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For the last three years, 20-year-old singer Sky Ferreira has been a ubiquitous part of the New York downtown party scene. Also a budding model and actress, she's mainly known for her swarms of celebrity friends and early Madonna–meets–nineties Courtney Love grunge-glamour style. What her music actually sounds like, however, and where she comes from, is often anybody's guess. So, here's a formal introduction: Ferreira grew up in Los Angeles and was a surprisingly shy child. "At school I didn't speak for three years," she says. "If I had to speak in front of class, I would just start crying." As a teenager she retreated to her bedroom, where she spent most of her time channeling her anxiety into short songs about "stupid things," as she puts it, "like school and people I didn't like." By the time she was fifteen, the once-introverted Ferreira had built up a following on MySpace and was under the mentorship of Swedish producers Christian Karlsson and Pontus Winnberg (the duo behind **Britney Spears'**s "Toxic" and indie dance-pop group Miike Snow). "My intention was to get signed," she admits. "I'd had the worst time at school, so I figured if I worked, my mom would let me be homeschooled."
At age sixteen, Ferreira signed a deal with EMI Music, and the next year she moved to New York. By day, the label attempted to mold her into the next teen starlet, and by night, she partied at the Standard with the likes of Terry Richardson and Jared Leto.
The label's vision never quite fit her personality. "I would try things they suggested," she says, "but I didn't want people to think it was me making those decisions."
After her 2011 debut EP As If! failed to find an audience, it seemed as though Ferreira was destined to be forever caught in a kind of musical netherworld: too downtown for the pop fans and too pop for the downtown elite.
Of course this was all before "Everything is Embarrassing," the standout track on her just-released second EP. Ghost, and the first sign she may be about to finally reconcile her artistic ambitions with her unavoidable pop appeal.
"When it blew up, it was the last thing I expected," Ferreira explains about the track, which won her the first bout of genuine critical acclaim when it appeared online in August. "I am so used to people not caring."
As beautifully downbeat as "Everything Is Embarrassing" is, however, the rest of Ghost suggests Ferreira still has some way to go before she's pinned down exactly how she wants to come across. (With tracks ranging from tender acoustic love songs to blown-out power pop with an industrial hook, it's a schizophrenic tasting menu of genres and styles.) But that doesn't bother her. After years of taking the creative backseat (as well as the flack when things didn't work out: "People want me to explain myself for every single thing I do, but they also want me to be quiet"), she's not pretending to be a finished product.
In fact, her much-delayed debut album, which is currently titled I'm Not Alright and due out in early 2013, will be an intentional mélange. "It's not as manic as the EP," she says, "but one half will be more acoustic, like the Ghost title track, and the other half will be a lot poppier and electronic. . . . Genre-wise, I don't really know where I want to go yet. I have a lot more to grow into musically, but I don't expect that to happen in the next six months."
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The government has said it believes the Royal College of Nursing would be stronger if it split its role as a union from that of being a college.
The Francis report into care failings at Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trusts called on the RCN to consider whether it should "formally divide" its royal college functions and its trade union functions between two bodies, rather than behind what it labelled internal "Chinese walls".
The government said today it also believed the separation of the RCN's professional and union roles "would enhance the authority of its work, so that those outside the profession would know when they were speaking in the interests solely of patients and when they were speaking solely in the interests of their members".
The RCN has previously considered and rejected the Francis report recommendation, arguing that it is stronger as one organisation.
As an independent, non-statutory organisation, the college cannot be forced to change its structure by the government.
Nonetheless the acceptance of the recommendation brings the college more unwanted attention surrounding its own local failures to act over Mid Staffordshire, when it would rather focus on national issues like staffing levels and healthcare assistants.
The government's full response to the Francis report into care failings at Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust was published today.
In its response report – Hard Truths: the journey to putting patients first – the government has accepted 281 of the 290 recommendations made by the Francis report in February.
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Anonymous | 19-Nov-2013 5:51 pm
Same here.
You lovely, gorgeous old fella Sir Robert Francis QC. Wonderful recommendation!
RCN must go, it's not fit to be a union. I think we could do with a COHSE kind of set up: a union just for healthcare staff or even one particular to nurses, midwives and auxiliaries. We need something, anything would be better than the current gaggle of ward sisters and senior managers acting as staff-sides. How can a manager also be your union rep - could never work that out.
Let's hope something good comes out of all of this mess.
In any event Peter Carter surely must have to resign his position after visiting Mid-Staff's and stating:
"I found the hospital to be well managed, it was clearly a very clean and efficient hospital, and the quality of nursing and other health-related care was of an exceptionally high standard. I had the opportunity to talk in private with patients and their relatives, all of whom expressed a high degree of satisfaction with the standard of care." Surely he can't continue.
It feels strange to agree with the government, but, yes, the Royal Colleges need to stop their collusion with managers and be clear about their roles as union reps and professional bodies.
I see that NT are deleting posts that mention how poor the RCN is as a union. You can delete as much as you like: RCN members past and present know that to be the truth.
I just hope that members push for the RCN to split so that it can be an effective royal college and the union can be an effective union. Currently it is neither.
It may be a better option to split, but then I envisage 2 subscriptions. For those of you who remember 'rates' being split into community charge (or it's forbearers) and water rates. Not a direct comparison, I agree, but shows how things work!
