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Proposal would improve retention of women in STEM careers
Dara Satterfield, Sarah Budischak, and Sara Heisel, doctoral students in the University of Georgia Odum School of Ecology, have taken second place honors in the National Science Foundation Innovation in Graduate Education Challenge, the NSF announced on June 13, 2013. The challenge, which drew more than 500 entries, was launched in February 2013 to solicit ideas for improving graduate education and professional development from graduate students in the sciences.
Satterfield, Budischak, and Heisel, who study the ecology and evolution of infectious diseases in wildlife, entered the competition under the team name "Parasite Ladies." They received one of two $2,000 second place prizes for their entry, "Retaining Women in STEM Careers: Graduate Students as the Building Blocks of Change."
Satterfield explained that she and her colleagues, who meet regularly to discuss parasite ecology, research ideas, or recent papers in their field, have often discussed the issue of retaining women in the sciences. "In the U.S., we're now so much better at recruiting women into science, but we're not so good at supporting them once they're there," she said. "As a result, many women scientists have shorter careers than their male counterparts, and are especially less likely to advance into full professorships. We've talked about this in our Parasite Ladies group or with our advisers. So when the NSF released an essay contest about how to improve graduate education, we knew exactly what we wanted to write about."
Their entry contains three practical proposals for fostering more equal and lifelong careers for women scientists.
First, they suggest establishing a web site to help connect graduate students with mentors and role models with whom they can discuss career decisions, work-life balance, and other challenges. The site would also serve as a forum for online panel discussions on topics such as navigating organizational politics and salary negotiations.
Next, they propose equality training to target the subtle biases—held by women and men both—that hinder the advancement of women. This training would take the form of online modules that could be incorporated into the ethics training course required for all NSF grantees, or the online trainings required by many research institutions.
Finally, they suggest establishing a national program of graduate "Equality Ambassadors," students who would receive training to help them advocate for policy changes at their institutions and future workplaces.
Heisel, who worked in industry before returning to school to pursue her Ph.D., said that she observed that even though much attention is focused on leveling the playing field, subtle bias persists and can influence women to decide that staying in STEM fields is not worth the cost.
"My personal belief is that these are issues not easily identified on a day-to-day basis, but cumulatively create an atmosphere that does not promote retention of women in STEM careers. We all feel that addressing these issues early on can begin to create change," she said.
Sonia Altizer, associate dean in the Odum School of Ecology, said that the need for these initiatives was critical. "Data show that in some fields like the life sciences, women make up more than half of the students obtaining PhDs, but fewer than 30 percent of tenure track faculty lines; an even smaller ratio of senior faculty are women," she said. "This percentage hasn't budged much in the past two decades."
Satterfield said that the loss of these highly trained scientists has serious consequences for technical innovation, economic growth, and the status of the U.S. as a global leader in STEM disciplines. "We believe our proposals would help the U.S. retain scientists, would give women more options for their careers, and would help the U.S. maintain a foothold as an international leader in scientific advancement," she said.
Altizer agreed. "Women can offer unique perspectives and styles to scientific disciplines and academic programs and it is sad to think that we are losing so many of their contributions and voices between the granting of PhDs and the hiring and promotion of our academic faculty," she said. "Sarah, Dara, and Sara offer realistic solutions that address this issue head-on at a juncture when women make crucial decisions about where to go next with their careers and lives."
Odum School Dean John Gittleman praised the team's approach. "The future of science is collaboration and effective teamwork," he said. "This is even more important in areas that are growing and changing at lightning pace, such as emerging disease in ecological settings. Dara, Sara, and Sarah show that a critical, personal aspect of this is how to work better on a day-to-day basis and that 'leaning in' for women, to use Sheryl Sandberg's phrase, is very important to harness effective teamwork among women. It's an honor that the Odum School's 'Parasite Ladies' are taking a lead."
"I am excited that our proposal will be shared with a broad audience and with the people in positions to make meaningful changes," said Budischak. "I want more women to be interested, successful, and happier undertaking scientific careers, so if any of our ideas are implemented, or simply inspire other programs, I will consider it a huge achievement."


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The absurdity of America today never ceases to amaze. In fact, it has become so elaborate that one might even suggest it has reached a kind of poetic symmetry. When a protest group is willing to stick their necks out to expose the horror of the National Defense Authorization Act and its open door strategy for unconstitutional arrest and indefinite detainment of American citizens, I have to stand up and applaud.
This is the kind of protest we need to see all over the country. Of course, any establishment system which is willing to dissolve the inherent liberties of its citizens certainly isn't going to stand by quietly while they blatantly point out the injustice. The Grand Central Terminal action featured in the video below is a perfect example of the swift and immediate stifling of peaceful dissent by an increasingly totalitarian government:Responses to the event vary.
Most people who have actually been exposed to the facts on the NDAA have expressed utter disgust and fury. Rightly so. Some, however, have taken the old elitist mantra, perpetuated effectively by the Neo-Cons in their heyday, that if you are not for the system, then you are a danger to society. Not surprisingly, there are still plenty of useful idiots out there buzzing about like parasites in search of blood.
For those who would applaud these arrests, and suggest that they are well deserved, I would have to ask very pointedly; why?
Tuesday, January 10, 2012
You're under arrest for protesting being under arrest
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Anderson Silva and his camp always let opponents do the talking on strategy, and Chris Weidman seemed to be falling into the same trap in the days leading up to their battle for the UFC Middleweight title. Instead, it seemed Weidman may have outfoxed Silva to end his reign.
Weidman talked about needing to get Silva down to wrestle on the mat, and then to continue to grind out a win instead of getting over anxious as a previous Silva opponent had done.
Silva took it all in as he had with other opponents, talking about anything except the actual strategy he would employ. His manager commented that other fighters always talked about what they were going to do to Silva, and Silva just waited and did what he was going to do during the match. It seemed to work well during his 17-0 run as middleweight champion during the last seven years.
However, Weidman seemed to be broadcasting false information as the second round played out in stunning speed.
Get Silva to the mat? Instead, Weidman used left hooks in the second round. Silva pretended to be hurt by round one, going into his normal slouching mode that is usually followed by kicks to take down opponents that thought they had done damage. Only this time Weidman simply came back harder, eventually landing a left hook that left no room for Silva to continue clowning.
Be sure not to be overly aggressive when he did get the advantage? Instead Weidman pounced on Silva with a flurry that forced referee Herb Dean to stop the fight in front of a stunned crowd in Las Vegas.
Whether Weidman was truly sending Silva false information to create a surprise opportunity, or whether the opportunity for the short left hook simply presented itself and Weidman altered his strategy in the second round we will never know for sure. The one thing we do know is that Weidman has stunned the UFC world by becoming the new middleweight champion.


