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I was a blogger. What happened was that I finished graduate school, for the second time, right around 2003, and for awhile I mooned around in a depressive fog because I no longer had to write papers for classes.
Not that I was all that great an academic. My many PhD rejections from some of the nation's greatest universities bear that out. And I'll admit I was pleased to have time to read things that weren't class assignments. Have you ever tried to read "Gender Trouble" in a single weekend? It's not a good time. I would even go so far as to call it the opposite of a good time. Maybe you're different from me. For me, it is a not-good time.
But I loved writing those papers. I missed writing those papers. I missed losing myself in research for literal days and then forsaking sleep to sit in front of my computer, the display lighting the thick atmosphere my compulsive chain-smoking produced, giving it an internal glow like sentient fog -- I would just keep writing while all the ideas and analyses were revealing themselves to me like religious epiphanies in a temple of thinking. I paid a lot of money for this opportunity, this privilege to live as a brain on legs for several years, and yet I never appreciated them -- the cost OR the experience -- until both were long over.
Most of all, I missed the fear -- the terror of putting ideas down and then passing them out for others to read and dismantle. Because it was through these experiences that I got smarter.
So I got a LiveJournal, which what with all the politics and overwrought intellectualism, was remarkably similar to grad school, just without semesters or due dates. I had a Real Job by this time, in college admissions, because I figured if I couldn't be a faculty member, I could at least stay close nearby to where the faculty were.
It worked for me, and it didn't. Faculty didn't see me as a peer, or anything even close. I was an administrative assistant, and many of the highly educated people I came into contact with every day assumed that I was rock stupid. Like the time I made a slight typo in an email to a professor, who not only immediately emailed me back identifying my mistake, and explaining the true meaning of the wrong word I had inadvertently typed but which was not caught by spell check. Said faculty member also took time from her busy day to lecture me on the importance of paying attention to the words I was using, and to see that they are spelled correctly and used correctly, because faculty have high standards for that sort of thing and I would not be taken seriously by them if I failed to attend to my written communication skills. Included was advice to purchase a good dictionary.
I had two Master's degrees at the time. But it was easier to pretend that I didn't, because I thought I was a failure for not "using" them in the expected and intended way.
I was an administrative assistant for almost ten years. When I say that now, it seems absurd, but it's true. I felt deep apathy for my job; if I had hated it, it might have been easier to find something else to do. Eventually my apathy extended even to the prospective students I was employed to assist, a role that I did find marginally fulfilling for a long time. I stayed in that job because it was familiar, and comfortable. I stayed even past the point of my own relevance, when I had begun to slack off to the extent that I barely managed to do any work.
I knew I was underemployed. I didn't care. I was safe. I was afraid to try anything else.
That need to write things worked itself out on LiveJournal, and later, on my blog, a site I moved most of my writing to after LiveJournal's dramatics started to wear thin. I wrote on the same topics I write about today -- mainly body politics, self-esteem, eating disorders, and fattery/weight issues -- with a mixture of pseudoacademic research and a winking, snarky tone. I wasn't trying to impress anyone. I just enjoyed having an outlet. I worked at my apathetic unchallenging stagnant job all day and then entertained myself by writing at night.
(I had the same schedule during the worst years of middle school, now that I recall it -- go to school, feel horrible, get no satisfaction, come home, sit down, write things all evening, feel better.)
I had spent many years before this trying to make fat stuff an academic subject. I took risks. I didn't apologize. I let my work stand for itself. Many of the faculty who worked with me were far more supportive than I ever could have imagined. Some were less so. Some clearly thought I was wasting my time. My classmates split down similar lines.
As a blogger, at first, things weren't much different. There weren't that many of us then, specifically writing about fat stuff -- far fewer than there are today. Every time I mounted an argument, about weight loss, diet pills, the cultural meanings of fat, and so on, I had pet trolls, regular readers who had taken it upon themselves to pick my every idea apart. We developed an uneasy truce when they realized I wasn't above engaging with them and responding to their points, because I had decided that any argument that can't withstand intense critical analysis is hardly an argument worth my defense.
Still, nothing I did seemed perfect, ironclad. It was terrifying. I was writing about things that were not simply intellectual exercises now; I couldn't hide behind a detached facade of academic inquiry. These things were about my life. I wanted to write them so meticulously, so error-free, so perfectly bricked up as there was not a chip or fingerhold of doubt to be found. I wanted to make them immaculate, to tell my stories and share my ideas but stay safe and protected at the same time.
You can't do this. You cannot put yourself and your life raw and vulnerable into the world without leaving all those soft spots open to be kicked.
And then one day Jane Pratt called me at my dead-end administrative do-nothing position and offered me a job, and I felt sheer raving terror, as I imagine I might feel if someone had literally put a gun to my head. That was how I knew I had to do it, to leave my apathy behind and go somewhere frightening and new. And I subsequently learned how to do this all the time, for my job, and I don't know if my skin got thicker or if I just figured out how to live with my life all out there for people to see.
I still feel awkward and inept about it all, pretty much every day. I do it anyway. Because it is by the feeling awkward and inept that I know I am doing things right, for me.
But it isn't happy endings that I wanted to talk about -- I wanted to talk about the trembling dread of new beginnings. I know not everyone confronts life changes big and small with fear, but I certainly do. And I wanted to talk about how feeling safe can be wonderful and necessary and so precious, but too much safety can also keep us from taking strides to become different, maybe better, maybe wiser, but definitely different people than we once were.
I started writing this piece a couple weeks ago. I do that sometimes, just start writing something aimlessly with no idea of what purpose it will serve. Most of this stuff languishes in a half-written state forever. But then, last night, the inimitable Kate Conway sent me a link to this video, "Kid President's Letter To A Person On Their First Day Here."
Kate and I wondered why we were both sobbing like freaks over this, and I think it's because some of us need permission to screw up sometimes; some of us need reminding that it is okay to make mistakes if in doing so we stretch ourselves beyond what we thought were our limits and learn important new things to make us better in the future.
Life is full of scary, not-safe experiences to try to hide from. It's full of people who are vastly different from you, who have different backgrounds, different circumstances, whose social standards and expectations are unfamiliar, whose bodies seem strange and distant, whose daily lives seem so diametrically opposed to your own that you might believe it is impossible to connect on anything, so why even try. You might even feel scared by all these differences. You might want to ignore them, or walk away from them, especially when people are trying to tell you how you've inadvertently hurt them, or spoken out of turn. It's far easier and safer to fear these bad feelings, these potential repercussions, and run, run, run as quickly as you can, back to the places where you feel comfortable and protected.
But if I have told you anything, it's that it is so important to confront the things you're scared of -- even when you think you're going to mess them up. Even when you're quite certain you're going to mess them up. When you're worried you're going to do or say the wrong thing and be embarrassed and upset.
It's important to do this because nobody learns anything from repeating the same safe approaches every day; nobody grows by keeping to the paths they know. Nothing changes.
When I look back on my life, I don't remember all the times I did things in a perfectly adequate way, acceptably, passably, worth neither praise nor reproof. Instead I remember the times I did things that turned out spectacularly and I was astonished by it, and I remember the times everything fell apart and I thought I wouldn't survive it. What these two circumstances have in common is that both of them were terrifying -- and yet I did them anyway.
