
Could Siboot Be Revived?
On his site Chris Crawford posted the above question about his previous attempt to re-imagine the 1987 version of Trust & Betrayal: The Legacy of Siboot using Storytron technology. (I like to think his 2014-2018 project was inspired by my … Continue reading
Why is the Update of Accordance and Weight Traits Tied to Make Visible?
When adjusting accordance traits for Gossip actors I noticed something interesting happening in the Actor editor. As you switch between actors the values you set for their core personality traits is updated in the editor but the values for the … Continue reading
Gossip Personality Model
Teen Talk has three traits that model an actor's personality. Gullible – How likely an actor will believe or disbelieve what another actor says Dishonest – How likely an actor will lie or tell the truth to another actor Vain … Continue reading
Gossip Tutorial Outline
I believe I am ready to start writing the Gossip tutorial wiki. Yesterday I finished hooking up all the verbs in the 1.0.1 verb web together. Today I created an outline/map for the topics I want to cover and the … Continue reading
Gossip Verb Web 1.0.1
I just finished hooking up the basic affinity verbs for the Gossip tutorial storyworld. The version I implemented is a little more linear than the verb web I originally came up. All the verbs are the same but the links … Continue reading
Storytron May 2019 Update
Gossip Tutorial Chris Crawford thinks that if I do a new Gossip I should dump the simple design that he used in his recreation and implement something more robust, something he calls Super Gossip. His idea would add activities that … Continue reading
Principles & Personalities Tutorial
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You know, mummy just turned 21, it was the first time she could get into bars and clubs and she went nuts. You're going to experience that when you're 21, but wait till you're 21 and learn from my mistakes.
JERSEY SHORE STAR NICOLE "SNOOKI" POLIZZI on how she will explain her antics on the reality television show to her two children
Uncertainty is the only respectable intellectual position to have about everything. There's no little thumb symbol on Facebook that says 'I have a complex, ambivalent attitude', but there should be.
I don't do frocks and absolutely don't do heels, I have a bad back.
I look ridiculous in a beautiful gown. This was a homage to Mad Max.
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Interview with Join the Dots on the Future of Market Research
A few weeks ago I was honored to be asked by Join the Dots to be interviewed by them as part of their re-branding launch. The topics we covered were a wide swath related current trends in the market research industry as well as the future of our profession. Here's the video.Leonard Murphy
Quick Picks: Surveys, Social Media & Punditry
As we head into the long weekend, I have six items I wanted to post about and not enough time to do full blown posts for all of them. So, I hope you won't mind that I'm going to take four of those items and make four "mini posts" on surveys, social media, and punditry.Leonard Murphy
Research Transformation: 3 Companies That Are Getting It Right.
I've had the opportunity to get to know three very interesting companies that are pioneering innovative new models. Let's take a look at how each one is reinventing market research. Meet Join the Dots, Motista, and Decooda.Leonard Murphy


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The Haier BWTD32 32 Bottle Wine Cooler Refrigerator is one of the most preferred wine cooler refrigerators among wine lovers today. It seems to be the perfect choice for those who either love to invest in good wine or for people who just appreciate the taste of wine every now and then.
This Haier wine cooler is so compact at 15.8 inches x 20.2 inches x 33.5 inches. It is also still movable at 61 lbs. It can fit into any space, no matter how small your home is. It can also hold up to 16 bottles each zone. It is optimized at the right temperature to ensure the most convenient wine storage solution.
This Haier wine cooler is considered by wine lovers as their very own wine cellar in the midst of their small apartment. It can hold wine and it gives users ease of access.
The Haier 32 Bottle Wine Cooler also features dual touch screen controls and blue LED displays. Users can easily adjust the temperature for each zone. For its flower compartment, it can be adjustable from 45 degrees to 54 degrees. For its upper compartment, it can be adjusted from 52 degrees to 64 degrees. This Haier wine cooler is also vibration free. It also features an ultra quiet thermoelectric cooling system.
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- Features dual touch screen controls and blue LED displays for ease of use.
- Vibration free.
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*Please keep in mind that all of the reviews I post are just my personal opinions and do not necessarily reflect the beliefs of Ozark Regional Library.
Everything Everything by Nicola Yoon
This is Nicola Yoon's debut novel and I like her writing style. This book tells the story of a girl named Madeline, her mom and nurse, and a boy named Olly. Madeline is very sick and has to live in a house that is completely sealed from pollutants. She has a nurse, Carla, with her all day, and her mom (who is a doctor) with her all night. She's not allowed to step foot outside and has spent her entire life this way. Madeline finds solace in books, movies, and games until a new family moves in across the street. That is when she sees Olly and her whole life changes. They begin communicating by email and then Madeline convinces Carla to let Olly come over as long as they don't touch and stay on opposites sides of the room. As you may have guessed, Madeline and Olly fall in love, but since Madeline can never leave her house, their relationship is hard to maintain. If you add to the situation that Olly's father is abusive and a drunk, then it becomes even harder. Madeline eventually risks everything to be with Olly and they have to deal with the consequences.
