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In an article published by Investment Migration Insider (IMI), the top 13 world's most popular residence by investment programs have been highlighted, based on official statistics. Rankings have been defined based on 'main applicants', however also noted are visas granted for dependents.
At #13 is Latvia, a not so common option for those looking for a visa by investment, however has been deemed to be an 'affordable option' to immigrate to the EU and is being favoured by Russians. In 2017, there were 379 investor visas issued including dependents, however only 119 were issued to main applicants.
Currently one of the most expensive Investor Visa programs is Australia. Since end of 2012, AUD$10 billion has been raised, predominantly from Chinese investors who make up nine out of ten applicants. Figures have however since dropped in the last 12 months due to tougher requirements specifically around source of wealth. For year ending May 2018, there were 180 main applicant visas granted.
One country that has had much attention around Citizenship by Investment program is Malta which has had over 1,000 applications since the program launched. 560 of which have been received in the first half of 2018. Inclusive of dependents, there has been 700 visas approved in the last 12 months.
Also in the spotlight over the last few months has been the UK's Tier 1 (Investor) Visa program which had an increase of 17% YOY in the first half of 2018; a surprising result according to Head of Investor Visa at Shard Capital, Farzin Yazdi, given the introduction of new sanctions and the unknown of Brexit negotiations. For the 12-month period including Q2 of 2018 there were 998 visas granted, inclusive of dependents.
In top place for almost four decades is the US EB-5 program. Currently capped at 10,000 individual visas, in 2017 there were 7,567 visas granted, inclusive of dependents. However, this could soon be overtaken (by comparison) a tiny Greece if reforms are not enacted soon to allow for more applicants.
Commenting on the global statistics, Farzin Yazdi said "There are some surprising results in this list, however we know the low barriers to entry has been driving much of this. We welcome the introduction of stricter due diligence and compliance globally, as ultimately we believe investment should be made for the benefit of a local economy and community."
For the full report and global breakdown, read the original article by Investment Migration Insider at https://www.imidaily.com/editors-picks/the-13-most-popular-golden-visas-in-the-world-according-to-the-data/
For more information on Investor Visas and Immigration by Investment, please contact Farzin Yazdi, Head of Investor Visa at Shard Capital email@example.com.


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The single hardest thing about buying a mattress is that there's no specific set formula to follow when it comes to choosing the perfect mattress for you. It's easy to fall in love at first sight with so many of the wonderful fabric beds on the market today, but when it comes to doing what's right by your health and wellbeing, considerably more thought must be put into the mattress-buying process.
So while some of the following may be little more than quite obvious common sense, each of these ten points are more than worth pondering at length before going ahead and choosing which mattress to take home:
1 – Do Your Homework
Don't just assume that any one brand or retailer is better or worse than any other – use the web to find out. There's a ton of information to be found online and a thousand and one opinions of previous buyers and shoppers, so it's more than worth doing at least a little homework to see what's what before going any further.
2- Speak To Your GP
The only person in the world that knows you and your health as comprehensively as you yourself do is your GP. As such, it's always worth having a quick chat with your doctor in order to gain a little advice as to what kinds of beds and mattresses would be best for your particular case. This is of course especially important for the elderly and those with illnesses or disabilities, though is never a bad idea for anyone at any age.
3 – Firmness
Try to remember that firmness isn't the be all and end all, nor does a high level of firmness necessarily mean that the mattress will be good for your back. There can be a very big difference between a medium-firm mattress and a firm mattress – just as there can be between the needs of one person and the next.
4 – Mattress Toppers
The appealing of a nice thick pillow topping for the mattress is obvious, but isn't necessarily the right way to go for everyone. The reason is that for smaller and lighter people, a super-thick mattress topped may totally remove any or all of the benefit the mattress below provides. If however you're on the heavier side, a mattress topper could add much needed comfort.
5 – Adjustable Beds
If you've ever sat in an adjustable recliner and found it to be pure Heaven, it's about time you tried out an adjustable bed. In some circles they may be primarily marketed as conveniences for the elderly and the disabled, but in terms of pure comfort and convenience they really are in a league of their own. What's more, they're also cheaper than they've ever been and quite brilliantly capable.
