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Perfume Society Precious Perfumes Review and Giveaway
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I love perfume samples. I have found some of my favourites that way. I think this is very nice subscription box for any perfume lover.ReplyDelete
I agree - nothing evokes memory than scent! Love a perfume sample to pop in my bag on the go. This subscription box is incredible value and I like that it gas beauty in it too. That £200 perfume sounds like a fab on to get to sample too!ReplyDelete
Thanks for sharing!
Leigh at Fashion Du Jour LDN x
its davidoff cool water for meReplyDelete
- Hali kinson26 March 2017 at 06:30
DKNY appleReplyDelete
I am such a perfume junkie. This sounds awesome! My favourite perfume is either from FCUK or Hidden Fantasy from Britney Spears. I haven't tried as many high end scents but I definitely have a huge collection regardless!ReplyDelete
This is such a great idea! A great way to try new perfumes in your own time. KazReplyDelete
This sounds amazing. I only wear one perfume, and have for the last 10 years, really need to try this.ReplyDelete
My favourite is Coco ChanelReplyDelete
My all time favourite is YSL's OpiumReplyDelete
- Charlotte H27 March 2017 at 03:32
I love Armani CodeReplyDelete
Chanel No 5ReplyDelete
I like Midnight Heat, BeyonceReplyDelete
I love Thierry mugler alien - I never get tired of the smell, it's not too weak and not too strong, just gorgeous !ReplyDelete
i love gucci bamboo :DReplyDelete
Escentic Molecules Molecule 01 is my all time fave!ReplyDelete
- Anonymous27 March 2017 at 03:44
i don't wear perfume so this would be great to win so I could try some out.ReplyDelete
Kelly Glen
lady millions is something i always go back tooReplyDelete
CK Deep EuphoriaReplyDelete
My fav perfume is Viktor Rolf Bon BonReplyDelete
I love Flowerbomb by Viktor and Rolf - it's such a gorgeous scent! :)ReplyDelete
light blue Dolce and GabannaReplyDelete
Flowers by KenzoReplyDelete
Eau Dynamisante from ClarinsReplyDelete
I'm all about Alien!ReplyDelete
I love Flower by Kenzo or Pretty by Elizabeth Arden :) xReplyDelete
Flowerbomb - Viktor + RolfReplyDelete
This week it is Nina by Nina Ricci but next week who knows! :DReplyDelete
CK Deep EuphoriaReplyDelete
Hard to choose a favourite fragrance - I love trying new samples!ReplyDelete
Daisy by Marc JacobsReplyDelete
Paco Rabanne - Lady MillionReplyDelete
Daisy by marc JacobsReplyDelete
my new fave is si by giorgio armani but i also love sunflowers by elizabeth arden xxxReplyDelete
Very Irresistible by Givenchy - I've been wearing it since I was 14ReplyDelete
My new favourite is Marc Jacobs Decadance but my old faithful is Dior Hypnotic Poison.ReplyDelete
Daisy by Marc JacobsReplyDelete
Marc Jacobs Daisy :)ReplyDelete
My fave is Chanel ChanceReplyDelete
Boss orange, it reminds me of summerReplyDelete
Caroline by Carolina Herrara; I wore it on my wedding day and on my honeymoon.ReplyDelete
Youth Dew by Estée LauderReplyDelete
Viktor & Rolf - Bon Bon and Flowerbomb, mixed together!ReplyDelete
My all time favourite is Channel number 5ReplyDelete
Lime, Basil and Mandarin, Jo Malone.ReplyDelete
Marc Jacobs Daisy for PammieReplyDelete
Prada CandyReplyDelete
Love this idea! I loveDaisy - Marc JacobsReplyDelete
- Anonymous28 March 2017 at 05:12
Chanel No 5ReplyDelete
I love Flowerbomb by Viktor and Rolf xReplyDelete
I love Armani Code - leanne wReplyDelete
What a great giveaway! I entered! My favourite perfume is definitely FlowerBomb by Viktor & Rolf!ReplyDelete
DKNY NYNYReplyDelete
Angel is my all.time favourite although unfortunately i can never afford it and noone ever buys me it ...hunph lol. Fab giveaway would love to be your lucky winner. Fingers crossedReplyDelete
Angel is my all.time favourite although unfortunately i can never afford it and noone ever buys me it ...hunph lol. Fab giveaway would love to be your lucky winner. Fingers crossedReplyDelete
viktor rolf flower bomb is my favourite at the momentReplyDelete
victor rolfe flower bomb xReplyDelete
at the moment my favorite is mon guerlain, i discovered it from samples but I would love to find a signature scent for every season and the perfume society seems like a perfect way to do thisReplyDelete
My all time favourite is Miracle by LancomeReplyDelete
Donna by ValentinoReplyDelete
Jean Paul Gaultier is by far my all time favouriteReplyDelete
- Jenny R29 March 2017 at 16:57
Verviene by L'occitane.ReplyDelete
- Solange29 March 2017 at 18:24
Jean-Paul Gaultier Classique Eau de Parfum SprayReplyDelete
Elizabeth Arden - Red DoorReplyDelete
I love perfumes and fragrances. Like you, certain fragrances take me back to a particular time in my life, or remind me of someone. I also believe that you can never have enough perfume and that's why the subscription box is such a good idea. I also like the fact that you have an insight into whats in the box! very lovely, Thank You,ReplyDelete
My favourite is YSL black opium! Completely in love with it :)ReplyDelete
- Hayley D1 April 2017 at 08:38
Guccie RushReplyDelete
Not a fan of celebrity perfumes but was bought Sarah Jessica Parker as a gift and really like it. Must not have a refined taste!ReplyDelete
Miss Dior Blooming is my favourite perfumeReplyDelete
I am a huge fan of Marc Jacobs Decadence, it is very strong but i love it.ReplyDelete
- susan hoggett4 April 2017 at 23:59
Clinique HappyReplyDelete
Midnight heat by BeyonceReplyDelete
- Kayleigh Devlin8 April 2017 at 01:41
DKNY Apple for meReplyDelete
My favourite perfume is DKNY Woman - has a bit of blood orange in it. Definitely drawn to fresh citrus fragrances.ReplyDelete
Oh has to be Lumière Dorée tho i love many many moreReplyDelete
Channel No.5ReplyDelete
Wonderful Prize - Favourite perfume is Gallop of HermesReplyDelete
Dior Pure PoisonReplyDelete
vera wang, i love.x loving your blog.xReplyDelete
I love Armani DiamondsReplyDelete
It depends on the seasons (and my mood). Love Jo Loves Pomelo and Thierry Mugler Alien.ReplyDelete
Jasper Conran - NightshadeReplyDelete
- Hannah Wynne11 April 2017 at 08:24
Lush's Tramp - I'm so sad that I can only get this when the Lush Kitchen do it as a special now :(ReplyDelete
Dior's Poison is gorgeousReplyDelete
CK Deep EuphoriaReplyDelete
- Anonymous11 April 2017 at 22:47
I keep changing! I am still seeking my favourite - Chance was high on the list for sometime thoughReplyDelete
Acqua Di Gio by ArmaniReplyDelete
Acqua di Gio by ArmaniReplyDelete
ACQUA DI BY ARMANIReplyDelete
ACQUA DI BY ARMANIReplyDelete
Calvin Klein, EuphoriaReplyDelete
Currently its Flowerbomb by Viktor & Rolf. Rafflecopter entries are in my real name NIKKI HAYES, thanks for the lovely giveaway :o)ReplyDelete
Hugo Boss OrangeReplyDelete
Marc Jacobs DaisyReplyDelete
My favourite perfume has to be Thierry Mugler AlienReplyDelete
I love Gucci Rush and Britney Spears Midnight Fantasy.ReplyDelete
Marc Jacobs Daisy dream is my favouriteReplyDelete
I depends on my mood but my current go to is Marc Jacobs DaisyReplyDelete
I love dolce and gabbana dolceReplyDelete
- Anonymous14 April 2017 at 11:55
marc jacobs - daisyReplyDelete
Anais Anais for me but also like Coty L'Aimant from time to time to remind me of my late Mum. It was her favourite :)ReplyDelete
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Daisy by marc jacobs is my favouriteReplyDelete
- Jessica Gyte14 April 2017 at 14:34
My favourite perfume is Jean Paul Gaultier 'Classique' xReplyDelete
dior poisonReplyDelete
jean paul gautierReplyDelete
Nina Ricci Les Delices de NinaReplyDelete
viktor and rolf bon bonReplyDelete
i like my sunflower by elizabeth ardenReplyDelete
I absolutely love Ja Dor Dior! It's my favourite at the moment!ReplyDelete
I love Gucci by GucciReplyDelete
Miss Dior is my favourite perfume.ReplyDelete
- Jennifer Durant15 April 2017 at 00:25
I tend to stick to the same two perfumes Versace Bright Crystal and Britney Spears Midnight Fantasty are my favourite. Would love to experiment and try others.ReplyDelete
I have 2 favourites, Jo Malone Red Roses and Chanel Coco MademoiselleReplyDelete
I love Chanel No.5ReplyDelete
Contradiction Calvin Klein.ReplyDelete
Happy Easter 🐰
Chanel - Allure. Whenever I wear it (and I do so sparingly!) people always ask what it is.ReplyDelete
CK Deep EuphoriaReplyDelete
Britney Spears fantasy is my fave very girly scentReplyDelete
