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Yung Joc net worth: Yung Joc is a Georgia born rapper who has a net worth of $8 million dollars. Yung Joc is most widely recognized for his work his hit song, "It's Going Down", from his debut album, which was nominated for a Grammy Award in 2007. Born Jasiel Robinson on April 2, 1983, in Atlanta, Georgia, US, he is an award-winning rap singer better known by his stage name Yung Joc. He first started his music career after he met producer Russell "Block" Spencer, with whom he recorded the hit club track, It's Goin Down, in the spring of 2006. Later that year, he went on to sign a multi-million dollar deal with Bad Boy Records, who released his debut album, New Joc City. Meanwhile, Joc was also featured on the songs of other artists like Danity Kane's Show Stopper and Cassie's album track, Call U Out. 2006 saw his It's Goin' Down single top the various rap charts and his net worth grow so much that he entered the rapper's richest lists. In 2007, he released his second album, Hustlenomics, which includes the singles Coffee Shop and Bottle Poppin'. Two years later, Joc released his third studio album, Grind Flu, online for free. As of today, he is working on his upcoming album, Mr. Robinson's Neighborhood, the first single of the which, Yeah Boy, is already released.
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Associate Publishers in the United States are often veterans in their line of work, with slightly less than three-fifths bringing more than 10 years of experience to the table. Salaries slide in at $78K annually on average but can range from $39K to $133K per year. Women make up a slight majority of Associate Publishers (54 percent) survey respondents. Work is enjoyable for Associate Publishers, who typically claim high levels of job satisfaction. Most report receiving medical coverage from their employers and more than half collect dental insurance. Figures cited in this summary are based on replies to PayScale's salary questionnaire.
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1. Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns), by Mindy Kaling
This is one of those my-awkward-rise-to-Hollywood-fame books, but it's told from the relatable perspective of The Mindy Project's Mindy Kaling, who loves doughnuts as much as you. Plus, it's fun to read in her high-pitched voice.
2. Portnoy's Complaint, by Philip Roth
Told from the couch of a psychoanalyst, this book centers around the joys and anguishes of growing up Jewish-American in the mid-20th century. Anyone who blames their sexual oddities on being hugged too tightly by their bubbe will relate.
3. I Don't Care About Your Band, by Julie Klausner
Dating sucks. Julie Klausner understands that better than anyone. Her first-person account of the worst dates ever might be bad for relationship advice but it's great for a laugh.
4. Fraud, by David Rakoff
Self-deprecation becomes an art form in Fraud. This book is for anyone who lives in constant fear of being called a phony, or anyone who has ever tried to climb a mountain in loafers.
5. Bridget Jones's Diary, by Helen Fielding
On her quest for self-improvement, Bridget Jones gets hung up on chain-smoking and too-short skirts. Bridget Jones is you. Bridget Jones is life.
6. Breakfast of Champions, by Kurt Vonnegut
A funny look at 1970s America seen through the scope of an unintentionally murderous aging writer. Classic Kurt satire.
7. Lamb, by Christopher Moore
We all know the story of Christ, but Biff — Christ's childhood best bud — remembers all those awkward parts the Bible left out. It's the most holy coming-of-age tale you'll ever read.
8. A Confederacy of Dunces, by John Kennedy Toole
John Kennedy Toole's mother discovered this book (then just a mess of scribbled papers) under his bed after he committed suicide in 1969. The book was published and went on to win a posthumous Pulitzer Prize. It's a hilarious account of a man who writes books in his bedroom but never publishes them, but it's also so much more than that.
9. Someone Could Get Hurt, by Drew Magary
On parenting in 21st-century America, the evolution of the Helicopter Dad, and how to get drunk while your kids trick-or-treat.
10. Wake Up, Sir!, by Jonathan Ames
This book proves even a personal butler can't help some people. But it's fun to watch them try.
11. The Stench of Honolulu, by Jack Handey
The man who brought you Saturday Night Live's "Deep Thoughts with Jack Handey" wrote a full-length novel, and it's everything you dreamed it would be.
12. A Walk in the Woods, by Bill Bryson
Two slightly out-of-shape hikers attempt to take on the Appalachian Trail. One of those hikers is Bill Bryson, prolific humor/travel writer. This book is perfect for anyone looking for a laugh, or to be talked out of hiking the Appalachian Trail.
13. The Princess Bride, by William Goldman
Whether you liked the film adaptation or hated it, read this book! It's the the Spinal Tap of fairy tales, and it's much funnier on paper.
14. Me Talk Pretty One Day, by David Sedaris
Sedaris has unabashedly been called the funniest writer in America by critics and fans alike. Any of his titles will have you crossing your legs to keep from wetting yourself, but Me Talk Pretty One Day really triumphs.
15. The Sugar Frosted Nutsack, by Mark Leyner
Ancient gods are living in modern-day Dubai and keep picking on an unemployed butcher from New Jersey named Ike Karton. Leyner's writing is dizzying and hilarious, but be warned! He's a love-it-or-hate-it kind of storyteller.
16. I Feel Bad About My Neck, by Nora Ephron
Ephron brought us Sleepless in Seattle and You've Got Mail, so is it any surprise this collection of essays about being a woman of a certain age hits you hard in the LOLerbone?
17. Essays of E. B. White, by E. B. White
The witty, imaginative mind of White comes alive in this collection of essays. It's everything you loved about Charolette's Web and Stuart Little, but written for grown-ups.
18. Blue Boy, by Rakesh Satyal
Growing up is hard, but growing up as the 10th reincarnation of the god Krishnaji is even harder. And our young protagonist plans to announce to the world his true identity at the school talent show while dancing to Whitney Houston. You gotta read this book.
