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1 bedroom retirement property for saleQuarry Court, Station Avenue, Fishponds, Bristol, BS16
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This is an opportunity to see the excellent facilities over an informal chat, booking by appointment is best to avoid disappointment.
Extra Care is about creating a safe and secure environment, making life easier, so you can be as independent as you like.
Quarry Court offers 17 beautiful apartments, most with balcony or patio outside space, and all with the peace of mind of having support and care on hand for you.
With our camera entry system, emergency-call bells and on hand Manager, security is taken care of.
And our support and care packages are always totally flexible, so you only pay for what you actually use. Perhaps help with chores such as housework or laundry, home delivery food shopping or having meals from our restaurant or bistro for those times you don't feel like cooking for yourself?
Care from Qualified Nurses and dedicated Care staff, if required, will be tailored to meet your individual needs. Ad Hoc Care can also be called at any time as needed, from the great caring Team in the adjacent Quarry House.
Your beautiful, brand-new Apartment includes:
" Quality carpets in your choice of colour, fitted ready for you to move in
" Fitted kitchen with thoughtful features such as a specialist NEFF Oven
" Use of the Roof patio garden
" Jack and Jill bathroom with wet-room shower
" Video entrance and 24 hour emergency call bell
" Use of the Leisure Suite - including gym, Jacuzzi and spa pool
" Restaurant with terrace
" Parking spaces - first come basis
" Hairdressing salon
" Homeowners' Lounge for socialising
" Dedicated Manager on site 9-5 daily
Extra Care Living
Extra Care Living is all about making life easier. A beautiful, brand new apartment to retain independence and give you peace and quiet when you want it, and luxury Communal areas for socialising too. Our Manager to arrange shopping and visits, and on-site care team are there to help you too.
Our great value restaurant offering meals which can be taken in your apartment or in the restaurant as you prefer.
Our Apartments are wheelchair-friendly, and for mobility scooter owners we have areas on each floor to charge them.
For security, we have call points in each apartment as well as around the building, and a camera entry system so you can see who is calling before letting them in. We also have round the clock alarm systems, 365 days a year, and call bell pendants for added security.
Our flexible personal care packages offer help with, for example:
" Dressing and undressing
" Washing, bathing and grooming
" Help with mobility
" Rehabilitation and exercise
" Getting up and going to bed
" Laundry requirements - returning clothes washed, dried and ironed for you
" Cleaning and tidying
" Maintenance of your apartment
We aim to provide total reassurance and peace of mind, to enable you to enjoy your Extra Care Apartment and independent living.
The Local Area
The vibrant town of Fishponds has excellent transport links to Bristol, Kingswood and Staple Hill. There are plenty of shops and cafes within walking distance nearby, and the Eastgate Centre with a large Tescos is 10 minutes away by car. Bristol City Centre is easily accessible by bus or car, and the M32 is 10 minutes away with links to the M4 and M5. Doctors' surgeries and dentists are all nearby, and there are many parks in the area to relax, such as Snuff Mills or Page Park.
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City Lens gives you an entirely new way to reveal what's around you using your Lumia phone's camera display. Simply hold up your phone as though taking a photo, and City Lens overlays the best shops, restaurants, and points of interest right on your display. Tap a place icon to call ahead or get more information such as hours, reviews, and directions. You can even save a place for later or share it with friends.
Tilt your phone and City Lens brings up additional view options like list. No more wandering around for a café. No more looking for street signs. With City Lens, you see what's around you from your point of view, so finding something great has never felt more natural.
The beta version can be downloaded through the Windows Phone Store via Nokia Beta Labs, the easiest way to do this is by using Bing Vision to scan the QR code on this page. The new beta version is for Windows Phone 7.5 only, a Windows Phone 8 version will no doubt follow in due course.

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text: All ten cases of PD James' Adam Dalgliesh Chronicles starring Roy Marsden in the title role collected and uncut. Dalgliesh, who holds the high position of Commander in the Metropolitan Police Service at New Scotland Yard in London, is an intensely cerebral and private person. He writes poetry, a fact which his colleagues are fond of reminding him. Several volumes of his poetry have been published. Dalgliesh lives in a flat above the Thames at Queenhithe in the City of London and drives a Jaguar. He's singular and even perhaps quirky in his methodology but seldom does he fail to get his man - a modern day Sherlock Holmes, one might say. The first ten of PD James' thirteen novels about the atypical detective were adapted for TV miniseries' by Anglia TV with Marsden as Dalgliesh; 'Cover Her Face' (1985), 'A Mind To Murder'(1995), 'Unnatural Causes' (1993), 'Shroud For A Nightingale' (1984), 'The Black Tower' (1985), 'A Certain Justice' (1998), 'Death of an Expert Witness' (1983), 'A Taste For Death' (1988), 'Devices and Desires' (1991), and 'Original Sin' (1997)


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Have a look at the Pantheon shot in Paris in fall 2009 with my lovely Diana-mini.
The Panthéon is dedicated by "A Grateful Nation" as the resting place for 'The Great Men' of France, 'men' here being in the sense of 'people', for among them and surely one of the greatest is Marie Curie who is entombed under the name Marie Curie-Sklodowska, the latter being her Polish maiden name.
Along with her you will find an assortment of well-known names such as Victor Hugo, Émile Zola and Louis Braille, as well as lesser-known names outside France, such as Jean Moulin, a wartime hero of the Resistance. These notables rest in the crypt.
The Panthéon is designed in a Greek-cross plan, 110-meters long and 85-meters wide, with a massive portico of Corinthian columns, modeled on the Pantheon in Rome, surmounted by a small dome that reaches a height of 83-meters. The dome features three superimposed shells, similar to the St. Paul's Cathedral in London.


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Not only is the market rally on, but trigger-happy bankers and private equity wheeler-dealers are about to send it even higher.
The reason is simple: There are trillions of dollars of cash just sitting on the sidelines looking for a deal.
That means deal action-of all kinds-is about to get white hot.
In fact, the combination of positive capital flows and the pursuit of greater economies of scale has us at the beginnings of a multi-year deal-driven bull market.
Here's where we are, where we're going, and why deal making will propel stocks higher from here.
A Tidal Wave of Capital
First of all, it doesn't matter that we're approaching all-time highs, or, when we get there, if the market backtracks and we get a correction.
It would actually be healthy to have some price consolidation at lower levels– especially after such a steep run-up.
But, that may not happen because the capital waves just keep rolling in.
According to Thomson Reuters' Lipper service, stock mutual funds and ETFs raked in $34.2 billion in the first month of 2013. That January total is the best four-week stretch since 1996, says Lipper analyst Matthew Lemieux.
New York City-based Deloitte Center for Financial Services, in its 2013 Private Equity Fund Outlook, reports assets under management in 2012 rose to a record $3 trillion, consisting of $1 trillion in uncalled commitments (investible capital) and $2 trillion in the market value of portfolio companies.
But, it's not just money coming into the market and money idling at deal-hungry investment shops that's going to stimulate mergers, acquisitions, spin-offs, and public offerings.
Corporations are also sitting with trillions of dollars of cash on their balance sheets.
In a Money Morning article entitled "The Great Rotation Makes Stocks a Generational Buy" I point out that, "American nonfinancial corporations are said to be sitting on almost $2 trillion of cash and liquid instruments.
But not even the Federal Reserve, which collects such data, really knows.
According to the IRS, which tracks worldwide holdings of U.S. corporations, Fed data underestimates the true amount of corporate cash, which the IRS suggests is three times what the Fed reports.
And it's not just U.S. corporations which are sitting on huge piles of cash. Last November Canada's finance minister, Jim Flaherty, criticized Canadian companies for hoarding some $526 billion in cash and not putting it to work.
According to ISI Group, Japan's "corporate liquid assets" are $2.8 trillion.
