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As a kid, any source of light should provide sanctuary from the underside of your bed or the empty space in your closet. With an active imagination coursing through that little body, the darkness can make even a simple shoe look like the severed foot of your next door neighbor. That's why parents attach all kinds of lighting fixtures to help their kids (and more importantly, themselves) get a good night's sleep.
Not this lamp, however!
Designed by Álvaro Goula and Pablo Figuera for Faro Barcelona, the HAN LED lamp may look like a misshapen thought bubble, but is in fact a light source, hanger, and a fuel for childhood nightmares all rolled into one!
Let's get into each of the features in detail.
The HAN LED lamp keeps the boogeymen at bay by providing warm LED 6W light all throughout the room. While other light fixtures like to make their presence known by blasting out your retinas, this lamp emits a soft, indirect light which ensures that your kids will retain their eyesight past the age of 12.
As for its ability to hold different articles of clothing, this baby holds not just one, but a whopping four hangers which are disguised as smaller nubs on the side of the lamp itself. While it won't stand up to the durability of something like say, a hangman's noose, this household fixture composed of steel and methacrylate can support your clothes no matter how outlandish your fashion sense gets!
… Which brings me to why this thing isn't meant for kids. You see, even though the HAN LED lamp provides a soft glow and has no edges with which your kids can cut themselves, the shadows that your clothes cast will be more than enough to scare the living crap out of them.
There just isn't any way around it.
Because your clothes are so close to the light source, the darkness that your apparel creates muffles out any sense of comfort or safety that comes from the lamp. Now this might be acceptable in a home full of adults, but when you have hyperactive children who scare easily at the sight of Barney the Dinosaur, then this doesn't really make for a good nighttime guardian.
The lamp may have won an award for design and functionality, but it sure isn't child-friendly. If you want to get into the nitty-gritty lamp details (and possibly buy one for yourself), you can check it out here on Faro Barcelona's official webpage.


text: Aircalin formally signed (05-Dec-2017) contracts with Rolls-Royce for Trent 7000 engines to power two A330neo aircraft. The engines are supported by Rolls-Royce's TotalCare engine service. The TotalCare agreement includes a 'Parts Availability' option whereby Rolls-Royce will ensure the airline has guaranteed parts provision on site and necessary tools worldwide to maximise service efficiency. This is the first time Aircalin will use Rolls-Royce engines. The A330neo is exclusively powered by the Trent 7000 engine. [more – original PR]

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It was the 5th of May 2016. It has been two years and four months since the last time the Ramón Sánchez-Pizjuán saw a UEFA Europa League match. They would go on to lift their fifth title in Basel that season, but a lot has happened since the last time the Europa League was in Nervión. Fortunately, there is no sense of nostalgia, because during all this time the views from the very highest level of European football has been even better, but for Sevillistas the Europa League always holds a special place in the heart. They have already had 270 minutes to remember all the good memories during the summer, but the structure of the tournament has thus far prevented the UEL from exciting the fans in the stands to the fullest extent.
To walk this glorious path once again, the first step that Sevilla take will be against Standard Liège, the prestigious Belgian side who curiously are the only Belgian side to have played Sevilla in official competition. Fate has placed Standard Liège in the same group as Sevilla for the third time in the past decade, with the matches often being evenly matches. It is worth mentioning however that the only victory for the Belgians came at their ground in 2008, back when the groups were made up of five teams and there were no return legs. In their encounters in 2014/15, the season in which Sevilla went on to win the title in Warsaw, there were no goals in Liège and in the return leg at home Sevilla won 3-1 thanks to goals from Gameiro, Reyes and Bacca.
The only time that Standard have visited Nervión, in 2014, they fell 3-1 with goals from Gameiro, Reyes and Bacca
Returning to the present, it is now the turn of Machin's men to fully take advantage of their return to a competition that has made them a much bigger club and one that they have thus far navigated with great efficiency, despite the fact that the previous rounds have proven to be an insurmountable obstacle for other squads that were supposed to have at least the same pedigree as Seville. With some key casualties which will affect the team in the medium term, the manager has to share out the minutes among his squad and strengthen his gameplan, without forgetting that they will have to visit Levante on Sunday and on Wednesday they welcome none other than Real Madrid to Nervión.


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A few weeks ago, we ran a poll about professional uniforms. Not the company issued kind, but the idea of wearing the same thing every day (i.e. black turtleneck and jeans a la Steve Jobs). We asked you to weigh in and here's what you said:
I must admit that I'm surprised so many people would entertain the idea. I thought people might be hesitant to commit to the same thing every day. It could get boring. But the comments were very honest, mostly about the pressure we're under when it comes to our attire.
"I hate the stress that comes with trying to dress professionally, yet comfortably."
"Let's face it, we're a society of people who either consciously or subconsciously make snap judgments about others based on how they look."
"I want to be known for my abilities, my talents, and not for what I'm wearing."
Some comments did equate wearing a suit with wearing a uniform. As someone who spent the majority of my corporate career wearing a suit, I find myself rebelling against that now that I'm a consultant. I guess if the corporate culture leans toward a dark suit and a solid shirt…then sure, that could be a uniform of sorts. As one person pointed out, it does mean that employees have to find ways to tastefully standout in a crowd. Maybe that's a pair of eye catching socks, a bold tie, or a piece of statement jewelry.
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Ascencion Angoco Becker, also known as "Connie," of Yigo, died Jan. 27 at the age of 70.
Mass of Intentions is offered 6:30 p.m. Monday through Friday, 7 p.m. Saturday, and 6 p.m. Sunday at Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church in Yigo.
Last respects will be held from 9 a.m. to noon Feb. 5 at Our Lady of Lourdes Church.
Mass of Christian Burial will begin at noon. Burial will follow at Guam Veterans Cemetery in Piti.
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The History of Daffodil Days
The Canadian Cancer Society's Daffodil Days began in Toronto in the 1950s.
A group of Canadian Cancer Society volunteers organized a fund-raising tea and decided to decorate the tables with daffodils. The bright, cheerful flowers created an atmosphere that seemed to radiate hope and faith that cancer could be beaten.
Soon these gatherings came to be known as Daffodil Teas.
Jackie Brockie, a volunteer who also worked at Eaton's, supported the idea of Daffodil Teas and arranged for Lady Eaton to host a Tea in the store. Seven hundred women attended.
Another volunteer, Lane Knight, arranged for restaurants to give part of their receipts to the Society on the opening day of the residential canvass in 1956. Canadian Cancer Society volunteers were on hand at local restaurants to give patrons a daffodil when they paid for their meals as a token of appreciation. The sight of so many daffodils being carried around the city created interest. When some recipients tried to pay for the flowers or make donations, the Society quickly realized that the sale of daffodils would generate additional revenue.
Canadian Cancer Society volunteer Fran Shannon headed the team that planned the sale of daffodils on the streets of Toronto the following year. An anonymous donor paid for 5,000 blooms to be flown from British Columbia where the growing season starts earlier than in Ontario.
The daffodils were an instant success, raising more than $1,200 the first year. The idea was adopted by other provinces across Canada as well as the American Cancer Society.
Today the Canadian Cancer Society is the world's largest purchaser of daffodils and the growers in British Columbia must arrange their plantings to accommodate the Society's spring demand for live blooms.
In late March and early April, Canadian Cancer Society volunteers are busy delivering and selling bright, yellow daffodils to help raise money in support of the fight against cancer.
The daffodil is the Canadian Cancer Society's symbol of hope. The bright, cheerful blooms are sold every year and mark the beginning of Daffodil Month.
This years Daffodil Days run from
April 12th - 18th
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My name is Wayne Rudd and welcome to 7th grade math and life science.
A little about myself, I was born and raised in San Diego, California. I grew up playing a multitude of sports and enjoying the coastal opportunities to fish. After high school I moved to New Zealand where I lived with a Maori/Tongan family for six months. While there, I fished, played rugby, and worked a whole bunch of crazy and interesting jobs. After traveling, I went back to school and earned an associate's degree. I coached high school track and field at Helix High School in La Mesa, California for eight years and went back to school to complete my bachelor's degree in Interdisciplinary Studies. In 2003, my wife and I moved to Sacramento. I have been married for 13 years and my wife is a 4th grade teacher here at Pioneer. We have a beautiful 5-year-old son named Garrett, a tabby cat, and a bull mastiff/boxer mix.
My educational philosophy is that every student has the ability to succeed when given a safe and positive learning environment. That is priority in my classes and I continue to enforce those priorities through 4 simple rules:
1. Be Respectful
2. Be prepared
3. Raise a Quiet Hand
4. No Wandering
With that said, I am excited to teach your student and watch them grow as a person in both education and life.
Please note that you can track your child's assignments and grades in real time by logging onto School Loop. First, go to Pioneer's website and click on the register portion. Next, you will register as parent/guardian of your child. You will then need your child's id number and enter an email account. Once you fill out the appropriate information, I will do the rest.
Please feel free to contact me through my email as I read them at least three times per day. email@example.com
Mr. Switzler "Swizzy"
8th grade ELA and U.S. History teacher.
Don't let the young face fool you, I am entering into my 8th year of teaching at Pioneer. When I am not teaching, I am spending time with my wife and son or acting in movies as Mark Wahlberg's stunt double. As you have probably guessed by now, I like to bring humor into the classroom and do my best to make learning fun. My goal is to have every student make growth in ELA and learn some important moments in our country's great history. With your support, I know we will have an awesome year with lots of learning and lots of laughs. Cheers to another Swizztastic Adventure!
Hi, my name is Heather Voigt and I am the 8th grade math and science teacher here at Pioneer. I know this is going to be a great year for all of us to learn and grow. This is my 15th year teaching. I have taught kindergarten, 5th grade, 6th grade, and 7th grade. I have also subbed at many other grade levels throughout the years. I have to say that teaching junior high students is just as rewarding as it is challenging. It is amazing what these students teach me day in and day out.
I have three children who keep me quite busy. I have a 10 year old son, a 7 year old daughter, and a 4 year old son. We are very active family. My children play sports and participate in many after-school activities. It is important for me to teach my kids how to balance school, family, and everything else that comes up in life. Keeping busy with activities helps instill a strong work ethic in and out of the classroom. I find this necessary to be be successful in life.
I look forward to working with you to make this school year a successful one. You can contact me through email at email@example.com, text me through the Remind app (enter this number "81010" and text this message "@f237h2"), or call the school office at 916.566.1940.


