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O Holy Crap, it's me again! Bringing you holiday cheer in amounts sufficient to make you titter even whilst you contemplate throttling family members (because isn't that what holidays are about??)
For the record, no one was injured during my holiday weekend (literally, figuratively, or otherwise in effigy). You know why? Because EVERYTHING WENT ACCORDING TO PLAN. Yes. That's right. Welcome to my MERRY FUCKING CONTROL FREAK CHRISTMAS PARTY. Where everyone has a holly jolly good time (whether they want one or not.)
- Xmas Eve breakfast with kids and my dad? Check. Went off without a hitch.
- Xmas Eve afternoon visit to in-laws? Like a military operation.
- Xmas gift reveal? Everyone loved their shit that I wrapped and to which I applied personalized MECHANICALLY GENERATED labels.
- Xmas Eve Dinner with all the kids at my house? House Beautiful should have shown up to chronicle its perfection.
BTW, I have enough ham leftover to sink a battleship if anyone wants some.
Today, with all Xmas activities behind me, I am at my leisure. So I will take this moment to share with you all my recent interview on the Bubble Hour. Yes, that's right: Jean let me babble on the Bubble. The link to said podcast is here, if you'd care to listen. It was a bit like leaving a really long voicemail in that one talks for sooooo long, one says to oneself– what the fuck did I even say? Which brings up another interesting point: The Bubble Hour is decidedly PG so my rated-R rants had to be dialed down QUITE A BIT. Fortunately for me (and any future babblers) Jean is such a professional and gracious host that everything goes…well…ACCORDING TO PLAN.
As a result of my podcast exposure, I am experiencing some new-found fame, most notably evidenced by the addition of upwards of TEN NEW FOLLOWERS to my blog. Whoa. Anyhoo, among those was a gal who asked me a question that I found absolutely intriguing and pondered for a full hour while I did my hair and makeup. Since I knew my reply would fill the comment space with many paragraphs, I thought it prudent to post my response here. Because you KNOW I have one. (This is exciting because it's my first ASK BETTY- style post!! )
Hi Betty. I heard your podcast on the bubble hour. It's my first sober Christmas. I stopped drinking Jan 6 2017. Heard you say near the end that you don't have to go to Xmas party/family Christmas dinner if you don't want to–referencing Byron Katie portion. What about the idea if you don't challenge yourself you won't change. I still do not want to do anything but know that when I do I feel better and when I cancel I hate myself even more. (the second arrow). What to do. Diane
Dear, Diane.
I think a challenge is an interesting idea. But my question would be (because answering questions with questions is the way the PROFESSIONALS DO IT) what specifically is the challenge? My contention that you don't have to attend an event if you don't want to is largely to let people who off the hook who might otherwise feel unnecessarily obligated or that they will upset the host by not attending. I think the challenge in that case would be NOT to go and feel alright with it.
I'm pretty sure you are not talking about challenging yourself to see if you can attend a super boozy party and hold out being sober. Because why you wanna dance with the devil??
So I think the challenge you are referring to is to overcome the anxiety of attending a function without the insulating cushion of alcohol. Certainly nothing wrong with that. IF YOU'RE READY. If your sobriety is strong enough. If you are not in danger of relapsing. If all of these fortifications are in place, and you're solid then, by all means, give yourself a nudge. At a year in, you may or may not be ready to get out there. Only you know when you're ready. But if all you really need is a little push to get you out the door, so be it.
Sometimes I need that, too. It took about 2 years before I wanted anyone in my house. I would think about having a birthday party and then think "I DON'T WANT ALL THOSE FUCKERS IN MY HOUSE." But I'm starting to feel it again, wanting to socialize. Being okay in a group where I don't know everyone, being okay with leaving when I've had enough, or staying if I want to. Being okay throwing a party and knowing I have to "be on" for 3 or 4 hours. And quite frankly, I had to do a bit of "fake it til you make it".
One of the suggestions I made on the Bubble Hour was that if you do decide to go, have an "out" in case you want to leave early. Maybe you'll get there and have such a great time you'll end up staying. Maybe you'll have an enjoyable evening but hit a wall and decide you've had enough (that's me– when I'm done, I'm done.) Maybe you'll force yourself to smile, all the while hating the whole thing, but congratulate yourself for at least trying it and sticking it out for an hour. Or maybe you'll just stay home and watch Netflix and eat popcorn for dinner. Any and all of these are okay. DON'T HATE YOURSELF!! We all did enough of that while we were drinking.
How was that?? Anyone else want to Ask Betty?? I'M READY FOR IT!!
Well, it's evening on Christmas Day here in the west. I've managed to get through an entire box of Andes mints and I'm little weary now, so I'm packing it up. I'll be back next weekend to rally for a Super Sober New Year!


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27 January c. 706: 40mg Pomegranate Quaalude
Our man is locked in now at ~200 hp. Here we have him, on-monitor, in forest, observing the High-Def. butterflies. He can't believe it, is the consensus. In the tank, in his chair, with headset glowing over eyes and wired glove onhand reaching outward (which in turn registers on the room's massive display screen's first-person PoV as his own digitized hand reaching outward before him toward the winged things), he is engrossed. Here he is opening the satchel in-program onscreen and removing a golden revolver. This can be a little tricky. Designer Marty Pools is operating Distending Landscape on his own tiny monitor in the programming aisle closest to the room's massive display screen, where a group of entry-level virtual technicians is scrawling and cross-checking notes on the Subject's physical vital signs' correlation to his in-program vital signs, which thus far it seems there is none. Des. Ham Dickey and Des. Rudolf Pence confer privately via telephone with their hands cupped around the receivers from opposite sides of the room. Something to do with determining who's responsible for putting a golden revolver in the satchel, apparently. This as onscreen the Subject begins aiming down-sights at various floating flapping butterflies. The room's tone is weary. Several of the Designers from Des. Pool's team are scrambling around over at Programming, trying to calculate the accurate amount of xp the act of shooting a butterfly affords the Subject after it's been confirmed the butterflies' Class-Ranking has not been allotted in the code. Someone says "damn" rather loudly as a loud flash issues onscreen at room's fore and a small blue butterfly wilts downward in two separate pieces like glossy paper. The SPoV follows their descent into the grass. Des. Dickey slams the phone's handset down and marches out of the room. Someone says "damn" again: the Subject is holding a magnifying glass from the satchel to observe the detail of the butterfly-specimen's bullet bisection. Some of the operators typing stop typing and emit glazed stares at the screen at fore. The operators over at Subject Stability are glad-handing, passing around advertorial brown-paper-bags of Taco Bell™, extricating burritos and hard-shell tacos in advertorial wax-paper-wrapping and gorging themselves audibly: all vital-signs read NORMAL on the wellness monitor. Des. Pools wrings his hands as a white square begins strobing onscreen from the far-East quadrant. Every time the Subject's radar reaches the square, the radar buzzes red for a moment. According to the Ref. Key on p. 148 of the Distending Landscape binder, the white square designates DANGER, and nothing more is said about it. Marty pulls his headset down to his neck and looks over to Des. Pence at the aisles' rear, whose pink martini glass is now void of everything but two impaled green olives on a single toothpick. They make eye-contact. Marty drips facially. Pence belches loudly and walks down past Flora and Fauna to Distending Landscape, where the white square on red-blinking monitor inches closer and closer to the subject's green-circle designation. "'S that?" / "You don't know?" / "Shut—[hiccup]—the fuck up and tell me." / "DANGER, is what the binder said." Pence slides the olives off the toothpick with his teeth and chews and swallows all in one motion. "Probly just a bug. These sorts of radar glitches happen from time to time." Then comes the rumbling. The SPoV turns from the butterfly, still in-mag.-glass, to look up at a magnified series of trees which quiver and tumble, indications of an approaching thing. Everyone goes silent. The subject does a 360° survey, inchair intank onscreen, stopping once more on the trees (which now it's become apparent from their increasingly proximal tumbling the thing or what-have-you has gotten very close, such that while the Subject carefully replaces the mag. glass and pulls the revolver back out of the satchel and looks up, there it is: … the Clam Queen. A nacreous open clam-shell with four hirsute legs holds aloft on a pink bed a pearl-garlanded blond maiden whose floating stringlets of hair glint in the HD UV-rays of the program's blinking Graphics-Processing-Units whose inbuilt fans hum tirelessly and echo white-noisomely at by the tank's motherboard. A pencil falls audibly from the drooling lips of an eye-bulging open-jawed Des. Nathaniel Lanath, over in Fauna. "O shit," someone says. Code Junkies M and S and now madly typing, attempting to locate a misplaced integer in the vast stream of stochastic code trickling down-monitor. A petite MGMT Des. with black-label lanyard keels over as the wellness monitor at Subject Stability goes black and then reads: SUBNORMAL (-35% SURVIVAL RATE). For a time the monitor's indication doesn't register—people with crumbs of beef and lettuce smeared around their lips attempting to hold the MGMT Des. up whilst an overtired beta-coder pours 96 °C coffee onto his groin and exclaims "FUCK!" and falls out of his wheely-chair onto an off-clock beta-coder's small Lego™ township just as said BC is placing a plastic clapper into the final bell of an intricate miniature carillon operated by small steam-powered organ (in buttressed township's church's ornately decorated vestibule) and thin fishing wires and pulleys), delineating two loci of attention and urgency—until, after a shrieking pointing Program Operator indicates the fore screen, all eyes look to what manifests on the screen as a bubbly purple vignette and the Clam Queen's singing onmic inclam and the Subject's hand's gun's slow 180° rotation inward, bullet-vector to skull. "What the fuck's going on?!" Pence says. The off-clock BC grasps at the fragments of his little Lego™ world and heaves and bawls as a group of four or five medical attendees begins attending to the injured BC and then reordinancing themselves such that two of them are sent to deal with the keeled MGMT Des., who's now been laid opine upon someone's dismantled workstation in Flora; why it had to be Flora is what most of the Flora designers are so exercised about having answered. Some of them actually pull at their hair and make broad gestures with their arms in confused exclamation at the Subject Stability designers who've come over and laid her down, something along the lines of intercompany political bullshit and the albatross of the overworked Des. groups who have to pick up the slack of the lazier ostensibly less-competent ass-kissers of Subject Stability. This resolves as a brief fistfight broken up by a burly unarmed Security staffer who inadvertently slugs a whining Flora Des. amid all the bustling, which evokes cheer from the SSDs on their side of the split upper aisles, which in turn causes the incursion of several retaliatory blows from the FDs such that now it is an all-out brawl—Flora Des. peons at Security staffer; Security staffer at the FDs (à la Ali's uppercut modality); SSDs at FDs; FDs at nearby SSDs; a small Mohican janitor at some of the more redolent SSDs in the SS quadrant for no apparent reason; etc.—all while the golden sun-sheening revolver onscreen continues to turn: 90°, 130°, 150°, 170°… BANG! Everyone is silent again. The screen's bloodied background is overlaid with bulging 3D text which reads GAME OVER in neon pink. The wellness monitor is a flat-lining drone. The Subject in his tank is reclined angelically with a halo of blood pooling from his skull in drops down the chair's cushioned midsection. The medical attendees freeze; two of them drop the unconscious MGMT Des. with a thud. Pence issues the word "fuck" at least twelve times in succession, with varying intonations. The audio is pulled and the Clam Queen's dreamy song begins piping through the room's wall's inbuilt speakers: Lalala, lala / Lalalalalala, lala / LALALALALALA, lala, lala… This as CJ M begins explaining to Pence in personal-space-delimiting-proximity a line of code S located which apparently a coder involved in the beta-stage put there, which is headed CLAM QUEEN and which materializes a mythical monster—the one onscreen, still, singing—whose music causes the in-game listener's PC to turn its attack on itself should it attempt to harm it. The room is evacuated and the Authorities are called and most everyone takes a cigarette break. Des. Pools can be seen with his head in his elbows outside by the FDs, who've formed a huddle concealing whispers of departmental strike and company treason. Some of them speak with visible conviction: fist-in-palm, deliberate, urgent. Most of the SSDs have gone on lunch-break to get company-paid drinks at a slimy bar uptown. Pence undergoes a verbal surfeit of expletive-suffused castigatory diatribe which manifests as wa-waa, wa-wa-waa-wa, wa-wa wa through his handset's transmitter; he can no longer even hear the words. Then the lens begins rising, floating up, way up, above it all, such that the sirens and dense whispers and wa-waa wa-waa and D. Pool's quiet void selfspeak and idle shattering pink martini glass onstreet all shrink into pale blue dots of sensation: smaller, smaller still, until finally: windsound: floating light.

