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Insects stinging, drawing blood. My hands, my breasts, trapped in unyielding metal. My movements secured with hooks buried deep inside my body: I am filled, I am owned. I walk enjoy a marionette, with every step the hooks pull with cruelty inside my butt and my vagina. When I am released it is only to be stretched over a log and staked out in the grass; again I am left vulnerable, unable to protect myself from insects, biting my open body. My head secured in place with stakes and a gag. Shrieking as a worm is dangled over my face, crawling into my nose, squirming its slippery flesh over my tongue and my lips. And yet one memory towers above the rest of my punishment; he called it the mala mansio. This will is a shell. Where is my torrent of dream? Here is the silence that follows the thunder and blood? I breathe in this space, four corners no light- four corners that bind me and I am strapped into this place. I am held here enjoy a moon in helpless orbit. My voice echoes so strangely from these aggressive corners. Every moment my panic threatens to overtake and drown me.
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Zayda J is trying to tease Elise Graves. It's not obvious at first but if you listen to her contradictions it mind dawn on you. "I enjoy rough play, and being slapped around," she said, but then talked about how she doesn't love pain. She says her favorite bondage moment is cumming and squirting but as soon as Elise starts to vibrate her she complains about how intense it feels. When someone plays games love that they are just asking to get hurt. Zayda doesn't realize how dangerous frustrating Elise can be. Elise is going to play her games, she is going to play rough, but the more Zayda tries to struggle or resist the more likely Elise is to take things to the next level.
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Six on PJs and 7 totally nude bottom due to a double count on â8â. The board burns her bubble-butt like no other implement: âItâs the one thing I dread,â she admits. Amazing slow-motion bare replays!
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A visit to the emergency room is not the best way to start your dayâ¦especially at this twisted hospital. The doctors here are all about the freaky fetishes. They tie up and tie down their patients, then use pinwheels, crops and clamps on the bodies. After this visit to the E.R., theyâll never want to go to a doctor againâ¦or, if theyâre as kinky as we think, theyâll be ready and excited to go back!
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For many of our whores they feel enjoy the live feed is all about them. Holly Wildes may have had that idea at some point but we definitely took care of that. As she stares into the camera PD reminds her that everything she does is for the members who enjoy watching her suffering. Tears begin to roll down her cheeks as our crew takes their canes to her backside. She is bound to a pole, with her tits tied off, which means every time they land a blow she has no way to rock herself to ease the pain. She feels the full force of every stroke and has no choice but to grit her teeth and bear it. She calls it fucked up, we call it beautiful. She will learn to thank us later. While she is on all fours eating her dog-food lunch we get a clear look at the stripes on her butt. They are beautiful reminders of her time with us. And her good service has earned her a prize, too. The members want to see her cum, which means that after being worked up and worked over she finally gets to feel the sweet delectation of sexual release.
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I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter. (Sir Winston Churchill)
The fundamental cause of trouble in the world is that the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt. (Bertrand Russell)
You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality. (Ayn Rand)
The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them. (Albert Einstein)
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November marks the unofficial start to the 2007 season as many corps start to host their annual auditions. DCI.org has asked directors and staff members for their tips to help you on your way to becoming a member of the world's most elite and exclusive marching music ensembles. Practice hard, and good luck!
We all deal with nervousness everyday. One thing that I find helps me is to spend some time before an event really exploring what it is that is frightening to me and visualizing all of the possible negative outcomes that I fear. Some of them will vanish immediately on examination, because they were never truly possible. No one is going to mock you or make you feel inferior. Corps staff members are professionals and they'll treat you as one, too. - Walt Omiecinski, Pacific Crest marching coordinator Check out a list of audition dates for the corps you want to join.
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3 Ways to Profit from a Weak Euro
07/27/2012 9:00 am EST
Focus: STOCKS
To make money even while the euro struggles, take a look at best-in-class European exporters. Here are three stocks worthy of investors' attention, writes MoneyShow's Jim Jubak, also of Jubak's Picks.
"Nibble, nibble, little mouse, who is nibbling at my house?"
Nope. Not Hansel. Not Gretel. I'm starting to nibble at the shares of euro exporters.
I don't think I can call a bottom in the euro—$1.20? $1.14? Parity? And I am very certain that we're not going to witness anything like the end of the Euro debt crisis in the next few weeks. But I think odds are tilted enough in favor of euro exporters that it's time to start buying initial positions in the best-in-class companies.
In fact, my logic here doesn't depend on an end of the Euro debt crisis, or a quick recovery in the euro at all. I wouldn't mind seeing the euro continue to stumble even after I've made my buys.
You see, that's what I'm counting on.
Currency Math
A continuing Euro debt crisis works in favor of the stocks of euro exporters by reducing the prices that customers who buy in dollars, yuan, yen, pesos, or reais pay.
That means the decline in the euro, from $1.44 on July 26, 2011 to $1.21 on July 25, has made anything priced in euros almost 16% cheaper for anyone paying in dollars. That same trend has been at work for anyone paying in most of the world's currencies.
The Euro debt crisis has been an equivalent of a 16% sale. And we all know what a sale can do for demand—especially if a company is selling against competitors who aren't giving customers a similar price cut from a falling currency.
The Euro debt crisis also works to inflate the revenue—and thus the earnings—of any company that collects dollars or yen or yuan from its customers and then translates those currencies back into euros on its income statement.
Think of this as the flip side of a problem faced by McDonald's (MCD) and other US-based, dollar-using companies. McDonald's has said that the strong dollar will cost it 21 cents or so in revenue per share in 2012. Well, euro exporters will pick up revenue per share as a result of the weak euro
If you're a dollar-based investor (or yen or reais or yuan), the Euro debt crisis has given you another boost: Your currency will buy more of a Eurozone exporter's stock than it would have a month ago.
It's not just that a weaker euro means you can buy more widgets with your US dollars. You can also buy a bigger hunk of a euro exporter. And that would be true even if the stock in question hadn't plunged in price—its euro price—because of the Euro debt crisis.
Some caveats:
- To take the biggest advantage of the effects of the Euro debt crisis, you've got to buy the shares of companies that are priced in euros (or euro-pegged currencies, such as the Swiss franc and the Danish krone) and that do business in euros. You won't get the same effect if you buy companies priced in the Norwegian krone or the Polish zloty.
- Pay attention to where a company sources its products. You lose much (or at least some) of the pricing edge from a falling euro if the company is paying a higher price to source its product in stronger non-euro currencies.
Don't make assumptions here. For example, until I did some digging, I assumed that Spanish retailer Zara, owned by Inditex, must be doing most of its sourcing outside Europe. That would drive up the prices that the company has to pay for the clothing it sells.
It turns out that about 50% of Zara's sourcing is from Spain and 26% from elsewhere in Europe—Portugal, for example. Zara will feel the full effect of the weaker euro when it sells in New York or Tokyo.
- The danger, of course, is that the Eurozone debt crisis will escalate in a way that takes down the share price of even the strongest euro exporter. That's why you want to nibble now rather than go all in, and why you want to buy shares of the best exporters.
You're looking for exporters that are so good at what they do that trouble in their home markets will be outweighed by gains in export markets. For example, shares of Finnish elevator company Kone (KNEBV.FH in Helsinki), the fourth-largest elevator company in the world, are up 26.2% in the past 52 weeks.
- You're also betting that the global economy isn't about to head off a cliff. This play works only if you think that the US and Chinese economies will be relatively stronger in the second half of 2012. That's my read of the tea leaves. But if it isn't yours—if you think the US is headed back into recession and/or that China is headed for a hard landing—then these aren't buys for you.
- As hard as it is to identify the best-in-class euro exporters, once you've found them, it can be tough to buy them. Some of the best trade only in the stock markets of their home countries. I've tried to list some picks that sell in New York.
Don't assume you can't buy one of these stocks if it trades only in its home market. Online brokers have vastly improved their foreign desks, and it never hurts to ask.
3 Stocks for Nibbling
Kone (KNEBV.FH in Helsinki): What's startling to me about Kone, the Finnish maker of escalators and elevators, isn't that the stock is up 26% in the past year during the Euro debt crisis, but that shares have climbed even as worries about growth in China have increased.
Sales from the Asia-Pacific region made up 27% of revenue in 2011, up from 17% in 2009. And Kone hasn't backed away from China: In May, the company doubled its ownership in its GiantKone joint venture.
