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- March 20, 2018
6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Recent advances in biomedical engineering software have opened a new chapter on high performance knee implants.
One remarkable breakthrough has been the creation of the JOURNEY™ II XR Active Knee System which combines an implant design addressing the stability and natural motion of the human knee with low-friction materials that may extend the life of the implant. The JOURNEY II XR Knee Implant uses a specially designed, U-shaped tibial base plate that allows your healthy anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) and posterior curciate ligament (PCL) to remain in place after surgery. These ligaments are important and provide stability and support for the knee.
Join Dr. John Aldridge as he discusses total knee replacement and the potential benefits for patients with this new Active Knee System.
Seating is limited. RSVP today to reserve your seat.
Venue: Hampton Roads Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine


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Parenting by Living (Part I)
By Paula Marchman, M.A., L.P.C.
When I ponder on the blessings of parenting, I begin with Adam as written in the book of Genesis. The scriptures describe his walks in the garden with God, his Father. I think of how engaged every aspect of his senses must have been with all the beauty he beheld. Can you imagine how every second was full of total presence and mindfulness in that time and space. Adam must have felt understood in the deepest sense of the word and greatly loved.
He responded to God not only with his human ears but with every cell in his body, to the heart and soul of his being. This is how our children listen to us. Children, when we capture their attention, are models of "active listening". They listen with their eyes, their minds and hearts as well as their ears. Children need to belong, and they learn how to belong as they grow. They discover that certain responses from others give them a feeling of belonging. We reach our children by connecting to their core, their heart. Through our relationship with them they also experience God's presence and love in their lives. Children are tuned into the tone of our voice, the gentleness of our face and eyes as we look into their faces. We begin to communicate with them way before we even open our mouths to speak. How important is it to have an overall plan for how we want to relate to our children.
They search for safety within this parental connection which allows them to thrive and experience childhood. Our children need to know that we "know them", their strengths, their weaknesses, how they express themselves, how they learn, play, cry. It is important that each child realize their uniqueness and the traits that make him or her like nobody else in the world. Therefore, as parents we are called to encourage them, recognizing their efforts rather than demanding perfection. Comparisons can lead children to believe that their worth depends on being better than others while encouragement helps each child to appreciate their own unique qualities.
When we teach our children that their thoughts and feelings are important, they experience the gift of truly being understood and heard. This way of communicating when we give another human being our whole attention is a healing form of love. This is the process where our children also learn how to communicate their needs and desires in a healthy way where they come to know themselves better.
As children experience positive regard for their feelings, children will grow in self-awareness and self-esteem. When they believe their feelings are worthy of respect, they over the years learn to respect other's feelings too.
Parents have a great influence in building positive beliefs in their children. When children have positive beliefs about themselves they practice positive behaviors. These behaviors then reinforce the beliefs about themselves, which strengthens the desired behavior.
"Good listening requires that we be sensitive to the needs of others. We cannot be sensitive unless we have anchored our lives in the love of Christ", quotes Fr. Anthony Coniaris in his book, Making God Real in the Orthodox Christian Home. This book is an excellent resource with concrete ideas and traditions within our Orthodox faith that we can practice in our homes. It is important that our children experience being a valued individual within the framework of a family. Thus, the importance of family dinner hours, family meetings where every child feels heard and respected for their ideas.
I am not telling you anything that you do not already know as a parent. My purpose in this article is to create intentional awareness and to provide insight into resources that are available to provide you tools to help you in your parenting skills. The intent is to encourage you as a parent to practice attentiveness and conscious parenting. Children within our families are like small pearls of life that all too soon slip through our fingers. Take the energy and time to commit in experiencing joy and connection in your family today.
This takes practice on your part to actually do what comes naturally to us as human beings. If it is indeed natural then why do we have to practice this way of parenting? We must be intentional and purposeful in our lives because the society we live in does not nurture this way of communicating or parenting. In fact, it drives us to the other side of the paradigm. We are encouraged to stay busy, strive for material gain, and the list continues with many distractions. These distractions not only tug but painfully jerk our focus from each other onto what the world tells us is important.