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Editor's Note: We continue the series written by John Ballun, president and CEO of Val-Matic Valve and Manufacturing Corp. and released in 2016 as a book dedicated to the mentors that saved him and others from making costly mistakes in the field. Ballun's enlightening and humorous stories are a popular read in the valve world.
The central character, Duke Waters, is a compilation of Ballun's mentors; the stories are about what he learned. This second installment tells how John met his mentor and is an excerpt from the book's second chapter. VALVEMagazine.com will be running other chapters over the coming months.
It was about 30 years ago when I first encountered the Duke. Once again, I was in over my head on a jobsite; in front of an important client and trying to understand what was causing replacement check valves to slam.
The 16-inch pumps were located in a remote county of Georgia and used to pump finished water from a below-ground wet well to a large water distribution system. The installation of the spiffy new, tilted disc check valves was complete; but lo and behold, the owner reported horrendous slams every time he turned off a pump. I was the lucky guy selected to examine this installation and make the valves perform to the owner's satisfaction. I yanked the associated drawings and hopped on a plane to Atlanta, readying myself for this formidable challenge.
Upon arrival, I squinted through the hot Georgia sun and saw that the check valve installation appeared to be in accordance with the plans. It's always good to see tilted disc check valve applications because, with a port area equal to 140% of the pipe, they conserve considerable pumping energy. These valves were a far cry from the aged, energy-consuming control valves they replaced.
I observed six vertical turbine pumps piped in parallel over a wet well containing finished drinking water. Each pump had its own check valve, which was a good thing since only one pump running would mean it would just pump water back though the adjacent pump in a circle. The check valve "FLOW" arrows were pointing in the right direction: away from the pump, which is also a good thing because, believe it or not, check valves are sometimes installed by mechanical contractors backwards, rotated or put in a flow-down pipe, all of which are bad ideas.
I was taking note of the pump nameplate data of 6,900 gallons per minute (gpm) at a total dynamic head of 160 feet of water column when the plant superintendent snuck up behind me and said: "It's about time you got here. What kind of crappy check valves did you specify for this project?"
"These are tilted disc check valves," I said with confidence. "We will get 'em running smoothly, sir."
I did some quick conversions in my head to calculate that the 16-inch check valve would see about 11 feet per second (ft/sec) of fluid velocity at a pressure of about 70 psig. "Piece of cake," I thought to myself, because these check valves are designed to operate in a range of 4 to 24 ft/sec fluid velocity.
I installed a high-speed pressure transducer on a nearby gauge tap located on the discharge header so I could monitor any significant pressure spikes in the system. Besides, hooking up a transducer and a laptop to a pipeline always gives a client the warm and fuzzy feeling that you know what the heck you're doing. To be honest, though, I thought I did know what I was doing, given my experience in the lab testing numerous check valves.
Finally, I told the superintendent: "Start the pump and let 'er rip"
The superintendent barked the appropriate command into his radio to someone in the control room, and the monster pump roared to life. I saw on the pressure gauge that the pump generated about 50 psig of pressure in a matter of seconds and then built the pressure up to the required 70 psig over the next 30 seconds. So far, so good. I figured they must have variable frequency drives on the pumps, which start the motors at maybe 50% and then ramp them up to full speed.
The superintendent subsequently gave the command to shut the pump down and after a couple seconds, we heard the power cut from the pump motor. A fraction of a second later, a water hammer shook the pipes and generated a slam that could be heard for several city blocks.
Being the brave engineer I was, I didn't jump or even flinch. I just slowly looked down at the laptop screen and reported, "It looks like we saw a pressure spike of about 140 psig on that trial." I asked if he could ramp the pumps down to 50% before tripping them off. He agreed, and we repeated the test with the same resulting slam.
Little did this superintendent know that I was in deep doo-doo here because the pump shutdown and the resultant check valve closure should not have produced a slam or water hammer. I covered my rear by saying, "Let me do some quick calculations, and we will run another trial after lunch."
That's when I happened to meet Duke Waters for the first time. I noticed a distinguished-looking, darkly tanned worker in jeans and a flannel shirt leaning over next to one of the nearby pump motors, reading the nameplate. At the time, he just looked like a pump technician recording data on the pumps.
I was intrigued, though, at the twinkle in his eye and the grin he gave me as he noticed that I just about crapped my pants when the check valve slam occurred. Ignoring his glances, I pretended to analyze the data on the laptop in a futile attempt to explain what I observed. Given the system parameters and layout, there should not have been a slam. I saw that we went from the full velocity of 11 ft/sec to slam in about one third of a second, which translates into a deceleration of about 33 ft/sec2. That was extremely high for running a single pump into a long distribution system.
I slapped my laptop closed and wandered over to the mysterious figure watching me. I noticed he had the telltale golfer's untanned left hand and a scar over his right eye. "This guy just doesn't quite fit this picture," I thought. I politely asked: "Are you working on the pumps?"
I followed up with: "Then, do you work for the District?"
I began to turn away and cut my losses with this guy when he finally said, "You know, check valve slam is caused by the sudden stoppage of reverse water velocity through the check valve. For every 1 ft/sec of flow velocity stopped suddenly, a water hammer of about 50 psig can result."
"OK, thanks," I said, "But I am somewhat familiar with Joukowsky's transient pressure equation, which says that the magnitude of the pressure surge is directly proportional to the change in fluid velocity." I continued: "It appears there was too much reverse flow through the check valve when it closed but pumping into a distribution system like this one through a fast-closing tilted disc check valve should not cause a slam."
The stranger countered with: "Well, then I think we need to think of reasons why this particular system might have a high-velocity deceleration." I was surprised that he knew what flow deceleration was. His comment made me think for a minute before replying: "We had only one pump running into a very long, relatively flat-water distribution system with high friction, so there should not be high fluid deceleration. They also ramped down the pump to 50% before tripping it and the check valve still slammed."
He asked, "What about the pressure?"
"The static pressure is about 50 psig," I replied, "But with the length of the piping system creating most of the pressure due to friction, that pressure should not generate a slam-causing deceleration."
"Then you need to look further at the pumping system," he said.
I looked around and saw a typical pump station; nothing out of the ordinary.
"I'm just not seeing it," I commented.
"Did you notice that large, cigar-shaped tank over there behind you on the other side of the parking lot about 100 yards down the pipeline?" the stranger said.
I glanced over my shoulder. "You mean that 10-foot diameter tank keeping that sweet red vintage Jaguar XKE convertible out of the sun?"
"Yep, that's the tank I am talking about. My leather seats don't take kindly to the Georgia sun."
This took me back, and I asked, "Who the heck are you?"
He quietly introduced himself as, "Duke Waters, an independent consultant who occasionally works for the District to troubleshoot various problems."
I introduced myself and asked: "What brought you to the District today?"
"Pleasure to meet you Johnny," said Duke "The superintendent is my friend, and he asked me to come over and troubleshoot the pumps because he observed vibrations he didn't like. It turned out to be a simple concentricity problem with the pump shaft coupling. He and I go way back and I help him out when I can."
I let the "Johnny" slide out of respect for Duke's age, then confessed, "I am the engineer responsible for troubleshooting these new check valves, but have no clue what the big tank on the other side of the parking lot shading your car has to do with my problem."
Duke began to explain. "That is a surge tank, and it is directly connected to the water line and charged with water and a layer of air pressure so that whenever there is a pump trip, it sends water back to the pipeline rapidly to prevent a vacuum pocket or column separation from occurring. In doing so, the tank produces an extremely high, reverse velocity that is getting past your check valve before it closes. By the sound of that last check valve slam, I'd say it's about a 150 psig water hammer."
This guy was right on the money. "I actually recorded a pressure surge of 142 psig over the static pressure," I said.
Duke wasn't done explaining. "Because of that surge tank, these valves are seeing extremely fast flow reversal and are not able to close fast enough to prevent the reverse flow from rising to an unacceptable level." He continued to explain that the control valves I replaced were electrically wired to the pumps so that the pump ran while the valves slowly closed and pinched off the flow; then the pump was tripped off. Hence, no slam.
I grimaced and said, "There were no surge tanks on the set of plans I was given."
"Surge tanks are often specified and simply installed by a contractor downstream of the pump station," he replied.
I paused, then said, "I guess I need to find a way to make these check valves close faster, before the reverse flow gets too high."
Duke explained further: "In theory that is true, but if you talk to the manufacturer you will see that the valve is already closing very fast. It is simply a matter of installing either a top-mounted or bottom-mounted oil dashpot on the check valve. Oil dashpots control the closure of the disc to slowly dissipate the reverse flow over several seconds."
"Well, given the magnitude of the slam," I suggested, "we probably should install both a bottom- and top-mounted oil dashpot."
Duke set me straight once again. "No, you need to pick one or the other. The top-mounted dashpot independently controls the full opening and closing strokes in about 5-30 seconds. But this would allow the surge tank water to blow back through the pumps on electrical power failure. It would be better to use a bottom-mounted oil dashpot, which allows the valve to close fast, but slows down the last 10% of travel in a couple of seconds, thereby slowly cutting off the reverse flow and preventing the slam. I call it the hurry-up-and-wait solution," he said.
After lunch, I took Duke's advice and told the superintendent about the need for a bottom-mounted oil dashpot, which is easily field-installed.
Duke gave me his card and said, "Well, Johnny B., it sure was a pleasure to work with you on this case, and feel free to give me a shout whenever you are in the need of assistance." I knew then that I would be making use of this new resource, and that I could live with the "Johnny B" nickname. It beat the usual "engineering kid."
The superintendent called me later in the month to explain he'd removed the bottom inspection cover on the valve and installed the bottom oil dashpot to the valve, a simple matter. "The valve rapidly closed 90% against the bottom dashpot snubber rod, and then closed the last 10% over three seconds as the reverse flow was dissipated. The valve closed quietly and the problem was solved."
That was good to hear; I closed that field report and chalked one up in the "Win" column. I rifled through my briefcase and found Duke's card, intent on thanking him.
On the other end of that call, I heard, "Duke is out. Leave a message."
I left a long-winded message about the success of the field repairs and figured the dude was probably on a golf course somewhere working on his tan.
Up next in the series: Duke helps Johnny B. look at problems with a new water pump generating only about half of what it's designed to produce.


