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Applications for health courses in Maharashtra begin, 8,450 register on Day 1
Mumbai city news: According to a schedule released by the DMER, online registrations and filling of application forms will go on till July 10.mumbai Updated: Jun 29, 2017 01:09 IST
Registrations for all health science courses, including medical and dental in Maharashtra began on Wednesday. Officials from the Directorate of Medical Education and Research (DMER) confirmed that 8,450 students had registered by the end of day one.
According to a schedule released by the DMER, online registrations and filling of application forms will go on till July 10.
"All students who cleared the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET) with qualifying marks is eligible to start the online process. A provisional state merit list will be released on July 12," said Dr Pravin Shingare, director, DMER. He added that any further information that students might require would be available in the admission brochure released last week. Students can log on to www.dmer.org.in for information.
While the process has already begun, parents as well as students have shown their displeasure with the long process as the academic year will only begin after August 1. "Even though the registration is starting from June 28, the first seat allotment list will only be released after July 27. There's absolutely no need to drag this process for so long," said Sudha Shenoy, a parent.
A total of 1.39 lakh students from the state had registered for NEET 2017 and there is still no clarity on how many of these cleared the exam.
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Patti D.
3 years ago
Excellent Dental Practice
Dr. Gassett has outstanding credentials and experience. I have had several procedures completed over the past year. I am pleased to have received a crown to save a molar and the extraction of an aching cracked tooth and root. Dr. Gassett has given me a dental implant that makes my mouth healthy and smile bright and happy. The entire staff is helpful, professional and caring!
Jack C.
3 years ago
Wow, almost all 5 star reviews
My dentist for 5 years. Never an issue. Nice people, clean As pleasant as a dentist visit can be.
Patricia K.
3 years ago
Thorough yet quick
Arrived approximately 10 minutes early. Signed in and took a seat. Was called back in about 15 minutes. Appointment was for 6 month cleaning so no X-rays were needed. Technician checked gums, removed tarter, flossed and polished my teeth in about 15 to 20 minutes. After receiving a clean bill of teeth, I scheduled my next appointment and was out the door and back to work. Technician was friendly as always and didn't have much interaction with the rest of the staff.
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3 years ago
After installing a temporary crown, residual cement was not properly cleaned up around the tooth.
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Very pleasant experience would definitely recommend them to someone else
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High Marks
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Junior Year is a Killer!
It's only October and how many times have you heard this already? "Oh, get ready for junior year. That nearly undid my child." "I'm just hoping she survives!" "She just joined the Facebook group, I Hate Junior Year!" I hear this sort of lament often and think it is a shame to wish this year away. As adults, we all know that with the right sort of attitude and support, junior year can be a great experience. No longer the new kid at school and not yet suffering from "senioritis," junior year is a time to start making some very exciting plans. Yes, this year counts in a big way, but let's keep it positive!
I have said before that I find students interested in the visual and performing arts to be motivated and usually quite organized. Now, those organizational skills might need a little encouragement from the adults in their lives. With the right help, the one thing they won't be losing is the confidence that they can follow their dreams, even if they don't ace the SAT.
Juniors should start thinking about colleges, college visits and where they envision themselves living. Big city? Small campus? An hour away or across the world? Attend college fairs and gather information about programs that meet their needs. Attend presentations at their schools when admissions directors pay a visit. Early planning and setting reasonable goals will help the student to feel more in control of a journey that will end with them leaving home. That's a big idea for a 16 year old.
Most importantly, remember to encourage your child to take time for those things that bring them happiness. For the creative kids, it will most likely be something that will end up in their portfolio or audition anyway!


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A common problem I hear, "They won't eat!"
As a person ages, appetite often diminishes. Add in the sensory and cognitive decline from dementia and "poor appetite" becomes more and more common. But it doesn't have to be.
Today's post focuses on possible causes and solutions to help improve intake to sustain nutrition, prevent weight loss, and enjoy the social aspects of eating again.
"What's going on?"
Many factors can contribute to poor appetite:
- Visual deficits / cannot see the food clearly. One client I had wouldn't drink water, but if I set out a glass with water mixed with a little juice to turn it red, she would drink the entire glass.
- Not hungry - Hunger declines with age and some medications
- Always hungry - The person may have forgotten that they ate.
- Don't recognize the utensils
- Can't recall what to do with the utensils
- Poor-fitting dentures or other mouth sores/pain
- Too loud
- Decreased sensation, including taste or smell
- Swallowing problems, also known as Dysphagia - if this is a concern, a consult with a Speech Language Pathologist is highly recommended to identify cause and solutions.
- Social concerns - May prefer a more social setting. May be concerned that she doesn't have money to pay for the meal.
- Medical problems - The person doesn't feel well; consider possible stomachache, UTI, pain, general discomfort.
Strategies that can help
Some of these strategies will work. Some won't. Remember that rarely does a strategy work 100% of the time. Many need to be tried several times in order to see improvement. If they work 75% of the time or so, I'd keep it up. If a strategy happens to cause agitation, then back off and consider trying it again in a few days.
Effectiveness depends on a variety of factors including...
- the environment
- symptoms and progression of the disease
- life history
- routines
- Personal preferences
- medical situation
The strategies are provided as general tips only, not medical advice. I strongly recommend you consult with your SLP and doctor about your individual concerns.
- Be sure the person has their assistive devices, like glasses, hearing aids, dentures, plate guards, any other tools the person finds helpful.
- Red plates - color contrast helps the person see the food.
- Add sweetener to everything (yes, even meat and vegetables). This one causes hesitation among many care partners, but I've had clients go from 1 bite and leave the rest to eating their entire plate consistently, with just adding "seasoning" on the entire plate.
- Talk about how good the food looks and smells. Make it sound home-cooked.
- Consider smells - coffee brewing, bread baking in the breadmaker can stimulate appetite.
- Look through recipes, cooking magazines, watch the food network before a meal to prepare the person for eating.
- One of my favorite and most recommended strategy is ice cream, especially sherbet - the cold temperature and strong flavor is great sensory stimulation. Research has primarily been done using lemon ice, but sherbet is often easier to find and more familiar.
Make meals a social event
- Use the same routine for every meal. People with dementia can still learn through procedural memory. This means using routines and consistent sequences (first we do this, then we do that) are so much more important.
- Ask the person to help set the table. This helps them get into the mindset that it's time to eat.
Accuracy is irrelevant. Don't correct errors. Model correct set up, give 1 step directions or visual cues if the person is receptive.
- Invite the person to sit down for a cup of coffee.
- Consider peers. Some people do better alone without distractions. Others do better when their peers have a good appetite.
- Create an easy-to-read, logical "receipt" with the meal, to assure the person it's been paid for. Or, provide some other logical-to-them reason why there is no fee.
Cognition - Strategies to help make eating easier
- Bowls - if you place the bowl in one hand and a spoon in the other and get the person started, they can often continue the pattern and feed themselves the bowl if uninterrupted. This strategy also puts the food items in the person's visual field, which is reduced with dementia.
- 1 Spoon is easier that a full dining set.
- Provide just 1-2 food items at a time.
- Consider their usual routine. Familiarity provides reassurance in an uncertain world.
- Did they always take a lunchbox to work at the factory? Find a similar lunchbox and serve the meal from it.
- Do they have a favorite coffee mug? Favorite place to sit?
- Does the person drink but not eat? Smoothies are a great way to get real-food nutrients in an efficient way. You can add vegetables (e.g. spinach), proteins (e.g. chia or hemp seeds, peanut buttter, yogurt), fruit (anti-oxident rich berries) and more. Experiment with recipes to find ones the person enjoys.
- Use on-the go finger food for people who don't like to sit at a table.