Sounds a good idea.
Apart from the 'two subscriptions' thing. Lets hope that doesn't happen!
ONE Union for nurses and HCA's. ONE Voice not 5 unions without enough votes to take any action. If e.g., 16% voted across 5 different unions but had been one union then wouldn't we have had a different outcome. I don't know much about how unions work mind but wouldn't that have been the case instead of splitting votes across different unions?
Last week I witnessed with my own eyes the local branch RCN AGM. The Committee posts were taken up by Hospital manager as secretary, and the other posts by ward managers. Morale being rock bottom I was the only ordinary staff nurse present so no wonder they slotted back in to take control just like Sir Robert Francis QC advises against. There was no opposition. However it leaves the local situation - Dire ! Staff think they are supported by RCN . No RCN=NHS and NHS=RCN. Get real everyone.
what patients? wasn't really aware there were any really, or that they are of particular importance in the health services to anyone but nurses, doctors and other hc professionals and front line staff all of whom get the blame if they are not well served and of course the majority who are wonderful and genuinely care but are greatly limited in scope by the organisation and its rigid systems which appear more to do with finances, targets and keeping clinical staff in check.
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PLAYER PER +/- PLAYER PER RANK Tyler Rawson 21 +3.1 Troy Brown 17 #11 David Collette 17 +1.7 MiKyle McIntosh 14 #14 Justin Bibbins 17 +1.6 Elijah Brown 14 #14 Sedrick Barefield 15 +7.5 Kenny Wooten 8
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Hands down, Bibbins getting hot won this game. Something I haven't heard a lot about was the Utah defense frustrating the Ducks.
On several occasions I noticed Oregon players jawing with each other and telling them they did something wrong.
I hope this is the case going forward. The Utah defense is good, not great, but they play smart rotation D and there aren't many easy shots.
I heard K talk about this team. He had a heart to heart with them and said "none of you are good enough to win one on one at either end of the floor. You need each other, use them." or something to that effect
First off, Oregon had 0 steals and Utah had only 3 turnovers. Wow. That will win games. The two biggest games Utah has won this year (Missouri and Oregon) they have a combined 7 turnovers. Averaging 12.1 per game. Obviously huge. Utah was 10/27 from deep with is just barely above their average so I wouldn't say this was an amazing game from deep but Bibbins showed up when he needed to.
I barely remember Rawson playing and then the dude gets a 21 PER. 3/9 from the field, 1/5 from deep, but 9 rebounds and 7 assists with only 1 turnover. The guy is so important to this team.
Barefield +7.5 PER on his average was also huge. He's been bad on the road and vs Pac12 teams. I guess the tradeoff was Bealer disappeared.
Second point, Pritchard was -2 PER. 2/10 from the field. 0/5 from 3. 4 turnovers. FYI he's their leader. Averaging 15.6 and 4.4 assists. Avg PER is 15.9 so he was -17.9 for the game.
Utah was +20 on possessions. That's huge. They took +10 shots. +1 on offensive rebounds, and -8 on turnovers.
Crazy stat, both teams went 10/27 from deep and both teams had 5 blocks (Wooten had all 5)
14 turnovers was a season low for a Utah game. Average is 25.3 combined.
The teams combined for 18/24 from the line, both season lows for Utah game. Total of 29 fouls was the first time there were less than 30.
122 points was also a season low. 143.4 average.
This was a balanced game across the board (FG almost the same 41.3% to 41.1%, three was exactly the same, Utah was +4.2% from the line 8/11 vs 10/13.
The difference here was turnovers. Utah was -8 on turnovers and that won the game.
Next game, Oregon State. 59th in FG%, 314th in 3pt%, 168th in points, 196th in rebounding.
Former Ute commit Tres Tinkle is leading the team with 18.5 points, he also leads in rebounding at 6.9 and steals at 1.6.
Drew Eubanks is a load. 6'10" 250 pounds, he's reached double figures in 11 of 13 games. Season high 26 pts and 11 rebs vs Long Beach State last month. Had a 10/10 game vs Loyola Marymount.
The Beavers had won 6 in a row in December. A 1 pt loss to Kent State keeps them from being 10-3 and on an 8 game win streak.
Their toughest game of the season was a 5 pt loss to St. John's. They've only faced 2 top 100 teams and lost both (Wyoming)


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Mennonite Sanitarium
from The La Junta Tribune Industrial Edition, March 15, 1915
It is a fact, well known and recognized by the medical fraternity that the climate in this section of the state is the most beneficial to those suffering from tuberculosis or asthmatic affections of any climate found in the United States. The United States government has a hospital for the treatment of those suffering with the dreaded white plague within twenty miles of La Junta and it is rumored the government expects to make arrangements within the near future to erect a sanitarium there for the treatment of all consumptives under its care, instead of only those from the navy department, as heretofore.
Plenty of pure air, sunshine and mild temperatures are the climactic essentials in the treatment of the tubercular patients and there are to be found in abundance in this part of the Arkansas valley.
About the year 1905, the question of establishing a sanitarium for the treatment of tuberculosis was brought before the conferences of the Mennonite church, and after some discussion the territory tributary to La Junta was chosen as the place to locate the proposed institution. Contributions were solicited and met with such a hearty response that the work was underway within a comparatively short time. By the 25th of October, the building was ready for the dedicatory services, and the reception of patients.