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Are Canadians really okay with this?
A Quebec man charged with obstructing border officials by refusing to give up his smartphone password says he will fight the charge.And the most chilling aspect of this, perhaps, is that it is entirely unrelated to the massive abrogation of privacy and citizen rights that Bill C-51 will make possible.
The case has raised a new legal question in Canada, a law professor says.
Alain Philippon, 38, of Ste-Anne-des-Plaines, Que., refused to divulge his cellphone password to Canada Border Services Agency during a customs search Monday night at Halifax Stanfield International Airport.
Philippon had arrived in Halifax on a flight from Puerto Plata in the Dominican Republic. He's been charged under section 153.1 (b) of the Customs Act for hindering or preventing border officers from performing their role under the act.
According to the CBSA, the minimum fine for the offence is $1,000, with a maximum fine of $25,000 and the possibility of a year in jail.


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But really Rach made me do it (as part of the Crusade Challenge #1)!
Click here to see what I'm talking about.
Here's my confession.
- I'm going to Florida and erica didn't know, so that was my secret.
- There is a restaurant (with a full bar) called Blade in Miami, but erica's never been there and I have no idea if they serve rabbit or duck there.
- I love Malbec.
- I love my kids more than anything in the world, but really should get a babysitter one of these days. It'd be nice to get out more with my hubby.
- I am a bit of a germ freak. I hand sanitize twenty times daily and wash my hands A LOT. (I do teach second graders, though. So maybe that makes a little bit more sense to you?) However, I can go a little overboard with this this quirk. For example, once while running a half-marathon, I stopped to use a porta-potty. I had to run six more miles before passing my family on the side of the road. The first thing I did (after hugging my boys) was rummage through the bag they carried for some hand sanitizer. My running buddies were glad they could finish the race without having to listen to me complain about my germy hands.)
- erica did go to an INDOOR waterpark yesterday.
- I DO procrastinate.
- Again, erica never went to Blade so we don't really know what's on their menu.
- I WOULD NEVER EVER drink an old fashioned on a beach or otherwise. Blech.
- erica could never count on me to be a good blog hopper, however I did manage to visit a few blogs Thursday night. If it wasn't yours, don't worry I'll hop to more.


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Political Philosophy for Poofs
I would like to stand and look at it for longer, but then I suddenly remember that I have far too few D&G clothing options in my wardrobe and double back on myself in the direction of Bond street. At these moments in life I can only breathe a sigh of relief that I don't live in Poland. Apparently the country has gone to the dogs; or, to be more exact, it went to the right-wing Law and Justice Party - also known as Prawo i Sprawiedliwość or PiS for short - in the elections of September 2005. In addition, the populist Samoobrona and the extremist and rather sinister-sounding League of Polish Families recently signed a solidarity pact with the amusingly-named PiS party to prop up its minority government. Then again, the party boss, Jaroslaw, and the new president, Lech, couldn't have a closer relationship, politically, ideologically or genetically: they are monozygotic twins. For the brothers Kaczyński, politics is in the blood.
Not good news for Poland's homo communities, alas. Lech, in his former role as Mayor of Warsaw, had already made his antipathy towards Polish poofry evident when he refused to authorise a pride parade in June, 2005. When its organisers requested a meeting to discuss the reasons why, he responded that "he was not willing to meet perverts". Hmmm…a diplomat of the Prince Philip variety there, methinks. They decided to go ahead anyway but, sadly, were met with a hail of rocks, bottles and verbal abuse thrown by young members of Młodzież Wszechpolska, an organisation associated with the League of Polish Families. At least two of the participants required hospitalisation, and several dozen more probably had their new D&G tightie-whitie T-shirts ruined by troublesome blood stains.
Now that Lech, Jaroslaw and the PiS party have been handed the reigns of power, it is clear that we can expect more of the same. They were off to a running start when they abolished the Office of the Government Plenipotentiary for the Equality of Men and Women, which also promoted equality of homosexuals. Now they are suggesting that queers should not be allowed to take up jobs where they would come into contact with children, such as a school teacher. Ah yes, my all time favourite: that wilful lack of distinction between the terms homosexual and paedophile. It's the year two-thousand and fucking six, we claim to live in a rational, inclusive, cosmopolis, and yet people – and not just people but heads of national governments - are still trotting this one out. It's just crazy!
Nor are PiS a particularly shy party when it comes to making their opinions known. Jaroslaw told to the Polish weekly Ozon: "The affirmation of homosexuality will lead to the downfall of civilization. We can't agree to it." Downfall of civilisation, you say? Goodness, sounds bad. Who'd have thought it? You start off by letting two men hold hands in the street and before you know it the whole of mankind is poised to plunge backwards into benighted barbarity. Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz, faithful lapdog and trusted Prime Minister of the brothers Kaczyński, confirmed that he was 'on message' when he told Newsweek that homosexuality is "unnatural" and also threatened lesbians and gay men with "state intervention" if they tried to "infect others with their homosexuality." Infect somebody with homosexuality? Gosh, it really throws the worries about Bird Flu into a new light! And 'state intervention' – what exactly does that mean? Perhaps history can point us in the direction of the form this might take? Maybe something along the lines of the notorious Hyacinth law enforcement action, which began on November 15, 1985, at the behest of Czeslaw Kiszczak, Internal Affairs Minister of the then-ruling Communist regime? It lasted for two years, during which the police, then called the militsiya, gathered information about some eleven thousand homosexuals, many of which they interrogated and fingerprinted.
Hmmmm, maybe I'll keep Poland off my list of potential holiday destinations just for the moment. It's terrible shame really: I hear they have such great vodka over there...but,unfortunately, absolutely no homoerotic Dolce & Gabbana advertising campaigns. polandhomophobiagayprotest


