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Me stylishly holding my reading glasses (Pic: By me)
Getting reading glasses is an early sign of ageing. Forgetting them in odd places is a definite sign of ageing. Wearing them and still looking for them means it is more or less over for you. I have accomplished all three.
The other day I kept looking for them even while wearing them. It was only a few moments into the search that I realized that I had them on all the time. What this means is several things. One obvious thing is that one has become forgetful. Another obvious thing is that one has become stupid. Perhaps the most damning indictment is that one finds all this rather routine. If I cannot feel a pair of glasses sitting on my face, then it says a lot of about my senses.
Of course, there is an element of exaggeration here to make this post more engaging than it would have been were it only about a middle-aged man forgetting his reading glasses. I forgot them this morning at home. I am writing this post without my reading glasses. I wonder why you need reading glasses to write. Don't I need writing glasses? (Hehehe, that's funny, I think).
In Gujarati, the reading glasses are also called "betala" from the number betalis or 42. The popular belief is that when one turns 42, it is almost inevitable that you would need them. Right on cue when I turned 42 I had to get them because I could not read with my regular glasses. I am short-sighted in terms of vision and, I suppose, in any other sense of the word. The reading glasses proved that I was also not even fully short-sighted. I can read font size ten from a distance of about one foot. If I move any further the text begins to seem like a million ants locked in a feverish mating ritual.
I don't know if you have experienced this but oftentimes I cannot hear well without the glasses. Perhaps it has to do with the two senses—hearing and sight having become so attuned to each other that if one goes out of sync, the other does too. It takes some getting used to.
I can use my regular glasses to write but that would mean I will have to move about 10 feet away from the keyboard. Also, I will have to enlarge the font size to 20 or more. But then, I will still need reading glasses to punch my keyboard. So please applaud the hardship I have undergone to produce this marvelously inane piece.


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mmmm, foreheads...Posted by Ann Gleeson at 4:23 PM
Do you recognise this famous forehead? Yes, it's TV's Ant McPartlin, aka "PJ". True, you couldn't but NOT stare at this top-of-face.
Which leads us to your homework tonight! If you were listening to the show earlier, you would have heard us giving you instructions to stare at EVERYONE you talk to tonight - but stare at their forehead, or neck:
Good luck! And let us know how you get on tomorrow.
I love you.
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- Tomo said...6:19 PMits really annoying if you stare at peoples hair when you talk to them, so when someone does it to me i do it back and then we'd stop halfway through and be like why you starin at my hair, well you wer starin at mine first.............
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Not about Lauren, but read anyway!!
I have a new link at the bottom of the page. It is a link to my stuff I am selling on eBay. TOO COOL! Feel free to look and buy as often as you like.
If it's not nailed down, it's for sale! (kidding, I'm only kidding. Kinda'...)


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Thursday, July 24, 2014
3 months sugar free and counting
I love that when I'm not eating sugar, I don't crave it. I can't even count on both hands how many times I've had the opportunity to have dessert or cake or lollies and I've turned them down every time. I'm so proud of myself. As I know as soon as one taste reaches my lips it's all over. I won't be able to resist. So it's good to have a line drawn in the sand.
My weight isn't dropping much. But I did win the 'biggest loser' at my work place last term - yeah!!!
I'd love to get down a further 3kg before summer but so long as I don't gain, I'll be happy. I'm very happy that I've found out how to eat best for my body. Avoiding wheat, potatoes etc... most of the time and processed sugars. Eating lots of fat, meat, cheese, veges and some fruit. It's working for me and I'm feeling good. Plus I haven't been really sick this winter. Coincidence? I think not.
I do have a bit of an addiction to almonds :-)
How are you doing?
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Not all bloggers make an income from blogging. In fact statistics say that less than 10% will ever make an income off of blogging and even then they make less than $100 a month. We don't make an income from blogging. Well we haven't yet. There are tons of articles on how to monetize one's blog and I will admit I have begun to work on doing this with my main blog and with all subsequent blogs that Mike and I have. It takes work; effort and even follow through in order to monetize one's blog so anyone who tells you that they started a blog a month ago and they are making thousands of dollars a month blogging isn't telling you the truth.
Blogging for Mike began a year ago as a mean's for him to have something to do, not because we were interested in monetizing. It is a nice idea but it wasn't the reason behind his blogging.
Getting paid to write blog posts is possible but again it takes lots of research and dedication to find the right job and to find out what the right costs are. Are you worth $50 an article or $100 or $1000? Would you be surprised to find out that some people will write a blog post for $10 or less? Do they value what they offer or do they think so little of what the competition has to say that they feel they can charge peanuts for content? There are arguments on both sides of this issue. It is called free enterprise and one learns to deal with these tissues as they arise. If I didn't have a blog would I even know that this issue exists? Most likely not and I'm not sure I would care.
Mike and I have been offered $50 for writing blog content for someone else's blog and after figuring out how much work it was to write the content and how much of our time it would take away from us being able to build our brand we just didn't feel it was a good use of our time.
I began blogging because I needed to vent and rant about travel and other issues; this lifestyle isn't always easy on a woman and if nothing else I have given voice to my thoughts. If we can figure out ways to capitalize on our blogs we will but it won't happen overnight.
So we continue to evolve and figure this thing out and we continue to find ways to monetize our work. We know it will take time and patience and inventiveness. We are after all one travel blog in a sea of travel blogs and everyone is trying to figure out their niche and how they are unique. Funny thing is I don't feel or think I even sound like anyone else. My blog and my experiences are my own so how could my blog look or sound like the next guy's? As far as I'm concerned it doesn't and it can't.
I guess that is the trick with blogging. Do you have something to say and is anyone reading? If my readers disappear would I continue to blog? The answer for me is yes. First and foremost I am blogging for me. I am blogging to give voice to the topics and thoughts that matter to me. If money comes from such an endeavor I guess I will be living the dream. You might want to check back with me…in a year or two.
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Homes for Heroes - Housing from 1919 - 1946
Housing from 1919 - 1946
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"What is our task? To make Britain a fit country for heroes to live in". David Lloyd George , Wolverhampton 1918
Homes for Heroes
Housing from 1919 - 1946
The subject of this essay is Homes for Heroes, Housing from 1919 - 1946. The essay will start with the myth of Lloyd George's homes for heroes statement. Following this we will move on and look at the history behind what made Lloyd George make his comment, which would of course be the condition of the housing stock in England and Wales at the time, touch upon the subject of conscription and the Great War before moving on to numerous Housing Acts of the era along with what the availability or lack of availability of new housing meant both to working classes and the slum dwellers whilst covering how the economy impacted the ability to build new homes.. The essay will then move on to post WWII building and the urgency of housing after the war, with a glance at the Beveridge Report which included housing, before concluding.
"What is our task? To make Britain a fit country for heroes to live in". David Lloyd George (Taken from a speech made by Lloyd George in Wolverhampton on the 24th November 1918)
Prior to the First World War the housing stock was almost exclusively private, but this was set to change. During the First World War, in addition to the recruits already in the army, over 4.27 million were recruited from England and Wales (Baker: 2011). Compulsory National Service (CNS)(Military Service Act 1916) was introduced when the steady voluntary stream of men seemed to dry up, CNS allowed for all single men aged 18 to 41 to be enlisted, however with so many men taking army medicals, it also revealed the state of the nation's health (Baker: 2010), in Britain many had been raised in poor living conditions and was for many seen as the norm (Nassau: 2010), During the 1918 election, David Lloyd George said "What is our task? To make Britain a fit country for heroes to live in." Protests both in the UK and amongst deployed troops raised the fear of insurrection in some people's minds. Lloyd George when discussing housing, noted to the cabinet at the time "The people had been promised reform time and time again, yet still nothing had been done... we must give them that conviction even if it costs a hundred million pounds, what is that compared to the stability of the state?" discussed on The Great Estate: The Rise & Fall of the Council House (22 May 2012) (Crisp; 1998)
This fear of insurrection and the apparent need to appease the masses was this translated into a commitment to housing through The Housing and Town Planning Act 1919 (Addison Act) which started local authority involvement in the management and supply of affordable municipal housing in England and Wales, discussed on The Great Estate: The Rise & Fall of the Council House (22 May 2012) (Smith & Whysall: 1990).
Even though a horrifying number of men had been killed in the war, there were still millions who needed to be demobilised; many of these had been left disabled from the war. The need for suitable homes and jobs was a task initially assigned to the Ministry of Reconstruction but in June 1919, just as the Ministry should have been at its peak of activity it was disbanded along with many other wartime committees. (BBC: 2012).
With The Housing and Town Planning Act 1919 Lloyd George acknowledged the need for housing in Britain. Taking inspiration from one of the first ever housing schemes in the country Letchworth (Garden City) designed and built by Raymond Unwin and unveiled and financed by Ebenezer Howard in 1903. (Miller; 2002)(Howard; 2009) (King: 2011) New homes were to be built around the country with estates of 2, 3, 4 and 5 bedroomed homes meeting the Tudor Walters standard, this standard gave generously sized rooms and gardens large enough to encourage people to grow their...
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I got both bathrooms cleaned yesterday! WOO HOO! I'm not sure what I'm going to clean today? Maybe I'll work on the scrapbooking room? :-)
Emma was very excited to tell me she got a Star Student award at school yesterday!! They give out Star Student awards when the kids do good things such as respecting others, using problem solving, being polite, showing kindness, using good study skills, ignoring misbehavior, using self-control and other things deemed important by the teacher. Emma received hers for respecting others, following directions, ignoring misbehavior and using self-control!! When they get a Star Student award they get a ticket that goes into a bucket for a drawing at the end of the month for a prize. Emma has seen Gage bring them home for the past 2 years and we have made a big deal out of them by putting them on the refrigerator where everyone can see them. Last year Gage nearly covered the entire freezer part of the refrigerator with Star Student awards, so Emma was thrilled to get her first one of the year, AND she got one before Gage did! Sometimes some of the teachers aren't very diligent at giving them out, so we'll see if Gage's teacher this year gives them out.
Emma had a birthday party to go to yesterday after school. It was at the Optimist Park on N. 16th St. I didn't ask directions because I thought I knew where it was. Well, apparently I didn't! My cell phone actually came in handy yesterday because I had to call Tara, Evelynn's Mom, and ask her where the park was. It was a nice park and nicely hidden! :-) Emma had a good time, but she was very worried about Gage getting to do something fun. She said she remembered when she went to her friend's (Emily Nuss) birthday party (which was a couple of years ago now) Scott took Gage to the new Harry Potter film that was in theaters at the time. I told her not to worry about what Gage did and have a fun time at the party. He just went over to the neighbors house to play but I asked him to please not tell Emma because I just wasn't in the mood to listen to her whine and complain about it. Thankfully he kept it a secret.
I had Emma asleep before 7:30 last night and that was a relief. Gage usually isn't much trouble at bedtime, but last night he was complaining of a stuffed up nose. I gave him 2 Triminic strips that dissolve in your mouth (whoever invented those was a genius!) to help. He came back upstairs 5 minutes later saying they weren't working. I told him to please just give them a chance to work. I laid with him a few minutes and then left when he started getting drowsy. It sure is much easier in the mornings when they get to sleep at a decent time. However, it sure doesn't help with moon watching! Scott's Dad sent me a link to a web-site that has moon phases and that will surely help us out. I woke up this morning about 5 and had to go to the bathroom, so I thought I'd check to see if I could see the moon. I couldn't find it out the kitchen or bathroom windows. I didn't feel like going outside since it was quite cool out this morning. The web-site will help alot. Thanks Grandpa!
We pick Scott up at the airport around 4 this afternoon, then Gage has soccer at 6-7p and then we have a going away party/get-together for a DU employee at our friend Steve and Laura's house. Unfortunately that is going to get the kids to bed later than I want, but at least Scott will be here to help with baths and stories, which will make it go a little faster.
The weather has felt like fall yesterday and today! I love it! I love fall and winter. I'm always ready for them to come. I even turned off the air conditioner yesterday and opened all of the windows. I'm hoping we won't have to turn it back on until it's time to start up the furnace! :-)
Thursday, August 28, 2008
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- Kara said...
Yeah Emma! You are a star (of course, we ALREADY knew that!) I wonder if Rita Murphy does that?!? Hope you win the big drawing! Way to go!
- August 28, 2008 at 11:29 AM
- Munchkins and Music said...
Good job Emma! I talked about your blog today in my post! I like the music that goes with your blog. :)
- August 28, 2008 at 1:03 PM
- Shannon said...
You Go Girl!!!!
- August 28, 2008 at 6:51 PM
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4 Back With 24 To Go
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2 1/2 out of a Wild Card.
If you believe in that sort of thing.
An all-time classic movie clip, too.
The Yanks, at 4 games back, are closer to the division leader than any second place team in the other divisions (Detroit, at 5 games back, is the next closest). Of course, the only problem is they are in 4th place! The East is crazy.
They're in the mix – and crazy fun to watch right now. What a difference from the first half. Whether they make the playoffs or not, as a fan, I'm very confident with where the team is at, now and in the next couple years.
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I read lots of brilliant blogs each week, and I have to congratulate so many people for writing really interesting stuff. Many are about selling and marketing books, others about writing and still more describing places, food and different cultures. Maybe one day after more practice, I too will be writing erudite, cultural and informational blogs but it may take me a lot more practice.
Well of course you don't get anything like that on this blog yet of course, at best it will be a giggle as we continue with the kings and queens who ruled England.
Edward married late in life, and it is said he refused to sleep with his wife in case they considered him for canonization after he was dead. This is probably true as he had no children.
This picture shows Macbeth and lots of blood.
As an aside, over on the OTHER side of the wall, Macbeth was busy murdering his friends and relatives and anyone else who wanted to be king north of the border.
Back in England, Edward's successor was Harold Goodwinson, or Harold I who bullied his way to the throne.
To the reader who is looking forward to the Tudors, we will get there I promise. There were just so many monarchs before them, as you can see!


