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It's World Suicide Prevention Day and This is Why It Matters (#WSPD14)
There are some things that I don't want to write about, but they need to be written. This is one of them: I struggle with depression.
I don't know when I first felt it. I think it's always been with me, more or less.
In my younger years I would feel down and go hide somewhere private. I'd go to my room and cry — for no apparent reason. It expressed itself as being volatile sometimes.
In my high school and college years I would have moments where I would be overwhelmed with emotion. A small sadness or difficulty would trigger a flood of overwhelming feelings.
I didn't have a name for it then. One of my closest friends in college had similar experiences from time to time. He called them "blue days". That name was helpful, and got me closer to calling it what it was.
I always felt that the ups and downs were linked to each other. I knew that when I felt positive, I was really positive. My optimism would be irrepressible. I've always dreamed big dreams and found so much joy and energy in the possibilities of life.
But the downs are also dark and heavy.
That same friend in college told me that the father of a girl he had been seeing had advised his daughter to stay away from him. He said that she should find a guy that's stable and not a visionary. "The dreamers will always be disappointed," he said.
And yet it's true.
The ups are up and the downs are down.
Years later I was in my first job after college. I was working hard to create something that mattered, but continually struggling with the difference between the work I was doing and criticism I was facing.
I was young and impressionable. The tension left me feeling broken— like I was the problem.
I started to crack under the pressure— having emotional breakdowns every week. The downs I felt got darker and a little harder to recover from every time.
I couldn't go on. But I also didn't know what else to do.
At the recommendation of a mentor-figure who I met only in passing, I called a therapist. That was one of the hardest phone calls I'd ever made. I was admitting that something was very wrong. I was admitting that I couldn't fix myself.
That phone call was also one of the single most important actions I've ever taken. It was in therapy that I first allowed myself to say that I was "depressed".
It was the beginning of a new relationship with myself.
I've spent a lot of time in therapy since. And a lot of time writing and telling my stories. I'm healthier now than I ever have been, but I'd be lying if I were to tell you that I no longer struggle.
It's like taking 5 steps forward and then taking 5 steps back. It doesn't feel like "progress" or "healing" and it takes a very long time. But over time you realize that some of those steps back were the tiniest bit smaller than the forward steps— offering an imperceptible net gain.
And even that doesn't feel accurate. I can't tell you about making a "net gain" on depression, because I still feel it. It's still with me — seven years after I made that phone call.
I suppose that's what I want to say most about all of this. I've learned over the years that I have a relationship with depression. It's not like a tumor you have and it gets removed. It's a part of you—a part that doesn't feel good to talk about, but is there whether or not you admit it.
These days I can sometimes go weeks without feeling it. Sometimes it can be even months. But it always seems to come back.
I like to hope that someday it won't, but in the meantime I have learned to work with it and with myself in it. It doesn't define me, yet it is a part of my life.
Being an entrepreneur with depression is difficult. So much of what I do is self-motivated, yet there are days when I'm not able to get much done. Some days I have to put the to-do list aside.
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There's such a taboo around depression. Even as I write this I know that it will be terrifying to ever let it see the light of day. I worry what you will think of me and if you will write me off in some way because I struggle. But I also know that there are some of you that need to hear this.
I went to a small college. There were only 1,500 of us. On spring break my senior year, we all left to pursue our plans. And we all came back except for one: his name was Clark. He took his life that week.
None of us saw it coming. I was his friend. We'd share meals often and always stop to talk when we saw each other in passing. He was charismatic and friendly. Everyone knew him.
But no one knew how much he struggled, and that's the hardest part.
It's been nearly 10 years and I am still mourning the loss.
I'm telling this story for a couple reasons. I'm writing this because I want you to know that I too struggle. I'm writing because the taboo needs to be broken. I'm writing because if you haven't known depression yourself, you know someone who has.
I'm writing this for Clark: we all still miss you.
I'm writing this because today is World Suicide Prevention Day.
I'm writing this because men need to talk about it, in particular.
I'm writing this because entrepreneurs and other leaders and visionaries need to talk about it.
If you've known depression, you're not alone. There are others who struggle with you.
Never give up.
Find help. Call a hotline (1-800-273-TALK). Find a therapist. Reach out. We need you to.
Today is suicide prevention day. Whether or not you've known depression, would you share something about it with your social network? Share this article, or someone else's. Share your story or that of someone you know. And use the hashtag #WSPD14.
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Thanks for sharing Dan.
I've lost too many friends to suicide, and the conversation about depression that feels shameful or wrong. Thanks for being brave enough to share your story, Dan. And inviting others to share theirs. It's important.
Kudos to you Dan, for being so brave in sharing this very important piece of your story. You are an inspiration, my friend. Keep up the wonderful, courageous work.
dan thank you so much for writing that. it really was beautiful. God Has given you a true gift. thank you for being open and honest it can't be easy. thank you for mentioning Clark as well I can't believe it's already been 10 years
These are undoubtedly words of a catalyst, my friend. I definitely feel the weight of this story, but I'm thankful for your bravery, courage, perseverance.
Dan, I was teary before I even started reading because I too have not stopped grieving Clark. Thanks for writing.
Thanks for your courageous words Dan. Your vulnerability invites others (myself included) to acknowledge our whole, true selves. So grateful for the daring journey you continue to walk. Your insights and truths are changing people. Love you and that beautiful wife of yours.
Dan, Thanks for sharing your heart here. You are courageous in taking this step, and I admire that. No judging going on here. Just a lot of respect. And thanks for remembering Clark. I miss him too. Think about him every March. What a hard thing. Love you, brother.
This is a fantastic post. The brutal honesty is so refreshing. I am so thankful that you have found your voice, that you are allowing your creative arc to grow in the midst of – in spite of – such easily debilitating thoughts. I find great courage in these words.
Well written, Dan, and I appreciate your courage in sharing it. I still find myself affected by Clark's death as well. You're absolutely right that it's a message which needs to be heard – thank you for speaking up.
It was a privilege to live with you as you had the courage to dive into counseling and start being really open about where you were at. Your courage allowed other people to struggle, and thus live healthier lives. It was also awesome to watch Stacia love you so well through those times. I think you should have Stacia write at some point on how to love someone struggling with depression. She's one of my heroes.
Bravo; it's so true, if you told someone you had a broken leg or cancer they understand, but with mental illness, no one seems to get it or wrap their brain around it. It's tough, but the more voices heard, the less taboo the subject is and the more people that are struggling can reach out and ask for help. If I have learnt anything in my short life, it's that making the decision to not take my life was the best choice
Dan! Thank you for sharing.
As I also have a personality that swings between super excited and then totally off/down, I can resonate with much of what you write.
I used call it pathological optimistm
– yet I've come to think that maybe it's an asset. As long as we face the work needed to be done to gain more balance and ability to create limits, as it has been in my case. We can bring such to life that nobody else can.
And also, away with the glorification of youth, haha! 😀 Seriously tho, why would a 20-something need to have it all together in order to be successful? Nobody can "make it" by such an age. No, show me a middle aged person who is sound and balanced; they've had a longer time to make crappy or good descisions and the work they've done will show. Let's be kind to ourselves; we don't need to have "gotten anywhere" yet; the work is to do the work.
In my country which has the highest suicide stats in the world, talking about these matters matters. Thank you for raising the topic, it's needed in every corner in the world.
So here's to putting the mask on our own heads first and then helping others.
Thank you Dan the man! These things are so important but so seldom discussed.
Dan, thanks for your honesty, transparency, and vulnerability. What you and Stacia created in youth ministry has made an eternal impact on the lives of those students, and I am especially grateful for your relationship with Leighton. You were created and gifted with the capacity to feel and think deeply, which can make life more difficult. Lost a good friend, Matt Ryd, to suicide a year ago. If you have time to check out his music on you tube it would honor his life. We are all broken and needy, thanks for putting it into words.
