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Bruce Lee believed in, The art of fighting without fighting. The idea of creating an album with out a concept, in itself, seems almost damn near impossible, but shows true ambition. Wu-Tang affiliate, former MC, and crew A&R, Dreddy Kruger has done just that. He recently stepped up to man the controls of Think Differently.
The recently released project finds core and other Wu affiliates alongside top billing MCs in the underground and independent markets. The prospects of GZA & Ras Kass or MF Doom and RZA have hyped the album, and led to fast sales through digital downloading. As he leaves this project to A&R the Wu-Tangs next group album, AllHipHop.com spoke to Dreddy Kruger on thinking differently with this album, the evolving sound of Wu, and how much RZA charges for a beat. Peep game.
AllHipHop.com: Think Differently is billed to be the first collaborative Wu-Tang effort. In my mind, Iron Flag tried to achieve that, and wasnt so successful.
Dreddy Kruger: This album will change all of that. Its exciting. People are getting excited for a Hip-Hop project for a change. I know this because of heads that have been reaching out on this.
AllHipHop.com: Give me some examples of your A&R outlook
Dreddy Kruger: If you have eight strong bars, and you said everything that you needed to in those eight, then you need to drop that first and then a short hook, another verse and get in and get out. I have a lot of tracks that clock in under three minutes. I want cats to be like, Damn, I wish that I could hear more of this. When the corporations took control of Hip-Hop and record making, thats when the talent went drastically down. It made no difference if you were from the urban or the suburban culture. They made it as a product that they could market and sell. Thats what killing Hip-Hop. They dont care about the integrity of it. They just are about making a quick dollar and move on to the next artist. Thats why everyone thinks that they can do this s**t. Cats are a dime a dozen. Back in the day when I would hear a Rakim album, I never imagined ever being able to do anything like that, let alone be on a track with him. I was in awe. Think Differently, has the real MCs, the real n***as.
AllHipHop.com: Was the project originally to surround Wu-Tang?
Dreddy Kruger: Yeah, that was the whole idea. It was my whole concept. I had all of the beats first. I picked up some old s**t from RZA and a few other cats. An album with Wu-Tang productions and Wu-Tang artists, mixed in with independent artists and producers. I wanted to basically create a Wu sounding album with all of theses guest appearances on it. Im not even talking about a Wu-Tang record. People have been waiting to hear something like this for a long time.
AllHipHop.com: How did you choose the artists? You have MF Doom, Tragedy, and Ras Kass to name a few.
Dreddy Kruger: Ive had some of the beats for over five years. In the end, it took about three months to record the whole thing. I had the beats first. I had the whole album sequenced as to how I wanted to hear it. When I started listening to it over and over, I started A&R-ing the whole thing. I wanted to hear MF Doom on a track, but not with a Doom beat, but instead a RZA beat. I want to bring Doom into our world.
AllHipHop.com: Yeah, Doom just did Danger Doom and had Ghost Face on a track.
Dreddy Kruger: I was the A&R for that record also. I heard that record and I like it, but to me its a fun comical album. Its not on a serious record. I knew that with the Think Differently project that I was doing was something that people wanted to hear. People have been wanting to hear this for about five years or so. They have been wanting to hear Wu-Tang matched up with other artists because it was something that we never really done in the past. The only artists to ever really have songs with us were Busta, Red Man and Nas. Outside of that its real limited. Off the bat I knew that people wanted hear Sean Price, C-Ray Walz and Sunz of Man on an album.
AllHipHop.com: There's the mainstream and underground scenes; Wu crosses into both genres. What do you think that album is going to do as far as uniting Hip-Hop fans?
Dreddy Kruger: I want the people to judge that. Time will tell. I just wanted to put out an album with no label politics. This is what the independent cats are supposed to be doing in the first place. I just wanted to bring back the 93-95 RZA sound. All of these cats grew up listening to Wu-Tang, but Wu doesnt necessarily know who all of these cats are. Thats kind of where I got the whole idea. Doom came to me four years back through a friend and wanted to have RZA on his album. He had like $5-7000 and wanted RZA to do whatever he could to do for that price. He didnt really even know who he was. I had to break it down to him on the KMD Peach Fuzz.
AllHipHop.com: When Doom was was Zev Love X
Dreddy Kruger: Exactly, but RZA didnt really know who he was, and he never really got back to me on it. When RZA doesnt get back to me on a project, then I know that hes not really that interested. Like I said, the money was low and RZA gets like $40-50,000 for s**t. Thats why when I had an opportunity to do this whole project; I wanted to get Doom on a RZA beat. I told him, Dont worry about nothing son, you on a RZA beat Were about to make history.
AllHipHop.com: Youve got so many artists on here. I wanna know, who couldnt you get on?
Dreddy Kruger: I didnt have enough time to reach out to them, but we might be doing some remix s**t. Mos Def is really on a major label. Its Wu-tang reaching the indi. culture. I didnt really want to go outside of that. I could have got cats like Redman, but those kinds of cats on major labels, they get enough exposure. I was gonna put Mos on a song with GZA too.
AllHipHop.com: I could see Mos and Little Brother doing some stuff on the album...
Dreddy Kruger: Yeah, but not on a Little Brother track, but rather a Wu sounding track. I even wanted to hear how Little Brother sounds on some of our stuff. 9th Wonder, his stuff sounds low and distorted. It has kind of a demo sound. Its good, but when your stuff is coming over the air and now you have cats with Ipods, you hear everything through head phones. It all makes the difference.
AllHipHop.com: Was this project a way to get lesser known Wu affiliates familiar to the masses?
Dreddy Kruger: Thats one of the things that has been f**king up Wu projects in the past. All the B-artists, people get tired of that. They want to hear cats that they know. What you have to do is sprinkle them in. I didnt want to put too many Wu or underground cats on it.
AllHipHop.com: Im surprised that no one has attempted to do a project like this before.
Dreddy Kruger: Thats what I told all the independent cats. We bring it all together and we can run some s**t. Look at Big Boi. He has a new compilation and is also signed to Virgin, but the [album] aint what it could be. Do you know the type of power this cat has and what he could do with that kind of major label backing?
AllHipHop.com: Why wasnt Ghost on it?
Dreddy Kruger: I was going to put one of the Ghost/Doom records on it. His label, hes on Def Jam, its not as simple as people think. They dont know the type of business, stress and pressure that I had to put down. Def Jam didnt want anything to come from Ghost until his album came out.
AllHipHop.com: How does it feel to be on the other side of the mic? You worked for Wu, now youre ordering cats around.
Dreddy Kruger: I dont look at it like that. I look at everything as we and not me. Im trying to do everything for the king. I saw a weak link that we had. Im trying to fix that. We dont really have an A&R to put music together through an executive stand point. Everyone wants to be an MC or producer. RZA is the only business minded cat out of all of that cats that roll with us. My first s**t was Masta Killas album, then with Black Market Militia. They gave me the blessing to step further. People loved it. I had every Wu member on Killas album all stapled in throughout it. He was not overshadowed. He definitely still shined.