Companies around the world are flush with cash, not just as a defensive reaction to economic uncertainty, but as the result of decade-long trends.
Technological advances, productivity gains, reduced inventories, better supply-chain management and just-in-time manufacturing and production schedules have all worked to boost corporate cash.
Dry Powder for an Explosive Move Higher
As economic uncertainty gives way, first to macro-event distress fatigue, then acceptance that we are in the midst of a New Normal, idle cash will initially slip into first gear and without a lot of warning or fanfare rev-up and propel global markets to greater and higher heights.
We're seeing a not-so-subtle shift in market sentiment already.
Last Wednesday U.S. GDP turned negative in the fourth quarter and the markets took it pretty much in stride. The plus-side of the downward turn in gross domestic product was that it came from a sharp contraction in government spending, not from consumer and corporate retrenchment.
On Friday, the U.S. headline unemployment figure ticked up from 7.8% unemployed to 7.9%. And again, just as the market digested the disappointing GDP number, investors chose to look beneath the headline figure and embraced positive underlying data points.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average finished up 150, just 154 points, or 1.09%, below its all-time high.
Loaded for good times, corporations are now staring down targets that are productive, profitable and provide accretive earnings to core operations and expand economies of scale. For corporations, there's no faster way to add earnings and grow operations than by acquiring assets that can instantly propel companies toward management's objectives.
And once that happens in any industry, there's an overwhelming likelihood, call it corporate necessity, that competitors will step up to meet growing challenges by growing themselves, and doing so quickly.
Deal making is going to create a lengthy chain of self-perpetuating deals whose cascading effect will drive equity prices and global markets higher.
It's already started.
The last three months of 2012 saw the highest three-month deal totals and highest deal spending in the past two years, with the year ending on a high note.
According to FactSet Research Systems, Inc., "U.S. M&A activity went up in December, increasing by 20.2% with 918 announcements compared to 764 in November, the second largest increase in 2012."
In its M&A Spotlight: 2012 Review, FactSet points out:
"Five of the most active months for strategic deals with public buyers came after June. Highlighting these deals is Softbank Corp buying a stake in Sprint Nextel Corp for $12.0 billion in cash, and IntercontinentalExchange, Inc.'s recently announced deal to acquire NYSE Euronext for $8.0 billion in cash and stock. Public companies going private via private equity buyers showed the most significant relative gains to close out 2012. In the 2nd half, there was more than a 50% increase in deal activity and almost twice as much spent on deals."
The table has now been set and companies, investment bankers and private equity deal dogs are on their way to the party. There are no industries that won't be looking at deals in 2013.
With the power of deals to lift equity markets, it's not a matter of when will we break above the old 2007 market highs, but how high they will go.
[Editor's Note: The dealmakers themselves stand to do even better. In one recent deal, for example, they outgained the market nearly 40 to 1. And now – for the first time – you have an opportunity to "get in" on the best of these upcoming deals. Take a look. This is the first time Shah's ever done this.]
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The Death of Santini
The Story of A Father and His SoneBook - 2013
Pat Conroy's father, Donald Patrick Conroy, was a towering figure in his son's life. The Marine Corps fighter pilot was often brutal, cruel, and violent; as Pat says, "I hated my father long before I knew there was an English word for 'hate.'" As the oldest of seven children who were dragged from military base to military base across the South, Pat bore witness to the toll his father's behavior took on his siblings, and especially on his mother, Peg. She was Pat's lifeline to a better world--that of books and culture. But eventually, despite repeated confrontations with his father, Pat managed to claw his way toward a life he could have only imagined as a child.
Pat's great success as a writer has always been intimately linked with the exploration of his family history. While the publication of The Great Santini brought Pat much acclaim, the rift it caused with his father brought even more attention. Their long-simmering conflict burst into the open, fracturing an already battered family. But as Pat tenderly chronicles here, even the oldest of wounds can heal. In the final years of Don Conroy's life, he and his son reached a rapprochement of sorts. Quite unexpectedly, the Santini who had freely doled out physical abuse to his wife and children refocused his ire on those who had turned on Pat over the years. He defended his son's honor.
The Death of Santini is at once a heart-wrenching account of personal and family struggle and a poignant lesson in how the ties of blood can both strangle and offer succor. It is an act of reckoning, an exorcism of demons, but one whose ultimate conclusion is that love can soften even the meanest of men, lending significance to one of the most-often quoted lines from Pat's bestselling novel The Prince of Tides : "In families there are no crimes beyond forgiveness."
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Worse than my two Pat Conroy favorites (The Great Santini, Prince of Tides), and nowI know a littleton much about this writer and his family, but for the most part I still found it to be a fascinating read. The first half is more fascinating than the last, which feels overly lengthy and like a bit of retreading the same ground, but all in all this is an enjoyable read which kept me turning the pages. It's created in me a desire to go back and reread Prince of Tides as his novels are generally an improvement upon his memoirs.
If you've enjoyed Pat Conroy's books, this is a must read. Written in his beautiful prose style, you can see how his life progresses in relation to which novels he puts out and their impact on him. I loved reading the personal stories in his autobiography that I had read as a part of his fiction novels and thinking, "Ahhhh that's what happened!"
Feb 3, 2014, I've had this book on my waiting list forever, and renewed it twice, so I decided, now is the time for it. Starts off in Pat Conroy's great style, I know I'm goiing to enjoy it. Hope to find an audiobook to listen and read along to. Just checked, no audiobook yet. Darn it!......Feb 15, 2014, I'm on page 250, and although I have basically enjoyed this book, (which so far is about just about everyone in his family EXCEPT for his father!) I have found the last chapter, and the one I have just started, (about his sister Carol Ann,) a bit painful, to the point that I am procrastinating. A while ago, I commented (I believe while reading "The Great Santini") that I liked Pat Conroy's non-fiction better than his fiction. I take that back. "South of Broad" is my fav, by far!.....Feb 20, 2014..I have just finished this, and I must say it picked up a bit in the end, but all in all, I feel I know a little bit too much about Pat Conroy's family right now. I will look forward to his next novel, and I now understand his "San Francisco" part of "South of Broad," which has made reading this book worthwhile....he sure knows how to bare his soul. His lifestyle is sure a lot different than mine. If my parents had gone through the same illnesses, I know I (and my siblings,) would not have participated in the "death watches" quite as faithfully or as well organized. We sure don't throw such grand parties either. Mind you, they do and did have a bit of celebrity status, that might be the difference!
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It Costs to be Cultured
A vast amount of discussions occur debating why the working class don't attend museums, galleries and theatre's. Known for being a Mecca of middle class culture, these social spaces prove to be intimidating for those academically considered 'less cultured' than their wealthier counterparts. This piece focuses on the gallery as a recent trip to Robiland + Voena allowed me to empathise with those articles discussing the former of which I once decried.
Prior to making the trip to Dover Street, I developed a great enthusiasm to attend Anh Duong's first UK exhibition following much persuasion from Laura Bailey's article in Vogue. Pressing the buzzer to enter the space, my palms began to grow sweaty but I didn't have much time to contemplate that as I had to quickly shove my umbrella in my rucksack before getting the carpet wet. Something happened in-between leaving Green Park and walking up those steps. A sudden sense of displacement and a heightened sense of self-awareness beckoned through the space between the other side of the door and standing on the top of the steps.