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LET THE CELEBRATION BEGIN!!!! Here he is at Shady Maple enjoying his birthday meal. We saw Dr. DeVos in March 21st.. He was so pleased with Keith's progress/healing that he doesn't want to see Keith for 3 months!!! AGAIN, Happy Birthday Keith:)
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Friday, April 1, 2011
This is a GREAT story. Keith has LOVED his leather jacket. Ever since he bought it, he's faithfully put mink oil and once in awhile water repellent on it. He mentioned many years ago that he needed to start looking for a new jacket. He looked and looked, but NOTHING came close to this Members Only jacket. We even had a tailor fix his jacket. A few weeks ago when he was starting to feel better, I asked if he thought he felt up to a little shopping trip to look for a new jacket. We drove to 4 stores and that was all he could handle. I told him when we got home I'd go on line and see what I could find. In no time I found the Members Only site with all their new line of jackets. Another site came up - Vintage 80's Leather Jackets...!!!! sure enough I found jackets EXACTLY like the one he was wearing. Took about a 1/2 hour to fine one in his size, only worn twice, and for 1/3 the cost of his orig. jacket! I asked him how long he had that old jacket. He thought awhile and said, I think maybe 20 years.. WELL, it was more like 30 years.Ha. To Keith's credit, he really takes care of his leather coats. We bought this jacket and it came 6 days later. It was llike Christmas for Keith. He was smiling from ear to ear. It gave me GREAT JOY to see him with another jacket EXACTLY like the one he had. We joke that at 95 years old, we'll have to start looking for another one! He is truly a HAPPY CAMPER:)
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Visit with OLD FRIENDS
Back on March 11th, Keith and I made our regular trip to Albertus PA to start the RV which is in storage. We discovered that it wasn't much further to go visit our dear old friends in Quakertown, Pa. Keith and Terry go WAY back and Jackie (Candy) and I have been friends since they got married a few years after we did. Oh, it was so good to see them again.
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First, I wanted to say thanks to all who left a message re my low back pain. I'm not out of the woods as yet, but hubby has managed to do some really good massage back there. I'm also going to order a book on back pain to get some more ideas - not that I want hubby to give up on the massages, lol! :-) Hell, no! But if I can do other stuff (safe stuff; I can still walk around without any problems, so I don't want to take any chances with putting my back completely out of whack) when he's not around, so much the better.
Besides, it'll give the dogs a chance to butt in even more. ;-)
Word Count
I've managed to do a little writing today, after a break over the weekend. I'm working on this romantic fantasy, and if I carry it through to the end, I have no doubt that it'll end being more fantasy than romance. (Typical me, I tells ya! :-))
So the word count for today is:
153 words
Have a great day! :-)
~Nancy Beck
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Today at lunch I went to the bank. I took a back-roads route through my old home town, circling through the center and south side. I drove by my old house and and my old elementary school and what used to be the library.
I was shocked by new mansions and reassured by familiar old stone walls. I played music and lazily leaned into the curves. I thought about where I am now and where I was then and where I am, perhaps, going.
I had a spring in my step when I got back to the office. Sometimes you just need to take a drive and blow out the cobwebs.


