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How to Rescue Deleted Items from Outlook 2010 PST File?
In order to access all the items in a simple and signified way, most of the users prefer Microsoft Outlook as their email client. Outlook uses a single PST file to store all its information. Since the size of .pst file of Outlook 2010 is limited to 50GB, most of the users prefer to delete redundant emails and other items from their Outlook account to free up the storage space. While deleting emails from Outlook Inbox or any other folder, users might unintentionally delete some of his important items and clear the "Deleted Items" folder accidentally. However, if you don't have a backup of PST file, then deletion of important items leads to significant data loss.
Generally, when you delete an item from Outlook Inbox or any folder other than the "Deleted Items" folder, they are moved to "Deleted Items" folder in MS Outlook. However, if you need those items back then you can easily restore them from "Deleted Items" folder. One must say it is like a Recycle Bin folder. i.e. it stores your deleted items and other Outlook files until you empty the "Deleted Items" folder manually. When you empty or delete all items from "Deleted Items" folder then they are permanently deleted from Outlook and sometimes resulting in PST file corruption. What will you do in such instances? Fortunately, Restore PST Files tool help you in such circumstances to retrieve deleted contacts from PST file.
Some of the most common situations where you need to restore deleted items in Outlook 2010 are listed below:
- Unintended deletion of items: Items may get deleted or lost, when you accidentally empty the "Deleted Items" folder. As long as you click on an "Empty Deleted Items" folder, it prompts a confirmation popup message like "Are you sure you want to delete items?" If you unintentionally click on 'Yes' option then all the items from "Deleted Item" folder gets deleted resulting in permanent data loss.
- Improperly terminating Outlook: If you close Microsoft Outlook abruptly while accessing then it may lead to corruption of PST file.
- There are different other causes like virus infection, unexpected shutdown of system while accessing Outlook, improper termination of Outlook etc might result in deletion of items from Outlook 2010.
Generally, when you accidentally delete items from Outlook, they are not permanently erased, instead allocation information of items gets deleted making them inaccessible. These deleted items can be recovered using the relevant recover PST files tool, whic is effecient to restore deleted items in Outlook 2010.
Irrespective of the cause, this tool retrieves various Outlook attributes like contacts, emails, appointments, calendar items, tasks, RSS feeds, journals, meeting requests etc. In addition to Outlook 2010, one can also use this tool to restore Outlook 2007 PST file, which is detailed at http://www.restorepstfiles.com/outlook-2007.html. This is an auspicious utility that enables Outlook users to retrieve damaged PST file very effectively. Furthermore, the preview option of this software helps you to view the retrieved items before their restoration. By using this tool, one can also recover deleted PST files, for maore you can visit at http://www.restorepstfiles.com/deleted.html.
Steps to Restore Deleted Items in Outlook 2010:
Step 1: Download and install Restore PST Files tool on your computer or laptop and open its Main Screen as shown in below fig A.
Fig A: Main Screen
Step 2: Select the PST file in order to restore deleted items in Outlook 2010 and choose the type of scan as shown in fig B.
Fig B : Select PST File
Step 3: Lastly, you will see a popup window showing the number of recovered items shown in fig C.
Fig C: Number of Recovered Items


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Charente Maritime's major tourist players have joined forces with Gîtes de
France to make sure you enjoy your stay with us. You will receive your
"passeport vacances" when you book accommodation via the central booking
service or you will be given it by the owner when you arrive at your gîte or
guesthouse. It is the perfect way to explore this lovely department. Just take
it with you when you go out and about and present it when you arrive at any of
the tourist venues taking part in the scheme. You will get discounted rates and
other benefits listed on the passport.
tél : 05.46.97.81.46
Her story begins in the charming St. Savinien sur Charente (Pays Vals de Saintonge). In her museum, you will discover thousands of 1900s international kitchen & household collectibles as well as curiosities, toys, miniatures, fashion... At the end a splendid exhibition of Victorian and Edwardian biscuit tins (1880- 1930) will recall the golden age of packaging.
Enjoy the circuit for young and old, discover the 12 scenes with riddles bringing back to life the good old days of the "Belle Epoque".
Adult : € 5 (€ 6)
Child : 6/17 ans : € 4
Child : -6 ans : gratuit
See the list of the rents in the surroundings (20 km)
Quai Louis Prunier
Tél : 05.46.34.00.00
Dive in the depths of the oceans. Situated in the heart of town, next to the old harbour, it is one of the main private European aquariums. Take a two hour's journey and discover over 12,000 marine animals of the Atlantic, the Mediterranean, the Tropics… where colors and amazing life forms are displayed in 3 million liters of seawater. A must see and grandiose place. Open 365 days a year.
REDUCED PRICES: Adult 13,50€ instead of 15,00€. Child (3 to 17 years old): 10,50€ instead of 11,50€.
*** Tickets ONLY sold by some owners (ask before your arrival) or at the Gites de France office :
Tel. +33 (0)5 46 50 60 49. NO reduced prices available at the reception desk of the Aquarium.
See the list of the rents in the surroundings (20 km)
Vieux Port
tél : 05.46.34.11.81
Come and visit the symbol of La Rochelle, the three towers.
Saint Nicolas Tower gives you a panoramic view of the city, the harbour and the islands.
The Lantern Tower, the oldest lighthouse on the Atlantic coast and then a navy prison, contains over 600 examples of graffiti carved into the walls by prisoners in over 3 centuries.
Permanent exhibit at the Chain Tower : « La Rochelle-Québec, setting sail for New France », which introduces visitors to the centuries-long history of those who left the shores of La Rochelle for an adventurous life in the New World.
Free under 26 years old.
1 tower ticket :
Adult : 5€ (6€)
Joint ticket 3 towers :
Adult : 6,50€ (8,50€)
tél : 05.46.02.70.02
The "Grottes de Matata" are situated along the limestone cliffs of Meschers sur Gironde. Our establishment consists of several different, independent activities : A museum tracing the history of the inhabitants of the caves, A hotel with views of the estuary, Banquet rooms, Seminars, A restaurant and a creperie located in the caves, A gift shop.
Along 1 mile, these caves, hollowed out by the movement of the estuary 65 million years ago, have always been inhabited by man.
Come and discover them yourself...
Adulte : € 4.30 (€4.90)
Child: 6/15 years : €2.80 (€3.40 )
Child -6ans : free
See the list of the rents in the surroundings (20 km)
stone quarries of Crazannes welcome you and your family to a guided tour :
gorges and steep stones covered with a luxuriant vegetation, landscapes that
look like a lost arche.
New in 2013 : selfguided tour,
3€ instead of 4€.
tél : 05.46.74.77.08
Founded in 1111, the abbey is situated in a green and peaceful valley. Exceptional in the area, it associated the austere Romanesque in the chapels and the luminous Gothic in the chapter house and the parlour. Restored from more of 40 years, Fontdouce organizes exhibitions, concerts, training courses (songs, calligraphy…) and a lot of various animations.
Adult : €4 au lieu € 5 ,50
7/18 years : € 2.50
Child : -7 years : free
See the list of the rents in the surroundings (20 km)
3 promenoir des coureauleurs
Le Gabut
17025 LA ROCHELLE Cedex
tél : 0 825 135 500
Board for a commented cruise around Fort Boyard for the islands of
Aix, Ré and Oléron.
From the harbors of La Rochelle, St-Martin de Ré, Boyardville, St-Denis d'Oléron or Bourcefranc.
Reservation recommended.
See the list of the rents in the surroundings(20 km)
Le Gabut
tél. : 05.46.41.14.68
Full price now only - 4.50 € - Reduced price – FREE
This tour is made in French/English on Tuesdays at 5pm in July & August
Full price now only - 2 € - Reduced price - FREE
This tour is made in French/English on Wednesdays at 4pm in July & August
N.B. Please note all bookings must be made in advance at the TOURIST OFFICE of La Rochelle.
tél. : 05 46 85 07 00
(Office de tourisme)
Come and visit Fort Louvois, a 17th century coastal fort built on a submerged rock between Oléron Island and the Marennes Basin.
