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Discover How Your Beliefs Maybe Preventing You From Living The Life You Want Right Now
Join Master Energy Healers, Anna Kitney, Vanya Silverten and Skylar Acamesis for this LIVE Workshop where they will show you step-by-step how to identify self limiting beliefs, and change them to create a life you'll love – in your health, wealth, love life and business.
We would like to invite you to attend our Theta Healing® Introductory Workshop, where you can discover first-hand how effective and life-changing this type of energy healing is. You'll be shown how beliefs are created, how to recognise deeply held beliefs and how you can instantly reprogram them. We'll also be changing the frequent limiting beliefs people often have around self-love, self-worth, attracting a soul mate and abundance.
Do you know your abundance blocks?
Have you ever noticed how some people can effortlessly attract good things into their lives? They have a job they love and opportunities seem to fall into their lap. They have a loving family and great friends. They have money to spend on holidays…
But unfortunately, many people don't lead the fulfilling life they yearn for. They live their lives full of stress and things don't run smoothly in their relationships… money… career… or… health.
They may even believe that life is meant to be a struggle. And so they continually self-sabotage themselves. And their life becomes a vicious circle. But did you know that you can unlock your unlimited potential and manifest a life that you really want?
Your life can have purpose, peace and clarity. You see, what most people don't realise is that it's their old self-limiting beliefs that are holding them back from the empowering life they can live. And as you may know, our beliefs are the assumptions we make about ourselves, about others in the world and about how we expect things to be in our lives. These beliefs are held in our very DNA from our ancestors, the collective consciousness, past lives and are often formed in childhood.
Learn To Make Your Dream A Reality
Stop struggling and start manifesting the life you deserve by transforming from the inside out, by changing your beliefs.
Did you hear these statements when you were a child?
For instance, when we are a young child we are told many different types of statements, such as:
"Money doesn't grow on trees."
"That's not good enough."
"Your a disappointment"
Often these statements and many others are constantly repeated to us as children, and we start to believe them to be true. These statements go onto become our beliefs. As a result, we'll live our lives according to what we were told when we were a child.
If we believe we don't deserve love, then we'll go through life without love or love that is painful to us.
If we believe we're not worthy, then we'll go through life under valuing ourselves.
If we believe it's hard to make money, then we'll work hard to make money.
So these negative beliefs are actually the cause of any lack we may have in our in life right now. No wonder you're not able to live the life you deserve.
But even though you might not be living the life you want, it's possible to change it. And it's not as difficult as it seems; that's because those underlying beliefs that have been holding you back can be changed. By changing your old beliefs you will get the clarity to change the things in your life that aren't working for you. Whether it's to find love, improve your financial situation, change your career, improve your health, or you just want to be generally more abundant in your own life.
Here is what others are saying
after attending the Theta Healing® Introductory Workshop
What is Theta Healing®?
Theta Healing® is a personal development and energy healing modality. It uses Divine Source Energy for healing and transformation. From tranforming limiting beliefs, manifesting, trauma release, working with Guardian angels, spirit guides, chakras and so much more. Vianna Stibal founded the modality over 20 years ago and her books are published by Hay House, the world leading mind, body, spirit publisher. Theta Healing® is in 152 countries around the world by over 350,000 certified and accredited practitioners. It's even being used in hospitals in Japan.
How Theta Healing® clears negative beliefs
A Theta Healing® practitioner connects to Divine Source Energy and intuitively scans the body for energy blocks, identify any self-limiting belief, feelings and traumas. Then a command or prayer is made to direct this energy to instantly change to self-limiting beliefs into empowering new beliefs. This is all done through the energy of All That Is – the energy in everything.
It's when you and your practitioner are in the meditative theta state that your old beliefs can be changed. And getting into a meditative state is very simple, as your practitioner guides you through this in simple and easy steps.
Engage with Industry Thought Leaders and Master Energy Healers
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Discover the Power of Theta Healing®
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Heal Your Life
It's a hands-on workshop with a live demonstration where you will learn how to locate your negative self-limiting and self-sabotaging beliefs that are holding you back. You'll discover how meditation will help you get inner calm and stillness, which will make you feel inspired and empowered to find the right path for your life.
Group Healings
During the workshop we'll also be doing some group healings. Group healings allows us to let go of any 'collective consciousness' that we all carry with us. The group healing will release any: traumas, anxiety, stress and worry about relationships and any lack abundance in our life.
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Also I'll guide you through the Theta Healing® manifesting meditation. This is easy to do and can be done by anyone, even if you are new to meditation. And you'll be given tools and techniques you can use immediately to help you in your life right now.
This Theta Healing® workshop is a chance to see how it can work for you to ask any questions you may have. You'll also be able to observe instant changes in your beliefs and feelings. After the workshop you'll become more aware of your life's lessons, and you'll see how working with Source Energy can help empower you, so you can move forward confidently in your life.
Because when our beliefs change, you change how you feel and you are able to create instant changes in all areas of your life. So you can start to manifest the life you truly deserve.
I have certainly felt a huge change in myself. I am a much calmer person now, have addressed issues and beliefs that have I have held for a long time i.e. weight - have lost almost 2 stone since the course in March and am still work in progress! My back problems are also improving thanks to Theta - I am virtually off pain killers now, there have been other improvements as well and I continually work on myself.Molly Symonds, U.K
Since attending Theta Healing®, I have rekindled an old relationship…moved into a house that I can call home with my new partner… started working for myself… and have been able to secure some big contracts with great clients which will see me through to the end of the year. Allowing me to become debt clear for the first time since university which is weirdly a lot of the things I manifested when I was on the course.Diana Findlay, U.K
I attended this live and was blessed to sit next to another healer. We did a swap. I've since manifested my dream job and moving to Istanbul and manifested a course I wanted to do with a scholarship ? thank you Anna KitneyJulie Lachtay
Here are just some of the things that you'll discover at the Theta Healing® Workshop:
- How to find your inner fears that are blocking you from achieving the desired abundant lifestyle you want.
- How to quickly heal any childhood beliefs you may have, this really will change you and start the transformation on the road of creating the life you want to live.
- How to banish the most common blocks that are stopping you from enjoying the life you want.
- Discover how to get into the theta state of mind quickly and how it will give you clarity and purpose in your life.
- How Theta Healing® makes you empowered and how it pushes you to go after all your innermost desires using the power of manifestation.
- Discover how to attract the most compatible soul mate into your life, or improve your existing relationship
- Discover how to harness your innate intuitive abilities, and learn about some of your natural intuitive centers
- How to clear your present negativities you have towards money, relationships, career and your home life, you'll see immediate positive changes within you.
- How to be 100% certain a new belief has been installed. The simple home test that confirms this.
- Secret words that will destroy your inner saboteur. Will make you feel incredibly powerful and create real inner power.
- And much, MUCH more.
So who is Theta Healing® workshop for?
… If you want to clear any old beliefs that are holding you back in life.