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The true story of Bobby Jameson/Chris Lucey and how he managed to get into the music business in 1963 find success and then failure by 1985. With the advent of the internet learn how his failed career was raised from the dead and continues to attract more attention than ever before.
Wednesday, February 27, 2013
This is not Chris Ducey's original version of Songs Of Protest for sale on Amazon
It has been clarified by Mike Stax and Chris Ducey himself that this is not Chris Ducey's work...It is being misrepresented on Amazon and sold as the work of Chris Ducey which is a fraud.....
In a series of messages on Feb 28, 2013 between me and Mike Stax (ugly things magazine) Stax, who was in direct communication with Ducey, said Ducey listened to the songs on this link and said it wasn't him. Ducey said his version of Songs Of Protest was done as a solo with guitar and harmonica only. This version on Amazon would be a 3rd and unknown version, and a completely different set of songs and lyrics written to the titles on the original cover from 1965, as portrayed on the album jacket above.
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How you going Bobby? I'm glad you're still around. I hadn't seen anything from you for a long time.ReplyDelete
Keep fighting!
Have they changed the tracks on the site now?
whoa I saw that before on Amazon and thought it was a mistake - didn't bother to listen to the tracks - now I did and while I believe it's not Ducey (i compared his Penny Arkade voice and a track he did on Capitol and then his 70s stuff) I wonder if those sneaky dudes at Mirra got ANOTHER artist to give up some songs ?? This is basic like you mention just acoustic guitars but there are at least 2 people contributing and I never hear a harmonica. Sounds like New Christy minstrel type style . Not bad but not good - your take is still legendary and for a few reasons. Sad it didn't work out then but at least the integrity of what you did trancends Money.ReplyDelete


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Thursday, March 19, 2015
Fairfax self-guided cherry blossom tourVisit Fairfax, the county's tourist organization, is promoting a "self-guided tour of the area's splendid gardens." Three locations are listed, Meadowlark Botanical Gardens, River Farm, and Green Spring Gardens. The National Cherry Blossom Festival is held between March 20 and April 12. According to Visit Fairfax, "During the Festival, visitors are encouraged to check in at the main desk at each garden to receive a special complimentary momento. Log onto the individual websites or call for hours and directions."
While the self-guided tour is geared toward motorists, it's possible to do the tour by bike. Using Google Maps bicycle directions we plotted a self-guided cherry blossom tour based on those three locations. We have not tried the routes and cannot recommend that you use them. Long sections of the W&OD and Mt Vernon Trails are included. From a quick review of the map, the least bike-friendly sections appear to be the short sections on Columbia Pike and Braddock Road.
If you try these routes, let us know about your trip.
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Spain has emerged as world champions and the excitement is over for another four years. 32 teams battled it out in South Africa for World Cup glory, but the game wasn't just being played on the pitch; brands went head-to-head in a fiercely contested online marketing battle.
From betting and beer to travel to TVs, who were the real winners and losers?
In the back of the net
In tribute to John Motson, here are some interesting World Cup search stats:
- Traffic to news sites on June 11th reached over 12m visitors per minute globally. The day's traffic busted the previous record of 8.5m visitors per minute, which was set when Barack Obama won the U.S. presidential election in 2008.
- According to AdTech, UK traffic dropped by a whopping 20% during England matches. However, as soon as the matches were over, traffic rose, with AdTech serving 10% more banner ads than normal.
- There was a 20-fold increase in the number of searches for 'Vuvuzela' between the 5th and 19th June.
- During the week commencing the 14th June, there were five times more searches for 'Vuvuzela' than there were for 'Wayne Rooney', England's most searched for player.
- Twitter set a new tweet record during Japan's 3-1 victory over Denmark. When the referee blew the final whistle, Twitter recorded 3,283 tweets per second.
Official Sponsorship vs. 'Ambush Marketing'
Many brands saw huge spikes in searches and traffic around their terms, without having spent millions on official sponsorship. In fact, the brands that sponsored individual teams benefited the most.
Qantas, official airline for the Australian team, saw searches increase by 155% between the 26th June and 3rd July, whilst Carlsberg, official sponsors of the England team was the third best performing brand for the week ending 12 June.
The real winners were the companies like Bavaria beer who used less conventional methods of marketing their products. Bavaria beer supposedly dressed 36 blondes in bright Orange mini-dresses at the Holland-Denmark game. After the story broke, the Bavaria beer website become the fifth most visited beer website in the UK.
Piggybacking on World Cup keywords
What was perhaps most surprising was the failure of brands to link their activity to key online searches. Take Adidas for example. They produced the controversial new Jabulani World Cup match ball. But they weren't bidding on the term, and only appeared on page two of the organic search results.
The phrases 'world cup 2010' and 'soccer world cup' were the most popular searches during the competition. You would be forgiven for thinking that advertisers would be falling over themselves to bid on these keywords to profit from the huge spikes in searches. Not so.
The majority of companies failed to make the most of unique opportunities to link their brands with key world cup search terms
What lessons did we learn?
I've put together some thoughts on what could have been done by brands and businesses that wanted to get the maximum exposure during the World Cup:
- Bidding on all related keywords: bidding on 'soccer world cup', 'world cup 2010' and 'world cup 2010 fixtures' and targeting your ads would have been a strong tactic.
- Using the Google Display Network: there were millions of people reading World Cup news and stories on the display network. By showing ads on the display network you could have opened your business up to millions of potential new users.
- Using Mobile Search: 19m people now use mobile internet every month. One of the key ways that people find information on their mobile is through paid search, which is predicted to see 25% year-on-year growth.
- Monitoring the trends and emerging searches: using all the available keyword tools, including HitWise, Google Ad Planner, Insights For Search and Google Trends, look for keywords that are trending and start bidding on them.
- Learn these lessons for next time – Wimbledon has been and gone, and yet again, no one took full advantage of the competition and failed to bid on the key search terms, including 'wimbledon', 'longest game wimbledon' and 'andy murray'.
Globally trusted brands are failing to make the most of these opportunities. If nothing else, doesn't this teach us that we can turn any event into an opportunity, no matter what your business?
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I disagree with your first 'conclusion'. I cant think of any reason I would want to divert people searching for 'world cup 2010' to my website, or indeed, pay for the privilege.
Relevance and context mean your advice would only serve to expend my budget in a useless way.
I think your advice is bad as it can only be relevant to small minority of organisations who may have some tenuous link to football.
There have been quite a few round-ups of World Cup advertising winners and losers; but a lot of the statistics seem to be very general.
For instance, whilst it is interesting to see that there was more traffic at certain times and record numbers of tweets, that is unlikely to have a major impact on most online businesses.Clicks are just clicks, at the end of the day it's the sales that really matter.
For instance, I might see an interesting link to Carlsberg, follow it, find there isn't anything of use there and scarper. Of course all mass-advertising is about creating a strong brand identity and improving visibility, but without sales figures it's difficult to gauge genuine success.
You make a good point about mobile advertising. Unfortunately though, it is probably best to mention that your website should be compatible for mobile's first. Otherwise paying for mobile PPC could be an expensive waste of time. In four years time though I'm sure this will be a much more competitive market.
Bidding on terms like World Cup can be hazardous though. FIFA set aside numerous terms for official sponsors only, so small businesses trying to cash in might struggle to get in on the act. And I'm inclined to agree with Mildew with regards to going after phrases with little or no relevance to what you actually do; good for traffic, poor for your conversion rate and coffers.
Interesting read nonetheless, thanks for putting this together.
Stephen, Some excellent points - I agree should check that your site works with on mobile browsers before start planning a mobile campaign, Alex - nice piece, London 2012 and Brazil 2014 take note.
I also have to disagree with your first conclusion. Any keywords that contain 'soccer world cup' or 'world cup 2010' are trademarks of FIFA and could not be used without FIFA's consent. Therefore you can't use those terms. You should have known this.
Not surprising that traffic dropped off and spiked during games, although the percentages are larger than I'd have expected. I wonder what the difference was between evening and afternoon games?


