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Snapchat turned my brain into self-hating mush, so I quit
It's repetitive, shallow and tedious, and more addictive than cigarettes. I miss it
Snapchat: It was nice knowing you. YOLO!!
I felt a cold breeze on my behind and realised I had been sitting on the toilet for at least 20 minutes, tap-tap-tapping through my Snapchat feed like some kind of a social-media zombie, totally unaware of the passage of time.
I had copy to file and a wash to put on, but in those 20 minutes I wasn't in my little Ranelagh apartment; I was sitting in Snapchat star James Kavanagh's kitchen, cooking seabass with his partner, William; I was walking down the street with blogger Rosemary Mac Cabe; and I was laughing along with actor Kate Hudson as one of her babies played with her eyeliner as the actor got ready for a night out. It was like the opposite of flow; it was like chewing gum for the brain. It was at this moment that I knew I had to quit.
It is repetitive, shallow and tedious, but it's more addictive than cigarettes and biscuits
The thing about Snapchat is that it is mostly incredibly inane. People upload short video clips of their day-to-day lives, which you can watch for 24 hours before they disappear. The fleeting nature of each video means there's little to no pressure to create anything particularly meaningful.
Depending on how many clips are uploaded, and how many people you follow, you can up end watching numerous short films about nothing every day. It is repetitive, shallow and tedious, but it's more addictive than cigarettes and biscuits.
Sitting there that afternoon, getting my fix, I realised that I was no longer doing things such as reading books, cooking nice meals and ringing my friends, and that Snapchat was turning my brain into self-hating mush. It had to stop.
Too much reality
In the 2000s, we watched reality TV in which attention-seeking celebs acted out dramatised plot lines on our TV screens. It was trashy but it was entertaining. Now we watch people making tea on our phones. And these aren't glamorous people who live in faraway lands; these are people you could bump into at Tesco, and sometimes do.
There are no thought-out plot lines on your Snapchat feed, no screaming fights; because this is real life, Snapchat's dramatic fights usually involve snide, hidden comments from one blogger to another that you need a degree in the ins-and-outs of their lives to even notice. And I had started to notice. I knew too much.
I never felt good after spending time on Snapchat. It's an app that feeds the ever-growing obsession with "what the neighbours are up to". It is the apex tool for social comparison. Ten minutes on your feed and you know what designer handbag that blogger just bought, what hotel the girl you went to school with is staying at in Paris, and how many times a week that other journalist goes to the gym.
Other social-media platforms provide this crafted insight into other people's lives, too, but their formats feels less invasive somehow. Snapchat's use of video creates a first-hand experience. It can feel so real that, on watching a video, you get the sense that you are friends with William and James, like you really know them. And on some level, you really do.
People also use Snapchat differently to other social media. Snapchat users share more of their true selves, while simultaneously being more adept at selling this version of themselves. Small, curated clips of their daily lives provide a window into the life they have and the life they want you to see. It's exhausting.
Buy, buy, buy
As well as feeling like my life was incredibly dull after a Snapchat session, I was more and more frequently jumping from Snapchat to Safari to buy something. The growing number of influencer's #ad #spon posts (whether marked or not) were wearing me down.
Recently, the authenticity of these types of posts were called into question by Marissa Carter, owner of Cocoa Brown. She argued that "The value of a blogger endorsement is nothing – there are no bad reviews any more". But regardless of whether the Snapchatters I was watching were being honest, I was still finding myself lusting for product after product.
I didn't think I would miss Snapchat, but I have. There are people I watched every day, such as mermaidajade, who I don't see any more. It feels like losing a close friend (thankfully she has just started a podcast, so I at least get to hear her once a week).
I still have Instagram, Facebook and Twitter, and for now they satiate my social cravings. For some people even one of those platforms would be too much to handle. But for me, it was Snapchat that was the step too far. I read a book last week, I feel no immediate urge to go and buy something and I am happy to inform you that I now spend minimal time in the toilet.