The Sanitarium is owned and controlled by the Mennonite Board of Missions and Charities, although the immediate oversight is left to the local board of directors, composed of seven members, all living within easy reach of the institution.
The Sanitarium is located 4 ½ miles west of La Junta and is situated on a hill that commands an excellent view of the country for many miles. The main building is built of concrete and brick veneer, having a basement and 2 ½ stories. The main part is 32 by 60ft. in dimensions, and contains a dining room and kitchen in the basement. The first floor has a fine large reception room, also used for services and other meetings, toilets, cloak room, pharmacy, a well equipped laboratory and superintendent's office. The second floor has an operating room and five private rooms. There are also two wings, each 24 by 50ft., with room for 44 beds. The entire equipment for the welfare of sufferers is equal to that found in any similar institution.
The water supply is derived from an artesian well on the grounds and the building is supplied with both hot and cold water. The Sanitarium farm supplies vegetables, milk, butter, eggs and meat. The value of the farm, buildings and equipment is estimated at $61,000.00 of the present time.
While the sanitarium is the church institution, no discrimination is made between church members and those making no profession. The large amount of charity work has been done since the institution was opened, and a number of such cases have been treated. For this reason the sanitarium is not entirely self supporting and all contributions are gladly accepted.
Hundreds of cases of lung trouble have been treated during the past few years, and a large percentage of cures have been obtained, although a number of cases are hopeless before they come to Colorado, and of course nothing can be done in such cases, except, perhaps, alleviate the suffering to some extent. Other cases than tuberculosis are taken when the institution has room. At this time nearly all the beds are taken. J.M. Hershey is the superintendent of the cemetery and has been for several years.
Sanitarium Farm
The farm connected with the Mennonite Sanitarium originally consisted of 160 acres. Recently, however, the board of directors saw fit to purchase the 320 acres lying west of the original farm. Altogether they now have 400 acres of land under irrigation. Twenty acres were in beets last year and made from fourteen to nineteen tons per acre. Fifty acres of oats made 50 bushels per acre. One hundred and forty acres are in alfalfa. There's also a cherry orchard of seven acres that will soon begin to bear.
They have thirty head of cattle and are milking twelve. There are also fourteen head of horses and colts. One of the present needs of the farm is a good barn and it is hoped that money enough will soon be on hand to enable one to be erected.
The farm superintendent at this time is J.J. Smith of Sterling Illinois.
The sanitarium was in operation from 1905 - 1950.


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Wednesday, 24 December 2008
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A gang of young revellers is standing near the bus stop making merry on this Christmas Eve. One of them spots her and shouts out, "Aw naw lads - look oot, it's a polar berr" and starts dancing round about, making loud roaring noises. Another of his daft pals joins in. She pays them no heed, neither looking to the left nor to the right, but proceeds along the pavement with her head held high. Eventually they trail away and return to their spot at the cross on the lookout for more carry-on.
Christmas Eve, and there's hustle and scurry zipping through the air. Lights beam and gleam from windows as shoppers return from town laden with bags and hasten through the gloom of the night. Last minute packets of frozen brussels sprouts and, oh no, nae chipolatas left at Farmfoods!
Merry Christmas to Govanites everywhere - hope Santa's good to you!
Tuesday, 16 December 2008
Memories Make the Season Brighter
Of course I feel very honoured, and privileged, to be asked by Lady Govan to be a guest contributor on her blog - now being read I believe, all around the world. Not that this further exposure on the internet would make such a difference as regards the fame of our 'dear green place' -- which is already almost as well known as London, Paris or New York.
I, having passed the three score and ten years mark, confess to not being 'quite up to the mark' re memory, but feel well enough qualified (if I dig deep) to come up with something that will interest the older generation who claim a 'Govan-connection', as well as inspiring longing in the younger 'punters' for what they missed in the so-called 'good old days'.
I saw Govan -- the streets, the backs (backcourts), the docks, the ferry, the two Town Halls, the 'pictures' (cinemas), the Govan Press, the schools (too many to mention by name, but well divided into 'proddies and catholics'), the shipyards (worked in Stephens), saw and loved everything connected with football (had a leaning towards Rangers, but enjoyed very much the season I played with St. Constantine's Boys Club -- when I wore, of all things, a Celtic strip). Anyway, these are not my memoirs; I'm merely trying to show how well qualified I am to write about Govan.
I delivered milk for the Co-op dairy in Carmichael Street for about five years, and then for a few years I was at the Co-op dairy at Govan Cross.
Delivering milk around 6.00 am seven days a week lets you see Govan, more or less, asleep -- not influenced by 'the corner boys', 'snottery-nosed weans' or the shipyard workers--going-to or coming-from the yards.
I hasten to add that I had nothing against the above 'making up the fabric' of Govan or I suppose, the character.
But I liked the quiet of 6.00 am, with the lamplighter passing by or occasional 'wee wummin' pushing a pram up past the swing park, with a great big bundle covered with a sheet, heading for her early booking at the steamie in Clynder Street (or Harhill Street, near Craigton Road}.
My 'rambling' has led me to my delivering of milk -- and I suppose, the Christmas-connection in my 'blog-writing' would be the tips we looked forward to, especially at Christmas time. Although some of our customers would give 'a bob' or so each week, the other good time for tips apart from Christmas was at the Glasgow Fair holiday.