Think of all the opportunities that you have passed over because you were scared -- think of all the times your fear has kept these opportunities from even coming your way. It's not worth it. Fear is useful sometimes, in a fire, or when confronted with a hungry bear, or faced with any number of social situations in which we may not be safe. I'm not saying fear has no purpose. And I'm not suggesting we forget everything that has come before. I know that's impossible. We all have joy, and trauma, and damage, we have scars and tender spots and trophies that all the cheery inspirational videos in the world cannot erase to start again, and we wouldn't want to erase them anyway.
But sometimes, we lean on our fear too heavily, and too often. In much of our lives fear can keep us silent and still, watching the world from a distance, holding us back from taking chances and facing risks out of the fear of what might happen if we fail.
We evolve into better people by spending each day as new kids on our first day here, trying to make friends, trying to understand the world not from the perspective that we already know everything we need to, that we are established experts in our own lives, but from the perspective that the world still has so much to teach us, no matter who we are. What are you still so afraid of? What do you still have to learn?

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Facebook works its data magic at scales others only dream of. And they do this for over 600,000,000 people, in real time! (see: Facebook's New Real-Time Messaging System: HBase To Store 135+ Billion Messages A Month). Cade Metz just wrote a piece diving deeper into this at The Register. His article is titled "HBase: Shops swap MySQL for open source Google mimic." This great reporting underscores something we already knew, that Facebook is a pioneer in the world of fast/realtime read/write access to big data. He also underscored that when you see Facebook making moves like swapping MySQL for HBase it is yet another reason to study what is going on here. This is especially important since Facebook is not the only firm swapping out MySQL for HBase.
So here is a bit more on HBase:
HBase is an Apache Software Foundation project. Here is more from Apache.org:
HBase is an open-source, distributed, versioned, column-oriented store modeled after Google' Bigtable: A Distributed Storage System for Structured by Chang et al. Just as Bigtable leverages the distributed data storage provided by the Google File System, HBase provides Bigtable-like capabilities on top of Hadoop. HBase includes:
- Convenient base classes for backing Hadoop MapReduce jobs with HBase tables including cascading, hive and pig source and sink modules
- Query predicate push down via server side scan and get filters
- Optimizations for real time queries
- A Thrift gateway and a REST-ful Web service that supports XML, Protobuf, and binary data encoding options
Here is more from the Cade Metz article:
HBase is part of the Apache Hadoop project, a sweeping effort to mimic Google's proprietary infrastructure with open source code. It dovetails with HDFS, the Hadoop distributed file system, and Hadoop MapReduce, the distributed number-crunching platform. HBase is essentially a low-latency layer that sits atop HDFS, letting you rapidly store and retrieve data. It's fashioned after Google's BigTable platform, which Mountain View publicly described in a 2006 research paper.
Now back to the title of this post. How do you know if you should pick MySQL or HBase for a solution?
If you are designing systems to operate at huge scale, or integrating with other Hadoop related projects, select HBase. HBase, with Hadoop and related capabilities, is also there to support analysis at scale. So, if you are designing for making sense over big data, pick HBase.
MySQL is not going away. But the things it will be optimized for are traditional RDBMS solutions. If you can comfortably store your data in tables with rows and columns and don't have that much of it or don't do fast analysis over it, MySQL may be your best pick. MySQL is widely used, highly reliable, and well understood. So if your future growth and business model indicates you will never run into scale problems or have challenges conducting analysis over your data, MySQL may well be the best choice.
Related articles
- Facebook's New Real-time Messaging System: HBase to Store 135+ Billion Messages a Month (highscalability.com)
- New Technology Behind 20 Billion Daily Facebook Messages (allfacebook.com)
- HBase 0.90.0 Released: Over 1000 Fixes and Improvements (nosql.mypopescu.com)
- Facebook: Why our 'next-gen' comms ditched MySQL (go.theregister.com)
- Tynt CTO Quoted in The Register: HBase: Shops swap MySQL for open source Google mimic (tynt.com)
- Cloudera (ctolabs.com)
- Jorge Escobar: Apple going Hadoop. Question is: HBase Or Cassandra? (nosql.mypopescu.com)
- NoSQL: Hive and HBase in Toad for Cloud Demo (themindstorms.blogspot.com)
- Facebook: Why our 'next-gen' comms ditched MySQL (channelregister.co.uk)
- HBase: Shops swap MySQL for open source Google mimic (go.theregister.com)
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April 24, 2013
BIDDEFORD, Maine
A team of University of New England graduate students representing four academic programs secured a second place finish at the 2013 National Clarion Interprofessional Case Competition held at the University of Minnesota April 19-20.
Though it was UNE's first time participating in the competition, its team bested several others from much larger schools that have participated in the Clarion contest since its inception.
UNE's Center for Excellence in Interprofessional Education (CEIPE), headed by Shelley Cohen Konrad, Ph.D, of the Department of Social Work, initiated UNE's first-time participation in the competition, which requires students from varying health care programs to collaborate in finding a solution that transcends any one discipline.
"UNE's high place in our inaugural Clarion Case Competition is indicative of our mission as an innovative health sciences university grounded in the liberal arts. We are proud that our students were able to blend their clinical know-how with solid skills in strategic planning and persuasion. While we've known our strengths all along, this win elevates us on the national stage as a leader in health care education," UNE President Danielle N. Ripich, Ph.D. said.
UNE's winning team consists of Eugenia Edmonds '15 (College of Osteopathic Medicine), Cody Lapointe '13 (Department of Occupational Therapy), Kimberly Mulcahy '14 (College of Pharmacy), and Brendan Roggow '13 (Department of Physical Therapy).
Lisa Pagnucco, PharmD, BCACP, assistant professor in the College of Pharmacy, and Jeff Nevers of Career Services were the team coaches.
The competition centered around a health care case study, written by University of Minnesota faculty, involving a fictional hospital's high COPD (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease) readmission rates. Teams were charged with creating a plan to reduce readmissions for the disease and justifying the validity of their recommendations. They presented their 20-minute case to a fictitious "board of trustees," consisting of actual executives and clinical directors of various Midwestern healthcare entities, who then followed the presentation with a 10-minute question and answer session.
The UNE team members' second-place finish ranked them behind the winning team from the University of Missouri and ahead of the third-place team from the University of Minnesota and the fourth-place team from the University of South Carolina. As a result of their finish, UNE students were awarded a cash prize.


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Harmony Community Trust Glebe House visited the club on Wednesday as part of a cross community initiative when a group of young people tried gaelic football and camogie for the first time; earlier in the summer a group from the club enjoyed a residential at Glebe House.
To help keep our kitchen and toilet facilities in tip top shape, we are hoping for 24 names which means all anyone has to do is 1 hour every 6 weeks with a group of 4 people. See An Riocht Facebook for details or call into the club.
New Cookery Programme for young people starting Tuesday 13th September; Everyday Meals for Young People on a budget, work with a professional chef to feed yourself for the week.