At the moment mine is Black Opium - it does change though as Im a bit of a perfume addict.ReplyDelete
I love my fragrances but for summer it's a toss up between Viktor + Rolf Flowerbomb and Viva La Juicy by Juicy Couture.ReplyDelete
I love flowerbomb by Viktor & RolfReplyDelete
My current fave is Jimmy Choo, but I love perfume and strong ones like PoisonReplyDelete
Anais AnaisReplyDelete
Miss Dior is currently my favourite xxReplyDelete
I absolutely love 'Poison' by Dior. I can't get enough of it!ReplyDelete
I love Bond Girl by Avon but it's been discontinued so it's a small fortune on Ebay. My second favourite is Poison, which lasts for absolutely ages and you don't need a huge amount.ReplyDelete
I like DKNY always so fresh and Viktor & Rolf FlowerbombReplyDelete
Whata great idea! My favourite perfume is Miss Dior, worn it off and on for many years!ReplyDelete
I love Chanel no 5! One spray of that makes me feel a million dollars!ReplyDelete
Coco Chanel MademoiselleReplyDelete
Angel by Thierry mulgerReplyDelete
- lynsey Buchanan15 April 2017 at 10:25
Salvatore Ferragamo Signorina Eau de ParfumReplyDelete
Chloe Narcisse is my all time favouriteReplyDelete
Coco Chanel. I adore it but it's just so expensive that I can't afford it these daysReplyDelete
Viktor & Rolf - FlowerbombReplyDelete
Aqua di Gio by Armani is my favourite, I love itReplyDelete
- Rebecca hussey15 April 2017 at 12:45
Clinique Happy xReplyDelete
black opium.ReplyDelete
I love Jimmy Choo xReplyDelete
I love D&G Light BlueReplyDelete
- Alisa Moore15 April 2017 at 16:29
My favourite fragrance of all time is Femme by RochasReplyDelete


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The Union and Communion with Christ
But there is another thought connected with a believing view of the Lord Jesus Christ as Immanuel, God with us, and that is, the union of the Church with Him in all that He did and suffered for her. He being the Head, all the members of His mystical body in covenant union with Him shared in His sufferings, death, resurrection, ascension, and glorification. Thus Paul speaks of himself as crucified with Christ, (Gal. 2:20) and of believers generally as dying with Christ; (Rom. 6:8; 2Tim 2:11) being buried with Christ; (Rom. 6:4; Col. 2:12) as rising with Him, (Col. 3:1) and sitting together with Him in heavenly places. (Eph 2:6)
Now, as the Blessed Spirit is pleased to guide us into an experimental [experiential, ed.] knowledge of the Lord Jesus, and to give us a measure of union and communion with His sacred Majesty, He leads us into a fellowship with Him in His sufferings, death, and resurrection. This is what the Apostle speaks of as typified by the ordinance of baptism as a standing figure and permanent representation of the baptism of the Holy Ghost: "Know ye not that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into His death? Therefore we are buried with Him by baptism into death, that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. For if we have been planted together in the likeness of His death, we shall be also in the likeness of His resurrection." (Rom. 6:3-5) The ordinance of baptism is thus represented as the figure of that higher, more sacred, and spiritual baptism whereby, in living experience, believers are made one with Christ in His death, burial, and resurrection. And here His humanity is indeed seen in its special grace and distinguishing glory, for it is only as "members of His body, of His flesh, and of His bones," (Eph. 5:30) this being the foundation of the union, that they are baptized into this spiritual communion with Him.
But this part of our subject may demand a little further opening up. The Church, then, has a mystical, but not less real, union with Christ, from His having taken the flesh and blood of the children into union with His own divine Person. By virtue of this union with Him, as members with the head, she participated with Him in all He did and suffered for her sake. But this mystical union all the elect have, even those still unregenerated or unborn. This union does not, therefore, of itself give communion, though it is the foundation of it. Another kind of union, then, is needed, which is peculiar to the regenerated, and which they have in exact measure to their participation of the Spirit of Christ, for "if any man have not the Spirit of Christ he is none of His," that is, by inward or outward manifestation.
This is no mere doctrine, an article only of a sound creed, but a fountain of life to every believer's soul in proportion to the measure of the Spirit whereby he is baptized into the death of Jesus. But for the most part it is only through a long series of afflictions, bereavements, disappointments, vexations, illnesses, pains of body and mind, hot furnaces, and deep waters, as sanctified to his soul's profit by the Holy Spirit, that the child of God comes into this part of Christian experience.
These things are indeed death to the flesh, and are meant to be so, that it may be crucified and mortified; and are killing blows to all schemes of earthly joy, worldly happiness, and temporal prosperity and pleasure, as well as to all legal hopes and pharisaic righteousness; but they are, in the Spirit's hand, the very life of the believing soul. For "by these things men live, and in all these things is the life of their spirit." (Isa. 38:16)
For this was not Paul's experience only, a hidden secret of which he alone was made by grace the happy partaker. All who are taught by the same Spirit, and have the same union and communion with a crucified Lord, whether Jew or Greek, know Him to be the power of God and the wisdom of God. (1Cor. 1:24) We read of believers being "trees of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, that He might be glorified," (Isa. 61:3) and this planting is a being planted into Christ so as to have that union and communion with Him which the living branch has with the vine. The Apostle therefore speaks of our being "planted together in the likeness of His death." (Rom. 6:5)
Here, then, we see the blessedness of the bleeding, suffering, dying humanity of our adorable Redeemer. By virtue of His suffering humanity He has union with a suffering people, and by virtue of being baptized with His Spirit they have union and communion with a suffering Lord. He died that they might live, bore the curse of the law that it might not light on them, and suffered "the just for the unjust" that they having fellowship with Him in His sufferings and death, might have every gracious motive communicated, and the supply of all spiritual strength imparted, to crucify them to sin, to the world, and to self
By J. C. Philpot, Excerpted from: MEDITATIONS ON SACRED HUMANITY - THE UNION AND COMMUNION WITH CHRIST (Chapter 7. Adapted for clarification in blog posting. Original HERE.

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Not long ago, the Xbox 360 was the platform for not only some of the biggest names in gaming, but also for smaller, independent developers that thrived by creating great games for Microsoft's console.
At some point in the past couple of years though, Microsoft's love for the indie scene stopped.
Can't wait to start playing almost every indie they have lined up this year.
So true. The plans they announced at GDC were genius. I can see it garnering a ton of support from the indies. Let's face it, that is where most of the creativity is these days.
Happy for Sony, but I still don't think it will save the device.
The ultimate indie device runs Android. And that's where the majority of the indie devs are working. That and PC.
I know that I love dropping $250 on a handheld for a $10 downloadable that I'll be done with in 5 hours.


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If your 5-year-old has a jones for the crab cakes at McDain's Restaurant, which the menu boasts are "The Best Around — Period," you'd best take him or her there by Friday. Or be prepared to get the food to go.
Beginning Saturday, children 6 and under are no longer welcome at the restaurant in Monroeville, Pa., just outside of Pittsburgh. They've just become too much of a bother for the other customers.
Owner Mike Vuick built the neighboring golf center 22 years ago, then opened the restaurant nine years ago. Young children have become an increasing issue in that time, he says. But don't accuse Vuick of hating kids — his problem is mostly with the parents.