Thank you for your transparency. You've prompted me to "come clean" a bit too. Although I've never hidden it, for a few years I was on a variety of medications to help with some of the emotional aspects of pre-menopause. (Can I say that word on a public site?!?) Many Christians look askance at other Christians "needing" meds to help cope with the issues of life. A good friend encouraged me saying, "if you had a heart attack, you'd take heart medicine. If you had brain cancer, you'd take cancer medicine." Emotional illness is trickier in that you can't see it on an x-ray–but no less real and needful of treatment. Praying more or reading the Bible more isn't always enough.
I, too, think of Clark–every time I brew a pot of peppermint coffee. He told me once that his mom loved that flavor, just as I do. He would drink it with her. I wish he still could.
Right now I have a friend who is really struggling emotionally. I'm going to send her the link to this blog. Hopefully she'll find some encouragement here in your words.
Thank you, Dan, for allowing the Lord to work through your vulnerability! I will never forget the day we got back from tour and heard about Clark's death. Thank you for being honest about what is hard for you–the Lord is showing me what freedom and such life come from doing so. Grateful for you!
Thank you for taking the bold move to put these things that too often stay hidden in shame out in a public place. I remember sitting in class with many of our fellow Moody students talking about anxiety/depression. The conversation was on a trajectory of depression as spiritual attack to be remedied by prayer and faith. The professor knew I wrestled with these things personally and eyed me nonchalantly to see if I would speak. That was the first day I spoke publically about my wrestlings and I was terrified. The last few years I have felt stirred to break the silence again, and reading your words remind me of the power of talking and that none of us walk alone. There is joy, passion, mess, darkness, hope, loneliness and faith undergirds it all as the anchor for our souls.
Thanks for your courage to open up. Do you have any ideas about what we can be doing at MBI to do a better job at ministering to students wrestling with depression and suicide? We have to do a better job and I think that you'd be a perfect one to bring some advice. Much love, bro.
i am so thankful for you both and for this piece! Negative mental, emotional, and spiritual realities do not often find a safe place in churches or schools. This is the kind of story of risking an investment in honesty that drives a better conversation. I think we need more truth like this and I am inspired and encouraged deeply by yours.
– david
Thanks so much for sharing your story. I'm actually planning on going to a church tomorrow to talk to them about getting some counseling. I've kinda suspected for a while now that I might be struggling with some form of depression, I've just never taken it very seriously. But it's becoming more frequent as of lately, and I just feel like I can't move on with my life, which of course, makes me feel worse. It's starting to scare me a little bit, honestly. I can't keep living my life this way, you know? I'm almost 25. I want the last half of my twenties to be better.
I struggle with depression/anxiety too. I would love to talk to you about putting together some way of people sharing via phone or Google voice and video chat to support each other.
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Hi all ~ I apologize but I can't find the thread where some wonderful people told me to take the pain meds to be proactive and not reactive ! But I am doing that and along with the PT and additional excercise I am feeling really good ! I have had pain but it has been minimal and you all know how nice that is ! I am really excited that although life will never be "normal" it was not horrible on Friday and today ! I hope that scarred is doing well and tom you make me laugh on every thread I read!
I would like to understand the beach party a bit more. I try to read it all but I seem to be too dense to get it !
PAlady-Cloe and anyone I missed who has communicated with me I hope all is going well for you ~
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Posted 8/2/2008 11:11 PM (GMT -6)
Hey Cp: You made my day !!!!!!! love to hear that one of us is doing "ok" ---------trying to think of somthin clever hmmmmmmmmmmm ?
Anyway please stay in touch good or bad. Praying for You "to join" life painfree forever, Your friend for life Tom
Almost forgot Our beach party ! ! I picked two songs so far to dance to: one is Shake Your Booty and that all time favorite YMCA . I have different thongs for each dance and my : Thunder Down Under Group will be "backing" me up but i believe I'll get all the attention from all of our pain monsters.
Hopefully You can attend ?? Right now Pa Lady, Ry, Scarry, Pam and a list of others have reserved front row seats in hopes of "thong" catching.
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Posted 8/2/2008 11:39 PM (GMT -6)
Glad to hear the new regimen is working out better for you! And don't worry about
figuring out the Beach Part thread. Just jump on in. It's all made up and as long as we're playing by the rules of the forum (gotta keep it family friendly and such) we can be as creative as we want. I just had people "name" their Cabanas as a start. And you can tell me how you want your cabana fixed up - because it's all virtual anyway. And our "bodies" are virtual on that thread so we have no pain and no meds and can do anything our little brains can make up!
So it's just a "virtual" beach party on the south shores of Lake Erie and everyone gets their own little cabana ('hut"!) and we'll have campfires and music and water activities and Scarred and her hubby have thrown in some football (Big Ben is the quarterback for the Pitsburgh Steelers!) and you can throw in anything you want. Sj wanted a sea creature building contest on the sand, and Cloe wants to go hunting for buried treasure. Dive on in with us and tell us what you'd like!
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CP: I'm so glad to hear you are feeling a little better! it is hard to come to terms with taking the meds, but worth it in the long run. And don't feel dense about
the Beach Party! I got lost somewhere in the middle there too... Sorry, Tom! I think I'll auction off my front row ticket and hang out back at my cabana with the comfy Tempurpedics and my friendly masseurs. CP, you are welcome to join me there for a super great massage (I've got 3 very handsome virtual masseurs, so we could each have one and the other can be our margarita runner). We can let the rest of them figure out the craziness on by the bonfire! LOL!
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Sounds like we need to get back to a few basics on the Beach, which is fine with me!
Tom - I think you gotta keep the thong on!
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Okay ~ I think I get the beach party now , but I want to know how we picture Tom in a thong LOL !
I want a four sided cabana with curtains I can
open and close because when I get in too much pain i move around alot
Then i want the margaritas and the masseuse's that RY has.
As well I want an Ipod speaker system so I can have great calming music because nothing soothes me better than good tunes
I also need a personal chef or someone to bring me food because I am a good old italian girl who loves to eat ! Hubby calls me Zaftig !
As well I need something to float in Lake Erie with because when I am in the water I feel no pain !!!!
I adore you all for providing this fun party and I am so exited to join in !
Am going take my meds now and relax ~ Hubby got a little sauced tonight so I already put him to bed , sometimes he just needs a break from my reality even though he loves me
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Posted 8/3/2008 11:34 AM (GMT -6)
Scarred is fine CP...just doing my thing trying to get through another day of pain and horrid shoot pain down the legs. I blew up earlier at hubby feeling useless in all this moving business and he told me don't worry about
it things will work out fine. This move really has us both at odds about
how to do things and we still don't know where are going so things are a little topsy tervy at my house right now. Oh well, I will get through this like I do everything else in my life right? Hubby told me he just doesn't know how I do it....I asked what and he said live with all your pain all day long. I told him that I just try to get through the day and hope the next day will be brighter.
On a more personal note; hubby is crabby trying to quit chewing and I am trying to quit smoking (down to my last 4 cigs) so things around here are a little tense from that. But like everything else that has happened in our marriage we will get through this too, just gotta stick together on things. Wound up cords on the desktop computer and hubby packed my desktop up so that is out of the way and done. CP sometimes mine just has to blow off steam as well and they are planning a party for him when he is done with his old job. For now we still as I have said before don't know where we are going and are trying to figure that out as well. Its down to either we are staying in WY in which case we will still sell the house and either move to Lovell (14 miles to the east of us) or to Powell where hubby is currently employed or we will head for KS but that is still in the air and really don't know what the boss has planned for that.