The main part of 'our run' was Neptune Street (aka 'the Irish Channel') with all the tenement closes. It seemed that the people with the biggest families who needed the most bottles of milk would live 'three stairs up' and though it was not the most wealthy of neighbourhoods, the people were, I would wager, far better at tipping than their 'posher' counterparts in Newton Mearns or the West End.
So Christmas was very good for the milkboys -- not that my brothers or myself saw much of the money we earned, or the tips -- coming from a family of seven, and a father earning, I would think, less than £3 a week. All other money had to go into 'the kitty' (the household budget), and I certainly don't ever remember grudging that -- it was a 'good feeling' being able to help out.
I remember one of the best gifts I ever got. It wasn't Christmas, but it certainly felt like Christmas -- and if it had been it would have counted as my best ever.
My eldest brother, John, did his National Service in the RAF and was in Singapore and India, must have been about 1946, just after World War II had ended. I reckon it would be around June-July when he got leave from the RAF on his return from abroad.
When in India, he bought a few pairs of football boots -- thinking back (with my poor memory, too) I'm pretty sure that these football boots were made of cardboard (only joking, but that's how they looked and felt).
I would have been about 14 years old then, and they were more than gratefully received -- in fact, I remember being 'over the moon' with them. Even big and ugly (not me, the boots) as I now remember them -- I loved them more than if they had been a pair of 'Beckham's Beauty Boots' today! I suppose I would have thanked my brother John for the boots -- but probably not enough.
I was also grateful to John for a 'cast-off' suit, which'I fell heir to' -- it was powder blue. John was a real snappy dresser as a teenager and in his twenties, and he was always very generous. I loved that blue suit and have often wondered since, did it look as good as I felt when wearing it?
John has now passed on from this world, as has my brother Harry (also, a great big brother, in different ways from John) -- there was another brother, Billy, who died as a child before I was born. As Christmas is a time for families, I will dedicate this blog to 'family departed' -- I suppose I may be trying to make recompense for that 'wishing' feeling we often have when some family or friends pass on, and we wish that we had made 'more of the time' we spent with them in this life.
Think what you will, I thank Lady Govan for the opportunity to 'air' some of my feelings for family, Govan and time spent there -- and wish you a Happy Christmas and a Healthy and Prosperous 2009.
Wednesday, 10 December 2008
Tree Tops Glisten
And here he comes, running across the road from the PI in a bright red suit, smiling and a little self conscious. A plastic green and white gazebo has been erected for the occasion and under it a couple of DJs play "Do they know it's Christmas?" and a string of number one Christmas hits.
Tuesday, 2 December 2008
An Icy Snap
Down by the river the waste ground is a delightful skating rink - if a little rough - and boys are hurtling along a lethal pavement slide of frozen water.


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I'm not ashamed to say that deep down I'm still a big kid. Maybe that's why children are so drawn to me. I loved coloring as a child and trying different techniques and effects with patterns. I never really outgrew the past time, I guess just got older and it was no longer the norm for an adult to use a coloring book.
I won't lie – I thought about buying one and just using it to pass time and relieve stress. But every coloring book had some overrated animated character as the theme. Dora the Explorer, Hello Kitty and Ninja Turtles aren't exactly what I want to use. But then…
I started hearing people talking about adult coloring books. Do those things even work? I'm not one who likes to online shop a lot unless doing so saves me money. I usually want what I want when I want it and that means no patience for shipping. I wasn't sold on the idea that using an adult coloring book would actually help with stress.
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I colored in the book for four hours over the span of a few days. It did make me feel more relaxed and time flew right on by. When I was coloring my mind was solely focused on that act alone. Which colors would look good together? How can I blend these shades? Would smudging make a better technique? Don't go outside the lines! My problems were far away from me.
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Tuesday, March 16, 2010
The Perils of Insta-Music (Down with downloading)
The downloading of music -both legal and illegal- is quickly and efficiently destroying the entire independent music scene throughout the US and abroad.
As a musician, a former record store clerk, a former record store owner, and a consumer boasting a collection of hundreds of CD's and LP's combined, I have witnessed firsthand the gradual, yet incredibly steep decline of today's music scene.
Our desire for instant gratification far out-weighs our willingness to stop and pay attention to any thought, sound, or idea that may seem foreign to us, thus taking away any initiative to think independently. This is the problem with downloadable music. If you do not immediately identify in every way, shape and form to the sound and idea that is currently being presented, you are just a click away from listening to any of the 40,000 songs that are able to occupy your 80 gigabyte I-Pod.
While my experiences working at independent record stores are some of my fondest career related memories of my life (not that its strong competition), it is in turn, peppered by sadness.
As a former record store owner, I had the ability to help people get turned onto new and old sounds from around the world. Unfortunately, this was before having to close the doors due to the insistence of my landlord that I be able to afford the monthly rent.
I've witnessed firsthand the devastation that can occur to CD sales when a company can sell downloads of music for a few dollars cheaper than a physical manifestation of the sound. Countless independent record stores around the country, even the world have now closed due to a lack of sales, and it has had a devastating impact on the music scene at large.
