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Relation to Sociology Facts/ Statistics Introduction to
D.T. Cocaine Trafficking Drug Suddath, Claire. "The War on Drugs" Time 25 Mar. 2009: n.pag.Web. <http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1887,488,00.html>
"United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime" Drug Trafficking. N.p.,n.d. Web. 29 May 2013 <http://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/drug-trafficking/>
Astorga, Luis. "Drug Trafficking in Mexico: The First General Assesment" UNESCO. N.p. Web. 28 May 2013 <http://www.unesco.org/most/astorga.htm>
Global Drug Trafficking. Youtube. AFP, 15 Nov. 2012. Web. 26 May 2013. http://www.youtube.comwatch?v=nLNGOvPUzSY Works Cited Agencies that
fight against D.T. D.T. History What is Drug Trafficking? Trafficking Resources In the 19th century and beginning of the 20th, drugs such as marijuana, opiates, and cocaine were most commonly used for medical reasons.
The authorities were concerned about the quality of the products and tried to protect the consumers by banning them; they did not succeed.
Main trafficking at that time came from Mexico . Within the past 40 years, the government has speant over $2.5 trillion fighting the War on Drugs. The USINCS says that 90% of Cocaine for example gets to the U.S through the Southern
boarder. Drug Trafficking is global trade involving manufacture, distribution and sale of substances, which are illegal by law. 5,300 people were killed in drug-related crimes in 2008 and over 1,000 have this year. (article in Mar. 2009) Drug Traffickers are interactionists.
Members involved have made their own social system, and have set up their own laws.
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Ok, it's been communicated that using the entropy function would provide a better approximation to nCr. So here is such a formula:
Let H(eps) := -eps.log_2(eps)-(1-eps)log_2(1-eps) be a binary entropy function.
Then binom(n, eps.n) is approximately equal to 2^(n.H(eps)).
Where eps is short for epsilon.
Update: Note that this uses the more common Stirling formula which is slightly less accurate as it truncates terms in the series (instead of approximating them like the formula i posted before).
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Two news updates on Saturday made yesterday's column a lie or a jinx. The Eugene Register-Guard's Rob Moseley blogged running back Tra Carson is transferring (confirmed by a team source), and in another story Jack Moran of the Guard reported that wide receiver/slot back/running back Josh Huff was arrested for DUII and driving without a license.
Those new wide receivers had better be good, because walkon Ayele Ford is now the number three running back in spring practice behind fleet but smallish returning starters Kenjon Barner and De'Anthony Thomas. Running backs get nicked up. Barner has missed games in each of the last two seasons, and Thomas has electrifying talent but weighs just 173 pounds. The Ducks may be in five wides by October. New recruit Byron Marshall arrives in August, and he has the speed, strength and potential to be very good in the Oregon offense. He'll have loads of motivation to come into camp fit and acclimated, and he's a workout warrior with a mature body at 5-11, 205. His father is the trainer for Santa Clara University, and his brother Cameron starts at tailback for Arizona State. Marshall has the bloodlines, the athletic background and work habits to play early and excel. They'll need him.
Photo right: youth, wasted on the young, who think they'll be young forever: Josh Huff got into some trouble this weekend, and who hasn't? But the issue creates some problems and challenges for his coach and his team.
The news also accelerates the time table for Bralon Addison, a versatile athlete from Texas who played quarterback in high school. Addison, 5-10, 180, passed for 2158 yards with 22 tds, 1625 yds rushing with 20 tds as a senior. He's also a star point guard, fast, athletic and smart, with good moves and vision in the open field.
In size and running style Addison and Marshall are fit complements to Kenjon Barner. Marshall is even a little bigger and likely to get stronger over the summer given his regimen and the arc of nature. Enjoy it, kid. The metabolism slows down every seven years, and the six-pack abs will be a pony keg by the time you're 36, unless you are exceptional and disciplined.
Chip Kelly is an innovator and a forward-thinker. Trust and guarantee he's sorted through the depth chart by 10 a.m. yesterday on this, made a couple of calls on j.c. guys and called two or three sophomores into his office. Another intriguing possibility is Colt Lyerla. Too rangy and a step slow to be a feature back in college, and the Ducks need him at tight end, but he's said he misses carrying the ball a little, and in a goal line or short yardage situation motioning Lyerla into the backfield, at 6-5, 240 with a 40-inch vertical, suddenly becomes an act of serendipity. The Ducks recruited a quiver of talented tight ends this cycle in Pharoah Brown, Evan Baylis and Cody Carriger, after adding Christian French and Curtis White the two years before. White's a former four-star prospect from Sheldon High who's been dinged up frequently as a young Duck, but with a healthy camp, he'd give Kelly, Helfrich and position coach Tom Osborne some breathing room on Lyerla. Someone has to carry the football. Hard to remember a season Oregon hasn't needed at least three running backs. In the last year LaMichael James left early for the the NFL while Lache Seastrunk and Dontae Williams transferred: it's been a mass Texodus, another illustration of why recruiting stars are a flimsy indication of future success. They have to stay in school, and stay out of squad cars.
Huff continues to be one of the guys that makes you clench your teeth and open your mouth in amazement in successive weeks. He was fabulous on the field as a freshman, with an 85-yard touchdown run, an 80-yard kickoff return, and 54-yard receiving td, on the way to 1,086 all-purpose yards, second on the team in a BCS title game season. Banged up as a sophomore with a stress fracture on his leg, he still made some big plays and tough catches, but with a maddening tendency to drop an occasional ball that would have gone for a big play. He was an enigma off the field also, tweeting his frustration about not getting the ball enough, his relationship with the coaches and criticism, openly mulling a transfer. Now this, an arrest for DUII from a junior leader who had a chance to be the feature receiver for team with 31 catches last year. He makes big plays when he's right, but this was a bonehead one.
In football and well as life, we've all known or been the guy who can't get out of his own way. We squander talent. We make dumb decisions or fail to take care of the basics. Insurance and a driver's license are part of the basics. I've been that guy. Josh Huff doesn't want to wake up at 27, his body no longer chiseled, his uniform eight designs old, wondering what became of the promise and cocksure certainty he had at 20. Don't do it Josh. Don't let bitterness or inattention rule your head. Let someone like James Harris or Gary Campbell counsel you, take your punishment like a man, and recommit to using your talent and harvest its brilliant potential. Don't do that to yourself or your family. The Oregon family wants to love you; all they ask is effort and a reasonable attention to the basics. We've all screwed up. It's what you do next that matters.
Mike Wines of Oregon Duck Soup has the Josh Huff highlight reel cued up. Forgive him his lowlights, and wish him the best as he gets back on track. A two-game suspension is likely, and with luck, he'll come out of it determined to be a better and more directed man. His teammates need him, because they could accomplish great things this year.


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Even though the Cumberland Mayor and City Council did not end up selling the property surrounding Lakes Koon and Gordon to a Pennsylvania Conservancy group; and a committee has been appointed to determine the best approach to take to managing the land- some citizens still have concerns. One resident urged the council not to allow clear cutting on the land surrounds the city's water supply. Councilman David Kauffman said there are no plans to move in that direction, noting that there is a clear difference between getting rid of deseased trees, compared to clear cutting.


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It seems now in mid 2016 that version 10 has surfaced.