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Most people are likely to have neck pain at least once in their lives. The neck or cervical spine supports the weight of your head and unlike the thoracic spine does not have ribs to provide support. The neck also has a greater range of motion and is therefore particularly prone to injury and wear and tear (osteoarthritis).
Neck Pain Treatment
Most neck pain lasts just a short time, and neck pain that continues longer than several weeks is considered chronic. Persistent neck pain can usually be helped by conservative chiropractic care, physical therapy, massage therapy and acupuncture.
Occasionally, a compressed nerve causes pain, numbness or weakness that extends into your arm, hand or fingers. This could result from a herniated disk or a subluxated vertebra that is causing inflammation around the spinal nerve root. Chiropractic care for neck pain is particularly effective for treating these conditions conservatively. In extreme cases where the pain in the extremity is worse than the pain in your neck a surgical consult is recommended.
Neck Pain Causes
Most neck pain comes from damage to your neck's muscles, joints and ligaments often in an accident, fall or during contact sports. Whiplash is probably one of the most well-known causes of these injuries, resulting from a back-and-forth snapping of your neck that stretches muscles, ligaments and intervertebral disks beyond their normal range. Less dramatic causes of neck pain are poor posture, slouching over a computer for hours, sleeping with too many pillows and grinding your teeth. Neck pain can also result from osteoarthritis, a wear and tear of the cartilage lining the spinal joint(s) and intervertebral disk(s) resulting in dehydration and narrowing of the disk called spondylosis.
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The Australian cardinal appointed by the Pope to control the Vatican's finances — the Roman Catholic Church's third highest post — will face trial on sexual abuse charges.
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'The faithful still present believe that there's still Good News to share, but it will have to be done differently. We will have to be persevering'
The Catholic bishops of Quebec have discussed the possibility of ordaining married men to priesthood.
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Next year's Amazon synod is coming into focus, after Pope Francis named an 18-person preparatory committee to help draw up the synod's agenda.
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So, I have been digitising my 8mm and VHS video recordings and came across this TV programme from 1992 - 26 years ago ! Hopefully next years Amazon Synod will include the issue of optional celibacy for priests. It takes a very long time for the Church to change but hopefully the Spirit is blowing with the pastoral ministry of Pope Francis.
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Bishop Kräutler said he hoped the Pan-Amazon Synod would lead to admitting married men to the priesthood and to ordaining women deacons
The Special Synod of Bishops for the Pan-Amazon region called by the Pope for October 2019 shows Francis' determination to strengthen episcopal collegiality, according to the former Bishop of Xingu, Erwin Kräutler.
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Jadakiss, Styles P, Sheek Louch & the rest of the D-Block squad have been on a constant grind lately. Styles P releases a new CD/DVD entitled, Phantom Gangster Chronicles Vol. 1, on Nov. 11th. Jadakiss is working hard on his new album, The Last Kiss, after having to change the name (Kiss My Ass) due to retailing issues. Last but not least Sheek Louch will be dropping a new mixtape at the end of November entitled, Extinction: Last of a Dying Breed. Also don't forget the new LOX album on the way, as well as a D-Block album. With all these projects on the horizon, there is bound to be some leaks, so with that said here is some new music from The D-Block boys. Shouts to Splash...
Sheek Louch - Can't Stop
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All home owners who are Concerned with Efficiency, Comfort and having a Healthy Home. A home energy audit can help you Identify sources of comfort issues, save you money on energy bills, and even point out potential hazards such as gas leaks or carbon monoxide.
What is it? What will I learn from it?
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Linn Katalyst coming to Akubarik and Akudorik
Linn Katalyst DAC architecture has been taking the Hi-fi world by storm since it was launched last year. Here's just a few comments from Hi-fi reviewers:
- "A technical miracle"
- "The level of clarity is sky-high"
- "Profound and powerful"
And for those who have Linn Akubarik or Akudorik systems, the Katalyst upgrade is on the way! Linn have confirmed that Katalyst DAC architecture will be rolled out to these systems this Autumn. Upgrade prices are yet to be confirmed, although Linn have issued a 'price match' guarantee that any Akubarik or Akudorik system purchased now will benefit from the Katalyst upgrade in Autumn at no financial disadvantage.
To whet your appetite, read Alan Sirom's HiFi Plus Klimax Katalyst review here.
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Geopolitics Behind the Mask
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Now then... where were we? I get a little bit excited... and therefore, absent minded, when the topic turns to 'war,' 'battle,' and military brinkmanship. Was my passion... right outta the crib, so to speak... military history and all the besotted glory and gore that went with it!
Ergo, the reference in the previous post, to waterloo... and the famous dispatch by which the wily ROTTENSCHILDS would conduct a financial coup which took down much of the remaining nobility of wealth in Merry Olde... and set the stage for a build up to socio-economic ascendancy on the part of those judaic gentlemen whose metier was debt/usury/interest, and whose motive was penury for those of us not of the blood.
Dear olde "Wellie:" a military genius if every there was one... but when he came home after, to serve as loyal councilor to the Crown, and prime minister of the country... he was out of his depth. But when the war bug bites me... as when the action in Syria heats up... I prefer not to dwell upon all those dreary political machinations, and instead, seek shelter of sorts in my past adventures... sordid and mischievous as they might be. Did I ever mention my previous life as "BLACK" BOB CRAUFORD? I fail to remember... but even if I did... welll,
there simply cannot be too much recounting of that story! Besides, it forms the perfect backdrop for my long anticipated campaign to attack - overrun - and then send packing...
talmudic bloggers of the disinfo kind;
moronic merikan ceptionalists of the traitorous kind;
kooks, spooks, and pawns, knights, or rooks o the $power
which is now... at last... in full motion! And it was Wellies Spanish campaign against Nappie which formed the template for my plan of attack. A three pronged strategy by which he first
drew the French marchals into Portugal... and inveigled them into throwing their troops against his impregnable LINES OF TORRE VEDRAS, drawing first blood against the previous invincible Franks, and teaching them to begin to fear the one who they derisively called "The Leopard."
So it was that... back in 2014 I started writing in response to what I had determined to be a major amount of misinformation guiding gullible western investors into buying a)the wrong form of gold; b)from the wrong sources; c)at the wrong time;d)for the wrong reasons. Thus began the attack on the front wheel of the moneypowers' TRICYCLE OF TREACHERY! And it resulted in the impregnably ACCURATE, FACTUAL, and -may I say - very FUNNY fortress of financial journalism I called
Through all the years of rabid, spittle dribbling hordes of mind-controlled 'golden zhombies' throwing their wasted minds and bodies against me... that towering fortress not only remained intact... but grew stronger as they indeed grew weaker. And not only did I draw first blood... in outings like [THE ECSTASY OF GOLD ] ... but, butt... that crew also learned... to FEAR ME.
Once the IRON DUKE had forced the French to give up on holding Portugal, retreating inland to their main bases in the Spanish heartland, he went slowly - ever so cautiously - over to the attack. Although his first battles on Spanish soil were costly in manpower and bore only mixed success, he established among his own troops an unshakeable sense of confidence, durability, and good humor through the worst conditions. Grumble about Nosey they might... be he was the only leader they needed or looked to. Call they "the scum of the earth," in turn, Nosey might...
but after each costly battle, for which he undertook the sole and prime responsibility... he grieved to his very core the loss of those brave warriors he had sent into impossible assault at Badajoz, or seen dead still in their squares in perfect formation at that charnel ground of a victory called Albuera. As their mutual confidence grew in each other, so it receded amongst those of their foe. The grand geopolitical chess board... which till 1812 had appeared to be the possession of Nappie and his Imperial Grand Armee... suddenly started to shift and tilt.
And so it was ... through 2016, as I gradually shifted out of financially centered reportage, into the field of geopolitical analysis - once again, forced into the action by the very weight of incredibly duplicitous, fact-light, mendaciously distorted "alt-media" disinfo-peddling...
I began to strike targets with greater and greater strength... and accuracy. On a two front war, I had the same gold zombies trying to crawl up my rear, while in front of my gaze the howling hordes of a new mutant gang - the DEATH TO AMERICA russo-talmudic crew gestured menacingly from within their castle walls! Gradually confirming to myself that they were all bark... no bite... soley reliant upon 'vote meters' and faux democracy circle jerk sites... I too began to gain confidence... and traction.
The second wheel of the TALMUDIC TRICYCLE OF TERROR had been monkeywrenched by an ink-stained wretch with a mad mission of 'TRUTH IN MEDIA' ... and the world would never be safe agin... for talmudic trolls and fibbin scribblers!
In the third, and last, phase of the peninnsular campaign, the Duke was in his full glory. It began with the stunning victory at Salamanca... where - escrying through his eyeglass his opposite numbers' gambit to cut off his flanking divisions, the Duke suddenly threw down his late breakfast of cold chicken and exclaimed...
"that will do!"
Followed by a methodical flinging of fine-pointed, detailed directions to each of his commanders, by which on that fateful day, not only did the Heavies ride to magnificent victory in the center, but the infantry ground their opponents to shreds on both sides- and the Franks scampered from the field in collapse!
North, and then east, the campaign from that point on was an inevitable scourging of the pretender and his army from Hispania... ending with victory in southern France itself, and Nappies' exile to Elba. A record almost unparalleled since Alexanders' day... and with a reprise on the fields of Waterloo.
"what to do \what to do!>!???
By this time...2016 to the present point... needless to say, the enemy were beginning to mutter in their beards! Still set upon ignoring their nemesis - in vain hope of his 'just going away'... the russo-talmudic scamsters of the 'BRIX N SILKY ROAD MEETS THE YELLOW BRICKED TUNGSTEN ROAD.. MEMETIC CARNIVAL had scrapped together a final fantasy of "EUrassion Integration" or some such tripe... which I scanned for weak points in... and gathered my plans for an assault thereupon. Having noticed that my best work just kept getting stolen by my worst enemies... and that my best friends n allies were getting decimated, turned, or just nullified, I became aware of the need to regroup... and thus started this platform!
In the course of a winters work... not only was a "Salamanca" style victory achieved - when a high flying Saker got shot down to earth... and a fake news storyline about Russkies in Syria turned into a journalistic tour de force by which I gave the russo-tards a coup d grace over their Wagner debacle...
but the actual predictions as to the TRUMP DECEPTION and the course of his REIGN OF ERROR would prove so deadly prescriptive of what has taken place... that the TARDNATIONAL has learned to not only FEAR BUT TO DREAD... the arrival of another salvo from the ARMY OF BOB.
And that's why we are here. To complete the drive by which the pretenders are set packing ... and my Spanish heart once agin glows in the warmth of a Francisco Gustavo Sánchez Gómez/
Paco de Lucias'
fingers gliding over the bars of
Entre dos Aguas
whilst a flamin dagger of a dame smashes a heel against floorboard in one glorious thrust of
and the world is set right agin... if only for a moment.
A las barricadas muchachos!
hEY! I never did get to tell the story of BLACK BOB CRAUFORD and his Light Division! ... Comin up next!~
The end of the SYRIAN ENDGAME -as told by BLACK BOB - THE ONE GUY WHO REFUSED TO LIE... OR LIE DOWN!
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The big topic on everyone's tongue this week is account and character theft. It is unfortunate that this happens, but SOE has posted some great advice on how you can protect yourself and your characters from being taken advantage of.
The Brasse Comics has touched upon this subject in an amusing way, so please take the time to stop on by The Brasse for a illustrated idea of what happens when you don't heed those warnings!
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Web 2.0 and the Enterprise - Keynote
Presenter: Tim O'Reilly
(BTW - Here is the Pageflake for the conference, so you can see a whole bunch of opinions and the very cool twitter feed, real time.)
Brent's intro - Learning in a 2.0 World
(Group participation, What I (they) learned in Breakfast Bytes) - user assistance, link audio and video to online help.
Google Case study - open access video on "Going Green". (Having a hard time finding this. Finding a speech by a Google guy instead).
(Note to self - make sure you check out the Serious Games Zone)
Tim O'Reilly
- Biases
- What is Web 2.0
- What does it tell us about the "new literacies" needed
- How to best teach them
What we really do "Change the world by spreading the knowledge of innovators."
- Finding technologies developed outside of mainstream, write the book.
- Book develop legitimacy. We can then move on. (Funny process, but true. Hard paper still seems more legitimate)
- Help people learn from the people on the edge
- Examples - Linux and Pearl (1991), First book on internet (1992 - only 200 sites on WWW)
(Mentioned the Open Source conference he organized in 1998. This may be the most important thing that live conferences do - help people meet each other who may not "know" each other. New level of intimacy after meeting someone in person and talking to them vs. remove).
Another "big parade" forming - brain-family(?) learning. Lots of things happening in neuroscience that can help learning.
Watch the Alpha Geeks.
- Those who are so comfortable with technology, they don't need "training." Just do.
- Watch, then extract.
- Examples
+ Wi-fi. WIreless community networks predict universal wi-fi. Seeking out wi-fi anywhere - pringles can antennas, hanging on rooftops
+ Screen scraping predicts web services and the internet as platform
+ "Pedal-powered internet" - setting up local internets with energy from bikes - predicts new focus on energy.
(Look ma - the technology adoption curve!!!!)
The future is here, it's just not evenly distributed yet.
Look ahead and understand where it is going.
- People we best learn from are those who do not need our services.
- Our job - capture what they know and transfer to others. (Being the interpreters between the IT / Tech folks and non-tech folks).
We look at people having fun with technology and figure out what it means
- Pattern recognition!!!!
Example - Google, Yahoo, Amazon, Wikipedia.....What is in common
- Internet
- Built on top of open source, not open source itself
- Services, not packaged apps
- Data aggregators, not just software
- Network effects from user contributions key to their market dominance (esp. eBay)
The Open Source Paradigm Shift
- The platform is becoming the services over the internet. NOT the computer in front of you (look, Blogger!!!! Not my computer notes, Word, or even pencil and paper. This is not hosted on my computer!)
- Most of the apps that matter to you today use Linux
The Network is the Platform
Those that failed - think the network is a broadcast medium.
Those that won - understood that the network is the platform. New types of applications possible. Ones that got better as more people use them.
User contribution system (YouTube, Digg, etc)
- Corporate example - Ideastorm (IBM) Customers making suggestions.
- Lots of us equate Web 2.0 with wiki, blogs, twitter, et.al.
Social media is great, but not the heart of the matter. Data is!
- Harnessing collective intelligence.
- Every successful Web 2.0 company is building a database whose value grows in proportion to the number of participants.
- Google's source of lock-in - Data. Has lots of it, and is harnessing it. Why they are successful.
Don't just teach people social media. Teach them about data.
Web 2.0 is about finding MEANING in user-generated data and turning that into real-time, user-driven services.
- Before, brute force data.
- Google, meaning in the structure of the links themselves. Central to success.
- See more deeply into the data.
- Yahoo, MS - top ad position to highest bidder. Google - can predict likelihood that someone click on add. They sell to person with most likelihood of click-through + price. Better results = more advertisers.
What you have to teach and incorporate into thinking.
- What turns web 2.0 is being better at data.
- Real-time, user-facing services created based on data.
Example - wesabe. Personal finance startup (like Quicken online).
- Certain types of analytics can be used against data collected.
- Will make recommendations - advertisers buy in.
Web 2.0 for the enterprise means letting users into your back-office.
What would Google do?
- If they were phone company, bank, FCC, ran your supply chain, factory, IT Dept
- Training Dept?
Testing on the toilet.
- Google - techniques and learning posted in the stalls. Testing on the toilet
New competencies - what you need to train.....
- Programming Collective Intelligence - machine learning
- Techniques for extracting meaning from large data-sets. Core competencies of data age.
- Get away from old model of data. (Hadoop) Shift in computer science area.
- Statistic
- Design - even something simple like default icons (Flickr v. 37 signals). 37 signals was smiling. More likely to keep the icon. Flickr - most changed (which was a desireable behavior for Flickr)
Designing a system that cause people to do the right thing is a powerful way to get people to participate.
Ex. Flickr - default Public rather than Private. Make it EASY to encourage people to do what you want them to do. Flickr wants you to SHARE your photo. Why went past Shutterfly.
2 books on Design
- A Pattern Language - Design things so it works
- AirGuitar - esp. Birth of the Big Beautiful Art Market essay
You sell products based on what they MEAN, not what they do. see Apple
Instrumenting the World - we are miving out of the world in which people typing on keyboards. Applications driven by new types of sensors. Your device is doing things for you.
Where coming from - Feral Robot Dogs.
Google - flu-tracker app based on where people are typing the keyword "flu" in their search engine.
How do you teach the right skills?
- Follow your own pioneers and alpha geeks. Look for the folks that don't need you. What are they doing?
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This spring, the Program in Occupational Therapy hosted representatives from the Accreditation Council for Occupational Therapy Education (ACOTE) of the American Occupational Therapy Association (AOTA). During their visit, ACOTE representatives met with numerous faculty, partners and students to assess the Program's master's and doctoral degrees. The team presented its positive findings to Program leadership, faculty, clinicians and staff as well as Dean Larry Shapiro and Provost Holden Thorp on May 6 (pictured right).
At its August 6-9, 2015 meeting, ACOTE reviewed the Report of On-Site Evaluation (ROSE) and voted to grant a Status of Accreditation to the Program for a period of 10 years. Below are the major strengths and suggestions for enhancement from the final report.
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Thank you for being a member of the Delft3D open source community! We would like to take this opportunity to report on what we have accomplished together in the past year and the exciting things we can look forward to in 2019.
Your support is the key to success and we always have our members' value in mind.
2018 was a very successful year. We have made significant improvement in our Delft3D product development and our online services. The following outlines a few of our major achievements:
As for 2019, we look forward to further enhancement of our strategic growth. Below are a few examples:
The above items are examples and we are committed to finding the best ways to do business with you. Your support is essential for value co-creation. We look forward to another excellent year of serving you and the global Delft3D open source community. We wish you all a happy and prosperous New Year!
Best regards,
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The Baltimore Ravens officially activated CB Jimmy Smith to the active roster after serving his four-game suspension and waived DB Darious Williams in a corresponding roster move.
Smith, 30, is a former first-round pick of the Ravens back in 2011. He's currently in the third year of his five-year, $54.89 million contract that includes $21 million guaranteed and is set to make a base salary of $9 million for the 2018 season.
Smith served a four-game suspension last year before being placed on injured reserve with an Achilles tear. He was suspended, once again, in August for violating the league's violating personal conduct policy.
In 2017, Smith appeared in 12 games and recorded 28 tackles, three interceptions with one being returned for a touchdown, a fumble recovery returned for a touchdown and nine pass defenses. Pro Football Focus had him rated as the No. 12 cornerback out of 114 qualifying players at the time he was placed on injured reserve.


