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After witnessing a political storm around the general election, it is time to start looking at what the Conservatives will be doing to our country over the next five years. This is the first majority Conservative government since 1992 when John Major lead the party.
So far the energy giants are happy with the Conservatives winning the majority. As the election was announced energy shares have soared because of their majority share throughout the election. This is mainly due to labour's defeat, along with no expectations of a price freeze or strong regulations looming over the energy giant's shoulders.
"This election result is extremely positive for UK Utilities as the Labour base position of a price freeze could, in extremis, have caused financial distress for UK retail companies."(Source: Financial Times)
This only confirms that the price freeze had a strong potential to harm, making the industry less competitive. The Conservatives will not let the energy companies walk over the industry. There is currently an ongoing probe in the industry about competitive fairness. The Tories have always been supportive of free trading, less regulation and more competition and we should expect to see this over all markets. There are other plans as well like the smart metering roll out in 2020 and they are looking into forcing the energy groups to accept one day switching.
Now that we know the sort of things to come in the next five years under Tory legislative instruction, we can assume for the beginning of their reign from a political point of view, the energy industry looks to be stable. However, what we do know one thing about energy, it is always unpredictable and anything can happen, like the oil slump in January 2015, which is only just recovering now.
It would be fair to say to expect more competition within the industry, especially with the possibility of one day switching, which should also decrease process time for quotes for both domestic and commercial businesses. In regards to the energy industry, be wary of price hikes and spikes due to its volatile nature, now that the price freeze is a dwindling memory.
Even though the conservatives should bring stability and increased competitiveness to the market, there are always unforeseen circumstances that can easily affect the industry; you never know the Conservatives might surprise us all.
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Disclaimer: not mine. never will be. the end.
Also, lyrics are from the Lumineers' song "Stubborn Love."
Author's Note: I've finally decided to start an AU. I've had this idea for Soul and Maka for a long time and finally started this first chapter here and wrote an outline so we'll see how it goes. I don't know why I started this with my spring semester starting up on Thursday and with my part-time job overwhelming me, but I find sanctuary in writing so, though sporadic they may be, I will update it as much as I can. Chapters will vary in size: some will be smaller and some might be huge. I don't know yet. Just like you never quite know how a roadtrip's gonna go. So enjoy the ride.
(sorry about the puns)
It's better to feel pain
than nothing at all
When I told him I wanted to write a story, he asked me, "What's the fun in that? Wouldn't you rather live one?"
And I honestly never thought of that.
Not until he dragged across a few states to really dig the question in.
But I guess I shouldn't start here. I should start at the beginning… like every story, whether it's been written or not.
She toes the door open a crack, and throws a sharp spear of light into his room that appears to puncture his bleary eyes.
"What?" he groans. "What could you possibly want at…" He glances at his too-bright alarm clock. "4 AM," he deadpans at the realization.
"Just reminding you to buy new milk later, since you drank all of the last one straight out of the carton." Maka takes the empty one, soggy and floppy like the skin of a rotten orange, and kicks it part-way into the dark. She knows that if it lands somewhere in his mountains of dirty laundry he'll probably not be able to tell the difference between it and a white T-shirt, but figures it's not her problem he decides to live in a self-built fortress of unwashed sweatpants and hoodies.
"And you are telling me now because…?" He rolls over in the bed to face her with unrestrained irritation, two sanguine slits peering at her beneath black linen sheets, like a serpent she poked in its den.
"I'm going to work and I won't be back until 2, so I kinda had to remind you now. Sorry to wake you." She flattens out her white apron and turns around, slowly shuts the door before he decides to strike.
She halts mostly because she is startled by the sudden change of strength in his groggy, gnarled voice.
"Didn't you just get back from work a few hours ago?"
She nods.
"And then when you got home instead of sleeping you started studying your accounting stuff, right?"
Another nod. A fatigue like a deep chill she can't shake crawls into her bones.
"Have you slept?"
"Unlike you," Maka retorts, "I don't sleep as much as a cat in order to function."
"You're avoiding the actual question, which means you're exhausted and you don't wanna admit it to me or even yourself."
She's not positive when he left his safe cavern of blankets, but now he stands mere inches behind her, and then, his warm breath seeps across the nape of her neck and she knows he's too close for comfort without having to look.
Her blood boils when she becomes aware that his movements are so fluid and calculated by nature that she didn't hear him approach her, and the drowsiness that made her bones heavy moments before burns away like fog in the afternoon light.
She pushes him away, though not hard enough to knock him down. He's too sturdy for that, she knows. She also knows that's why she's so drawn to him – he's a rock, her rock, as much as she loathes to admit it.
Soul remains where she shoves him. "Fine. Go. Idiot."
But sometimes the rock crumbles over time, erodes by all the wind and rain she coasts against him with her fits of anger and harsh words.
"Okay" is all that comes out of her chapped lips as she slams his door behind her and makes her way to the diner in her cold, leather-seated car.
He slumps to the floor in defeat, tired simply from watching her overwork herself to death, and stares blankly at the carcass of milk that soaks through one of his favorite shirts.
"Damn it, Maka," he mumbles. "Damn it all to hell."
"Maka, are you sure you're fine to work? I'm certain someone else could have covered for-"
"I'm fine, Marie, really," she says as she pours more mud-shaded coffee into a customer's porcelain mug without looking, places sweet 'n' low packets and creamers for the regular as he flicks mindlessly through his newspaper. She wonders what he reads about every single day in a small town that never changes much except its direction of wind.
"But you look really tired, honey," her boss murmurs with such genuine concern that Maka feels an uncomfortable melding of guilt and fatigue reside in her heart and tie knots in the strings as it knocks away against its will, beneath tired muscle and bone.
"I always look like that lately." She knows it, too. She feels like her eyes have been rubbed raw as she blinks away some of the redness forming at the edges. She senses it in the way her shoulders slump like someone is pushing on them. Maka feels a lot like people are pushing her these days and she's not sure what to do about it other than to work overtime in both her part-time job and her studies and try to forget it all.
"Your break's in fifteen minutes. And don't think I won't know if you try to skip it," Marie hisses with a glare sharp enough to cut the steel counter top.
Maka gulps and nods.
Her boss smiles, an eerie contrast to her deadly leer, and then returns to her office behind the kitchen to resume calculating the profit the diner garnered the day before.
She checks her watch to be sure she leaves for her break on time in fear of the repercussions, then pivots to fill another of her customer's chipped mugs. As she looks up in response to another client waving her over for a refill from across the restaurant, she sees a familiar mop of long red hair outside and nearly loses it.
"Maka, you know papa loves you and mama the most, right?"
Next to the crimson-tinged hair is blonde-streaked that's entirely unfamiliar to her in every way, the way a road she's never been down with a million twists and turns is unfamiliar. And an emptiness fills her, the kind of vacancy she would find in a movie theater on a cold Sunday night.
"Papa?" she murmurs aloud. And she knows on the surface she's twenty-three, but beneath that is a six year old girl who knows the strike of betrayal by someone she loves for the very first time who dominates the adult.
"Of course, Papa."
"Miss? My coffee?"