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Background: Work related stress usually involves a variety of difficulties within the realm of emotional disorders, while CBT treatments are often disorder specific. To effectively address work stress, more versatile and parsimonious interventions are needed. Transdiagnostic treatments, targeting common psychological processes in emotion related disorders are now available. One such treatment, the Unified Protocol (Barlow et al., 2011), has shown promising results. It focuses on inflexible and maladaptive use of emotion regulation strategies. Research implies that maladaptive strategies such as excessive worrying and avoidance may also be important for stress prolongation. Thus, the implementation of a transdiagnostic treatment protocol for work stress needs to be evaluated.
Aim: To study whether treatment using the Unified Protocol, targeting generic emotional regulation, is feasible for patients who present with work stress. Furthermore, the aim is to investigate whether this treatment affects levels of stress as well as symptoms of anxiety and depression.
Method: Using a single case experimental design, we recruited six patients seeking treatment for work stress at an occupational health care center. After baseline assessments, they took part in an eight-session treatment using the Unified Protocol. Levels of perceived stress, emotional symptoms and use of regulatory strategies were daily monitored. A six month follow-up was also completed. Results: All participants completed and reported that they were satisfied with treatment. Four out of six participants also improved on reported stress-levels and emotional symptoms. Improvements were sustained at follow-up.
Discussion: Results showed that it is feasible to use a unified approach for emotional problems in patients with work stress. Treatment was also associated with symptom changes for most participants. Employing a unified CBT approach for stress would provide flexibility and parsimony for clinicians while retaining a strong theoretical framework and guiding principles. Although initial results were promising randomized controlled trials are needed.


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Infinity Quays
The Perfect Family Entertainer!!
- 5 Bedrooms with 4 Bathrooms
Waterfront Location - Directly Overlooking the Beautiful Gold Coast Waterways
- Cinema Room - It's Amazing!!
- Platinum Foxtel Package- Sports, Entertainment, Movies
- Free WIFI
- Infinity Edge Swimming Pool
- Private Pontoon to Fish From
- Undercover BBQ & Alfresco Area
- Air Conditioned for you comfort
- Ultra-Modern Luxury
Positioned perfectly on a south facing waterfront looking down the river - This large luxury home is the perfect family entertainer!! Situated on a wide waterway complete with your own jetty with stunning water views this 5 Bedroom 4 Bathroom home has everyone's needs covered from the sparkling in ground south facing infinity pool to a state of the art cinema room complete with leather recliners to be enjoyed in full ducted Air Conditioning. Wait till you see the incredible in-built aquarium that lines the entry way and includes two beautiful Lion fish. This is an ideal holiday home positioned very close to the Theme Parks and world class Golf Courses.
This home has the perfect layout which allows everyone to have their own space.
Step down on the glossy tiles to the dining and kitchen areas to an expansive open plan living area with high ceilings then opening out to a dream outdoor entertainment area complete with outdoor lounge, 8-seater glass table and chairs plus a built in BBQ where you can enjoy the evening as the sun sets over the hinterland.
The living area features a comfortable U-shaped leather lounge suite with large flat screen TV and DVD player.
Anyone for a Movie?? a purpose-built state of the art 8-seater Cinema Room with Projector to show case a movie through the DVD Player, watch free to air TV or Cable TV on the BIG screen. Kick back on the leather recliners with cup holders and enjoy the complete movie experience in surround sound.
Let's also not forget that it comes with FREE WIFI INTERNET.
This home has the perfect layout which has all the bedrooms spread out providing everyone their own private space through the 5 large bedrooms with 4 bathrooms.
The master bedroom is simply impressive with its own private balcony and water views. Featuring a spacious ensuite complete with his and hers basin's, spa bath, a walk-in wardrobe, flat screen TV and a double shower with amazing sprinkler head.
Bedrooms 2 and 3 are also located upstairs of the home with their own private ensuite and TVs.
Bedroom 4 is located downstairs and looks out to the tranquil front gardens.
Bedroom 5 is located off the living area and has its own private ensuite with access to the patio and pool area.
Sleeping 12 guests
Bedroom 1 - King bed with a luxury ensuite and water views
Bedroom 2 - Queen bed with ensuite
Bedroom 3 - Queen bed with ensuite
Bedroom 4 – 2x single bunk beds (sleeps 4)
Bedroom 5 – Queen bed with ensuite
The gourmet kitchen is centrally located within the home complete with top quality DeLonghi and Miele Stainless Steel Appliances, extra wide under bench oven, a huge butler's pantry with separate sink and stunning kitchen island perfect for some morning breakfast.
Everything here to please the best chefs - not to mention the water views you can enjoy whilst preparing the family feast. The square dining table is within this large open plan living area positioned overlooking the incredible water views.
This is what holidays are all about!! Enjoy outdoor dining or a glass of wine on the top balcony overlooking the pool and wide waterway. Watch the kids splash around in the private swimming pool while lapping up the Gold Coast Sun on one of the sun lounges on the lower deck.
Bring the Boat or Jet Ski as the main river offers great water skiing right from your door step, with full use of the jetty.
The yard is very private, fully fenced and secure with an electric gate and off-street parking for approximately 4 cars available.
The home is located very close to Sanctuary Cove's Marine Village, comprised of award winning restaurants, cafes, tavern, bottle shop, supermarket, boutique shops, marina and the Intercontinental Hotel. The renowned Golf Courses of Sanctuary Cove are right on your doorstep!
Shopping meccas of Westfield Helensvale and Harbour Town Factory Outlet are approximately 15 minutes' drive.
THEME PARKS like Dreamworld, Movie World, Wet n Wild, White Water World and The Outback Spectacular are less than 5 minutes' drive away.
SURFERS PARADISE and BEACHES are within a 25-minute drive.
Alternatively partake in a round of golf with friends or take a country drive to the nearby Mount Tambourine.
Brisbane and Coolangatta Airports are about 40 minutes away.
Entertain at home, get active, explore what the Gold Coast has to offer or just sit back and enjoy the wonderful holiday atmosphere this beautiful home has to offer.
Families are most welcome, groups, executives, anyone wanting a relaxing getaway in a great location in Sanctuary Cove, northern Gold Coast.
***YES, WE TAKE 2 & 3 NIGHT STAYS! Conditions apply. Contact us directly. ***


