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A while back I used to be obsessed with games like Farmville, Frontierville, and a couple other "-ville" games on Facebook. I stopped playing all of them, some because they got too complicated, some I just lost interest in. I was recently asked to play Tail Towns Friends and see how I like it.
When I first started the game it was automatically cute, who can resist little cute mice and other little animals. Some of the features remind me of other games I've played. The one thing that stuck out to me was that everything had a little story to go with the goal, it kind of give you a reason to complete the goal. I think my favorite character is Val. I met her when I first "moved" into the town. The reason she's my favorite is because she's a blogger!
The main story is that there is a bad guy who is trying to put small business out of business and your job is to help them keep their store, cafe, etc going by supplying them with fresh product from your land. It's been fun growing fruits, vegetables and flowers to sell and now making juice with the fruits to sell. For the goals you have to do a lot of different things such as gather a certain amount of fruit, vegetables, flowers, etc or ask your neighbors for items. For me right now it's getting difficult because I only have a few friends on my list who play the game, despite me inviting a lot of my friends to play. Since it's a new game I expect others to join in soon as they hear how cute it is and that it's fun to play.
One fun thing about Tail Towns Friends is that you can go back and forth no only to your neighbors/friends but to the town to do other things like sell things and talk to other characters. One by one you get to click on different shops, buildings to work on your goals.
Something else that makes Tail Towns Friends stick out from the other games, they have figurines! I was sent the Fashion Designer and am now working on the goals that goes with her. Each figurine has a secret code that unlocks items to buy and also goals to finish. I'm enjoying it. Plus, look how cute this figurine is.
I have fun playing this free game on Facebook. You can check out Tail Towns Friends on Facebook and try it for yourself!
*Jackie received the above product(s), free of charge, as well as monetary compensation to facilitate this review. All opinions are those of reviewer only.


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Besart Berisha blows up at Victory coach Kevin Muscat
Melbourne Victory striker Besart Berisha launched an expletive-laden tirade at coach Kevin Muscat after being substituted off during his side's Asian Champions League match against Kawasaki Frontale.
Berisha was extremely unhappy to be pulled off in the 70th minute, with the scores tied at 0-0. The striker deliberately avoided his coach as he ran off, acknowledged his replacement Kenny Athiu, and continued to express his anger as he headed to the bench.
The veteran's response sparked plenty of discussion on social media.
However, Muscat's move paid off, with Kosta Barbarouses scoring the winner for Victory in injury time, keeping their Champions League dream alive.
The Victory boss had some pointed remarks on the incident after the match, telling Fox Sports the "last time I looked, it's a football team".
''Nobody's happy when they come off. I am more interested in those who come on," Muscat said in his press conference.
"Kenny did very well. The contribution from the boys (substitutes) that came on was exactly what was required.
"I'll have a look at it and whatever those conversations are (with Berisha) they will remain private."
Muscat's moves were roundly applauded by fans and pundits, as Victory look ahead to their final two group games.
The Melbourne side sit third on goal difference but have a real chance to progress to the knockout stages.
Claire Siracusa is a desk editor in The Age sport department.