She thinks of a counselor's office that has a green color scheme and a woman who smells like she showers in perfume instead of water, but the sort of perfume that makes her eyes water and her nose fold backward and crinkle in disgust.
"Excuse me, Miss!"
She clutches the handle of the coffee pot tighter, and then she thinks of a blank sheet of paper with three circles on it.
"Now, Maka, I'd like you to fill in these circles with faces that express how you feel."
She remembers three sad faces, right in a row. Tear streaks in erasable pencil streaming down the pages week after week.
"What can I do to get some service around here? Jeez!"
He grabs her hand.
There's a sound of smashing and she's not sure where it comes from, and then she realizes it: she threw the coffee pot over the booth of the noisy customer and it smashes with an impressive bang against the plexiglass right where her father and his flavor of the week stand outside, out of reach and touch. The obsidian liquid sloshes down the window like old snow melting and then her vision is the color of coffee and she's falling, falling like the pieces of shattered, sharp glass straight to the checkered floor.
Soul slides across the red-leather seat from where she lays, asleep at last, in the diner no less on a Tuesday morning. Relief and heartburn fills him all at once as he observes her supine form cradled in a stained tablecloth for a blanket.
"So, how did this happen?" he asks as Marie folds her skirt beneath her and plops down next to him with what looks like an added wrinkle on her face from the events of the morning.
She sighs, quiet like the hiss of the still-boiling coffee pots, and places her head in her hands to hide beneath her wavy blonde hair. "Doing too much overtime, as you know," she starts, "and I think the last straw was her seeing her father with his newest... lady-friend walking down the street."
He grimaces, pushes the swelling anger in his gut down before it creates a monster of him that unleashed would rain perhaps too much terror and bloodshed on her unsuspecting father. "That bastard. He's gonna destroy her."
"Not as long as you're around, Soul."
A warmth rests on his clenched hand and he turns to face his best friend's boss like he would a fellow mourner at a funeral.
Don't think of Spirit in a casket, don't think of Spirit in a casket...
"So I'd like to ask for a favor," she says so suddenly and seriously he's thrown for a loop. He doesn't shrug off her hand on his as she near-mumbles the proposition. "Take Maka away from her for a while."
He raises an eyebrow. "And how do you suppose I do that? You know how she is. She won't leave here, especially with her dedication to not only this job but her prospect future one."
"Stein and I will give Maka an advance payment. If she complains, just tell her it's from all the birthdays and holidays we've missed as her godparents over the years or something."
"Stop. Besides, she'll be passed out for a while longer. Take this opportunity to go home, get some stuff, and beat it for a month or two." She squeezes his hand, desperation seeps into her voice like butter into warm toast. "Please. It's for the best."
"Please tell me I get an advance payment for the dictionary beatings I'm going to have to endure."
"Free healthcare from Stein?"
He shudders. "Nevermind. Forget I asked."
She wakes to sounds she's heard before in a very different setting: a squeaky car bumping over potholes, leather creaking and antiquated air conditioning whirring and brushing the hair away from her face like a cool, gentle hand. She smells too-sweet green apple air freshener her mother sent her one year for Christmas and when she hears jazz overtones she knows something's not right about all of this as a mix.
"Oh, you're awake." He clears his throat, and she suspects from his shaking, trembling voice that he had hoped she'd be asleep the whole ride.
"What did you do?" She feels whatever ties her stomach to the rest of her body unfurl and it floats like she's on a rollercoaster, and she feels terribly, terribly sick. She rises too quickly and it takes her a minute to become cognizant of her surroundings as her brain repositions itself properly in her spinning, aching head. "Why are you driving my car? Where are we going?" Maka's eyes are as wide as planets and he grips the steering wheel tighter in fear. He can't escape. They're trapped.
She iron-grips his shoulder and he's not sure why but his mind flashes to bad car accidents and ambulances. "Soul? Answer me."
He shakes his head. Sweat drips from every pore on his face. He's spouting like Old Faithful.
"Soul Eater Evans." Her voice is like black ice – he can't see it but he knows it's dangerous, very, very dangerous.
Stretchers. Medflights.
"Look, Maka-"
"Just spit it out! Now!" She fumbles for a book, a big book, or maybe one with spikes instead of pages to bash his head open with.
"You passed out at the diner and Marie wanted you away from that town so we're going on a roadtrip with an advance payment from your godparents and I thought your Taurus would be safer than my motorcycle!"
"So you kidnapped me."
"How can you possibly justify that!" she shouts.
"You almost assaulted a customer."
"He was-"
"You haven't slept in days."
"I have a lot of-"
"We're all concerned, damn it, and you need a break! Will you just listen to someone other than yourself for once?" He screeches to an abrupt halt on the side of the road and the tires squealing sound a lot like his voice just did and her heart beats too heavy in her chest at the smoldering look he broils her with.
A long silence envelops them like a fog as they sit in the breakdown lane of some highway number she swears she's never heard of, and that's when it comes to her: she's never left that godforsaken city in her whole life. She's never seen this desert or any of the others that are bound to come after it. All she knows is that greasy diner and her schoolwork and Soul. She could be blindfolded and walk through the city and still know where she was at all times.
He counts to ten a few times in his head before he tries to speak again. "Look, Maka-"
"I'm sorry." She grips the frilly end of her uniform skirt so tight her knuckles turn ghost-white. "I'm so sorry, Soul." And when the tears drip onto her hands he crushes her in a too-tight hug, because he's not sure what else to do but he knows he wants to plug the dam before it breaks.
"It's ok. I'm sorry. I should've waited for you to wake up instead of just hauling you out with me."
"No, it's all right. I understand why you did it. I wouldn't have listened otherwise."
He pulls back, and his sanguine stare matches the intensity of her viridian one.
She reaches over to take his hand in her tear-coated one. "Maybe I do need this." She laces their fingers and they fit neatly like shoestrings. "Maybe we both do."
He runs his free hand through his hair and laughs. "Yeah. I think we're both goin' crazy back there."
They both laugh a little at the truth of the confession, and turn to the road before them at the same time, glittering with golden-brown sand and useless gas station and food signs.
"Okay," Maka says. "I'll go, on one condition."
He grins. "Anything?"
"Since you kidnapped me, I have the right to the radio."
"You have got to be kidding me."
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BattleTag: Allahorny#1375
Armory Link of Main: http://us.battle.net/wow/en/character/bleeding-hollow/Allahdorn/advanced
Armory Links of Notable Alts: http://us.battle.net/wow/en/character/bleeding-hollow/Tythuss/simple not very notable, pvp on this toon a lot.
World of Logs/WMO Parses: http://www.warcraftlogs.com/rankings/report/8QF4PRYxcmGCHrqt#boss=1599
Screenshot of your UI: http://tinypic.com/r/2s1b3ap/8
List the days you are raid available (Sun-Thurs 8-12pm EST):
What add-ons do you rely on most? Mostly VuhDo and DBM for raiding. Most of it is just cosmetic. I like my UI neat, but I can deal without them.