A grand staircase lead me into the intimate space where breathing too loudly would have constituted as too much noise. Loud clacking heels could only be resolved by tip-toeing across the space but being asked 'Are you familiar with Anh's work' sent my mind off into crisis mode. My instant reaction was yes because through the pages of Vogue I discovered who she was but to recite previous works would be a stretch too far. Of course to say no would be to be deemed uncultured by a man whose face was attempting to read judgment on my existence. Paranoia? Perhaps, but following Monday's discussion about social space with China, I drew parrellels with Archie's experience of Chinese people being shy and I not wanting to talk to anybody at an exhibition. Eventually the anonymous man whom happened to be the invigilator allowed me to experience the portraits without his presence looming behind me. Writing notes for my blog and standing close to witness the details, the sudden urge to pull out my phone for an Instagram picture began to take over me. I blame the fact that I'm part of the social media generation for such impulses but with the invigilator hovering around along with a surveillance camera pointing in my direction that itch quickly stopped.
Not wanting to stay too long (Fashion Galore! At Somerset House called) but not wanting to look too uncultured, I quickly decided to purchase the book accompanying the show. Knowing that it was unavailable from Amazon or from the website, I was about to experience another long-time tradition the internet has stopped, purchasing books from the book shop. But no cash, no book. So off to the cash point I went with the invigilator expecting me not to return I drew out enough money for the Blow exhibition and Anh Duong's catalogue which according to the website cost £15.00. One more trip up those steps, pressing the buzzer with clear palms this time, 'that will be £25.00 please'. Over-charged without making an argument, it costs to be bloody cultured!


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The JW Marriott Indianapolis hotel changes the face of Indianapolis conventions, offering meeting planners one of the best overall convention hotels in the country. With over 103,000 square feet of meeting space, including the beautiful 40,500-square-foot JW Grand Ballroom, our hotel near Indianapolis convention center is the ideal space for your next Indianapolis seminar or meeting.
Together with the other four Marriott hotels, Marriott Place Indianapolis offers a total of 145,000 square feet of Indianapolis meeting space in addition to event planning services. Plus, groups conveniently have skybridge-connected access to 749,000 square feet of meeting and event space at the Indiana Convention Center, including the Convention Center's 11 exhibition halls totaling 567,000 square feet of contiguous exhibit space for compelling seminars and meetings. Our hotel near Indianapolis's convention center makes luxury even more convenient.
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Pax Jolie-Pitt does not look like a happy camper in this picture. Maybe because he just found out his parents, Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt, are spending $17,500 a month on their new home in Hungary instead of blowing it on toys for him and his five brothers and sisters?
The couple is said to have settled in a 11,200-square-foot house in the Szépvölgy neighborhood of the Buda Hills. But by the looks of Pax's picture, at least the family is prepared for the cold Eastern European winters.
The 6-year-old Pax was spotted out in the family's new hometown of Budapest in a classic peacoat made by Appaman ($91.90), an American company with Norwegian roots.
Made of 60 percent wool, 40 percent viscose shell (with a 100 percent polyester quilted lining for extra comfort), the coat is heavy enough for treks to Lycée Français Gustave Eiffel Budapest, the four eldest Jolie-Pitt kids' school in Budapest.
That's enough to make any mom happy. But a closer look at the coat shows what makes most kids bananas about the Appaman clothing line:
See that patch on the shoulder? That's the Appaman logo, a cute monkey who gave the company its name. Owner Harald Husum had a corduroy ape toy as a boy, which gave his company a mascot. And Pax has got something in common with the clothing designer and salesman: with his own little toy monkey in hands, the second oldest of the Jolie-Pitt clan is obviously a bit of a fan.
There is one downside if your kids are particularly monkey-like. This coat is dry clean only. So you'll need a back-up to keep their backside warm while it's at the cleaners. How about one of these coats?
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Summer Internship
The Graduate Program in Genetic Counseling is proud to offer a Summer Internship in Genetic Counseling. This unique internship combines lectures, field trips, discussion, and patient experiences to provide the interns a broader view of the genetic counseling profession and preparation for graduate school. We accept approximately 15 students for a one week internship.
Below are some examples of topics covered during the internship:
- What it's like to be a genetic counseling graduate student
- First hand experiences of genetic counselors
- Thesis development
- Ethical and cultural issues
- Patient experiences
- Disabilities and illness
- Alternative careers for genetic counselors
- Public health and current issues in genetic counseling
- Preparing your application to graduate school and next steps
In addition, the students will tour facilities for individuals with disabilities or chronic illness. Chicago-area genetic counselors serve as faculty, giving you exposure to professionals with a range of experience from across the country who work in varied specialties.
Due to the large number of applications we receive, we will only be accepting applications of individuals who have completed their sophomore year of college by the time the internship is held and who have a cumulative GPA of 3.0 or higher. The primary goal of the internship is to provide an opportunity for individuals to become more familiar with the profession; therefore, we will prioritize individuals who are located in an area that may have limited opportunities to shadow or interact with a genetic counselor. Please be aware that if you are not accepted into the internship program this has no reflection on your ability to gain acceptance into the Northwestern Graduate Program in Genetic Counseling.
There is no tuition for the internship. However, interns are responsible for all costs associated with travel, accommodations, and meals.
To apply, send one official or unofficial copy of your college transcript(s) and a 1-2 page essay addressing your interest in the field of genetic counseling, and how this internship will be beneficial to you. Please include your name, address, email and phone number on your essay. The transcript and essay may be submitted electronically to email@example.com or via postal mail to:
Graduate Program in Genetic Counseling
Northwestern University
645 N. Michigan Avenue, Suite 630
Chicago, IL 60611
Summer 2019 Internship
Dates for the Summer 2019 Internship are still TBD, and applications are not currently being accepted. Please check back in February of 2019, when we will announce the internship dates and start accepting applications.
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text: In the Presence of Drake by Rory O | Jun 8, 2016 | Uncategorized | 0 comments Hoping this finds you well and perhaps planning time to relax over the next couple of months. In the meantime it's the ol' nose to the grindstone. Or in my case – mouth to the microphone. The grindstone deal sounds painful. What has the coolio meter flickering? I'm currently recording animation sessions at the same studio where rapper, singer, songwriter, record producer and actor, Drake mixed his last 3 albums. I bask in the blinginess of it and find it puts a little extra hip in my hop. What else have I been UP to? Kindly scroll DOWN: Some people have normal jobs. And then there's me. This national voice over assignment for Becel margarine had me conversing with a bird. Hey, it's a living. And our cat now sees me as a strategic link. * * * – BECEL – Professional Voice Over by Rory O'Shea Some people have normal jobs. And then there's me. Part 2 – WARNING: If you have a severe peanut allergy or an aversion to the bizarre – don't watch this. * * * – Planter's Peanuts – Professional Voice Over: Rory O'Shea ___________________________________ A common request from clients in voice over auditions is for talent to "sound like Morgan Freeman". Another popular set of pipes belongs to Sam Elliot ("Guts. Glory. Ram."). But when a client asks you to sound like "Optimus Prime from Transformers"? Well, you do your best. What does "Optimus Prime" sound like? Morgan Freeman with anger management issues. – World Auto Steel – Corporate Narration by Rory O'Shea


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Discipline is one of the most important lessons for any person to learn, regardless of the work that is set before them. While the individual may at times be tempted to take the easy route in life, to do the minimum while expecting the maximum, rationality dictates that this is the wrong way to proceed for the achievement of important ends. To the revolutionary, discipline is vital for the continuation of revolutionary work. To be a revolutionary is to sacrifice, to continually expend one's energies for the fulfillment of revolutionary goals, to adapt oneself to the needs of the revolution and the work set before them. Without a sense of discipline, the revolutionary can easily be thrown from this course, can shift from doing revolutionary work to doing no work or even to doing counterrevolutionary work.
Now, this is not to say that the revolutionary is not allowed to have a life outside of revolutionary work, and that the revolutionary is only allowed to expend their energies on activities outside of revolutionary work. To expect this of oneself and one's comrades is to alienate them from their own humanity — an alienation which, not only harms the work of cadres in the short term, but also risks compromising one's revolutionary capacity in the long term. Burning oneself out is not what makes a professional revolutionary. Instead, what makes a revolutionary a "professional" is their disciplined consistency of revolutionary action — that they uphold revolutionary ideas, attitudes, activity and perspective in their daily lives.