This book was a fun read and had a twist that I did not see coming. This book was also not as depressing as I thought it was going to be from the description the book provided. I would recommend this book to anyone that enjoys the works of John Green. (Photo credit: www.goodreads.com)
"The President Has Been Shot! The Assassination of John F. Kennedy by James L. Swanson
This account of John F. Kennedy's life, presidency, and assassination was written just for teens. It would be a great source for a book report or biography project. John F. Kennedy was the youngest president of the United States and was adored by many. Always by his side was his wife Jacqueline Kennedy. One day in Dallas, a disturbed man named Lee Harvey Oswald put in motion a plan to assassinate the president. This book details the events leading up to that horrible day and gives an account of the events immediately afterwards. While there is great speculation by some surrounding this event in history, this book sticks to the facts, providing photographs, information, a timeline, bibliography, and source notes. Swanson does write what he believes Oswald may have been thinking or what Jackie may have been thinking but he doesn't display his conjecture as fact. This book kept me interested and I was moved by many of the photographs included. (Photo credit: www.amazon.com)
by Lynn Weingarten
Annotation from the Teens' Top Ten book groups:
"June and Delia were best friends who grew apart. Then, Delia commits suicide. Or, at least that's what others have been told. June believes her former best friend has been murdered, and she goes on a quest to find the truth…which, it turns out, is very complicated."
Suicide Notes from Beautiful Girls by Lynn Weingarten is a 2016 Teens' Top Ten book from YALSA (Young Adult Library Services Association). I can see why this book made it on this list. It's full of mystery, intrigue, twists, and turns. The reader begins thinking one thing and then comes to believe something completely different a few chapters down the road. June seems like a pretty normal teenage girl, with a pretty normal boyfriend, Ryan. June's old best friend, Delia, is wild and crazy, and one sometimes wonders how these girls used to be friends. When June is told that Delia committed suicide, she can't believe it; she's stricken with grief. However, when June finds out how Delia committed suicide, she starts to believe that her former best friend was murdered. June hunts to find the truth and finds out way more than she bargained for. While this book kept my interest until the last page, there were things that made the book less enjoyable for me. The book is filled with language, sexual references, and difficult topics, like murder, rape, suicide, etc. I would not recommend this book for young teens. However, if the reader can look past these last few things I mentioned, then I believe they will enjoy trying to figure out exactly what happened to June and Delia. (Photo credit: www.goodreads.com)
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
Sherman Alexie tells the story of Junior, a teenager growing up on the Spokane Indian Reservation. Junior was born with some physical ailments that set him apart from the crowd. He gets picked on a lot and his confidence has suffered because of that. However, he is quite smart and decides that his best chance of escaping a life of alcoholism and laziness is to go to the "white" school in the next town. Junior easily stands out at his school because of the way he looks but he grows to stand out for other reasons. He becomes a good basketball player and excels in academics. This story is about Junior, his family, his best friend, and the trials that teenage boys often go through. While I found this book easy to read, I was personally uncomfortable with all of the language and stereotypes used. This book is frequently challenged and banned in libraries and schools and the reasons are pretty obvious once the reader begins reading. However, it is a National Book Award winner and many teenage boys may find the character relate-able.
Note: This book is intended for high school students. The book is filled with cursing, sex, alcoholism, death, and racist remarks. (Photo credit: www.wikipedia.org)
Alive by Chandler Baker
Annotation from the Teens' Top Ten book groups:
"Stella Cross has received a heart transplant, but it has not stopped her emotional suffering. Then a mysterious boy named Levi Zin comes into her life. Stella's pain goes away whenever she's around Levi. However, Stella finds out a terrible secret about Levi. Can it be true?"
Alive is a 2016 Teens' Top Ten book from YALSA (Young Adult Library Services Association) and is a thrilling book that has many twists and turns. Stella is a typical teenage girl except for the fact that she has had a heart transplant. Every night at the exact same time, there is a terrible pain in her chest. She hides this pain from her family and friends because she doesn't want to face the reality that her new heart might not be compatible with her body. This story tells of Stella, her best friend Henry, and the new kid, Levi Zin, who Stella has completely fallen for. However, Levi isn't exactly who he appears to be. Weird things start happening to Stella that she can't explain. Her friends and family start to worry about her even more. Stella struggles to hold it all together and eventually has to face a reality that is terrifying. This book is filled with drama, paranormal occurrences, and teen romance. (Photo credit: www.goodreads.com)
Note: I would recommend this book for high school students. There is some mild language, a few sexual references, and some dark subject matter.


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Category : Sweden
Sunday Afternoon Mental Health Break–The White Moose of Sweden
Must not Miss True Story of an Adventure Racing Team and a Dog–Arthur
Sweden opens its first cemetery free of religious symbols
"People can decide for themselves what their graves should look like, but the cemetery will be free of all religious and nationalist symbols," said Erdem.
He also stressed that the cemetery wasn't just for atheists. Believers too could apply to be buried there, as long as they were happy to keep the religious element of their identity out of sight.
Located close to the city's Stora Tuna church, the cemetery remains empty for now, but several locals have expressed an interest.
More Poetry for Memorial Day: Tomas Tranströmer's The Half-Finished Heaven
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Despondency breaks off its course.
Anguish breaks off its course.
The vulture breaks off its flight.
The eager light streams out,
even the ghosts take a draught.