What resources do you use to keep up to date on how to play your class? I mainly look at the top guilds' players classes. I study and observe their play style on uploaded YouTube videos and watching twitch.tv streams. I armory them constantly to see if I am doing something correctly or I may just try something of my own to see if it works.
What previous raid experience do you have? 14/14H this patch, not much for the earlier MoP raids. I cleared Naxx and cleared the first two wings of ICC on herioc before my previous account got hacked.
What guilds have you been a member of and why are you leaving your current one? Little guilds here and there, the one I most recently left was Street Corner Horde on BH and the reason for leaving is just that I didn't feel the raid leadership wasn't up to my standards of how a so-called "hardcore raiding guild" should be.
Why do you want to join Shade of Arrows (Be thorough with your answer)? Clips mentioned that he was joining this guild and he is a good friend of mine. We of course aren't pairs so if I am not accepted won't mean he will leave. Looking at your wowprogress and from the information Clips has told me about you, I would love for you guys and gals to try me out.
How did you find us (Friend,Forum,Trade Chat,Officer, etc.)(specify)? Clips, a holy paladin that apped to your guild.
Are you competitive by nature? If so, who do you compete against (Yourself or others? Specifiy other)? I am competitive, but not in the bad way. I believe the best way to learn is to learn from your mistakes while still having strong discipline in the environment. I loved competing against other disc priests but as 6.0 comes I may switch to holy as disc is not looking very competent, especially for WoD.
Tell us about yourself to help us determine if you would be a good fit here (The more you put here, the better it looks): My name is John, and I study criminal justice and psychology. I feel the best way to learn is discipline. I come from a military background dating multiple generations. I feel I play my class extremely well and I strive to improve until I reach the highest amount of greatness I can.
Bonus question >>Do you attend couple's cross-stitching?<< Yes. Me and Clips do it all the time and then go out for some yoga. Oh I forgot, we have a meeting with a marriage counselor on Friday.


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Mitre 10 MEGA Outdoor Movie Season returns in January
Get your popcorn ready - outdoor movies are coming back to Napier!
The Mitre 10 Mega Outdoor Movie Season at Bay Skate begins on Saturday 5 January and runs throughout January. So find the movie or movies for you, grab your tickets and enjoy the views of the Pacific, and across to Cape Kidnappers.
The kids season of the 2019 Mitre 10 MEGA Outdoor Movie Season at Bay Skate starts with Hotel Transylvania 3 on January 5, The BFG on January 12 and finishes with Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle on January 26. Ticket prices are kids $5, adults $10 and under 3's are free!
The 'grown-ups' season begins with Grease on January 5, The Shawshank Redemption on January 12, and Dirty Dancing on January 26. Adult tickets are $10.
The kids movie screenings will begin at 5.30pm and finish at approximately 7.30pm. The Grown Up's screenings will begin at 8.30pm and finish approximately 11pm.
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This morning Josh received his endowments in the Timpanogos LDS temple. We were glad to be part of this special day for him and enjoyed the wonderful lunch that his grandparents had afterwards. He is much loved by all of us. (Goodbye to the go kart... a story for another day.)
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Hair Loss in Women: A Crisis of Vanity and Sanity
You've seen the infomercials. You've clipped the ads with before and after photos. Rogaine (minoxidil) and Propecia (finasteride) are two treatments for hair loss. Before I tell you why I don't think you should be in a rush to slime your hair follicles every day or remove every molecule of testosterone in your body, let's first consider why women are doing so poorly with hair loss.
Thirty percent of women report serious hair loss by age thirty. By age fifty, that statistic climbs to 50 percent. This is a major problem, of both vanity and sanity. It's demoralizing, and conventional medicine often pats you on the back, murmuring, "You're getting older; you need to get used to it." As someone who has struggled personally with hair loss and heard that same message from my primary care doctor, I find that answer completely unsatisfying and more important, unnecessary. So if you have hair loss, take heart, help is on the way.
Before my patients start looking for a solution to their hair loss in a box from the drugstore or a pill bottle from a dermatologist, I encourage them to look inside their bodies.
Getting to the Root: Causes of Hair Loss
Sometimes hair loss is associated with a simple root cause. Most of the time, there are hormonal imbalances such as thyroid, insulin, or testosterone. Occasionally, hair loss is linked to physical and emotional trauma, and probably dysregulation of cortisol. Even more rare, I find underlying health conditions such as autoimmunity as the root cause.
To find a patient's particular reason for hair loss, I order a blood panel (listed at the end of the blog) to test several hormones and conditions. Correcting hair loss is all about sussing out the cause. For example, some women make too little thyroid hormone to grow their hair – it's a matter of rationing and in your body's triage system, hair growth is lower priority than, say, keeping your body warm. Other women make too much of the male hormone testosterone and that causes balding, although the main culprit is a metabolite (daughter) of testosterone called dihydrotestosterone(DHT)
Here are the most common causes of hair loss:
Low thyroid
Rapid hair loss can be an early sign of a thyroid problem, often first diagnosed in the beauty salon. In addition to thinning and shedding, your hair can become coarse, dry, and easily tangled.
This kind of general hair loss will slow and eventually stop once your hormone levels are stabilized. But sometimes the problem continues even after treatment, especially if you're taking levothyroxine, a synthetic hormone often used to treat hypothyroidism. Excessive or prolonged hair loss is a known side effect of this drug. Look into this if you're still losing hair despite what your doctor calls sufficient treatment.
Do this: Work with a functional medicine practitioner with experience treating thyroid conditions. Get a full thyroid blood panel (see below). Sometimes micronutrient deficiencies such as low selenium or zinc are a reason for faulty thyroid function, or you may have autoimmune thyroiditis (Hashimoto's thyroiditis), which needs to be addressed with a full functional medicine protocol. Because changes in dose can trigger hair loss, low and slow is the goal with any medication. Some people find their hair loss diminishes if they take Thyrolar, a synthetic combination of both thyroid hormones, T4 and T3.
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Low iron, low lysine
In one study, 90 percent of women with thinning hair were deficient in iron and the amino acid lysine.1 Lysine helps transport iron, which is essential for many metabolic processes.
Do this: Measure your ferritin levels, the most sensitive indicator of iron in the body. You need a minimum of 40 to grow new hair, and a healthy range is 70-80. Make sure you get your daily dose of iron from grass-fed red meat and greens. Good sources of lysine are foods rich in protein. Add lysine to your diet with foods rich in protein, such as meat and poultry, soy, eggs, cheese (especially Parmesan), and some fish (cod, sardines). If you need additional doses of an iron supplement, be sure to have a functional medicine practitioner track your ferritin so you don't get too much and trigger iron overload.
Androgenic alopecia
This is the most common type of hair loss and affects 30 percent of women.2 The typical pattern for hereditary female-pattern hair loss, or androgenic alopecia, is a widening part or noticeable thinning of hair, particularly over the mid-frontal portion of the scalp.
Sometimes women with androgenic alopecia have polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS). Typical signs and symptoms are ovarian cysts, irregular periods, weight gain, blood sugar problems, infertility and hair loss. The problem may be exacerbated in some patients taking drugs for thyroid problems. Approximately 22 percent of women with PCOS have androgenic alopecia.3
The good news is that you can often stop and even reverse the symptoms of hair loss once you balance your hormones.
