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As the most comprehensive resource available for those involved in technology-based economic development, SSTI offers the services that are needed to help build tech-based economies. Learn more about membership...
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EDA opens 2019 Regional Innovation funding cycle
The Economic Development Administration is now accepting applications for the Regional Innovation Strategies program through April 4. Funding is available through the i6 Challenge, focused on transforming innovations into products and services, and Seed Fund Support, to help expand the availability of investment capital for startups. SSTI will again be hosting an informational webinar with EDA — see details and register below.
Regional Innovation Strategies program FY 2019 informational webinar
Tuesday, Feb. 12 @ 2 P.M. EST
Funding for the RIS program is competitive. In the 2018 cycle, 233 organizations requested $120 million, and EDA was able to make 40 awards totaling $21 million. Commerce's FY 2019 budget is not yet complete, so the amount of funding that will be available this year is not yet known — although the chambers seem to have agreed on $25 million, should a final budget advance.
Organizations looking for additional resources to help with applications should consider the following:
- Review the notice of funding opportunity and check for updates;
- EDA's program site includes lists of past awardees;
- Register for the informational webinar;
- Review past RIS webinars hosted by SSTI; and,
- SSTI members can connect with past awardees through the member listserv or by asking staff for introductions.


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Integro will be at IBM's Think 2019 conference in San Francisco as a speaker and sponsor. Make sure to catch Integro Senior Consultant, Linda Coniglio, who will be speaking with our client, BBVA Compass about their experience deploying a hybrid cloud unified governance solution.
If you'll be at Think 2019, reach out and let's meet up.
Think 2019 is an event to explore the technologies that are redefining industries, learn from the experts, and get your biggest questions answered. From high-level strategy discussions to targeted technical training, conference education covers the breadth and depth of technology and business topics including cloud, AI, data and analytics, infrastructure, and many more.

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Udemy – How To Earn $8127/Month From Home As An Import-Export Broker [100% off]
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Course Description
This course is a step-by-step guide on how to broker your first import export deal from any where in the world, as long as you have access to the internet and a cellphone.
You'll learn the basic concepts, language, and tools of the import export world.
- You'll become familiar with how the import export world works
- Trading terms and vocabulary so you can impress your clients (and friends!)
- The exact scripts I use to communicate with buyers and suppliers by email or phone
- How to use Alibaba to find suppliers and buyers as well as other tools of the trade
- How to negotiate, close deals, and earn large commissions!
What exactly is an import-export broker?
We're used to hearing the term "import-export business" in the movies, usually run by some mafia men smoking cigars and donning trench coats, but if you're like me, you've never really understood what an import-export business actually is.
Its simply the world of international trade. When an American company buy rice and has it delivered from an Indian company, we call that importing, and when an American company sells corn and ships it to a European company, we call that exporting.
What a lot of people don't know is that at the heart of a lot of these deals, there are people called brokers that bring these companies together to initiate the deal in the first place, and in return earn a percentage of that deal as profit. For example, a broker may collect a fee of 5% on a $500,000 dollar deal, earning him/her $25,000.
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Mark and Morgan (Sibley) Harlan of Alton, Illinois welcomed a daughter, Lillian Jeane Harlan, 6 pounds, 15 ounces, at 12:13 a.m. on May 26, 2017 at O.S.F. Saint Anthony's Health Center. Elder sibling is Laney Harlan, 2 and 1/2. Grandparents are Kelly and Bob Sibley of Brighton, Illinois; Dave and Chris Colyer of Fosterburg, Illinois. Great-grandparents are Jeane Vinyard of Brighton, Illinois; Jane Bligh of Jerseyville, Illinois; Carol Colyer of Bethalto, Illinois; Mike and Janice Dewey of Hot Springs Village, Arizona.
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Brandon and Rebecca (Warford) Jones of Jerseyville, Illinois welcomed a son, William Franklin, 8 pounds, 5 ounces at 8:10 a.m. on May 23, 2017 at O.S.F. Saint Anthony's Health Center. Elder siblings are Haley, 13; and Aubrey, 8. Grandparents are Clint and Pam Warford of Jerseyville; Terry and Mary Davenport of Woodson; Allen and Haley Jones of Carrollton. Great-grandparents are Carol Yocom and the late Frank Yocom of Jerseyville; Charrlette Jones and the late Alfred Jones of Carrollton; Gwen Warford and the late Jim Warford of Jerseyville.
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Nicholas Duncan and Kelsey Garrett of South Roxana, Illinois welcomed a son, Riley James Duncan, 7 pounds, 5 ounces, at 10:50 a.m. on May 31, 2017 at O.S.F. Saint Anthony's Health Center. Elder sibling is Aiden Duncan, 7. Grandparents are Kim Exton of Godfrey; and Larry Garrett of East Alton. Great-grandparents are Mary and Harold Scates of Godfrey; and Larry and Sandy Garrett of Moro.


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Paulo Bruno Exequiel Dybala (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈpaulo ðiˈβala]; born 15 November 1993) is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as a forward for Italian club Juventus and the Argentina national team. Considered Europe's top five leagues' sixth most expensive player from a transfer value perspective by the CIES, he is commonly referred to as "La Joya" ("The Jewel") due to his creative style of play, pace, talent, technique and eye for goal.After beginning his career in Argentina with Instituto de Córdoba in 2011, he moved to Italian club Palermo in 2012. He played three seasons for Palermo, two in Serie A and won Serie B in 2013–14. In 2015, he joined Juventus for an initial fee of €32 million and has since made over 100 appearances for the club, winning the double of Serie A and Coppa Italia in each of his three seasons. He has thrice been named in the Serie A Team of the Year. Dybala made his senior international debut for Argentina in 2015 and was chosen for the 2018 FIFA World Cup.


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Within a year, Kaira Advani has become one of the busiest actresses in the country. Last year, she scored a blockbuster in Telugu with her maiden film Bharat Ane Nenu. Later, she became popular in Hindi, with the Netflix film Lust Stories. Recently, she came up with Kabir Singh, which has become a huge success.
Kiara clearly proved with Kabir Singh that she has no inhibitions for onscreen romance. Thus, she is now being flooded with new offers. Already she has about half a dozen films in hand like Laxmi Bomb, Good News, Indoo Ki Jawaani and Guilty. Now, she is getting more.
To cash in on her success, she hiked her remuneration as well. Earlier, she used to take less than a crore for a film and now apparently, she is charging double that amount for each film. That is indeed a clever strategy from her to cash in more during the peak stages of career.