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The purpose of this e mail is two-fold
I am asking if personnel within your Club would be available to assist as Match Day Stewards in Pairc Esler on this coming weekend at the Senior Championship Quarter Finals.
If anyone within your Club would be interested then could you please forward me their contact details, stewards would need to be available from 6pm on Friday and/or from 5.45pm on Sunday or if they are only available on one of these days all offers of assistance are welcome.
I am attaching details here of an upcoming course for people who would like to assist as Stewards at Match Days in Down in 2017.
The course will run for 5 sessions and will be held within Down, beginning in early November; each session/module has a brief written assessment; the first 4 sessions will cover the content of each module and the 5th session will be used for completing assessments. Each session will take 3 hours.
This qualification is recognised by DCAL & Croke Park and is funded by SportNI & Ulster GAA
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Thanks to the stewards who helped at the concert in the Kingdom Hall in aid of Fr Nicky Hennity's Mission Appeal.
Planning and Physical Development and Finance Meeting
There is a joint meeting tomorrow evening, Tuesday at 7pm regarding Planning and Physical Development and Finance. We have something for everyone to get involved with - grant applications to be jointly worked on, minor development works, essential repairs and maintenance to be organised. We need your expertise for one hour to get things up and running. Please spread the word!! Thanks
Phil's Petting Farm and the trip to Formula Karting
At the Summer Scheme last week, the highlights werevisit of Phil's Petting Farm and the trip to Formula Karting.
No Need 4 Speed
Kingdom's Safe Driving programme 'No Need 4 Speed' is filling up quickly so if interested let us know asap. Those who complete the programme in full will receive a certificate, and financial assistance with driving lessons. This is a 'whole community' project and Kingdom welcomes interest from young people who may not be regular attendees of Kingdom. Anyone interested should call out to the club and speak to Lee. This project is funded by ARCS and will incorporate the Ulster GAA 'Live to Play' road safety education project.
Its August already and thoughts turn to the autumn/winter programme at Dunavil. The Safe Driving project is a great one to get things started but if you have any thoughts on activities you want included then let one of the leaders or board members know. Sherman Hall has offered to continue Basketball practice into the dark evenings so if there is enough interest that could be a worthwhile activity for a number of age groups over the duration of one night a week.
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Plenty of people buy life insurance to offset the financial consequences of a life ended too soon. Paying off the mortgage, getting the kids through school, funding the everyday needs of those who depend on you—life insurance plans can cover them all.
But what about the consequences of a life lived long? Are you prepared financially for the prospect of surviving and thriving well into your 80s, 90s or beyond?
You'd better be—especially if you're part of the silver tsunami.
An aging population
The rise in the number of older Americans has been noted for awhile, showing that people are living longer. The Census Bureau reported that 90- to 94-year-olds grew by more than 44 percent from 1990-2000. What's more, the demographic groups for those ages 45–54 (the Boomers) grew by even greater percentages during the same decade.
The Boomers are expected to stay healthier and live longer than any previous generation. But they face some emerging financial uncertainties. The solvency of Social Security remains a topic of debate and health care cost inflation shows little sign of abating. How will they finance retirement when their wallet is being pinched from both sides?
Annuities can help
One financial product that can help stabilize individual income during retirement is an annuity.
"Although annuities have been around for decades, they're still misunderstood by a lot of people," said Bill Williams, a manager at Erie Family Life Insurance. "In part, that's because the financial impact of living long beyond retirement age is not something that people often consider."
An annuity, generally speaking, is an agreement between an organization and an individual—the organization agrees to pay the individual a stream or series of payments.
Life insurance companies sell annuity products because their mission is to protect individuals' financial freedoms in case of unexpected occurrences, including living longer than expected.
"The benefit of purchasing an annuity is that it can guarantee an income that cannot be outlived," Williams added. "By investing some or all of your 401(k) or other savings in an annuity before or when you retire, you can secure a steady monthly income for you or a beneficiary for as long as either of you live—whether that's to 75, 95 or longer."
To broaden the options for Boomers and others planning for retirement, Erie Family Life recently added several products to its annuity series. One new product, the CD-type annuity, gives buyers the option of locking in an initial interest rate for three, five or seven years. To learn more about this annuity product and others, contact your ERIE agent who can help you decide which type of annuity best serves your needs.


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Defending Warren Beatty's AFI Award
Warren Beatty, the only guy with fourteen Academy Award nominations ever to be accused of having a "thin filmography."
Last night USA Network televised the ceremony in which Warren Beatty was given an AFI Lifetime Achievement Award. Now Popwatch's Christian Blauvelt isn't so sure Beatty deserved it. According to Blauvelt, Beatty has "the thinnest filmography of any star of his stature." More specifically, Blauvelt has two arguments against Beatty's award: (1) he hasn't made nearly as many movies in the last 30 years as, say, Robert Duvall and (2) some of the movies he has made were bad. Now, we never even knew before how strongly we felt on this issue, but Blauvelt's post made us want to defend Warren Beatty. Who knew we cared so much about Beatty, the only guy with fourteen Academy Award nominations ever to be accused of having a "thin filmography"?
Blauvelt claims that Duvall "has made almost 65 films" since 1978, to Beatty's eight. (The number looks suspiciously like the result of looking up "Robert Duvall" on IMDb, going down through 1978, counting all TV movies, video games, cameos, and other detritus). Kevin Bacon, using the same measure, has made 64 "films" in that period of time — and none of his are video games. Get ready for your AFI Lifetime Achievement Award, Kevin Bacon!
As to uneven quality? Blauvelt points out that, in addition to Bonnie and Clyde, Reds, and Dick Tracy, Beatty made Ishtar and Love Affair, which is a fair point. So fair that it almost pains us to mention Duvall's associations with Deep Impact, Phenomenon, and the Demi Moore version of The Scarlet Letter. (Forgot all about that one, didn't you?)
But the kicker is this: "Call me a film snob, but I'm even a bit of a skeptic when it comes to Bonnie [and Clyde]. Part of me thinks the film just rips off French New Wave movies that did it better, such as Breathless, Jules and Jim, and Pierrot le fou." As is explained in Pictures at a Revolution — written by Blauvelt's EW colleague Mark Harris — the Bonnie screenwriters explicitly set out to make an "American French New Wave film," and they doggedly (and almost successfully) pursued Truffaut to direct. The idea that connecting the finished product to the French New Wave would make you a "film snob" is endearingly self-deprecating, but not very realistic.
Look, Warren Beatty is, deservedly, a legend. Like every producer and actor, he's made his share of stinkers, but one of the reasons he's a legend is that for the most part he made the stinkers on the same terms he made his masterpieces: his own. That he was able to overcome the studio system that wanted to cast him as an empty pretty boy is why he's a legend. And Blauvelt better be careful; We kind of think Warren Beatty is going to show up with a bunch of thugs at the EW offices to shoot his ninth movie since 1978, What My Shoe Tastes Like, As Told by Christian Blauvelt. —Linda Holmes


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These 2 key social media stats are keeping the social web bubbling along. So maybe the reason your grandparents aren't turning up to that dinner party is that they have now discovered Facebook and Twitter!