"Parents have gradually diminished their cooperation," he said, adding that the new policy is strictly in response to customer complaints.
"This is a three-part issue. One is the increasing number of small babies that can't be controlled. They can't be quiet and really they can't be expected to."
The second factor is kindergarten-aged kids who "have shown increasingly poor manners." And lastly he blames parents, who "act like we're the ones being offensive" when staff members ask them to calm their children down.
Vuick describes McDain's as "upscale casual" and isn't even sure why customers would want to bring their kids.
"This is a very genteel, quiet place. Very adult. We have 68 seats here, and 24 of them are in the bar."
"If I had children of these ages I would never contemplate taking them to this place," he said. "We've never even had a children's menu."
He let customers know about the impending policy in an e-mail. The response, he said, has been overwhelmingly positive.
"I'm looking at 419 e-mails in my inbox right now," he said, saying the subject lines were along the lines of "Thank you" and "Nice job."
Not everyone, of course, agrees. Pittsburgh TV station WTAE spoke to customer Stephanie Kelley, mother of a 13-month-old, who said she eats at McDain's weekly. Or used to.
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"I can't believe this. I am offended. This is just an ignorant policy," Kelley said.
Vuick is unswayed. He expects no drop-off in business. And as far as state authorities have told him, his decision is completely legal.
"You know, their child — maybe as it should be — is the center of their universe," he told WTAE. "But they don't realize it's not the center of the universe."
Do you think it is a good idea to cut kids out of restaurants? Share your thoughts below.


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The fact that I did one thing well and failed at another is something I am experiencing on a daily basis around here. We just have a lot happening. Good stuff, yes, but I still feel overwhelmed. It is possible to feel happy and bananas at the same time. It is possible to feel thankful and stressed at the same time.
One thing I really love about my relationship with my husband is how in synch we are when it comes to tuning the different spokes on our wheel: family time, recreation, alone time, creative time, friend time, work time. When one of us is grumpy the other beams with bigger perspective. Like last weekend when I was in a tailspin about the one million things I needed to do and Andy suggested we go skiing. It was like I stared into a hole in the ground searching for sun and Andy said, "Hey babe, look up."
It was Ruby's first day on skis and Margot's first day tearing it up without any help at all. Nearly four, she does laps on the rope tow, makes turns and giggles the entire time. More than once I teared up witnessing such joy in my kids.
I seriously didn't take any photos of Margot skiing because I was so busy chasing her. Watch out Picabo.
She fell and her edgie wedgie slipped off. She said, "Oh well, I am done with that thing anyway." And that was that.
Andy carrying Ruby up the rope tow. It is a little blurry because just as I snapped the photo, I heard Margot's trailing voice, "Come on mama!" and I turned to catch my girl.
Followed by hot chocolate in the lodge while papa took a run. We really really love that big bag.
The girls and their rosy cheeks fell asleep the moment we got it the car. When we got home I was energized and clear. I decided to use that good stuff to make my kids an advent calendar, something I've wanted to do for a few years now. I didn't even change out of my ski clothes, I didn't have a pattern or an idea and I walked into my studio and started.
My cousin sent me an incredible pile of fabrics a few years back. I have been afraid to cut into them–all hand-dyed or hand-woven or just generally amazing. She collected them on her travels to Africa and South America. I used some to make Ruby's birthday frog (that same fabric is used as a table cloth in the top photo) and that gave me courage to cut into one of my favorites.
My "pattern" was super simple and I used the fabric repeat to determine size. Two pieces 11×34″, wrong sides together (and two 2×10″ hanging tabs inserted at the top), stitched. Six 11×3.5″ pieces spaced evenly, horizontally the bottom of each piece stitched to the main panel. And then I stitched each horizontal piece vertically, into quarters creating pockets. I didn't hem or turn anything. This fabric will certainly fray but I like the rough edge and it will likely rarely get washed. I decided not to do numbers because I couldn't quite sort out how to do it best. I am thinking white felt circles and I wish I embroidered…Ideas?
The girls were still napping so I set about running all over our house searching for 24 trinkets to fill those pockets. Andy may have raised his eyebrows at me several times. No need to buy a thing, the magic is in not knowing what each day will hold. I found seashells, old jewelry of mine, nail polish, carousel tokens, beads, gum, lip balm…
A reader pointed out that I sewed three pockets in each row, instead of four. Oh, typical. I was all set to seam rip and restitch when another reader said 'who says 24 is the rule? Why not stop on the solstice?' You all are so smart.
So the day turned out pretty dang great. There is still a lot to do this month. I still have frenzied, uncomfortable moments. But it is so encouraging that the simple act of looking up can often spin me right into the place where I thrive. And, allow me to enjoy that big ol' to-do list.


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Wikiquote:Quote of the day/September 2011
If you're up against a smart opponent, make him think himself to death.
~ C. J. Cherryh ~
The great work of the present for every man, and every organization of men, who would improve social conditions, is the work of education — the propagation of ideas. It is only as it aids this that anything else can avail.
~ Henry George ~
A degree of silence envelops Washington's actions; he moved slowly; one might say that he felt charged with future liberty, and that he feared to compromise it. It was not his own destiny that inspired this new species of hero: it was that of his country; he did not allow himself to enjoy what did not belong to him; but from that profound humility what glory emerged! Search the woods where Washington's sword gleamed: what do you find? Tombs? No; a world! Washington has left the United States behind for a monument on the field of battle.
~ François-René de Chateaubriand ~
Whether religion is a divisive or reconciling force depends on our certainty or our humility as we practice our faith in our politics. If we believe that we know God's truth and that we can embody that truth in a political agenda, we divide the realm of politics into those who are on God's side, which is our side, and those with whom we disagree, who oppose the side of God. This is neither good religion nor good politics. It is not consistent with following a Lord who reached out to a variety of people — prostitutes, tax collectors, lepers. If politics is the art of compromise, certainty is not really politics, for how can one compromise with God's own truth? Reconciliation depends on acknowledging that God's truth is greater than our own, that we cannot reduce it to any political platform we create, no matter how committed we are to that platform, and that God's truth is large enough to accommodate the opinions of all kinds of people, even those with whom we strongly disagree.
~ John Danforth ~
The Immortal Principle was first called water by Thales. Anaximenes called it air. The Pythagoreans called it number and were thus the first to see the Immortal Principle as something nonmaterial. Heraclitus called the Immortal Principle fire and introduced change as part of the Principle. He said the world exists as a conflict and tension of opposites. He said there is a One and there is a Many and the One is the universal law which is immanent in all things. Anaxagoras was the first to identify the One as nous, meaning "mind."
~ Robert M. Pirsig ~
It is a part of the poet's work to show each man what he sees but does not know he sees.
~ Edith Sitwell ~
Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle!
~ Peter Sellers ~
As soon as men live entirely in accord with the law of love natural to their hearts and now revealed to them, which excludes all resistance by violence, and therefore hold aloof from all participation in violence — as soon as this happens, not only will hundreds be unable to enslave millions, but not even millions will be able to enslave a single individual.
~ Leo Tolstoy ~
The idea does not belong to the soul; it is the soul that belongs to the idea.
This enemy attacked not just our people, but all freedom-loving people everywhere in the world. The United States of America will use all our resources to conquer this enemy. We will rally the world. We will be patient, we will be focused, and we will be steadfast in our determination.… we will not allow this enemy to win the war by changing our way of life or restricting our freedoms.
~ George W. Bush ~
On September 11, 2001, in our time of grief, the American people came together. We offered our neighbors a hand, and we offered the wounded our blood. We reaffirmed our ties to each other, and our love of community and country. On that day, no matter where we came from, what God we prayed to, or what race or ethnicity we were, we were united as one American family.
~ Barack Obama ~
The battles that count aren't the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself — the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us — that's where it's at.
~ Jesse Owens ~
Something there is more immortal even than the stars,
~ Walt Whitman ~
The difference between patriotism and nationalism is that the patriot is proud of his country for what it does, and the nationalist is proud of his country no matter what it does; the first attitude creates a feeling of responsibility, but the second a feeling of blind arrogance that leads to war.
~ Sydney J. Harris ~
I do not argue with obstinate men. I act in spite of them.