Independent record stores are the heart of the music scene. When attempting to confront the massive bulk that is today's music industry, there is no company online, or in any ultra-mega mart that requires the merchant to know the nuances of the artists, genres, and origins of songs the way that they do. Additionally, if a local band wants to promote an upcoming show, they cannot turn to "Napster" for help, however they are almost always welcome (and often encouraged) to post a poster or flyers at their local store.
But record stores are not the only effected by downloading. Gone are the days of the Woody Guthrie's, the Bob Dylan's, and the John Lennon's. The new "voice of a generation" is little more than a shrill wail let loose by whatever band happens to be promoted on the "I-Tunes" home page that week. When music has to be instantly marketable to the masses in order to turn a profit, there is no room for deviation from the standard blueprint. The result? New, raw talent is not only overlooked, but also discouraged.
Another less visible, but equally debilitating issue created by downloading is the ease of obtaining hard to find music. This may sound as more of a blessing than curse, but the premise is simple: The harder you work to obtain anything in life, the more you value it. In previous generations, collectors would plow through hundreds of records to find that one hard to find song on some out of print record label. Now you are just two clicks and $9.99 away from the "Lost Sessions" of any given artist. When rare music is at your fingertips at any given point, the hunt for it is lost, and in so, it loses a bit of its significance.
Unfortunately for true music enthusiasts, there is no end in sight. As downloadable music sales continue to rise, CD sales also continue to plummet. Music is quickly becoming little more than a combination of 0's and 1's stored some massive data bank, owned by some corporate greedhead living in a private community that you would be immediately shot on site for entering. Video did in fact NOT kill the radio star, the bloody knife rests in our own pockets, next to our I-Pod.
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24 April 2012
Summer Check List
What are you excited to do this summer?
8 comments:
- Josie Davis said...
oh I love this! I see you have both NYC and DC on there... do you live in the north east too?? I'm in South Jersey!
hah.. I LOVE how you have "complain about the heat" on there! I always complain too, but I would so much rather it be 90 degrees then 20 degrees and snowing!
- April 24, 2012 at 10:17 AM
- Scout said...
I'm in south central Pennsylvania - right between two great cities!
And yes, I figured I'd be realistic with my list - and it'd give me a super easy one to cross off :)
- April 24, 2012 at 12:01 PM
- whalecliff said...
Oh man! Sharks and minnows! That is definitely one of my very favorite pool games. I love it and pool games in general. Also if you go to Savannah and stop by Atlanta let me know and we could do something! :)
- April 24, 2012 at 10:10 PM
- Scout said...
I love sharks and minnows, too! Although I really hate being it. I'm one of those people that wants to stop playing as soon as it's my turn to be it - I don't, though, because that wouldn't be fair.
- April 24, 2012 at 10:37 PM
You will love Savannah! I went for the first time last summer and we had such a fun time. You have to check out The Paris Market. It's a store with tons of vintage, Paris inspired goodies. They also have a little cafe in the store where you can get coffee and ice cream and you can just sit by the window and drink your cappuccino, it's just awesome. The basement of this store has some really awesome old letterpress parts, like the actual machine parts and all the little metal letter stamps.
Jeff and I are also planning a trip to NYC this summer! Jeff has never been, and I've only been twice, which of course means there is still so much for us to see. I want to go to Central Park, possibly even try to check out the places from You've Got Mail.
I'm so excited for you this summer!
- April 25, 2012 at 2:36 PM
- hailey said...
complain about the heat. CHECK. haha, never fail- i will complain about the cold...and the heat. gosh. why is the grass ALWAYS greener?!
- May 16, 2012 at 2:32 PM
- Scout said...
I know! I think I wouldn't mind the heat so much if I never got sweaty or sticky feeling.
- May 16, 2012 at 2:57 PM
- Joshua Galemore said...
If only one of these items can be done it must be Savannah! (Seriously NYC and DC would be much more fun but you gotta come down here!)
- May 26, 2012 at 11:50 PM


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Most of us had some experiences in interviewing for a job and discussing the financial package with the manager/recruiter in the end. It is super intriguing to learn how the dialogue itself makes such a tremendous impact to the final happiness level of the candidate ("satisfaction"), than the financial package numbers are able to impact ("outcome").
at all, studies (*) have shown again and again and again, there is often even a big inversion between "outcome" and
"satisfaction". Higher financial package, more disgruntled employees? What's going on here?
And the million dollar question is how to get the upper
hand in this process?
For instance, is it a good
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is first-mover loses, which is true in many cases. But it depends on
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The more profound take-away is that, nothing discussed here is limited to the job offer
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(*) This post is about "job offer negotiation satisfaction", NOT "job satisfaction", which is a whole different topic.
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County, Arkansas. Hudson was a remarkable bee hunter and always had on hand
an abundance of wild honey for home use. After the close of the Civil War
he became much interested in bee keeping and owned a large number of beehives,
and has been known to have as much as 800 pounds of honey on hand at a time.
He lived eight miles above Jasper, the county seat, and was one of the earliest
settlers on Little Buffalo Creek.