Do this: Run the full blood panel (see below). This is where evening primrose oil can help. Besides inhibiting DHT, the main culprit behind androgenic alopecia, evening primrose oil is a good source of essential fatty acids, and the symptoms of hypothyroidism are quite similar to those for insufficient essential fatty acids. See The Hormone Cure, chapter 9, for the full protocol. Berberine and inositol may be helpful to reset hormones. As always, I advocate a "food first" strategy along with taking targeted supplements. If changing your food and supplement plan doesn't result in more hair on your head, then discuss with your functional medicine practitioner if minoxidil might be a good idea. (Minoxidil or Rogaine is approved for women for this type of hair loss and available over the counter.)
Not enough protein
If you don't get enough protein in your diet, your body may enter famine mode and shut down your hair growth. This may occur about two to three months after a drop in protein intake.
Do this: Eat clean protein from fish, grass-fed meat, eggs, and quinoa. Read The Hormone Reset Diet, page 232, for a more complete list.
Excess vitamin A
Maybe you just started taking a new multivitamin, or started on a supplement containing vitamin A. You may have driven your vitamin A levels too high, which may trigger hair loss.
Do this: Total intake of vitamin A should be no more than 5,000 International Units (IU) per day. When you remove excess vitamin A, your hair should grow normally again.
Stress hormones—from physical or emotional stress
Any kind of physical or emotional trauma can trigger telogen effluvium: surgery, weight loss, eating disorder, car accident, illness, troubled marriage, sick kid. Hair grows on a programmed cycle that involves a growth phase, rest phase, and shedding phase. Big emotional and/or physical stressors can cause the hair to lock down in the shedding phase.
Do this: If you clear the stress, the telogen effluvium usually clears in three to six months as your body recovers.
Fluctuating female hormones of pregnancy, perimenopause, going on/off birth control pills
This may also cause telogen effluvium, especially if you have a family history of hair loss.
Do this: Keep hormones as stable as possible by mitigating stress. In pregnancy, if you lose more hair post partum than before you got pregnant, see your healthcare professional and run the blood panel (see below) to see if there's an underlying thyroid and/or autoimmune condition.
Sadly, hair follicles can shrink in menopause, making hair finer and more likely to shed. It's called "miniaturization," and it's totally unfair. One study suggests that the ratio of estradiol-to-testosterone may influence in hair loss in women and that low ratios may be the culprit in some cases.4
This ratio typically decreases during menopause. Not surprisingly, another study showed that women treated with bioidentical estradiol had less hair loss. 5
Do this: If you're over forty, talk to your functional medicine practitioner about whether bioidentical estrogen may be right for you. You need to be followed by a gynecologist to make sure you stay safe and don't develop side effects and adverse events, such as blood clots, endometrial cancer, stroke, breast cancer, heart disease.
Vitamin B deficiency
This can be exacerbated by stress or taking birth control pills, both of which deplete B vitamins in the body.
Do this: Between food intake and supplementation, you should be able to correct the problem. Rich sources of vitamin B include meat, fish, starchy vegetables, and some fruits.
Lack of fat
If you go low-fat in your food plan, you may consume fewer calories, nutrients, and more carbohydrates than your body requires. Most importantly, you may miss out on essential fatty acids, omega 3 and 6, which nourish the scalp and stabilize hair growth. The stress of restricting a macronutrient such as fat (or carbs or protein) may force more hair follicles to enter the telogen phase. Similar to the low thyroid state, your body gets the message to ration; there isn't enough fuel to support the growth phase.
Do this: Maintain a balanced diet rich in "good" fats such as from coconut, avocado, and nuts—good for your hair and your health. Don't skip out on macronutrients, but find the matching diet for your locks.
Sometimes the problem is alopecia areata, which appears as hair loss in round patches on the head, and sometimes the problem is autoimmune thyroiditis. Either way the cause is an overactive immune system. The body misidentifies the hair as foreign and attacks it.
Do this: Work with a functional medicine clinician to reverse autoimmune thyroiditis. Consider starting an autoimmune protocol for food. In some cases, you may need to see a dermatologist for steroid injections.
Some medications such as beta blockers, antidepressants, lithium, blood thinners, methotrexate, NSAIDs (such as ibuprofen) can cause hair loss.
Do this: If you're taking one of these medications, talk to your medical professional about alternatives.
Overdoing hair care and products
Hair dye, frequent shampooing, other treatments, products, and vigorous styling can traumatize your hair follicles and lead to hair loss.
Do this: Wash your hair less often. The American Academy of Dermatology suggests that you let your hair air dry and limit hot devices (like flat irons and curling irons) to once per week or less. I know, I know, I love blowouts, too. Once per week, max!
Insulin resistance and blood sugar problems
Insulin, that helper hormone in charge of regulating blood sugar levels, also affects hair growth. Half of female patients and 60 percent of male patients with androgenic alopecia have a constellation of signs and symptoms related to insulin resistance, blood sugar abnormalities, hypertension, and abnormal cholesterol.6Another study found that androgenic alopecia may be an early marker of insulin resistance, metabolic syndrome, and cardiovascular disease in men.7 So it could be for women as well.
Do this: The good news is that cutting sugar and artificial sweeteners, being active, and losing weight can reverse insulin resistance and lower your chances of hair loss.
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He was also relieved to have had his stoppage-time second yellow card rescinded by referee Arwel Jones.
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The fish that survive longest
will succumb to temptation
as land-loving fathers teach their preschoolers
to cast a line.
For now, in early April
the water is tranquil,
not yet green with algae
and heat.
Three fat-bellied ducks float serenely by.
A few steps further along,
the two of us see the signs, in succession,
jammed into the water
close to the pond's edge.
"Please do not feed the geese,"
says one.
"You may make them sick,"
the next sign says.
"They may become aggressive,"
says the next one.
The fourth sign says,
"Don't do it."
The fluttering whoosh
of small brown birds
fleeing overhead–
then we see them,
across the tract of grass:
about 11 gray geese
slowly crossing the parking lot,
indifferently stopping traffic,
headed toward the pond.
The three ducks paddle furiously
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Decorating cupcakes on my birthday.
Delphine riding without training wheels!
Blake went this far on his bike.
The girls got all dressed up for something (can't remember what.)
Izzy, the ancient senile cat from two doors over, likes our new deck furniture.
The people two doors over the other way have this amazing vine growing all over their garage.
Does anyone know what it's called?
This is the lane that goes behind our house.
I was going to ask if anyone knew what this was, but I found it in a book. It's a creeping bellflower and apparently it's terribly invasive. I quite like it, but then I'm not a farmer.
Does anyone know what this is? Bees love it.
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The Taipei Design & City Exhibition opened yesterday at the Songshan Cultural and Creative Park.
Taipei City Department of Cultural Affairs Commissioner Liu Wei-gong (劉維公) said his department has organized numerous events aimed at promoting design culture leading up to the city's designation as World Design Capital in 2016.