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By Hugh Abner
[44 Years and Counting Manufacturing Batteries and Battery Machinery]
Sorry! At this time in our country and especially for those of us on the Gulf Coast, as well as the Atlantic Coast I simply cannot bring myself to return right now to Top Lead.
The challenge is going to be to relate things in our industry, (SLI Lead Acid Batteries), to the (Oil or Petroleum Industry). A couple of things easily come to mind though.
Today, our batteries are mostly assembled inside a plastic box or container. A quick Internet search provides information which leads me to believe that 52% of this container is fuel oil. I am relying on a study produced by the College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering of the University of Science and Technology in Xianyang China. They stated that by using a process named pyrolysis they could convert 1.92 tons of plastics into 1.0 ton of fuel oil.
Another relationship between automotive batteries and oil is not just that a battery starts a vehicle which is powered by gasoline, but a little known fact that today's batteries owe much credit their much improved life span to the petroleum industry. The special lubricating oil products of today enable automobile cranking in our very cold climates to have far less resistance to mechanical motion than they did just 20 or 30 years ago. In many cases the same old battery seems to be better because good old slippery oil has eased the work load.
So, even if one thinks I am stretching things a bit in trying to create a relationship then consider that, (BP), might someday mean, (Beyond Petroleum), rather than (British Petroleum).We have a great hope that our old, old battery with a bit of alterations will be part of this new BP.
Now, back to today's BP. We have a strong connection here in Florida with the Gulf of Mexico. Our Gulf is now under attack and could literally become a dead sea so to speak. Even if some little shrimp survive We The People will asking questions something like this – (Does your restaurant's shrimp come from the Gulf of Mexico?). Imagine our Florida with that in mind.
All this week I have heard and read about this group blaming that group. Now I am even learning that it is quite possible that our Big-Big government is not Big enough and should be much bigger. Imagine that! We can't seem to make up our minds.
I have not seen or heard much though about who is really to blame. That would be us. Very few of us have never benefited from oil and/or petroleum products. Leaving out all the plastic stuff I am surrounded with I can safely figure that in my lifetime I have used for just my own personal transportation where I alone was the driver some 40,000 gallons of gasoline. Frankly I intend to use more. Hopefully, much more and even when we get to a point where our historians can describe the point in time where we became, (Beyond Petroleum), we will still be using it.
We The People have arrived at a point in time where the "Taking Our Country Back" mantra has to be given a little thought. Practical thoughts, not hate thoughts.Even though I have not followed on with the Top Lead lll events that I keep promising I have already with l and ll described enough of the old ways that nobody could seriously consider returning to all that.
I do have a personal thought when I hear that take our country back statement. Florida is the overflowing with people place it is today because of air conditioning. I was raised less than 100 miles north of Florida and I remember our little house having a ceiling fan. This fan was absolutely useless in the day time and only with much stealth could it be made into a real enjoyable thing at night. It is not with pride that I explain this stealth remark. There would be times when I could not easily fall asleep. Whatever was keeping me awake was accompanied by it simply being hot. Therefore, after all others had fallen asleep, especially my brothers, I would go to their bedside windows and close them down a bit. When this was done properly there would be an increase in flow of unbelievably cool air blasting across my sleeping zone. It was good but even if I wanted to go back to,"That", I couldn't. Moving forward is what we are capable of doing and going back is just something for the history books.