Ideological Discipline: First and Foremost
"Without revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary movement." — V.I. Lenin
One of the first, and most important, steps to attaining revolutionary discipline is a dedication to learning and applying revolutionary theory consistently. Marxism-Leninism is the highest development of revolutionary theory — it's method of analysis provides a means of illuminating, deconstructing and solving the dilemmas of our day, of challenging the established injustices and facilitating the revolutionary transformation of the entirety of our society for the purposes of serving the laboring masses, destroying the chains that bind them both in the physical sense and in the ideological sense. Marxism-Leninism is our weapon, and in order to utilize this weapon effectively, the revolutionary must be dedicated to the study of theory.
Now, it must be noted that "to study" theory does not mean to merely "read about theory." Reading theory, understanding theory and applying theory are three different, yet equally important things. To apply theory, one must understand theory, and to understand theory, one must read. At the same time, one must not overestimate their theoretical knowledge, to take for granted that their analysis is consistent and sound. The most practiced Marxist-Leninist is capable of error — this is not the fault of the science, but of the scientist. So, what the disciplined revolutionary must do is to take what is read, to do their best to apply that reading to the world around them and to seek help from one's comrades when theoretical questions emerge.
Confront and Defeat One's Shortcomings
One of the most important attitudes that a revolutionary must adopt on some level is humility. After all, when one examines our reality from a materialist perspective, it becomes evident that we are products of the world around us — a world which is flawed, which discourages revolutionary attitudes and encourages reactionary ones — and as a product of such a world the revolutionary must understand that they are not immune to ideas and attitudes that are mistaken or reactionary.
As such, the task of the revolutionary is to do the best that they can to confront and defeat the various attitudes and biases that they have which run counter to their revolutionary ideology and purpose, while remaining open to criticism and able to deliver self-criticism. Democratic-centralism and the sobriety that materialist analysis gives us are both essential to the maintenance of a revolutionary line and revolutionary action. To neglect one is to neglect both. Rather than see these as factors which "limit" the revolutionary, as those with undisciplined, anti-materialist, opportunist and ultra-left theories do, the disciplined Marxist-Leninist understands that the individual is imperfect, and that larger mechanisms to uphold discipline and encourage analysis and action consistent with scientific socialism are necessary.
Your Comrades Are Your Safety Net, and You Are Theirs
A vital point needs to be made that the revolutionary is not, and cannot, be alone in their work. Just as we understand that the individual has limits and, from their origins, is a flawed, we also must understand that our actions, our words, our perspective and our efforts are part of a larger mechanism. The revolutionary does not exist outside of revolution — on the contrary, the revolutionary is a vital part of it. Alone and isolated, the revolutionary is vulnerable to alienation, to mistaken ideas, to disillusionment and to inaction. Yet, with one's comrades, the revolutionary participates in and benefits from a support system for the maintenance of revolutionary line and revolutionary action.
Communication, cooperation, criticism and collective work are vital features of a Marxist-Leninist organization. These things facilitate the achievement of revolutionary goals, the strengthening of cadres and forward motion on behalf of revolution. The organization of Marxist-Leninists is essential for the formation of a vanguard. As such, the duty of the Marxist-Leninist revolutionary is to work together with their fellow Marxist-Leninist revolutionaries for their common goals. This duty involves a willingness to work with others, to respect one another within and outside of the context of revolutionary activity, to offer criticism when the attitudes, ideology and activity of one's comrades runs counter to revolutionary discipline and to take seriously criticism one is given. You aren't in this alone, and have a duty to your comrades.
Don't Be a Burn-Out
The duty to one's comrades and to the revolution is the main reason why the disciplined revolutionary must conduct themselves in such a manner as to avoid burning out. When a person becomes a burnout, they not only squander their personal revolutionary potential, but work to damage the morale and activity of their comrades. Being overzealous and hyperactive in one's revolutionary work to the point that it damages their sanity, their health and their morale is every bit as undisciplined as doing no work. This is not an easy lesson to learn, but it is essential to learn for one to become and remain a revolutionary.
A good metaphor for how one must go about being a revolutionary is one that is given for nutrition and personal wellness: to succeed, one needs to create a lifestyle. Just as it is important to maintain healthy eating and exercising by making it routine, rather than by following binges of exercise and starvation with overeating and lethargy, the revolutionary must endeavor to make their work a habit while, at the same time, knowing and respecting their limits, and doing what is necessary to take care of themselves.
Yes, the revolutionary has a duty to themselves, to their well-being and maintenance. This is a duty that is sometimes forgotten by zealous comrades, yet cannot be ignored because of the implications it has for the revolutionary and the movement in general. Every day, the revolutionary must try to find time to decompress, and when one reaches the breaking point — when one feels that there are too many demands being placed on them to the point where they cannot continue to do their work competently and without having a breakdown — the revolutionary's duty is to not break but, instead, to work with his comrades to lessen the load and to take the necessary steps to take care of themselves.
The reason that the revolutionary must endeavor to take care of themselves is two fold: for their personal well-being, and for their well-being as a revolutionary and, by extension, the well-being of their comrades. The revolutionary is a part of a whole and, as a result, damage to them damages the whole.
Remembering the End in Everyday Life
The social implications of the revolutionary minded person go beyond their immediate circle of revolutionary comrades. The revolutionary is a son or a daughter, in many cases a brother or sister, father or mother, friend or relative, co-worker and neighbor. Just as the revolutionary is effected by their social circumstance, the revolutionary contributes to the social circles and broader society they live in. As such, the revolutionary must keep in mind how their activity and attitudes relate to the end of revolution in their everyday lives and must, on some level, endeavor to be a role model to others.
Being a revolutionary doesn't end when you aren't in the field doing political work — discipline must always be applied in every circumstance. Just as chauvinistic and reactionary rhetoric will not be tolerated amongst revolutionaries, the revolutionary must not adopt such rhetoric outside of revolutionary circles. To be a revolutionary sometimes and to be a reactionary other times is to be a fraud. At the same time, to be stubbornly incapable of taking criticism, to be self-righteous and pious, condescending and disrespectful in one's everyday life is to be a poor representative of what a revolutionary is. All comrades must be careful of what face they are putting on our movement as they live and work outside of their political life.
Vigilance Tempered with Tact
At this juncture, it is important to make a distinction between being a revolutionary at all times and being an agitator at all times. While these may seem to be the same thing, they are in fact quite different. Being a revolutionary at all times means having a revolutionary mind-set and following revolutionary discipline in one's everyday life, whereas being an agitator at all times means being the person who cannot, and will not, shut up about their politics.
Being "always on," being "that guy" who no one wants to talk to because they're incapable of talking about anything other than Marxism-Leninism, is not productive. In fact, it has the potential of being counter-productive by alienating those around you, giving the impression that those who follow your ideology are motor-mouthed blowhards and cultists. It also lends itself to burnout in that it forces the revolutionary to expend their energy talking down virtually everyone they come into contact with outside of their political circle, leading to increased alienation, stress and disillusionment.
Instead of being "always on," the revolutionary must endeavor to be a courteous and tactful person, who is unafraid to offer up their opinion when asked but feels no need to shove their ideology down the throat of every passerby. If people want to talk about politics, allow them a chance to speak from their perspective, and offer your own, while being careful to not seem to be condescending or insulting. When you conduct yourself in a respectful manner, you maximize the potential for your ideas and perspective to be taken seriously by the people your are talking with, helping to avoid the emotional and irrational responses that we have been conditioned to have by prevailing society. The disciplined revolutionary serves as a role model in every setting, not by the virtue of constant political diatribes and browbeating, but by showing the world what a revolutionary is like.
