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So, what is the Liebster Award, you ask? It's basically a tag used to promote lesser-known bloggers, and to just generally spread the love around. Pretty neat, I think. Ok, let's get started.
First off, the rules:
1. Link/thank the blogger that tagged you
2. Answer the 11 questions your nominator gives you
3. Tag 11 other bloggers who have 200 or less followers
4. Ask the 11 bloggers you nominated 11 questions (and let them know you nominated them)
&&&Note: This has been in my drafts folder for at least two months. So, some of the information is a little outdated.
Number 1: When did you start blogging and why?
I probably technically started blogging back in 2008 or 2009 when I was living in Canada, but I didn't use this URL. The Mother was keeping a blog so the rest of the family could keep up with us, and it was my first real introduction to blogging.
With this blog, I started it back in 2010. It was mainly used as a platform to showcase some long gone YouTube videos. Since then, I've expanded it (obviously). I guess I started doing it, because I enjoyed writing (still do!) and felt like blogging would help me improve my skills? Honestly, it was so long ago, I don't really remember why I decided to do it. It seemed like fun, so I did it.
Number 2: What book have you been wanting to read for a while but haven't yet read?
My non-fiction choice is Quiet by Susan Cain. I've been told that this is also based on TedX talk, but I didn't realise that was a thing until I'd already bought the book. I've had my eye on this one since it first came out. As an introvert, I thought this was really interesting. So, here we are.
Number 3: Has a book ever made you want to travel somewhere, and if so, where?
Number 4: How do you choose which book to read next: are you a mood reader or do you stick to a schedule?
I'm largely a mood reader. This sometimes works in my favour, because if I'm feeling a particular way I'll know exactly what books I want to read next. More often than not, though, it's a little difficult because I'll be at uni and not have all my TBR-books on hand. Not for long though! Holidays soon! (Read: Now)
Number 5: Where is your favourite place to read?
I have two favourite places to read. The more obvious one is my bedroom. It's just the best atmosphere ever for reading a book. The other is my local Gloria Jeans. It's just got a really nice vibe, and they've also memorised my coffee order. I'm ridiculously proud of that fact, so don't harsh my mellow.
Number 6: Which do you prefer: reading the book before watching the movie adaptation, vice versa, or neither?
I usually like to try and read the book before I watch the movie. It really just depends on whether I've got time to read it before hand, if I'm reading another book, etc. etc.
Number 7: What's your favourite book cover?
Another favvie of mine is The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. I think this one is apart of the Penguin F. Scott Fitzgerald Anniversary Collection? It's just gorgeous in it's simplicity.
Number 8: When was the last time a book made you cry?
Oh dear. I'm not a huge cryer when it comes to books? Give me a sad movie any day, and I will ball my eyes out (I'm serious, I was watching Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants 2 the other day and I nearly started crying towards the end. The Brother was in the vicinity though and I didn't want him judging me). Books though? Not so much. My immediate response is to go with The Fault In Our Stars, but I'm not 100% sure on that one. I very nearly cried at the end of Falling Into Place by Amy Zhang. Does that count?
Number 9: What was your favourite book and author as a child?
There was another children's book I adored, but I can't seem to find it. It was about the desert and how it was so deserted (funnily enough) and ugly, and how, after it storms, it becomes a field of poppies. Or something like that. I was just fascinated by it.
Number 10: Do you prefer to read e-books or physical books?
Physical books, easily. I really can't stand e-books. Don't get my wrong, I've tried. I do see the advantages in using them when travelling. I just really do not like them.
Number 11: If you have to recommend one book for me (Bernadette) to read, what would it be?
*coughs* Throne of Glass by Sarah J Maas. I recommend it to everyone. I honestly cannot stop myself. A customer came into work the other day and asked me for a book recommendation and I was going to say Throne of Glass and then she said she only wanted a book with a happy ending. I was totally floored and had so much trouble thinking of another suitable book.
Throne of Glass, or The Winner's Curse by Marie Rutkoski. Both are pretty impeccable. If you want a contemporary book, Falling Into Place is pretty raw/amazing/heartbreaking. If you want a classic, I've been obsessing over The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood recently.
So, there are my answers! Hope they were at least halfway decent.
Next step: Nominate some bloggers!
+ Jess from Jess Reads Things
+ Zoe from The Brit In Aus
+ Iona from Where Is Wallis
+ Julia from JulyeyCamille
+ Candice from Sense and Sensibility
+ Lauren from Lauren Reads YA
+ Anyone else who wants to do it
I'll be real with you guys, I'm cheating a little bit here. Some of these lovely people might have more than 200 followers. Also, I couldn't think of more than six people. Sorryyyyyyyy. But seriously, you should check these people out. They're the loveliest.
Next section: the new questions!
1. Tea or coffee when reading?
2. What book surprised you?
3. What is the place you most want to visit?
4. What are your ideal reading conditions?
5. What's your favourite quote?
6. Who's your style crush?
7. Is there a TV or film adaptation you prefer over the book?
8. Notebook or computer?
9. What's your classic red lip of choice? (Like, brand/name, that sort of thing)
10. What song could you listen to endlessly?
11. How would you describe your style?
And we're done! Hope you guys enjoyed the tag. And sorry to Bernadette for me taking so long to actually post this up.


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It was almost a perfect day.
I woke up with no appetite. Just had a handful of Food Doctor's Seed mix.
Lunch was a bowl of steamed french beans and sweetcorn. I seasoned it with a few drops of olive oil, rock salt, pepper and lemon juice.
I then went to the National Portrait Gallery with my friend. Wlaked around quite a bit, adding exercise to art appreciation.
Evening snack was a bowl of boiled chickpeas. Dinner was my trademark curried one-egg omelette with spinach and ginger.
Dessert? An ice cream bowl of cut banana mixed with yogurt, and flavoured with honey and cinnamon. I also added walnuts and some slivered almonds.
You would think that such a good day would have a good ending.
It did not. Because I just finished a mini tube of Smarties.
Caved in on the 4th day of the detox. Of course, I bitterly regret it now, but I learned a good lesson. As I bit into the first Smartie, my mouth was filled with a bitter, metallic taste. I really didn't enjoy those chocolate buttons, because, I think, my body has learned to identify the junk that it actually is.
And now that my tongue has told me how vile the artificial colouring on chocolate is, I will never go near them again. Even as I write this, my mouth is tasting so funny and bitter. I have to brush again!
I had given myself 3 times (out of 3 weeks), to stray from the detox, if it is unavoidable or too overwhelming. The first time had happened today. I will try my best not to let it happen again.
But I do know one thing. The next 2 times, if they happen, will NOT happen because of chocolate. After completing this detox, I may eat them now and then... may be at the movie hall or during a party - but I know I will never be addicted to chocolate again.
So may be it IS a perfect day, after all!
STRAYED? Yes :(. one small hexagonal tube of Nestle Smarties. 172 calores. Sigh.
SURPRISED? - That I could spend a day on so little food.
REPELLED? - Initial taste of chocolate was just plain horrible.
MOOD? - Sheepish and guilty but wise and relieved...