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In January of 1977, Czechoslovakian dissidents composed a document entitled Charter 77 which sought to hold the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic government responsible for human rights violations. The document's architects included prominent Czech dissidents Vaclav Havel, Jan Patocka, and Jiri Hajeck; however, only 230 signatures initially appeared on the charter and by 1989 included merely 1,864 signatories out of a population of over fifty million.[1] Charter 77's objective was to organize an informal network of citizens to hold the Czechoslovakian government publically accountable for frequent human rights abuses which the government had declared to uphold by signing the Helsinki Accords in 1975. The charter advocated for the universal recognition of human rights specifically citing suppression of civil liberties, freedom of expression, freedom of religion, and the blacklisting of dissidents and their families from employment and educational opportunities. While the charter was political in nature, the crafters and signatories never sought to advance a mass movement so as to prevent violent repression against the charter's supporters, and instead relied upon informal associations to report the government's human rights abuses. Though Charter 77 was a Czechoslovakian dissident movement, this essay will examine the charter's emphasis on human rights and how human rights developed into an important factor in post war Eastern Europe on the international, national, and individual levels.
Internationally, Charter 77 demonstrates the importance of human rights in foreign relations during the Cold War specifically between the Soviet Union and United States. In Vladislav Zubok's Failed Empire, he states that, "the commitment to human rights embedded in the [Helsinki] act proved to be a time bomb under the Soviet regime."[2] The Helsinki Accords, signed by thirty-five nations including the Soviet Union and its Warsaw Pact allies, was initially hailed as a foreign policy victory for Leonid Brezhnev as the agreement recognized long term Soviet goals of non-intervention in domestic affairs and territorial integrity; however, as Zubok points out, the human rights articles of this agreement developed into a rallying point for Eastern European dissidents. The Charter 77 dissidents specifically cited the Helsinki Accords to criticize the Czechoslovakian government stating that since the signing, "our citizens have the right, and our state the duty, to abide by them," but that these rights "exist on paper only."[3] Dissident criticism of the Soviet state through the frame of human rights developed into a point of contention between the United States and the Soviet Union. During the Carter Administration, his National Security Advisor Zbrigniew Brzezinski, a native of Poland, fiercely insisted that the Soviet Union uphold the Helsinki Accords perplexing the Soviets who believed arms control was more important than human rights. The promotion of human rights under the Carter Administration factored into détente's unraveling and the hardening of relations as dissidents, journalists, and Carter perceived détente as an appeasement policy.[4] With the rise of dissident movements clamoring for human rights, especially in Poland, the United States continually insisted that the Soviet Union respect human rights which Zubok describes as, "the most important criteria for the president's assessment of Soviet intentions."[5] Zubok's emphasis on human rights in US-Soviet relations reveals that dissident movements like Charter 77 advocating for human rights, though small, profoundly influenced high politics and the foreign policy strategy of the United States towards the Soviet Union.
While Zubok describes human rights as a time bomb, he fails to discuss why they were a bomb and when, if ever, this bomb exploded. By examining the rights demanded by Charter 77, such as civil liberties and freedom of expression, and observing when the Soviet Union began recognizing these rights exhibits why human rights were a bomb and how it detonated. According to Zubok, the catastrophe at Chernobyl, the decline of oil prices, and the development of Gorbachev's "new thinking" resulted in the liberalization of Soviet human rights. Following the disaster at Chernobyl, Gorbachev realized that nuclear war was undesirable and parity with the US was unattainable; furthermore, with the decline in oil prices, reducing arms spending would provide hard currency for the dilapidated economy. However, the failure of negotiations with Ronald Reagan persuaded Soviet officials, "that the persecution of dissidents and religious groups presented a major obstacle for negotiations with the United States."[6] The failure of negotiations compelled Gorbachev to seek the support of Western Europe in the hopes of pressuring the US into arms agreements yet European support remained contingent upon recognizing human rights as well. These demands by Western Europe and the United States coerced Gorbachev and the KGB to free political prisoners and reduce arrests for political crimes which furthered the growing influence of enlightened dissidents.[7] Ultimately, while dissident movements clamoring for human rights remained small, they were an important negotiation tool for the West, and Gorbachev's liberalization of Soviet society and suspension of the Brezhnev Doctrine to gain Western European support for arms reduction agreements exploded into mass movements that demanded autonomy from the USSR.
On the national level, Czechoslovakia and the Charter 77 dissidents conform to the paradigm presented by Stephan Kotkin in his study Uncivil Society. Czechoslovakia, like the case studies of East Germany and Romania, was governed by a ruling clique that complied with Kotkin's term uncivil society, remained economically dependant upon Western loans, and experienced spontaneous mass mobilization in 1989. Within this paradigm, Charter 77 emphasizes and supports Kotkin's understanding and differentiation between civil and uncivil society. While some scholars have suggested that dissident movements represented an emerging civil society, Kotkin understands their arguments as "profoundly misleading" and "falsely generalizing," and instead argues that though dissident movements were morally important they did not, "constitute any kind of society."[8] Kotkin's argument that civil society failed to develop in Eastern Europe is supported by Charter 77 which states, "Charter 77 is not an organization; it has no rules, permanent bodies, or formal membership . . . It does not form the basis for any oppositional political activity."[9] The authors of Charter 77 explicitly denied formal organization because political opposition was illegal in a single party state; furthermore, if the creation of political opposition remained illegal, the dissidents could not constitute a civil society as this required the protection of civil liberties, private property, and the ability to self organize; all unattainable in the communist system. Therefore, Charter 77 dissident criticized the government through the language of human rights provided by the Helsinki Accords; however, they denied political organization as it was illegal and, by denying this, Charter 77 confirms Kotkin's argument that dissident movements were incapable of forming civil societies or a significantly influential movement.
However, while Charter 77 supports Kotkin's argument concerning civil society, there is a vast divergence concerning human rights. For Kotkin, human rights and international agreements such as the Helsinki Accords are quickly dismissed to explore uncivil societies' ossified bureaucracy, ineffectual governance, and financial mismanagement. He posits that though dissidents appealed to the Helsinki Accords and Communist regimes' own constitutions to demand recognition of human rights, their appeals were unheard and unattainable due to the nature of communist rule.[10] The exclusion of human rights from his analysis allows Kotkin to support his argument that the failure of uncivil society resulted in "bank runs" whereby the unorganized panicking masses run to the bank (the national government) to withdraw their personal deposits (governmental legitimacy) causing the bank to default (the failure of the communist government). However, this metaphor fails to persuade concerning Czechoslovakia and instead reveals that dissident movements, while not widely influential, represented embryonic civil societies which the masses organized around especially in Czechoslovakia. This is supported by the fact that many of Charter 77's architects formed the Czechoslovakian political organization Civic Forum which negotiated with the communist regime to secure the transfer of power and the creation of a new government. The representation of dissidents as embryonic civil societies is particularly evident when examining Vaclav Havel who drafted Charter 77, was president of Civic Forum, and elected president of Czechoslovakia in 1989. Thus dissident movements advocating for human rights, though small, should not be dismissed as ineffectual as they played a key role in the collapse of communism on the national level: they symbolized an emerging civil society that grasped authority in the tumultuous days of 1989, organized the masses against the communist regimes, and negotiated the transfer of power.
While the Czechoslovakian dissident movement remained small, in Poland the rise of the Solidarity Trade Union developed into a national phenomenon; however, unsanctioned trade unions like Solidarity were illegal under the communist regime and fell into the basket of human rights advocated by Charter 77. The charter states that communist governments' prevent "workers and others from exercising the unrestricted right to establish trade unions and other organizations to protect their economic and social interests."[11] The charter advocated for the establishment of independent trade unions because all organizations in a communist nation were sanctioned by the party and therefore supported the state's interests and not those of workers and individuals. The inability of workers to promote their own demands led the establishment of Solidarity in 1980 during a general strike over an increase in food prices. Unable to suppress the strikes, the state relented and allowed for the establishment of free labor unions and, on November 10th 1980, Solidarity became the first independent trade union in a communist country. Nevertheless, viewed from Warsaw and Moscow, these concessions were deemed unacceptable and Poland's new Prime Minister, General Wojciech Jaruzelski, declared marshal law arresting Solidarity's leaders.[12] The pronouncement of marshal law and the imprisonment of dissidents violated not only the human rights of the workers but also those of the nation as marshal law led to increased censorship and violent clashes between protestors and the government. This catapulted the national to the international as world leaders and Pope John Paul II, a native of Poland, expressed outrage at the human rights abuses carried out by the communist Polish government. Hence, the Polish situation in the early 1980s reveals the importance of free trade unions to the concept of human rights and why dissident movements like Charter 77 supported them.
Nationally, Charter 77 also advocated against the, "inference in the private life of citizens exercised by the Ministry of Interior."[13] The intrusion of private life by state security forces occurred in all Soviet states, whether the KGB, StB, or the Stasi, and resulted in numerous arrests for subverting the state. The East Germany Stasi were the most prominent of the secret police forces in the Eastern Block and their violations are describe by Tony Judt in Post War. The Stasi employed 85,000 full time workers and collected information on over 6 million of its citizens revealing the vast web of information that the state collected on its own citizens; furthermore, the state used illegally collected information to force citizens into collaboration against their families, friends, neighbors, and coworkers.[14] Collaboration by citizens with the security apparatus also garnered Charter 77's attention; "setting up networks of neighborhood informers (often recruited by illicit threats or promises)."[15] The formation of collaboration networks further emphasizes the states intrusion into the lives of private citizens but also how the violation of human rights affects the individual. Tony Judt states that these collaboration networks created, "devastating domestic consequences," as, "[h]usbands spied on wives, professors reported on students, priests informed on their parishioners."[16] By intruding into its citizens' private lives, the state violates their basic human rights to personal property and freedom of speech that Western nations take for granted. The dissidents of Charter 77 also understood these violations as they occurred in Czechoslovakia as well, and they sought to draw Western attention to the communist regime's violation of rights and the inability of citizens to defend themselves against the government's clandestine actions.
While examining the role of dissident movements on the international and national levels reveals dissidents' political influence, Slavenka Drakulic's How We Survived Communism and Even Laughed demonstrates how individuals' human rights were violated and why they developed into important points for dissident movements like Charter 77. The demand that the government cease discriminating against those holding dissenting views appeared first in Charter 77's list of human rights abuses. It stated, "citizens are prevented from working in their own fields for the sole reason that they hold views differing from officials ones . . . [they] live in constant danger of unemployment or other penalties if they voice their own opinions."[17] This type of suppression is demonstrated in Drakulic's anecdote concerning Tanja, a Yugoslavian journalist, who wrote an article arguing against nationalizing pinball machines.[18] While her article appeared innocent, she actually utilized the pinball machine to present a much broader argument concerning the absurdity of dismantling small private business. As a result of this articles renunciation by the communist regime, Tanja's colleagues disregarded her and her editors refused to publish her work. Now labeled a dissident, Tanja could no longer work in her chosen field because she had proposed alternative ideas differing from the official government line. Tanja's story exhibits the dangers and penalties of proposing ideas counter to the official line and demonstrates the realities of the human rights violations that Charter 77 emphasized. Furthermore, Drakulic underwent this type of scrutiny herself when a government censor requested a meeting with her.[19] Prior to her meeting with the censor, Drakulic racked her brain thinking of articles she had written that may have drawn the censor's attention but she recalled none. However, she came to the revelation that censors applied this subtle pressure to internalize auto-censorship within journalists thus causing the journalist to modify their own behavior so as prevent them from writing anti-government material. The communist regimes' blacklisting of intellectuals and intimidation of journalists reveals why Charter 77 advocated for the freedom of expression and the ability to hold dissenting views.
Another source of repression cited by Charter 77 was the freedom of religion and the communist regime's interference, removal, and threatening of church officials.[20] The Czechoslovakian dissidents argued that citizens should be able to freely and indiscriminately practice their religion without government intrusion. In examining the church, Drakulic recalls her childhood in which her grandmother continued religious holidays and traditions such as giving gifts on Christmas and dying eggs for Easter but that she did not discuss these activities with her father a communist partisan which reveals the suppression of religion under communism.[21] Furthermore, this shows a divergence between the public and the private sphere concerning religious practices within the communist system. Publicly, the nation disregarded church holidays and participated in replacement public holidays imagined by the communist regimes. The participation in replacement holidays is displayed by Drakulic's reminiscence that as child she received a song book titled Partisan Songs instead of learning hymns and carols. However, privately citizens continued practicing traditional church customs as shown by Drakulic's story of her grandmother. This reveals that even though the public participated in new imagined communist holidays, the traditional religions remained influential. Thsi is demonstrated when Drakulic recounts attending a Christmas Eve mass shortly after the reinstitution of the church and discovered that it was overflowing with people who can still recite prayers and sing the hymns. This relates to Charter 77 because it shows that religion remained an important factor in citizens' lives and that suppressing peoples' ability and choice to practice religions violated their human rights.
Ultimately, Charter 77 demonstrates the importance of human rights to the dissident movement in the Soviet Union, and an examination of the historiography of post war Eastern Europe displays the significance of dissidents and human rights on the international, national, and individual levels. On the international level, human rights developed into a crucial negotiating point between the United States and the Soviet Union especially after the signing of the Helsinki Accords. As Zubok shows, the United States ceased détente policies and consistently based arms negotiations strategies around the Soviet's adherence to human rights coercing Gorbachev into liberalizing aspects of Soviet society. Nationally, after the communist regimes' recognized human rights agreements, Kotkin and the authors of Charter 77 both demonstrates that small dissident networks utilized the language of human rights to expose the communist system's hypocrisy. In Poland, the Solidarity movement proved the exception to Kotkin's paradigm as the trade union represented an organized mass movement; however, the suppression of this movement by marshal law reveals the importance of human rights in a national context. While small networks of dissidents, never exercised any real power, they represented emerging or embryonic civil societies. In Czechoslovakia, the organizers of Charter 77 negotiated the transfer of power in 1989 and were elected into national governments while the same is true of Solidarity's leaders in Poland. Individually, Charter 77 recognized that the machinations of the communist regimes' profoundly affected individuals' lives. This is evident in Drakulic's book which examines individuals and demonstrates how the communist system prevented people from working in their chosen profession, censored ideas that challenged the official line, and suppressed religious practices that were integral to community traditions. The peoples' anger towards government repression eventually boiled over with the introduction of glasnost and perestroika which allowed for the liberalization of society and they rallied behind the dissidents that had long agitated against the communist regimes. Thus, by influencing all levels of society, Charter 77 and its appeal to human rights formed the foundation of dissident activism and played a crucial role in the Soviet Union's dismantling.
[1] Jan-Werner Müller, Memory and Power in Post-War Europe, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002), 174; Charter 77 Declaration, The Global Revolutions of 1968, ed. Jeremi Suri, (New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 2007), 284.
[2] Vladislav Zubok, A Failed Empire, (Chapel Hill: UNC Press Books, 2009), 238.
[3] Charter 77, 285.
[4] Zubok, 192.
[5] Zubok, 286
[6] Zubok, 298.
[7] Ibid, 301.
[8] Stephan Kotkin and Jan T. Gross, Uncivil Society, (New York: Random House, 2009), 10.
[9] Charter 77, 289.
[10] Kotkin, 9.
[11] Charter 77, 287.
[12] Tony Judt, Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945, (New York: Penguin Books, 2006), 588, 589
[13] Charter 77, 287.
[14] Judt, 697, 698.
[15] Charter 77, 287.
[16] Judt, 698.
[17] Charter 77, 285.
[18] Slavenka Drakulic, House We Survived Communism and Even Laughed, (New York: Harper Perennial, 1992), 2.
[19] Ibid, 78.
[20] Charter 77, 286.
[21] Drakulic, 152