Miracles will never cease!! After a long wait of 7 months the M8900 may once more be available. The early ones were great performers but were let down by software and board problems. Not a lot of space to dissipate the 40watts these things were putting out out of the box. Most twin finals we get are 22w PEP or so from the factory.
These new ones show a bigger heatsink and reportedly better TX and RX audio and improved AGC. All the things we want to hear after suffering through the last few batches of Anytone inspired radios. I must say the last 8900's had some of the best receive of any radio on 11m so wonder how they have improved that. Did read about the noise from a mobile installation but did not notice anything amiss with any I tried.
The photos below show they are being made but we have yet to see a finished article or any specifications or software. Hopefully the horribly complex and messy programming has been cleaned up and we will have one band with all the frequency steps from 24.5 thru 30mhz. But I doubt it. Too much to wish for!!
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"Keeping Up with the Kardashians" star Kylie Jenner has been rumored to be dating Will Smith's son, Jaden, and most recently, Justin Bieber's bestie, Lil Twist -- but the 15-year-old reality starlet insists they are all just friends.
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Above-average rainfall and cooler air have led to a boom in the firefly population in parts of the United States.
"States in the South seem to actually benefit from the cooler temperatures and more abundant rainfall," Ben Pfieffer, founder of the Firefly.org website, said. "We have strong reports from places like West Virginia, Georgia, Tennessee and other areas of abundant fireflies this year. One person emailed and told us she had so many fireflies on West Virginia roads they covered her windshield and car while she was driving."
From June 1 through Aug. 13, it has been cooler and rather wet in parts of the South, according to AccuWeather.com Senior Meteorologist Dan Pydynowski.
Atlanta has received 13.72 inches, or 127 percent of normal, and Raleigh, North Carolina, has received 174 percent of normal at 17.39 inches, Pydynowski said. The two cities, respectively, are 1.2 degrees and 0.8 degrees below normal.
Fireflies used to be harvested for luciferase, a chemical they use for light production and has many uses in the biological and medical field as a reporter chemical, Don Salvatore, coordinator of the Firefly Watch program at the Boston's Museum of Science, said. Firefly lanterns are also being studied for how to produce a more efficient lighting system in LED production.
Firefly Watch has been in existence since 2008, Salvatore said. More than 5,000 people in 40 U.S. states and six Canadian provinces participate in the project.
Fireflies are important biological indicators of environmental health, Salvatore said.
"We have found in our project that people care about fireflies enough to change some of their habits to help preserve them," he said. "These changes may include reduced or discontinuance of use of pesticides in their backyard, changes in mowing habits and turning off night lights that may affect firefly communication."
"They are a good indicator of environmental health because when their numbers decline, people notice," Salvatore said. "If all of the crane flies in an area disappear, no one other than a few entomologists would notice. However, if fireflies disappear, everyone notices and become concerned."
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While some areas of the U.S. are seeing a boom in fireflies, others have declining populations.
"In areas that are getting hotter and having more extended period of drought, fireflies are struggling," Pfieffer said.
Light pollution and drought also play roles in the number of fireflies, Pfieffer added.
"Some species of fireflies are extremely sensitive to light pollution. The main species, Photinus pyralis (or common eastern firefly), is a bit more hardy and tends to tolerate some light," Pfieffer said. "Light pollution can impact firefly mates seeing each other in the forest. If a female flashes and the flash is obscured by light pollution or whatever, there is less chance a male might see it.
Fireflies continue to capture people's imagination, Salvatore and Pfieffer said.
"Children love them because at night, when it is dark and scary out, firefly light seems to speak directly to a child and reassure him or her because of the gentle nature of a firefly," Salvatore said. "Adults also enjoy fireflies, although many feel that watching fireflies is a child's activity. So many adults want to share their love of fireflies with children."


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Everybody loves meaty, juicy, and spicy descriptions, aside from a few exceptions. It goes without saying that descriptions can be among the most useful tools inside of your writing bag of tricks, but there's one caveat to it. Like so many other aspects of the writing process, they are SO easy to goof up.
Time and time again, when we look at poorly written fiction the first thing we tend to notice is the quality of the prose. Either it describes far too much, it describes far too little, the words used are too complex for the audience, the words used are so simple that even a 1st grader would feel like he was being patronized, and a grand list of other complaints. In my opinion, description plays a role similar to the graphics of a video game. It doesn't determine the overall quality of the product, (but you can bet that it provides a pretty good guess as to what that might be) yet it sets down the early impressions of your experience.
So bearing this in mind, description is a key component for writing a novel, be it sparse or dense. But I find that we as writers tend to boil description down in too simple of a fashion. The closest thing we tend to have as categories for description are the five senses—which are important—but I feel that they don't cover enough ground. This is why I've sat down to brainstorm an effective way to categorize description for an immense amount of time.
And by immense amount of time, I mean that the idea came to me randomly.
For your reading pleasure, we at the QuestingAuthor Headquarters had come up with a surefire way to classify your descriptions. Our top reasearchers have discovered two families of description, these being Static and Dynamic.
Now that being said, allow me to clarify that neither of these are better than the other. Each has its own purpose within whatever piece of description you plan to write for the story. All we're going to do today is define these categories, find out how they can ruin a scene if they are not in balance, and hopefully, you'll be able to see why the novelist must learn to blend these two together.
Static Description:
In order to properly describe a setting, you need certain objects that remain immobile during the scene that you're trying to write. Without these objects, your story is going to feel as though your characters were floating around in some intra-dimensional void rather than anything that even resembled reality. And static description is whenever we describe these kinds of objects.
If you'd like me to provide you with a more formal definition, then I hope you'll be pleased with the following: Static Description = Any description dealing with immobile and unchanging objects, persons, or senses.
Now, it's very easy to dismiss this kind of description because of the negative connotation that the title gives it. After all, when we say something is static, we equate that to something being boring. Static implies that there is no change or movement in something, which the proper way of viewing it. And this is not a bad thing.
Without static description, you don't have a setting at all. Just a bunch of floating props. Examples for this kind of description tend to be but are not limited to, the walls of a room, the ground beneath a character's feet, trees while inside a forest, a barrel that is standing somewhere, parked cars, statues, a lingering odor, and MANY other things. You need these details if you want an area to limit your description to. These often serve as the boundaries for the kind of prose you might plan on writing.
Remember, the only trait that makes objects eligible for this kind of description are whether or not they are immobile and unchanging. Bearing that in mind, use this too much, and your description will feel dry and stale.
Example: Gary followed the robed men into the depths of the cave. When he entered the cave, he was greeted with a bonfire made of brambles and dead leaves. The stalicties above him jutted out like the spears of a murderous warrior.
As in the past, this description is not necessarily bad. If used sparingly, it can be a good way to just summarize an event and move forward. But if we were to suppose this was an important scene, then this description leaves much to be desired. On its own, this piece of prose is far too stale and bland to carry any weight to itself. And that's one of the dangers of it. But let's leave that on hold, and move on to the next kind of description before we fix Gary's example.
Dynamic Description:
"With a hillman's stride he moved through the ever-shifting colors of the streets, where the ragged tunics of whining beggars brushed against the ermine-trimmed khalats of lordly merchants, and the pearl-sewn satin of rich courtesans. Giant black slaves slouched along, jostling blue-bearded wanderers from the Shemetish cities, ragged nomads from the surrounding deserts, traders and adventurers from the lands of the East." – Shadows in Zamboula, Robert E. Howard
What is the most resounding aspect in the piece of description that I just gave you? Was it the attention to detail that Robert E. Howard is so known for? Was it the various peoples presented in this piece of description? If you guessed any of these, you wouldn't be wrong, but there's one that stands out more than any other. Every line is filled with movement of some sort.