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One year in, Joanne Kotz assumes CEO role at Jnana; President/Executive chair duo will now run BlackThorn
→ Jnana Therapeutics is marking its anniversary with the installation of a permanent chief, and it's going for someone who's been there since the beginning: co-founder and president Joanne Kotz. Amir Nashat, the interim CEO who will now focus on his other job as managing partner of Polaris, credits Kotz for building "a talented team and a collaborative, empowering culture, while also leading important work to validate Jnana's proprietary drug discovery platform." Before launching the SLC transporter-focused biotech, Kotz had held leadership roles at the F-Prime Biomedical Research Initiative and the Broad Institute.
→ Greg Vontz has stepped down as president and CEO of BlackThorn Therapeutics, prompting the promotion of CSO Bill Martin to the president and COO role. Martin will now run the company alongside new executive chairman Paul Berns, a veteran biotech executive of ARCH, matching his familiarity with BlackThorn's neurobehavioral therapies with Berns' product development, strategic and commercial expertise.
→ Seasoned diagnostics and pharma exec Bernhard Sixt is the new CEO at Edinburgh Molecular Imaging, tasked with steering its optical imaging product on a path to approval and eventual commercialization. EMI-137 has compared favorably to colonoscopy in a cancer detection trial, the company says, and is being tested in several other cancer indications.
→ Michael Linden has chosen Touchlight Genetics as the next stop of his gene therapy journey. As CSO, he is responsible for applying Touchlight's doggybone DNA tech on its discovery pipeline and translational research efforts. A former academic actively advocating for gene therapy research, Linden recently served as Pfizer's VP of gene therapy and head of its Genetics Medicines Institute.
→ After months of searching for a permanent CFO, Five Prime Therapeutics has decided to lock in David Smith, a former Genentech staffer and recent COO of forensics DNA company Integenx before Thermo Fisher snapped it up. The South San Francisco-based immuno-oncology biotech likes his breadth of experience, having worked at a mix of companies spanning different scales and stages. Linda Rubinstein, who's been filling in from a CFO services firm, is signing off.
→ As Steve Fruchtman pivots to the president's job at Onconova $ONTX, he's tapped Richard Woodman to succeed him as CMO. Woodman, a former head of Novartis' hematology franchise, inherits a late-stage pipeline focused on myelodysplastic syndromes. Two other new hires will help him hustle the lead drug, rigosertib, toward an approval: clinical operations director Matthew Parris, who joins from Inovio; and Celgene vet David Evans, who will be associate director, regulatory affairs.
→ As Impel NeuroPharma gears up for a couple of mid-stage readouts of its central nervous system disorder treatments, it has appointed Ellen Lubman to scout deals for the drugs and its nasal drug delivery tech. As chief business officer, Lubman's mandate will cover "partnering and acquisition strategy and execution," not unlike what she did when she was VP of external science and innovation at Allergan.
→ With several of its programs lined up at the Phase II starting line, Alkahest has poached veteran sales exec Elizabeth Jeffords from Roche/Genentech to be its chief sales and strategy officer. Jeffords, who played a big role in marketing the big age-related macular degeneration therapy Lucentis, will now pivot to other age-related diseases including Alzheimer's and Parkinson's.
→ Calgary, Alberta-based Xortx Therapeutics has appointed James Fairbarin to replace outgoing CFO Dave Matthews. The company is developing three treatments for different types of progressive kidney disease.
→ Farah Ahmad has jumped from Syneos Health to a COO position at Strategikon Pharma, which markets a tool for clinical trial planning and vendor management.
→ Following a mammoth $200 million debut on the Nasdaq, gene therapy developer Orchard Therapeutics has recruited two biopharma vets to manage its commercial operations in the US and the massive bloc region Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA), respectively. Both of them bring significant experience with rare diseases, Orchard's specialty. Robin Kenselaar, who spent the past 15 years at Sanofi Genzyme, comes on board as SVP of general manager, EMEA commercial ops. His US counterpart, Brad Mathis, recently had a stint at Sucampo after 10 years at Alexion.
→ Myovant, a member of Vivek Ramaswamy's biotech family focused on women's health and endocrine diseases, has wooed GSK exec Kim Sablick to be its chief commercial officer. The R&D team is also gaining a new member in Jeff Nornhold, who's switching a technical operations position at Impax for a new role as SVP of pharmaceutical operations and development. Myrtle Potter and Frank Torti — industry vets who have recently taken senior roles at Roivant — are joining the board alongside Mark Guinan, with Potter appointed chairman.
→ Novavax $NVAX has appointed Rachel King, a seasoned VC and founder of GlycoMimetics, to its board of directors.
→ Grail CEO Jennifer Cook has taken a board seat at Denali, the high-flying neurodegeneration startup run by some of her former colleagues from Genentech.
→ Having guided Epizyme through a rough year at the FDA, CEO Robert Bazemore is taking on a side gig as board director at neoantigen pioneer Neon Therapeutics.


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What two entries on one day? Yes, but it is a short one. If you can read this blog, I think the likelihood is high that you live a decent life. There is that old wisdom that when you feel sad, do something good for someone else to feel better. For the next three days,…
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The Name of the Wind / A Wise Man's Fear – by Patrick Rothfuss
First of all, thank you Ivana for introducing these books to me! This is not going to be a full-blown book review, but a minor one with my thoughts on the books and the author.


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Nine-year-old Gertie's life changes dramatically when Hurricane Katrina comes to town. It seems like she's lost everything. Will she ever feel at home again?
Ages: 9+
144 pages
Average Rating: (67 Ratings)
I loved this book!
This book made me think more about the importance of family.
just because it is about a girl does not mean that boys cant read it. because I'm a boy and I liked it.
This book was so good! It made me think more about how people manage hurricanes, a subject I had never really thought about.
I liked this book.
This book taught me more about Jewish holidays, rituals, and even food.
But the main character Gertie, at times in the book can be stubborn, and a brat. And at times, make bad choices. It's a good book to read when you are bored, or if you are sick in bed.
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Thumbs up!
The book is about a kid and there's a hurricane so they have to go away to a family member's house, but his dad can't come because he's a doctor and has to stay behind, and he only comes for holidays. The kids misses him a lot. There are a bunch of short stories inside. They saw his dad on the news carrying out the torah because it's a Jewish hospital. It was very good! I liked that it was the perfect length, and how enthusiastic the kid was even though there was a hurricane.
I love how Gertie talks about coping with Hurriccane Katrina, her worry for her family and friends, and it all wraps up into her making the world a better place in this amazing, heartwarming book.
I would read more books by this author.
I finished this book because it was a very good book:)
best book ever! i think when the hurricane came is a recommendation for 4th or 3rd graders yea!
This book also made me think more about friendship and if you leave someone they can do great things. In the story it was hard for her to make friends in Memphis but she ended up making two good friends. It also taught me if you lose every thing you can start over and it is ok for things to change. I would let my friend borrow this book.
When the Hurricane Came was an okay book. I thought the book was too short and I wish it was longer. I would recommend this book to others because people might like that it is about hurricanes. Kids that went through or escaped hurricanes because they might want to hear other people's experiences. The main character is a girl named Gertie that escaped and went through many difficult situations.
I learned more about Jewish history from this book.
I recommend this book
I was so exited for this book to come in the mail. But I realized that it wasn't as good as I thought it would be. I do not like Historical Fiction books very much. But if you do, I recommend it for you.
Great book. Really interesting. It was a really nice and cool book.😎
This book made me think more about being Jewish.
This book was very emotional and funny and happy and sad and everything that you need to have in a good book!
My mom and I loved this book so much! It inspired me to start a library in Africa for my Bat Mitzvah project!
After reading the book, I thought about how we should be thankful for what we have.
I can easily imagine how it would feel to lose your friends like in this book. When the Hurricane Came is a story that could have happened almost the same for many other people whose lives have been wrecked by a hurricane.
this book is so good, it made me think more about hurricane Katrina. i'm glad we don't live near the equator.
This would be a good story for older kids, because it can be sad. I thought it was very interesting how and why they made their decisions about what to do.
This was a great book. It is about when a hurricane happened and they had to leave there friends and there home to leave with there counsins.
I thought I could learn about what it is like to experience being in a tragic hurricane, this book really didn't leave me feeling WOW THAT WAS A GOOD BOOK! In fact it did the opposite!
It was great. Fantastic. One of my favorites.
I liked the fact that the main character didn't give up on different things.
I think this was an awesome book! It made me feel sorry for Gertie, it also made me think more about the Torah. I like how the time of year changes between each chapter. MUST READ!
This book was not my favorite book that I have ever read. It was okay but could have been better.
Not the best but not the worst
Gertie had to move after Hurricane Katrina came. It was very sad but I liked it. It was funny when she made her own kugel for Rosh Hashana. Please read this!
this book made me think about the past and hard times also it shows how one little thing can change the world!!!!!!!!!
read this book
WOW! I would not want to be any where where a hurricane could hit, I wish that the hurricanes would not be so deadly. so many lose all they own.
I have been trying to think up ways where I could help these people, help the homeless and the poor. my family while we where in MO ( we are not in MO any more,) but we gave food to some one who was homless, we have helped someone by buying them some food. but I want to learn how to knit and crochet that way I can make a blanket and scarves. I also wnat to learn how to make quilts and make these for the poor and homeless and for people that lose everything they own. plus make things for orphans. what can you do to help the poor, homeless, and for the people that lose every thing including the orphans?
thank you pj our way for putting a book like this up, It is my favorite book so far.
This book was decent. I learned a lot from it.
I enjoyed reading this book. This book is about a girl named Gertie who has to leave her home in New Orleans and go to Memphis, Tennessee because Hurricane Katrina is about to come. They stay at their aunt and uncles' house there. Gertie's dad has to stay in New Orleans to help save people. When he comes back, he tells everyone that their home was destroyed by the hurricane. They have to start the school year at a different school in Memphis. Gertie makes new friends at her new school. She does many interesting things in Memphis. In the end, she convinces her parents to move back to New Orleans in a trailer and tries hard to make the world a better place.
I think she was protected by God.Her dad was a great man staying be hind.
I liked it. It did have a mistake (first it said one of the girls like gold for the color of their dance outfit, then it said the other girl liked that color) but it is a good book. It made me think about what the people in Houston went through and lost. It made me think about how lucky I am.
This book made me think more about friendship.
I think you should read this book :) :) :) :) :)
This book was about a girl who moved from New Orleans to Memphis because of the Hurricane Katrina. But I don't think the book makes sense because if there was a Hurricane I would take my shoes with me and think it was a big deal.
I really like this book and it made me think about how lucky I am to live in a house and there being no hurricanes, tornadoes, or really bad earthquakes. It also really shows the importance of family. I really suggest this book. I only gave it four stars because I prefer fantasy, mystery, and adventure more.
I did not pick this book me and my sister got it in the mail by surprise! I thought we missed this time for my baby sister was born around that time and we were busy. Thank you PJ Our Way for sending me a book I thought I missed!
This book made me feel sad because lots of people died in hurricane Katrina. Good book that is all I can say. I can not explain but read to find out.
this book was great because it tells you how it is for people who move away somewhere else because of a hurricane.
Gertie and her family miss there father because he stayed in Louisiana after Hurricane Katrina which resembles family importance.
This book was just OK
When I got this book, I didn't realize that it was for younger kids. I honestly didn't really like this book. Maybe for younger kids.
This book was great. It taught me to be great full for what I have.👍🏻
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I think this book was very interesting and fun and it made me think about being Jewish during the time of Hurricane Katrina I would suggest it for many ages! I hope you engoy it as much as me.
I really like the trailer but I don't know how to get it
It was not very interesting and it wasn't very well written. I wouldn't recommend it for older kids.
This book was a little boring. It also went too fast. There was too much story at the beginning that didn't relate to the actual part where the hurricane came. There wasn't enough story and details where Gertie and her family are leaving and when the hurricane comes.
I liked when she tried to go back to see her Dad and her grandmother during the hurricane. It showed how much she cared about her family.
This book was an interesting book about a girl who had to leave her home when a hurricane came. She doesn't know what's going to happen when she doesn't take all of the things she loves and leaves New Orleans. Then she figures out how to help kids in New Orleans after the hurricane.
I really like this book. I think it would be good for anyone. It good .
I think this book was amazing and really showed me that even if something goes wrong like when the hurricane came they went to live with their Aunt and Uncle and they had to learn how their Aunt and Uncle celebrated the Jewish Holidays.
This book shows us that sometimes we have to face what will ruin what we love. It also teaches us that we might have to leave the family, toys and friends that we love.
I just love Gertie's character traits! She is so brave. I couldn't imagine living through that kind of hurricane! I totally recommend this (amazing) book! (:
I thought, at the time, that life my life was difficult, with lots of work, but know, my life feels like a peice of cake.
Gertie survived a very dangerous storm. She's very lucky that she and her family are safe.
I think that When the Hurricane Came was an awesome book i loved how it talked about family and how important it is to trust your family.
Reviewed by Hadas, from WA, Design Team
When a Hurricane comes to New Orleans, nine-year old Gertie has to leave her house and friends. With her family, she must leave New Orleans and go live with her uncle and aunt in Tennessee. The sad news is that her dad works in a hospital and can't be with the family at all, but on holidays he tries to be there to celebrate with everyone! In the Beginning, Gertie misses her friends from New Orleans very much, but she gets to know the new place better, makes new friends and participates in a talent show with them, where they dance the Dance of the Dreidels.
I enjoyed this book because instead of celebrating the holidays alone, they celebrate the holiday together with family and have lots of fun! I would recommend this book to those who would like to know how one little kid can make it out in the world.
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Author of When the Hurricane Came
"Amazing things happen when you help others."
Nechama Liss-Levinson is a psychologist and a writer. After Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans in the summer of 2005, Nechama volunteered to help rebuild the city.
Nechama likes to read, go for hikes, and help people with their problems, and she loves being a mother and a grandmother! Nechama lives in New York with her husband.
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With an eye on the upcoming Lok Sabha elections, the Union government is looking at state specific issues which will have a traction among the people. The Narendra Modi government dusted the 35-year-old Assam Accord in a bid to address the promises made by it to preserve the Assamese identity.
Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Wedenesday announced that a high-level committee will be set up for the implementation of Clause 6 of the Assam Accord which deals with the issue of reservations in the state assembly, jobs, preservation of language and heritage.
Singh said this government was fulfilling the promise that was long forgotten. "After Assam agitation of 1979-1985, Assam Accord was signed on 15th August, 1985. Clause 6 of the Assam Accord envisaged that appropriate constitutional, legislative and administrative safeguards, shall be provided to protect, preserve and promote the cultural, social, linguistic identity and heritage of the Assamese people. However, the Clause 6 of the Accord has not been fully implemented," Singh said addressing a press conference after the cabinet meeting.
Singh said the committee will be notified in the next two-three days with its terms of reference, tenure, and even composition drawing from imminent people from the state.
The panel will even examine the effectiveness of all government actions since 1985 to implement Clause 6 of the Assam Accord.
"The committee will hold discussions with all stakeholders and assess the required quantum of reservation of seats in the Assam Legislative Assembly and local bodies for Assamese people. The committee will also assess the requirement of measures to be taken to protect Assamese and other indigenous languages of Assam, quantum of reservation in employment under the government of Assam and other measures to protect, preserve and promote cultural, social, linguistic identity and heritage of Assamese people," home minister added.
During the 2014 elections, the BJP had won seven out of the 14 Lok Sabha seats from Assam. The saffron party is hoping to add more seats from the state to compensate for some likely reverses in other states.
In a related subject, the cabinet also approved a number of measures to fulfil the outstanding issues related to the Bodo community. The Bodo Accord was signed in 2003 which resulted in the establishment of a Bodoland Territorial Council under the sixth schedule of the constitution of India. However, there have been representations from different organisations of Bodos to fulfil various outstanding demands.
Among the decision taken during the cabinet meeting includes establishment of a Bodo Musuem-cum-language and cultural study centre, modernisation of existing All India Radio station and Doordarshan Kendra at Kokrajhar and naming a superfast train as Aronai Express.
The state government will also take necessary measures related to appropriate land policy and land laws, besides setting up of institutions for research and documentation of customs, traditions and languages of indigenous communities.