19. Thank You, Jeeves, by P. G. Wodehouse
Wodehouse is known for creating a cast of memorable, wacky characters, and Thank You, Jeeves is no exception. Be wary that the humor in this book was born in 1930s England, though that doesn't mean contemporary audiences won't enjoy the ride.
20. The Broke Diaries, by Angela Nissel
For anyone who has ever survived on a diet of Ramen noodles in college, this book is for you. All true, all hilarious.
21. Catch-22, by Joseph Heller
This book often tops lists of the best novels ever written because of its brutally honest portrayal of the absurdities of war and its honest exploration of what it means to be "insane." A must-read, especially if you SparkNotes'd it in high school (guilty).
22. Dave Barry Slept Here, by Dave Barry
Barry manages to recount American history for people who hate American history but love to laugh. Read it, learn something, giggle your head off.
23. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams
This book is required reading for all science fiction fans, but that doesn't mean non-sci-fi people won't get a kick out of it. The humor is dry and satirical in the same vein of Monty Python but still incredibly original.
24. Bossypants, by Tina Fey
If you're not a huge fan of Fey's comedy (you are most likely criminally insane), you'll still enjoy this book because it's an honest memoir about a very awkward, very offbeat young girl with a face scar making a name for herself one fart joke at a time.
25. The Importance of Being Ernest, by Oscar Wilde
Often regarded as Wilde's best work, you'll find yourself wondering how this play is over 100 years old while wiping laugh-tears off your cheek.
26. Let's Pretend This Never Happened (A Mostly True Memoir), by Jenny Lawson
This is the kind of book you shouldn't read in public unless you want to attract stares of strangers while you're rolling on the floor laughing. It painfully recounts some of Lawson's most embarrassing and remarkably human moments, causing readers to cringe and giggle all at the same time.
27. How to Be a Woman, by Caitlin Moran
Don't let anyone tell you this book is a feminist triumph. It's a human triumph. And it'll make you wet yourself.
28. Good Omens, by Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman
It's the end of the world as we know it, and the Antichrist is nowhere to be found. Pratchett and Gaiman make for a hysterical tag team, parodying everything from religion to Elvis.
29. Side Effects, by Woody Allen
A book to remind you your life will never be as pitiful as the characters Woody Allen can dream up.
30. My Horizontal Life, by Chelsea Handler
For anyone who needs to be reassured that their sex life isn't the weirdest one out there, Chelsea Handler recounts some of her most absurd one-night stands. Yes, one involves a leather daddy.
31. Kill Your Friends, by John Niven
Fueled by a mountain of cocaine and a lake of vodka, a man searches for the next big Britpop hit. Bodily functions ensue, and so does hilarity.
32. This Is Where I Leave You, by Jonathan Tropper
After the death of their father, a dysfunctional family is forced to sit shiva under the same roof for seven days. You'll do equal time crying and laughing.
- The Trump administration is reportedly considering a set of policies to prosecute parents who illegally enter the US with their children.
- Norma McCorvey, the woman behind the landmark 1973 Supreme Court case, Roe v. Wade, has died in Texas at 69.
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The Golden State Warriors came into the playoffs with little expectations. They nearly lost their No. 6 seed to the Houston Rockets before finishing at 47-35 (and amazingly, Houston dropped back down to No. 8). They finished 3-3 in their last six games,…Share Tweet
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|This Panel concentrates on the relationship between self and other in communicative activities.
The panel intends to focus discussion on the linguistic means that speakers use to position:
(a) Themselves
(b) What they are communicating
(c) Their interlocutors in an interactional space
Linguistic markers such as those indexing the speakers' subjectivity are relevant in the construction of the relationship between self and other in the local context of interaction and in the wider context of societies between groups of individuals. Although speakers manifest subjectivity at all levels of language, this panel concentrates on elements belonging to the socio-pragmatic domain.
Speakers pragmatically modify the propositional content of utterances with, e.g., hedges and boosters (a bit, so) or pragmatic markers (like), and through these means convey their stances to guide the interpretation process. Similarly, the relationship with the interlocutor can be co-constructed through self-defining stances (I mean) and/or deferential address terms indexically associated with the social identity of interlocutors.
Some of these markers also acquire second or third order indexicalities (Silverstein 2003) when used by speakers to represent themselves as members of societal groups (e.g. Eng. like in young speech, T vs V address forms in present or past societies, Culpeper 2011). Pragmatic and discourse markers are interesting cases in point as the choice of a marker can be associated with the needs of speakers to belong to a particular social class (Huspek 1989) or in-group, or to affiliate with different varieties of the same language (Aijmer 2009, Cuenca 2008). They can be associated with the social identities of speakers (social roles, peer groups, Andersen 2001), social relationships, activities (debating, interviewing), social acts (requests, offers), attitudes and feelings (Andersen and Aijmer, 2011). This discussion calls into question, but is not limited to, deferential address terms, pragmatic and discourse markers, conversational routines, levels of indexicalities, all to be intended as linguistic means to position the self and the other.
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Goodbye my paradise, I'm leaving you :(
... LaLa zauwazylysmy wszystkich z projektu, OMG pamietam jak sie skradalysmy przez jakies chaszcze za barem, zeby nas nie zobaczyli, szalenstwo, jak dwojka dzieciakow!
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Jones and Madison joined in marriage
Alison Raynett Jones and Kirby VanTroy Madison were married on February 25 at Saint Peter Baptist Church in Lafayette. The Reverend Hillman Sonnier performed the double-ring ceremony and Rev. Carl Sonnier provided the music.
The bride is the daughter of Guendelyn Cerf of Lafayette and Alvin Ray and Sandra Burrell of Franklin.