~ Agatha Christie ~
We have come by curious ways
We have found, O foolish-fond,
Deep in every heart it lies
~ Alfred Noyes ~
It's a strange courage
Shine alone in the sunrise
It is always observable that silence propagates itself, and that the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find any thing to say.
~ Samuel Johnson ~
On this hapless earth
I have a conscience and a religious faith, and I know that our liberties were not won without suffering, and may be lost again through our cowardice.
~ Upton Sinclair ~
No one would have believed, in the last years of the nineteenth century, that human affairs were being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own; that as men busied themselves about their affairs they were scrutinized and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinize the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water. With infinite complacency men went to and fro over this globe about their little affairs, serene in their assurance of their empire over matter. It is possible that the infusoria under the microscope do the same. No one gave a thought to the older worlds of space as sources of human danger, or thought of them only to dismiss the idea of life upon them as impossible or improbable. It is curious to recall some of the mental habits of those departed days. At most, terrestrial men fancied there might be other men upon Mars, perhaps inferior to themselves and ready to welcome a missionary enterprise. Yet, across the gulf of space, minds that are to our minds as ours are to those of the beasts that perish, intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely drew their plans against us.
~ H. G. Wells ~
Work. Finish. Publish.
~ Michael Faraday ~
Agnosticism is not properly described as a "negative" creed, nor indeed as a creed of any kind, except in so far as it expresses absolute faith in the validity of a principle which is as much ethical as intellectual. This principle may be stated in various ways, but they all amount to this: that it is wrong for a man to say that he is certain of the objective truth of any proposition unless he can produce evidence which logically justifies that certainty.
The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.
~ Hugh Walpole ~
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The artist doesn't have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to write don't have the time to read reviews.
Quick now, here, now, always —
~ T. S. Eliot ~
The superior man examines his heart, that there may be nothing wrong there, and that he may have no cause for dissatisfaction with himself. That wherein the superior man cannot be equaled is simply this — his work which other men cannot see.
At that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people: and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book.
~ Book of Daniel ~
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This is a guest post by Rebecca Haden, college teacher and founder of Haden Interactive, a content-focused web services firm. She's an expert in building a quality web presence for companies and individuals, which starts by understanding the risk of fragmentation.
New clients often come to me with a misconception: that they have a strong handle on their online identity. They may have a Facebook page, a LinkedIn page, some press releases, a couple videos on YouTube and one on Vimeo, an interview posted on someone's blog and 2 news article mentions. And my first task is often to help them understand that this is not a strong web presence, but a scattered one--definitely not the best way to leverage their marketing and time investment. 3 Critical Points:
- When information is all over the web, it's hard for customers to find it, and thus not nearly as valuable to you and your business as it could be.
- Even when your content ranks with search engines, each item often turns up with keywords that aren't what your customers are looking for, or out of context.
- By not aggregating, companies miss opportunities to leverage unique content to create a unique point of view of their brand, and develop multiple story lines about who they truly are from a content and value standpoint.
What would be really valuable to you, is if people could find every relevant online reference to you and your company in one place, understand who you are by looking at storylines and your breadth of assembled content, and then explore the references that best fit their purpose! By doing so, you combine all of the value you have created elsewhere onto one page that you can optimize for keywords, ultimately optimizing your chances for success.
That's where Spoke comes in, to centralize and organize your online presence.
Sure, you could put all your content onto your website, but that's usually not the best solution. Why? Because your website is intended to generate more revenue from customers and prospects--who are looking explicitly for answers to specific questions about their needs, and don't want to scroll through dozens of external links. As a result, all of your external content doesn't have a good place on your website, and usually gets demoted onto a "press page." They're called press pages for a reason: they're intended for the press, as a collection of your links and podcasts. Moreover, press pages, even "about pages" for that matter, are not designed to work with different types of content (videos, articles, etc,) so you can easily end up with a sort of "scrapbook" effect.
So how do you deal with all those articles, videos, slide presentations, and social profiles?
Easy. Spoke.com
Spoke has become a great starting place to understand your presence across the web. It is designed to aggregate your social media, company or personal timeline, videos, pictures, news, links, and all the other content you have roaming around the web. You can organize it all onto one Spoke page and keep the integrity and purpose of each part of your web presence (facebook for your community, linkedin for your recruiting, and website for your customers and prospects.)
Now that you have all this information on one Spoke page, you can start tuning it and expanding on it to make it relevant to the story that you want to tell. That story could contain the history of a company, major milestones, major active projects, etc. You can even start creating pages (topics, companies, people) within Spoke to further elaborate on specific elements of your story, such as your competitive positioning, your partners, major market developments, important people--and link them all together inside of Spoke. And one tidy link from your website to your Spoke page makes it all available to visitors without compromising your design and the core goals of your website.
And all along the way, Spoke will help you with resources, content, and reminders to keep your body of information current for your audience. And there's more. Spoke will also provide you with additional search-engine visibility to complement your website. So make sure to add the links to your web presence to your Spoke page to send interested traffic to the relevant destinations.
As of today you have a lot of content spread among disconnected places that you're not taking full advantage of to tell interesting stories. Spoke enables you to take control, and define your identity by letting you tell your own stories. In doing so, not only will you create very unique experiences for your customers, prospects, and potential employees, but also very rich content for search engines to crawl and show--generating additional traffic for your web presence.
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Rebecca Haden is a leader in the reputation management space and can help you understand, and subsequently optimize, your online presence. Feel free to email her with questions or inquiries at firstname.lastname@example.com; or to see a live example, compare her website with her company Spoke page!


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For the last year of her life, Monika Chetty lived rough in suburbia, despite suffering horrific burns. How did this mother of three from a good family end up in such a state?
"Her whole back was black" … The western Sydney bush reserve where Monika Chetty spent her final months.
"Her whole back was black" … The western Sydney bush reserve where Monika Chetty spent her final months. Photo: Wolter Peeters
The call came to Green Valley police late one Friday in January 2014. Throughout Sydney's west, people were preparing for the year's first weekend, but in Ferraro Crescent, West Hoxton, a newish community of land-and-home packages and multiple cars, not everyone was settling into the languor of mid-summer.
A resident had become suspicious of a woman hovering around bushland abutting one stretch of the street. For a year, she had been seen near the local playground, cleaning herself at a tap or collecting washing from a stretch of barbed wire as suburban life bustled around her. She wore long tops and pants and her hair was obscured by a cap, but it was clear she was scarred. There were marks on her face and bandaged hands, and the hair that protruded from beneath her cap appeared to be just fuzz.
She was conspicuously anonymous, her air of destitution so improbable in this neighbourhood of drive-in, drive-out residences, and she might have been homeless had it not been for the sightings of her shuffling down the side path of one local house, where onlookers presumed she was staying. She had a habit of dragging around black garbage liners, and at least one resident, concerned she was doing something sinister, had considered calling police. But until January 3, no one did.
"She was smart, funny" … Monika Chetty, before her life went downhill
"She was smart, funny" … Monika Chetty, before her life went downhill
Late that afternoon, a resident heard a call for help from the bush. At 7pm, two general duty officers waded into the overgrowth, just beyond a patch of discarded bikes and tyres, and found the woman, in tracksuit pants and a beanie at the height of summer, lying behind someone's back fence on an old patch of concrete. As police helped her to her feet, her long-sleeved top shifted.
"Her whole back was black," says Green Valley police superintendent James Johnson. His officers were horrified at the extent of the woman's disfigurement, so severe that just by looking at her they could not even be sure she was who she claimed to be. "From the eyebrows up, she had no hair. It had all been burnt off."
She said she was Monika Chetty and that someone had thrown acid on her in a Liverpool park days earlier – the latest in an uncannily dire series of events that had left her with shocking burns on at least two prior occasions. Her skin, which looked dirty, was actually charred. Yet her cries for help had nothing to do with the excruciating pain she must have been enduring: she simply needed a hand getting up.
Monika Chetty with her school friend Shelly Zammit (at left) in 1990.
Future imperfect … Monika Chetty with her school friend Shelly Zammit (at left) in 1990.
With a level of stoicism that seemed super-human, she had been living rough in the middle of suburbia, without medical attention, despite full-depth burns to 80 per cent of her body. Horrifically disfigured and homeless, at 39 her existence seemed to have been reduced to the garbage bags she habitually hauled around with her.
Yet even in her abysmally reduced state, she had quietly managed to maintain some of the accoutrements of 21st-century life: a mobile phone, a bank account, a Facebook page. They provided some of the few enduring links to who she had been.