… If your seeking your most compatible soul mate or wanting more from your existing relationship.
… If you're striving and struggling in life and can't understand why you're not more successful.
… If you're a practitioner, healer, therapist who wants to expand their knowledge in ways to help your clients.
… It's for you if you have resistance around being spiritual and charging money.
… If you're struggling to get clients for your business.
Then the Theta Healing® Introductory Workshop is for you.
What to bring with you
- Pen
- Paper
- A bank note for an exercise
- A small hand-held mirror for an exercise
- Small bottle of water. You will be muscle testing yourself, so it is important to be hydrated.
- Your Eventbrite entry ticket
Preparation for the workshop
- Please ensure you are fully hydrated to make muscle-testing fully effective. Here is a video you can watch to discover more about muscle testing
- We also recommend setting an intention for what you would wish to achieve form this workshop. It will then be far more productive and effective for you.
- You may also start writing down your short term, medium term and long term goals ahead of this event.
Start Attracting Love & Abundance
Into Your Life
You don't have to continue living your life with no abundance and endless struggle. You don't have to go through life being lonely or attracting the wrong type of partner. You don't have to put up with feast and famine with your finances. You don't have to stay in the job you hate. Because here's your opportunity to start empowering your life and become clear in your intentions in living the abundant life you so truly deserve.
Are you ready to change your life for the better?
If you are, then we'll see you on the Theta Healing® Introductory Workshop.
Reserve your place today!
Terms & Conditions
- Bourgeon's events are filmed & photographed. By booking this place, you agree to be filmed and photographed.
- Please arrive at least 15 mins before to take your seat, as this will be a large event. Doors will be closed at 10:30am. No entry will be permitted after this time to avoid disturbing others during the workshop.
- No self promotional material will be permitted at the event.
- No sound or video recording of the event is permitted, other than authorised by Bourgeon Ltd. You can however take photo's during the event.
- Tickets are non-refundable, but they are transferrable to a friend for the date they are issued.
- By booking these tickets you agree to the terms and conditions listed above.


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Alpenrose hotel in La Valle, Dolomites
Welcome to the Alpenrose hotel, your hotel for unforgettable vacations in the heart of the Dolomites.
The welcoming hospitality of the Moling family and the cordial and serene atmosphere have made the Alpenrose hotel a gathering place for a devoted clientele, wanting to return each year to the idyllic town of La Valle in Alta Badia, known for its charm and particular geographic location.
The comfortable atmosphere, tranquility, good cooking, rare beauty of the mountains, varied free-time activities, and the Ladin culture rich in traditions create a mix able to excite every mountain lover.
Your vacations deserve to be the most beautiful days of the year.
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Far from heavy traffic, in a harmonious surrounding, created by a still intact nature and a stupendous panoramic view of the entire valley, stands our house, synonymous with tradition and modern comfort. The hotel is equipped with comfortable rooms and suites, a pleasant internal bar, TV room, elevator, lunch room and terrace with panoramic view, a wellness center, garden and parking lot.
Particularly appreciated are our refined typical cooking, the various buffets and the many savory special menus, the new comfort rooms, the house's location and the wellness center.
Children's happiness in the largest amusement park, nature.
Mountain vacations offer children a special adventure: to walk with their own backpack across fairy-tale landscapes, discovering, observing, playing, perceiving with all the senses, sharing each moment with their parents.
Add to that the exciting adventures of games, sports, friendships, excursions, contact with animals, parties, mini-Olympics and many others, being able to live care-free hours with the whole family.
The competent and dynamic tourism office staff has devised a special and exciting program to bring unforgettable experiences to life for our youngest guests.

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Fango Flashback: "WHO CAN KILL A CHILD?" (1976)Fearful Features,Movies/TV,News Samuel Zimmerman
Perhaps the strongest aspect of Narcisco Ibáñez Serrador's WHO CAN KILL A CHILD? is its decision to trade backstory for context. There's no explicit, supernatural reason for the juvenile murderous rampage on the island of Almanzora, but if you're looking for an explanation why, the real world horrors of the opening titles are a good, if grim, place to start.
That stark, unsettling opening sequence effectively works two ways. For those audiences with trepidation about a fictional account of children murdering and subsequently being murdered, it serves as a reminder of the non-fictional children who've suffered at the hands of the Holocaust, the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971, the Korean War and general poor conditions in certain non-affluent, non-Western corners of the world. There's little chance this film will be more frightening.
Secondly, the youth that aren't physically harmed by the constant conflict are nonetheless affected. There's a new breed of children in the making, with all they see around them infesting their daily lives, even their playtime. These sentiments hang over the entirety of WHO CAN KILL A CHILD? As the film transitions to its narrative, the images leave behind atrocity for an idyllic beach scene, until moments later a corpse washes ashore. "We're not so far from those horrors," Serrador seems to be reminding, "and they're spreading even to your Western holiday."
As the ambulance rushes the dead body away, so as not to disturb the summer activities, we meet Tom and Evelyn. The baby-expecting, vacationing couple makes their way through a kind of battlefield that is Benavis. Fireworks crack all around, throngs of people block their way and children violently swing at a piñata; a moment mimicked later on, in a much bloodier manner. Finally, just before they set off for the real destination—one that holds great nostalgia for Tom—violent news footage reappears, with a shopkeeper commenting, "The world is crazy. In the end, the ones who always suffer the most are the children. From war? The children. From famine? The children." Evelyn, about to bring another child into this world, doesn't speak Spanish. She doesn't understand.
Upon arrival in Almanzora, Tom fights hard to maintain it as the same place from his memory. It's Evelyn's first time on the island, so we must assume Tom flew solo on his initial adventures. So now, regardless of how the children are acting, it could never be the same. Marriage and infants change the way you travel and the growing number of menacing young bodies mirror the expanding of Tom and Evelyn's family.
Now, Almanzora is a no man's land where children of wars no longer suffer. They've internalized the world around them into their daily routine and commit murder midst play, or murder-as-play. They are anti-social to the adults that come near, even as one young girl (Lourdes) connects with Evelyn's still-in-the-womb baby. From there, the kids continue the spread of influence that has a hold over them. On the other side of Almanzora, they need only stare hard at still-pure peers to bring them over. When engaging in violent attack, the children use actual tactics. They lure. They cooperate to break down doors. They climb into unseen nooks, as if guerrillas Evelyn, before her own child turns on her, asks mortified, "Do they even know what they're doing?"
Yes and no seem to be the answers. When one of their own is shot down, the children finally appear to understand repercussions they previously hadn't But still, this is all a game to them (remember the piñata?) At the same time, Lourdes' last line is telling. After the film's bleak climax, and the killer kids assume their place as the future, they set off for mainland Europe. She asks, "Do you think the other children there will start playing the way we do?" Serrador seems to worry they already had.


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Since 1996, we've helped companies confidently think through their unique problems and issues, clearly understand the business and technical requirements they need to address, determine what technical solutions are available to address these issues, which of these solutions gives them the best return on their investment, and how to effectively manage these solutions through deployment and production.