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Times Higher Education (THE) has released its Asia-Pacific university rankings, and the Philippines only has a sole university making it to the list.
The University of the Philippines (UP) in Diliman, Quezon City is the only Philippine entry in THE's list which was released on Tuesday; managing to get into the 200+ bracket.
The Asia-Pacific rankings feature over 200 universities from 13 countries.
At the top spot is National University of Singapore, followed by Peking University (China), University of Melbourne (Australia), Tsinghua University (China) and Nanyang Technological University (Singapore).
Japan is the most-represented nation with 69 universities featured, including University of Tokyo at ninth place. Japan's leading universities remain exceptionally strong, says THE.
Last year, UP Diliman was also the only Philippine representative in THE's World University Rankings, landing in the 801+ bracket of 980 institutions topped by the United Kingdom's University of Oxford.
According to THE, the Asia-Pacific region is the most dynamic in the higher education world. In terms of students and research and development activity, it is larger than Europe and the UK, and one day it will become as important as the US and Canada.
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Inverness Village is proud to have been awarded Planetree Bronze Recognition for Meaningful Progress in Resident-Centered Care. Inverness Village is the first health care organization in Oklahoma to be awarded Bronze-level recognition since Planetree first introduced the recognition level in 2012.
Planetree is a philosophy of care that began in the hospital industry and has since spread to the field of senior living services. It focuses on identifying and meeting residents' wishes for how services are delivered and giving residents and their family members a strong voice in the types of services delivered. Asbury began its collaboration with Planetree in 2011, and has integrated the program into each of its communities.
With Planetree, "our focus is on getting to 'yes,' " says Steven Walkingstick, Administrator of Health Services for Inverness Village. One such example occurred last year with a resident in the community's Health Care Center. Each year, a couple celebrated their anniversary by going out to dinner. When the wife experienced health issues and could no longer travel, staff members decorated a private dining room for the couple and prepared a special meal. The next year, the wife could no longer eat solid foods, and the husband was at a loss for how to forge a new tradition without a meal as the centerpiece. Instead, associates created a feast of memories with photo albums and video collages provided by the husband and other family members.
Planetree's Bronze award is based on a variety of factors, including performance on traditional quality indicators, review of policy documents and focus groups with residents and staff. The Bronze Award is the first step to Planetree's highest possible designation, the Silver Recognition Award.
"The experience of Inverness Village shows what can be accomplished when a team of deeply committed, supremely innovative and highly-driven caregivers take the courageous leap to redefine priorities and reorganize systems to put residents first," shared Susan Frampton, Planetree's President.


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At Personal Energy Co LLC we sell your home and business energy at a competative market price And our services are what save you money.
With other fuel oil companies you are going to paying more to heat your home by being charged ridiculously excessive service charges or overinflated service plans. We offer our customers equipment service & service plans at a very reasonable rate.
Our service plans cost half the price of most competators, with the same or better coverage.
Do the Math
For example, if you save 10-15 cents a gallon for oil and use 800 gallons a year that is $80-$120 in savings on fuel.
On the other hand you end up paying $300 to $400 or more for service and maintenance of your heating system.
Why Personal Energy Company?
We appreciate our fuel oil customers and offer them our service plan and discounted services as an incentive to buy fuel oil from us at a fair market price. You're not just buying fuel, you're heating your home. We offer competitive fuel prices along with reasonable service costs which ends up being the best value for fully automatic and trouble free indoor comfort.
We are Personal Energy because customers deal with me directly. I personally know, and care about my customers. The benifit to dealing with a small company is that you are dealing with the same person directly, the business owner. With the help of my small staff of loyal and outstanding employees I do everything possible to make sure you and your family are warm in the winter and comfortable in the summer.
With Personal Energy you will always be dealing with an experienced second generation oilman, a business owner that knows the business, and a company that cares about it's customers.
Proud to be your oil man.
Jarren David Wilcox,
Owner, Personal Energy Co LLC


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Wedding Dress Trends, 2019 Brides Need to Know
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Fasten your seat belts, brides! It's time for your wedding dress trends report. We've poured over every dress that hit the runways this Bridal Fashion Week, and the result is 9 trends your wedding dress needs to see. Ready for the only wedding dress trends you need to know about?
Getting married in 2019? Scroll through for the only wedding dress trends you need to see.
(1) Royal Wedding Fever
Looks like we're not the only ones suffering from royal wedding mania. Meghan Markle hasn't even walked down the aisle yet, and we're already seeing her effect on bridal fashion. From glittering tiaras, to regal styles that felt very similar to some of history's most iconic royal brides, most of the collections we saw had something fit for a princess.
(2) Wedding Jumpsuits
Like bows, jumpsuits have become part of the bridal vernacular. Sweet pants are no longer just for courthouse weddings, with many brides opting to change into a reception outfit, and going for a chic, modern jumpsuits.
(3) Clean and Simple
This season's minimal aesthetic felt like an homage to Amsale Aberra. Clean lines, simple tailoring, and just a hint of 90s nostalgia had us falling in love with these gowns.
(4) Lavender
Pantone's color of the year may be violet, but it was all about light shades of lavender for the latest crop of wedding dresses. Pastels popped up in many collections, including Vera Wang, Jenny Packham, and Hayley Paige
(5) Mock Turtlenecks
While the naked dress still found its way into many collections, a more modest aesthetic reigned supreme at almost every collection. Mock turtlenecks were everywhere this season, from modern and sleek at Monique Lhuillier, to in full on lace at Reem Acra..
(6) Metallics
These are the days of disco as far as wedding dress designers are concerned. Metallics—so much gold and silver—ruled the runways, and are the perfect statement for a bride who's all about glitz and glamour.
(7) Regal Capes and Trains
The longer the better when it came to trains this season. Designers also continued to double down on the cape trend—princess vibes are on the rise, if you haven't heard. We loved this trend in whisper thin tulle at Anne Barge and Alexandra Grecco, and in all of its regal glory at Lela Rose.
(8) The Return of the Ball Gown
The Royal Wedding effect keeps trickling down this list of trends. After seasons of lithe sheaths, and a-line creations dominating the runways, many designers welcomed the return of the full figured ball gown. Princess brides are having quite a year.
(9) Heavy Embellishments
Designers weren't shy about covering wedding dresses in oversized, 3-d, heavy floral embellishments.