What's helped Kone in China and during the Euro debt crisis is the way that sales of new elevators and escalators work in concert with maintenance contracts for that equipment. When sales of new equipment falter, revenue from maintenance on existing installations fills the gap.
Globally, Kone converts about 80% of its new orders into maintenance contracts, the company said in May. In China, the conversion rate is about 60%.
Kone doesn't seem to be having much trouble with new orders. On July 19, the company raised its guidance for 2012 to an operating profit of €760 million to €820 million ($933 million to $1 billion). Operating income for the second quarter rose to €208.5 million versus the consensus forecast of €200 million. Group revenue will climb by as much as 13% in 2012.
The stock sells at a trailing 12-month price-to-earnings ratio of 20.4, and pays a dividend of 2.77%.
Luxottica Group (LUX): You can see the effects of the Euro debt crisis on just about every line of Italian eyewear maker Luxottica's May 7 quarterly earnings report.
Net sales rose by 14.9% from the first quarter of 2011—or 11.1% at constant exchange rates that subtract the effect of the weak euro and the strong dollar. Net sales for the company's retail division, which includes the company's LensCrafters and Sunglass Hut chains, rose by 16%—or 10.1% at constant exchange rates.
The weak euro couldn't come at a better time for the company. Luxottica has just launched its line of Coach-branded eyewear. The initial stock sold out and the company projects going from $0 to $60 million in sales in the first year. And guess where Coach's (COH) brand is most powerful? In the strong-currency economies of the United States, Japan, and China.
And the company's growth has been so strong in emerging economies—36% year-over-year in the first quarter of 2012—that Luxottica isn't suffering too badly from getting just 6% growth in Europe (and 9% in the United States) in that quarter. Plus, in the Euro debt crisis, Luxottica gets to reap the benefits of manufacturing operations balanced between China and Italy.
The stock is up just 3.03% in the past 52 weeks. The shares trade at a multiple of 21.56 times projected 2012 earnings per share, and carry a 1.87% yield. (Luxottica is a member of my Jubak Picks 50 portfolio.)
Groupe Danone (DANOY), which also trades as BN.FP in Paris: The French seller of yogurt, bottled water, and baby foods has been pummeled by the Euro debt crisis.
The latest hit came on July 19, when the company said that falling yogurt sales in Spain and Southern Europe—as hard-pressed consumers switched to cheaper brands—would result in a 0.5-percentage-point drop in operating margin in 2012.
The shares of the New York-traded ADR have tumbled by 8.7% from the close on July 19 to the close on July 25. The stock is now down 21.9% in the past 52 weeks.
But Danone isn't just yogurt, and it's not just a European company anymore. The company's two biggest markets in 2011 were France and Russia, at 11% of revenue each. Spain and the United States come next at 7% of revenue each.
But 51% of Danone's sales now come from emerging markets (and 38% from Western Europe). Sales in Asia have grown at a compounded annual rate of 14.5% from 2008 to 2011. The company is the leading seller of bottled water in Asia, for example.
The ADRs trade at 15.07 times projected 2012 earnings per share, and pay a 3.17% dividend. (The dividend, paid once a year, was paid in May.)
I think these three nibbles are enough to get you started. There is still plenty of volatility ahead for investors in Europe, so don't eat too much now. You don't want to wind up in the oven with the witch, do you?
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The mind is a mirror image of what I believe will solve what I am fearing here in a present moment. I could say to my self that I am not a present moment and that as long as there is a running dialogue ( I wrote dis loge) of judgement , belief and idea in my mind, I am actually looking at what I desire, wish and want to save me, to be as my self as this is how I have been trained to be. This is the practice of my self as what I am in being here on this earth. Thus, I am never here because from day one I am taught to imitate what it is that I am to be to survive. Everything is geared towards me adapting to this world of a system that is a pyramid sceme. I am not taught to walk or to interact with what is here, I am taught to climb on a jungle gym/ladder to survive. Just look, playgrounds at school have jungle gyms. At least monkeys learn to swing around on real trees, we learn to climb metal bars, not realizing we are climbing around on what we will become, the image and likeness of a jungle gym in and as our minds. A map of survival skills that determine where we will be on the hierarchy of a system that promotes survival because it is an imposed system of more than and less than. It is like we are all emperors and
we learn to cloak ourselves/fashion ourselves with a facade that will enable us to survive. Our personalities are "place cards" that are our survival gear. And thus we are never here, we never live. We never learn about this physical world from the sense of our physical bodies. We learn a television sense of the world, and this television sense ends up sucking us dry, just as the televisions of this world use up electricity.
The criteria for survival, here in the west, is what my personality consists of, my thoughts and opinions and ideas are what I believe I need to survive, these are what I decide I need, want and desire to be presentable and able to participate within a profit based system of survival.
Do I see and understand how this physical world works? Can I be so present with my physical body that I know my physical body? Can I see why my children are sick, do I have enough understanding of this physical body that I can see why? No, I am not taught to be aware of my physical body. I am taught that a doctor will do ALL of this for me. Yet that system of doctors has not cured disease, and really they take a lot on my money. This is because a doctor is in his own survival suit, and he wants money. If you were aware of your physical body and understood what was happening you would not need someone to tell you and to patch you up with a drug. In this scenario is it possible that 1. if you were aware of yourself you would not have to use money to have someone else tell you what to do, and 2. if the doctor – as they presently exist in a profit based system- really knew this physical world would be able to cure you, but this would also not provide an endless stream of profits. Thus being here and understanding this physical world is simply not profitable for the few. Yet this would profit EVERYONE because everyone would know what they are as this physical world. Awareness of this physical world would create "knowing" people and then a respect for this physical world and then self directive ability where no one would have to be the director of you, and you would appreciate what you as yourself understand and respect this as all of this world and then appreciate this world and not fear this world and not create fucked up fantasies in and as your mind, where you are living in some fantasy story world instead of being here.
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Joseph Hughes is the caretaker of the Royal Palladium theater in St. Louis.
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In 2001, The Royal Palladium's demolition is planned. Having worked there for many years, Joseph is heartbroken at the announcement. Joseph kidnaps Maya Nguyen and holds her for the theater's ransom.
The original plan was to kidnap Brady Armstrong so that Simone Mueller could save the theater using her Hollywood connections, but instead Maya walked into the room, and Joseph panicked and instead kidnapped her.
After the theater's demolition, Joseph had planned to move to Greasewood, Arizona, where his brother Jake was. However, Joseph got a letter from Jake's lawyer revealing Jake had died six months prior. The lawyer did not know that Jake even had a brother, possibly suggesting Jake and Joseph were estranged.
Throughout the game, the kidnapping spirals out of Joseph's control due to the police believing Maya was not in the theater and Simone's publicity stunts (that he had no relation to). Nancy noted that, despite the complications, Joseph was still nice to Maya during her captivity.


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BETHLEHEM � They watched what their girls team did nearly two hours earlier.
They had an idea that the only obstacle preventing them from duplicating exactly that was one team � Jenkintown. They just didn�t know how close it would be.
So inspired, New Hope-Solebury�s boys cross country team took to the 3.1-mile course at Lehigh University for the District One Class A race. It was on the course that the school�s girls team had earlier captured first place to punch their ticket to states, and it was on the same course that the boys would do the same thing.
First, though, a tiebreaker needed to be worked out, because NH-S and Jenkintown were tied at 50-50 after the first five runners� places were added up.
The tiebreaker was the sixth runner and, for the Lions, that meant Christian Oliveira�s 17th-place finish was matched against Jenkintown�s Connor Cheeks�s finish. Cheek placed 50th, and the Lions were declared winners.
�At the BAL championships, they beat us, so I don�t think this was expected, but we knew we could do it if we had a good race,� said New Hope sophomore Greg House, who led the Lions with a fourth-place finish.
�I had a Jenkintown kid on me the whole way until the second mile, and I started pulling away. Our goal this season was to go to states, and we accomplished the goal.�
They will join the New Hope girls team in Hershey on Saturday for the state meet, because the girls won earlier in the day in a romp.
�The girls did very well, too, and we�re so proud of them, too,� said junior Danny Schlussel, who was ninth. �It�s a very, very tight-knit team, almost like a family. It was really exciting to see them win, then to have us win makes it so much better.�
Also heading to Chocolate Town will be Hatboro-Horsham senior Conner Quinn, the defending state champion. Quinn placed sixth in a very quick-paced Class AAA race.
�My time was pretty decent, but I�m not happy with my place,� said Quinn, who has narrowed his list of colleges to Syracuse, Penn State and Georgetown. �It�s the fastest I ever ran on that course.
