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Hypnotist Paul McKenna today launched a High Court libel claim against The Daily Mirror over an article that he claims "pilloried him as a fraud" alleging he had a bogus PhD from an American university.
The 43-year old entertainer turned self-help expert is suing the paper's publishers over an October 2003 by Victor Lewis-Smith, headlined "It's a load of doc and bull'. The piece claimed he had received a "bogus degree" from Lasalle University, Lousiana.
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His counsel, Desmond Browne QC told Mr Justice Eady today: "This case is at the end of the day very simple. Lewis-Smith and the Mirror pilloried Mr McKenna as a fraud, claiming that he had a doctorate to which no honest entitlement. The allegation is of fraud and dishonesty – that Mr McKenna positively knew that his PhD was bogus."
"They can't prove that to be true. The case which they seek to advance today is not one they advanced in correspondence, not one they advanced in the initial stages of this action and, now they do advance it, it's our submission that it will meet with inevitable failure."
He said that the newspaper's defence now amounted to a claim that McKenna was "reckless" as to whether his degree was bogus.
However, he claimed that this amounted to a defence to a grave allegation that has been mounted with "increasing desperation and inconsistency".
He said that the case was "not about Mr McKenna being a charlatan", and described the publishers' defence of McKenna's alleged recklessness as "weasel words for a weasel case".
He said that McKenna, a dyslexic, sought a PhD to make up for his failure at school and add value to his hypnotherapy business. However, far from simply being able to buy one, he said McKenna was originally rejected for the course by Lasalle.
Only at the end of 1996, after McKenna had persuaded the University of his project's academic merit and had been awarded the PhD was it was discovered that Lasalle was accredited by a fraudulently created body – the Council for Post Secondary Christian Education – set up by the university's founder, Thomas Kirk.
The hearing is scheduled to last at least a week, after which Mr Justice Eady is expected to reserve his decision in order to give it in writing at a later date. McKenna, who was present in court today, is expected to give evidence tomorrow.

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The frantic anecdotes of a scribbling single mom, with 2 young adult sons, 2 jobs, 2 dogs and one life to fit it all into!
Day 3- Snug in my Little Log Cabin
It is still raining. Can you believe it? This was the view from my bedroom window this morning, before I rolled over and went back to sleep for 3 more hours.
The back creek is actually a creek now- full of water just like the others. Raking out the leaves and the muck paid off, I guess. But then, we must've had another 2" last night. Maggie and I ran around the cabin stuffing towels in leaks and grabbing buckets to put under the drips. It poured in through the chimneys which may explain why the gas logs won't light.
I think Joe's dog, Shannon, is pregnant.
I've been writing all afternoon but now it's time for a break. Maggie and I might ride into town and visit the D.Q. Maybe not though- we can always make a cozy fire and snuggle up inside. After all, there's no real rush to go anywhere anytime soon.
Life is good in the foothills of Southwest Virginia...
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China to Raise Fuel Quality Levels to Combat Pollution
China's problem with air quality is well-documented, and one of the city and federal government's most visible ways to deal with it is by dealing with its citizen's cars. The country has used various methods to reduce emissions from vehicles (as well as reduce traffic in the increasingly populous cities in the east), including creating aggressive programs that ban cars from the streets based on license plates and those promoting electric and small-engined cars.
Now, the Chinese government has decided to come at this another way. Rather than targeting the cars or the people driving them, the government is passing legislation that targets the country's fuel. According to the Xinhua state news agency, new fuel-quality standards will be enacted in January of next year to bring the quality of China's fuel up to that of the rest of the world.
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In campaing, when i try to get this trainer to work it gives the error : "cannot load dll" or something
Im gona customize the keys, maybe that'll do it.
[Edited by Moderator PWizard, 9/1/2007 11:18:29 AM]
Edit: yeah, soory about the anger earlier, aparently the only way to get this working (in campaing at least) is by turning the trainer on AFTER the game. Something that was stated in the help text and something that i must have missed.
I do, however have a real problem (not made by the trainer) in that whenever i play a game after a bit of time the cursor gets stuck to the middle of the screen.
I can still do all the stuff i normaly can, but its like the cursor becomes non responsive. This makes it nigh impossible to play the game.
Anyone else get this ?
[Edited by Massiveattack, 9/1/2007 11:24:31 AM]
can you make a new trainer??
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Dennis Jophus Makalio
Makalio, Uiti and two of the Mongrel Mob members entered the house of the victim who was a former Mongrel Mob affiliate and sexually attacked her.
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From the Sunday Star Times 11th July 2010
A senior Mongrel Mob member has been allowed access to the Devonport Naval Base to make inquiries into his son's alleged assault on another sailor. Mongrel Mob Porirua Rogue chapter member Dennis Makalio is the father of 19-year-old Royal New Zealand Navy rating Monty Makalio, who has been charged with wounding with reckless disregard after an Anzac Day incident. A navy source told the Star-Times Dennis Makalio had been on to the base on "a number of occasions" since the alleged incident, and had been "hunting for information on the person who was a key witness in his son's case".
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Once that process is complete, then the navy processes kick in, if necessary." But a source said while Makalio was on the base he questioned witnesses to his son's alleged offence, and the Star-Times understands police are investigating that claim. "He was able to walk freely on base, to say what he wanted, when he wanted, to whoever he wanted to find. "He asked a few of us if we were there on Anzac Day... His face is fully tattooed... he's terrifying to look at. He also visited a number of personnel at their home addresses to see what they knew."