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She earned the definition and status of the pride of Africa's women entrepreneurs. She floated the very first air-operated emergency medical service – Flying Doctors, in West Africa, an uncommon vision she pursued with passion, tenacity and, without exaggeration, aggression. An African of Africans Olamide Orekunrin was born in 1987 in London, England and grew up under the care of foster parents in Lowestoft, a small seaside town in the South-East of England. Ola did not only graduate from Hull York Medical School at the age of 21, becoming one of the youngest medical doctors in the UK, she specilised in trauma and pre-hospital care and also broke into field of trainee helicopter pilot. Dr. Ola, as she is fondly called, acquired practical knowledge at the National Health Service (NHS) in the UK where she worked for almost a decade.
Her meteoric rise in the field of medical studies took her to Japan as a result of her being awarded the MEXT Japanese Government Scholarship. There, she conducted clinic research in the field of regenerative medicine at the Jikei University Hospital. However, the catalyst for a major life and career decision came when her sister became very, very ill on holiday whilst staying with relatives in Nigeria. The local hospital was unable to manage her sickle cell anemia condition, and as a result, Ola and her family started to search for an air ambulance so that she could be safely transported to a suitable medical facility in the country. The tragedy for the family was that there were no air ambulances to be found, even though the search took them from Nigeria, to Ghana, Sierra Leone and Cameroon, and across West Africa. The only one to be found was in South Africa, 5 hours away, but by the time the logistics had been arranged, Ola's sister had died of her condition.
That incident sparked off the vision she pursued with passion and aggression even without a dime to start with. She was also inspired to assuage the problems of emergency medical services in the Nigeria. Undaunted by difficult challenges, The rocky beginning That she pioneered West Africa's very first Air Ambulance Service – Flying Doctors Nigeria, a thoroughly professional healthcare dedicated to bringing trauma care to the most remote parts of West Africa would be like telling her story from the end back to the beginning.
Hear a bit of the extremely rough beginning that scripted the lyrics for the song that made her a symbol of courage, a model and a challenge to any African still struggling with their visions: "Getting your business funded can be an exhausting process," she wrote in her entrepreneur play book. "It's the hardest thing I have ever done in my life, without a doubt. Now my company is actually running I can laugh at all the times I spent carrying my laptop around sourcing for funding and coming home in tears.
A member of the American Academy of Aesthetic Medicine, Ola addressed one of the biggest obstacles that contended with her vision and she eventually 'hacked' it down. "Foreign investors looking at Africa often say that while the prospects are exciting, the infrastructure is lagging. I believe that existing infrastructure can be hacked – which in itself is a huge opportunity.
"So I reasoned that the term 'hacking' means modifying the features of a system to achieve a new goal. In development, it can describe rapid changes made by a society to advance without going through the intermediate stages. Rather than following developed nations' roadmap to progress, Africa can leapfrog by experimenting with emerging tools, models and ideas. Controversy In her passion to get healthcare wherever possible for needy patients, Ola has been accused of trying to get free NHS treatment costing £45,425 for a gas worker who suffered severe burns in an explosion in Nigeria at Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham. She had told the General Medical Council tribunal that she had told a QEH doctor that the burns victim was to be treated as a private patient but said that he 'misunderstood or misremembered our conversation.
"Sub-Saharan Africa has the world's smallest number of motorized vehicles but the highest rate of road traffic fatalities, with Nigeria and South Africa leading the pack. Trauma has become a silent epidemic in Africa, an epidemic that will only spread as the economy grows. More and more Africans are buying cars and working in heavy and dangerous industries. At the same time, infrastructure is poor, safety laws lax, and cars badly maintained." On her dream project, Flying Doctors: "We take pride in being the first Nigerian indigenous company to do this. We are training more people to go into the air ambulance sector and I think our paramedics now have a huge amount of management skills. I just think that we need to start thinking outside the box and be more confident in the concept of African innovation."
On her capacity to deliver: "We have a mixed-pool of more than 20 aircraft that we use for different types of evacuation, and about 30 staff all employed in different capacities with us and branches in three major cities in Nigeria." Author and editor-in-chief of London based publication Melanie Hawken, said of Orekunrin: On any level, Ola Orekunrin is an inspirational Lioness of Africa, making not just a difference to the lives of patients in Nigeria, but across Africa and the globe through her example. She is a successful woman entrepreneur and inspirational leader in a world that needs more like her.
Currently in its third year, the Lagos-based company has so far airlifted about 500 patients, using a fleet of planes and helicopters to rapidly move injured workers and critically ill people from remote areas to hospitals. It has helped hundreds of patients, particularly employees in the country's oil and gas sector, who are among Flying Doctors' top clients. (The for-profit company's client list also includes governments across West Africa, wealthy individuals and corporations.) "From patients with road traffic trauma, to bomb blast injuries to gunshot wounds, we save lives by moving these patients and providing a high level of care en route," says Orekunrin.
"Many of our roads are poorly maintained, so emergency transport by road during the day is difficult. At night, we have armed robbers on our major highways; coupled with poor lighting and poor state of the roads themselves, emergency transport by road is deadly for both patients and staff."
The company now employs around 30 people across three branches in Nigeria and has won a number of awards and accolades. On the future, the entrepreneur hopes to keep improving access to treatment and focusing on pre-hospital and in-hospital management of injuries. "Eighty percent of the world trauma occurs in low-middle income countries just like Nigeria," she says. "I feel there should be more focus on the trauma epidemic that Africa currently faces." Subsequently, she says being back in Africa has given her a chance to "re-integrate myself back to my roots". "I really do love Africa and Nigeria in particular because it is my identity. I have since realised that the earlier I re-integrate myself back to my roots, the better for me," she told Financial Juneteenth. "I grew up in all-white environment and went to an all-white university. To be honest, until I moved back to Lagos, I never ever thought that Nigerians were capable of doing or achieving anything on their own."


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Car of the day – 2006 Tuned Subaru Impreza WRX STi 2.5-liter 1920×1080 HD
The base 2006 Subaru Impreza WRX STi model is powered by a 2.5-liter (2457 cc) 4-cylinder engine. This engine can produce up to 300 hp (220.6 kW) at 6000 rpm and torque of 300 lbs-ft (406.7 Nm) at 4000 rpm.
The Subaru has an all-wheel-drive system and a 6-speed manual transmission. The car can easily do 0-100 km/h or ~0-60 mph in only 4.9 seconds. Top speed is 155 mph (250 km/h).
The 2006 Subaru Impreza WRX STi, in the picture above, is/was owned by a woman. That car was tuned a little bit. Rims are painted in pink, because you know that is a typical color for a woman. Obviously all women don't get me wrong, i have nothing against this particular color and that some, or maybe most of women like it. When you see a car painted in pink, it's all good if that car belongs to a woman, that would be weird if some guy would be driving a car painted in pink. Doesn't matter if only rims are painted in pink, everyone/most know that pink color is for women, not for men.
A great shot was taken with this car. A good looking car plus a good looking location gives great shots all the time. And now, today, this car is featured on the car of the day category.
When we hear the Subaru name, most of us probably think about rally. This name is famous in rally sport, because this car is fast plus it comes with an all-wheel-drive system, and it's a common car in rally.
The original price (MSRP) for a base 2006 Subaru Impreza WRX STi model was set at around 32,900 USD ($).