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Marathons, Finish Lines, and March "Mommy Madness"/
We at Mom To Mom have recently crossed a Finish Line. On February 27, all the materials for the third year of Mom To Mom curriculum, Inside Out Parenting: A Mom's Mission "went to press." A day worth celebrating! A finish line it feels good to cross. But one that could not have been reached without teamwork on the part of a lot of people both at LifeWay and in Mom to Mom.
Actually my own personal finish line was November 16, 2007, the day we completed the last taping for Inside Out Parenting, as I recorded the 4-minute devotionals that go in the back of each Member Book. It felt like I had finished a marathon. In early November we had taped all 16 teaching sessions of IOP in five days in Wisconsin. In early October we had filmed, three very hot days in Nashville, all the Intros and Outros that go with these 16 sessions. In the months prior, I had been writing and rewriting what has become my new personal-favorite curriculum. And in the two previous years I had done Heart Talk (2005) and Growing Together (2006). Yep! Both November 16 (for me) and February 27 (for my LifeWay editor, producer, and team) felt like crossing finish lines for a marathon. Finish lines we could not have crossed without a lot of people cheering—and praying—us on.
I've never actually run a marathon, but my kids have. Last fall, Bjorn and Abby ran in the Marine Marathon in Washington, D.C.—and the next day Erika ran in the Dublin Marathon. All three crossed the finish line—and lived to tell about it! Unfortunately, Woody and I could not be both places, so we did not get to see Erika cross that line. But we did get to see Bjorn and Abby, and we had the fun of hanging out with Soren while his mommy and daddy ran the race.
I've got to tell you how amazed I was at both of them—but especially Abby, who was still a nursing mom with a baby only 10 months old. Incredible, if you ask me! And when she finished, she looked as if she could run another few miles. Bjorn, on the other hand, looked as if he might not live long. Exhausted, "spent," a little sick, he told us he wasn't sure if he would ever have made it if he had not had people running alongside urging him on. Not only did Abby run the whole race with him, his brother Lars, who had run the Marine Marathon the year before, came and ran the last five miles with Bjorn and Abby, just to encourage them across the finish line.
Here's what Bjorn told us when he finally could speak: "I don't think I would ever have finished the last 5 miles if it hadn't been for Abby and Lars encouraging me on. They kept reminding me—when I wanted to quit—that it would soon be over and I would be so glad I hadn't given up, that I would feel better in a short while, that I had worked too hard and trained too long to give up now."
These last words are why I'm writing about this today. Because being a mom is definitely a marathon. Especially in March. March seems to be "Mommy Madness" Month. Nothing official. Just my observation. And my mom-memory!
I was reminded of this yesterday when a young mom in one of our local groups told me how she was barely surviving March. "It seems as if winter will never end. That it will never stop snowing. That we will never be able to get these kids outside to burn off some of this energy. That my kids will never grow up. Never be toilet trained. Never stop fighting."
Sound familiar? Wherever you are in your mothering, I bet you can identify (even if it doesn't snow where you live—at least not in March)! And that, my dear mom-friends, is why we need each other. We need to run alongside. We need to encourage each other to hang in there. We need to share our survival stories. A winter that really did end—finally. A baby who actually slept through a whole night. A toddler who was truly toilet trained before Kindergarten. A teenager who actually became fun to have around—at least most of the time.
I hope you do that in Mom to Mom. Or if you're not in a Mom To Mom group, find some other moms who can run alongside you—and you with them—not only in March, but throughout the year. Better yet, start a Mom To Mom in your church or community if you don't have one.
And BTW, I'd love to hear from some of you. I'd love to get more feedback from this blog. I know you are super-busy, being a mom. But sometime, drop me a line. Tell me a story of someone who ran alongside you. Or some therapy which you have discovered for March Mommy Madness. Or of a topic you'd like to hear about here. And meanwhile, watch for the release of Inside Out Parenting from LifeWay on May 1. You'll already find it on the LifeWay website. I'm sooo excited about this curriculum. But more about that in a future blog. For now, hang in there, girls—March is almost over!


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All about that neon crop-top bikini people.
Bikini top (similar)/Bikini bottom/Chambray/Shorts
Christian and his family have a lake house. The perfect lake house actually. And graciously enough, I get to come along most summer weekends to enjoy all the goodness. I could go on and on you guys. It's the dreamiest, and when you imagine what a perfect summer lake day would be: this. is. it. Every time.
But anyways, today I'm supposed to be gushing over this bathing suit. I've never been asked more about a piece of clothing than over this bikini top. So here you go girls, all the deets (!!!). My first ever Victoria's Secret bikini and I'm obsessed. It's so comfy and so neon and I love it. I think it comes in black as well? I skipped the matching bottoms in fear of them being teeny-weeny, as I've heard theirs to so often be, so instead I do what I do best and went to Target. They rock it in the bathing suit department if you ask me. I usually end up with a few suits from there every summer. So I put them together and what do you know? Golden.
Also, when we're not out on the water I'm usually in a cover up most of the day. So I threw on my white shorts and a chambray, knowing it could be a real outfit if needed. But mostly it was just tied around my waist... because trying to get tan people. Priorities.


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Many cooks are trained in the French and Italian cuisines. More recently, Thai, Chinese, and Japanese cuisines' (as well as other Asian cuisines) influences can be seen accenting more "traditional" dishes. Occasionally, we need a reminder of the vastness and nuance in the regions of America. In this class, we'll explore the flavors and techniques of the Carolina "low-country", highlighting the variety, the vivid colors, and the flavor that makes this area one of the gems in American cuisine.
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Millennials, Nostalgia, and the Longing for Safety
Do Millennials long to feel safe?
Jessica Furseth of Quartz Media reports trends in fashion suggest that yes, Millennials do long for safety, and they are finding comfort in classic, established brands. Furseth writes, "History shows that people tend to retreat toward classic fashions in times of austerity, war, and political unrest." She quotes several sources that argue established brands are associated with optimism, hopefulness, and a longing to return to an idyllic past. Read the article here.
I'm skeptical that these particular fashion trends are indicative of a surprising, formerly unknown undercurrent that is unique to Millennials. After all, we all long for safety, and if you have disposable income, why not spend it on shoes and clothing from reputable, stylish brands with an excellent reputation for customer service? Consider the alternative thesis: "Millennials are content to spend their hard earned dollars on cheap, tacky, and disposable products to communicate their feelings of utmost security." That just won't hold up.
The broader and more significant trend that is worthy of notice regards the appeal of nostalgia. This can be seen clearly in the response to Netflix's hit show, Stranger Things, set in the 1980s. Stranger Things speaks directly to a widespread desire for a simpler, more innocent time. The action takes place in the small community of Hawkins, Indiana. The heroes are kids, parents are noticeably absent (no need for helicopter parenting!), and the cultural references are familiar and charming. Ghostbusters. Dungeons & Dragons. And don't forget the soundtrack.
Stranger Things also gives us two clearly defined points of opposition: The Upside Down on the one hand, and a secretive government organization on the other. Good and evil are clearly divided, and we're glad to take sides.
The form of escapism found in Stranger Things can be suggestive. Our longings for a simpler time are indicative of something deeply human. We know the world is not as it should be. We want our present moment to be different.
But when we're thoughtful and reflective, we remember that brokenness and struggle has been an ongoing fact of history. After the Garden of Eden, there has been no "Golden Age." Some moments have been better than others. But, nostalgia aside, the world of Stranger Things is set when global nuclear war is a real possibility, the Challenger explosion occurs, and the Iran-Contra affair takes place. Hawkins is at the forefront of our mind as we binge the show, but the wider world marches on.
When we are able to discern the longings of a given culture, Christian people stand on the precipice of opportunity. The Millennial longing for safety, in some measure reflected in fashion but in a more profound way expressed in an attraction to nostalgia, reveals a longing for another world. The Christian gospel offers that possibility, a new creation which has begun in Jesus Christ. With God, we find a deep and unshakeable kind of security as citizens of the kingdom, but also a sober outlook concerning the world as it really is in our present moment. We know that in this world we may have trouble, but we can take heart, because Jesus has overcome the world (John 16:33).
Yes, Millennials long for safety. We all do. But fashion trends will change, and nostalgia can lead to historical distortion. Millennials need firmer ground to stand upon. Name the longing. Note where the culture speaks to those longings. But show how the gospel truly fulfills those longings, providing millennials a rock upon which to stand.