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Censorship & State Secrets.
Books on the Clandestine. Clandestine History. Alleged Covert Biological Testing. Local Police Clandestine. NSA National Security Agency. The Deep State. AEI Needs An Envy Intervention. AEI's Arthur Brooks had an opinion piece in the New York Times over the weekend about the downside of inciting envy.
By envy, of course, he means people who object to income differences that result from unjust distributive institutions. It was a silly piece, and what follows are some scattered remarks. 1. Arthur Brooks' colleague Andrew Biggs must be miserable. In his quest to wave away soaring economic inequality, Brooks tells us that "social comparison" is destructive and decreases happiness. I am left wondering then why Mr. This might seem like a cheap shot, but I am truly baffled by what the difference here is. 2. Brooks, like other conservatives, is really fond of the fact that Americans are unique in the world in thinking that those who wind up on the top of the economic hierarchy are personally responsible for that.
It's understandable why Brooks does not like this. The richer your parents are, the richer you are, all the way up the income distribution. Russians Suspected In 'Uroburos' Digital Espionage Attacks. Russian government hackers are suspected of creating a highly-sophisticated piece of malware designed to steal files from nation states' digital infrastructure.
The Uroburos malware, named after an ancient symbol depicting a serpent or dragon eating its own tail that recently appeared in the Broken Sword 5 video game, worked in in peer-to-peer mode, meaning it can move across machines even if they're not connected to the public Internet. G-Data said Uroburos was "one of the most advanced rootkits we have ever analysed in this environment". It works on both 32-bit and 64-bit Microsoft Windows machines, again pointing to a well-funded effort. It's likely the Uroburos attacks went undetected for at least three years, as a sample of a rootkit driver was dated back to 2011.
"The development of a framework like Uroburos is a huge investment.
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So You Think You're Smarter Than A CIA Agent : Parallels. A group of 3,000 ordinary citizens, armed with nothing more than an Internet connection, is often making better forecasts of global events than CIA analysts.
Here, a man crosses the CIA logo at its headquarters in Langley, Va. Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images hide caption itoggle caption Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images A group of 3,000 ordinary citizens, armed with nothing more than an Internet connection, is often making better forecasts of global events than CIA analysts. Face recognition. USA Black Budget. Surveillance. Surveillance Programs. Conspiracies, myths & facts.
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Fugitive former NSA contractor Edward Snowden has claimed that US government officials "want to kill me" in an exclusive interview which German television says it conducted in Moscow. "These people, and they are government officials, have said they would love to put a bullet in my head or poison me when I come out of the supermarket, and then watch as I die in the shower," he told NDR interviewer Hubert Seipel, who said the interview took place last Thursday. Snowden, who was granted temporary asylum in Russia in August, referred in the interview to a report by US website BuzzFeed of explicit threats against him from unnamed Pentagon and National Security Agency (NSA) officials. The former NSA contractor is wanted by US authorities on treason charges for disclosing details of a vast intelligence operation that monitored millions of phone calls and emails across the world.
Interview removed from youtube, Revolution News - Edward Snowden video. For investigating private intelligence practices, American journalist faces 105 years in prison. Reporters Without Borders is alarmed by the charges currently facing the American investigative journalist, Barrett Brown, who has written for The Guardian and Vanity Fair.
Brown, 31, had been investigating before his arrest, in September 2012, the contents of over five million internal emails released through a hack on the private intelligence company, Stratfor, which were later published by WikiLeaks. Wyden Statement at Senate Intelligence Committee's Open Hearing. WASHINGTON – U.S.
Senator Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) delivered the following statement prior to questioning senior Intelligence Community officials during the Senate Intelligence Committee's open hearing. Wyden is a senior member of the Intelligence committee. "The men and women of America's intelligence agencies are overwhelmingly dedicated professionals and they deserve to have leadership that is trusted by the American people. Unfortunately, that trust has been seriously undermined by senior officials' reckless reliance on secret interpretations of the law and battered by years of misleading and deceptive statements that senior officials made to the American people.
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On Monday I wrote about the great momentum I had built over the weekend. I was excited, and ready to face the week. That momentum took me through the day on Monday and into Tuesday morning. And then it died.
To be honest, it was my fault. I decided that I was going to take an hour to read, so I started a book written by one of my #pubwrite friends, "In Memory of Greed" by Al Boudreau. And I got sucked in. (Seriously, great book. Check out my review on Goodreads or on my website.)
I read on and off throughout the day, taking breaks only because my phone kept ringing and people kept showing up at my door.
I went to a baseball game Tuesday night, but picked the book back up around midnight. I finally fell asleep sometime around 3 am, still clutching my Nook.
I got up yesterday and tried to do some work, but quickly realized that I would be more productive if I finished the few chapters I had left, then got to work.
Now, I thought I had kicked this habit of getting so engrossed in a book that I basically shut out the rest of the world. Ha! Apparently not. But I had learned my lesson. I was not going to allow myself to get sucked in again.
Or so I thought.
My grandmother had a couple of appointments I ran her to yesterday afternoon, so I grabbed my Nook to keep me occupied while I waited. I started a book my another #pubwrite friend, Steve Umstead's "Gabriel's Redemption". I figured I would just read while I was out, then come home and work on writing.
Didn't happen. I read until I had to leave for rehearsal, then read some more after.
I have a tendency to get so engrossed in reading that I will just read one book after another for days on end, getting absolutely nothing else done. When one is done, I move onto the next.
While this is fun, it is not good for the rest of my life (family, writing, etc.). It is especially not good when our community theatre's production of Willy Wonka opens tomorrow!
I woke up this morning and realized I needed to stop before I feel back into this rut. I need to regain the writing momentum I had on Monday. So, I hid my nook. Seriously. I am going with the "out of sight, out of mind" logic.
To be honest, it isn't working so well. It is a warm, rainy day, perfect for curling up with a good book. But, as I have said before, it is also perfect for writing. And writing is what I will do.
Only once I reach my writing goals for the day will the Nook be rescued from my super-secret hiding place. As soon as I remember where it is.
Can you get lost in a good book (or two or six) for days? Do you have any other habits that can make you forget about all your responsibilities for a while? Is it sad that I can successfully manage to hide things from myself? 🙂