VR is one way that I am able to escape my pain and when we had the VR hot tub party PA came up with a plan to do a beach bash, which I love her for. Escaping from our pain is in all of our minds and each one of us tries to do this one way or another with games, hot tub parties that don't really exist or beach parties. So CP join in the fun....I got Remi, Shadow and Jazz at the beach throwing the ball for them and Shadow my black lab has taken a liking to Tucker so those two are out swimming around the waters.
Your friend in pain.....
P.S. I am so glad that you are having a good day. Its the best news I have heard all week
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Posted 8/3/2008 12:49 PM (GMT -6)
Scarred -
Thanks for the kind words! It was your hot tub party that got my little brain going! And you know in part, as we think about
our "virtual" parties and such it becomes a real part of us. I know that I smile when I think of everyone's cabana and having music and campfires and The Beach Boys (more about
that on the Beach Party thread) and anything else we can come up with.
So CP jump on over to the Beach Party thread and describe what you want so everyone there can see it! And remember - your virtual body has no pain!
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Awwww thanks pa i am glad that my ideas are helpful. sorry about
the short post seems remi is wanting mom's attention. lol
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Is anyone aware of organisations doing properly segmented basket abandonment at the moment (answer by return please!).
I've become bored of hearing what a good idea it is, and having personally been involved in doing it for the more forward thinking companies I decided it was time for an article that actually talked about what to do, rather than why.
Let's start with the basics. Pick a conversion on your site that will drive the most business if it improves - quote not confirm, basket abandonment, register don't deposit/purchase; there are many to choose from depending on the site in question.
That done (and yes it should be that easy) we are ready to build the lists and send out the emails daily to those matching rules.
Start by proving to your business it works and that doesn't mean put it live and look at the results - it means build the list with 10% of the prospects removed to act as a control cell.
Compare these results for a period of time to show that those receiving the triggers are more likely to convert.
OK, so we have proved it works now let's see what sort of creative message works best for the email.
The simple test (if you want more detail then contact me, this isn't free consultancy you know!) would be to test between brand and offer, to find out which is most likely to convert.
Once you have your preferred message, start looking at email follow ups but remember people are different and some will be ready to purchase at different times. Follow ups to the initial email have accounted for over 20% of the new conversions in some campaigns. Test 3 or 4 days; 6 or 7 days; see which produces the best results.
Finally (for this example), start looking at the information you have on your site.
The web is a unique medium in that the prospect tells you what they are interested for you without you having to ask, so look at their visitor behaviour and split the creative message based on what they do on site, for example if you know they have looked at the delivery policy prior to dropping out, focus the message around a delivery offer.
So, without any complicated segmentation strategy meetings, big planning days or any of the other reasons that delay you actually getting a project started, we have gone from one good idea to 10 segments - along the way proving to your business the benefits and instigating a testing process, so you are ready to roll out to more areas.
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Nice practical start Matthew - but you've missed a big piece of the picture.
Before you can compare different campaigns (whether email or other) for basket drop-out: you first have to know whether the varying User Experience on your site caused the varying drop-outs.
By varying User Experience, I mean the speed of the pages from landing through to your chosen conversion point: how fast /slow they are, and what % of errors were users exposed to.
These metrics of user experience chanage in real time: as the traffic volumes increase all sites slow down to some extent: some start to throw sporadic errors at users ( errors that are not due to 100% outage, where all visitors hit a wall; but errors that impact 1 or 3 or 5% of users, statistically at random).
I had a client meeting before Xmas, where a 400,000 email campaign the night before had kicked off sales of a new product very well, they thought...when I showed the results of our 24/7 'mystery shopper' style monitoring of their key money making Journeys... they were gob-smacked: they'd exposed visitors to an error rate of over 10% for 3 solid hours, and there had been over 15 different types of errors that had been pushed at users.
Ranging from items added to the shopping basket that mysteriously were no longer there 2 steps into the name/address pages: through to gross techie error message gooblydegook in the middle of the page under the text ' you have the following items in your basket:'
Slow downs and sporadic errors are losing 3% of checkout journeys we find on average with our measuring projects - and in the majority of cases, the marketing folks and the tech folks are in the dark as to the scale of it, until the measurements come out.
I think too often, we forget just how much variation in User Experience there is in our sites: due to variation under traffic load, due to tech team tweaks and changes, and due to new feature roll-out.
If that isn't factored into your abandonment analysis, you're making big errors in your assumptions.
PS: Just today at a meeting where getting the best checkout ROI was the agenda, the client's tech representative didn't want to believe that 1% errors across the 24hr day, (3 % across the peak shopping hours) was something
that should be fixed.
'The site doesn't go down anymore' was as far as he'd got. 100% failures he understood, 3% was a stretch too far.
But by replaying the error pages from the past week, and proving that real users are seeing them, made it clear that sales were being lost.
Hello Matthew
The simple facts are that abandonment of shopping baskets or application forms etc will always happen as it is human nature. There are many tweaks that can be made to reduce the amount of abandonment, but this will never truly be eradicated as there are too many human interactions which drive abandonment.
That said, we have developed a solution which specifically addresses abandonment and our clients are achieving upto 50%+ additional, incremental sales from visitors who began the process and otherwise abandoned before completion. This is not analytical or statistics, but true actionable data.
We do not focus too deeply on why, more the when and put in place a solution to return results.
If you want to find out more or have clients looking to address abandonment, get in touch with me at firstname.lastname@example.com and i will be happy to help.


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A 51-year-old Cleveland man collapsed and then died outside of a municipal courtroom after he was sentenced to 60 days in jail for restraining a 14-year-old girl and then attempting to kiss her "with his tongue."
According to the Daily Mail, through an interpreter Miguel Aybar told Judge Michelle Early during his testimony that the teenaged girl had told him she had feelings for him.
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Power to the peakle! Piss in the powder and praise the ambulation. Prop up the prayerful. Lead us not in too uncertainty, but deliver us our pizza. Mine us the glory, the power of the vampire... at least until we've passed the peak, empirical evidence not with standing. At least until we've picked the bones of the past. At least until we're pissed.
Pickled in their owned whine, pickled in a peck by their own henpecked pack, their feeding frenzy turns on their own insecret urgents, kundaleaning on their puppets, saintgeorging their dragons. Landgrabbing at their own psychotrophies, paxing their blags. Pack to the future: the ünteröberfuerher's articulated cargo culture backed to the gills by their spindizzy illumiknotty cranking the turingspindle, fueling the smouldering krankenfear, winding the springs of smalldering souls. Fed to the gills on fantasy freelunches, fast boxlunch combustibusiness, massmart instalodges beating the ploughshares the landcares the earthwares into swards of instagratafie. Burgeoning crapitalism winnowing the crashcrops and salting the earth. Dah-doo enrunrun, dah-doo enrun.
Their disconnect, their triple-sec, piped pap for crumbfort -- thrice nine I lived there.
Take no heed the surgeon-general's warnings
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Nightout in the diskriegulum
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No cheer for the menschless
So build aye my fortnot my safehouse my madhouse, my powerless mousehole. With walls inside out and doors of perception flung wide. And welcome aye the rain and sky, the earth and sun in roofless untermensch obscurity. Let fall the fools of power where they may, the tools of destiny. Enchancingly cast spells of remake; cultivate what's left of us an earthward spiral way. Mine is no disgrace.