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Purpose of reviewThe purpose of this article is to provide a brief overview of the medical and surgical management of infective endocarditis secondary to IDU, with a focus on the underlying substance use disorder.Recent findingsPatients with infective endocarditis secondary to IDU are often young with unique comorbidities including mental illness, chronic hepatitis C, HIV infection, which are often compounded by limited social and familial supports. The focus of management has been treatment of endocarditis using IV antibiotics alongside surgery. Surgical outcomes compare favorably with those of infective endocarditis in the general population but long-term outcomes of IDUs are significantly worse. This is primarily due to the high rate of recidivism of drug use and the risk of prosthetic valve infective endocarditis. Contemporary management of addiction utilizes an integrative approach, combining both pharmacologic and nonpharmacologic strategies while remaining patient-centered. Given the complexity of care required, we advocate for a multidisciplinary team-based approach including psychiatry, infectious disease, cardiology, cardiac surgery and social services.SummaryInfective endocarditis secondary to IDU remains a medical and surgical challenge with dismal outcomes. Here we offer practical suggestions on the multidisciplinary management of this challenging and high-risk patient cohort.
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Recipe Tiramisu
cocoa powder for powder 20g
450 ml strong coffee
fine white sugar 70g
Savoyardy biscuits 300 g
Philadelphia cheese (I had Violette 340 g
dark rum (I had amareto) 1 tbsp. l.
eggs 3 pcs.
Brew coffee stronger.
Ready coffee pour into another bowl – cooled.
Carefully my eggs, since the whole danger of the eggs lying on the surface. Separate the yolks from the whites. Yolks hide in the refrigerator.
Beat the whites with half the sugar until stiff peaks, about 5-6 minutes on the lowest speed mixer. Proteins whipped best if they are at room temperature. Yolks same naobrot should be chilled.
In another bowl, whisk the egg yolks with the remaining sugar. Yolks should posvetlet and increase in volume.
Add the cheese to the yolks.
Thoroughly whisk with a mixer until smooth.
We connect proteins with cheese mass, mix with a wooden spoon or silicone spatula accurate slow movements from the bottom up. We work very carefully and slowly to the mass does not disgrace.
Mentally divide the cream into 3 parts, the first part has to be the smallest, and it lubricates the bottom of the form.
Pour the coffee into a flat dish and dip cookies in it Savoyardy both sides accurately and quickly to break the pastry, spread on cookie cream.
Lubricating layer Savoiardi cream.
Behind lay another layer of biscuits dipped in coffee each.
Savoiardi layer lubricates the remaining cream. And with the help of a strainer, sprinkle with cocoa powder.
Cover with cling film and remove refrigerate at least 6 hours at night and I did.
Tiramisu was very gentle and the air, melting in the mouth, delightfully delicious dessert. Serve it very cold in a cup of hot coffee.


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Thundercat is preparing his new project Drunk for a February 24th release via Flying Lotus' label Brainfeeder. Today he shares the track "Walk On By", which features a typically fire verse from frequent collaborator Kendrick Lamar.
Check it out below.
Previously: Rae Sremmurd Preview New Song with Gucci Mane & Kendrick Lamar


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An Open-label Trial With TMC125 in Patients Who Have Virologically Failed in a DUET Trial (TMC125-C206 or TMC125-C216).
|The safety and scientific validity of this study is the responsibility of the study sponsor and investigators. Listing a study does not mean it has been evaluated by the U.S. Federal Government. Read our disclaimer for details.
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00359021
Recruitment Status : Completed
First Posted : August 1, 2006
Results First Posted : March 7, 2013
Last Update Posted : May 16, 2014
- Study Details
- Tabular View
- Study Results
- Disclaimer
- How to Read a Study Record
|Condition or disease
|Drug: TMC125
|Phase 3
|Study Type :
|Interventional (Clinical Trial)
|Actual Enrollment :
|503 participants
|Intervention Model:
|Single Group Assignment
|None (Open Label)
|Primary Purpose:
|Official Title:
|An Open-label Trial With TMC125 as Part of an ART Including TMC114/Rtv and an Investigator-selected OBR in HIV-1 Infected Subjects Who Participated in a DUET Phase III Trial (TMC125-C206 or TMC125-C216).
|Study Start Date :
|June 2006
|Actual Primary Completion Date :
|January 2012
|Actual Study Completion Date :
|January 2012
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TMC125 200 mg twice daily until commercially available
Drug: TMC125
200 mg twice daily until commercially available
- The Number of Participants Experiencing Adverse Events [ Time Frame: 1 week to 180 weeks, with a median of 62 weeks ]The table below provides the number of participants who experienced Serious Adverse Events (SAEs) and Other Adverse Events (except SAEs) that started or worsened in severity during the overall TMC125-C217 treatment period. The duration of treatment ranged per patient from 1 week to 180 weeks, with a median of 62 weeks.
- The Percentage of Participants With Virologic Outcomes Over Time [ Time Frame: Weeks 24, 48, and 96 ]The table below shows the percentage of participants with virologic suppression (< 50 copies/mL), the percentage of participants who were virologic failures (VF) (>50 copies/mL, discontinued prior to time X for reasons of VF or for other reasons, except for VF or adverse event, with a last viral load >50 copies/mL), and the percentage of participants with no viral load (VL) data available over time (ie, at Weeks 24, 48, and 96).
- Change in Plasma Viral Load Versus Baseline (ie, Mean Change in log10 Plasma Viral Load From Baseline Over Time) [ Time Frame: Baseline, Week 24, Week 48, and Week 96 ]In the table below, the total number of participants analyzed in the Duet Placebo and Duet TMC125 groups, respectively at each time point were: Baseline (256;247 participants), Week 24 (251;240 participants), Week 48 (235;192 participants), and Week 96 (123;69 participants).
Choosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision. Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contacts provided below. For general information, Learn About Clinical Studies.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older (Adult, Senior)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Patient was previously randomized in a DUET (TMC125-C206 or TMC125-C216) trial and completed at least 24 weeks of treatment
- Patient was virologically failing in a DUET trial.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Use of disallowed concomitant therapy
- Any grade 4 toxicity according to the Division of AIDS (DAIDS) grading table
- Patients who had to be withdrawn from the DUET (TMC125-C206 or TMC125-C216) trials because of any of the mandatory withdrawal criteria of that trial.
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT00359021
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|Phoenix, Arizona, United States
|United States, Arkansas
|Little Rock, Arkansas, United States
|United States, California
|Beverly Hills, California, United States
|Long Beach, California, United States
|Los Angeles, California, United States
|Palm Springs, California, United States
|San Diego, California, United States
|San Francisco, California, United States
|United States, Colorado
|Denver, Colorado, United States
|United States, District of Columbia
|Washington, District of Columbia, United States
|United States, Florida
|Fort Laudersale, Florida, United States
|Ft Lauderdale, Florida, United States
|Miami, Florida, United States
|N Miami Beach, Florida, United States
|Safety Harbor, Florida, United States
|Tampa, Florida, United States
|United States, Illinois
|Chicago, Illinois, United States
|United States, Massachusetts
|Boston, Massachusetts, United States
|United States, New Jersey
|Camden, New Jersey, United States
|Newark, New Jersey, United States
|United States, New York
|Bronx, New York, United States
|New York, New York, United States
|United States, North Carolina
|Durham, North Carolina, United States
|Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States
|United States, Oregon
|Portland, Oregon, United States
|United States, Pennsylvania
|Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
|United States, Texas
|Austin, Texas, United States
|Dallas, Texas, United States
|Houston, Texas, United States
|Longview, Texas, United States
|United States, Virginia
|Annandale, Virginia, United States
|United States, Washington
|Seattle, Washington, United States
|Buenos Aires, Argentina
|Cordoba, Argentina
|Florencio Varela, Argentina
|Neuquen, Argentina
|Darlinghurst, Australia
|Antwerpen, Belgium
|Liege, Belgium
|Curitiba, Brazil
|Rio De Janeiro, Brazil
|Salvador, Brazil
|Sao Paulo, Brazil
|Canada, Alberta
|Calgary, Alberta, Canada
|Canada, Ontario
|Toronto, Ontario, Canada
|Canada, Quebec
|Montreal, Quebec, Canada
|Toronto, Canada
|Providencia, Chile
|Santiago, Chile
|Bordeaux Cedex, France
|Bordeaux N/A, France
|Le Kremlin Bicetre, France
|Lyon, France
|Marseille Cedex 09, France
|Paris Cedex 10, France
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|Tourcoing, France
|Villejuif N/A, France
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|Essen, Germany
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|Mannheim, Germany
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|Puerto Rico
|San Juan, Puerto Rico
|Barcelona N/A, Spain
|Barcelona, Spain
|Madrid, Spain
|Valencia, Spain
|Bangkok, Thailand
|Khon Kaen, Thailand
|Study Director:
|Tibotec Pharmaceuticals Clinical Trial
|Tibotec Pharmaceutical Limited
|Responsible Party:
|Tibotec Pharmaceuticals, Ireland
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT00359021 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
TMC125-C217 ( Other Identifier: Tibotec Pharmaceuticals )
TMC125-C206 ( Other Identifier: Tibotec Pharmaceuticals )
TMC125-C216 ( Other Identifier: Tibotec Pharmaceuticals )
|First Posted:
|August 1, 2006 Key Record Dates
|Results First Posted:
|March 7, 2013
|Last Update Posted:
|May 16, 2014
|Last Verified:
|May 2014
Keywords provided by Tibotec Pharmaceuticals, Ireland:
treatment experienced
virologic failure
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitors
Nucleic Acid Synthesis Inhibitors
Enzyme Inhibitors
Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action
Anti-Retroviral Agents
Antiviral Agents
Anti-Infective Agents