This paragraph by the late and great Howard is brimming with character and personality. You can already tell the style of writer that Howard is just by looking at this one paragraph, and there is so much color added to the City of Zamboula just because of this one paragraph. And that's the beauty of dynamic description.
If there was a more formal definition for Dynamic Description, it would be along the lines of: Dynamic Description = Description dealing with mobile and changing objects, persons, and senses.
In my experience, this description tends to be the kind that novice writers have the most problem writing. And I would argue that this is because it, unlike its static brother, tends to bring the voice of the author to the forefront. That's because it adds character and depth to the things that you're describing, because it adds that little "spice" you need for vivid descriptions.
If there was a proper metaphor for this, it would be that while static description creates the world, dynamic description breathes life into it. Remember, anything can be dynamic description, so long as it is changing from one state into another while you write the scene. To can even repurpose the examples I used for Static Description. Walls being torn down, the ground splitting through an earthquake, trees whose leaves are being torn off by gales of wind, a barrel falling off a shelf, a parked car turning on its alarm, a statue being toppled, and a changing scent. It all depends on context.
Now don't be fooled into thinking that Dynamic description is untouchable, because it can be just as bad if used too much. So to keep it consistent, let me bring back the last example I used for static description.
Example: The robes of the men rippled like banners as Gary followed them inside. The flames of a bonfire crackled and cast their sinuous shadows about themselves. Then, dots of water dripped from up above on to Gary's head.
Again, this is not a bad piece of description if used sparingly. This can also be used to Segway into another scene. But notice how the lack of Static Description makes the prose here sound really…inaccurate. There's a lot of movement, but the scene painted in this description is not precise enough for me to picture that movement in my mind. If a fire casts shadows "about" itself, then where the hell is the "about"? Movement is great for a scene, but has to be complemented with immobile objects. Everything here feels like its happening in a vacuum.
Moral of the Story:
We must throw away this misconceptions about one kind of description being better or worse than the other one. If anything, this post should at least show you that both are capable of wreaking the same amount of havoc on your cherished work. Each of them have their strengths and weaknesses, but both are crucial to any literary work that you are creating.
The key is to bring both of them together, in order to produce a unique blend that is capable of showing off your style and clear picture of your setting. Teamwork makes everything better.
Final Example: The robes of the men rippled as Gary chased them into the cave. When he came inside, he was met with a burning bonfire. The brambles in it crackled and the flames projected sinuous shadows along the moist walls of the cave. Water droplets dripped on Gary's head from one of the stalactites up above.
As always, this has been the QuestingAuthor. Keep writing, my friends.


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The Second Annual Truffle Chef Charity Challenge was held this past Monday and benefitted the scholarship programs of Les Dames d'Escoffier. We didn't come home with a win but the entry was so good, we had to share the recipe.
- 2 cups crumbled Homestyle Cornbread
- 1/4 cup unsalted butter, melted
- 4 1/2 (8-ounce) packages cream cheese, softened
- 1/2 cup sour cream
- 7 eggs
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon white pepper
- 1 pound lump crabmeat, picked over for shells
- 1 1/2 pounds goat cheese, softened
- 2 oz chopped Black truffle
- Prepare Home-style Cornbread; reserve until needed.
- Preheat oven to 225 degrees.
- In a medium bowl, combine cornbread and butter.
- Press mixture into bottom of a buttered and floured 10-inch spring-form pan; set aside.
- In a large bowl using a hand mixer, beat cream cheese, goat cheese and sour cream until soft and fluffy; scrape down sides.
- Add eggs, one at a time, scraping down bowl after each addition.
- Fold in salt, pepper, Truffle & lump crabmeat.
- Pour goat cheese/cream cheese mixture on top of cornbread.
- Set spring form pan on an 18-inch square of heavy-duty aluminum foil; crimp foil up sides of pan to prevent any moisture from seeping into crust. Bake in a water bath 60 minutes, or until cheesecake feels firm in the center.
- Cool to room temperature, then refrigerate until thoroughly chilled or freeze before cutting with a hot, clean serrated knife.


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Point Line Plane is a band that I first heard at Emerald Lounge one night, when I was with my friend Larry. We walked in and heard this cacophony of sound coming from the stage (which is sort of around the corner from the bar.)
We walked back and found this insane noise was coming from just two guys, one playing a traditional drumset, the other a synth with a goodly amount of distortion. They are from Portland, and released their most recent album on Skin Graft Records. They added a second synth player, which you can hear on the newer material. Check out D.R.U.G., from their latest release.
According to their MySpace page, the second synth player left, hopefully we'll be hearing more from them soon!
You can check out more of their stuff here: Point Line Plane on Amazon.com
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7 Strange Animals Bred for Business Purposes
A collection of strange animals that were bred for commerce, including the Giant Guinea Pig:
Peruvians eat about 65 million guinea pigs per year.
With meat in mind, scientists in Peru set out to supersize the cuy. 34 years after they came up with the idea, scientists introduced a giant cuy weighing about 2.2 lbs, twice the usual size. The guinea pigs were especially prized for export, allowing Peruvians living abroad to get a (big) taste of home.
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I was told that the cuys were fried in 3 different oils.
Sounds good ;)
Sounds good ;)
Cuy's very tasty- it tastes a lot like rabbit. But there's not a lot of meat on them, so I'm all for supersizing them.
What? A Capybara doesn't taste good? They're about the size of a dog!
See "Eating Guinea Pigs in the Name of Science" at SFGate.com
See "Eating Guinea Pigs in the Name of Science" at SFGate.com
Pretty darn interesting. I would love to have one of those bunnies! Not to eat.. just to have :D


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The melange of allegations of specific racist conduct in the July 11 Washington Times article also included descriptions of racist T-shirts for sale at the campground. The article described examples of such shirts as "Martin Luther King's face behind a target, O.J. Simpson in a hangman's noose and white D.C. police officers with a black man sprawled across the hood of their car under the words 'Boyz on the Hood.'" The article claimed such items were "still" for sale at the 1995 Roundup. These allegations were repeated at the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on July 21. In his affidavit to the Committee, Hayward alleged that District of Columbia Metropolitan police officers had shirts showing black suspects spread across the hood of a police car with the words "Boyz on the Hood." He also alleged that individuals from another agency had a "pocket nigger" T-shirt with a picture of the Buckwheat character from the Little Rascals television program "coming out of the pocket." He claimed further to have seen a Roundup participant wearing a T-shirt with a silhouette of an African-American with "cross-hairs" on it, which he called the "running nigger" T-shirt.


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A huge part of my purpose are my precious crystalline stones and connecting to Mountain Vortex crystals. Rocks carry information, and since Alps are very old in their evolution, they carry a lot of Spirit Essence in them.
It's amazing to experience a connection with these precious stones/crystals and the mineral kingdom of this Alpine Mountain Vortex here. Spirit always surprises me with these crystals in a beautiful way and I smile in Bliss. I always held a special connection to these sacred Mountains, and it goes back to the Creation level. That is why I always find magical crystallized rocks in my pure Alps, the Mountains that I AM so connected with. We also have a Crystal cave right here in the Alps, which is a source of pure calcite crystal specimens that hold the frequency of the Diamond Light.