These are some of the interesting social media stats and facts about leading sites. The year 2012 was not only a celebrated year for mobile, but it was also huge for social media. The year 2013 started with a bang, and social media stats are going to churn our imaginations. With Facebook IPO dominating the headlines and Twitter reaching 200 million active users, LinkedIn and Pinterest are also ready to intensify the battle of supremacy.
The main thing is to keep your profile updated. You must upload unique music but also sharing the song on different social networks such as Twitter and Facebook. The more you do this the more traffic you will send to your SoundCloud account. It is all about staying connected with your listeners which is why you should also make sure that you respond to comments that are left on your songs. This will show SoundCloud that you are active, and that people are liking what they listen to.
Soundcloud is a community platform that's heavily focused on allowing you to discover new stuff, through what's trending and by involving findings and content of people you've already connected with. As a result, a halfway decent Soundcloud stroller will often come across a new act.
Increasingly more so, social media profiles have become the go-to of the younger generation. The majority of people, and particularly the demographic of 15-25 years old, immediately looks to social media profiles when further investigating an artist they have just discovered. I'm sure you've come across a band that you liked on Facebook, went to their 'about' section and discovered that there weren't any links to their other social media profiles there. Annoying right? So straightforward, yet this key point is missed out on by so many acts, when it comes to promote Soundcloud tracks for free.
Soundcloud has integrated the ability to add social media links to your profile, and even adds the correct thumbnail images to the links of the larger sites. You can edit these under your 'Advanced Profile' settings. When setting these up, I recommend that you restrict the amount of networks you use. The essential links are: website (www.thebestbandever.com), Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.
Everything else is irrelevant, and the more options you present to people, the less likely they are to click any of them.
For those of you out there who are looking to build upon your credible profile and have a chance of reaching your targeted market we will always suggest that you use FREE SoundCloud likes tool (mentioned above) - instead of buying likes. The likes that this tool provides come from real active users who have been directed to your song of your choice due to their unique marketing methods which of course comply with this social networks terms and conditions. You'll get to know about their marketing methods - on the above article as well - they keep it that much transparent to the users.
It is very important that you either use the SoundCloud likes tool or do what ever you can to gain them because if you have a large amount of plays but very few likes it will not do your image any justice.


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From Prison to Success: Personal tips and advice for the Ex-con for achieving your Dreams and Goals After Prison
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1999 Honda Logo 1.4 petrol
Good value speed/money, but not comfort
The suspensions don't last long, after some 60.000kms you start to feel ALL the holes in the road.
It doesn't brake very well, even with ABS, crashed it once because of that. The front brake discs had to be replaced, luckily they were in the warranty.
Cheap quality interior, lots of noises from everywhere.
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It responds very well to the throttle! For such a small car it really kicks! You can easily ride at high speeds on the highway, but you will then find out where it's getting all its power. The fuel indicator is one of the fastest things on the car!
Would you buy another car from this manufacturer? Yes
Review Date: 30th November, 2001
4th Mar 2016, 01:31
I've owned one since 2007. The brakes work well if you gradually step on them. During panic braking, if you floor it you won't get a response. This is true with all ABS systems.
Mine has 160,000 km and is still going strong, and trust me the road conditions and drivers here in the Caribbean are insanely bad.


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The 9 absolute worst K-drama parents
Have you ever felt like your parents are the worst? Let us give you some encouragement that they are not! In these K-dramas, we have some parents who consistently put their own needs and desires above those of their children and who stop at nothing to hurt anyone that gets in their way to the point of putting other people's lives in danger. They have little compassion for anyone who lives outside their realm of rich and very privileged lives. They cause damage and destruction to all those around them. These are the parents we love to hate and make us grateful for the parents we do have!
1 and 2. Heirs
Kim Tan's mom who is not his real mom, but the mom that the world knows him to have, is horrible. She cares only for appearances and to have control over her family, keeping Kim Tan's real mom hidden in a house, never able to leave, just so the world will never know that Kim Tan's father had a child with another woman. Convoluted enough for you? Add to that Kim Tan's dad, who not only lets all of the above happen but also cares more for his company than his son's happiness and actively encourages his two sons to be at war with each other. Ugh. These parents are the worst. At least Kim Tan has one positive influence in his life — his biological mother, who, despite her crazy, loves her son and wants what is best for him.
3. Heirs
Part of what made Choi Young Do so lovable despite the horrible things he did to others was his relationship with his mom and dad. His mother abandons him, most likely because Choi Young Do's dad is just so horrible. You are sort of left hating the mom for leaving her child with this horrible man, but you feel that in all likelihood she didn't have any other choices. Choi Young Do's dad is the worst. He clearly has huge insecurities and feels the only way to deal with them is to show his physical prowress over his son by resorting to choking him in a fight. Not to mention the emotional torment his has to suffer. Choi Young Do had no positive influences in his life after his mother left, so it's easy to see how he ended up the way he did. It also makes it especially meaningful when he fights against his past and attempts to be a better person.
Okay, I understand on one small level how Goo Joon Pyo's mom is trying to protect her business and empire, but it's just the way she goes about it that is so horrific. Sure Goo Joon Pyo had a lonely childhood, but that wouldn't be enough to get the mom on the list. Once Geum Jan Di is known to be the girlfriend of Goo Joon Pyo, his mom stops at nothing to get Geum Jan Di out of his life. She destroys Jan Di's fathers business, leaving them destitute. She has the only building that Geum Jan Di can afford to live in knocked down. She threatens, bribes, and does every other intolerable thing to split them up. Despite all this, Geum Jan Di and Goo Joon Pyo prevail and there is a small glimmer of hope that Goo Joon Pyo's mom has had a change of heart. Am I the only one who saw that? It's probably just my eternally hopeful and optimistic side talking there!
5. Pinocchio
Ugh! Ugh, ugh, ugh! Words cannot describe how despicable of a person she is. She destroys a family without a thought, makes their lives so bad that a mother decides to commit suicide and take her son with her, and drives another boy to murder. Despite all that, she convinces herself that she didn't do anything wrong. I think Jin Kyung, who plays Song Cha Ok, is absolutely amazing at playing this role. She is clearly evil, but she also has a vulnerable side that she lets you see every once in a while. She admits that through all of her decisions she has made, leaving her daughter was a hard one. The sadness she lets us see when her media empire starts to crumble around her and she has to face some of the things she has done, you almost feel a little sorry for her. But then she goes and does something equally awful and you're back to where you started.
Han Tae-hwa and Han Yu Ri's mother is absolutely the worst. When she first starts dating Han Jung Suh's father, she seems pretty normal. But it quickly becomes apparent that she is out to destroy everyone. She uses her own daughter to try and ruin Han Jung Suh's relationship with her childhood love Cha Song-ju. Not only that, but she physically abuses Han Jung Suh in some truly despicable and heart breaking ways. She even has her own son put in prison just to keep her plan moving forward. She is a horrible human with no redeeming qualities.