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Two South Koreans were nabbed by immigration police at Siem Reap International Airport on Sunday when attempting to bring more than $2 million in cash into Cambodia from Hong Kong.
The National Police website on Monday said two Korean men aged 44 and 33 were arrested shortly after their arrival on a Hong Kong Express Airways flight.
"Upon their arrival, immigration police cooperated with the Customs and Excise Bureau at Siem Reap International Airport and arrested the two South Korean nationals."
"The two foreign men were attempting to illegally bring in $2.2 million from Hong Kong. The money was made up of 21,900 $100 bills and 200 $50 bills," the National Police said.
The suspects were handed over to the Siem Reap Investigation and Procedure Implementation Department, while the $2.2 million is to be kept temporarily at the Customs and Excise Bureau at Siem Reap airport while further procedures are carried out.
"The maximum amount of money that travellers can bring into the country is only $10,000. Anything more than this will be held by authorities while they carry out an investigation," the National Police said.
Sen Sun Day, the chief of operations at the airport confirmed to The Post on Monday that two South Korean nationals attempting to bring $2.2 million without a clear source into Cambodia had been arrested there.
The suspects were detained and the evidence confiscated after authorities cooperated in a joint operation, Sun Day said. He declined to comment as to what further action would be taken.
"The case is in the hands of immigration police. I cannot say anything more for fear of affecting their investigation," Sun Day said.
However, Sun Day said it was the largest amount of money he had seen attempted to be brought into Cambodia through Siem Reap airport.
The Post on Monday could not reach Keo Vanthan, the deputy director-general of the General Department of Immigration at the Ministry of Interior, which carried out the operation.
Kem Sarin, the director of the Administration Department at the General Department of Immigration, declined to comment, referring questions to Keo Vanthan.
General Department of Immigration spokesman Uk Hai Seila also declined to comment.
Ministry of Interior central security department director and deputy National Police chief Dy Vichea told The Post on June 5 that money laundering offences had increased in an intertwined and complex manner.
He said this year, the authorities had seized $4 million in cash at Phnom Penh International Airport. During the same period, he said, approximately $10 million of dirty money had been detected flowing through banks.
The ministry also held a meeting to review its progress report for the first half of the year and set goals for the second semester.
Officials from different general departments and units at the ministry as well as working groups led by Ngy Chanpal, secretary of state and chair of the Review Panel Group tasked with cracking down on money laundering and the financing of terrorism participated in the meeting.
This is the third seizure of large amounts of money at the Kingdom's airports in as many months.
A 48-year-old Chinese welder suspected of attempting to launder money was arrested by Phnom Penh municipal authorities on May 29 after he was found entering Cambodia with $855,000.
The Chinese national was detained at the Phnom Penh International Airport after he was found attempting to smuggle the cash into Cambodia from Hong Kong.
On April 23, officials from the Immigration and General Department of Customs and Excise at Phnom Penh International airport arrested three Chinese nationals for attempting to bring $3.52 million into the Kingdom from Hong Kong without being able to identify its source.


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Recently my husband and I visited the Toy Train Museum in Tucson (formally known as the Gadsden Pacific Division Toy Train Operating Museum) which is open for free on the 2nd and 4th Sundays of the month, 12:30 to 4:30 p.m. Their next open house is on Valentine's Day Feb. 14, 2016.
The Museum has 8 fantastic train layouts (including one outdoors). You will be amazed at the intricacy of the train layouts, with miniature trains, bridges, houses, people, waterfalls, cars, trucks, trees, etc.
Outside you can even ride (for free) their GPD 7 1/2″ miniature train which seats about 10 passengers (ages 9 to 99), along with the conductor and driver. It goes around the perimeter of their property twice on over 800 feet of tracks, and the conductor even punches your ticket before you start your train ride.
There's also a large yellow caboose on the property, built in 1944 in Denver, Colorado, which you can climb inside. Photo below from their website.
The much smaller version of this train museum used to be at Foothills Mall many years ago till they built this facility in August 1998.
Here's the map on how to find this museum, northwest of the Prince Rd. and Romero Rd. intersection, at 3975 N. Miller Ave. Phone 520-888-2222. They are closed during the hot summer months of June/July/August.
Website for more good photos and open house schedule: www.gpdtoytrainmuseum.com.
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High-resolution insights into the intasome
An essential step in the life cycle of lentiviruses such as HIV-1 is when viral DNA integrates into the host genome, establishing a permanent infection of the host cell. The viral integrase enzyme catalyzes this process and is a major drug target. During viral integration, integrase binds the ends of viral DNA, forming a higher-order structure called the intasome. Passos et al. and Ballandras-Colas et al. used cryo—electron microscopy to solve the structures of the intasomes from HIV-1 and maedi-visna virus (ovine lentivirus), respectively. These structures reveal how integrase self-associates to form a functional intasome and help resolve previous conflicting models of intasome assembly.
Like all retroviruses, HIV-1 irreversibly inserts a viral DNA (vDNA) copy of its RNA genome into host target DNA (tDNA). The intasome, a higher-order nucleoprotein complex composed of viral integrase (IN) and the ends of linear vDNA, mediates integration. Productive integration into host chromatin results in the formation of the strand transfer complex (STC) containing catalytically joined vDNA and tDNA. HIV-1 intasomes have been refractory to high-resolution structural studies. We used a soluble IN fusion protein to facilitate structural studies, through which we present a high-resolution cryo–electron microscopy (cryo-EM) structure of the core tetrameric HIV-1 STC and a higher-order form that adopts carboxyl-terminal domain rearrangements. The distinct STC structures highlight how HIV-1 can use the common retroviral intasome core architecture to accommodate different IN domain modules for assembly.