She had the most contagious laugh," says Rani Thind, a warm, 30-something woman who, having spent several periods helping homeless people, still cannot believe that a friend of 24 years could have fallen into this category. "She was always bubbly, always had a smile."
Monika Chetty, aged 14.
Monika Chetty, aged 14. Photo: Supplied
Monika Chetty came into Thind's life in her early teens, when she was still Monika Prasad and dreamed of love and domesticity. They met as school girls through mutual friends. "She talked about growing up, getting married, having a home, having children."
Born in the Fijian town of Lautoka, Chetty arrived in Australia as a teenager with her parents and her sister, Mohini, in 1988, another family joining the exodus from post-coup Fiji, and settled in western Sydney. She attended Burwood Girls High in years 9 and 10 and finished her schooling in Blacktown, where her parents opened a corner store.
She and Thind shared similar ambitions. "You know, those girly dreams that you have when you are young: a happy home, a husband who kisses you goodbye when he goes to work in the morning. She was at my wedding and danced all night. She was always saying that she was so excited about getting married and having all that."
Insurance advisor Anujay Singh, who met Chetty through his cousins around the same time, remembers a nice young woman who loved dressing up. "She was smart, intelligent, a good girl – funny, with a great sense of humour."
She attended TAFE and studied business administration, and by 19 she was married. Her idealised life seemed to have begun. But the union did not last.
At 23, she married again. Her second husband, Ronald Chetty, had spotted her at a party. "She was quite friendly and talkative and was open-hearted; she was a very cheerful person," he says now.
They were married in 1998, and with her mix of warmth and assertiveness she assumed the role of homemaker, eventually presiding over a family of three children. "She was the boss," says Ronald. "She was making all the decisions, and we had a good time."
Like many others, their union was sometimes patchy, but Ronald seems to have tried to please his wife. "He looked after her like a queen," says Shelly Zammit, who was a year ahead of Monika Chetty at school. "He did everything for her. He paid all the mortgage, he paid the bills and if she didn't want to work, he said, 'That's fine.' "
Chetty had been a shop assistant at Myer and Target earlier in her career, and she worked for a time as a nursing aide in Fairfield after the births of her two sons. But with the advent of parenthood she was mostly at home, living in a comfortable three-bedroom place in Bonnyrigg, with no outward indication of the darkness that was to come.
By 2007, "she still seemed to be quite a together person", says Thind. She enjoyed family day trips and picnics, and spent time with her children and her friends and their children, although the complexities of family life were sometimes straining. She had become gloomy about her sometimes-rocky marriage, but was determined it would survive. "She wanted it to work out for the kids as well, so that she and their father were together for them," says Thind.
"Sometimes she was unhappy," says Zammit, who was always struck by her friend's fierce independence. "It wasn't the husband; it wasn't the kids she was unhappy [about]. It was something about her. She would never ask for help. She thought she could look after herself. She didn't need anyone."
Eventually, however, the marriage ended. "When the third child was born, she wasn't happy," says Ronald Chetty. "I was home and she said, 'It's not going anywhere' … And I said, 'Why, what's wrong?' And she didn't say anything."
Her husband was left to assume that money was a contributor to their marriage breakdown. "She wasn't working and probably I wasn't earning that much to entertain her," he says. In 2008, she moved out with her two primary school-aged sons and infant daughter, and moved in temporarily with her father, Jitendra, and sister in Blacktown. (Her mother had died several years earlier.) By 2009, she was divorced.
In her early 30s, Chetty was now a single mother living at first off Centrelink benefits and later from her cashier's job at a fruit market. After several months, she moved into a Toongabbie flat and the children would see their father at weekends. There was still a semblance of domesticity to life, but already its once measured rhythm was shaky. Chetty fell out with her father and sister. She developed breast cancer. Soon the tensions of her complicated life were overwhelming.
In late 2010, she contacted her ex-husband. "It was the last day of school," he recalls, "and she rang me and said, 'Can you have the kids for a while?' because she didn't have a place to live." She had been given notice after failing to pay rent, but promised to take the children back once she was settled in a housing commission place. Ronald Chetty had no reason to disbelieve her: "She was always a good mother." But even a plan this simple would prove to be wishful thinking.
Away from her immediate family, Chetty's movements, like her welfare, became unclear. A photo taken in October 2011 shows no signs of scarring, but as that year morphed into 2012, she was becoming increasingly distant from those who had once been among her closest circles.
She phoned her children at least weekly when they first returned to live with their father. But within a year her calls had become sporadic, and the gap soon spanned months.
In late 2011, she called her ex-husband asking for money. They met at a car park near his Fairfield home and he was shocked: "If I saw her on the street, I wouldn't have known who she was." Her face and neck were blistered, her hair was gone, even her skin colour had changed. "She was very dark, and wasn't well at all."
Chetty provided few details. She said she had been burnt by a car radiator on a freeway, and that her hair had fallen out from chemotherapy. But that was not all that disturbed her former husband. He had started hearing that she was asking strangers for money in nearby suburbs: Fairfield, Parramatta, Cabramatta. The location kept changing, but the thrust of the rumours did not. This was not the woman he knew.
Chetty was broke. On her own and impoverished, she began begging, an especially difficult proposition for a woman who had been so fiercely independent. Her plight was made more difficult by the way she now looked, so badly scarred on at least her face and hands, sometimes wearing bandages, that no outfit seemed to completely hide the external signs of the hardships she was enduring.
By December 2012 she was working through a list of potential helpers when she phoned Anand Kumar, a family friend for 20 years. After several calls, he finally agreed to see her. They met in January 2013 on the footpath outside his home (she had refused to come inside, saying, "You might get scared if you see me") and Chetty's head was covered and her hands were burnt. She mentioned the car radiator and Kumar did not inquire further. He gave her $200 and did not help her again.
Around the same time, Chetty also contacted Jarvis Prasad after 15 years. They were friends in their early 20s, and Prasad was astonished that she now wrote to his brother on Facebook, then phoned Prasad himself. "How come she called me after so many years?" says Prasad. "I thought she must be really desperate." Chetty avoided answering how she was, saying only that she needed $100. For someone frantic for money, it seemed a surprisingly paltry amount.
Prasad was happy to help. "I told her I would meet her anywhere; I wanted to see her." But she never showed up, leaving Prasad so unsettled – by her dire financial state and her refusal to meet him – that he contacted other old friends, among them Rani Thind. Around March last year, Thind phoned her schoolmate and said she could move in.
Chetty sounded desperate. Although Thind had heard she was living in a car, she claimed to have secured a housing commission spot in Liverpool. What she really needed, she said, was $500 in her bank account to stop her car being repossessed. Thind did not have the money. "But I said, 'Come and see me and I will talk to the car company and come up with some kind of arrangement with them.' And she said, 'No, no, I have an arrangement that I have to pay them and they won't give me any more time.' "
Thind thought Chetty's response was odd. "If you are in a situation where you are really desperate and someone you knew since you were kids was giving you a place to stay … it surprised me that she didn't want to come and see me … She wouldn't even meet." Their friendship had always seemed open, but now Chetty was intensely secretive. "She wouldn't give me an address. She wouldn't give me anything. She said she would call me, but she didn't. I tried to call her over and over." But Chetty never answered her calls again.
By early 2013, Chetty was frequenting West Hoxton. She had told her children's father that a woman she called "Aunty" lived there and that she had been helping her but, as ever, she provided scant details. Her presence on Ferraro Crescent, however, was noted.
"I could hear her crying in the bush late, late at night," says resident Giola Motti. "I used to wake my husband up and I would say, 'Can you hear that?' and he's going, 'It's just cats', and I said, "It's not cats, that's a human cry.' "
Around March, Motti first noticed Chetty hovering around the bush carrying garbage bags. Sometimes she would move them from outside a nearby house, where Motti assumed she was staying, to the bush reserve. Each time Chetty was covered head to toe. Then, late one hot night as she went for a run, Motti spotted her in a small green car parked a few houses away. A streetlight was shining on her, but Chetty seemed oblivious as she sat in the front seat in a singlet.
"She had massive gouges, like her skin had been burned down to her cheekbones," says a horrified Motti. "It looked like she had just come back from war. All I could see were craters. Everywhere, her skin, her arms … it was like something out of a horror movie."