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Major thunderstorms, power surges and outages are making life a bit more interesting here in the Midwest. Not that we need life to more interesting seeing as events seem to be reaching a crescendo in Washington.
Stock futures this morning fell following news that durable goods sales declined. No surprise since consumer demand remains weak because, you know, cutting back is the new growth strategy.
In the U.K., Labour is on the warpath following news the economy had grown only 0.2% in the spring, and only 0.7% over the past 12 months.
"The economy has effectively flatlined for nine months and this is very bad news for jobs, living standards, business investment and for getting the deficit down," said Ed Balls, the shadow chancellor, according to The Guardian.
"Every other major economy in the world has faced challenges like high world oil prices but their economies have continued to recover while Britain has barely grown at all over the last nine months." Well, every major economy except the U.S.
Geez, there go the lights again.
The addition of Nook and Kindle editions to iOS devices presents an interesting dilemma for publishers. Developing a Kindle edition usually means assuming that the end product will be read on a Kindle, with any additional readership elsewhere a bonus.
But for publishers looking to make their two editions more alike this will present a problem of creating a consistent presentation.
Then again, the opposite view has just as much validity: while there are readers eager to view a magazine in what might be called a native iOS format, there are others just as interested in a more book-like experience.
Kobo said yesterday that it is developing an HTML5 web app specifically designed to service iOS users.
The press release calls Kobo "a global leader" in eReading because it has 4 million users. But clearly they are not going to get Apple's attention at those numbers, not to mention the reader has been tied somewhat to Borders, the now bankrupt book retailer in the middle of liquidating. Further, how many of those readers are using the Kobo app on an iOS device versus a Kobo device itself?
The situation, therefore, is pretty dire for Kobo, and with Apple insisting that any in-app purchases go through their system it means that Kobo must either comply or find a way to go around the Apple store. And so we have another HTML5 advocate.
Kobo believes in providing an open platform for users, and our HTML5 development will support the company's current app strategy to reach a broader base of users worldwide," said Michael Serbinis, Kobo's CEO. "HTML5 allows us to add more features and update our popular Reading Life social experience far more quickly, providing an agile method to deliver advanced enhancements to consumers without limitation."
Another argument for "open". But do customers really like "open", or do they like "it just works"?
Man, the power supply is making strange noises. I think this post is over.