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The Oaks at Ojai has gone through many renovations since it was commissioned by Edward Drummond Libbey in 1918. The latest, a restoration of the lobby, follows the mission-revival style of the building's exterior, both of which were designed by the late Ojai architect David Bury. It began on Sept. 6 and was completed Dec. 2 — just one day behind schedule. President and CEO of The Oaks, Cathy Cluff, said they couldn't be happier. "It's gone so smoothly, smoother than we could've predicted. It came out really well," she said. "The staff


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This build focuses mainly on survivability, but also has tremendous offensive capabilities. With Ragnarok active, Olaf will be free to terrorize the opposing DPS. Frozen Mallet allows chasing and more hits on an affected target. Mercury Treads allow even less CC effect. Starks augments Lifesteal when low on Health, and combined with Vicious Strikes will be very powerful. Atma's will increase Damage by 71, augmenting Lifesteal even more, as well as adding 18% Crit to the mix. Soul Shroud improves survivability, boosts Vicious Strikes, and provides extra Mana regen, as Mana is sometimes a problem. However, getting golem should be no problem with Olaf due to his massive Lifesteal.
This build is centered around Vicious Strikes and maximizing its effectiveness. With Reckless Swing coming in second, you can easy restore Health after battles and in lane. Vicious Strikes may be Olaf's most valuable skill in a 1v1, as lower health mean higher Attack Speed and therefore more Lifestealing. Reckless Swing is very important, but takes a backseat to the survivability that Vicious Strikes provides.


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Could US style Robo Advice fly in the UK?
Robo advice has been around in the US for many years, using automation to select investments that meet the consumer's risk appetite and investment goals. But, given strict FCA regulations in the UK on the suitability of investments, including capacity for loss, would US style robo advice work here?
To find out, in this series of blogs, we take a look at what the most popular US robos offer and the processes they undertake. Starting on a positive note, Personal Capital operates a model that could work in the UK from a regulatory perspective.
Personal Capital
According to its website, over 1,000,000 people currently use Personal Capital to track in excess of $226 billion. The numbers are boosted because this tracking service is a free offer. Personal Capital manages assets of just over $2bn on which it charges 0.89% a year on funds up to $1m.
However, unlike many other US robo advice offerings, Personal Capital is a hybrid online investment adviser. As well as providing automated investing and financial planning tools, Personal Capital also offers investors, with a minimum of $100,000, the opportunity to consult with a Registered Investment Advisor (RIA) for personal financial planning advice together with a portfolio management service.
How does Personal Capital work?
After connecting various financial accounts, including mortgage, credit cards, bank accounts and investment accounts, Personal Capital's free service produces a summary of the consumer's current situation and offers basic investment guidance including a retirement planner and an investment checkup tool.
Retirement Planner and Investment Checkup
Personal Capital's Retirement Planner tool enables consumers to ascertain where they stand relative to their retirement goals. The tool uses financial accounts that the consumer has already linked to Personal Capital to help assess how prepared they are for retirement, based on their chosen retirement date. The tool can further evaluate whether the individual can afford large expenses such as buying a new home or planning for school or university and still meet their retirement goals.
Personal Capital's Investment Checkup feature is designed to give high-level recommendations on the consumer's investment asset allocation. This can also help investors identify small portfolio adjustments that could, potentially, lead to better investment returns.
By inputting a basic risk profile and a retirement date together with predicted income, the tool produces a graph highlighting the recommended portfolio for the consumer.
However, no risk questionnaire is included in the tool and it is solely down to the consumer to choose from 5 different alternatives, ranging from "Highest Safety" to "Highest Growth", as to which type of investor they think they are. In addition, no supplementary questions are raised in order to ascertain the consumer's capacity for loss. Personal Capital also uses predetermined asset allocation models which do not allow consumers to stray from the recommended allocations.
In summary
The FCA has in fact made it very clear that regulatory requirements for digitally enabled advice solutions are exactly the same as for financial advice which is delivered by more traditional methods. This means that, unlike in the US, UK robo advice propositions giving personal recommendations will be obliged to ask investors lots of questions and then thoroughly analyse their responses in order to ensure the suitability of recommendations made.
Personal Capital provides a comprehensive service, bringing together all of an investor's financial accounts in one location and allowing them to better understand their overall asset allocation. The free service does not use a risk questionnaire and so can avoid giving a personal recommendation. The "paid for" financial planning service and portfolio management is provided by a RIA and so appears to be a model which could work in a UK regulatory environment.
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America's Next Top Model Series Finale: And the Winner Is ... the Modeling Industry
At its peak, it put a light back on models and argued for their necessity.
On Friday night, America's Next Top Model aired its cycle 22 finale, which doubled as a series finale. The episode was stacked with what was probably its strongest final four in years: rocker chick Mikey Heverly, girl-next-door Lacey Rogers, daughter of Ghanaian diplomat Mame Adjei, and Nyle DiMarco, the show's first-ever deaf contestant, who ended up being crowned the winner. He cried; I cried. His tearful (and also deaf) mom pulled a reverse of Maury's "baby mama finding out her boyfriend is not the father" — she ran out from the ANTM greenroom, down the hallway, and onto the set to embrace her son while a whimper of confetti showered the two. This ho-hum celebration from the show's producers actually seems fitting considering the creator, host, and former supermodel Tyra Banks nonchalantly announced the series was ending on Twitter two months ago. This announcement surprised no one, of course. After all, the show had been on the air for 22 seasons. And like many who had been watching from the beginning, I was mostly happy it was calling it quits, as it seemed the series had been lumbering to a slow death for quite some time. Yet there was a part of me that was also melancholy. I was going to miss the reality-TV drama, the Tyra-isms ("smize," "booty tooch," and "hoe, but make it fashion" are some of my favorites), the photo shoots, the CoverGirl commercial shoots and prizes, and the insider look at the modeling industry. And that's when it dawned on me: The America's Next Top Model franchise (which includes more than 40 international spinoffs) is one of the more important things to happen to the modeling industry in the past 15 years. Despite the glaring issue that ANTM never produced a bona fide supermodel, this is not the craziest theory. Hear me out.
Back in 2003, when America's Next Top Model premiered on the now-defunct UPN network, the modeling industry, like it always has and always will, was chugging along. We had the Giseles, the Adriana Limas, the Marisa Millers, all of whom were (and are) steadily working and are without a doubt still some of the top supermodels today. However, no mater how buoyant the careers of these women and other ladies of their ilk are, the fact remains that the heyday for models was in the '80s and '90s. The '90s, especially, were a time when models were landing giant cosmetics contracts, starring in commercials that would subsequently be covered on entertainment news shows like Entertainment Tonight, and ending up many magazines covers. I mean, there was a press conference to unveil that Cindy Crawford (posing as George Washington) was going to grace the inaugural issue of JFK Jr.'s magazine George.
But more than that, models in the '90s were ever present in popular culture. They were starring in movies (Cindy Crawford in Fair Game; Tyra Banks in Higher Learning), guests on late-night shows (both Claudia Schiffer and Heidi Klum had breakout moments when they appeared on Late Show With David Letterman), and, moreover, they became cultural icons. Who can forget the groundbreaking video for George Michael's "Freedom! '90"? Michael was sick of the fame, so he refused to do any more video and photo shoots to promote his music. After being pressured by his record label, he agreed to have a video for his song, as long as he didn't have to appear in it. He was inspired by the January 1990 British Vogue cover and requested that those five women (Naomi Campbell, Linda Evangelista, Tatjana Patitz, Christy Turlington, and Cindy Crawford) appear in the music video and lip-synch his lyrics:
The video further put the models in rarefied air. But as time passed, the late '90s and early aughts brought a change. No longer were models being used to sell products and move magazine covers. Companies and executives realized that instead of grooming a model to potentially become the next big thing in order to sell their wares, they could enlist already-well-known and popular actresses, singers, and reality-TV stars to do the same job. When that happened, it made it more difficult for models to break out. Enter America's Next Top Model in 2003.