"We hope to encourage more people to participate in the World Design Capital project... It is important that city residents understand that design encompasses many serious social questions," he said, adding that the department seeks to educate residents about the connection between design and everyday life.
The focus of this year's exhibit is the social impact of design, particularly ways in which design can contribute to society.
Exhibits of interest include a hand-cranked washing machine bucket, kites that measure air pollution, syringes that change color after use and small stoves designed to reduce firewood use in developing countries, Liu said.
The exhibit seeks to encourage domestic design by bringing in famous international designs and providing opportunities for designers to interact.
Compared to previous years' exhibits — which focused mainly on design concepts and local creations — this year's show features many pieces that have won international awards, he said.
The Taipei Design & City Exhibition started yesterday and runs through Oct. 26 at Warehouse 4 and 5 of the Songshan Cultural and Creative Park. Admission is free.


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So the little prince tamed the fox. And when the hour of his departure drew near —
"Ah," said the fox. "I shall cry."
"It is your own fault," said the little prince. "I never wished you any sort of harm, but you wanted me to tame you…"
"Yes, that is so," said the fox.
"But now you are going to cry!" said the little prince.
"Yes, that is so," said the fox.
"Then it has done you no good at all!"
"It has done me good," said the fox, "because of the colour of the wheat fields."
– The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupery
He had come into my life gently, quietly. Like he had always belonged there. And yet I can remember a time not so long ago when he was barely a part of it.
And now it seems strange – even inconceivable – for him to be anything but. A part of my life.
My heart has gone ahead while my brain was slowly trying to make sense of our relationship. Then one day it hit me like a ton of bricks – he meant something to me. Something more than I thought. And definitely something more than he knew. Or even considered.
So I started building hedges around me. I knew I couldn't let my heart and my imagination run wild. My logical self stated the reality I needed to hear – he would never choose you. You are friends. Just. Friends.
I allowed myself to grieve. I allowed myself to hurt. I allowed myself to cry the tears I said I would never cry again – tears of heartache and loneliness. Of loving someone without expecting to be loved in return. Of silently waiting and knowing it will amount to nothing.
He was the little prince, and I, the fox. Except that he never wanted to tame me. And I never asked to be tamed.
And the time has come for his departure. For my heart to heal and for him to become a memory. Just that.
One day, I will look back on this moment and smile. Because I know, even while I say my silent goodbye – I will always remember. How it felt to have someone that reminded me of the beautiful things in life. Someone who made my spirit soar by simply being there. Someone who compelled me to run to Jesus with the broken pieces of my heart, because I knew I could never mend it myself.
Someone who had made me feel what I thought I was not capable of feeling anymore.
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When Lynne Sachs celebrated her 50th birthday, she wasn't concerned about an impending midlife crisis. Instead, she decided to celebrate with 11 New Yorkers she had never met.
For her latest documentary, "Tip of My Tongue," Sachs gathered a diverse group of men and women from different countries including Iran, Cuba and Australia, who shared one thing in common: age.
Together with Sachs, the group discussed strange and revealing moments of their lives in which uncontrollable events –– outside their own domestic universe –– have impacted who they all have become.
"Tip of My Tongue" will screen at the Wexner Center for the Arts Wednesday in the latest installment of its "Visiting Filmmakers" series.
Sachs is known for creating films, videos, installations and web projects that explore the relationship between personal observations and broader historical experiences. She also has a habit of weaving together poetry, collaging, painting, politics, and layered sound design.
Sachs wrote her own series of 50 poems for every year of her life, and guided her collaborators across the landscapes of their memories from the Vietnam War protests, to the Anita Hill hearings, to the Columbine massacre, and all the way to Occupy Wall Street, according to her website.
"I am happiest when my film 'characters' explore storytelling from various subjectivities," Sachs said. "[To explore their] various selves and other selves … is a more authentic portrayal of being alive during a specific time, situation or place."
The Wexner Center prides itself on bringing acclaimed filmmakers like Sachs to screen their works because it believes it is one of few institutions supporting this type of work, said David Filipi, director of film and video at the Wexner Center.
"We make it a priority to support personal filmmakers like Lynne, both by screening their films as well as providing post-production support to some through our studio program," Filipi said. "There are fewer and fewer venues supporting this type of work, which makes it all the more imperative that we provide an opportunity for these types of films to be screened and seen by audiences in our region."
Sachs said she chose to screen "Tip of My Tongue" because she believes Ohio State is in the small minority of universities with acclaimed museums.
"There are only two state universities in the United States that have extraordinary, world-class museums — the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive [at University of California, Berkeley] and the Wexner Center for the Arts at Ohio State," Sachs said. "I have had the honor to screen my films at both institutions, and have been deeply moved by my interactions with the students and members of the public who fill the seats in these theaters."
Filipi said Ohio State students might be surprised and intrigued by what Lynne captures with her film.
"Right now, you're surrounded by your friends and peers, and your shared experiences are immediately recognizable… [but eventually], your friend and peer group isn't always as present and there are other commitments and distractions that accumulate as you get older," Filipi said. "Lynne has a very personal approach to documentary, and this is one of the traits that sets her films apart from others."
Gathering a group of middle-aged adults from all backgrounds allows the theme of self-reflection and recounting one's own memories to drive the entire film.
"In 'Tip of My Tongue' I tried to dig down into my own and my collaborators' pain and joy … I was looking for surprising intimacy that is different from simply 'telling the truth,'" Sachs said. "To bare my own soul, I needed to begin with my own poetry and then move onto something more visual –– I wanted my camera to express this intimacy."
The screening of "Tip of My Tongue" will take place Wednesday at 7 p.m. at the Wexner Center. Admission is $6 for students and $8 for the general public.


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Heartland Film Festival
Easterseals Disability Film Challenge Finalists
Saturday, October 13 | 10:15 a.m.
AMC Castleton Square 11
Join us at Heartland for the finalist's showing from this year's Disability Film Challenge!
Promoted by Easterseals Southern California, the Easterseals Disability Film Challenge gives filmmakers – with and without disabilities – the opportunity to collaborate and tell unique stories that showcase disability in its many forms. This supports Easterseals goal to change the way the world defines and views disability so that everyone can reach his or her full potential. The annual film challenge is a weekend-long filmmaking contest, open to all, that provides a platform for new voices in the entertainment industry. Each year, aspiring storytellers are prompted to creatively write, produce and complete a short film. Challenge winners receive invaluable access to entertainment professionals, opening the door to an industry notoriously difficult to enter.
Learn more about the video line-up and/or purchase tickets here. Use the code HFFEASTER18 to receive a discount of $3 off the $12 ticket price.
Watch an invitational video from actor Nic Novicki and actor RJ Mitte (from Breaking Bad) here.
History of the Disability Film Challenge
Actor Nic Novicki launched the Disability Film Challenge in 2014 in response to seeing disabilities underrepresented both in front of and behind the camera. As someone with a disability, Nic created the challenge to give aspiring filmmakers the opportunity to showcase their work and provide them with meaningful exposure.