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brand eq·ui·ty | noun | The value of your customers' perception of your organization.
Brand equity is the market capitalization of a company that isn't defined by assets, liabilities, revenues, or intellectual property. If your company calculates its total market value and deducts each of these other measurable factors, the balance is your brand equity. Brand equity is the reason world-renowned brands like Apple can command premium price points for products (Forbes estimates Apple's brand value is $154.1 billion, or nearly three times its total annual revenue).
Brand equity may be relatively inelastic. If your organization has a quarter with negative financial growth, your brand equity may not suffer. Your sales can be affected by complex factors that aren't related to the quality of your branding or customer satisfaction, including complex economic factors like the consumer confidence index. Brand equity is driven by the quality of customer experience, including branding and marketing. It's built by emotion and impacts customer behavior; it's the reason why customers still line up to buy the iPhone 7, even if it gets mediocre reviews.
The way customers perceive your brand is closely tied to your value as an organization. Great brand equity influences customer loyalty. For multi-location, distributed brands, brand equity can also produce the following benefits:
Customers who are booking travel worldwide know that Marriott will provide comfortable, high-quality accommodations in any country, which may inform their decision to book with Marriot instead of comparing competitor pricing. Similarly, they know a meal at any of the Melting Pot's locations will be a fun and delicious experience, and may purchase gift certificates for Mother's Day. These types of positive customer perceptions inform purchase decisions, which in turn influence brand profitability. Building brand equity influences your sales through positive customer associations, which can increase spend across locations.
Learn how brands like The Marriott, The Melting Pot, and Polaris boost brand equity through local marketing. Read: Distributed Marketing on Steroids: The Brand Manager's Guide to Designing and Managing Local Marketing Assets Without Breaking a Sweat
Multi-location brands don't operate the same way that centralized organizations do. This influences how brand managers at these companies must think about brand equity. Why? Well, your local marketers play a big role in how your customers perceive your brand. In stores or dealerships at the local level, it's these local affiliates that are the face of the brand in interactions with your customers every day.
If your franchisees don't understand your brand values, they'll struggle to model them in customer interactions. If your dealers don't prefer your brand, they're unlikely to promote your products as much as your competitors'. For distributed brands, local marketing matters just as much – if not more – when it comes to brand equity. Measuring brand equity is crucial for any organization, but especially for distributed brands. Developing a toolkit of metrics to understand whether you're building equity can reveal important information about how your brand marketing, local marketing, and in-store experience are influencing customer perceptions.
Measuring brand equity isn't quite as simple as other performance metrics. However, measurement is possible, and provides insight into the value of your branding efforts, marketing execution and the quality of your global customer experiences. Without tools for measurement, it's impossible to understand whether your various marketing efforts are reliably building your equity. This piece is inspired in part by Kissmetrics' analysis of three types of brand equity measurement; however, we believe that for distributed brands there are actually six types of equity measurements that matter. In this article, we dive into the importance of brand equity for distributed brands, how to measure brand equity, and how to build it.
Without an understanding of your brand's current equity, your organization will struggle to set metrics for improvement. Brand equity can be measured in a number of ways, from how aware customers are of your brand to the financial numbers that shareholders care about. The six distinct factors that enable a comprehensive understanding of distributed brand equity are detailed below.
Customer knowledge of your products and services is an important part of brand equity. But even better than customers knowing you is customers not being able to avoid thinking about your brand. A leading indicator of the consumer's awareness of your company is "conversation share," or the amount of time your brand comes up in everyday conversations about the products and services you offer.
Measuring awareness of your brand among your target customers can take many forms. Some methodologies used to understand how aware your ideal customers are include:
Consumer preference is a powerful factor in daily purchase decisions; it's the reason a customer may decide to travel further and spend more money to access a product or service they really like. Aspects of customer preference that can be measured through focus groups, sales data and surveys can include:
Financial metrics surrounding brand equity are directly tied to sales performance. If these indicators, related to the financial value of your brand, are increasing your revenue is likely to be moving in the same direction. Ways to measure the financial aspects of your brand equity include:
What if your brand is investing time and budget into equity-building and you don't see results? Output is a measure of marketing activity, which measures the marketing materials that get released to the public. Output looks at how often marketing materials are released, and the type of asset released to the market place. Output can also be measured through the impact of your brand-created offers in local markets. Local activity impacts brand equity because assets that aren't being utilized by a local store owner can't influence sales. Similarly, poor-quality output – such as a direct mail offer that's amateurishly edited by a local franchisee – may have a serious negative impact on your brand equity.
Three ways to determine how your assets for local marketers are translating into output are:
With some technologies, such as Local Marketing Automation, brand managers can also conduct A/B testing between similar markets to compare output and subsequent results.
For distributed brand management teams, there's value in thinking of your local marketers as customers. Your local representatives all have influence over your brand equity metrics; their local advertising and in-store customer experience shapes awareness, preference and financial habits. These factors influence their success and local customer experiences – a dealer who doesn't prefer your brand is less likely to have success selling your products to a customer. A franchisee who doesn't have an instinctive connection to your brand may use your marketing assets improperly.
Your local outlets are directly responsible for the way your customers experience the brand. By monitoring local marketers' sentiment, you can further understand whether your equity is increasing or decreasing and improve the quality of your support to local representatives. Ways to measure local perception of your brand include:
Your competitors' brand equity has a direct influence on how your brand equity trends. If your competition doubles-down and launches a campaign advertising a pricing adjustment, your customer preference could dip for reasons that have nothing to do with the work you're doing – and everything to do with your competitor's brand.
Competitive metrics can reveal areas where your competition is not providing value to customers, such as missing products, poor customer experiences, or pricing. It can also reveal tactics and campaigns that have resonated with your consumer base. Metrics here include, but are not limited to:
Measuring brand equity is certainly complex and involves many variables, but it's wholly possible. For brand managers to truly understand the value of their brand-building activities, understanding brand equity from the perspective of both local marketers and customers is crucial. The "full story" of your brand's value lies in thinking qualitatively and quantitatively about customers and local marketers.
There are aspects of brand equity that can be measured quantitatively, such as average transaction value or your stores' sales performance. Others require more qualitative methods of measurement, such as evaluating your franchisees' knowledge of the brand mission. At the intersection of these two methods of measurement, you're best able to capture true brand equity. Use this knowledge to build your brand's value among all of your stakeholders.
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Distributed brand managers don't have direct control over local marketing execution, though they do have control over national-level campaigns. Using traditional, proven methodologies for building your brand on a national scale can increase your value to consumers and local affiliates. Strategic tools for expanding your value include:
Brand equity at the local level is influenced by the quality of the customer experiences and consistency. If your customers see a product in your national advertisements, go to buy it, and have a great experience, you're on the way to building lasting brand equity. Just as easily as you build equity through good execution, poor local execution will undermine all those gains.
Delivering consistently great experiences at local storefronts requires brand management teams to define expectations clearly and establish processes, often by using technology, that make it easier for two-way communications between local marketers and brand management teams to occur.
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Semantic consistency is what keeps your brand exciting, while rote consistency builds customer trust. Achieving a balance of these two factors is important to building your existing equity. For distributed enterprises, successfully balancing the two types of consistency requires supporting the right kind of innovation at the local level, making it easy for locals to comply with brand guidelines, and using a mixture of tools and strategic tactics like:
Distributed brand equity is hard-earned and easily lost. It may take just one bad experience at their favorite store to turn a long-time, loyal customer off to your brand. Building on the equity you've already created by delivering a consistently great experience is a challenge. Doing that when you manage a network of thousands of affiliates, can feel next to impossible.
Brand equity is traditionally measured through customer knowledge, preference, and financial metrics. Distributed brands can also determine equity factors by measuring output, local marketer metrics, and competitors. With a solid baseline understanding of distributed brand equity, your organization will be positioned to build equity through national efforts, improving local marketing performance, and support for local innovation.
The key to understanding how your brand is executing against your promise is to understand that your consumers aren't the only factor to monitor. Your local marketers' perceptions are tied to action, and working to improve their equity measures will have a direct influence on your local execution and equity.
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THE FACE OF EVIL (According to Disney's Epic Mickey)
Epic Mickey has released infomation on who the villian is which is Oswald the Rabbit. He will lead a team of discarded Disney characters to wage a battle against mickey's gang. Normally I don't like to jump on the hype train but this is just freaking awesome. I am super excited to see the new design of Mickey and Oswald's darker look. I am excpecting something extremely messed up. (They said they didn't want to show mickey's face for a reason, maybe he's a burn victim that would be so cool)
Oswald, if anyone doesn't know, is bascially the first character Walt Disney made. This is probably as far back as you can get on the Disney Timeline. The New CEO of Disney, Bob Iger, wanted Oswald back in Disney property after being take over by Universal in the 1930's. They had his rights in 2006 but wanted to make a big splash of his return so this must be it.