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To change the picture background in pic edition just save your picture into the pictures folder and then in my menu script go to line 192 and replace "Blizz paper.png" with "Your picture"
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When I get sad, I stop being sad and be awesome instead. True story.


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Kurien fumbled repeatedly while translating the speech. He ended up conveying what the Congress President hasn't meant. Take A Look At Few Samples...
Rahul) Congress fights against RSS and BJP
Kurien) Congress fights against BJP and CPM
Rahul) I respect the ideologies of Parties including CPM
Kurien) I respect ideas of CPM and BJP
Rahul) Will deposit Rs 72,000 in the accounts of Poor
Kurien) Will deposit Rs 72,000 crore in the accounts of Poor
Upset over being in such a embarrassing situation, Rahul Gandhi cut short his speech saying he would begin learning Malayalam.
Video Footage of the funny 'English to Malayalam' Translation by Kurien led to numerous hilarious memes on the social media. In fact, The speech took the internet by storm and became a nationwide news in no time.
Rahul Gandhi need to blame himself for choosing a wrong person to translate his speech. He should have preferred a good orator rather than a senior most leader for this job. This is something which shouldn't have happened just when Lok Sabha Polls were happening. It's like Kurien taking the responsibility of defeating Rahul Gandhi in 2019 Elections.


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text: Susanna Vapnek Having grown up in Thousand Oaks, California, I always looked forward to the wildfire season. Living in close proximity to the fires changed the colors of the sky from sunrise to moonrise. While ash fell from the sky like snow, the sun rose in the morning as a bright pink ball. At night I could see flames in the distant hils, while the moon appeared under an orange haze of ash and fog. Now as a painter, I seek to convey the wildfire's horror and surreal beauty.


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Mytacism Music: Hi Adam!
Sounds Good: Hey Emily what's up?
What made you want to become a music blogger?
I think I was around 18 and having a bit of an existential crisis. My hair was too long for its own good, puberty was hurting like a mothafuckah and I was stuck in a phase of being bored with everything I was listening to at the time. I was also bored of the radio and media trying to make my music taste for me so turned to the internet in a defiant act of sticking it to "the man".
A mate of mine started contributing music reviews to a little local music blog that I cannot remember the name of, and I got jealous. He was able to check out music from a band I never heard of before, and part of me really wanted to do that too, so I started writing my own reviews and after a week or two of cringing heavily I pressed that publish button and well…here we are now.
You've had a few different blogs over the past few years; give us a brief history of your blogging past?
I've had three different blogs in about five years of blogging. I started out with Elusive Little Comments for about a year and a half, which actually got somewhat popular until personal events happened in life that made me fall out of love with anything for a while. I tried to come back to consistently blogging again but kept failing each week because of anxiety issues, so decided to scrap it altogether.
A month or so passed and I felt the buzz come back to write about music, but I didn't want to come back to the audience of ELC so decided to ease my way back into things by starting Exploding Head Syndrome. That was going good again until I started getting too restless on the look and theme of the site, so scrapped that too. I'm really good at sticking to things. Sounds Good is the latest blog of mine, and I love it dearly.
What's made you finally settle on Sounds Good and what makes it different to your past blogs?
I wanted to create a blog that was the perfect setting for my style of writing. I know I'm not gonna be grabbing everybody's attention writing about a certain artist so like to have a bit of fun with words so that the people who do read it are entertained. I also like to add little touches of personality to the reviews by diving into stories or memories I've kept locked in the cringe chamber for years to make the whole writing process entertaining for me also.
With Elusive Little Comments and Exploding Head Syndrome I felt like I had stop and started back up again too many times to really keep momentum going for them, and with these breaks happening somewhat frequently at a point where they were semi-reputable and semi-popular made me feel too much in the spotlight to deliver. I don't think I would still be writing reviews today if I stuck with them, whereas I feel much more comfortable in this little nook called Sounds Good.
Is there a main aim behind Sounds Good?
Not really outside of posting what I think sounds good, and promoting artists who are just starting out or are quite small in terms of following and reputation. To me there's no real point focusing on posting about the current hot trend or always reviewing music from the biggest artists because everybody's going to do that, so throwing some light onto the guy who's been recording lo-fi sessions in his bedroom or the band from a little town in the UK who have just released their debut single is much more satisfying to me.
Have you got any advice for artists making music?
Play the music that you want to hear, and don't try to think about what "they" think. Whether it be the media, strangers or even friends, create music that makes you want to dance your little butt off, as people are gonna flock to it regardless of what it is. You like bagpipes layered on top of harsh DnB? Play that shit man, who cares. It's gonna knock somebody's socks off someday.
What sort of content can readers be expecting from you in both the near and distant future?
Definitely more of the same, I feel the blog currently has a nice balance of reviews and other bits of content such as the interviews, gig reviews and the Liner Notes series too. In the future I would like to start branching out so that Sounds Good expands into an even bigger source of new music for people to sink their teeth into.
I've also been umming and ahhing a lot over the past few months about starting up a podcast, but have too much anxiety and not enough time to sit down properly to record it. I reckon it'd be a nice way to break up the content a little bit by producing something that involves me talking rather than typing, and doing a 20-40 minute podcast featuring tunes from new artists while also getting people involved and answering questions etc would be really cool. Perhaps in the New Year I'll look into it further.
What's your favourite thing about being the man behind Sounds Good?
Other than being able to say that music sounds "good enough to pound my dick into the ground" I really like the community behind it all. I've met some wonderful people (hi Emily!) since I've started and continue to discover numerous music blogs who do the same thing as me but a whole lot better and more professionally too.
Getting connected to record labels, PR companies and bands is also a cool thing. I especially love receiving emails from bands that have genuinely typed up the submission for your eyes only, and appreciate any sort of review we could churn out for them. Seeing a particular band retweet or post about a review you've written about them is the sweetest feeling in the world, and is the main reason why I'm still writing to this day.
Are there any downsides to blogging?
Easy: Emails. Freakin' emails dude! 99% of the time the emails I receive are either a blatant copy and paste job, or don't feature my name or the blog anywhere, or simply contain links to the song and that's it. I hate it. If you haven't got the effort to send me a genuine email with helpful links to songs and bios and whatnot then I'm not gonna spend effort writing a review. The worst email I received simply said "Hi Myles!" and a link to a song. That was it. It was like getting dickslapped on both sides of the face.
And, to finish off, have you got a current favourite artist that you could recommend to us?
There's a bunch that I could reel off right now but this would bloat these answers out even more, but special shoutouts to Hypocrite in a Hippy Crypt, everybody on Clue Records, Everywhere, Girl Friend, Lampshades and everybody else I can't think of right now. One particularly current favourite artist is Howlie however. This dude is a Canadian singer-songwriter who records sweet, personal acoustic tunes in his bedroom on a tape track and I think I'm in love with him. His submission email was so personal and lovely, and he revealed that it was the first he had sent to any music blog EVER because he suffers from anxiety about it. It was impossible not to want to help him out after that, and I don't know why he feels sort of scared to promote himself – his music's awesome.
Also, thank you so hard for interviewing me. It's been really fun being able to talk about myself in the most modest way possible, and kind of cool to dig into my mind for answers to questions I've never really had to answer before. Mytacism Music is dead good, and I'm an avid reader as I look through it for new music to check out. Nice one!