6 – Money Back Trials
When you buy from a quality brand and a reputable retailer, there's a good chance they'll offer you some kind of trial period during which the bed or mattress can be returned for either a full refund or to be exchanged for something else. Always look for these kinds of offers and use them if and when necessary.
7 – Warranties
Cheaper beds and mattresses may seem like bargains at the time, but if they need to be replaced once every year or two they're hardly economical. By contrast, invest in a bed that costs a fair bit more at first but comes with a 10 or 15-year warranty and you're looking at a highly cost-effective purchase.
8 – Protection
Consider investing in a quality mattress protector to look after the mattress and keep it free from wear, tear, spills and stains. If you take home a quality mattress protector, it technically shouldn't have any bearing on the comfort of the mattress.
9 – Try Plenty
Don't just assume that the type of mattress you've been using for years is in fact the best mattress for you. There's a strong chance that there's something significantly better out there that you've yet to experience, so do yourself a favour and try out a fair few before making your mind up.
10 – You Get What You Pay For
Last but not least, while prices may in general have come down a great deal over the years, great beds are never cheap and never will be. Mattresses in particular sell for a pretty penny, but more often than not you get what you pay for. After all, there's a big difference between a big rectangle filled with fluff and a high-tech mattress packed with state of the art spring technology and the highest-grade materials.

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First weekend of October, the Head of the Ohio Regatta hosted by Three Rivers Rowing Association and sponsored by UPMC.
The starting point was Washington's Landing and the 3.2 mile race ended at the Point where the Allegheny River meets the Monongahela River and forms the Ohio River.
Grandson Michael was in the novice class. He's in back seat in the 4 man boat. Unfortunately his 8 man boat was unable to race but we photographed his Olentangy Rowing Club teammates in their 8 man boat.
First two photos are taken near the Mazeroski Statue by PNC Park.
Vantage Point for 8 man boats was the Sixteenth Bridge above the Allegheny River.


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Earlier this week, I took part in an interview session with Andrew Lincoln and Gale Anne Hurd to discuss the second episode of The Walking Dead Season 3. In the first of a two-part feature, Andrew Lincoln talks about Rick's changes between the second and third season, working with Norman Reedus, and the physical demands of the role:
What can you tell us about Rick's humanity at this point in Season 3 and the decision he made with the prisoners toward the end of episode 2?
Andrew Lincoln: I think his humanity is pretty intact, but his ruthlessness or decision making has very much moved into a Shane point of view. There is an uncompromising nature that has happened over time to Rick. The other thing to bear in mind is that he is the most isolated, even within his group and in his relationship with everybody in the group, especially his wife.
So I don't think he is in the most stable. Certainly when I was playing it, I wanted it to be an instantaneous, almost Pavlovian, reaction to this situation. In Season 1 and Season 2, certainly I think he wouldn't have been so quick to make that judgment call.
The moral ambiguity in the show is the most interesting part for me, certainly as an actor because in any other world, in any other situation that wasn't hell, you wouldn't make these judgment calls or you wouldn't be pushed into this corner.
And the thing that helps sell it as a justified decision is that fact that he always has the group's safety certainly as a priority. So it is a sort of selfless act even though it is incredibly brutal.
With the flash forward in time at the start of the Season 3, did the cast or writers come up with details for what happened in the months between seasons?
Andrew Lincoln: It's very much down to the discretion of the actor playing the part, but certainly Sarah and I spoke at length, and we also spoke with Chandler. Everybody came around to my house, we had dinner, and we just talked through what had happened so we're all on the same page.
[For the Season 3 premiere intro] I was very keen to sort of set up a ritual that we'd worked out in those intervening months. Daryl is the person that chooses the place that's safe, I get out, I pace 15 steps and my son joins me, because he's the youngest and he's got the best ears and the best eyesight. Emily, who's the second youngest she goes to the back because she's got the best eyes and ears and I just wanted little things like that that we developed over time.
Also, certainly a lot of our skills developed, because the walkers have slowed down and we were able to navigate the winter months a lot better. We made a decision that we all found a place to hunker down for the coldest part of the winter.
There's lots and lots of other details, but that's a very vague approximation of what we spoke about. As an actor, it's my job to fill in the gaps and fill in the spaces.
Rick and Daryl are much closer at the start of the new season than they were at the end of Season 2. Can you tell us about working with Norman Reedus to develop this relationship?