It was built from 1691 to 1694 according to plans drawn up by Vauban, the famous military engineer who served under Louis XIV. Taking the form of a horseshoe-shaped outer wall with a central tower protected by a drawbridge and moat, the fort is reminiscent of a medieval castle.
Fort Louvois was designed to protect the southern approach to the Charente estuary by catching enemy ships in a crossfire with the citadel at Oléron. This prevented an enemy from sailing up the river to attack the naval dockyards at Rochefort.
At low tide, the fort is connected to the mainland by a 400-metre long causeway. At high tide, a free shuttle boat is available (in summer only).
Admissions Fees
Adult : € 5 instead of 6 €
Child (13 - 18 years) : € 5
Child (4 - 12 years) : € 2.50
Child (under 4) free
tél : 05.46.22.46.06
Open all year round
Special prices:
Adult: 14€ (instead of 15€). Child from 3 to 12: 10€ (instead of 11€).
***Tickets only on sale at some owners' gîte (ask before your arrival) or at Gîtes de France office. Tel: 0033 (0)5220.127.116.11. No reduced-price ticket at park entrance.
Route de Fléac
tél : 05.46.91.09.19
'Le Château
des Enigmes'
is an alternative to the fact that children often get bored while
visiting historical monuments. Here, visitors can discover the Usson
Castle while enjoying a treasure
hunt and
having fun ! In
order to succeed in this challenge, players must use
their skills, their logic but
also remember to work
as a team ! The game is designed for both kids and parents.
The « château des énigmes » is 20 minutes away from Saintes, Cognac and Jonzac.
Adults :
11€ (13€)
Children 4-12 : 8€ (10€)
Kids under 4 : free

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Ladder Room Heaters Bring Vintage Style into Modern Interiors
Room heaters designed as ladders are unique and very decorative electric appliances for all home interiors. These room heaters from Italian company Tubes Radiatori take home radiators to a new level, blending creative and new design ideas with efficiency and functionality.
Practical and convenient, these room heaters are versatile and unusual decor items. The ladder-shaped electric appliances from Tubes Radiatori, www.tubesradiatori.com/ can be used for warming up bathroom towels or blankets in bedrooms. Lushome presents this wonderful design idea.
Small and large ladders are fabulous home decorating items that bring retro feel and charming vintage style into modern interior design. These room heaters blend function and style into beautiful electric appliances that add gorgeous, surprising and interesting accents to interior decorating in any style.
Contemporary room heaters for beautiful interior design
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Room heaters
Tubes Radiatori is a well known company for beautiful and luxurious design. Their room heaters look great and will look charming anywhere in the house. The electric appliances feature a pulley cord which adds the ladder home heaters an elegant and neat look.
Ladders are suitable decorative items for all interior design styles, but the ladder room heaters look well with vintage decor.
These electric appliances are available in two different models – wall-mounted or free standing home heaters, and two sizes – small and large.
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The free standing radiators come with a convenient shelf. Neutral colors allow to match any existing decor, enhancing interior design color schemes with soft and light tones.
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The Do-It-All Dash System
Pioneer AVIC-D3
You want it all, right here, right now, in your car? You got it. Pioneer's AVIC-D3 is the at-your-fingertips apotheosis of no fewer than ten systems: AM/FM, CD, DVD, satellite radio, GPS navigation with optional real-time traffic info, multiformat digital audio and video, Bluetooth cellular and audio, and iPod interface. Go Rachmaninoff on the 6.1-inch touchscreen to switch easily from one app to another, play movies for whoever's riding shotgun, and, if you're going for a really, really long haul, shuffle those 2,000 tracks on your Nano. $1,000;
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Nettritue.com. How to remove? (Uninstall guide)
What is Nettritue.com?
Nettritue.com is a search site that has already showed up on many computers. If you know what we mean because it hijacked your Internet Explorer, Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox browser as well, you should definitely read this post and seriously think whether it's worth leaving this search engine on the system or not. First thing that you should know is that Nettritue.com may show you altered search results. In most of the cases, they it does that for promoting related websites. In addition, Nettritue.com redirects may be followed by annoying pop-up ads, serious system slow downs and similar issues. In fact, many PC security experts have already decided to include Nettritue.com to 'browser hijacker' category. That's why you need only to scan your computer with reputable anti-spyware when trying to remove this unfair search engine from the system.
How can Nettritue.com hijack my computer?
In most of the cases, Nettritue.com hijacks systems without asking an appropriate people's permission. It is typically done with a help of freeware and shareware. That's why security experts always recommend being very careful when downloading such software on the system. Please, don't forget to read End User License Agreement and other people's reviews when installing questionable programs from the Internet. In addition, choose Custom or Advanced installation and then follow every installation step. If you find a check mark that claims: 'Make Nettritue.com my homepage', 'I agree to make Nettritue.com my default search engine', etc., you should uncheck it. Unfortunately, this search site may still appear on your computer one day. If it has already did this, you should follow a guide below and remove Nettritue.com virus from it.
How to remove Nettritue.com?
If you are one of those PC users who discovered Nettritue.com instead of their homepage or default search engine, you should check your recently installed programs because one of them helped this questionable search engine enrer it. In this case, you should use this step-by-step guide and fix your computer:
- Scan your computer with reliable anti-spyware program. For that, we recommend using Reimage, Malwarebytes MalwarebytesCombo Cleaner or Plumbytes Anti-MalwareMalwarebytes Malwarebytes.
- Uninstall a freeware, which is related to Nettritue.com:
1. Click Start → Control Panel → Uninstall a Program.
2. When in the Add/Remove Programs/Uninstall a Program, look for recently installed/unfamiliar applications, such as DP1815, Video Player, Convert Files for Free, BetterSurf, PureLead, Search Assist, Re-Markable, Lollipop, HD-Total-Plus, Safe Saver, Trusted Web, PassShow, LyricsBuddy-1, PureLeads, Media Player 1.1, RRSavings, etc.
3. Click 'Uninstall' and then OK to save the changes.
- Restore your browsers:
Internet Explorer:
1. Open Internet Explorer, click the Gear icon → 'Manage Add-ons'.
2. Here, look for unfamiliar entries and remove them.
3. In order to change your homepage, click on the gear icon again and select 'Internet options'.
4. Remove Nettritue.com and enter your preferred domain name.
5. In order to change your default search engine, click on the gear icon again, select 'Manage Add-ons' → 'Search Providers',
6. Set your preferred search engine.
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1. Open Mozilla Firefox, click on the menu icon (top right corner) and select 'Add-ons' → 'Extensions'.
2. Here, select unfamiliar add-ons and select trash icon to delete these entries.
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4. Here, eliminate Nettritue.com and enter your preferred website.
5. In order to change your default search engine, click on the menu icon and question mark icon
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5. In order to change your default search engine, click on the menu icon → 'Settings' → 'Search' section
6. Here, click 'Manage Search Engines…' and add your preferred domain name.
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Love Grows Seed Save The Date
Love Grows is a special collection from Botanical PaperWorks that sends your guests the gift of flowers with each piece. This Save The Date Card features a beautiful hand-illustrated posy of flowers with the words "We've Picked A Date", referencing the fact that the paper is embedded with seeds. When your lucky guests plant the Save The Date card, they'll grow a bouquet of colorful wildflowers. What a beautiful symbol of your love and upcoming wedding! View the entire collection here and click here to see photos from our customers of the paper in bloom.
Size: 4 1/4 x 5 1/2 inches
Shipping: This product ships in 3 business days from date proof is approved.
Envelopes Included: White or green.
Wildflower Seed Mix: Grows a blend of colorful wildflowers including Bird's Eye, Clarkia, Black Eyed Susan, Sweet Alyssum, Catchfly and Snapdragon.
Planting Instructions
Plant seed paper under 1/8" of soil. Water thoroughly. Place in a sunny corner and keep moist during germination.
Overall rating 5.00 stars
Loved them. A unique idea. Can't wait to see if the seeds grow!