And our paintings see daylight,
our red beasts of the ice-age studios.
Everything begins to look around.
We walk in the sun in hundreds.
Each man is a half-open door
leading to a room for everyone.
The endless ground under us.
The water is shining among the trees.
The lake is a window into the earth.
(The Local) Swedish group wants 'legal abortions' for men
Men who don't want to become fathers should be permitted to have a "legal abortion" up to the 18th week of a woman's pregnancy, say the young liberals.
The cut-off date coincides with the last week in which a woman can terminate a pregnancy in Sweden.
"This means a man would renounce the duties and rights of parenthood," LUF Väst chairman Marcus Nilsen told The Local.
By signing up for a "legal abortion" then, a man would not have to pay maintenance for his child, but neither would he have any right to meet the child.
(NYT) A Swedish Girl, ISIS and a Cautionary Tale of Global Terrorism
It was a running-away-from-home nightmare for the age of global terrorism. Marilyn Nevalainen, a pregnant teenager, decided to follow her boyfriend last year when he set out to wage jihad, leaving the lakes and forests of southwest Sweden for life under the Islamic State in the desert heat of Iraq.
Apparently lacking any clear idea of what she was getting herself into, she ended up with militants near Mosul, with a new baby to care for and her boyfriend dead on an Iraqi battlefield.
Remarkably, Ms. Nevalainen, now 16, and her infant son made it out alive. Much remains unknown about how she turned up two weeks ago in Kurdish-controlled northern Iraq, and she has not spoken publicly beyond a brief television interview in which she contended that she had followed her boyfriend without knowing "what ISIS means, what Islam is, nothing." She is now back in Sweden.
For his Feast Day–Medieval Sourcebook: Life of Anskar, the Apostle of the North, 801-865
When one of Anskar's followers suggested to him that he could work miracles he replied, " Were I worthy of such a favour from my God, I would ask that He would grant to me this one miracle, that by His grace He would make of me a good man." No one can read the "Life" written by Rimbert his disciple and successor which, after being lost for five hundred years, was fortunately rediscovered, without feeling moved to thank God for the accomplishment of the miracle for which Anskar had prayed. He was a good man in the best and truest sense of the term. In the character presented to us by his biographer we have a singularly attractive combination of transparent humility, unflinching courage, complete self devotion, and unwavering belief in a loving and overruling providence. The claim to the title Apostle of the North, which was early made on his behalf, rests not upon the immediate outcome of his labours, but upon the inspiring example which he bequeathed to those who were moved to follow in his steps. For whilst the Missions which lie planted in Denmark and Sweden during the thirty-three years of his episcopate were interrupted after his death by the desolating raids of the Northmen, those by whom the work was restarted gratefully recognised him as their pioneer.
A Prayer for the Feast Day of Saint Anskar
Almighty and everlasting God, who didst send thy servant Anskar as an apostle to the people of Scandinavia, and dist enable him to lay a firm foundation for their conversion, though he did not see the results of his labors: Keep thy Church from discouragement in the day of small things, knowing that when thou hast begun a good work thou wilt bring it to a faithful conclusion; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever.
Today we remember Anskar, Archbishop of Hamburg,
Missionary in Denmark and Sweden, who died in 865: https://t.co/f2uZ6i8ELm
— Church of England (@c_of_e) February 3, 2016
(FC) Why Sweden Is Shifting To A 6-Hour Workday
The eight-hour workday hasn't changed much since Henry Ford first experimented with it for factory workers. Now, Americans work slightly longer""an average 8.7 hours""though more time goes into email, meetings, and Facebook than whatever our official job duties actually are. Is it time to rethink how many hours we spend at the office?
In Sweden, the six-hour workday is becoming common.
"I think the eight-hour workday is not as effective as one would think," says Linus Feldt, CEO of Stockholm-based app developer Filimundus. "To stay focused on a specific work task for eight hours is a huge challenge. . . . In order to cope, we mix in things and pauses to make the workday more endurable. At the same time, we are having it hard to manage our private life outside of work. We want to spend more time with our families, we want to learn new things or exercise more. I wanted to see if there could be a way to mix these things."
(G+M) Simon Hedlin on why Amnesty International made the wrong decision on sex workers
There are important reasons why it is a gigantic misstep for Amnesty to advocate for the decriminalization of sex buyers. First, the empirical evidence of potential benefits from making it permissible to purchase sex is weak while the costs may be enormous. New Zealand decriminalized prostitution in 2003 and yet the country's Prostitution Law Review Committee found in its evaluation that a majority of prostituted persons felt that the decriminalization act "could do little about violence [in prostitution]." At the same time, several studies have found that countries where buying sex is decriminalized, sex trafficking is more prevalent.
Second, decriminalizing buying sex seems to be at odds with Amnesty's core objectives. One of the reasons that there are so many of us who have strongly supported Amnesty for years is the organization's steadfast commitment to the fundamental rights of individuals, whether they are refugees, prisoners of conscience, or victims of torture. But buying sex is not a human right.
Instead of adopting a harmful proposal, Amnesty should have learned from Sweden's prostitution policies. In 1999, Sweden made it illegal to buy sexual services, but not to sell them "" an approach that is now often called "the Swedish model."