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Why I Wrote More Than A Journey
Why I Wrote More Than A Journey
There are two main reasons.
1 – I was already writing stories even before I knew how to write. While in kindergarten I got hold of an exercise book and scribbled all pages, line by line, in imitation of adult writing. When I showed it to my father he pretended that he could read it and told me a beautiful story.
Already at that age I considered each blank page of paper a challenge to be filled with meaning which continued throughout my life.
2 – It was Mallory, who on 8 June 1924 set out to climb the highest mountain on earth and perished close to the summit either on the way up or on the way down, nobody will know as he did not leave any signs. When he was asked why he wanted to climb Mt. Everest he answered "because it is there."
This laconic answer made me reflect on my life which covered most of the turbulent years of the last century and inspired me to capture those times in a book.
If somebody should ask me whether More Than a Journey is autobiographical I would have to say "Yes, in parts, but highly embellished, exaggerated and even cathartic."
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It has become painfully clear to me now that there is no hope for Charity. LSU wants a shiny new sprawling medical complex and they don't care what historic landmarks or neighborhoods or communities stand in their way. It's been four years since Hurricane Katrina gave LSU and the State of Louisiana the Golden Opportunity to lock the doors on Charity. Since then it has languished, decaying day by day like the health of the citizens of New Orleans.
Mayor Nagin is a clueless, ineffective caricature of leadership, concerned more with lining his pockets than the well-being of this city. Governor Jindal is on the money train with his cronies and frat brothers at LSU, even though they have failed multiple times to find financing for their boondoggle. President Obama certainly could care less, otherwise he would have sliced us off a tasty hunk of that Stimulus Cheese to help solve the problem. So what can we do?
Let's die.
Winter is coming and this gives us all a great opportunity to catch pneumonia and die. And when it's time for all of us to go, let's use our last breaths to crawl to the locked and boarded cyclone fence that surrounds Charity and shuffle off this mortal coil in mass protest. That'll show 'em! Piles of corpses surrounding the building, cough drops and throat lozenges clogging the sewers like so many discarded Mardi Gras doubloons and Moon Pies, rivers of phlegm and mucous running down Tulane Avenue to the river, and in each of our hands a can of LSU brand Chicken Soup with the handwritten message, "It's not working." Is that what it would take for someone in Baton Rouge to finally wake up and do something?
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UPDATED – A woman has been arrested in connection with the death of a 64 year old man on the Isle of Skye today.
The body of a 64 year-old man was found at a property in the Breakish area of the island on Sunday.
On Wednesday, Police Scotland said that a woman of 59 yrs, had been arrested and taken in for questioning as inquiry's are underway.
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Between July – November 2018 the Ambassadors will create opportunities for colleagues to connect, explore and support each other to challenge risk averse cultures with a series of workshops held across the UK. We'll keep adding new events into the calendar as they are finalised. These events are open to all and RSVP details are included below.
|Booking & Details
|29 June 2018
|4pm – 6pm
|Uzma Kazi & Tim Wheeler
|Hebden Bridge Town Hall, West Yorkshire
|Via Eventbrite
|16 July 2018
|10am – 4pm
|Kate Hall & Josie Stone
|Metal @ Chauffers' Cottage, Peterborough
|Via Eventbrite
|Byron Vincent and Ann Bellamy are guest speakers. Lunch is included.
|18 July 2018
|10am – 3pm
|Kate McStraw & Molly Scarborough
|Poole Museum, Dorset
|Via Eventbrite
|20 July 2018
|6:30pm – 9:30pm
|Daisy Orton & Jane Pitt
|The Limes Pub, Faversham
|By email
|16 Aug 2018
|2pm – 6pm
|Annie Mahtani, Rosie Kay, Laura Killeen & Lucy Nicholls
|Birmingham Hippodrome
|Via Eventbrite
|11 Sept 2018
|10.30am – 12.30pm
|Karen O'Neill & Helen Watson
|Invitation open to Women in Leadership Network North West
|19 Sept 2018
|2pm – 5pm
|Flo Reynolds, Danny O'Hara, Duncan Joseph
|The National Centre for Writing, Dragon Hall, Norwich
|By email
|21 Sept 2018
|10am – 2pm
|Shasti Lowton & Dianna Djokey
|Oasis, Arundel Street, Portmouth, PO1 1NP
|Via Eventbrite
|This workshop is aimed at Uni students and professionals from different walks of life and sectors, to join us in discussing risks one fears in taking, whats at stake when taking them and the support and guidance which can be offered.
There will be free tea and coffee with a light lunch
|25 Sept 2018
|3.30pm – 5:30pm
|Kim Wide & Fiona Evans
|Council House, Plymouth
|Via Eventbrite
|Being Brave and Reaching Out: Risk-Taking in Commissioning. A Cultural Leadership Meeting for Plymouth
|30 Sept 2018
|10am – 1pm
|Sarah Blanc & Tanja Erhart
|Centre17, Walthamstow London
|By email
|8 Nov 2018
|2pm – 4.30pm
|Jenny Rutter & Tina Redford
|The Boo Theatre 679 Bacup Road, Waterfoot, Rossendale, BB4 7HB
|Via Eventbrite
|This workshop is taking place as part of the day long Arts Exchange event – but its fine just to come to the workshop – please contact jenny at superslowway.org.uk if you want to do that.
Alongside the Ambassador workshops above, Index on Censorship and Cause4 are leading a 1/2 day training programme to provide arts and cultural leaders with the guidance, inspiration, tools and resources to navigate the rights and responsibilities of producing challenging or socially sensitive work.
The final two session are:
15 November 2018, Young Vic Theatre, London.
21 November 2018, New Art Exchange, Nottingham
The training session is open to artistic directors, CEOs, senior management and trustees of arts & culture organisations. The session addresses the challenges and opportunities related to artistic risk and freedom of expression. You will deepen your knowledge and understanding of Rights, Risks and Reputations through a comprehensive programme, discussion and further support. The RRR team consists of specialists and facilitators in freedom of expression, artistic risk and ethical fundraising alongside Artistic Director/CEO hosts who are committed to asking the difficult questions of our time.
The RRR programme actively seeks to be fully representative of, reflect, and meet the needs of the arts and cultural sector across gender, race, disability, sexual orientation, religion and class.
Fees are from £25 and a limited number of bursaries are available. For further information and to book, visit www.indexoncensorship.org/artsrisk