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TEL AVIV – Hamas arrested six jihadi fighters this week shortly after their return to their native Gaza after fighting for the Islamic State in Egypt. They planned to establish an IS cell in Gaza, a top Hamas official told Breitbart Jerusalem.
The six, who returned to Gaza separately, were arrested following an intelligence operation conducted by Hamas, which has since interrogated them in a bid to accumulate data about Waliyat Sinai, IS's affiliate in Egypt, including about its forces and arsenal, the official said.
A great deal of the interrogators' attention was paid to the whereabouts of dozens of Gazans who have enlisted with Waliyat Sinai, as well as the militia's logistical, recruitment, and communications infrastructure – namely, the methods by which fighters are smuggled out of the Strip under Hamas' nose.
In recent months, in the wake of relentless Egyptian pressure, Hamas has tried to tap into the jihadists' cross-border communication networks. Hamas was alarmed to realize that some of the recruits were former loyalists, including several high-ranking operatives.
The six detainees allegedly said that they had been asked to set up an IS cell in Gaza. The official said that one of the options under review was to unite the different jihadi organizations in the Strip under IS's flag, after some of them, including the Army of Islam, submitted official requests to IS headquarters in Raqqa to become their representatives in Gaza.
"The operatives weren't asked to set up a military infrastructure, but rather to review the feasibility of merging the multiple existing infrastructures into one," he said.
The Sinai has become one of the region's top IS zones. Breitbart Jerusalem reported that in the month of April alone, 12 jihadists departed Gaza to join the Islamic State in the Sinai.
The recruitment of Gazan jihadists by IS in Sinai comes after a top jihadist official threatened in a recent exclusive interview on "Aaron Klein Investigative Radio" that it is only a matter of time before the Islamic State's branch in the Sinai carries out a "big operation" in the Israeli resort town of Eilat and other parts of southern Israel.
IS has also set its sights on countering Hamas in Gaza. Last year, Hamas engaged in deadly clashes with IS supporters who challenged Hamas rule.
Last July, the Information Bureau of the Aleppo Province, affiliated with IS, released a video entitled "A message to our folks in Jerusalem," in which ISIS members originally from Gaza declared war on Israel and Hamas.
In the video, IS member and Gaza native Abu Azzam Al-Ghazzawim delivered a strongly-worded warning to what he called the "tyrants of Hamas":
"You are nothing in our reckoning. You, Fatah, and all the secularists, we count you as nothing. Allah willing, we shall uproot the state of the Jews. You are nothing but froth that will be gone as we move in. Allah willing, Gaza will be governed by Shariah despite you."
Abu Qatadah Al-Filistini, an IS member who leads a faction in Aleppo, Syria, made an appearance in the video and called on all "monotheists in Gaza to join the convoy of the Muhajidin and to join the State of the Caliphate."
Abu Qatadah accused Hamas of "sliding gradually into apostasy, a slide that started with the demolition of the Ibn Taymiyah Mosque."
"It is a movement that does not seek to govern according to Shariah but seeks to appease Iran and America, the heads of apostasy."


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Tom Brady birthday: New England Patriots bake whopping cake weighing 900lbs and using 2,000 eggs for quarterback's 41st
Legendary quarterback had a cake to match his status as he celebrated his birthday on Friday
TOM BRADY may be the greatest American football player ever, and he was given a birthday cake to match.
The New England Patriots quarterback turned 41 on Friday and is considered probably the best ever grace the NFL.
And the Patriots made him a cake worthy of his legendary status, one that weighed a whopping 900lbs.
The 12 foot long sponge laid out in the shadows of Gillette Stadium in Foxboro, Massachusetts too three days to assemble.
It took 2,000 eggs, 200lbs of flour and 250lbs of sugar to make the giant cake, according to NFL Network.
CAN'T STAND IT Donald Trump wants to ban NFL players if they kneel for US national anthem
How much Brady eats is another matter with his 19th NFL season just over a month away as he bids to reach his ninth Super Bowl.
The Patriots quarterback, married to Brazilian model Gisele Bundchen, is known for his incredible diet that has prolonged his career into his 40s.
A five-time Super Bowl champion, he remains at the peak of his powers after keeping himself in shape with a strict lifestyle and diet that includes avocado ice cream and adding electrolytes to his 25 glasses of water a day.
New England begin their 2018 season at home against Houston on September 9.
The 2018 campaign kicks off on September 6 when reigning champions Philadelphia host Atlanta at Lincoln Financial Field.


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Aims to learn about cause and effect
* To learn about cause and effect
* to understand that we can learn about God (cause) by looking at what he made (effect)
* photos of people with different expressions
* pictures reflecting something about God's nature
* worksheets
Lesson Outline
1. Things we cannot see
2. Activities – draw faces, Simon Says, worksheets
3. Review the lesson aims
4. Conclusion
5. Prayer
1) Things we cannot see
We cannot see God, so how can we know that there is a God and how do we know what God is like? The are many things we cannot see, but we know exist. Let's think about some of them.
AIR – We cannot see air, so how do we know that it exists? Can we describe it? We know air exists, because we feel it when the wind blows. We can make the air move when we wave our hands in the air or blow on a piece of paper. We feel it from a hair dryer. We see a balloon grow when we blow into it. Smoke rises above a fire. We know there is air when it moves something, such as paper, our hair, a balloon or smoke. We can say that the air is the cause of these things moving. What moves is the effect. Cause and effect. When you see the effect you know there is a cause.
A LIST OF EFFECTS – Can you say what is the cause of each?
1. limping – sprained ankle, falling over?
2. sickness – a virus?
3. thirsty – needs to drink water?
4. hungry – hasn't eaten for a long time?
5. Breathing heavily – running?
GRAVITY – When you jump you always fall back down. Why is this? It's because of something we cannot see called gravity. It is like a big magnet. In space there is no gravity, so you can float.
Gravity is the cause. Falling is the effect.
FEELINGS – What about our feelings? How do we know how someone is feeling, whether they are happy or sad? By the expression on their face. The feelings are the cause, the facial expression the effect. Sometimes you know exactly how a person is feeling by the expression on their face.
Look at pictures of people with different expressions.
Can the children identify the feelings from the expressions?
Practice making different expressions – happy, sad, surprised, angry, sleepy, afraid, bored, hungry,
thirsty, tired, suspicious. Children draw faces with different expressions. Can others identify the feelings from the faces?
Play Simon Says or Freeze to practice different feelings
THE MIND – We cannot see someone's thoughts, but we can know what someone is thinking by what they do. For example, we can learn something about an artist's mind, by looking at his
painting. A painting of a mountain tells us that the artist likes mountains. A painting of big waves tells us the artist likes the ocean. The mind is the cause, the painting is the effect. The same is true for a singer and the kind of songs he sings.
GOD – God is the cause. To know something about God we need to look at the effect. What is the effect? The creation is the effect. That means everything God made. God is like an artist. When we
look at what God made we can learn something about God himself. For example, when you go for a walk in a forest, see the setting sun or experience a thunder storm, they all express something about God, because God is the creator. If we look a beautiful flower that God created it tells us something about God. The fact that we have different feelings tells us that God has feelings too
Some people don't believe in God, but when we understand about cause and effect, there must be a creator, because everything has a cause. The world didn't just suddenly come into existence. The creation is like a beautiful painting that God worked so hard to create. God is an expert artist who put His whole heart and energy and made a most beautiful world. Even a small flower shows what an incredible artist God is. How long would it take you to make a flower as beautiful as the one on the picture?
By studying the creation we can understand a lot about God. Next time we can go into detail by looking more closely at the creation.
2) Activities
* Have large laminated pictures of faces to draw expressions. Draw a face for others to guess.
* Play Simon Says or Freeze to practise different emotions
* Complete the worksheets
We can learn about the cause by studying the effect.
We can learn about an artist by studying his painting.
We can learn about God by studying the creation.
Examples of different feelings: happy, surprised, angry, sleepy, sad, afraid, bored, hungry, thirsty,
3) Review the lesson aims
* To learn about cause and effect
* to understand that we can learn about God (cause) by looking at what he made (effect)
4) End with a prayer


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Much like Lexus, Infiniti stormed onto the market in the early 90s with two models in play, and much like Lexus, one of the models was highly regarded and remembered by most of the car community, while the other model, a smaller, more niche model, was largely forgotten. The model in case for Infiniti was the M30.
Basically a rebadged Nissan Leopard, it was Infiniti's "luxury coupe," sort of similar to the original Lexus SC. It was powered by the VG30E V6 with power going to the rear wheels, and they even made a convertible version.
So I wanna know what the general consensus around here about this odd, forgotten Infiniti. Cool, or nah?