(AP) In Women's World Cup US and Sweden play to 0-0 Draw
Meghan Klingenberg — not Hope Solo — made the biggest save of the night for the United States.
Klingenberg, a diminutive defender, leaped to head a shot by Sweden's Caroline Seger. The ball hit the crossbar and caromed away from the goal.
Goal-line technology was used to confirm the ball never crossed the line.
The save in the 77th minute preserved the 0-0 draw with Sweden on Friday night in one of the most anticipated group-stage matches at the Women's World Cup.
"Brilliant," U.S. coach Jill Ellis said of Klingenberg's heroics. "Believe it or not, we actually practice that."
(FT) Russian air incursions rattle Baltic states
The Baltic countries are registering a dramatic increase in Russian military provocations, rattling nerves in a region which fears it could be the next frontier after Ukraine in Moscow's quest at asserting its regional power.
Nato fighters policing Baltic airspace were scrambled 68 times along Lithuania's borders this year, by far the highest count in more than 10 years. Latvia registered 150 "close incidents", cases where Russian aircraft were found approaching and observed for risky behaviour. Estonia said its sovereign airspace had been violated by Russian aircraft five times this year, nearing the total count of seven over the previous eight years.
(Comment is Free) Giles Fraser–In Sweden, human darkness is confronted by the arts not the church
The takeaway message is this: no one needs churches to be nice or tasteful. If churches have a future, it's in addressing our existential darkness: sin and death. Progressive politics is important, but it doesn't do any deep religious work. And liberals in the church will have to rediscover this after we have won our culture wars. What other religion has such a dark image at its centre? And yet my own brand of liberal Christianity too often seeks salvation through a few gentle verses of All Things Bright and Beautiful or lots of self-important dressing up and wandering around in fancy churches. Devoted atheists are never going to be persuaded by a theology of the cross. But no one whatsoever is going to be persuaded by a theology of nice.
(Charisma) Swedish Megachurch Pastor Ulf Ekman Converts to Roman Catholicism
During his Sunday morning service, Ulf Ekman announced the he and his wife, Birgitta, are converting to Roman Catholicism.
Ekman is the founder of Word of Life, a megachurch in Uppsala, Sweden. News reports and blogs coming out of the nation reveal the congregation was "partially stunned" after hearing what was packaged as a "special announcement." The theme was "Follow the Lamb Wherever He Goes."
"For Birgitta and me, this has been a slow process were we have gone from discovering new things, to appreciating what we have discovered, to approach and even learn from our fellow Christians," Ekman says on his ministry website.
(CSM) Harold Sirkin–To cut entitlements, US can look to one of Europe's welfare states
One of America's chief fiscal burdens is the mounting cost of entitlements (Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid) "" an obligation that will only grow larger as baby boomers age. In tackling this problem, the United States should look to what many might see as an unlikely model "" the European welfare state, Sweden.
"Usually, U.S. policymakers look to Europe to determine what not to do when it comes to social-welfare policy," James C. Capretta, former associate director of the US Office of Management and Budget, wrote a few years ago.
But, he continued: "When you are in a hole, the prudent first step is to stop digging, and the United States can indeed gain insight into how to "˜stop digging' the entitlement hole" by studying the reforms that some European countries have implemented. Most notably, he suggested, we should study what Sweden and Germany did to cut their long-term government pension commitments.
(BBC) Sweden tops Tim Berners-Lee's web index
Sweden has topped a new global index evaluating the state of the web in 61 countries, with the US coming second and the UK third.
Compiled by Sir Tim Berners-Lee's World Wide Web Foundation, it ranked both the social and political impact of the web.
It found that only one in three people are using the web globally and fewer than one in six in Africa.
England Beat Sweden 3-2 in Euro 2012 competition today
A heart stopping thriller of a game. Danny Welbeck's goal was just beautiful. Read it all and see the picture there.
Andriy Shevchenko Inspires Euro 2012 Co-Hosts Ukraine To Opening Win
Andriy Shevchenko rolled back the years to score twice as co-hosts Ukraine came from behind to beat Sweden 2-1 in their opening game of the European Championships, in Kiev.
(AP) Sweden moving towards cashless economy
Sweden was the first European country to introduce bank notes in 1661. Now it's come farther than most on the path toward getting rid of them.
"I can't see why we should be printing bank notes at all anymore," says Bjoern Ulvaeus, former member of 1970's pop group ABBA, and a vocal proponent for a world without cash.
The contours of such a society are starting to take shape in this high-tech nation, frustrating those who prefer coins and bills over digital money.
A Prayer for the Feast Day of Saint Anskar
Almighty and everlasting God, who didst send thy servant Anskar as an apostle to the people of Scandinavia, and dist enable him to lay a firm foundation for their conversion, though he did not see the results of his labors: Keep thy Church from discouragement in the day of small things, knowing that when thou hast begun a good work thou wilt bring it to a faithful conclusion; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever.
In Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V we trust: File sharing made an official Swedish religion on Third Request
Since 2010 a group of self-confessed pirates have tried to get their beliefs recognized as an official religion in Sweden. After their request was denied several times, the Church of Kopimism "" which holds CTRL+C and CTRL+V as sacred symbols "" is now approved by the authorities as an official religion. The Church hopes that its official status will remove the legal stigma that surrounds file-sharing.