What Makes a Professional Revolutionary?
We come now to the question of what makes a revolutionary a "professional." We've established that it isn't being a blowhard in every context, isn't being the kind of person to work themselves into exhaustion and isn't a "one man army" in the realm of political activism. So, disregarding these mistaken perceptions, what is a "professional revolutionary?"
The professional revolutionary is a person who makes revolution their profession, who upholds revolutionary ideology and discipline, who works for revolutionary goals and for the forward motion of themselves and their comrades, as part of the daily struggle of revolutionary movement. The professional revolutionary, like any person, fulfills multiple roles in their life, has a number of things that they must do on a daily basis, yet as they do these things they are guided by a purpose much larger than themselves. While their political activity isn't constant, their dedication is.
Conclusion: You are the Means and an End
In the context of revolutionary social movement, the revolutionary is two things: the means to the end of a revolution and an end in of itself. While the revolutionary works and struggles on behalf of revolution, they must keep in mind their needs, the needs of their comrades and the needs of the revolution without forgetting any of them. It is revolutionaries — those who work now for revolution, those who will one day attain revolutionary consciousness and the revolutionaries who have yet to be born — who will lead revolution and will work to shape the society of the future. Our work must be to retain and strengthen the revolutionaries we have now while also working to increase our numbers. We must work to be role models for revolution in our daily lives, to be a safety net for our comrades and to be able to seek help and correction when we need it. These things are the hallmark of revolutionary discipline. It is our ability to conform our work to these needs of revolution that will decide whether we can call ourselves professional revolutionaries or not.
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Although we don't believe in timing the market or panicking over market movements, we do like to keep an eye on big changes -- just in case they're material to our investing thesis.
What: Shares of Conn's (NASDAQ:CONN) gained as much as 10% today after turning in a strong earnings report.
So what: The retailer-lender of durable goods saw same-store sales soar in the quarter, up 15.6%, lapping an increase of 16.5% the year before as revenues jumped 33.6% to $335.4 million and topped expectations of $328.5 million. Conn's credit performance also improved as loan delinquency rates improved, and earnings per share improved from $0.61 a year ago to $0.80, beating estimates at $0.73.
Now what: CEO Thomas Wright noted that the company's solid performance continued into May with 13% same-store sales growth, and Conn's has continued to aggressively expand, with 17 to 20 new stores expected for the full year, increasing its base by about 25%. For the full year, management guided EPS at $3.40 to $3.70, in line with estimates at $3.52. With same-store sales increasing by double digits, an improving credit profile, and its store count growing quickly, Conn's seems to have the right formula to continue rewarding shareholders.
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[So I started writing this on a the bus, but actually I'm currently in my apartment in Pittsburgh, not the Megabus just so you know]
Hello from a Megabus! I'm on my way to Pittsburgh right now, heading back to my apartment, my life, my friends, my old self. I have this feeling now that I'm creeping closer to the day when I get to resume grad school and working that it's too soon. Before I felt like I had all the time in the time in the world to prepare for re-immersion into the real world. But all of a sudden it seems so soon and so fast. In a few weeks the semester will start. I'll go back to my internship. I'll be living in my apartment again. So much, so quickly. It's freaking me out a little. But that doesn't mean that I don't want it to happen. I guess I'm just questioning how hard of a transition it will be for me psychologically, emotionally, and physically. Am I going to be too tired to do everything? Will I get depressed if I can't? Will I be able to graduate this summer?
I don't know. I don't know. I don't know.
These are the questions running through my head these days. Now that I've let go of a lot of the uncertainty that came with this course of treatment, I feel more confident that health-wise I will continue to improve and (hopefully) reach full remission. However letting go of that uncertainty means that I've made room for all sorts of new worries. I've let go of being in "survival mode" and now all the emotion and feelings that I pushed aside and told, "I'll deal with you later. This is not the time for tears. It's a time for strength and positivity. We have to survive, so hush, you'll get your turn soon enough."
Well here they are. Demanding attention, having waited their turn. But I don't want to pay them any attention. I don't want to sort through sadness and anxiety. I want happiness and celebration. I want to feel good and light.
But there is no denying that there is a feeling of heaviness lingering around me. The feeling that you just went through something big and you need to look it in the eye and give it its due respect.
The bell has sounded and the hard part is over. It's only right that I turn around and take one last look at my defeated opponent, to put my hand on his shoulder and say,
"You fought well, but I fought better." And "You're strong, but not as strong as I am." And, "You were tough opponent, but just not as tough as I am."
But I don't want to turn around and look back. What if he has one more hit in him, one that I can't block? I want to keep
walking running away and never look back. I used up all my bravery to get this far. I'm all tapped out. (Can't someone else do it for me?)
It's like at the end of a scary movie, after the bad guy is assumed dead, but he always has one last scare in him. Even if he's lying on the floor bleeding like mad, you're still nervous because he's in your sight and history has proven that the bad guy always has one last murder attempt in him. So you have to yell at the main character, "Don't you put that gun down, girl! You know he isn't dead!"
Aplastic anemia is still too close for comfort and I don't know if I can put the gun down, as much as I want to move on.
It's like if you've been in a car accident or close call, you know that you don't relax immediately after you're out of danger. Just because the impact is over and you've pulled your car over to the side of the road, doesn't mean you are calmly waiting for medical attention. The adrenaline will run through your body and you'll be shaking for a while. And the next time you get into a car or drive past that intersection where you got hit, that feeling will return, and you'll remember how scared you were.
That's where I am right now. I'm here and I survived. And I intellectually believe the worst is over. But I'm still reeling from the impact of the crash. My hands are shaking, my legs feel weak, and my mind is still spinning with the possibility of a very different ending to this story. Part of me is not fully convinced that it's okay to put the gun down, take the boxing gloves off, and walk away from the crash (I'm apparently loving the analogies this morning). Part of me doesn't believe that life will leave me alone now because I've proven I'm not to be messed with. I can still feel this disease hanging over my shoulder, holding me back.
Baby steps. I think that's key. I'm not going to be the same person I was when I left, the moment I move back to Pittsburgh. I think expecting myself to be will only make me depressed. And unfortunately, as much as I want to bury these feelings, I think I have to let myself feel the weight of what just happened. I have to let myself be sad, because I am a little. I have to let myself be disappointed with life, because I am a little. And I have to let myself believe that I am strong enough to feel those things without becoming them. Happiness feels lighter when it's not a mask covering up sadness. And I want the lightness that I know is to come.
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The Impact of Budget Constraint in Hyper Caloric Food Consumption
The obesity is an actual fact in too many countries (NG et al., 2014). The goal of this study is to understand the impact of budget constraint on hyper caloric food consumption. Using an experiment with 60 consumers three hypothesis were tested. The result of H1 shows us that with R$ 10,00 the same consumer had a hyper caloric consume (in a budget constraint context) buying an extra 180 calories per real spent compared to another context (R$ 50,00). H2 was tested identifying the impact of BMI in Food Caloric Density per Real Spent (FCDRS) with R$ 10,00 or R$ 50,00. H3 analyzes the relation between income (which is different from budget constraint) and the FCDRS showing us that there is not an impactful relation between the income and the caloric food consumption. These results show us various opportunities to future researches.
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MOST (Media Oriented Systems Transport) is a multimedia network technology developed to enable an efficient transport of streaming, packet and control data in an automobile. It is the communication backbone of an infotainment system in a car. MOST can also be used in other product areas such as driver assistance systems and home applications.
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"Ghost estates" is the name given to housing developments abandoned before completion by developers, a visible and nationwide casualty of collapse of the Celtic Tiger economy.
Now the once inflated properties are selling for a song. This week a ghost estate located in County Cavan sold for $275,000 at a distressed property auction in Dublin.