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"Okay! What's next" was the thought that constantly ran through Martha's head, like a metronome keeping her in beat to her non-stop lifestyle. Anytime there was a beat, a pause, a silence – "What's next?! – egged her on.
Martha was indeed a work-a-holic!
Like all emotional habit patterns, staying busy was that Thing She Did, to minimize difficult emotions, and/or cling to the good feelings. Similar to, but different from, last week's emotional habit pattern of Perfectionism – today we're going to unpack the underlying components of this potentially toxic habit pattern – and what you can do to break the cycle.
That Thing She Does: What You See on the Outside
Check lists, Siri reminders, efficiency apps, color-coded work-spaces, and endless things 'to do' defined Martha's busy life. Her work ethic and ability to get sh*t done was indeed, impressive! Just watching her could make others feel like a wilted flower – utterly incapable of keeping up.
This is what we see, and feel, from the outside when we meet one of these go-getters. But the important take away in this series is this: what we assume or how we feel about another person's behaviors is frequently very different from what actually drives them.
In other words, outcome is something very very different from intention. Two people, doing the exact same behaviors, may be, and usually are, driven by very different, and unique internal stimuli – based on their past experience.
The Busy Bee: Martha
Martha was raised in a family with extraordinarily high expectations, for performance, and 'making good use of the time you have the privilege to be on the planet!' as her father often lectured.
So Martha had some pretty serious passenger programming about the need to maintain a breakneck pace and her worth equating to her output. Throughout her childhood and adolescence, performance was rewarded and shown off to friends and family. 'Laziness' or 'idleness' or any lack of activity was frowned upon, or even ridiculed.
So you can see how Martha's busy bee behavior was just the outside representation of her emotional habit pattern.
What Might be Going on Inside
An essential first step to building objective self-awareness of our own 'Thing' is to know the difference between what's happening on the inside, from what's happening on the outside. Martha wasn't quite aware yet of how the endless 'to do lists' as a fact in life, was something different from her way of attending and reacting to them.
Her habitual ways of thinking and doing kept the Emotions – Thoughts – Actions (ETA) system spinning her into anxiety and burnout.
For Martha, thoughts like, "I can't handle this," "I need help," coupled with, "But I need to do everything myself, or I'll be mocked!" led to a whole symphony of discordant emotions. Doubt and anxiety emotions pushed the action impulses of DO more and reassurance seeking. Irritability pushed the action impulse to express disagreement, interrupt, and generally get kind of snarky.
She felt trapped inside her body, with tightness in her chest, muscle tension, and an itching restlessness. She was super uncomfortable!
Over and over again, in a desperate attempt to get rid of her discomfort (i.e. anxiety and self judgment), Martha would turn back to the crack pipe of emotional control efforts. She used her work to distract, and regain a sense of mastery (and thus relief) over the chaos she was experiencing.
Have you ever noticed how calm you feel when really focused on a task? Our brains love tasks! But like a computer with too many windows open and without the occasional reboot, we begin to slow and may even shut down unexpectedly.
Martha's Groundhog Day of work, sleep, repeat – increased her sense of control in the short term, but not in the long term. The all-consuming game of whack-a-mole she was playing never gave her a chance to pause and listen to her internal compass. She lacked that delicious sense of truly knowing what she wanted her life to stand for.
The Skillful Alternative: Holding Bothness
The key to masterfully moving through the difficult, and often opposing, thoughts and feelings related to our goals is by practicing, what I call "Holding Bothness." By doing so we are honoring and validating both the difficulty of pursuing what's important, and keeping our eye on the prize.
The good news is, we've got a practice to help you build your ability to hold this balance! Adapted from Dr. Jenna LeJeune's Two Sides of the Same Coin, this exercise helps us to reflect on this idea while adopting a different stance towards pain – a more willing stance. Ready to be willing? Head over to Mindful-Mastery for the practice!
This blog is inspired by Dr. Fielding's upcoming book: Mastering Adulthood: Go Beyond Adulting to Become an Emotional Grown-Up, which includes QR code linked skill videos to guide you on your journey of self-discovery and emotional self-care! To get the blogs, AND a free skill video, straight into your inbox, sign up for the Mindful-Mastery SKILL WEEKLY newsletter. Or check back here next week for the next post: The Smartphone Addict. We can also hang out on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Or YouTube for skills videos!