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The normal time each week is on Friday Night from 6-9 p.m. The time may vary during the holiday season. The caregiver makes the reservation each week by calling RSVP, 256-232-7207.
This program provides one-on-one assistance to individuals that are mentally and physically challenged during the "night out" at designated facility. (i.e. play games, reading, walking exercises, and caring to personal needs). The "night out" is held at four different churches each month.
Assist with safety precautions for said individuals during "night-out".
Serve as desk registration clerk, snack preparation, or relief caregiver as needed during "night-out."
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Assisted suicide and Sir Terry Pratchett
No-one would choose an industrial estate outside Zurich as the place to end their life. But that is exactly what some Britons are doing.
In Choosing to Die on BBC2, the author Sir Terry Pratchett went to Switzerland to witness the assisted suicide of a British man with motor neurone disease.
It was not just Sir Terry who watched Peter Smedley's final moments - the viewer had a front-row seat as well.
The organisation Dignitas has a building - surrounded by industrial units - where foreigners are helped to die. Swiss citizens can drink the lethal dose they provide in their own homes.
I was working late last night so watched the programme this morning. The final 15 minutes made very difficult, emotional and compelling viewing.
For me, the documentary brought back memories of Dr Anne Turner who ended her life in Zurich five years ago. She had a progressive degenerative condition, supranuclear palsy.
Dr Turner invited the BBC to witness her last day in Switzerland. I travelled with a camera crew to interview her on the morning of her death, asking whether there was anything anyone could say to change her mind.
But like Peter Smedley she had a quiet determination and was unmoveable. Her story was turned into a film, "A Short Stay in Switzerland", starring Julie Walters.
I never went inside the Dignitas flat - back then it was on the third floor of an apartment building in Zurich.
There were clearly very uncomfortable moments for Sir Terry who observed the cheery conversation between Mr Smedley, his wife and the two Dignitas helpers. "This is a pleasant place and they are pleasant people but what is going on here is not exactly medicine," he said
Like others who travel to Switzerland to die, Dr Turner wanted the law changed to permit assisted suicide in Britain. Many who have progressive disorders fear not being fit to travel, so they go to Dignitas earlier than they would have wanted.
Sir Terry Pratchett, who has Alzheimer's disease, is an advocate for assisted suicide in Britain, and said witnessing a death had not changed his opinion.
Many have criticised Choosing to Die as propaganda for assisted suicide. The BBC said Monday's film would help viewers make up "their own minds".