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Kassa dhutaṅgasevanā sappāyāti rāgacaritassa ceva mohacaritassa ca.
Ñ(II,86): For whom the cultivation of ascetic practices is suitable: [they are suitable] for one of greedy temperament and for one of deluded temperament.
Kasmā? Dhutaṅgasevanā hi dukkhāpaṭipadā ceva sallekhavihāro ca. Dukkhāpaṭipadañca nissāya rāgo vūpasammati. Sallekhaṃ nissāya appamattassa moho pahīyati.
Ñ: Why? Because the cultivation of ascetic practices is both a difficult progress and an abiding in effacement; and greed subsides with the difficult progress, while delusion is got rid of in those diligent by effacement.
Āraññikaṅgarukkhamūlikaṅgapaṭisevanā vā ettha dosacaritassāpi sappāyā. Tattha hissa asaṅghaṭṭiyamānassa viharato dosopi vūpasammatīti ayaṃ dhutādīnaṃ vibhāgato vaṇṇanā.
Ñ: Or the cultivation of the forest-dweller's practice and the tree-root-dweller's practice here are suitable for one of hating temperament; for hate too subsides in one who dwells there without coming into conflict. This is the commentary 'as to "ascetic" and so on distinguished'. [82]


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And to make matters worse, Monday morning our crazy purple croc clad professor, complete with matching purple scarf, tells us that our mid-crit is on Wednesday. As in the next class period. As in two days from then. And I'm not going to lie to you, I panicked a little bit. I looked at the girls on either side of me, who returned the exact same expression of shock. After we picked our jaws up off of the floor, I decided right quick what I was going to paint.
I mixed a lot of black and went to town painting the background. I left some white space for the planets and then I painted in flat blocks of color just to get an idea of what it would look like.
And then I got all seriously excited about space and planets and stars and before I knew it I splattered white paint all over the place! Not only was it all over my canvas, but it was on my shirt, my hands and my face. What can I say, I really get into my work. Plus, I'm one of the messiest artists I know, so there's that.
Those stars! Man, I tell you what. I was super impressed with myself, but also I thought they weren't quite finished. Space needs to have some depth to it, and this was just too flat still. So I pulled in some color from the surrounding planets. Then I added in some colored gasses around the planets for mysterious effect!
As it was starting to look more like the cosmos, the TA asked me what I was going to do with it. I blushed and confided to her that I was going to do something totally and completely nerdy with my intergalactic painting. And then she got all excited about it right along with me. I've slowly discovered that professors love when you do nerdy things in your artwork. I feel like this is because it makes it more personal to myself? Maybe? Question mark?
So I did it. I added in my favorite space core from one of my favorite video games. Get arrested in space, go to space jail.
SPAAACCCEEEEEE!!!!! So much space! Gotta see it all! Space!
And for your viewing pleasure I included a detail shot of my little yellow eyed orb creation. In the big picture, because he's so white, he gets blown out and overexposed because of the lighting in the studio. But he's pretty cute, I'm not gonna lie.
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According to Levies sources, a pick-up carrying commuters was on its way when a truck hit it which coming from opposition direction due to over speeding.
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Counselors in the addictions field—many of them with years and even decades of experience—may have to go back to school to get their master's degrees if they want to work in the world of the future, experts say. This is not because the Affordable Care Act (ACA)—the health reform law that kicks in in 2014—requires it. Rather, the requirement is coming from payers: state Medicaid programs, and private insurance companies.
"The federal government leaves it to the states to make laws on legal regulation of professionals," said Mark Weber, communications director for the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), which has the responsibility of making sure the workforce will be available to meet the need in 2014. Because the rules are state-based, the requirements vary widely, Weber added.
There are three levels in the legal regulation of addiction professionals: registration, certification and licensing. Typically, only a licensed professional is able to independently diagnose and treat substance use conditions. Many states also certify counselors, and for these professionals, "independent practice is not usually in their scope of service law," Weber noted. Nevertheless, a certified substance abuse counselor can usually provide treatment in a clinic because he or she is supervised by someone with at least a master's degree.
Some states now have two levels of counselors; the first does not have a master's, and cannot independently diagnose and treat, and the second does. "The payer then determines what providers may receive payment, usually following state practice laws," said Weber. Many payers do reimburse the facility, but still may require that each clinician working there meet independent practice laws.
"It does look as if states are going in that direction," said Laurie J. Krom, director of the national office of the Addiction Technology Transfer Center, located at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. "A master's degree is going to be needed, and in some states, that's already the case."
Carol McDaid, principal with lobbying firm Capitol Decisions, agreed. "Athough there is not an explicit reference in the ACA requiring a Master's, there is the marketplace reality that most commercial insurers require it," she explained. Since the commercial insurers will be running many state Medicaid programs and be the main players in the exchanges, McDaid believes that the master's degree "will be a de facto requirement."
For a full-time employee in a treatment center who makes $35,000 a year and has family responsibilities, is going back to school for a Master's degree even a possibility? "We need to give more thought about what can be done for these individuals," said Krom. "I hope there is some action at the federal level to provide incentives or loan relief, working perhaps with community colleges that can bridge to four-year programs," she said. "We need to design programs that can set people up for success."
Krom is encouraged by the fact that other leaders of substance abuse organizations have started talking about this issue. Also encouraging was the report from the senate committee that appropriates funding to SAMHSA this month directing the agency to take a closer look at the workforce, and to produce a report on it by the end of March, detailing what SAMHSA's role will be and what the role of the Health Resources and Services Administration, which administers federally qualified health centers, will be.
There has always been a concern that Ph.D. programs training social workers and psychologists don't include enough addiction-specific coursework, said Krom. While there are some programs that include substance abuse, there are many more that don't require even one course, she said. "That's been an issue for years," she said. "It's exacerbated by the fact that private insurance companies are de facto approving social workers without looking at whether they are able to treat people with addictions."
Many insurance companies have found it expedient to set up a panel of behavioral health providers who are supposed to be able to treat mental illness, substance abuse, or both.
Alison Knopf is a freelance writer.