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When you are asked the question "what is one song that has changed your life?", it is difficult to choose just one. I can easily name fifty tunes that have lifted my spirits or narrated important moments in my life. Whether it was the time that Ms. Gomez, my 9th grade Spanish teacher, sat down and translated "Te extrano" by Xtreme or the summer I discovered pride in my heritage through the rhythms of the Los Rakas tune "Africana", it is music that takes me back to moments, mindsets, people and places.
"Suavemente" by Elvis Crespo was no different; it welcomed me into the world of Latin music with a warm abrazo. Watching the music video of a young passionate singer shake it Ricky Martin style, reminds me of the 90's when most music videos looked like an episode of Reading Rainbow. I found "Suavemente" after the 90's had passed. I was a middle school student in a college prep program.
One of my teachers had organized a Latin dance performance for the end of the summer awards ceremony so I asked her if I could dance with him.
For sake of this post, I'll call him Miguel.
Miguel stood at an astounding 5'9, talked with a deep post-puberty voice and made all A's in his classes. He also believed in God and read the bible to me over the phone once. Most importantly, Miguel was always cheering me on by telling me how awesome he thought I was. This young man was special because he had something that many of my crushes and boyfriends have not had–the ability to stay on my mind for years.
But back to the story.
My teacher agreed to make Miguel my dance partner for the program but fear got the best of me. I backed out. What can I say? I was a teenage girl and the thought of dancing with the guy of my dreams made me nervous.
I regret not dancing with him.
While we didn't dance the night away, Miguel and I did work together on the program. We did the welcome. I did the Spanish version and he did the English version. At the time, my Spanish was at beginners level so Miguel translated my English welcome into his native tongue. Our practice meeting was about thirty minutes but it felt like five. Miguel complimented my pronunciation while "Suavemente" played in the background.
It was then, he took my hand and we danced.
Okay. Okay. I was kidding.
Miguel and I didn't dance at our meeting but we might as well have. After we were done, I was beaming the entire day.
On the day of the program, Miguel and I captivated the audience with our welcome. It was an important moment in my life when I, without fear, pursued my passion. Later in the program, Miguel shook his tail-feather to Elvis Crespo's "Suavemente". Yes, he danced with another girl but I didn't care. We shared a moment together. I sang the words to the song like I understood every word. It was that night that I realized that Spanish would be more than a hobby.
When asked which song has made a profound impact on your life, it's a difficult choice to make . Elvis Crespo's hit is one track on the mix CD of my memories. "Suavemente"takes me back to my middle school crush, my public Spanish debut and the moment that I knew Spanish would remain a staple in my life forever.
Jelisa Jay Robinson is a 20-something writer and playwright. Jelisa explores Afro-Latinidad, female empowerment and the arts on her blog Black Girl, Latin World. She is currently a writer for Her Campus and the Black Youth Project.


text: Well, that's it then. No courts, no masses of voters being turned away at the polls, no hanging chads--the simple truth is that this country is populated by more people that believe Bush and the Republicans are the way to go. It sinks in now, that not only do I live in a place where the culture and art I like are largely disregarded by the majority of people, but even my views on issues are not shared by a majority. Is it a media war, a sham or a voting system, a restrictive and unecessarily polemic political system? Sure, it's all those things, but what really matters is that more than half of the country thinks we are going in the right direction. So the question isn't who do we blame, but how do we convince those other 60 million or so people that they are wrong about some things? How do we talk without it becoming a political diatribe about gay issues, about taxes, about retirement plans, about medicare? We don't need any more parties and politics, we need solutions. Who takes credit and who is sitting on the throne when these problems are solved is really inconsequential, as long as the problems are solved. That's enough about all this. I need to move on to my happy place. If you have a GameCube controller and want to join in on my X-Men Legends campaign, let me know.


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Toyota Prius self parking
Using the latest Hybrid Synergy Drive, the clean and green Toyota Prius is perhaps a little too clever. Now it is great to use the self parking system, everywhere. This "system" should be use on all models, because we all know how hard is for some people to park in the right place and in the right position.
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A clean-up operation is under way after heavy rain and strong winds caused flooding across the UK.
Scotland was worst hit by the weather with communities in Huntly in Aberdeenshire and the coastal town of Stonehaven counting the cost of the damage.
People were also rescued from cars and homes in parts of Wales by firefighters and the deluges cancelled some train services.
Sodden carpets and rugs were piled up in gardens along with other belongings of those hit by the water.
The Scottish Environment Protection Agency (Sepa) said the River Deveron, which passes near Huntly, rose 8ft in 27 hours to 9.9 ft (3.017 metres) at the Avochie gauging station at 3.30am on Monday – the highest level since records began in 1959. The previous record was 9.17ft in 2002.
A total of 40 residents at the Meadows Care Home in Huntly were also evacuated when flood water poured into a dining room and two bedrooms at 1.30am.
Raymond Strachan, 55, who has lived in Huntly for more than 12 years, said flooding destroyed his caravan and Mitsubishi Warrior 4×4 car.
Speaking outside his home in Sycamore Place, he said: "Everything is destroyed on the ground floor. There was between 4.5ft and 5ft of water inside the house. I've never seen flooding like this before. It was a torrent."
He estimated the cost of the damage to his property would be between £10,000 and £15,000.
Scotland's First Minister Alex Salmond, visiting the flood-hit area of Huntly, said: "Many families and elderly people have been affected by what has been the second round of flooding in as many weeks. In my capacity as MSP for Gordon, I stand ready to do everything I can to assist."