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This set is an extra add on to the Ladies Shoe Cutter Set of 9 By Jem Cutters. It will enable you to create various looks to your sugar shoes by adding different shoe tops and straps for.
It is a muct have addition to the original shoe making set, along with the Ladies Shoe Heel and Top Former Set of 2 by Jem Cutters, for perfectly formed shoes every time!
1. 84 x 54mm
2. Back Heel Strap: 140 x 6mm
3. Back Heel: 88 x 44mm
4. 61 x 30mm
5. 61 x 30mm
Tip: Add a different effect to the Large Shoe Cutter set with these Shoe top cutters.
Dispatch Time & Price
Orders which are placed before 4pm (3:30pm for edible images) will be dispatched on the same working day (Monday - Friday). Please note that this does not include Bank Holidays.
3 Days (Mon-Sat)
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2 Days (Mon-Sat)
£3.99 (£1.99 - spend over £40)
Hermes - Next Day Delivery (Mon-Sat)
£4.99 (£3.99 - spend over £40)
DPD - Next Day Delivery (Mon-Fri)
£6.99 (£5.99 - Spend Over £40)
Pre 10:30am (Mon - Fri)
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Saturday or Sunday Delivery*
£6.99 (£5.99 - spend over £40)
International Delivery Pricing
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Please note, there may be additional postage charges if your order consists of unusually large or heavy items. If this is the case, you will be contacted prior to dispatch.
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Any order placed before 4pm (3:30pm for edible images) Monday - Friday, with the Next Working Day Delivery option selected, will be dispatched for delivery the following business day (Monday - Friday), between the hours of 8am - 9pm. A signature is required for this method, so you will need to be at the delivery address to sign for it. Please allow an additional 24 hours for any order to be delivered to the Scottish Highlands.
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It is always good when work is acknowledged, in which way ever, positive or negative, either way. Don't we all like a few little words of appreciation or encouragement at times? I love to hear people's opinion about my work, the good and the not so good stuff, for the simple reason that it makes me better in the end. It's like an incredible booster for me to know that people look at my work, judge it somehow and actually talk about it. And if I can be part of this conversation, it's even better. I'm grateful when someone makes the effort to write a note and it truly makes me happy when my work, my art or whatever you want to call it, is the reason to communicate and subject for conversation.
Of course, it is nice to hear a compliment now and then but also a few words of advice and constructive criticism are very much welcomed at any time. Yes, I am sensitive like the majority of creative people, but I see criticism in general as something positive because it just makes us better in whatever we do. Criticism keeps us grounded and helps us to grow and do better. I'm always open to suggestions and thankful for any advice. It only needs to be fair, respectful and most importantly presented in a kind way. So don't hesitate, just hit me with it.
I would like to encourage you to use the contact form on this site if and whenever you feel like it. Send me your thoughts or just write a quick HELLO, I am looking forward to reading it. After all, any form of communication brings people together and might be the basis for a cool and long lasting friendship. I want to THANK YOU in advance for taking the time to write a few lines, I truly appreciate the effort.
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Psionics / Re: What does it mean when..?« on: June 13, 2016, 07:34:36 PM »
I spend a lot of time in meditation. Usually a solid session of 30 minutes to an hour each day, and also shorter sessions hourly throughout the day (not for any magic purpose, just for general mental health). And part of the longer session is just "listening", though in fact I never hear anything except the usual things you would expect to hear if you listen. But I listen with the express intent of hearing more.


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$fire . 2019.05.04 14:57
95.21% of Thanks & Inks to others.
I'm enjoying my free time alone at home on a leisurely Saturday afternoon.
I've been looking at YouTube music and stuff.
A song that is familiar to my ears is very touching.
You'll see the sound with the screen...
The comment I wrote two years ago made me feel more moved by the song.~~^^)
"I've had a son and a daughter for four years, and every time I listen to this song, I think of it the most.
I just remember a drop of tears, and I remember his face for a pack of cigarettes.How are you doing?"
((() I'd like to suggest that you add some categories to the publication, and remove them......
Please add one category of memories.~~~^^*)))
14 thanks
추억의 카테고리 추천합니다
$my4555 . 12 days ago
추억 카테고리 도 좋은 추천이네요!
$chea . 16 days ago
어느60대노부부의이야기라는 긴제목의 노래죠. 저도 좋아하던 곡입니다요. 남자가 통기타로 부르던곡인데. 누군지 배가고파 까먹었소.ㅋㅋ
$starway . 16 days ago
불후의 명곡 보고 계시는군요
$my4555 . 16 days ago
$hana . 16 days ago
Hello, I'm Longboat Levy.
It's not a goddess. It's a video taken from the angle of the goddess!
The person who filmed the video on the long board took a picture from the bottom. My legs are so long!
It's too salty to watch other people's videos. If you put black in the middle, it looks like it's rich.
This editing is ruined, so I just put a one-take on the back.
Let's try it one by one and grow our own!
Video examiners, gold hands or silver granddaughters! Let me know if you have any tips.
Thank you for coming and subscribing to my YouTube channel!😅😅
There is another (Star Wars reference). I think I should call my addiction to photographing the Halloween pennant (Celithemis eponina) 1001 Ways to Photograph a Dragonfly Species. 😱 This one was photographed against white sugar sand at Hypoluxo Scrub Natural Area.
Ricordando la primavera di Tokyo, prima che Maggembre prendesse il sopravvento!
Sometimes birds need much attention from humans, Therefore maintaining birds is one of the good deeds that few people do. Never escape to share goodness, even if it's only with birds. The one bird is very beautiful in color, And also the singing is very ringing.For this one bird is also commonly mentioned by the name Love Bird.
This is a rose on the wall of a house.
You're pretty in bloom.
On your way to work in the morning, other flowers are in full bloom, following the signs of spring: cherry blossoms, gnats, and azaleas.
The aroma of acacia is full of flowers, so I'd like to pick them up and suck them up, but I gave them up because I thought they were covered with all kinds of harmful dust.
I thought a few flowers must have bloomed, but I noticed that a lot of roses are pretty over the fence.
It is said to be hot in the afternoon, but the red light shines even more red in the morning sun.
Not long ago, I used to say it was cold at night.
Now it's natural to wear short sleeves and say it's hot.
It's already been half way past May, and is it the season of roses now?
"My Love's Like a Red Rose."
For a long time, roses have been a symbol of beauty, elegance, and romantic love. Roses also represent deception and danger.
The splendid, bold act of offering red roses for a loved one has a long history.
Legend has it that the red rose was born when Eve kissed the white rose blooming in the Garden of Eden.
However, other legends say that red roses were caused by the blood of Cupid, the god of love between the opposite sex, being sprayed on white roses during the ancient Roman era of Rome.
There are more legends than that: Harpocrates, the god of silence, coincidentally witnessed the scene of Venus, the goddess of love, making love.
Cupid, the son of Venus, supported the bribe to Hapocrates in return for silence. Cupid's bribe was the first rose to be delivered to the world.
Because of this background, the rose was considered a symbol of silence in Rome.
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Indeed, in every garden, the spearhead of the beauty of the park is the existence of flowers. Indeed, every flower has its own distinctiveness in its beauty, which is essentially from every side of the view At flowers, beauty and beauty are always there
The atmosphere of the beach, the ocean is choppy
아름다운 우리나라.
아름다운 대한민국.🇰🇷💕🏵
#감성쟁이으니 #경주 #봄 #겹벚꽃 #자화상
The front of the office is covered with azaleas.
The azaleas are everywhere else.
I started smoking late, but now I'm pretty.
To make artistry, I'm going to cook on my stomach.
I've tried it for a pose. Is it worth seeing?
The tax office's on the 7th. It's been a month.
I'm still busy making submissions.
I'm gonna sit here and shiver.
I'm afraid I'll have to get rid of it.
It always works out over time.
This will also pass... the years
That's why it's also.
Too bad medicine? lol
Thank you again for the day.
I'll stop by the temple and burn it in front of the Buddha.
I've given you a bow.
He's headed for the Buddha because he can't get a present for him.
I smoked a 10,000 won bill and put it in a box.