text: Chapter 16: Osteoclast-Targeted Therapy: Bisphosphonates and Denosumab Matthew R. Smith View Full Chapter Figures Only Tables Only Videos Only Print Share Email Twitter Facebook Linkedin Reddit Get Citation Citation AMA Citation Smith MR. Smith M.R. Smith, Matthew R.Osteoclast-Targeted Therapy: Bisphosphonates and Denosumab. In: Chabner BA, Longo DL. Chabner B.A., Longo D.L. Eds. Bruce A. Chabner, and Dan L. Longo.eds. Harrison's Manual of Oncology, 2e New York, NY: McGraw-Hill; . http://hemonc.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?bookid=1799§ionid=124751683. Accessed September 22, 2018. MLA Citation Smith MR. Smith M.R. Smith, Matthew R.. "Osteoclast-Targeted Therapy: Bisphosphonates and Denosumab." Harrison's Manual of Oncology, 2e Chabner BA, Longo DL. Chabner B.A., Longo D.L. Eds. Bruce A. Chabner, and Dan L. Longo. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, , http://hemonc.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?bookid=1799§ionid=124751683. Download citation file: RIS (Zotero) EndNote BibTex Medlars ProCite RefWorks Reference Manager Mendeley © Copyright Tools Search Book Top Return Clip Autosuggest Results ++ INTRODUCTION ++ Bone metastases are a major cause of morbidity in patients with a variety of malignancies including multiple myeloma, breast cancer, and prostate cancer (1). Bone metastases are often described as osteoblastic or osteolytic based on their radiographic appearance. Osteoblastic and osteolytic bone disease represent two extremes of a spectrum, however, and osteoclast number and activity are increased in most bone metastases, including typical osteoblastic metastases from prostate cancer. Pathological activation of osteoclasts appears to play a central role in disease-related skeletal complications. ++ Osteoclast inhibition by treatment with either a bisphosphonate or a denosumab is a standard part of supportive care for many patients with bone metastases (Table 16-1). Bisphosphonates, including pamidronate disodium (Aredia®) and zoledronic acid (Zometa®), are potent inhibitors of osteoclast-mediated bone resorption. Pamidronate disodium and zoledronic acid are approved for the prevention of skeletal-related events (fractures, spinal cord compression, or need for surgery or radiation to bone) in patients with bone metastases from solid tumors or multiple myeloma. Pamidronate disodium and zoledronic acid are also approved for the treatment of hypercalcemia of malignancy. Denosumab (Xgeva®) is a human monoclonal antibody that binds and inactivates receptor activator of nuclear factor-κB ligand (RANKL), a key mediator of osteoclast formation, function, and survival. Denosumab is approved for the prevention of skeletal-related events in patients with bone metastases from solid tumors. ++Table Graphic Jump LocationTABLE 16-1OSTEOCLAST-TARGETED THERAPY FOR BONE METASTASESView Table|Favorite Table|Download (.pdf) TABLE 16-1 OSTEOCLAST-TARGETED THERAPY FOR BONE METASTASES Generic Name Trade Name Dose and Schedule FDA-Approved Uses in Oncology Pamidronate disodium Aredia® 90 mg intravenously (over 2–4 h) every 3–4 wk Hypercalcemia of malignancy SRE prevention in multiple myeloma SRE prevention in breast cancer Zoledronic acid Zometa® 4 mg intravenously (over 15 min) every 3–4 wk Hypercalcemia of malignancy SRE prevention in multiple myeloma SRE prevention for any solid tumor Denosumab Xgeva® 120 mg subcutaneously every 4 wk SRE prevention for any solid tumor ++ PHARMACOLOGY ++ BISPHOSPHONATES ++ Bisphosphonates are synthetic analogs of pyrophosphate characterized by a phosphorus-carbon-phosphorus backbone that renders them resistant to hydrolysis (Figure 16-1). The R1 and R2 carbon side chains determine their pharmacology. Most bisphosphonates contain a hydroxyl group at the R1 position that confers high-affinity binding to calcium phosphate. The R2 side chain determines antiresorptive potency. Bisphosphonates with a secondary or tertiary amino group at R2 (including zoledronic acid) are among the most potent bisphosphonates, with approximately 10,000-fold greater in vitro potency than etidronate, a first-generation bisphosphonate. ++ FIGURE 16-1 The molecular structure of bisphosphonates. Graphic Jump LocationView Full Size|Favorite Figure|Download Slide (.ppt) ++ Bisphosphonates are adsorbed to calcium phosphate (hydroxyapatite) crystals in bone. Approximately one-half of an intravenously administered dose accumulates in the skeleton. Bisphosphonates preferentially bind ... GET ACCESS TO THIS RESOURCE Sign In Username or Email Please enter User Name Password Please enter Password Forgot Username? Forgot Password? Sign in via OpenAthens Sign in via Shibboleth Get Free Access Through Your Institution Contact your institution's library to ask if they subscribe to McGraw-Hill Medical Products. What is MyAccess? Create a FREE MyAccess profile to: Use this site remotely Bookmark your favorite content Track your self-assessment progress and more!


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Rhode Island health officials on Thursday approved Care New England's plan to close Memorial Hospital's emergency department, effectively shutting down the hospital.
The decision, effective Monday, includes a number of conditions – such as maintaining a walk-in clinic open seven days a week in Pawtucket -- designed to ensure services to area residents and off-set costs associated with transporting patients to other hospitals, according to a statement released by the state Department of Health.
The approval comes less than three months after Rhode Island's second-largest hospital system announced plans to close Memorial, which lost more $16.3 million during the first nine months of the fiscal year -- the most of any of hospital in its network.
Health Director Nicole Alexander-Scott said the conditions of the approval "seek to ensure that residents continue to have access to the high-quality care they need'' while requiring Care New England to invest in the Pawtucket and Central Falls communities to improve the health of its residents.
Care New England said in a statement that it "remains committed to ensuring access to community-based, outpatient care that meets the future health care needs in the Blackstone Valley."
The conditions for the closure of Memorial also include that Care New England:
· provide $300,000 to Pawtucket and $200,000 to Central Falls each year for the next two years to off-set emergency medical services costs associated with transporting patients to other area hospitals;
· maintain Memorial's family care and internal medicine centers in Pawtucket at their current hours and staffing levels;
· invest $100,000 annually in Pawtucket and Central Falls Health Equity Zones, which aim to prevent chronic disease and improve the health outcomes for those neighborhoods.
On Dec. 18, Care New England and the United Nurses and Allied Professionals Union Local 5082 released a plan to transition Memorial from a full-service community hospital to the outpatient centers and a clinic that union officials said will reserve 200 health care jobs in Pawtucket.


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When Maie and Dwight Heard arrived in Arizona from Chicago in 1895, Phoenix was just a small town in the desert.
The Heards quickly developed a deep appreciation for the native arts and culture and began collecting Southwest Indian art and artifacts. Their collection grew sufficiently large that, in 1929, they opened The Heard Museum to the public.
The two-hectare (five acres) outdoor area is a favorite spot for lunchtime picnics and the amphitheatre frequently hosts Native American dancers and musicians. Outdoor markets, sponsored by community arts groups, regularly occur on the J. Lester Shaffer Memorial Green, which is adorned by beautiful bronze statues by internationally acclaimed Apache sculptor, Allan Houser.
There's evidence of human settlement in the US Southwest dating back 17,000 years. The Heard Museum's permanent collection contains the most extensive exhibit in North America of these people and their cultural and artistic achievements.
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Seven manufacturers in the UK are in the running to win a prestigious manufacturing award this week.
Winners of the Manufacturing Excellence (MX) awards, held by the Institution of Mechanical Engineers to showcase and support the best of UK manufacturing, will be announced on Wednesday at the Dorchester Hotel in London.
PricewaterhouseCoopers are sponsoring a new trophy, the PwC Most Improved Company Award, and those shortlisted for the award are Carl Zeiss NTS Ltd, Draeger Safety UK, Flybrid Systems, Howden Compressors Limited, Palintest, Survitec Group – RFD Beaufort and Texecom limited.
"PwC is pleased to shine a light on those MX participants who have truly excelled in improving their businesses and demonstrating the quality of British manufacturing," said PwC's Industrial Products Leader Philip Hines.
Judges read business cases from companies outlining what improvements they had made in the last three years across the following areas before choosing the seven best above.
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• Business development & change management
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• Innovation in products and processes
• Logistics and operational efficiency
• Partnership with education
• People effectiveness and sustainable manufacturing
Other finalists for the awards include AESSEAL, Agfa Graphics, Bombardier Transportation, Brother Industries, Leyland Trucks, Loadhog, MBDA, Michelin Ballymena, Pipex px, ScotAsh and Trend Control Systems.
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Exercise and enjoy it; belly dancing?
Many of us have an aversion to exercise as we think it's going to be 'painful' and phrases like 'no pain no gain' don't help either.
As children we never really thought about it, even the sedentary child moved – a lot.
Yet today with being driven to school and hours in front of some box, the TV or play station movement is dramatically reduced.
Could belly dancing be the answer?
You have to find an exercise that is fun and enjoyable and belly dancing does tick those boxes.
Not only that, belly dancing massages all the internal organs as you will see if you have a go with some of the moves in this short belly dancing instructional video. This helps with digestion as well as toning up the core muscles in the body and ultimately strengthening the back.
Can't be bad!
Go on I dare you; try following the belly dancing moves
Have you had a go? What if you committed to practicing some belly dancing each day?
Or looked for a belly dance class in your area?
'Belly dancing is my fun job' says Birmingham belly dancing teacher Debbie Williams who also is a NLP trainer and hypnotherapist. Debbie uses accelerated learning techniques and NLP to help students learn belly dancing in a fun easy way.
Belly dancing; not from Birmingham
If you fancy belly dancing but are not from Birmingham you can still learn in the comfort of your own home as I've put a couple of belly dancing choreography's online. here are the links;
Or if you are in the Birmingham area come along to a belly dance class.
Belly dancing will tone you up
Belly dancing will tone you up, and its more challenging than you think. Go on have a go, you know you want to.