text: [Events] September 1st 2016 Trickz September 1, 2016 Events, News Leave a comment 822 Views1. The "Daily Purchase limit" event was added, there are new discounts and overwhelming prices every day from which you can buy packs, go and give them a shot!Event Period: September 1st-7thDetails:Packs can be sent at up to 50% off. You can buy each type of gift pack only once daily in Hot Topics!88 Ingots Pack: Seal Scroll*1, Low-level Refine Rune *2, Coins*30.000188 Ingots Pack: Seal Scroll*1, Level 3 Life Magatama*1, Mood Scroll*4288 Ingots Pack: Seal Scroll*1, Level 4 Attack Magatama*1, Level 4 Defense Magatama*1 2. "Summon Rebates" event added. A new event in which you can win Summoning Scrolls Gift Pack, to win, you need to spend Summon Scrolls! Go and have a look at the event! Event Period: September 1st-7thRequirements: Players must have reached Level 50 in order to participate.How to:a) Find the "Summons Rebate" event in Hot Topics.b) Consume the required Summon Scrolls in Summons Treasure to get rebate.10 Summoning Scrolls Gift Pack: Summon Scroll (lasts 7 days)*120 Summoning Scrolls Gift Pack: Summon Scroll (lasts 7 days)*250 Summoning Scrolls Gift Pack: Summon Scroll (lasts 7 days)*480 Summoning Scrolls Gift Pack: Summon Scroll (lasts 7 days)*6100 Summoning Scrolls Gift Pack: Summon Scroll (lasts 7 days)*8 3. The new "Ninja Puzzle" event added, claim valuable items!How To:a) Click the "Start" button in Ninja Puzzle to enter the game. Complete each difficulty once daily to earn the rewards.b) Click "Start" to begin. Hold the left mouse button to drag the pieces. Put the pieces in the correct position to complete the puzzle during the time given.c) After putting the puzzle in the correct position, click the "Confirm" button to go back to the previous page to claim the rewards.Notice: You can play the puzzle game several times a day, but can only get the rewards for the first time.Rewards:a) Easy: Coins*5000, Meatballs*1, Bread*1b) Normal: Coins*8000, Stamina Potion (Small)*1, Ramen*1c) Difficult: Coins*10000, Coupons*20, BBQ*14. A new update with a new method of playing: "Strong Approaching", Hanzo has come! Ninjas, go and defeat Hanzo in solo mode or team mode as soon as you can! By completing and being victorious in the "Strong Approaching" Instance you'll be able to win free Needles and Threads, which can be used to upgrade your Battle Armor!Requirements: Players must have reached Level 43 in order to participate.a) Consume 10 Stamina to enter the Easy Mode, after defeating 3 waves of enemies you will get the following rewards randomly: Common Cloth, Medium Cloth, Common Threadb) Consume 20 Stamina to enter Normal Mode, after defeating 4 waves of enemies you will get the following rewards randomly: Medium Cloth, Advanced Cloth, Common Threadc) Consume 30 Stamina to enter the Difficult Mode, after defeating 5 waves of enemies you will get the following rewards randomly: Medium Cloth, Advanced Cloth, Common ThreadNotice: The rewards are randomly sent, however you can get more in the harder mode. 5. An update which brings the new "Battle Armor" system. Strengthen your equipments, upgrade and level up, a new method for you to improve your Power level!Use Cloths to upgrade the level of the Battle Armor and use Threads to improve the attributes of it. The materials can be bought in the shop.The appearance of the Battle Armor will change some improvements. You can go to the "Transform" tab to change it.6. A new ninja has been added as the check in rewards for the month of September: Neji[Great Ninja War].7. The Language Filter was updated, we had some words released from the filter to avoid major problems when using it in the Chat. We are sorry for the inconvenience.8. Some language translation problems found inside the Instances have been corrected. Events 2016-09-01Trickz Share Facebook Twitter Google + Pinterest