Buddha's Birthday
May all life on earth be happy...
There are no shoes to handle my feet in Korea.Last summer, I went to Gooam-dong, and I went through the sales section and bought some shoes.It's hot and the Yo-Yo's color is pretty.I have to go to pink shoes today.
# Church # I know # I like surrounding # #The pain of death and death #
# All-Rock #Food Truck
Blue sky, green grass, colorful food truck.
I haven't been interested in it, so I haven't seen many flowers and trees lately.
I took this picture because I thought the flowers were pretty.
The leaves look similar to the platanus, so before the rounding of the eggs open, the flattanus can be used.
It makes me think about this kind of flower.
So I searched everywhere. Some people think it's a Platanus flower.~
The results show that they use both tulip or lily.
Personally, I think it looks like a tulip flower, so it looks more like a tulip tree.
Compared to the platanus, the leaves are softer. Plattus leaves are much rougher than tulip trees.
Our relationship began with the tree tree, and we imported it from a country of similar climate and planted it in our country.
It's one of the few trees that grows well.
If you have a tree that looks like a platanus, see if it's soft.
I recommend you to look around the flowers.
I don't know if it's because I'm immune or why.
I have a lot of facial problems and stress these days.
My brother who works with me wrote a description on the pack like that and took care of her, so I feel sorry for her.
Thank you very much.
#Face your face #Trouble #Please calm down #
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Thank you :)
It's Parents' Day present.
The flowers were taken from work yesterday evening.
Your daughter sent the rice cake by courier today.
You arrived late.
When I ate it, I forgot to take a picture because it was delicious.lol
I took a picture of it saying, "Oh, my God!"
It's Parents' Day, and I'm going to visit my parents in the O.C.
I'm sleepy. I'm sleepy.
Now...z z z.
Each corner of this place is a dream.
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The excitement of the natural atmosphere tinged with birds singing.
By now you probably know that I do my hair by myself and this time it didn't turn out as I planned. It was kind of a fail. Well.. I'll fix it another day eheheh
I think Jeju Island is strange.
There are definitely cherry blossoms on the ground, but it was hard to find them.
I've been waiting a long time to find her, but she's a long family.
Since it's a highland area, the cherry blossoms are probably a little later than inland.
# Mt. Halla still has cherry blossoms left.
주말마다 서울숲 나들이..
오늘도 날씨 좋아 서울숲으로 go go
튤립도 예쁘게 피었고 사진도 엄청 찍어났네 ㅋ
Plant, plant, quite, and handles non-stop... every cycle, every season, every series of interventions, the community explodes of vitality, the root gets deeper, carrying more green, the fruit more sweet.
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#agroforestry #agroflorestaregenerativa #agriculturasintropica #permaculture #cerrado #agroforestry #regenerativeagriculture #syntropicfarming #nature #tropics #tropicallife #green
(...) is of the following routes uncertain and does not meet any rule that is not his own; only he don't got no job still and walks to the domains of nature, of God's will and the God-me-free.
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I've got to admit it—the role/roll homonym is a hard one for me. It's one of the ones that I know there are two different words with two different meanings, but in the heat of the moment of writing and revising, I always write "roll." Over time, I've learned that about myself and now I always check for that error, in my writing and in my clients' work.
Role: a part to play
Roll: to move forward by turning on the axis; a document that can be rolled up; a list of names
The way that I remember this is that role has ONE l and ONE definition: to play ONE part. Alternatively, roll is in SCROLL—a document that can be rolled up and that can be used to create a list of names.


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NEW D-CAM auxiliary flash HOTA approval28 November 2017
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In what is proving to be a busy period of product innovation by Truvelo we can also announce the launch of our latest VIA-Cam industrial spot speed radar camera. Designed and built entirely in house, the VIA Cam features simultaneous bi-direction image capture from a single camera, and the option of setting different speed limits for the two directions. This allows a lower speed threshold to be set for vehicles entering the site. Speeds as low as 10mph or below can be monitored and images captured using a single HD quality colour image.
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Odisha is planning to formulate a downstream policy by the end of this financial year to attract more investment to the state in the downstream industries' sector.
Industry Minister Debi Prasad Mishra on Wednesday said the government is preparing a policy for attracting investment in the downstream industries' sector that would generate more employment and revenue for the state.
Mishra said it would come up by the end of the current fiscal.
Informing that the state has huge potential in the mineral, aluminium and steel sectors, he said the government would provide several incentives to the industries concerned through the policy.
Recently, Odisha launched the Industrial Policy Resolution, 2015, focusing on auto components, ancillary and downstream industries, chemicals and petrochemicals, electronics system design and manufacturing (ESDM), food processing, IT/ITeS, plastics, and textiles.
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Mishra said the government would hold road shows in Britain, Germany and Israel in the coming days to attract investment to the state. (IANS)


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Head on over to www.gamification.co to read my post on the dark side of gamification! Thanks to Gabe Zicherman and Ivan Kuo for inviting me to submit! … [Continue reading]
Fear: The Dark Side of Gamification
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2013 was my second visit to the Games 4 Change (G4C) conference in New York City. Last year I was so inspired by my trip that I decided to submit a proposal to present at this conference and was very … [Continue reading]
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This conference had me at hello. I mean, who doesn't want to become the supreme leader of the universe? It seemed a little loose in terms of schedules and speakers, but I figured it was time to try … [Continue reading]
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Exhibit A: From the Daily Mail, November 8th 2008. Man caught in £30,000 benefit fraud:
After the case, employment and welfare reform minister Tony McNulty said: "Lying to the DWP to get money you aren't entitled to is a crime. Expecting to get away with it is criminally stupid. This man thought he could live a life of Riley at the taxpayers' expense. He was wrong. Our investigators caught up with him and now he'll face the penalty for his crimes."
Exhibit B: On December 4th 2008 the BBC reveals how councils are using "voice recognition lie detectors" to crack down on benefit fraud:
DWP Minister of State Tony McNulty said: "We're doing more than ever before to tackle benefit fraud, and the use of more sophisticated technology, such as voice recognition, just goes to show how determined we are to catch these criminals…
The use of voice recognition is not meant to intimidate people. Its sole purpose is to catch people stealing money that could otherwise be used for schools and hospitals. So far, since April, we've sanctioned more than 2,000 people in Wales for benefit fraud. The message is clear – we're closing in on benefit cheats, and we will continue to do so."
Exhibit C: 14th January 2009, The Derby Evening Telegraph reported on the case of a woman convicted of a £38,000 benefit fraud:
Tony McNulty, DWP Anti-Fraud Minister, said: "DWP, working in partnership with local authorities, is taking action against more benefit thieves than ever before. n 2006-07, in partnership with local authorities we imposed over 51,000 prosecutions and sanctions, more than ever before and a fourfold increase since 1998. Those committing benefit theft don't just face the possibility of a criminal record and a jail sentence. Their crime can impact on future employment, insurance and credit applications too. It really isn't worth the risk."
Exhibit D: March 2009, Tony McNulty, Anti-Fraud Minister at the Department of Work and Pensions, who lives in Hammersmith, West London (three miles from parliament) is revealed to have claimed £60,000 of expenses for a "second home" in his constituency of Harrow. That's Harrow, a full 11 miles from Westminster and half a dozen miles from his "main" residence. For a second home which is actually inhabited by his parents. Mr McNulty admits that this may seem "a bit odd" but not to worry since "everyone does it". This, he admits, is not much better than the "Nuremberg defense".
"Everyone is at it" is not much of a defence is it even if it is, for once, also true? McNulty's scam may not, strictly speaking, be illegal but ethically it seems little better than those perpetrated by the fraudsters and benefit "cheats" he so enjoys locking up. Worth remembering next time some pious scold at Westminster tells the rest of us to pack away our cynicism and think better of our elected representatives.
PS: The DWP wants to remind you that "the National Benefit Fraud Hotline number is 0800 854 440. Lines are open between 7am and 11pm seven days a week or you can report a thief online via: www.dwp.gov.uk/benefit-thieves"
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Dad had yelled at me a lot when I returned home with the bags. Mum was initially worried, but was fine after I explained things in private to her. Lily was overjoyed at me getting her stuff back and the news of her attackers getting arrested.