Andrew Lincoln: Norman is this incredibly gifted instinctive actor. I always say that he went to cool school because everything he does is kind of intrinsically cool. He's also a very fluid actor and I wanted it to appear that there was always this common understanding and signaling because he's a tracker as well.
Everything is unspoken and he's on point; he is definitely the wingman. Rick is also smart enough to realize that [Daryl] is probably the strongest warrior in the group at the moment. I wanted there to be a real brotherly relationship, but they're both men that aren't particularly good at articulating their [feelings].
I kind of love that it's an old-fashioned sort of alpha male thing whereas Shane and Rick were brothers and knew each other and had history. These two guys don't, but there is an incredible mutual respect between the two of them.
I think out of everybody else Daryl is the one that understands the burden of responsibility that Rick chooses to carry and respects that more than anybody else in the group than perhaps Lori.
Whenever you see us swinging, going around the corridors, tracking, and the nods, everything was talked about because I said it has to look like there is this unspoken knowledge because that's how we survive.
We would have learned that around the campfire talking about planning things, the whole leg coming off - we talked about it. You know, we talked about it around the campfire. That's why it's instantaneous - it was the decision that was made two months ago. You don't need to know that as an audience member but we enjoy doing that as actors, you know, and that's what we played.
Compared to the second season, Season 3 appears to be more physically demanding? What kind of challenges did that present during filming? Andrew, do you enjoy the break that killing zombies or humans provides from some of the more intense character scenes?
Gale Anne Hurd: This season is intense and pedal to the metal. The world is infested with more zombies and there's more risk to our survivors now that they've left the farm.
Two things come into play: The first is that we have a very large ensemble cast and there are scenes this season in which they work together as a unit as we've seen both in the first episode and the second episode. That requires a lot of choreography of the stunt work. Unlike a lot of other TV shows, the actors are very infrequently doubled, so it's very careful work.
They're working with Russell Towery, who's our stunt coordinator. On a TV series you don't have a lot of time to prepare so it's intense. We make it as safe as possible, but it's incredibly physically demanding.
Often these sequences, unlike in a lot of films that I've done where you isolate a particular action beat, run rather continuously, which is even more demanding and the bar's even higher.
Andrew Lincoln: Yeah, that's exactly what it's like. We have multiple cameras, we play out scenes and go into fight sequences and then continue. So we try and make it as fluid as possible, which gives it the energy and certainly helps playing the scenes.
A lot of preparation for me is the physical part. It is sort of a great way of inhabiting the role because there's nothing like putting an axe in someone's head to really sort of feel like you're in the world. It's an incredible release.
It's brilliant that we get the opportunity to do an intimate scene, talking about the future of our relationships and then you counterpoint that in the same episode with putting a machete in someone's head who was a direct threat to the group.
The joy of the show is that you turn up to work and you have no idea what is in store there for you in the day. A lot of credit has to go to the people who play the walkers; these incredible stuntmen that get kicked and stabbed. I stuck a knife in one of them when I ripped their mask off. It was a dummy knife, but I stuck it so close to him it sort of went in his mouth at one point. I had to apologize, but he was fine and he didn't get hurt.
They throw themselves around like we do as well, and it's play; it's such good fun. When you feel the energy from the camera crew filming it as well and capturing it, it's one of the most exciting parts of the job. Certainly the action sequences I love because it's about hitting marks and selling ideas, but also filling it with this raw kind of emotion.
Credit also has to go to Victor who's our special effects whiz-kid and is on set all the time. If he gives you the nod, it means that you've stabbed a zombie correctly. It's always one of the most satisfying nods on an action day when Victor gives you the nod.
Check back later this week for the second part of our interview and an early review of episode 3.03. If you missed any of our recent coverage, check out the following links:


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Something About Tarot Readings Gives Me the Chills
Before you start assuming I'm going to talk all about this spiritual word, think again. Here is what happened: a friend of mine threw a house warming party, a small gathering to celebrating owning his first home. I only knew maybe one or two people of a gathering of about a dozen.
Now I'm not a card or palm reader, nor do I go out of my way to get readings. I do find them very interesting and entertaining and sometimes can really change the mood. My first reading ever was in a small shop in Newport. I was shaken by the experience. Make fun of me if you want, but some of the things were extremely accurate.