All around the world file-sharers are being chased by anti-piracy outfits and the authorities, and the situation in Sweden is no different. While copyright holders are often quick to label file-sharers as pirates, there is a large group of people who actually consider copying to be a sacred act.
From the You Cannot Make This Stuff Up Department-Apparently Inebriated Moose found in Swedish tree
A seemingly intoxicated moose has been discovered entangled in an apple tree by a stunned Swede.
Per Johansson, 45, says he heard a roar from his vacationing neighbour's garden in southwestern Sweden late Tuesday and went to have a look. There, he found a female moose kicking about in the tree. The animal was likely drunk from eating fermented apples.
(FT) John Lloyd: The art of darkness
The first page of the first chapter of Henning Mankell's latest (and apparently last) Wallander novel The Troubled Man is sheer misery. Inspector Kurt Wallander, divorced for 15 years, lives in a flat "where so many unpleasant memories were etched into the walls"; he "reminded himself over and over again of his father's lonely old age … now it seemed as if his father was taking him over … he had no religious hopes of anything being in store for him … nothing but the same darkness he had once emerged from … he would be dead for such a long time … he had seen far too many dead bodies in his life".
Wallander novels might be prefaced by the sign Dante imagined above the gates of Hell "" "lasciate ogne speranza, voi ch' intrate": "all hope abandon, ye who enter here": for in these books, the descent is often through deepening layers of horror. The same could be said for much of rest of the now enormously popular, critically acclaimed school of Scandinavian noir "" for noir they are, set in the bleakness of towns and forests, dark for much of the year. The cult BBC hit of the year so far, the Danish-made Copenhagen-set The Killing, which ends this weekend, is shot almost wholly at night….
…the most striking commercial success in novel writing in the past five years has come from Marxists who write of people beset with misery who either commit or must deal with acts of extreme sadistic violence. It is not a development that a publisher or an agent would naturally have arrived at as a formula for success. So what explains its extraordinary appeal?
(Guardian) Julian Assange to be extradited to Sweden
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is to be extradited to Sweden to face allegations of rape and sexual assault.
Assange has been fighting extradition since he was arrested and bailed in December. He has consistently denied the allegations, made by two women in August last year.
Howard Riddle, the chief magistrate, delivered his ruling at a hearing at Belmarsh magistrates court in London. It is unlikely to be the end of the matter, however, because an appeal is expected, which would delay the final decision until the summer at the latest.
(BBC) Stockholm blasts: Sweden probes 'terrorist attack'
Two explosions in Sweden's capital Stockholm are being investigated as a "crime of terror", officials say.
A car blew up in a busy shopping area on Saturday afternoon, followed moments later by a second explosion nearby.
Witnesses said a man found dead after the second blast had been carrying an explosive device. Two people were hurt.
PM Fredrik Reinfeldt said the attacks were unacceptable in Sweden's "open society", which he said was a democracy that respected different cultures.
Britain Arrests WikiLeaks Founder in Sex Inquiry
In the latest twist in the drama swirling around the WikiLeaks anti-secrecy group, British police officials said on Tuesday they had arrested Julian Assange, its beleaguered founder, on a warrant issued in Sweden in connection with alleged sex offenses.
Mr. Assange, a 39-year-old Australian, was arrested by officers from Scotland Yard's extradition unit when he went to a central London police station by prior agreement with the authorities, the police said. A court hearing was expected later.
In a statement, the police said: "Officers from the Metropolitan Police extradition unit have this morning arrested Julian Assange on behalf of the Swedish authorities on suspicion of rape."
WikiLeaks: Julian Assange to hand himself in to police after arrest warrant issued
Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, will hand himself in to police – possibly as early as Tuesday – after a fresh European Arrest Warrant was issued by the Swedish authorities.
Mr Assange is expected to voluntarily attend a police station within the next 24 hours, and will then appear in a magistrates' court. He is wanted over allegations of sexual assault in Sweden.
He is currently in hiding in the south-east of England but police are understood to have the necessary paperwork to arrest him.
Mark Stephens, Mr Assange's British lawyer, said: "We are in discussions about him going to the police by consent."
(SMH) Peter Hartcher–China is on wrong side of history
The Australian Parliament had been scheduled yesterday to debate a resolution calling on China to free the Nobel peace prize winner Liu Xiaobo.
Liu, 54, was sentenced in December to 11 years in jail. His crime? To co-write Charter 08, a manifesto calling on the Chinese government to give real force to China's constitution. This would separate the ruling party from the state, allow a truly independent judiciary and create a real parliamentary democracy.
The peaceful pursuit of these rights – rights enjoyed by the citizens of every other big power and grandly proclaimed in the constitution – was judged by China's courts to be an "incitement to subvert state power".
(LA Times) Timothy Garton Ash: What will Happen to Liu Xiaobo Post-Peace Prize?
Norway's Nobel Peace Prize committee has done the right thing in awarding this year's prize to Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo. The furious reaction of the Chinese state shows just how complicated doing the right thing will become as we advance into an increasingly post-Western world.