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Dining with friends and Committee meeting – 10th May 2018
Keighley Amateur Radio Society will be holding it's monthly Food night in the Old Sun Inn with Fiona's Fresh New Stable Gate Menu. This will be on Thursday 10th May 2018 at 19:00. Orders will be taken on Thursday 3rd May at the Radio club.
Keighley Amateur Radio Society Committee Meeting
We will then have our committee meeting at about 20:30. If you have any thing for the committee meeting please see Shirley Kendrick M0KWS before the meeting.


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The Department of Homeland Security announced in an alert on Oct. 29 that several industrial control systems -- vendor-issued programs used by private companies to manage internal systems -- had been infected by a variant of a Trojan horse malware program called BlackEnergy. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported the threat based on DHS's cyberthreat alert.
BlackEnergy is malware designed to target critical energy infrastructure and is believed to have originated with Russian government-sponsored hackers. BlackEnergy was first identified several years ago. Initially, BlackEnergy's custom plugins were used for launching distributed denial-of-service attacks (DDoS), according to Security Week.
The variant infected programs such as GE Cimplicity, Siemens WinCC and Advantech/Broadwin WebAccess that have been used by companies responsible for portions of the country's critical infrastructure, including "water, energy, property management and industrial control systems vendors" according to DHS.
Utilities are aware of the threat. Duquesne Light knew about BlackEnergy more than three weeks ago, according to spokesman Brian Knavish, and has since performed a "targeted analysis" to determine if it has been impacted. The company concluded it wasn't. BlackEnergy is a "credible threat," Knavish said, but "there are a lot of these and some of them get more attention than others."
BlackEnergy is one of many threats and vulnerabilities monitored by Edison Electric Institute on a regular basis. Some are identified by government agencies, some by companies, and others by researchers, EEI said. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported that EEI, which is central to the information exchange between the groups, has been aware of BlackEnergy for about a month.
There has never been a cyberattack in the U.S. that has affected the distribution of power, according to EEI, but there are cyberattacks all the time that successfully target the industry's business units.