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By JC Collins
Update: The recent announcement by the Obama administration in regards to the AIIB does not mean America is suddenly joining that institution. It would still require congressional approval, and considering the US Congress has refused to pass the 2010 IMF Reforms, which the Obama administration also supports, strongly suggests that any AIIB membership will also be refused. The Obama administration, as represented by US Treasury Secretary Jack Lew, last week called on congress again to pass the IMF reform package as America was losing influence in the world. This reluctance by Congress is what was implied in the post below about America not being admitted into the AIIB, no matter what Obama wants.
The increasing isolation of Washington picked up speed this morning as it was announced by Christine Lagarde of the International Monetary Fund that cooperation with the new Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank will offer "massive room" for opportunity on infrastructure financing.
The AIIB, which was launched in October, 2014, is set with the objective of promoting road, rail, port, and other infrastructure construction projects in Asia, and around the world. The establishment of the bank itself is being touted as a response to the failure of the administration in Washington to enact on supporting legislation to the IMF 2010 Quota and Governance Reforms. These reforms were agreed upon by all members of the G20 as a response to the financial crisis of 2008, and as a means to give the emerging markets a more equitable representation in the existing international monetary system.
Initial funding for the AIIB was established at 36.3 billion SDR (considering the increasing emergence of the multilateral framework, we will no longer be stating amounts in the traditional USD method, no matter the denomination of issuance), and will grow to 72.6 billion SDR by the end of this year, if not sooner.
Considering the cooperation between the IMF and the AIIB, which has now been established, we can expect that the denomination of the actual loans made from the AIIB could very well be in SDR, as will the bonds issued from the BRICS New Development Bank, which will also be fully operational by the end of the year. In the post The SDR Purpose of BRICS, we further explored this concept and how it will address the growing sovereign debt crisis in Europe, and elsewhere.
The SDR basket composition is being adjusted this year and will include the Chinese currency, with the possibility of other currencies as well. The new basket will be effective on January 1, 2016. This date aligns with the start of the New Development Bank and increased funding for the AIIB.
In a situation where the new multilateral institutions require funding before the implementation of the updated SDR composition, the yuan, or RMB, could provide the required liquidity on a temporary basis. The role which the Special Drawing Right will play in the Sovereign Debt Restructuring Mechanism, SDRM, supports its rise to the position of global reserve unit of account. As the reserve UoA, all multilateral financial interactions and trade mechanisms will have to be denominated in SDR.
Over the last few weeks membership in the AIIB has grown dramatically with the announcement by the United Kingdom, which was followed by similar announcements and intentions from Germany, France, Italy, Australia, New Zealand, Switzerland, India, Indonesia, and rumors of South Korea and Japan, with Japan being the final nail in the coffin of the USD hegemony which has been mandating financial and geopolitical policy on the world since 1944.
The United States is extremely unlikely to join the AIIB as the same congressional reluctance to pass IMF reform will ensure American rejection of this additional multilateral framework. US participation in the emerging components of the Multilateral Financial System, MFS, will not happen until the desires of specific American industrial interests are no longer able to skew and unfairly influence the machinations and functioning of the system itself.
In a recent publication on the Council of Foreign Relations website, it was stated that the AIIB is a "challenge to the existing global economic order". This game play has been thoroughly explained in our SDR's and the New Bretton Woods series, and among numerous other pieces over the last year. The role of the United States is meant to be reduced as the MFS begins to emerge. This period in time is much like the years between the two world wars, when use of the British pound was slowly being replaced by use of the USD. By the time the official rise of the dollar as the reserve UoA was established at Bretton Woods in 1944, it was almost a foregone conclusion, much like the SDR today.
Many in the western world are still unable to accept this transition in monetary framework and reserve unit of account. That is expected, as the British people also went through a similar process in the waning years of their once great empire. Memories of the East India Trading Company and ocean supremacy eventually gave way to a subservient position to American hegemony. The fact that the UK has just slipped away from that hegemony for the first time is very telling of the gravity and advancement of the multilateral transition.
The rest of the world is aware of the fundamentals at play in this transition, and America will slowly accept its acquiescence to the multilateral in the coming years. The study of the cultural impact of this type of change on once hegemonic populations is worth further reflection. The recent reduction in western corporation performance, such as with McDonald's and other big chain stores, offer a potential starting place for this study. Comparisons and benchmark cases between both Great Britain and America during these periods will offer immense information for future reference when the international community is faced with similar challenges in the decades to come.
The USD will continue as a reserve currency, much like the pound did, but not as the primary UoA. The dollar, while being reduced in the foreign reserve accounts around the world, will be re-engineered to fit into the MFS, and it's weight in the SDR composition will be adjusted. The dollar will not collapse, as I will review and explain in the upcoming ePublication titled Re-Engineering the Dollar. (I know many have been patiently waiting for this ebook, and I apologize for its delay, I've been extremely busy with work and another exciting upcoming project which is relevant and timely to our discussions here on the SDR and the multilateral framework.)
With the announcements of open relations between the IMF and both the AIIB and BRICS Development Bank, the existence of this multilateral transition can no longer be denied. The Plan B initiatives, and "no good options" (for America) which were discussed last year in response to US Congressional failure to pass IMF reforms, is now happening real time.
Any new comers to Philosophy of Metrics would do well to review all the material on the site in order to grasp the totality of the shift which is happening in the monetary architecture. Most of what is currently happening internationally has already been reviewed and thoroughly discussed in the posts and comment sections. To review all material in every new post would be futile and unreadable.
It is now time to accept the reality of this transition and begin preparing and planning for the financial realities which are now beginning to rise above the decaying framework of the USD system. There will be opportunities forthcoming for all, and these opportunities will initially create a balance in how the international monetary system works. The coming exchange rate structure changes and re-balancing will offer opportunity for those who have the wherewithal and gumption to act on factual and realistic data.
Additional funding for the IMF, along with its functioning sublets, World Bank, AIIB and BRICS Development Bank, will come from the balancing of the exchange rate regime, and the honoring of vast amounts of sovereign debts in the form of historic bonds. Plans are already in place for the allocation of this wealth through the establishment of foundations which will ensure effective infrastructure funding and development, as well as the cleanup of the world's oceans and environment, themselves massive undertakings which will require even larger funding.
Advanced software has already been created and distributed to track and manage the large projects and financing of those projects which are set to spread across the world, beginning in the early part of next year. Corruption will not be tolerated. Those who wish to distract from this transition and take measures to prevent it are attempting to corrupt and /or manipulate the process for their own unfairly leveraged gain.
How long this new system can last before it also begins to self-corrupt will be determined by the acceptance of its primary mandates and machinations. Populations around the world have, and continue to be, conditioned for functionality in the world of tomorrow. Whether I agree with these programs and cultural engineering, through the CSI process which we have discussed many times, is somewhat irrelevant, as the changes are happening, and are upon us. Those who wish to remain in the old word of USD corruption and imbalance will be the last to accept the changes. Most will likely pass away in place of the acceptance of future generations.
Those who denounce socialism are the first to complain about what others have worked for, which amounts to indirect desires of socialism and collective sameness. This contradictory perception is not meant to validate the corruption which has been built within the foundations of the existing monetary framework. There have been those who have used the weakness in the current system for unfair leverage and gain. The emerging multilateral has, and will continue, to address this corruption, or rent seeking, as the architecture comes clearer into focus.
Now that the international financial interests no longer need the American power which they helped create, the US military and financial power which dominated and manipulated the world for 70 years will be left to fend for itself. Like previous empires and governments, they will be left holding the bag and responsibility for decades of war and genocide. The recent international condemnation of everything from the dropping of atomic bombs on Japan, to the massacres and fragmentation of borders and populations, as represented in the humanitarian disasters in the Middle East, Ukraine, Bosnia, Libya, Vietnam, Palestine, and many more, will be addressed with an international tribunal process.
There are those of us in the western world who have stood our ground on the wrongs that have been committed by America and it's closes partners. Many of us were ostracized from our friends and family for bringing attention to the lack of humanity which our governments represented. However, the coming western tribunals will ensure that the covert manipulators are once again never discovered. America will be the new Napoleon and Hitler. Once again human weakness has been appropriated by the international financial interests which have directed empires of the past. We need to maintain these lessons as we move into the world of tomorrow, and all the opportunities which it brings with it, for human weakness and deficiency will again be bartered for the well-being of humanity. Propensity to corrupt is the only constant which can be measured from time period to time period, no matter how well the multilateral is structured. Humans will find a way. – JC