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I'm Erin, a 22-year-old redhead with sea foam green eyes and a killer smile. I know you're sitting there all alone, wondering how you can make your stay in Vegas a more exciting one. I have the answer—ME! My porcelain complexion is accentuated by my long, fiery hair that is sure to grab your attention. My body flows and moves in ways you have never imagined. My hourglass figure will sway and swerve through your room until you overflow with desire. You will beg me for more as I slowly reveal my supple breasts from under my red satin bra. By the time I slip off my matching thong and toss it in your direction, you will be throbbing.
Your mind will swirl when I suck on a finger and twirl my tongue around it. You will envy my hands as they travel down my neck and around my breasts. I'll whisper the things I wish you were doing to me. I'll tell you my deepest, darkest fantasies as you wonder what it would feel like to trail your fingers over my chest. I want you to imagine my mouth in places that would drive you wild. One dance won't be enough. One night won't be enough. You will definitely want to call me again, I promise you.
There is so much to do in Sin City, and this hot woman would be happy to be your guide. We can sit at the bar while placing bets on some sporting events or the luck of the Irish can follow us to the roulette wheel for a few spins. There are plenty of clubs where we can bump and grind and concerts and shows to entertain us. Perhaps we can find an illusionist to add to our magical night. This gorgeous Celtic lady is stunningly glamorous when dressed in an evening gown and precious gems, the perfect ensemble for dinner and a night of fine arts. No matter what, we can find something amazing to entertain you.
Rest assured, I am not just a pretty face and a sexy body. Stimulating conversation on various topics such as politics, art and music is part of the package. We can talk about anything or not talk at all. When we are making your room our pleasure den, no words need escape our lips. Lust is our language when you're finally getting what you've been thirsting for. Don't feel as if we have to go out, as I'm more than happy for a playdate invitation to your room!
Now I ask you, why are you still sitting there reading this instead of inviting me to be with you? A gorgeous redhead is available for your pleasure almost immediately. Whether you want a slow striptease or an Irish jig, I am at your service! We can laugh and party all night or just relax as you learn my body. It is up to you. Why are you still wrestling with the decision? Go ahead, pick up the phone so you can kiss my Blarney Stone!