In 2017, Nic and Easterseals Southern California joined forces to expand the challenge, now known as the Easterseals Disability Film Challenge. As the leading nonprofit supporting people with disabilities, Easterseals brings additional attention to the challenge, using its numerous communications channels to encourage participation. Since the challenge launched, aspiring filmmakers from around the world have created more than 150 films, which have been viewed online and at festivals including the HollyShorts Film Festival.


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OP and ED: "Don't Make Me Wild Like You" remixed by Yoko Ishida, theme from Ranma 1/2, remixed for the Para Para Max US Mix volume 3, also available on amazon for $8
"Doing Time" is a manga available from Ponet Mon/Fanfare that won a lot of awards. It's also a movie.
Things that are illegal in Japan:
- Guns
- Large pocket knives
- Assisted Suicide
- Marijuana mailed to you from "Bob Marley, NY"
Upside to Japanese prison: Significantly less shanking, sodomy.
Downside: Controlled head turning, nudity.
Promo: Dragon Radio
- Erica runs Yuricon, and was at Comiket with a table.
- We're really looking forward to the all-adult Providence convention
- Otakon 1998 was the Army of the 12 Otaku T-shirt (photos?) [Actually, it was 1996]
- It was the only 4-day Otakon [Actually 1995 was the four day Otakon]
- There was a Golddigger Cosplayer
Promo: Randomization Podcast
- Otakon 1999
- First year with girls
- First year at the Baltimore Convention Center
- The place was freaking empty, not like 2006
- Otakon 2000
- Big shift in gender and age
- Tokyopop's Authentic Manga Line begins
- Borders and Barnes & Noble start carrying manga
Photos: Otakon 1999 vs. 2002 vs. 2006
The comic book bubble was in the 1990's, wherein people bought collectors edition covers thinking that the books would be worth money someday, which they weren't.
Thanks to that idiocy the comic market closed, and there were no new comics readers until Tokyopop brought girls back into the mix. More recently comics have undergone a resurgence, because graphic novels can be found in bookstores, and also because of Marvel's big Hollywood movies based on comics that get comic readers back into comic book shops. (Noteably; Spiderman, V for Vendetta, X-Men, and even Ghost World and American Splendor, all sold thousands more books than would've sold otherwise.)
- James has 1st edition Ranma 1/2 comics


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J.J. Abrams Star Trek Revamp Pushed to 2009
It looks like the new Star Trek restart movie has been moved to May 8th, 2009. Apparently, this move has nothing to do with the writer's strike of the past few months, but due to the strength of the movie. So now instead of a Holiday season 2008 movie, it will be the movie to kick-start the summer box office for 2009. So I'm wondering, will there be any movies worth seeing in 2008 now?
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2014 Ford Mustang GT Review: Introduction
The 2014 Ford Mustang GT represents the end of an era. The next model year for Ford's illustrious pony car will see a dramatic reinterpretation of the nameplate that should banish the vehicle's much-maligned live rear axle to the dust heap and alter the vehicle's lines so that it distances itself from the retro trip that it's been traveling for much of the past decade. Modernizing an icon is never an easy task, but it's an important one that can't be ignored lest automakers risk letting even their most popular products rot on the vine.
I was happy, then, to spend a week getting re-acquainted with the 2014 Ford Mustang GT's not insubstantial charms. Just because the rest of the market has moved on from certain aspects of the Mustang GT's character doesn't make the vehicle any less enjoyable, nor does it take away from the stunning performance-to-dollar ratio that this particular model has to offer. In a world where technological sophistication is advancing to the nth degree at a seemingly breakneck pace, it's always a pleasure to sample the ultimate edition of a tried-and-true muscle car formula.
2014 Ford Mustang GT Review: Models and Prices
The 2014 Ford Mustang GT – in coupe form, which is what I was driving – features a starting MSRP of $30,900. You get a decent amount of gear for your money if you decide to stick with the base model, which offers power windows and door locks, a CD player, a place to plug in your MP3 player, cruise control, air conditioning, keyless entry, HID headlights, 18-inch rims, fog lights, and a limited-slip differential. Moving up to the GT Premium trim (MSRP $35,000) adds the SYNC vehicle interface, leather seats with power adjustments for the driver, ambient lighting and special color-adjustable gauge lighting, a driver information screen, and a louder stereo system.
The version of the 2014 Ford Mustang GT that I sampled was a Premium model that came with a few nice-to-have options installed. These included the GT Track Pack (Torsen limited-slip rear differential, more aggressive gearing, upgraded cooling, Brembo brakes, 19-inch rims, less-intrusive electronic stability control settings), reverse sensors, a panoramic glass roof, the Electronics package (navigation, HD radio, dual automatic climate control, satellite radio), a rearview camera, illuminated door sills, and Recaro leather sport seats. All told, my car stickered for a hefty $44,362 – nearly $10,000 over the GT Premium's starting price.
2014 Ford Mustang GT Review: Design
What's New:
- The 2014 Ford Mustang GT does not offer any new design elements for the current model year.
The 2014 Ford Mustang GT has achieved such strong sales success in large part due to its throwback sheet metal, which calls to mind a more aerodynamic version of the original Mustang's late-60's fastback looks. Much has been written about the retro craze that has caused automakers around the world to dig up the bones of previously retired designs and reanimate them in the hopes of cashing in on nostalgia, but given that 2014 represents the last year that the Mustang will mine this vein of golden opportunity, I'd like to recognize the car as being one of the most successful executions of this particular strategy. There's no doubt that the traditional long nose / short rear deck ratio that dominates the Mustang GT's profile is a pleasing one, and although its sloping greenhouse isn't as graceful as it could be, from either the front or the back this is one imposing automobile. I especially like the sequential rear turn signals, which blink in a 1-2-3 pattern to point out the driver's intentions. Ford has done a good job of protecting the GT's muscular image as well, for although it resembles the more affordable V-6 model it's still identifiable as the enthusiast's version of the car by way of subtle lighting, wheel, and trim cues.
The Mustang GT's cabin isn't quite so masterfully sculpted. Some of the passenger compartment's features score style points, such as the deep-dish gauges directly in front of the driver and the way the leather and padding are stitched into the Recaro seats. These callbacks to the Mustang's heritage are nice, but it's honestly hard to read the speedometer shunted all the way over to the left and buried deep in the dashboard. Another aspect of the interior that I liked was the ability to change the color of the ambient lights and the gauges themselves, which was a fun distraction and not a bad way to accent the Grabber Blue of my test vehicle. Otherwise, the rest of the Mustang GT's trim and materials feel far more like the V-6 model's $20,000 origins than a $44,000 automobile.
2014 Ford Mustang GT Review: Comfort and Cargo
What's New:
- The 2014 Ford Mustang GT is unchanged compared to the previous model year.
The 2014 Ford Mustang GT should be thought of as a two-passenger coupe that can handle one or two extra riders in a pinch. Don't take the GT in its name literally – the only true grand touring muscle car currently on the market is the much larger Dodge Challenger. That being said, as a daily driver I can find little to fault the Ford, as the tighter GT suspension system doesn't introduce all that much harshness even when crossing train tracks or rough pavement. Some owners might be bothered by the length of the car's doors, which can make it a challenge to get in and out of the low seating position when parked against a tall curb or in between other cars in a tight parking lot.