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Truman's SIFE (Students in Free Enterprise) team was recently named the third place winner at the ConocoPhillips Ethics Case Competition in Manhattan, Kan., Feb. 2-4. The event was developed and hosted by Kansas State University's SIFE Team.
"The competition was an extremely rewarding experience. It allowed Truman State SIFE to compete against much larger, Division I schools and show just how successful we are. We are very proud to have placed third at this competition and cannot wait to return next year to improve upon this success," Cody Hagan, Truman SIFE president, said.
Along with a third place plaque, the team also received a check for $1,000. The Truman SIFE team plans to put this money right back into the projects that they are planning. Every year the team organizes and puts on numerous projects that benefit the University, local community and surrounding area.
In this competition, participating students had 36 hours to utilize their business skills for analyzing, researching and developing a solution to a case about an ethical dilemma. After developing a solution, they created a professional presentation, which included a verbal script, visual slides and a written executive summary. Business leaders and university faculty served as judges for the event and evaluated the presentations.
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(7.25 No.96 — http://www.162BaseballPoems.com)
By Steve Hermanos
We're doing our annual flight into the Boston suburbs,
Visiting Aunt Ellen,
And since the 2015 Red Sox are losing substance,
The fat team almost see-through,
I figure the tix should be cheap;
But no,
For equivalent seats,
I've got to dig deeper for the last-place BoSox
Than the second-place Giants;
I was here in 1999,
With Aunt Ellen,
And my buddy Chuck,
The Home Run Derby,
Watching Mark McGwire
Steroidally pumping homer after homer
Twice as high
As the Green Monster,
Cheering as balls clanged the
40-foot Coke bottles,
Halfway up the light towers,
Shot after majestic shot;
Well here, now, July 25, 2015;
"What do you think?" I ask Little L., Mrs. L.,
They like it:
The brick façade, grand yet unobtrusive,
The old ticket booths-turned-shrines
to the winners of pennants and World Series;
The sign: Green Monster Seats
The aromatically-grilled foot-long hot dogs;
The wooden seats;
My $100 per ticket hard price cap,
Puts us in right field,
Reading the autographs on the Pesky Pole;
We look straight across the diamond at fans
In the third-base stands,
Squarely facing us;
If I knew any of those Bostonians,
I'd recognize them without my binocs;
Top of the 1st,
Mrs. L.'s favorite player,
Gone from the A's
To the Red Sox last year,
Now on the Tigers—
Yoennis Cespedes—
The man with the strongest wrists in baseball,
Swinging Fred Flintstone's club,
Into a Steven Wright knuckleball,
Zipping above the Green Monster,
Slapping the green Advil sign,
Dropping along the face of the Monster
onto the field;
It should rain Advil,
Every time a Red Sox opponent hits that sign;
Tigers 1—BoSox 0
Bottom 2nd,
David Ortiz slaps a double;
Hanley Ramirez hooks a wicked bouncer
Into left;
Ortiz chugs 'round third,
As hard as his spongy knee ligaments will permit,
Yoennis "Mrs. L.'s Favorite" Cespedes,
Charges the ball,
Twists his body,
Hurls a canon shot towards home,
Old Ortiz choo-chooing,
The ball bounces once,
Into catcher James McCann's mitt,
Who brings the tag down,
On Big Papi's big shin,
Red Sox fans protest,
Little L. high fives a nearby fan in a Tiger shirt,
As the umps wait for the replay from Secaucus,
And somewhere nearby,
The spirits of
John McNamara and Don Zimmer,
Dick Williams, Pinky Higgins and Joe Cronin are screaming
At umpires Al Barlow, Ed Runge, George Honochick,
And Nestor Chylak;
Neck-vein-bulging, red-face arguments
Have mostly evaporated;
Now the pixels display,
Ortiz was tagged,
Before his big foot,
Touched home plate;
Pablo, our Pablo,
All grown up,
Pablo Sandoval,
In his Red Sox pajamas;
From the vicinity of the Pesky Pole,
It's hard to examine our Pablo, across the field at third base,
He retains the hands of Bruce Lee,
But his body…
Somehow he has acquired,
The yams and buttocks and fleshy arms
of Elizabeth Taylor in her fattest years;
and he's hitting about as well as she did;
Strolling solo along the top
Of the layer of field seats in the cooling shade,
Things concentrate,
The baseball is distilled,
The water of the rich stew is boiling down,
As I get closer to the line of pitcher and catcher;
It's about 80 rows of seats,
Up from the field,
The fans packed in tight,
In the arc from first to third,
200 columns spread in expanding rays;
The fans studying every feathered nuance;
Smashing a one-hopper to the Tigers pitcher,
Big Papi barely moves out of the batter's box;
The ball pops out of the pitcher's glove,
He bends to pick it up, bobbles it bounding towards the foul line,
Big Papi jerks from 1st to 4th gear,
Chugs at first base,
The throw beats him by 10 feet;
These fans boo Big Papi's lack of effort;
They won't have much longer to boo the big man,
As he seems to be aging in fruit fly years;
The crowd at every team's home field
Is its beating heart;
And this scene of booing Red Sox fans,
Contrasts so,
To, say, Le Nouveau Yankee Stadium,
Its scads of close empty wide seats;
Fenway's are close, full, narrow;
Yankee Stadium's heart beats,
'Cause cable guys,
Have hooked in
A half-billion-dollar-a-year
Here, today, it's the fans,
And with century-old I-beams
Supporting the upper deck,
You're ensconced in a lovingly-cared-for
antique vessel,
Gingerly moving through the days;
Something to be passed along to the new,
When we, the old,
Are buried in a field,
With—hopefully—thick grass growing above,
And children tossing high pops,
Laughing and running,
Making diving catches,
Imitating their heroes,
Impressing friends and strangers,
Away from time;
And our next visit,
I promise,
We'll sit here,
The field level,
Between 1st and 3rd,
In the beating heart of baseball.
(Tigers 5—Red Sox 1)
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Shawn Matthews has been hiding something from his friends, he is secretive and won't talk about what has him running off and returning beat up sometimes. His friends aren't sure what to think, but when his secret comes out it all begins to make sense.
Christen has had a crush on Shawn since she first met him. He hasn't noticed her though, well not until she and her friends are the ones who discovered his secret. Once she catches his eye, will they be able to move past how different their backgrounds are, or will their relationship be fighting to survive?
Shawn has been keeping a secret from all of his friends. He doesn't want them to know where he disappears to. He knows once they find out they are going to offer help and he doesn't want that. He doesn't like what he has to do but he can't deny that he isn't good at it either. When Christen, Madison and Nicole discover his secret he didn't think he know they wouldn't keep their mouths shut. He also didn't plan on noticing Christen, the girl that has hung around them since Carter and Madison have gotten together. Once he does though, he can't help but want her.
Christen comes from a wealthy background, but she doesn't throw it in your face. She's been Carter's little sister Holly's friend for years. Since she first meets Shawn she has had a crush on him that has only gotten stronger as time goes on. She falls hard for Shawn.
These two have great chemistry and get along great, well that is until people stick their noses where they don't belong. My stomach actually felt nauseated when I read what Shawn does to Christen. While I can see why he does what he does at the same time I was like why are you letting them do this to you and her? He does earn back my love though, doing what he does best so I can forgive his momentary douche bag status.
Of course things for Madison and Carter and Nicole and Jason aren't all sunshine and roses either. Nicole and Jason are still trying to work through what they have learned. Madison and Carter still have the threat of Chris hanging over their heads.
Fighting to Survive is the final book in the Guarded Hearts series. I really enjoyed this book. My only issue was that it seemed a little rushed and could have been longer to close up some lose ends but overall it is a good read and a great ending to this series and the beginning of another. Ashley Piscitelli had won me over with the first book in this series, Playing With Fire, but sealed my loyalty with Fighting To Survive.
Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Fighting-To-Survive-Guarded-Hearts-ebook/dp/B00J1RESQ0/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1395714254&sr=8-1&keywords=fighting+to+survive+ashley+piscitelli
He spins around, and before I know it, he has backed me against the wall. He slams his hands on either side of my head, trapping my hands with them, and then crushes his mouth to mine. I let out a gasp of surprise and he takes advantage, slipping his tongue into my mouth. His kiss is so frenzied and urgent, so full of need. It's unlike anything I have ever experienced in my life. I'm not innocent—I've been kissed by plenty of guys—but never like this.
He's taking complete control over me and dominating every sense of my being. He pulls back a little, biting down on my lower lip, causing me to moan with a mix of pleasure and pain. I open my eyes to see him staring at me with such desire that my insides warm. Before I know what's happening, he releases my hands and speeds out the door.
I stand there, pressed against the wall, panting from the most soul shattering and mind-altering kiss I have ever experienced. When I finally catch my breath, I smooth out my hair and clothes, and then make my way back to the crowd. Shawn Matthews is the kind of guy that my dad had warned me to stay away from, but there is no way in hell that's happening now.
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She has always been passionate about writing. She loves to read romance books and feels like being able to lose yourself in a book is one of the more exciting aspects. The books she loves to read and write will be ones that make you feel for the characters. Ashley believes that you should have an opinion on every character in a book whether you love them, hate them, or think they are up to something.
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ABOUT FASHION >>>> from the WEB WORLD
Tommy Hilfiger, the parade-show of psychedelic lights and dancing loose with Grace Jones, a 70 years on the catwalk
The iconic singer and model has made a surprise appearance during the parade of the American brand at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, an adrenalin show and in full '70s style.
Parigi, 3 marzo 2019 – Psychedelic lights and wild dancing shoes on the Theater des Champs Elysee for TommyNow, the big show organized by Tommy Hilfiger to launch next summer collection for sale now on its social channels, in front of two thousand guests half of which all young people who have earned a place in the theater by subscribing online.
Frenesia and screaming at each output, especially in front of the models curvy all replicants by the generous breast and the magnificent hips Ashley Graham. On the catwalk, many pants suit, beautiful ones of jeans, marked shoulders and forms very slim. And many types of women, almost a 8 early March, the young muse Tommy Gigi Hadid, but Tyra Banks, Winnie Harlow, Tina Kunakey col door ncione, Halima Aden with his head covered by Muslim. Un'americanata certain, but pleasant and full of energy
But the most beautiful and exciting is the surprise of the emergence of Grace Jones (70 anni, beautiful) who sang and danced in golden body and jacket, still vigorous in showing shapes and legs despite the passing years. shaved hair, rasta clump and makeup for the perfect and infinite lips.
At the end it comes out on the catwalk for the final applause Tommy Hilfiger, therefore launching a special collection designed for four hands by the designer and the American singer and actress just 23 anni (and former feminist activist) Zendaya with him hand in hand on the catwalk..


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Trigg County Clerk Carmen Finley will serve a second term in office after beating back a second challenge from Melissa Burgess. Finley won with 3,364 votes compared to 2,518 for Burgess.
Finley won nine of the 14 precincts, including the North Cadiz #1 precinct by 268 votes. Burgess won both the Linton-Maggie and East Montgomery precinct by one vote, carried the Canton #1 precinct by 25 votes, and the Bethesda precinct by 35 votes. The two were tied in the Hamtown precinct.
Finley says she is looking forward to again serving the citizens of Trigg County.
Finley defeated Burgess in the 2014 Democratic Primary with 52-percent of the vote and was elected Trigg County Clerk in November following the retirement of Doris McGill.