Police confirmed they were aware Makalio's Mongrel Mob father had been on the base, but declined to comment further. His extensive list of convictions includes the gang rape of a 26-year-old woman in her home during a home-invasion in 1982. The same year, he was one of three gang members to attack lawyer Chris Comeskey, then working as a police detective. Comeskey was bashed over the head with a beer bottle. Monty Makalio is alleged to have thrown a glass bottle at a female rating, cutting her face, during drunken Anzac Day partying.
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Date of Birth
Born 1962
Gang raped a 26 year old woman after invading her home in June 1982
Assault of a Police officer in 1982 along with two other Mob members, bashing him with a beer bottle
A very long list of other convictions including another rape in 1979, miscellaneous assaults, possession of cannabis etc
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At large in Cannons Creek, Porirua East
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Harvey Uiti
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Mongrel Mob
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Android is Google's open-source alternative to Apple's iOS, which is used on iPhones and iPads. Google's mobile operating system is used on devices from the HTC Evo to the upcoming Xoom tablet computer from Motorola. You can watch a demo of Honeycomb on YouTube, courtesy of PC Magazine. There's a promotional video with more close-ups, too. MIT's Technology Review says Honeycomb may challenge the iPad:
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2. Ted Lilly, last night aside, has started much hotter than he has in the previous two years. And that's after the WBC, which, if MLB GMs inform me correctly, is a process by which top players are thrown into potoato sacks and beaten about the knees and shoulders with tire irons. He's on track for a great year if he can keep this up.
3. (Knocking on wood) Rich Harden has been lights out and problem free (Knocking on wood)
4. Soto should start hitting any day now. If he can't, or if (like like night showed) he's not fully ready to be behind the plate every day, Koyie Hill has looked miles ahead of where he was last year. By the way, I think it's hilarious how our superstars go down with groin, shoulder, and arm injuries, while our backup catcher can survive sawing his damn hand off.
5. Hoffpauir looks like a bona-fide major league hitter. Just please don't let him play the outfield.
6. Soriano is having the sort of April he's never had with the Cubs. Maybe the Bradley signing was all an elaborate plan to distract fan attention to another oft-injured slugger. Now that Fonzie's under the radar, he's going to hit something like .456 with 50 home runs.
7. Whatever Jim Hendry saw in Aaron Heilman after his awful 2008 with the Mets, it appears to have been a good hunch.
8. Jeff Samardzija is back in the big league pen, so prepare for another exciting season of ugly jokes.
9. No dominance early on means no Jim Belushi. Sweet relief!
10. Matt Sinatro is still looking mad sexy at first base.


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Last year we celebrated National Women Build Week by putting our hammers and hard hats to work on Saturday, May 7th, 2016. Lowe's, a long-time Habitat partner, was the event partner. Lowe's and Habitat for Humanity have worked together since 2003 to build homes, communities, and hope. This year National Women Build Week is part of a larger, year-long commitment between Lowe's and Habitat for Humanity International to work alongside 1,000 families across the country to help them build safe and stable homes.
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Seventy volunteers brought their biceps and their amazing can-do attitudes and joined us at 8:30am on May 7th to celebrate National Women Build Week. We built the framing for our new Volunteer Welcome Center for the Telegraph Townhomes project which we hope to launch next Spring. This project will provide safe, decent, affordable housing for 24 Whatcom County families. Building the Volunteer Welcome Center was a necessary first step as it will serve as our base of operations for the entire construction period – approximately 5 years. Thanks to all of our volunteers for helping to turn the Volunteer Welcome Center from an item on our To Do list into a reality! We truly could not have done it without you.
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Skip to comments.The DNA of Politics - Genes shape our beliefs, our values, and even our votes
Posted on 01/30/2009 5:00:58 PM PST by GOPGuide
Children differ, as any parent of two or more knows. Some babies sleep through the night, others are always awake; some are calm, others are fussy; some walk at an early age, others after a long wait. Scientists have proved that genes are responsible for these early differences. But people assume that as children get older and spend more time under their parents influence, the effect of genes declines. They are wrong.
For a century or more, we have understood that intelligence is largely inherited, though even today some mistakenly rail against the idea and say that nurture, not nature, is all. Now we know that much of our personality, too, is inherited and that many social attitudes have some degree of genetic basis, including our involvement in crime and some psychiatric illnesses. Some things do result entirely from environmental influences, such as whether you follow the Red Sox or the Yankees (though I suspect that Yankee fans have a genetic defect). But beyond routine tastes, almost everything has some genetic basis. And that includes politics.
When scholars say that a trait is inherited, they dont mean that they can tell what role nature and nurture have played in any given individual. Rather, they mean that in a populationsay, a group of adults or childrengenes explain a lot of the differences among individuals.
There are two common ways of reaching this conclusion. One is to compare adopted childrens traits with those of their biological parents, on the one hand, and with those of their adoptive parents, on the other. If a closer correlation exists with the biological parents traits, then we say that the trait is to that degree inherited.
The other method is to compare identical twins similarity, with respect to some trait, with the similarity of fraternal twins, or even of two ordinary siblings. Identical twins are genetic duplicates, while fraternal twins share only about half their genes and are no more genetically alike than ordinary siblings are. If identical twins are more alike than fraternal twins, therefore, we conclude that the trait under consideration is to some degree inherited.