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Christmastime is so rich with memories. It seems to get truer with each passing year. Family traditions, TV shows that capture the joy of the season, and a winter sky's promise of a December snowfall add to the nostalgia. One of my favorite Christmas pasts was found in downtown Fulton.
For years, my family's holiday shopping tradition took place on Christmas Eve, when Dad loaded us kids in the old Ford. (There were four kids in our family and that meant at least one of us was going to be denied a window seat.) While Mom stayed back at home to finish up last minute decorating, wrapping and cooking, Dad was in charge of our shopping and he knew just where to take us.
Back when I grew up, in the 1960s, going to Woolworth's was a lot like today's children going to the Destiny Mall. We lived on Chase Road, a couple miles outside Fulton's city limits, and going to its downtown was a big deal. Dad would park the car on Cayuga Street, as close to the main doors of Woolworth's as he could. Looking out our car windows, I saw the whole street decorated for the holidays.
Music was playing outside on what was known as The Dizzy Block and I first heard many of my favorite Christmas songs standing on the street as we prepared to start shopping. "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree," "Frosty, the Snowman," "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus," and some guy named Bing Crosby crooning "White Christmas" were all first heard on those shopping trips.
After enjoying a carol or two, it was time to get down to business. Before we walked through the double doors of Woolworth's, Dad handed each of us a ten dollar bill. For a moment, I felt so rich, but that didn't last long. I had to make that ten dollars cover presents for our family and grandparents. Finally, I had a reason to be glad I paid attention during math class.
There was no reason to worry about Dad's allotment of ten dollars covering my many purchases. Woolworth's was a "You can find anything" store, each aisle like its own department. Wooden bins were lined up in long rows, each one featuring a different item: clothes, school essentials, arts & crafts supplies, sporting goods, and so on. They even had a pet department with aquariums full of exotic fish. When I got a little tired of shopping, I'd stare into those aquariums for hours, watching the tropical fish and imagining myself on a Pacific island.
Woolworth's also had its own little restaurant. Well, it was actually a lunch counter, but to a kid it sure felt like a full-service dining establishment. I loved hopping onto one of their swivel seats at the counter and watching the cook grill hamburgers and hotdogs right in front of me. The waitress even made our sodas from scratch: she filled a tall glass with ice, added a squirt of special Coca Cola syrup and topped it off with bubbly water. It was magic!
If Dad was in a good mood – and he always was at Christmas – he'd buy us lunch, and if things were extra special, he'd let us top it off with a banana split. Dad might even have been able to save some money if it was his lucky day. If memory serves me right, banana splits cost 59 cents back in the 1960s, but Woolworth's often had a contest going where you could significantly lower that price. Rising above the lunch counter was a bouquet of helium-filled balloons. If you ordered a banana split, you'd choose a balloon, pop it, and if there was a penny inside, you got the yummy dessert for just one cent.
Once lunch was over, each of us grabbed a shopping basket and spread out. There was no reason to worry that a brother or sister might spy on me as I shopped for them. The store was big enough that we could avoid each other, and if I ran into a sibling, I could dodge down another aisle and keep my secret gifts a secret.
I learned a lot about how to choose a present at Woolworth's. The store had nifty reminders of which part of the store featured "Dad gifts" and which were better for Mom. A display of brightly-colored neckties gave me the idea that Dad would love a new tie since he wore one to work every day. For Mom, I headed to the kitchen department, where a newfangled cooking gadget might make meal prep a little easier.
When it was time to concentrate on my siblings, I finally let myself head to the toy department. I'd avoided it as long as I could, knowing how easy it was for all those fun games to distract me. Shopping was serious business, after all. In my youngest years, Santa Claus, who was waiting to hear a child's Christmas list, added to the excitement. Even after I finally outgrew his secret, just seeing him sitting in a corner of Woolworth's really made my spirits bright.
Greeting cards were near Santa and I always made sure to use some of my ten dollars to buy one for Mom. She was the sentimental one in the family – I think I inherited that from her – and I knew that just the right Christmas message was as important to her as any gift I might find. After she passed away, packed among Mom's most prized possessions were some of those Christmas cards purchased at Woolworth's.
Today, I start my Christmas shopping in the weeks before the big holiday. I know which stores will have just the right present on my list and I can even shop while sitting at my computer. But once those famous Christmas songs start showing up on the radio, if I close my eyes and sing along, I feel like I'm still standing on a snowy Cayuga Street, ready to walk the aisles of Woolworth's, determined to turn ten dollars into a Merry Christmas.


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After having a long-term preparatory stage Easydisplay GmbH from Hannover, Germany, opens up a manufactory for banner stands in Suzhou, China.
Online PR News – 02-June-2009 – – From now on the China based German company Easydisplay International Ltd., Co. is going to produce the majority of banner stands intended to sell on the European market for banner stands at the company-owned production line. Furthermore Easydisplay cooperates with several subcontractors, component suppliers, and trade creditors of banner stands.
By this means, Easydisplay has created a far-reaching network which enables the company to offer a great-ranging product portfolio of banner stands. Those banner stands produced by external manufactories are going through a strict and diligently executed quality inspection. Thus a quality level which is capable to satisfy the needs of European customers of banner stands can be assured.
The executive board of Easydisplay International Ltd., Co. states: "Due to our efforts we in fact cannot offer our banner stands on that price level other China based producers of banner stands can offer their banner stands to their clients. But first and foremost we do not want to lower our sights in terms of quality guarantee and customer related services. The positive responses of our clients we received to date are encouraging and telling us that we have chosen the right strategy."
While the Easydisplay GmbH in Hannover has been adjusted to the European end consumer market for banner stands, Easydisplay International Ltd., Co. addresses wholesale dealers and agents of banner stands worldwide. Initially Easydisplay International Ltd., Co. plans to focus on the Asian and Australian market for banner stands.
More Information concerning Easydisplay banner stands: http://www.easydisplay.com.cn


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The tea party's war against the Common Core State Standards escalated this week in the form of survey results supposedly attesting to the standards' extreme unpopularity in Mississippi, the lowest-performing state in the country in terms of student achievement. But the survey's questions were misleading, and some of them relied on information that's downright false.
The Common Core State Standards are a new set of education benchmarks that have been adopted in 45 states, including Mississippi. The measure was designed in an effort to make sure students around the country are held to the same educational standards. In a process that was incentivized by the possibility of getting extra federal cash through the Obama administration's Race to the Top competition, the Mississippi Board of Education adopted the Common Core in summer 2010.
On Wednesday, the Mississippi arm of the tea party published the results of its Common Core robocall survey. Naturally, the results bolstered tea party views, finding that a vast majority of respondents think the Common Core should be stopped in its tracks.
The survey was conducted during the last quarter of 2013 and was based on phone calls with more than 3,200 randomly selected Mississippi households. The script for the survey prefaces its questions by calling the Common Core the "Federal Government's latest attempt to take control of public, private and home-schooled education in America." Mississippi Citizens for Good Government –- a group whose Facebook says its purpose is to "expose the pretend conservatives at every level of government" –- managed the survey in conjunction with the tea party.
Questions throughout the survey contain biased claims. One such question asks if respondents are concerned that "achievement standards for third graders appear to set lower expectations for black and Hispanic students than for white and Asian students."
But the Common Core is not connected to racial achievement standards. Rather, racial achievement goals became policy in Mississippi as part of its waiver to escape from the George W. Bush era's No Child Left Behind Act. Mississippi is one of over 40 states that got a reprieve from that much-derided law by agreeing to take on several of the Obama administration's education reforms, such as a revamped school accountability system and higher education standards (but not necessarily the Common Core).
The perception of the Common Core's connection to race-based achievement goals is apparently so ingrained in Mississippi that government officials have set out to correct it. On its website, the Mississippi Department of Education calls this perception a "myth," explaining that such racial achievement goals are solely associated with No Child Left Behind and "have no relation to Common Core State Standards."
When asked about the basis for the survey's racial achievement question, Rita Anderson, a tea partier who helped write the questionnaire, told The Huffington Post that the framework associated with the Common Core "sets a lower baseline for blacks and Hispanics, and it shows they're going to progress but stay lower [than Caucasian and Asian students]."
After survey respondents heard the question about race, 83 percent of them said they were very concerned about the Common Core setting lower expectations for some minority students.
Anderson said she plans to use these survey results to persuade policymakers to abandon the Common Core.
"I spent several months going around the state, and listening to citizens it became clear that there wasn't much fundamental knowledge about the issue of Common Core," Anderson told HuffPost over the phone. "People know it was controversial. … But we began to see that citizens at large really were sort of left out. That was the message we're trying to get to legislators."
Mississippi's new superintendent of education, Carey Wright, said she believes the state should stick with implementing the Common Core. Working against her is the 10-member Senate Conservative Coalition, which is trying to delay or halt the Common Core's rollout.
This past July, the coalition put out a press release claiming that the Common Core Standards contained race-based achievement goals.
"If the Mississippi Department of Education intends to evaluate children and measures of progress differently based on race ... we simply can't sit by and allow such a blatant discrimination to occur," said Coalition Chairman Senator Chris McDaniel.
Anderson told HuffPost that the survey's question about race achievement standards was based on information advertised by these elected officials.