Still, Motti did not alert anyone to what she had seen. Chetty had been going to the property a few houses away. The residents there, Motti figured, must have seen her. Surely that meant she wasn't homeless?
By the time Jameel Ahmed and his wife, Firoza, saw her at Carnes Hill shopping complex in May 2013, Chetty's scarring was noticeable even from a distance. "You could see that she was in trouble," he says. "She was looking for help." As Chetty left her car and approached the couple for money, Jameel Ahmed began to learn about the unlikely unravelling of her once ordinary life.
With her belongings in storage, she told them, she had left a women's refuge in Liverpool after some youths tormented her, and for several months an Indian-Fijian woman had given her shelter and money and the chance to work as a cleaner. When that had started to impinge on the woman's family life, the woman had bought her the cheap car that now doubled as her bed.
Chetty's existence was unrecognisable from the comfortable life she had known so recently. She was still in the suburbs, but now she wandered by day as far afield as Liverpool and Parramatta. She spent her nights, friends heard later, sleeping on back verandahs if she was lucky, or more often in her car, which was both a saviour and a curse. She said she had been badly injured opening the radiator cap, then the bonnet had fallen on her hands. She had been burnt another time by hot cooking oil, on both occasions receiving medical help. Still, the indelible legacy of those accidents was apparent each time she stepped beyond the shadows.
Yet she seemed most troubled by money. At the car park, Ahmed gave her cash and later transferred more to her bank account, around $500 in all. Over several ensuing phone calls, he also directed her to a Hindu temple and found her a job in a Parramatta restaurant. But again she declined all but monetary help. "She felt embarrassed and non-presentable. She looked disfigured … I can't blame her," says Ahmed, whose persistence eventually waned.
"I felt frustrated because she never sought [out] all those avenues I presented to her," he says. "She was not helping herself." But he remained so deeply affected that he emailed community leaders in late May, feeling then that "if she doesn't find shelter and doesn't get back on her feet again, she is going to end up in a worse situation than she is now".
Ahmed's letter spawned the first of several email chains among Sydney's Indian and Fijian communities. In May 2013, Dr Yadu Singh, president of the Indian Australian Association of NSW, found Chetty at the same shopping complex, covered up in long clothes and a cap, her hands bandaged. "I didn't feel that she was in health troubles because she was walking around," says Singh, a cardiologist. "I didn't see anything that said she was in fear, at that time at least."
She told him she was okay and needed no help, so he offered no more. "If a person says, 'I am okay', you have to walk away, you can't intrude."
Several other community members also spoke to her. One offered her the use of an office space. Another said he might be able to assist with a job, food and clothing, and would even help her approach Centrelink, her own direct efforts having apparently failed. But she resisted them all.
Chetty's movements over the following months are unclear, although she was spotted in various suburbs of western Sydney with obvious injuries. At a Liverpool street function one night in October, bandaged and heavily clothed, she approached a man for money. As he handed her $10, he failed to recognise her as his wife's cousin.
By January 2014, Chetty had become a ghoulish site around West Hoxton, an unknown but non-threatening presence in Ferraro Crescent. "My kids would say, 'That scary man is up at the park again', " says Joanne Malloch, who lives with her extended family on a curve of the street just beyond the bush reserve.
For half a year, her husband, Joseph, had noticed clothes and towels strung out on a nearby barbed-wire fence and had often seen a short person shuffling on the footpath. But it was not until late afternoon on January 3 that Joanne Malloch drove past Chetty, who appeared to have a surgical mask on her face, and spotted the horrific burns.
Malloch did not contact anyone about what she had seen. But within a couple of hours, her neighbour Giola Motti did. On a recent early morning run, she had stumbled upon Chetty sleeping in the bush. "I thought she was dead. She was just lying there covered in old clothes. I coughed to make some noise and she sort of rustled around and picked her stuff up and started going."
Having repeatedly seen the woman moving bags into the bush, Motti was convinced she was up to no good.
Chetty was meant to see her children on January 3. She had phoned her former husband in the morning, not having hugged her sons and daughter in close to a year, and had made a loose arrangement to visit them at home some time after 6pm.
Instead, she found herself trapped on a rough bit of land in someone else's neighbourhood, her isolation shattered by the arrival of emergency crews. She was quiet and reserved as police helped her stand. They called an ambulance when they saw her horrific wounds and only then did she become upset, insisting vehemently she would not go to hospital. She did not say why. She was moved to a specialist burns unit and the difficult task of saving her from the wounds that had not seemed to trouble her began.
With no idea who had caused her injuries, or even if acid had been thrown, police launched an investigation. That night they began to circulate an old photograph of Chetty in the hope that someone might reveal the source of her wounds. "I looked at the picture of her in the paper and it was actually nice to see," says Green Valley Police crime manager, Detective Inspector Brendan Bernie, who was on duty that evening. "If you saw what she looked like [on January 3] and you saw the face as it appears in that photo, you couldn't say that they were the same people."
Chetty's fate morphed into a collective burden. Another chain email began circulating among community members wondering how to help her. Within days, more than 150 names were on the list. After all this time seemingly alone, a circle began to re-form around her. Her former husband, Ronald, and her eldest son, now well into his teens, visited her in hospital, where she was eventually placed in an induced coma. Her elderly father, Jitendra, and her sister, Mohini, from whom she had been estranged, became key links for the health and community officials working towards her recovery.
But before any semblance of a future could be planned, Chetty died. After the isolation of her final months, the grief at her demise was collective and audible. Her death, on January 31, was announced on local Hindi radio. Close to 150 people attended her funeral: women in saris, men in white business shirts, her father and sister, her children and their father, old school friends, community leaders and a minibus load of young men dressed neatly in high-school uniforms.
Chetty's elderly father was especially distraught. The day after the funeral, as he went to collect his daughter's ashes, he suffered a suspected stroke.
He was rushed to hospital, but died later that day.
Police are unsure about much of Monika Chetty's demise. They don't know why she chose Ferraro Crescent, with its tract of supposedly snake-infested bush, to spend her final nights. Her endless need for cash is also unclear, given the regularity with which she was helped. "I don't think she was starving, because of the amount of people who gave her food and coffee," says Green Valley police's James Johnson.
But her death has dispelled some of the myths that accumulated as she moved quietly through suburbia. The garbage bags that worried some residents contained nothing more than clothes. What remained of Chetty's former life had become confined to the inside of those flimsy liners, and the house in Ferraro Crescent where she had been allowed to store some things. An occupant of the house refused to be interviewed for this story, but Johnson says the residents there also fed her. "They did take a little bit of care of her as neighbours."
Chetty left other bags around West Hoxton, presumably for safe-keeping. But like her former life, nothing was guaranteed protection in the end. A neighbour found some of the clothes-filled liners in the bush and, figuring they were rubbish, threw them away.
Monika Chetty's life, once hopeful and unexceptional, ended bitterly and prematurely. Old friends and family still struggle to reconcile her final months with the laughing young woman who loved dressing up like a Bollywood star.
"What happened to her?" wonders former husband Ronald Chetty, ruling out whispers about drugs and depression. "She was a very, very nice person when I met her. She was still a very nice person when she left me. And in the last two-and-a-half years, I don't know what happened. No one can tell me."
Rani Thind desperately wants her old friend to be remembered for who she was for the bulk of her 39 years, and not just at the end. "She was alive before everything went wrong. She was asking people for money and she was living on the street. This is not the person that she was. It feels like a stranger."


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Alumnae and Business Leaders Share with Students their Experiences in the Workplace
UTSA alumnae and San Antonio business leaders shared their experiences in the workplace as part of a "Women in Business" panel held as part of the university's Women's History month celebrations in March.
Panelists were April Ancira, MBA '03, vice president of Ancira Enterprises; Sara Dysart, MA '77, attorney at law; Yvette Segura, vice president of claims service at USAA; and Yvonne Fernandez, '85, assistant vice president of commercial services at Security Service Federal Credit Union.
Panelists discussed lessons that they've learned as women business leaders. They also shared with the students insights into leadership positions. "When you choose a career, you have to love what you do and look forward to each Monday," said Segura. "I wanted to be in a leadership role that affected change."
Workplace challenges were also a topic addressed by the panelists. "I entered the auto industry, which is predominantly male, at the age of 23," said Ancira. "Coming in as a young female, I brought energy and enthusiasm into the organization. You are your own challenge."