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wednesday may 27
today i was waiting at the corner of bloor and ossington for the light to change. while i stood there, i witnessed someone walking across the street in the other direction, talking on their cell phone. a car turning right honked at him, seemingly annoyed that his phone conversation resulted in him walking too slowly across the street? in reply, the guy put his phone down, gestured toward the light and yelled into the window of the honking car: "IT'S MINE, ASSHOLE!" (the right of way, presumably).
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Friday, January 18, 2013
Experiments in Absorbtion
Today we tried some experiments from
Jameson's Lab
This one is watching the color move with the water as it is absorbed.
This one showed how the color moves from one jar to the other.
And the last one shows blue and yellow both moving from jar to jar, and mixing together in the middle jar!
They were very impressive experiments! And SO easy! All we needed were paper towels, jars, water, food colors, markers, and a plastic box
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Jordi Roura does not believe his Barcelona team are in danger of complacency when they tackle Getafe in La Liga on Sunday.
Barca boast a commanding position at the top of the league table, nine points clear of second-placed Atletico Madrid.
Few observers will be expecting any outcome other than a home win when 12th-placed Getafe arrive at Camp Nou, but Barca assistant coach Roura has insisted his players will be fully focused.
"I really don't think we will be complacent against Getafe. Getafe and their coach are a very tidy team, with the lines very together, they push you a lot, they are good defensively and they are intense," Roura said.
"When their coach was with Levante they were already a difficult rival to beat and now it is going to be the same. We cannot be relaxed if we want to get the points and keep our current position."
With the team used to playing in the evening due to their frequent appearances on primetime television, Roura and his squad have had to make some adjustments in readiness for a midday kick-off on Sunday.
"It's true that playing at 12 (noon) will change the normal routine we have when preparing for a game," he said.
"After talking with the medical staff, we are going to concentrate today (Saturday) on having a proper dinner and having a good breakfast. These are the only alterations so far, but apart from that, it is going to be a time modification that effects both teams, so I expect that it really won't change anything in our performance."
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Do Landing Pages Work?
Do landing pages really work? Are they effective ways of generating leads and increasing sales for your business? With the vast amount of landing pages out there, the assumption is yes. Otherwise, why would there be systems available to develop landing pages for you, templates to design your own, and every advertising campaign you see in a search engine or social media takes you to one?
Before we discuss the actual impact of a landing page, let's take a step back.
What IS a landing page?
In the simplest form, a landing page is a web page that a viewer sees when arriving at the intended location online. When it comes to marketing, the definition changes. In that case, a landing page is a web page that is different from your website, designed to meet a single objective that does not contain any links back to your main website. A landing page doesn't link back because the purpose of the page is to do something specific, and links to other pages or areas of your site might move your visitor away from what you are wanting them to do.
Types of Landing Pages
There are two types of landing pages. One type is click through pages, while the other is lead generation.
Click Through pages are used to help guide your visitor in learning more about something before the final call to action. For example, a visitor comes to your click through page and sees an advertisement about your latest and greatest dietary supplement. They have to click the button to learn more about how it works and read success stories. From there, they can click through to the shopping cart to make their purchase, now more informed of what it is, how it works, and testimonies of people who have used it. There is a higher rate of conversions, thus more sales for you.
In a Lead Generation landing page, your objective is to collect the visitor's information. This is done using a form that the visitor fills out and submits, usually in exchange for something – an ebook, a coupon, etc. You can then continue sharing with your new lead via a targeted email campaign, webinar, phone call follow-up, etc.
Landing pages are great sources of information, whether Click Through or Lead Generation. You can analyze the results of each page to determine your click through rates and conversion rates. If you have low response, you can use the information to determine where the break down might be occurring and figure out how to fix the problem to increase the response.
Does it Work?
The human attention span is only about 8 seconds. During this time, about 50 milliseconds is all it takes for us to make the decision of whether to stay and learn more or close the page. You only have ONE chance to capture their attention and a short window of time to capture and convert the lead.
Having a landing page is not the answer to your conversion problems, though. You must have a well-designed landing page with a solid message that creates a need in your reader, followed by a call to action. One of the more common approaches to creating selling content is to use the rule of three. Present a trigger, create a desire, and provide a call to action. Landing page are NOT generic. They are specific. Therefore, you must know the audience you are targeting and what they need, whether they realize they need it yet or not. THAT is what you present immediately – your trigger. You need to capture their attention with something that triggers an emotional response or personal connection. Once you have their attention you need to plead your case. Why is your offer irresistible? What can they expect from it? How will your solution meet the needs they have? Once you have created a desire in them, next comes the call to action. You need to give them some way to commit. Perhaps it is joining a webinar, maybe selling products, possibly offering e-books…
Some eye opening statistics from around the web:
- Companies see a 55% increase in leads when increasing their number of landing pages from 10 to 15.
- Companies with 40+ landing pages get 12 times more leads than those with 5 or less.
- Long landing pages can generate up to 220% more leads than above the fold call-to-action
Your Thoughts?
So what do YOU think of landing pages? Share your thoughts on whether you like them or dislike them. If you have one (or more), what do you like the most about using them? What is working?
My Thoughts
I personally can't stand landing pages. But I can't deny their value and will use them in my own works to increase awareness, sales, and leads. And based on the above statistics, I will be developing more and more landing pages as the content and information on the site increase.
I find long landing pages to be boring and tedious. I admit I do NOT read the content. I scan looking for the offer or the price. I skip over the testimonies and the "proof" to get to the call to action. If I don't like what I see, I move on. If I do like it, I use the call to action to accept the offer. But the next step is what I despise the most about landing pages. I have no opt in/opt out option for the landing page. My choice to accept the offer is done in exchange for giving them my information for further contact and follow up. So I admit, I will gladly accept the offer, claim my free whatever they are offering, and then after the first auto-respond email comes through, I opt out immediately. I know it defeats the purpose of having a landing page, but I don't have time to read multiple emails that have their own call to action offers, nor do I want to be sold to with every contact made thereafter. I am sure I am not the only person that does this.
It makes me wonder – are there statistics of people who accept the offer then opt out immediately after? And how do marketers get around people like me so that they can capture and convert leads?


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Steve McIntrye has a dandy graph to display what the lyin' and cheatin' climate change scammers have been doing with temperature data. Take a look at this:
If you have time for only a very quick glance at the chart, the scratches in red indicate data that has been deleted – for the world not to see, but shown here by Mr. McIntrye. You can see that since the mid-1990's there has been declining temperatures – some would say, somewhat drastically declining temps.
Thanks to Michelle Malkin
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*****Phil Jones Hides Data from 42 Weather Stations
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IPCC ClimateGate Grow: Counterfeit Claims about Netherlands
ABC Questions Climate Forecasts: Can Climate Science be Trusted?
ClimateGate: Global Warming Bullies
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Copenhagen Junket Cost Millions – Millions for Failure: Inhofe on Copenhagen Caviar
Copenhagen Hopenhagen Nopenhagen? Rajendra Pachauri Apocalypse Now
EPA Endangerment Finding: Obama's Carbon Dioxide Pollutant: Obama TopDown Control
Andrew Watson Marc Morano: Andrew Watson Calls Marc Morano A-Hole
Chris Horner Sues NASA? NASA Hidden Data: ClimateGate NASA FOIA
Network Media Silent on ClimateGate: Day 14 and Counting
Hide the Decline Graph: ClimateGate Hide the Decline "Trick": Jones and Mann Hide the Decline
Rajendra Pachauri Dismisses Top Warming Scientists: Jim Inhofe ClimateGate Investigation
ClimateGate Phil Jones Steps Down
Philip Jones ClimateGate: Phil Jones Global Chief Liar and Cheat
CRU Souce Code Decoded: Marc Sheppard Finds the Fudge Factor
ClimateGate: Global Warming Bullies
ClimateGate Phil Jones Steps Aside: CRU Climategate Chief Steps Down
Jim Inhofe ClimateGate Investigation: Rajendra Pachauri Dismisses Top Warming Scientists
Scientists may sue Gore over "Warming and Change" Fraud
Jaws Dropped as Solar Scientist, Archibald, Praised C02
EPA Silences, Suppresses Opposition: EPA Lies
The EU's Carbon Trade: A Scheme and a Failure
The Fight for Human-made Global Warming
Important Resources:
Climate Audit, stephen McIntyre
A list of prominent scientists who have reversed their opinions