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Voice search, content marketing and the future of Inbound Marketing
One of the hottest topics at Inbound 2017 was the discussion over what had changed over the past 18 months and what 2018 was going to look like in terms of effective content marketing strategy. One thing everyone agreed on was that mobile search had caught up with traditional search and the amazing impact of Voice Search and how it is changing the way that consumers access information as well as the way that they engage with brands.
HubSpot delivered a fantastic talk during Inbound where they introduced a new and exciting Content Strategy tool as well as a summary of the current state of the union and predictions for the future. Prior to that our perception of Voice Search was strictly attached to how Search Engine Marketing & Optimization was being affected.
Very quietly and without much warning a disruption is occurring in search habits and a shift is needed to capitalize on the change, it really hit home for us as we're in the business of delivering high quality content for all of our clients. Voice Search is so much more than speaking into our smartphones and asking siri for what we want or using Google Home or the Amazon Echo. The same way we marvel about a doorbell that can record using motion and allow us to remotely communicate with visitors wanted or unwanted and somehow we just know that things will never be the same, something has happened we're just not fully aware of the consequences.
Everything is evolving towards a common sense user friendly outcome based approach for accessing the information we actually want and more and more of what we don't want is getting filtered out.
With over 300 significant changes to Google's search engine algorithm, each one with the goal of making it more responsive and intuitive to the users request, being able to aggregate the evidence and weigh the factors being considered, they are literally picking the fly shit out of the pepper for consumers.
This is a game changer and will weed out many of the poor choices, it will likely continue to weed out many of the good choices as well. There's a new day coming and the rewards will be given out only to those brands that are consumer-centric and take the time to create useful content that not only gets consumed and shared but it will need to build equity by collecting credible evidence that is consumer validated and tracked.
The Search Engines are becoming more human and now more than ever their future relies on the quality of the information that they're delivering. Authenticity is necessary and it will lead to stricter guidelines for search engine marketing through paid search as well.. Google is getting to a point where it can understand topics and "Google, what do I need to do to improve my credit score?"
So what can you do about this?
What will content marketing be like in 2018?
HubSpot launched a new and impressive tool called Content Strategy. It allows you to create 'topic clusters'. These clusters are a series of topically related content intended to build authority and influence around a specific topic, improving your ranking on search engines and helping prospects to find your content. Within your topic cluster, you have one piece of pillar content and 5-10 cluster topics. If your topic was Plastic Surgery for example, your pillar page might be Plastic Surgery Procedures– and around that pillar page, you would have cluster topics relating to the procedures that Plastic Surgeons provide, such as Facelifts, Rhinoplasty, Breast Augmentation, Botox etc.
The most controversial element of this new strategy is that a pillar page is effectively an eBook but spread out as a webpage. You have a central topic that links to – and discusses – a number of specific sub topics – Pillar pages should educate your audience on a particular topic, to maximize the impact they should be a few thousand words, have multiple calls-to-action and include a combination of different types of media. These pages then cross-link to your subtopics.
The reason this was a controversial idea is that it effectively means "un-gating" your eBooks (or what could have been web assets lik articles or eBooks, but are now topic clusters). The very thing we advise our clients not to do on a regular basis. The unintended but anticipated negative consequence was finding a new way to capture lead data when all of our e-book content is showing up as webpages. We solved this by only applying this method to the awareness stage assets and placing CTAs to consideration stage or MOFU (middle-of-the-funnel) content items throughout the pillar pages. HubSpot described it as 'widening the top of the funnel'. The other recommendation is to ensure that the content is still available to download as a PDF, so that people have the opportunity to save the content and read it later.
So, here are our suggested steps for getting started with topic clusters and using HubSpot's Content Strategy tool:
Start with your buyer personas (See link below for the tool to create them)
Your buyer personas are the foundation of your Inbound campaign(s), so you should always be referencing them. Whether you're creating content, building CTAs, or planning workflows, your personas should be at the center of your efforts. HubSpot has a great tool to help you develop your personas if you don't have them already:
Identify your ideal clients top challenges
Once you identify the biggest thorns in your personas paw, you can create a valuable message through your content that speaks to it and provides relief. They should be the typical challenges your buyer personas face every day and want to find a solution to.
Group the pain points into topics
From the pain points you've identified via your buyer persona research, find the common topics that unite them. For example, your personas might have the following problems:
o My website isn't qualifying and sifting good traffic from poor traffic
o We can't tell which web assets are converting
o Is the paid search profitable and sustainable
These problems could be grouped into the topic of Lead Generation, Scoring or Nurturing.
Next, create a content roadmap
Take the topics you've identified and, using keyword research, identify subtopic content that relates to the topics you've identified. Your subtopics should be closely related but not exactly match the main topic. So, if your pillar content is around Lead Generation, you could create blog posts like '3 tools to use to generate more leads from your website' or 'The best converting landing pages on any website.
Create your topic clusters
You now have everything you need to begin planning and building out your topic clusters. Add these into your content plan, build them out in HubSpot and monitor the results.
You can find some excellent pillar page templates available here if you're in need of some ideas: http://designers.hubspot.com/inspire.
Happy Hunting,
Thomas McVey (and the rest of the rethink marketing team!)
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This itinerary is the perfect way to see Alaska's famed wilderness from Fairbanks. See glaciers, wilderness and Denali National Park on this ideal Alaska tour.
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Package includes 5 nights hotel accommodations, Tundra Wilderness Tour in Denali, Music of Denali Dinner Theater at McKinley Chalet Resort; rail travel from Fairbanks to Denali aboard Alaska Railroad's Adventure Class and from Denali to Anchorage aboard our own luxury, glass-domed rail service; Portage Glacier Cruise and Alaska Wildlife Conservation Center. Airport, hotel, rail transfers and baggage handling included. Be sure to check for specials and offers.
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Upgrade your rail experience from Fairbanks to Denali for $100 per person. The standard tour features Alaska Railroad's Adventure Class for this rail component of the tour. When you choose the upgrade, you will travel aboard Alaska Railroad's Goldstar service instead. Adventure Class railcars do not feature a dome and meals are available for purchase. Goldstar service is aboard Alaska Railroad's domed railcars and breakfast aboard the train is included.
With the standard option, rail travel from Denali to Talkeetna and Talkeetna to Anchorage is aboard our own luxury, glass-domed rail service (meals not included, but available for purchase) and the upgrade applies only to the portion of the trip from Fairbanks to Denali.
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Transfer from the airport to your hotel. Early arrival? Enjoy a day at leisure or choose an optional tour to the Alaska Salmon Bake and Golden Palace Theatre or Chena Hot Springs. Overnight Fairbanks.
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Departs From:Fairbanks, 8:15 AM (Train Departs Fairbanks Depot)
Arrives At:Denali, 12:15 PM (Train Arrives Denali Depot)
Begin your rail adventure aboard the historic Alaska Railroad as the train departs the Fairbanks rail depot south towards Denali National Park, enjoying interior Alaska's breathtaking scenery as you go. Upon arrival to Denali, transfer to your Denali-area hotel, located just minutes from the Park entrance. This evening, enjoy an unforgettable dinner experience at Music of Denali Dinner Theater at McKinley Chalet Resort. Overnight Denali-area hotel.
Day 3: Denali
Venture into Denali National Park on the popular Tundra Wilderness Tour, your best chance to view wildlife in Alaska. If the skies are clear, you'll enjoy awesome views of Denali, North America's tallest peak. Later, choose from optional activities and end your day on a high note with a visit to a sled dog kennel, flightseeing adventure or ATV ride. Overnight Denali-area hotel.
Day 4: Denali - Anchorage
Departs From:Denali, 9:15 AM (Train Departs Denali Depot)
Arrives At:Anchorage
Enjoy a morning at leisure, or see another side of Denali on an optional flightseeing tour including a glacier landing. Later, re-board the train and sightsee to Anchorage crossing Hurricane Gulch and passing small towns, flag stops, farmlands, and homesteads. Overnight Anchorage.
Day 5: Anchorage
Departs From:Anchorage, 1:30pm
Arrives At:Anchorage, 5:00pm
Sightsee by motorcoach to Portage Lake where you'll board themv Ptarmiganfor a memorable cruise that takes you within 300 yards of the actively calving Portage Glacier. Then, stop by the Alaska Wildlife Conservation Center on your return to Anchorage. The AWCC takes in injured and orphaned animals year-round, providing spacious enclosures and quality animal care. Here you can see many of Alaska's natural inhabitants that are unable to be re-released into the wild. Relive the day's highlights back at your Anchorage hotel. Overnight Anchorage.
Day 6: Anchorage
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Retro making Mario Kart 3DS, Luigi's Mansion 2 not in-house
Two of the big reveals for Nintendo's 3DS at yesterday's press conference were Mario Kart 3DS and, more surprisingly, Luigi's Mansion 2. The Big N has lined up some top talent to develop both games, but Luigi's return won't be coming from an in-house team.
During an E3 roundtable the company revealed that: "We found someone to help with it and they are called Next Level Games. We have worked with them in the past on Mario Strikers and Punch-Out!! They got very excited when we asked them to do it."
Wii fans were certainly impressed with the Punch-Out!! update, so maybe Next Level can turn Luigi's own franchise from Gamecube bomb to 3DS hit.
Perhaps the bigger news is that Metroid Prime and Donkey Kong Country Returns developer Retro Studios is at work on the next Mario Kart for the handheld. Yesterday's trailer showed kart-gliders and underwater levels, but we're hoping that a studio with this kind of talent will deliver some eye-opening twists to the long-running series.
Are these new games enough to pick up on the handheld's sales?