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Welcome to the world of Mountain Light crystals to serve the Diamond and Golden Rays of Angelic Grace!
I offer three types of magical stones in my crystal shop! Together they form a beautiful Holy Trinity of the Father, Mother and Child ... so Source, Creation and the experience of Creation itself.
The Black "I AM" crystalline stones are a type of black quartz, and they hold the yin to the yang frequency along the White ones, and they are especially powerful, for they ground into the deep I AM Presence of our Being. This grounding process is essential if we wish to bring the Higher planes of our Being as a physical embodiment into this plane of Existence. They assist with gathering of all scattered energies, moving them into a unified field of Presence. True Bliss can only be experienced in deep Presence of the Now moment. These hold the Essence of the Divine Masculine.
The clear Calcite crystals from the Crystal cave here in our Slovene Alps add the Magic to the whole equation, anchoring the Essence of the Divine child. They are very pure and offer the vibration of pure Joy. These hold the Essence of the Divine birth/child.
There are also additional stones You will get with your order, which were found in my visit to the Carnic Alps in Italy. This is the so-called Rosa Peralba, which is a type of Pink marble with a beautiful Divine feminine energy that it's holding.
The clear Calcite crystals from the Crystal cave here in our Slovene Alps add the Magic to the whole equation, anchoring the Essence of the Divine child. They are very pure and offer the vibration of pure Joy. These hold the Essence of the Divine birth/child.
There are also additional stones You will get with your order, which were found in my visit to the Carnic Alps in Italy. This is the so-called Rosa Peralba, which is a type of Pink marble with a beautiful Divine feminine energy that it's holding.
Watch the Crystal cave presentation here!
Note: Please know that the stones and crystals themselves are free, for they are Gifts of Mother Nature and I only pick the ones that have naturally fallen to the ground. But the time and energy I invest in retrieving them in the Mountains is not, and needs to be valued, so therefore the energy exchange is as follows!
1. Mountain crystals from the Alps
You will get a selection of all the crystal varieties uniquely chosen for You in a white organza bag!
The energy exchange is 44 EUR.
I ship these Mountain crystals worldwide!
Every crystalline order gets a FREE GIFT, a bottle of magical crystalline sprinkles!!!
NOTE: If You desire a bigger piece, You have to contact me specifically and let me know, as that can be arranged as well! I have many beautiful bigger pieces that would love to be shared!
2. Ascension crystal Aura sprays
The Ascension Crystal Aura sprays were channeled for the purpose of connecting to the elemental body structure during these intense times of increased frequency through the incoming Cosmic Rays and Solar flares. I started creating them due to the intense physical shifts that many of us are moving through in these times of transition as we are building our New bodies. However, the primary Essence of these Aura sprays is the connection with the White Ray of Creation and Ascension flame. These sprays are co-created within a higher frequency, so they have an "auric" field around them which assists the physical Ascension process and refined Aura cleanse, which is perfect for all Light Beings who channel energy constantly. They were blessed and anointed at the sacred Mountain waterfall (a sacred spot) through the breath of Life/Holy Spirit, the White Lady Essence and the Elohim Family of Light, as well as the elementals and the water element of purification and harmony, which are the Divine qualities of the White Ray of Creation.
The Golden Aura Ascension sprays are a variation of the spray that aligns with the Golden Ray frequency and the Light of the Christ. It is accompanied by an Angel, as it flows through the sacred Goddess/feminine principle of Life.
I make these sprays in small batches. Each batch is unique, therefore You can purchase only what is currently available and when it is available.
The 50ml Ascension crystal spray contains: Mountain spring water from the Alps, rose water, tiny crystals (from the crystal cave), rose quartz crystal nibs, Himalayan Pink salt and a combination of essential oils for Essence infusion.
The energy exchange is 27 EUR.
"Dear Polona, On this extremely joyous and blissful day I am closing off with tears of joy. This Crystal Spray brings me the essence of Home. When I sprayed it on my heart it instantly gave me pristine peace. Thank you Sister for offering this Divine gift. Also the beautiful painted stone and tiny crystal. I am happy, I am in love with the spray!" (Sophie Pietersen)
"Dear Polona! This is truly amazing and smells amazing. The vibrations coming off these items are indescribable and filled with so much unconditional love. Thank you so much!" (Ashley Mayer)
"The Golden Aura Ascension spray smells divine!" (Helen Crosbie)
"Yes, I can instantly feel the spray's energy. It's essence is all about divine union, or at least that's how I felt it. And it smells so good too!!! It's so magical." (Lizbeth Casas)
"Dear Polona! This is truly amazing and smells amazing. The vibrations coming off these items are indescribable and filled with so much unconditional love. Thank you so much!" (Ashley Mayer)
"The Golden Aura Ascension spray smells divine!" (Helen Crosbie)
"Yes, I can instantly feel the spray's energy. It's essence is all about divine union, or at least that's how I felt it. And it smells so good too!!! It's so magical." (Lizbeth Casas)
3. Alpine crystalline baths
The Alpine crystalline baths were channeled for the purpose of Light body activation and integration in the physical. The changes that we are going through in our physical Ascension are often very intense, as we further the merging of our Light body with our physical body. If You desire to get even more deeply activated, then I recommend the crystalline bath made mainly from the Alpine crystals. This is a completely Spirit channeled product which is a devoted labor of Love. It takes many hours of work to create it, which includes hiking and picking the crystals in the Crystal cave, carefully cleansing, organizing and crushing the crystals into a crushed crystal powder that then subtly works on the energy body, assisting with the Light body integration with our physical body.
The Alpine bath is composed of many layers, which include: fine beach sand for refined grounding, hand crushed crystal powder for subtle Light body integration, Himalayan salt and granule, finer and bigger crystals to work on the body detox (which are fully solid and reusable), with a chosen calcite crystal piece in the middle for meditation, annointed with Neroli Essential oil and sprinkled with rose quartz crystal nibs for Self Love and physical body integration.
Personal note: These are not random baths that You can buy at a local store. These are high vibrational tools to purify and raise your frequency. They were designed specifically with the intention to stimulate the Light body and awaken the Light particles to merge with the atomic body structure of our physical embodiment. When I used this bath myself for the first time, I experienced a profound body detox the next day, so I recommend caution and lots of rest after the bath for natural body integration, while drinking lots of pure water!
You will get a deeply activating crystalline bath to use for your Light body integration!
The energy exchange is 88 EUR.
"You can literally feel your whole body during the crystalline bath! It's amazing!" (Jožica Somrak)
"Polona, this is amazing! The energy coming from the photo alone is cleansing my being and anchoring me into such profound peace and stillness. Like the Mountains themselves! WOW, I can't imagine what would happen taking a bath with those crystals! Incredible!" (Leah Coleman)
4. Mini crystal wands/Swords of Truth
As an Elven Being, I love to create crystal wands. The strongest Essence that these mini crystal wands radiate is serving as a Sword of Truth. They can be used in meditation and intention work, as well as holding the space on sacred devotional altars, etc. They are powerful vibrational tools made from the self picked calcite crystals from the Alpine crystal cave. They hold the Light of the Seraphim, the golden-white Light of Serapis Bey and Unity consciousness.
You will get a mini Seraphim wand/Sword of Truth!
The energy exchange is 77 EUR.