Three political science professorsJohn Alford, Carolyn Funk, and John Hibbinghave studied political attitudes among a large number of twins in America and Australia. They measured the attitudes with something called the Wilson-Patterson Scale (I am not the Wilson after whom it was named), which asks whether a respondent agrees or disagrees with 28 words or phrases, such as death penalty, school prayer, pacifism, or gay rights. They then compared the similarity of the responses among identical twins with the similarity among fraternal twins. They found that, for all 28 taken together, the identical twins did indeed agree with each other more often than the fraternal ones didand that genes accounted for about 40 percent of the difference between the two groups. On the other hand, the answers these people gave to the words Democrat or Republican had a very weak genetic basis. In politics, genes help us understand fundamental attitudesthat is, whether we are liberal or conservativebut do not explain what party we choose to join.
Genes also influence how frequently we vote. Voting has always puzzled scholars: How is it rational to wait in line on a cold November afternoon when there is almost no chance that your ballot will make any difference? Apparently, people who vote often feel a strong sense of civic duty or like to express themselves. But who are these people? James Fowler, Laura Baker, and Christopher Dawes studied political participation in Los Angeles by comparing voting among identical and fraternal twins. Their conclusion: among registered voters, genetic factors explain about 60 percent of the difference between those who vote and those who do not.
A few scholars, determined to hang on to the belief that environment explains everything, argue that such similarities occur because the parents of identical twinsas opposed to the parents of fraternal twinsencourage them to be as alike as possible as they grow up. This is doubtful. First, we know that many parents make bad guesses about their childrens genetic connectionthinking that fraternal twins are actually identical ones, or vice versa. When we take twins accurate genetic relationships into account, we find that identical twins whom parents wrongly thought to be fraternal are very similar, while fraternal twins wrongly thought to be identical are no more alike than ordinary siblings.
Moreover, studying identical twins reared apart by different families, even in different countries, effectively shows that their similar traits cannot be the result of similar upbringing. The University of Minnesotas Thomas Bouchard has done research on many identical twins reared apart (some in different countries) and has found that though they never knew each other or their parents, they proved remarkably alike, especially in personalitywhether they were extroverted, agreeable, neurotic, or conscientious, for example.
Some critics complain that the fact that identical twins live together with their birth parents, at least for a time, ruins Bouchards findings: during this early period, they say, parenting must influence the childrens attitudes. But the average age at which the identical twins in Bouchards study became separated from their parents was five months. It is hard to imagine parents teaching five-month-old babies much about politics or religion.
The gene-driven ideological split that Alford and his colleagues found may, in fact, be an underestimate, because men and women tend to marry people with whom they agree on big issuesassortative mating, as social scientists call it. Assortative mating means that the children of parents who agree on issues will be more likely to share whatever genes influence those beliefs. Thus, even children who are not identical twins will have a larger genetic basis for their views than if their parents married someone with whom they disagreed. Since we measure heritability by subtracting the similarity among fraternal twins from the similarity among identical ones, this difference may neglect genetic influences that already exist on fraternal twins. And if it does, it means that we are underestimating genetic influences on attitudes.
When we step back and look at American politics generally, genes may help us understand why, for countless decades, about 40 percent of all voters have supported conservative causes, about 40 percent have backed liberal ones, and the 20 percent in the middle have decided the elections. On a few occasions, the winning presidential candidate has won about 60 percent of the vote. But these days we call a 55 percent victory a landslide. It is hard to imagine a purely environmental force that would rule out a presidential election in which one candidate got 80 percent of the vote and his rival only 20 percent. Something deeper must be going on.
All of this leaves open the question: Which genes help create which political attitudes? Right now, we dont know. To discover the links will require lengthy studies of the DNA of people with different political views. Scientists are having a hard time locating the specific genes that cause diseases; it will probably be much harder to find the complex array of genes that affects politics.
There are problems with the observed link between genes and politics. One is that it is fairly crude so far. Liberals and conservatives come in many varieties: one can be an economic liberal and a social conservative, say, favoring a large state but opposing abortion; or an economic conservative and a social liberal, favoring the free market but supporting abortion and gay rights. If we add attitudes about foreign policy to the mix, the combinations double. Most tests used in genetic studies of political views do not allow us to make these important distinctions. As a result, though we know that genes affect ideology, that knowledge is clumsy. In time, I suspect, we will learn more about these subtleties.
Further, its important to emphasize that biology is not destiny. Genetic influences rarely operate independently of environmental factors. Take the case of serotonin. People who have little of this neurotransmitter are at risk for some psychological problems, but for many of them, no such problems occur unless they experience some personal crisis. Then the combined effect of genetic influences and disruptive experiences will trigger a deep state of depression, something that does not happen to people who either do not lack serotonin or who do lack it but encounter no crisis. Recently, in the first study to find the exact genes that affect political participation, Fowler and Dawes found two genes that help explain voting behavior. One of the genes, influencing serotonin levels, boosts turnout by 10 percentif the person also attends church frequently. Nature and nurture interact.
The same is probably true of political ideology. When campus protests and attacks on university administrators began in the late 1960s, it was not because a biological upheaval had increased the number of radicals; it was because such people encountered events (the war in Vietnam, the struggle over civil rights) and group pressures that induced them to take strong actions. By the same token, lynchings in the South did not become common because there were suddenly more ultra-racists around. Rather, mob scenes, media frenzies, and the shock of criminal events motivated people already skeptical of civil rights to do terrible things.