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King's Quality Foods and All Seasons Kitchen are working hard to create a new online experience for our customers and distributors. We will be introducing our new website in the coming weeks. In the meantime, please provide us with your name and email address and we will notify you when it is ready. As always, we sincerely appreciate your business and look forward to serving you.


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This week I was guest on the podcast of Iain Broome, author of the superb A is for Angelica. We sound a lot like two knackered new dads – he trumps me with twins – bemoaning how we got everything we ever wanted. In that respect it's excruciating, but there are a few gems, and if for whatever reason you would like to know either of us better, then it provides an honest account of how we feel about writing and the world of publishing.
The episode is here: Performing, writing, editing and going through the change.
Or if you'd prefer, simply gaze upon Iain's beautiful living room, complete with twins boys:


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Plastic-free July got me thinking: plastic-free is a pretty lofty goal, but it's a great opportunity to review our waste output. The disclaimer is – if I'm going to adopt a new process in my household, it needs to be any one of these three:
- Efficient
- Practical
- Cost-saving
Otherwise it may not be a sustainable change for our family.
For context, our family is myself, my partner and our 11 month old daughter living in a 1960s pretty much original home. No pets…yet. I'll share some of the things we already do towards waste reduction, and some of the things I'd like to adopt. Continue reading


text: Having completed my PhD studying the development of the lymphatic vasculature at the KULeuven, Belgium, I joined the MacRae lab in 2014. My primary research focuses on the vascular and cardiac implementations of perturbations in Notch signaling by altering the expression of de novo identified genetic interactors of this pathway. The ultimate goal of these studies is to unravel the complex genetic and cellular machinery that underlies many of the pathological defects observed in patients, using zebrafish larvae as a readout model. I am also interested in the signals that instruct endothelial cells to switch cell fate in a variety of biological settings, including cardiac valve formation and hematopoietic stem cell specification. Finally, I use an automated screening approach to identify phenotype-drug associations in a variety of disease settings.


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While new Computers come with hard drives that now have a boat load of disk space in the hundreds of Giga Bytes, many people out there may have older Computers where disk space is becoming short on available free space. One option is to upgrade your hard drive to get more disk space, but this process can be a hassle and comes with an expense if you are not tech savvy.
To help hold you off just a little bit longer, another option available in Windows, is to use the built in Compression utility which will compress folders and volumes that sometimes can end up returning a decent amount of free disk space.
Before you can compress any folders or drives in Windows, the drive must be formatted as NTFS. If you have drives that are not NTFS, you can convert FAT or FAT32 drives to NTFS by following the instructions in this Microsoft article (NOTE: using the convert command will not erase data on your drive).
To compress a folder or drive, open Windows Explorer and highlight the folder or drive,
Right click and select properties, then click on the Advanced button at the bottom.
NOTE: screen shots are from Windows Vista and will be similar in XP)
In the Advanced Attributes window, check the box next to Compress contents to save disk space and click OK twice.
At the Confirm Attribute Changes window, select which option you want to apply. I usually select the default – Apply changes to this folder, subfolders and files option. Click OK to start the compression.
The length of time to complete compression will depend on the amount of data in the folder or drive. When completed, you will notice the folder or drive will now appear in Windows Explorer as blue, which is an indication of compressed drives.
To view how much space has been saved, right click the folder or drive and select properties.
The Size on disk: parameter displays the compressed sized on disk, while the Size:parameter displays the non-compressed value. In the example above, approximately 4MB were reclaimed. While this is not a large amount of free space, compressing full drives will yield a greater return. If you do have very large folders, then compressing individual folders will be a benefit.
When using compression, if you move or copy a file into a compressed folder, it is compressed automatically. If you move a file from a different NTFS drive into a compressed folder, it is also compressed. If you move a file from the same NTFS drive into a compressed folder, the file retains its original state, either compressed or uncompressed.
Using compression will result in a small performance decrease when accessing the folder or drive. For general use, you will not notice the decrease, but do not use it with applications that require constant access to the drive (for home users you will not have this problem, the only exception is with running Anti-virus or Spyware scans).
If you want to un-compress, just return to the Advanced Attributes window of the folder or drive and uncheck the box next to Compress contents to save disk space.
For the command line Techies, you can compress folders or drives using the compact.exe command:
COMPACT [/C | /U] [/S[:dir]] [/A] [/I] [/F] [/Q] [filename […]]
/C Compresses the specified files. Directories will be marked so that files added afterward will be compressed.
/U Uncompresses the specified files. Directories will be marked so that files added afterward will not be compressed.
/S Performs the specified operation on files in the given directory and all subdirectories. Default "dir" is the current directory.
/A Displays files with the hidden or system attributes. These files are omitted by default.
/I Continues performing the specified operation even after errors have occurred. By default, COMPACT stops when an error is encountered.
/F Forces the compress operation on all specified files, even those which are already compressed. Already-compressed files
are skipped by default.
/Q Reports only the most essential information.
filename Specifies a pattern, file, or directory.
When using compact.exe without parameters, compact will display the compression state of the current directory and files it contains. You will notice a "C" (with out quotes) next to folders that are compressed.


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Assoc. Professor , Stanford University Dept. of Medicine (Immunology & Rheumatology)
Dr. Robinson is a board certified rheumatologist on the teaching faculty at Stanford's School of Medicine and has clinical practices affiliated with Stanford Hospital and the VA Hospital in Palo Alto. He is also a member of the Stanford Lyme Working Group (SLWG). His laboratory studies the molecular mechanisms of and treatments for autoimmune and rheumatic diseases, including rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis, osteoarthritis, and Lyme disease. The goal is to develop novel therapies for practical patient care, including the application of antibody sequencing technologies for the treatment of Lyme and other autoimmune diseases.


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NEWARK -- President Barack Obama landed at Newark Liberty International Airport around 4:53 p.m. under heavy security before heading off to an event in Hackensack to rally New Jersey voters for incumbent Gov. Corzine.
Gov. Corzine was there to meet the president as he stepped down the stairs of Air Force One. Obama, after waving to a small crowd mostly made up of press members, greeted his former U.S. Senate colleague with a firm handshake and a slap on the shoulder.
Some five dozen security personnel were on hand for Obama's landing, including the Secret Service and Port Authority police officers. Sharp shooters were positioned on the roofs of nearby buildings as well.
Obama, who traveled with U.S. Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.) and U.S. Rep. John Adler (D-3rd Dist.), chatted with Corzine for a few minutes before climbing into a limousine emblazoned with the presidential seal.
Full Star-Ledger coverage of the New Jersey Governor's Race
Obama then was led out at as part of a motorcade led by three New Jersey State Police cars, his limousine along with another black limo, and three black Chevorlet Surburbans.
With members of the press were John Ciuffo and Sue MacWhinney-Ciuffo, of Westfield, who are friends with a secret service agent. The couple stood in the press viewing area and took photographs.