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Design Services
Rhonda Moscoe Interior Design strives for exquisite, well-planned, purposeful design. We help you make your vision come to life.
We offer a wide range of services, from full house floor plan drawings, spatial layout, furniture layouts, as well as sourcing all elements in your home from tile to fabric, to colour consults.
We will provide drawings in plan and elevations as well as 3-D renderings to problem solve comprehensive design solutions, and to convey ideas.
We have an open conversation/collaborative approach with our clients, and dealings with Architects, Engineers, Contractors and Manufacturers, all during the planning and project management times.
Residential Design Services:
- New Home Construction Consulting
- Coordination and preparation of submission of drawings for permit, to the city building department, with the assistance of our Architect
- Construction Drawings for Contractors
- Coordination with Architects and Engineers
- Project Management and Site Supervision
Comprehensive Kitchen and Bathroom Design:
- I will speak with you first on how you use your kitchen, take measurements, and come up with a concept
- Drawings will be provided in plan. These will be approved, then Elevations and 3-D renderings will be done
- I will guide you through the process of kitchen design, from all aspects of selections of cabinets, appliances, flooring, counter tops, and colour
Other Design Services:
- Product and furniture, accessories sourcing
- Built in's and Millwork, Fireplace Design
- Furniture Design
- Custom window treatment Design
- Lighting Design
- Colour Consultation
- Art and Photography Consultation
- Media/T.V./Sound System and Screening Room Consultation Design and set up
The Process:
- Meetings: with you the client to discuss general goals and ideas.
- Contracts: outlining specific scope of work, and concepts.
- Floor Plans: including current furniture and new pieces.
- Visual Research: gather styles that you like as to help us make successful choices in our planning.
- Budgets: develop based on your Scope of Work + furniture plans.
- Choices: we source selections from furniture, to wallpaper, to tile, carpet, fabric and art for approval.
- Revisions: a second set of selections and rework budget based on your selections.
- Deposits and Orders: with consideration of completion schedules.
- Site visits + Project Management:continuous throughout the project.
- Delivery and Installation: the design comes together in your home.
- Finale: tracking and tallies and taking care of final details.
Toronto Beaches Home
Denise M.
"Rhonda was a great pleasure to work with. I really appreciated that she took the time to discover my design tastes and included me in her creative process. She created a kitchen I always dreamed of, a kitchen that has clean lines, elegance, and flows with great functionality. Thank-you Rhonda!"
Robert and Rhonda Thornton
"We recently had the pleasure of working closely with Rhonda of Rhonda Moscoe Interior Design on one of her projects and were so pleased at the synergy with herself and her clients. She is thoughtful, organized, experienced and very detail oriented. Her commitment to her clients best interest was very evident thought out the project. She has many kitchen projects under her belt and she brings forth her knowledge and expertise. it was our pleasure to be part of her team on her latest project."
Toronto Annex Client
"Rhonda Moscoe Interior Design or (RMID) worked closely with us to facilitate our reno from idea to plan to reality. Rhonda worked tirelessly with us every step of the way, not only in creating a design that incorporated all of our wishes for our new space, but also by helping us to source the best and most economical materials, while offering support and insightful suggestions whenever needed. We are thrilled with our new second floor, which includes a master suite, walk-in closet, nursery and second bathroom. We will definitely retain RMID for our next home improvement project!"


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Some people just seem to live a fit lifestyle, and others must carefully plan and execute it. The following article can help people from all levels with some great tips to reach their fitness goals you wish.
Push-ups are great and simple way to add a nice tone your triceps. This particular pushup tones and strengthens your triceps faster than other types of exercises.
The frequency of your strength training depends on your goals. If you are looking to build muscles and increase strength, you should do more intense sessions on a less frequent basis. If you want to become leaner and achieve greater definition, then you should have strength training on a daily basis.
Abdominal Muscles
Don't focus exclusively on crunches to strengthen your abdominal muscles. A university study has shown that it takes a quarter million crunches only burn a single pound of fat. Find other ways to exercise your abdominal muscles so you achieve the best results.
You can reduce your chance of injury which walking by making sure you exercise in order to prevent injuries. Walk as straight as you can with your body perpendicular to the ground and keep your shoulders back. Let your elbows fall at a comfortable 90-degree angle. Make sure your arms are opposite pattern to your foot movements.
Try different types of fitness classes to keep yourself excited and excited. Try going to a dance or spinning. Keep in mind that you only need to attempt each class one time, and you will lose weight while you are doing it.
Running in an outside setting is better for you get on a treadmill. Running on the pavement is better than a treadmill.
Always dress comfortably when you are exercising.If you attend a gym, you may feel pressure to dress a certain way, but try not to succumb to that pressure. Make sure to get workout clothes that you are wearing is easy to move around in. The right clothes will help you to think more about fitness and not on what you're wearing.
Be sure to clean the fitness center equipment before you being using it. Other fitness users may not have cleaned up after themselves and left germs behind.
Weight Loss
Increase your workouts to accelerate weight loss. More exercises performed in a short period of time frame can increase your weight loss.This will allow you lose more weight.
Try performing actual sit-ups along with your crunches when you work out. Sit-ups have developed a bad reputation of late. Avoid doing sit-ups when your feet are anchored. This specific form of sit up is not good for your back though.
Listen to your body when needed. It's common to be told you can only rest until a certain point in the exercise. Take a rest whenever your body is letting you to do so. Ignoring the signs your body's signals will just set you up for injuries.
Leg Extensions
A great fitness tip to build up your quadriceps is leg extensions. Leg extensions are a pretty easy exercise to do and most gyms should have leg extension machines. Just extend your legs one at a time.
A great way to improve your physique is to work on your abdominal muscles. Sit-ups and crunches can help build your abdominal core.
Take it slow if you first start a fitness program.This helps lower injury due to improper form and getting tired out due to not breathing properly.
Muscle Groups
Your resistance training workout plan should be well organized and ordered. Use the dumbbells first, then barbells, and use the machines last. Trainers will tell you that smaller muscle groups of muscles tire before large ones. As muscles reach fatigue, moving to machines is sensible because you will require less effort from stabilizing muscle groups that are now tired.
Doing sit-ups correctly will cause back pain.Take a Swiss ball by placing a towel under your body to achieve the same effect as anchoring. Anchoring your feet when you perform sit ups adds extra strain to your back.
No matter what your fitness level may be, you can benefit by following the tips you've just read. Remember all of these tips and integrate them into your daily exercises. Spend the necessary time to achieve real fitness, and the rewards will be long-lasting.
This information served as a great tutorial regarding Fitness. This article, luckily, is exactly what you need for that. You do, however, need to apply what you've learned to realize any benefit from this article.