�It was a lot faster than the previous year. I think last year, I would�ve been second with my time. There were a lot of fast times. It might have been the fastest race in recent years.�
Quinn crossed the finish line in 15:32, but the winner, West Chester Henderson�s Tony Russell, navigated the course in 15:11.
There is still one more race in Quinn�s high school cross country career, and that will come on a course on which he proved to be the state�s best last year.
�It�s a hillier course, and that�s my style,� said Quinn. �I wanted to push from the beginning at Lehigh, for guys with more leg speed, but next week I don�t have to do all the work and can stay back in the pack and really push the second mile, see if I can get a gapper.
�That�s where the race is won or lost � in that second mile. That�s a tough mile (at Hershey), a lot of hills, and it�s the hardest part of the course. If I push there and can be in the top group, I�ll feel confident (coming to the finish line).�
Placing fifth, a spot ahead of Quinn, was North Penn�s Jack Macauley in 15:28.
While the area won�t have a full team represented in Class AAA or Class AA, there were other individual qualifiers in Class AAA, including Central Bucks East freshman Jake Brophy (16th), Quakertown�s Alexander Balla (27th), Central Bucks West�s Chris Berry (29th), Souderton�s Connor Linse (30th), CB West�s A.J. Morgan (35th) and Pennridge�s Joey Logue (37th).
In Class AA, Lower Moreland�s Dan Alexander won his second straight district title, doing so in 16:20. It�s notable because Alexander�s father, Jim, was on William Tennent�s 1976 state championship cross country team.
Winning a state title this year is now in New Hope-Solebury�s hands � both the boys and girls.
�What a great day for both the boys and girls,� said New Hope coach Mike Clarke. �It�s fitting they train together so hard, and (the boys) being runner-up to Jenkintown a couple meets prior, it�s great, unbelievable to come back and win at end.
�I know in a tiebreaker, anything can happen, so we feel very blessed to move on both teams. I can�t think of a better scenario.�
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The holidays are past us, but local cops aren't letting up on enforcement against drunk drivers.
Despite some dreary weather, police are betting that you'll be dumb enough to become ensnared in one of their checkpoints tonight and tomorrow from the Valley to Long Beach.
Don't be. Here's your DUI checkpoint cheat sheet for the weekend:
-Tonight from 8 p.m. to 2 a.m. the LAPD will have a DUI checkpoint set up on Manchester Avenue at Denver Avenue in South Los Angeles.
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-Tomorrow (Saturday) from 8 p.m. to 2 a.m. the department will have a checkpoint on Victory Boulevard at Laurel Canyon Boulevard in North Hollywood.
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The Huffington Post earns over $2,330,000 every month from Pay Per Click Affiliate Program on blogging alone.
Arianna Huffington was the owner of The Huffington Post blog or a news website.
According to Wikipedia The Huffington Post was acquired by AOL in 2011 for $315 million US dollars, but Arianna is still the President and Editor-in-Chief.
The Huffington Post is the professional and corporate blogging which has several kinds of news: Business, Entertainment, Life & Style, Tech & Science, Voice and Local News.
In May 2005 Arianna Huffington launched her blog The Huffington Post in which later on it has over one million comments made each month.
Now her blog that turned into a corporation in which she is still the President and is the number one in all bloggers that have over 20M daily visitors.
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According to the Income Diary The Huffington Post blog earns over $2,330,000 monthly income with Pay Per Click alone. This is how a blog works with the affiliate programs. Besides the Pay Per Click, you can have more sources of possible income if you monetize your blog.
The internet now is more likely operated by bloggers. There are millions of blogs online that have different niches. Are you not wondering that almost everything you search online is a post of a blogger? There are nearly 6 billions of searches every month that the bloggers provide every answer to all the searchers.
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You too can learn how to start a blog if you only desire to make money by blogging through pay per click program. It is not hard nowadays how to educate yourself in the world of blogging lifestyle. There are so many resources that you can trust in this business.
So, what do you think about those who are earning a huge monthly income like Pat Flynn? He is one of the bloggers who impressed me a lot in blogging and who was still very young to start blogging that earns $258,737.45 early this year 2017.
He started his blog with pay per click, and gradually he becomes one of the professional bloggers. There are many like Pat Flynn who is making money from home with their blogs.
Blogging done by anyone who has an internet connection in the home, whether you have a full-time job or a part-time job. And most especially, if you don't have a regular job or you are staying at home with your children this is your opportunity. There are many mothers as well who are earning from blogging or working from home online.
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RIO DE JANEIRO (AFP) - Brazil forward Hulk has defended his absence from the national football squad for his country's first post-World Cup friendlies under new coach Dunga, who appears to have frozen him out for missing the games in September.
Dunga, who replaced Luiz Felipe Scolari in July after Brazil's World Cup semi-final drubbing by Germany when Hulk was substituted at half-time, called up the 28-year-old Zenit St Petersburg forward for September games against Colombia and Ecuador.
Hulk cried off with a thigh injury but was soon back in action with his Russian club, although he told newspaper Estado de Sao Paulo on Saturday that he had simply made a quicker recovery than expected.
"I felt a muscle behind my left thigh on Aug 31 and called Dunga to tell him what had happened. I asked if he wanted me to come to Brazil to be examined by team doctors but he said no, preferring me to have tests in Russia and to send the results to the Brazilian Confederation (CBF)," he said.
"The test showed an injury normally needing four to six weeks treatment and that was passed on to the CBF.
"Thank God I recovered very quickly," he added, saying he had been having nine hours of treatment a day in Russia.
"I was back in training on the 10th and played against Dynamo Moscow on the 13th. Someone passed incorrect information to Dunga saying I was already back on the sixth," a day after Brazil's friendly win over Colombia.
Since Hulk's injury, Dunga has neither called him into squads for friendlies in Asia and nor is he in the frame for friendlies against Austria and Turkey this month with the likes of Douglas Costa, Roberto Firmino and Luiz Adriano preferred.
Lamenting an apparent "misunderstanding", Hulk said: "If I am out on technical grounds then I must respect that and work all the harder to get another chance.
"I repeat, when I came back for Zenit, the Selecao had already played the two games" for which he was initially called up.
"Dunga was the first coach to call me into the national squad" in 2009, during the latter's first spell in charge.
"I have great respect for him and I want to get back to the Selecao and play the next World Cup," Hulk concluded.


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(p.s. If you haven't heard Ken Nordine, try him some time)
Almost Meeting the Sapphire Bloggers
When the pre-conference ASUG/BPX day on the Sunday before Sapphire concluded, I felt a tremendous wave of relief. The feedback was quite positive; the room had been packed with participants. I'd managed to capture almost the entire day on video (which I'm still in the process of editing) and I was eagerly looking forward to three days of interacting with community members, as well as taking a seat at the table with the blogger-analysts, some of whom I had only heard about but was eager to meet and engage with. Mike Prosceno the guardian angel of blogger-analysts and the person responsible for Craig's appearance last year at Sapphire and the man providing a ticket to the bloggers again this year in Sapphire Berlin, had offered me entrance into that inner sanctum of global communications, press, and journalists. I was really looking forward to meeting folks like Maggie Fox, Brian Summer, Jevon MacDonald, Susan Scrupski, and reconnecting with Dennis Howlett, Ed Herrmann, Dan McWeeney, Sandy Kemsley. And perhaps rubbing elbows with some of the other folks I hoped would be there like the three Jasons: Bush, Corsello and Wood or Charlie Wood. I also imagined I would bump into Shel Israel, Vinnie Mirchandani and Zoli Erdos.
A Not So Pleasant Surprise
Well I did see many of those folks, happily, although I only met one of the Jasons (Bush), missed Vinnie and never had the pleasure of meeting Susan (who I'd still like to meet), but the plans of being a "fly on the wall" during some of the blogger conversations vanished into thin air when I bumped into a friend and SAP mentor, Paul Taylor of Kraft Foods who just relocated to the US from the UK. Paul told me that he was going to participate in my ASUG speaker session on the second day of Sapphire. Well there was only one small problem with his announcement, I didn't know that I was giving said session.
Desperately Seeking Guidance
So in I charge to the blogger corner to see if I can get some of the social media technorati and intelligentsia to give me a crash course in explaining social networking to the masses and to collect ideas of how to create a credible presence in the absence of a slide deck and defined conference agenda. Needless to say my relief at having finished up pre-conference day was rapidly metamorphosing into a major ulcer. I was in the throes of "panic attack".