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Zimbabwe beat UAE by four wickets
Nelson: Sean Williams' timely knock of 76 helped Zimbabwe beat a determined UAE by four wickets here today, giving the African nation their first win of the cricket World Cup.
Williams' unbeaten innings off 65 balls made the difference as Zimbabwe chased down the 286-run target in 48 overs. Put in to bat, UAE posed a competitive 285 for seven which happened to be their highest ODI total.
UAE complimented their batting by making life difficult for Zimbabwe batsmen until a 83-run sixth-wicket stand between Williams and Craig Ervine (42 runs off 32 balls) took the game away from the team playing its first World Cup since 1996.
UAE sensed a famous win with Zimbabwe needing 109 off the last 90 balls and half their side back in the pavilion. That was when the experience of Williams and Ervine came into play.
They took the attack to the opposition which appeared to run out of steam after putting up a spirited show for the majority of the game. The dangerous left-handed pairing blasted 45 runs in the powerplay between 36-40 overs to ease off the pressure.
Though Ervine got out, Williams ensured there were no further hiccups. He finished the contest in style, smashing Mohammed Naveed for three consecutive fours. Overall, he collected seven fours and a six in his 18th fifty in 71 ODIs.
Zimbabwe skipper Elton Chigumbura (14*) took his team home alongside Williams. The win puts Zimbabwe Cup campaign back on track after the loss in their opener against South Africa.
Brief scores:
UAE 285/7 in 50 overs (Shaiman Anwar 67; Tendai Chatara 3/42).
Zimbabwe 286/6 in 48 overs (Sean Williams 76 not out; Mohammad Tauqir 2/51).


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Soldering continues today! Our electrical engineers returned to the task with gusto. Here's hoping we have enough time finish between today and next week!
Thursday, March 23, 2017
Soldering Day 2
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It was awesome. I had so much fun. DO THIS PROGRAM!!!!!!!
- March 23, 2017 at 5:03 PM
Today was really cool. I learned so much. And I think I need to add some stuff and solder. But this event was a really cool program. I liked soldering!!
- March 23, 2017 at 5:22 PM
Today, I added more components to my circuit board.
I still need to put my volume changer, and more things.
I enjoyed this event.
- March 23, 2017 at 5:22 PM
It was very savage.
Accident Free Days 180
- March 23, 2017 at 5:24 PM
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I would love some help from you guys in choosing the right lens for achieving this framing in exact the same way. We're using a Canon T3i for the filming. The class is a compositing and visual effects class. The final image would be cropped to achive the correct aspect ratio in Fellowship. The model will be shot in front of a green screen.
To be specific, any ideas how distant from the subject I would have to be, and what focal depth (if I can use my zoom). I'm not a great cinematographer, I'm actually the one shooting the scene by default since I'm the only one in our compositing class with the camera. ;-) Not too worried about the aperture etc. because the goal is to colour correct the footage and add glow, etc. The main concern is getting a good, useful shot.
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This is a banner day for terrorists.
Paper says militants rigged Koran with explosives
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RIYADH (Reuters) - Muslim militants planning attacks in Saudi Arabia's holiest city, Mecca, booby-trapped copies of Islam's holy book, the Koran, to kill and maim pilgrims, a leading Saudi-owned newspaper has reported.
The London-based daily Asharq al-Awsat on Wednesday quoted Saudi security sources as saying that this novel weapon was discovered in the arms caches police found after raiding militant hideouts in Mecca and the capital Riyadh in recent weeks.
Suspected al Qaeda militants killed at least 18 people this week in a suicide car bombing at a Riyadh residential compound housing mainly Arab expatriates.
Last week, police besieged militant safe houses in both cities and killed five Islamists in the clashes. In Mecca, police said they had found tonnes of explosives and rocket propelled grenade launchers, which Interior Minister Prince Nayef bin Abdul Aziz said were to be used to attack pilgrims.
In July, police searching militant caches in Mecca found souvenir clocks resembling the Koran that had been booby-trapped.
Koran Rigged
What are they thinking? Oh yes, I forgot, it's the religion of peace.
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March 6, 2010
Do you ever look around your house at all the projects that need doing, and wish your significant other was handy? I know Beth does. It's not that I have never done anything around the house, but you can certainly tell which projects were done by a professional, and which ones by me.
The toe strips in our living an dining rooms that are separating from the wall and weren't measured very well-yeah, me.
The "extra" holes in the wall behind wall hangings from where my measurements were a bit off the first time-yeah, me.
The electric outlets that are upside down compared to the rest of the house-yeah, me.
The light switch that does nothing, while the one on the back porch turns on the dishwasher-only a slight exaggeration.
However, I have had some successes.
I fixed a toilet so it stopped running all the time by replacing its innards. Still works today.
I am a decent painter-the wall kind, not the Picasso kind.
I have changed many an outlet or light switch from the two hole kind to the three hole kind (was that too technical?) without getting culture shocked.
Quick funny story though. I did not learn any electrical/handyman type stuff from my father. If our home ever needed anything repaired, we just moved. It is difficult to repair anything with a smoke in one hand and a highball in the other. I think a beer makes it okay, but highballs come in glasses, not aluminum cans. Anyway, so I learned how to change outlets when we moved into our first house. I am smart enough to notice how things are wired when I pull them out of the wall and try to rewire it the same way when I put it back in. While my success rate is not 100%, I am tracking around 90%.
So this one time, my father-in-law and I were replacing a chandelier. We had already replaced a ceiling light in the hallway, and Beth came home from shopping and was excited that it was up and looked semi-normal. She had been looking for one that did not look like a big boob on our ceiling, and had succeeded. So Beth turned on the light switch for the hall light and remarked at how great it looked lit up. As Charlie and I were about to rewire the chandelier, it dawned on us that both lights were on the same breaker. Fortunately, we figured this out before either of us flew across the room or looked like Albert Einstein. I think we made it through all the projects with no injuries. That, to me, is a victory.
So why all this handyman talk? Well, we had a light switch that broke. It had nothing to do with my installation, but somehow Beth had broken the actual toggle doohickey away from the rest of the switch. Fortunately, it was in the on position, otherwise, we would have had to apply our deoderant in the dark.
So it came time to change out said switch and I asked CJ to help. He agreed, and I handed him the screwdriver. I told him this project was his, and I would coach him through it. Excited was he.
He found the right breaker, he unscrewed, he rewired, he screwed back in, he broke nothing, and the light came on. Sure, the first time all we had to do was flip one switch and both the light and fan came on, but we started over and got it right the second time. It turned out terrific. The only thing CJ did not do correctly was curse like a sailor whenever he would drop a screw. He may have learned that part better had he learned the task from his grand dads. "Well H***", or simply "*%#& a duck" were some standards from our dads.
Nonetheless, I was a proud papa and he was pretty proud of himself as well. Little does he know, my plans to send him to trade school instead of college are underway. Someday, we will need to sell this house and I need some cheap labor. Sure, he should be destined for a college education and may have the smarts to cure cancer, but this house really needs some drywall work and the kitchen appliances replaced. Do you think he will cut me a deal?
Saturday, March 6, 2010
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Prior to the commencement of 2016 the wonderful, inspirational lady, Jill Coleman, with whom I am now being mentored by as part of her Best of You (BOY) Club, wrote a post on her Facebook about '.how adopting a "theme" for the next year' for her, 'is always helpful' and that 'conscious words/phrases remind (her) of the life (she) wants to create and the things (she) wants to experience.'
It got me thinking, normally I'm a New Year's Resolutions type of gal, but if I had to choose what would be my 'theme', my mantra', my 'word' for 2016, would it be helpful, would it be something positive for me to do, do I need one? Jill asked for other people to post what theirs would be so I had a read of what these other people put and kept going round and round in my mind thinking, wondering, what would I choose, there were so many that could apply!
One word though kept popping into my mind though, focus, I'll say it again, focus, and again, FOCUS!! For way too long I have allowed distractions to get in my way despite needing to get things done, the distractions have been stopping me progressing, in fact at times they have completely stalled me. I am also one of the World's best procrastinators, even if I absolutely love what I am doing I will still find ways to procrastinate – even as I've been writing this I've managed to become distracted and procrastinate – aaarrggghh! There are, of course, other words/phrases. themes/mantras that I can, and will, use, to help me achieve what I want to achieve this year but the main one is going to have to be TO FOCUS because, as Jill says, I need to #GSD ('Get Shit Done' for the unaware!!)
I'm not expecting it to be easy but I am expecting to apply myself more, to learn to be 'me' again and find 'my' voice and my passion through focusing on what I need to get done to achieve this.
So, how did I decide on Focus, how did I decide that this was 'my' main word/theme/mantra for 2016?
1: I asked myself what I wanted to achieve this year and the type of person I want to be.
2: I looked back over previous years when I 'made' resolutions and never stuck to them and asked myself why I didn't. Oh I had every good intention to do so but guess what got in the way? Yep distractions and procrastination!
3: I asked myself what do I need to do to achieve what I want to achieve and how can I make this happen.
So, no New Year's resolutions for me, I've kinda gone off them now, I'm looking forward to 'Focusing' on GSD in 2016 - maybe you're someone as well who wants to come away from the New Years' Resolutions so why not have a think, and ask yourself if you had to choose a 'theme', a 'mantra', a 'word' what would you choose and why.
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text: Originally posted at Alive or Undead.Rating: 5My opinion: This book was... wow. I have no words to describe how much I enjoyed this. I can honestly say that I haven't read such an incredibly amazing YA Urban Fantasy in a very long time, and I'm always into those. I think that there are three things I'd like to highlight. First of all, the characters. I thought I loved them in Half-Blood, but there's a huge improvement here. Alex, through several tragic events, grows up. What was so amazing was that it was acknowledged that her irrationality was good because it made her strong, but she had the courage to step back and be mature when she was needed. Of course that she made tons of mistakes to get there, and she will probably make tons more, but it was an incredible progress. I got to fall in love with Aiden in a way I didn't do in the last book. There, he was one more love interest. Here, he shows us just how hot, smart, kind, and badass he really is. I had read many reviews where people bitched about him being an ass, but he was anything but that. I don't think people take the time to truly understand what the Breed Order is, and what it'd mean for Alex and Aiden to be together. It takes Alex some time too, but she eventually gets it. I'm really looking forward to how Armentrout will solve this problem, or create a bigger one. However, as much as I fell in love with Aiden, I couldn't ignore Seth. I mean, can you really ignore that? He's witty, sexy, silly, and so full of himself. I loved his confidence, how he said he was the best not trying to convince you but as a fact. Also, it was one of those few times—maybe the first one—where I actually enjoyed both love interests and the relationships they shared with Alex. Aiden was the hero with the undying love, and Seth was her cuddle bunny. And you know what, I loved the way things worked in that system. From the beginning to the very end. Another thing I loved was the story. I won't lie and say that I don't usually get excited fights and romantic moments but bored with plots and explanations. Well, not the case here. I found very interesting everything related to the Apollyons, the gods, the Council, the deimons attacks, and basically everything. It was all even connected! I felt sucked by the story. I honestly couldn't stop reading. Finally, everything felt right. Reading some books you feel like it's completely unrealistic and you honestly don't get why characters do things. Every reaction made sense to me. Every action taken upon a situation, I got it. Even when it hurt, even when I wanted to punch someone, I got it. Nothing felt out of character, but lots of things where surprising because we got to know some people better. To be honest, the first book was really good, but this one stood out. It had a great pace, lovable characters, an interesting plotline, kickass moments, swoon-worthy moments, FUCKYOUJENNIFERFORMAKINGMECRY moments, and one of those where you ask yourself if you are underrating how much worse your life could be. A new favorite, for sure!"But love, child, love is the root of all that is good, and the root of all things that are evil."