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While display-glass maker Corning is busy setting expectations for future growth and profitability, the market reset its stock price last summer and has kept the pressure on ever since. Demand for LCD TV screens, the primary driver of sales and earnings for Corning, has been weak and doesn't look to be getting any better. That was the reason behind its "reset" talk during its January conference call. Yet even though it's going to see narrower margins as a result, Corning is taking the appropriate measures of cutting its prices both as a means to gain sales as well as maintain share.
Despite weaker-than-expected demand for flat-panel displays in Asia, even analysts can't say for certain what if any growth there will be. Many expect around 7% growth or so, but NPD Display Search sees it closer to 2%. Then there's the issue of worsening pricing on display technologies products, which Corning is addressing.
But there are bright spots, too, that the market seems to be missing. As a feature of the iPhone, Apple
That's evident in the 19 million miles of fiber optic cable telecoms rolled out last year, leading Corning to tell customers it can't guarantee orders will be filled. As video content streaming becomes more prevalent, there will be even more demand. Analysts say Netflix is driving that growth right now, accounting for nearly 33% of all peak downstream Internet traffic. As one of the biggest suppliers of fiber optic cable, Corning's sitting pretty.
The myriad of products Corning is involved in will sustain it through the tough times, says CAPS member davidkware: "The glass market has hurt the short-term outlook for Corning, but solid management and the strong internal valuation of the company in addition to the pantheon of products it provides should provide long-term growth. The dividend is just an added incentive."
Add Corning to your Watchlist to see whether investors are willing to see the opportunities present for the glass specialist.
Going into orbit
Satellite-radio operator Sirius XM Radio reported better-than-average revenue-per-user statistics last quarter, which helped drive significant earnings-per-share improvement, and allowed it to notch $0.07 per share in profits for the full year, compared with a penny in 2010. Not surprising, then, that Liberty Media
Obviously, much of that potential comes from a resurgent auto industry. While American automakers strive to maintain control of the wheel, Motley Fool blogger Bobby Fisher believes it's still key.
Automobile sales contribute an enormous portion to Sirius' success and all reports are good on the automobile home front for this year. Vehicle sales have been a strong wave Sirius has ridden on for the past few years. Analysts pinned auto sales as responsible for a growth of nearly 10% in customer base in Sirius subscribers last year. It's safe to say, Sirius still rules the rule the road, especially in the face of competitors like Pandora vying for a spot of automobile media.
Add the satellite-radio operator to your Watchlist, and let us know on the Sirius XM Radio CAPS page whether you agree it will be able to rev up its growth engine.
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In his post on Edutopia, educator Jon Bergmann speaks to what he believes is a teachers' biggest hurdle in "flipping" the classroom- the way teachers think about how to use their class time. I am certainly supportive of the notion that a flipped classroom helps students "learn how to learn"- I have embraced that concept since I began my teaching career. ( I often tell my students, especially in these days of Common Core shifts that I care more about their ability to read, write, and speak effectively than I do their ability to recite historial facts- history is just the vehicle I use to expand those abilities.....but I digress). However, my biggest hurdle to truly flipping my room is that, despite what media and others would have us believe, is that many of my students simply just do not have regular access to technology that would make a flipped classroom feasible. In my current position, I feel I would be flipping for maybe 60% of my students- the rest would require traditional instruction. For me, this is one of my largest personal struggles with this program- seeing all the ways in which technology can enhance instruction, but not being able to implement them with fidelity.
References: Bergmann, Jon. The Biggest Hurdle to Flipping Your Class. Edutopia. 18 Nov 2013. Web. 26 Nov 2013. Retrieved from: http://www.edutopia.org/blog/biggest-hurdle-flipping-your-class-jon-bergmann.


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The Public Health Action Support Team (PHAST) is providing an end of term field experience to Mississippi (Delta Region), May 12-18, 2013. This PHAST project will represent the eighth collaboration and trip to Mississippi. The work for this project will focus in the Delta region of Mississippi. The delta region of Mississippi faces a number of challenging issues in providing health care to its residents. There is limited access to health care facilities and providers, high rates of uninsured populations, and a higher-than-average prevalence of chronic diseases such as hypertension.
PHAST members will work with their long-standing partners, John Green, PhD, Director, Center for Population Studies and Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Mississippi and the Institute for Community-Based Research. The work and partnership is driven by the needs of community organizations to assess the needs of the community to better serve them. Five PHAST members, a UM Social Work student, and three University of Mississippi students will conduct focus groups and interviews in the Delta region.
The Practice Office will provide PHAST students with a project that will engage them in health and social justice issues in rural Mississippi. Examining health in a rural context will provide a unique opportunity to explore the complexity of public health problems as they impact communities and organizations. In addition, students will interact and engage with public health organizations, local researchers and community-based organizations seeking to improve the health of the community.


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Off topic response, but that is normal around here so indulge me by answering the following question.
Where are the jerks ?
Dead.net forum has jerks.. lots of em. I made some friends there but we had to split out into a private chat to hide from the mean people.
Phil Zone .. well the main reason to visit PhilZone is to watch the trolls jump out, and try to ambush the other trolls, it is like a russian nesting (matroyshka) doll of trolls.
So just wondering why this comment section is not a bunch of jerks ? You all seem to be mostly very nice folks.
Don't forget NPRs comment section, UGH! This is an oasis.
man, i'd love to hang out with Bone Buddy. apprentice on a couple of projects. hold the ladder, find Buddy's tools "the red one, near that Bucket of Filth….no, by the putrefying lungs…"


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JOSEPH MATHEWS, PLAINTIFF,v.ATRIA HUNTINGTON AND ALEX STEHLY, DEFENDANTS.
The opinion of the court was delivered by: Joseph F. Bianco, District Judge
Plaintiff Joseph Mathews brings this action alleging employment discrimination based on his age in violation of the Federal Age Discrimination in Employment Act, 29 U.S.C. §§ 621 et seq. (the "ADEA"), and the New York State Human Rights Law, N.Y. Exec. Law §§ 290 et seq. ("NYHRL"). Specifically, plaintiff alleges that defendant Atria Huntington, and one of its employees, defendant Alex Stehly, discriminated against plaintiff by terminating him because of his age. Defendants move for summary judgment. For the reasons that follow, defendants' motion is granted in its entirety.
Construed in a light most favorable to plaintiff, the non-moving party, the facts are as follows:
Atria owns and operates a senior living facility located in Huntington, New York ("Atria Huntington"). (Compl. ¶ 7.) Plaintiff Joseph Mathews ("Mathews") was hired as the Food Services Director at Atria Huntington in July 2001, when he was sixty-one years of age. (Dfts.' 56.1 ¶ 2.)*fn1 Plaintiff obtained the position after interviewing with Joe Geiser ("Geiser"), Atria's Regional Food Service Director. (Id. ¶ 3.)
According to defendants, during plaintiff's period of employment, Alex Stehly ("Stehly"), Executive Director of Atria Huntington, received complaints from residents of Atria Huntington and their family members regarding the quality of food offered at the facility. (Id. ¶ 7; Pl.'s 56.1 ¶ 7.)
Moreover, during plaintiff's employment, results of surveys of residents regarding the quality of food service at Atria Huntington would, according to plaintiff, "improve" during some periods, and "stay the same" or "go down" during others. (Id. at 95.) At some point in July, August, or September of 2004, Stehly met with plaintiff to discuss the resident survey results. (Dft.'s Ex. 1, at 93.) At the meeting with Stehly, plaintiff believed that there was "nothing to indicate that these people were not happy with the food service."*fn2 (Id. at 94.) Instead, according to plaintiff's deposition testimony, the reason for the occasional downturns in the survey results was that:
[E]lderly people always complain. . . . They always complain, no matter who's this [sic]. Because what they do is eat and complain, right?
In addition, throughout plaintiff's employment at Atria Huntington, he failed to comply with Atria Huntington's policy requiring employees to order a certain percentage of food products from a specific vendor, Sysco. (Dfts.' ¶ 8.) Specifically, according to plaintiff, Geiser established a policy whereby plaintiff was required to order 85% of Atria Huntington's requirement of food products from Sysco. (Dfts.' Ex. 1, at 106.) However, while plaintiff was aware of this requirement and ordered some products from Sysco, he failed, as a matter of course, to order the volume of products from Sysco "that they [Atria Huntington] wanted." (Id., at 108-09.)
In mid-September 2004, plaintiff had an encounter with one of his subordinates, Maria Rosaria Napolitano ("Napolitano"), wherein plaintiff spoke to Napolitano using an "intense" and "strong[]" tone. (Id. ¶ 9.) According to Napolitano and a supervisor who witnessed the encounter, Patricia LaBarbera ("LaBarbera"), plaintiff yelled loudly and cursed at Napolitano; plaintiff does not recall if he used profanities when speaking to Napolitano. (Id. ¶¶ 12-14; Pl.'s 56.1 ¶¶ 12-14.) Stehly discussed with LaBarbera the encounter between plaintiff and Napolitano. (Dfts.' 56.1 ¶ 15.) Thereafter, according to Stehly, he met with Geiser and they agreed that plaintiff's conduct warranted termination. (Id. ¶ 18; Pl.'s 56.1 ¶ 18.)
On October 4, 2007, Stehly and another Atria Huntington supervisor, Jill Dragotta ("Dragotta"), met with plaintiff to inform him of his termination. (Dfts.' 56.1 ¶ 19.) At that meeting, Stehly stated that he had learned that plaintiff had "yelled" at Napolitano, and he fired plaintiff. (Id. ¶ 20.) At the time of plaintiff's termination, Stehly was forty-five years old, and Geiser was fifty-one years old.*fn3 (Dfts.' Ex. 13.)
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If you haven't read Robb Wolf's latest post, go now. It speaks to how easy it is to get bogged down by all the craziness out there labeled as normal while we toil away in our wacko, unhealthy diet. If you've been paying attention to the headlines lately, it can sure feel like the entire world is against Paleo, and if you're fielding vitriol from friends or family, you're probably really feeling besieged.
I've been eating this way for over eight months now, and I can admit to getting a little tired waiting for everyone else to catch on. I should imagine how Art DeVany feels after 30 years of this! But this is the way many people feel about a topic they hold near and dear. Heck, there's probably a vegan blogger typing right now about their frustration that Paleo is starting to catch on: "If only they could realize the error of their animal-eating ways!"
It's so exciting in the beginning when we make the discovery and we want to learn all about it and share it with everyone. But then it becomes daily life. And yes, I get tired of explaining myself at every dinner party, of saying I'd-rather-my-daughter-not-have-a-cracker, of asking about ingredients at restaurants. Can't they just see the results (weight loss, muscle gain, less anxiety, clear skin, etc.) and appreciate that perhaps I'm onto something?
But these annoyances are a tiny price to pay for nutritional enlightenment. Nobody said that completely reversing a dominant paradigm fueled by corporate interests, government complicity, and billions of sleepwalking consumers would be easy. Our culture generally doesn't reward rebellion, and those rebels that are rewarded earn it by facing enormous, soul-crushing resistance. If someone hasn't called you crazy, you're not doing it right.
It's time to turn the tables on the dominant, destructive paradigm that's literally killing people and robbing them of the fundamental health that is their birthright. There are a few simple things we can do:
Stop framing our diet as being outside the norm. We are not the ones on a weird diet. The rest of America (and, increasingly, the rest of the world) is eating a weird diet. All of our ancestors prior to our great-grandparents would agree with me. The sooner we stop thinking of meat, vegetables, fruit, and nuts as being difficult or inconvenient or "other", the better off we'll be in our own skin and the more convincing we'll be to others. Besides, if you look at the advice CW nutritionists are peddling, Paleo folks are actually following those guidelines closer than any low-fat, sugar-free Dreyer's ice cream consumers.
- As much as possible, don't let cost determine your health. Nobody should be having to make the choice between fresh healthy foods and paying the electric bill. NOBODY. Do the best you can with what you've got. Your health is the best thing you can invest in, so do it every day. Every dollar you can put into the pocket of a local farmer or rancher is another dollar that Nabisco won't get, and it matters. We have to starve these beasts. What have they done for you lately?
- Start enjoying your maverick status. Have fun with it. Some people are naturally better at going against the grain (pun intended) than others, but if you can smile about it, others will feel more relaxed about it too.
If you find your resolve to continue on the path of real food wavering, please reference J. Stanton's awesome piece, "You Are a Radical, and So Am I". If I quoted it, I'd end up just copying and pasting the whole damn thing here, so do us both a favor and read it in its entirety. Gandhi lends the article its thesis: "First, they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win." We are clearly in the third stage here. I will leave you with his conclusion, because I can say it no better. Take it to heart:
Be proud of your health and how you've attained it. Do not be pushy, but do not apologize for how you eat and live. And, most importantly, be prepared for the storm.