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By Matthias Williams and Pavel Polityuk
KIEV (Reuters) - Ukraine's president said he expects a "meaningful, substantive" meeting with Donald Trump this week and, hoping there will soon be new peace talks on east Ukraine, reiterated Kiev's need for U.S. support.
In comments released by his office on Tuesday, Volodymyr Zelenskiy did not refer to allegations that the U.S. president pressured him to open a corruption investigation into Democratic rival Joe Biden and his son in exchange for U.S. military aid.
A U.S. whistleblower has lodged a complaint about the contents of a telephone conversation between Trump and Zelenskiy on July 25, leading to calls from some Democrats that Trump be impeached for trying to enlist a foreign power to smear a domestic opponent.
Trump and Zelenskiy's team have denied the U.S. president applied pressure on the Ukrainian leader during the phone call. Biden, whose son Hunter worked for a company drilling for gas in Ukraine, said on Saturday he had never spoken to his son about his business dealings in Ukraine.
Zelenskiy's meeting this week with Trump, during a trip to the United States for the U.N. General Assembly, will be his first with the U.S. president since Zelenskiy became Ukraine's leader in May.
"I think we will have a meaningful, substantive meeting," Zelenskiy was quoted as saying. His office gave no other details.
A comedian and, like Trump, a television star with no prior political experience when he took office, Zelenskiy won a landslide election victory in April promising voters an end to the conflict with Russian-backed forces in east Ukraine.
Zelenskiy cannot risk relations with either side of the political divide in Washington, whose bipartisan support Ukraine counts on for aid and diplomatic cover against Russia following Moscow's annexation of the Crimea peninsula in 2014.
Ukraine also wants Moscow to hand Crimea back, a demand that has fallen on deaf ears in Russia.
"It is very important to make friends with Trump, to be liked by Trump, but not to get drawn into this inter-party conflict," said Volodymyr Fesenko, an analyst with Kiev-based think tank Penta.
Zelenskiy also said he hoped the leaders of Ukraine, Russia, France and Germany would meet in the next few weeks to discuss the five-year-old conflict in east Ukraine that has killed 13,000 people.
"We want to leave this meeting with certain results on specific terms of ending the war and returning our territories," Zelenskiy said.
He hopes to build on the momentum gained when Russia and Ukraine swapped dozens of prisoners this month in a landmark exchange that brought Western praise and hopes for a thaw in relations.
(Editing by Timothy Heritage)