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" In Classical Greek mythology, Hippolyta (/hɪˈpɒlɪˌtə/; Greek: Ἱππολύτη Hippolyte) was the Amazonian queen who possessed a magical girdle that was given to her by her father, Ares, the god of war. The girdle was a waist belt that signified her authority as queen of the Amazons. She figures prominently in the myths of both Heracles and Theseus. The myths about her are therefore varied enough that they may be about several different women.
In the myth of Heracles, Hippolyta's girdle (ζωστὴρ Ἱππολύτης) was the object of his ninth labor. He was sent to retrieve it for Admete, the daughter of King Eurystheus. Most versions of the myth indicate that Hippolyta was so impressed with Heracles that she gave him the girdle without argument, perhaps while visiting him on his ship. Then (according to Pseudo-Apollodorus), the goddess Hera, making herself appear as one of the Amazons, spread a rumor among them that Heracles and his crew were abducting their queen, so the Amazons attacked the ship. In the fray that followed, Heracles slew Hippolyta, stripped her of the belt, fought off the attackers, and sailed away." taken from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippolyta


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43 And now, whether they were overtaken by Antipus we knew not, but I said unto my men: Behold, we know not but they have halted for the purpose that we should come against them, that they might catch us in their snare;
44 Therefore what say ye, my sons, will ye go against them to battle?
(Alma 56:43-44)
Helaman's first battle with his 2,000 young soldiers began with a moment of anxious uncertainty. The Lamanite army which had pursued them for three days had suddenly halted. Helaman could think of two possible explanations for this:
- The Nephite army led by Antipus had attacked the Lamanites from the rear.
- The Lamanites were trying to trick Helaman's army into attacking them.
Helaman's army was not strong enough to fight these Lamanites alone. Therefore, if Antipus's army wasn't there, attacking the Lamanites would result in certain defeat. But if Antipus had attacked, then he needed their help. There was no way to know.
I'm impressed with Helaman's approach to this decision. After explaining the situation and identifying the risks, he asked, "What say ye, my sons, will ye go against them to battle?"
Asking the opinions of these young soldiers on a decision of such urgency strikes me as an unusual approach to leadership. I'm not sure how it worked logistically, but I imagine him addressing all 2,000 of them at once to ask this question. There wasn't time for a debate, a discussion, or a vote. It was time to decide and to act. Still, Helaman genuinely valued their opinions and wanted to know if they were willing to commit to this course of action.
I can imagine these young soldiers respecting their leader for asking these questions. I can imagine them being much more energized and confident as they entered their first battle, knowing that they were part-owners of this decision. I imagine Helaman leading them with more confidence knowing that they were aware of the risks and had committed fully to this choice.
Today, in my leadership roles, I will remember Helaman's example of respect for the agency of those he led. Some decisions may be urgent, and others may allow for more deliberation, but either way, I will make time to assess the opinions of the people who are affected by the decision.


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There are many mission, and you can earn various rewards upon completing them. There are daily, repeatable, and normal mission, Daily missions, can be completed once a day, repeatable missions can be completed numerous times, and normal missions can only be completed once.
You can use the Honor Coins that you were awarded to buy things from the Honor Store. It is very useful, so visit the store whenever you can.