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Antifascists gathered in London to counter the call by Ukrainian organisations to commemorate soldiers "fallen in all wars", including Ukrainian volunteers in the SS Galicia Division, responsible for massacres of Jewish and Polish people in Western Ukraine.
The Association of Ukrainian Former Combatants in Great Britain was amongst a number of organisations calling for the march on the Cenotaph in London. This is the organisation of veterans of the SS Galicia Division, who were brought to Britain at the end of World War 2. The Division, made up of Ukrainian volunteers, carried out atrocities against the Polish population in the Galicia region of Western Ukraine.
The Association of Ukrainians in Great Britain (the main organiser of the memorial service) made no secret of the fact that they were commemorating both the SS Galicia Division as well as the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (which also collaborated for a period with the nazis and carried out atrocities).
In response to an enquiry from a Spanish journalist, Wolodymyr Pawluk, chair of the AUGB London branch said: "we remember the thousands who fought in the Waffen-SS Division Galicia" and then went on to try to downplay the nazi character of the Division: "Many who joined the Galician Divsion did so not because they supported Hitler. They enlisted to get military training. Many remembered the atrocities committed by Stalin ie, Holodomor (famine), murders and repressions. Many would have been conscripted into the Red Army which would have meant certain death. There are many issues which have to be explored regarding this matter. In war the instinct is to survive. The war on the Eastern front was brutal and Ukraine was the battleground."
This is typical of the type of historical revisionism which is common in Ukrainian far right nationalist circles. The members of the SS Galicia Division were volunteers who took the following very clear oath: "I swear before God this holy oath, that in the battle against Bolshevism,I will give absolute obedience to the commander in chief of the German Armed Forces Adolf Hitler, and as a brave soldier I will always be prepared to lay down my life for this oath." On top of this, the famine caused by forced collectivisation in Ukraine and other regions of the USSR in the 1930s did not actually affect Galicia, which at that time was part of Poland.
Despite minor scuffles when Ukrainian nationalists attempted to wrest away one of the protesters banners, the silent and dignified action went peacefully.
This is Ruptly's report:
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Businesses in Southbank
12 Feb 2015
Broad Bean Organic Grocer's Andrew Crompton said he and co-owner Paul Bullivant couldn't be happier with the Southbank community's response since opening their doors a year ago.
"Everything that has happened so far has really exceeded our expectations and we've been really delighted with the warm welcome we've had to Southbank," he said.
"As local residents we felt that there really was a hole to be filled in Southbank for good healthy organic food people have really embraced it."
From the very beginning, Andrew said he and Paul went into establishing the business with a great deal of conviction, as organic, wholesome and healthy living was something the pair were truly passionate about.
As well as groceries, Broad Bean offers everything organic from smoothies, cold-pressed juices and fresh meals; through to gluten-free or vegan-friendly raw treats and cruelty-free personal care and household products.
Andrew said if the first year had taught them anything, it was that shopping for quality organic groceries doesn't have to be a chore.
"What we've really learnt is that the desire is for everyday grocery lines," he said. "Not to be too much of a specialty shop but to be a shop where people can come in and visit and shop any day and everyday."
"We wanted it to be a really welcoming space where there's a bit of warmth amongst the concrete jungle, that doing a nightly shop is not something that you dread on the way home. It's actually something that you look forward to."
In response to growing demand from customers, Broad Bean Organic Grocer now also offers certified organic coffee.
Having done extensive research, the pair settled on a local roaster for their beans – Allpress Espresso in Collingwood.
Andrew said he and Paul had always enjoyed AllPress coffee without realising that it produced a certified organic blend.
"When we started researching who was the right coffee roaster to partner with we were absolutely thrilled that Allpress do a certified organic blend," he said.
"Melbourne is renowned for great coffee, so we wanted a great tasting coffee using beans that are freshly roasted but are also free from pesticides and artificial chemicals in every step of the process. The Allpress organic blend ticks all the boxes"
With the business continuing to go from strength to strength in Southbank, Andrew said he, Paul and the Broad Bean team were grateful for being part of such a wonderful community.
"The support has been tremendous and we are really humbled that people are continuing to support us and that we can be a part of a really thoughtful and aware community," he said.
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This offering presents the opportunity to acquire a mixed-use investment in the heart of Portland's Hollywood District. The property is leased to office and retail tenants. The anchor tenant is 24 Hour Fitness, a Super-Sport gym with a spacious layout filled with energy and inspiration and features thousands of square feet of spectacular workout space, complete with premium gym equipment, unmatched amenities and some of the best studio classes around Portland. The property has eight additional tenants and includes a
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Live From Your True Self (Friday)
Today's devotional comes from "Falling Into Goodness," a book of Lenten reflections by Chuck DeGroat. You can purchase the entire book on Amazon in paperback or for Kindle.
The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. Galatian 5:22-23
"Exercise a bit more self-control," I heard her yell to her 5 year old in the frozen foods section of the grocery store. He was walking down the aisle opening each door and slamming it shut. One by one he continued until he stepped right in front of me and slammed the door I had already opened.
The adorable little punk actually got me thinking about what self-control really is that day. Like a bolt of lightning, it hit me – Self-control is when our true selves, in Christ, are in control. Self-control isn't a strict behavior-modification project – it's simply living from our center.
Lent is often a season where the term self-control is thrown around. Having indulged on Fat Tuesday, we enter Ash Wednesday with a sense that this is the season to get right again – lose the weight, end the pornography addiction, clamp down on drinking. Someone once said to me, "Isn't it convenient that God built-in a weight loss and sobriety plan into the liturgical calendar?"
Self-control, as I've seen it practiced, is often motivated by self-contempt. I don't like myself. I'm too fat. I drink too much. I never exercise.
And so let me offer you a word – if this is your version of self-control, you are far afoot from anything St. Paul imagines.
Look at the words that surround it in the passage above - love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness, gentleness. Do these sound like burdensome products of rigid, self-contemptuous discipline? Of course not. These are the heart-responses of one whose life is so utterly rooted in Jesus that gentleness simply emerges, kindness overflows, peace lingers.
The true self in Christ is our inner orchestral conductor, and the orchestra players are every part of us still fighting, still vying for control, still seeking transformation. Self-control is our joyful, gentle, and faithful work of inviting every anxious part of us, every angry part of us, every resistant part of us to relax its grip and find compassion in Christ.
Good and Gentle God, your sense of control is never demanding and always inviting, never forced but always gifted. Your compassion teaches us the way of compassion toward ourselves and every one we encounter. Cultivate gentle, faithful, and joyful self-control in me, I pray. Amen