Related coverage:
- N.J. voters line up to see President Obama at Gov. Corzine campaign event
- Security worker at Newark airport accused of making threats against Obama
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But the truth is Richard Reid and Umar Farouk nothing more than, too put it in internets speak, successful trolls.
Word cloud of underwear-bomber's posts at Islamic forum Boing Boing
Bozo The Neoclown says: oohhh lookie, fake "dr" Kunt, the one who pretends to be a doctor on the internets is calling us losers.
Think Progress » 'Holder-in-Chief' Coburn issues far-fetched threat against Democrats who switch votes in favor of health reform.
Soft cheese making, from what I gleaned from the internets, is a simple process involving heating milk with some sort of acid (buttermilk, vinegar, lemon juice) until the curds separate from the whey.
Soft cheese making, from what I gleaned from the internets, is a simple process involving heating milk with some sort of acid (buttermilk, vinegar, lemon juice) until the curds separate from the whey.
Does anyone out there in internets land know any good resources for me regarding Somali teens (particularly girls)?
The conservative internets is being flooded with the tales of the rich blood sucking socialist government scum stealing their money.
I wasn't going to post a MindTrap Friday this week seeing as though the internets is so damn slow and most likely we'll only have 2 or three players (and readers), but I decided in a drunken stupor last night that I should reward your faithfulness by putting up a MindTrap as my way of saying thanks: Thanks for ignoring your family, friends and work in order to read Mitchieville.
This series of tubes we call the internets is sumpin 'else, huh?
You know, the internets is good about showing people getting hit in the nuts.
Of course, the DVDs are barely available and cost both legs and an arm, stealing it off the internets is naughty and anyway takes too long, Netflix doesn't have the first season, and it's been off the air since 20034.
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Posted By Oliver VanDervoort | On 05th, Feb. 2016 Under News
Destiny players who wanted to get a really good look at features such as the newly souped up PvP Matchmaking settings, had to wait quite a bit on Thursday. Bungie announced on Thursday morning that they were going to be performing some pretty heavy duty maintenance. It turns out the maintenance ended up taking away a six hour window. Of course, when you're talking about a game that is online only, the title is going to be down a bit more in order to make sure everything is working.
After taking the servers offline, Bungie tweeted out around 3:30 pm ET that they were back online. The good news was that those of us who tend to have more time to play in the evening weren't missing anything at all. Those that tend to play the game during the middle of the day lost out on most of their gaming day. Still, it's a small price to pay in order to make sure the game is running smoothly, no matter what format you are playing the game.
Those of you who were wondering what was going on all morning and early afternoon, the questions have been answered. This isn't a problem that is affecting Destiny any more, so now you can go shoot things to your heart's content.
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By Aaron Back
Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES
BEIJING (Dow Jones)--Personal computer vendor Dell Inc. DELL, +2.43% said Monday that from next month it will start selling its PCs and notebooks in China through the country's largest electronics retailer, GOME Group.
Sales will start through 50 GOME stores before expanding to more stores in the first half of next year, Dell said in a statement Monday.
The Chinese retailer, the parent company of Hong Kong-listed GOME Electrical Appliances Holding Ltd. (0493.HK), has around 950 stores across 210 cities in China, GOME Vice President Wang Junzhou said during a press conference Monday.
"For Dell, this is a great opportunity to extend connections with Chinese customers we have not reached in the past," Michael Tatelman, vice president of marketing and sales for Dell's global consumer business, said in the statement.
Dell, the world's second-largest PC vendor after Hewlett-Packard Co., has traditionally sold computers over the Internet or by telephone, but in May it said it would sell computers through Wal-Mart Stores Inc. in the U.S.
Since then it has signed deals with retailers in the U.K., Japan and Russia.
"Although the direct model is great for many people, in Asian cultures and China in particular many people want to see and touch and feel things before they actually take them home," Tatelman said on the sidelines of the press conference.
Dell is the fourth-biggest computer vendor in China by shipments behind Lenovo Group Ltd., Hewlett-Packard, and Founder Technology Group Corp., according to research firms IDC and Gartner Inc.
"Our market share in China is obviously well below our global average, so we hope to be successful here and get our rightful share of the business," Tatelman said.
For GOME, the Dell arrangement will expand its PC product offerings amid increasingly heated competition. Last year, Best Buy Co., America's largest electronics chain, opened an outlet in Shanghai. Best Buy, which owns a majority stake in China's fourth-largest electronics retailer, Jiangsu Five Star Appliance Co., will be speeding up expansion of its retail network following encouraging sales from its Shanghai store, according to a person familiar with the matter.
At 0700 GMT, GOME Electrical Appliances' Hong Kong shares were down 9.5% at HK$13.52 following a share placement Friday by chairman and controlling shareholder Wong Kwong-yu, who sold 170 million shares at HK$13.74 each.
Wong raised HK$2.34 billion from the deal, cutting his stake in the company to 42.84% from 48.06%. No reason was given for the sale. Shares of GOME had more than doubled since the beginning of the year before the placement.
By Aaron Back, Dow Jones Newswires; (8610) 6588-5848; firstname.lastname@example.com
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This article is inspired by another article I read on why cyclo-computers are evil. I don't agree with that sentiment. Their objection was based on people getting obsessed with it and paying too much attention to it while cycling. These obsessed individuals are not paying enough attention to the road. They also miss the great scenery along the way. My response to this is don't get obsessed.
Cyclo-computers are tools and if used properly can be very beneficial. If you are a racer you will likely make excellent use of most of the features they offer. Even for the novice they are not hard to use and benefit from.
For the purposes of long distance self-contained family cycling it is little more than a glorified odometer. I don't say that to disparage them. I wish I could afford to set up every one of my family members with one. Just giving them a scoreboard would have them out training more than they do now. Even for me. I've never been what I would consider fast as a cyclist. I'm way too big to be much of a racer. I am however proud of the sheer distances I've covered.
So what I'm saying is by all means get one. Read the instructions and learn to use it. Just remember you don't have to have one eye on it all the time. Enjoy the ride and pay attention to the road. If you put it on right it is unlikely to just fall off. Check it before and after each ride to make sure the sensors line up properly if you need to. It is a great little tool but don't forget you can still happily ride without one too.
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Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS) Definition
Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS) is a complex of symptoms, formerly called adult respiratory distress syndrome, in which respiratory distress and respiratory failure develop accompanying severe illness or trauma. ARDS involves the whole of both lungs, as the lungs become inflamed and fill with fluid. ARDS may develop as a consequence of injury that directly affects the lungs (notably blunt trauma to the chest, near drowning, pneumonia, and smoke inhalation) or when the injury or illness affects other parts or systems of the body.
Systemic infection (sepsis), drug overdose, and blood transfusion may also result in ARDS. ARDS can affect people of any age and is life-threatening. Because people who develop ARDS are already very ill, ARDS has a high death rate (about 40 percent). The syndrome may cause complete respiratory failure or lead to total system failure, either of which presents significant challenge for recovery.