The groom is the son of Leroy Charles and the late Lucy Madison Charles of Franklin.
Her father and mothers presented the bride in marriage.
Kerrylee Gant served as best man.
Tyandria Burrell and Taren Johnson served as maid and matron of honor.
Aunts and uncles of the groom, along with a host of family members and friends, attended the wedding.
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From what I read, American TV is preparing several series for next (2006 – 2007) season dealing with a post-apocalypse America. Recently on Blogcritics, I've seen reviews concerning themselves with "Left Behind" the series of books and movies dealing with the fundamentalist Christian concept of a "rapture" grabbing up all the righteous in the End of Days – and what happens to those who are not included in the saintly élite.
Silas Kain, a frequent and highly incisive contributor to Blogcritics, submitted a piece recently dealing with the question "The End of Days or a New World?" It is one I suggest you all look at and consider.
In the Jewish world, the End of Days is certainly a Big Topic. Here in Israel looking at things non-Jews rarely contemplate, like the Hebrew calendar, we are beginning to see how the prophecies of the Hebrew Bible are beginning to play out. You can be sure, however, that the Master of the Universe, THE Creative Writer to beat all creative writers, always keeps a card hidden up His Sleeve for a surprise ending. But even all that is NOT the Big Question. The Big Question is the kind of thing that gets thrown in your face at the dinner table on a Saturday afternoon.
On 26 November 2003, Professor Eliyahu Rips gave a presentation at the Israel Center sponsored by the Root & Branch Association. Professor Rips, along with Doron Witztum, is one of the developers of and premier experts on the Torah Codes investigated by Rabbi Michael Weissmandl in his youth.
After showing the numerous ways one could mine repetitive information from the Torah Codes on one subject (using the Twin Towers attack as his example), he went off on a bit of a tangent, talking about how the Midrashic date of 5790 (2030) came up in the array that was formed when he typed the phrase "M'hhayéi haMetím" (rising of the dead). This was in connection with showing how even the Midrash, a series of stories in the Talmud that explain moral points, was reflected in the Torah Code – confirming what the Vilna Gaon had said about the Torah – that everything in the whole universe was somehow alluded to in Torah.
The medresh that mentions the date 5790 essentially predicts that the rising of the dead will occur in that year (though some rabbis say it will occur in 5786). This means, in essence, that the messiah will have already come and accomplished his main tasks; conditions will be such that the rising of the dead can occur.
This lecture by Professor Rips had been the highlight of my week. The following Sabbath, I explained this to my family at lunch, pointing out that this was the only time that this phrase "M'hhayéi haMetím" appeared encoded in the Torah. After listening for a time, my youngest son popped the Big Question: Why?
Why were we created? Why do we exist? What is the point of it all? What if someone doesn't believe in the rising of the dead or in the coming of the messiah?
At first, I tried to answer him by saying that the answer to that question is something that comes to you after you die. But that answer just didn't cut it with me – I imagine that it didn't cut it with him either. I know why we or the universe exist? I looked up with a silent prayer for help. Sure enough, it arrived.
I told him to think of G-d as a computer programmer testing His programs to see if they met certain criteria. The issue He tests for is, "do I want this 'program' hanging around My heaven for Eternity?" So we are tested for quality, endurance, faithfulness, loyalty, etc. If we pass the test, we are admitted to heaven for eternity – which is a long time, after all. If not, our souls cease to exist – we become worm-food, or maybe we get planted into a different body for "re-education". I tried to explain that I don't understand all the joys that one would feel in heaven, but then that is part of being human.
My son wanted to know "what was in it for G-d?' The textual answer, the one I had learned, was that G-d had created the universe for His greater glory. But what was the greater glory? Often, I had explained to my sons and my wife that the Torah was not just a series of nice rules by which people got along, or even the national history of the Jewish people – that it was the blueprint of the universe, by whose powers the universe had been created by the Almighty. This is a central assertion of the m'kubalim, the holy men who receive kabbalót, Divine wisdom. There is one calculation that the universe is one sixty fourth of the Torah, another that it is one sixteenth. I have often explained to the boys that the Torah encompassed all possibilities and all probabilities of human (and non-human) endeavor. In being given the task of "guarding the Torah," we Jews were not just guarding a series of fairy tales. We were guarding the integrity of the code that created the universe. And we still are.
So, if all possibilities were contemplated already by the Torah, what was the point of free will? What was the gain for the Almighty of human souls hanging around His heaven for eternity?
While we can never really know, we can attempt to guess. We can perform a thought experiment of sorts. That is what I tried to do with my kids at the Sabbath table. We humans are limited in our understanding of the universe by two traits which are like blinders on the eyes of a horse. We are born and we die. This means that time is important because we have only so much of it. That is one trait. The other is that we are two sexes, male and female, with distinct roles and outlooks born of that distinction.
Our Creator has neither of these limitations on His view of things. A Divinity that can create anything by mere thought, and that is outside of time is beyond our imagination. But the one thing that is not beyond our imagination is loneliness. G-d is alone in His heavens.
Consider. A Divinity alone forever. Forever.
The human soul could potentially serve as His company! Now there is not much that those souls could add – after all, all possibilities of human endeavor were already considered within the Torah. But the added experience of the human could be like spice on a beverage, cinnamon on a cheese cake, or pepper on pizza. I told my sons to imagine an orchestra playing music for eternity. Humans' souls could be like the extra violinist or cellist or flautist playing a little bit louder than the score might call for. It's not much, just a scintilla of difference from the program. But that scintilla might make all the difference.