Another challenge is politicized assessment of the genetic evidence. Ever since 1950, when Theodor Adorno and his colleagues published The Authoritarian Personality, scholars have studied right-wing authoritarianism but neglected its counterpart on the left. In his study of identical twins reared apart, Bouchard concludes that right-wing authoritarianism is, to a large degree, inheritedbut he says nothing about the Left. This omission is puzzling, since as Bouchard was studying twins at the University of Minnesota, he was regularly attacked by left-wing students outraged by the idea that any traits might be inherited. A few students even threatened to kill him. When I pointed this out to him, he suggested, in good humor, that I was a troublemaker.
Yet if you ask who in this country has prevented people from speaking on college campuses, it is overwhelmingly leftists. If you ask who storms the streets and shatters the windows of Starbucks coffee shops to protest the World Trade Organization, it is overwhelmingly leftists. If you ask who produces campus codes that infringe on free speech, it is overwhelmingly leftists. If you ask who invaded the classroom of my late colleague Richard Herrnstein and tried to prevent him from teaching, it was overwhelmingly leftists.
A better way to determine if authoritarianism is genetic would be to ask people what the countrys biggest problems are. Liberals might say the inequality of income or the danger of global warming; conservatives might indicate the tolerance of abortion or the abundance of pornography. You would then ask each group what they thought should be done to solve these problems. An authoritarian liberal might say that we should tax high incomes out of existence and close down factories that emit greenhouse gases. A conservative authoritarian might suggest that we put abortion doctors in jail and censor books and television programs. This approach would give us a true measure of authoritarianism, left and right, and we would know how many of each kind existed and something about their backgrounds. Then, if they had twins, we would be able to estimate the heritability of authoritarianism. Doing all this is a hard job, which may explain why no scholars have done it.
Genes shape, to varying degrees, almost every aspect of human behavior. The struggle by some activists to deny or downplay that fact is worrisome. The anti-gene claim is ultimately an ill-starred effort to preserve the myth that, since the environment can explain everything, political causes that attempt to alter the environment can bring about whatever their leaders desire.
The truth is that though biology is not destiny, neither is it an easily changed path to utopia.
James Q. Wilson, formerly a professor at Harvard and at UCLA, now lectures at Pepperdine University. In 2003, he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
You can disagree, and I may be wrong. In your opinion, have you ever contributed to turning a discussion into a flame war?
In your opinion, is it probable that a flame war on one thread will be manifested as animosity and misunderstandings in subsequent threads?
Sure. It happened to me when I stumbled upon my first crevo thread, when I had no idea what to expect, and posted on it and was immediately shredded for holding the creationist position. Yeah, it happens.
Does having it happen to you absolve you of any resonsibility for the consequences of doing it to other people?
No, and it doesn't excuse it either.
You wouldn't believe the effect which merely being laughed at has on evolosers. I was delivering some stuff to a mental institution this afternoon and they had an evoloser all tied up and sedated... poor guy had tried to throw himself into a meat grinder at an Oscar Meyer plant after a couple of little girls laughed at him when he started to walk outdoors and had forgotten his pants.
Can we make that a basis for better communicatoin going forward?
We can try. But it's no guarantee I won't get in my own way.
I think we're in better shape now that when we started. That's not something I see happen on these threads very often. It's a good start, IMHO.
Such as?
No doubt about that, gene hating is a cornerstone of that rotten religion Poltical Correctness.
Making sure that our elected officials know where we stand. Make sure they know they can't take us for granted. Not being afraid to stand up to the evo-atheists and tell it like it is. Anything beyond that is against God's laws; God will punish them eventually. I see my post was misconstrued as advocating something more than I meant. I'm simply talking about not being afraid and timid when dealing with an enemy.
A steady diet of God's word should do the trick ;o)
Some people get sick on that diet. They shouldn't, but it seems they do.
Then perhaps they aren't his own?
I would say so.
Funny... My family: Mom, Dad, 2 sisters, 1 brother... are all hard core liberals, EXCEPT FOR ME... and I am the first born!
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The urge to simplify6:02 PM
I wrote a few weeks back about purging my wardrobe of all the things that are too small, frumpy, out of style and taste and possibly made me look like an auntie-ji. The purge seem to have spread to other areas of my house, inspired by a blog I found recently called the year of less, which you can read here, I applied some of her tips to my home, not all, because some are just not practical for me, and some are anyway common in India already. But still in the principle of my wardrobe purge, some other things just had to go, and it started with all the useless accessories coming with the food processor I bought in 2006. damn machine I use less and less now that it has no space to sit on my counter anyway. Some of the accessories were things I never used ever such as the citrus juicer thing, oranges that can be turned in OJ are so ridiculously priced in India that we buy the without sugar added juice carton anyway. There was the other fruit juicer attachment that I used once, and never again after realising that you need a truck load of fruit to make half a glass of liquid, and that the damn juicer would never come clean due to the design flaws making the pulp stick in inaccessible grooves, so much so that when I decided to trash it last week it was black with mold from that one time juicing adventure back in 2006! The grater plates took the plunge too, the food processor (a Kenstar model if you must know) was so badly designed that it could not even grate a coconut as there was a gap of over one centimetres between the grater plate and the feeding hole, I ended up having to grate it by hand, and in fact even grating a bunch of carrots is going faster with a manual grater anyway. The egg white beater which I used before getting my electric beater also went, it wasn't even doing a great job at it. And all I have left are the grinding and blending jars (which…yup…would be found on a mixie anyway), and I kept the chopping bowl and blade, for those now rare occasion of blitzing veggies away. Saved me lot's of space in the kitchen cabinets! Our old vacuum cleaner died, and we bought a new one, because let's face it, when the maid doesn't come it saves us a lot of time, and we still needed one to clean the sofa, but this time instead of going for a big bulky one, we found one that is both a dust buster and floor cleaner when combined with the proper attachment, again saves us tons of space in the kitchen cabinets, and because it is less heavy to lug around, we already used it more in a week than we used the old one in the past 4 months.