Jang Yi Kyung's mom looks into the story of the Taeyang group and finds out about a supposed curse that means if her daughter marries Choi Kang Joo, she will die. On the one hand, her heart isn't completely black and broken as she wants to protect her daughter from that fate. But instead of just giving up, which would mean the likely failure of her construction company, she finds another girl who looks exactly like her daughter and gets her to pretend to be Jang Yi Kyung. She willingly put another girl/s life in danger, hoping that she will benefit from it financially!
Choi Kang Joo's mother is not quite as despicable as Jang Yi Kyung's mom, but she still makes some pretty poor decisions. Due to the fact that she has her own horrible mom to deal with and her husband who clearly doesn't love her and misses his first wife, I'm not surprised she is a bitter and sad person. But still she plays with people's lives just so her own mom's secret won't be revealed to the world, and in the end she is just as bad as so many other rich K-drama moms who feel that the son should not marry a poor girl. Clearly poor people are beneath them.
I'll admit that she does try to make up for some of her mistakes towards the end of the show, but the fact is she still made some horrible decisions. There was no reason she couldn't have taken care of her son when her mother-in-law came begging for her help. She does it in the name of being a good step mother, but truthfully she's not so great at that either. Besides which, is there really only enough love in her heart for one son? So what if her stepson wouldn't have liked it; he'd have to change and be a better person. She leaves her son alone, and actually requests that he not be taken care of because it's better for her step son? She has some seriously bad instincts, and her communication skills are sincerely lacking. At least she begins to see this at the end of the show, but the hatred in our hearts has grown pretty strong by then. I'm not sure she was able to redeem herself.
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Published: 2005-11-15
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Now, here at last, is McCourt's long-awaited book about how his thirty-year teaching career shaped his second act as a writer. Teacher Man is also an urgent tribute to teachers everywhere. In bold and spirited prose featuring his irreverent wit and heartbreaking honesty, McCourt records the trials, triumphs and surprises he faces in public high schools around New York City. His methods anything but conventional, McCourt creates a lasting impact on his students through imaginative assignments (he instructs one class to write "An Excuse Note from Adam or Eve to God"), singalongs (featuring recipe ingredients as lyrics), and field trips (imagine taking twenty-nine rowdy girls to a movie in Times Square!).
McCourt struggles to find his way in the classroom and spends his evenings drinking with writers and dreaming of one day putting his own story to paper. Teacher Man shows McCourt developing his unparalleled ability to tell a great story as, five days a week, five periods per day, he works to gain the attention and respect of unruly, hormonally charged or indifferent adolescents. McCourt's rocky marriage, his failed attempt to get a Ph.D. at Trinity College, Dublin, and his repeated firings due to his propensity to talk back to his superiors ironically lead him to New York's most prestigious school, Stuyvesant High School, where he finally finds a place and a voice. "Doggedness," he says, is "not as glamorous as ambition or talent or intellect or charm, but still the one thing that got me through the days and nights."
For McCourt, storytelling itself is the source of salvation, and in Teacher Man the journey to redemption -- and literary fame -- is an exhilarating adventure.
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Hard lessons
Frank McCourt recalls the challenges of New York City classrooms
Considering the pain and suffering he experienced at the hands of no-nonsense headmasters during his Catholic school days in Limerick, Ireland, it's a wonder even to Frank McCourt that he went on to spend three decades as a high school English teacher in the New York City school system. Had he not, late in life, written Angela's Ashes, for which he won the Pulitzer Prize and became in his words "mick of the moment," he would have slipped, upon retirement, from anonymity to obscurity, just another faceless, voiceless foot soldier on the frontlines of illiteracy. Today, the world seeks the insights and opinions for which, as a mere teacher, he was never asked.
"I think becoming a teacher was the craziest thing I could have done," McCourt says by phone from New York. "I would have been quite happy in an office somewhere, nine to five, although that would have driven me crazy looking at the clock. But I wouldn't have cared about what I was doing. There would have been no challenge. Going into the classroom was a mighty challenge."
Submitted as proof: Teacher Man, the final book in his autobiographical trilogy (with Angela's Ashes and 'Tis), a more-bitter-than-sweet look back at age 75 on a teaching career about which McCourt has decidedly mixed feelings. Here, McCourt takes to task bumbling administrators, callous instructors and an educational system that seems perpetually intent on doing everything but educating. Suffice to say, this is no Up the Down Staircase.
What McCourt always wanted to do, he says, was write. But by the time he returned to America at age 19, his impoverished Irish childhood had shattered his confidence and left him with minimal expectations.
"The lowest! The lowest! I never expected to go to college. I was ready to settle for some low-level job, clerk in a bank or insurance company, anything. I would have made a great elevator operator or something like that," he says. "You get out (of poverty) but you don't get out; it's with you for the rest of your life unless you're very conscious and you go on and study what it was and look at the damage that was done and you remedy it. But I wasn't like that."
In Teacher Man, McCourt describes how, fresh out of New York University, he was almost fired his first day of teaching at McKee Vo-Tech on Staten Island for intercepting and eating a flying baloney sandwich. His second day, he triggered calls from angry parents for a classroom comment about friendship with sheep. Just showing up for work in those Blackboard Jungle days took every available ounce of will.
"I had absolute dread similar to what I felt as a kid going to school in Ireland," he recalls. "We went to school in a state of terror because you never knew which way the schoolmaster would jump; you never knew what you didn't know and of course he would ask you what you didn't know and then he would pounce on you and drag you out of your seat and knock you around the room. Kids here complain about going to school but we had reason to be terrified. Our knees would knock."
McCourt soon learned to use his lilting accent and natural storytelling gift to capture and hold the attention of a classroom full of adolescents. His techniques were admittedly unconventional; he once assigned students to write their mother's favorite recipes, then bring the finished products to a class potluck lunch in the park. By his estimation, it took him 15 years to figure out how to actually teach with authority.
"They knew I was a novice and I think they gave me a break, mainly because of my accent and my stupid inability to do anything right," he says. "Except that I would make an occasional breakthrough, which consisted of me being human and honest, and that's what carried me along for the next 15 years, going from McKee to Fashion Industries to Seward Park and Stuyvesant, which was heaven."
The harder he worked, the more he resented the school administrators with their private offices, secretaries and leisure time.
"It's a big racket, they get so many benefits," he says. "The real hardest workers in the system are the people in the classroom. It's the only profession where you're paid more for not doing it! And there are the peripheral jobs: walking the hallways, checking the lavatories, supervising the cafeteria. This is demeaning, and you only do this to teachers. You don't expect a surgeon to mop the floor in the operating room, but that's the equivalent of what teachers have to do."
If he had it to do over again, would he go into teaching? Probably not.
"I suppose in the back of my head the thing I always wanted to do was write, but write what? I didn't know. Nobody told me you had to find your own style; I wanted to be Hemingway or Sean O'Casey. In retrospect, I would have thrown caution to the winds and become a busboy and lived cheaply and repaired to my attic and struggled with my writing, but I didn't know enough. And I certainly wasn't going to write about my life; that was the last thing on my mind, to write about this poverty. The shame; it was the shame. But the opposite prevails in American life, which is, this is your material so get into it, buster. Which is what I did."