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In Our long-term unemployment headache Greg Jericho explains the long-term unemployed ratio and why we should be concerned about an increase in the proportion of long-term unemployed.
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Monday, 24 March 2014
Repeal Day = Pseudo Reform
In Tony Abbott's pseudo reform on the spin cycle Ross Gittins writes that the Government's "repeal day" is more about spin than actual deregulation.
The other problem with this "repeal day" is that it's hiding some controversial moves:
In the process, of course, we'll have changed the meaning of ''red tape''. It's meant to mean bureaucratic requirements that waste people's time without delivering any public benefit. In the hands of the spin doctors, however, it's being used to encompass everything from removing dead statutes to the supposed deregulation of industries.Ross goes on to point out that what seems red tape to some may actually be important for the economy and country (e.g. "supplying information to the Bureau of Statistics").
Repealing redundant laws and regulations dating back as far as 1900 is mere window dressing. By definition they don't waste anyone's time - if they did they'd have been repealed long ago. Their primary purpose is to allow Tony Abbott to quote huge numbers: today I announce the abolition of more than 1000 acts of Parliament and the repeal of more than 9500 regulations. A trick you can pull only once.
Somewhere in there is some genuine, time-wasting red tape we're better off without, but it doesn't add up to much - hence the need for so much padding. Governments of both colours are always promising to roll back red tape, mainly because it gives people such an emotional charge.
The other problem with this "repeal day" is that it's hiding some controversial moves:
But the most objectionable feature of the whole red tape Repeal Day charade is the way it has been used as cover for rent-seeking by the Coalition's industry backers. It's an open secret the protections for investors provided by the Future of Financial Advice legislation are being watered down at the behest of the big banks, which want to be freer to incentivise unqualified sales people to sell inappropriate investment products to mug punters.Ross also asks show the Government came up with the supposed savings of $700 million a year:
Then there's the strange case of the Charity Commission,which was set up only recently to reduce inefficient regulation and red tape. It's to be abolished despite the objections of most charities, presumably because the Catholic Church doesn't like it. It's being claimed all these dubious doings will ''drive productivity, innovation and employment opportunities'', not to mention ''creating the right environment for businesses of all sizes to thrive and prosper and to drive investment and jobs growth''.
Yeah sure. The claimed savings of $700 million a year (don't ask how that figure was arrived at) are equivalent to 0.04 per cent of GDP, and yet they'll work wonders. Must be an incredible multiplier effect.
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Wednesday, 19 March 2014
The Murray Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect
There are plenty of sites that quote Michael Chrichton explaining the Murray Gell-Mann Amnesia effect. For example:
Basically, imagine you're reading an article in the newspaper. You know something about the topic of the article and so you know the article is totally wrong (I think everyone with some level of specialist knowledge has experienced this). However, you continue reading the newspaper and accept everything else in it as correct. That's the Murray Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect.
Basically, imagine you're reading an article in the newspaper. You know something about the topic of the article and so you know the article is totally wrong (I think everyone with some level of specialist knowledge has experienced this). However, you continue reading the newspaper and accept everything else in it as correct. That's the Murray Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect.
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Friday, 14 March 2014
Increasing inequality may be inevitable
In A Relentless Widening of Disparity in Wealth Eduardo Porter looks at the work of Thomas Piketty who argues that our economic system will see a rise in inequality and increasing concentration of wealth in the hands of a few.
Mr. Piketty's is based on data. He just has much more: centuries' worth, from dozens of countries. He distills from them a simple historical regularity. The rate of return to capital — understood broadly to include machinery, land, financial instruments, housing and everything else — is usually higher than economic growth.Is there a solution?
This was particularly true before the Industrial Revolution, when economies didn't really grow, but it prevailed even after economic growth took off in the 19th century.
This means that the income from wealth usually grows faster than wages. As returns from capital are reinvested, inherited wealth will grow faster than the economy, concentrating more and more into the hands of few. This will go on until capital owners decide to consume most of their income and stop reinvesting as much.
Is there a politically feasible antidote? Professor Piketty notes that the standard recipe — education for all — is no match against the powerful forces driving inherited wealth ever higher.
Taxes are, of course, the most feasible counterweight. Progressive wealth taxes could reduce the after-tax return to capital so that it equaled the rate of economic growth.
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Labels: Economy, Inequality
Spotting a liar
In So you think you can spot a liar? Stephen Dawson, a former police officer, details how most of us aren't as good at spotting liars as we think we are.
At a TED presentation Pamela Meyer gives some tips on How to spot a liar.
We think we can look into the eyes of someone and know when they are lying, or when they are being truthful.
Indeed, some of us can for some people. The problem is that none of us really knows with certainty who we can "read", and who we can't. And both game theory and evolution suggest that it will always be neck-and-neck between the ability to tell lies that can't be detected and the ability to detect those lies.
There are advantages to any group of people for all to be (reasonably) truthful. But there can be even greater advantages to an individual if he or she can lie and get away with it. There lies the ability to be a free rider on the efforts of others.
As some people are better at spotting liars than others, so some are better at telling lies than others. Some can be very good at it indeed.
At a TED presentation Pamela Meyer gives some tips on How to spot a liar.
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Labels: Human Behaviour
Tuesday, 11 March 2014
Could antibiotics be making us fat?
Pagan Kennedy looks at the link between antibiotics and obesity in The Fat Drug.
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Thursday, 6 March 2014
Base-load electricity from renewables
In Renewable energy finally makes economic sense Mark Diesendorf argues that renewable energy can reliably supply base-load electricity. On those rare occasions when additional electricity is needed he advocates biofuelled gas turbines.
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Solar to beat coal
Evan Beaver in Crushing Solar Optimism argues that the continuing improvements in the efficiency and cost of solar will put coal fired electricity generators out of business.
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Labels: Alternate Energy, Electricity
Voter Id in Australia
In "A fix for what's not broken: why Australia doesn't need voter ID" Jennifer Rayner looks at the issue of voter identification and multiple voting. She rightly points out requiring voters to provide identification won't prevent anyone from voting more than once.
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Labels: Politics
Saturday, 1 March 2014
Gittins on economic rent
In Who's taxing who, and who pays the rent? Ross Gittins explain the concept of economic rents.
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Acceptable Use Policy
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Working in many different arenas while pursuing my degree in Computer Security has opened my eyes to many things, one thing that I have noticed is that some companies felt that they were immune to data breaches. I have worked in smaller organizations that just didn't have the knowledge to protect their network against security breaches. One inexpensive and very productive way to counteract lack of resources or know how is with an Acceptable use police. An acceptable use policy is not put in place to snoop on individuals rather than to protect the businesses assets. The AUP (acceptable use policy) that I want to focus on is one that governs internet usage. Acceptable use policy regarding internet usage normally includes information about websites that are off limits as well as defining a scope for what sites are allowed to be accessed for personal surfing. Most AUP's are put in place to protect the company's employees, partners and the company itself from any illegal or damaging actions by individuals knowingly or unknowingly. Confidentiality, integrity and availability are the founding stables of insuring that information is secure. An acceptable use policy enforces confidentiality, integrity and availability by limiting access and disclosure to authorized users -- "the right people" -- and preventing access or disclosure to unauthorized ones -- "the wrong people.", as well as requiring employees to authenticate themselves in order to control access to data system resources and in turn hold employees responsible if violations occur under their user id. The company that I presently work for has an acceptable use policy it purposes is to highlight an outline the acceptable use of the computer equipment and systems that we are granted access to. It is always stated throughout all the acceptable use policies I have seen that...
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We're going to have to sidetrack from the dolls of the Yard Sale Tale,since the camera has gone AWOL. (Actually, it has gone with Ken and Emma to NOT be used at Ken's birthday present, a concert by Sting and Paul Simon.It will return late tonight.)To insure that I stick with my schedule of a doll every day, I'm resorting to something I already have pictures of: a doll I made myself.And here she is.
|Her head is wooden.She even has tiny thumbs.
|I don't know what's going on here. She's the right way up in my pictures, I swear.
She has a felt covered wire armature, so she is poseable.
|Her knees and elbows bend too, just not in this picture!
|Her shoes are painted on, but she has cotton socks.
|She even has matching undies. By the way, I made the chair too.
|Her sash ties in the back. She's wearing a lace slip.See, her knees do bend.
I sell these dolls under my business name, Tamsykens.(I wanted a name that sounded like something small. 'Tamsykens' is Ken's nick name for me, and it sounded small---maybe that's what Ken was thinking when he started calling me that. I'm only 5 feet tall.)
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Pattie Mori
Pattie Mori
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Elk Grove, CA 95758-7964
Born and raised in Napa, California
Music Education Major at California State University Sacramento
31 years in Real Estate
My goal is to establish a real estate relationship with my clients that will last a lifetime by providing them with professional service that exceeds their expectations. With the real estate knowledge I've gained over the last 31 years, I know the importance of gaining the trust of my clients. I have always felt that by "going the extra mile," my clients will get the results that they deserve, whether it be in the sale or purchase of their home.
When I am not working in Real Estate, I love to spend time with my family which include my two sons, Blake and Brandt.
My youngest son, Blake, attended Jesuit High School. He graduated from CSUS and has worked for the past nine years as a Farmers Insurance agent. My oldest son, Brandt, also attended Jesuit High School. He went on to undergrad work at UCLA, and then graduated with a law degree from USC. He is currently working as an attorney in San Francisco. Brandt is married, and lives in Napa with his wife and three beautiful daughters! Having grandchildren has been such a blessing.
I treasured 38 years of marriage to my husband, Greg, who sadly passed away in 2014. Greg had been a Farmers Insurance agent for almost 40 years in the Sacramento Area.
In addition, my hobbies include gardening, quilting, and playing the piano.
Designations include the following:
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After a long journey across country by train, when I got to Lincoln, I needed something to revive me!
Fortunately, my Young Man had already been researching the local hostelries, and led me to The Treaty of Commerce, close to the level crossing at the end of High Street.
I had forgotten that Lincoln was in the general area of the Bateman's brewery, but seeing the Bateman's name on the sign board of The Treaty of Commerce made me feel very happy. When I started to drink real ale back in Norwich, many years ago, the two breweries that I immediately took notice of were Bateman's and Adnams - and not just because one of them has a windmill as part of the brewery, and the other has its own lighthouse!
As the weekend wore on, we noticed lots of signs that this is a city with a good pub culture, and it's not only a stronghold of Batemans - there are Marstons pubs as well, and quite a few with CAMRA signs in their windows.
On the first evening of Steampunk Asylum, we had been told that people would be gathering at Widow Cullen's Well, which is also the meeting place of the local Steampunk society. This was when we found out just how steep Steep Hill really is! By the time we got to the doors of the pub, we were gasping - and definitely in need of a drink! Widow Cullen's Well is a Samuel Smith's pub, and the pints amazed us with their low prices. We tried the dark mild and the Imperial porter to start with, and followed it up with the (more expensive but still very reasonable) bottles of Oatmeal Stout and Chocolate Stout. The building itself is 14th century in origin, and there are exposed beams upstairs. We sat near a bay window which was obviously far later in date than the medieval tenements that had occupied the space originally, and looked across the narrow street outside - which had once been the Roman Via Principalis - the main road up to the Roman fort at the top of the hill. I reckon they wouldn't have been able to march more than four abreast - and there's no way any horse drawn carts could have made that climb, in any century.
The two main pubs that seemed to be used by the Steampunk community over the rest of the weekend were the Victoria at the western entrance to the castle, and the Lion and Snake by the Assembly Halls, both of which we spent time in. The food in the Lion and Snake was good pub grub, and the beer in both (the Lion and Snake is a Marstons pub) is excellent. The Victoria serves Batemans and several guest ales, and also does food. Both of them were good places to watch the world go by and marvel at the inventiveness of the costumes.
Those were the pubs we actually managed to visit, but there were others that we wished we had time to go into as well. The Magna Carta, on the square between the Castle and the Cathedral, for instance - another Marstons pub which was reputed to be one of the oldest in Lincoln (which means that the 14thC Widow Cullen's Well isn't one of the oldest in Lincoln!), and the Green Dragon, a stone building down near the river, which we saw from the windows of the taxi but never got close to.