Liu is exactly the kind of person who deserves this prize, alongside Andrei Sakharov, Aung San Suu Kyi and Nelson Mandela. For more than 20 years, he has consistently advocated nonviolent change in China, always in the direction of more respect for human rights, the rule of law and democracy. He has paid for this peaceful advocacy with years of imprisonment and harassment. Unlike last year's winner, Barack Obama, who got the prize just for what he had promised to do, Liu gets it for what he has actually done.
The Chinese authorities tried hard to prevent him getting it. They directly threatened the Nobel committee with negative consequences for Chinese-Norwegian relations. They have since described the award as an "obscenity," forbidden any mention of it in the censored Chinese media, placed Liu's wife under house arrest, detained other critical intellectuals, canceled export talks with Norway "" and are now doubtless debating how to play it from here.
Sweden has first passive euthanasia since law relaxed
A Swedish woman who was paralysed died Wednesday after her respirator was unplugged, in the country's first case of euthanasia since the law was relaxed last month, a Stockholm hospital said.
"The patient who asked the National Health Board to die, died at 5:33 pm (1533 GMT) after her respirator was unplugged," Annakarin Svenningsson, a spokeswoman for Stockholm's Danderyd hospital told AFP.
Sweden's health authority last month authorised passive euthanasia, whereby patients may request the termination of their treatment knowing that this will lead to their death.


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Singapore, 17 January 2016 – To mark National Life Saving Day, Deputy Prime Minister and Coordinating Minister for National Security Teo Chee Hean today launched Singapore's first certifiable *Citizen First Responder Training Programme in Pasir Ris-Punggol GRC, where 400 residents received the first Citizen First Responder certification.
Pioneered by the National Resuscitation Council and the National First Aid Council, the 5-hour1 skills-based training programme covers Citizen First Aid, Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation & Automated External Defibrillator (CPR+AED). The organisations encourage people who would not otherwise attend the usual 24-hour first aid programmes, to pick up lifesaving skills.
"You have taken this important step to empower yourselves to save lives in the community, at work, and in public places. Please share with your family and friends, the importance of learning life-saving skills, so that we can train even more citizen first responders. Together, we can promote self-help, care for one another, and make Singapore a more resilient community" said DPM Teo, who was Guest-of-Honour at the launch event at the Pasir Ris Sports & Recreation Centre.
"To achieve a state of one first aider in every home, we need to train at least 500,000 people annually. People may be deterred and not come forward to be first aid trained owing to the long duration of traditional such courses. The Citizen First Responders Training Programme will provide our community the ability to perform the required actions for the most common time-critical medical emergencies," said Prof V. Anantharaman, Chairman, National Resuscitation Council.
"The Singapore Red Cross is pleased to be the first to make available the Citizen First Responder training to the community. The National First Aid Council, together with the National Resuscitation Council, aim to train large segments of the population in lifesaving skills. We need to work towards greater involvement of our citizens in this training so that we can become a society where first response by the community is a norm," said Mr Benjamin William, Honorary Secretary of National First Aid Council, and Secretary General/CEO of Singapore Red Cross.
With instructors facilitating practical training, the Citizen First Responders course trains participants in the use of contents of a first-aid kit and initial actions to be carried out on-site when dealing with eight common time-critical situations, such as fainting, shock & unconsciousness, and stroke. A short theory and practical test at the end of the session rounds up the programme. Public can register for training at the Singapore Red Cross Academy here.
At the event today, DPM Teo also presented Survivor Awards to 22 community citizens and 1 group (Sport Singapore) who have helped survivors of cardiac arrest at the 3rd Survivor Awards Ceremony.
"Every year, nearly 3,000 people die from coronary heart disease or heart attack in Singapore, with about half of these people collapsing before they can reach a hospital. Knowledge, skills and willingness to act will increase the chances of survival and recovery for these people. Together we can build a more resilient society where everyone is equipped with skills to save lives," said Prof V. Anantharaman.
*See Annex A for more information on the Citizen First Responders course.
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A five-hour1 course, the Citizen First Aid Programme has two main components – the CPR+AED course and the Citizen First Aid Course. It teaches the use of contents of a First-Aid box and initial actions to be carried out on-site when dealing with 8 common time-critical situations, viz. fainting, shock & unconsciousness, stroke, breathlessness, heat exhaustion and heat stroke, bleeding, burns and fractures. The focus is on hands-on skills-based teaching with instructors facilitating maximal practical training. A short theory and practical test at the end of the session rounds up the program. The participants are certified as Citizen First responders on successful completion of the program.
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1 With effect from August 2016, the course duration is now seven hours.


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I bet you didn't know that the word jeans originated from a place in Italy called Genoa, as the people that lived there were called Genes.
I bet you didn't know that the word jeans originated from a place in Italy called Genoa, as the people that lived there were called Genes.
Does anyone know what tomorrow is? No, not Saint Valentine's Day. That is already obvious from all the blog posts, makeup inspiration posts and Outfit posts we have been reading all month long.
The 60 days of January finally came to an end. I loved it. I learnt from it. I made resolutions, had fresh starts, trusted more in God. Made plans. Fulfilled some. Kept some for later.
Here's a recap of my January. And some of my favorite links around the web.