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"Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared." - Buddha
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As I understand it, Peter Molyneux, the creative lead behind the Fable series, is a man who tends to over promise and under deliver. Well,
Month: February 2017
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Review: Shadowrun Returns
And now for something completely different. Shadowrun Returns is a PC RPG in the traditional sense. The view is isometric and the game is very
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When I played the original Donkey Kong Country, I made it a habit to roll into my enemies. I'd press the roll button, and defeat
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I'm a sucker for character-action platformers. When I was growing up, they were all that was popular in gaming. Crash Bandicoot, Super Mario 64, Spyro
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Review: Etihad First Class A380 Abu Dhabi to New York/
Airline: Etihad Airways
Service: First Class
Aircraft: Airbus A380
Departure: Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (AUH) 10:15 AM
Arrival: New York City, New York (JFK) 3:50 PM
Distance: 6,868 miles
If you ask any travel blogger in the industry, they'll all agree Etihad's A380 First Class Apartments are one of the best first class products in the world. So much so, that I booked a trip to Dubai and Abu Dhabi just to fly this particular product home.
The best way to redeem points for Etihad First Class is through American Airlines' AAdvantage program. This flight, for example, cost 115,000 AAdvantage miles and $47 in taxes and fees. You can find award space on Etihad Guest's website by searching the route and the day you'd like to fly. Award space will show up under the "Guest Seat" category.
Now the trick to booking your ticket is to call American Airlines' Australia office. For some reason American Airlines' agents in the US can't see the award space. So I loaded a few bucks onto my Skype account and gave them a call to reserve my seats!
The morning of our flight, the taxi dropped Elizabeth and I off at the first class check-in just after 6:00 AM. We made sure to get to the airport extra early to enjoy Etihad's new First Class Lounge. We had a seamless check-in and were through security within a few minutes.
Etihad's First Class Lounge was located directly across from the first class security check point.
Elizabeth and I booked our complimentary spa treatments and then enjoyed a delicious breakfast in the dining room.
After our spa treatments, we had about an hour before we had to head to our gate. Abu Dhabi is one of the few countries that has a US Customs and Border Protection Preclearance facility. So, in a sense, you clear US Customs before you even board the flight.
First class boarding was called shortly after we arrived at the gate. We made our way up the ramp and boarded through the upper level. We were greeted by the flight attendant and pointed left into the first class cabin.
The feeling you get when you walk into an Etihad First Class cabin on their A380 is unmatched. It's one of two commercial airlines with a single aisle way on their A380. The cabin itself had 9 regular apartments and one apartment reserved for The Residence.
Elizabeth and I were seated in apartments 3K & 4K.
Each apartment had a long bench seat, a huge reclining seat, 24-inch television and a vanity.
The seat controls allowed you to adjust almost everything in the apartment. You could control the lights, the window shades, adjust your seat and even call the flight attendant.
Just above the armrest were USB Ports, a headphone jack, remote control and a 110V outlet.
The apartment also had quite a bit of seat storage. The entrance doubled as a wardrobe.
Below the bench seat was storage for a standard carry-on bag and shoes.
Next to the seat was a small slide-out with another drawer below.
Waiting for us at our seats were noise cancelling headphones, blankets, Christian Lacroix amenity kits, a mini bar and pajamas.
After Elizabeth and I got settled into our seats, the purser (cabin manager) came by to introduce herself and welcome us on board. A few minutes later she returned with champagne, arabic dates and warm towels.
Just when I thought I'd seen it all, our inflight chef introduced himself and explained the features of the menu. That's correct, there's an inflight chef to customize the menu and drink selection any way they can throughout the flight. Etihad offers a dine-on-demand menu so you can eat and drink whenever you please. Here's a look at the menu:
At this point I was giddy with excitement. I think Elizabeth and I spent a good twenty minutes just taking photos and exclaiming to each other "Can you believe this?!"
We took off right on schedule and I got an awesome shot of Ferrari World as we ascended out of Abu Dhabi.
After we hit cruising altitude the flight attendant offered us some water and snacks
As you read through this next part you'll probably think that all Elizabeth and I did was eat and drink for 14 straight hours. You're not wrong... our take-off snacks were cleared and the inflight chef came by to take our breakfast order. As he prepped the meal, the flight attendant set up my table for two so we could dine face to face. There's nothing cooler than having three meals face to face with someone on an airplane.
Elizabeth and I both ordered the omelet & fresh fruit platter.
The breakfast was delicious and a great way to start the flight. While the flight attendant cleared our table, I went to the lavatory to change into my pajamas. There are two lavatories located at the front of the cabin. The one closest to the stairs is GIGANTIC for an airline bathroom. The second one is a bit smaller, but it also has a shower in it. I'll go into greater detail about the shower suite later.
For the next couple of hours I settled into my seat and enjoyed some inflight entertainment
Etihad had a great selection of inflight entertainment options. I'm a sucker for Will Ferrell's stupid humor, so I ended up watching The House. Towards the end of the movie I started to get a little tired, so I requested turn down service. Elizabeth and I went to The Lobby to wait while the flight attendant made our beds for us.
The Lobby was a communal area between the first and business class cabin. They offered a wide selection of magazines, drinks, and it even had live television. We hung out for about 10 minutes before our flight attendant informed us our beds were ready.
Let me make this perfectly clear: we're still in an airplane folks. Unreal! Etihad had one of the biggest and most comfortable beds in the sky. If you're traveling with some one, the partition can be lowered so you can sleep side by side. The TV's even rotated away from the wall so you could still watch them while you laid down.
Despite my school girl level of excitement, I still managed to nap for a couple of hours. I woke up somewhere over Russia and decided it was time for another meal. The flight attendants put away our beds and set up the table for lunch.
I started the meal off with the Bordeaux Blend and the salmon. Elizabeth got the Sauvignon Blanc and the spinach and lentil soup.
After our appetizers, we were served a lemon sorbet to cleanse our pallet. I've never been served anything for my pallet before on the ground, let alone in the air! It just tasted like frozen lemonade.
For the main course I ordered the ricotta tortellini. It's normally served plain with an olive oil drizzle, but the chef added a white cream sauce for me. Elizabeth decided to order the chicken biryani.
Elizabeth and I basically split the tortellini because it was so damn good. We both agreed that it was the best meal we've had on an airplane. We finished our lunch with a cheese selection selection and fresh baked cookies.
I was so full of food and wine that I slipped into a food coma for an unknown period of time. The next thing I knew the flight attendant was waking me up for my shower. Elizabeth and I had reserved the last two time slots so we could shower right before our descent into New York.
Each person was allotted a total of 45 minutes in the shower suite. You only got five minutes of running water, but you could pause the time by turning off the shower. The time was tracked by a colored gauge above the controls. They also provided Omorovicza body wash, conditioner & shampoo.
My first shower experience on an airplane was awesome! I was expecting lackluster water pressure and bad temperature control, but it was nothing of the sort. The water pressure was great and I could control the temperature to the degree. I left the shower suite feeling refreshed and revived.
I ordered a coffee and enjoyed the views from my windows while I waited for Elizabeth to finish her shower.
Neither of us were terribly hungry, but we had time for one more meal before we landed. We both ordered the steak and frites just for the sake of maximizing our experience.
The steak was actually cooked great for an airplane and the fries were nice and crispy.
After our table was cleared, it was time to begin our descent into New York. We had a smooth touchdown at JFK and pulled up to the gate just after 3:00 PM.
It was bummer that our flight had finally come to an end. We thanked the flight attendants for such a great flight and exited the plane.
Etihad's First Class Apartments are all they're hyped up to be and more. The hard product is top notch, the service was great and the food was restaurant quality. The fact that we did all of this while flying at 40,000 feet still blows my mind. This was the best flight of my life and I can't wait to get back on Etihad Airways again!
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text: Every day is Earth Day for FoodCorps service members, but they take advantage of the holiday to engage kids and communities in an extra special way. Students at Neinas Dual Language Learning Academy in Detroit discovered the benefits of eating the rainbow last Friday, and putting what they learned into practice by making smoothies. In rural Iowa, students planted radishes with Regan O'Hanlon, and in Tupelo, Mississippi they made "seed bombs" with Tylar Setser. While kids in Ashland, Oregon were gobbling up lettuce wraps with Karen Tassinari, students all over Oakland, California got to taste the local fish tacos that Cassandra Spindler had been working to perfect for weeks. Now that's an Earth Day for heads, hands, and tummies to remember.


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Audrey Speer was born in Mill Spring, MO. December 10, 1923 to her parents Dora New Year and William Lee Moss.
She was married for 63 years to Herman William Speer, when he preceded her in death.
She had three brothers, William Loyd Moss, Robert Jackson Moss and Noel Lee Moss and one sister, Pearl Enid Bryant, all who preceded her in death.
She was also preceded in death by her grandson, Robert Alan Brannan and her son, Herman Dale Speer.
She leaves behind her children, Helen King (Bill), Elsie Speer, and Dennis Lee Speer (Nancy).
She has ten surviving grandchildren, Alicia Hull (Guy), Donna Janigo (Vincent), Dian Renee Butler, Shiela Griffen (Dale), Debra Kay Hake (Ken), Kevin Dale Speer, Steven Dale Speer (Jill), Angela Hagith (David), Krista Marcy (Kendal), James Warren.
She has sixteen great grandchildren, Sandy Emerson Hull, Chelsie Penrose (Ryan), Nicole Hull, Jordan LeBlonde, Hayden LeBlonde, Sara Elizabeth Braunstein, Kevin Daryl Taylor, Clayton Brannan, McKenzie Brannan, Cory Speer, Jarrod Speer, Andrew Speer, Tad Speer, Dalton Marcy, Gavin Marcy, Brooke Griffen, Brayden Griffen.
She also has five Great great grandchildren.
Audrey worked 36 cannery seasons in Oroville and enjoyed the luncheons she had with her cannery buddies after she retired.
She loved her family and grandchildren and having wonderful feasts in her home on Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, Thanksgiving and Easter for them. She enjoyed attending church and loved the Lord. She wrote many stories and songs and would sing the songs in her church. She enjoyed vacations to visit family and friends in Missouri, mostly RVing. She enjoyed winters in Arizona with friends. She enjoyed cruises. Audrey was a happy person, really enjoyed life and anyone who knew her was blessed.


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Cynation's Debut single, Dancing Devil is now available on iTunes, Spotify, Google Play and Bandcamp. The song co-written by Josh Mak, Simon Lai, Andrew Teo and Shah, produced and mixed by Jason Hawkins and drums by Bryan Ulric. The single was released on July 10, 2017 and it has already made the top rock list on Collision Radio and THRS Radio in Melbourne, Singapore and is named "Single of The Week" in UK.
"The girl on the cover of Dancing Devil represents women in society in general and the demon behind her represents the dark heart of society – the unspoken desires and temptations trying to overcome her. Yet she stands there in defiance of that, challenging it even. So really it's her against that part of society and the demon submitting to her.
Dancing Devil is a song written about the adult entertainment industry, namely strippers. But it also explores society's struggles with temptation. Being irrevocable drawn towards it yet never openly admitting to it in public. We often hear people make the comment: "sex sells."
Yet we never ask the question: "who's buying?" The song also depicts the deplorable attitude that many men have towards these women. Thinking that just because they are paying them, that they have the right to disrespect them.
What we hope to achieve with this song and our music is to tell the stories that never get told. Thus giving a voice to those who don't have one. Our message with the dancing devil song is: Be brave, be who you want to be and never ashamed. Own your body and mind for it is yours and no one else's," said Josh Mak in an interview for London Prestige Magazine.
'Dancing Devil' Lyrics
By Cynation
Dancing devil pirouetting in my heart, tempting me with gold.
So many pretty ladies lining up the boulevard ready to bare their souls.
Take my money, honey baby give me a smile.
We're gonna be wolves tonight
Let me hear you howl.
Dance little devil dance
Dance, dance for me
Got an itchy finger begging to be scratched, this might take an hour.
Give me a plastic angel strapped with crystal heels.
Girl I wanna taste your flower.
Take my money, honey baby give me a smile.
We're gonna be wolves tonight
Let me hear you howl.
Dance little devil dance
Dance, dance for me.
Released July 10, 2017
Written by Josh Mak, Simon Lai, Andrew Teo and Shah.
Drums by Bryan Ulric
Mixed by Jason Hawkins
Artwork by Nick Le Blanc
Model: Tracey Leigh
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St. Clement of Alexandria: From filthy speaking we ourselves must entirely abstain..
From filthy speaking we ourselves must entirely abstain, and stop the mouths of those who practice it by stern looks and averting the face, and by what we call making a mock of one: often also by a harsher mode of speech.
"For what proceedeth out of the mouth," He says, "defileth a man," -- shows him to be unclean, and heathenish, and untrained, and licentious, and not select, and proper, and honourable, and temperate.'
St. Clement of Alexandria


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Daria With Si Perkoff, Piano
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Bread & Roses Presents is a nonprofit arts organization with a human services mission that brings hope, healing and joy through live music and the performing arts to people who are disadvantaged, marginalized, or otherwise isolated in diverse institutional settings in the San Francisco Bay Area. Daria is honored to be a longtime volunteer performer and received an award of appreciation of service.