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The website for blue it marketing has been relocated to http://www.blueitmarketing.host56.com as of today.
So anyone who is looking for Our company website can find it in the New Blue IT Marketing Website
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We apologize for any inconvenience that might have been caused by our main website going offline. and in the same spirit we would like to tell you that we will continue to do anything in our power to make sure that it never happen again.
The Future of Blue IT MarketingBlue IT Marketing will continue to provide Freelance Jobs and Freelance Solutions to South Africans as it used to do for the near future, however we are also going to introduce the following services in our Company in order to enable our freelancers and customers to be able to work with us easier and get more out of our company. and we are doing this simply because we can do it.
The services to be introduced are as follows:
Point Of Sale Systems
We are going to provide and install Point of Sale Systems in the South African Market in the near future. Our Point of sale systems will be based on Open Source Software only and therefore will be cheaper than most systems already on the market today. We will build the systems from scratch to make sure that they cheaper and affordable to our target market.
We will also allow our freelancers to sell this services to their customers all over South Africa and able to earn an income, by providing installations and backend support.
Fleet Management Systems
The systems will be installed to fleets all over South Africa for management purposes our fleet management system allows users to Track, Mobilize, Manage Fuel Consumption, Schedule Services and Maintenance of the Fleet. our systems are based on robust and trusted systems being used by Russia, France, India, Brazil and many more countries.
We will work with our freelancers to implement this systems nationwide.


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Tuesday, August 14, 2012
Turns out I'm also a mechanic
I have a funny story from yesterday what I want to share. Those of you who have never been to Uganda may have a harder time picturing it but I'm going to try. The back ground is this. For the past few days I've haven't been able to start my truck in the morning. The mechanic has been working on it and dropped it back off to me Monday night but Tuesday morning it wouldn't start again. Beckie and I needed to pick up some visitors in Jinja (a rough 4 hour drive away) and it didn't seem like a good thing to have the truck not starting. It took some time but is finally determined (thanks Dad!!!) that BOTH of the batteries were bad. So I got it running with a jump from team mates (Thanks Jim and Collin!!) and headed into to town with Steve and Tanya's oldest boy (to sit in the truck while I leave it running until I find the shop that has the batteries that I needed) and we finally managed to find someone who had. So I turned the truck off in front of the shop and ordered two batteries. Here they have to add acid to the dry cells after you buy them and you have to wait while they outgas or whatever before you can use it. The guys asked me if I wanted them to call a mechanic to install. I said sure. But Bec and I needed to get on the road. So while I waited for the mechanic and the new batteries I started to disconnect the old ones. Still no mechanic. So I unattached them from their cradles and completely removed them. Still no mechanic. But the batteries were ready. So started to install the new ones. Now here is what you need to picture. I'm a white woman (in case you didn't know) and women here, especially white ones, don't do mechanical work. Ever. I was right on one of the main streets of town, middle of the day. Wrenches, pliers, greasy hands, whole nine yards. Lets just say I had a few people stop to tell me what to do, offer help, ask me what I'm doing, tell me they know someone who can do it, etc… But I ended up just needing to ignore most of them and telling the rest of them to leave me alone. The mechanic arrived shortly after I learned that battery #2's poles were opposite the way the original battery was (positive on the right and negative on the left) so the positive attachment was a bit short so while he ran for bolts to attach the extension I wrapped the wires he brought in electrical tape and we eventually got it attached. And now it starts every time I turn the key! Amazing. But it turns out that my alternator may be bad and I may be looking at replacing it. I really hope not and I need a mechanic to confirm but I'm having trouble connecting with said mechanic. And I think I may chance it and see how long I can push it before I get stuck somewhere that I can't get a jump and get really mad at myself for not fixing it before I got in trouble.
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I have converted the first level pages linked from the new top navigation bar. These include links to the following pages:
- History – with some historical information about the county
- Search – links to the new Google Custom Search
- Lookups – links to the lookup page. I plan on revamping this later, but for now the old content is in the new template
- Resources – miscellaneous links and includes a bibliography of published resources.
- Queries – links to post queries and browse previously submitted queries
- Gen. Society – link to Blount County Historical & Genealogical Society
- What's New – link to this blog
Next, I plan to start working on the pages that are going to be linked from the drop down menu. My goal is to get all the first level pages converted, then go back to the second level pages.