Symptoms and Diagnostic Path
People who develop ARDS have generally sustained severe trauma or infection and most are already in the hospital when their symptoms begin. Early symptoms of ARDS include restlessness, tachypnea (rapid, shallow breathing), and hypoxia (reduced oxygen to the body's tissues). ARDS progresses rapidly to full involvement of the lungs. Chest X-rays show the filling of the lungs with inflammation and fluid (called diffuse infiltration). Arterial blood gases show the decreased percentage of oxygen in the blood. Doctors often perform tests on sputum and fluid from the lungs to identify any pathogens, notably bacteria, that may be present.
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Immediate oxygen supplementation is essential. Many people require mechanical ventilation with positive end expiratory pressure (PEEP) to increase the amount of oxygen entering the lungs. Doctors generally administer sedation while the person is on mechanical ventilation, to provide comfort and to prevent the natural tendency to fight the intervention. Treatment primarily is supportive, including close monitoring of cardiovascular and renal (kidney) functions. Because infection, either in the lungs or elsewhere in the body, is often present, many people may also receive intravenous (IV) antibiotic medications.
The outlook for full recovery depends on numerous factors including the person's age, general health status, and the ability to reverse the circumstances responsible for the initial development of ARDS. Even medical intervention that begins early in the course of ARDS cannot predict the success of treatment. About 60 percent of people survive the ARDS episode, though the severity of illness can require extensive recuperation.
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Farley Mowat and I go back a long way. I didn't know him personally but his stories taught me much of what I knew about the Canadian north when I was a kid. He was the quintessential Canadian writer, not just because he wrote about Canada, but because, like the land, his stories held, and continue to hold, such power. And he was from my time. When he mentions Eric the Red and Leif the Lucky, I smile. Those were the Vikings that fascinated me in third grade, when the bottom half of our notebooks were lined and the top left blank for a pencil sketch of the explorers. Long before Ragnar Lothbrok. It was a time when authors (white males) wrote with omniscient (godlike) viewpoints and felt no need for political correctness because it didn't yet exist.
Lost in the Barrens
I spent the last few days reading myself to sleep with Lost in the Barrens. This is the book that teachers recommend to boys who don't read, for within its pages lie adventures they will never experience any other way. I don't know for sure, but I'll bet that Gary Paulsen of Hatchet fame found Farley Mowat's books when he was a kid.
Written in 1956, Lost in the Barrens was the third book Farley published, and it won the Governor General's Award. This "survival story" details the adventures of an orphaned Toronto boy named Jamie Macnair and his Cree friend Awasin, who go hunting caribou with the Chipewyans and end up lost and fighting for their lives in the land of their tribal enemies, the Eskimos.
The two sixteen-year-old boys ride out a six-month mythic hero's journey where they are tested step by step and page by page. They encounter:
- rapids that destroy their canoe, matches, and most possessions
- a stonehouse grave with Viking treasures (Farley tells its tale later in The Curse of the Viking Grave, 1967)
- physical injuries and starvation
- the sight of 250,000 caribou moving in long files down the valley and later an epic hunt
- winter in the barrens and a blizzard that nearly kills them both
- wild animals that they tame (a fawn and two lost sled dogs) and some that they don't (wolverines and wolves)
- snowblindness (the White Fire) that nearly drives them mad
At its heart is Awasin's wisdom and Farley's theme: "if you fight against the spirits of the north you will always lose." Its echo resounds as the boys arrive home: "always travel with the forces of the land and never fight against them."
The Forces of the Land.
I grew up in southern Ontario not far from where Farley spent his final days and some blue moons, the land calls me. I don't know if it's ancestral memory, karmic echoes, or simply the allure of home, but this land draws me like lodestone. A kind of madness ensues and I find myself on realtor.ca pricing Kawartha cottages where I went to university, or sorting through faded black and whites, or just visualizing the fields and trails where I rode my horse in Pickering.
My memories are forged on the flora and fauna of what I grew up calling the Eastern Woodlands. I understand the way of the land there; know the names of all the trees and plants; can still smell the odour of wax-pressed fall leaves and crave the sugar bush; remember the purple trillium, and the enormous oaks and elms that shaded us from summer sun so we could read beneath their boughs. And though I've lived in British Columbia for two decades I've never lost the lure of the lakeside cabin in the bush.
Like Yeats and Thoreau I long to cast off the city and "live deliberately" — until I think about mosquitoes and black flies, -30 Celsius and a metre of snow, and remember just how deliberate that is.
But still it calls. And, in part, I owe that calling to Farley Mowat.
Farley died in 2014 at the age of 92. He was still writing. Maclean's magazine wrote such a stunning salute to Farley at the time of his death that I can only point the way.
In his hand he held a tiny sea shell, so old that when Awasin took it, it crumbled into dust between his fingers.
Jamie looked out over the broad valley to the dim blue line of the hills to the east. He spoke with awe. "Thousands, maybe a million years ago, this must have been one huge ocean, " he said. "And these hills were just islands in it."
Awasin was not surprised as Jamie expected him to be. "There's a Cree legend about that," he replied. "It tells of a time when the whole northern plains were all water and the water was filled with strange monsters."


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So step up, Ladies, and start telling us your most romantic moments!
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If you are picked as the winner and have those already, just let me know and maybe I can swap them with something you don't have!ReplyDelete
Thanks for coming over and playing with us!!!!!
My most romantic moment I had was two weeks after my husband had two massive heart attacks. (he had two the same day) I was of course frantic, going backwards and forwards to the hospital while trying to sort out our daughter and school. I don't think I'd ever felt so devastated. My birthday came and it was the first time in 15 years that my husband and I had ever spent it apart. That morning the doorbell went and a man delivered a huge boquet of flowers, so beautiful I can't describe them. The card said simply, The only time I'll miss your birthday is when I'm dead!!! My husband had ordered and picked the boquet from his hospital bed, surrounded by drips and tubes, his only thought was for me to be happy. Thats romance for you.ReplyDelete
OH gosh.... My eyes have moisture in them... That is love!!! That is a very touching story! Thanks for sharing!ReplyDelete
Love the stories, girls. This is going to be a tough competition, I've a feeling!ReplyDelete
xo to Dottie and Margaret. Here's to True Love!
**waves to Dottie**ReplyDelete
Thanks for coming over honey! And thank you for sharing!! Your hubs is soo sweet!
I had a fight with my boyfriend. Other than his day job, he sang in clubs to earn extra money. That night, after our spat, he brought the whole band and serenaded me under my window. This happened at midnight, and not a neighbor complained. lol. And the same night, he proposed.ReplyDelete
Awww. Lorie, I love it!ReplyDelete
Ok sweet or steamy, do not have any real stories. So perhaps I should just tell how I met my cutie.ReplyDelete
It was a normal day, I was surfing the web (duh), I went in on this site where a radio channel has a forum. I like read 2 blogposts a year. This day I saw that one recent post was about a birthday so checked that out. This guy had gotten some funny comedies. I like those so I commented. I saw his picture, and thought ugh. What ever a week later made me ask him out for a coffee I do not know. But I did, and the first time I saw him in real life my heart stopped and I thought he was the cutest guy I have ever seen.