A month ago I finally got rid of all the music tapes we had, which if you ask me should have gone away years ago, but since we bought a docking station for our iPods 4-5 months ago, after DH finally realised that our stereo was useless as nothing except the tape player was working on it. We gave the thing to our maid, and I just recently got fed up with the shelves of tapes catching dust, so they all went away, next step would be to purge a few of the CDs as well, since we haven't listened to one in quite sometime. Just yesterday I stumbled upon my old "minidisks", if you are scratching your head at this one, well it's because minidisks was a format that had some popularity in some European countries but never really took off outside Japan, it was in it's time supposed to replace the audio tape, but launched around the same time as the basic MP3 players, and a few years before Steeve Job introduced us to the iPod. I took my portable player and disks to India with me in 2003, listened to it a bit over the years, until said player refused to work on battery, and as of now I don't remember if I trashed the player already or not, so I decided to get rid of my disks, if the player shows up in another corner of my home, it will go, as I don't have anything to play in it anyway.
Before attacking the obsolete Audio support collection, I also trashed all my make up, mascara and eyeliner being the exception. The reason being that two lipsticks are more than 10 years of age and I remember buying them as a teen in Switzerland! The other lot was stuff I purchased for our wedding in 2006. I rarely wear make up, if I do that's just mascara and liner, which as i said I didn't trash as I had to buy them for our daughter's party last July, I haven't worn foundation since my wedding, and I'm pretty sure the compact powder has been worn once or twice since then. The only make up I use is nail polish on my toes, and if I feel inspired or rather particularly parched, some lip balm. So why clutter my bathroom with things I don't use or even need I ask you? I'm very basic when it comes to grooming, all I need is a shampoo, conditioner, face wash, shower gel, lotion for my insane dry skin, a face cream, deodorant and toner to remove the pollution gunk off my skin after an outing, that's it, I don't use masks, primer, scrubs, serums, and other magic potions.
And you know what, getting rid of all that useless clutter felt great, really great, next on the agenda is organizing the dresser with all the paint and craft supplies, and I'm still hopeful one day DH will get rid of his college books and the mountain of SAP Xeroxed books we've lugged from place to place over the years…one day will come we will have more space in the storage shelve…One day!


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I have seen a lot of sixty-plus-year-olds put on concerts. Not painful orchestral affairs at senior centers, either. From my early teenage years, all of my musical heroes were the great rockers who invented the genre and recorded albums that will never be topped. The only problem was, I was born some twenty years after most of my favorite solos were recorded in the perma-haze hanging over London and San Francisco.
Thankfully, by the time I was a teenager experiencing generational diaspora, most of my guitar heroes were sober, broke, and back on the road. Of course, this meant that I was always in crowds surrounded by people old enough to be my grandparents who were neither sober nor broke. While the sense of novelty was mutual, I was hardly concretizing my place in musical history by being there for seminal shows or breakthrough tours.
What's worse, I felt the need to lie to my dad when I'd get home and he asked, "Can he even really sing anymore? They had a lot of high notes…" I thought that maybe if I said it sounded the same as it did on the album, it'd be a little more true, make me a little closer to an era that wasn't mine at all. Plus, the cavalcade of backup singers and auxiliary musicians on stage masked most of the old frontmen's shortcomings. I'd leave the shows certain that The Who never had seven members, or that Paul McCartney didn't used to tour with two drummers. But to admit these inconsistencies is to admit that I was disappointed, that I didn't belong to the generation these jovial grandads came from.
Of course, in the intervening years I fell for the bands more of my era, though I caught them one album cycle past their perceived peaks. I touted the 2004 album as my favorite, though it was their 2007 effort that served as my gateway drug. The 1996 stuff was more raw, more in-tune with my emotions and sensibilities and less in-tune with my temporal reality. At least the people at their shows looked and acted a little more like me and cheered the most loudly for the same songs as I did. I wasn't there for a greatest hits parade with a sprinkling of painful new stuff, as I'd grown so accustomed to. I was there for a catalogue-spanning show that pulled from whimsical deep tracks and still-good new stuff alike, and so was everyone else. My disappointment in not hearing that one song from my favorite early album was more realistic, somehow more probable because it's only twenty years old instead of fifty.
So the situation I found myself in recently was familiar in a same-but-different kind of way. I walked into the Austin City Limits Moody Theatre fifteen minutes after Jerry Jeff Walker took the stage. I felt unhurried, unconcerned, and totally excited. There's no sense in clinging too tightly and missing the life that's in front of you. So my lovely date and I savored the 45 minute wait for our pasta (carb loading for a road bike race the next day) and only checked the clock once the whole time we were eating. I digress. There he was, sitting down at center stage, with a cowboy hat sitting so low I wondered if he could even see. I knew he was hiding something. Sharing the stage with him was a simple three piece band—lead guitar, bass, and drums. Nobody to hide behind, in fact, fewer instruments than he had with him on my favorite Live from Luckenbach album. I admired his honesty but had to laugh at the contradiction that was his wrinkle-hiding hat. Ten minutes later, after laying on the hysterical anecdotes and playing sentimental retrospectives, he burst into Up Against the Wall Redneck Mother. The crowd rose to its feet. He opted to skip strumming essential guitar parts so he could lift his hat high and bare his balding head and hard-worn face to the crowd. He grinned an enormous grin when he showed his hand—er, face—to his fans, many of whom were his age or close to it, and everyone cheered raucously. Jerry Jeff was not hiding behind Just for Men and backup singers.