I get asked a lot what makeup brushes are absolutely necessary. With the great evolution of makeup, you can be easily swarmed with choices and end up with what you need and what you don't really need.
Being a creative involves stretching yourself to limits you didn't even think you had. And discovering parts of yourself you didn't know existed.
You would know (if you follow me on Instagram) that I suffered a major makeup loss when I misplaced my entire brush set and a couple of other makeup items in the last week of 2017.
So I have been using the first few weeks of 2018 to plan how I would rebuild my makeup box. Not just to replace the lost items but to make it even better.
I've decided to give the Style category of this blog a chance once again. Because, part of my glow agenda for 2018 (let's call it 'glowgenda') is to look great in luxury as well as thrifted pieces.
To describe my style, would be to describe a solo picnic on a lonely private beach. Lazy and Comfortable.


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text: Matt Straw - June 30, 2012 Winds Of Erie Largemouths Here's my good friend Jerry Myers again, with a decent bass from a protected bay on Erie near Port Clinton. We needed the protection, as the winds of Erie picked up and blew even stronger than the day before.It was a bluebird day—just 24 hours after a cold front blew through. Not a cloud in the sky. So we stayed off the rolling seas, lathered up with sunscreen, and pitched Bass'N Bait Company Snakie Spoons onto expansive pad fields, rolling them over the slop and down through the pockets. The unique action of the Snakie pulled quite a few out of the heavy stuff, but—as is so typical on days like these—the big girls refused to come out and play. I really don't understand those who keep trying to convince us that bass—big bass in particular—don't respond to cold fronts. Their reaction is quite consistent. All lack of scientific evidence aside, big bass bury themselves in heavy cover after severe fronts. The strike zone in front of them shrinks from feet to inches.Myers won a tournament here recently on a windy day, catching several largemouths over 4 pounds. So we faithfully moved around to see if we could unearth a few, trying the deeper weeds with spinnerbaits. We caught a few more, rolling double Colorados along with steady retrieves, but nothing fantastic. Finally, we moved into a channel leading into the big lake and fished the base of rip-rap walls in 8 to 12 feet of water, hoping to find some errant smallmouths. Myers and Bass'N Bait owner Ron Perrine said smallies once thrived in these spots, but largemouths have since taken over, pushing their bronze cousins entirely out to sea.We found truckloads of 1- to 3-pound bass, but nothing bigger. We pitched gobie-pattern tubes on 3/16- to 5/16-ounce heads with exposed hooks, finding consistent action right at the base of the rocks. While releasing one small fish after the other, we looked wistfully out over the whitecaps beyond the breakwalls, wishing Nature had given us one more chance to dance with bronzebacks on one of the finest smallmouth lakes on the planet.Story of my life. Like the time an 80-year old Native American met me on the dock as I stepped off a float plane in Quebec and said, "I've never seen the water this high in my life." Or the time I walked up to a lodge on Lake Huites in the Sierra Madres, where an 80-year old Mexican announced, "Senor—it has never been this cold before in my lifetime." Call me Jonah, but I was allowed to discover that Erie has some pretty spectacular—and largely unheralded—largemouth fishing in its harbors and bays. Get Your Fish On. Plan your next fishing and boating adventure here. GET THE NEWSLETTER Join the List and Never Miss a Thing. Sign Me Up


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Manchester City, FIFA team up for CAS appeal by Velez Sarsfield
Manchester City and FIFA will be on the same side of an appeal case at the Court of Arbitration for Sport.
CAS says an appeal by Argentine club Velez Sarsfield to challenge the transfer of teenager Benjamin Garre will be heard on July 3.
Velez complained to FIFA last year that City broke rules preventing trafficking of minors by signing Garre after he turned 16.
The Premier League club said they could register Garre with the English Football Association and FIFA because he had an Italian passport.
FIFA respects European Union laws allowing free movement of 16- and 17-year-olds.
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Young hero Ram, scored a huge hit in the form of Nenu Sailaja and saved his sinking career. The film was a runway hit and collected some very good amounts for producer Sravanthi Ravi Kishore.
After a long gap, the film was also uploaded on YouTube and here too the film has become a roaring hit. Within no time the film has crossed one million views on the producer's channel only proving the craze for the film.
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Rock Band Blitz finally drops this August 28-29 (PSN first, then XBLA), and we now have the full 25-song track list, straight from Harmonix. The following tracks were announced today to round out the previously announced tracks to make the full 25:
Chris Rigopulos, Harmonix's VP of Music and Strategy: "There are a handful of artists that are new to the Rock Band catalog, as well as solid tracks from fan favorites and classic artists. These are handpicked tracks that we made sure are not only fun to play in Rock Band Blitz, but make an awesome addition to your Rock Band 3 music library at a great value."
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SLICK digital marketing, cargo deliveries under the cover of darkness, and a $700 weekly pay packet.
These are some of the trade secrets a Sydney-based "daigou" has revealed, giving intimate insights into the lucrative underground industry of reselling Australian-made baby formula to desperate parents in China.
Translating to "buyer's agent" or "personal shopper", thousands of the Chinese daigou are believed to be operating all over Australia — more than 3000 in Sydney alone — stocking up on the powdered "white gold" to ship overseas at massively inflated prices.