In 1854 he was attacked by a panther, the awful scars of which combat he carried to his grave. In the year named, accompanied by Johnnie, his little five year old boy, he went into the forest to cut a bee tree. Hudson carried his axe, butcher knife and a large bucket. Arriving at the tree the old hunter soon felled it, and after chopping off a block in order to reach the honey, his attention was called to a loud coarse growl on a steep hillside nearby. There crouched on the ground was a large panther seemingly in an awful rage. It had apparently seen an enemy or was looking for one. Hudson had neither dog nor gun. Picking up a stone he hurled it at the beast. The missile struck the ground a few yards above the furious animal. The stone rolled down toward it and the beast caught it in its mouth. This seemed to increase its rage. It dropped the stone, and with a dreadful growl it sprang along the hillside toward the hunter. A big log lay between the beast and Hudson, with the top end down the hill. The large end was within 20 feet of the stump of the bee tree. The panther ran along on top of the log, and when it reached the end, it gave a long leap toward the frightened man, who now realized that a battle was to be fought. Hudson braced himself to resist it. The terrible creature sprang forward and when within a few feet the hunter hurled his axe at it, but missed. As the ferocious animal reached him, Hudson raised his left hand and arm to protect his breast and face. As he did so the panther caught his arm in its mouth, when the terrible struggle began. The beast held fast and commenced to lacerate his flesh with its long, sharp claws. The man was dealing heavy blows with his clenched right hand. His clothing was torn in shreds, streams of blood flowed freely from great wounds inflicted by the animals claws. The struggling man and desperate panther were red with human blood, Hudson was rapidly losing strength, yet he did not lose courage or presence of mind. The little boy stood within a few feet of the battle, being too young to realize the perilous position his father was in, and looked on as an idle spectator. As the combat continued the little fellow called out, Daddy, do you think you can whip it?", and the father was too busy to reply. Dark thoughts rose before the man, as he realized that if the panther gained the battle it would destroy the child. This gave him renewed energy. The man fought with desperation to save the life of his child as well as his own life. The boy supposed it was a fight as if between man and man. The butcher knife was on the ground nearby the boy. Presently the little fellow seemed to realize that the beast would kill his father and he cried out, "Daddy, do you want your knife? The despairing man heard him and replied, "Yes, quick." The boy advanced boldly and handed the knife to his father, who in turn thrust the keen blade in the panthers body. Withdrawing it, he again sank the bloody knife into the body of the beast and turned the blade in the wound. Then he swooned and fell from exhaustion; but the knife had done its work well, for as Hudson fell the panther reeled and fell dead on top of him. After a short time the weak man managed to crawl from under his victim, and drag himself away from the bloody scene, and with the aid of his little boy he struggled to get home. As his life blood was ebbing away his little boy covered some of the wounds with mud. It was many days before he was able to hunt bee trees. Ugly scare were left on his head, face, breast and arms. Hudson was quite popular with the settlers before the incident, but now they loved him the more, and thought him worthy of a place in the legislature, and he was elected to represent them in that capacity. When he arrived at the capitol the members of the assembly were eager to shake hands with the man who had killed a panther in a combat. Hudson engaged in the mercantile business a few years later. A part of his goods were hauled from Springfield, Mo. One day while in the town named, a lot of young fellows who had heard of his combat, collected around him and asked more questions than he desired to answer. Finally he told them, "Yes, he was the man who killed the panther and I can whip the whole crowd of you fellows." The youngsters saw fight in his eyes and immediately apologized. As pioneers pass the spot where the struggle for life transpired, they are occasionally heard to say, "There is where Hudson fought so desperately to save the life of himself and little boy."
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Hey there, sistahs!
Great news on a couple fronts. For the first time ever, one of my books is now available in print form! My non-erotic suspense novel, Kari Okay, is finally proofed and approved and available wherever bookstores (online or otherwise) are cool enough to carry me.
In preparing Kari Okay for print, I made over 100 improvements to the text, and then used that to create a second edition of the eBook version, which is also available now. The print version is a cute little 8"x5" thing that runs around 260 pages, so I'm sure those of you who enjoy print will appreciate it.
As for the eBook version, I have some news there, too, beyond the new second edition version now being available. I was prepared to publish Kari Okay wide on other platforms this summer, but when I decided to issue the print version, I decided to celebrate it all for my loyal Amazon fans.
So, the eBook is now in a program called MatchBook, which means if you're kind enough to buy the print version of Kari Okay, you'll get the eBook version at a steep discount: only $0.99!
I've also dropped the price of the eBook a buck to only $3.99 as it's regular price.
And coming up, on August 1st through 5th, I'll be running another Free promotion on the eBook version, so you'll have another chance to snatch it up without having to spend a penny. So if you're looking to save some shekels, there's your tip.
So, lots of things happening with Kari Okay right now, and if you're all good and well-behaved sistahs, maybe I'll unleash my next release on you all soon. I don't have another non-erotic title up my sleeve just yet, but you might want to be on the lookout for a return to the sexy-time fun you've loved me for in the past.
Probably a short or two, in the short term.
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In line with Global Money Week and the support of KBZ Bank, Third Story Project launched a line of financial literacy short story books that specifically address issues relevant to the children of Myanmar, and their context for financial literacy.
In addition, children also presented a play to the Third Story Project Team and KBZ Bank on financial literacy.