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Zimbabwe vs Australia | ZIM vs AUS Live Streaming Details
The sun has risen for the Kangaroos and they have finally registered a limited overs win against the world number 1 T20 side going around.
before the start of the series, there were a lot of words flashing and going around about the form Australians were in, but a win in their last encounter against Pakistan has definitely made their critics quiet for some time now.
A dominating 9 wickets victory over a top side will definitely hamper their chances for the upcoming games.
Zimbabwe, on the other hand, was beaten all hands up and it looks like the form the Australians have shown in their last game it certainly won't be a walk in the park for the home side.
So, where to catch the live streaming of the match and the expected playing eleven from the game for both sides, here is the answer:
Zimbabwe vs Australia
Where: Harare Sports Club, Harare
When: Jul 03rd, 2018 8:00 AM GMT, 01:30 PM IST, 10:00 AM Local
Pitch Report:
The Harare pitch was drastically changed in the last game when Pakistan were bundled out for a mere 116. The fast bowlers were assisted in the first innings and the batters had a struggle in the middle. There can be some movement for the pacers early on in the innings but the batsman would have to show their patience on this surface.
Zimbabwe vs Australia and Playing XI:
ZIM vs AUS Playing 11:
Solomon Mire, Chamu Chibhabha, Hamilton Masakadza(c), Peter Moor(wk), Tarisai Musakanda, Elton Chigumbura, Malcolm Waller/Ryan Burl, Blessing Muzurabani, John Nyumbu/Chris Mpofu, Kyle Jarvis, Tendai Chisoro
ZIM vs AUSPlaying 11:
Aaron Finch (c), D Arcy Short, Travis Head, Nic Maddinson, Glenn Maxwell, Alex Carey(wk), Marcus Stoinis, Ashton Agar, Andrew Tye, Jhye Richardson, Billy Stanlake
Where to watch ZIM vs AUS live Streaming?
The viewers can watch ZIM vs AUS live streaming on Sony Six/HD and online live streaming will be available on Sonyliv.com


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Perhaps you want to model a smallish chunk of nonflat terrain that surrounds a building model in SketchUp. Maybe you're trying to reproduce existing site conditions, or maybe you're in the process of designing the landscape for a project. There's a neat technique for cases like this one: You can use From Contours to quickly generate a surface from just a few simple outlines.
Follow these steps to model a simple terrain surface with the From Contours tool:
Extend the bottom of your building down so the exterior walls drop below ground level.
Make your building into a group.
Use the Tape Measure and Line tools to draw the outline of the chunk of terrain you want to model around the building.
Keep in mind that the resulting horizontal face is flat; just pretend you're drawing in 2D space. It doesn't matter if the outline you draw is below, above, or in line with the building, as you see in the next step.
Use the Push/Pull tool to extrude the face you drew in Step 3 into a box that extends above and below your building, and then delete the top and bottom faces of the box you just drew.
Paint the walls of your box with a translucent material.
You can find some in the Translucent library, in the Materials dialog box.
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Draw edges on the sides of the building that represent where the ground meets the building.
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There is no secret ingredient.
In our world of change and business transformation, a well thought out process, implementation and communication plan is what most organisations need. This business transformation can take them from where they are to where they need to be without the smoke and mirrors. Business transformation is not about exclusivity around resources and methodology. It is more importantly the willingness to share and challenge information along the journey with your team. It's about always learning and implementing new ideas along the way. Who knows your organisation better than you and the people around you?
You don't need a wise man to come in delivering 'services' yet not sharing or transferring their knowledge. If you do, then when it comes to doing this again, you are now dependent upon an external party. Which is not particularly sustainable.
There are not many places in the Western world where the branding is not immediately attributed to its founder. Such as the 11 herbs and spices of Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC). This secret was established back in the 1930's, and even today it continues to be one of the world's best-kept trade secrets. The idea of having something 'secret' that no one else has, continues to be a common theme organisations use to separate their offerings from their competitors.
The true innovation that was undertaken by Harland Sanders' Corbin of KFC fame, was not around the flavouring, but that he used the process of efficiency.
Process, not ingredient.
Harland was frustrated at the time it was taking to prepare his food using the traditional pan based method and looked for quicker ways. An attempt to use a deep fry method halved the prep time from 30 minutes to 15. However the resulting product was dry and unevenly cooked. Harland continued to experiment further and eventually adopted a new approach using a pressure cooker method. This not only reduced the time, now down to twelve minutes, it also produced tasty and moist chicken. The process helped build a global franchise and made a very successful business.
I also can't leave this part of the story without thinking about the scene from Kung Fu Panda. It's where Po and his Dad are having a deep and meaningful conversation about the secret ingredient of his secret ingredient soup. "The secret ingredient is nothing!". Why do I think about this? Quite simply this is what I have found from working with many organisations around the globe. They profess to have the secret ingredient and very few, if any, actually do.
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Producer Katsura Harada feels that it increases the chances of people checking out the games.
Posted By Ravi Sinha | On 26th, Jun. 2013 Under News
As the first free to play title in the Tekken franchise, Tekken Revolution released on June 11th in North America for the PlayStation 3 on the PlayStation Store. Series director Katsura Harada recently spoke to SegmentNext about the purpose of the game and how it will appeal to new players as well as the hardcore.
"This title was particularly really designed to lower the barrier of entry for new players but also to have enough new things to appeal to hardcore players as well."
He also stated that it's "different" rather than being scary to release this kind of title. "You're not getting a certain amount of money coming in on packages. But rather than that, we have the 20th anniversary of Tekken, so we feel a lot of possibilities. These types of games lower the barrier for entry so there's the chance of a lot more people actually checking out games."
Harada's love for the Battlefield series also came up, as he talked about how, "As a player I would play the free-to-play version and, so, OK, if they come out with Battlefield 4 as a package version, would I not buy it? I mostly likely would because I love the game."
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Wednesday, December 06, 2006
Lazing on a Wednesday Afternoon
Well, the morning was sunny and I was stuck inside as usual. But by the time I got home at about 1:00, the sun was still out and I decided on a quick trip out.
I had a rough plan.
Plan A was to paddle out of Cadboro Bay and then, depending on which way the current was heading in Baynes Channel, I'd head either south or north and circumnavigate Chatham and Discover Islands. This is something I'd never done before. I had been out as far as Discovery some months ago, but never all the way around.
Of course, I did have a Plan B.
Pretty simple, really. Just take the channel between Discovery and Chatham. I've never been the whole way though there either, so it seemed like an excellent second choice.
Things did get off to a bit of a slow start; there were two women walking on the beach who decided to come over and talk to me. Now, anyone who knows me knows that I love to talk, and more, I love to talk to women, and worst of all, I love to talk to women about kayaking--particularly when they seem to think that my going out on the water is fairly cool. So by the time I finally did get out on the water, the sun was pretty much gone.
Minor setback. I knew that the forecast called for increasing cloud in the afternoon, possibly even showers. But I was dressed for the weather, so no worries, eh? I finally got underway and fifteen minutes later, I was exiting the bay.
It was still a gorgeous afternoon. There was only a light offshore breeze, and to the southeast , the Olympic mountains loomed over the bank of clouds moving through. I came further out of the bay, approaching Jemmy Jones, and Mount Baker came into view. And what a view! There were no clouds in the northeast, and the sun was reflecting off of last week's snow, making for a picture perfect moment.
But as I passed Jemmy Jones--noting that the current was still running strongly northwards, it quickly became apparent that I had misjudged the winds on departure. Once I had passed out of the shelter of the bay and Ten Mile Point, the winds proved to be a fair bit stronger and blowing southwards: against the northering current. By the time I was halfway across Baynes, there were some fairly significant waves building up.
The waves weren't bad--nothing I haven't paddled before--but looking south, there was what looked like a low pressure system coming in (remember that rain in the forecast?). Low pressure to the south, high to the north, north flowing current, well the signs did not point to conditions getting any better. More of the same, possibly worsening, is more like it.
So it turned out that I devolved to Plan C.
Which means that my hoped-for circumnavigation turned into a truncated paddle. Still, a terrific 6km paddle with seals in the middle of Cadboro Bay, another out by Jemmy Jones, tonnes of birds, and beautiful views. Just not yet around the islands.
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Our laboratory has been designed to meet the requirements of a fast paced production environment. Quality is an important part of our process and our facility is endowed with up to date equipment and techniques specifically developed to ensure a high level of quality for analysis.
The driving force of this GLP regulated facility consists of trained, proficient professionals covering three shifts and ensuring the generation of accurate and reliable test data in accordance with ASTM protocols and standards.
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OES Bruker Q8 Magellan Optical Emission Spectrometer: is the instrument used for most of our analysis, using programs for Cu-base, Zn-base, Al-base and Ni-base alloys.
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Morten Vinding Svendsen replied to Mihai B.'s question in LG webOS Smart TV QuestionsAbsolutely agree. The market for people streaming local content at higher bandwidth than 100Mbps is very slim, and if you deducts the pirates I believe it approximates zero. So LG probably decided to skip gigabit in the believing that those watching high bandwidth content would do so using blue ray. But the original question about USB2 Ethernet dongles is interesting. USB2 at 400Mbps would be more than enough, and we have all seen devices with "secret" drivers. Like for instance the Chromecast with USB2ethernet support. I unfortunately only have a 100Mbps usb dongle and a thunderbolt. But if anybody has a gigabit USB dongle please try it out and report back.
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Morten Vinding Svendsen replied to Mihai B.'s question in LG webOS Smart TV QuestionsBut he is talking abort streaming local content, it is not unlikely to be much higher bandwidth: look at the blue ray standard: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultra_HD_Blu-ray I LOVE my OLED and WebOS, but I do agree a 100Mbps connection is outdated on a 4K high end TV.
"Mobile TV On" doesn't work
Morten Vinding Svendsen replied to Cestmoi's question in LG webOS Smart TV QuestionsI have observed the same thing. Personally I don't care to mush about being able to turn on the TV from the app, but I want to be able to turn it on from my Home Automation (OpenHAB). I have found out it does react to Wake On Lan packages, so that is what I'm using. There is a number of WOL app for smartphones, you can use one of those I you want to turn it on from your phone. Agreed LG should have WOL in there app...
Reading exFAT formatted USB storage devices
Morten Vinding Svendsen replied to mcored's topic in LG webOS Wish ListI too came here because I wan't to access some large file on a USB drive from my LG WebOS TV, and I use Mac so I can't use NTFS. But I must clear up some misunderstandings: exFAT IS NOT STANDARD on most Linux distributions! Actually it dosen't even have a kernel module (only Fuse userland module) because exFAT is a licensed, close source and closed protocol. It's not difficult to find this information, just look at wikipedia: "exFAT (Extended File Allocation Table) is a Microsoft file system introduced in 2006 optimized for flash memory such as USB flash drives and SD cards.[5] It is proprietary and Microsoft owns patents on several elements of its design" It was meant to replace FAT32 because of the filesize limitations. NTFS was doomed not feasible for small removable devices. But the biggest problem with NTFS is actually that it is closed source and support in other OS'es than windows is either made by: a. buying and signing an NDA with Microsoft or b. reversed engineered. Which is the solution Linux and Mac has chosen, and the reason Mac (and earlier Linux) defaulted to mount readonly. They didn't want to risk destroying anything. So while I do agree with Microsoft that we need a new filesystem. I don't think a proprietary filesystem is the solution, for storage that is meant to be used in a lot of different devices based on different OS'es. Could it be a solution to split the MKV's to multipart? I haven't tried but maybe WebOS will play them seamlessly.