On its surface ANTM was a show aimed at teenagers that emphasized drama and Banks's larger-than-life personality, but it was more than that. At its peak, it was hugely popular, putting a light back on models and arguing for their necessity. For many of the cycles, one of the major prizes was CoverGirl allowing the winner to have his or her own CoverGirl campaign and commercial. Before this prize was created, CoverGirl was one of the companies using A-list actresses to market their wares. But by giving one of the ANTM models a shot at the job, it opened that door back up again.
And ANTM didn't just bring more attention to models — it also opened people's minds as to what kind of people could be considered models. The term "plus-size" model entered the national lexicon in a big way. Banks has been vocal throughout her career about how when she hit her late teens/early 20s, the industry told her she was too big to do high fashion. While she was never quite "plus-size," Banks had body-ody-ody for days and was not going to going to sacrifice it or starve herself. So she switched gears, embraced her curves, and made modeling for Victoria's Secret and Sports Illustrated — landing the cover twice, including becoming the first (and sadly the only) African-American model to land a solo cover for the magazine — her bread and butter. When she pitched the show, she said she wanted to feature plus-size models (Toccara Jones finished in seventh place on cycle three; Whitney Thompson won cycle ten) on the series. Not everyone was happy about it. Janice Dickinson — one of the world's first supermodels and show's original judges — and Banks constantly butted heads because Dickinson didn't think curvier women had a place in the competition. Banks vehemently disagreed. ANTM regularly featured women who weren't all size zeroes and twos. There's no denying that seeing non-very-skinny women model on a TV show every week helped open doors for plus-size women. Up until that point, Emme was the only example of a voluptuous woman with a supermodel career.
ANTM also introduced a lot of people to the idea of a transgender model. Isis King competed on cycles 11 and 18 of the show, and while she is not a world-famous supermodel, she is a working one, and she became, at the time, one of the most visible transpeople on television.
King was in the process of transitioning on the show, so we got a behind-the-scenes look at her taking hormone injections and the subsequent nausea. Being on a reality show while going through something so powerful can be invasive, but King seemed to take it in stride and used it as a teachable moment for many people, myself included, who did not know much about the trans experience. And then there is the aforementioned Nyle DiMarco, who won this last cycle. He was the first deaf contestant the show ever had and wanted to use ANTM as a platform to show that deaf people can be very successful in this industry. While that remains to be seen for DiMarco, his presence on the show was nonetheless important.
So, as we close the book on one of the biggest modeling shows to ever hit the U.S. (mind you, the 40-odd international versions of the show are still going strong), let's pour one out for Banks, who helped revive and reshape the modeling industry with her beauty, brains, and a penchant for drama. Tyra, I'm going to miss you and your shenanigans on my TV screen, but thank God for your Instagram account.


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Dayshine to Stars-End
- Artist: Drumplay
- Genre: International
- Release Date: 8/31/2004
Drumplay's new CD 'Dayshine to Stars-end' is being critically-acclaimed. Here are some reviews: Harvey Pekar, of 'American Splendor', winner of the Cannes and Sundance Film Festivals, is also a jazz aficionado. He writes: 'Drumplay is a Cleveland percussion ensemble containing James Onysko, Warren Levert and Phil Kester. Here, they're recorded live at Belfort, France's music festival (F.I.M.U.), and joined by Cleveland poet, Daniel Thompson, and French mallet artist, Benoit Moerlen. Thompson is the lead voice on most selections here. He's one of Cleveland's finest poets, and has worked with Drumplay for several years. The interplay is notable; the percussionists play with taste and restraint, allowing Thompson to be heard clearly. His forceful and humorous poetry will engage most listeners, as will his dramatic recitation. Over the years, he's become an increasingly smooth and arresting conveyor of his own work. Especially moving, though not sentimental, is Thompson's 'Mother'. Benoit Moerlen (formerly of Gong and Mike Oldfield Band) appears on the first three selections where he plays the marimba, using four mallets; and is also featured on 'Rhythms Ride the Rocket' on which his playing is spare, percussive and fits into the context of what the other band members are doing. Onysko performs on vibes on the final three tracks, including the spacey 'Rhythmprovisation #9'. Cleveland Free Times published April 07, 2004 Jason Bracelin, Music Editor of Scene, writes: 'Up until now, Drumplay's loose-limbed percussive thrush has been as organic as the conch shells the group likes to play. But on 'Dayshine to Stars-end', the group begins to subtly experiment with electronics and tape manipulation, adding still more breadth to it's panoramic sound. This is world music in Cinemascope. 'Dayshine' is eccentric and exploratory, with poet Daniel Thompson waxing eloquent about rogue eggplants over limber marimba by Gong great, Benoit Moerlen. Songs range from heated hand-drum freakouts ('Rhythms Ride the Rocket') to ominous soundscapes, punctuated with bursts of sax that approximate a wounded whale ('Mother'). Through it all, slight electronic touches lend a forbidding edge to an album that shines as brightly as it's namesake'. Scene Alternative Newsweekly pubished March 17, 2004 Drumplay discography on Signal Tree: Drumplay - 1997 Live at Nelson Ledges - 1999 Pyramid People - 2000 beachland - 2001 Under the Map of the World Where I Sleep - 2002 Dayshine to Stars-end - 2004.
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Just a theory
The role of Emelia in Othello.
Before I begin expounding on this thought, let me first say that I am not a Shakespearean "Scholar". I am just a teacher who loves teaching Shakespeare on the off-chance that one of my students will get bitten by the bug and want to study and read more of the man than just the set works that he or she has to cover for exam purposes.
Having taught Othello to matric classes for the past 4 years, I have developed a few theories of my own about Shakespeare's "bit" actors, and Emelia is hardly a leading lady.
Further, since I was a schoolboy myself, and studying and loving Shakespeare throughout my public exam years at school and then on through university, one of the things I have come to know about Shakespeare is that he did not create characters simply to use up his daily quota of ink and paper. And he never wrote a line that did not have significance.
There are many instances where characters and what they say seem obscure and it is only when we peel away layer after layer of the onion skin that we begin to see just how wonderfully convoluted Shakespeare's genius actually was.
So why do we readers of, actors of, directors of Shakespeare dismiss Emelia as a somewhat dilly, overtly loyal and pretty dumb extra in Othello?
I am beginning to think that she was more than that. A lot more than that. I am beginning to think that, maybe, she is nearly as big a villain in the piece as is Iago.
They are, after all husband and wife.
But in Iago, Shakespeare has his villain – and a very nasty piece of work he is too! Why would he need another? But we must also be wary when assessing Iago's character. That he was evil is beyond question – he is by far the wickedest character Shakespeare ever developed – and that includes beauties like Richard III.
But, although he is evil, he is not terribly bright. The plot to make Othello jealous of the relationship between Cassio and Desdemona is hardly rocket science. They are after all a group of people cooped up in the fort on a remote island and they have to interact with each other daily. Being members of the Nobility and Officer Class, they would not have had much interaction with the hoi poloi of Cuprus. For Iago to manufacture situations where Desdemona and Cassio would be seen close together and to engineer situations where Othello and he would be able to observe this from a short distance away would have been easy enough.
If Shakespeare had decided to make Iago wise as well as evil – his evil genius, then he would have planned and executed his plot, and he would have gotten away with it. But he didn't. He left too many "i"s undotted and "t"s uncrossed; in fact withe the altercations between Roderigo and Cassio, his scheming was pretty clumsy, and he could easily have been rumbled at his own game had others chanced upon the protagonists before he did. The murder of Roderigo is necessary to conceal the fact that he had set the entire thing up as a wounded Roderigo would have undoubtedly spilled the beans whilst receiving medical attention.
We can only guess at Iago's ultimate fate after Othello's death, but Gratiano's threat that "Torment will ope your lips" does not bode well for him.
That having been said, I still don't believe that we can simply dismiss Emelia as a dumb bit actor who acts as something of a foil to the too-good-to-be-true Desdemona?