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Just a quick post today...as I obviously need to start making more money.
That amount up above?
Roughly, that's how much money I've netted this year.
I looked at my paycheck stub taking the gross amount YTD #, I did some fast math:
Subtracted: rent, groceries, fun shopping (i.e. yarn & b-day prezzzies), car payments...
...and the above is what was left over.
Yep, I'm also floored.
At least it's not a negative number, I suppose.
Happy Monday.


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I find my content all over the net, sometimes credited and sometimes not. There is not much you can do if you publish your feeds. I have heard of a WordPress plugin for adding copyright information to your feed.
Week in review: Rights and wrongs on copyright | CNET News.com
Meanwhile, many bloggers feel they are being ripped off by automated digital plagiarism, in which software bots copy thousands of blog posts per hour and publish them verbatim onto Web sites on which contextual ads next to them can generate money for the site owner. (read complete article).
How big a problem is plagiarism to you and your website or blog? What security measures do you take to protect your images, content and design? Do you have an horror stories to relate?


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Gary Anderson won his 41st PDC title yesterday against Jeffrey de Zwaan in Wigan, the 4th UK Open Qualifier. He defeated him 6-2 in the final but was still suffering with his back.
Anderson winning though confirms that he will be in the field at the UK Open and is currently 3rd in the Order of Merit. De Zwaan joins other finalists (Lerchbacher, Webster) in the top 10 and will be in the 3rd round at Minehead.
Further down the field the final remaining places are still up for grabs and some were confirmed yesterday. John Part for example will make his first appearance at a PDC major since 2015 with a good run yesterday.
Jason Lowe's semi-final appearance means he will enter at the 3rd round stage as one of the seeds. There is only 2 more chances to make it to Minehead and with some bad runs the likes of Ronny Huybrechts, Jamie Caven and Max Hopp could all miss out.
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Here's the UK Open Order of Merit with 2 events to go. Gary Anderson's 41st PDC title puts him into the field and into the 3rd Round proper of the UK Open. pic.twitter.com/1zkZVl9tnL
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Joe Morrone, Legendary UConn Soccer Coach, Dies; Led Huskies For 28 Seasons – Hartford Courant
Legendary UConn men's soccer coach Joe Morrone has passed away. Morrone, who built the program into a national power and won a national championship in 1981, died Wednesday night at 79 due to complications from pancreatic cancer.
When Morrone retired from coaching in 1996 after 39 seasons at UConn and Middlebury he was one of only four college head coaches with at least 400 career victories.
In 1996, Morrone received the National Soccers Coaches Association of America Honor award and in 2002 he was inducted into the NSCAA Hall of Fame in 2002.
He had a record of 358-178-53 and made three national semifinal appearances in 28 seasons at UConn. The Huskies advanced to three straight semifinals from 1981-1983, winning the title in 1981. His career overall record was 422-199-64.
Joe Trager, played for Morrone at UConn from 1982-1985 and was a team captain.
"I don't know if you can quanitify what he has done and I know if people realize what a huge figure he was," Trager said. "He built soccer in Connecticut. He totally changed the rules and impacted college soccer [forever].
"He was just a person of the highest integrity and moral character. The rigors of his program galvanized friendships that have lasted for lifetimes. I never saw him fear an opponent or a team, and that's how he seemed at the end," Trager said. "He was looking life square in the eye. He wasn't dwelling on [the end]. He was just so squared up with life."
Morrone's teams made 16 NCAA tournaments appearances were ranked in the top 16 14 times between 1975 and 1996. The Huskies also won three Big East Conference championships (1983, 1984 and 1989). He was honored four times as the New England coach of the year and twice as the Big East coach of the year in 1985 and 1988.
After retiring in 1996, Morrone was a tenured associate professor in the department of kinesiology, where he served as a coordinator of the coaching and administration concentration and the chairperson for the admissions to the kinesiology department. He retired from teaching in 2014 after 45 years.
Before arriving in Storrs, Morrone spent 11 years at Middlebury, where he 64-21-11 and made two NCAA tournament appearances. He started at Middlebury in 1958.
Morrone graduated from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst in 1958 and was named the school's outstanding senior athlete starting for the soccer, hockey and lacrosse teams. He was an All-New England selection and team captain in soccer. Morrone later got a master's degree from Worcester State in 1963. He also served in the United States National Guard.
Morrone was born on Oct. 20, 1935 and is survived by a daughter, two sons and several grandchildren. His wife, Elizabeth Ann, died in 2007.
Joe Morrone Jr., his oldest son, was a three-time soccer All American at UConn and won the Hermann Trophy in 1980 as the nation's top player. Younger son, Bill, was a member of the national championship team and daughter Melissa Taintor was an All American at UConn in 1983.
On Sunday, Morrone attended his final game at the stadium which bears his name. The Huskies came from behind and scored two goals in the final 10 minutes to beat the University of California-Santa Barbara, 2-1. After the game, the players ran over to Morrone to shake his hand and celebrate.
Morrone sat in a wheelchair and watched the game in the rain.
"Coach has done so much for this place to be able to win this game [Sunday] with him here was really special," UConn men's soccer coach Ray Reid said Sunday.
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Ford was born on June 17, 1936 and passed away on Wednesday, August 9, 2017.
Ford was a resident of Westborough, Massachusetts at the time of passing.
After graduating in the Taunton High School Class of 1954, he attended the Industrial Technical School of Boston for two years before proudly serving as a medic in the United States Air Force from 1955 to 1959.
In lieu of flowers, expressions of sympathy can be made in Ford's memory to the Westborough Food Pantry, PO Box 502, Westborough, MA 01581, or the St. Luke the Evangelist Church Memorial Fund, 70 W. Main St. Westborough, MA 01581.