Does Teacher Man truly mark the end of his memoirs?
"Yeah, that's it," McCourt says with finality. "If you call me next year, you won't find me talking about myself. I want to write a novel that has nothing to do with me; maybe the ideal me, a debonair buccaneer lover of the ages, a man who defies the Vatican and the White House, something like that. Maybe I'm entering my epic period!"
Jay MacDonald writes professionally in Oxford, Mississippi.


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We had a good time of prayer last night with a handful of high school students. We've just finished going through the book of Titus, where Paul concludes with the need for the church to be devoted to "doing what is good, in order to provide for urgent needs and not live unproductive lives". I wanted to do something tangible together as an expression of our desire to do what is good.
The typical raking, cleaning, physical service projects came to mind, but I wanted to start somewhere less traveled. I think prayer is an often overlooked mode of service, so I decided to spend the time we had together doing just that. I put several topics in a hat – each of our staff members, our leadership team of staff and elders, friends, outreach to our community & schools, White Water Christian Church, national leaders, parents, etc. One of us would pull a topic out of the hat, we'd discuss how we could be praying for that particular issue or person, then that student would pray.
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Charles Spencer reviews How to Curse at Bush Theatre, London
There's a fine line in the theatre between being intrigued by a play and being merely irritated by it. I regret to say that Ian McHugh's How to Curse finally falls into the latter category.
Imagine a bizarre melange of Shakespeare's The Tempest, Mark Ravenhill's Shopping and F***ing, Jonathan Harvey's Beautiful Thing and the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations and you will get some idea of this strange and self-indulgent drama by first-time playwright McHugh.
The action is set in a squalid bedsit in Great Yarmouth. It belongs to Nick, a disconcertingly intense youth of 17 who rarely troubles to wash and sees himself as a latterday Prospero. Surrounded by books and wearing an old blanket as his magic garment, he is determined to conjure up a great storm at sea.
Initially, he is helped by Miranda, another bright teenager who is intrigued by this strange boy, but Nick is looking for someone else. When he meets William while shoplifting in Superdrug, Nick becomes convinced he has found his Ariel.
William is a damaged, gay 17-year-old with a penchant for self-harming, and things quickly begin to get out of hand in this teenage ménage à trois in which the characters are never sure of their true feelings for each other.
As a study of the raw sensitivities and confusions of adolescence, the piece works pretty well, but I never quite believed in the bookishness of Nick and Miranda, who are constantly quoting not only from Shakespeare, but also from Virginia Woolf, Keats, Walt Whitman, Coleridge and Thomas De Quincey.
They are certainly the best-read kids I've ever encountered, and the suspicion deepens that the play, whose author is 31 rather than the magpie literary teen I'd fondly imagined, is merely bumming a ride on other people's talent. Certainly his own workaday dialogue isn't a patch on his artfully lifted quotations.
As the play progresses, it becomes ever more preposterous, with the characters performing a magic ritual, Nick issuing fierce incantations and some half-hearted, supposedly spooky special effects – the radio turning itself on and off and books flying from the shelves.
Unlike Blithe Spirit, however, we are meant to take this tosh seriously, since it is evidently meant to symbolise the disturbed Nick's belated acceptance that he is gay.
How to Curse is the first play the Bush's new artistic director, Josie Rourke, has decided to direct herself, and I'm afraid she has made a duff choice.
Al Weaver undoubtedly has an intriguing otherworldly quality as the neurotic Nick, Emily Beecham is both mischievous and sexy as Miranda and Robert Boulter brings a touching vulnerability to the stage as William.
But these strong performances cannot disguise the fact that the play is up to its neck in debt to others, and disastrously lacks a dramatic voice and vision of its own.
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In my previous post I looked at some steps that could be implemented to improve Question Period and at the same time help to fix our dysfunctional parliament. These included allowing the Speaker to skip over disruptive MPs whose names are on his list of questioners for that day, and extending Question Period beyond 3 p.m. when the government side wastes time with disruptive behavior or standing ovations for ministers.
Today I will suggest a few other Question Period remedies. Again, these don't require public consultations as was suggested for Michael Chong's major overhaul of Question Period. These are much easier to work out between the Speaker and opposition House Leaders.
It has long been a practice that the use of props is not permitted. The most recent example, although not part of Question Period itself, was Jason Kenney's use of a backdrop when appearing at a standing committee. These were ordered taking down when opposition members wisely protested.
To improve the flow in Question Period, as well as cut back on some of the negative attacks each side inflicts on the other, I would suggest the reading of notes when asking a question or a Question Period briefing book (on the government side) be treated the same as the use of props.
This would force MPs and cabinet ministers to ask and answer questions without reading them. It will also cut down on a lot of the fancy attack questions we see and stop a lot of the scripted answers we get from ministers. Both of these increase the temperature and bad blood between the opposing sides in the House. The government side resents the carefully-worded insults hurled at ministers and the opposition is frustrated when answers are read from a carefully prepared script that often ignores the question.
Gone would be a lot of the over-the-top attack questions that MPs or their staff have spent hours writing to get that perfect 10-second clip on TV. Gone too will be most of the pushback quotes the government side likes to use on opposition questioners.
It is a small step, but a lot of the negativism in Question Period comes from the use of these carefully worded questions and answers. It would be up to the House Leaders and the Speaker to agree on when exceptions might be allowed. For instance, quoting from media reports, quoting statistics, etc.
It would also be a small step to improving public perception of our MPs and ministers. Nothing is more boring than watching a minister stand and read an answer word for word. Especially when they read the same answer if asked several questions in a row. The public is left with the perception that the minister doesn't know the file when in reality they most likely do.
Are our MPs incapable of asking a 35 second question without reading it word for word? Are our ministers so poorly briefed that they can't respond to a question within 35 seconds without reading a scripted answer word for word?
The answer is that they are quite capable of doing so. Wouldn't it be nice to see MPs and ministers think on their feet for a change? At the same time this would highlight those MPs and ministers that are really good and flag those who don't measure up.
None of these suggestions by themselves will cure the ills of Question Period or eliminate the caustic atmosphere in the House, but when added together they will make a difference.
Keith Beardsley was a senior Conservative staffer with over two decades of experience with Question Period. His blog can be found here


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PATIENCE is not a commodity most football fans are blessed with, especially when they believe their side ought to be sweeping all before them.
A few - and that's all it was - allowed their frustration to get the better of them last weekend at Barnsley and berate Brian Little for what they saw was a lack of adventure resulting in two points dropped against modest opposition.
It's all very well focusing on one result but the bigger picture tells a much different story. With only six weeks of the season gone, we are in third position without really hitting top gear, defeated just once, and and have conceded fewer goals than any side in the division.
Now, I know some supporters are concerned by the shortage of goals, but in my book you always mark a potential promotion side by their capacity to travel and regularly give nothing away.
Indeed, nothing builds confidence better than clean sheets, and we recorded another in the 2-0 defeat of Oldham on Tuesday thanks to another solid performance from a defence in which Ian Sharps was immense.