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Wal-Mart Investing Heavily in Online Women's Retail
Even before Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (NYSE: WMT) paid $3 billion for online retailer Jet.com last year, the acquired company had itself been in full acquisition mode. Since Wal-Mart's acquisition, Jet.com has added two more retailers, ShoeBuy and outdoor apparel seller Moosejaw.
News website Jezebel reported Wednesday afternoon that Jet.com, through Wal-Mart, has acquired women's fashion retailer ModCloth for an unspecified sum. The deal is expected to close Thursday and an announcement is scheduled to be announced Friday.
According to a report at Recode, the struggling retailer had been unable to raise additional capital and likely sold for around $80 million, roughly equal to the amount of venture capital ModCloth had raised since its founding in 2002.
When Wal-Mart acquired Jet.com last August, the world's largest retailer said that it would retain the Jet brand in order to "continue to provide a unique and differentiated customer experience with a curated assortment." ModCloth fits right into that mold.
ModCloth positions itself as a hip, quirky, independent retailer of "indie-inflected" clothes. The company might fit in with Jet.com or it might not. According to Jezebel, ModCloth CEO Matthew Kaness told employees:
I think there's a lot of overlap culturally with what [Wal-Mart's] about and what we're about. I think over time this is going to become an incredible marriage.
Jezebel then noted, "In the recording we heard, employees in the room can be heard laughing in what sounds like disbelief."
The deal is part of an attempt by Wal-Mart to gain market share from e-commerce giant Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN), which has taken business from brick-and-mortar retailers.
Wal-Mart shares were down fractionally in Thursday's premarket session, after closing at $70.58, down about 0.2%, on Wednesday. The stock's 52-week range is $62.72 to $75.19. The 12-month consensus price target is $74.37.


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"Heather Ann Wilson" is President of the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology in Rapid City, South Dakota. She is a former United States Republican Party/Republican member of the United States House of Representatives representing from 1998 to 2009. She was the first female military veteran elected to a full term in Congress.
While in Congress, Wilson focused on national security issues, serving on the United States House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and the United States House Committee on Armed Services. She also focused on health care, energy, manufacturing and trade, and telecommunication, serving on the United States House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
She opted not to run for re-election to the House in 2008 and sought the U.S. Senate seat of retiring Senator Pete Domenici but finished second in the Republican primary to Congressman Steve Pearce (politician)/Steve Pearce, who then lost the United States Senate election in New Mexico, 2008/general election to Democratic Party (United States)/Democrat Tom Udall. On March 7, 2011, she announced another run for Senate in 2012 to replace retiring Senator Jeff Bingaman, but lost the general election to Martin Heinrich, her successor in the House of Representatives.If you enjoy these quotes, be sure to check out other famous politicians! More Heather Wilson on Wikipedia.
What happened today was the act of cowards. Often people who do these things scurry back into the gutters they came from. I can say with confidence that we will spare no effort to track down and punish those responsible. It's important for the world to know that our nation will not bow to terrorists and faceless acts of cowardice.Heather Wilson


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The next monumental phase of technology could arrive sooner than expected, with the internet of things (IoT), and the myriad of associated connected devices generating significant interest among enterprises throughout a wide and diverse range of industries.
The potential benefits of bringing IoT, along with wearables, sensors, beacons and other powerful solutions into the workplace has been raising interest for some time already. Despite mixed opinions regarding the substance behind this expected influx into businesses globally, IoT could soon become a universally recognised force within the space.
Companies are already beginning to find ways of using IoT as a catalyst for unique improvements to the efficiency of their operations, and are beginning to experience reductions in the cost of producing goods and services for their customers, as well as many other benefits.
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The Law Student's Cookbook has moved out of its Blogspot location and now resides here on WordPress, because I have come to learn that I like the layout of the site more.
All the recipes from the original home of the Law Student's Cookbook will remain there, but they will be archived in this post.
Hot Dog Crescent Rolls
Lemon Verbena Cinnamon Rolls
Peanut Butter Cheesecake with Caramelized Bananas
Pistachio Cake
Zucchini Carrot Bread
Bean Salad
Black Bean and Corn Salad
Roasted Sweet Potato, Shrimp, and Black Bean Salad
Beef and Broccoli
Ground Beef Tostadas
Red Onion Steak Sandwich
Shepherd's Pie
Chocolate Chip Pancakes
Coconut Pancakes
Cottage Cheese Fruit Bowl
Lemon Verbena Cinnamon Rolls
Mixed Berry Pancakes
Pound Cake French Toast
Spinach, Mushroom, and Goetta Scramble
Sweet Potato Smoothie
BBQ Chicken Sandwich
Cajun Chicken Pasta
Cantonese Chicken Bok Choy Stir-Fry
Chicken Coconut Soup
Chicken Empanadas
Chicken Tikka Masala
Curried Chicken on Toasted Pita
Lemon-Lime Chicken Broil
Spicy Chicken Spaghetti
Spicy Peanut Butter Chicken over Rice
Thai Breaded Chicken Fillets
White Chili
Strawberry-Buttermilk Gelato
Cajun Chicken Pasta
Cheesy Turkey Penne
Hoisin Noodles with Turkey and Green Beans
Mushroom Pasta Salad
Shrimp Shells
Spicy Chicken Spaghetti
Vegetable Lasagna
Vegetable Lo Mein
Beer Pork Chops with Mushrooms
Gingered Pork Chops in Orange Juice
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Ground Turkey with Potatoes and Peas
Orange Mashed Potatoes
Potato Salad
Shepherd's Pie
Mexican Sour Cream Rice
Spanish Rice
Vegetable Biryani
BBQ Chicken Sandwich
Grilled Mozzarella "BST"
Red Onion Steak Sandwich
Baked Shrimp with Feta
Citrus Shrimp with Vegetable Slaw
Curried Swai
Honey Lime Fish Tacos with Tomatillo Sauce
Lemon Pepper Shrimp Scampi
Mustard Crusted Tilapia
Paprika Roasted Salmon
Roasted Sweet Potato, Black Bean, and Shrimp Salad
Shrimp Shells
Tilapia Tostadas with Roasted Corn Relish
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Cheesy Turkey Penne
Curried Turkey Burgers
Ground Turkey with Potatoes and Peas
Hoisin Noodles with Turkey and Green Beans
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Black Bean and Corn Salad
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Defra thinking on the forthcoming Resources & Waste Strategy, including the possibility of an incineration tax, is to be shared at a roundtable meeting this afternoon (26 September) to be attended by secretary of state, Michael Gove.
The roundtable will see discussion of a number of topics including opportunities for innovation and how to drive sustained action involving the government, the private sector and the public at large. And, regulation will also be on the table with a focus on boosting creativity in the private sector.
Treasury and tax
The meeting comes as separately the possibility of an incineration tax on energy from waste plants emerges as a potential fiscal option to be introduced by the Treasury alongside the strategy.
The idea of an incineration tax, which is currently being assessed by Treasury officials, is seen as its action in response to the record number of public responses to its "tackling the plastic problem" consultation. The incineration tax is being seen as an alternative to a tax on single use plastics as it would be easier to implement.
A summary of the responses was published on 18 August 2018. That day the Exchequer Secretary, Robert Jenrick, while visiting a plastic pollution clean-up operation on Perranporth Beach in Cornwall, said: "Tackling the scandal of plastic pollution is one of our top priorities and we know the public is right behind us. I've been overwhelmed by the public support and the responses we've received will be invaluable as we develop our plans for using the tax system to combat this."
The Treasury pointed out in August that respondents from across the supply chain suggested a tax on the incineration of waste. "This could be done based on input tonnages or the material composition of waste, or using some form of emissions metric. However, there was recognition that this might impact certain sectors, such as cement kilns who currently substitute conventional fossil fuel with residual waste and tyres."
At least two options are thought to be being discussed, an incineration tax in various forms or a tax on virgin polymers.
Those in favour of the tax on virgin polymers consider that it would work better than an incineration tax since it incentivises the use of recycled polymers. This approach is thought to be favoured by the Local Government Association which has indicated that an incineration tax sits in the wrong part of the chain as it does not stop or reduce the consumption of single-use taxes.
However, the Treasury is thought to be promoting the idea of the incineration tax as a simpler option by putting an extra cost on the disposal of materials, such as plastics, which might have been recycled instead.
The tax could be a blanket tax on energy from waste plants or could be set to target plastic inputs as a percentage of the feedstock or even based on plant emissions relating to the volume of plastics burnt.
Local authority support
The money raised from the tax might go towards extra local authority support for recycling projects or communications or even towards a recycling commodities scheme being proposed in the strategy. Critics point out, though, that increases in the Landfill Tax in the past for a few years went to help fund higher employer National Insurance contributions, but this came to an end and the tax receipts just stayed with the Treasury.
There are also concerns that a tax on incineration, which is likely to have to be applied to exports of RDF (refuse-derived fuel) could lead to increases in flytipping with the costs of waste disposal a factor behind waste crime.
- Likely contents of the Resources and Waste Strategy were indicated in outline by resources minister Therese Coffey at the Environmental Audit Committee earlier this month (see letsrecycle.com story)