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There is a young man who used to go to our church who just graduated from high school this year. He has had an awful time of it recently. His mom battled cancer for a couple of years and passed away close to his graduation. To watch his vibrant, joyful mom waste away was hard enough, now I have found out he has even more sorrow.
His paternal grandfather died 6 weeks ago and then his dad passed away on tuesday. I don't know how or why, I know his dad's death was sudden but I don't know anything specific beyond that.
He is at such a fragile age and has lost 3 close family members in less than 6 months. He is either going to cling tightly to Jesus or become angry with God.
Please just keep him in your prayers.


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On Wednesday we shared cars over the Humber Bridge & met at the new reserve car park. We'd obtained permission to visit the site, but with the strict instructions that we didn't use the old reserve car park. In order to comply with this restriction we shared full cars over a heavily potholed road to the river bank. It was very windswept as we walked along the river bank, but the Redshank were still searching for food. We hurried along before we plunged into the hawthorn bushes. We were now out of the wind, but it was very threatening behind us, and as we settled in the 1st hide a severe snow shower set in.
Bittern - Eileen must have had a view like this
Bittern in flight - similar to the view yesterday
Bittern in flight - on a much warmer day
Bittern - an actual record shot from yesterday (c) 2013 Aileen Urquhart
There wasn't a lot to see in the snow storm, but it was possible to discern: a Great Crested Grebe, 2 Cormorants, some Tufted Ducks and too many Coots.
A walk around the perimeter failed to add many extra species, but the deeper pool contained a pair of Goldeneye and some Tufted Ducks. When we reached the next hide there wasn't much to see apart from several Gadwall. The kingfisher failed to put in an appearance, but in the strong winds it wasn't really surprising. A hike to the biggest hide looked as though it was going to be disappointing too, but after a long wait a Bittern flew from just to the right of the hide under Eileen's nose before it landed in the reeds directly in front of the hide - never to be seen again!The walk to the new hide failed to add any new species, but there was a distant flock of small waders (Dunlin?) flying around the mudflats. We shared cars back to the original car park and hurried across to the car park hide before an punishing sleet storm set in. We waited for it to clear, and marvelled as a bouncing flock of c 50 Siskins hesitated as they tried to land in some Alder trees. Then a small brownish bird of prey was seen. It was a male Marsh Harrier still a long way from its full adult plumage. It was a great way to end the session.The best bird of the afternoon was found by Les: a male BullfinchPropping up the Bottom of the Blog


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MLB.com's Todd Zolecki reports the Phillies have signed starting pitcher A.J. Burnett to a one-year deal. Arkansas television report Hayden Balgavy, who first reported the signing, reports the deal is worth $16 million. Earlier in the off-season he said he would retire before announcing he wanted to pitch in 2014.
The 37-year-old went 10-11 with a 3.30 ERA and a 1.21 WHIP with the Pirates in 2013. He had a great season for Pittsburgh in 2012 going 16-10 with a 3.51 ERA and a 1.24 WHIP. Burnett has won 10 or more games every year since 2005.
The Phillies need starting pitching help and Burnett should be able to provide some depth behind Cole Hamels and Cliff Lee. He has been a solid No. 3 starter for years and on a one-year deal it should benefit the team.
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Member of Parliament (MP) for Ashaiman in the Greater Accra Region, Hon Ernest Henry Norgbey, has reiterated his commitment to improve the standard of education in the area to remove the anti social activities associated with the constituency.
According to him, Ashaiman has a lot of human resources potential that would help propel development of the country, but more often than not, the community is associated with negativity because of few residents who acts contrary to the norms of society.
Mr Norgbey made these comments in an interview with THE REPUBLIC after he has launched the 2018 edition of annual quiz for inter-schools competition in the constituency.
The annual inter-school quiz competition was launched for basic schools and second cycle institutions in the constituency as part of the MP vision to help raise the standard of education in the constituency.
He told the paper that, education remained the backbone of every developed nation and that the effort is to ensure that students in Ashaiman improve upon their academic performance.
"I am doing this with aim to encourage students to take their books seriously. You know anytime you mentioned Ashaiman, only the negative things we hear, but many do not know what we can offer or contribute to the nation."
"We have the population andthis means that, we have the abundance of human resources, so with this quiz, we could produce quality graduates who will intend help build this country, " Hon Norgbey said.
He indicated that, over one hundred private and public schools within the constituency are set to part take in the inter-schools quiz competition.
The MP said, over the years, the constituency has been an area with so many poor performance students and was about time he initiate programmes to whip up the zeal for books among the students.
In his considered view, this is the only surest way in building a brighter legacy for our future leaders and reiterated his commitment to use education as key to close the gap between the elite and the downtrodden.
Mr Norgbey said, the second edition of the MP's quiz received more numbers students and schools from the Ashaiman constituency participating.
The quiz, he said would last for a period of three months where winners would walk away with cash prizes as well as others picking packages for participation.
In addition to the quiz programme being rolled out is the MP's mock for final year students within Junior High and Senior High Schools in the municipality.
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Kotak Mahindra Bank reported a 20% rise in standalone net profit for the third quarter of FY18. Dipak Gupta, joint managing director, and Jaimin Bhatt, president and group CFO, said in a post results press conference that the bank's growth has come in from across segments. Gupta also observed that 100% FDI in banking sector may not be appropriate. Edited excerpts:
What is your take on 100% FDI in banking?
I think you have to make up your mind whether banking is intrinsic to the economy or not. Do you want all earnings from something which is intrinsic to the economy, exported? You would rather have Indian savers get the benefits of any growth in a structural economy sector. Banking, whether you like it or not, is sort of a bellwether for how directionally the Indian economy moves. Hence, it is not appropriate for it to be 100%. It's like defence. Would you allow 100% in defence? Yes, may be some select ones you should. But, generically would you want it or not? Banking is similar. It's part of core economy.
Have there been any divergences?
As we said last time, the inspection for March 2017 is completed and there is no divergence for us to report.
Last quarter you said the agri segment could see some slippages. How does it look now?
It's far more comfortable now. I believe we have done a decent job on the recoveries front. It is significantly lower than what was there in that quarter.
You saw a growth in the corporate book. Where is the demand coming from?
We are seeing an improvement in growth but not necessarily margins. On the corporate side, a lot of that is market share grab. The growth is all over. It still is sort of refinancing—as interest rates came down, corporates always find it easier to refinance their lending.
Are you be looking to increase your share of corporate lending?
Historically we have just followed a balanced approach. If you look at our portfolio, we are reasonably spread between wholesale, which is corporate and SME, and retail. I think that makes sense. It is important for you to keep the discipline. From a philosophy point of view, I think we basically cover equally all three segments. On slippages…We have also taken some recognition of things which are not necessarily the 90-day road. If I look at my total slippages this quarter, including those, it would be less than Rs 300 crore, which would therefore mean less than two basis points of the overall advances.
What is your exposure to the second list of defaulters issued by the RBI?
In the second list, we would have exposure to six accounts. These are not large exposures. We have ended up providing almost two-thirds of what we have exposures on. The exposures would be around Rs 300-400 crore.