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I know you didn't want to go the Tysabri route, but I'm so glad you were approved this quickly and easily…and you can't ask for a better copay. I really, really hope the Tysabri works out well for you!
Hey Barb,
I am so happy too. I am glad you are going to keep trying to find a therapy that works for and that you can tolerate. Stay hopeful and good luck. Please keep us posted.
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A source said, "The harem women are predators too [like Keith Raniere]. This isn't about shaming them, it's outing women who are committing fraud and abusing other women. I think you should name names.
"However, any women past or present that is still in the group but is trying to distance themselves and are no longer part of Keith's harem can write to you, and ask that their name not be mentioned. I think that request should be honored no questions asked."
I responded: "I agree with you. I will try to help anyone who has left Raniere or wants to distance herself from Raniere and of course protect their identities.
"They need not identify themselves to me to communicate and several have already done so. "
I would add that there are safe havens and people have successfully escaped from Raniere.
Sometimes they have suffered, like the brave Barbara Bouchey, who didn't hide; who chose to tell the truth. She has paid for her whistle blowing. But she stayed the course and never surrendered.
Some have left and stayed under the radar. Some are in therapy now. But they are out.
Some have been bankrupted; some indicted. Some may have been driven to suicide.
Still sometimes it is better to risk a fight and lose rather than stay and continue to enable this punishing organization. If you know it is wrong, and that it is hurting others, and yourself, but you stay because you are afraid of Raniere, then there is a word for you: "coward."
Sure he is dangerous. Sure he has a hatred hard to imagine for people who have not seen it. He is vengeful and punishing, a manipulative man who seems utterly without a conscience.
But such as he must be opposed. We do not hate the sinner, but his sins must not be condoned by continuing to participate in his fraudulent schemes- which you do if you stay in his organization.
Despite Raniere's enormous wealth and the apparent appalling conscienceless disregard for ethics displayed by Clare Bronfman [she is not truly conscienceless, I believe, but a lonely, and, deep inside, a warm and generous, compassionate person who is somehow misguided]. Clare has become his abettor who funds and evidently perjures herself for Raniere. Still there are laws that they cannot color and officials they cannot corrupt and some who will stand up to Raniere.
Barbara Bouchey did it; with her shoulders back and her chin held high. Others have done it. Kristin Keeffe did it and rescued her and Raniere' son from Raniere.
Anyone [including Raniere, who I have invited to speak to me] from inside or out of NXIVM can contact me for info, advice, help or to offer help and give info.
My phone number is 716-990-5740; my email is firstname.lastname@example.com
I consider Raniere and Clare Bronfman friends who have gone deeply astray; poor Raniere, I believe he is ill and needs treatment. He may not know the difference between right and wrong.
I expect Raniere to come after me full throttle. He has already attacked me, cocking up a criminal complaint against me based on perjury and fraud. I don't know yet how many Bronfman millions that cost.
In the not too distant future it is going to backfire. When the whole story comes out it will sound the death knell for NXIVM.
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The Power and the Word
20 December 2011
The power and the word of God are inseparable. This in itself is such a self-evident statement that to have to say it shows the state of decay the church is really in. For in most of the churches, there is at best the word, but scarcely any miraculous power.
Miraculous power is a tool that most do not appreciate because most do not have it and cannot be trusted with it. For most pastors who wish to start a church, it is a matter of gathering the people to garner the financial support, and for some, working a job with somebody to pay for the food and bills. A few are successful and some even grow their churches to sizes that the captains of Mammon would be proud of, but most flounder away, struggling with a small congregation, like so many small businesses in mammon's world. The rate of small church failure is as high as the rate of failure of small start-up businesses. Of course, this does not apply to the denominationals that have their entrenched parishes as much. However, even they can experience church closure due to lack of interest.
How did Jesus start up His 'church'? Was it with support from believing Jews who gave Him their tithes and offerings? Did He choose a place and held regular services, establishing a good praise and worship team, a children's ministry, a women's ministry and so on? Oh, and a Sunday school? No, He started His ministry with a few men who wanted to know more about Him, and began to do miracles and signs and wonders even as He started to preach. In truth, since the changing of water to good wine was not accompanied by a preach or a teach, unless you consider what He said to His mother and the servants a preach and a teach, then really signs and wonders preceded the preaching of the word with Jesus. That was the hallmark of His ministry, and if anyone can do that before they start to preach, they will do extremely well.
As His ministry grew, He concentrated on His disciples and not on the size of His congregation. Without a cathedral and without the paraphernalia of the usual 'big' ministries, He packed out the house wherever He went, even if it was a remote place. Why? Because the power of God flowed through Him. And as He taught His disciples, He also made sure that they were able to do signs and miracles, sending them out to preach but also to do signs and wonders as well as heal the sick. Though He taught them the word first, when He sent them out they also had the power to heal and drive out demons.
However, before He taught them the word, He had to convince them to follow Him. Although they did follow Him, they kept going back to their fishing. So when He called them again in Luke 5, He gave them a demonstration of His power with the miraculous catch of fish. It was after that that they left their boats and followed Him completely. Their hearts were in the right place – they desired to be His disciples, and the words He spoke stirred their hearts – but their minds were not convinced.
This then is the relationship between the power and the word. When the disciples heard the word about Jesus, they were moved in their hearts and desired to follow Him and see where He lived. They followed Him for a while, but logic dictated that they should go back to fishing for a living, and so they did. It was only when they themselves experienced the miracle for themselves that they finally made up their minds and committed themselves to follow Him. They may have said it earlier, but it was not until Jesus had come back from Jerusalem in John 5 that they made the commitment to follow in Luke 5.
The word of the Lord is for the changing of a person's heart. That is why Jesus said that the seed is the word that will yield forth the harvest if it finds a good and noble HEART. The word cannot change the mind of a person, but it appeals to the person's heart, convicting him of the truth. The power, however, is for the mind of a person. For seeing a display of power is what changes a person's mind. That is why Jesus said that the people would not believe unless they saw miracles, not because their hearts were hard, but because their minds were stubborn.
Jesus' miracles are designed to change your mind about what is possible and what is impossible. His words are, however, for the heart, for love lays in the heart and not in the mind. If we are to love our enemies, then we must change our hearts. But to be convinced that this can be done and done profitably, our minds must be changed.
The command to turn the other cheek when one is struck on one side is a good example of the interaction between power and word. A person who does not know the power of God will see this instruction as foolish and an inspiration to do so as an attitude, but he would not actually do it physically. However, for a person who knows the power of God, this command can be carried out physically. For the presence of the power would wither the arm raised to strike, so that your enemy might be taught a lesson and be shown love as you then restore the withered arm.
The absence of the power of God to accompany the preaching of the word means that hearts are touched and sinners are brought to repentance, but their minds are unchanged. So that, although they are no longer sinners but saints, they are indistinguishable in the way they approach the problems of the world. Praying to your God to solve your problem is not the monopoly of Christians. Believing that your God will solve your problem by answering prayer is also not the monopoly of Christians.
What is the monopoly of Christians is that their Lord and Master is the only One who did miracles unceasingly and told His disciples they were to do likewise and even greater. No other founder of the other religions has as much a ministry of unceasing and continuous miracles as Jesus'. Jesus did not philosophy about the problems faced by His audience; He solved them by miraculous power. If your child was dead, He did not go into a long lecture about the meaning of life and death, but He raised the child. End of problem. Philosophies are birthed by those who have no power to solve the problem. Remedy is performed by those who have the power.
The restoration of the command to listen to Jesus gives back to us the words that can change the hearts of men, and the tabulating of the Testimony of the Holy Spirit gives us the power to change their minds. That is why these two have been produced by the workshop of the Holy Spirit. So that the words of Jesus are preached and taught first to allow hearts to be soften, and the power is available to change the minds so that we can see and feel differently about Jesus Christ and the God who sent Him, His Father.
Study the gospels and the books of Acts again if you are not convinced about the Testimony, and you will see where there was power to accompany the preaching of the word, the crowds were always large, and without the hype and the advertising that go into today's crowd drawing ministries.
This then is the answer to every ministry that finds itself struggling: To the word of Jesus you teach and preach, add the power of the Holy Spirit. It is reported that one of the greatest ministries of the sixties and seventies took off when the power of the Holy Spirit healed a person with cancer as the female evangelist preached on John 14.12. See the purpose for the power and you will bring the word of the Lord to life in your listeners' hearts, and you will have a people whose hearts are softened and minds are renewed.
Hr. Ed, manager of the Holy Spirit's Workshop