He told stories about how his rambling ways had been halted dead in their tracks by love, shared lessons learned the hard way, and played sentimental songs that were neither new nor old. Without a new album to sell, nor a desire to play a Greatest Hits World Tour, he was free to call audibles and play whatever his free-form ramblings best segued into. I realized that I was being treated to something quite special. I forgot I was in an audience of a few thousand and felt more like I was sitting across the table from a wizened old man who had been tasked with sharing his life's wisdom and reaffirming my decisions to-date.
Just yesterday I conducted a telephone interview with legendary Texas artist Bob Wade, best known for his highly imaginative found object sculptures. Now 72 years old, Wade quipped that the giant cowboy boots he built 36 years ago were half his age and now pushing forty themselves. Officially, I was conducting an interview for a story on one of his newest public art projects, but I was also having a one-on-one conversation with an accomplished artist who has the gifts of hindsight and experience to share.
"If you shoot me an email, we'll get you on the e-vite list for my next gallery opening. Of course, it won't be me, I don't really do the whole email thing. My wife takes care of me like that." This was a common refrain from Bob and Jerry Jeff, that they had surrendered the stubborn insistence on independence that all people, especially all men, possess. That is, before they recognize that suppressing it leads to something greater than the sum of its parts by way of subtraction. Whether it's sparing yourself bona fide brain damage by handing over email correspondence duties or it's letting someone else do things you could easily do yourself, like tie your tie before a black tie event, that willing humility is a recurring theme in the longest-tenured unions.
As we wonder how to age well, how to make it to our seventh generation and sit on the stage with our hats pulled low not as a display of hubris but for dramatic effect, it's easy to wonder if we can learn from the mistakes our predecessors have made, or if we can only learn from them that mistakes will be made. In either case, it seems that what matters most is not what we do but what we do with it. How we figure that out is an entirely different question.


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2 to 2 1/2 lbs.. lean chuck or round steak
1/4 cup flour
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6 slices bacon, chopped
2 onions, chopped
2 cups beef broth
dash of ground cloves and nutmeg
4 tbsp.. herb or wine vinegar
2 tbsp.. brown sugar
1 tsp. dried oregano
1 tsp. dried thyme
optional: 1 cup of small button mushrooms
Cut meat into cubes, dredge in flour mixed with a little salt and pepper. Place bacon in skillet and fry a few minutes. Add pieces of meat and brown and all sides. Add onions and cook 2 to 3 minutes. Transfer to Crock Pot. Stir in beef broth, water, spices, vinegar, brown sugar, and seasonings. Cover and cook on low 8 to 10 hours. Thicken juices with a mixture of flour and cold water if desired. Serve with potatoes or noodles.


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Bills | Tyrod Taylor to remain a starter in Week 3
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Buffalo Bills QB Tyrod Taylor will be the starting quarterback in Week 3 against the Denver Broncos, according to head coach Sean McDermott.
Taylor is being set up to fail in Buffalo this season, but rookie Nathan Peterman probably isn't anywhere close to ready yet and the Bills probably don't want to throw him to the wolves against the Broncos anyway. It feels like the hook is coming soon for Taylor, so owners hoping for him to turn it around might want to pursue other options.
Source: WKBW.com - Joe Buscaglia


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Waiting for summer
We are still waiting for the summer that doesn't really seem to come for real this year.
So this is what we do while we are waiting: Reading lots of Astrid Lindgren stories in preparation for this year's visit in Pippi land, eating salads every day - this one was particularly good with new potatoes, radishes, apples, roasted almonds, fresh goat cheese, lettuce, raspberry vinegar and olive oil. We haven't had that many ice creams this year but the crochet one from Shirley Bredahl is a favourite in Frida Viola's kitchen.
We are looking forward to swimming in the sea (and in the Swedish lakes!), sitting outside until late, finding wild berries in the forrest, visiting lots of flea markets and forgetting about time.


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The Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry recently named Actis the 'most impactful private equity firm in Nigeria' for its strong impact on the Nigerian economy so far. As a method of enhancing Nigeria's economy further, Actis has invested $62 million in Sigma Pensions.
Today, the emerging markets investor completed its investment for a majority stake at Nigeria's leading Pension Fund Administrator (PFA). According to the company, Actis is partnering with Sigma's Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Mr Umaru Modibbo and his current management team.
"We are delighted to welcome Actis as a new partner, one that understands our business and brings deep asset management and distribution expertise, as well as an unrivalled track record in Africa. With Actis' help, we look forward to continuing our growth trajectory and creating more opportunities", said Mr Umaru Modibbo, Founder and CEO of Sigma Pensions.
The investment is driven by the fact that Actis projects great opportunities to aid further growth for Sigma. Sigma was one of Nigeria's first PFAs and now has over 650,000 registered customers. Working from 11 offices and 32 service centres, Sigma administers and invests funds on behalf of its customer base which spans the entire country.
Actis is one of the biggest financial services investors in Africa with over $570m invested in the sector; over $1 billion invested in financial services globally and c. $3 billion invested across African businesses overall.