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Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP)
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NLP is about understanding the structure of how the human nervous system (neuro) transforms data received through the 5 senses into mental descriptions (linguistic) and then unconscious behavior (programming). In a nutshell it is the study of how people organize their thinking, feeling, language and behavior to produce the results they do. With Neuro-Linguistic Programming, you have a model for understanding the unconscious thinking processes that drive behavior. This has two enormous benefits, firstly you can easily learn to do what others are doing well, and model it. Secondly you can identify the limiting patterns in yourself and others and use re-patterning techniques to move on.
Neuro-Linguistic Programming all began in California in the early 1970s at the University of Santa Cruz. Richard Bandler, a master's level student of information sciences and mathematics, enlisted the help of Dr John Grinder, a professor of linguistics. Together they studied people they considered to be excellent communicators and agents of change. They were fascinated by how some therapists defied the odds to get through to 'difficult' or very ill people where others failed miserably to connect.
So the concept has its roots in a therapeutic setting thanks to three world-renowned psychotherapists that Bandler and Grinder studied: Virginia Satir (developer of Conjoint Family Therapy), Fritz Perls (the founder of Gestalt Psychology), and Milton H Erickson (largely responsible for the advancement of Clinical Hypnotherapy). In their work, Bandler and Grinder also drew upon the skills of linguists Alfred Korzybski and Noam Chomsky, social anthropologist Gregory Bateson, and psychoanalyst Paul Watzlawick.
From those early days in the seventies, the field of therapy has exploded to encompass many disciplines. We're all born with the same basic neurology. Our ability to do anything in life, whether it's swimming the length of a pool, cooking a meal, or reading a book, depends on how we control our nervous system. So, much of NLP is devoted to learning how to think more effectively and communicate more effectively with yourself and others.
We know that most of our behaviors are learned -- for example you don't see small babies with phobias of flying or self esteem issues. We learn our behavior from our experiences and the people around us as we grow up, and this programs our brain to perceive things and to react to the world in a certain way. NLP allows you to understand what these programs are, and then reprogram them. Because our behavior is learned, we are able to unlearn it!
Your brain stores all it's experiences as pictures, sounds and feelings, if you change how your brain recognizes these experiences you can change how you respond to them. Your unconscious mind does not know the difference between what is real and what happens in your head. This means your imagination is always more powerful than your willpower. Richard Bandler himself, professes that it's not just about therapy. It is about education and teaching people to run their own brains.
To many people the range of applications is surprising. It seems strange that the same process can help you relate better to your loved ones, enhance your professional performance, improve your golf or tennis score, and enable you to teach your child to spell or study. When you become acquainted with this 'technology', there are no limits to the range of applications or the areas in your life which can benefit.
NLP is valuable in conquering many challenges in life, particularly within our own thinking. A few prime examples are listed below. As with all alternative therapies, its use does not preclude the help of mainstream medicine. Consult your medical practitioner before starting any program.
Pain and Discomfort: Perhaps the easiest and fastest way to experience the benefits of NLP, it allows the patient to visualize and acknowledge the location of the pain and then by changing how the patient visualizes it, the body responds to the upgrade immediately. This in turn relieves the patient of their pain and discomfort. This session usually takes less than fifteen minutes.
Phobias and Fears: The NLP model has been used to eliminate many types of phobias. The success rate is high because it helps the client to rationalize and resolve the phobia, thus allowing the client to release the fear. It is also a short procedure, often less than an hour.
Limiting Beliefs: Neuro-Linguistic Programming is very effective in these conditions by bringing limiting beliefs into awareness so they can be resolved.
Eliminate Negative Emotions: Overwhelming negative emotions such as anger, grief, sadness, guilt, etc., can all be dealt with using specific processes.
Smoking Cessation: Allows clients to change their response to cigarettes, thus allowing them to cease smoking. This is not done through substitution, but through values and belief changes. Through these changes, secondary issues related to smoking cessation, such as weight gain and irritability, can be reduced if not totally eliminated.
The application of techniques in conjunction with hypnotherapy, creates a synergy resulting in profound and powerful changes within the client, far greater than if used as a stand alone therapy. This synergy empowers YOU to achieve your full potential in all aspects of life including career, finance, relationships, and especially health...beyond your wildest dreams.
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We are proud to announce that Jett Foundation is now an affiliate agency of Rodman for Kids.
Along with 50 other nonprofit agencies that share a mission of helping underserved kids in the Greater Boston area, Jett Foundation's Go! for Duchenne team will be participating in its first ever Rodman Ride for Kids on September 22, 2018 in Foxboro, MA.
The Rodman Ride is the #1 single-day athletic fundraiser in the nation supporting at-risk kids and all expenses for the event are underwritten. This means that 100% of funds raised by our riders go directly to supporting our young people and families.
Rodman for Kids is an umbrella matching gift charity raising funds for youth-focused social service organizations that support at-risk kids in Massachusetts. Rodman's mission is to have every child in our community live as we would want our own kids to live. Jett Foundation is committed to supporting young people affected by Duchenne by providing education, programs, adaptive equipment and the support needed to live full lives. Partnering with Rodman for Kids enables us to bring together the families and community we serve for an exciting day of cycling and fun while simultaneously supporting the work that we do.
We are determined to start off our first year as an affiliate agency strong with a 2018 Rodman Ride fundraising goal of $30,000! Interested in riding 25, 50 or 100 miles on September 22 with Go! for Duchenne? Email Amy at firstname.lastname@example.com and let her know!
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Cake Smash Photo Session. . .
These shoots can get pretty messy, so I start with some pre-smash portraits being taken of your child, capturing their many expressions, Then we introduce the cake and get messy.
A cake smash photo session is a relaxed, fun and joyful way to commemorate the milestone of your little one's first birthday. Why not book a shoot and capture your baby's surprise, curiosity and delight as they first taste of sugar. I aim to capute your little ones unique personality in a relaxed and carefree way.
The cost of the cake smash photoshoot does include the cost of a large homemade cup cake. If your child has any allergies we recommend you bring in your own cake, and the cost of the shoot will be reduced.


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This past March, more than 35,000 healthcare providers, health systemsŌĆÖ staff, and technology experts attended HIMSS 2013, the annual conference of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS). An industry leader for more than 50 years, HIMSS is a cause-based, nonprofit organization designed to provide global leadership for the optimal use of information technology (IT) and management systems for the betterment of healthcare.
Industry leaders from government, commercial payers, and more than 1,000 technology innovators engaged in debates, case studies, demonstrations, and dialogues aimed at solving some of┬Ā the most complex healthcare delivery problems facing our healthcare systems today. While this yearŌĆÖs HIMSS conference was extremely valuable, we, the Kareo team, noticed that the small medical practice was fairly underrepresented in the crowds.
Since small medical practices constitute such a large portion of the nationŌĆÖs healthcare delivery network, we made it our mission to provide our small practice customers and friends with Kareo perspectives on the six┬Ā hottest topics of HIMSS 2013:
- Diminishing EHR satisfaction and usability
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- Patient engagement
- Big data as a disruptive technology
- Innovation
- Beyond the device
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I suppose, if I don't get any better suggestions (cause how can you beat Batman???), I will go as one of the two. My only other ideas so far have been Aurora (Sleeping Beauty) and Christine Daae (Phantom of the Opera).
IF YOU HAVE READ THIS FAR, YOU MUST - I REPEAT, MUST - LEAVE A COMMENT WITH A SUGGESTION (should this so lie in your power).
Thank you for reading. :)
UPDATE: Here's a picture of my dress (it doesn't have sleeves yet, but it's going to, thanks to my fairy-grandmother)


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Advent of 90s, saw emerging software companies were the forerunners in online education, developing proprietary learning management systems (LMS) to serve colleges and jostling for clients.
Now "cloud" computing is offering the delivery and storage of an array of computing services on the Internet coupled with the increased use of mobile devices and other changes in the industry is poised to again alter the face of online education.
According to recent report from the Instructional Technology Council (ITC), two-year colleges are increasingly using cloud-based solutions, which is accelerating the shift toward using shared applications and mobile devices to access content.
Cloud computing offers an alternative platform that gives educators more control over their virtual learning environment. Colleges can use free, open-source cloud programs to develop their own systems, fledging companies are licensing to colleges systems that manage cloud platforms. Cloud-based systems are also less expensive than computer-tethered LMS programs.
Adapted from "The 'cloud' is shifting tech-based education". Read the complete story here.