According to News Talk, the bargain price development, which is located in Cavan town, contains five completed houses, four unfinished houses and planning for a further fifty two. $43,000 was the lowest price paid for a derelict cottage in Charleville in County Cork. A 3-bed house in Longford was sold for $46,000, with a three-bedroom house in County Louth bought for $162,000 and a bar in Co. Cork went for just over $247,300.
Also sold at the Dublin auction was the former home of old-time popular ballad singer Robert Whittaker. The British artist is best known for his 1975 hit The Last Farewell.
His Irish home, a former convent at Eyrecourt, County Galway sold for $371,000 to an unnamed internet bidder.
Robert Hogan of Allsop Space said there was a good mix of commercial and residential property at the Dublin auction. The most popular lots were commercial units with a solid existing tenant, he explained.
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Youth Resources
Volunteer Manitoba is committed to promoting community engagement to young Manitobans.
According to the 2010 Canada Survey of Giving, Volunteering and Participating, 58% of Canadians aged 15-24 are involved in volunteering.
In This Section:
Benefits of Volunteering
Getting Started
Special Events
Book a Classroom Presentation!
Volunteering provides an opportunity for all of us to learn more about ourselves and our community. For students and young adults, volunteering can also help you learn about different career paths that may interest you and can also help you develop useful skills.
Many volunteer opportunities offer youth a head start in their professional lives as employers seek out potential employees who demonstrate they are able to adapt to new environments and are willing to learn new skills.
Individual Benefits of Volunteering
- Discover new skills, talents and interests
- Building self-esteem through hands-on experience
- Job skill development: learn team-building, leadership and problem-solving
- Be a part of the "working world" and see how an organization works from the inside
- Networking!! Possible future employment and professional references
Community Benefits of Volunteering
- Work with others to accomplish change
- Improve the lives of others in your community
- Help create a sustainable, healthy community
We encourage students and young adults to reflect on their skills and interests with family, teachers and friends before choosing a volunteer opportunity. Learning how to identify the skills and benefits gained from volunteering will help young Manitobans become aware of what they will gain from community engagement.
Getting Started
Looking for a volunteer opportunity is similar to the experience of looking for a paying job. Young people should be able to demonstrate a commitment to volunteering, and their goals must mirror those of the organization or agency.
Begin your search by reviewing our volunteer opportunities section for positions that may interest you. You can also do an online search for organizations that match your interests and values.
Ask yourself the following questions:
- Is the location of the opportunity easily accessible?
- Does it match my time availability?
- What will I learn from volunteering there?
Note: If you are choosing to volunteer as part of a school community involvement program, remember to always check with guidance counsellors or school principals to verify eligible positions. The school may have deemed some activities ineligible for volunteer hours, so check with them first to ensure that your proposed activities will count.
Search Opportunities - You can search through the volunteer opportunities for current positions open to youth.
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Through our Community Outreach activities, we are able to connect with Manitobans on the benefits of volunteerism. We attend outreach events throughout Manitoba and also visit with classrooms, community groups and organizations to deliver presentations on community engagement and how to find the right volunteer opportunity.
For the upcoming academic year, Volunteer Manitoba is pleased to deliver classroom presentations on the benefits of community engagement and how to find the right volunteer opportunity.
Classroom presentations are 25-45 minutes (including Q&A) and can be tailored to suit your classroom. For example, we can cover the following topics:
- Develop job skills
- Building your own community project
- Scholarships
- High School Credit
Unfortunately, not all requests can be guaranteed, but Volunteer Manitoba strives to reach as many communities and schools as possible. If you are from a school outside of the area, please contact our Communications and Outreach Coordinator to discuss further.
For more information on volunteer opportunities for youth, or to be featured as an organization with opportunities for youth engagement, please contact:
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Regardless of the industry, sector or market segment, it is important to develop a definitive methodology and approach for identifying and harnessing potential talent while enabling successful development of various skillset(s). In addition, instilling a sense of self-empowerment based on roles, duties, responsibilities, and on-the-job training. It is equally important for mentoring today's youth and women, via self-empowerment, by providing the means to develop a vision, mission and purpose which translates into business, professional and personal "going forward plan" based on both qualitative and quantitative metrics and measurement.
There is considerable latent talent among today's youth and women which must be effectively channeled, in the coming "new age" of technologies, which requires definitive next steps in setting-up startup and early stage companies, incubation of technologies, undergoing pre-operative phase prior to realizing and achieving initial and early revenues. As global convergence occurs in all economies and markets worldwide, the past business-revenue models of "dotcoms" etc. will not likely work as there must be refocus on time-tested value chains, commercial market fundamentals and business fundamentals (balance sheet, P&L, and cashflow) resulting in viable new business-revenue models.
In summary, as sovereign debts and deficits continue to unravel while the unintended consequence and effects of deleveraging, deflation and inflation take strong-hold, there must be a top-down and bottom-up commitment to focus on the positive aspects and positive outcomes. A major renewal and renaissance is taking grasp everywhere and those who undertake the decisive next steps can spearhead the unfolding new ventures, technologies, innovation and inventions which can create new wealth. "A Rising Tide Lifts All Boats".


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August Alsina premieres his new visual for "Down Right Now", directed by Artemus Jenkins. The Knucklehead produced track is featured on The Product 2/Gangsta Grillz hosted by DJ Drama. Download it here
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Downtown Express photos by Jefferson Siegel
ACT UP led a rally near Wall St. last week calling for health coverage for all, and housing help for people with H.I.V. Twenty-seven people were arrested for staging a die-in near the Charging Bull statue.
AIDS demonstrators demand health care for all
By Andy Humm
Twenty years after ACT UPs inaugural action on Wall St. protesting profiteering by pharmaceutical companies, hundreds of members and their allies staged an emotional and angry demonstration that surged south from Manhattans Federal Building to the Charging Bull statue in Bowling Green at the bottom of the island, shouting, No More Bull! Health Care for All.
The anniversary action, held March 29, kicked off an intensive campaign for single-payer, universal healthcare that the group intends to take to the 2008 presidential candidates.
Speakers and participants demanded lower drug costs and called for the expansion of city housing and social services access now limited to people with full-blown AIDS to include all those who test H.I.V.-positive.
Before the day was over, 27 activists had been arrested for staging a die-in near the bull.
Larry Kramer, whose March 1987 call to arms on AIDS at the L.G.B.T. Community Center led to the founding of ACT UP, declared at the outset of Thursdays action, This is the first major demonstration of the new, revivified, full-of-life ACT UP.
Kramer hailed the fact that the group was responsible for every single treatment we have for H.I.V.; we forced it out of the government. He also demanded equality for gay people, people of color, and people with H.I.V. and once again called for withholding votes from politicians who do not support equality.
Dr. Oliver Fein of New York Metro Physicians for a National Health Care Program called ACT UP one of the principal organizations that got people with AIDS access to medications and medical care, and praised the fact that it was now broadening its mission to health care for all.
Mark Milano, an ACT UP veteran and stalwart, voiced the demand for price control on drugs, noting that pharmaceutical companies pay three times on marketing what they do on research.
David Golden of the New York City AIDS Housing Network called for the extension of the housing and social benefits provided by the H.I.V./ AIDS Services Administration (HASA) to people living with H.I.V. The group is pushing for HASA for all.
He asked, Why should you have to get gravely sick before receiving benefits?
Charles King, president of Housing Works, led hundreds of the agencys clients, homeless people with H.I.V./AIDS, in the midday march past City Hall, Trinity Church, and the New York Stock Exchange.
He also attacked City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, a lesbian who represents Chelsea and Hells Kitchen, for her opposition to opening HASA to people with H.I.V.
She says it might set a precedent so that if people with H.I.V. got housing, we might have to house people with diabetes and cancer, King said, rebutting that perspective by noting that H.I.V. is a communicable virus that places a premium on keeping people healthy, a goal for which stable housing is essential to slow the spread and progression of the virus.