So, the point of free will is that we humans – and other creatures in the universe granted sentience like humans – have had to have the opportunity to choose life, and good, and loving G-d. Without that choice, we would be mere animals. The free choice to love G-d is the scintilla of something extra in the universe already contemplated within the Torah.
By the time we had gotten this far, everyone was kind of tired. My wife was falling asleep. My older boy, who had not asked the Big Question, couldn't wait to say grace over a meal long eaten (Jews bless the food before they eat it and say grace – known as "Birkát haMazón" – afterwards). All this was a lot for my younger son, a twelve year old, to absorb. Heck! It was a lot for this poor uneducated Jew to try to figure out!Powered by Sidelines


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In response to an Open Records request from NOW Newspapers, the School District of Brown Deer has provided a list of the applicants for two guidance counselor positions that were filled over the summer.
Former School Board member Kathy Stresman applied for an open elementary guidance counselor/social worker position on July 11 and for an open high school guidance counselor position on July 17.
Stresman resigned from the board on July 26.
When asked if she left the board in order to apply for the positions, Stresman last week refused to discuss any jobs that she had applied for in the district but did talk about her newly created position in the school district as community and family outreach coordinator.
She said she learned of that part-time position on Aug. 23 and was interviewed for it on the same day. The School Board both created the position and hired Stresman in less than five minutes on Aug. 30. The job was not posted.
There were 70 applicants for the elementary position and 91 for the high school position. The School Board on Aug. 9 and 16 approved a number of new employees, including Amber Montague for the elementary position and Kelly Moore for the high school position.
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A point acknowledged by the couple of amiable and bored bobbies wandering about on a bleak afternoon without very much to do. ``We might have expected to see some of the people opposed to country sport this afternoon, but they're down at Fairmile, more's the pity. We won't be seeing Swampy and Animal here. No, the best we can hope for is a few car break-ins.''
I had to have a word with them since they were keeping a weary eye on me - other than them I was the only human being for miles around without a pair of green wellies, waxed jacket, country cap and extremely ruddy cheeks. Men and women alike. Even the kids - like children brought up in some fanatical religious sect, were wearing exactly the same clobber as their parents. The only permissible alternative was a red frock jacket and a hunting horn.
For eager converts, ``The Pukka Clothing Company'' was selling ``county gear'' and jodhpurs next to the beer tent. A placard outside the British Field Sports Society marquee nearby warned of frightful perils ahead; ``1997 - New MPs, New Parliament, New threats to country sports. You can help!'' and I feared I already had helped by coughing up pounds 10 to park my car to finance some pompous sadist on a horse.
In the darkest recesses of East Anglia, feudalism is not yet dead. Point- to-point is an opportunity for several thousand nobs and snobs to mingle with rustic peasant types. It is a hideous grinning comedy of manners, with the lords and masters patronising and looking down on the masses and the yokels guilefully sucking up to the gentry, all jockeying for advantage going over the social fences. The racing and betting is just a pretext. Even the row of bookies looked underemployed. ``No one puts down any big bets,'' groaned Sid of Chelmsford. There was serious money in the offing, but very little of it passed through Sid's hands.
The whole thing is a narcissistic exercise in primping and pimping. For beyond the smell of horse sweat and the promise of blood and gore to come, amid the hampers in the backs of Range Rovers and bottles of Burgundy on the walnut tables of Silver Ghosts, and, despite the paralysing cold, there was the powerful sense of a fertility dance in full swing. I bumped into Ted, an old college acquaintance, also a sceptic but with solid rural credentials. ``A mating ritual, pure and simple,'' is how he explained point-to-point.
``Nothing to do with horses,'' he said. ``No one here gives a toss about horses.'' He hauled me off to one side, probably embarrassed to be seen talking to someone in a pair of Timberlands. ``Look at me - I can't even ride. Not horses anyway.'' He then went off in to a prolonged metaphor involving mounts, studs, stallions and fillies that wouldn't have been out of place in a Jilly Cooper novel. Ted had a sharp eye for form. ``See it from our point of view, old lad,'' he said, wrapping a sympathetic arm round my shoulder. ``It's all to do with breeding. You have to keep the bloodline pure. You can't have the oiks marrying in, now can you?''
Personally, I think the point-to-pointing gene pool could do with a good shake up. The horse face was everywhere, and not just on the horses. Ted went off to manoeuvre for an invite to a party being given by Lord Vestey. Edmund Vestey - the butcher and local master of hounds, I think, who owns a lot of land in these parts - stood out not so much for his bowler hat, but for the almost entirely purple beacon of a face under it. Having had so much to do with raw meat over the ages he has come to resemble a slab of steak.
Ken Williams, a first-time rider, caused an upset by winning the last race on Glenbricken. Particularly upset were those mugs who put their money on the favourite, Buckshot. The edited highlights of one remark I overheard among the punting hoi polloi was: ``**** the ****ing **** out of that ****ing **** of a nag!''
But Williams was a popular winner among the Vesteys and the trans-Vesteys. ``This is a dream come true,'' he said in his winner's speech, ``just to ride here - let alone win as well. And thanks for supporting the hunt.''
I wasn't, but I let that pass. And it didn't surprise me that Greig Middleton, Stockbrockers, were one of the sponsors of the event and out touting for custom at Horseheath. But what I want to know is: what the hell was Barclays Bank (of Haverhill) doing bank-rolling the races? Presumably some of the overdraft charges they slap on the urban proletariat of Haverhill are going straight in to the jodhpurs of the fox-hunting classes. Medieval style taxation all over again. A boycott would be in order here, methinks.