I think there are a number of reasons for saying this. But for my theory to work, I need to be sure of my stances as taken above – i.e. that Shakespeare was never frivolous in his character creation nor in penning the lines he had them speak.
So, let's look at a few of Shakespeare's other "bit" actors.
The porter in Macbeth is an example. He comes on stage, he gets a few laughs and he is never seen again. So why is he there?
To relieve the tension created by the murder of Duncan surely. I'd agree – but does he have another role? Why is he used as a chronological pace-setter. Why does he refer to so many "news" items of the day? He is placing the writing and initial production of Shakespeare's play in a temporal context – and he is also throwing the actual events of the play's time – the reality of the death of the historical Duncan - into turmoil. Shakespeare uses him to underline the lack of reality in the play. The historical Macbeth was not a "baddie". He wasn't a "goodie" either – he was a pretty run-of-the-mill Scottish Nobleman of the time – as involved in pillage and plunder as all of his contemporaries. Duncan was not a saint – as he is portrayed in the tragedy. In fact, the historical Duncan probably deserved a jolly good assassination, and there were any number of nobles queueing up to do the honours.
So the Porter not only brings some well deserved comic relief after the climax of the murder, but by throwing the historical context of the play well out of context, Shakespeare uses him to tell the audience of the day that he is fully aware that the events of the play are not historically correct. It is, after all a piece of theatre – not a doctoral thesis.
Simple characters in Henry The Fourth Parts I and II and Henry the V, like Pistol and Bardolf have roles to play in showing us the true character of Prince (later King) Henry – the wanton boy turned wily (and pretty merciless) politician. He uses these bit actors to create situations where the future Henry V gives a sneak preview of his true colours.
So what about Emelia?
Let's look at Othello first. When we first meet him he has just married Desdemona. Shortly before his death he has murdered the same woman. Estimates vary, but the general consensus seems to be that the elapsed time between these two events is about two weeks. Yet, in that short space of time we get to know him pretty well. And we admire many aspects of his character whilst deploring others.
One of the undeniable facts is that Othello is a soldier – and a damned good one. He would have had to be to have the entire Venetian council put aside any racial prejudices they may have had (and at the time the Venetians were not particularly well-disposed towards Moorish Muslim invaders – indeed the Turks were busy trying to overrun Cyprus) and appoint him as the leader of their army and entrust him with the protection of so precious a jewel as Cyprus.
But he was first and foremost a mercenary soldier and had been one since he was about 7-years-old. And, having lived in the company of soldiers for about 33 years, it would be justifiable to assume that he was not a virgin when he met the fair Desdemona.
He would probably have been introduced to camp-followers as an adolescent and it is to his credit that he managed to hang on to most of his loot over the years as the latter are well-known for trying to separate as much of it as possible from their "marks". It would also be reasonable to assume that having had these as his role-models for relationships between men and women, it would not have been that difficult for Iago to persuade him that Desdemona was capable of infidelity – even though he is totally smitten by her in the early action of the play.
If the old adage "Where there's smoke there's fire" holds any water whatever, is there not perhaps some truth behind the rumours that caused Iago to speculate on his wife's fidelity where his boss is concerned?
When we first meet Emelia, she is summarily pressed into service as Desdemona's lady-in-waiting . There is no discussion with her about this. It is an order given and expected to be obeyed. But Othello did not command Emelia – he commanded Iago. He had the right to order Iago into battle, and with it the perils of an uncertain sea-voyage that preceded the expected warfare. He did not have the right to demand the same of Emelia. Just because Desdemona had chosen to accompany her husband on his campaign to relieve Cyprus, did this mean that Emelia automatically had to do the same? Or did he feel that this was the natural order of things? Did he feel that this was well within his rights - because Emelia was (or had been) his mistress?
And if that were the case, what would Emelia have thought?
Here is the man who, according to rumour in Venice, was having an affair with Emelia, now telling her to be a servant to the woman he has secretly married.
Would any normal woman not feel somewhat "scorned"? And would any normal woman not perhaps seek to avenge herself for that scorn?
And look at the lady to whom she has been so unilaterally indentured.
Desdemona is enigmatic to say the least. She is on the one hand the ultimate "goody two-shoes" and on the other a rebellious daughter who defies her father and marries a significantly older man in a partnership that she knows her father would not find acceptable.
As a character Emelia hardly features again (although she is always in the wings, and has ample opportunity to observe the interactions between Desdemona and Othello) until she happens to find Desdemona's handkerchief. Most of the action concerns Iago's plot against Othello and the hapless fates of Roderigo and Michael Cassio.
But, Emelia is married to Iago, and she cannot help but realise that his behaviour towards Othello is sycophantic in the extreme – she cannot be unaware of his true feelings towards his commander. If she was not aware of this then Shakespeare would have created one of the most stupid characters of any of his plays. And I don't think he did.
To get revenge on Othello, Emelia would only have to keep quiet about the whereabouts of the handkerchief – which she does; right until the very end.
I do not believe that she was as evil as Iago. I do not believe that she was evil at all, but she was capable of enjoying the disruption of the relationship between Othello and Desdemona. And I am sure that she was aware of Iago's part in this disruption, although she may not have shared his wish for total destruction – and he, being the man that he was, would surely not have shared his full intent.
If she indeed was – as seems to be the commonly held view – a loyal and obedient servant to and confidant of Desdemona, why didn't she tell her about the handkerchief way before things got so out of hand?
Was she frightened of Iago? Was she so frightened of him that she would remain mum on the subject of the handkerchief even though she knew that it was tearing Desdemona's fragile marriage apart? The interactions between Iago and Emelia – few and far between as they are – do point to a degree of wariness on her part, but nothing that could be interpreted as abject fear. The banter in Act II Sc i contains sufficient evidence to confirm that Emelia gives as good as she gets in her chats with Iago.
She was present throughout the whole scene (Act III Sc iv) where Othello demands the handkerchief from Desdemona – there is no instruction from either Othello or Desdemona for her to leave and there is no stage instruction from Shakespeare to absent her from the conversation. She must surely have known that the handkerchief in question was the one that Iago had taken from her. Why did she not just tell them that Iago had it? It would have spoiled the play, but exonerated Emelia.
Or is the demise of the relationship (though not the persons) what she wanted to see?
We know, from her discussion on the matter with Desdemona, that she was quite willing to prostitute herself if the price was right . She would willingly commit adultery if she could help her spouse in the process. Had she indeed already made Iago a cuckold in order to make him a Lieutenant? Was that perhaps what she had been doing for Iago by having the rumoured affair with Othello? Had Desdemona's arrival on the scene and marriage to her "partner" gone and spoiled everything? After all the status of wife of a Lieutenant (a second in command) carries with it a lot more prestige than that of wife of a mere Ensign.
And what about Desdemona's death? She is truly horrified by what Othello has done. She is remorseful and willing to confront Iago once she realised the full extent of his complicity in Desdemona's death (no fear shown here). The fact that it leads to her own death is not an act of martyrdom on her part but rather a rash act to try to protect his plot by Iago. That she shuns Iago's sword in this final act of the play is proof, again, that she was not a weak and cowardly wife. By this time she must have known that Iago was desperate to conceal his part in the death of Desdemona, and she would have known that a desperate Iago is a dangerous Iago.
But by the time Iago kills Emelia it is too late, the cat is already out of the bag.
Equally too late is Emelia's revelation about the handkerchief, which, if she had chosen to, she could have mentioned to either or both of the tragic characters on several occasions.
So was she really that stupid? I don't think so. Yet she would have had to have been if the Emelia of common acceptance – the Emelia who was totally devoted to Desdemona – is the real Emelia.
Was she a woman scorned? Methinks she was; one whose own revenge for that scorn went far further than she ever intended.