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Diagnosing And Treating Headaches
Headaches are a common problem anyone may face. When headaches become ongoing or severe, determining the type of headache and finding a treatment can give you more good days and help you get back to normal.
It is important to describe all symptoms that accompany your headaches and any other information that might be helpful in making a diagnosis. For example, some descriptions of the pain and location of the headache may differentiate one type of headache from another. Sinus headaches are characteristically described as a pressure in the forehead or on either side of the nose, whereas tension headaches might be sharp and located in the temples. Sometimes visual disturbances or nausea accompany migraines. Your doctor might also refer you to a neurologist for further evaluation and to exclude other causes of your headaches.
Your doctor might want imaging tests that may help with their diagnosis and to send to a specialist before your referral appointment. Sinus problems might be obvious on x-ray, CT, or MRI. In some cases, there might be obvious debris, signs of infection, or narrowing of the sinus cavities that could be consistent with some of your symptoms. CT and MRI can be useful in ruling out tumors or evidence of a prior stroke. Migraines, cluster, and tension headaches will not show up on any imaging tests, and your results will be more exclusionary. When your imaging tests are normal, your diagnosis may primarily rely on symptoms.
Some types of headaches might be managed by your family medical care doctor. If your doctor believes your headaches are consistent with sinus problems, they will likely recommend nasal steroids. These medications are nasal sprays which can shrink inflamed tissue and help keep your sinuses open. Although these medications can be taken for a while, you should have a referral to a specialist to determine if there are any procedures that could provide long-term relief from sinus problems. Migraines are frequently treated with preventative medications, which can reduce the intensity and duration of migraines, especially if you have these types of headaches many days of the month. Cluster headaches are often the hardest to treat. Sometimes oxygen therapy can be beneficial at the first sign a cluster headache is beginning.
Severe headaches warrant prompt evaluation in an emergency room since they could be an indication of a life-threatening medical condition. Otherwise, speaking with your doctor about your symptoms can help you diagnose the problem and find the right treatment to reduce the number and intensity of ongoing headaches.