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Friday, March 4, 2011
how I helped my boyfriend to fall out of love wih me
The story I'm about to tell you might make me sound like a first-class idiot, like an obsessive high-jealous girlfriend or a striking paranoid chick.
I am not.
And the truth of the matter is that everything was based on pure love.
It was 2006 and I was in my first serious relationship, I had been for a year and we were having our first dip. I knew that it was temporary and I knew that we would be going on strong pretty soon again, until I got my stupid-ass idea.
(I do not want to blame it all on Oprah, but it was actually because of her show that I was even thinking about the cheat-trap, that we came to call it.)
The entire cheat-trap sets your boyfriend up to be tricked into flirting with a random girl, which in actual fact, is you. A friend of mine and I decided to play out this roll over the Live Messenger, borrowing a couple of pictures from another friend of mine, living upstate.
Instead of making it all up we used her entire identity to make her sound as real as possible, to even a few times having her online so that we could send him (as in him; my formerly boyfriend) newly taken pictures of her. It worked, he fell for it, and we had very fun pretending to be someone we were not. The whole point was to flirt with him very harmlessly to see if he would flirt back, and we happened to talk for an entire month. We started to talk about every subject possible, since I had been his girlfriend for the past year I knew exactly which qualities he preferred from a person and features he did not like, and I think there was where I did my biggest mistake.
I created his perfect girlfriend.
We talked more and more often and gradually we started to discuss even more private things. I asked him an awful lot of questions about me, his girlfriend, and I tried to promote myself some.
(How sad am I?)
(Remember this was 2006 before you make any judgments)
And somehow it did not seem weird to me. One day he asked for my phone number and I was caught off guard, I gave him the number to the one who started this all with me and since my boyfriend knew all of my best friends I could not get her to have a fake conversation with him. Instead we started to text each other and I was so into playing the roll of the other girl that I forgot to text him myself.
It was not until he started giving "me" compliments that I realized what was happening, this girl was not his girlfriend, I was. But they had something more similar to a relationship by the time than he and I did, which caused me terrible confusion.
He started to tell me how much he loved my ways, my carefree attitude, my positive ways on seeing things, how well-grounded I was in soccer, my spontaneous manner, the priorities of mine and the way I brought his spirit out of him. He wanted to see me so badly he could not manage himself and he said he had spent a couple of nights thinking about me.
He fell for me.
He fell for me all over again.
He fell for me all over again through another woman's identity. Through her pictures, her name and her email address.
But he never had the courtesy to tell me. His girlfriend.
It hit me pretty hard when I realized it. Even though he never mentioned anything about her looks or appearance in any way, he somehow managed to break my heart by falling for the character which he talked to constantly behind my back.
We broke up shortly after this whole predicament. I confronted him, to his defense he "knew it was a fake person all along"
(Stupid guys, why are you so bad at excuses?)
(Like "Oops, I thought it was you")
(Or "We are just friends")
and I learned from my mistake. Sort of.
Never strain to analyze your boyfriend, don't be suspicious over a knickknack, avoid holding on to him too tight, master your emotional breakdowns and never take him for granted. Stay the way you were when you first met each other and change for the better, think long-term and give away what you would want in return.
I do not claim that they are all good men, I just know that they are all not bad.


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Mike Tyson Congratulates Cincinnati Women's Basketball Team for Championship They DIDN'T WIN (Tweet)
On Tuesday night, the University of Connecticut women's basketball team dismantled Syracuse, 82-51, earning their fourth straight NCAA women's title.
It's quite the impressive feat for Geno Auriemma's squad. Impressive enough for Mike Tyson to take notice and send a shout-out. Only problem is Tyson wasn't quite sure who he was supposed to be sending the shout-out to at the time.
Check it out:
Thanks for the support @MikeTyson you're one of our favorite actors. We loved your performance in The Hangover. pic.twitter.com/95adClLAge
— Cincinnati RallyCats (@UCRallyCats) April 6, 2016
This would have been so much better if Tyson's tweet was actually just his way of trolling Geraldo Rivera for his similar f*ck up following Monday night's men's final.
Unfortunately it wasn't.
Photo via Getty.


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Introduction post
Note: This article is about Non-IgE allergy, a different type of allergy than the one that causes the dangerous reaction of anaphylactic shock. If you or your loved one has IgE allergy to egg - determined by a positive skin test reaction within 30 minutes - you have potentially dangerous reactions and should receive your flu shot only from an allergist with experience in this. Terminology of Allergies
I got a flu shot once in the 1990's, before I knew I'm allergic to egg. I was sick for three days with fatigue and congestion. After that I never got a flu shot again.
Now I have a great job in a hospital and a flu shot is mandatory. Last year I considered getting a medical exemption, but I'm as concerned about catching the flu as my employer is about having it spread. I don't work with patients, but I see patients and visitors in the hallways. My allergist wanted me to get flu shots ever since she did skin tests for egg allergy in 2006, which were negative.
I discussed this with my allergist and she told me the amount of egg in flu shots has been greatly reduced since the old days and that many patients with egg allergy tolerate it well. I decided to go ahead and get one.
I planned it so I'd have time to be sick - I got it at 4:00 on a Friday afternoon with no plans for the weekend. Since non-IgE allergies are not very well understood, I'm recording my symptoms here to help others with allergies and to use for research.
- 1/2 hour after the shot, I felt lightheaded for a minute or two. I was just wondering if I should leave work when it passed.
- 2 hours after the shot, I had sinus pressure with a little pain.
- That evening I had sinus pain and pressure, fatigue, and stomach pain. These symptoms continued into the next day (Saturday).
- Sunday (2nd day) the the sinus pain was gone and the fatigue was much better, but the sinus pressure was still noticeable.
- Monday (3rd day) the sinus pain and pressure were gone but I still had some fatigue and drainage.
This fatigue from egg allergy is worse than ordinary fatigue from being tired, it is very hard to do things and makes me want to sleep all the time. It's one of the symptoms I was noticing when I identified my egg allergy in 2001.
I've done a search of the internet and looked in my immunology text, but although there is lots of information about what one cell does to another, I haven't found any about global symptoms related to immune reaction types. I know my egg allergy is not Type I (IgE) because the test was negative. I know it's not Type IV (T-cell) because I have that with dust and cigarette smoke and the symptoms are different from my egg reaction. Also a Type IV reaction has a 24-hour delay and my egg symptoms don't. So it's either Type II or Type III, both of which feature the activities of IgG and IgM mediators. I will keep looking for information about symptoms...
This year I'm getting my flu shot next weekend. Something to look forward to! :p :-)
Remember, this is a description of Non-IgE egg allergy. If you have IgE allergy with a positive skin test reaction in 30 minutes or less, a flu shot is potentially dangerous and you should only get one from an experienced allergist.
I hope this is helpful!
Julia Baresch
November 4, 2012