If by next May Rovers have still not won away from home or delivered a promotion run worthy of such an expensively assembled squad, then those who laid into Brian with such venom might be justified in their criticism.
But get real lads, we've played eight games, are hiding in the bushes, as Bill Shankly once said, on the shoulders of leaders Luton, and yet some of you are moaning!
Do yourselves a favour. Save all that pumping adrenaline for getting behind the team against Wrexham today.
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E-update From the Desk of Governor Scott Walker
One of the most important duties I have serving as your Governor is to provide you directly with updates related to the operation of our state government. I also frequently provide updates on Facebook (Governor Scott Walker) and Twitter (@govwalker). Please feel free to share this update with your family, friends, and others who may be interested in state government operations.
Building Our Rainy Day Fund
Recently, the Department of Administration released the 2012 Annual Fiscal Report, which shows we finished the fiscal year 2012 with a positive fund balance of more than $342 million. Because of this, we contributed $108.7 million to the state rainy day fund, the largest deposit in state history. It's also the first time the state has added to the fund in two back-to-back years. This is critical, because as we've seen, the economy can change rapidly.
As we continue our work on the next budget, we remain committed to making the tough decisions necessary to avoid tax increases while maintaining services. Moving forward, our priorities are creating jobs, developing our workforce, investing in infrastructure, reforming government, and transforming education.
Because of our actions to control spending and hold the line on taxes while keeping government services intact, the next generation will not be buried under a mountain of economically crippling debt.
When I took office, we were facing a $3.6 billion deficit. Now, we're making a record contribution to the rainy day fund. Anyone who writes a budget at home knows that you have to make tough decisions to stop overspending and start saving.
We've done that, because our decisions help foster sustained private sector economic growth and job creation, instead of double-digit tax increases, massive private sector job losses, and huge budget deficits we've seen in the past, so we can continue to have balanced budgets for many years to come.
The decisions we make will always be made with you, the people of Wisconsin, in mind. We are committed to running an effective and efficient government.
Get to Know a Cabinet Member: Stephanie Klett
As Governor, one of the most important tasks I have is to appoint and communicate with leaders in each state agency. These leaders, called secretaries, ensure agencies run smoothly and efficiently as they operate state government and implement government reforms. For a few weeks, in lieu of the "Just Ask the Governor" section, I will be highlighting a cabinet secretary and providing a brief overview of the department he or she oversees. I hope these updates will provide you with practical information about state government operations, especially as we head into the next budget cycle.
Stephanie Klett is a name you may recognize. She has traveled Wisconsin non-stop for the past two decades as the host of Discover Wisconsin, and was the perfect choice to serve as Secretary of the Department of Tourism. She's logged more than one million miles crisscrossing the state. Few people know more about the fun Wisconsin's 72 counties have to offer than Stephanie does! She's also the only Tourism Secretary in the nation who has one Emmy and eight Emmy nominations - two while serving as Secretary.Stephanie brings unmatched energy and enthusiasm to her job of leading the state's $16 billion tourism industry. She shares deeply in my commitment to grow jobs for Wisconsin and is passionate about the role that tourism can play. The mission of the Department of Tourism is to market Wisconsin as the Midwest's premier travel destination for fun. In the last 20 months, the Department of Tourism has succeeded in raising the bar and bringing new energy to all of their marketing efforts. A few of their recent accomplishments include:
- Growing the tourism economy which was up 8% – a $1.2 billion increase in 2011,
- Recognition from a variety of national awards and honors for their public relations and social media campaigns,
- Recruitment of Hollywood directors and Wisconsin natives David and Jerry Zucker and celebrities Jordy Nelson, Robert Hayes, Henry Winkler and Tony Shalhoub to raise the profile of the state's tourism ads,
- Travel Wisconsin Welcome Centers closed under the previous administration have been re-opened under a new public-private partnership model and
- Introduction of new industry programs such as customer service training and tourism assessments to provide tools local communities need to grow their tourism economy.
Stephanie lives in Beloit, where she grew up the only girl among nine brothers. She credits them for her sense of humor and for toughening her up.
Congradulations to Northland Pines School SuperintendentMike Richie: National 2012 Superintendent of the Year
We have some amazing, talented people here in Wisconsin – Ryan Braun, Aaron Rodgers, and Miss America Laura Kaeppeler just to name a few. But I'm often impressed by the skills and leadership of the people I meet traveling the state who are not in the spotlight. One of those people is Dr. Mike Richie, Superintendent of the Northland Pines School District in Eagle River.
Recently, Dr. Richie was named 2012 Superintendent of the Year by the National Association of School Superintendents. It is a very well-deserved honor.
Dr. Richie is an innovative, forward-thinker who is dedicated to always doing what is best for the students in his district. He is a strong leader, who excels at thinking outside of the box and is always looking for new ways to provide the very best education while also looking for options to increase efficiency.
Mike Richie, and the Northland Pines School Board, have a positive approach to running their district. When I visited earlier this year, I was greeted by an enthusiastic, energetic and dedicated staff, passionate about providing the best possible education for the students in the district.
Under Mike's leadership, the Northland Pines School District lowered the tax levy, raised revenue by recruiting more students, and received national recognition for the building of the award-winning, cutting-edge high school.
Mike knows for a school district to excel, you need a strong, positive partnership with the community, so he forged relationships with residents, business leaders, and charitable organizations.
Congratulations to Dr. Richie for being named 2012 Superintendent of the Year.
It has been a pleasure communicating with you. It is an honor to serve as your Governor and represent the residents of Wisconsin.