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Revellers gather for annual Wassailing ceremony
PUBLISHED: 17:04 14 January 2019 | UPDATED: 17:49 14 January 2019
Dozens of revellers gathered with pots and pans at a community orchard in Pill to bless the trees and the coming harvest during the historic Somerset tradition of wassailing.
The annual ceremony at Watchhouse Hill Community Orchard, on Saturday, began with a lantern lit procession led by the Pill Ladies Morris up the hill to the orchard.
The trees were then blessed by Green Man, Ben Newby, and toast soaked in cider was placed on the branches by apple maiden Freya.
Children then banged pots and pans while spectators held hands and said the incantation to frighten away evil spirits from the orchard.
Finally cider was poured around the trees to help ensure a bountiful harvest.
The crowd was also treated to a performance on the hill from the morris dancing company.
Hot mulled cider was served to onlookers to warm them up on the cold winter night after the ceremony had concluded.
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Wasurat Rojrungrangsi arrived at the CSD headquarters in Bangkok to file his complaint against Col Surasak Surinkaew, a superintendent of Tourist Police, and Lt Col Thammarak Ruangkit, of the Phaya Thai Police Station.
Mr Wasurat, 27, said Col Surasak had accused him, his family and their companies of operating an illegal business, and the complaint that was filed with Lt Col Thammarak led to charges against them and their five months in detention pending court trial.
He and his family had suffered through detention as their bail request had been rejected. Their reputations were tarnished, their 30-year-old business had collapsed, they were in debt for billions of baht and their 1,000 employees had been laid off, Mr Wasurat said.
On Aug 25, the Criminal Court dropped charges against Mr Wasurat and 12 other parties, ruling there was insufficient evidence against them.
Prosecutors brought the case to court in October of last year following raids on companies believed to be involved in the country's biggest zero-dollar tour network, a coordinated scam to sell unusually cheap tour packages to tourists.
The tourists were allegedly led into buying overpriced products and services from shops aligned with the tour operator.
OA Transport was raided and more than 2,000 of its buses were impounded.
The 13 defendants, including the six firms, faced charges that included collusion to unfairly reap benefits from tourists, illegally running tour services, laundering money and causing damage to the Thai economy and tourism.
Those accused were Somkiat Khongcharoen, 58, managing director of Fuan Travel Co; Thawal Jaemchokechai, 60, an executive of Fuan Travel; and Winit Chantharamanee, 70, a manager of the same firm.
The others were from the same family. They were: Nisa Rojrungrangsi, 62, managing director of Royal Gems International Co, Thai Herb Co, Bangkok Handicraft Centre Co and Royal Paradise Co; her husband Thongchai, 61; their son Wasurat, 27, managing director of OA Transport; and their daughter Saithip, 36, director of Baan Kanom Thongthip. Their six companies run transport and retail businesses.
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Today the IFM joins other leading business, environmental, academic and professional groups to publish a shared view of how the Government's planned Environment Bill can help 'put sustainability at the heart of our economic model'. That means enabling business to meet society's needs for example for healthy food, housing, infrastructure, energy, products and services, in ways that are consistent with meeting the environmental challenges we face in the 21st century.
The key is to get past the pattern of short term policymaking where policies are introduced late in the day once problems like marine plastic pollution or poor air quality have entrenched. That approach historically means that society and the government pick up the bill from a poor environment for example through the National Health Service, and businesses face high short term adjustment costs. Instead the Environment Act is the opportunity to set a clear and certain pathway as soon as possible that enables all sectors to plan, invest and collaborate towards a sustainable future and healthy environment. It will also enable all parts of government to work together better to ensure policies more coherently and consistently encourage good environmental management. In this way the Bill can ensure the economy meets the environmental challenges ahead, for example contained in the Government's 25 year environment plan, in ways that go with the grain of doing successful business: driving innovation, aligning with business and investment cycles and creating opportunities for UK business as all nations face the same environmental and resource challenges in the decades ahead.
The Government published the first part of the Environment Bill in December 2018 including its plans for environmental principles, the Office for Environmental Protection and Environmental Improvement Plans. The assurances set out what's needed from the whole Bill due to be published later in the year. Important elements include setting clear and coherent long term direction, including through well designed environmental targets that command public and business legitimacy and ownership, clarifying where responsibilities lie as early as possible and using the Office for Environmental Protection to hold the government to account for ensuring policies are adequate for meeting environmental goals. While the need for the Environment Bill was triggered by the UK's decision to leave the EU, these shortcomings need resolution irrespective of Brexit.
About the Broadway Initiative
The Broadway Initiative brings together a cross section of the main stakeholders and nationally recognised experts to generate ideas and proposals for world leading arrangements to govern the environment after EU exit. The purpose is to advise all UK administrations on how to enable all parts of society to play their part in achieving long term objectives for the environment. See Broadway's Blueprint for an Environment Act for more background on the proposals contained in the assurances.
Broadway Initiative members come from the worlds of business, NGOs, professional bodies, governance, policy making and academia.
Broadway convenor, Ed Lockhart said:
"It's clear that to improve our environment in any fundamental way we need a legal framework that respects the long-term nature of environmental challenges and their solutions, and enables businesses to factor the environment into their plans and investments from the earliest stage. The Environment Bill is the moment to make sure that happens."
At a recent meeting with the Broadway Initiative, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Philip Hammond said:
"Well-designed environmental standards are vital to sustainable economic growth and the wellbeing of people and our planet.
"That's why I'm pleased to be meeting with NGOs and industry leaders today to work together to build sustainability into the heart of our economic model. We need to work with businesses to support jobs and growth in the clean economy as we continue to lead the world in tackling climate change."
Environment Secretary Michael Gove said:
"We have committed to being the first generation to leave our environment in a better state than we found it. Through our landmark 25 Year Environment Plan and forthcoming Environment Bill – the first for more than 20 years – we are putting in place the foundations to make this a reality.
"But we recognise we cannot do this by acting alone. That's why I'm thrilled to help bring together this impressive group to find the solutions which will enable us to deliver on our shared ambition."
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By John Feinstein
The Washington Post
Monday, November 22, 2010; 1:19 PM
Free safety Wes Davis #45 of the Boston College Eagles stops running back Darren Evans #32 of the Virginia Tech Hokies in the 2008 ACC Football Championship game at Raymond James Stadium on December 6, 2008 in Tampa, Florida. (December 6, 2008 - Photo by Al Messerschmidt/Getty Images North America)
There were two ACC football games played on Saturday that were critically important to the postseason hopes of the teams involved: Virginia Tech at Miami and Florida State at Maryland. The Hokies went south looking to clinch the ACC Coastal Division title, while Miami tried to stay alive in the division race. The Seminoles traveled north to play the Terrapins in a game that would keep only the winner still in the running to win the ACC Atlantic.
On a perfect fall night, a crowd of 48,115 showed up at Byrd Stadium- easily the best of the season, but well short of the building's capacity of more than 54,000. The attendance at Sun Life Stadium in Miami, now the home of what was once the vaunted "U," had far more empty seats with a crowd of 40,101 spaced out comfortably in the 75,000-seat stadium.
ACC football isn't exactly a hot ticket these days-to put it mildly.
Consider this: On the same day that Maryland people were giddy about a crowd of 48,000 showing up to see a team that has already won five more games than it did a year ago, a crowd of 78,790 gathered a few miles down the Beltway at virtually impossible-to-get-to FedEx Field to watch a game between a bad Big Ten team (Indiana) and a slightly-better-than-mediocre Big Ten team (Penn State).
In short: an unattractive Big Ten game played in an NFL stadium hundreds of miles from either campus drew 10,000 fans fewer than two key ACC games combined.
The ACC has been trying to stake a claim as a legitimate football league since then-commissioner Gene Corrigan decided that an eight-team conference that played great basketball wasn't good enough, and recruited then-national power Florida State to join in 1992. The good news was that Florida State brought attention and revenue to the league. The bad news was that the ACC championship was decided in mid-September.
Florida State was 62-2 in ACC play during its first nine seasons in the league and very few of the Seminoles' games were even close. The ACC's national reputation changed: Where once it had been a league filled with teams that aspired to the Peach Bowl most years, it now became known as Florida State and the Seven Dwarfs - and Duke, which aspired to Dwarfdom.
When Florida State began to falter, the league became more balanced - or ordinary - depending on your point of view. That was when Commissioner John Swofford and the conference presidents came up with the brilliant idea of expansion, and raided the Big East for three top football schools: Miami and Virginia Tech in 2004 and Boston College a year later. The hope was that adding those three would force the other schools to improve the quality of their programs.
It did get a lot of them to spend more money on facilities and to pay coaches more money. It did not improve the quality of the football being played.
Instead, Miami and Boston College (7-4 and 6-5, respectively, this year) have slipped - considerably in Miami's case - and Virginia Tech has continued to be to college football what the Washington Capitals are to hockey: The Hokies put up gaudy numbers every year but wilt when the national spotlight hits them. They have been the ACC's dominant team since arriving in 2004, which is sort of like winning the NHL's Southeast Division every year.
At least Virginia Tech sells out Lane Stadium on a regular basis. The Hokies are the only ACC team to sell out all their home games this season. In fact, ACC attendance, which topped out in 2004 at 94.5 percent, is well below 90 percent going into the rivalry games on the season's final weekend that should - in most venues - push that figure a little higher.
The ACC spin-masters will tell you that the economy has affected attendance the last few years - although it doesn't appear to have hit the SEC or the Big Ten nearly as hard, if you check their attendance figures. Then they'll tell you that most of their attractive nonconference games this season were played on the road. There's a little bit of a Freudian slip in that excuse, because what that really says is that allegedly important conference games aren't that great a draw. Which they aren't.
A few weeks ago a key conference game between N.C. State and Clemson drew a crowd announced at 74,000 in 81,400 seat Memorial Stadium in Clemson. Those who were there said it looked like a lot less than that. This was at the one ACC school that was considered football-first prior to Florida State's arrival. Defending champion Georgia Tech drew less than 50,000 for its last three conference games in Bobby Dodd Stadium.
The spin-masters also fail to mention that Duke's home attendance jumped this season by almost 10,000 a game not because Blue Devils fans were hit with football fever, but because Alabama fans bought up season tickets in order to see their team play in Wallace Wade Stadium. A Duke season ticket doesn't cost much more than a single-game ticket at Alabama, and there were plenty available.
Last year's ACC championship game between Georgia Tech and Clemson drew a little more than 57,000 fans in Tampa - after the game was moved there because of poor attendance in Jacksonville. This year the game will be in Charlotte and the league office is insisting the game will sell out, if North Carolina State beats Maryland on Saturday to qualify to play Virginia Tech. If Florida State is the Hokies' opponent, don't count on it. FSU has not had a home sellout since 2008 - although it may sell out Saturday if enough Florida fans show up.
Of course the good news is that football expansion has helped ACC basketball attendance. Oh wait, that's not true either. In 2001, when the ACC basketball tournament was a nine-team event, it drew more than 40,000 fans per session to the Georgia Dome in Atlanta. Two years ago, in the same building, that number was down to an announced 25,000 for a 12-team event.
In 2012, when the ACC tournament returns to Atlanta, it will be played across the street in Phillips Arena, not because the ACC wants a better basketball atmosphere, but because there's at least a chance the tournament might fill an 18,729 seat arena. Last year, the Greensboro Coliseum had acres of empty seats throughout the weekend.
Almost every ACC football stadium has been expanded in recent years with disastrous results - none more so than in the case of Maryland. Former athletic director Debbie Yow did everything but flag people down on Route 1 in College Park trying to get them to sit in Byrd Stadium's empty luxury boxes.
The Terrapins will be trying for an eighth win Saturday and have a chance to make it to a reasonably good bowl game with a victory over North Carolina State. They can also knock the Wolfpack - and new Athletic Director Yow - out of the ACC title game with a victory. Good weather is expected.
And, as is almost always the case with an ACC football game, plenty of good seats are available.
For more from the author, visit his blog at www.feinsteinonthebrink.com


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Can you imagine life without Internet
By TechWarrior
@TechWarrior (207)
February 18, 2007 2:54am CST
can we function without internet, just imagine all that we do so easily through internet would have to be done else ways, No email, no inter banking, no mylot no orkut , no chatting , no blooging the list is endless.
7 responses
@Mitch_Miyaka (797)
• Philippines
19 Feb 07
without internet, all of us will be affected..bussiness, governments, peoples and etc..researching on books puts a lot of time..its a waste of time effort money and energy..mail delivery are take too long to reach the recipient..without internet there is no communication outside the country..
@im2good4u (567)
• Philippines
18 Feb 07
no internet!!?? thats rude man!! its like taking away your freedom to go to places.
@vbmade2000 (33)
• India
18 Feb 07
No i can't imagine life without internet. becuase i can't live without orkuting,mylotting. I have so many daily activities related to internet.I have also bank account on the net.So i can't live without internet
@guesswhomsa (1170)
• India
18 Feb 07
i m not that big computer nerd but still it will b difficult to staywithout the internet but not impossible
@gehaste (342)
• Romania
18 Feb 07
i think it would be better...many people are addicted to some of the internets services..that include me.I stay in the house and chat to friends instead of going out with them...well..maybe it's kind of cold outside but still..i ain't going out with them as much as i talk on the internet


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This week you may be under the impression that you only have two options open to you as a gamer. You could pick up a copy of the admittedly excellent Call Of Duty: Black Ops, or you could invest in a Kinect unit and leap about in front of the telly. There are, however, a couple of other games on release this week, and one of them is the new Sonic game, which breaks with a tradition that has lasted for more than a decade by (GASP!) actually being very good!
In the interests of full disclosure, I must confess, I haven't played Sonic Colours. In this instance I am relying slightly on the the game's current Metacritic score of 7.9 but mostly on the review proffered by Thongings over at the Daily Telegraph. The reason for this is that Thongings is a die-hard fan of the earliest and (it goes without saying) best games in the Sonic franchise. This means that if a Sonic title happens to be poor as… well… so many of them have been in recent years, Thongings writes a review which ends with Sonic and his friends being frog-marched into a large container, which is picked up by a helicopter with a large magnet attached to it and then dumped somewhere in the North Sea. The fact that Sonic Colours has earned an 8 in his review means that it's as close to awesome as Sega could make it, without just repackaging the first games of the franchise.
Which is why it's so perplexing that Sega would choose this week – of all the 52 it had out of the entire year – to release arguably the best Sonic game in the last ten years. Because as far as the world at large is aware, there are no items available at game retail outlets – or anywhere in the entire world, for that matter – other than Kinect and copies of Call Of Duty: Black Ops. The only people who are going to be interested in Sonic Colours are going to be Wii owners who own no other console and who don't like COD. And even then, it's touch and go that they'll even be aware that Sonic Colours is coming out this week. At this rate, the Prime Minister's visit to China is battling to compete against news that you'll soon be able to play Kinectimals. What chance does Sonic have?
Sonic is something of a rarity in gaming. He's an instantly recognisable gaming icon who appeals to both the casual and hard core gamers who has managed to survive over the last decade or so despite a lot of his games being badly received by the critics. It shows he's got staying power, but will he be able to navigate this week's mine-field? I certainly hope so. It'd be a pity if Sonic Colours doesn't do the business it should due to its rubbish release date – not least because Sega have made the effort to spell Colours correctly in the title of the UK release!
Sega cares. Sonic's good again. Go on, give the old hedgehog a secon… thir…. another chance!