5. Seraphim crystal wands
The slightly bigger Seraphim Angel wands are powerful vibrational tools of Light, and they channel through the Essence of the Seraphim. The strongest Essence that these radiate is that of Core Creation Self and the celestial music of the spheres. They can be used in meditation and intention work, as well as holding the space on sacred devotional altars, etc. They are made from the self picked calcite crystals from the Alpine crystal cave. They hold the Light of the Seraphim, the golden-white Light of Serapis Bey and Unity consciousness. They feel very Light, and yet they are also very powerful!
You will get a Seraphim wand of the golden-white Light!
The energy exchange is 88 EUR.
6. Angelic crystal pendants
I love working with Angelic energy, and so I created these mini pendants that are like mini crystal wands on a string. You can use them to connect with the Angels and the crystalline Purity from the calcite crystals from the Alpine crystal cave.
You will get a mini crystal pendant on a string!
The energy exchange is 44 EUR.
7. Seraphim crystal pendulums
I love working with pendulums for energy attunement and Spirit communion. I wanted to create my very own, which hold the Light of the Seraphim to connect with the Angels and the crystalline Purity from the calcite crystals from the Alpine crystal cave.
You will get a Seraphim pendulum!
The energy exchange is 33 EUR.
"I've got your magic box! Wow these crystals are so powerful and yes, I saw your hands how you were creating this gift, it's pure essence. I'm blessed, you know? Your package was created with the most loving, beautiful and magical energy. To be honest, after a while of just looking at it I started to cry. Perhaps, it was happiness, remembrance, union. I was happy with that because it was pure. Thank you from the deepest part of my heart!" (Lara Wu)
"I love my pendulum so very much. It soothes me, I always fall asleep with it." (Sophie Pietersen)
"Oh thank You for my beautiful gifts!!! I opened the package last night and the neroli oil smelled so lovely. I have never even heard of neroli oil before. I love my Alpine crystals. Just looking at them activates me. And my magical Elven wand!! I love it! My body was tingling as I unwrapped all these sacred gifts!" (Holly Nicol)
"Aloha Dear Elven Queen! Many thanks to You for my beautiful crystals! Yes, I sense the angelic, and elven energies in them. The essence of the white ones is very pure and the divine child has a golden calcite feeling. I am excited to hear about your Elven retreats and hope to one day visit this special place where you live. Many Thanks, Mahalo!" (Micah Kai)
"Words cannot express how happy I am with the divine crystals you sent me! I am in awe with their beauty, frequency & serenity! I have tingles all over my body!" (Sophie Pietersen)
"Polona, I was flabbergasted with the Alps crystals that you sent. I could immediately feel the powerful vibrations they effuse. Unbelievable that you found another 'dragon', complete with eye socket, nonetheless. The other darker crystal looks and feels like a little Alps mountain all on her own (as above, so below). The cut marks look as if someone used a powerful and precise laser on it. I can't imagine any way nature could have sliced those cuts into the crystal. Absolutely amazing. The lighter crystals have a different type of powerful energy and I see one of them is heart-shaped too. I keep them in proximity,actually touching each other so they can acclimate themselves to their new non-mountain environment." (Tom McDonough)
"I definitely feel the white ray, divine light and high frequencies through the crystals. I felt a cool breeze that followed my hands when I first touched the stones. I love them, thank You! (Stacy Gauthier)
"Polona, I received the Mountain stones. I love them. I have never felt more connected to the earth, crystals and stones (and above at the same time). I had bands of love pouring through my heart and stomach. Thanks again for all you do and are. It makes a big difference to me. Many thanks! (Colin Beebe)
"I received the Mountain crystalline stone and the three additional ones that you so generously sent me along with it. I started writing you a 'Thank you' e-mail, wanting to express how grateful I am to have them as my companions, but words can not even begin to describe the way I feel about them! Every single one of these crystalline Beings is sacred to me. I see and feel the stone being in each of them. I feel their profound purity and ancient wisdom. They are a physical manifestation of a Soul connection. They are deeply loved and appreciated. Thank you for sending them to me! I am speechless by the purity of these crystals and their unique personalities! They take me right into my Core. Time, mental chatter and surrounding noise stay suspended when I hold them and marvel at their beauty. Thank you for sharing them with crystal lovers around the globe and spreading their light of purity." (Sonia Todorova)
"Dear Sister of Light! My Golden Crystal arrived to Me today! I have no words for our reunion. It is intense right now with my integration and releasing. Love & Golden Light!" (Susan Saphira Hoglund)
"I was just able to pick up my mail and received the precious stones from you my precious!!! I feel such love from them and from you and to have this energy from your home to mine means the world to me. I received them at the perfect time as I had been feeling a little down and right when I held them in my hand my spirits rose!! They are just lovely, as are you. I feel overwhelmed with the emotion of deep gratitude. My love to you and thank you just doesn't seem to suffice!" (Lisa Rayburn)
"Thank You so much for the amazing crystals! What lovely and powerful energy they have. I was meditating with all three, such balance and magic. Exactly what I need, so happy!" (Desirée Rosborg)
"Sparkly mountain rocks from the high Slovenian Alps came with a message to connect to the New Earth Vortex there, and the Elven Masters from the Realms of illuminated Truth. I got a mini activation in embracing my Divinity. A sword of empowerment was placed in my heart space and the throat and thymus area empowered to speak my truth. A deeper merge of the beloved energy flowing through not just me but all of us as One, connecting all in an intricate web we don't always perceive at the personality level, Connecting hearts and purposes as One. A realization of the dynamics playing out behind the scenes that are bigger than us, connecting all as One. Bringing great blessings!" (Shruti Vashist)


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Kelly's Appeal To Fellow CBS Students
NENAGH'S Junior Minister Alan Kelly has called on all former students of Nenagh CBS to contribute to the school's time capsule fundraising to raise funds for a new general assembly room.
"Earlier this year I was delighted to be in a position to secure substantial funding for the school to build three new classrooms, a resource room and a new woodwork room. I was particularly happy to facilitate this as former student of the school. The funding will provide much needed classrooms for the students," Deputy Kelly said.
In addition to the five new classrooms, the school needs an assembly room and a canteen, and in order to fund this the school have set up a fundraising initiative. All past pupils who make a donation will be asked to write a personal message that will be engraved on small stainless steel discs and buried in a time capsule under the floor of the new part of the school. The capsules will be opened after 50 years and the descendants of the donor will be able to read their message. This fundraising initiative gives an opportunity for past pupils or their parents to show their gratitude to the school for the education they got there by helping the current students and students of the future.
"I urge past pupils to donate to this fund and make a real difference at the school" the Junior Minister said.
He welcomed the announcement by the school that a local company, Pinnacle Homes, had been awarded the contract for the building works.
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Women's hockey got off to a notable start during the opening weekend at the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, with two takeaways among the breakaways.
On Sunday, Team Canada looked strong as it began the quest for a fifth consecutive gold medal with a decisive victory over OAR. Yes, those old archrivals OAR — in this case, Olympic Athletes From Russia, not the mellow American rock band.
As marquee events go, Canada versus OAR branding doesn't present a very tempting marquee. Well, whose fault is that?
As a penalty for having been caught perpetrating a massive doping scandal in the amateur sports world, Russia was sort of, kind of, not really barred from participating at the Games in South Korea. While particular individuals were blocked from competition, athletes deemed clean are allowed to participate as something of a No Frills squad.