I walked to the corner and discovered a new face: Kevin de Kock who together with Maggie Fox is on the management team of the Social Media Group. Now Maggie has been admired by me for some time, but I hadn't had the pleasure of meeting Kevin (who has been a veteran, albeit rather quiet member, of our SDN community.)
Kevin turned into my savior while Maggie also provided some tips and insights including the name of an interesting thought guru: Clay Shirky (many of those in the know, know the name, but not I).
Kevin shared with me his take on collaboration, which proved to be the key to rescuing my soon-to-be-at-risk reputation and the session agenda. He said: "successful collaboration is like jazz".
How is Collaboration like Jazz?
Okay….but how will I transform that into an hour conference session, how to make that come alive for participants? And what does all that jazz mean?
That evening, Kevin had a rather creative idea and sent me over to visit the jazz ensemble which was playing for the blogger and press social that I and my SAP mentor friends were invited to. (you may have seen the picture that Jim Spath took of me listening to them) . I asked Jim to snap a picture of the musicians and I briefly chatted with them about how they work together, how they chose what to play, who played what, and how their musical opinions evolved into a consensus without a conductor, without governance, and without a formal structure. Listening to them speak about their ensemble relationship started to sound an awful lot like the collaboration in the BPX Community Project. I was starting to feel that Kevin really was on to something. I also took a quick visit to his blog post: Learning from Jazz.
But I realized that even if I internalized his wonderful points about how jazz players speak the same language of music, truly listen to each other and keep their egos at bay, I might not be able to rehearse an entire lecture about that in front of a random audience and further, I wasn't sure what materials I'd bring to the session room to illustrate.
The Impromptu Session
Well the morning arrived, and I decided to have integrity and come clean about my unprepared state. I invited the audience to leave if they weren't ready for an informal conversation, and to throw courtesy aside and leave the moment they were no longer interested. I also had some colleagues in the room with me: Mark Finnern, Marco ten Vaanholt, Jim Spath and a new acquaintance, Shel Israel. But as knowledgeable as these guys sounded to the audience, what was most interesting was the audience on comments and their conversation in the room. People did create their own analogies to collaboration and jazz and did describe in a very articulate way, those characteristics that personify a great jazz collaboration, including some elements that didn't appear in Kevin's excellent blog. One of the participants spoke about the ability of musicians to have expertise on one or many instruments, much like the skills that a collaboration partner brings to the table, or dare I say, as Business Process Expert.
I learned that jazz collaborations can also be born of somewhat serendipitous connections. One of those was when a participating member of the audience, who had some great things to say about collaboration shared that she is an active grassroots community member in an internal environmental awareness blog for her company, Kimberly Clark. Loved meeting Kim Iversen , dragged her along to a great gig with Invitation to RESIST and hope to hear her playing some sweet CSR music shortly. You can hear her speak during the CSR roundtable that I dragged her off to. See minute 45:08 with Kim from Kimberly Clark. But more on that in an upcoming "fly-on-the-wall" at Sapphire installment.


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The Welsh Cup quarter final is upon us, as Bangor welcome Penydarren on Sunday before the other three matches take place on Tuesday night.
Bangor v Penydarren | Sunday – 14:45 (S4C)
Penydarren BGC might not have been known to all Welsh football followers before this season, but since the small club from Merthyr have upset all the odds to reach the Welsh Cup quarter final, they have sprung into the spotlight this season.
Penydarren play their football in the 5th tier of the Welsh pyramid, and there are 64 league positions separating Bangor and their visitors this Sunday.
Kerry Mullins' side are unbeaten this season, havin played 25 games in all competitions, winning 24 and drawing one.
Penydarren entered the Welsh Cup for the first time this season and their remarkable journey started in the qualifying rounds, knocking out Penrhiwceibr Rangers and Brecon Corries before victories against Cardiff Corinithians, STM Sports, Llandudno Junction and Pontypridd to see them through to the last eight.
The fuzzy bearded frontman, Christopher Colvin Owens (pictured above) has been the starman for Penydarren, scoring at least once in every round of the Welsh Cup this season (10 goals in six games).
Bangor will no doubtedly be the biggest challenge that Penydarren have faced to date, as the Citizens are no strangers to Welsh Cup glory having lifted the cup on eight occasions.
Kevin Nicholson's side have had two close encounters with lower league sides to reach the quarter final this season (4-3 vs Cwmamman, 2-3 vs Llanrhaeadr), and will be determined to reach the semi final for the first time in five years.
The Citizens have been enjoying a good run of results recently, winning four of their last five games and although they will be clear favourites to bring Penydarren's unbeaten run to an end, Mullins' boys will most certainly put up a fight.
Connah's Quay v The New Saints | Tuesday – 19:45
TNS return to the Deeside Stadium a week since their 0-1 win against the Nomads in the WPL.
The Saints hope to knock Connah's Quay out of the Welsh Cup for the third consecutive season, having already knocked the Nomads out of the League Cup this season for the second year running.
Scott Ruscoe's Saints have seen off Penrhyncoch and Caernarfon in the last rounds, while Connah's Quay knocked out Cwmbrân Celtic and Porthmadog, making this the first WPL opposition for both sides in the cup this season.
TNS have won the Welsh Cup on six occasions, and have reached the final for the last four consecutive seasons, losing out to Bala in last year's final.
Connah's Quay won the Welsh Cup as 'Connah's Quay & Shotton' back in 1929 when they beat Cardiff City in the final (3-0).
Last meetings:
Connah's Quay 0-1 The New Saints (24/02/18)
The New Saints 3-0 Connah's Quay (19/12/17)
Connah's Quay 0-1 The New Saints (20/11/17) League Cup Semi Final
Connah's Quay 2-2 The New Saints (10/10/17)
Carmarthen v Aberystwyth | Tuesday – 20:00
Following the dramatic encounter between these sides last weekend, the clubs go head to head again this Saturday in the Welsh Cup quarter final.
Aber right back declan Walker had scored a hat-trick for his side putting Neville Powell's men 3-1 up, but with the game into injury time, the Old Gold fought back with two goals within 77 seconds to grab a point, and could easily have won it on another day.
Aberystwyth have beaten two top Six sides to reach the quarter final, and are yet to concede in the Welsh Cup this season – Bala (4-0), Cardiff Met (0-1).
Carmarthen have knocked out Ammanford and Airbus UK from the lower leagues to get this far.
The Aber Seasiders are hoping to reach the semis for the first time in four years, while it's been a long nine years since Carmarthen went further than the last eight.
Both clubs have won the Welsh Cup once – Carmarthen (2007), Aberystwyth (1900).
Last meetings:
Carmarthen 3-3 Aberystwyth (25/02/18)
Aberystwyth 1-2 Carmarthen (01/01/18)
Carmarthen 1-0 Aberystwyth (26/12/17)
Llandudno v Newtown | Tuesday – 20:00
Llandudno have been given a home draw for the third time this season, and are eyeing their first ever Welsh Cup semi final, while Newtown managed to reach the final less than three years ago.
The Robins lost 2-0 to TNS in the 2014/15 final, but Newtown have had their hands on the cup twice in the past (1879 ac 1895).
Llandudno and Newtown have knocked out four teams from the Huws Gray Alliance between them, with Llandudno seeing off Gresford and Ruthin, while Newtown beat Guilsfield and Flint Town Utd.
It's been a month since the seven goal thriller between these sides in the WPL when Newtown came away 3-4 winner at Parc Maesdu, and the clubs will meet again later this month in the race for the European play-offs.
Last meetings:
Llandudno 3-4 Newtown (03/02/18)
Newtown 2-1 Llandudno (14/12/17)
Llandudno 2-1 Newtown (28/10/17)
On this day in 1924 Wales played Scotland in a British Home Championships at Ninian Park in Cardiff, in a rare occasion where both international captains were Cardiff City players


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About an hour into the first night of an experimental homeless shelter at Glendale's National Guard Armory, volunteers and staff outnumbered clients about two to one.
"It's smaller, way smaller," said Steven Elliott, a 52-year-old homeless man who stayed at the armory last winter when people lined up at the door to take refuge from the cold.
The long lines and chaotic quarters have been replaced by a mostly empty armory due to a new shelter program sponsored by Glendale and Burbank — and Scott McLeod, a 52-year-old who normally sleeps under an awning outside a Glendale church, didn't mind.
"The atmosphere is a little better," he said.