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Few days ago I had to deploy a simple wordpress installation for a project at @therumpusroom_ with my buddy @twentyrogersc. Super simple, yet it presented a little issue: having a personalized authentication form, displayed on a wordpress page, it was re-directing to the default login screen after specifying incorrect credentials. It came out that we needed to implement the whole authentication mechanism on a page, hence tweaking the simple post form to send data to itself instead of submitting to wp-login.php (which, btw is working fine if users provide the correct credentials, and also accept a redirect parameter to make users land on a pre-determined page).
Just for my records, I leave the code here, and I hope I could save some time to people who incur in the same problem. Here's my solution:
- from the dashboard create a page and give it a meaningful permalink, such as log-in
- create a php file and give it a name according to the wordpress convention: page-<permalink>.php (in my case: page-log-in.php)
- write the php code to perform the whole authentication (hence including password check and signon), this is my code:
<?php // if user is logged in, redirect whereever you want if (is_user_logged_in()) { header('Location: '.get_option('siteurl').'/how-to'); exit; } // if this page is receiving post data // means that someone has submitted the login form if( isset( $_POST['log'] ) ) { $incorrect_login = TRUE; $log = trim( $_POST['log'] ); $pwd = trim( $_POST['pwd'] ); // check if username exists if ( username_exists( $log ) ) { // read user data $user_data = get_userdatabylogin( $log ); // create the wp hasher to add some salt to the md5 hash require_once( ABSPATH.'/wp-includes/class-phpass.php'); $wp_hasher = new PasswordHash( 8, TRUE ); // check that provided password is correct $check_pwd = $wp_hasher->CheckPassword($pwd, $user_data->user_pass); // if password is username + password are correct // signon with wordpress function and redirect wherever you want if( $check_pwd ) { $credentials = array(); $credentials['user_login'] = $log; $credentials['user_password'] = $pwd; $credentials['remember'] = isset($_POST['rememberme']) ? TRUE : FALSE; $user_data = wp_signon( $credentials, false ); header('Location: '.site_url('how-to')); } else { // don't need to do anything here, just print some error message // in the form below after checking the variable $incorrect_login } } } // and finally print the form, just be aware the action needs to go to "self", // hence we're using echo site_url('log-in'); for it ?> <?php get_header(); ?>
log in
 <form action="<?php echo site_url('log-in'); ?>" method="post" id="login-form"> User <input type="text" name="log" id="log" class="text" value="<?php echo wp_specialchars(stripslashes($user_login), 1) ?>" size="20" /> Password <input type="password" name="pwd" id="pwd" class="text" size="20" /> <input name="rememberme" id="rememberme" type="checkbox" checked="checked" value="forever" /> Remember me <input type="hidden" name="redirect_to" value="<?php echo get_option('siteurl'); ?>/how-to" /> <input type="submit" name="submit" value="log in" class="button" /> </form> <?php // incorrect credentials, print an error message if( TRUE == $incorrect_login ) { ?>
Incorrect login details. Please confirm the fields and submit it again, or <a href="<?php echo site_url('contact-us'); ?>">contact us to obtain a set of credentials.
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Long time no blog ! I thought it was high time I injected a little life into this page and produced some more video blogging.
A radio station on one of the sunny Costas in Southern Spain uses my voice and production services on a regular basis and this is a video recording of a short session of amendments needed for an existing radio ad.
So, do you think I manage to create an image of fine wine and food served in beautiful surroundings from a cold studio in Northern England ?
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Just beyond our backyard fence is where Gerry has the wood pile,( wood used for the wood stove in his workshop when it gets cold), but the fence is kind of old and rotting in spots back there. Fence boards ARE expensive and so is paint. Being that this is only a small section behind the wood pile, I decided that instead of replacing the fence boards with new fence boards, let's tear that section down and just put up a few pallets instead.
Gerry took one section down and put up the pallet just to show what it will look like, and since its only for yard separation with the neighbor's yard and behind the wood pile, we won't be painting it. Kind of a rustic look .
Gerry has to get his hands on about 2-3 more free pallets but saves us big and gets rid of that bad part of the fence. Will update with another photo when it's done.
August 18th Update:
Decided it looked quite well without a fence in behind it- so for now we are leaving out the pallets.


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Hi. Please help me understand the following.
Re{z}=1/2Re{sqrt2/2+j. sqrt2/2}=sqrt2/4
I don't understand how this solution was gained
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As a man, I always thought I'd wear only one ring in my lifetime - a wedding band. But I recently discovered that to be far from the truth.
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Coverage of Syd Hayes, the L'Oreal Ambassador and his work at New York Fashion Week, FW 2015.
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After a visit to San Stefano Rotondo on the Celian Hill, John and I went to lunch at Trattoria Luzzi near the Colosseum.
It's on Via San Giovanni di Laterano just across the street from the wonderful San Clemente church.
We were surprised to find such a treasure in this tourist hot-spot. Luckily we arrived just before the hungry crowds of locals and tourists began to line up.
We were pleased to see a wood-burning oven on the premises.
John likes to take pictures of staff at work.
Including the kitchen where a wide variety of pastas and main dishes were being prepared.
Luzzi serves up unpretentious, delicious fare like my great insalate mista -- crispy mixed greens and tomatoes
or John's simple tomato salad. Like most Roman eateries Luzzi brings olive oil and balsamic vinegar to the table to allow diners to dress their own salads.
It is a rough and tumble pace with a great mix of diners, attentive, no-nonsense staff and big portions of grub.