The rest is history. I guess that's fate.
Awesome, Blodeuedd! I love the "how we meet" romance stories. It's like the setting to your "Love-life Novel", ya know?ReplyDelete
Never thought about it like that :) But yes I guess it truly was. Makes me happy just thinking about it
Lorrie!! Aww that is awesome!!! I can not believe no one complained!! That in itself is awesome!!!ReplyDelete
Blodeuedd!!!! How sweet is your story!!! Oh gosh, these are some sweet men we have out there huh...!!!
I don't think I can tell my spicy story that fast, so bear with me!!ReplyDelete
It was the year of 1996, I would soon celebrate my 20th birthday, I was young, brazen and on top of the world in a size 6 or 8. The summer time arrived and I had been writing steamy letters with my future hubby (only I didn't know that at the time) We met, he was all chivalrous and always in for an adventure. I told him I would love a picnic together and he knew the exact place, the only thing he wanted from me was to wear "naughty lingerie". If I would do that, he would take care of the rest...
So Saturday came, he had a picnic basket full of culinary delights that would tempt the taste buds and yes, I did as I was asked and wore "naughty lingerie". We went to a forest that crossed over to dunes and we selected a secluded spot among the trees but seeing the dunes at the same time. We talked, we flirted, soon-to-be-hubby told me he would like me to function as his lunch plate. In those days my brazen nature was all in for this kind of naughty play (who am I kidding, I still am LOL) and I stripped of my shoes, jeans an tee, revealing the red and pink bra and bikini panties I was wearing. I laid myself down on the blanket and there came out the grapes, whipped cream, peaches, honey and oh yes, he knew how to use his tongue to clean up after himself. So there I was, more then a little hot and bothered, soon-to-be-hubby going for grand finale when all of a sudden I was bitten...by an insect i still consider created by Satan himself. Due to all the sweetness red fire ants invited themselves over...
So we both ran like bats out of hell (almost nekkid) to the pond we came across as we walked to our picnic spot. We both took a plunge and I can tell ya, it was bliss. I can tell ya that we both love nature, and that later that summer we took it up on the dunes, in the sun, on the blanket and loved the wickedness of the moment but Hubby and I will never forget our first experience in the more naughty ventures and we both hiss as we remember the sting of the fire ants :(
Was that sexy? hhmmm perhaps not, but it made me laugh and it was the first memory that popped in my mind.
A more romantic one: When I heard from the OBGYN that we used all our chances to get pregnant via IVF without a positive result (we have so many chances covered by insurance before we have to pay, which is immense) I think I was simply dumbfound and numb. Hubby set up a date where we went to the restaurant of our first date, we walked to the place where we took our wedding pictures and there he told me that he fell in love with me so many years ago, that it was me he wanted to grow old with, he gave me his wedding vows again and said: I chose you to spent my life with, and it is you that has my heart. I don't need anything more then that to grow old happily. I can tell you all, I cried a bucket of tears as we sat there, on the same bench we took a wedding picture off on 4-2-2002. My hubby isn't perfect but his love is stronger then oak and all I ever want :)
Leontine... I laughed and cried with post... OH man... That is too funny.. and how clever your hon is with that tongue..... You lucky girl!!!!!ReplyDelete
The red ants just wanted a nibble to!!!! LMBO!!!!!
Leontine~ LOVED your stories. The ants killed me...isn't that just like life. No romantic inlterlude is completely without it's littel hitches! Too funny.ReplyDelete
And my congrats on the man...sounds like a treat indeed! ;)
Hey Cecile,ReplyDelete
Wat up girlfriend! *grin*
I don't really have any romantic stories to add...the last time I even attempted dating... they were total disasters...so right now I'm in hibernation. *boring I know* but it's what I need right now.
Hey Cecile and CJ! I am not even going to try and top some of these stories. I have laughed and cried...yes literally cried Im such a sap!...I do not envy you one bit in having to try and choose the winner!ReplyDelete
I will tell you a little something about me and the hubby though. Our running joke is that he was a joke and a I was a favor. My sister convinced me to move to IOwa with her. Her new husband (now ex) decided he was going to have a dinner party and said he was going to hook me up. I was in no hurry to start dating in a new city just out of a 3 yr relationship. So I told Dan no way, I will take my daughter to a movie and you guys have a good night. Dan then said he was joking he was not trying to set me up.
Hubby got a messaged from Dan saying Hey Do me a favor...That is where my husband likes to leave off. the whole message actually said Hey do me a favor and call me back.
So technically we were a blind date. After everyone left it was just Ron (My hubby), my sister and her husband and myself. We decided we would play some cards...which in my family always leads to drinking. Long story short we were inseparable from that night on. Our early stages remind me of the movie "Fools Rush In" except he wasn't a one night stand, but I did get pregnant very shortly after we met... I know shame on me!!! The morning I told him I was pregnant I cried and cried. The whole time he held me and said we would work it out and get through this bump in the road. I refused to get married...ok I didn't refuse but I didn't want to get married because of the baby. But when he handed me a cross word puzzle (that he created) when I was 6 mos pregnant with our son, that I needed all the help I could get to answer, It had as an answer "Heather Will YOu Marry Me" I could not say no... I cried b/c Im a sap and he handed me my engagement ring. Thankfully he caught it all on video!
Anna! Hey honey!!!! Girl what have you been up too!!! It is going seeing you here! Thanks for coming over! It means a lot to me that you came over! Girl, hibernation is sometimes the best thing a person can do for themselves!ReplyDelete
Heather D!!!!! OH gosh.... honey, your story had me in tears!!!!!!!!! Girl that is an amazing story!!
CJ, I do not evny you in picking the winners here!!! Evil laughter! These ladies left you with some awesome stories!!!
Wow! These were some awesome posts, ladies! I'll be posting the winners of the contest a little later today!ReplyDelete
Hugs to you all!


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Okay, I can hear you all asking yourselves, "Self, what does he mean, '...luckiest person ever to put on a pair of socks'?"
Then many of you are answering yourselves "Self, if you would just shut up for two seconds, he'll tell us!"
Naturally, many of you are now answering back, "Me shut up? What about you, self! You're the one who talked all the way through The Importance of Being Ernest on Friday so we had to watch it AGAIN on Saturday when you KNEW I wanted to be online playing City of Heroes instead and now I've missed the Rikti Invasion AND the Double XP weekend and I missed out on my chance to make Level 25! LEVEL 25, YOU JERK!"
Now, as one might expect, you are dragging yourself outside by the hair, intending to beat the bejeezus out of yourself for being such a dill-weed. It's okay. I understand my audience and its needs. I'll wait...