Spectators would know the OAR team members are from Russia, but the country's flag and anthem would be replaced by the Olympic rings.
Well, Sunday's game provided a good long look at how this will play out in practical terms. The red and white hockey sweaters declaring the wearer an Olympic Athlete From Russia are actually fetching enough that some fans might consider getting one just to wear ironically. As labels go, they're not exactly yellow and black cans of soup on a shelf of brand names.
Whatever. Right now, the Russian women look like they're going to be up the Volga without a paddle against elite competition.
But the pressure on Team OAR is nothing compared with what the Korean women have been tasked with. Just world peace. No biggie.
The unique joint squad, which includes a handful of players from North Korea, took to the ice Saturday in front of a crowd that included South Korean President Moon Jae-in and Kim Yo-jong, sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.
Korea lost 8-0 to Switzerland, despite the presence of over 100 highly incentivized cheerleaders from the North.
On the bright side, 44 of the Swiss shots did not find the net. On the other hand, none of Korea's eight shots did either.
South Korea's president went with an optimistic but appropriately chilly metaphor for the team's mission.
"The female ice hockey players from the two Koreas are now holding a small snowball in their hands," said Moon, who was reportedly not mistranslated.
"Now, if we put our hearts and minds together, it will continue to grow larger and larger and turn into a snowman of peace."
So what if some experts think Korean unity is less likely than the Beatles getting back together. Winter's coming.
Men's slopestyle bronze medallist Mark McMorris, of Canada, smiles during the medals ceremony at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea on Sunday. (MORRY GASH/AP)
It's the second day (Third? This time change is seriously rocking my already unstable foundation of simple mathematics) of competition in this these Winter Olympic Games and our Nation that Can-nah-DOES has carved out a few notches on the medal board.
•Silver: Justine Dufour Lapointe, Freestyle skiing - Moguls
•Silver: Ted-Jan Bloeman, Speed skating 5K
•Silver: Max Parrot, Slopestyle Snowboarding
•Bronze: Mark McMorris, Slopestyle Snowboarding
In case you read that "McMorris" name and the hairs on the back of your neck stood up, yes, that's him. That is the young man who, after answering the siren call of fresh powder in B.C.'s backcountry, was the victim of what was described as a freak accident. After taking a jump said to be "infinitely below their skill level," McMorris flew and ended up in some trees.
The injury tally included a pretty banged up jaw, broken left arm, a pelvic fracture, a collapsed lung, a ruptured spleen, and multiple rib fractures.
That was only back in March.
As you can watch and learn through the documentary that chronicled his accident and recovery, the kid almost died. Certainly shaken but far from scared off the sport, McMorris made it back on his board in time for these Olympics.
Capturing bronze back in 2014 in Sochi, to watch him earn more hardware four years later and less than a year after a near fatal accident, instills a sense of pride for the human condition and a serious gut-checking "what's your excuse" in reference to self-imposed barriers. Not to get all after-school special on you, but as McMorris took to the bronze platform, clicked his heals and flashed a big smile, it hit me in all the feels.
And if those sorta feels aren't your thing, watching the first athlete born in the 2000's, 17-year-old American snowboarder Redmond Gerard accept his gold medal, smacks mighty painful on the ol' hip joints.


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Rank the Iron Man movies (IM, IM2, and IM3)
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It's the internet, where anything is Bandwagon approach. Not to mention, it's a fairly mixed reaction with audiences alike anyways. Some liked it, some loved it, some hated it, others were indifferent. Movies don't make a billion dollars because people hate it. Hell, I've accepted the GA loves Transformers, although *
people on the internet may not*.
More examples of Bandwagoning :
Sam Raimi hate after SM3 came out (I acknowledge not everyone loved SM1/SM2 pre-SM3.)
A bit of distaste for Nolan after TDKR
Deadpool suddenly had this massive fanbase after WO
yes that's true, there's nothing like a bandwagon on the internet (or anywhere)
I actually did not really really really like SM2, but the general appeal is that it is a great film. I thought the first SM was very good but I did not like that there were no web shooters.
And although DKR was a good film, it did not hold the candle to TDK or BB for that matter because to me it was far too similar.
And trust me, deadpool had a fanbase before WO. Just no one heard their voice until it.
I saw the first transformers and I thought it was horrible. I didn't even care to see the second and I only went to go see the third coz I was dragged and my ticket was paid for and I thought that one was horrible too.
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First of all, hating the film because they ruined a villain whilst not considering if it worked within the context of the story is just baffling to me.
.Secondly, I'm willing to bet that a lot of these so-called Mandarin
who suddenly emerged out of nowhere just went and googled the Mandarin and found out he has magic/alien rings without having any real knowledge of the character himself and how he has been handled through the years.
I'm willing to sit down and have a decent discussion with these
and actually talk about the character rather than argue on about how mis-represented and how Shane raped the character blah blah blah. Some of these
here treat the Mandarin like he was some A-lister, Ultron or Dr Doom type level villain.
Granted, do fans have the right to be pissed off? Absolutely but they also need to realise that the movies and comics are not cannon.
did you actually watch that video I posted? I agree that maybe SOME of these mandarin fans popped out of nowhere but you can't deny that there were some fanboys really waiting to see the showdown between iron man and his archenemy, and they deserved it.
but anyways, there's one segment in that video where it compares mandarin to the joker in TDK...whereas, how would you feel if it was the same? heath ledger's character was just a hired actor and carmine falcone was the 'joker' all along? would you have accepted that? even if it worked in the context of the film?
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Sandgate's war memorial resembles Lutyens' Cenotaph in Whitehall, the site of Remembrance Sunday ceremonies in London since 1919. Governor Sir Matthew Nathan unveiled Sandgate's 91 tonne granite and concrete memorial on 24 February 1924.
Of the 330, mostly young, Sandgate men who went to war, 51 died. Australia-wide, about one in five of the 300,000 volunteer soldiers died in WWI.
War memorials were a matter of local pride, indicating a district's patriotism and wealth. Sandgate Mayor WH Bowser not only presided over the memorial's organising committee which commissioned prominent Queensland architect George Gray Prentice to design the £850 monument, but also donated much of the granite from his Samford quarry. Charles Lowther, of the masonry firm Lowther and Sons that built the cenotaph within a small island of parkland, was a returned soldier: he'd served in the Light Horse in Palestine during WWI.
The memorial bears a verse- They died, and yet in memory shall they live, That we may know the worth of sacrifice, Know that their death is freedom's cause, Stands as a beacon light to point the way, To paths of peace.
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Anheuser-Busch is in the second year of its Budweiser Mobile Beer School, a marketing program more characteristic of microbreweries than the U.S.' top beermaker. The Beer School's vehicles travel around the country, with brewmasters telling people about the art of making Budweiser.
A-B started the program in 1996 with one mobile unit, giving consumers a free, 30-minute class complete with taste tests. This year, the fleet expanded to four vehicles that convert into "classrooms" at festivals and concerts.
Each classroom holds 50 adults. More than 89,000 consumers and retailers have "graduated" from the program this year. The Beer School has hit 135 markets so far in 1997 and plans to top that in '98.
Originally designed for retailers and distributors, the Beer School has proved to be extremely popular with consumers. Attendees "come away with a much greater awareness of the quality and effort that go into making Budweiser . . . it's a rare opportunity for us to spend time with consumers in a one-on-one setting," said Manny Flores, A-B's VP-new markets.