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Edna Reed
...when it went up, up went the loaf and then down again and up the other way...
Ivy Shears
As we got older you would go to the fair just to see if you could meet any lads.
Joyce Routledge
All I wanted to do when I was a real little girl was to grow up and be one of them dancers.
Henry Marshall & John Shaw
Henry: We were squirty little buggers as kids at Hull. John: You were.
Henry Marshall
A Bostock and Wombwell Gold Medallion
Hamilton Effie
But no, it was just something we looked forward to. October. Hull Fair.
Mrs Arro
Granny Ross's husband he had a roll a penny.
Pat Baxter
We used to go to Hull Fair from Willerby.
Gladys Kemp
And when she won - guess what - I got the doll.
Mr and Mrs Riley
I'm No Angel
Fred and Margaret Page
A lovely bowl of memories
Walter Page
A fine Vase from the Fair
The Pinder Family
Accounts from the East Riding
Mrs Bruin
I could not move my arms to pull my skirt down
Jim Pawson
Fair Sketches
Yorkshire Post
Hull Fair Opening 1946
Hull Daily Mail: Part 2
Hull Fair Images
Hull Daily Mail: Part 1
Hull Fair Images
Mary Weighton remembers
W Marshall the Caterer
The Braithwaite Collection Part 1
Hull Fair Postcards 1900-1907
The Braithwaite Collection Part 2
Hull Fair Postcards 1907-1912
The Braithwaite Collection Part 3
Hull Fair Postcards 1912-1930
Lawrence Gallagher
Showman and Citizen
Bob Carver
Five Bob thank you
Jean Ward Skerrow
Pop's Cup
John and Rosehannan King
Remember Hull Fair
Alan Brigham
9 photos at Hull Fair from 1971
Jean Burnham
6 photos at Hull Fair 1953-1966
Gwen Taylor
Mr Drury's 1974 colour photographs
Janet Baxter
THE FAIR THE FAIR. Amusement Supplement c.1911
Stanley Randerson
I always felt it was something wonderful and I used to think what a marvellous life it was to be a Showman
Gwen Taylor
Mr Drury's 1969 and 1970 photographs
Mr A. W. McTurk
All the Fun of the Fair! 1953
Steve Robinson
I have three very vivid memories to share
John Geoffrey Hanwell
8 out of 10 in 1922
Sharon Rusling
Shamrocks: Oh, I used to go on them.
Geoffrey Waters
Photos and sketches of Hull Fair 1948-1993
David Harrison
St John's Ambulance and Gentle George
Whitney Church
A new generation at Hull Fair
Albert and Margaret Baines
A showman's wedding...
Sandra Wright
Not just being at Hull but getting there...
Sydney Curtis
Hull Fair 1937
Frank Sanderson
Dear Edie...
Tony Westoby
I found these two Hull Fair photos ...
Renee and Pauline
There were none of these whiz things, just the old fashioned horses ...
Karen Riches
Like a big magnet drawing me in ...
Janet Baxter
Postcards of Scenics and Switchbacks c.1920
Jeff Turgoose
Division Road School and the Shamrocks
Heather Hughes
Long Ago and Far Away


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A woman who allegedly drove the wrong way for about nine miles on Interstate 190 and Route 2 early yesterday morning was arraigned yesterday in Leominster District Court.
Elayne J. Crosby, 44, of 666 Main St., Clinton, was charged with driving the wrong way on a state highway and drunken driving.
She was arraigned in front of Judge John J. Curran Jr. and pleaded not guilty. She was released on personal recognizance.
Ms. Crosby was arrested by state Trooper Michael Sonia at 2:10 a.m. yesterday in the parking lot of the Twin City Mall.
According to court documents, Trooper Sonia said he received a radio report from state police about a driver traveling north in the southbound lane of I-190. Drivers traveling on that road had called state police to alert them of the situation. The driver was reported to have just passed Route 117 and was continuing to head north.
Shortly after that, state police received calls from eastbound drivers on Route 2 saying that a driver was going west on that side of the road.
Trooper Sonia said he was near the Twin City Mall when he heard a radio report that a caller told state police he had followed the car off the highway and into the mall parking lot.
The driver told state police he was in a pickup truck and he continued to follow the car. Trooper Sonia made his way to the parking lot and saw both vehicles, which he pulled over.
The trooper said the driver of the pickup truck told him he was almost hit by the car driven by Ms. Crosby as she was making her way off Route 2.
Trooper Sonia then spoke with Ms. Crosby and asked her if she was driving the wrong way down the highway. He said Ms. Crosby told him, �That might have been me.�


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Mooloolaba's Home of Great Steaks
$9.90 Lunches: 7 Days (Not available on Public Holidays or Easter Weekend)
Welcome to Hog's Australia's Steakhouse Mooloolaba!
Established in 1990, Hog's Mooloolaba is the second longest standing Hog's restaurant in Australia. Situated on the Mooloolaba Wharf located directly across from Underwater World, the venue embodies all that is Hog's Australia's Steakhouse; family-friendly dining in a relaxed atmosphere with a delicious menu and friendly staff. With two levels, two bars and great views, Hog's Mooloolaba is an especially great location for birthday celebrations or large events. Drop by for a beer, some nibbles or a feed at any time.
Cheers for the pic @thewharfmooloolaba
Engaging with the locals!
Hog's Australia's Steakhouse has a close affinity with a number of sports including V8 supercars, drag racing, drift cars, NRL, golf, Professional Bull Riding, sailing, surfing, bodyboarding, offshore powerboats, and numerous junior sports. Through generous sponsorship of these and other community events, Hog's promotes and encourages an active lifestyle.
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Shop 46, 123 Parkyn Parade
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|"Heroism consists of hanging on one minute longer."
|— Norwegian Proverb
Ok, I'm a little biased toward today's quote because my ancestors are Norwegian seamen.
In fact, I'm posting the trailer for the movie "A Perfect Storm" right now.
If you've seen the film, you may wonder how this is a Jackalope-worthy clip.
Well, I'll tell you…I was so inspired by watching George Clooney courageously manning the helm of his little ship! He was "going for it" even in the face of odds that most people would have said, "NO WAY I'm going to make it. I'll just let the waves take me down."
Not George Clooney's character. He employed every resource and every single shred of positive energy he had. It's his courage and intensity that inspire me to greater action today.
So, anyway…I wish you a day filled with passion and optimism.
Jacob "the Jackalope" Nordby
PS…what other lessons do you see in this film?
|"Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get"
|— Ray Kroc, Executive
It's one thing to get all excited and feeling good about life on a sunny summer weekend.
It's a whole different proposition to wake up on Monday morning, sit down at the desk and say, "where did all my happy feelings go?"
Let me, Jacob "The Jackalope", say to you that it's time to roll up your sleeves (mine are already rolled!). Attack the one or two top tasks RIGHT NOW that you kind of know need to be done, but aren't very much fun.
Let's get 'em done. I promise you that if you start out with a little hard work this morning, you'll feel great and be ready to tackle your week.
Love the quote by Ray Kroc. I guess he'd know better than just about anyone, wouldn't he?
Make it a great day!
Jacob "the Jackalope" Nordby


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The world
The children became interested in finding out about what part of the world their family originates from. They beacme fascinated with the globe. They wore a head torch to represent the sun. They learnt about why it is day in some places and night in others and why some places are hot and some places are cold.