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Compelling characters are the essence of all great fiction. And all great writers know the simple truth -- to write compelling characters is to write about compelling people. The more you know about what motivates people, right and wrong, the more complete, the more powerful, the more real your characters will become. Writer, editor, journalist, and creative writing developer Scott Morgan explains how to build real, compelling fiction characters from the skeleton out.
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The MEP programme focuses on improving NQTs' classroom practice and developing their leadership in schools. Its underpinning philosophy is based on a recognition of the importance, and difficulty, of the transition NQT's have to make from being student teachers to teacher leaders. It sets out to support and enhance the professional learning opportunities provided by schools and local authorities.


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Exclusive. Non-exclusive. Exclusive. CME. ICE. CME again.
The story of the Russell Index futures complex licensing over the years is a study in ambiguity, changing strategies and partners.
We know the will win this round as they currently hold the long term license for the products. But what will happen in the short term is ambiguous as these two global exchange giants square off and try to maintain control or pry loose the open interest in the Russell futures products.
After ICE took over an exclusive Russell indexes licensing agreement from CME in 2007, CME returned the favor by recently re-securing the exclusive licensing agreement with FTSE Russell to trade the products starting on July 10. Back in 2007, ICE used the deal to help in its bid to buy the Chicago Board of Trade out from under the CME. ICE did not win the CBOT, but it had a 10-year run with Russell as the only venue to trade its futures and options on futures contracts.
Now a decade later, CME is reunited with FTSE Russell but is tangled in a limited-term competitive duel with ICE. Trading has begun at the CME but it is concurrently trading on ICE potentially through June of 2018 as well – the same product, different exchanges, different clearinghouses and the same owner of the intellectual property.
Since CME has the new long-term contract with FTSE Russell, we know how this competition ends. But between now and year-end when the CME is truly the exclusive venue, there is a question about how we are going to get there. Is what is good for ICE good for customers? Is what is good for CME good for customers? Does FTSE Russell, the owner of the intellectual property licensed to each have a view on how it would like the transition of its products to occur?
The competition pits the short-term interests of the exchanges against the long-term outlook of customers and Russell itself.
I thought it would be good for the market for each party to clearly state its aims and goals for the products. In an email I asked each party to respond to the question of what their goals for the product, short term and long term. I asked FTSE Russell what they would like to see occur in this transition to maximize the value of the indexes to your clients and yourself?
ICE responded by pointing me to a June 30, 2017 press release that outlined what what products would continue to trade through the June 2018 cycle, what were delisted and that after July 3, 2017 they would not list any more Russell contracts.
CME responded with the following statement:
We've been very pleased to bring Russell 2000® index futures back exclusively to CME Group, where traders can now access several major equity indices on a single platform. CME's exclusive rights to list, trade and clear Russell futures began July 1. As is customary, to facilitate the transition of customers' open positions, there is a closing period at ICE that could potentially last up to one year if open interest remains in contracts there. We're already seeing customers choose to establish open interest in the Russell 1000- and 2000-related front month contracts at CME. The E-mini Russell 2000 has had a very strong start here, with a 23K volume day just a week ago and a 21K volume day yesterday. When customers migrate their Russell 2000 positions here they will instantaneously enjoy a more robust and cost-effective way to manage their global index exposure, with margin offsets of up to 75% against S&P 500, Nasdaq 100 and Dow Jones index futures.
FTSE Russell responded to my question with this:
FTSE Russell has enjoyed a longstanding relationship with both CME and ICE. With regard to our Russell 2000® Index, we can confirm that the exclusive license to list futures and options linked to this index moved back to CME effective July 1, 2017, subject to a wind down period for ICE to ensure a smooth transition for the market. We look forward to our expanded partnership with CME that includes developing a wide range of equity index futures products in the United States over the next 10 years.
As we approach September, customers will start to make their intentions known. Currently there is little open interest in either exchange's December contracts. CME had suggested one strategy for moving open interest from ICE to CME is simply to put on a September/December spread opposite from what ever your position is at ICE. If you are long Sep at ICE, sell Sep at CME and buy December. When the September expires and settles to the same underlying cash index, you will be left with position in December.
Other contract competitions over the years have had a winner-take-all end result and this one will be no different while both parties have a licensing deal. Think about Eurex and Liffe competing over the Bund. The fight between CBOT and NYMEX over the metals was interrupted by the CME purchase of the CBOT, so that one was never fought to a conclusion. Other competitions, such as Eurex versus the CBOT for the bonds or Liffe and CME for the Eurodollars, saw some beachheads established but the wars lost.
Back when ICE licensed the contract, longtime Russell executive Kelly Haughton was at the helm of the Russell indexes. At one point, Haughton tried a non-exclusive license to spur competition among exchanges to see who would grow the Russell product the most. But then he and Russell shifted gears and gave ICE an exclusive contract.
Now FTSE Russell is owned by the London Stock Exchange Group and is part of a larger global organization with its own vested interest in exclusive deals, in my opinion.
Back in June, as CME was gearing up its July launch of the FTSE Russell products, open interest suddenly appeared in the mini Russell 2000 contracts across a couple of months – one-lots to be exact. According the CME Group website, ICE was not allowed to list new Russell products after July 1, 2017.
Currently ICE has about 580,000 lots of the mid-cap benchmark equity index Mini Russell 2000 open, while the CME has 7700. CME traded over 21,000 contracts Tuesday, while ICE traded over 192,000.
No one is begrudging any of the parties for exercising their contractual rights or desire to make a profit from them. I am a believer in competition and in reaping the rewards from competing well.
However, these moves by market players have raised questions about the transition and some clarity from the participants would be helpful. I hope a reply is forthcoming to the questions posed.