The second time I had a reading was in New Orleans from some random street vendor. This one had me in tears; go ahead call me dramatic, but it was really accurate and mind-blowing.
Many people think getting your cards or palm read is not a good idea. You are in essence playing with fate by trying to figure out what's next for you.
Fast-forward to this past weekend, where the evening took a turn to where everyone was getting a reading from one of the guests who happens to read tarot as a side hobby. Once again, I was so surprised as to how accurate it was. The energy in the room was different – not bad, but different.
Everyone at the party seemed to enjoy it and took something away from their reading – even if it was just the awkward uncomfortable laughs when someone got their reading and it was super personal.
Regardless, everyone left the party as friends. We all had learned something about each other that we probably wouldn't have learned if it wasn't for the reading. We all realized we had more in common than we thought.
I'm still kind of iffy on tarot readings but I don't think they do any harm and was actually a great way to get to know people. Maybe a suggestion for a first date?
What are some of your experiences with tarot readings? Have you ever had one? Thoughts?


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Robert Gates
| Robert Gates
(deep state actor, spook)
|Robert Michael Gates
Wichita, Kansas
|Alma mater
|Indiana University, Georgetown University
|Becky Gates
|Member of
|Atlantic Council/Board, Atlantic Council/Distinguished Leadership Awards, Council on Foreign Relations/Members, JP Morgan Chase/International Council
US deep state actor and spook
Robert Gates is a US deep state actor and spook who has held various jobs including US Secretary of Defense, Director of Central Intelligence, Chairman of the National Intelligence Council.
Robert Gates became Deputy director of the CIA.
Pollard case
"Robert Gates told me that Casey had never indicated to him that he had specific information about the Pollard material arriving in Moscow. "The notion that the Russians may have gotten some of the stuff has always been a viewpoint," Gates said, but not through the bartering of emigres. "The only view I heard expressed was that it was through intelligence operations" — the K.G.B."[1]
Realist faction leader
Jim Lobe argued that Gates was the leader of a realist faction in the Bush administration, rivalling the neoconservatives.
- The realist resurgence can also be traced to the rise of specific individuals, who took the place of their discredited predecessors in posts between the beginning of Bush's second term and the end of 2006 when the most important realist of all – Defense Secretary Robert Gates – replaced Donald Rumsfeld at the Pentagon.
- With Gates heading Washington's most-powerful foreign-policy bureaucracy, the return to realism, which was already underway – albeit tentatively – as early as 2004, accelerated sharply. By the end of 2007, the administration's top hawk, Vice President Dick Cheney, looks more isolated than ever.[2]
Events Participated in
|Colloquium on Intelligence Requirements for the 1990s
|4 December 1987
|5 December 1987
|Spooky 1987 conference
|Colloquium on Intelligence and Policy
|9 November 1984
|10 November 1984
|A spooky conference in November 1984
- ↑ The Traitor: The Case against Jonathan Pollard, by Seymour Hersh, The New Yorker, 18 January 1999, via JYA.
- ↑ Gates Led Realist Resurgence in 2007, by Jim Lobe, Antiwar.com, 28 December 2007.


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By Janna Gingras
For The Beachcomber
Islanders came away from the 12th Vashon Fix-It Cafe last weekend with smiles, stories and new lives for old possessions.
Majorly sponsored by Vashon Makerspace, the nonprofit known best for the Tool Library, and hosted by the Vashon Eagles, the latest Fix-It Cafe was a hybrid of in-person and online fixing, keeping islanders safe with creative COVID mitigation protocols. Other supporting partners in bringing this event to the island included Zero Waste Vashon, O Space, the Vashon Time Exchange, and the King County Eco-Consumer Program.
Twenty volunteers spent the day fixing more than 100 items that were broken or malfunctioning or sometimes merely presented a how-to-use dilemma for the 80 islanders who brought them in. People registered ahead online and received an appointed time to bring in their items, thus eliminating lines and minimizing personal contact.
About eight fixing stations were set up outdoors at the Eagles, while another four stations appeared in the corners of a large room inside the building. Everything from hair clippers to microwave ovens came through. There were numerous lamps and vacuum cleaners. There were CD players, a food dehydrator, an electric fireplace and an electric scooter. Various items of clothing needed patches and hems. More than one item had a power reset button that had been previously unknown to the owner.