I was disappointed with the Mustang's Recaro seats, as they consistently dug into my lower back on trips of 30 minutes or more. This was in direct contrast to the Recaro models found in the Focus ST, which are more aggressively bolstered yet never become uncomfortable no matter how long one stays behind the wheel. In their defense, the Mustang GT's optional leather thrones do an excellent job of keeping both forward occupants from sliding around the car when pushing it hard.
2014 Ford Mustang GT Review: Features and Controls
What's New:
- The 2014 Ford Mustang GT does not gain any new controls compared to the previous model year.
I've already talked about what I didn't like concerning the 2014 Ford Mustang GT's gauge cluster, but there were also several aspects of the pony car's data display that I did enjoy. The Track Apps feature that was presented on the small LCD screen located between the tach and the speedo provided me with the ability to time my runs to 60-mph as well as view intake temperatures, the car's air/fuel ratio, and a host of other interesting tidbits that come in very handy when taking a car like the Mustang GT to the track. I especially enjoyed the fact that the information could be displayed either as straight numbers in a list format or as a series of analog gauges which were easy to read on the fly.
I also enjoyed the Ford SYNC system that managed the car's major systems (entertainment, navigation, climate control) by way of a touchscreen mounted on the center console. It's a step below the MyFord Touch system, but in some ways that's a good thing, because aside from having to puzzle out how to organize the screen's 3-way split to present the most useful set of controls and information, it's fairly easy to interpret.
2014 Ford Mustang GT Review: Safety and Ratings
What's New:
- The 2014 Ford Mustang GT does not introduce any new safety equipment.
The 2014 Ford Mustang GT keeps things simple in the safety department, relying on a full complement of airbags (seat-mounted side units up front, dual forward airbags, and side curtain airbags) to work together with electronic traction control and multi-stage stability control to protect passengers from injury. Some consider the MyKey system, which allows owners to limit the vehicle's top speed and stereo volume when lending it out, to be a safety system as well.
2014 Ford Mustang GT Crash-Test Ratings: The Ford Mustang GT scored a four out of five stars in each of the major NHTSA crash test ratings. The vehicle has to be rated by the IIHS, but the 2013 model was granted Top Safety Pick status by the organization.
2014 Ford Mustang GT Review: Engines and Fuel Economy
What's New:
- The 2014 Ford Mustang GT maintains the same drivetrain options as were found in the previous model year.
The 2014 Ford Mustang GT presents drivers with the same 5.0-liter V-8 engine that has been available since 2011. In the current edition of the car, this monster unit produces 420 horsepower and 390 lb-ft of torque, and it can be matched with either a six-speed manual or a six-speed automatic transmission. My car came with the manual gearbox, and I was able to produce 0-60-mph times of about five seconds on a hard launch. Fuel mileage for the Mustang GT isn't as bad you might think, checking in at 18-mpg in city driving and 25-mpg on the highway. Attaining those figures in the real world, however, requires you to drive gingerly around town and make extensive use of the car's fourth and fifth ratios.
2014 Ford Mustang GT Review: Driving Impressions
It's popular to hate on the 2014 Ford Mustang GT's live rear axle setup – the one thing about the car's platform that enthusiasts will be most happy to see eliminated in the car's upcoming 2015 redesign – but it's not something that I took much notice of during my week with the car. I grew up driving a lot of very basic pickup trucks, and after years spent absorbing the does-and-don'ts of driving a light-in-the-rear live-axle vehicle through the Canadian winter the Mustang GT didn't have any surprises to spring on me mid-corner. You'll have to keep in mind that the coupe's back end is liable to step out should you encounter a pothole or even a rough patch of road while taking a turn at speed, but other than that the solid rear axle's ability to plant the power down in a straight-line launch was much appreciated.
It would be a stretch to call the Mustang GT 'nimble,' but it generally goes where you point it as long as you are willing to work with the context of its suspension system. It wouldn't be my first choice as a track car, to be sure, but witness the success that Ford has had with the now-departed Boss 302 variant of the GT's platform and you can easily see that the potential is there to create a much more subtle road course instrument.
If, on the other hand, laying down ridiculously-long twin rubber assaults on the pavement outside of your house, local drive-in, or quiet industrial park is more your thing. then the Mustang GT is your dream ride. Driven calmly the Ford rarely attempts to break traction thanks to the Track Pack's Torsen differential, but slip the clutch and you can power-slide this coupe with the best of them (and potentially get yourself into a lot of trouble if you're not accustomed to the vagaries of its axle setup). I found the shifter to be reasonable to work with, and the clutch was also well-positioned for all types of shenanigans. My only real complaint is that the Mustang GT's exhaust system wasn't nearly loud enough to inspire fear in the hearts of passersby. It's a surprisingly quiet car given its muscle machine roots.
2014 Ford Mustang GT Review: Final Thoughts
The 2014 Ford Mustang is a muscle car you can light up the local drag strip with at night and then drive into work the next day and not have to worry about how it will stand up to the morning slog through traffic. It's truly a respectable everyday commuter, albeit one that consumes fuel at a high rate than its V-6 cousin, with very little sacrifice asked of owners in terms of comfort or convenience.
Spending close to $45k on the Ford Mustang GT dilutes its value proposition quite a bit – I'd rather own the base model, or at the very most the Premium trim and forgo items like navigation and the glass roof – but make sure that you order the car with the Track Pack to make the most of its performance potential. And move fast, too, because once it's gone, and it will be gone soon, you can bet that Detroit will never build a coupe quite like the 2014 Ford Mustang GT ever again.