The Beer School is handled in-house; its arrival in a market is touted through local print ads and radio station promotions.
A-B is expanding the concept next year to include a separate series of "brewmaster dinners" for West Coast retailers. Retailers will receive a 3-hour presentation with a six-course meal explaining the brewing process and differences among about 30 A-B beers.
Separately, A-B is reporting successful results from its first retail establishment, the Budweiser Brew House pub, which opened at St. Louis' TWA Dome stadium in August. The pub offers all major A-B brands and complementary, "upscale" foods.
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Saturday, March 6, 2004 Massachusetts ranks second only to California as a magnet for nanotechnology venture investments - one of many signs that the Bay State is a leading player in the emerging field, a report set for release Monday shows.
The report provides a comprehensive look at the state's strengths in the emerging field of molecular technology. And it shows how nanotechnology - the science of engineering products and devices as small as molecules - could be a major driver for local economic growth.
``It's going to take a while to develop into something that's a true force in the state's economy,'' said Thomas Hubbard, a vice president at the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative. ``(But) this is still a small area that's got big promise.''
The report, from Hubbard's quasi-state agency and the Nano Science and Technology Institute in Cambridge, shows that local nanotech ventures pulled in $114 million in venture funds last year.
But Massachusetts lost ground from the $140 million invested locally in 2002, and it's well behind California, where nearly $500 million went to nanotech start-ups. But Massachusetts remained well ahead of its nearest rivals, Texas and New York.
Massachusetts' strength comes from its strong research universities and its variety of research hospitals, biotech labs and high-tech manufacturers.
``Massachusetts is pefectly poised to produce a huge amount of intellectual property in nanotechnology,'' said Matt Louden, executive director at the Cambridge nanotech institute.
Louden, whose group is bringing the Nanotech 2004 conference to Boston next week, said he's not worried about Massachusetts losing its leadership. He cited the state's strong venture investing community, as well as its universities and leading-edge companies.
While small so far, nanotech has had an impact here. For example, Taunton-based Kopin Corp., which uses nanotechnology to make small display screens, collected nearly $80 million in sales last year, said Kopin chief John Fan. Among its products, Kopin makes camcorder displays.
Chelmsford's Triton Systems Inc. expects its affiliates will reap $500 million a year in revenue by 2007 from nanotech-based products, said Ross Haghighat, Triton's chief executive. A Triton affiliate recently launched a series of trials to study using tiny particles to zap cancer cells.
``I think (Massachusetts) is just a natural hotbed to attract (nanotech) investments as well as the research dollars,'' Haghighat said.
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DANCES WITH Wolves'' runs a fraction more than three hours but justifies its running time. There are moments, though. There is one when a commanding officer commits suicide, and you're not sure why. There is another, at the beginning of the film, when the lead character's behavior seems curious more than desperate.
At another point, the new film plays like ''Blazing Saddles,'' but these are the exceptions. For the most part, ''Dances With Wolves'' is tight and interesting throughout.
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Why Does The WWE Take One Step Forward and Two Steps Back?January 26, 2010
After a much needed personal hiatus, everyone's favorite Bleacher Report writer is back! And following last night's edition of Monday Night RAW, there are a few things I'd like to address. The main of which can be foreshadowed by the picture of choice for this particular article.
I thought John Cena was...impressive on the mic last night. There are Cena haters that will bash me for this, and Cena lovers that will droll on and on about how he's always had impressive mic skills, but for me this was a surprise.
How often does John Cena get to use said mic skills? Not too often, when you really think about it. I'm not saying for a second that he needs to be overly vulgar and offensive, as he was during his rapper gimmick (even if that was the most entertaining part of his career for most fans).
What I'm getting at is, nine times out of ten, Cena's promos are the typical bland Hulk Hogan-esque "I'm never giving up, or backing down, I will defeat you, etc...etc..."
For the little kids, it's great, but for the targeted demographic (which even in the PG Era remains 18-34 year old males) it's not only stale, but downright boring.
Last night we saw a different John Cena. One who wasn't restricted to training and eating vita—I mean, hustle, loyalty, and respect. Last night's Cena was emotional, confrontational, and, more importantly than anything else, entertaining.
John's promo wasn't the usual bland material, nor did it cause most adult fans to roll their eyes and take a Hot Pocket break. Which brings me to the subject line of today's piece:
Why does WWE take one step forward and two steps back?
Every single time WWE does something right, you can almost be guaranteed in this day and age that something will happen that screws everything up. Last night, for perhaps the first time in five years, I didn't mind seeing John Cena on my screen.
I tolerated the stupid guest host, I continued to reiterate "Gail Kim vs Maryse" repeatedly until the obvious tournament final came to pass as I predicted, and I even overlooked the completely fruitless insertion of Carlito and Kelly Kelly as pawns to further the issues between Jack "My Career is in Jeapordy" Swagger and Santino "The Sitcom" Marella.
I enjoyed the friction between DX and the heated tension that continues to exist within Legacy. I felt RAW finally took a step away from its usual "sigh of exasperation" content and made a small but important stride towards becoming a wrestling show again. (Wait, can I still use the word "wrestling" to describe a wrestling show?)
And then WWE reminded me of why I am constantly glad that I'm not furthering the ratings through television viewing. (I'm currently stuck watching the shows online.)
The Cena vs Sheamus Main Event was important in the fact that WWE had a chance to help Sheamus build momentum for his upcoming match against Randy Orton. A match he needs to lose...but, as Champion, it shouldn't look like a foregone conclusion.
Just about every sane WWE fan, from the educated to the legally retarded, all believe that Randy Orton is fixing to destroy Sheamus. If you want people to even consider paying to see this match, shouldn't Sheamus have at least a little momentum moving forward into the pay-per-view?
I mean, WWE has only had a month to build towards this match, and after the final RAW before the Rumble, neither man has anything.
Was the RKO the smart way to end the match? Absolutely, because Orton got his retribution for last week's Bicycle Kick.
So, why did the finish completely kill the positive vibe I got from RAW?
Because John Cena did not need to be in the spotlight. Because the Rumble match has already been built up well, the other obvious build up needed to be Orton vs Sheamus. That's the other money match that this PPV is riding on, mainly because no sane fan wants to see Undertaker vs Rey Mysterio.
Instead, John Cena gets the vital last seconds of camera time on the final RAW heading into the PPV. Someone please tell me why that was necessary. I don't want to hear any of the usual John Cena defenses. The last few seconds of camera time on the go-home show are crucial.
Crucial because when you want to correctly hype a big title match, the go-home show is your most important tool. And the last image the fans need to see on that program is one of, if not both of, the combatants.
Can it be done without jobbing out Cena? Absolutely. It's good that he escaped the DDT. It's bad that he had to have the spotlight at the end of the show.
So, we can all pay $49.95 to watch a title match between two chumps who spent their final pre-Rumble show lying face down, looking pitiful.
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A Departing Memory
I know you.
Candles lit, incense fuming,
You like it when I bite your neck, just hard enough.
Blankets thrown about the room
So recklessly, they refold themselves.
And we roll down a hill together,
Kissing the leaves, tickling with our eyes,
Laughing with our hearts.
"You'll just leave me for the next girl you find."
"Yes," I say. Because only
Lasts forever.
And it spills through the cracks in your hands
The moment you grasp it.