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Senior Full-stack Engineer-Health
- San Francisco, CA, USA
- Full-time
Company Description
We're a cutting-edge tech company with a very human mission—to help every person discover, preserve, and share the story of what led to them. Combining the rich information in family trees and historical records with the genetic details revealed in DNA, we create unique experiences that give people a new understanding of their lives, because connecting all the pieces of our family story can give us the deepest sense of who we are.
This position is located in our San Francisco, CA office, near the AT&T ballpark and one block from Caltrain.
Job Description
Ancestry is seeking a Senior full-stack developer to join our health and wellness team. We are looking for a talented software developer who is interested in helping us deliver health and wellness features to our customers using agile software development methodologies.
Ancestry is harnessing the latest big data technologies and is actively investing in cutting-edge genomic research to drive advancement in genealogy and consumer genomics. We are one of the world's leading companies in truly Big Data: DNA records from over seven million people and 20 billion genealogy records containing 80 billion profiles and growing!
The next big advancement in this area is to help our customers discover more about their own health and wellness. In this role you will help bring people together by helping them discover more about themselves and how we are all interconnected.
Are you passionate about software development? Do you thrive on working with other highly skilled developers in an agile environment? Do you have an interest in helping people discover more about who they are? If so, this may be the position for you.
- Work with UX and product owners to deliver exciting features which add customer value.
- Write clean, easily maintainable code with unit tests that follow standards and best practices and are based on industry trends and the latest technologies.
- Be part of a well-formed agile team of eight members as one of six developers, with two quality engineers, a product owner, and UX.
- Design and implement cloud-scale systems and services.
- Manage technical requirements, work on API specs, add automation, conduct code reviews and engage in testing efforts.
- Mentor junior developers on the team.
- 5+ years of experience with full stack technologies such as Java, Node.js, React, and MySQL.
- Experience in designing and implementing large-scale web applications, APIs, frameworks, and databases. Working knowledge of AWS services is a plus.
- Ability to effectively interpret technical and business objectives and to articulate solutions.
- Ability to mentor other engineers.
- Bachelor's in computer science or related field is required. Master's degree in computer science, computer engineering, or other technical discipline, or equivalent work experience, is preferred.
- Experience as an agile team member is a must and scrum master experience is a plus.
- Ability to diagram in an architectural style with formal technical writing experience a plus.
- Experience with FDA software guidance, software development to IEC 62304 standards and familiarity with Title 21 - Part 820--Quality System Regulation is a definite plus
Additional Information
Ancestry is a profitable, growing company with a positive, high-energy environment. Together, our dedicated teams are harnessing the power of technology and using it to simplify the way people connect with their families and their unique legacies. Our work environment is fast-paced and challenging, but also extremely exciting. You'll work with a team of passionate, engaged individuals. We offer excellent benefits and a competitive compensation package. For additional information, regarding our benefits and career information, please visit our website at http://ancestry.com/careers
Ancestry is not accepting unsolicited assistance from search firms for this employment opportunity. All resumes submitted by search firms to any employee at Ancestry via-email, the Internet or in any form and/or method without a valid written search agreement in place for this position will be deemed the sole property of Ancestry. No fee will be paid in the event the candidate is hired by Ancestry as a result of the referral or through other means.
Ancestry is an Equal Opportunity Employer that makes employment decisions without regard to race, color, religious creed (including religious dress and grooming practices), national origin, ancestry, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, and medical conditions related thereto), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity and expression, age (40 and older), mental or physical disability (including HIV and AIDS), medical condition (cancer and genetic characteristics), veteran status, citizenship, marital status, genetic information, or any other basis that is prohibited by applicable law. The Company also makes reasonable accommodations to applicants or employees with qualifying disabilities who request them and who otherwise meet the requirements of applicable law. If you would like to request an accommodation during the application process, please contact our Director of Recruiting.
All job offers are contingent on a background check screen that complies with applicable law. For San Francisco office candidates, Ancestry will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of San Francisco's Fair Chance Ordinance.


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Before the hectic holiday season hits, take a moment for yourself! In this workshop, local yoga instructor, Jen Ryan, will lead you through a calming, meditative experience of yoga to live music performed by Miles Hartl.
Please bring your own yoga mat. Open to experienced and beginners alike.
$27/person, pay at the door.
Jen Ryan currently teaches yoga at MOYO Yoga Studio in Skippack, PA. In addition to practicing and teaching yoga Jen is currently in the clinical component of a registered Nursing program. Jen says it is her "life's mission is to face, taste and alleviate human suffering, while promoting hope and empowerment."


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|2012 ABMA/AGMA Annual Meeting
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ABMA/AGMA Annual Conference
Held March 15-17, 2012
Hyatt Regency Coconut Point
Bonita Springs, FL
The 2012
ABMA/AGMA Annual Meeting was held March 15-17 at the beautiful Hyatt
Regency Coconut Point Hotel in Bonita Springs, FL. Based on initial
feedback, the meeting was a huge success!
The meeting began on Thursday afternoon with a members luncheon followed by the ABMA Business Meeting. During the business meeting, ABMA President Scott Lynch outlined the highlights of 2011 while also providing direction for the year ahead. Additionally, Mr. Lynch was pleased to announce that five associate membership applications were approved during the Board of Directors meeting earlier that morning, expanding the associate membership category to 11 supplier companies.
Podesta kicked off the general sessions on Thursday afternoon. With
a combination of humor and motivation, she encouraged the crowd to close
gap between where you are now and where you want to be. On Friday
morning, Kenneth
Gronbach spoke about the fascinating world of shifting demographics
while Steve
Barnhart focused on how to grow your business by entering new markets.
Mr. Barnhart's presentation, a panel of our industry colleagues
presented first-hand
accounts of their successes and challenges with new business ventures.
ABMA was
pleased to have Rock Baty, President and CEO of NN, Inc. participate on
On Saturday morning, Jim Meil addressed the current economic crisis
followed by Charlie Cook concluding the general sessions with an
enlightened outlook on
the 2012 election.
During the closing reception, the association recognized its 50 year company members and Outgoing Chairman Jeff Manzagol, President of Kaydon Bearings Division. ABMA, founded in 1917, has a rich tradition with long standing companies. ABMA pleased to announce that The Abbott Ball Company, Accurate Bushing, New Hampshire Ball Bearings (NHBB) and Rexnord Bearing Division have achieved 50 years with the association. These companies join our 75 year members that we recognized at last year's Annual Meeting. ABMA will continue its company recognitions at the 2013 Annual Meeting with our 25 year members.
In addition, this meeting concluded Jeff Manzagol's two years as chairman of ABMA. During his tenure, ABMA experienced unprecedented implementation of a strong strategic focus that included the complete revamp of the education program, establishment of domestic anti-counterfeiting initiative and engagement of industry suppliers.
"It has been a pleasure partnering with Jeff over the past two years. ABMA would not have been able to achieve our many successes without his strong leadership and keen ability to gain consensus on critical issues impacting the bearing industry", stated ABMA President Scott Lynch. The ABMA Board of Directors appointed Pete Eich, President of NTN Bearing Corporation of America as the new Chairman of ABMA. Mr. Manzagol will stay on the ABMA Board of Directors in the role of Immediate Past Chairman.
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The Rundown | Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta S: 2 | Making a Scene E: 6
This week we attend an E.O.E party (End of Engagement), meet Papa Scrappy, watch Drew flirt, I mean interview THAHAs, see Kirk request a break, and K. Michelle be calm for once. Oh and we did two podcast, but you only get to hear one. Let's do this like Brutus!
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Indianapolis is ready for the Super Bowl!!!
Are you?
Better bust out the stretch pants if there's a Super Bowl Party in your future, or at least something comfy in red, white or blue … either way you can't go wrong!
( did i mention you can get all the comfy stuff at Stuff? )
Go Patriots! Go Giants!
May the best team win!
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Split Halloween Applique is a fun and customisable collection of split designs. This collection also includes a monogram version of the designs too (designs 12 - 22). Pop a name, intials or words between the split lines or monogram circles to make wonderful Halloween projects such as treat bags, shirts and so much more. This collection comes in 3 sizes, being for the 4x4, 5x7 and 6x10 hoops. PCS and SEW users please note that as your machines do not support the 5x7 and larger hoops, the larger sizes are not available in your format and PES has been provided instead. EMB files are also included in the downloads for precise resizing with the Wilcom Truesizer software (a free resizing software available at the Wilcom website).
See our full range of Halloween Embroidery Designs. View all Bunnycup embroidery designs
Unless otherwise stated on each design set, all machine embroidery designs typically fit a 4 x 4 hoop (or your embroidery machines standard hoop - each format has been sized for the specific standard hoop). If you would like design information such as the design size, stitch count and needle changes, please click on the thread chart to the right.