text: The city's 6th murder of the year took place at 1764 Weston Rd. this morning around 8am. The two men and a woman were attacked in a brazen early morning shooting. One of the men was rushed to St. Michael's Hospital, but succumbed to his injuries Sunday afternoon. Another victim drove to the Humber River Regional Hospital in a black BMW, which police seized for evidence. Police have ruled out any connection to the earlier shooting at Tandridge Cres.


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I lost the Princess this morning. When I returned home from work yesterday, she was laying near the food and water dishes, with no ability to move her hindquarters. She tried though and you could just see how much it cost her to do so. And no amount of coaxing would get her to eat.
I sat and held her, told her I loved her and that it was all right to go. Then i told her that I would see her at the Rainbow Bridge, where she would join all my other babies that have gone before her.
She was feisty and sometimes grumpy but she was my Princess and I will miss her greatly.
Charles will be an only for a while and we'll see how he adjusts to that.
Hug your babies-Princess was fine when I went to work yesterday and today, she's gone!


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A few years ago, I began to write up some family stories. This began when my adopted children asked about their past, where they were from. Additionally, several friends suggested that I write up stories that I had told orally. I decided to start with the overlap between the history of my biological family and the part of the world where my children were from.
I came to realize how much I enjoyed retelling the stories of my family, including some about relatives I had never met. Some of the stories seem heroic to me. Others are more ordinary. These people are the ghosts of my title. A few of these stories are also the core of a novel I am writing, tentatively called Living with Ghosts, about relatives in Poland.
As I begin this blog, however, I realize there are far more ghosts that surround me, and may share their stories as well. These include the ghosts of my American relatives. I grew up in a family where both my parents and two uncles had worked on the Manhattan Project, certainly the fodder for interesting stories. I was fortunate to hear these stories from my mother, a masterful storyteller. She also told many other stories, both about her experiences and family.
As a young person, I was also fortunate to travel, and have continued to enjoy travel to out to the way locations, leading to more stories. I then chose professionally to become a neurosurgeon, and to specialize in treating malignant tumors and neurotrauma. Thus I have had to live with the ghosts of patients and have heard many more interesting stories, and seen much heartbreak. Clearly the details of these are confidential, but often their stories have taught me much about the human condition. I feel that this experience has helped with my writing.
Thus, this blog is to be a collection of stories of a life spent among ghosts, as well as with the living. It also looks at lessons we can learn from those who have gone before.


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Prior to the Entrepreneurship class with Professor Newman, I found myself guilty (among with many others I've met) of taking shortcuts when it comes to Market Sizing. What I used to do is pull up a resource (like IBISWorld), or Google for an infographic that looks like the one above, and once I get the number on the revenue of the industry then I found my market size. Plain and simple.
If you don't have anything else, having this means you're already ahead of the pack. But why then would we need a better way? Here are three reasons why:
- The number in the infographic represents what has historically been made, not the potential of what can be earned in the future.
- More often we also find projected growth rates, but still this information does not give us insights on whether the market is over or under-served.
- The revenue of the existing players does not necessarily imply there's room for new entrants to take a piece of that pie.
So if this information doesn't cut it, what else should we do?


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Sit down, take your shoes off and listen to this video track from giveupweed.com to help you get over that uneasiness or that craving to have a smoke session. This is the first time I'm sharing a video on this blog and also anything on meditation techniques. I hope it helps you to relax and meditate in order to suppress that craving you are bound face when you quit smoking weed.
If you can do this every time you get the craving to smoke weed, it will help you to get away from that desire deep within.
This is a basic method of relaxation used to supress negative thoughts in the mind and inner brain activity. It may be anger, a craving to have a sweet or smoking, or even a thought to go slap someone right across the face with a chair, twice.
If you get you use this meditation technique for 3-5 mins you can come over it. Guaranteed.
The first few times you might want to listen to the track, until you get the hang of it. After sometime you will get used to it and would be able to just walk to a corner touch a tree or some organic thing, even grass or the soil and do the meditation. When you excel at it, you can look at a wall and do it.
Your mind is where your addiction is. Especially a habitual addiction like smoking weed. If you attack your thought with this method you can easily work your way through it. Good luck..
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Mass Effect: Andromeda Will Not Have A Season Pass
DLC details to be revealed at a later date.
Development studio BioWare has been on fire lately when it comes to their upcoming video game release, Mass Effect: Andromeda. The video game title is easily one of the most anticipated releases for this year and now that we're inching closer to the official launch date, we're getting new details surrounding the title and its release.
The latest bit of news came from BioWare's general manager Aaryn Flynn who took to Twitter and responded to a fan question. Connor M reached out to the Mass Effect development team in order to ask if gamers can expect a season pass for the upcoming Mass Effect: Andromeda. Aaryn Flynn responded simply with "nope".
@coldboy33 @masseffect Nope
— Aaryn Flynn (@AarynFlynn) January 7, 2017
When further pressed on DLC information, Aaryn Flynn revealed that more details regarding DLC for Mass Effect: Andromeda will be unveiled at a later date. We don't know what this means as developers have often used DLC and microtransactions as a means to not only further add content into their video game, but also gain additional funds from their work.
Being that there is no season pass when it comes to future expansions in Mass Effect: Andromeda may reveal that the DLC could potential be free, similar to Titanfall 2. However, since DLC will be announced at a future date, we'll have to wait and see just what the development team plans on doing.
In other news related to Mass Effect: Andromeda, we've learned that the game will support HDR on Xbox One, PS4, and PC. Likewise, the game was recently announced to be going through a polishing stage when it came to further enhancing the animations after fan feedback showed concern over the lack of facial emotional depth in the lead protagonist character.


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These titles are just getting better aren't they! Yesterday I made these fabulous bird envelopes - I am really pleased with them. Unfortunately the book I got them from was really damaged otherwise I would have kept it as it had some great info in it.
Be back tomorrow!
Saturday, 23 January 2010
Day 16 of crafting 365
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- Bliss Knits said...
I love the idea of 'crafting 365' Lynsey. And you've been so prolific already! I'm afraid I'd probably give up by mid-February (like I used to do when writing a diary!!)
I love reading your blog and have award you the Sunshine Award - check out my blog to find out more:
- 23 January 2010 at 21:19
- Renee said...
These are beautiful!
- 24 January 2010 at 17:27
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How do I define Relief? Can I call it as the state of euphoria, when a person gets what he wants? Relief here is happiness. Or is it the peace of mind that he gets by doing something he wants or getting away from something he doesn't want? Here relief is alleviation.
Well, Relief is relative, and it could be short or long term.
For a student, securing the maximum in a paper is excitement, for a sportsman, winning a gold is elation, for a mother, seeing her kid back home is joy. Meaning happiness, excitement and joy are all kinds of relief.
For a commuter in a crowed train or bus, alighting safely and breathing fresh air is alleviation, and for a kid, getting its favorite toy is reassuring. I can go on adding illustrations for relief and for a blog writer this is gratification.
Speaking of gratification, I remember a story from the Tales of Thennalirama, where, once the King K.D Raya called on his ministry and asked them what is the most satisfying thing in this world. Many of his courtiers replied as "having all the wealth in the world", "eating the best cuisine", "owning the biggest palace", and then came our hero T.Rama, and he proudly told the king, that "Answering nature's call is the most satisfying thing", the entire court flared into laughter.
Embarrassed with this, Rama decides to educate the king. The next day, early morning, he made the Royal loo indicate a busy signal (Hm.. Sad the Palace had only one). The king and the queen frantically took turns in separate iterations to check for availability, and the indication showed "BUSY". After making them run for a while, Rama decided to free the room, the king felt so relieved that he called for Rama immediately, affirmed his thoughts and apologized.
Well this is a story, and if you are tired reading this article and happy it ends here, that's the best Sigh Of Relief...
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I would like to dispense with the double wrap shawl by now but Spring, if it is that, is still pretty brutal in my neck of the woods? Et vous? I made the effort to put a skirt on for 11's with a girlfriend I hadn't seen in several months with the trusty Sergio Rossi knee boots and camel unlined Max Mara coat. Continue reading
Tag Archives: Sergio Rossi
Black and Camel (Hair)
On the coldest day of Winter so far, I have the perfect answer – a vintage Camel hair long coat also here. Continue reading
Winter: Skirt and Boots
Finally into my favourite Winter combination of warm skirt and knee boots. These knee boots took a while to find from this post by Sergio Rossi (I seem to have most luck with this brand in boots). They're the plainest pair I could find. Continue reading
Cashmeres to Silk and Bouclé
Here from … Continue reading
Floral Part 2
I got to wear the Oasis floral pencil skirt again with the Sergio Rossi heels for a dinner out. Continue reading
Floral Valentine
Linking to Patti's Not Dead Yet Style blog for Visible Monday #149
I thought for sure my luck finally ran out for finding High Street treasures when I spotted this floral skirt at Oasis a few months ago and HAD. TO. HAVE. IT.
Red and Navy
I love a few colours but never knew how to wear them when I was young. Among them a colour I loved but was actually afraid to wear even if I knew how to and that was red: powerful, provocative, signifying life and all things lively to me. Continue reading