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This little-known feature from a very common review site can save the typical homeowner hundreds or thousands of dollars every year. And it's free.
Most LED bulbs seem like a great idea until you try them in a dimming switch. Try mood lighting and you're bathed in unflattering cold moonlight. Not with these.
Certain things for the house are grossly overpriced relative to their value. Window treatments come to mind. Another one is systems that keep your gutters free of leaves and other debris. Many go for $3 to $5 per linear foot, and that's just for the materials. You still need them installed.
How many times have you filled up the Brita pitcher? How many filters have you replaced and tossed? Ditch the pitcher. Unnecessary clutter on your kitchen counter and takes up space in the fridge you could be using for more important things like beer.
This service lets you see all your accounts in one view and get suggestions for how to optimize your financial picture, all for free.
Millennials get dinged for their $12 avocado toast, but less-than-brilliant money management isn't unique to that generation.
As we explain in another post, insurance is never a good investment and at best it's a cost of living to be minimized whenever possible. Conventional car insurance, an inefficient market for consumers, charges the same premium regardless of one of the largest risk influencers: how much you drive.
The insurance business is either the best or the worst depending on what side of the transaction you're on.
As the insurance company you get to carefully select your customers on your terms according to risk, and then collect gobs of premiums you can invest not only to pay out claims later, but also to turn a profit. It's a big reason why Warren Buffet's portfolio is rife with insurance businesses and he's outlined the merits in prior annual letters to shareholders.
J. Crew introduced its J. Crew Factory brand that features basically the same New England preppy stuff you can get from their main site, only a lot cheaper. What's their strategy? No clue but we'll take advantage and order from J. Crew Factory as long as they let us.
Costco's a great place to load up on dishwasher pellets and 50 lb of jasmine rice. But clothing? Chances are, you've been intrigued by the dozens of tables with stacks of clothes in the center of the store but never stopped to look.
For those in New York, Chicago, Boston, Minneapolis, Denver, Milwaukee, Buffalo and many others, winter is no joke. Not only are subzero wind chills uncomfortable, but also they can also kill you. Venturing outside can feel like walking on the moon, requiring a spacesuit to survive.
To earn a place in your repertoire, a pair of shoes needs to go the extra mile, not just durable but also versatile. Shoes are one of the most expensive items in a man's wardrobe so we've selected a minimal set of shoes that together work for any occasion in any weather. And we do mean any.
For any tie to gain admission to your professional work wardrobe, you need to be able to wear it with any of your solid color shirts, at a minimum. If you're following our advice that means ties that don't look absurd with white, blue or pink. Generally those that are navy or burgundy or gray fit the bill. These colors can be worn with any of the solid shirts, forming either a very put-together look or a creative contrasting look, depending on the permutation.
Don't let baby wreck your smart savvy life - being strategic about buying a few things can make life a lot easier.
Whenever you are about to buy something, ask yourself what you could turn around and sell it for if you had no receipt. It's smarter to buy some things secondhand rather than shrink-wrapped.
When you're gift shopping at Amazon there's nothing better than getting paid for your generosity. We'll share our secrets for getting the best deals and extra rewards.
At The Smart Savvy Life we're big fans of letting someone else drive it off the lot. And we're not just talking about cars. By buying things that are less than brand new and shrink wrapped, you can easily save 10-20 percent.
Ever come across a plant and been curious about what it was? Fortunately there's an app for that.
While we avoid unitaskers, sometimes it's just too hard to get by without them. For example, planting hundreds of bulbs by hand would be slow and back-breaking.
For city dwellers, gardening in close quarters presents unique challenges. Surrounded by tall buildings and often shaded with arching trees, plants need to thrive in little sunlight. Air quality can be poor. Compact spaces require careful planning and thoughtful composition.


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Solidarity on Social Media
Ariana Levinson
Solidarity on Social Media
As with other technical revolutions before it, such as the printing press, radio, and telephone, social media has changed the way in which people communicate. Due to cases involving the use of social media by employees, among other reasons, the often little-known National Labor Relations Board (NLRB or Board) has become the center of national media attention. In the cases involving social media, the Board simply applies well-established decades old legal principles. Yet, employers, business groups, and the media have portrayed the Board as deviating from longstanding precedent, overstepping its role in regulating employment, and misunderstanding the impact of social media. No Federal Circuit Court, to which Board decisions are appealed, has yet, however, denied enforcement of a Board decision in a case involving social media. While other scholars have contributed to the buzz surrounding the Board's decision by arguing that the Board has been incorrect to apply its precedent to social media because the technology differs from prior technology, this article argues that the Board has properly used its wealth of expertise gained from many decades of enforcing labor management relations to extend its precedent in a flexible manner to the new technology. This article first summarizes the Board's decisions and guidance about employees' use of social media and employer policies regulating use of social media. It then discusses four simple clarifications that the Board should make in future decisions in order to make its regulation easier for employers and employees to understand and follow. First, the Board should clarify that anytime more than one employee is involved in a social media discussion, the employees act concertedly. Second, the Board should clarify that employees act for mutual aid and protection when they discuss working conditions, whether or not they explicitly focus on improving those conditions. Third, the Board should clarify how it will determine when employees engaged in otherwise protected concerted activity lose the protection of the Act due to the egregious nature of their social media use. Finally, the Board should clarify whether provision specific disclaimers providing concrete examples of what constitutes protected concerted activity will be effective to render a social media policy legal. These clarifications will enhance the likelihood of continued enforcement of Board decisions involving social media by the Circuit Courts. Moreover, these clarifications have not been discussed by articles written by other scholars and, thus, contribute to the growing literature on this topic.
Social Media Definition and the Governance Challenge: An Introduction to the Special Issue
Jonathan Obar
Steve Wildman
Social Media Definition and the Governance Challenge: An Introduction to the Special Issue
This introduction to a special issue of "Telecommunications Policy" entitled "The Governance of Social Media" begins with a definition of social media that informs all contributions in the special issue. A section describing the challenges associated with the governance of social media is presented next, followed by an overview of the various articles included in the special issue.
While the Internet and the World Wide Web have always been used to facilitate social interaction, the emergence and rapid diffusion of Web 2.0 functionalities during the first decade of the new millennium enabled an evolutionary leap forward in the social component of web use. This and falling costs for online data storage made it feasible for the first time to offer masses of Internet users access to an array of user-centric spaces they could populate with user-generated content, along with a correspondingly diverse set of opportunities for linking these spaces together to form virtual social networks.
To define "social media" for our current purposes, we synthesize definitions presented in the literature and identify the following commonalities among current social media services:
1) Social media services are (currently) Web 2.0 Internet-based applications,
2) User-generated content is the lifeblood of social media,
3) Individuals and groups create user-specific profiles for a site or app designed and maintained by a social media service,
4) Social media services facilitate the development of social networks online by connecting a profile with those of other individuals and/or groups.
Transformative communication technologies have always called for regulatory innovation. Theodor Vail's vision of "one policy, one system, universal service" preceded more than one-hundred years of innovative regulations aimed at connecting all Americans to a single telephone network. The sinking of the Titanic, caused in part by "chaos in the spectrum" led to the Radio Act of 1912 and the creation of a command and control model designed to regulate broadcast radio. Safe-harbor hours were put in place after a father and son heard George Carlin's "seven dirty words" routine over the radio in their car. The fairness doctrine and the minority tax certificate program were designed to address inequalities in the broadcast television industry. The Digital Millennium Copyright Act responded to intellectual property concerns raised by a global Internet and the FCC's 700mhz auction was the result of demand for smarter mobile phones. Now we must consider the role of regulatory innovation in response to the emergence of social media.
Most Tweetable Justice: An Empirical Study
Most Tweetable Justice: An Empirical Study
Twitter has profoundly changed how people communicate with one another and learn about the world. In less than a decade since it first launched, Twitter has become the place where all news breaks first, where political revolutions are launched, and where presidential campaigns are conducted. The service has more than half a billion users, who use Twitter to talk about the news, follow celebrities, support sports teams, conduct business, and learn about one another. Twitter has touched every area of human interaction, and the law is no exception. Thus, although no member of the Supreme Court uses Twitter officially (yet), the world needs to know which Justice is most "tweetable." The paper uses data from the SCOTUS Search database to rank the Justices by whether their oral argument statements are fit to be tweeted.
Transacting in Data: Tax, Privacy, and the New Economy
Adam B. Thimmesch
Transacting in Data: Tax, Privacy, and the New Economy
The technological developments of recent decades have allowed data to emerge as the functional equivalent of a currency in the digital economy. One result is that individuals now have the ability to obtain a wide variety of benefits, from cash discounts to access to news, social media, and online software, in exchange for their personal data. Scholars in a variety of fields recognize these personal-data transfers as market exchanges and have questioned the functioning and impact of the personal-data market. That market is currently invisible, however, for tax purposes. Neither the receipt of an individual's data as consideration for digital products nor an individual's receipt of benefits in exchange for data is currently recognized as a taxable event. The result is not only potentially lost tax revenue, but also a tax preference for the use of data as a currency. This implicit personal-data tax exemption thus has implications for the design of our tax systems in the new economy and for how we regulate the data market in other ways. The article therefore offers further insight into the tax-reform efforts directed towards base erosion and profit shifting in the digital economy, encourages thought regarding the use of alternative tax instruments to address the erosion of traditional tax bases and to promote beneficial data practices, and urges the recognition of the tax preference for data in the broader U.S. regulatory structure related to data and personal privacy.
Investigating Jurors on Social Media
Caren Morrison
Investigating Jurors on Social Media
This invited Symposium piece considers the new norm of investigating potential jurors online. The piece proceeds in three parts. First, it examines the current state of jury investigations, and how they differ from those conducted in the past. Then, it describes the evolving legal and ethical positions that are combining to encourage such investigations. Finally, it offers a note of caution – condoning such investigations while keeping them hidden from jurors may be perceived as unfair and exploitative, risking a possible backlash from outraged jurors. Instead, I propose a modest measure to provide notice and explanation to jurors that their online information is likely to be searched, and why.
The Shaky Ground of the Right to Be Delisted
Miguel Peguera
The Shaky Ground of the Right to Be Delisted
It has long been discussed whether individuals should have a "right to be forgotten" online to suppress old information that could seriously interfere with their privacy and data protection rights. In the landmark case of Google Spain v AEPD, the Court of Justice of the European Union addressed the particular question of whether, under EU Data Protection Law, individuals have a right to have links delisted from the list of search results, in searches made on the basis of their name. It found that they do have this right – which can be best described as a "right to be delisted" – when some conditions are met.
The ruling, which imposes on search engines the duty to assess and accommodate delisting requests, has proven to be highly controversial. Strong feelings have been expressed either in favor or against it, in what may be seen as a clash between the values of personal data protection and freedom of expression.
This article does not delve into this underlying debate. Instead, it aims to explore the solidness of the ground on which the right is based. It begins by providing an overview of the relevant elements of EU data protection law so as to allow readers not familiar with its nuances to properly follow the discussion. After presenting the facts of Google Spain, both at national and EU level, the article discusses how the 'right to be delisted' was crafted by the CJEU. It argues that it is based on shaky ground, as it is premised on the characterization of search engines as "data controllers," which is arguably at odds with their intermediary role and – in the absence of specific safeguards – makes their activity largely incompatible with the data protection legal framework. Moreover, the article discusses how the Court failed to devise a proper balance of the different rights at stake, particularly that of freedom of expression and information. It suggests that the intermediary role of generalist search engines should be adequately protected, both under the data protection legal framework as well as under the liability limitation scheme established by the E-Commerce Directive. This, however, is not likely to be achieved in the near future. A careful approach by national courts and data protection authorities is thus suggested as a way to fix some of the shortcomings identified in the ruling.
Labor Law Issues: Employer Social Media Policies; Disciplining Employees for Social Media Postings
Arianna R. Levinson