2014 Ford Mustang GT Review: Pros and Cons
2014 Ford Mustang GT Review: Pros and Cons
- Aggressive looks, especially in Grabber Blue
- Excellent acceleration and respectable handling
- Recaro seats offer good grip
- Track Apps and Track Pack = lots of fun
- Affordable performance in base form
- The last live-axle car on the market
- Recaro seats not comfortable over the long haul
- Adding $15k of options doesn't make sense for a car like the Mustang GT
- Glass roof looks sharp, but adds considerable weight
- Interior is average at best
- Rear seat suitable for children and young adults
- The last live-axle car on the market


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Commerce Lexington Recognizes Award-winning Small Businesses
Commerce Lexington Inc. announced the category winners in its 2019 Salute to Small Business Awards. The overall award winner for the the year will be announced on August 22. Read more
Commerce Lexington Recognizes Local Leaders During Awards Dinner
Several members of the Lexington community were recognized for their achievements during the 2019 Commerce Lexington Inc. Annual Dinner, held January 24 at Lexington Center. Read more
Lexington's larger companies join ranks to create new executive recruitment video for Lexington
Globally headquartered companies in Lexington have teamed up with the city to promote the benefits of a Bluegrass address to their highly sought executive job prospects, with a new video available on vimeo.com. Read more
Awesome-led innovation hub announced to serve Central Kentucky's growing entrepreneurial community
SPARK, a BBDP initiative, released the results of its annual self-reported survey of entrepreneurs in Central Kentucky, showing that local entrepreneurial businesses created 287 new jobs and attracted $107.5 million in capital funding in FY2018. Read more
Lexington's developing entrepreneurial 'ecosystem' takes center stage at annual SPARK summit
SPARK Angel Investor Summit set to convene in downtown Lexington on Friday
The SPARK Angel Investor Summit will take place on Friday, September 28, 2018, from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Hyatt Regency in downtown Lexington, Kentucky. Read more
BACK Construction Named Small Business of the Year
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Lexington leaders are Boise-bound this week for Commerce Lexington's annual Leadership Visit
About 180 representatives of business, education, government and civic engagement in Lexington will visit Boise, Idaho, from May 8-10 for the 2018 Commerce Lexington Leadership Visit. Read more
Outstanding Local Leaders and Volunteers Recognized During Annual Dinner
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Small Business of the Year winner Omni Architects builds a solid legacy
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Omni Architects Wins Small Business of the Year Award
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Commerce Lexington honors local business at annual awards dinner
Commerce Lexington Inc. celebrated local businesses and entrepreneurs during its annual awards gathering. Read more
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The fifth annual Bluegrass Wellness at Work challenge, an idea born from Commerce Lexington's Leadership Lexington program, will begin in May and allow local companies to engage in friendly fitness competition for six weeks. Read more
Lexington celebrates global entrepreneurship with weeklong schedule of events
Lexington is celebrating Global Entrepreneurship Week from Nov. 14-20, with a host of events scheduled to highlight the strength and opportunity of the local entrepreneurial community. Read more
Gray presses long-shot senate bid before city's business leaders
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By Jessica Warren
British imperialism may have technically ended in 1997 with the transfer of Hong Kong to China, away from British powers. Yet, with a considerable lack of education on the widespread impacts of British colonial and imperial rule, there is an absence of discussion surrounding the prevailing scars left behind. As a journalist, it is important to recognise my own standpoint when discussing this issue. Yes, I am a white, middle-class woman from the UK, and amid recognising this, I am hoping to open-up discussion as to the privileges we experience, and the way our imperialist past still exists within society.
Recent revelations have found that aid workers from Oxfam had paid for sex workers, allegedly hosting sex parties with prostitutes whilst on the 2010 mission to Haiti following an earthquake. Embedded within this appalling revelation are themes of exploitation, oppression and domination; themes still remnant from colonial rule and western European slave trade. It seems the western idea of visiting a country with the intent to 'help' and 'better' it, as well as 'modernise' or even 'civilise' a culture has not lessened. Perhaps wrapped up in glossier packaging of 'aid work', the underlying message of helping a country because they are unable to help themselves rings reminiscent of colonial discourse.
The power behind NGO's such as Oxfam is something to marvel at. With this recent revelation being one of a cover up, it is not unforeseen that further allegations of sexual abuse, bullying, harassment and intimidation in the aid sector soon followed. Whilst admissions of this nature are appalling, this is not the first, nor the last time behaviour of this nature will be revealed. Arguably, there is something intrinsically wrong with the system if behaviour of this nature is being covered up time and time again, rather than being dealt with in the appropriate manner. New International Development Secretary, Penny Mordaunt has stated that she will be writing to all UK charities which receive UK aid and is requesting they detail the steps being taken to ensure the existence and follow-through of safeguarding policies.
Stand-up comedian, and previous aid worker, Shaista Aziz described working for various NGO's, with all of them sharing a similar culture of bullying, women being belittled, and casual racism. She argues that there is a "revolving door between many of them", where male workers who have been picked-up as having unpleasant demeanour go from one agency to another. She says "it's not a coincidence that most of Britain's biggest aid NGOs are dominated by white men and some white women at a senior level.".
The 'white male' is often referred to as having the highest level of privilege possible within society, and it is important to question why many of our biggest corporations as well as NGO's are run by more men named John than women, and come from this advantaged background. When we talk about embedded imperial power dynamics within society, this is where we must look. Capitalism is a huge enforcer of these relations, with the connectedness of globalisation resulting in pollution being exported to countries such as China, up until they recently put their foot down. Outsourcing production to "developing" countries, and I use the word developing in inverted commas, as it is an unfair definition from the west, seeking to measure another country against their own standards, has only led to wage exploitation. With the exception of a few countries, the world has only become more unequal in the last century.
Where colonialism has ended in its previous form, the power relations still remain, and it has taken on a new face. As western society, we are exploiting the environment at levels previously unseen, and with the advancement of newly industrialising countries, more of our population will be tapping into these limited resources. Not only are we exploiting various populations, but we are exploiting the very planet we live on. As such, colonial behaviours; a behaviour characterised by exploitation, oppression and domination is only spreading further afield, both literally and figuratively.
The recognition that we buy new clothes instead of repairing them, we get a new phone every year, and that we mindlessly consume western ideals until they become ingrained in our behaviours is essential. In order to recognise the prevalence of colonial and imperialist doctrine, we must question every aspect of the society in which we live, first looking at ourselves.


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The Navy is searching for a suitable design for its newest aquisition, HMNZS AOTEAROA. Ships badges are important to the ship, members of the crew and the region to which the ship is attached. If you have a design idea click this LINK and enter the competition.
Soon the Royal New Zealand Navy will take delivery of HMNZS Aotearoa – a 24,000 tonne tanker and replenishment ship that will be largest the Navy has ever operated.
HMNZS Aotearoa will replace the fleet tanker HMNZS Endeavour that decommissions this year after more than 30 years of loyal service. Aotearoa will boast state of the art design and capability features including ice-strengthening and 'winterisation' features for operations in Antarctica. She will also be able to carry 12 containers of supplies and have the ability to produce 100 tonnes of fresh water each day which will make her invaluable when providing humanitarian aid and disaster relief.
She will carry 8,000 tonnes of diesel fuel which is enough to 'fill up' a frigate like Te Mana or Te Kaha 13.87 times. And she'll be able to carry and operate a RNZAF NH90 helicopter. Aotearoa will have a core crew of 64 plus 11 flight crew.
Builder: Hyundai Heavy Industries, South Korea
Delivery: January 2020
Home port: New Plymouth, Taranaki
Patron: Governor General of New Zealand, Dame Patsy Reddy GNZM, QSO, DStJ


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I was trying out for the ScrapStreet magazine team too... Unfortunately, I wasn't chosen. Boohoo... :( Oh well.. I'm sure there's another chance again next time. I really enjoyed this contest. It really pushed me to step up with my scrapping and thanks to it, I've created some of my favorite layouts during this contest, met amazing new friends and learned a lot of things.
Finally finished all my CJ commitments for the moment. This one's for Donna's CJ. Her topic is About Me. I enjoyed doing this double pager.. different from my usual style.. but still I loved the fact I tried something different.
This one is for Gina's CJ - Her topic is Girls and she requested double page pre-made layouts. So here's mine.
Have a few projects in mind to do this week.. and I need to scrap my April review. So will post more layouts soon - hopefully! Stay tuned and have a great week!!!