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I love the walking and the thrill of finding something. A lot of the pieces I have date back to 10,000 B.C. If you look closely at some of them, you can see that the prehistoric people inscribed things on them. They must have had really good eyesight because they did not have glasses back then. Read More >
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Nevada stepped forward with a diversified renewable energy program that addressed solar and renewable power. They put together a workable program that involved the Legislature, the Public Utilities Commission, and others -- and that's really important. You have to have support. You have to have a program that you know will work. That's what we did here. All of those bodies came together and made it happen. Read More >


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The snow is endless, as far as the eye can see. Volterra pushes his way through it, some of the drifts reaching up to his massive chest. He can feel the moisture sucking at his stout limbs, making him work to move, burning his muscles and sharpening his breaths. Good, he thinks. Training without meaning to. Mother will be proud, if he ever sees her again. His nostrils hang wide, inhaling and ejecting deep blasts of frigid air, and the chilly early-spring wind pushes his ears flat against his skull and tosses his mane into a frenzy. Determination creases the hard lines of his face, a face that loses any remnance of boyishness with every passing day and sharpens into the royal features of a man.
Every so often, another blast of cold air shoots past him, one that's even frostier than the wind itself. He doesn't have to look to know it is his red dragon practicing his ice-breathing abilities, something he hasn't stopped doing since he discovered the power that lay dormant within him. Vérzés freezes anything he can lay his paws on, including Volterra himself if the leviathan doesn't get out of the way fast enough. There is an acute pain that comes with being touched by his dragon's breath, a burning that isn't. Where his father's shoulders had been scarred by fire, Volterra's are chafed by frost, and silver patches of healing skin stand out livid against his jet black pelt. He has had his dragon try to freeze off some of the boils that have plagued him since the fight with the God, but nothing happens. The great welts are painful and persistent, and far more of an annoyance than the bruise on his side, which has already begun to fade.
He halts, and Vérzés swoops down to land on his withers. The ruby beast has caught a lemming and happily devours the carcass, squirting blood up the back of the yearling's neck. He shrivels his nose in disgust and shakes his mane to rid it of snowflakes and blood alike, stretching his thick neck to ease the aches that come with walking through snow. He has no real purpose here, and simply stands with one idly cocked leg, listening to his dragon's voracious chewing. He is tempted to roll in the snow to try and see if that will ease the boils, but assumes it will be just as ineffective as the red's breath. ""
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Counter Logic Gaming Red branched out into the CS:GO scene this summer and got off to a strong start, winning their first major tournament at ESWC's women's divisional tournament. Since then, the team has participated at various offline and online events, including Fragadelphia 6 and RGN Pro Series.
After getting knocked out of the Northern Arena during Group B's round robin, theScore eSports sat down with Stephanie "missharvey" Harvey to talk about the tournament, her team's plans for 2016 and CLG Red's new team house.
Your team has been playing in a lot more male events over the past few months. Is that something that CLG has allowed you to do or is that just something you guys have wanted to do more?
It is a little bit of both. When we joined CLG and combined that with the support of Intel, it allowed us to attend way more events than previously possible. That was definitely a game changer for us. And second, it was also the fact that we wanted to attend more male events so that we could compete versus the best. This was really important for us. However, as you might have seen in the last two to three months, our results have been pretty much similar so we want to take a step back and work harder, and then continue attending more events in the future. We're going to do a one month boot camp before we attend another male event. Maybe near the end of January or early February, but definitely not before that.
Speaking to your results over the past little while, have they been about what you expect or have you been frustrated from the fact that you haven't found an extreme amount of success?
Again, it is a little bit of both. I think we're unsatisfied with the results, but at the same time I think they are the results that we worked for. We didn't work hard enough to have better results in my opinion. I have a full-time job so I was dragging the team down a little bit with my time involvement and other goals and priorities. That is something we want to change in 2016 so that we don't waste our time when we go to events. We want to work very hard and have a good work ethic. Also, every tournament we are happy with our performance in one match, and think that if we had worked a bit harder we would have probably been able to win. At the same time there are always two matches that we are always disappointed in and that was a lot rougher than we thought it should have been. So I think that is when the preparation will make a difference.
Just speaking to your performance at this event, one thing we noticed between your three games was that you managed to have a fairly decent T-side for periods of each game. Why do you think you struggled harder on CT-side when you compare it to your T-side.
Yeah, we worked on our T-side a lot over the past couple of months because it was out main issue and our CT-side was fairly decent. But when we play versus these amazing teams i think our CT-side is way too weak. I think we focus a lot on our individual skill and our individual skill is not there yet because we don't work hard enough. At that point the guys can just pick us off and win rounds. That's when we need to work as much on CT-side as our T. We dry run a lot for our T-side, but not for our CT-side, so that is something we are going to have to work on a lot. We are not also used to playing these super high level teams on CT-side, while T-side it's something that we do more often because we 10-man and play versus these caliber on our T-side a lot more. It was really weak throughout the whole weekend.
Just to combine a couple of the ideas, you mentioned that you scrim against these teams a bit, and also the stress of having to work. How much time have you been able to put in week-to-week on practicing your game over the past few months?
We have worked like four to five days a week around three to four hours a day, which I think is ridiculously small if we want to compete with the top teams. We are going to improve that to six days a week with close to six hours a day. It's going to be a game changer because we're talking about nearly tripling our hours as a team. So that's not even individual work. So hopefully it will make a huge difference at the end of the day.
You mentioned that you would be increasing your hours by a huge amount. Will you be stepping back from your full-time job at all to make time for that or will you just be adding on the workload?
We're actually moving in together to create the first all-female gaming house in the world starting in a few weeks. Everything has been confirmed, we have a house near the CLG main office in Los Angeles, all six of us. The five players and our manager. I am taking a step back from my job at Ubisoft even though it is an amazing job, it's not my life. My life is gaming. My life is CS and we're all doing the same thing together. We are putting in the maximum work and focusing 100% on CLG Red for CLG.
Looking ahead, what are you looking to achieve over the next year? What are your goals now that you are going to be putting in more time?