The police questioned me for a bit, but there wasn't any evidence and given the situation, they just let me off with a warning.
But, yeah, Dad was real angry at what I did. He yelled at me for an hour straight about how I was incredible stupid to do what I did, how I was lucky not to get into trouble with the police and how I was even luckier not to get hurt. I am so glad Narszara healed my black eye.
In the end I was grounded for the first week back at school. Go to school and come home once it ended. No hanging out with friends or staying at granddad's old house out in the forest. That basically amounted to no patrols or being at the base. Dad also took away my phone for the week.
Fortunately for me, no phone didn't mean no League communicator that Dad doesn't know about, but basically does the same thing any smart phone would do and more.
And despite not actively hanging out with the others gave me time to work on the projects I been working on from the quiet of my bedroom. I managed put goggles into all of the League's costumes to provide access to the HUD that Sam and I use.
While I wasn't able to leave the house to personally do it, I still had access to a loyal and ever dutiful Narszara.
Speaking of Narszara, we finally got her some new armour to replace the worn and broken stuff she been wearing ever since she arrived several weeks ago.
Her new armour is non-powered like her old armour and uses a similar ceramic to the Sentinel, but is denser, thicker and heavier than what my armour uses. It's basically dull grey plate armour with a Nordic style to it.
Nothing fancy, just some plain old armour to protect Narszara in battle as well as give her a costume to wear. Unlike in the past, Narszara isn't wearing her new armour as normal clothing like she did with her old, instead wearing green cos-mat suits instead.
I was also able to finally figure out how to get the magnetic boots and gauntlets for the Sentinel armour working. Not that I've been able to update the armour with them yet.
But now at the end of the second Monday back at school, I'm finally allowed to do my own stuff. Which means going to the base instead of home to put on the Sentinel armour.
After a week without wearing one of the most awesome if not the most awesome suit of power armour on the planet, I'm pretty eager to get back into the field.
I march in granddad's house. I'll only really think of it has mine once I move into it as an adult. I laugh as I stroll down to the cellar to take the stairs down the base.
Boy I am giddy today.
Narszara is waiting with Danielle Riley, the oldest of the Riley kids, on riding on her shoulder. As I have come to recently expect, Narszara is in a cos-mat suit.
"How was your day Danielle?" I ask the young girl.
I still think of her as little girl despite her only being a mere three years young than myself and most of the League.
"It's been good," cheerful replies Danielle, "Alex is a great teacher. She knows everything!"
I smile. I'm glad how well the Riley family has adapted to their change of location. Especially as since they can't attend normal school, Alex has been using her vast amount of knowledge to keep the Riley girls educated. Mark and Jane Riley have mostly been getting on with their lives despite not actively working except for helping out around the base.
The only time they leave the base is when they go out with an escort, usually Alex or Narszara.
"Glad to hear that Danielle," I say.
I genuinely mean that statement. Not just making small talk with a little girl.
"Now if you two don't mind," I continue, "I'm going to go and put on my armour. It has been too long since I last got to use it."
"Yes milord," says Narszara, "Let us go little one."
As we go our separate ways, I overheard Danielle talking to Narszara.
"Why do you call them milord Narsey?" asks Danielle.
"Because he is my lord and I his servant little one," replies Narszara, "I have sworn loyalty to him."
"Why did you swear loyalty to him?" inquires Danielle.
"Because it is part of what my people do," answers Narszara, "You wouldn't understand. It is an aspect of Norgard that Earth does not share."
Danielle starts to say something else, but they are too far away for me to overhear.
Narsey, I think as I enter the lab, I wonder how Narszara would react if I called her that. Probably be rather annoyed.
Within minutes, I am armoured up and soaring through the sky.


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Today's New Testament reading comes from Mark 1:21-28
21They went to Capernaum (Kap per naum); and when the Sabbath came, he entered the synagogue and taught. 22They were astounded at his teaching, for he taught them as one having authority, and not as the scribes.
23Just then there was in their synagogue a man with an unclean spirit, 24and he cried out, "What have you to do with us, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are, the Holy One of God."
25But Jesus rebuked him, saying, "Be silent, and come out of him!"
26And the unclean spirit, convulsing him and crying with a loud voice, came out of him. 27They were all amazed, and they kept on asking one another, "What is this? A new teaching—with authority! He commands even the unclean spirits, and they obey him."
28At once his fame began to spread throughout the surrounding region of Galilee.
God always blesses the reading of his word.
Let us calm our minds and prepare our hearts as we come before our Lord.
Father, we come before you, perhaps having had a hard week since we last left your house. We come before you, humbled and broken, and ask you to restore us with your healing touch. The challenges that we've faced have left us shaken and uncertain about our faith in others, our faith in ourselves, and our faith in you. We ask you to wash away our doubts with your unfailing certainty. You are the God of all things and this week reminded us us that this world is your world, that we are your children. This week reminded us that You are our rock. When the world around us causes us to tremble and doubt, in you we can be confident and have sure footing. When the world drags us to our knees, You are there to lift us up and strengthen our hearts and spirit.
In our weakest moments Lord, you are our God.
Father, we come before you, perhaps having had a wonderful week since we left your house. We come before you, humbled, and thank you for the many ways we've seen your presence this week. The joys that we've experienced shows us how you are working in the world and that you are in control of all things.
Father, you, who set the world in motion, who sees the beginning and the end, still cares deeply for all his children and delights in our happiness. This week was a blessing, Lord and reminded us that You are our rock. When the world around us makes our hearts to sing, in you we can rejoice and sing your praises. When the world is wonderful and bright, you are there, smiling on us. We lift you up as the Lord of all things.
In our most joyous moments Lord, you are our God.
Lord, our greatest prayer to you is, "thank you." Hear us as we silently thank you for the many ways you've blessed our lives.
You are the God of all things and we are humbled by the many ways you show your love for us. We pray that we may take your gifts out into the world and share them with others so that they may see your love manifested in our actions.
Lord, our humblest prayer to you is, "help." Hear us as we silently pray that you will wrap your loving arms around those who are sick, broken, lost or seeking.
We especially bring before you:
You are the God of all things and we are humbled by the many ways you show your healing power and grace.
Father, we pray that you will comfort those who are caregivers. They are your hands and their journey is hard. Give them strength to accomplish their task and peace in knowing that you are with them as they care for their loved ones.
Father, we pray for our church as we struggle to find our footing. We know that you have so many blessings that you want to pour onto this church so that it may be a beacon of Your light within our community. We pray that you will forgive us when we put our needs and wants for the church before your will for the church.
We pray for our pastors and leaders, that they will be strong and patient as they seek shepherd your flock. We pray for the children's minister that she will be your hand in the lives of the children both within our walls and those in the community.
We pray for our youth pastor, and Tom Tyree that they will be strong and faithful as they begin a new Confirmation class with our youth. We pray that our youth will be open to their teaching and hear your word.
We pray for the many missions and ministries that our church supports. We pray that they will be strong and bring your word to a world that is seeking to know a peace that comes from your presence. Give the leaders of these programs the wisdom to lead their team as you desire. Touch the hearts of those who are seeking a way to serve you and we ask that you will give them guidance, Lord. It may be different, it may be outside their comfort zone, but you know everyone's talents and unspoken desires. Give us the strength to go where you want us to serve.
For all the many ways we've failed you, we ask for your forgiveness. For all the many opportunities you've place before us, we ask for your guidance. For all the many ways you've blessed us, we humbly thank you.
Ready our hearts to feel your presence, silence our minds to hear your word, prepare our spirit to do your will. We are your servants, Lord, awaiting your call.
In the name of your Son, we pray.
And all God's people said, Amen.


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Skill in anything is an attractive thing to strive for. It's something we can develop and hone to achieve the things we want. To put it simply: skill grants access to success. But what exactly composes skill in poker and chess, and can the same thing be applied to life? Can we simply develop our skills in the same structured way and guarantee ourselves the same level of prosperity as we can in the realms of strategy games?