"You need a certain amount of self assurance to succeed," said Dysart. "From a very early age, I knew that what drove me was a sense of independence. I am a risk taker. I'm not afraid to take risks, and that is why I thrive as an entrepreneur and business owner."
Fernandez concluded the discussion by encouraging the students to learn from others and to find networking opportunities that allow you to grow as an individual. "Seek out mentors and other individuals who can help you in your career," said Fernandez. "You do not need to forge ahead on your own."
The panel discussion was sponsored by the college's Center for Student Professional Development and the Business Scholars Program.
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Yet another week has passed, and that means the 148Apps reviewers have combed through the vast numbers of new apps out there in hopes of reviewing the latest and greatest. The ones we love become Editor's Choice, standing out above the many good apps and games with something just a little bit more to offer. Want to see what we've been up to this week? Take a look below for a sampling of our latest reviews. And if you want more, be sure to hit our Reviews Archive.
Offering a quite powerful way in which to organize one's shopping, My.Shopping isn't going to win prizes for simplicity or minimalism, but it might suit those looking for a more complex solution than the usual methods. A cluttered interface introduces proceedings but a clearly laid out plus sign does at least guide users the right way. It's possible to add product names and sellers so they're easier to include in the future, as well as actual shopping lists. Being able to configure sellers accurately to include local area details is a potential option, too. --Jennifer Allen
Disney Animated
Disney animated films are kiiiiinda popular, and have been ever since Snow White was released in 1937. They've been going strong ever since. Countless books both official and not have been published documenting the company's techniques, movies, and so on. However, I don't think any of them, or even all of them put together, hold a candle to Disney Animated. Disney Animated isn't a simple eBook. Oh no. It's an interactive encyclopedia of all fifty-three of Disney's feature length animated films. Ten different chapters explain the history of the animation giant, its methods (past and present), character development, music, and more. Each of these sections explains a core concept and offers up several detailed examples that can be viewed, and often directly interacted with, via a single tap. Curious about Disney's animation techniques over the years? Check out the chapter on Animation and view dozens of samples from Lady and the Tramp, The Lion King, Tangled, and more. Or maybe take a stab at animation itself by doing some simple skeletal adjustments using a model of Vanellope from Wreck-it-Ralph. There's a remarkable amount of information for Disney fans to appreciate here, and a significant portion of it is either animated, interactive, or both. --Rob Rich
Mikey Hooks
Mikey Hooks takes the sublime speed-run platformer Mikey Shorts and adds grappling hooks to it. I love Mikey Shorts and I love grappling hook games. I'm no mathematician (I'm a writer instead) but that adds up to Mikey Hooks being an incredible game. Through 24 story levels and 12 race levels, players must run, jump, and swing their way through levels as quickly as possible. As this is the second game in the series, the training wheels have been taken off: now players have limited health and can die when touching spikes, and there's a lot more freedom in path-taking as the trapped humans aren't in the levels any more. The story levels still have challenges for collecting all the coins (which are used to unlock a wild variety of new disguises) and finding the hidden golden shorts in each level. --Carter Dotson
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Create & Learn Apptivity Case from Fisher Price
Recently, I have been given the chance to test a new iPad case, the Create & Learn Apptivity Case from Fisher Price. This case is compatible with 1st 2nd and 3rd generation as well as the new iPad, but a camera is needed to access a section of the related application of the same name. I remember when we first got our iPad 3, my husband was intent on encasing our device in something that would be utterly protected from our sometimes irresponsible – if not occasionally downright reckless – five year old boy. Our old case has done the trick as our iPad has never seen any damage, but not without some cost, as my husband announced after some time struggling to get this piece of hardware onto the iPad that he was NEVER, EVER taking this case off, as it was too difficult to do so. Of course, as we had been given the chance by Fisher Price to review not only this iPad case, but two previously reviewed Apptivity play sets as well, it was understood that this case would have to come off, which it did, with a lot of cajoling. --Amy Solomon
Symmetry School
Symmetry School: Learning Geometry is an app for iPad that helps children understand the principles of symmetry in this engrossing interactive app. Both reflective and rotational symmetry are touched upon here as children drag differently colored geometric shapes onto a grid that needs to be filled in accordingly. Three levels of difficulty are included for both the reflective and rotational sections of this app. Children will have the easiest time starting to explore this app with the reflective section as this is symmetry they may find familiar such as in a mirror image, looking at the details of butterfly wings, or creating Rorschach-like art by adding paint to a folded piece of paper and distributing color equally between both halves. --Amy Solomon
Might & Magic: Clash of Heroes
How long should a game last? Are you the type of person that demands 30 hours of gameplay before you'd even consider purchasing a title? Well, Might & Magic: Clash of Heroes has got you covered. This game is huge. Try and bear in mind I'm being quite relative with my usage of the word 'huge'. It's no Skyrim, but for your average Android download, Clash of Heroes contains a campaign that easily clocks in at over 30 hours. Is this a good thing, though? Do we want to grind through 30 hours of Clash of Heroes? It will all come down to how much you enjoy the game's basic structure and combat. Clash of Heroes is a Strategy RPG title. Battles are turn based and at the end of each fight, you'll level up, gain EXP and all sorts of other RPG tropes are thrown in. --Matt Parker
Rail Rush
Yes, Rail Rush may induce a double take. In a good way, that is. A decrepit, seemingly endless mine shaft is the scene of this caper; the playing environment is mostly made up of the the running area that this type of running game is known for, but the running path appears as a three-lane rail track that is treacherous in its condition, and the runner is maneuvering a runaway mine cart along the railway. Plenty of obstacles are present, which most of the swipe controls help avoid. Swiping up and down invokes jumping and sucking respectively, while swiping left or right jumps the cart in either direction. This is useful for jumping off of a busted track to a (temporarily) safer one, or for avoiding objects on the tracks. Additionally, there are left and right tilt movements, which are not only effective for avoiding obstacles, but key in collecting gold nuggets, gems and other specials that line the sides of the rails. --Tre Lawrence
Autodesk Homestyler
Some people used to look at me funny when I'd tell them the best bit about playing The Sims wasn't drowning people by removing a simple ladder, but that it was the building and design phase that I spent most time on. There's something about creating your perfect home. Something that The Sims made look so simple and didn't involve a single piece of Ikea flat-packed furniture. Something so easy about it all. It's that same feeling that Autodesk Homestyler also evokes. It's a fairly simple design tool that allows you to place furniture within a preset blank canvas of a room or you can import pictures of your own home. --Matt Parker


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Snipers Shoot At UN Chemical Weapons Team In Syria
DAMASCUS (AFP) – Snipers shot at a UN team set to inspect the site of a suspected deadly chemical weapons attack on Monday, further ratcheting up tensions as the West warned of possible military action against Damascus.
A defiant Syrian President Bashar al-Assad declared that any strike by the U.S. and its allies would be doomed to failure and key ally Moscow said it could have dangerous consequences for the entire region.
A UN spokesman said unidentified snipers shot at the UN experts looking into allegations of a chemical attack near Damascus last week that the Syrian opposition claimed killed hundreds of civilians.
The attack forced them to suspend their inspection but no injuries were reported, said spokesman Martin Nesirky.
"The first vehicle of the chemical weapons investigation team was deliberately shot at multiple times by unidentified snipers," he said.
The attack came as the West appeared to be moving closer to launching a military response over last Wednesday's attack near Damascus, which shocked the world after grisly pictures emerged of dead children with horrific injuries.
Britain said the West could act even without full UN Security Council backing, with China and Moscow likely to boycott any resolution backing a military strike.
Washington and its allies have pointed the finger of blame at Assad's regime for the alleged attack, the latest atrocity in a conflict that has claimed the lives of more than 100,000 people since March 2011.
Assad, in an interview with a Russian newspaper published Monday, angrily denied the accusations as an "insult to common sense" and said any military action was doomed to failure.
"The United States faces failure just like in all the previous wars they waged," he said.
A senior Syrian security official told AFP the regime was ready to face "all scenarios."
"Western threats of strikes against Syria are part of the psychological and political pressure against Syria, but in any case we are ready to face all scenarios," the official said.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov warned his U.S. counterpart John Kerry of the "extremely dangerous consequences of a possible new military intervention for the whole Middle East and North Africa region".