And it is surely a gross blunder on the part of the Racing Channel to get itself involved in broadcasting point-to-points. Apart from the fact that the unwatchable in pursuit of their own self-interest is a total yawn and turn-off, it is only helping to support the archaic and sanguinary habits of a few squires and toffs. Let Lord Vestey sell a few more sausages.
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Many massage schools tout the income potential of a career as a massage therapist. Income projections for a good massage therapist range from $50-$75 per hour. That translates to about $65,000-$100,000 a year depending on the number of clients served each day. This also requires that you are working independently and managing your own client base.
As attractive as a six-figure salary for providing massage therapy may be, the reality is that the median income for a massage therapist is $35,000. Many massage therapists only work part-time and quite a few are working in spas or health clubs as an employee or sub-contractor. So apparently, the big money in massage therapy goes to those that own their own business and
If you are planning to put up a business in Singapore or just live and work there, it is important to consider some legal factors to make your stay a legit one.There are many choices for what should be the employment pass you need to get for you and your family.
When it comes to employment pass in Singapore the two main consideration is the salary and education.Work experience so do your age and nationality will also be a consideration.
Provided that several people are certain of a minimum of ONE factor of their employment criteria, employment pass options will be presented around key individual criterion to expedite identification of the employment alternatives available to you. Given below are the key variables that may affect the corresponding work pass options.
The Regular Employment Pass
This pass is split into 3 different categories (P1, P2, Q1) and is largely dependent on salary requirements.For P1 the salary should be above S$7, 000, for P2 it should be above S$2, 500 and Q1 is above S$2, 500.A diploma or certificate from a prestigious is required for EP.This will be on case to case basis.If an employer wants to hire an individual, they should
There have been recent changes made to UK employment law in order to combat the excessive amounts of claims that have been issued in recent years which are costing the British millions of pounds every year. These new changes state that anyone wishing to put forward a claim will have to pay a fee so that the cost of the tribunal will have less strain upon the already overflowing employment tribunal costs that the British government are paying for each year.
These fees relate directly to Type A claims which now cost 160, and Type B claims which are 230. Type A claims are those that cover redundancy payment and unlawful deduction from employee wages. Type B claims are those which assess claims of unfair dismissal and discrimination such as harassment at wor. However, there is some room for a claimant to negotiate as some people will be exempt from these charges if they have a disposable capital of more than 3,000, or 16,000 if they are aged over 61 years old at the time of making the complaint. Other possible loopholes in fee reduction come in the form of judging whether a claimant has a monthly income too
Can an employer choose not to hire you based on a bankruptcy filing? While you should certainly be sure you contact an attorney before filing Chapter 7 or chapter 13 bankruptcy, here is a concise overview.
No. Based on the Bankruptcy Act and Fair Credit Reporting Act, it is illegal for an employer not to hire you based on a past bankruptcy. However, many companies do pull a credit report in the later stages of the hiring process, and may use the information found there as part of their final decision. This is especially likely if you are applying for a job that can affect the company financially (accounting, payroll, etc.). While a bankruptcy alone is unlikely to prevent you from getting a job, poor credit preceding bankruptcy may be used as a determining factor that sets another candidate just a little bit ahead of you and helps the hiring company make a final decision to go with someone else.
How to Avoid This:
Honesty is the best policy: Before a company can pull your credit report, they need your permission. When presented with the waiver, ask the specifics of the background check. Will a credit report be included? If so,
You can become a successful person by chance, as others have done: some people have become successful because they were in the right place at the right time. But you cannot rely on this happening. You need to take control of life and of your own destiny. If you want to control life you need to control the way you think. You may not be in total control of the thoughts that run through your mind but you are in control of the ones that stay there. You can let negative thoughts linger or you can replace them with the positive thoughts you need to help you become a successful person.
Maintaining Enthusiasm
You will need to learn some self-motivation skills. Staying motivated is the great challenge. You will start full of enthusiasm but this can wane without strategies to maintain it. Keeping you goals in front of you is important, as this is self-motivating. But the best way to stay enthusiastic is to act enthusiastically. Simply decide to act as enthusiastically as you can when you are working on any project that will bring you closer to what you want. You can make a conscious decision to do that.
Have you ever
Giving birth is an exhaustive and overwhelming procedure for everyone involved. However, the time which follows afterwards is often just as hectic as the birth itself. Whilst a joyous occasion, sometimes it's useful just to have a helping hand, especially if you hold a demanding or busy profession. Such a post requires caring, dedicated and friendly individuals to help give babies the healthiest and most attentive start in life. Nanny agencies are an excellent way to bring the best nannies in the business to the homes and families who need them the most, so that both child and parent can enjoy their new life together with utmost ease.
At this leading nanny agency, they aim to employ only the most skilled and personable nannies, and are continually looking for talented people to fill these posts. They see experience as the most important factor when recruiting new nannies, which is why they have a pre-requisite of a minimum of two years experience for all applying to be part of the agency. Although qualifications aren't essential, they still consider them as highly advantageous.
All new nannies undergo a thorough background check, including references and certificates. As you can understand, this
How to get motivated- is not as easy as some may say. "Just do it" has gotten to sound to pretty cliche and often does not work as well. Unless it is between life and death. Motivation levels will certainly change then. Otherwise, most times, we find it hard to get ourselves motivated to do things that we know we need or ought to do. Here are 12 tips to get you motivated and create the life of you deserve.
1) Be a bum. Take time off to dream, enjoy and bask in the glory and enjoyment of this earth and of nature. Bask. Take the time to discover inner peace and appreciate yourself.