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Today I had the pleasure to take apart a chainsaw, and I picked up the coil.
But, I can't find where to plug things into to make a circuit such as http://www.spudfiles.com/forums/high-power-ignition-system-from-camera-flash-updated-7-oct-t10486.html
Can anyone help me?
Here are pics of it
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Official 2010 election results certified by the New York State Board of Elections on Monday show that the Working Families Party had its best showing in any statewide election in its 12-year history, and will move up the ballot from line "E" to line "D."
"These results show that, no matter what politicians or pundits say, middle- and working-class New Yorkers are thrilled about a party that focuses on common-sense, progressive solutions to our biggest challenges," WFP Co-Chair Karen Scharff said.
The Board of Elections' final, certified 2010 voting results show the following:
1. The WFP received 154,847 votes for Andrew Cuomo on its line, 8,201 more than the Independence Party, moving it up the ballot from line "E" to line "D." (The Conservative Party will occupy line "C.")
2. Both in terms of raw vote totals and percentage of the overall vote, the WFP received more votes on its line for statewide candidates than in any previous election. WFP voters accounted for more than 4% of total turnout for the first time in the party's 12-year history.
4. WFP voters also turned out strongly for Comptroller Tom DiNapoli (182,983 WFP votes), Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (182,648), and Attorney General-elect Eric Schneiderman (178,850), each of whom also received more than 4% of all votes cast in their races from the WFP line.
5. In New York City, the Working Families Party was the third largest vote-getter of any party, receiving nearly half as many votes as the Republican Party, and more than double the vote of any other minor party. (The WFP vote total in NYC, 76,953, was 42% of the Republican vote in the city.)
6. The WFP received 50% of its votes from Upstate New York and the suburbs of New York City, and 50% from NYC. Especially strong growth in WFP turnout occurred in Suffolk County and the Hudson Valley.


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The first thing you probably should know about having a mentor is that a mentor is defined as:
Someone who was once where you are now and is now at a place you want to be and is willing to assist you to make the jump.
This means that only someone making moves towards where I am interested in going should be my mentor. A poor man can rarely mentor you into riches, if he knew how to be rich, he would not be poor, would he? A bricklayer cannot mentor you to become a civil engineer, you would have to seek someone else.
The person has to be willing to assist. You have to keep in touch with her, she also has to keep an eye on your progress and monitor you and pump you up to get things done. Do not confuse mentors with role models, for example, unless you figured out a way to talk to the dead, guys like Albert Einstein cannot mentor you. You can read his books and learn from his story, but he is merely a role model to you and nothing more.
Is mentorship compulsory? NO.
It merely makes things easier as you get to leverage on the experiences of your mentor without partaking in the pain it took to learn those lessons.
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I'm a twenty-something year old married mother of two sweet boys and two fur babies. I love a good Netflix binge session, I hate driving in the rain, I believe there is a song lyric for every part of your life, and that a good quote can fix anything. My favorite days are spent in a hammock in the backyard looking up at the trees while listening to the sounds of the wind and my babes laughing.
Start a blog…at least that's what my friends kept saying. Me, a blog? No way. I hated writing assignments in school. I would have nothing to say worth reading. When I noticed my social media starting to read like a personal memoir (if you have ever scrolled through my Facebook, you know it's true) I decided it might be time to give this blogging thing a go. So ready or not, welcome to my messy, crazy, beautiful life.
Most days I am just a mom trying to survive the chaos. If there is a label for my life it would definitely read Directions Not Included.


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Friday, October 31, 2008
Happy Hallowe'en!!!
3 comments:
- Maggie R said...
Hi Phyll...
How were the old horror movies and the chocolate?? Perfect way to spend the evening.Do you get any trick or treaters?
WE had 16 kids come by so had lots of potato chips and candy bars left over!!!!
Love your felt leaves and Oh My!! those vultures and snakes!!!! EEK!!
Have had a lot to do. I will be off to a fall retreat with the quilters next week end. It is always fun.More doctor appts. pressure in one eye is too high..... More tests!!
Trying to get some Xmas things done. Never a dull moment!!!!Take care Dear Heart
- November 2, 2008 at 2:03 AM
- Maggie R said...
HEY Phyll >>>>>
pop over to my blog I have a surprise for you ;-}
- November 10, 2008 at 1:52 AM
- girl_gone_thread_wild said...
so WHERE did you go??
I got word you bought FACES.
So I know you are out there.
Yes, you are way way out there,
but I can't SEE you!
(thinking of you... )
- July 11, 2009 at 6:38 PM


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Autolycus, who's clearly a character from Hercules: The Legendary Journeys given how many times he mentions Hercules, seems to be modelled after Errol Flynn's Robin Hood, though not quite as suave. He even wears green. He actually has quite nice chemistry with Xena, but overall the writing seems to be relying a bit too much on assumed familiarity with the character, which those of us who haven't watched Hercules don't have.
The story of the episode is largely about Robin Hood helping Xena to recover the Ark of the Covenant for her friends, and doesn't really have anything Classical in it. The Ark is from the ancient world of course, but really, its presence and role here owes more to Indiana Jones than to anything from ancient history (on the actual history of the Ark, the Catholic Encyclopedia has an obviously biased but decent entry). On the Robin Hood side, the Roman world included plenty of bandits and one of them, Bulla Felix, is sometimes thought of as the Roman Robin Hood, so he's not completely un-classical. Not sure the Romans were quite so into the neat little goatee though.
To be honest, I wasn't overly enthralled by this episode. It had some nice moments (Xena, undercover, as a courtesan, faking horror when a body is uncovered; a guard who is even more stupid than usual and refrains from searching their room when Xena pretends to be in the middle of business with Autolycus). But it also had some truly daft stuff, particularly the guy who kills by hitting pressure points (who constantly reminded me of Tom Conti in the London episode of Friends, following Elliot Gould's Jack Geller with murder in his eyes and saying 'I could kill you with my thumb, you know'). Overall, it's rather dull, but it does feature Xena gyrating in a short skirt and corset, if you're into that sort of thing.
Xena: Magmar told me his former boss has got a big ego. Almost as big as yours.
Autolycus: Nothing is as big as mine.
Disclaimer: No Ancient and Inflexible rules governing moral behaviour were harmed during the production of this motion picture.
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