For the next 90 days, Glendale and Burbank plan to run a 50-bed program limited to pre-selected clients that have community ties. The program has a budget of $150,000. Fourteen transients showed up on opening night Thursday, many fewer than the 150 people the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority has housed in the past at its come-one, come-all shelter at the armory.


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AWSLexPostContentRequest Class Reference
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You pass this value as the
Accept HTTP header.
The message Amazon Lex returns in the response can be either text or speech based on the
Accept HTTP header value in the request.
If the value is
text/plain; charset=utf-8, Amazon Lex returns text in the response.
If the value begins with
audio/, Amazon Lex returns speech in the response. Amazon Lex uses Amazon Polly to generate the speech (using the configuration you specified in the
Acceptheader). For example, if you specify
audio/mpegas the value, Amazon Lex returns speech in the MPEG format.
The following are the accepted values:
text/plain; charset=utf-8
audio/* (defaults to mpeg)
@property (nonatomic, strong) NSString *accept
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Alias of the Amazon Lex bot.
@property (nonatomic, strong) NSString *botAlias
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Name of the Amazon Lex bot.
@property (nonatomic, strong) NSString *botName
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You pass this values as the
Content-Type HTTP header.
Indicates the audio format or text. The header value must start with one of the following prefixes:
PCM format
audio/l16; rate=16000; channels=1
audio/x-l16; sample-rate=16000; channel-count=1
Opus format
audio/x-cbr-opus-with-preamble; preamble-size=0; bit-rate=1; frame-size-milliseconds=1.1
Text format
text/plain; charset=utf-8
@property (nonatomic, strong) NSString *contentType
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User input in PCM or Opus audio format or text format as described in the
Content-Type HTTP header.
@property (nonatomic, strong) NSInputStream *inputStream
Declared In
You pass this value in the
x-amz-lex-session-attributes HTTP header. The value must be map (keys and values must be strings) that is JSON serialized and then base64 encoded.
A session represents dialog between a user and Amazon Lex. At runtime, a client application can pass contextual information, in the request to Amazon Lex. For example,
You might use session attributes to track the requestID of user requests.
In Getting Started Exercise 1, the example bot uses the price session attribute to maintain the price of flowers ordered (for example, "price":25). The code hook (Lambda function) sets this attribute based on the type of flowers ordered. For more information, see Review the Details of Information Flow.
In the BookTrip bot exercise, the bot uses the
currentReservationsession attribute to maintains the slot data during the in-progress conversation to book a hotel or book a car. For more information, see Details of Information Flow.
Amazon Lex passes these session attributes to the Lambda functions configured for the intent In the your Lambda function, you can use the session attributes for initialization and customization (prompts). Some examples are:
Initialization - In a pizza ordering bot, if you pass user location (for example,
"Location : 111 Maple Street"), then your Lambda function might use this information to determine the closest pizzeria to place the order (and perhaps set the storeAddress slot value as well).
Personalized prompts - For example, you can configure prompts to refer to the user by name (for example, "Hey [firstName], what toppings would you like?"). You can pass the user's name as a session attribute ("firstName": "Joe") so that Amazon Lex can substitute the placeholder to provide a personalized prompt to the user ("Hey Joe, what toppings would you like?").
Amazon Lex does not persist session attributes. If you configured a code hook for the intent, Amazon Lex passes the incoming session attributes to the Lambda function. The Lambda function must return these session attributes if you want Amazon Lex to return them to the client. If there is no code hook configured for the intent Amazon Lex simply returns the session attributes to the client application.
Amazon Lex does not persist session attributes.
If you configured a code hook for the intent, Amazon Lex passes the incoming session attributes to the Lambda function. The Lambda function must return these session attributes if you want Amazon Lex to return them to the client.
If there is no code hook configured for the intent Amazon Lex simply returns the session attributes to the client application.
@property (nonatomic, strong) NSDictionary<NSString*NSString*> *sessionAttributes
Declared In
ID of the client application user. Typically, each of your application users should have a unique ID. The application developer decides the user IDs. At runtime, each request must include the user ID. Note the following considerations:
If you want a user to start conversation on one device and continue the conversation on another device, you might choose a user-specific identifier, such as the user's login, or Amazon Cognito user ID (assuming your application is using Amazon Cognito).
If you want the same user to be able to have two independent conversations on two different devices, you might choose device-specific identifier, such as device ID, or some globally unique identifier.
@property (nonatomic, strong) NSString *userId
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Monday, 25 October 2010
London Film Festival: Black Swan
With all these screenings it's my intention to blog about the films as quickly as possible, and give an emotional response without over-thinking the piece.
This feels particularly right with Black Swan which is, at its core, a film about control and release. Aranofksy's fifth feature is built around the purest notions of cinema and tells a deceptively simple story through image, sound and atmospherics. The cinematography really takes on the level of a central character in this film, which is a sonic and visual feast: a true cineaste's movie.
Natalie Portman (on riveting form here) plays Nina, an intense, committed prima ballerina and rising star within a highly prestigious New York dance company.
Nina is obsessed with landing the role of the swan queen in their new production of Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake. Artistic director Thomas (Vincent Cassell, saturnine as ever) is not quite convinced. He knows Nina can handle the physical demands of the role and would make a perfect white queen, but has serious misgivings about this girl-woman's ability to channel the darker, more sexualised elements of the black queen in his radical new vision.
And so, an intense psychodrama of duality and alternate persona begins – eating away at Nina's already fragile psyche.
In scenes reminiscent of Polanski at his most tortured and paranoiac, Nina begins to see visions of herself reflected in the city. She feels stalked by demons, phantoms and predators. Her journey mirrors that of the queen herself, with various dual suitors torturing her as she continues to put herself through the psychological torment and physical demands of landing her dream role.
Thomas is both mentor and tormentor, his older muse Beth (Winona Ryder, terrible) a Swanson-like nemesis. Draining Nina further is her own mother (Barbara Hershey channelling Sirkian melodrama), a passive/aggressive matriarch and ex-dancer who treats her daughter like a child.
Pushing Nina further into the abyss is Lily, her alternate, played by Mila Kunis in a coolly confident role that recalls a younger, less self-conscious Angelina Jolie. A rival dancer and more febrile, relaxed and sensual performer, Lily represents, in Thomas' eyes, the ideal black queen.
Let's be clear, this is not a subtle piece of work, although there are nuances throughout which I'm sure will reveal themselves in further viewings. Although Aranofsky employs the same grainy aesthetic as his hugely enjoyable The Wrestler, and has returned again to terrain that explores extreme physicality, this is a very different work in tone.
Black Swan, like that earlier film, is about the pleasure and pain of life as performance. However, where The Wrestler explored the external world around Rourke's fading fighter, this film is very much an internalised psychodrama seen entirely through the fractured mindset of a young woman on the precipice of madness.
More seasoned reviewers than I have identified a whole range of fairly obvious influences so I won't repeat those here. What I will say is that when I first heard about this film I anticipated some sort of demented Suspiria/Showgirls mash up – and I still would've been first in line had it been so.
But this is neither camp, gleeful trash nor cinefantastique. Outside the ballet setting and a frisson of the giallo atmosphere, I couldn't detect any Dario Argento influence at all.
If you wanted to be really perverse (and tenuous) the only Argento work this has common ground with would be The Stendhal Syndrome. Both films share elements of power-play sexual dynamics and the hallucinatory effect of losing oneself in art. However, given that Argento's film uses these themes as a way of distracting from what is otherwise a diabolical shitfest, I doubt Aranofsky has even heard of it, let alone been influenced by it.
I do wish Aranofsky had taken a leaf out of the Verhoeven book though. His film is a bit too restrained at times. I would love to have seen a little more craziness; for the director to heed Thomas' advice to Nina: 'let yourself go, transcend the material'.
That said there are some enjoyably arch moments and bits of dialogue, most of which are Casell's. 'I want you to go home and touch yourself, live a little', he says to Nina, while coming on to her in his opulent apartment (well, I laughed).
Portman's masturbatory moments (in a bath and in the bedroom surrounded by pink soft toys and girlish ephemera) and a hot and heavy lesbian scene with Kunis are indications of what the film could've been in less careful hands, but they bolster the films inherent b-movie dynamics and prevent it from taking itself too seriously.
The closing third of the film is where Aranofsky really lets rip, and where Matthew Libatique's over-the-shoulder cinematography and Clint Mansell's relentless dread-fuelled score combine to outstanding effect – sustaining a mood of endless murk and uncertainty. These moments help to build the tension superbly, complementing the impending ballet while Nina's internal and external demons continue to battle for her soul.