Items were left and picked up later, unfortunately denying folks the fun and education of watching it being fixed, but a necessary part of the COVID mitigation strategy. Most items were fixed, some were sent home with advice regarding a needed part, and a few people reluctantly took home a beloved item they now knew to be unfixable.
A fix-it-yourself-at-home option was also available with a fixer on Zoom, giving instructions to enterprising people at home who learned what they needed to repair their own items. These Zoom sessions helped repair, among other items, a cement garden bench. On Zoom, a fixer also provided advice for operating a heavy recliner.
In the end, total fixes were reported on 55 items, resulting in 502 pounds of material being diverted from the landfill. Helpful advice such as "needs a new battery" and "knows what part to buy" was reported on 26 items, resulting in another potential diversion of 434 pounds.
People bringing in items were asked to be masked and vaccinated, but when two boys, much too young for vaccinations, and without the necessary proprietary tools at home, came in with a broken motor from a lego set and a remote control car that wasn't working, exceptions were made. A special table appeared in a far corner and the boys were given tools and instruction and they happily worked on both items themselves.
Organizers who coordinated the event and developed the drop-off and pick-up procedures were pleased with the overall turnout.
They regretted the loss of face-to-face interactions and the barrier that the online registration may have posed for some potential participants. But they were proud of the collegiality and enthusiasm of the fixers, several of whom actually took items home when time ran out. They look forward to another event in the spring.
In the meantime, fans of repair cafes can access many resources at vashonfixit.com.


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Although the Hub has a built-in battery to account for any power outages at your home, it should be plugged in at all times. If your Hub temporarily loses its power source and has depleted its battery from 8.5V to 7.5V, a Trouble Condition will appear in the app and your Hub will enter Low Power Mode.
Within Low Power Mode, your Hub will decrease LED brightness, turn off the Z-Wave controller, and make other concessions to conserve power for life-saving operations until plugged in again.
If the power at the property had been lost but is now restored, plug the AC adapter into your Hub and allow up to 72 hours for the backup battery to recharge. Once the battery is fully charged again, the "Panel Low Battery" trouble condition will disappear.
If your Hub is showing a Panel Low Battery status after 72 hours of charging, please follow the steps below:
- Make sure that the power outlet the Hub is plugged into is working and isn't controlled by a switch.
- Confirm the AC Power cord is securely connected to the wall outlet and plugged into the rear of the Hub.
- Open the battery compartment and ensure the black battery switch is turned to the ON position away from the battery wire connection, as shown in the picture below:


text: On a scale of zero to five hundred, those samplings were bunched toward the extremes, with nothing representing the middle three hundred million years. That was just chance, though-just what the faults had happened to throw up-and farther down the road, at Golconda, would come a full-dress two-hundred-and-fifty-million-year-old Triassic show. Geologists mention at times something they call the Picture. In an absolutely unidiomatic way, they have often said to me, "You don't get the Picture." The oolites and dolomite-tuff and granite, the zakelijke energie Pequop siltstones and shales-are pieces of the Picture. The stories that go with them-the creatures and the chemistry, the motions of the crust, the paleoenvironmental scenes-may well, as stories, stand on their own, but all are fragments of the Picture. The foremost problem with the Picture is that ninety-nine per cent of it is missing-melted or dissolved, torn down, washed away, broken to bits, to become something else in the Picture. The geologist discovers lingering remains, and connects them with dotted lines. The Picture is enhanced by filling in the lines-in · many instances with stratigraphy: the rock types and ages of strata, the scenes at the times of deposition. The lines themselves to geologists represent structure-folds, faults, flat-lying planes. Ultimately, they will infer why, how, and zakelijke energie vergelijken when a structure came to be-for example, why, how, and when certain strata were folded-and that they call tectonics. Stratigraphy, structure, tectonics. "First you read ze Kafka," I overheard someone say once in a library elevator. "Ond zen you read ze Turgenev. Ond zen ond only zen are-youready-for-ze Tolstoy." And when you have memorized Tolstoy, you may be ready to take on the Picture. Multidimensional, worldwide [in scope and in motion through time, it is sometimes called the Big Picture. The Megapicture. You are cautioned not to worry if at first you do not wholly see it. Geologists don't see it, either. Not all of it. The modest ones will sometimes scuff a boot and describe themselves and their colleagues as scientific versions of the characters in John Godfrey Saxe' s version of the Hindu fable of the blind men and the elephant. 'We are blind men feeling the elephant," David Love, of the Geological Survey, has said to me at least fifty times. It is not unknown for a geological textbook to include snatches of the poem.