2) Write your own obituary. Imagine what would be written if you had to write it a) now, b) 6 months from now and c) if you were to live till you were 100 years old. How different will they be? This can be quite revealing. 3) Know for a fact that you are extremely valued and loved. That you have the right to dream and explore. No one is going to take that right away from you. Tell yourself " I am loved and valued. God loves
Do you believe that being recently graduate will be the insurance to a new job? Think again. Fresh graduates nowadays are getting a difficult time acquiring jobs. Seems like the downturn of the overall economy lessened the talk about of recruitment in several industries. This has brought up lots of worries in the out of work sector because lack of employment will usually signify no food on the table. Apparently in the USA and also Canada, lots of work from home employment opportunities were generated to aid as well as relieve the expanding unemployment problems. These work from home employment opportunities has been getting plenty of recognition.
Work from home employment opportunities starts with an employment. Employment is a agreement in between two parties, 1 being the employer while the other being the employee. In a commercial setting, the employer conceives of a fruitful activity, generally with the intention of building income, and the employee contributes labour to the enterprise, ordinarily in return for payment of salary. Probably the most common definition of employment is practically widespread in capitalist countries. Some consider an employment in capitalist countries as being unjust to the people who contribute to the majority of work
Forex Investing
Investing in the currency markets is a profitable option for today's investors. This type of open market investing can be accomplished through several methods. Forex training is a method of learning that is hands on. This method of investing can be accomplished by directly investing in the currency markets. A certain degree of training in this professional field of investing is required for successful results.
Training for the Forex Markets
Learning about the currency markets is an important step. This first step is important since a self-trader in the currency markets needs to understand how this open market operates. Taking a forex training course is one method of understanding how to place open market orders independently.
How to Train
There are various methods of training for this type of investment endeavor. The Forex training can include opening an online account with a currency firm. The online firm usually has several methods of self-training that a novice trader can select. One of these training methods is using a practice account in order to try out certain trading strategies. The practice account will have an amount of trading funds that the novice trader can selectively use. The novice trader determines how much is traded and
Everyone will need a pat on the back from time to time. There are days when you get up on the wrong side of the bed and feel nothing will work out today. There will be times when you seem to have deviate from the right track, but have lost all your fighting spirit to steer yourself back.
Passion and the strong desire for success is like a fire on the Savannah plains, started by only one spark but will spread like wild fire and felt strongly by everyone, even those from beyond the seas. But the fire will be doused and the spark dies out. Some fire-douser's include negativities, grass-is-greener-on-the-other-side mentality and the biggest of them all, is the lack of momentum; no action is being taken.
Therefore, you must revive and maintain your motivation in order to keep the fire going. Here are 3 tips to revive your motivation and help you keep the fire going:
1) Having results will solve any problem of no motivation.
Nobody will quit on their progress when things are working out just fine. Just continue doing what generates results and you will never face the problem again. The momentum that you created will keep you fired
Motivation for weight loss can be a tough process for quite a few. Becoming overweight is unhealthy for one particular, as it is said to be the root of lots of illnesses. Whereas a further dilemma of becoming overweight is the fact that, it has turn out to be socially unaccepted and disliked. There are many reasons a person could need to go on adiet communityor get started doing physical exercise, to be able to lose weight. Some might be private whereas there is certainly a likelihood that a person could possibly do that for the sake of other people.
It truly is essential that an individual, whatever he or she do to them or their body is for their private wellness, wellbeing and happiness. Losing weight is important but carrying out it for the wrong factors only take us one-step away from the healthy thoughts, physique and soul objective which is the main essence of slimming down. 1st, whenever we are going on a venture to complete one thing that associates our physiological and psychological self we ought to make sure that we are performing it for our own well being rewards and happiness, and it isn't done to a
Receiving order is far less motivating than taking part in planning and decision-making. Hence, it is important for a person, who is in-charge of some organization or a company to know how to inspire their work group or their staffing order to motivate them to work on their best.
It is important to enable your group or your staff to achieve their ambitions and to manage themselves in order to achieve the desired results.
When inspiring or motivating somebody, it is important to inform people about strategic plans and their own part in achieving the strategies. Take trouble to improve the understanding with your colleague and win their approval, as this will have a highly influence on their performance.
It is best to motivate a person by enabling them to feel good about the group or organization that they belong to and its administration.
Moreover, as a person who is in the authority to influence and inspire other people, you are likely to be a role model, the person who sets the tone of the unit. You must also create the right atmosphere for successful teamwork and use example purposefully to teach and encourage good preparation.
Inspiring People
According to research, there are ten personal qualities
With increasing competition in job market, there is also an increase of fake credentials and forge documents provided by the candidates to get a higher position. These types of candidates not only deprive of the right of other candidate who have the original credentials, but also dangerous for the company itself. Therefore, the importance of pre employment background screening has been increasing with every single day.
Background screening of an employee is primarily a work of Human Resource department of a company. But most of the companies hire professional background screening companies to do the task for them. There are several good reasons for hiring a professional company. We will discuss few of them in little detail.
First and foremost reason for hiring a professional screening company is that, if a screening company is good, it will certainly have years of experience in employment verification, criminal background screening, educational document verification and so on. Hence, these companies can screen the background of a candidate far better than the in-house screening done by the human resource department.
Another good reason for hiring a professional background screening service provider is that they do it very fast. A first priority of any
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Inhibition of intestinal mucosal growth occurs commonly in various critical surgical disorders such as trauma, shock, and massive surgical operations. Because our deficient understanding of the mechanism underlying this critical pathological process, effective therapies to maintain the mucosal epithelial integrity in patients with critical surgical illnesses are limited, leading to mucosal atrophy, delayed healing, impaired barrier function, and bacterial translocation. Recently, the essential contribution of posttranscriptional events, particularly altered mRNA turnover and translation, in the control of gene expression program in the GI mucosa is becoming increasingly recognized, but little is known about their importance in the pathogenesis of mucosal growth inhibition in critical surgical conditions. Based on our significant progress during the previous funding period and exciting preliminary studies, experiments proposed in this competitive renewal application are to test the HYPOTHESIS that the RNA-binding protein CUGBP1 plays an important role in the regulation of intestinal mucosal growth by altering expression of its target mRNAs encoding growth-regulatory proteins and its effect is regulated by given microRNAs and cellular polyamines.