The staging of the opera itself is magnificent, with perhaps the most intense and dynamic scenes of ballet ever committed to celluloid. And special mention must be made of rodarte and Yumiko's outlandish costumes, which, in the films climactic dance, take on an extra dimension of Cronenberg-like body horror.
This rather fevered appraisal of the film might come back to bite me when I view the film again. But I can deal with that later. For cinema, as much as it is about anything, should be about making bold declarations, not being afraid to look foolish.
Aranofsky has again proved himself to be a risk-taker. His latest might not be *about* very much, but everything about it screams purest cinema.
So here's my bold declaration: Black Swan is the most exciting and exhilarating movie of the festival so far. My favourite of 2010.
Posted by David W Hall at 02:21
Labels: Black Swan, Darren Aranofsky, Natalie Portman
2 comments:
- benito robinsoni28 October 2010 at 22:55
A linguistic, critical, cultural tour-de-force, as always Dave! i really can't wait to see this movie!.....ReplyDelete
I am overwhelmed by the praise! Cheers Benno, I think YOU are really going to love this film.ReplyDelete
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|Nordstrom Announces Relocation Of Oak Park Mall Store To Country Club Plaza
SEATTLE, Feb. 2, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Nordstrom, Inc. today announced plans to relocate its Oak Park Mall store in Overland Park, Kansas, to Country Club Plaza in Kansas City, Missouri. The new, approximately 116,000-square-foot store is expected to open in 2021. Nordstrom will continue serving customers at its current location in Oak Park Mall until it relocates.
"We've been fortunate to be able to serve our customers in this market at Oak Park Mall for the past 20 years and look forward to offering them a new shopping experience at Country Club Plaza," said Jamie Nordstrom, president of stores for Nordstrom. "Kansas City continues to be a terrific market for us. We want to grow our business here, which means we need to invest in bringing our customers the best we have to offer when it comes to both our digital capabilities and our physical locations. By building a new store, we're excited to provide a new experience that makes shopping with us even more convenient."
"The addition of a new Nordstrom store advances Taubman and Macerich's promise to create a modern, point-of-difference experience on the Plaza," said William S. Taubman, chief operating officer, Taubman Centers, Inc. "Exciting new retail and dining will ensure the district's future success and that it remains the crown jewel of the market."
Taubman Centers, Inc. (NYSE: TCO) and The Macerich Company (NYSE: MAC) jointly own and manage the 15-block, 1.3 million-square-foot, mixed-use retail and office property located in Kansas City.
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Before markets closed for the weekend the Pound managed to claw back previous losses against the Euro and return to trending in the region of 1.1700.
There are a number of reports with the potential to spark movement in the GBP/EUR exchange rate next week, including the UK's latest manufacturing and construction PMIs. As the figures relate to the period following the EU referendum, their impact may be significant.
Should the key sectors have moved further into contractionary territory the Pound could easily return to trending in the region of the three year low of 1.14 seen earlier in August.
(Previously updated 25/08/2016)
In a 'typically GBP' move, the Pound has fallen dramatically against its peers including the Euro today, after UK-supporting news came out. The data in question concerned the Confederation of British Industries (CBI) distributive trades for August, which rose healthily from -14 to 9.
This was taken with a degree of scepticism by economists and investors, however, who may have put the good news down to the bias of a week Pound and summer tourist spending.
The Euro moved in the opposite direction to the Pound over the course of the European trading session, climbing despite the earlier drop in German Ifo surveys of confidence. The appreciation likely stemmed from investors realising that the result was still positive after the drop and in the words of ING-DiBa Economist Carsten Brzeski, the German economy still moves in a 'virtuous circle'.
The next UK news expected will come over tomorrow morning, when the Q2 GDP growth rate second estimates are due. Gains have been forecast on the year and quarter, but as Q2 doesn't properly cover the post-Referendum period, the outcome may be discounted.
From the Eurozone, the Gfk consumer confidence results for Germany will be out in the early morning and are expected to show a fractional dip from 10 points to 9.9.
(Last updated 25th August, 2016)
The Pound has technically traded poorly against the Euro with a drop of -0.3% this morning, though this comes when the 1.17 rate is still the best seen this week.
UK news has been limited so far, with the main focus being on the fact that over a million cars have been manufactured in the UK since the start of 2016. As most of these vehicles are being exported to mainland Europe, however, the data has only raised the stakes for UK negotiators to get a good trade deal with their EU counterparts, so as to keep this lucrative export stream flowing.
The Euro has traded tightly against its rivals, owing to Eurozone data so far showing a dip in the Spanish finalised GDP growth rate on the year for the second quarter.
The next pairing data will come from the Eurozone, where Germany's positively forecast Ifo survey results for August are due shortly. Later on in the morning, negatively predicted UK CBI trades data for August is expected.
(Last updated 25th August, 2016)
The Euro flopped against the bulk of its rivals during the middle of the week, with mixed German GDP failing to inspire any real confidence in the single currency. Today could offer a chance for redemption, with incoming German results expected to print positively.
UK Economic News: Pound Sterling (GBP) Sustained Weekly Rally Yesterday on Gathering Optimism
Pound Euro exchange rate movement has been consistently positive over the current week, with investors increasingly showing confidence in the Pound despite wider signals that the post-Referendum UK economy is under pressure.
The latest 'positive' news has come from the British Banker's Association, which has released its mortgage approvals figure for July. A slowdown was seen from 39.76k to 37.66k, while a deeper inspection of the results showed that credit card spending remained high after the Referendum.
IHS Chief UK Economist Howard Archer, one of many economists who held reservations about such a seemingly benign market reaction to 'Brexit', stated;
'We suspect that the fundamentals for consumers will become less favourable over the coming months with purchasing power likely diminishing and the labour market softening'.
Euro (EUR) Declined on Wednesday after Finnish and German Ecostats Disappointed Investors
Euro exchange rate movement progressively worsened over Wednesday's European trading session, on account of a trio of unfavourable announcements out of the Eurozone.
Opening off trading was the Finnish producer price index (PPI) for July, which dropped on the year from -3.4% to -3.8%. Around the same time, Germany's finalised Q2 GDP growth rate dropped on the quarter but rose on the year.
The tail-end of the Euro's run of bad luck came from Belgium, where the August business confidence result fell dramatically from 1 to -3.1.
Future GBP EUR Forecast: Pound could Drop after UK CBI and German Survey Data
The next key pairing data will come from the Eurozone, where the results of Germany's Ifo August surveys are scheduled for announcement shortly.
The general consensus is that opinions on business climate, current conditions and expectations will all rise, which could go some way to pushing the Euro up against the Pound.
On the UK's side of trading, the morning's Confederation of British Industry (CBI) distributive trades figure for August has been predicted to shift in a negative range from -14 to -11.
Recent GBP, EUR Exchange Rates
The Pound Euro (GBP EUR) exchange rate has been trending in the region of 1.1776 and the Euro Pound (EUR GBP) exchange rate has been trending in the region of 0.8492 recently.


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Hi Conscious Writers!
Happy New Year! I hope that you had a good break from the regular routines of daily life over the festive period and are looking forward to a creatively productive and joyful 2018!
Interrupting the automatic pilot that often takes over everyday tasks is actually a good way to recharge your creativity.
Add to this the fresh start offered by the New Year and you have a perfect opportunity now to get clear on what's truly important for you and how you want to express that creatively this year.
Priorities and Passion
For most of the people I work with, writing is a high priority and for some it's an absolute passion they can't live without.
Yet that doesn't mean it's always easy to clarify what to focus on and how to go about it.
These can feel like such big questions that there are many people who struggle with them for weeks, months and sometimes years!
Yoga for the Creative Mind
I totally understand. And I have a solution to share with you.
It's wrapped up in the FREE live video class called New Year: New Creative You! that I'm teaching on Thursday 25 January.
Described by one previous participant as "yoga for the creative mind", it will call forth the real creative you and guide you to clarify what your most important creative priorities are this year. Read more here.
Calling Forth the Real Creative You
Speaking of calling forth the real creative you, I felt called to write about my experience of that as I crafted my creative blueprint for 2018 recently so I've included it as this month's feature article.
I hope you enjoy reading it and feel inspired to join me on the 25th!