The private equity firm is heavily invested in several business sectors in Nigeria, which earned it an award in 2014 as the 'Firm of the Year in Africa' by Private Equity International as well as an 'African Infrastructure Fund Manager of the Year, 2014' by Infrastructure Investor.
Although, the pensions industry in Nigeria remains significantly under-penetrated, with pension assets constituting only c.5 percent of GDP, Sigma, ARM Pensions, Stanbic IBTC Pension Managers Limited and several others are changing the narrative. Over the last decade, the Pension Fund Administrator (PFA) industry has demonstrated strong growth and is poised for further expansion. There are currently only c. 6 million pension-holders in a population of about c. 170 million, with a median-age of only 19, supporting the growth outlook for the industry.
Partners at Actis also expressed their commitment towards helping Sigma grow beyond the status quo. "Building on our extensive experience in the asset management and distribution sector, we are very excited to be investing in a growing consumer demand for future financial protection and well-being in Nigeria. In Sigma, we have identified a well-managed, solid business with IT and operational systems and excellent customer service that can leverage these underlying secular trends", said Natalie Kolbe, partner at Actis on the transaction.
"Sigma sits in an under-penetrated, well-regulated market and has excellent growth prospects. We are excited to be investing in the Nigerian PFA industry and to be partnering with Mr Modibbo as well as a great management team to support growth initiatives, including extending the core business, enhancing the brand and creating a platform for further expansion within Nigeria", said Tony Abakisi, Investment Principal at Actis, Nigeria.


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You know that feeling you get when you donate food to the Ottawa Food Bank? Why not share that feeling with your colleagues or friends by holding a food drive. There are many of ways to do it – consider holding a food drive at the office, a BBQ or sports tournament. Not only will you be making a difference, but you'll be having a lot of fun while you do it.
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Each November, we challenge workplaces across the Ottawa Region to collect funds and non-perishable food. With the help of volunteers we distribute boxes and posters, and we pick up your donations in December. The Holiday Food Drive is a great way to bring in the holiday season, and the proceeds help the Ottawa Food Bank provide emergency food service for its Member Agencies well into the winter months.
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Acacia Has Operated 'Illegally' in Tanzania for 19 Years
The second presidential committee report on the export of mineral concentrates has revealed that Acacia Mining PLC has been operating in the country for 19 years without any legal registration or certificate of compliance.
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Questions are being raised about the Acacia Mining registration after the second presidential probe committee alleged that the company operated illegally in the country. Read more »
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Tanzania: 'Acacia Has Operated Illegally for 19 Years'
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The Second presidential committee report on the export of mineral concentrates has revealed that Acacia Mining Plc has been operating in the country for 19 years without any legal… Read more »
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A Review Of amil babaaamil baba kala ilm kala jadu taweez istekhara 03003611170 ZEYOUS BENGALI (Faisalabad, Punjab) Vashikarn kaewian, jo kaam kiai amil sa na ho paya ho us k liya ap mujh sa contact karian mayous na…
pehley pehley nakami hoyee lekin himmat nahi haari (3) chilla kiay yani (a hundred and twenty) din tak karna parra hatta crucial aik waqt aisa bhi guzra hum raat ko bethtey tou parrhaye kartey kartey sara din bhi guzar jata yeh hoti hey mehnat yeh hoti hey lagan hamara yeh sab bataney ka maqsad hum koi chand amliyat guides parrh kar amil baba nahi ban gaye.
pakistan mei kala jadu expert amil babas ki koi kami nahi lekin jese pehley bataya vital pakistan aik islamic country hey aur islam mei jadu karna haram hey isi liay aik muslim nation mei rehney ki wajah yahan for each kala jadu expert amil babaa kafi kam tadad mei hotey hen.
The Qur'an will smolder the Jinn or the Magic and the measuring (Hijamah) will evaluate it yet please take note of which the system is not really pretty similar to need to be envisioned to evaluate (Hijamah) in gentle of The reality that we aren't trying to treatment an infection but instead expel the Jinn or Magic and also the cuts are small and not a ton of blood really should be taken.and This could be attainable at whatsoever time and any day.In the event you go to a standard measuring (Hijamah) then recount the Qur'an or hear it out amid the methodology and Insha'Allah it'll have an effect.
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Jadu key haqeeqat sey inkar nahi kiya jaa sakta hey jadu qadeem zamana sey chalta aa raha hey aur chalta rahey ga yeh khatam nahi ho sakta han jadugar ya jadu ko karney waley zaroor khatam ho saktey hen hum aaj crucial jadeed dour mei rehtey hen hum har kam ko science ki nazar sey dekhtey hen Kala Jadu Amil baba for every yaqeen mushkil ho geya hey.
Spirituality will be the breaking within the barrier by you. To hope popping out of this shell or walls you designed all around you and permitting the positivity in the world to receive in you.
Conversely the 2nd type of amil baba assert to acquire satanic black magic powers and so they use diverse tlisams to invoke and command satanic demons and jinns.
Ab hum aap ko batayen gey aik taweez professional sey kese aap apna har masla hal karwa saktey hen taweez ka likhna or teyar karna bohat maharat ka kam hey jo aik amil baba taweez expert he kar sakta hey agar aap khud sey taweez ko likhna shuroo kar den tou kabhi woh taweez apna asar nahi dekhaaye ga.
We know ourselves really superficially. We've just no idea who we really originate from in just. That critical self-recognition is designed by spirituality.