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Melody of Positivity vs Depression
Breath Of Positivity vs Depression:
Today I hung up guitar to my bed and left it so, after sometime I was walking by and accidentally hits the bed, that's when the magic happened, a clean melody with high frequency surrounds the room. The hit/collision (pain) caused resonance with the bed and passed to the guitar which did it's job – 'MUSIC'. Like the bed we humans are in pain when some external entity hits, whose suffering makes us weak but if we establish connection with positivity the pain becomes temporary.
I'm glad that I went through this experience and understood it's essence, when negativity hits us, we must get attached to the people/things that makes our pain a melody, We know pain is never a soft process but when shared in company with a positive being creates a soothing to the suffering. Pain with negativity is great agony when compared to pain with positiveness around. All we need is a good supporting system that makes us feel better, and anything that helps us live without this immense agony is "LIVING".
A bad influence/situation makes you 'not you (depressed)' which is equal to 'DEATH', find positivity (Instruments) and hook'em around your chest like an armor – because 'LIFE' is all about 'LIVING' not suffering, get to a situation where your thoughts whisper – "What more I can LOSE", then every situation is painless and you my boy would be the perfect example of open-mind.
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On January 16th, 2013 at approximately 1:15am, two black male suspects entered a business near the 4500 block of Vegas Valley. The suspects were both armed with handguns and demanded
money from the employees. The suspects stole an undisclosed amount of money from the business
and fled the area on foot. Suspect #1 – Black male adult, 5'6, 160 lbs, wearing a black mask, camouflage hoodie sweatshirt and dark pants. Armed with a black semi-automatic handgun.
Suspect #2 – Black male adult, 6'0, 200 lbs, black mask, black jacket, blue gloves and black pants.
Armed with black and silver semi-automatic handgun. Anyone with information is urged to call the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department Robbery Section at (702) 828-3591 or, to remain anonymous, call Crime Stoppers at (702) 385-5555 or visit www.crimestoppersofnv.com. Tips directly leading to an arrest or an indictment processed through Crime Stoppers may result in a cash reward.


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Going into the 2013 NAHL Entry Draft the Brookings Blizzard had a number of holes to fill on their roster. More than half of the team's playoff team was made up of players with '92 birth years, opening the door for a 2013-2014 squad that will be much younger and faster.
Blizzard assistant coach Chris Olson talked about the team's goals going into yesterday's draft.
"Through the draft our goal is to increase team speed, improve skill on the blue line, and find a goal tender to help share the load with returning starter Drew Weigman," said Olson. "We are very excited about the names on our draft list and believe our team next year will be young, fast, and have a high hockey I.Q."
In yesterday's 18 round draft, the Blizzard selected a total of 15 players with varying skill sets and experience.
Here is a breakdown of the yesterday's selections:
Pick (R.d) Name Position PreviousTeam DOB
16 (1) Jared Goudreau F Tampa Bay Jrs 5/7/95
28 (2) Garrett Cologne D Thunderbirds 3/7/94
41 (2) Travis Underwood F Bismarck Bobcats 9/29/93
51 (3) Nick Nitta D Dallas Stars 1/24/95
65 (3) Dominic Nitti D Wellington Dukes 2/21/94
90 (4) Garrett Schmitz D Steinbach Pistons 9/2/93
113 (5) Alex Thompson F Duluth Danfield 6/25/94
133 (6) Anthony Walsh F Edina H.S. 6/11/94
149 (7) Erik Hallin F NSA- Sweden 1/18/94
163 (8) Dylan Plitt F Comcast U18 6/1/94
175 (9) Mason Wyman F Flying Aces 6/26/93
184 (10) John Nitchen F RoughRiders 2/9/94
192 (11) Andy Jordahl F Edina H.S. 1/12/95
198 (12) Jono Lindquist F Bloomington H.S. 2/18/95
204 (13) AJ Rupert F Moundsview H.S. 4/13/95
Of the Blizzard's first six picks, four were defenseman. With veterans like Drew Brevig, Derek Sand, Jared Docken, and Matt Youso moving on, defense was obviously a priority for Coach Cory Laylin and Chris Olson.
"We picked up some strong, tough defenseman with great hands and that can skate very well," said Laylin. "We also have good mix of veteran guys that can come in and impact our team right away, but also some guys that we will be able to take our time with and develop."
The Blizzard have two more camps scheduled this summer. The first is the June 30th-July 2nd Invite-Futures Camp and the second is the Blizzard Main Camp scheduled for August 4th-6th. Both camps will be held in Alexandria, MN.
The Blizzard are in the process of finalizing their 2013-2014 schedule, which will be released in the next few weeks. The team anticipates playing 28 home games at the Larson Ice Center next year.
Season tickets are now on sale. CLICK HERE to view season ticket options and packages.
The Blizzard are also looking for host families for next season as well as volunteers to help on game days next season.


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Our hair is one of our most important frill! It can totally change your appearance. It runs with us all over the place, and let's be realistic, it can be an incredible problem in some cases, yet with a couple of hair tips and traps up your sleeve, you can make your hair routine speedier and less demanding while as yet getting the look you're going for.Washing Your Hair.
Washing Your Hair :
- Oil your hair: Oiling your hair before washing it is probably the best thing you can do for your mane. Massage some coconut oil, olive oil or almond oil onto your hair and scalp an hour before getting into the shower to pre-condition it.
- Use lukewarm or cool water: Hot water can damage your hair in the same way that the heat from heat styling tools does – by dehydrating your hair and causing split ends. So, always wash your hair with either lukewarm or cool water to close the hair cuticles and retain the moisture in it.
- Dilute the shampoo: We're all prone to using 2-3 pumps of shampoo when washing our hair. But the harsh truth is that shampoo strips your hair of its natural oils, leaving it dry. To prevent that from happening, dilute 1-2 pumps of shampoo in half a mug of water and then use that to wash your hair.
Drying Your Hair :
- Use a microfiber towel: Pre-dry your hair with a microfiber towel once you step out of the shower. Avoid using a terrycloth towel as it can tangle your hair too much, increase frizz, and cause it to break.
- Avoid blow drying: The heat from blow dryers damage your hair just as much as heat styling tools do. So it's best to apply a leave-in conditioner all over your damp hair and let it air-dry.
- Blow dry only after your hair is partially dry: If you absolutely cannot stop using a blow dryer, then just make this one simple adjustment. Blowdry your hair once it is 70% dry. This gives time for your hair cuticle to close up and will reduce the heat damage.
Brushing Your Hair :
- Utilize a pig swarm brush or wide toothed brush: If you've been utilizing a round brush or metal brush to detangle your hair, at that point you have to stop immediately. Those brushes are intended to be utilized when you are blow drying your hair. For regular utilize, decide on a pig swarm brush, wide toothed brush or stun toothed brush to expel the bunches and tangles from your hair.
- Detangle from the finishes to the scalp: You may not know this, but rather detangling your hair from roots to closures can make more bunches and at last prompt more breakage. The right approach is to begin a couple of creeps over the finishes and brush downwards, gradually working your way up to the scalp.


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Motrolfly Brushless Motor 3625-430
This 3625-430 motor comes with the special hub and was designed for the 1600mm Starmax War Bird Planes using the stock 4 blade prop. This motor is meant for sport and scale flying only. Motor comes with 4mm connectors pre soldered to the motor and matching female connectors will be included in the motor box along with all other mounting hardware. Max Amps: 80 Expect 60 to 70 amps on 4s with the stock prop and 75 to 90 on 5s. 5s with the stock prop you will need throttle management. Do not run the motor at full throttle on the ground as it needs good cooling. In the air on 5s 15 second full throttle runs should be done on straight away runs followed by a good 30 second cool down period at 3/4 throttle or less.
Some modification needs to be made to mount it to the firewall as the holes do not line up.
- Item #: DM3625-430