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17 Feb Rainbow over Loch Fyne
Source: Maclean Photographic
Landscape photography is mostly about planning to be in the right location and waiting for the right light. However sometimes you just 'luck in' and this happened to me yesterday on the shore of Loch Fyne in the Highlands of Scotland.
We were traveling back up the A82 to Inveraray when it started to rain. The village has a small harbour so we decided to stop and wait for the rain to clear through. As I was parking the car the light suddenly changed and a full rainbow appeared above the anchorage, highlighted by the dark rain clouds further up the loch.
I grabbed the X-Pro2 with the Samyang 8mm fisheye to get the full arch rainbow. I then had time to switch to the 50-140mm to get a closer shot of the rainbow hitting the sailing vessel moored up and then the 18mm f2 to get a different viewpoint before the rain stopped and the rainbow disappeared.
It was a beautiful sight and one that I was in the right place at the right time to capture – pure luck!!
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Cheshire residents (both Lancashire lads really) Paddy McGuinness and Andrew 'Freddie' Flintoff have put the pedal to the metal for the new series of top Gear, which revved into action tonight (Sunday 16th June).
Opening the show, Flintoff adressed the elephant in the room, as he quipped: "We know Top Gear's had more rebirths than Dr Who recently…"
Following Matt LeBlanc's departure last series, Top Gear bosses gave the comedian McGuiness and former England cricketer Flintoff the job of taking the wheel of the flagship motoring programme.
Joining the pair from Cheshire, Chris Harris remains in the driving seat, and the trio launched Top Gear's latest incarnation by winding the clock right back to the start; first cars.
The show's producers gave them £4,000 each to spend on the closest thing they could find to their own first cars – and then sent them to Ethiopia to test their trusty steeds.
McGuiness rolled in first, with a Ford Escort Mk2, simultaneously setting the groundwork for some of the show's trademark humour: "What came up when you searched 'old escort' on the web?"
Harris bought an original Mini, having spent £3,300. The only remaining presenter from the previous series described the vehicle as "the greatest British object ever made."
Meanwhile Flintoff unveiled the first car he bought, a Porsche Boxster – to outrage from his colleagues!
The first set of wheels he officially owned, at the age of 22, followed a handful of sponsored cars after 6 years as a professional cricketer.
Paddy and Freddie appear to be a hit with viewers.
Comments on Twitter included: "Loving the new Top Gear so far," and "Northern banter is best" in response to the programme's childish antics.
Some of the posts on the So Cheshire Facebook page included: "very much improved from the last lot… will watch it again," and "loved it."
Production on Series 27 of Top Gear began earlier this year.
The cars will remain the real stars of the show, but if the first episode is anything to go by there'll be a return to more humorous content and general messing about.
Rory Reid, who has been a co-presenter on Top Gear since Series 23, was noticeably absent from the new presenting team line-up, but will remain part of the Top Gear family – as will German racing star Sabine Schmitz.
Rory will continue to front Top Gear companion show 'Extra Gear'.
Commenting on his new job, Paddy McGuinness said: "Getting the Top Gear gig is a real honour and I'm thrilled the BBC have given me this opportunity."
Co-host Flintoff added: "It's not often you have the chance to do both of your dream jobs, but I'm now lucky enough to say I will have.
"I've always been passionate about cars and I'm so excited to be joining the Top Gear team."
Chris Harris said of his new colleagues: "They're both brilliant, natural entertainers – and their mischief mixed with the most exciting cars on the planet is sure to take the show to the next level."


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Next step in California drayage wars: bill would look to punish retailers using sanctioned trucking companies
The state of California has seen many lawsuits slapped on trucking companies alleging labor abuses against truck drivers who haul their goods, especially in the port drayage sector. Recently, a class action lawsuit was filed against XPO Logistics on the issue of misclassification of drayage drivers as independent contractors and not as regular employees. The stated goal of such classification is to help XPO, or any employer, deny truckers certain wage-and-hour protections that are guaranteed to employees.
The battle has intensified, as the state of California could get more involved under proposed legislation. The bill, SB1402, called the 'Dignity in the Driver's Seat' bill was introduced last week by Senators Ricardo Lara, Steven Bradford, and Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez Fletcher.
The basic goal of the bill would hold trucking companies and the big-box retailers who use them jointly liable for by outstanding violation by those drayage companies.
FreightWaves spoke with Julie Gutman Dickinson, a labor attorney from Bush Gottlieb, the law firm responsible for filing the class action lawsuit against XPO Logistics, on what the bill entails and how it could help in curbing driver exploitation.
"The bottom line to the bill is to eradicate systemic wage theft and labor law violations in California's port trucking industry that has led to 15 disruptive strikes at America's largest port complex, located in Southern California," Dickinson said. "Courts and government agencies are uniformly finding these workers to be misclassified as independent contractors when in fact they are employees. Yet misclassification remains pervasive. It is not uncommon for a misclassified truck driver who works 40 to 60 hours a week to come back with a paycheck that is pennies. Or even as unimaginable as it sounds, port truck drivers frequently end up owing money to the trucking companies due to unlawful deductions from their paychecks." Trucking companies, particularly in response to a USA Today story on the issue, have regularly denied that drivers end up owing money at the end of a pay period.
Under the bill, drayage motor carriers who provide services to big-box retailers like Target or Amazon would need to furnish written notices to these retailers on unsatisfied judgments that they have against them, including unpaid wages, damages, expenses, penalties, and applicable interests. Apart from the obligation to provide the notice, the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement would also be publishing the list of violators.
If a retailer continues to do business with a trucking company that has been deemed a bad actor with an unsatisfied court judgment, the retailer would also be jointly liable for the violation under the newly proposed bill. "The goal is to deter these trucking companies from misclassifying their workers and to stop them from violating the law with impunity," Dickinson said. "Until the major retailers like Amazon, Sony, and Home Depot are held jointly liable for the unconscionable and systemic lawbreaking of their port trucking companies, we will not be able to solve the problem of having thousands of immigrant port truck drivers treated as indentured servants by their employers."
In a USA Today story about the bill, Weston LaBar, CEO of the Harbor Trucking Association, was quoted as saying in an email, "This is another example of a California politician who doesn't understand the drayage (port trucking) industry." This assault on the trucker's right to choose their business model needs to stop."
Port drayage motor carriers who provide services to big-box retailers like Target or Amazon, would need to furnish written notices to these retailers on unsatisfied judgments that they have against them, including unpaid wages, damages, expenses, penalties, and applicable interests. Apart from the obligation to provide the notice, the Division of Labor Standards enforcement would also be publishing the list of violators.
"The list will have the names, addresses and all the essential information of every port trucking company with any unsatisfied final court judgement, assessment from the EDD, or any Order, Decision, or Award from the Labor Commissioner that finds a port drayage company to have engaged in illegal conduct, including failure to pay wages, imposing unlawful business expenses on employees, failing to remit payroll taxes, failing to provide workers compensation and misclassifying drivers as independent contractors when they are employees," Dickinson said.
However, Dickinson noted that if an administrative decision is appealed to the California Superior Court, the company in question will not be added to the list until the judgment is rendered by the Superior Court.
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Blur Announce New Album and Hyde Park Gig
Legendary London Britpop band, Blur, have confirmed that their eighth studio album, and first as a four-piece in 16 years, The Magic Whip will be released on Monday 27th April. The long awaited studio album will be Blur's first since 2003's Think Tank.
The Magic Whip Track List:
1. Lonesome Street
2. New World Towers
3. Go Out
4. Ice Cream Man
5. Thought I Was A Spaceman
6. I Broadcast
7. My Terracotta Heart
8. There Are Too Many Of Us
9. Ghost Ship
10. Pyongyang
11. One Ong
12. Mirrorball
Blur have also announced a one-off show at London's Hyde Park on Saturday 20th June as part of the Barclaycard Presents British Summer Time Hyde Park series.
The concert will be the band's fourth time headlining Hyde Park, more than any other artist, and will join the likes of Kylie (21st June), The Who (26th) and Taylor Swift (27th) on the Barclaycard Presents BST lineup.
Tickets on sale 27th February – £75
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Hammond: GDP report proof of UK economy strength
United Kingdom Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond praised the gross domestic product (GDP) figures released earlier today, claiming the report showed the British economy's underlying strength.
"Today's positive growth of 0.6% is proof of the underlying strength in our economy. We are building an economy that works for everyone with 3.3 million more people in work, lower unemployment in every part of the country, and wages rising at their fastest pace in almost a decade," Hammond said during a visit to Fuller's Brewery in London on Friday. He added the UK government plans to focus on ensuring such progress continues and people's wages "continue to rise."
In October, Hammond announced an autumn budget plan in which he stated the period of austerity in the UK is "finally coming to an end" and added he allocated £2.2 billion already for Brexit preparations.