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Okay, for those of you following this, let me apologize. It is currently 3:00 in the morning here and we're exhausted from the Last Tour to Endor shindig. I will recount the events of today and whatever we see of tomorrow, later.
Long story short:
George Lucas and John Stewart with some surprise guests.
Slave Leia photo shoot.
Some wacky stormtrooper helmets.
Girl wearing an X-wing.
Raiders of the Lost Jedi Temple of Doom.
Last Tour to Endor. (and I do mean the LAST ride.)
I got pictures. I got video. I got sore feet. Stay tuned for details. Tomorrow. Monday at the latest. Check my tweets. @reevesreel. There's stuff there, too.
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Tonight Mandy and I were out late on a date. On the way home we decided to stop off at a Kroger for a 'healthy'snack. Since we are ketogenic, meaning we keep our carbs very low, we had decided on coconut ice cream. After finding it in the 'novelty' ice cream section we inspected the ingredients list and found that it listed more carbs than we desired. We settled for cashews and kale chips! You say, "yuck!". Well it was actually really good, to be honest with you. In the end, we laughed and were very surprised at ourselves. I remember when we would stop of at Steak and Shake and order large sugary shakes. You'd think a small coconut ice cream would be a huge step. And sure, it's much better, but we have invested too much now. We are sold on what we eat. Literally every meal. But, we don't suffer..We've learned that the more invested we are, the easier it is. It didn't even feel like a trase off or a sacrifice to forego the ice cream for the kale chips. I enjoyed it and was satisfied.
That didn't happen all at once. It has been small but consistent steps taken over a long period of time. I think it's important to inventory our diet in its present state and just ask, "what is the one thing right now that I can change for the better?" I don't have to change everything, or even a big thing. Just one thing. Lots of little things added up over time equals a lot. I am amazed at where we have come. I know you will eventually be amazed at yourself as well.


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Sometimes, for fun and to re- aquaint ourselves with friends, to show people what we are up to, to get to know other local artists in the area, and to generally say "hello" to the world, we open up our house and studio, fill it with booze, and force everyone that wants to come over to dress in one color and one color only.
And then we document it.
This time it was yellow.


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Pinoy Digital Photographers In Kuwait (PINDOT)4:24 AM
Capture precious moments with a click! There's no better way to preserve good memories but through the lenses and the newly-formed group, Pinoy Digital Photographers in Kuwait or PINDOT knows exactly the magic and power of the digital camera that captures vividly the trivialities and essence of life, people, events and the world that we live in.
PINDOT, a Filipino word which means "Click" in English, finally clicked its way on Friday at the L'Elysees Suite Hotel during the event organised by the Creative Entertainment Group (CEG) led by Ferdie Nadera. The PINDOT founding members Benedict Garcia, Neil Ocampo and Jeb Elamparo explained that they're bound by their love for photography and decided to form the group in April this year.
"Currently we have 33 members and we would welcome others who share the same passion with us", explained Garcia. He added thatthe group's initial project will be a photo exhibit dubbed "PINDOT for Frank," a fund - raising event for those devastated by the typhoon Frank in the Philippines. He explained dthat some of their masterpieces will be sold to the public and the proceeds will be donated to the typhoon victims.
"Photography is a great form of hobby. It's a stress buster and more importantly, a perfect medium of self-expression," shared Al Manlangit, a member of the group and an architect by profession who enjoys taking photos of panoramic landscapes.
The launching of PINDOT was attended by Philippine Labour Attache Leopoldo De Jesus, Welfare Officer Amy Crisostomo, some US Embassy Officials and other distinguished guests.
By Michelle Fe Santiago
Special to the Arab Times
Shout out to tito Al Manlangit! Two invites na po! It was fun seeing you again. Swear, I have one of those huge camera that from now on shall lug around with me. I'll ditch my ever reliable phone camera na. Hehehe. Apologies to the PINDOT members for the unworthy photo that I took. Blurred na, pixelated pa! Thank you's for the papparazi shots though! I wonder if I can get a copy. Hhhmmmmmm =)