My personal goal is obviously to get out ESEA-IM, which is ridiculous that we didn't get last season. It's mostly my fault — lost a lot of clutches. But definitely, get into ESEA Main. A real stretch goal is to make it into ESEA Premier. Also we're going to play CEVO seriously, which we didn't do in the past. It was mostly just a practice for ESEA, but now that we're doing this full-time, we're going to take that seriously as well. We're in CEVO Main, but the goal for me would be to make it to Placement, not necessarily make it to Professional, but at least making it to Placement would be an awesome goal. We want to continue competing versus the guys. I think the one real goal is just to have a successful first year. If we look at the past year, everything fell into place. We found the right players, won the world cup. It was one piece at a time and no we all want this and we weren't going to achieve it the way we are now. So we said we're doing this, are you in or out, and everyone was in. So for the next year is just about focusing on the team and making every minute count. Hopefully finding an amazing coach to help us reach the highest level.
Do you think that what you're doing will be replicated by other female teams in the near future?
I would say that it would depend on our success. Our goal for the last year was just to get better and next year I would say that we will be even more focused on that. If we just crush the competition in female events, versus if it is still pretty tight, these teams might start doing it too if we're really far ahead. I don't know how they're practicing a lot in Europe. We have no view month on their skill level for the whole year. We haven't played over the past 4-6 months, but from the past years what we see is that they do improve. But we're moving in together for a year, so what I would think is that we should be better than we were in the past and that these teams will have to work extra hard to get to our level. I would think it is even easier in Europe to get close because the barriers are more open. For us, we need visa's and a bunch of things to make it possible. Hopefully they do that so the female level can go up all around.
This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity.
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Life changes pretty quickly..I went to bed on March 13th with some pressure- it felt like I needed to use the bathroom but couldn't. I stayed home from work on March 14th and had pressure all day- I felt nauseas and dizzy and everything I found on the internet stated that it could be an impacted bowl. I had just finished an egg fast the week before and realized that I hadn't had much fiber. I started taking some fiber gummies and continued to try to force myself to go number 2. I had a really rough night of March 14th but went into work on March 15th to enter my time but I continued to be extremely dizzy, nauseas and in a decent amount of pain.
I left work on March 15th and went to the DR- he said I had an impacted bowl and gave me laxatives and sent me home. My wife was at work and the pain greatly intensified sometime between 11:30am-12:00pm and I mean, to the point of me literally screaming and crying while I was home alone.
I was lying in bed- in and out of knowing what was going on…having chills and shakes, screaming in pain and trying to force myself to use the bathroom.
My wife came home from work and found me in the bed, basically out of it- confused, shivering and burning up. She called her mom and they helped me get to the car to take me to the ER. It was a very painful and long process. By the time we got to the hospital, I was too weak and in too much pain to get myself out so some guys rushed over and helped get me into a wheel chair.
They quickly got me back and got me ready for a CAT Scan. I was afraid they were going to have to flip me over and go in manually to get this stuck poop out but it was much…much worse.
The surgeon came in a while later and told me that my appendix had busted and questioned why I waited so long to come in, which wasn't really fair because I was doing what the DR told me to do. He explained that it was a serious issue- the surgery is pretty common but every single thing that could be going against me was- it had already busted so it would make surgery much worse. I'm still extremely obese and I have severe sleep apnea. During the conversation, I truly felt like he was just trying to prepare my wife for the outcome…I basically heard – "it's a common procedure with a low death rate but with all of your husbands issues, it doesn't look very good for him." No, that isn't what he said but when you take all the "beating around the bush" and put it together…that is what he meant.
This wasn't like an "almost had a car wreck…I almost died" type of situation- it was a legit "if you had waited much longer, you would have died in your bed and the shape you are in, you could very well not make it out of this hospital" situation.
My wife was there with me the entire time and I can't explain how important that was. There are a few things that stick out from that night and will stick with me for the rest of my life.
- The hardest thing was trying to tell me wife, to tell my son, that I loved him very much. She asked if I wanted to call him but I was having a hard time of keeping it together so that wasn't a great idea.
- Realizing that I was lucky enough to have the most amazing and gorgeous girl in the world setting next to me and that could have been the last time I got to touch her face or tell her how much I loved her.
- Religion never crossed my mind. I've been an atheist most of my life, but I wasn't sure that when I was face to face with death, I wouldn't try to pull some "just in case" bullshit and that would have made me question my entire life…that moment never came. I never thought of anything except the fact that this surgeon had my life in his hands and the outcome was totally based on medicine, science and his expertise. There was no thought of a god, Jesus, after-life or some type of "let's make a deal" bullshit. It just wasn't there and that makes me proud. That shows me that I am who I claim to be – 100%.
- The whiteness of the surgery room- it was this huge, massive white room with a bunch of stuff in the middle but enough room for 15 more beds- if needed. I remember some southern rock playing on the radio and sliding over to the other bed. The guy put that mask on me and told me to enjoy my nap and I was gone.
- My last words to my wife would have been I love you and my last words in this world would have been a Deadpool joke about wheeling me through the halls, headed to make me a mutant instead of taking my appendix out.
I woke up in recovery and there was my amazing wife. I spent a couple days in the hospital which was hell- from the IV, to taking blood to the bed NOT being made for a guy my size.
I'm about 1.5 weeks into recovery- it's easier to get up and walk around but I can still only sleep on my back. Getting into the car is still pretty painful but things seem to be getting better day by day.
As far as the diet…they puffed about 16 lbs of fluids, air and gas into me. I didn't really eat for a week and I got back to where I was and then lost another pound. I did take a couple days off to eat anything I wanted…I almost died, so I deserved it.
Today- I've started back on my coffee and vitamins and I'm going back strict Sharketo. I hope to go back to work on Friday and take it slow.
I will fully return to everything on April 1st– back to writing on SharkysWorld.com, back to eating Sharketo and back to trying to do some exercise- I'll have to start really slow but I'm starting back.
The surgeon basically said if I hadn't lost almost 70 lbs- there is an even better chance I wouldn't be here…losing that weight truly saved my life and I have a long way to go but it's time to get back to the grind.
I'm on a journey and NOTHING is going to stand in my way…this didn't kill me so it's time to cover and continue on. I faced death and I'm still here because I got shit to prove to myself and the world.
Enjoy the day because, believe me, it can change in the blink of an eye.
Love, Peace and Sharkyness