Syrian authorities had approved the UN inspection of the site in Ghouta east of Damascus on Sunday, but U.S. officials said it was too little, too late, arguing that persistent shelling there in recent days had "corrupted" the site.
Mortar shells also hit a mosque in the centre of Damascus on Monday, the Syrian news agency SANA said, blaming "terrorists," its term for rebel fighters.
The international community has long been divided over how to respond to the conflict, with Russia and China repeatedly blocking UN Security Council resolutions.
The latest allegations have driven a new wedge between Russia and the West, with Moscow saying the suspected attack was a rebel ploy to discredit the Assad regime. China has backed a UN investigation into the charges, but urged a "cautious" response.
U.S. President Barack Obama has been loath to order U.S. military action to protect civilians in Syria, fearing being drawn into a vicious civil war, soon after he extracted U.S. troops from Iraq.
But revulsion over video footage and gruesome photographs of dead children blanketing the world's media has seen mounting pressure on the international community.
"Is it possible to respond to chemical weapons without complete unity on the UN Security Council? I would argue yes," British Foreign Secretary William Hague told the BBC, refusing to rule out a military strike this week.
France said the West would decide in the coming days on a response.
"The only option that I do not envisage is to do nothing," Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said on French radio.
Turkey — a vehement opponent of the Assad regime — said it would join an international coalition against Syria even if the Security Council fails to reach consensus on the issue, while Germany said there would have to be "consequences" for the regime if the accusations against it are confirmed.
U.S. officials said that Obama, who had said a year ago that the use of chemical weapons by Assad's forces was a "red line" that could trigger Western intervention, would make an "informed decision" about how to respond.
Experts believe the most likely U.S. action would see sea-launched cruise missiles target Syrian military installations and artillery batteries deemed complicit in the chemical weapons attack.
Weapons fired from U.S. planes outside the country could also be used, to minimize the risk to U.S. or allied pilots from Syrian air defenses.
U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said commanders had prepared a range of military options and were positioning their forces for "whatever the president might choose."
He did not elaborate, but a defense official said the U.S. Navy would expand its presence in the Mediterranean with a fourth warship armed with cruise missiles.
Washington would likely seek to act with a broad coalition of European and Gulf allies as Russia is seen as sure to veto any attempt to mandate action against its ally.
Senior military officers from Western and Muslim countries, including the U.S. chief of staff — were also gathered in Jordan Monday to discuss the regional impact of the war.
Syria's opposition says more than 1,300 people died when toxic gases were unleashed last Wednesday. Doctors Without Borders said 355 people had died of "neurotoxic" symptoms in the affected areas.
If confirmed, the attack would mark the deadliest use of chemical agents since Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein gassed Iranian troops and Kurdish rebels in the 1980s.
UN chief Ban Ki-moon said Monday there was no time to waste in probing the allegations.


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EL PASO, Texas — Walmart plans to reopen the El Paso store where 22 people were killed in a shooting earlier this month, the retail giant said Thursday, but the entire interior of the building will first be rebuilt.
The renovated store will include an on-site memorial honoring the victims of the shooting, many of whom were Latino, and recognizing the "binational relationship between El Paso and Ciudad Juarez" just across the border in Mexico, Walmart spokesman Randy Hargrove said. The project is expected to take three to four months.
El Paso mayor: We'll persevere after Walmart shootingAug. 4, 201903:17
Nearly all of the 400 employees at the El Paso store have been reassigned to other nearby locations, Hargrove said, and the Arkansas-based company believes reopening the store is "an important step in healing from this tragedy."
"Nothing will erase the pain of Aug. 3 and we're hopeful that reopening the store will be another testament to the strength and resiliency that has characterized the El Paso community in the wake of this tragedy," Hargrove said.
Flowers, crosses and handwritten messages now adorn a makeshift memorial outside one of the store's entrances. Hundreds of residents have visited in the wake of the shooting, where social workers hand out bottled water and offer counseling services.
"If we close it, they win," said Laura Lopez, 59, who brought her gardening gloves from home to help clear dead flowers from the memorial site Thursday. "Life goes on and you've got to go on."
Many shoppers from Ciudad Juarez went there because it is the closest Walmart to the four border bridges that connect to El Paso. Eight of the people killed in the shooting were Mexican citizens. The vast majority had Hispanic names.
Authorities took more than 10 days to finish processing evidence before returning control of the property to Walmart. It was less time than officials initially anticipated given the scope of the carnage, plus the size of the crime scene where police said up to 3,000 shoppers had gathered. The FBI has returned most of the 230 vehicles that had been in limbo behind crime scene tape for days after the attack.
"It was very meticulous work and certainly not rushed, but working around the clock with our counterparts in the FBI, investigators were able to complete the task sooner than initially anticipated," El Paso Police Department spokesman Enrique Carrillo.
Police said the suspected gunman, Patrick Crusius, confessed to targeting Mexicans in the attack. They've also said that the suspected shooter is the likely author of an anti-Latino screed published online shortly before the shooting. It criticized race-mixing and called Hispanics "invaders."
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott met Thursday in Austin with officials from tech giants Google, Facebook and Twitter to discuss ways of combating extremism. Abbott hasn't proposed any new major gun-control measures but called for a crackdown on internet sites used by violent extremists in the immediate aftermath of the shooting.
Police are still preparing their investigation for the local prosecutor, Jaime Esparza, who has said he will seek the death penalty. The Department of Justice has said it will bring federal capital murder charges, and is investigating the shooting as domestic terrorism.
Crusius has been on a suicide watch in an El Paso jail since Aug. 7, according to El Paso County Sheriff's office spokeswoman Chris Acosta. Crusius has been separated from other inmates, Acosta said Wednesday.
In the days after the shooting, Hargrove said the company was reviewing security protocols. Walmart launched computer-based active shooter training in 2015 and has since increased frequency of its instruction and added a virtual reality component.
The El Paso City Council has been researching the possibility of requiring armed security guards for large stores, and of requiring certain additional security features at store entrances.
"People are not picking on Walmart in particular but, they used to have off-duty officers hired there all the time. And then for some reason, it went away," police chief Greg Allen told city council members in an Aug. 8 briefing.
A police spokesman declined to elaborate on the chief's comments and referred questions to Walmart.


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Almond Tuiles
When you look at these you'll probably think 'I can't be bothered', but they are unbelievably easy to make and are the most elegant biscuits to serve with fruit fools and ice creams.
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This recipe is from Delia's Cakes. Makes about 16
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Place the egg white in a very clean bowl and whisk until stiff but not dry.
Now beat in the sugar bit by bit and continue beating until the mixture forms soft peaks. When that happens, carefully fold in the rest of the ingredients except the almonds. Next drop 4 rounded teaspoons of the mixture evenly spaced out on one of the lined trays, then using a small palette knife spread the mixture thinly and evenly into discs about 10cm across.
Don't worry about a small hole here and there – it doesn't matter at all. Sprinkle with the flaked almonds, then bake the biscuits near the centre of the oven for 4–5 minutes or until they have turned a nice golden colour with a fine brown fringe.
While that's happening prepare the second tray so that you can exchange them.
The cooked tuiles need to be quickly and carefully removed, one disc at a time, from the baking sheet, using a metal spatula. Curve each biscuit immediately over a rolling pin, and leave a few minutes until they are cool and crisp. Then remove them to a wire rack and cook the rest, continuing as above until all the mixture has been used up.
As soon as the biscuits are cool, store straight away in an airtight tin to keep them crisp.
Pre-heat the oven to 220°C, gas mark 7
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She attended the faculty of architecture of the Madrid Polytechnic and the Milan, Polytechnic graduating with Achille Castiglioni.
She collaborated with Achille Castiglioni, Vico Magistretti and Piero Lissoni before opening her own studio in Milan in 2001 working on product design, architecture, interiors, installations and concept creation.
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She has received from the Spanish Government and the King of Spain the Gold Medal of Fine Arts and the Cross of the Order of Isabella the Catholic. Her products are present in the permanent collection of various museums among others MoMA NY and Triennale Milano.
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The Liebherr four-tine grapples are the perfect tools for handling long materials such as rail tracks or mast, or for handling cars. The different available tine forms open, semi-closed and closed mean the grapples are specially designed for the requirements of different industrial applications. Excellent access to all components allows a high level of service friendliness for our customers.
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