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In today's world where noise and chaos infiltrate our daily senses, a few staff from DPA decided to enjoy the sound of silence at Hush@Community – A social movement to bring the worlds of the hearing and the deaf together in a Silent TeaBar. Doubling up as a meditative space over a silent tea ritual conducted by the lovingly-trained TeaRistas, the movement also aimed to help busy people slow down and embrace silence over a cuppa.
In the 3rd installation of Hush@Community held on the 3rd of June 2017, "Gratitude" was the theme. Participants were led into a room where the ambiance was calm and silent. Each group was introduced to their respective TeaRistas from the Deaf community, who engaged us in a session of signing. We learnt to sign frequently-used greetings to one another, and shared a few good laughs around the table when we were challenged by the complexities of signing. We also learnt that body language and facial expressions are especially important in communicating emotions in the absence of verbal cues.
The TeaRitual began with participants being invited to take in the scents of various types of tea leaves. Before returning to our seats, we each picked out a card that had words written by past participants on it. Through an animated presentation, the TeaRistas gave instructions on what to do once the ritual starts.
Tea was served, and our time of silent reflection on various aspects of our lives began – Recall a person you are grateful for. How has this person affected you? What do you like to say to this person? Recall a challenge. What happened? What are two reasons to be grateful for, now? Think of two reasons to be grateful of yourself. What are they? The zen and the calm along with the tough questions made for a more simulated mind, but can you hush your mind in the silence?
After a quiet moment of reflection and deep breaths, we were free to express ourselves on a blank piece of paper using the materials provided on the table – Flowers, leaves, sticks and tea ink. Similar to the card that we picked out at the beginning of the session, we also wrote a nugget of our experience on a card for the next person attending the session.
Some experienced their senses being heightened when their hearing was limited, others experienced a blur of events and got lost in what is going on. Some say peace is the friend we find in silence, others say they have never heard silence quite this loudly. Some found it calming, others found it discomforting.
But in this silence, we understood the notion of how the Deaf experience their world.
While many of us appreciated the silence and calm offered in the space with the tea ritual, it also raised the question – If silence was forever, would you be able to handle it?


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The girl with the blue hair
Rode to the picnic on a mare
She brought a nice country ham
People can stare, she doesn't care.
The mare went by the name of Sam
She was as gentle as a lamb
She was fluent in speaking French
Sam's favorite mots were je t'aime.
Sam stopped at a park bench.
The girl jumped down in a cinch.
Her lunch was ready to eat.
She and Sam discussed the movies of Dame Judy Dench.
At the end of the day, they walked home on their feet.
The evening sunset smelled cool and sweet.
Sam and her girl were best of friends.
Leaving their footprints in the peat.
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Look at me! I'm Rubaiyat-ing! This is so cool. I don't think this poem is done, but, all I wanted at first was to try the form and not be depressing. I think that there could be some fun with Sam and her girl with blue hair, but I will need to give it more thought...


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The U2751A USB Switch Matrix module gives you the most flexible connection path between your device under test and your test equipment, allowing different instruments to be connected to multiple points on your DUT at the same time.
This instrument is able to support measurements at a high bandwidth of up to 45MHz. It uses the common non-proprietary standard high-speed USB 2.0 interface that simplifies connectivity ─ allowing users to set up and configure their tests swiftly with the plug and play feature. The module also includes a relay switch counter to help predict when relays need to be replaced.
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Vanadinite on Hematite specimen GT46
"Hematite is a wonderful grounding stone and assists one in balance and stability. It enhances focus, concentration, courage, confidence, trust and optimism. It assists in the focusing of energy and emotions for balance between the body, mind and spirit. It also assists in the dissolution of negativity, transforming the negativity, in the dissolved state, to the purity of the universal light of love. It may also assist in the focusing of energy and emotions for balance between the body, mind and spirit. It can be used to stimulate the desire for, and to facilitate the attainment of, peace, self-control, and inner happiness. It has been said to attract "kind" love. It helps one to attain a soft meditative state, providing for smooth grounding and bringing tranquility and emotional clarity.Vanadinite is an excellent crystal for writers who want to get a lot done. It will stimulate you mentally and will help you to improve your energy levels to achieve your goals. This is a marvelous stone to help you to get things done, and is especially helpful when you have a big work load ahead.
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The "5th Annual Women in Horror and Film Conversation Celebration" Lineup on HORROR HAPPENS RADIO Starts Tuesday January 30th Blairstown, NJ – Marking their 5th year of "Rondo Hatton" Award nominated horror talk radio, THE HORROR HAPPENS RADIO SHOW returns for a five-week set of programming celebrating and focusing on guest conversations with more than twenty first time women of …Read More »
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HORROR HAPPENS RADIO Jay Kay Joins Judging Panel for UK the Dead of Night Film Fest
Jay Kay of "The Horror Happens Radio Show" joins a judging panel for the inaugural genre film festival "The Dead of Night Film Festival". Take a read below, filmmakers submit and find out who will be joining Jay Kay on the film judging panel. "The Dead of Night Film Festival" comes to you on the 20th & 21st October 2017 …Read More »
Interview: Slipknot's Corey Taylor and Shawn Crahan
I have been debating if I should put up a edited version of the 2 hour DARKEST HOUR podcast show that Corey and Shawn of SLIPKNOT came on but the more I listened to it, the more I knew that pretty much everything they said was gold. Here you will find the complete, unedited, bloopers included, and very informative show. …Read More »


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The Promises of Home
Robert Manuel Trindade
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Those who are in the family of Christ are given the promises of God. There are many things guaranteed by God, but His greatest gifts of love are given to those whose faith is in Him. Even for the children of God, Scripture has promised both good and bad things, but His promises of love are seen in history with fulfillment of past promises and some we're still waiting for. The written word of God is for building our faith in what He's promised, and it tells of the future we look forward to.