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So, as I was saying, I'm the luckiest person ever to put on a pair of socks. I say this because my wife and I recently celebrated our thirteenth wedding anniversary! Woo! Lucky thirteen!
Actually, for me, the real celebration began the next morning when I woke up and she was still here and not running down the road screaming "What have I done? What have I done? For the love of God, WHAT HAVE I DONE?!?!"
Mind you, I have this particular celebration every day.
But seriously, thirteen years! And we're happy! I don't mean just your average "most of our bills are paid and neither of us is currently under a federal indictment" kind of happy, but really, truly "warm cookies fresh from the oven, playing with a three week old kitten" kind of happy!
Every day we seem to find something new to love about each other, or we re-discover something old that we already loved about each other (perhaps senility is setting in early?)! It's really kind of cool!
However, as I stated earlier, I am lucky. I am lucky because even though we've seen a lot of relationships fall apart over the years (two words, people: DEODORANT!) ours has just gotten stronger. Now, I'm no expert; most days, to be completely honest with you, I'm just wingin' it! But I have paid a little attention over the years and have made note of some of the more important lessons my wonderful marriage has taught me.
Now, let me put a few disclaimers out here first.
- I am a guy. If you are also a guy, you will probably understand what I'm talking about in the next few paragraphs. If you are a girl, you will undoubtedly think I'm a mooring (see THIS blog entry to understand what that means)! That's okay, because I have a hot wife who loves me, so I'm not out to impress you.
- Absolutely everything I say is right. Not everyone will be able to accept that right away, but by the time I'm done, you will probably agree.
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Lesson One: Nomenclature
Holy crap! I got married! I found a woman with all the qualities I always knew were essential for the woman I married to have (bad eyes and poor judgment) and I somehow managed to get her to marry me!
Now, the first thing I learned, I learned early on. You have to establish the pet name. This is vitally important, as you will be expected to use this name for her for the rest of your natural life! Feel free to go with "Snookums" or "Snuggle-Bunny" or "Love-Muffin" if you want but remember, you will be using this name when you talk to her on the phone from the office for the rest of your life! DO NOT get tied down to "Snuggle-Bunny"! Some acceptable ones are "Honey", "Sweat-Heart" and "Darling". In the interest of full disclosure, my wife has been "Chica" since 1994 and seems to respond to it most of the time.
Lesson Two: The Battle for Middle-Earth (Ground)
Not long after we got married, Chica and I had a lot of fights. Not knock-down, drag-out, "I should smother you in your sleep" type fights, but epic battles nonetheless! Now this is normal for every couple, but you have to learn to pick and choose your battles. You and your new Snooky-Wookie are completely different people and have been brought up in completely different ways (unless you married your sister, in which case I'll just say "Enjoy the banjo music!" and ask you to find another blog to read!).
Now, it stands to reason that she's going to be wrong about a lot of things! But be careful where you draw the line in the sand and whatever you do, don't keep score! And if you do keep score, keep it to yourself! Don't go blabbing it all over the Internet for just anyone to see! That would be STUPID! For example, don't do this:
Question: How do glasses get put away in the cupboard?
Answer: Upside-down, so dust doesn't get inside
Winner: Sage Words (Chica actually didn't care, but I'm taking the win anyway!)
Q: Where does dirty laundry go?
A: NOT on the floor!
W: Chica
Q: Who gets the good car and who gets the beater?
A: Her and you, in that order!
W: Chica
Q: If I bring in the mail, do I have to open it?
A: You do, she does not
W: Chica
Q: Does the toilet paper roll go over or under?
A: Still under review as of this writing
W: Tie (But I will fight until the last star in the last galaxy fades to black on this one! Viva Encima del Rodillo!)
Score: Chica 3 - Sage Words 1 (For now!)
Now understand that you, as a guy, are destined to lose most of these arguments. It's as natural as birds flying south or monkeys flinging poo. It's simply going to happen and you can NOT stop it. The trick is to pick one, and ONLY one subject, and stick to your guns! You can readily cave on all the others, but do not give in on that one no matter what! Can you guess which one I haven't given up on?
Lesson Three: Bedroom Stuff (No, not THAT stuff, pervert!)
Figure out which side of the bed is is yours, and which is hers, but do not assume that you can simply get in on your side every night! Sometimes, she will just want to sleep on your side for a few nights and there's nothing you can do about it! Oh yeah, and she doesn't have a reason, she doesn't need a reason! And you are an insensitive ass for asking! STOP PERSECUTING HER!
Set up your night-stand exactly the way you like it. Place your wallet, watch, spare change, keys, and anything else you have in precisely the right spots. Now accept the fact that your wife will know better and just move your stuff around sometimes! And she doesn't need a reason! It will just NEED TO BE DONE! But don't worry, when you're running late for work and can't find your wallet or your keys, just look in your sock drawer. This is apparently a logical place for those things.
Be sure she has ample room for all her night things (she will have a LOT!) and don't EVER move her stuff! If you move so much as a hair pin or her eye drops, you will regret it! Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow but soon; and for the rest of your life! Trust me on this, just leave it alone!
Closets. Oh boy. There are two things you need to know about closets:
- Half of the closet space is yours. It's a rule.
- Your half of the closet space is defined as: 6 shirts, 1 tie, 3 pairs of pants and a shoe.
Alarm clocks are YOUR responsibility! If you don't believe me, just go to bed without checking the alarm clock on a night where she has to get up early but you don't. In fact, let's make it interesting. Remind her to set the clock the night before! Now here's the good part: if she does set the clock, and makes it up on time, GREAT! But if not; if she forgets, or the power goes out, or the cat eats the clock, and she gets up late; IT IS YOUR FAULT!
Dude, just set the clock.
Lesson Four: Oh, the Twah-let!
If you have to sell a kidney (or several, depending on how liberal your neighborhood is) to get the money for a second bathroom, DO IT! If you have to go without a car, without a television, without a living room or even without pants, just make sure you have that second bathroom!
I can not stress this enough! You MUST have your own bathroom! If you share one, she'll DO THINGS in your bathroom that you DON'T want to know about! All those things the girls talked about in Fifth Grade Health Class when all us boys got an extra recess REALLY HAPPEN! You don't want to have to deal with it! And she'll keep her...you know...woman stuff in there! A lot! All the time!
Plus, she'll move your stuff. That's right, just like the night-stand, she will, without provocation, MOVE YOUR STUFF!
Are you right-handed? She'll move your hair brush to the left! Are you sure that's your toothpaste you're grabbing, or is it your Q-tips? Where is your styptic pencil? WHERE IS YOUR STYPTIC PENCIL?????!!!!!
Okay. Deeeep breath...get ahold of yourself, Sage old buddy, old pal...it's alright.
Whew! That's better.
Anyhow, get your own bathroom. Trust me!