King spoke of the tragedy of poor people with H.I.V. who are praying that their T-cells drop low enough for an AIDS diagnosis so that they can get housing and care.
A week after the demonstration, Quinn released a statement to Downtown Express saying the HASA for all proposal was expensive and could set a wide-ranging precedent that would require additional costly benefits.
The anniversary demonstration proved more an occasion for outrage and mourning than nostalgia.
Im sad, said Kendall Queer of ACT UP. I stopped counting the number of people I lost at 100, ten years ago. I feel like were going nowhere.
Jennifer Flynn of the New York City AIDS Housing Network said while she was happy about the big turnout, 20 years later there shouldnt have to be an ACT UP. We shouldnt still have AIDS around.
Flynn was pleased that the city has increased H.I.V. prevention efforts in shelters, but a condom is not a home.
In front of Trinity, Brent Nicholson Earle remembered his first arrest there 20 years ago. He said when he finished his American Run for the End of AIDS across the country, he found ACT UP and knew what I had to do next.
He said as a person with AIDS, I feel like a Holocaust survivor.
Fifty body bags were scattered around the bull to symbolize the 50 people a day who die from lack of insurance in this country, said ACT UPs Ann Northrop.
Of the 30 people arrested for laying on Broadway, all but one were released by the end of the day. Kendall Queer, who refused to walk when arrested, was taken to central booking and did not get out of the system until midday Friday. He said that when he insisted on medical attention, he was taken in leg irons to Bellevue Hospital and his hands got numb and painful from his handcuffs being tightened.
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When it comes to incredible pet toys, there's nothing quite like the Bubble Buddy. Marketed as the original Scented Bubble Blowing Dog Toy, the Bubble Buddy is loads of fun for the whole family.
The Bubble Buddy is trigger-operated so anyone can use it, and it doesn't require any batteries. As the bubbles come floating out, your pooches will be going nuts trying to pop the bubbles in their mouths. The different scents that are available for the Bubble Buddy include Sizzlin' Bacon, Peanut Butter and Bar-B-Q Chicken.
When you are sitting outdoors on a hot summer day and you don't want to be chasing around the dog, the Bubble Buddy will become your go-to dog toy to keep your mutt happy and active.
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- By: Francis TiangsonApr 17, 2011
References: activedogtoys & notcot.org
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I find it hard to listen to the news these days, because I get so upset at so much that seems to be unraveling. I cannot believe some of the things that some of our political leaders are trying to do these days.
But I realize that the context is that people are getting desperate as governmental budget crises loom, at both the national level and for many of the states. When there is a budget crisis, there are two possible responses: cut expenses, or raise revenues. Doing both would have a bigger effect than doing just one. But for some reason, most politicians seem dead set against raising revenues, because that means raising taxes.
All of this happens at a time when the gap between the rich and the poor has been growing. A blogger I follow has posted about this on his blog, and he included a graph that visually shows the growing gap.
This got me to thinking: it may not really be that there's less money, as such. It's just that over time it has become distributed in a way that fewer people have it. And those few have a lot.
Wouldn't it be great if the super-rich started a movement advocating higher taxes for themselves? If they started saying that, by virtue of controlling so much money, they have a greater responsibility to attend to the public good?
And, in truth, I wouldn't mind paying higher taxes, myself. But my own income is such that that would not have a very big impact.
Here are some more illuminating graphs: this graph shows federal tax rates historically. And this one too is remarkable: tax revenues recently have been declining!
And finally, what are our major expenses at the federal level? Wars.
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I found out today I've passed all my exams so I'm now the proud owner of a University of Edinburgh law degree...........I'm now Janice McLeod LL.B, Bachelor of laws........how fab is that....lol :O)
On the whole I've enjoyed my time at university......there's been a few ups and downs and I've struggled at times to try to juggle studying, working, being a single mum, making bears and not to mention the financial struggles.....but I'm glad I did it :O)
Now I just need to find myself a job!!!!
What an eventful last couple of months I've had!! After finishing all my essays and exams for uni, I had to get enough bears made for the Teddy Bear Artist Event at Stratford and I have to say what a wonderful weekend I had there :O)
My mum and sister came with me and we went down on the Friday so we could spend Saturday wandering around Stratford soaking up all the sights..........unfortunately it didn't quite work out that way as the weather was terrible (and I stupidly only took my flip flops with me as the weather was quite nice when we left Edinburgh on the Friday!!!!). We stayed at this wonderful guest house called Broadlands.......Jeremy and Tamara were just wonderful, we couldn't have asked for nicer hosts (they even popped along to the civic hall to visit the bears!!).
The fair itself was great fun, it was lovely to meet up with a lot of collectors and other bear artists........the bears on display were absolutely fantastic, there were some really fantastic bears there.....how anyone managed to choose just one bear from all the talent on display is beyond me :O)
I'm off to see Take That on their Circus tour on Friday and I'm sooooo excited!!!! Aside from all the fab songs they sing, the show itself is suppose to be quite spectacular. There's a huge mechanical elephant that enters the stage which is meant to be quite a sight to see!!! I'm really looking forward to it :O)


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Content: See & Do
Category: Attraction
Barnwell State Park
223 State Park RD
Blackville, SC 29817
Phone: (803) 284-2212
City: Blackville
Region: Midlands
Barnwell State Park
Barnwell State Park is a great fishing spot in South Carolina that not many folks know about.
A traditional state park primarily serving the people of Barnwell County, Barnwell State Park offers camping and cabins, picnicking and playgrounds, and a community center long favored for meetings, reunions and weddings.
There's also a nature trail that winds around one of a pair of nice-sized ponds that many locals know hold a good population of crappie, bream and bass, some of them surprisingly large.
Barnwell State Park is one of 16 state parks in South Carolina built by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression to provide jobs for the men who built them and recreational opportunities for the people who live nearby.
Such as great fishing. Guess the secret's out!


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Two o
f the most intriguing authors of 2012 are E.L. James and Hugh Howey, for good reason. As you likely already
know, James is the author o f the phenomenally popular
Fifty Shades of Grey trilogy. All
three books in the series were published in 2011 by a print on demand company
in Australia.
Word of mouth boosted ebooks sales to 250,000, while the trade paperback copy lagged
behind at about 7,000. When one o f the big six
publishers, Random House/Vintage came along and offered Ms. James and her agent
a contract, the stipulation was that Vintage also keep all ebook rights or
there would be no deal. Needless to say, they went for it.
According to a fascinating blog by Steven Pressfield, although Ms. James has made a great deal of money from her books, she likely would have made millions more if she'd turned the contract down and kept her rights. He estimates that the publisher made $72 million from paperback sales alone, which was why Random House gave each employees a $5,000 bonus this year. Pressfield goes into a number of calculations to prove his point, which you can find in the link below.
Now, here's the really interesting bit. Simon & Schuster also bid on the Grey trilogy and lost. Pressfield says they too did the math on paperback profits, so when another opportunity arose they changed tactics. S & S offered a contract to Hugh Howey, author of a popular series called Wool, (which had already sold 300,000 ebooks before the offer) and allowed them to keep the ebook rights! As Pressfield says, the decision to publish Howey's books in hard cover and trade paperback only is a game changer. It will be interesting to see if more deals like this occur in future. It appears that Howey could soon become a very rich man, if he isn't already.
I urge you to read the whole piece, as there plenty more good observations in there, at http://www.stevenpressfield.com/2012/12/the-story-behind-the-random-house-gives-5000-bonuses-story/


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WhoDives will give you a possibility to create diving events and share it on your social network, to create diving spots - your favorite places to dive, to manage your dive log and meet other divers from all over the world.