1. asal main amil jo ilam janty hain aaj k dour key siraf chand log he rha gy hain iss ka matlab ya nahi ha k ilam makhfi khtam ho gya ha jab tak ya dunia
g. we have observed Magic performed on the lipsticks or even a scarf of the Girl and so forth. To the cure whichever part of your body has difficulties should be carried out along with the affected individual is offered the (Qur'an) taken care of here h2o to utilize.
Enchantment is actually words and so they benefit from (hitches) and so on to make it additional grounded but the treatment method is during the Qur'an and we make use of drinking water, oil.
aur jo hen woh bhi posheedah kisi key samnay nahi aana chahtey yani makhfi hokar reh rahey hen hum ney khud kaye amil babaa ko chup kar kala jadu kartey dekha aur aaj bhi hen lekin woh khud ko khulam khula zahir nahi kar saktey apney adverts nahi lagatey ab jo hamarey ustad ji thay.


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Not my own photo-emailed to me by a friend-source unknown.
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I can't escape them!
Everywhere I look or listen there are not so subtle reminders that the holidays are OVER!!
Yeah! Yeah! I've GOT the message already!
Rosie the class bear is all eager in her school uniform with her new bag.
Three more words I couldn't escape were TOUR DOWN UNDER.
I am not usually into the bike race but when it happens virtually outside your door, it is hard not to become a little excitied!
I took these during the first lap standing on a chair in my front yard...
I ventured out to the end of my road see the second lap up close and personal!
Here they come!
And in a blink of your eye-there they go!
I bet they wish they could have stopped off for a cool off here!
How's this for a good viewing spot!
Three more words I will leave you with...
I am off to make the most of my last day of freedom!
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In the sales after Christmas, we purchased a very "on special" set of saucepans that are just brilliant. However, when buying them we overlooked one thing-metal handles-that we are just not used to. So, I've been on a potholder making frenzy!
They kind of improved as I made more...
I put towelling on the back to add extra thickness..
My friend holidayed in Russia and brought me back my very own purple matryoshka dolls.
Such a happy face..
I then had a go at making a Magic Ball from this book...
That promptly got turned into another pot holder!
Magic Ballz are fun to make!
The last of the lilliums in the garden....
And these pussy willows dancing in the early morning sunshine make me smile!
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Just relaxing and enjoying time to potter and ponder. Been walking heaps, sorting heaps and organising heaps. My study/sewing room/junk room room that contains highly important things and many treasures!!! has had a major overhaul. The recycle bin is full, the pile of "stuff" to donate to the op shop is ready to go and my work space is actually spacious rather than clutterful!! Yay-feeling good!
One handy bargain was found at Ray's Outdoors in the fishing section. Everything was reduced and a container that caught my eye was down to $5:00-and then 1/2 price!! So my $2:50 tackle box is now happily housing my embroidery threads that were resembling spaghetti...
I even used the removable dividers to wrap the "enough for next time" bits on!
I have transformed a large used matchbox into a handy holder for little notepaper as I am an avid list writer from way back!
I love to write lists and cross things off as I go. I have even been known to do something that wasn't on the list and add it after!I know! Kind of weird!
I have been marvelling at our beautiful Ficifolia tree that is nearly in full bloom.
The busy bee frenzy is amazing...
You are right Dees! Little creepy crawlies LOVE the dahlias!
And how's this for the biggest garden show off you have ever seen??
Ahh!! The wonders of nature!!
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I wish everyone a wonderful 2009.
I hope your days are filled with good health, joy, happiness and peace. May you laugh often and have plenty of opportunities to create and enjoy doing what makes you smile.
My crafty New Year resolutions are simple this year.....
Here are some Softies I finished in 2008...
And some other crafty and sewy things...
I am hoping to get stuck into a few projects during the holidays now that the silly season is over.
I have this beautiful quilt hanging on our wall..
It is my Secret Santa gift from the lovely Pamela in the USA. I too was a good girl and waited until Christmas morning to open my package. And what a special, fabulous package it was! I am sure I will use it every Christmas from now on as it does make me smile! Thank you so much Pamela-it is just gorgeous. Thank you too for the extra bonus bits as well-my cheeky Santa, pattern, ribbon and cotton.
Ms Chookyblue you are wonderful! What an amazing Secret Santa Swap it has been again this year. I am in awe of all the lovely and generous goodies from all around the globe that are being so nicely presented on your blog for all to oggle and "oooooo" and "ahhhhh" over! Thank you!
Another thing I am enjoying at the moment is this dahlia flowering in our garden...
I have never grown them before but am now a definite fan! I love watching the flowers unfold! This one is well on it's way.
I am off to have an afternoon nap now because I can!
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Lock Your Door: The Best Subreddits for Adults
Can you handle Reddit's heat?
Love makes the world go round, and physical love is definitely included in that. It can drive people to do some crazy things. But we'd like to do our part to prevent anything super crazy by leading you to some outlets that might help you out with any frustrations you're feeling. One of our favorite sites to visit to get our self-groove on is Reddit. And we've listed the best subpages showing some of the steamiest, sexiest, most salacious stuff on the entire net.
Bet you never thought to look here for your fix.


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If you are a Hotmail user, you are free to personalize your email by adding some individual features. Signature can be very useful in this sense. When you sign your email messages with name, company and some contact details, a recipient will clearly know the some info about you. This is the best manner of etiquette in email communication. To make Hotmail add a signature to your messages, do this:
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