The Big Wrap-Up:
It's not easy being brilliant. I didn't ask for it, but it's a burden I'm willing to shoulder for the betterment of mankind (specifically, married-mankind). Please look these lessons over. Learn from them. Take them to heart. Gain nourishment from the fruits of my labor!
Oh yeah. I almost forgot the most important lesson. Be good to your Chica, whoever she is! That's the REAL secret! If you're good to her, she will be good to you, and the two of you will be happy, and all the rest of this stuff will be just so much meaningless eyewash!
Except the bathroom thing. I am SO not kidding on that one!
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My recent visit to Richmond Park I was reminded of the painting of The Vision of St Eustace by Pisanello in the National Gallery, which I drew some while ago. I bought a… Continue reading
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(Bloomberg) — Frontline Ltd., the oil tanker company led by billionaire John Fredriksen, surged in Oslo trading amid speculation that a plunge in crude prices is spurring demand for the vessels to store cargoes.
The company's shares advanced as much as 13 percent, or 3.3 kroner, and were up 8.8 percent to 28.5 kroner ($3.72) at 1:30 p.m. in the city. Traders may park as much as 60 million barrels of oil on tankers in the coming months, according to JBC Energy GmbH, a Vienna-based consulting firm that advises governments.
Crude oil plunged 48 percent last year amid an oversupply that Qatar estimates at 2 million barrels a day, or about 6.7 percent of OPEC's output. The decline helped deepen what's called contango, where oil prices for later this year are above those now. When that gap gets wide enough, it can reward traders to purchase cargoes now, store them, and lock in the sale price on futures markets.
"It looks more and more likely that you'll see more floating storage and it's going to be good," Eirik Haavaldsen, a shipping analyst at Pareto Securities SA in Oslo, said by phone. "The re-emergence of floating storage is what could move the crude tanker market this year from being rather good to possibly very very good."
Frontline's shares have gained 47 percent this week, valuing the company at 3.2 billion kroner. They fell as low as 7.5 kroner in September.
Very large crude carriers will earn an average of $35,000 a day this year, according to the average of six analysts estimates compiled by Bloomberg in December. That would be the most since 2010, data from Clarkson Plc show. The firm is the world's largest shipbroker.
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It's an unlikely place to face backlash over public breastfeeding, but a Toronto mother says she was repeatedly ordered at a city-run daycare to nurse her children in a more private room after a male employee allegedly became uncomfortable.
Sheri Hebdon, 36, a lawyer on maternity leave, said she was breastfeeding her 11-month-old twins, Zev and Maya, in the Woodbine Child Care Centre's infant room last Tuesday when she was interrupted by a staff member and told to take her breastfeeding elsewhere because "this is where children play."
"I've never felt that degraded and humiliated in my life," said Hebdon, who has since demanded a written apology from the east-end facility and asked that staff receive breastfeeding education and conflict resolution training.
The centre's supervisor, Diane Dowsling, said she could not comment on the matter when reached by phone Thursday. But Elaine Baxter-Trahair, general manager of Toronto Children's Services, said the city encourages breastfeeding and called the incident a "misunderstanding."
"(The staff's) concern really was for her comfort and so that other parents wouldn't bump into her picking up their children," she said. "We are sorry if that was misunderstood."
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Hebdon, however, said no parents entered the room to pick up their children while she was breastfeeding. Instead, she said, only a few staff members and children were in the room when she arrived and decided to breastfeed her infants on a floor mat, something she often does before heading home.
About 10 minutes after she took a seat to begin feeding, Hebdon said a female staff member entered the infant room and told her to move to the "sleep room," a room filled with cribs and a rocking chair.
One child still nursing and the other sitting at her side, Hebdon said she told the woman she could not move and was comfortable on the floor. But the staff member insisted, she said.
Having seen other mothers breastfeed in the infant room and having nursed her own children there before, Hebdon said she was confused and questioned why she was being asked to leave the area. Eventually, she said, the woman told her "this is where the children play" and "it's not for nursing."
"I felt ashamed, I wanted to cry ... as if I had done something wrong," said Hebdon, who finished feeding her children, picked up 3-year-old son Nathaniel (who also attends the daycare) and promptly "got the hell out of there."
That evening, Hebdon's partner Katarina spoke with Dowsling over the phone about the incident. According to Hebdon, Dowsling said a male food service worker who had briefly entered the room became uncomfortable when he saw her breastfeeding — and another staff member took action.
Baxter-Trahair, on the other hand, said she heard that Hebdon complained about being uncomfortable with the male employee in the room. Hebdon has denied that was the case.
Dowsling also allegedly told Katarina over the phone that families with different cultural backgrounds who attended the daycare had different comfort levels when it came to breastfeeding.
According to the Ontario Human Rights Code, "nursing mothers have the right to breastfeed a child in a public area" without being disturbed or asked to move to a more "discreet" area. Hebdon said she was appalled at her experience inside a city-run daycare facility.
"It was really quite stunning and totally caught me off-guard," she said. "I was literally getting in trouble for breastfeeding."
The day after the incident, Hebdon said she was told by daycare staff that she would no longer be troubled while breastfeeding and to "go back to do what you were doing before."
Still, she said, she hoped that the staff would turn the incident "into a learning opportunity." Though she has no plans to file a complaint with the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario, she said she wanted to ensure that no other mother faced the same problem.
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Mirova and Natixis Asset Management as well as 17 other international investors representing over €5 trillion in assets under management seek an unlimited moratorium on oil and gas activity in the Arctic high seas.
Mirova, Natixis Asset Management and three other investors, including Erafp, Ircantec and Prefon, lead an investment group in a statement relating to oil and gas exploration in the Arctic featuring 19 international signatories in total including Actiam, Axa Group, Bank J. Safra-Sarasin, BNP Paribas Investment Partners, Boston Common, Church of Sweden, Danske Capital, EdenTree, Friends Fiduciary Corporation, Nei Investments, Pax, Skandia, Trillium and Zevin. The combined assets of these investors total over 5 trillion euros.
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Two flu deaths reported in Virginia
State public health officials are advising Virginia residents to get their flu shots, with two deaths linked to influenza.
The state Department of Public Health said Tuesday influenza activity has increased from low to high since January. That means more people with symptoms of influenza are seeing their physicians.
The flu deaths reported by the department are pediatric cases. Typically, two or three pediatric flu deaths are reported each year in the state.
State Health Commissioner Karen Remley said vaccinations are still available across the state and are the best protection against getting the flu.
Virginia's flu season typically runs through March, hitting its peak in February.
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A related story the Wash Post should report on: There's a bad flu in town that, according to my GP, *isn't* the one that's in this year's vaccine. I'm just coming out the other end after 2 bad weeks. I have friends who were sick for a month.
Posted by: JulyAugust | February 10, 2011 10:36 AM | Report abuse
When swine ran rampant in October 2009, I had not received a shot for either it or the standard flu. Then all the media said swine flu was just early seasonal flu (which it wasn't), so catching it didn't resolve which shot I no longer needed. This year's strategy seem to be --avoid the topic altogether.
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