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Business relationships are sensitive things, and sometimes we need to discern the future by understanding the past. Before engaging in a serious business relationship, it's wise to do research to find out about the people we are entering into relationships with. A people search is required and useful for everyone. It will ensure that you continue to have a successful business. There are numerous methods that you can use to learn about people.
If you know the Social Security number of the person you are interested in, then you can use any search website available on the Internet to find out about the person. And the more information you have, the more you can learn about the history of the person you are dealing with. With a good search, you might even learn enough to discern the stability of the person and their overall attitude toward your business. Find out about people searches available on the Internet in order to obtain the background information on the person you are looking for.
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All of the above techniques are helpful; although, only if you can use reliable websites to find out about people. Otherwise, it is useless to wander blindly on the Internet trying to learn about someone. If you use free websites to find out about people then the reliability of the results is not guaranteed. Therefore it is suggested to everyone who wants to find out about people that only paid websites be used.
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Did you know a study conducted in 2013 showed that 85% of men and women over the age of 35 are receiving the wrong type of workouts plans, wrong type of meal plans from gym's, health clubs, nutritnonist and trainers? Which is why over one-third of adults over the age of 35 are obese with related conditions which includes heart disease, strokes, type 2 diabetes and certain types of cancer, which are some of the leading causes of death according to a study conducted by the Central Disease Center.
Did you know that over 80% of the equipment at your local gym is not designed for you to lean, sculpt muscle or lose a fraction of weight?
Wait before you I keep going, let me pre-warn you that these 6 secrets hidden from you and myself for many years, are going to spark some anger and may piss you off a bit. From being behind the sciences in the health and fitness industry as a Master Trainer for the past 10 years, I have extrapolated 6 hidden secrets and techniques your current trainer and health club will never share with you, because they will lose billions of dollars and possibly go into bankruptcy if they did.
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By Kent French
April 6, 2017 - 11:39am
I was recently reading an essay by author and pastor Sara Miles, who writes about the "whiplash" of Holy Week:
Think about it. During Holy Week, we wave palms in the air and hail Jesus as king, the long-awaited messiah who's going to save us from our oppressors, then we change our minds and scream that the oppressors should crucify him;
we share a loving last supper with Jesus and he washes our feet, then we sneak out after dinner and betray him.
Jesus begs us to stay with him, we promise we will, then we don't.
We abandon him, he's arrested and beaten; he forgives us, then we run away.
Then Jesus is killed; we lay him in the tomb and weep; we go back for him, then he's gone, then he's back, and then — wait! — he's not dead at all.
Not all of us go through each step of Holy Week, but they are important steps. Holy Week is not just about the blinding exuberance of Palm Sunday or the Resurrection glory of Easter day. It is a week in which events keeping changing, keep turning around. And when we walk them deliberately, carefully, they bring a greater depth to what the Christian story is all about.
It's about paying attention to things eternal, values that last, matters of the soul, matters of God, even in the midst of uncertainty, of persistent evil, of things going badly.
I invite you to come this Sunday, when once again we will remember Jesus' triumphal entry into Jerusalem. We will wave our eco-palms and sing "All Glory, Laud and Honor," with our children and youth leading the way.
Later in the week, on Thursday we will enter the intimacy of Jesus' last meal with his disciples. He washes their feet, he breaks bread and serves wine, he tells them he is leaving this world and that some of them will betray and deny him. We begin with a foot (and hand) washing in the Chapel, beginning at 6:30pm, followed directly by a Communion Service in the Sanctuary at 7:00pm. We remember the scattering of the disciples that led up to Jesus' trial and execution and will follow this congregation's tradition of gathering in groups of 12 around the communion table.
On Friday at 7:00pm, we will remember the crucifixion, the betrayal, denial, torture, mocking and dying on the cross. We will hear once again the seven last words of Jesus, and meditate upon them with contemplative music and silence, and contemporary images of current events that reflect back to us what those words mean today. Gradually, we extinguish the lights in the sanctuary and walk together into the night.
Each time we take this Holy Week walk, it takes us deeper into the Christian story. It enriches the Easter experience. It reminds us of the potential "costs of discipleship" and the courageous people who followed Jesus' footsteps on the Via Dolorosa: the apostle Stephen (Acts 7), the apostle Paul, Joan of Arc, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Martin Luther King, Jr., Oscar Romero, even political prisoners and people of conscience who are tortured or murdered today for their actions on behalf of love, compassion and justice.
The darkness of Maundy Thursday and Good Friday are in the world around us all the time. We, however, practice a Resurrection faith. We are willing to shine the Christ-light in the dark. Sometimes we need to meditate on the darkness to understand how and why we need to shine the light.
In faith,
Kent French
Senior Pastor


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Discussion started: 9 March 2010
Discussion closes: 6 April 2010
The Frome Greenway Transformation is an ambitious project which sets out a vision for this important transport corridor which runs from Cabot Circus to Junction 2 of the M32. It comprises an integrated series of enhancements and will be delivered as part of the Cycling City Project. It will be primarily funded from contributions from the Cabot Circus development, under an air quality provision. The main objective is to greatly increase the usage of the route by cyclists and pedestrians, whilst achieving a shift away from motor vehicle use resulting in an associated air quality improvement. The approach taken is to focus on encouraging behaviour change through the provision of a well marked, continuous route that has the following attributes:
- Environmental enhancement
- Distinct identity
- High quality designed features
- Good linkages along (and into) the corridor
- Improved ecology, amenities, and safety
Comment wrap-up
This combines feedback from the 'ask bristol' on-line resource, direct emailed responses and input received on organised route-way walks.
Project Description:
The project comprises an integrated series of enhancements and will be delivered as part of the Cycling City Project. It will be primarily funded from contributions from the Cabot Circus development, under an air quality provision. The main objective is to greatly increase the usage of the route by cyclists and pedestrians, whilst achieving a shift away from motor vehicle use resulting in an associated air quality improvement. The approach taken is to focus on encouraging behaviour change through the provision of a well marked, continuous route that has the following attributes:
• Environmental enhancement
• Distinct identity
• High quality designed features
• Good linkages along (and into) the corridor
• Improved ecology, amenities, and safety
Summary of Responses:
General Issues
1. Many expressed surprise that there was already a greenway route along here.
2. For those that know the route, The 'off-road' and water-side qualities of the route are appreciated and supported. It is important as a 'missing link' from the City Centre to Eastville Park. Also important to emphasise links to other cycle-routes.
3. Safety, especially after dark, was raised by many respondents, some of whom suggested improvements in lighting – especially in/around the underpasses. Some would not use the route unless/until there was greater footfall, more visible police presence and community activity.
4. Some stretches next to the motorway are described as very noisy.
5. Navigation. It needs to be very well signed, and very well publicised when the project is complete (including the historical/heritage aspects).
6. There is interest in forming a community group, with a focus on this Greenway.
7. Some concern that may fall into disrepair, over time. Sufficient provision made for ongoing maintenance.
8. Any way of reducing the motorway noise would be great.
9. Maximise the tree planting on the whole route; "Make it a wooded cycle-path like they have in Europe"
Specific Design Issues:
1. Question the need for a lot of structural elements.
2. No more hard surfaces than exist currently.
3. Introduce more colour.
4. Climbing plants will need a lot of maintenance and in some areas will obscure sight-lines.
5. Like the Living Wall idea. A green wall/ trees living barrier etc between current path and M32.
6. Strong support for the creation of an orchard.
7. Brighten up the areas by the raised motorway, and the underpasses with some LED floodlights.
8. Optimise the direct-ness of the path; smooth out the "awkward bits".
9. Improve the visibility at the bridge at Peel Street Open Space; have river interpretation at Peel St bridge; increase connectivity to the river as much as possible.
10. Remove obstacles on path such as bollards.
11. Start the signage of the path from the Castle Street/Bond Street area.
12. Support for the creation of a bog/wetland zone in Fox Park.
13. The river at this point has invasive weeds such as Himalayan Balsam and Giant Hogweed. Suggestion for employ BTCV or local volunteers to clear it if it was supervised.
14. Barriers and gradients at/around the underpasses were raised as an access issue.
Project Team Responses
General Issues
1. noted
2. noted
3. Security will be addressed through discussion with police and community safety to identify possible improvements
4. We are investigating the deployment of noise barriers, particularly near Fox Park \ Play Area
5. Signing and Navigation are key elements of the project and are built into the design proposals
6. We encourage formation of a community group but have no resources to progress this.
7. Negotiations are ongoing with the Parks department about maintenance provision for the route and associated facilities
8. See point 4 above
9. Tree planting is included in the design proposals
Specific Design Issues:
1. We are reviewing the quantity and design of structural elements
2. Noted
3. Coloured surface elements will be used to delineate routes
4. Maintenance issues as per item 7 above, also line of sight will be addressed through security
5. noted
6. Orchard idea is also strongly supported by project team in line with Transition agenda
7. Creative lighting will be investigated as part of the project
8. desire lines will implemented where practicable
9. Peel street will be a strong focus for the route
10. noted, to be investigated
11. Agreed, we want to highlight the route from cabot circus
12. noted
13. This is being addressed through the Avon Invasive Weeds forum and the environment agency
14. Barriers and gradients will be investigated although there is no budget to address gradients
You can view the closed discussion thread here.