Three specific aims are proposed to test the hypothesis. 1) To determine the exact role of CUGBP1 in the regulation of gut mucosal growth in critical surgical conditions and to further identify its target mRNAs. 2) To determine whether microRNAs and CUGBP1 jointly regulate the stability and translation of target mRNAs in response to surgical stress. 3) To define the mechanisms by which polyamines regulate CUGBP1 expression and microRNA biogenesis. Completion of these specific aims will uncover novel functions of CUGBP1 and microRNAs in the pathogenesis of gut mucosal growth inhibition and will impact upon efforts to improve therapeutical approaches for patients suffering gut mucosal atrophy. It is hoped that these studies will identify potential therapeutic targets and agents which could be used in the future to maintain intestinal mucosal integrity in patients with critical surgical illnesses.
Acute gut mucosal growth inhibition occurs commonly in various critical surgical disorders such as trauma, thermal injury, shock, sepsis, and massive surgical operations. Since the exact mechanisms underlying mucosal growth inhibition are still obscure, effective therapies to preserve the epithelial integrity in patients with critical surgical illnesses are limited, contributing to mucosal atrophy, delayed healing, impaired barrier function, and bacterial translocation. Completion of this project will identify the molecular mechanism underlying this critical pathological process in critical surgical conditions and provide a fundamental base for development of new therapies to enhance mucosal epithelial renewal in patients with critical surgical illnesses.
|Ouyang, Miao; Su, Weijie; Xiao, Lan et al. (2015) Modulation by miR-29b of intestinal epithelium homoeostasis through the repression of menin translation. Biochem J 465:315-23
|Cao, Shan; Xiao, Lan; Rao, Jaladanki N et al. (2014) Inhibition of Smurf2 translation by miR-322/503 modulates TGF-?/Smad2 signaling and intestinal epithelial homeostasis. Mol Biol Cell 25:1234-43
|Chung, Hee Kyoung; Rao, Jaladanki N; Zou, Tongtong et al. (2014) Jnk2 deletion disrupts intestinal mucosal homeostasis and maturation by differentially modulating RNA-binding proteins HuR and CUGBP1. Am J Physiol Cell Physiol 306:C1167-75
|Rathor, Navneeta; Zhuang, Ran; Wang, Jian-Ying et al. (2014) Src-mediated caveolin-1 phosphorylation regulates intestinal epithelial restitution by altering Ca(2+) influx after wounding. Am J Physiol Gastrointest Liver Physiol 306:G650-8
|Jiang, Ping; Smith, Alexis D; Li, Ruiyun et al. (2013) Sphingosine kinase 1 overexpression stimulates intestinal epithelial cell proliferation through increased c-Myc translation. Am J Physiol Cell Physiol 304:C1187-97


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FlexMock is a flexible mocking library for use in unit testing and behavior specification in Ruby. Release 1.1.0 is a minor release with a few bug fixes and some small features.
Add block support to pass_thru.
Mocks may now have a base class that limits what methods may be mocked. This allows early detection of outdated mock setups when the methods in the class are refactored.
Spy assertions are now allowed. The verification of the calling of mocked methods may now be done in the "then" portion of the test, after the code under test has been run. This allows for much more natural Given/When/Then style testing.
A custom assert method (assert_spy_called) has been added to make spy assertions easy when using Test::Unit or MiniTest.
An RSpec matcher (have_received) has been added to make spy assertions easy when using RSpec.
Now correctly handling the mocking of meta-programmed methods.
Using the documented
singleton_methods method.
Accidently trying to partial mock a regular mock is now a no-op.
FlexMock is a flexible framework for creating mock object for testing. When running unit tests, it is often desirable to use isolate the objects being tested from the "real world" by having them interact with simplified test objects. Sometimes these test objects simply return values when called, other times they verify that certain methods were called with particular arguments in a particular order.
FlexMock makes creating these test objects easy.
Easy integration with both Test::Unit and RSpec. Mocks created with the flexmock method are automatically verified at the end of the test or example.
A fluent interface that allows mock behavior to be specified very easily.
A "record mode" where an existing implementation can record its interaction with a mock for later validation against a new implementation.
Easy mocking of individual methods in existing, non-mock objects.
Easy mocking of chains of method calls.
The ability to cause classes to instantiate test instances (instead of real instances) for the duration of a test.
Suppose you had a Dog object that wagged a tail when it was happy. Something like this:
class Dog def initialize(a_tail) @tail = a_tail end def happy @tail.wag end end
To test the
Dog class without a real
Tail object
(perhaps because real
Tail objects activate servos in some
robotic equipment), you can do something like this:
RSpec.configure do |config| config.mock_with :flexmock end describe Dog do it "wags its tail when happy" do tail = flexmock("tail") tail.should_receive(:wag).once dog = Dog.new(tail) dog.happy end end
FlexMock will automatically verify that
the mocked tail object received the message
wag exactly one
time. If it doesn't, the test will not pass.