This is part of a series of articles, and if you haven't already read it, you can find part 2 here.
1. Skill As Decision Making (poker and chess)
As always we set off by looking at our concept in question through the lens of the chess player. You win a game of chess by being more skilled than your opponent. Being more skilled than your opponent is represented by the fact that you make superior moves to the ones he makes. Therefore, being skilled at chess is simply to possess some faculty that consistently enables you to make good decisions. Good decisions lead to better outcomes than bad ones do with a firm degree of reliability in the purity of the chess world and so skill translates directly and instantly to success.
In poker there's no real fundamental difference here. Skill is still the underlying currency of success and it can be reduced here also to brute force decision making; it's just that now there exists a delay in the translation of this skill to success as we saw last time when we examined luck and learned that this game contains a great deal of it. A common misconception about poker held by the uninformed outsider is that since poker is a game of luck, it can't also be a game of skill. This is completely false and to quickly explain why I'll use the following analogy that I so often find myself falling back on at social events.
Imagine we each have a coin and decide to play a coin tossing game where the idea is to toss your own coin and flip heads more than your opponent does with theirs. When someone flips heads, he/she scores a point but scores nothing for tails. Our coins are perfectly normal apart from one small but crucial detail: mine is weighted in such a way that it lands on heads 51% of the time. Your coin, on the other hand, is just a regular two pence piece from your pocket and lands on each side 50% of the time.
What would happen if we played a match of ten tosses each? Well, I'd flip heads 5.1 times out of 10 on average to your 5 times out of 10, but on one occasion in isolation, anything could happen. There will be many times where you toss more heads than me and over this small sample it would be impossible for an onlooker to determine that any one coin was favourable to the other. However, if we toss 100,000 times instead of 10, we'll find the 0.1 extra heads I toss per 10 to be decisive. I will flip more heads than you than you due to the law of large numbers which says that statistical likely hoods hold true over large numbers of trials. I am crowned champion over a 100,000 toss match thanks to my ever so slightly better coin.
Now let's imagine this small edge of being able to toss more heads was not in fact due to me holding a bogus weighted coin, but was a result of my superior skill in coin tossing. Now we can see how skill can generate a positive long term expectation in a hybrid game of skill and chance, but that the more skilled party can easily still lose over the short term. Here in lies the unreliable nature of success in poker over the short term but near certainty of long term profit for the more skilled party in the long run. In poker, this skill equates to choosing what action to take with a certain hand in some distinct situation. The player who makes the better decisions wins the money in the long term so again skill is just this ability to choose good options.
2. Skill As Decision Making (life)
Jerry (50) dropped out of university at the age of 19 as it wasn't for him so he's chosen instead to travel and pursue his passion for music for the last 25 years. He's now making his way through Australia with his wife teaching the guitar while she teaches piano. He says couldn't be happier.
Sally (50) has worked as a solicitor for the last 25 years and grown to loathe it. She feels like her life has passed her by without her even realising, each day a meaningless blur in a procession of routine drudgery. She's thought about changing her life at various points, but never found the moment to join the police force like she'd always fancied.
So what do Sally and Jerry have in common? They've both made choices for the last 25 years that have resulted in different levels of satisfaction with how life has gone. It seems pretty obvious that Jerry has chosen better than Sally and thus lived a far more positive life over the years. Just as in poker and chess, there's a sense in which skill is simply a person's ability to make good decisions. Of course Sally's knowledge of the legal system and Jerry's knack with the guitar are sub-skills, but if we want to generalise away form sections of life to the bigger picture of life itself then skill is at least partly decision making.
There are two issues rearing their heads here so I'm calling for a short time-out to deal with them.
The first is the subjectivity of success. 'Success' as intended from now on is subjective to the agent in question and not comparable to how others perform on an objective scale. Mike might not be as intelligent or brilliant as Fiona, but he could be more successful in life if he achieves more good stuff (whatever that turns out to be) than she does relative to their respective natural abilities and opportunities. Fiona might be a natural born world class pianist who received world class lessons from infancy. Mike didn't have this chance so this needs to be taken into account. Of course there will be external factors governing overall achievement in life, but success should be measured in an equal manner so we'll be overlooking any of these natural strokes of luck from now on.
The second issue and the one I'm going to need to leave on the sidelines until part 5 is what exactly constitutes success in life. Could Sally not be considered more successful than Jerry if she's saved a lot of money, bought a house and raised a family in the last 25 years where as Jerry has not? Maybe her sacrifice in doing something she hates was worth it should we zoom out and see the bigger picture. Sure, maybe! it depends on what we think the currency of the good actually is in this baffling realm. Maybe that currency is different from person to person. This question is worthy of more space than can be allowed for in this section so stay tuned for fuller exploration soon.
That aside, I want to investigate why some of us are more skilled in life than others. Why do some of us repeatedly make bad decisions and end up in bad spots while others seem to chose prudently and reap the rewards? I have three explanations for this that might lead us down a path to improving our skills in life. They are: desire invasion, decision discipline and decision automation.
By desire invasion I refer to something more than just a lack of willpower or lapse in judgement. Many types of people, for example, addicts, criminals and mentally ill people suffer from an inner programming so profound that it overrides any hope of decision making carrying out it's normal duty of pursuing the best outcome. The poker equivalent is the enraged recreational player who has a gambling problem and chases his losses without rationality or sense of limiting the damage. The chess equivalent is extremely rare and even more bizarre than the rest of the chess community, but i suppose he'd be the board trashing, abusive type of player who gets so mad at the game he starts to make moves in a shortsighted emotional manner and hence gives up decision making in any rational sense. These people are not necessarily unskilled at life, they simply suffer from something debilitating that prevents that skill from being exercised. Even the most gifted poker player in the world will be a loser if he can't keep it together for long enough to think clearly and implement his ability.
For the rest of us, success in life I believe is very much a case of skill in decision making. We understand this on some level yet many of us constantly make decisions we know deep down to be mistakes.
The first culprit here is decision discipline or lack thereof. Just about every poker player suffers from this deficiency at some time or another. We know that we should fold the river because analysis shows calling to be unprofitable, yet we chose to call anyway and convince ourselves somehow that it's okay. We know playing h5 and opening up the kingside is probably theoretically bad, but we can't resist the chance of winning via a brilliant (or lucky) mating attack. We resolved to run 3 times a week this year and give up Papa Johns pizza as this was much better for our well being, but hey, it's two for tuesdays today and it's really cold outside.
Those who succeed find ways to keep discipline levels high more frequently and enforce strict codes of decision making upon themselves. Those who fail succumb to bad decisions they could have avoided with a stronger faculty of discipline. Success in life requires discipline, otherwise the brain will just make the bad decisions it seeks for whatever irrational or emotional purpose. Discipline here usually involves the overriding of emotional interference of any type. It takes Sally discipline to quit her job as a lawyer and pursue actual happiness just as it takes me discipline to stop ordering pizza. Her job is controlling her fear enough to make the change where as the rouge desire I'm trying to reign in is temptation or perhaps gluttony.
If we separate emotional urges from our rational analysis, we're better placed to make the right decision. Sometimes, however emotions can lead us to the correct choice. The saying "follow you heart" has a hell of a lot of truth to it in my opinion. However, other times we're best placed ignoring emotional impulse and reasoning out the problem. The real skill in life then is using our cold calculating abilities to decipher which emotions are worthy of listening to and which are striving for unwanted ends. This isn't going to be easy, but as a friend of mine likes to maintain, large problems need to be broken up into steps and now at least we have a starting point.
Finally we come to decision automation. I came up with this concept thanks to a poker illness many poker players are afraid of developing – the dreaded autopilot! This is a frame of mind that can exist in almost any mental activity where the brain, due to distraction or fatigue, stops thinking authentically and begins to rely on habitual patterns to make decisions. We suddenly find ourselves on the turn without any idea of how we got there. We have to trace the hand backwards to reason that we must have open raised KJs from an early position and been called by the big blind. Then we must have continuation-bet the flop and been called again. Our minds switch off when they lack the focus or energy to create new thoughts to deal with a situation and shift into this autopilot mode so damaging to our win rate.