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Shoe: Look. I'm not even putting a shoe for this post because this post is totally all about shoes. Totally.
Here's the deal. I recently attended this awesome conference and that means I had to be really busy and engaged all day. See fig. 1
Okay, so by "really busy and engaged all day", what I really meant to say was "being totally bad ass with my computer." See fig 2.
Okay, clearly I had to call myself out was doing some work briefly during the conference. (For real, ya'all).
Anyway, back to the shoes. The conference has given me the excuse reason to be on TweetDeck all day to follow the post-conference conversation on Twitter (#GrowSmartBiz).
This evening I was messing around on Twitter because I was doing research on the hashtag for what has become the coolest blog post ever.
While I was on Twitter, I stumbled upon the most ridiculous link to the most ridiculous shoes I've ever seen. And that beats the whole 'Chinese Foot Bondage' thing that makes me cringe –I'll spare you by not posting a picture of it, but feel free to look here if you absolutely need to see it for yourself.
So here's the link to *the most ridiculous shoes I've ever seen.*
And here are some highlights from the post:
No foolin', Ya'all.
**Also, feel free to check out this pic of @cardcat (left) @maddiegrant (center) and I [@meganmcq] (right) if you're in the mood for a laugh.**


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For our second party of the Summer we are heading to wine county, setting up camp on the edge of the lake at Oakover Grounds WInery. With the main stage taking in the beautiful views of the lake & the winery in the background, come enjoy the beautiful sunset and sumptuous good house vibes in our little garden oasis.
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We have invited our good friends The Gathering to take control of the tech vibes room and we presenting a special Boiler Battle Room featuring a hand-picked selection of the best in local tastemakers.
The first few summer parties sold out well before time last year so don't snooze.


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Health lobby groups prove their mettle on corporate battlefield
American Brands' move to quit tobacco after suffering at the hands of the health lobby must ring alarm bells in other sectors. George Pitcher is joint managing director of media consultancy Luther Pendragon
Some of the most aggressive and ruthlessly efficient lobbying groups of our times operate under the most benign names. Greenpeace has delightfully hippy overtones, suggesting a craft sale in the village hall and home for tea with the tillerman, rather than SBS-style inflatables under the bows of Canadian destroyers. Friends of the Earth sounds friendly, rather than a cell-structured organisation of considerable political power.
Action on Smoking & Health sounds like a self-help group that occasionally organises sponsored walks, rather than a highly organised opponent of tobacco groups, staffed by health zealots. Sometimes, one feels that the Spanish Inquisition would have got a lot further had it called itself Friends of Pope Sixtus IV, or Action on Religion, God & Heresy (ARGH).
These musings arise from last week's news that US consumer products group American Brands is finally quitting the tobacco industry completely by disposing of Gallaher, Britain's largest cigarette manufacturer. There can be little or no doubt that the move has less to do with industrial logic than it does with the pressure brought to bear by US lawyers, acting on behalf of anti-tobacco campaigners who are bringing multibillion-dollar lawsuits, with growing success, against cigarette makers.
This is no place to get into libertarian arguments, so I will confine myself to commercial ones. The first thing to note is that environmental and health lobbyists are not simply a nuisance. They do not merely disrupt or restrict the market for companies such as Gallaher, but really do affect the perception and consequently the value of the companies they oppose.
In this context, note that the Wall Street quote in American Brands leapt nearly $3.50 to close on $48 in the immediate wake of the Gallaher announcement. That, as they say in the States, ain't hay – but it sure as hell is tobacco. Anti-tobacco campaigners are keenly aware that potential litigation liabilities are not just hitting their targets' budgets and insurance companies, but also hitting them where it really hurts – in shareholders' earnings.
In terms of the commercial effect of the health lobby, we're entitled to ask where it will all end. Gallaher is (or was) by far the most profitable part of American Brands, last year clocking net profits of $231.5m on sales of $4.08bn, compared with non-tobacco operations that turned in net profits of $122.4m on a turnover of $4.38bn.
Now, the health lobby may have no case to make against ACCO paper clips or Cobra golf clubs, both of which are in the American Brands portfolio, but Jim Beam bourbon and Whyte & Mackay whisky are also in there.
You will have noticed that health (and safety) lobbyists have increasingly endeavoured to do to the drinks sector what the anti-smoking movement has done to the tobacco companies. With all the doomsday psychology on the new millennium, it is only a matter of time before cirrhosis warnings appear on bottles and spirits advertising is statutorily banned, rather than voluntarily withheld as it largely is now. We already see the "passive-drinking" equivalent of the passive-smoking scares, through claims made for "drink-related" deaths and injuries (meaning violence and accidents).
The whisky industry is particularly vulnerable as the health consciousness first leads to a switch to white spirits, such as vodka, while the health lobbyists press for lower recommended threshholds for safe drinking and, ultimately, to wean drinkers off the sauce altogether.
The only value judgment I would make on this is that, if equities are long-term investments, then shareholders should be divesting their holdings in companies such as American Brands in the US, Highland Distilleries in Britain (whose figures this week demonstrate that its highly successful Famous Grouse is building market share in a shrinking market) and Imperial Tobacco, now it is demerged from Hanson.
Furthermore, the experience of American Brands serves as a salutary tale for those who would believe that a corporate identity can transcend undesirable, unfashionable, or unacceptable brands. Two years ago, American Brands quit the US tobacco industry by selling American Tobacco to Britain's BAT Industries for some $1bn (600m), retaining only Gallaher, which manufactures and markets the UK's top brands, Benson & Hedges and Silk Cut.
Yet so ingrained was the association of American Brands with tobacco in the US that it has now felt enjoined to dispose of its British tobacco interests and change its name to Fortune Brands. In similar vein, I have often wondered whether Distillers would have had any effect on its valuation had it changed its name after the Thalidomide tragedy in the Sixties. I simply don't know, but it will be interesting to see how Fortune fares.
The longer-term trend must be for conglomerates increasingly to spin off their pariah brands. Now that Hanson has demerged Imps and Gallaher is to be independent of American Brands, it will be worth following the fates of constituent parts of BAT Industries, Philip Morris and RJR Nabisco.
British leisure groups have increasingly quit brewing and distilling for rather different reasons, but I am convinced that the health-and-legal-efficiency pressures will build there too. It may not be a corporate environment that will ultimately be highly effective in commercial terms, nor one that most of us want, but the lobbyists and lawyers will have their day.