In online posts to an Australian stock market forum, which have since been deleted, a user who claims to be a Chinese man living in Sydney has described how he cracked the baby formula exporting trade and details the shipping business he claimed to be running alongside his day job.
In removed posts seen by news.com.au, the man says he came to Sydney to study and work, and was lured into the lucrative exporting trade when he realised its business potential while supplying formula to family and friends.
While some daigou are believed to be raking in six figures salaries from their trade, this particular user claimed he and his wife operated a small sideline business supplementing his regular income.
"We started to do daigou because my Chinese friends and relatives asked us to do [it] for them in the first place, they know we are living in Sydney so we can access to safe baby formula," he posted.
"Daigou provides us extra cash which is important for us to live in an expensive city like Sydney. On average we can make around 600 or 700 dollars per week but it is also hard work.
"My wife had to constantly chat with Chinese customers on the phone to take orders and I have to drive out to get the products from supermarkets when I finished my daily job ... in the night we have to carefully package them and deliver those parcels to cargo company in the weekend."
The author described visiting several supermarkets and chemists each night, having to adhere to buying limits enforced by retailers to prevent such behaviour. Only being allowed to purchase two or four tins at a time means driving suburbs to suburb to collect large volumes of the product.
He said the high demand for organic and "safe" baby formula in China can be traced back to the 2008 milk scandal which sparked an ongoing food safety scare. Even though there is formula available in China, local product is not trusted by Chinese buyers, the daigou explained.
The online discussion details marketing strategies employed by sellers in China using social media platform WeChat, and explains how the seller believes online promotion by daigou contributes to high sales and product shortage.
The man says a shortage of popular brand Karicare and Aptamil formulas saw Chinese sellers begin to promote Bellamy's, which was "virtually unknown" in China at the time, he claimed, via WeChat.
"So the daigou social network came in," he wrotes
"They started to promote Bellamy formulas, they said it is organic, pure and natural bla bla, so the Chinese parents gave a try and I think Chinese babies like the taste."
The result was Bellamy formula became popular overnight and so did its share price, the post claimed.
The man claimed social media promoters changed tactics again when Bellamy's fell into short supply.
"Eventually Bellamy formulas were short of supplies as well. So daigou social network started to promote Karicare's Aptamil formula again and which let's both of formulas were short of supply by the end of last year," he wrote.
"At the end the daigou social network had no choice but to promote A2 formula and branded it as rich people's formula since it was twice expensive than Aptamil and Bellamy."
The revealing messages were posted on a thread for investors in A2M shares — the ASX listed A2 Milk Company Limited.
Directly addressing shareholders and prospective investors, the purported daigou takes credit for the surge in share prices of organic formula distributor Bellamy's on behalf of grey market sellers, and predicts a similar fate for A2M. The baby formula boom saw BAL (Bellamy's) shares surge around 700 per cent in 2015.
"I think BAL owe daigou a big favour," the daigou wrote.
"As long as Chinese government does not fix the food safety issue, daigou will exist and Bellamy and A2M will have bright future."
The man says the intention of his post is to "help future investing decisions" and asked fellow forum participants not to judge his actions.
"I am just an ordinary family man trying to make a living," he wrote.
Ben Sun from Think China, an Australian digital marketing firm specialising in targeting the Chinese market says the comprehensive confessional was a story he'd heard many times before.
"This is very typical," he told news.com.au.
"I would say every single Chinese student or migrant would know some of their friends doing this type of job. They usually start with family and friends and then friends' friends, to a bigger volume."
Mr Sun said it was common for diagou to make around $600 — $700 per week as described in the deleted posts, but there were many different levels.
"I would say most people are doing it as a side job, and they would probably make around 600 — 700 each week. That's a side job. But there are large number of daigou doing this as a fulltime job and full families where, for example, the wife is looking after the customer service and the man collecting the stock and looking after logistics. It's different levels," he said.
Mr Sun also said the social media strategies had been accurately described.
Formula companies are reluctant to give grey market sellers credit for influencing the market.
Both A2 and Bellamy's failed to respond to news.com.au's requests for comment.
But Mr Sun conceded social media promotion by daigou was influential among their significant international social media networks.
He said if one product was in short supply, aggressive marketing of an alternative would drive up demand for whatever was in stock.
"Why they do that is, whoever can get the stock can make the money," he said.
"They move their promotion focus to different brands when the couldn't get the stock. They change a lot and their networks are large, so yes, they do have influence on what people want to buy. This is not a small network. There are a lot of people in Australia doing this and they are buying a lot of the products."
Infant formula makers have struggled to keep up with demand for their product in Australia, with the tins, selling for up to $28 dollars, frequently disappearing from supermarket and chemist shelves quicker than they can be restocked.
Supermarkets have blamed suppliers for failing to keep up with demand, while suppliers say the fault lies with retailers' systems with families ultimately suffering from the formula shortage.
Though formula makers like A2 and Bellamy's sell and aggressively market their products in China, they are sold for far higher prices. A lack of trust in retailers combined with a strong presence of counterfeit sellers has led wary Chinese shoppers to turn to trusted Australian retailers and ignited the burgeoning daigou trade.
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