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LG-N2B1D Serial Port Access
These are the four pins that give you TTL serial access to the device. You could attach a four pin SMD header to these pads (they are not through-hole) but as I did not have any I used some wire that I had handy. Once soldered I taped the cables down to keep them nice and tidy.
The disassembly guide here may be useful for removing the board for soldering.
The pins as displayed in the picture below are in the following order:
- V+ 3.3 v
The RX and TX should be correct but, for sanity, please double check RX and TX if you don't receive characters or garbage. The other pins are definitely correct.
The easiest way to get the cables out of the device seemed to be to route them down a hole at the back of the board at the left hand side as you are looking at it from the front.
After getting the cable down the back of the device there is what appears to be a hole for a kensington lock - I put the cables through here and taped them down to the side of the device to help prevent damage in case they get yanked and through the cable tidying thing at the back of the device.
Note that this serial port we just created is using TTL levels! If you connect them directly to an serial cable it will most likely destroy the NAS!
Here is the device all hooked up and working on my Macbook Pro using minicom. The TTL -> USB serial converter I used was an UM232R (based on the FTDI FT232R which is compatible with Windows/Mac/Linux) which I got here at Farnell. This involved a little wiring from the data sheet and a breadboard! You can also buy ready-made boards; see FTDI_USB_Breakout_board.
The serial port settings are by default 115200 bits, 8N1. There was nothing stopping me logging in via serial once I had connected - straight in as root! It has no password protection on this console!


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Agile Testers as Educators with Janet Gregory!
Often agile implementations downplay the need for the testing role. Many teams struggle with getting management to understand why testers may be needed on agile teams. These managers have read that testers aren't needed on agile teams, that the programmers can do all their own testing. This often leads to a gap in what is tested for a product and results in critical defects escaping to production. Come and join Janet to find out how testers, can do much more than "just" test!
Janet shares her thoughts about what testers can do to educate their teams and management in the importance of having professional testers. She also will share ideas on educating developers and other team member on expanding their testing skills. Creativity is required to get developers to do some heaving lifting with testing, and Janet will share her stories on some of the ways she has found successful.
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McGrory's Hotel is in the perfect place for exploring by bike! They even have bike parking facilities which is great to see and a sure sign of a friendly welcome for cyclists. Sign into Strava (or join for free) to view or download our suggested cycles from the hotel, or follow the Inishowen 100 for a real challenge.
The '100' is a glorious, scenic 100 mile loop around the whole peninsula; there are some serious climbs involved too! You can also break it down and take the sections before and after Culdaff as separate loops – take Culdaff to Malin Head and back one day, and Culdaff to Moville, Greencastle and back another day.
If you'd rather take it a bit easier there are lots of lovely country roads in the area just around McGrory's. Our historical loop is less than 15km total – that should take the most leisurely cyclist an hour at the most. Allow yourself two however, as this road brings you past historical sites which you will want to explore! First in Clonca there are the ruins of a 17th century church, and in the field alongside it a carved high cross. The two sites are connected and you can cross in to get a good look at the cross. If you then walk away from it and down the field you will find the ornate head of a classic Celtic cross fallen in the grass.
Back on the bike then and you will have a short climb up and off the main road to the Bocan stone circle. It's in a field on the left just as you turn off the main road. This megalithic site is in a working field, so please exercise caution around livestock and be sure to close the gate.
From there follow that road as suggested in the Strava route – it brings you up along Glebe and while that's a bit of a climb the views and descent are totally worth it! After an exhilarating downhill follow the coast along the beach and it loops back to the hotel.
If that seems a bit too short for your liking then you can get all the way to Moville completely off the beaten track. Avoiding the main roads this is a very peaceful, scenic route, and is about 15km of cycling in total to the seaside town of Moville. Once there the rider can follow the same route back, take the main roads back, or add to the day by heading on towards Greencastle and Shroove.
Cycle Inishowen provide Ordnance Survey maps with bike hire, but we would also recommend you download the Strava routes if you would like to follow back roads for a quieter cycle. Enjoy!


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The movie story deals with Sivaji, an Indian software architect, returns to India from the United States.
He aims to establish a non-profit trust called Sivaji Foundation, which includes a network of hospitals and educational institutions that serve the poor free of charge.
An influential businessman, Adiseshan, sees Sivaji as his competitor because he runs profit-making educational institutions and hospitals.
Sivaji is forced to bribe the corrupt civil service, but eventually, the bribes demanded become so high that he has to mortgage his house and sell his car to pay them.
When Sivaji goes to court, he loses the case filed against him by Adiseshan regarding the methods Sivaji had used to open his foundation as a result of bribing numerous government officials.
Simultaneously, Sivaji falls in love with a girl named Tamizhselvi.
However, upon asking for his horoscope, an astrologer warns that their union will result in Sivaji's death.
When Tamizhselvi refuses the proposal due to her concern for Sivaji, he calms her fears and convinces her to marry him.
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Adkins wants to recruit more attacking options as he attempts to guide Reading back to the Premier League and is set to make an offer for Jerome next week.
Jerome was fined £50,000 by the Football Association on Wednesday for breaking betting rules but escaped a ban and Adkins is now ready to make his move for the 27-year-old.
Reading are determined to recruit more firepower before the transfer window closes and Jerome has emerged as a leading target after moves for Gary Hooper and Charlie Austin collapsed.
Stoke manager Mark Hughes will allow Jerome to leave the Britannia Stadium but is determined to bring in another forward before agreeing to a sale.
Hughes has experienced frustration in his protracted pursuit of Hannover's Mame Biram Diouf and has now turned his attentions to Turkey international Mevlut Erdinc.
Stoke are also keen to sign Junior Hoilett from QPR on loan but have been warned by Harry Redknapp that the Championship club are only prepared to entertain a permanent deal.


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Looking for T1 or T2 in center of Lisbon
Hi everyone, I'm new to the group, and am hoping that if anyone has any suggestions on a rental they can help out :) I am looking for a flat in central Lisbon from March 1st for a year rental.
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This review is about a wonderful product, Teddi Bar Soap. I just can't stop complimenting its goodness. My son was ok to JNJ and Himalayas soap, but then suddenly he started developing rashes. So as per the pediatrician's advice I switched over to Teddy bar Soap.
Lets see the claims.
Tedibar is a skin friendly bathing bar. Regular bath with tedibar soap helps retain skin's protective mantle.
Price: 99/- per soap
Key Ingredient: Syndet base CU 0033
Other ingredients: Maltrodextrin, Sodium cocosulphate, cetearyl alcohol, Disodium lauryl Sulphosuccinate, Potassium Lauryl Sulphate, Aqua, Sodium Cocoyl Glycinate, Polyquaternium, Perfume, Glycerin, Sodiom Chloride, Potassium Chloride, Phosphoric acid,2 Octyl Methicone, Titanium Di oxide, Di sodium Etidronate.
My take on the product:
Must say its a wonder product. My son's skin is so smooth and supple and all rashes gone. I will be using this soap on him till he wishes to choose his soap. It makes skin so soft that the moisturizer itself can be skipped. I am really satisfied with curatios's products and I have chosen Atogla as his moisturiser. Will review it soon.


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Ceres, Celestial Legend, Vol. 12 (v. 12)
Ceres, Celestial Legend, Vol. 12 (v. 12)
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Bought this at a library sale or a thrift store used book sale.
Thanks for this! I plan to release it at an anime convention.
Released 7 yrs ago (11/12/2010 UTC) at Hyatt Regency Crystal City in Arlington, Virginia USA
Releasing this at Anime USA 2010.