Perhaps unsurprisingly by now, I'm now going to say that the same thing happens in life all the time. How many decisions do we make, completely unaware of the fact we're making a decision at all. And how good of a decision can we possibly make where this is the case? I didn't go for a run today because I didn't even think about it until I was in bed, yet at every point of the day where this was a possibility, my subconscious was choosing not to bring it to my attention. If we can develop a system of flagging up important decisions as and when they occur, we can minimise decision automation. We may also need a system of bookmarking certain things so we remember to consider them and consciously make a decision about if and when to do them. The more you automate your life, the firmer the grasp routine will have on your mind and the quicker the mould will grow over that beautifully dynamic creative and inspired part that's always seeking to make great choices and better your life.
So to recap, in order to not end up like Sally, we need to build decision discipline to quell the destructive randomising effect of emotion while still using it as a guiding beacon the times we find we agree with its impulse. We also need to banish autopilot decision making and keep fresh our inspired originality and creative pallet so that we may paint things into our lives that aren't staring us right in the face. Be aware and be disciplined; in chess, in poker, and in life!
3. Skill Beyond Decision Making – Immersion
If skill in life leads to success, and decision making isn't always sufficient for success, then skill must be more than just decision making. Why would I say decision making isn't always enough? Well, when we make a good decision we gain useful things that can be enjoyed or transferred into happiness. In order to experience happiness or pleasure from the things we've gained though, there's one ingredient missing, and this ingredient I'm going to call 'immersion.'
Let's imagine Julia read this article, but stopped before this section. She became obsessed with making decisions every moment of her conscious waking day and making the right ones. She built an amazing career, made a beautiful family with her successful husband and became very rich (all thanks to me). Unfortunately, her days are now nothing but a massive fest of stress and worry as she battles with decision after decision, adamant that she'll make lots of right choices about important things.
So Julia isn't very happy and that's because she never allows herself to blend in with the world and enjoy the fruits of her labour. If we're doing nothing but choosing what to do next, we can't savour the present. We enter some bizarre self contradictory loop where we spend the present always setting up the future so that it will be better but then we chose not to cash in that betterness and instead set up the next future so it will be better so on and so on. I think we've all encountered neurotic stress-heads like Julia. She has a great decision making faculty but lacks the other half of skill in life – immersion.
Immersion is the ability to switch off the decision making brain and allow yourself to profit through endorphins and positive inner well being. I find that some of the most enjoyable times in life are those where you get completely lost in the moment. The times you remember forever are those which felt the most special at the time. The very things we try to manage and even suppress in order to make good decisions are the things we need to let loose in order to gain from those decisions….emotions! We are supposed to thrive by becoming one with our environment and simply being sometimes.
As someone with very hedonistic views, I may be biased here, but I'm going to go ahead and state the weak claim that no achievement is really anything if life is void of pleasure and happiness. The happiest people seem to me to be those who can successfully flick the switch of decision making on and off at the appropriate times. Switching it on to create the circumstances conducive to happiness and turning it off again in time to enjoy them.
In poker and in chess we have no need for such a balance. Skill is not measured by how much we enjoy the trip but by the destination that is the winners' circle. In life though, I;d say you're pretty bad at life though if you create an empire of resources that noone ever enjoys. The poker equivalent would be building a massive stack in a tournament to then leave the computer and let your stack disappear along with any hopes of winning money. To be like Julia is to create a winning endgame in chess then blunder it all away in horrific fashion.
Skill is vital to success in chess, in poker, and in life. Decision making is vital to skill in all three realms. We need to control our emotions in order to proposer at this and make sure we stay vigilant enough to have the right factors up for decision in the first place. The more we avoid the natural inclination to autopilot our way through the world, the more beneficial the topics of our decision making become. The more we conquer our irrationality and channel emotion in the right way, the better the choices we make on these matters. At the end of it all though, it's totally irrelevant how much we achieve if we neglect immersing ourselves in the world and enjoying what we've created. Life is a finite blip in the grand scheme of things. Don't blunder it all away in the end game.
Skill in life is just the ability to achieve what is good for us to achieve. More about that in part 5.


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Nicolae: The Rise of Antichrist; pp. 167-174
During a long, rambling conversation over dessert with Rayford Steele, Hattie Durham reminds her former non-boyfriend that he was always too old for her anyway. "[Buck] and I are closer in age," she says.
She underscores the point on the following page, saying of Nicolae Carpathia: "He was only about as much older than Buck as Buck was older than I." At that point I felt like I was reading a word problem from the PSATs ("Rayford is twice as old as Hattie. Nicolae is as much older than Buck as Buck is older than Hattie. If Hattie is 22 years old, what color is the Norwegian's house?").
This discussion of the characters' relative ages got me to thinking about my own age relative to theirs — and that's a disastrous line of thinking when it comes to the central claim of these books. Buck Williams was 29 years old in the first book of this series, which was published in 1995. In 1995, I was 27 years old, so Buck is two years older than me.
That would mean that today, in 2013, Buck is 47 years old. But Buck Williams doesn't get to live to see 47 because seven years after these books begin, Turbo Jesus comes back and destroys life, the universe and everything. So the world was supposed to end in 2002.
Spoiler alert: The world did not end in 2002.
Heck, in 2002, Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins hadn't even finished writing this series of books.
But wait, that's not entirely fair. That first book wasn't set in 1995. It was set in an undefined not-so-distant future. The problem is that the not-so-distance between 1995 and this future is asked to serve two contradictory functions.
On the one hand, this distance must be very, very short because the story begins with the Rapture. LaHaye, like everyone who believes in the idea of the Rapture, believes that it is imminent. Type "Imminent Rapture" into Google and you'll find hundreds of thousands of results, even though the phrase is redundant. To believe in the Rapture is to believe that it could occur at any second — maybe this very day, maybe this very hour, maybe before you finish reading this post or even this sentence! (Phew — looks like we're all still here.)
A Rapture-believer like Tim LaHaye cannot provide one of those sci-fi introductions when telling a Rapture story. It cannot be specific, like the first lines of John Carpenter's 1981 film Escape from New York: "In 1988, the crime rate in the United States rises four hundred percent. …" No one knows the day or the hour of when the Rapture will come. But it is undoubtedly imminent. No one knows the day or the hour, but it must always be possible that it is this day and this hour.
The imminence of the Rapture means that this book, published in 1995, also had to, at least in a sense, be set in the world of 1995. The story couldn't include any elements that would have seemed "futuristic" in 1995 — flying cars, rocket packs, domed cities, cell phones, wi-fi, a black president, etc. All of those would have signaled that the Rapture is not imminent, but some future event still years or even generations away. They would serve to increase the not-so-distance of the book's future setting, contradicting the imminent-Rapture requirement that this not-so-distance be as short as possible.
The imminent Rapture requires that this story be set in a present that's just about to happen. That presented Jerry Jenkins with a bit of a dilemma as it took the authors 12 years to finish publishing their narrative of how they believe the final seven years of history will unfold. Jenkins needed to preserve the Rapture's imminence by avoiding futuristic technological details and only including the technology of the present day, but the present-day technology of 2007 was quite different from the present-day technology of 1995. Jenkins' cleverly pragmatic response to this problem was simply to incorporate new technologies as they arose while pretending this doesn't create any anachronistic conflicts between his earlier books and his later ones. So in the first book we have airport pay-phones (ask your parents) and by the third book we have cell phones. That can sometimes be jarring, but I give Jenkins a pass on this because telling a story set in the imminent future is a difficult business.
The one bit of futuristic technology the authors do include in their story is Dr. Chaim Rosenzweig's Miracle Formula. The chemistry and biology of this seems so unlike anything possible today that the presence of such a formula in our story seems to push its setting decades further into the future, destroying the whole sense that the Rapture it describes might be "imminent."