Governor Scott Walker
Governor Scott Walker


text: Due to a going through a period lacking activity, I've decided to jump on the bandwagon and start compiling ideas into a single thread for people to browse through. This list will obviously grow and shrink according to the rate at which I can pump out ideas and those ideas get snapped up. The Raptor's Nest of Roleplays Warhammer 40,000: The Albion Cataclysm Setting: Imperium of Man Pleasure World Albion Genre: Fandom, Action-Adventure, Sci-Fi Plot: The RP would follow the dramatic domino effect of war that occurred on Albion following the invasion of the world by WAAAGH! Rozghul and a splinter fleet of the Tyranid Hive Fleet Leviathan. A number of Space Marine Chapters and Imperial Guard Regiments are called in to assist the Planetary Defense Force, and are faced not only with the chaotic melee between the Greenskins and Tyranids, but also with a large number of Chaos Cultists. And as if the massive war between the four factions wasn't enough, yet another terror lurks beneath the surface... League of Legends: Piltover Pandemonium Setting: Runeterra, City of Piltover Genre: Fantasy, Steampunk, Action-Adventure Plot: For years, the city of Piltover was one of, if not the center of technological advancement on Runeterra, rivaled only by the degenerate mad scientists of neighboring Zaun. It was a pristine and peaceful city, the organized crime syndicates largely quelled by the Sheriff Caitlyn and local enforcer, Vi. And then, she came. Bringing explosions, death, and pink-painted chaos to the streets of Piltover, the madwoman Jinx serves as the rival of the two chiefs of justice in the city, and the catalyst for the gradual downfall of Piltover. However, her arrival has also brought on a new onslaught of crazed inventors and anarchists who seek to outdo or collaborate with the insane "artist". Dark Vale Unlimited Setting: Modern day Earth, virtual reality of the Dark Vale Unlimited VRMMORPG. Genre: Fandom, Sci-Fi, Modern, Action-Adventure Plot: Everyone knows the story by now. Sword Art Online, one of the flagship launches in the VR gaming industry, trapped it's 10,000 players inside the game for two years until one player, tag name Kirito, beat the creator of SAO in a duel. A year later, another game comes out called Alfheim Online. This too became embroiled in controversy as it was revealed that a number of SAO players had been virtually kidnapped when the Alfheim creators gained control of SAO's servers. Once again, Kirito saved the players. He also saved the industry itself when it seemed on the verge of collapse by releasing the Seed on the internet, allowing for safer and independent creation of VRMMO games. He continued to serve the public good in later adventures until he was rendered comatose in a vicious attack by a murderer from SAO. After enduring years spent inside of yet another virtual reality established by the Japanese government, Kirito was forcibly recruited into the VR security branch of the Japanese Self-Defense Forces. Years later, one game rises to prominence: Dark Vale Unlimited, a flagship release for the Black Blood corporation and one of the very first VR survival-horror games. The first 1,000 players log on, expecting to enjoy the game's new mechanics immediately. Instead, they are frozen in terror at the appearance of an impossibly powerful boss monster in combat against what seemed to be a high-level player character. The battle ended swiftly, with the player and monster ending their fight by locking themselves in an inaccessible cage, which swiftly disappeared from the spawn area. The 1,000 players are automatically advanced to level 5, and given a hefty amount of in-game currency and equipment. No one else experiences the event, but everyone knows that the end goal of the game is to find and survive the horrors of the hidden Cage, and to unlock the secrets within it. Ascension Setting: Alternate reality Earth Genre: Modern Fantasy, Alternate Universe, Action, Drama Plot: The world didn't always have superheroes. But the world did always have gods. Two, to be specific. And both are dead. The two had always been at war, one being the embodiment of Creation and the other of Destruction. They finally met their end over the Atlantic, the resulting explosion powerful enough to cause tsunamis all over the American East Coast and the shores of Spain, France, and North Africa. But even gods have to follow their own laws. Nothing can truly be destroyed. Only changed. Their change specifically was the creation of the Shards; living pieces embodying a singular aspect of the god from which they originated, they chose their bearers and changed them. From these unions were born the first heroes and villains, mortal demigods created to continue the mission of their greater wholes. However, things got a little off track when it came to heroism and villainy... OOC


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For maritime security experts, there were a lot of lessons learned after the 2012 Republican National Convention (RNC) in Tampa, Florida. That's why those experts are meeting for Maritime Security NSSE July 7-8 in Cleveland, Ohio, the site of the 2016 RNC, to learn from the professionals who planned and executed the maritime safety and security efforts for the Tampa event.
The Republican and Democratic conventions are considered national special security events (NSSEs), and for many of these major events that are attended by huge numbers of people are on or near water. The attendees represent federal, state, and local jurisdictions, including the U.S. Coast Guard; U.S. Customs and Border Protection; and municipal sheriff and police departments.
Participants are learning about best practices and emerging technologies; building maritime domain and situational awareness; creating and enforcing security zones; high value asset escorts and protection; leveraging social media for situational awareness; and digital solutions and their necessary cyber protections.
"The preparations and factors important to execute an NSSE are similar to a major weather event, such as a hurricane that might hit the British Virgin Islands," says Chief Inspector Paula Alleyne of the Royal Virgin Island Police Force. "We also have festivals and events, and conduct exercises for tsunamis or transportation accidents. So this conference has been valuable."
"This conference has been extremely targeted on NSSEs, and is the only conference of its kind to specifically address the challenges and solutions for major event security such as Super Bowls, political conventions, [and] presidential inaugurations; Olympics; summits; and visiting heads of state," says Will Lusk of Homeland Security Outlook, the conference organizer.


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I was so excited to receive a package in the mail for Acai Power, because I was running out of Açaí. In the package, I received a 150g sampler pack of Açaí powder, a pack of stickers, two temporary tattoos and a t-shirt with their logo on it, along with a brochure that stated their other products and the history of the company.
It was back in 2001 on a business trip when entrepreneur, avid surfer, and founder of Amazon Power, Americo Tognetti realized the distinct lack of Acai and Acai products in the Australian market. Americo saw the passion Australian's had for healthy living and saw a perfect fit for the Acai berry found in his home country of Brazil. After three years of hard work Americo finally introduced Acai to Australia in 2004. Since then he, through his business Amazon Power, has been spreading the word throughout Australia, teaching Australian's how to eat and prepare Acai as the locals do in the streets if Brazil. Amazon Power and It's exclusive supplier together are the largest buyer of Acai world wide and as a result is able to ensure the highest quality Acai at the best prices.
Acai contains high amounts of antioxidants which are great for your skin, hair, and cell replenishment. The berry also contains large amounts of fiber, essential fatty acids, amino acids, and vitamin C which help to improve your digestion, nervous system, promote muscle performance, energy production, endurance, strength and helps to improve your overall health.
I love the taste acai powder so I put it into all my smoothie bowls or nice-creams to give them an extra boost. If you don't like the taste of the powder you can buy it in capsules or tablets, which are also perfect for people that are on the go and don't have time to make a smoothie or bowl. I made an acai bowl using this powder. (recipe below)
The t-shirt I received is a little big for me, so I wear it as a pajama top and I love it. It's made from 100% combed cotton and is printed with their logo, designed by Karina Teixeira.
I haven't used the stickers or tattoos yet, because I am starting school in less than a week and don't want to get in trouble from wearing them. I will probably put the stickers on my computer or my phone.
- 4 tablespoons of acai powder
- 2 frozen bananas
- 1 cup of frozen blueberries
- 1 cup of plant based milk
- 1 teaspoon of sweetener
- 1 teaspoon of cacao (optional)
Add everything into a high-speed blender or food processor and blend for about 3 minutes until everything is smooth and creamy.
Pour into a bowl or jar and top with granola, nuts, seeds, and your favourite fruits.
This is my favourite way to use acai (well actually the only way I know how to).
If you have any other ways how to use it send me a message on Instagram or Facebook and ill check it out.


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We all need a faithful friend at teatime.
She is always in her place, prepared with a cup of warm coffee. A Dröppelmina is a faithful servant. But unlike the name Minna suggests, we're not talking about a woman. The Dröppelminna is a round-bodied coffee pot.
They're traditionally made of metal and have two handles and a tiny spout from which hot coffee flows. Dröppeln is local dialect in the Rhineland region for tropfen or "to drip." Coffee used to be brewed directly in the Dröppelminna. The coffee grounds would often block the spout so that the coffee would slowly drip out, hence the name.
The Dröppelminna is a traditional part of a Bergisch spread, accompanied with sweet bread, rice pudding, rye bread, quark, butter and waffles. But those indulging in a Bergisch spread on a regular basis run the risk of starting to look like a Dröppelminna - namely, rotund.