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Crypto Portfolio Update (Sep 15 2018)
One should be always thankful for the Stop Losses. They did save me again this time when Bitcoin and other tokens got whacked. I got stopped out of Bitcoin at 6400 and Bitcoin Cash at 520 as the Stop Losses triggered. (Click here for the previous update from Sep 1)
Since then, I haven't bought back BTC or BCH though Bitcoin is now back above 6400. As a result, only XLM is still in the portfolio and rest all is in cash.
I expect another dip this month for BTC and the other cryptos before they consolidate and move up again. I am going to basically wait for that dip to re-enter. I have no entry targets right now for BTC and BCH but when the charts give out signals, I will post my thoughts here and on Twitter / StockTwits.
Click here for the Sep 1 update
Click here for the July 29 update
Click here to learn "Trading Strategies & Risk Management"
Flourish Alerts – today is our First Anniversary!
Hello folks,
I am extremely pleased to report that today (Sep 14, 2018) we are completing one year since the official launch of Flourish Alerts. Many thanks to our supporters and patrons without whom this would not have been possible.
We have had our share of success and failures over the last 12 months but overall, the performance has been generally good to great except for a couple of bad months. As I always say, the focus is not on winning all the trades (which is impossible given the market-risks we face everyday) but on winning a majority of trades and to consistently win more than we lose by adapting proper trading techniques and risk management.
Flourish Alerts is open to new subscribers now. You can find more details here or write to me at: email@example.com for details.
Training on Risk Management:
On this wonderful occasion, I am also pleased to announce that the next 2 batches of classes (online, live) for the training program on "Trading Strategies and Risk Management" will be held in October 2018. You can register here for the programs.
In case you would like to learn this program at your own pace, a video-based training curriculum is also available (at a lower price). Please write to me at: firstname.lastname@example.com if interested.
At Flourish Alerts, we look forward to another great year. Happy Trading!!
Trading the Risks
We all know that markets carry high uncertainty & risks. Despite that we are all here to win. However, trading is not about being right all the time but about maximizing your wins, cutting your losses & maximizing your overall returns with 3 things –
(a) Adapting a proper trading strategy
(b) Formulating a trade plan that has the right set-up & an ideal Risk-Reward element
(c) Exercising discipline with Risk Management techniques
If these 3 basic things are taken care of, you can be a winner. I lose 3 out of 10 trades on an average. But when I win, I win big. When I lose, I lose small. But how? Just by adapting a rule based trading system that covers all the three elements listed above.
If you want to learn more about the system I use or about Trading Strategies or about Risk-Managing your trades, please click here
Top 10 Trading Psychology MYTHS
I found this article very useful – the Top Ten Trading Psychology Myths (by Dr Gary Dayton)
- People are born traders. While it is true that certain personal characteristics make it easier to trade, no one is born a trader. One of the main themes of the Market Wizards book written by Jack Schwager is that almost none of the market wizards was successful from the start. They all worked hard at it.
- You have to have a high IQ to trade. Just not true. In some ways, an above average IQ may be a hindrance. Trading is a human performance activity where very strong intellectual abilities are unnecessary.
- Top traders are successful because they have the "right trading personality." There is no such thing as the "right trading personality." Researches have been unable to find a strong correlation between personality type and trading success. It is important, however, to understand your personal characteristics and how they may help and hinder your trading.
- Trading is easy. It sure looks that way, doesn't it? Just draw a few lines on the chart, watch your indicators, and follow the price bars. The truth is that trading is a difficult business to master. It involves different skill sets and abilities from what are needed in most other professions and careers. The trader must understand his or her personal strengths and limitations and develop specific skills to deal with the mental and emotional demands of trading. The later skills are the most difficult to develop and the most overlooked.
- You must be tough, hard charging, and fearless to be successful. That's more media hype than anything else. It glorifies a strong ego, which is a detriment in trading. The most successful traders I know quietly do their research, study the charts, and patiently wait for the right moment. They strive to keep their ego out of their trading.
- You must trade without emotions. If you are human, that's impossible. More importantly, when you understand your emotions you will realize they are assets, not liabilities. The real keys are: 1) to be aware of how your emotions interact with and influence your trading, and 2) to develop the skills needed to trade with them.
- Top traders are usually right about the market. Top traders have many, many scratch and losing trades. Top traders are at the top because they exercise good risk control, limit the amount of loss from any given trade, and have developed a psychological edge that allows them to be unfazed by small loosing trades. Most of their trading consists of modest profits and very small losses. When conditions are right, they step up size and let the profitable trades run.
- Paper trading is useless-it's not a real trade without money behind it. If you aren't paper trading, you are doing yourself a disservice. You should always be paper trading your trading ideas. Why limit your education and experience by the amount of capital you have? Paper trading keeps you sharp; you learn the conditions under which your trading ideas work best. Where else can you get such vital education at so little cost?
- Master the technical skills and you will be successful. This is where most traders spend the vast majority of their time, but it's only part of the picture. You also have to learn important performance skills. Traders should spend as much-if not more-time learning to develop their psychological edge as they do in developing their technical trading edge.
- Trading is stressful. It certainly can be stressful, and it certainly is stressful for many. It doesn't have to be. Successful traders have a certain mind-set. They put little importance on any given trade. Their focus is on the long haul. They know that if they attend to the aspects of trading that are within their control (i.e., trade selection, entry, risk control, and trade management) the profits will take care of themselves.
Some interesting August charts revisited
Here are a few interesting charts that I had posted on Twitter & StockTwits during early August:
Ripple XRP (Aug 8 chart): And you know where it exactly went!! (below 22 cents)
Ethereum ETH (Aug 8 chart): "Expect $100 drop" & ETH dropped 102 to hit a low of 257
Bitcoin BTC (Aug 7 chart): Went from 7000 to the "potential 6000" and then bounced. Now waiting to see if it can break above the upper Trend Line Resistance
Semi-conductors SMH (Aug 7 chart). It is getting close to that trend line Resistance now
AVGO (Aug 7 chart): Hanging in there. I still have a high conviction on that 160 target
TWTR (Aug 8 chart): Bearish as long as it stays below 36.
BABA (Aug 8 chart): Did touch the 165-166 support zone as expected and then bounced to 180. Now we can expect another test of 166 if the tariff talks with China end in stalemate.
TSLA (Aug 7 chart): Broke above 360 only because of that popular (or notorious?) "Funding Secured" tweet but now it has broken below the 50 WEEK MA and even below $300 (currently down 23% from the post-tweet high of 387).
Current forecast for TSLA: Still bearish.. Could test the 265-270 zone very soon (see the Aug 30 chart below) and if the trend line breaks, possibly will go to 220-240
Crypto Portfolio Update (as of Sep 1 2018)
Cryptos took a dive in August fueled by doubts if SEC would allow crypto ETFs to become functional. Thankfully, as posted in my July 1 portfolio update, I was determined to manage the risks better this time.. Had a Stop Loss for BTC at 7400, for ETH at 10% and for LTC, XRP and XLM at 20%. All the Stops got triggered except for XLM.
So here is how the portfolio looked like by mid-August, after all those Stop Losses were triggered:
Cash 13,120
TOTAL 14,120 (Original investment was $15,000 in Jan 2018)
My conviction for Aug was that BTC wont go below 5600-5700 in any case. And that one could buy it if it tests below the 6k zone & bounces back above 6300. Also, Bitcoin Cash (BCH) may be a better buy considering it has more elasticity.
Hence based on the not-so-happy experience with ETH, LTC and XRP, I decided to exclude them from the portfolio and narrow the focus down to just 3 components for the time being: BTC, BCH & XLM.
Patience seemed to have finally paid off as BTC bounced back above 6300 eventually, and my Buy order at 6400 got triggered. And along with it, the planned BCH Buy order at 520 also got triggered. Meanwhile I also decided to add some more XLM at 22c.
Here is the current status of the portfolio (as of Sep 1, 2018):
Now let us wait & see how the month of September plays out for BTC & the other cryptos. Will post some charts in a day or two.
Prior updates:
Click here for the July 29 update
Click here for the July 1 update