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Almost 10 years after Facebook launched, there are still many misconceptions as to what social media can or should be doing for businesses. It's not always easy of course, because social media platforms are evolving fast and so are the marketing tactics we can deploy on them.
The latest trend is all about going visual. Instagram is booming, Facebook is growing strong on video. But it is Twitter that might be on the verge of winning it all. The platform welcomes images, of course, Vines, but also GIFs and more recently native videos. And that seems like a winning mix.
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This week we looked into how visuals can be a better choice than words on Twitter. But most importantly, we have shown you a way to deal with every social marketer's biggest problem: how to switch from one account to another on Instagram!
So are you ready for this week's Top 5 trending news on We are Social Media?
|See How You Can Login to Instagram with Multiple Accounts – If you're working on multiple Instagram accounts, you probably find it really annoying having to constantly log out of one account to access another. This doesn't have to be the case though. You can switch between different Instagram accounts with a lot of ease, with a simple iPhone jailbreak called igSpeedster.
|When 140 Characters Aren't Enough: A Guide To Using Visuals On Twitter – A picture really is worth thousand words. Times have changed and words alone just aren't enough. Sometimes, your message needs that extra bit of expression that words can't quite capture. So, remember when 140 characters just isn't cutting it, there are plenty of other options!
|4 Misconceptions About Social Media Advertising – For many years, most brands who were on social media from the beginning thought of them as a free way to promote themselves. For a long time it was. Then came social media advertising. Targeted, relevant, measurable. Things have gotten a little more complicated and there are many misconceptions surrounding it.
|This App Transforms All Your Photos In Emoji Mosaics – Emoji are now everywhere. In fact, they are now cooler than ever. There was a time when their usage was decreasing, but it seems that with the rapid growth of messaging apps, Emoji are now, once again, part of the popular culture.
|Twitter Steps Up: #RefugeesWelcome – The Internet is the tool of this age, this is where we get informed, where we learn to understand, where we show our support and where we act. So, Doctors of the World launched #RefugeesWelcome, a real-time visualisation of all the positive things that are being tweeted about refugee and migrants.
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I had to include the 50's Diner in our year-long sandwich tour, not only because it's one of Peoria's best and kitschiest diners, but because they feature a sandwich there that is so good and it also brings back a great Peoria sandwich memory! Let's go to the 50's Diner and find out just what this mysterious sandwich is and there's also a special guest making an appearance, so let's get going and get gone to...
The 50's Diner, which is located in The Metro Centre. It's a local and family owned and operated restaurant and we'll be meeting several members of that family as we continue on today's sandwich journey! So let's continue on!
We'll go through the door and check out the hostess station up in the front, that's new and it's very nice. And standing behind the hostess station is a member of that family I was just telling you about, it's Tammy Senti, the co-owner of the 50's Diner! The other co-owner is her husband, Scott and we'll be seeing him soon, but till then, meet another member of the Senti clan in the bottom photo to the right, Emily!
The place is packed here at lunch time! Normally I'd sit at the counter where Melissa is sticking her tongue out at me and showing some of that lovable 50's Diner attitude, but since we have that special guest star coming, I chose this booth over here. We'll be dining underneath Marilyn Monroe and her dress, I'll be polite and not look up...at least as far as you know!
Here's the view from where I'm seated at the aforementioned booth. As usual, I'm early, so let's take a look around the 50's Diner while we wait for that mysterious guest of honor!
There's another view of the counter in the center of the diner and check out back in the kitchen window, it's Scott Senti! I told you we'd be seeing him soon and you'll see him again in a little bit, so let's just keep moving along here! There's booths located to the right of the counter and main dining area and that's Nicole and Bryant sitting at one of the booths. They had just finished their lunch and told me they love the 50's Diner and had a wonderful meal here. Great to meet both of them!
On the other side of the diner is a gift shop that has vintage candy, including my favorite, Chuckles and there's also clothing, jewelry, cards, handbags and starting tomorrow, there's going to be a really fun item in stock...keep on scrolling to see what that item is, yes, we're full of mystery here today!
I love all the fun items and pictures on the walls in here, this is my favorite corner over here, with hubcaps, Route 66 signs, a guitar and rock 'n roll memorabilia.
There's more vintage framed photos over here including, Elvis, John Wayne, The Blues Brothers and Audrey Hepburn. That's a nice collection of nostalgia on the walls in here. Very fun to look at!
Meanwhile, back at our booth, our special guest star of the day has arrived and he's already gotten some coffee! It's our friend, Terry Towery! Terry's a writer and wrote and was an editor for the PJ Star for 25 years and is currently doing freelance work for the Associated Press and other news and political outlets and most importantly, he's putting the finishing touches on a novel he's been working on for the last few years, entitled, "The Final Victim." Terry's been working with his agent, Laney Katz Becker of Lippincott, Massie, McQuilkin Inc. out of New York City, and it's getting very close to being ready to be shopped around to major publishing houses. Stay tuned for further updates on Terry's novel...but now we have something even more important to concentrate on..sandwiches!
I scanned the menu, but I already knew what I'm ordering and that picture of Lucy is a little hint there! I love Lucy! And I also love Melissa who came by to take our order!
We started lunch off with milkshakes. The 50's Diner has great milkshakes and I got vanilla and in best Ebony and Ivory fashion, Terry got a chocolate shake! Cheers!
And here's Emily, looking oh so pretty as always, with our sandwiches! Emily not only served the sandwiches, but she took a photo of Terry and I at our booth. Then seconds later, Terry did kind of a frightening thing, he put a little pond of ketchup on his plate and when I asked what he was doing, he told me he eats his grilled cheese sandwiches with ketchup. Aaaahh! I've never heard of such a thing and I have to admit it took me back to another Terry moment, one that involved Ranch dressing on pizza. I made a mental note to remember the next time I have lunch with someone named Terry to ignore their condiment habits!
Okay, time to move on to the official sandwich of the week, The Loosey Sandwich...but before that, let's try an onion ring before we dive into the main course. That was delicious! Okay, onto the sandwich of the week!
This is the Loosey Sandwich, the signature sandwich of The 50's Diner! I told you in the introduction that this sandwich brings back Peoria memories and if you ever had a Maid Rite sandwich back in the day, you'll know what I mean! This is the same exact sandwich and it's so delicious! The loose hamburger is seasoned and is savory and tasty and I ordered mine with cheese and onions, which are below the mountain of spicy beef crumbles and the tasty sandwich is housed in a bakery-fresh steamed bun! This is a real slice of Peoria history and if you're too young to remember Maid Rite, well, trust me, go to the 50's Diner and try this sandwich that is made right!
Scott Senti, the co-owner of the 50's Diner came out to say hi and it was great to see him and all of the other Senti's at The 50's Diner! But there's one other Senti in here we haven't seen yet...
And that's Kelly Senti, standing to the right of her sister Emily in the gift shop and they're holding a copy of the 30th Anniversary Edition of Trivial Trivia—Idiot Edition! You can read all about that game by clicking here and it's going on sale here in the gift shop tomorrow! Stay tuned for more updates on the game and thanks to Scott, Tammy, Emily, Kelly and everyone at the 50's Diner for a wonderful 5th week in our year-long sandwich tour! And thanks to Terry Towery for joining us, always great to see Terry...until he starts throwing ketchup around, but what are you going to do? We'll see you all next week!
MBIP Sandwich Rating
Three and Three Quarters Dagwood Bumsteads—If you haven't tried the Loosey Sandwich at The 59's Diner, get over there and try one right now! And get it with a vanilla shake and onion rings! And if you're dining guest orders a grilled cheese sandwich, hide the ketchup!
Related Posts: A Year In The Life Of A Sandwich @ Donnelly's Pub, The Mix Sandwich Works, Nacho Mama's and Jim's Steakhouse.