Till next month
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I stumbled across a Christian design site recently and continue to look at this page at least once a day:
Word: Original Design Project
This guy was inspired to design cover art for books of the Bible. I was really jealous that he thought of this idea first, but then I thought it'd be a good challenge for me since I'm trying to teach myself some more adobe creative suite techniques. And the Bible would be a place full of inspiration.
So now I post my first attempt at this thing. Inspired by Ezekiel 3:3 -
"'Son of man, eat this scroll I am giving you and fill your stomach with it.' So I ate it, and it tasted as sweet as honey in my mouth."


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Especially not when I'd just gotten to the dumped-by-Morning-Edition section of A Voice, which is seething with controlled fury. So that may have shaped my reaction to "Six Ways Amazon Book Streaming Could Help Small Business."
Maybe. Just a bit.1Vlad's a smart guy.2 And it's morning now, and I still think it's a dumb article.
First, it's total SEO-bait. The headline calls out small-biz benefits, but the article doesn't actually make the case for any.
Item 1: "We're going to take a leap of faith here and assume that what Amazon is offering goes beyond the usual Project Gutenberg titles that every e-book reader and service has made available for free, since they will need to do so to attract subscribers to their service."
- "the usual Project Gutenberg titles" -- nitpicky it may be, but this phrase grates on me. The works in question are mostly public domain titles. Because their copyrights have expired,3 these documents are often available for free in digital format,4 or in a variety of formats from any publisher who cares to put them out.5
- "need to do so to attract subscribers" -- I'll be curious to see what percentage of new Prime customers sign up for the service because of streaming book access.
- Maybe the service should claim this as its tagline, with all the current and former James Bonds doing voiceovers.
- In fact, it's a huge if. Everything in this article is speculation, and a whole lot more verbs should be in the subjunctive mood.
- Which is pretty much what you can do with the Kindle app on any of these platforms, no? The key difference between the-way-things-are and the-way-things-might-be is that in the latter case, there would be no payment component to the transaction -- something the article overlooks.
No, you know what? I give up. It's not worth it, and I don't want to spend any more time on this.6 I could have been writing a post on Alexander Hamilton instead.7
1 Standard disclaimer applies: I'm an indie bookseller, a fan of indie bookstores, and a former employee of their trade association. So my perspective on who these moves are likely to help is neither unbiased nor disinterested.
2 For reference.
3 Or, in the case of government documents, they're simply public domain.
4 Except for the many $0.99 versions. Why? If you're going to spend the money, get a good annotated edition!
5 Which is why we were subjected to the Everything and Zombies nonsense two years ago.
6 Plus, the month is still young, and I don't want to waste my one officially-sanctioned outrage just yet.
7 TK soon. Preview here and here.


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Christmas Fantasy at Everland
The special treat that kids want when they do well in school is almost always the same answer – Everland. A day trip away from Seoul, in Yongin, the amusement park has a variety of attractions for families to explore during the holidays under two main themes. The first, called "Romantic Illumination" will target mostly couples while the second called "Christmas Fantasy" will be mostly for families. The "Christmas Fantasy" will envelop you in lights. There's the Christmas Avenue, a 500 meter long street, which strings hundreds of fairy lights from one end to another as well as 500 decorated Christmas trees. Events to look forward to include the White Christmas Parade, a dance show called "Christmas Wish" as well as fireworks (through Dec 27). Sure, the kids will be running around from one ride to the next but it'll be especially great to enjoy that excitement with the additional Christmas atmosphere.
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Video | Payette River Games | The Richest SUP Race on Earth
The world's wealthiest SUP race and premier river event Kicks off June 19
From flatwater fanatics to big-wave Daves, rapid-running radicalists to downwinding deviants, everyone in the SUP community is buzzing about the Payette River Games. The world's premier river SUP event—also the wealthiest SUP competition on the calendar with a $50,000 prize purse—is set to return to Cascade, Idaho, in epic fashion from June 19 to 21.
Athletes from around the globe and all backgrounds of the sport will converge on the world-class venue at Kelly's Whitewater Park for a weekend of eclectic competition and camaraderie that, in recent years, played a pivotal role in establishing whitewater SUP in the international SUP scene. SUP surfers like Kai Lenny and last year's winner, Fernando Stalla—who until last year's PRG competition had little to no experience on whitewater—among a massive array of elite athletes, will join the river community once again to try their hand at the newest and fastest growing sector in SUP.
Last year, SUP the mag covered the Payette River Games as part of the River Life Road Trip.
This year, stay tuned to SUPthemag.com for exclusive coverage of the 2015 PRG.
Plenty of changes planned for this year's event. Learn about them in our exclusive interview with race organizer Dan Gavere.


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Marketing Calendar
With a trip to any office supply store, you can easily purchase items that can be extremely important to the success of any serious chiropractic marketing campaign. In my opinion, there is a wide variety of cost effective marketing tools that will help your organize the marketing champagnes used to grow your chiropractic practice. The key however, to getting the best possible results out of a collection of marketing tools is learning how to organize and utilize them throughout the course of the year. This is accomplished best by the creation and utilization of a marketing calendar.
A marketing calendar is not very difficult to build. I recommend purchasing a three ring binder at the office supply store. Set up the binder so it has twelve different sections representing each month of the year. In each monthly section of the binder you should set up your marketing tools by writing down on paper the frequency timing, and duration you have decided on for each of your marketing concepts. You must get very specific when setting up your chiropractic marketing tools and you must break the month down into individual weeks. You are constantly arranging/scheduling a health talk seminar, chiropractic newspaper ads, as well as other projects into your binder. After you work with your own marketing calendar for a little while the actual process of setting up the binder will become easier to do.
In the very front of your binder you should also create an overview calendar that you can utilize as a quick reference tool in order to see what is scheduled during a given month/week.
This type of calendar will be helpful in keeping your various marketing tools more organized and will also ensure that you stick to the marketing campaign you design and develop. It is important to remember that your marketing program will only work for you if you make the effort to work on it. Most importantly, you have to stick to your plan for the entire year. A great amount of discipline is required for this type of program to work properly. If a practitioner becomes lazy or apathetic in regards to his or her marketing efforts the overall business related results will certainly suffer.
Get in the habit of developing a simple but effective marketing calendar and then utilize this tool throughout the course of the year.
Community Greeting Program
Another cost effective chiropractic marketing tool you can regularly use in your private practice is a community greeting program. The concept is very simple and will help a doctor to market his or her professional services to people who have just moved into a new community.
There are a lot of businesses you can contact to help you get your program running efficiently. Simply go on the Internet and search for companies that specialize in collecting and selling mailing lists of new homeowners. The way the program operates is whenever a new home is sold or a person moves into the community where you have a practice, the person's mailing address is captured by the company you have retained and you are then forwarded a copy of the address. The chiropractor will then have an opportunity to send, to the new person, a community greeting letter inviting the resident to contact the doctor in the event he or she needs the services of a highly qualified chiropractor.
The cost of a marketing program which focuses on targeting new residents within a given community can run anywhere from $30 -$100 per month depending on the size of your community and the number of real estate transactions that have taken place each month. The effectiveness of a community greeting program will also obviously depend on a number of factors including the various materials you offer to the new members of the community.


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Happy Birthday Mr. Norris
Mr. Norris came into our lives in September, 2003. We were living in Kenya but had spent that summer in the U.S. while Nathan, our middle son, received treatment at Shands Medical Center in Gainesville for a … Continue reading
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Dark Snapshots of My Mother
Fifty-two years ago this month my beautiful mother, Jacqueline Virginia Gunter Roberts, took her own life at the age of 36 in a violent act, a month before my 7th birthday. Recently newsworthy people, people who appear to have been … Continue reading
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Her Name is Gloria June
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Learning to Rejoice
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A Phone Call with My Daddy
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What Gets Us There
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Treasure the Mundane (or 12/23/2014)
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Experiencing Mercy at Animal Kingdom: An Essay
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"One? Did you say one?" I asked in total disbelief.It just happens? You know what else happens? Shit. That's what else happens.
"Yes." She answered as if I shouldn't be concerned.
"But we had eleven eggs." I protested.
"I know… sometimes that just happens."
With my last IVF, I had five eggs and managed to get three embryos out of the deal so I can't figure out what went wrong this time. Did they forget to do the ICSI? Did the universe realize it was being good to me and quickly correct it? Was this woman actually a nurse from the clinic or some cruel bitch playing a joke on me? Really people – WTF?