The house wine is hearty and suits their rich, cheesy pizzas perfectly. The couple next to us shared a big dish of mixed seafood that smelled and looked yummy too.
We were utterly stuffed when we headed out into the street that looks onto the Colosseum. If you are not an 18-year-old boy you might want to share one of the main dishes.


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Wanted Review
|Developer: Iplay
|Download Game
Game Features
Follows the film
Far too easy
|Review Details
|Sony-Ericsson K800i
|Time Played
|1.5 hours
|Game Progress
|Finished it once and halfway through again
Anannya Sens Review
Add the letters 'u' and 'n' to the title of this game and what have you got. And no, it's not wantedun.
I Wanted to like this game, in the same way I Wanted to like the film. James McAvoy is a great actor, Angelina has a great ass and there was Matrix stylee action. But something just didn't gel together in the film (Loom of Fate? Come on. And this is coming from a comic book fan. If they had made an actual full adaptation of the comic, then we would be talking) and it certainly didn't gel together in the game.
In case you didn't know, Wanted is based on the hit movie where unknown nobody Wesley Gibson is plucked to discover his true heritage, gain super powers and become a world class assassin.
It's been a while since the last Gameloft run and shoot and flip around actioner and I think Iplay have tried to fill the void. Wanted certainly has a lot of nice running and acrobatics in it. It also has lots of shooting and killing in it. But essentially Iplay have made everything a bit too easy.
The game follows the plot of the film and you're recruited pretty soon to hone your skills. I say hone, the first level starts off pretty instantly with you getting attacked from different directions and you have to shoot your assailants by pressing the right button number before you paraglide to safety. The action in the game isn't particularly complet, you just have to run from left to right for most of the time, pressing the action button intermittently to shoot or knife people. There are plenty of places where you have to jump and roll as well to get to where you want to go.
Then there are the levels later on where you are constantly running and you have to time your jumps and rolls. Again, there's not a lot of skill required to do this as long as you know where everything is. This will involve you dying quite a lot to memorise the level and it can be quite annoying after a while. One of the later levels involved scaling a wrecked train and it was pretty confusing, even for me, due to all the checkpoints and level areas looking the same. You can't tell if you've gone the right way or died and started again. Even if you die, you still usually restart the level where you left off and with full health. And speaking of health, after a few seconds it will quickly begin to replenish itself.
There are some levels where you have to master the bullet bending technique and in this I will give some props to Iplay for coming up with some way of doing it on a mobile. They've opted for numeric sequence presses, based on where your opponent is. If they are on the same level as you, pressing the corresponding number quickly will result in a kill. I.e. 4 or 6 depending on whether they are left or right. But if they are above or below you, then you have to press and hold the right number, i.e. 1, 3, 7 and 9 to get the bullet to bend around and hit them.
The problem is that in these areas there are usually too many enemies too quickly for you to really notice the effort they've put into making the bullets bend. A bit reminiscent of the film actually. As the game progresses Wesley has to do all the things he did in the film, and the distinctly 2D graphics didn't help much, especially making Angelina a red head. The title screen looks great but then you get to the gameplay and you feel like the game could have been a few years old. The one thing I did like about it was the fact that the graphics had a great comic book feel to them. Sound as well wasn't brilliant, although there were some gunshot sounds and some very weird elevator music.
There were also plenty of rats in the game. If you haven't seen the film I won't say anything, but suffice it to say the ability to use rats was not something I saw any point of in the game at all, apart from one level that seemed to stray quite a bit from the film. I never used them otherwise. Each level also allows you to collect a golden rat if you can find if so that your name appears on the awards. Whoop dee doo. A nice idea if you had been able to replay individual levels again to get the rats you never found. But you can't, you have to start from the beginning.
Not that it will take you that long to finish, an hour and a half later and I Wanted to believe there was more to it than that. But there wasn't and the only thing you could do was play through the game again. There are some levels where you have to figure out which sequence to press switches in but this is never hard. Other levels where you have to memorise the level layout as you are constantly running. But this isn't too hard either. Even the latter levels didn't prove too difficult at all, especially as there was a little trick to allow you to clock them easily (see our hints section).
Overall I Wanted a lot more. I Wanted some really cool and complex action that I had to think about and required skill. I Wanted state of the art graphics and sound. I wanted to play through the game thinking that was a brilliant experience. But we don't always get what we want.


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There were years when I could not write creatively at all...except for poetry. In my twenties, as a young mother of two little boys, while straining to complete a PhD in an alien city in Texas, I read Walcott's poetry and wrote my own. I am aware of the charges of sexual harassment plaguing Walcott's career and they make me very uncomfortable as a woman and a poet. But it is also true that he influenced my early writing in a way that is undeniable.
then the rain begins to come in paragraphs
and hazes this page, hazes the grey of islets,
I end here, on this resounding tribute to the immortality of the word, of poetry. There can be no death here, no silence.
Dipika Mukherjee's second novel, Shambala Junction, will be released in the US in April 2017; it won the Virginia Prize for Fiction (Aurora Metro, 2016). Her debut novel, was longlisted for the Man Asian Literary Prize, republished as Ode to Broken Things (Repeater, 2016), and is available in bookstores now. It is being released as an Audible book on March 28, 2017.


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