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In a paper to be considered by the full Parliament in September, French Green MEP Alima Boumediene-Thiery urges the European Commission and member states to close loopholes and untangle the nightmare of bureaucracy which prevents EU nationals from travelling freely within the bloc. "Fifty years after the Treaty of Rome for the first time laid down the principle of free movement of persons, this right is still impeded or even ignored," she says.
According to Boumediene-Thiery, students, retired people and migrant workers all face discrimination which prevents them from exercising their right to move freely because member states abuse rules which give them the power to refuse residence to people for reasons of public policy, security or health.
Most notably, the laws allow governments to refuse residence permits in some circumstances to people who could become a burden on social support systems.
But Boumediene-Thiery says member states use the legislation to introduce unreasonable administrative hurdles with, for example, students often forced to deposit large sums of money in host country banks to prove their wealth and pensioners repeatedly required to go through the expensive process of renewing their residence papers. In some countries, a certificate of good behaviour is required to get a permit to stay, even though such a document may be unheard of in the country of origin.
Together, these regulations can leave pensioners and students trapped in a Kafkaesque nightmare of impenetrable red tape, according to Boumediene-Thiery. "Very often the people concerned find themselves in a vicious circle of demands from different authorities," she says.
Workers also face unrealistic hurdles, argues the paper, with temporary employees facing the impossible task of proving they will work for at least three months, and part-time workers refused residence permits on the grounds that they cannot provide adequate means of subsistence.
"Consideration of these various situations shows that in all too many cases, European citizenship is an empty phrase, both for 'atypical' workers and for the 'non-economically active'," says the report. "Time and again, access to the employment market, education and to residence without an economic activity is subject to excessive economic conditions."
The paper argues that to tackle the problem, the Commission must overhaul directives governing residence rights and EU legislation should be drawn up to compel member states to break the vicious administrative circles in which citizens find themselves. The report also supports Commission plans to launch publicity campaigns to make citizens more aware of their legal rights.


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A collection of all the latest news from around the world of hockey:
No one likes the term "injury prone", but Beau Bennett makes it difficult to avoid that distinction. [Post Gazette]
Darnell Nurse has been recalled by the Oilers. [Edmonton Journal]
Did Connor McDavid score a goal against the Kings or not? [The Score], [For the Win]
Is John Tortorella a better coach than Randy Carlyle? [Leafs Nation]
The Ducks lost again. [Rant Sports]. Should Bruce Boudreau be on the hot seat? [Anaheim Calling]
The Sabres will be without Evander Kane for the next 4-6 weeks. [Today's Slap Shot]
Kane reportedly asked for a trade out of Winnipeg. [NBC Sports], [Jets Nation]
The Jets learned to always be ready from the first drop of the puck. [The Hockey News]
Is the NHL doing enough for its female fans? [Copper N Blue]
A mysterious illness surrounds Ryan Johansen. [CBS Sports], [Blue Jackets Xtra]
The Devils have claimed Bobby Farnham off waivers from the Penguins. Ray Shero knows him well. [Pensburgh]
Is it already too late for these teams? [Globe and Mail]
That Max Domi kid sure can play. [CTV]
Changes are coming for the dismal Maple Leafs. [Sportsnet]
The Habs are winning because of a full team effort. [Along the Boards]
And finally, some stories about the great Gordie Howe. [Detroit Free Press]


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JACKSONVILLE – Let's get to it …
Bill from Hawthorne Woods, IL
How did the team do last preseason? Right ... no one remembers, because the score doesn't matter. If the Jags' ones played the Ravens' twos, it could have easily been 29-0 the other way. (For the record, the team was 3-1 last year, which clearly did not equate to a successful regular season). Oh, and since you wondered, the team went 2-2 in 2017 before going to the AFC Championship game.