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San Francisco 49ers: Three New Year's Resolutions For 2015
1) Get Some Speed on Offense
One of the 49ers' biggest weaknesses this season was their lack of playmaking ability on the offensive side of the ball. Their running game was efficient as always, with Carlos Hyde showing plenty of potential throughout the season. Their passing game, though, has really struggled without a deap threat. Anquan Boldin is still producing, but is 34 years old and never really had too much speed, while immediately behind him there are Michael Crabtree and Stevie Johnson, two under-producing possession receivers. Vernon Davis, who played as their deep threat last year, had just 26 catches for 245 yards and two touchdowns.
2) Remain Healthy
The 49ers struggled with injuries on both offense and defense, with the most notable losses being Patrick Willis and NaVorro Bowman. You cannot do much to prevent injuries, as they are bound to happen, but the 49ers must hope that the injury bug does not bite them again in 2015. In Jim Harbaugh's first three seasons, where they remained relatively healthy, they had plenty of success, and while you cannot completely blame the injuries for their lack of success this year, it was certainly a big factor. To keep from going back to their losing ways, they will need to stay healthy, especially with first-year head coach Jim Tomsula now leading the team.
3) Resign or Draft Reliable Cornerbacks
Perrish Cox recorded five picks this year after recording zero following his rookie year, while Chris Culliver has a nice season himself with four picks, but neither cornerback is signed through 2015. With a solid safety duo in Eric Reid and Antoine Bethea, this secondary has plenty of potential to be one of the better ones next year. However, the 49ers have plenty of other pending contracts and have cap issues, so it will be difficult to resign both Cox and Culliver.


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EDIT as I compile these for this new blog: More musings as I tried to come to terms with my escalating mental issues.
October 14, 2004 Things are going well
Things are going very well and I'm feeling fairly normal. When I paid at Walmart yesterday I didn't get that weird, dizzy, everyone is staring at me feeling. I just paid and made conversation. Of course, I was focused on not allowing it to happen. I know I'll have to continue to work on this thing for the rest of my life, but I feel that I can handle it and function normally and maybe even give T a break from the insanity he's been dealing with for the past 13 years or so. Counseling with him is going well. For once I'm not stubbing up and resisting. I'm just going with his flow, letting him help me. He is amazing.
I felt really close to D and J last night at the dinner because they KNOW. Of course when I first got to their house before dinner I was nervous as hell. I hadn't looked them in the eyes since devulging all this crap online. How would they respond? They pretty much didn't pay me any attention at all when I walked in. And of course my crazy immediately went to feel rejection and I talked myself out of that. I was able to take that misinterpretation and explain to myself that either they were busy doing whatever and it did indeed have NOTHING to do with me, or possibly they didn't want to make me feel uncomfortable by doing or saying anything, or possibly they just weren't sure how to act around me at first. Whatever it was, it wasn't the rejection that I immediately perceived. I wanted to hug them and thank them for their comments and for listening to me online and all, but just wasn't sure how to go about that. So as usual, I sat on the couch and did nothing.
The council meeting last night went great. It felt wonderful to be with my friends and to remind myself that I was a part of that group. I didn't really feel any crazy much of the night. Of course, that's an easy situation, safe friends, no strangers, blah blah blah. Although I did have to talk to the waitress a few times and I stopped myself from feeling like she was looking at me like I was some old mom trying to dress up and be cute for a dinner date. It started but I just let it go and didn't dwell on it. Man this takes focus.
Now, I remember that I also felt stupid for dressing up and I kept making sure that everyone knew it was T's idea. Why would it bother me if people thought I just felt like dressing up, whether that was true or not. What does it really matter why I dressed up? Why do I care so much what others think? I guess when I don't dress up then I have an excuse to look bad, because I wasn't trying to look good. But when I dress up, what do I have to hide behind?
Okay, so maybe there was more crazy yesterday than I originally recognized. uggghhh.
Wednesday, April 9, 2008
10/14/04 Things are going well
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Juul Kraijer (b. Assen, 1970) makes elegant, calligraphic drawings reminiscent of Indian miniatures. All of them show more or less the same female model, her body depicted approximately life-size. Many of the drawings in this exhibition – generally on very pale yellow (but occasionally blue, green or rusty red) paper – will be on show to the public for first time. They include a human figure composed of countless fish and a female head entirely covered with glittering droplets. In another, a seahorse emerges from a woman's mouth, and yet another shows a face outlined by caressing hands.
At the age of 16, Kraijer visited the Victoria & Albert Museum in London and was instantly attracted by the beauty of the Indian miniatures she discovered there. Two years later, she was given a book entitled Indian Love Paintings. She was immediately transfixed by one particular sketch in the book, made by an anonymous 19th-century artist from Guler, a principality in the foothills of the Himalayas. In retrospect, that drawing can be seen as one of the starting points for her later oeuvre. After training at the Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam between 1989 and 1994, she was offered a travel grant to visit India. That trip and her later travels have had a major influence on her work.
The women in Kraijer's drawings are universal figures, impossible to situate in any specific period or as members of any particular race. They are not individuals but personifications, embodiments of states of mind, who seem invariably to exist in a vacuum. For example, one of her drawings shows the face of a woman sticking her tongue out; but tongues emerge not just out of her mouth, but out of a host of other openings in her face. The countless tongues underline the defiance of the gesture. The soft lines used by Kraijer to depict this pure and memorable image render the emotion it conveys almost tangible.
A striking feature of Kraijer's drawings is the physical imperfection of the women she depicts. There is always some flaw, perhaps a nose or chin just too big for ideal beauty. Although the women in all her drawings are more or less identical, their features do vary slightly from one work to another. Some have Asian features, while others are more Negroid. Almost all the drawings convey a certain vulnerability. Sometimes the figures – which are occasionally drawn in great detail – lie passively on the ground or hang in the arms of another person. Their fragility is emphasised by the delicacy of the technique: charcoal or chalk on paper, occasionally with a little added ink. The compositions emerge only gradually and show traces of poses sketched earlier – evidence that each of Kraijer's drawings is preceded by a process of great precision and concentration. This exhibition will include a number of earlier works to provide a context for Kraijer's recent drawings.
Simultaneously with the exhibition at the Gemeentemuseum, work by Juul Kraijer will also be on show as part of the ARS 06 exhibition at Kiasma in Helsinki and the 'Into Drawing' event at the Institut Néerlandais (centre for Dutch culture) in Paris.


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Therapy for Gay Men
Therapy for Gay Men in San Francisco
Whether you identify as gay or bi, sometimes it can be can helpful to work with a gay therapist. It can be hard enough dealing with depression, anxiety or relationship stress without the added fear of being misunderstood.
Are you tired of doing everything on your own? Perhaps there are things in your past you'd like to deal with and put behind you, but you're not sure how.
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Imagine what would happen if you worked through your pain
As gay men we often become experts at hiding our vulnerability. There's always something we hold back and keep for ourselves. Imagine what it would be like to be fully yourself. What would that even feel like?
Build stronger relationships.
Through the process of therapy we can work together to better understand how growing up as a gay, bi or trans man has helped shape the person you are today.
Find better ways to deal with stress, anxiety or sadness.
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