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dir. That does not make him an administrator.
If you don't know how to use the most basic UNIX commands like
cat and
grep using Cygwin, you're a trained chimp. The search function in Notepad is not the way you sort through thread IDs in a 500MB log and no, your m4d Excel sk1llZ don't cut it either.
On the other hand, I find it hysterical that one of the most common tools used by people writing UNIX and Linux shell scripts is Windows Notepad. Not emacs, not vi, not even pico (my favourite because I'm just that ghey), but Notepad. Which pretty much always writes a Unicode byte order marker. Which fucks up UNIX and Linux shell scripts.
If your job is Administrator and you're in class to prepare for the Oracle DBA II "Certified Professional" test, you should not have a problem using Oracle 11g running on any platform, not even on
RedHat Oracle "Unbreakable <hah!> Linux". Your difficulties in using the better and more-refined-than-DOS bash shell should not prevent me and the others in the class from actually learning shit while you interrupt the teacher for the umpteenth fucking time asking how to change directories to list the files in /usr/bin/temp/ora-inst. You cockmonkey.
I have a little script of my own called "chimp" to run for these fucknuzzles which I usually remember to bring on a USB stick if I go to any tech classroom. It begins
alias c:
"C:""ls -lF"
alias dir
alias del="rm -iv"
alias move="mv -iv"
It ends with echo "Ook."
And then the rest of us get to actually learn something about making the Resource Manager do what we want it to with a few different job classes. Or at least make it do what Oracle wants us to make it do during the damned test.
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People have been asking for a fresh, easier to find post of the president performing the Beatles Taxman. Understandable. Plus, a bonus track.
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Virat Kohli's Team India is leading the ICC Test rankings after their series victory over Sri Lanka at home. They now will be playing the same opposition in a limited overs series comprising of 3 ODIs and 3 T20Is.
Thereafter they will be venturing on an African safari where they will be playing South Africa in a full-fledged series. Many believed this series against Sri Lanka to be a dress rehearsal for the much-awaited series. As the teams gear up for a three-ODI series starting Sunday, the home team's top world ranking status is on line in the seemingly redundant contest. Whether India would finish 2017 as the No 1 ODI side would depend on the scoreline of the three-game affair.
If India lose just one match against Sri Lanka, they would be dethroned as the top side in the ICC ODI rankings.
Currently, Virat Kohli's India and South Africa jointly hold the No 1 position with 120 rating points. Only a 3-0 sweep against Sri Lanka would ensure that India reaches 121 rating points and finish the year as No 1.
This leaves this ODI series as a must-win series for Virat Kohli and his boys. Even if India win 2-1, their rating point will go down to 119 and South Africa will end the year as the No 1 side. If any of the matches are abandoned and the series is tied at 1-1, India will still become No 2 in the ranking chart. In the case of India losing the series, they will not go below No 2 in the ranking charts.


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The 2016 Ménage à Trois White marries Chardonnay, Muscat and Chenin Blanc. Each variety is individually harvested, gently crushed and cold fermented to preserve freshness and character and retain the juicy fruit aromas. The Chardonnay is rich and firm. The Muscat is wild and exotic. The Chenin is soft and supportive. Together they make the perfect threesome.
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By Kaleigh Samala, Aesthetician – Gulf Breeze, Florida
Have you ever looked in the mirror and thought that your face just looked dull or caught that rearview mirror glance just to see hair on your face? Or, maybe you've gotten to that point where it feels like the products and makeup you use are just sitting on top of your skin. Well, that's because, the odds are that you have a barrier of dead skin on your face that is keeping those products from penetrating your skin and preventing your makeup from gliding on like it once did. Scientifically, our cell renewal factor (CRF) or cell turnover rate, slows down as we age, which leads to this unnecessary buildup of our dead skin. The result – that dull look none of us want. Well, here's a solution to help us all get rid of the dead skin cells through exfoliation, and it's called dermaplaning.
And while this revolutionary service has quickly become one of the hottest new skin care services being offered here in America, it's really not new. In fact, Japanese women have been utilizing facial "shaving" as an anti-aging treatment for decades.
Now I would like to take you on an exfoliation endeavor, teaching you all about dermaplaning, from what it is to why you'll want to keep it up in the future.
What Is Dermaplaning?
Dermaplaning is a physical skin rejuvenation treatment that removes dead skin and vellus facial hair (a.k.a. peach fuzz), producing more radiant, smooth skin. During this treatment your aesthetician uses a small, sterile blade while holding the skin taut, swiping the blade in gentle upward motions to "shave" off your skins' dead cells and that unwanted peach fuzz.
The Benefits Of Dermaplaning
Ask any skin care professional what the secret to flawless, youthful skin is, and they'll tell you it's exfoliation. Dermaplaning is one of the best methods of exfoliation that has zero downtime. Simply put, dermaplaning leaves your skin brighter, smoother, glowing, and more youthful.
FACT: Marilyn Monroe regularly shaved her face!
Five Benefits of Dermaplaning:
1. Improves skin texture
2. Eliminates vellus hair and dead skin cells
3. Increases product absorption
4. Makeup application is smooth and flawless
5. No down time
What About That Shaving Myth?
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Did you know there's a resident theatre group in Astoria, Queens? Ophelia Theatre Group (OTG) has been around for thirteen years, first in California and then in New York, producing sketch comedy, immersive theatre, Shakespeare and even full-length musicals. And as more and more actors move to Astoria, earning the area the nickname "Actoria," Ophelia… Read more »
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(From Blink Fitness) Blink Fitness, the premium-quality, value-based gym with locations in Queens, announced today the launch of a brand-wide casting call for the company's 2017 ad campaign. As part of Blink's continued efforts to challenge the fitness industry's norms and advocate for body positivity, the company is inviting its members to "audition" via social… Read more »
What Are You Afraid Of? A review
We went to the show "What Are You Afraid Of?" hosted by Mara Wilson at Q.E.D. tonight, and it was thoroughly entertaining. Mara opened the show with some of the things she's afraid of, then we heard from three comedians about their fears. In between sets Mara taught the audience the proper way to breathe… Read more »
Ticket Giveaway
Interested in going to the show Repeater with Will Stephen at Q.E.D. on Tuesday, August 9 at 7:30pm? First one to respond gets two tickets! Here is the info on our Happening page.
Great events at Astoria Park this summer
Lots of cool stuff happening on the Great Lawn by the waterfront in Astoria Park this summer. Movies on Mondays at 8:30pm through August 22, and music on Thursdays at 7:30pm through August 18. See the flyers below, and the Happening page for more info.
Ticket Giveaway
We are giving away two tickets to the show at Q.E.D. on Thursday, July 28, 7:30-9pm, called "What Are You Afraid Of?" hosted by Mara Wilson. Here is the info on the Happening page. Want to go? Reply in the comments, fill out the Contact form, or email email@example.com.
Outdoor Cinema at Socrates Starts Wednesday
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Best Places to Drink Outdoors This Summer
The Strand Smokehouse – For those days when you'd like to spend the afternoon, evening and night in one place eating and drinking, The Strand is your best bet. They have an excellent brunch and delicious BBQ, as well as reasonable prices on beer pitchers and cocktails. Claim a picnic table out front or in… Read more »
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Daily Fantasy Strategy — April 18 — For Draftstreet
So, remember that time I recommended stacking Giants versus Paul Maholm? Yeesh. Oh well, perhaps you're nice enough to let me slide on that one. Hell, I can't be the only one who thought he'd get hit pretty hard. I thought the match-up itself had tremendous blow-up potential, considering Ryan Vogelsong was on the other end of the bill. Unfortunately, it didn't quite work out that way. The Giants I happened to pick performed alright, but they weren't winning you any money. So hopefully, we have a little better luck today.
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A few days ago, Blake wrote a little about how teams are performing according to the handedness of the opposing pitcher. The Nationals offense has crushed lefties so far. So have the Phillies, Braves, Rockies, and Giants. Each of those teams has posted wOBAs' better than .350 versus left handed pitching, so far. That's neat, especially considering that not one team has posted a wOBA over .350 versus right handed pitching.
On the other side of the coin, the Diamondbacks' rotation has allowed a staggering .406 wOBA to lefties. Just a tad worse than their .322 mark versus right handed batters. So far if you've stacked lefties versus Arizona, Houston, Toronto, or Minnesota you've probably had some good fortune. And if you've stacked right handed batters versus Philadelphia, Baltimore, Colorado, or Minnesota (again) you've probably also had some good luck.
As always, continue to monitor team trends.
Probables Chart
The Rockies are back home. And they get to face the Phillies for the next few days. So, yay. The Colorado-Philadelphia has stacking potential on both sides. But you're going to have to pay a pretty penny in order to do it, especially on the Colorado's end.
The Daily Five
Rangers stack
Prince Fielder – $7,411
Alex Rios – $6,724
Mitch Moreland – $5,624
Felipe Paulino probably doesn't belong in a major league rotation. The Rangers offense hasn't quite hit its stride yet, but their weather forecast is among the best tomorrow, so we're betting on track record a little.
Marcell Ozuna – $5,938
I'll admit, this pick is somewhat of a hunch. Ozuna has seemingly made some strides this season. On the whole, he's a mistake hitter, and Chris Young has made a lot of those the last few seasons.
Aaron Harang – $13,459
Why not? Harang won't sustain this kind of success, but his numbers so far aren't completely flukey. He's given up walks rather judiciously while inducing an 11% swinging strike rate. The Mets still own the worst team wide strikeout rate, so Harang's floor should be relatively high even if he gives up a few runs.
We know you play in all sorts of leagues. So to help you fine-tune the analysis you'd like to read, we've added three tags to the categories on the right: Roto, Head to Head, and Daily Fantasy Update. Use these to get the information that is most relevant to your leagues!
This post, covering one of the leading sites for daily fantasy, is sponsored and made possible by the generous support of Draftstreet. FanGraphs maintains complete editorial control of the postings, and brings you these posts in a continued desire to provide the best analytical information on the latest in baseball.
Landon is a senior writer at The Fantasy Fix. You can follow and interact with him on Twitter (@joneslandon).