I suppose the authors might counter that Rosenzweig's formula wasn't so much a scientific breakthrough as it was an actual miracle. Like the Rapture itself, it was an act of divine intervention in the natural world and thus, like the Rapture itself, something that might be regarded as imminent. That's a bit unsatisfying, though. To paraphrase Arthur C. Clarke, any act of miraculous intervention is indistinguishable from sufficiently advanced technology.
The larger problem for the authors and for their insistence on the imminence of this story is that their focus on avoiding futuristic technology didn't extend to an avoidance of futuristic politics. The political world in which Left Behind (1995) is set has as much relation to present-day politics as the technological world of Star Trek has to present-day technology. Peace in the Middle East, for example, is presented as a fait accompli. Israel is said to be at peace with all of its immediate neighbors — a state of affairs the authors describe as somehow involving Israel absorbing all of its immediate neighbors, annexing much of Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, Iraq and Egypt without disrupting or disturbing the residents of those countries while also not altering in any way the distinctive identity of Israel as a Jewish nation.
I can't. And if this development is a prerequisite for the Rapture — if this must be accomplished before the Rapture can occur — then it seems to me that this Rapture cannot be in any way described as imminent. If this is a necessary precursor to the Rapture, then — based on Tim LaHaye's own rules of "Bible prophecy" — the odds are that we'll see a colony on Mars long before this "imminent" Rapture could ever occur.
And keep in mind that these books are about prophecy, not playful prediction. If the future they foretell does not come to pass as they foretell it, then these books utterly fail. That is their central claim.
That makes for a very different sort of problem than the fun-but-mistaken discussion of the supposedly failed predictions of science fiction stories. George Orwell wrote 1984 in 1949. I quoted from Escape From New York above, which described a future world of 1988 in which Manhattan had been transformed into a penal colony. The image above is from the 1982 movie Blade Runner, which portrayed the Los Angeles of 2019 (getting close!) as a cramped city wracked by climate disruption and police drones (getting close!). But Blade Runner also predicted "off-world colonies" and androids indistinguishable from their human creators — developments that seem more than six years distant from our present. Or consider one of my favorite books, Infinite Jest, which depicted the Year of the Depends Adult Undergarment as a 2009 that wasn't even called "2009." David Foster Wallace nearly predicted Netflix, but northern New England hasn't been transformed into a concavity overrun with mutant feral hamsters, so he loses points for "accuracy" there.
But this game of spot-the-failed predictions misrepresents what those stories are about. They're not about the future, but about the present. The point wasn't an attempt to make an accurate prediction about where we are inevitably headed, but a way of using such predictions as a mirror to reflect and examine where we are now. The words on the screen in that still from Blade Runner really mean just the same thing as the words at the beginning of Terry Gilliam's Brazil: "Somewhere in the 20th Century." Those stories aren't predictions about the future, but rather commentaries on the present (and on the perennial).
That's also true for the alleged source material for the Left Behind series — the apocalyptic literature of the Bible. Apocalyptic literature is not making predictions about the future, but rather it attempts to unveil ("Revelation") the true reality of the present or perennial human condition. It is prophetic in the sense that, like the prophets, it passes judgment on the world and renders a verdict. But it is not meant to be "prophetic" in the carnival-huckster sense of foretelling future events.
Unfortunately for LaHaye and Jenkins, their books are meant to be predictive "prophecies" in that latter sense. These books are fictional, but they're meant to provide a fictionalized description of future events that will occur just as described — a kind of historical fiction about the future. That means the standard for accuracy that it would be unfair to apply to 1984 or to Blade Runner must be applied to these books. By fudging on the precise year in which their story is set they don't allow us to state conclusively that their predictions have failed and that their prophecies have gone unfulfilled. But we can state conclusively that the imminent "Rapture" they continue to prophesy was not and is not and cannot be "imminent."
This may seem like an overlong response to just a couple of sentences from Hattie in this section of Nicolae, but her whole conversation with Rayford is infused with her nostalgic musing about her past. That past, even as sketchily and carelessly described by Jenkins, is situated in time. Combined, then, with Hattie's discussion of all the characters' ages one gets a clearer sense of when the imminent present of this scene is set — and that actually seems to be earlier than 1995.
"Think about it, Rayford. All I ever wanted to be was a flight attendant. The entire cheerleading squad at Maine East High School wanted to be flight attendants. We all applied, but I was the only one who made it. I was so proud. …"
Hattie is supposed to be a member of Generation X, but Jenkins describes her childhood dreams and teenage fantasies using his own Baby Boomer imagination. This seems like something out of the world of Bye Bye Birdie or Mad Men. If Hattie grew up reading Vicki Barr Flight Stewardess books as a child and she's in her early 20s, then this story can't be set much later than the Reagan years — 1985 rather than 1995.
Back in 1985, of course, Tim LaHaye was preaching about the same "Bible prophecies" he later fictionalized in 1995 and that he's still preaching today in 2013. He was preaching that the central focus of every Christians' life ought to be the Rapture. And the Rapture, he said in 1985, is imminent.


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Politicians are desperately searching for election policies which might bring them that extra percentage point in the ballot box.
With food banks springing up throughout the country, public services rapidly deteriorating and 60 per cent of austerity cutbacks still to come, there's always that standby favoured by monarchs and ministers - divide one section of the population against the other, and you could score a victory.
A phoney picture of Britain's OAPs has been painted by the media. We're supposed to have massive savings, paid-up mortgages, with most of us spending half the year cruising the Caribbean.
One wonders how many OAPs reading this fit easily into this bracket. I'm approaching 72, still working part time to make ends meet. I have a bus pass, which is very handy, free prescriptions, a £10 Xmas bonus, and we use that £100 Winter Fuel Allowance for, surprise, surprise … fuel.
The last 'cruise' I went on was in 2010, from Hull to Zeebrugge, with no palm trees in sight. As a retired couple, our combined pensions bring us in about £200 per week. But as a campaign target, Westminster has us in its sights.
Those 'ordinary' MPs without a second or third job earn around £1,280 per week plus expenses.
There seems to be conflicting views about the so-called 'grey vote'. One is that the retired should be cosseted at all costs, the other is that some of us are a bunch of geriatric scroungers who are living too well and need taking down a peg or two.
Loathe as I am to give any credence to our Prime Minister, I can't fault what he told a pensioner's meeting recently:
"Comfort, independence, companionship, health - these aren't luxuries; they're what people who have worked and saved all their lives deserve. If something happens to you when you're old, or to your income, you can't as easily change your circumstances as younger people can. You can't as easily move house, or change job, or go full time. You need to know support is always there for you."
Cynical 'grey vote' electioneering? Probably.
But Ed Milliband will be wise to distance himself from the yesterday's men of the Blair years, such as David Blunkett(who seems to forget who paid his substantial salary).
He suggests taxing our winter fuel allowance, Christmas bonus and television licence and for pensioners who continue to work to pay national insurance and pay for prescriptions.
Sorry, David - we paid at the door! So if you're young, get out and vote.
But whoever you vote for, remember, you too will eventually be old, and believe me, it's no fun.
As Theodore Roosevelt said; 'Old age is like everything else.
'To make a success of it, you've got to start young.'


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As part of Black History Month, The Watershed in Bristol will be hosting a special screening of 'I Am The Gorgon', including a Q&A session with legendary producer BUNNY "STRIKER" LEE.
The brand new film is based on the life of BUNNY LEE and how Jamaican music spread from the ghettoes of Kingston around the globe.
Bristol Archive Records is putting on a BUNNY MARRETT album launch party later this month alongside a screening of 'Voices From Another Part Of Town' at the Watershed, Bristol.


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Our Moon orbits around the Sun with the Earth and from our perspective on the Earth the Moon appears to circle around the Earth, however in reality the Moon orbits the Sun together with the Earth*.
Sunday evening the waxing gibbous Moon rises about 2 hours before sunset local time.
*Click here to read my 2006 Scope on the Sky column "The Real Shape of the Moon's Orbit". (PDF)
Click here to go to the Qué tal in the Current Skies web site for more observing information for this month.