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Earlier this spring I was driving home from my parents house through the country side with the kids. They live about 45 minutes away and the drive is mostly past corn fields and farms. My husband had stayed home that day, so I had the three kids in the van alone with me. There are very few things in this world that terrify me, but tornadoes are one of them. I still have nightmares about the movie Twister. (I'm pretty sure that movie has scarred me for life.) It was one of those days where the … [Read more...]
Blowing Bubble Towers | Easy Bubble Activity
Did your mom ever get mad at you for blowing bubbles in your milk when you were a kid? I remember my mom used to give me a small glass full of milk and a straw to drink it out of. Then she'd sit me down at the kitchen table with an orange, yellow and gold striped place mat (ah, the 80's) and then within a few seconds I'd be busy blowing bubbles in my milk. Tell me you know what I'm talking about, because if you don't, you need to go down to the kitchen right now and pour yourself a glass of milk … [Read more...]
How to Make Two Ingredient Perfect Slime
OK guys, before today, I had no idea you could make Metamucil slime, but it is so fun! Seriously, I had no idea this was possible! I was smiling when it came together because the Engineer in me was thinking, "This is SO COOL!" haha That's the dork in me. It's a crazy little science experiment that you can actually play with! And it's perfectly safe to taste test too! (Although, none of us actually tried eating it. It wasn't nearly as tempting as the marshmallow play dough we made last … [Read more...]
How to Make Crystal Stars
OK you guys, I think I've fallen in love with another kids activity. These crystal stars are awesome! Any activity where I get to make something beautiful from bright rainbow colours, and I'm totally on board! I think I might love it almost as much as I love making puffy paint window clings. These are so easy to make, and they look SO COOL when they're done! I wasn't sure what my 5 year old and 3 year old were going to think, but they had a blast. I was sitting in the chair folding pipe … [Read more...]
Baking Soda and Vinegar Balloons
These baking soda and vinegar balloons were so much fun! Mix everything together and watch as the reaction creates carbon dioxide and inflates the balloons! As far as science experiments go, this is a pretty simple one. I love that we had all of the materials needed for it at home already, and that it was quick and easy to put together! And on top of that, it was pretty darn cool to watch the balloon inflate all by itself! My kids LOVE balloons. I swear, every time I give them a balloon, they … [Read more...]
Fireworks in a Vase
7:00am: Mommy, can we do a craft? Me: No. I need to drink my coffee! 8:00am: Mommy, can we do a craft? Me: No, we need to eat breakfast. 9:00am: Mommy, can we do a craft? Me: ...... I've run out of excuses. I guess I'll see what I can come up with. So keep that in mind as you read through this all-over-the-place post. The girls ask me to do crafts ALL. DAY. LONG. I had read instructions for making fireworks in a jar here, and I thought it sounded pretty easy, so I thought, why not? … [Read more...]
How to Make Fizzing Lemonade
I had no idea you could make the bubbles in fizzing lemonade by yourself! But be prepared, because this recipe falls more into the category of "fun experiments for kids" than it falls into the "delicious recipes" category. You can definitely drink it, but it was more about the chemical reaction and making an edible experiment than it was about making delicious lemonade. It was lots of fun though! In this experiment, you take an acid (lemon juice) and a base (baking soda), and you mix them … [Read more...]
Shaving Cream Rain Clouds
I wasn't sure how these shaving cream rain clouds were going to turn out, but they were beautiful! I love any experiment that's easy enough for my kids to do themselves. And I also love when I get to use a rainbow assortment of colours to create something beautiful. So this was a winner! This activity was easy to put together and allowed us to learn a little bit about weather. Although, my girls were definitely more interested in the hands on part, not so much the learning. But what can you … [Read more...]
Dancing Raisins Experiment
This dancing raisins experiment is so easy! And it really works! It uses simple, edible ingredients, so you can even eat it when you are finished! It kept on going for at least 15 minutes, and probably would have continued for even longer if my girls didn't gobble it all up first. This is a fantastic experiment to try with your kids! We tried to make dancing gummy worms a few weeks ago using baking soda and vinegar, but it was a huge failure. They just didn't work and we were so … [Read more...]
Color Changing Milk Experiment and Video
This color changing milk experiment was mesmerizing! I wasn't expecting it to be this beautiful, but the way the colours danced and mixed together was really amazing! And best of all, this experiment is simple enough that my 3 year old and my 5 year old could easily complete it without any help from me. (Which makes them SUPER happy!) You can see in the video below exactly how easy the whole thing is! The swirls kept going and going after the reaction. It was really neat to see! All … [Read more...]


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CoolJag Mini LED Flash Review
Posted by Philipp Esselbach on: 03/12/2008 08:14 PM [ Print | 0 comment(s) ]
OCC has published a new review of the CoolJag Mini LED Flash
The CoolJag Mini LED Flash fans are a great concept and look great with your custom message. The fans are made with a sturdy clear plastic, which makes them nearly invisible inside of your case - all you are able to see is the message with the brilliant blue border. The downfall of these fans, is the fact that they are unable to cool the system components as well as the stock fans that came with the ThermalTake Armor Extreme Edition. This is only a downfall if you are very concerned with the temperatures inside of your case, which most of us overclockers are.
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ICD-10 Hub: ICD-10: Brush Up on A&P When Coding Fractures
- By admin aapc
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- July 21, 2011
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"Developing a better understanding of anatomy and pathophysiology (A&P) is one challenge you will face with ICD-10 implementation," says Rhonda Buckholtz, CPC, CPC-I, CPMA, CGSC, CPEDC, COBGC, CENTC in a recent blog post for ICD10 Hub.
"With working knowledge of anatomy and pathophysiology, you can appropriately assign codes in ICD-10. Refreshing your current skill set will be necessary so productivity will not suffer with ICD-10 implementation," she adds.
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Nutramedix Burbur is an extract produced from the leaves of Desmodium molliculum, a perennial plant that is harvested between 1,000 - 3,500 meters above sea level in Peru. In Peru the herb is known as Manayupa and is used for detoxification and for respiratory problems. Burbur is found in many other areas of South America too - and in Brazil it is referred to as Amor-seco. Burbur leaf is known to contain Flavonoids, Alkaloids, Soyasponins and an active called Astragilin - that is also found in the well known herb Astragulus, but like many South American herbs, little scientific study has been carried out on the whole plant.
• Anti-inflammatory (support)
• Detoxifying the blood
• Detoxifying the kidneys
• Detoxifying the liver
• Detoxifying the lymphatic system
• Preventing Herxheimer ('die-off) - reactions
Contraindications: None known.
Side effects: None known at recommended doses.
Put 5 -10 drops in a glass and add 120ml (4oz) of water, then wait one minute before drinking. Repeat 3-4 times per day, or as recommended by your practitioner. Drink plenty of water (2 litres per day or more) while using Nutramedix Burbur.
Burbur (Desomdium molliculum) leaf extract, Mineral water, Gluten free ethanol (20-25%).
Botanical name: Desmodium molliculum, Desmodium adscendens.
Common names: Amor seco, Amor-do-campo, Strong back, Pega pega, Margarita, Beggar-lice, Burbur, Manayupa, Hard man, Hard Stick, Mundubirana, Barba de boi, Mundurana, Owono-bocon, Dipinda dimukuyi, Dusa karnira, Tick-clover, Tick-trefoil.


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#1 posted 04-28-2016 02:11 AM
Gorgeous table!
Cheers, Jim
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#2 posted 07-28-2016 05:33 PM
I like the table. I have one in my future with the top made from ambrosia maple. What finish did you use for the top?
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#3 posted 07-28-2016 08:44 PM
Thanks for the kind words. That table is about 30 years old, and back then I just used a brushed-on polyurethane finish. After a few years it was looking a little worse for wear, so I scuffed it and put on a coat of floor-finishing poly. 20+ years on, still looks pretty good.
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