text: Event: "The Passion of John Brown/Eroica" Venue: EJ Thomas Hall, Akron When: Saturday, Oct. 17, 8 p.m. Why you might be interested: If you favor classical music with big emotions. The Akron Symphony Orchestra plans an evening with well-known pieces including Copland's "Fanfare for the Common Man," Barber's "Adagio for Strings" (you'll recognize it from "Platoon") and Beethoven's "Symphony No. 3, Eroica." The program also includes the world premiere of Jesse Ayers' "The Passion of John Brown." The concert date marks the 150th anniversary of John Brown's raid on the federal arsenal at Harper's Ferry. On the web: www.AkronSymphony.org


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Directed by Cole Bennett.
by liammccarthy
Ski Mask The Slump God and Cole Bennett nearly broke the internet with the video for Ski's breakout hit "Catch Me Outside," and have returned with another pair of visuals for "DoIHaveTheSause."
The track was featured as the sixth track on the Florida rapper's recently released project "The Book of Eli," and has proven to be a fan favorite. Watch the new, unforgettable visuals below.


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Picture it: Connecticut, 2000. I had just turned 16 and was eager to get behind the wheel of my first car. It would be shared with my brother, so my parents agreed to chip in if he and I collectively paid for at least half. A lot of you know that I got a '99 Mitsubishi Galant ES (that I still miraculously have, 18 years later). But you don't know the story of the six cars that nearly could have taken its place.
First, the '76 Fiat 124 Spider. Sky blue metallic over black leather. My uncle had just restored it, top to bottom, and offered it to me for free. My parents quickly put the kibosh on that, saying it would be too unsafe for two 16-year-old boys. So my uncle gave the car to my grandmother (who never drove it), and took it back a year later and sold it to an enthusiast.
Around this time, I had a strange affinity for the Infiniti I30. It was comfortable and nice, without being too nice. So I found a white '97 at a used car dealer, and went with my parents in tow. The leather! The chrome! It was lovely. But the dealer wouldn't budge on price, so my parents deemed it too expensive. But parked across from it was...
...a beautiful green '94 Mitsubishi 3000GT. And I wanted it the moment I saw it. (Of course I did; I was 16.) The dealer sweet-talked me, but Mom pulled me away, saying, "You'll get stopped by every police officer in the state!" She had noticed another car a few spots over, and my heart sank when she pushed me toward...
...a green '96 Toyota Tercel sedan. "I just LOVED my 1984 Tercel!" she exclaimed. "This is so practical...and it's a Toyota, so it will never break!" She pushed. I held my ground. Anything but a Toyota Tercel.
The next car my dad found. "Patrick, did you know there's a BMW in your price range?" And I immediately knew which one he meant — BMW's sales-flop of a hatchback, the 318Ti. Dad had found a green '96 model at a dealer, so we went to see it. I drove it, and while I was underwhelmed, I wanted it because I was 16 and it was a BMW. But Dad (who admittedly has limited car knowledge) only found out after our test-drive that it was RWD. To him, this meant it was impossible to drive in winter, and I was forbidden from considering it any further.
Then I discovered the Mitsubishi Diamante. What a beautiful car, and thanks to depreciation, what a great price! I found a silver '97 LS model nearby and showed my parents the listing. Dad was all ready to take me to see it. Mom put up a fight. "It's too big. It's too nice. It's more car than he needs." I lost that fight. We never went to see that Diamante.
That's when Dad sat me down and told me to find something simple, inoffensive, and practical. It was the only way I was going to get buy-in from both parents. So I took a close look at the Diamante's little brother, the Galant. It was actually rather pretty. I could see some E36 BMW in the lines, which tapered cleanly into a sleek nose. Dad found a silver '99 ES for sale on Long Island with 30K miles. We went. We drove. I liked it. My parents liked it. We bought it.
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How to find a Ukrainian wife
How to find a Ukrainian wife
Go to Ukraine and live in Kiev for a year.
If you are a westerner who speaks English in Ukraine, Ukrainian women will automatically consider you a high-value man. That's because many Ukrainian women want to date men from western countries where almost everything is better. Therefore, if you can afford to travel and live in Ukraine for a year, you will definitely meet many Ukrainian women who are interested in dating you all the time. Remember to rent a place in the city of Kiev because you need to take girls home fast after chatting them up in the street.
Meet Ukrainian people in your local community.
There are many Ukrainian people living in western countries now. Consequently, if you can meet some of them and join their cultural events, you will have access to Ukrainian women who could become your potential dates. So it's time to do some research online and see which groups you can join in your own city. Once you have some Ukrainian friends, they will also introduce you to more Ukrainian women.
Join a Ukrainian dating website.
Online dating is not a taboo topic anymore, as everyone is doing it now. So if you want to save your money, energy and time, joining a Ukrainian dating site is the easiest way to find Ukrainian women who are interested in dating western men. According to a major study, online dating is the fastest way to meet potential matches in this day and age. Hence, you shouldn't miss out on this.
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Consider mail order Ukrainian brides.
There are some Ukrainian dating agencies that offer mail order brides' catalogues. Therefore, if you are open-minded enough, you may consider trying mail order Ukrainian brides' services now. In fact, more and more western men are using these services every year, and they have told us that their Ukrainian wives are amazing.
Join some Facebook groups that are about Ukraine.
You'll be amazed by how many Facebook groups can help you meet more single women! If you search relevant key words on Facebook, you will find many groups that are talking about Ukrainian culture. So if you become a group member, you will be able to chat with many Ukrainian women! Nowadays, more and more singles meet each other on Facebook.
Join a pickup community where men are talking about how to get Ukrainian girls.
The good news is there are many pickup communities organized by some pickup artists on the Internet, so simply looking at their forums can give you inspiration regarding how to get Ukrainian women. Do some research on the Internet, and you'll be amazed by what you will have access to. The most important element is not reading more about this subject; the most important element is to take action and actually meet more women from Ukraine so that you can practice your social skills.


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Lions hear about Alzheimer's awareness
Clubs October 30, 2018 Press release
By Carelyn Sheppard
There are 10 warning signs used for early detection of Alzheimer's disease which the Chester Lions learned at their meeting in October.
Sharon Condrey, a representative of the Greater Richmond chapter of the Alzheimer's Association, spoke to the club about the topic and distributed information about programs for patients and caregivers.
Occasionally, typical age-related changes and degeneration are confused with the signs of Alzheimer's, which is one type of dementia and the sixth-leading cause of death.
Early detection of the disease will have a tremendous effect on the patient's quality of life. Those signs which are use as indicators prior to further testing and diagnosis include: memory loss, difficulty with planning, problem solving or completing familiar tasks, confusion about time, place, visual images and spatial relationships. Most people recognize the signs of difficulty with words and misplacing things, but poor judgment, depression, withdrawal from and avoidance of work, social engagements or activities, and changes in mood or personality may also be early indicators of dementia or Alzheimer's.
The most frequently misunderstood thing about the disease concerns the difference between signs or indications of normal age-related changes in behavior, as opposed to those caused by Alzheimer's or another type of dementia.
As people age, it is perfectly normal to occasionally forget things, whether that is a word, a name, a date, or where something was placed or misplaced. If or when any of it reaches the point of being unmanageable, as opposed to merely inconvenient or awkward, "dementia" may become the diagnosis.