Here's the same thing using the new spy support:
describe Dog do it "wags its tail when happy" do tail = flexmock("tail") dog = Dog.new(tail) dog.happy tail.should have_received(:wag) end end
This style works particularly well with the rspec-given library.
require 'rspec/given' describe Dog do context "when the dog is happy" do Given(:tail) { flexmock(:on, Tail) } Given(:dog) { Dog.new(tail) } When { dog.happy } Then { tail.should have_received(:wag) } end end
See the FlexMock documentation at flexmock.rubyforge.org for details on specifying arguments and return values on mocked methods, as well as a simple technique for mocking tail objects when the Dog class creates the tail objects directly.
You can make sure you have the latest version with a quick RubyGems command:
gem install flexmock (you may need root/admin privileges)
You will find documentation at: flexmock.rubyforge.org.
-- Jim Weirich


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There's a lot of talk out there that mallus behave better outside their home state. There are also rumors that we work better outside our home state. This would logically mean that take a mallu out of his prawn state and he will be a more productive person. Thing is I cannot refute these statements. Because in my case that's probably true.
I don't understand politics. Technically that denies me my mallu citizenship to a large extent. When I was studying law, I was selected as the class representative for SFI , the student wing of the communist party. To this day I have no idea what that was all about. I found it strange that we were so concerned about something happening in Poland, while I was positive that most of my college leaders would not be able to point out where the hell Poland is if I had given them an atlas.
Two years in Kerala made me certain that I was a total misfit there.
My appearance didn't help my case either. I was going through a phase of self discovery which involved sharpened canines, black clothes and long hair dyed one side blonde. Mallus can't handle surprises. This is why you do not have UFO sightings in Kerala. No self respecting aliens would ever land in this place.
If you are different, you are screwed. That's until Mohanlal or Mammootty adapts the style in their next movie, then, you are accepted. It requires the super star certificate of approval. Anything is tolerated once it has appeared on mallu celluloid. Fashions are made and destroyed there. We are the only state where it seems that our women apparently wear floral hats to confirm that the attire is indeed western. I guess jeans and t-shirt on a woman is vulgar but dressing her up in a tent made of curtains and capping her with a plastic hat with flowers in it is style. Truth be told, I have never seen a single mallu girl in the attire mallu movies suggest the snooty convent educated girls wear.
20 years ago, I was way ahead of my time in Kerala. It was not yet exposed to the gothic.
I did try to conform but wearing a lungi without a shirt seems to be something only Velluchettan or Sunnychettan can get away with. With my man boobs, I looked like Shakeela chechi with a wardrobe malfunction.
Of course I wasn't productive in my home state. I was busy trying not to get beaten up by the valiattens who somehow seem to have no other aim in their life other than to be offended by me and my ways.
That's what I love about my Keralan brethren. This overwhelming concern about others that seems to over flow into their actions. They see a guy in low waist jeans, they just can't stop themselves from pulling it up and to give the object of their concern a thwack out of sheer brotherly love. They see a young couple on the road, their relationship is a matter of concern to them. If you plan to have sex, better consult the chettans in the nearby bar or at the 'junction' lest they have a say about that too.
This is all of course done in the name of protecting my mallu culture.
Apparently, its fine that a girl can be molested or raped on the streets and still have to fight for her dignity while the justice systems crawls along to bring the accused to some sort of justice. This will probably in my 'culture' be confined to heated discussions over paruppu vada and chai at the tea shop, or will become the material for yet another parody at yet another tiring comedy show on Asianet. Funnily nobody thinks this is worth a beating. May even earn a smirk directed at the victim but never a beating.
Apparently it's okay in my culture for the politicians spend their term looting, slinging mud at each other, behaving like morons, making a mockery of its people. Nope, this is not worth your ire. This lotscan be handled at our celluloid fantasy level by an avenging Suresh Gopi spouting his machine gun fire English and his forearm sized Shiiiit!
But stand out, walk a different path, sing a different tune or dance to a different beat will get your undivided attention. You know what I think? What you need is a 'Sheik Down'.
I am in an Islamic country where my wife can go for a midnight jog around the park without worrying overtly about her safety. My children are probably safer here too. As a husband and a father, nothing is more important to me than the safety of my loved ones. Our women are not required to keep themselves covered head to toe. Modesty in clothing is just that. It's left to the individual to respect that and 99% people do and nobody beats up the 1% . I still wear black and by my Keralan cultural standards I will probably still raise a few eyebrows there, but here I am seen for what I do, not how I express myself.
I may not agree with all that goes on here but I am here as a guest. I fulfill a need, my role is defined. I have no problems with that. It's a mutually accepted business contract and I love what I do. You bet I am productive. As for good behavior, well, it's just a matter of what they don't know can't hurt them.
So, here's my solution, to get the best out of a mallu and for the greater glory of our beloved state; send all the mallus to other countries and put up Kerala for rent. Hell, we can even lay down our own cultural rules to the new tenants. That way we can still keep our Onam.


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Porto Petro
Called into Porto Petro cos it was here and I wanted to have an early finish as, as usual stuff was just thrown onto the boat and needs sorting before it gets dark.
Left Palma after a little help from Nat and Oli, (Oli thats not how to leave the dock) at about 1130 called into here about 1800 not sure how far it was but did about 7 knots for 3 hours and 9 to 12 since, a real ...
Island life
... day ensuring that our anchor wasn't dragging and that we stayed will clear of "tina" a nice looking boat on a mooring beside us.
Late afternoon we took the dinghy and went wandering around the town. For a resort it has a lovely atmosphere. Found supermarkets which is always a good thing.
Sunday 26 July
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Lovely coastline
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we explored. Later we snorkeled in one of them – really good.
Having enjoyed our dip we decided we were in no hurry to move to the next anchorage so just sat back – took the occasional dip to cool down.
Tuesday 21 July
Explored further the coastline looking at the various anchorages that are available. Sad
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