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I am in the process of readjusting my mode of thinking, and I will admit it has been a challenge. But once again, God had a different plan for us and a baby is a blessing regardless of gender.
Everyone keeps playfully telling me it's better to have a boy first so that he can protect his baby sister once she comes along. (I do like the idea of having a big brother keeping a little princess safe.) Plus, I also like knowing I will always have a small advocate who will love me just a little more than his father. :-) So here I am...changing gears...changing mindsets...and nursery colors!...and going from thoughts of ear piercings to reading about circumcisions. And what was once my biggest fear of being overruled in a house full of testosterone has come to pass. But Joe and Joe Jr. beware: I'm a tough gal and I will manage just fine!
I was touched to find a small gift waiting for me at my desk this morning from my coworker Jack and his wife Jancey. Jack and Jancey have two beautiful kids: a boy and girl. They left me a very sweet note along with this adorable gift inside... Joe will be so excited! We are already honing Baby boy G's athleticism (with a very fashionable ensemble). Who says I can't have the best of both worlds?! (Just don't expect me to turn into a football/soccer/baseball mom.) :-)
Until my next post... thanks for reading!
|Already a fashionable athlete! Thanks Jack and Jancey!


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|1) Andy sometimes comics. (to read)
|2) We never TV in the morning. (to watch)
|3) Listen! Sandy in the bathroom. (to sing)
|4) My sister usually in the kitchen. (to help)
|5) My mother breakfast now. (to make)
|6) They often the bathroom. (to clean)
|7) Look! The boys home. (to come)
|8) Every day his grandfather for a walk. (to go)
|9) I with my friend at the moment. (to chat)
|10) Cats mice. (to eat)
Fonte: http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises/tenses/simple_present_progressive2.htm
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The old railroads above New York City were refurbished into 15 feet high gardens. Cool and surprisingly relaxing to walk through!
DBpedia is a community effort to extract structured information from Wikipedia and to make this information available on the Web. DBpedia allows you to ask sophisticated queries against Wikipedia, and to link other data sets on the Web to Wikipedia data. We hope this will make it easier for the amazing amount of information in Wikipedia to be used in new and interesting ways, and that it might inspire new mechanisms for navigating, linking and improving the encyclopaedia itself.
One thing was missing though: Stencils. Omnigraffle has stencils coming out of its ears, and Fireworks has some excellent built-in ones. But Google Drawings in its current early and simple form simply doesn't have it. So I made one.


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Asus Zenfone 4 On the Way with New Models: All You Need to Know
The Asus Zenfone 3 Zoom just is on a discount, but it appears that it might be the last model in the Zenfone 3 lineup.
Recently, insights about the upcoming Zenfone 4 have begun to break, and now Asus has given some more points of interest through the company's quarterly income report.
It appears as if at least one model (the Zenfone 4 Max) will have a double camera on the back.
The Zenfone 4 Max is portrayed as a phone that offers "luxury for everyone," recommending it'll be a phone with some superior specs, but a reasonable cost.
Then, the Zenfone 4 is a piece of the "premium luxury" lineup, recommending it'll be the flagship from Asus, and the Zenfone 4s is depicted as an "ultimate luxury" gadget, which fundamentally implies it'll be more costly, but has some top highlights.
However, detailed specifications of these devices haven't been declared yet. Existing "ultimate luxury" gadgets include year ago's Zenfone 3 Deluxe with a Snapdragon 821 processor, 6GB of RAM, and up to 256GB of expandable storage employing a microSD card, and the forthcoming Asus Zenfone ARwith 8GB of RAM, a 3-camera framework, and support for Google's Daydream VR and Tango 3D.
The new devices, aiming at different and specific market trends, seem to be a well-organized move on the part of Asus, like it has done in the past - not targeting its new models for the high-end market, but also letting the users with a small budget taste its flavor.
So there's motivation to anticipate that the Zenfone 4s will be a top of the line gadget with some stand-out elements.
With these devices Asus seems to top its game in the smartphone industry and it will aim to grab a significant market share when these devices are actually out. All of this is quite hopeful since Asus already has a prominent place in the smartphone industry.
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Thanks for the agreement and your story. Kind of getting reamed for my beliefs!
You are welcome. My belief is slightly different from yours, but the main point is still the same. I believe that sexual attraction is on a spectrum, with one side being 100% attracted to same sex, and the other being 100% attracted to opposite sex. People will fit into any point on the spectrum. Those in the middle are more likely to change their attraction based upon experience. Those on the ends cannot change their attraction, even if they want to. those in the middle also account for those claiming to be bisexual, or claiming that they are attracted to both sexes. Just my personal theory, but it does explain much of the data about same sex behavior.


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But two weeks from opening night, I feel different. I obsess over every scene, every line, every blocking movement, every mannerism, every projection point in the dialogue… Opening night is near, run-throughs are going on and the pressure is on. I really felt the pressure at last week's run-through (May 26th) and could not figure out the main trigger. Of course, the approaching show-date is an obvious one. And then it hit me – the bar is raised.
Before Naatak, my reference point were non-actors – folks who are highly skilled in a lot of different fields where they could put me to shame - but not necessarily always in the field of acting.
After Naatak, my reference point is the other actors – of course, we are one team, everybody is cooperative and helpful. But come on, comparison is only human. Its not like I want to "beat them", I try to be like them, I yearn to be like them, I aim to be like them. And when I see how far I have to go, I realize that my acting sucks.
So what's the positive here? Well, I am also INSPIRED to be like them, I am ENCOURAGED to be like them and am also ENABLED to be like them. They observe, they give constructive feedback, they help me improve and most importantly, they spend the time to help me out.
So now I've established a new reference point – myself Pre Naatak. With all the help I've received from the Naatak actors, I will be able to act better than Manisha – Pre Naatak and "beat her". Now, that will feel great.


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Oil falls after strong US drilling data
London — Oil prices fell more than 1% on Monday as investors made record cuts to bets on rising prices after strong drilling data from the US fed the concern about the effectiveness of Opec-led production cuts to curb a supply glut.
Benchmark Brent crude futures were down 60c at $51.16 a barrel at 9.34am GMT. US West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures were trading 71c lower at $48.07 a barrel.
"Speculative investors have thrown in the towel it seems. We've got record selling in the week ending March 14 and the bleeding has not stopped yet," said Carsten Fritsch, senior commodities analyst at Commerzbank in Frankfurt. "The continued increase in US oil rigs adds to the bearish sentiment."
US drillers added 14 oil rigs in the week to March 17, bringing the total count up to 631, the most since September 2015, energy services firm Baker Hughes Inc said on Friday. This extends a recovery that is expected to boost shale production by the most in six months in April.
Growing US production is playing into concerns that a global production cut deal by oil cartel Opec and non-Opec members is having less of an impact.
The prospect of higher output from Libya, which is exempt from the output cut deal, is adding further bearish sentiment.
Libya's National Oil Corporation (NOC) said it was confident of regaining control of two key oil ports, Es Sider and Ras Lanuf, which have a combined capacity to export 600,000 barrels a day.
Reacting to the oil glut, financial oil traders cut their net long US crude futures and options positions in the week to March 14, the third consecutive reduction, the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) said on Friday.
The reduction in net long positions was the largest on record, according to CFTC data compiled by Reuters.
"Hedge selling from producers and long-liquidation from funds is a bearish cocktail," said Ole Hansen, Saxo Bank's head of commodity strategy.