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Roads? Where we're going we don't need…roads.
30 years later and those words still fill our little hearts with utter joy.
It's a big year for the Back To The Future franchise – it's 30 years since the first film's release, and October 21 2015 marks the exact date Marty was whisked off to the future to save his kids from a life in prison by Doc and his DeLorean.
The fandom is insane. The movie still has a strong cult following which is now being passed down the generations – Claudia Wells AKA the original Jennifer, Marty's girlfriend, has had five year olds recognise her in the street.
She's also had fans ask her to sign their flesh so they can get her autograph tattooed on.
The Back To The Future trilogy never gets old, and even though it's been a whole 30 years, there are still things we don't know about it. So chatting exclusively to Metro.co.uk, Claudia Well revealed the things you might not yet know.
1. Claudia almost didn't play Jennifer in the first place – but it was her density*
'A pilot called Off The Wrack I'd done for ABC got picked up to become a series and the time I was supposed to shoot Off The Wrack was the same time my role in BTTF was supposed to shoot. I couldn't do both and Off The Wrack wouldn't let me out of my contract. So BTTF was recast and they shot with Eric Stoltz for eight weeks.
'Then he was let go and Michael [J Fox] was brought in. The girl who they recast in my part was much taller than Michael so she was let go and I was brought back. It was my density!'
Claudia didn't play Jennifer for the final two movies as she had to drop out to take care of her sick mother.
2. She and Michael J. Fox had chemistry from the first day
'We got along instantly. He's a very positive upbeat, great guy and our chemistry was there immediately. We were just so excited to be filming an Amblin film and Spielberg movie.'
3. The snogs with Michael J. Fox were good, of course
'They were lovely and wonderful! I was glad there was more than one! I used to be called One-Take-Wells, but when it comes to a movie like this there were a few, because there are so many different technical aspects to it that have more to do with everything else than the actual acting.'
It's a hard life.
4. All she stole from the entire set of Hill Valley was the clock tower flyer
MORE: Here's another Back To The Future II prediction which has come true (well almost…)
'I wanted those flowery pants which I liked. No I just have the clock tower flyer and I signed the back of it like I did in the movie and fans can get a copy on my website ClaudiaWells.com.'
5. Christopher Lloyd wasn't really eccentric like the crazy Doc Brown
'He wasn't eccentric at all which was so surprising! He was completely different than his character. He's shy, only really speaks when he wants to and he was understated to be honest. I like listening to him because when he talks it's important.'
6. If Doc Brown's make-up came off it took three hours to re-do
'He took the longest because of all the age make-up – when we were doing our scene [the infamous 'can I have a ride mister?' scene], his prosthetics would peel off his forehead so it would be a three hour wait to get that fixed just to do that same scenes.
'We were at a Q&A just before a screening of BTTF in Los Angeles about 5 years ago and there was this little boy who said "I have a question for Doc Brown, I want to know what it feels like to look so old and not have to wear your age make up any more." Chris still remembers that and the whole audience boomed with laughter. He looks today how he did when we were filming 30 years ago. Every time I see him I think he looks great and youthful!'
7. Claudia had no idea she was acting with music legend Huey Lewis
Huey Lewis played the teacher who told Marty 'you're just too darn loud'. He and his band, Huey Lewis And The News also played the soundtrack Power Of Love. Their band was pretty famous at the time.
'He was very low key and quiet. I didn't realise who he was. Michael did but I didn't realise until the movie came out. I wasn't really into that kind of music as I grew up with opera. So now I realise how cool that was but at the time I had no clue.'
8. The cast are all still really good friends
'We've all become really really good friends through all the travel that we do together. We see each other more in other countries and cities than in Los Angeles.'
9. Claudia reckons there should be a remake, and it should star the original cast
'I would cast all of us as our selves. Us in the future! We all look younger than our age make up.'
The Back To The Future Anniversary Trilogy is on sale now.
MORE: WATCH: Keith Lemon drops the F-bomb live on This Morning while talking about Back To The Future
*Just to be clear, this is a joke (yes you, Nigel Miller in the comments).
From Back to the Future:
George McFly: Lorraine. My density has brought me to you.
Lorraine Baines: What?
George McFly: Oh. What I meant to say was…
MORE: Beer-k To The Future: There's now a pale ale to celebrate the Back To The Future II anniversary


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Our last client update was January and pardon me for leaving it up so long. I just wanted to remind you of what we were doing through last year's mini panic. We bought high cash flow bargains with our excess cash flow.
Range Bound Equity Markets Rebound!
In early 2018, Alex and I covered on the program that equity appeared to enter an extended trading range instead of the raging bull of 2016 and 2017. That range appears to be about 27,000 on the Dow to the 22,000 set at last Christmas.
What's the strategy?
Near the upper end of the range, we have harvest points established and, near the lower end, we have bargains picked out to redeploy cash in a potentially gain enhancing strategy.
Energy Infrastructure 2019, based upon EIA data, appears to be the year that the United States reaches overall energy independence including natural gas production. 7% is better than 2%. The dividends available in the pipelines and other Energy Infrastructure companies, in many cases provide near 7%. A very attractive proposition compared to the near 2% yield on 10 year U.S. Treasuries that leaves room for capital gains on top of the yield. Controlling value at risk of loss through a harvesting and redeployment strategy is our intention consistent with the past 18 months.
Safety and Income!
The 30 year U.S.Treasury yield has fallen from the highs last year to just over 2.5% at this writing. The world appears flat at 2% or less for higher quality global government bonds. The premise that risk free rate should be the rate of inflation or lower appears to be repeating the 2012 forecast for rates: "Lower for Longer." Remember 2013? The Taper Tantrum rate spike reversed the Bond markets and reintroduced Duration Risk as the 30 year U.S. Treasury spiked to 4%.
For the Safety and Income allocations we are gradually removing premium priced Duration Risk and building dry gun powder at 2% or better in Money Markets or short term reserves.
High Cash Flow!
Global High Yield Bonds – 7% is better than 2%. Many portfolios run by established global bond managers with diversification are still trading at a discount to the estimated par value of the underlying bonds. Further, yields near or above 7% from interest are worth more by the measure of aggregate future cash flows versus the government bond alternatives underscoring appreciation potential with this week's Federal Reserve discussion of potentially cutting cash rates.
With regard to the trade negotiations we offer a recent Wall Street Journal commentary:
"There's a simple solution to the Huawei issue: It is welcome to do business in the U.S. as long as it forms a joint venture with an American company that will hold a 51% interest in the entity as well as unrestricted access to its technology." – Michael Choquette, WSJ June 1st, 2019.
Dow Jones Industrial Average Index (2 Years)
– Courtesy of Bloomberg
Standard & Poor's 500 Index (Approx. 30 Years)
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Dow Jones Industrial Average Index (2 Years)
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EIA – U.S. primary energy supply and disposition (1950-2018) & U.S. primary energy production by source (1950-2018)
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– U.S. Energy Information Administration
Standard & Poor's 500 Index (Approx. 30 Years)
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Dow Jones Industrial Average Index (2 Years)
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Headline Round Up!
*Dow Rallies Big! Why was the latest tariff threat ignored (hint: 18 months of trade war headlines)?
*Trade Wars Lead to Lower for Longer Interest Rates? What happened under this scenario in 2012 and who benefited?
*Q2 2019 Growth? Slowdown Yet?
*G20 Summit: Will XI and TRUMP Make Nice?
*Putin Panda-Monium! Take that Orange Man!
*Cannabis Wants to be Health Care? CBD Gains Traction.
*Texas So Progressive: Beer and Wine Delivery to Your House Now Legal?
Texas Black Gold Rush!
*Oil Smack Down to $51!
*Experts Predict $100 if Iran Pops Off?
*Barron's Loves Energy Infrastructure!
*Oil and Gas Pipelines Buy Canadian Solar!
Profit Report!
Your Estate plan and what happens after you're gone?
Ronnie's retirement reserves plan!
2025 and 2030! Summer Planning Season Arrives
To bring substantial importance to examining this week's market activity, we begin by discussing setting 5 year and 10 year objectives.
Too often investors are sidetracked with current events instead of the foundations of clear objectives.
This week's Profit Report answers a key question, from one of our valued clients, where the key variable actually resides in Tax Planning.
After the pouring the concrete of clear objectives, the maze of decisions can more easily be answered:
What is most important over the next 5 years? 10 years?
Set the CPA appointment for the summer while your tax planner has time to brainstorm!
Set the appointment to review your Estate plan and update the Financial plan.
Once the key outcomes are clear, this week's batch of important headlines and money flows can be examined with purpose!