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Oppo has been known to introduce a little innovation in the smartphone industry. Most known are Oppos introduction of 1080p displays into smartphones and the introduction of VOOC, Oppos blazing fast charging system, faster than Qualcomms Quickcharge 2.0.
Oppo seems to be making a left turn following close behind HTC with a new phones hardware leaks. The new hardware features a unibody metal design that looks almost exactly like an iPhone 6 Plus. HTC at least centered the camera lens on the back of the HTC One A9 but Oppo decided to keep it right where the iPhone has it, only changing the orientation of the LED flash.
The Chinese company even has the bottom-firing speaker grille, charging port, and 3.5mm headphone jack identically laid out on the underside of the phone.
Is there a new trend among smartphone manufactures to "take inspiration" from Apple? Maybe. Perhaps Oppo is aiming for markets that are over saturated with mid to low range smartphones and trying to stand out by looking like an easily recognizable high end smartphone.
Apple's largest manufacturing crib is in china with all their chinese labor slaves working their rice off our iPhones. So theyve access to inferior parts to be made for those crap chinese brands like huowei, lenovo, xiami, oppo...
I'm an android fanboy but I'd rather buy a 2010 phone than a oppo. That's how terrible oppo is. It's just a cheap iPhone rip-off
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Closing out the month of November. Pick a good one. Seems like a slow day........what do you think Carl?
803 – In New Orleans, Spanish representatives officially transfer the Louisiana Territory to a French representative. Just 20 days later, France transfers the same land to the United States as the Louisiana Purchase.
Wow! That was a great deal of land and best deal in history.
1939 – Winter War: Soviet forces cross the Finnish border in several places and bomb Helsinki and several other
Finnish cities, starting the war.
As a nine year old, I followed the news of the conflict in the NY Daily News or NY Mirror. As reported, the heroic
Fins seemed to be winning the war, and it was a great shock and disappointment when they lost.
Mike, I though that the Alaska purchase from Russia (collusion !) was a great deal.


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