They are going to keep checking and maybe, somehow, another embryo will make a grand entrance before it's too late. The thing is that with the clinical trial, they do the transfer on day three no matter what. I even offered to kick in some money if we could wait till Day five but they can't do that. The trial said day three transfer so day transfer three it is. So if there's another embryo ready to emerge, they've got till this Thursday to do it. I hope they have a day planner and an alarm clock because the clock is ticking.
Now I realize that the reality is that it only takes one. I know this. I was never good at math but I do know that in this case, one is better than nothing. I just can't understand how this has happened. Of what guarded optimism I had, this news has pretty much taken a piss all over it.
I phoned our "Clinical Trial Guide", Drew Barrymore (again, not her real name but just as lovely as the actress) and left her a voice mail letting her know what was going on and that I was shocked and confused. She called me back almost immediately and said she'd get my doctor to call me.
As I waited to talk to the doctor, I started to get even more worried that he was going to say something that would make me feel worse. That my eggs were crap. That my husband's sperm lost the will to fertilize. That the one embryo we had was a long shot. That this was all somehow my fault. Anything and everything ran through my mind.
Eventually, he called me back and I'm happy to say it was not the worst conversation I've ever had. He said they were surprised at the outcome as well but the one embryo we have seems like its good quality and it's entirely possible more may spring up overnight. He doesn't think it's the clinical trial I've been doing as the study in general has been going well and he also doesn't think there's anything wrong with my husband or me so at least we have that going for us.
Any which way, it's clear we're not going to have any embryos to freeze. I suppose the upside of this is I won't have to worry about knitting teeny tiny mittens.
Perhaps I should at least contact the clinic and ask them to play Gloria Gaynor's "I Will Survive" to the one viable embryo we've got going for us. Who doesn't get inspired by that song?
In the end, I guess there's really nothing to do now but hope for the best, finish this out, see what happens and prepare to go on to the next step if it isn't a success.
Well, that and perhaps drink heavily.
As always, truly from the bottom of my heart, I thank each and every one of you for your support. You are my human form of Prozac.


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We've all heard the arguments against porn: it's morally wrong, disgusting, degrading to women, it makes our men violent and prone to sexual assault, etc. etc. And in case you haven't heard those arguments before (or if you want to review- that whole, know thine enemy thing), here they are again from Gail Dines, head of the Feminist Anti-Porn movement and author of Pornland: How Porn Has Hijacked Our Sexuality. http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2010/jul/02/gail-dines-pornography
Dines makes a lot of fair arguments about porn. There is a lot of sexually explicit media which makes us squick (essentially go "ewww gross!") – for more on that, check out this hysterical article from Carnal Nation: http://carnalnation.com/content/51896/999/sex-squicks.
A lot of porn does show women in subservient, sometimes degrading situations. Porn is getting more violent. HOWEVER, that doesn't make the medium categorically evil or disgusting. It doesn't necessarily make it unhealthy.
Here's the biggest thing Dines misses: women like porn too. In fact, 30% of all internet porn site visitors are women, which means upwards of 13 million women in the US alone are looking at porn online. Theresa Flynt, Vice President of marketing for Hustler video, says that women account for 56 percent of business at her company's video stores.
So we arrive at a conundrum: how can it be that such a terrible, dirty, degrading form of media draws this kind of mass appeal? Are the 39 million plus people who view porn every year just sick, disgusting, unfixable people? I don't know about you moral imperialists, but I'm gonna go with a big, fat, queer NO.
What I think too many people don't realize about porn is its ability to fill a creative gap. Porn does not by default replace "normal" sexual practices and desires (whatever constitutes normal in your book…). It is a supplemental form of stimulation which can occupy the mental creative space which a partner might not wish to fill. Or, of course, if you're single, it offers an outlet involving a personal element- because, admit it, masturbating with a sock isn't that mentally stimulating.
In other words, porn is safe. Porn is professional people doing things that everyday people cannot or will not do, while offering an enjoyable voyeurism for those who cannot be actively involved.
Dines brings up legitimate points about unrealistic or negative expectations brought on by porn. There are an awful lot of women who don't enjoy their men cumming on their faces or tying them up and leaving them helpless. But again, these are problems associated not with porn itself, but with a society unwilling to give the medium context. Our American society is so frightened of open and honest discussion about sexuality with teenagers for fear of encouraging them to do something unwholesome. Yet this is absolutely the most crucial topic to bring up among teens who are beginning to develop sexually and experiment.
If parents and teachers were able to have legitimate, open conversations about expectations for sex and the role of porn, the violence against and/or degradation of women in these videos can be seen for what they are: play.
While calling violence against women "play" may seem a cruel assessment, we must always keep in mind that the sexual
preferences and practices of others are not ours to judge, as long as they do not hurt others. In porn, as in real relationships involving BDSM, the subservience and humiliation of a partner is completely consensual and thus, not damaging to either couple involved. On the other hand, there are many couples out there who are uncomfortable with
incorporating BDSM into their own physical relationship, yet one partner may still strongly desire that element in their
play. Thus, porn is a safe and positive solution to the conflict between potentially hurtful practices and personal sexual desires, as it is done in a professional and safe setting and removes unwilling parties (like reluctant couples) from anything which might be emotionally damaging for them to perform themselves.
When put in the context of comprehensive sex ed, there's nothing inherently harmful about porn. In fact, it can be helpful. It allows people to explore their own desires without putting their bodies or emotions at risk. It affirms the idea that there is a kink for everyone and all kinks deserve to be honored and respected (and in this case, commercialized!).
At least, that's this queer girl's argument. What are your thoughts?
((Also- a preview of what's to come: looking at writing about erotic fiction with some suggestions for ya'll, especially queer-positive stuff, as well as trying to fit in a beautiful piece on what it means to be female- and to love a female, and eventually a post on rape/the "gray area." I am DESPERATELY in need of someone to write about reconciling religion with homosexuality, because I simply can't do it. Being a Taoist, I just haven't gone through that struggle, and I want the issue addressed in the most authentic and relevant way. In fact, I'd love multiple viewpoints. Please comment or email me if you'd like to write something!))


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Learn How Re-Curve Windshields Work
Bikers need no verbal warning that the season of fall is on the way… we smell it, we sense its presence and allow it embrace us as we ride along.
The colors of the season beckon to us in a way that draws fresh spirit from our souls, however along with that fresh spirit comes the frigid air and a reminder that the cold winter lays looming on the horizon. The main purpose of our products are to GET THE WIND OUT OF YOUR FACE, and to push the elements and cold up and over your head as much as possible.
At Long Ride Shields we make windshields that help you stave off the frigid bite of the wind, our re-curve windshields are the perfect tool for getting the elements up and out of your face, allowing you to see the road ahead and enjoy the ride.
Watch this video that illustrates just how the Re-Curve on our windshields works.
Scientifically a re-curve works in a similar manner to the Bernoulli Principle, which is the scientific principle related to wings and areas of high and low pressure.
The area behind the windshield is an area of low pressure, and the area in front of the windshield is an area of high pressure, the re-curve increases the pressure and kicks the wind up and over, creating a smooth channel of airflow at the tip of the shield, and allowing for less buffeting to occur behind the windshield on the driver's side as well.


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Last night I got exactly what I wanted and it sucked. For the last week my brain has been saying, I just want to watch a movie and not go out. Well, that sort of happened yesterday, and it was a total let down. I was in Manhattan early for a job interview in Tribeca. It went well, thanks to my new levels of confidence, and I got a great paying job with a startup. Or at least a trial job for two weeks, to see if I can handle it.
Feeling great I go hang out in Washington Square Park for a while, then go to my favorite dive bar and have three beers. By this point I don't really feel like approaching, but obviously my brain is retarded and not to be trusted. I go to Meatpacking, the Gansevoort. Walk in and ask a girl about a live band playing. Turns out she's Russian and we speak in Russian for a minute. Her friends pull her away. I stand there for a minute, then open a three set of British girls. Talk to one of them for three minutes, then her friends pull her away.
I go home feeling great, watch my movie, and realize I like being at the club better. I've gone out 11 days in a row now. Even after just 11 days I'm starting to feel like I have to ramp it up. My two or three approaches every night isn't going to bring the serious growth I want. I need to be doing five, ten, fifteen, maybe even twenty? I'll start by focussing on five and see what happens.
-I keep catching girls staring at me. I don't understand how they can tell that I'm way more confident than normal, but they can.
-In a way, three sets may be easier sometimes because I can just isolate one girl while the other two talk.
-My brain doesn't know what's best for me.


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