True story about passion for diving
We have always wanted to run our own startup. Some day we discovered diving. It became our great passion, just next to programming and social products. We decided to combine it all and create portal for divers all around the world where they can communicate, share, keep up with diving events and learn about new underwater places to explore.


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Statistics Show HSWC Had Successful Year in 2016
The Humane Society of Washington County has released its data from 2016 and revealed its most successful year to date.
Live Outcomes for 2016 was 4,942 animals, a 236% increase compared to 2009.
The HSWC attributes this accomplishment to innovative programs that challenge traditional animal welfare beliefs. An example of this is the "Traveling Fosters" Adoption Ambassadors program.
"Through this program we empower our trusted volunteers to provide shelter animals with in-home medical and behavioral care preparing them for adoption, and to provide new pet parents with post adoption support," stated Ellen Taylor, Vice President and Chief Operating Officer.
In 2016 the "Traveling Fosters" facilitated 436 pet adoptions.
The HSWC participates in many other lifesaving programs such as dialogue-based adoptions, adoption promotions and waived fees, Happy Hounds Prison Dog Program, enrichment and behavior modification, and the ASPCA® Meet Your Match programs.
The HSWC places a high priority on collecting data in order to track trends and improve its practices.
"Although there is no standardized method or requirement for reporting shelter statistics, the HSWC participates in Shelter Animals Count," Taylor added. "This is an initiative created to share national sheltered animal statistics, providing facts and enabling insights that will save lives."


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Kelli Berglund thought dancing was her sole passion until the acting bug bit her at age ten. Now starring as bionic teenager Bree on the Disney XD show "Lab Rats," Berglund has established herself as an actor.
The young star talked with us about the little things that helped build her career, from playing with Barbies to studying science.
On the show "Lab Rats," three bionic teens become high school students and part-time superheroes. Would you categorize the show as science fiction?
Kelli Berglund: There's definitely an aspect of that. But it's also a family-driven comedy about getting used to the real world.
What do you enjoy about science?
Berglund: I had a great chemistry teacher and found it really interesting to learn how things are made up and how they work. I incorporate a lot of my science knowledge into the show. In one episode, there was this big particle that fused protons together, and I had already learned about it in chemistry.
You're probably asked about super powers all the time. Which real life skill do you hope to have or improve upon?
Berglund: I've always wanted to learn how to surf. Hopefully I'll get up on the board one day. I also want to get better at guitar.
Most of your fans know about your passion for dance. Did your perceptions of yourself as a dancer change when your acting career took off?
Berglund: Dancing has always been a huge part of my life. So when acting came along, I thought why not do both? In the last couple of years, though, my dancing has started to get pushed aside. I want to make sure it still has a role in my life. No matter how busy I am, I find time for dance.
Do you think there more roles in Hollywood for actors than for dancers?
Berglund: I think it's pretty equal. In a lot of my auditions, I've incorporated both acting and dancing. There are plenty of roles out there – all those dance movies.
One of the biggest differences between dancers and actors is the career span. Professional dancers often retire by age 30. What kind of career balance do you envision for yourself in the years ahead?
Berglund: I've always dreamed of being in my own "Step-Up" type of movie. I know that dancers, especially ballet dancers, can't do it forever. But I have a broad variety of dance skills which helps me be more athletic and helps my acting. The dancing plays a big role in acting. They go hand in hand.
Your character in "Lab Rats" has incredible abilities that enable her to excel with no effort. In real life, what specific skills have you worked the hardest for?
Berglund: Comedy has always been more challenging for me than drama. I think the most comedic growth that I've had has been on "Lab Rats." With every episode, I look at the script and think, "How can I make this funny?" Now that we're in season two, I think I've secured who I want Bree to be. I feel like I've come a long way.
And your co-star Hal Sparks has a great background in comedy. Has he taught you anything about comedic scene work?
Berglund: Totally. He's just naturally funny. I'll say to him, "I'm having difficulty with this line," and he'll come up with three different ways to play it. Then when I'm shooting, I'll have several options for the director to choose from.
You've come along way in just a few years. What do you remember about your earliest TV roles?
Berglund: The first job I ever booked was a Barbie commercial, and I was so excited about it. I had to play Barbies with another little girl who was supposed to be my sister. The most exciting part was that they gave me the Barbie at the end! The first time you're on a set, it's crazy. All the lights and the cameras. But now I walk onto a set everyday. It's like my second home.


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Day 11 in South Africa was all about goals – the seven Portugal put past Korea DPR and the one that Switzerland custodian Diego Benaglio conceded against Chile. Spain finally found their range, meanwhile, to get their campaign back on track by beating Honduras.
As the rain teemed down in Cape Town, so the goals flooded in as Portugal routed Group G rivals Korea DPR 7-0. When these teams met in the 1966 FIFA World Cup™ quarter-finals, the North Koreans raced into a three-goal lead before succumbing 5-3 but the only thing the rematch had in common was the presence of Eusebio, watching from the stands. Portugal led only 1-0 at half-time but tore apart their opponents after the restart to record their highest FIFA World Cup win and take a big step towards the Round of 16. For the North Koreans, so promising against Brazil in their first match, the game is already up.
A goalfest was never on the cards at Port Elizabeth Stadium given Switzerland's defensive obduracy and Chile's profligacy in front of goal – even with the Swiss reduced to ten men by Valon Behrami's 31st-minute red card. As in their first game, it took the South Americans 20 shots to score one goal but Mark Gonzalez's second-half strike was enough to give Chile the outright lead in Group H – and end Switzerland's record-breaking run without conceding.
Lastly to Johannesburg, where Spain bounced back from defeat by the Swiss with a 2-0 success against Honduras. David Villa scored twice but spurned the chance of a hat-trick with a second-half penalty miss – the first by a Spaniard on the world stage. The European champions' shots-per-goals ratio in the tournament is now 23/1, even higher then Chile's, so pity the poor Jabulani when the pair meet in their group decider in Tshwane/ Pretoria on Friday.
Goal of the day
Portugal 6-0 Korea DPR, Cristiano Ronaldo, 87 mins: It did not rival some of his team's superbly worked goals for quality, but Portugal's captain deserved the stroke of fortune that brought his first international strike since February 2009 and left him grinning broadly. As against Côte d'Ivoire, Ronaldo had earlier rattled the Korean crossbar with a spectacular effort from distance but this time his luck was in: goalkeeper Ri Myong-Guk saved at his feet but the ball spun up, bouncing on the back of his head before landing at his feet for an easy conversion.
the ball just bounce in his back and his head...he exactly dont know where the ball is..it's like he just doing freestyle...funny!haha
and the ball just fall in front of him and then he just need to put a little touch to make his first goal...he smile,,,and i think he just said,"how come the ball be like that,,,its not the right time to make a freestyle..this is a match..not a show"


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Road Trip Day 11: on the road
Hi Lyric, Looks like you are on a wonderful trip. Are you going through Mesquite, NV on I15? That is where I live. I am enjoying your beauitiful pictures.
I loved taking your beading class with the Desert quilters.
Doreen Kinkade
On Day 5, were you on the Enchanted Highway? The roadside sculptures certainly look like what I have seen although there are many more.
I have not spent much time out west, but your pix make me want to do so. I have really enjoyed seeing the photos. Just beautiful. Take care, Byrd


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...I HAD ran out of yarn kit yarn, BUT....I managed to match some brown stash yarn pretty well :-)
I love the way that it turned out (especially the clever shaping)...I still think that it's a tad floppy, but I guess it's not really intended to hold too much....I'm thinking about adding a lining, but that wont happen just yet (too much other stuff I wanna do first!).
It's hard to see the size on the photo, but it measures 33cm (13in) across the widest part, and it's just big enough to put my hand through the handle.
A bigger, shoulder bag version, has now been added to my (rapidly growing) to-do list ;-D