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Mobile Users Embrace Early Holiday Shopping
Every year, consumers hope to do early holiday shopping to avoid the big crowds during the "official" shopping season. However, few buyers make any real headway in this endeavor and often find themselves stuck year after year fighting the crowds on Christmas Eve.
For the mobile generation, though, this is becoming less of a problem. The technology at their fingertips is also rewriting the rules for when, where and how those all-important purchases are made.
Beating the Digital Crowd
According to recent research by digital ad firm Criteo, e-commerce is pushing the start of holiday shopping earlier than usual. While the traditional in-store season extends from Black Friday to early January, the company suggests the online rush now begins as early as mid-October, with more than 40 percent of buyers having begun their research by November 1, and upwards of 20 percent having already made a purchase by then. The trend is driven by the millennial generation, with 38 percent buying at least one gift before Black Friday.
This makes it crucial for retailers to implement a digital sales strategy that is both easy to use and highly resilient to traffic surges. Naturally, this involves upgrades to both infrastructure and the higher-level software-defined architectures that are assuming greater responsibility for robust performance and fast-moving, analytics-driven workflows.
A key requirement in any digital ecosystem is security; this is doubly important for the e-commerce industry, considering the loss of revenue that occurs when websites are down for an extended period of time. The key threat is a familiar one, says RealITQuik's Pratibha Nanduri: the Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) attack. Hardening infrastructure against this arch-nemesis will require a combination of continuous testing and patching, as well as monitoring network traffic and assessing internal IT risks — particularly in the Command and Control (C&C) infrastructure.
At the same time, no environment can be 100-percent safe every moment of every day. Organizations need to approach security expecting an inevitable breach, and therefore focus their efforts on rapid service restoration to minimize the damage and control the threat once it happens.
Even when e-commerce is properly hardened, there is always the risk that the infrastructure simply cannot handle the load. As Mashable notes, online shopping is driven by the desire to skip the long lines and crowded aisles of brick-and-mortar stores, so consumers have little patience for bottlenecks and other problems that prevent them from making their purchase quickly and easily. Even a half-second delay in page response times can diminish sales as much as 10 percent, according to recent research from performance monitoring firm Dynatrace. The conundrum is that even as infrastructure becomes faster and more nimble, the pressure is on to make pages more feature-packed and reliant on third-party data, which usually results in slower performance.
It's no coincidence, then, that the top online retailers also have the lightest pages.
Automated Early Holiday Shopping
The emerging secret weapon for e-commerce is artificial intelligence, according to CNBC correspondent Bob Woods. Back-office support is the glue that keeps buyers happy, and as tools like customer relations management (CRM) and inventory control become more intelligent, they will be able to fulfill orders more efficiently and maintain profitability even with razor-thin margins. At the same time, the combination of big data and intelligent analytics provides opportunities for highly targeted, even one-to-one marketing programs and multichannel customer engagement across web, app, in-store kiosk and similar technologies.
Early holiday shopping is likely to become a common facet of the digital economy. With consumers empowered with the ability to sift through a wealth of data and make informed purchasing decisions more easily, there's greater incentive to shop early and often to make sure the gifts they give impart the fullest expression of their love for friends and family.
Every year, the pressure to enhance the holiday shopping experience gets a more intense, but so do the rewards for retailers that get it right.
Topics: E-commerce, early holiday shopping, Mobile Payments, online retail site, online shopping


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Laura Jung did her Major in Communications from New York University and received Masters degree in Clinical Psychology from Pepperdine University with a special emphasis in Marriage and Family Therapy. Thereafter, she has worked as a Clinical Supervisor at Wayfinder Family Services and at Children's Hospital Los Angeles.


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From the start, it was no ordinary job interview.
"The first thing," Peyton Fletcher recalled, "they give you six pieces of LEGO brick and tell you to build a duck."
She stared at the bright yellow plastic bricks, momentarily stumped.
"It was nerve-wracking, [but] the whole point is that everyone builds it differently. You build the duck however you build the duck," said Fletcher '14. "You can build it a bunch of different ways; it doesn't matter how, as long as you have fun."
And that's exactly what Fletcher, 26, marketing and sales executive for LEGOLAND® Discovery Center Boston, has been doing ever since.
From the moment she passes the giant giraffe in front of the building every morning, Fletcher enters another world: a dazzling, Day-Glo playground where just about everything – even the name plate on her desk – is made of LEGO bricks
"At any point in the day," she said, "I can take a break from my desk and walk through this amazing world of color and creativity, and it really helps put things in perspective."
In her role, Fletcher supervises all marketing and social media for LEGOLAND. Oh – and sometimes she even helps with building.
"I didn't play with LEGO as a kid, but my brother did," she said. "I actually do more building now than I did back then."
It is not at all where Fletcher expected to be when she graduated from the Frank G. Zarb School of Business with a BBA in marketing.
She chose Hofstra because she always imagined she'd settle in New York, not back home in New England (she's originally from Manchester, NH, about an hour north of Boston).
A rabid Boston sports fan (Bruins and Patriots), she envisioned a career working in sports marketing or public relations. Hofstra was also at the top of her list because its student-run radio station, WRHU-88.7 FM, is the only college station to serve as the flagship station for a professional sports franchise, the New York Islanders.
"I was all about hockey," she said, "and nowhere did you get to work with a professional hockey team the way you did at Hofstra," she said. "I always thought I was going to go into sports."
Instead, Fletcher spends her days developing new events and exhibits, like the time she asked a LEGOLAND master model builder to come up with a life-size replica of a baby gorilla to promote a new partnership with the Franklin Park Zoo.
"We have master model builders across the world, and they're amazing," she said. "I just tell them what I'm thinking, and they make it happen."
For Fletcher, the best part of the job is that no two days are the same. Well, that and when she got to plan a birthday party for New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady's son.
"There is no typical day at work," Fletcher said. "It's a fun, exciting environment that is constantly changing, and everyone here wears many different hats."
Toggling quickly between different tasks is a skill she sharpened at Hofstra, where she was active with the student-run radio station, WRHU-88.7 FM; belonged to Hofstra's chapters of the American Marketing Association and the Public Relations Student Society of America; worked as a tour guide for the Office of Admission and did marketing internships with the New York Islanders and the New York Lizards, the professional lacrosse team that plays at Shuart Stadium.
"I just wanted to take advantage of all the opportunities offered to me, so I explored different avenues, hoping to find my passion. I was involved with so many different things during my time at Hofstra, so I learned quickly how to best manage my time. That is definitely a skill I have kept with me."
That, and some advice Fletcher remembers from her Hofstra orientation.
"The first piece of advice someone gave me at Hofstra was to try everything at least once because at least you can say you did it," she said. "You may discover something completely new that you love."


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nevis replied to Ti Akers's topic in General IB DiscussionAnyone got Cambridge's Chemistry and Biology textbooks? Preferrably the 2016 syllabus but old one is okay too
URGENT! Help needed with WA-essay
nevis posted a topic in Languages A1/A LiteratureI'm really confused about the whole WA-essay.. actually, I'm not even sure whether it is WA essay or WL essay that I have to do All I know is that - this essay must be completed before summer (I'm currently in IB1) - it's 1200 words (is the word count same in Finnish?) - you have to analyse a book, using a certain focus My current topic is "Discrimination in Albert Camus' The Stranger", but I've written nothing. I originally had an awesome idea about talking about "White man's burden", but then suddenly 3 people in our class wanted to write about it... and now I have to inspect the thing from the psychological point of view If someone has examples of (Finnish) WA-essays, I'd be more than grateful! I seriously have no idea how in-depth the analysis has to be and can I use external sources etc.
Is it a good combination? Helpppp....
nevis replied to YOU_LA's topic in General DiscussionI have HL Chem and HL Bio, so I know them both Imo biology is so much easier than chemistry. In biology, you have a few complicated things to learn (protein synthesis, photosynthesis, cell respiration, genes etc in detail), but then there are many SUPER easy areas as well! I mean, evolution and ecology are pretty much common knowledge. In biology, you just have to learn a lot of terminology but you'll do fine if you study it all year long and not just cram for the test day before. Chemistry.. well, it's more abstract and thus harder for me to learn. In my last mocks, I made a really common mistake: I studied all the theory but didn't do almost any calculations. The calculations themselves aren't that hard but you have to get used to the methods if you want to apply the basic formulas to more complicated exercises. There are some easier chapters, yes, but I find most of them okay or hard-ish We are atm going through the HL sections of energetics and thermochemistry and it's SO HARD ugh
Should I drop my SL Math to Studies?
nevis replied to nevis's topic in Maths StudiesI've heard too much horror stories about students getting great predicted grades but scoring 2 or 3 grades lower in their finals don't want that happen to me. I've looked up the requirements for the majors I'd like to apply to and most unis say nothing about math requirements at all, just that the total point score must be 32 or so and "must show a good perfomance on two sciences"... idk what that means I also have a plan B, staying in Finland. You can get into universities by just scoring well on the entrance exams. I have to have a gap year anyways, so I have the time to study the material for the entrance exams. Do universities appreciate SL Math 3 or Studies 6 more?
Should I drop my SL Math to Studies?
nevis posted a topic in Maths StudiesHi! I've been wondering for some time now, for the past few months I suppose, if Studies would be more beneficial to me. I've had 2 math mocks now: I got 3 from the first one (Statistics) and now 2 from Calculus. When I attended junior high and pre-IB, I felt that I was at least mediocre. I got 7s and 8s from tests (on the IB scale, that'd transfer to 4s and 5s). Suddenly, on my first IB-year I've become real bad at math. I know how to solve the exercises during the class - even the exam style questions - but somehow I don't know how to solve the exercises we have in our mocks My current subjects are HL Bio HL Chem HL Psych SL Finnish SL English SL Math and I'm still unsure about my future options. I know for sure that I don't want to study chemistry, so would Studies be such a bad choice? I've been thinking about studying neuro science, psychology or pharmacy in uni. My psych teacher said that I would do just fine with Studies, but I've heard some contradictory info. At least most of the people here tell that you can't get to most of unis with studies and you should choose it as a last resort Any advice is much needed!