Like water from a stone.
She bites my neck
Drawing lines of ecstasy down my back with her fingernails
Spilling into me, fighting my words.
"I leave when the sun sets."
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Around 1890, Bertha Palmer, wife of Chicago millionaire Potter Palmer, bought her first piece of modern art, paying $500 (equivalent to more than $8,000 today) for "On the Stage," a pastel drawing by a French artist named Edgar Degas.
The choice, for an American living in a mercantile center not known for its taste, was both bold and inspired.
At the time, Degas was recognized as one of a group of artists who had challenged the aesthetic conventions of the day and whose work was derided by many academic painters. Leading the president of the French Republic through the Universal Exposition in Paris in 1900, the academician J.L. Gerome came to the Impressionist room and said: "Stop, Mr. President, here is the dishonor of France."


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During this interactive session, Christine Nichlos, founder and CEO of People Science, will join Danelle DiLibero, director of People Strategy for RMS, to consider innovative ways to source and engage today's jobseekers. In this conversation, DiLibero will draw on her experience at RMS and explain how her Talent Acquisition team is flipping the script on jobseekers in order to better understand their behaviors and interests as potential candidates. Particularly successful in the pursuit of software development talent, Nichlos and DiLibero will show how thinking like a jobseeker can lead recruiters to their next great hire. Session attendees will hear real-life examples and be introduced to some less common, yet highly intriguing, recruiting strategies.
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iSHSHit is a popular Cydia app which allows you to easily backup iOS SHSH blobs. This app has now been updated to bring ability for saving iOS 4.3.4 and iOS 4.2.9 jailbroken iPhone, iPad and iPod touch SHSH blobs.
You need to save SHSH blobs because if in the future you want to downgrade to any previous iOS version, only saved SHSH blobs will enable you to downgrade firmware. It automatically uses the Cydia On File service in the background, so it's a great way to ensure that your SHSH is stored by Cydia. iSHSHit also allows you to email your SHSH blobs so that they remain perfectly safe in as many email accounts you want them to.
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On Tuesday, we talked about how to get volunteers to help at your charity event. But, as promised, that wasn't the only volunteer-related topic we'll be covering. It was just Part 1 in a three part series.
Part 2: How to Select, Train, and Manage Volunteers at Your Charity Event
Part 3: How to Keep Volunteers Returning to Your Charity Event
I'm making these posts specific to charity events because that's what GiveSmart is known for. However, feel free to apply them to any type of volunteer need.
15 Tips on Selecting, Training, and Managing the Volunteers at Your Charity Event
Once you've got all those amazing volunteers lining up at your door, you need to know what to do with them. That's why I've come up with 15 tips on selecting, training, and managing the volunteers at your events.
Select the Right Volunteers
Getting volunteers to sign up to help you isn't enough. You need to make sure you've got good, reliable volunteers. It would be better to be short on help than to get help that actually makes things more difficult.
Here are five tips on selecting the volunteers who are right for you:
1: Know (and state) position requirements.
Before you ever start the volunteer process, you should know what you are looking for. And you should put it in your position summary. This will help you in two ways:
- You'll get a better group of potential volunteers over all, as, theoretically, only qualified people will apply when they know what you want them to do.
- When it comes time to interview candidates (see Tip 2), you'll know exactly what you want.
2: Actually interview candidates.
If you need five helpers, and five sign up, then it seems like an easy decision. Or maybe you have a process of accepting people as they sign up. Or maybe you plan on interviewing some people, but not everyone.
Whatever your situation, just know that it is wise to interview all of your volunteers. It will help you make wise decisions about how to use volunteers even when you know you will be using them because you will know their talents and skills.
3: Don't just accept everyone.
Once you've done your interviews, be discerning. It's great that people want to help you. However, that doesn't mean you have to accept. Be polite and professional, but if you have no room for an applicant or their skills, personality, etc., don't blend well with what you need, keep looking.
4: Keep notes on former volunteers.
Whenever you use a volunteer, keep track of what they did, how they helped, etc. This way, when you go to use them again, you'll be better able to determine what positions they are going to be the most helpful in.
5: Consult with anyone who should be consulted.
Don't just make these decisions unilaterally. Talk to anyone on your team who will be working with the volunteers. They may have insights or opinions that you hadn't considered.
Train Your Volunteers
Once you've got a great team of volunteers ready and willing to help you, you need to make sure you give them the tools and means to actually do so. That's why training is so vital.
Here are five tips on training your volunteers:
6: Make assignments by skills and interests.
Do you have someone volunteering with you that's a professional photographer? Then give them the task of taking pictures at your event. Someone great with technology? Let them help with an nonprofit tech or AV you have.
You get it. You've interviewed these people and found their skills and interests. So take advantage of that by giving them roles where they will really feel happy and comfortable and in which they can truly help you do something special.
7: Have a formal onboarding.
Have an introductory onboarding for any new volunteer (or to past volunteers who are working on something new.) Then, think about refreshing the onboarding at regular intervals.
8: Give proper (and your organization-specific) training.
Even if people know how to do the basics of what you are asking, and even if they know how to do those tasks better than you (see your professional photographer who you assigned to take pictures for you), they can still go through organization-specific training.
Let them know what your organization is looking for specifically. For example, you want lots of pictures of the guests, but none of the decorations. Or you want pictures of guests, but only specific guests or guests who have signed a permission form. You want candid shots versus you want only staged pictures.
Or, using the tech expert you've got helping run your event tech: you may want certain features used but not others. You may have specific goals. They may be great with technology in general, but need an initial training to the particular tech you'll be using.
Whatever you want from them, communicate that with your volunteer during a training session.
9: Take advantage of any third-party trainings.
Does a service you are using (and which your volunteer will be helping) offer their own training? Make sure your volunteers take it when needed.
10: Refresh as needed.
Enough said.
Manage Your Volunteers
You've got great volunteers who know what they are doing, but that doesn't mean you can let them manage yourself.
Here are the final five tips - these are on how to manage volunteers:
11: Don't just have volunteers to have volunteers.
There more you have, the harder they are to manage. That's why you should only have the amount of volunteers you actually need.
12: Delegate managerial responsibilities.
When you have a lot of volunteers, it's hard for you to manage all of them by yourself. That's why you should delegate the responsibility to a volunteer coordinator or to the specific members of your team in charge of the areas where the volunteers will be helping.
13: Have, share, and enforce volunteer policies.
You should create specific volunteer policies dictating how you expect them to act and represent your organization. You should make sure that they know and understand these policies.
And then, most importantly, you should enforce the policies.
14: Remember they are volunteers, not workers.
There are certain things you want from your volunteers and your employees:
- Timeiliness
- Reliability
- A good attitude
However, you must always remember that they aren't volunteers. And managing them as if they are can have negative effects on morale and performance; and they could possibly even lead to legal and financial claims.
15: Make time for your volunteers.
You are busy. Everybody gets that. But you (or someone on your team) needs to be available to talk to volunteers, answer their questions, make them feel appreciated, and ensure they are getting things done correctly.
Now You Just Need to Get Them Back to Your Next Event: The Wrap-Up
Got any more tips? Share them with us in the comments or on social media!
And don't forget to tune back in next Tuesday for tips on how to keep your volunteers coming back event after event.
Until then, though, get our free ebook, "How to Host an Amazing Charity Event", in order to get more insights into how to throw a great fundraiser.