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March 8th marks International Women's Day, a holiday created to celebrate the social, economic, cultural, and political achievements of women. And predictably, the film industry has been overflowing with pro-woman sentiments all day. Some of the biggest superstars and most influential men in the industry, from Shahrukh Khan and Karan Johar to Akshay Kumar and Farhan Akhtar, have tweeted out praise and appreciation for the opposite sex to their millions of followers.
But, while their hearts are undoubtedly in the right place, their words feel hollow. What have these men actually done for female representation in films?
Take, for example, this tweet from SRK:
Often I wish I was a woman…then realise I don't have enough guts, talent,sense of sacrifice, selfless love or beauty to be one. Thk u girls.
— Shah Rukh Khan (@iamsrk) March 8, 2016
It's a nice thought, right? Except if Shahrukh Khan were a woman, his career would have been over two decades ago. If marriage and babies hadn't done him in, the inevitable signs of aging would have. After all, wrinkles only look distinguished if they're on the face of a man; for a woman, any deviation from her appearance at the age of 25 is a strike against her, no matter how talented she is or how popular she once was. Perhaps that's why SRK is still sitting pretty on the top of the Bollywood food chain, while the heroines who worked with him at the beginning of his career like Urmila Matondkar, Juhi Chawla, Raveena Tandon, Manisha Koirala, and Mahima Chaudhry are lucky to get any mainstream film roles at all.
These men may not have created this horrible inequality in pop culture, but they certainly have the power to balance the scales a bit for female actors…if they were so inclined, that is (and they're clearly not). There's something terribly ironic about the fact that the men who are most vocal on days like International Women's Day are the same men regularly acting opposite girls who are not only young enough to be their daughters, but who are also often portraying characters that are half-baked at best and offensively misogynistic at worst. Where does their respect and admiration for women go when they're not only starring in, but also producing projects that deliberately give actresses (especially actresses of a certain age) absolutely nothing to do but look pretty and prop up the hero?
On International Women's Day, I have what seems like a perfectly reasonable request for the men of Bollywood: if you truly want to make a difference for women, put your money—and your influence—where your mouth is and give women the space in pop culture they're more than worthy of. Give your female costars real roles to enact, not just a pretty dress and an upbeat song to dance to. And for the love of God, stop discarding beautiful, talented women for younger models every few years like an old pair of shoes that have suddenly gone out of style. Don't you think we women deserve better than that?
It's easy to respect women one day out of the year, but the true meaning behind International Women's Day extends far beyond a hashtag trend. It means taking action to give us the representation we need, even when it's not convenient to do so. So to all the men in Bollywood celebrating this holiday with their social media followers, thank you for your kind words today…but please don't forget about us tomorrow. A woman brought you into this world, a world which has given you fame and fortune and more love than most human beings will experience in a hundred lifetimes. It's about time you gave something back to us, wouldn't you agree?


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His mother Elizabeth wrote poetry in her head while working in the garden of Rose Cottage or walking in the fields, although there is sadly no record of her having written any down. Meanwhile her eldest son Ernest, Alfred's brother, composed "humorous parodies which he used to sing to his own tunes".
Youngest sister Ada went one step further and actually published a tiny collection of poems - apparently during or soon after the First World War. The little booklet's title is A Summer's Day and Other Poems, although two references to the main poem in the publication carry the title A Summer Day.
The copy below has been kindly provided by Alfred Williams Heritage Society supporter Roger Maisey, whose father Jack was born, like Alfred, in Cambria Cottage, South Marston. Note that the owner of the booklet has handwritten a note to show Ada's connection with her famous elder brother, because she published under her married name of Thorne.
Ada, who was also born at Cambria Cottage, lived for many years at Rose Cottage, just down the road. The (photocopies of) photographs seen below show her inside the cottage in later life, and in the garden with her husband, were kindly provided by the cottage's current owner, Rupert Burt.
Ada died in 1974.


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Michelle Rodriguez Is In an 'Unconditional State of Mind' After Zac Efron Split
Michelle Rodriguez bares her toned tummy while taking a walk around the Soho neighborhood of New York City on Wednesday (August 20).
It was reported that day that the 36-year-old actress and her boyfriend Zac Efron have split after a quick two-month summer fling.
"Unconditional State of Mind," Michelle wrote on Instagram that day along with a photo of a heart drawn on her hand.
Michelle also posted a photo of one of her favorite buildings in the Big Apple, saying "Can't believe Limelight is a mall now a decade and a half ago I was tasting house music for the first time with a crazy crew of party monsters so insane what time does."


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Chocolate Hokey Pokey is just one of a couple of innovations that are being introduced by the ice cream maestros Emerald Foods, coinciding with its launch of the New Zealand Natural brand into Chile this year – the latest developments in a line of many.
Three years on from winning the Best Business Operating Internationally in the $10 million to $50 million category of the 2009 New Zealand International Business Awards, Emerald Foods chief executive officer Shane Lamont has continued to take the ice cream company from strength to strength, doubling its sales and NPD staff and growing revenue by 25 percent. Its East Tamaki-based factory manufactures premium ice cream, sorbets and frozen yoghurt under brands such as New Zealand Natural, Killinchy Gold, Zilch, Lite Licks and Chateau, and it co-manufactures ice cream for various international clients.
This year will be Emerald Foods' year of continental shift, now expanding its ice cream empire into the thirsty markets of both South America and South Africa.
Innovation across the brands has been in full swing since winning the business award. The company has introduced to its range new products such as the aforementioned Chocolate Hokey Pokey, a new spin on a traditional product, and is currently in the process of launching a new kiwifruit product into the New Zealand Natural range, which is another iconic flavour popular with overseas consumers. The Killinchy Gold and Zilch brands are making their way into Chile alongside New Zealand Natural, and Emerald is now working on relationships with other potential Chilean clients in other channels.
Last year saw the company continue to grow the business on both the manufacturing fronts (particularly its Japanese client base, which was booming already at the time of the awards and has continued to be the largest contributor to growth) and its franchising business; in 2009, the New Zealand Natural parlour franchise featured in 21 markets, and today it has expanded to 27 with new countries on board like Qatar, the Philippines, Papua New Guinea South Africa, Chile and in the near future, Bangladesh.
But the kick-off this year is in South America. A January launch event with the Chilean New Zealand Trade and Enterprise (NZTE) ambassador celebrated the first tubs of New Zealand Natural ice cream landing on the supermarket shelves of Chile's largest retail chain, Cencosud, in December last year. Pricewise, Emerald Foods is launching into the top end of the market.
"The quality of our products will shine through – our quality compared to the local ice cream is high," Lamont says.
For the first time, Emerald Foods has actively employed speakers of the local language to start building relationships on the continent.
"We've brought in Spanish speakers [from Europe] especially to focus on this market," says Lamont. "There's no way you can enter that market without them. It's very much a relationship-driven market also, so it is a long-term growth opportunity for us. It won't happen overnight."
March will see New Zealand Natural also launch into Pretoria in South Africa, with assistance from NZTE getting a foothold in the market.
"They stepped up and helped us more than we ever thought," Lamont says. "The support has been fantastic."
Lamont says winning the New Zealand International Business Awards boosted the company's reach considerably.
"The awards allowed Emerald to be seen by quite a number of people. It really got the name out there, and established even more credibility for the business."
Entries for the NZ International Business Awards are now open. To enter, visit www.nzte.govt.nz/awards.
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Do Not Make God Mad
A Croatian motorbiker's penis was zapped by lightning as he stopped beside the road to take a leak.
Ante Djindjic, 29, from Zagreb, said: "I don't remember what happened. One minute I was taking a leak and the next thing I knew I was in hospital.
"Doctors said the lightning went through my body and because I was wearing rubber boots it earthed itself through my penis."
Djindjic, who suffered light burns to his chest and arms, added: "Thankfully, the doctors said that there would be no lasting effects, and my penis will function normally eventually."
SOURCE: Annanova