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The GaugeSwitcher utility, which allows the quickly switching among different gauge setups without quitting the simulator, has been updated to version 7a.
One of the major enhancements to the version is: the pressing of [Esc] key before profile switching in previous versions is no longer required.
As the video shown above, users just need to:
- Call up the GaugeSwitcher during a flight session
- Select the Gauge Profile to switch
- Press [Confirm], the selected gauges will be activated immediately.
Other new features and changes coming with the new version are:
NO more GaugeCreator.exe. Its profile creation function has been integrated into the new GaugeSwitcher.exe.
The new version when started will display the current active Gauges being used.
Unwanted profiles can be removed via the new Delete function. Users can make use of the ADD and DELETE features to manage their desired Profile setups.
Similar to the last version, existing GaugeSwitcher users who are interested in the new update could contact me for the download link by email or Comment section below.


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This is What Happens to Belly Fat and Blood Sugar When You Eat 2 Tbsp of Coconut Oil
Coconut oil is one of the foods that you could legitimately call it a "superfood." Coconut oil is also one of the most controversial foods on the market today.
Coconut oil can be useful in the kitchen for preparing dishes, but it can also be useful for body and beauty care. Thus, this article is about the advantages of coconut oil.
Benefits of super magic coconut oil
Coconut oil has many benefits to the health and human welfare. But it is a fact that it is subject to some controversy. These polemics suggests that coconut oil may represent potential health hazard.
The reasons for criticism of the coconut oil are diverse. For some, coconut oil can lead to heart disease because of saturated fat it contains. For others, it is a high-calorie food, and presents a threat and obstacle to weight loss.
But the true is opposite, coconut oil contains saturated fat, but healthy. It is safe for the heart, because triglycerides which constitute it are easily and quickly burned through metabolism. Instead harming the health, coconut oil is rather a true ally of human wellbeing.
Here are 3 reasons to convince you to adopt coconut oil in your diet
- Coconut oil helps weight loss
Even if 1 tablespoon of coconut oil contains 120 calories, these 120 calories do not act the same way in the body, for example, as 120 calories of canola oil.
The different types of foods we eat can have a significant effect on our hormones and our metabolic health. Coconut oil provides more heat (thermogenic) than other foods and other fats. This means that if you eat it, it tends to increase energy expenditure. In other words, by eating more coconut oil you burn more calories.
To lose weight, two things must happen:
First, you need to be in caloric deficit, which does not necessarily mean you have to eat fewer calories and exercise more. This means that you need to eat foods that boost your metabolism, so that you BOTH nourish your body and prepare the ground to release the trapped fat that will be burned by your muscles.
The second thing needed to lose weight without effort is hormonal balance. This involves maintaining healthy organs, especially your liver and your thyroid. Coconut oil not only helps your body burn MORE calories than it ingests (assuming you eat high quality food), but it protects your liver, so that your thyroid can operate at a high level.
So eat coconut oil to lose weight.
- Coconut oil is PRO health because it is ANTI-everything
You've probably read about the anti-inflammatory foods and how they help reduce the production of free radicals in the body, keeping your healthy cells by preventing or slowing down the oxidative stress and its effects.
Well, coconut oil is not only on the top of the list of anti-inflammatory foods, but has other healing superpowers:
- Anti-bacterial effect – it kills the bacteria that cause gum disease, infections of the throat, infections and ulcers of the urinary tract.
- Anti-cancer effect – it prevents the dangerous cancer cells from spreading while stimulating immunity.
- Antifungal effect – It destroys fungi and yeasts causing infections.
- Anti-inflammatory effect – It removes tissue inflammation and repairs it.
- Antimicrobial effect – It inactivates harmful germs and fights against infection.
- Antioxidant effect – It protects against free radical damage.
- Anti-virus effect – kills parasites, protozoa, viruses, rids the body of lice, worms and other parasites, kills colon protozoal infections, kills viruses that cause influenza, measles, hepatitis and other diseases.
Imagine how your health, immunity, and your ability to burn fat increases if you choose to eat only TWO tablespoons of this super food!
- Coconut oil stabilizes blood sugar and insulin levels
It may seem strange that coconut oil, a grease, can help control blood sugar and insulin levels, since coconut oil has no direct impact on blood sugar levels.
Doctors and nutritionists usually recommend diabetics to follow a diet low in fat, refined sugar and high in other complex carbohydrates. They must have overlooked the fact that coconut oil helps glucose enter your cells, and reduces insulin levels in the blood.
Or, they have overlooked the fact that it is important to eat balanced meals that include all types of food, and this is particularly important to choose high-quality fats like coconut oil.
But the magic of coconut oil lies in its indirect effects
The healthy fat in coconut oil plays a vital role in blood sugar regulation: it slows the digestive process to ensure a stable and balanced flow of energy from your food by reducing the overall glycemic index of your meal. When you add coconut oil to a meal containing carbohydrates, carbohydrates are broken down into glucose more slowly so that sugar levels in the blood remain stable even after the meal.
Coconut oil consists of medium chain fatty acids (MCT), unlike modern vegetable oils such as soybean oil, corn oil, rapeseed oil which are formed from long chain fatty acids, for most.
Here is the key concept: the oils that consist mainly of long-chain fatty acids can actually reduce the ability of cells to absorb blood sugar, which can cause or exacerbate insulin resistance and lead to diabetes.
Healthy cells use glucose, unhealthy cells do not.
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Both Dylan Matthews at Vox ("Why I'm boycotting TurboTax this year") and Josh Hoxie at Inequality.org ("The call for boycotting TurboTax") made a compelling case this week for boycotting the mega-corporations to whom so many of us turn to do their taxes. Both posts are definitely worth your time. This is from Matthews':
"It's tax season again, and that means you're probably thinking about using TurboTax. You wouldn't be alone; Intuit, the company that sells TurboTax, claims the app has 31 million users. Its competitors did pretty well for themselves too, with H&R Block preparing more than 20 million returns last cycle and millions more using TaxAct and TaxSlayer.
Let me be blunt: You should not pay for TurboTax. If you want to use a free version of TurboTax or H&R Block at Home or TaxAct, go nuts. But for the love of God, don't give Intuit money.
TurboTax is an evil, parasitic product that exists entirely because taxes are confusing and hard to file. Worse than that, Intuit is one of the loudest voices on Capitol Hill arguing against measures that make it easier to pay taxes. The Obama administration has argued for automatic tax filing, in which the IRS uses income information it already has to fill out your tax return for you. That would save millions of Americans considerable time and energy every year, but the idea has gone nowhere. The main reason? Lobbying from Intuit and H&R Block.
Don't give Intuit money. Don't give H&R Block money. To do so is to perpetuate the status quo in which you have to file your own taxes in the first place. The best way to escape this trap is for millions of taxpayers to start doing their own taxes in hopes of weakening Intuit and H&R Block and depriving them of money they could use to lobby against auto-filing. This requires privileging your own long-term interests ahead of your short-term ones; it's mildly annoying to do your taxes by hand for now, but in the long run, if the plan works, you won't have to do your own taxes at all."
And here's Hoxie:
"Just how much are we talking? To give you just a small taste of how bad it is, consider that Turbotax's parent company, Intuit, spent $13 million lobbying congress from 2011 to 2015 in an effort to oppose automatic tax filing. Of course, Turbotax is not alone. With them is H&R Block, another company I've used in the past. They spent over $7 million in just the past five years. And that's just lobbying, not including campaign contributions.
Now you might be thinking, like I did, wait there's a way to make tax time wicked easy? Yes, and it's been around for decades with support ranging from Obama to Reagan. It's called "The Simple Return" and simply requires the IRS to send you a pre-filled out return using the documents they already have. Depending on your deductions, you might have to do one more step or you might be done just by sending it back. Then you're done. Seriously, finding a stamp might be the hardest part."
Both might have also added the fact that Block is guilty of being a leader in the predatory tax refund loan scam.
The bottom line: Both men argue convincingly that there are better and cheaper ways to do your taxes that will be better for you and, in the long run, much better for the country.


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I took this picture out in the garden a couple of weeks ago. There are flowery things doing their flowery business all over the place, while trees are turning green and birds are chirping. I'm sure if I could work out what that thing is that makes those birdies want to get up at 5am and sing, I could stick it in a pill and own most of the money in the universe.
Spring arrived here for real around the end of last month. If I'd known that Denmark was a near-tropical country, I would have moved here ages ago.
This has opened my eyes to the fact that I may quite possibly be evil. When I speak to family and friends back in the ol' country, and they talk about it being cold and snowy still, I just can't help rubbing it in their faces. I'm sure they all hate me by now. If they don't, then I'm sure they want to.


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Alaska Airlines Begins New Portland-Kalispell Service
Alaska Airlines announced the launch of new daily seasonal service between Portland, Oregon, and Kalispell, Montana. The service is operated by Horizon Air using Bombardier Q400 aircraft, and will run through August 23.
Flights depart Portland at 3:55 p.m. and arrive in Kalispell at 6:20 p.m. Flights from Kalispell to Portland depart at 6:50 p.m. and arrive at 7:25 p.m.
The Q400 aircraft used to operate the service are outfitted with 78 seats in a one-class layout. Each seat has a pitch of 31" and a width of 17".
In addition to the Portland-Kalispell service, Alaska Airlines said it will begin new service from Seattle, Washington, to New Orleans, Louisiana, later this week, as well as service from Seattle to Tampa, Florida, later this month. The carrier also plans to inaugurate Seattle-Detroit, Michigan, service this September.
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Remember back in June, when every week there was some big movie premiere in sci-fi history that we went nuts over? That's what September is like for TV shows. You'll see some HUGE premieres in TV the next few days, but today specifically, let's dive in with arguably the largest science fiction television premiere ever.
It was on this day in 2004 that Lost premiered on ABC. Spoiler: the plane crashes.
Look, pilot episodes are not usually the best episodes of any television show. But Lost's pilot is spectacular, if not pretty misleading:
If you haven't gone back and watched some of the incredible "real-time" videos that fans have made, you should know they are absolutely worth it. The idea is that the show portrayed the plane crash in several different ways. And fans have now taken all those disparate episodes and put together what was happening everywhere as it went.
If you're a fan of the show and you haven't yet gone down this road, may we suggest them?
Also on this day in 1964, The Man from U.N.C.L.E. premiered on NBC. The show was broadcast in black and white to start, and then switched to color in 1965. Starring Robert Vaughn and David McCallum, the show lasted four seasons and was recently made into a movie starring either Matt Bomer or Henry Cavill, but like, who can tell? The theme song is, again, pretty catchy and super '60s.
It was also on this day in 1976 that Charlie's Angels premiered on ABC. Starring a ton of actresses including Kate Jackson, Farrah Fawcett-Majors, Jaclyn Smith, Cherly Ladd, Shelley Hack, and Tanya Roberts. We get that it's not really science fiction or fantasy – but honestly, it's adjacent. Nobody's hair stays in place when they run like that.
Tomorrow: Meet George Jetson.


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I am sorry for the complete removal of all my videos from youtube and for the complete deletion of the website.
My reasons are simple, I suffer from depression and SAD – Seasonal affective disorder. I have done for 20 years now, and while I do take anti-depressants (mirtazapine) it seems my dosage wasn't high enough (it was 30mg now it's maxxed out at 45mg. The dosage was increased and I'm balanced out again.
Suffering from depression can be bad and challenging enough, but couple that with SAD over the winter months and I get clinically and dangerously depressed.
All I can do is apologise for anyone who followed the blog and my videos, I was in really bad shape at the time. I had planned to publish a blog post entitled depression and suicide, but even I found it too bleak and even a little daunting, so I held off. Maybe I should have posted it…?
Anyway, I've restored the blog back to it's rightful place, I can not do the same for the videos', so I'll just have to make new ones eventually.
Sorry again,
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Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright
Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,
And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight
Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
And you, my father, there on the sad height,
Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray.
Do not go gentle into that good night.
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Nilambar Dhangdamajhi, a 22-year-old tribal farmer from Kalahandi district, whose right palm was chopped off by a labour contractor in December 2013, died last evening.
Dhangdamajhi, suffering from an unknown fever for last few days, passed away at his home in Nuaguda village of Kalahandi's Jaipatna block. His wife Manjula and two kids were by his side. "We did not have enough money to treat him at a hospital," his wife said.
It was sometime in December 2013, when labour contractor Parvesh Duni, and his aides, chopped the right palms of Dhangdamajhi and Dialu Niyal, a Dalit youth from Kalahandi, for not agreeing to his demand of travelling to Andhra Pradesh. Duni, who had paid 12 labourers including Dhangdamajhi Rs 14,000 each to work at a brick kiln in Andhra Pradesh, was furious after 10 of them gave him the slip.
Dhangdamajhi and Niyal, too, tried to escape, but were caught and spent a harrowing fortnight suffering physical and verbal abuses from the labour contractor and his accomplices. The labour contractor demanded Rs 1.4 lakh for the 10 people who were paid in advance but slipped away. On the night of December 15, in a forest of Bolangir district, a drunk Duni and his men asked the two: "Do you want your hand or leg chopped?" Nilambar told the contractor that if they have legs at least, they could walk for the rest of their lives. Within minutes, the labour contractor and his men had chopped the palms of the two migrant labourers. The two somehow managed to run before reaching Bhawanipatna town of Kalahandi, where the locals took them to the district headquarters hospital.
It was only after Supreme Court's intervention in January 2014 when the government took note of his plight and sanctioned Rs 6.75 lakh to him and Niyal. They got another Rs 1.25 lakh under SC/ST Atrocities Prevention Act. They were allotted a homestead land and a house under the state government's Mo Kudia Yojana. They got prosthetic limbs from Christian Medical College, Vellore, but it did not help them use their right hand effectively.
After his palm was chopped off, Dhangdamajhi was given a NREGS job card, and a house, but he said it's of no use. "I feel helpless that I can't work to run my home. My wife works as daily labourer, but work is not available after monsoon. How long would the money last," he told The Indian Express last year.
Source: http://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-news-india/odisha-kalahandi-migrant-labourer-whose-palm-was-chopped-off-3-years-ago-dies/


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Cayce, S.C. (June 19, 2018) – With temperatures forecast to hit the 100-degree mark this week in some parts of the state, SCE&G offers customers helpful energy efficiency tips and reminds them to use the My Energy Use tool, available through their online accounts.
"Now is a good time to focus on making your home more energy efficient," said Ginger Greenway, manager of energy information services for SCE&G. "Our free Home Energy Check-up is a great first step to prepare for the summer heat. SCE&G energy experts walk with you through your home, visually inspect items that impact your energy consumption and give you suggestions to help you save money. Customers should also log in to their My Energy Use tool to review their daily average energy cost, compare their usage from month to month and learn how weather affects their bills."
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What we have today are two commercials for SoftBank featuring Negishi Ai, Okunaka Makoto, and Anzai Naomi from PASSPO. You might know SoftBank from their other wacky, popular commercials featuring celebraties and nonsensical situations (this recent CM features Hashimoto Kanna and the dog dad). Hopefully, these commmercials are indicative of PASSPO's rising popularity … right? Whatever. More PASSPO in the public sphere is a good thing. The commercials, released about a week ago, proves uncanny in its timing as I just finished watching a documentary on NHK about Godzilla and other Tokusatsu titled "Godzilla's 60th Anniversary The Amazing World of Japanese Special Effects". Of course, anything that features Maccochan kicking creepy crab-faced bad guys is good news for me.
Here's one that's about T-Points, whatever those are
And here's another one about saving unused data like they were rollover minutes (remember those?).
They're pretty fun, right?