It's understandable that people panic, lampoon and criticize a preseason one-sided result – and the 29-0 loss to the Baltimore Ravens in Thursday's preseason opener was about as one-sided as it gets. But the reality is that Jaguars Head Coach Doug Marrone didn't approach that game like anything close to a real game. When you sit 30 players, and when most of those players are starters and front-line players, you're not approaching it like a game. You're not even approaching it like practice. You're approaching it like second-team reps during practice, which means you're trying to get some evaluation done – and you're trying to figure out your roster. And you're trying to do all of that without jeopardizing player health. You in theory may be trying to win with the players on the field, but you are certainly not selling out 100 percent trying to win.
Ben from Columbus
When are the Jags going to vote on captains this year? Who do you think will be nominated? Would love to see Yann get one captain spot.
Captains are typically named close to the regular season. Marrone's philosophy on this is to allow players to vote on captains without input from the coaching staff. I would anticipate end Calais Campbell being a defensive captain and perhaps defensive end Lerentee McCray being a special teams captain. As for who else will be captains, I have no idea. This is a young team with a lot of ascending players. It's something worth watching.
Tom from Middleburg, FL
I get protecting the starters and looking at backups for depth. The elephant is the room is the money teams charge for preseason games. Paying full price to sit and watch players that for the most part will not be on the roster Day 1 of the season is fleecing the fans. Time for an 18-game season and two preseason games. The Ravens game was not worth watching ... and definitely not worth paying for.
All true. I don't know that an 18-game regular season will happen because those negotiations will be tricky – and because adding two more games to what already is a sport of attrition could prove counterproductive. If an 18-game regular-season schedule does happen, I anticipate most coaches using a half of both remaining preseason games to evaluate starters and the other two halves to play backups. That still won't be enough time to evaluate bottom-of-the-roster players and depth, though I would anticipate many coaches trying to solve that issue with more "live" situations in dual practices. You might even see some teams have scrimmages between players that need the repetitions. That would be a departure from how teams run joint practices now, but it could provide the necessary evaluation opportunity.
Jason from North Pole, AK
You know what I didn't see during the Jaguars first preseason game? Any injuries to key contributors. Do you think we would have played some starters had we not practiced against Baltimore all week? Do you expect starters to play next preseason game or continue with the current trend?
Marrone is taking the ideas of keeping players healthy and learning about the team's depth seriously enough that I think the Jaguars would have held starters out of the preseason opener whatever the nature of the practices leading to the game. I'm leaning toward Marrone taking the same approach in Preseason Week 2 before playing some more starters in Week 3, but this is going to be a weekly story.
Greg from Section 122 and Jacksonville
Here is the thing, O-man: Given the performance of our backups, it seems we are lacking depth. This is a huge concern given the injuries we suffered last year. What can we do to help address the depth issue?
Not much except develop who's on the roster. Improvements aren't available on the street, at least not significant improvements.
David from Chuluota, FL
Z - Next year, the Jags can pick up the fifth-year option on cornerback Jalen Ramsey. I suspect that will cost them between $15-20 million for 2020? At that point, if you were the general manager and a non-division team offered two first-round draft selections for Ramsey, would you take that deal?
It depends on the team doing the offering. If it's a team that I believed would be selecting late in the first round, I doubt I would consider it. If it were a team I believe would be selecting early in the first would, I would have to consider it – and perhaps take it. Not all first-round selections are created equal because Top 5-to-7 selections are often superstars and late first-round selections are far more of a crapshoot.
Sam from Winter Park, FL
Weird. A sixth-round quarterback with arm strength concerns had glaring arm strength concerns in his first taste of NFL action. NO WAY!
It's something, isn't it?
Mark from Jacksonville
Is Taven Bryan the next Tyson Alualu? A serviceable defensive lineman, but drafted way too high?
Alualu is entering his 10th season in the NFL and has been a good player for a long time. Bryan has a ways to go before he is Alualu.
Jeff from Wake Forest, NC
Either Tom Coughlin doesn't want to win lunch anymore or this team has hired Allen Iversen for its practice regimen.
It was the preseason opener. The Jaguars held out 30 players.
Doug from Jacksonville
Concerning the hit that got the Jags into the top 10 plays of the week, shouldn't that hit have been a defensive penalty? I thought quarterbacks were protected from hits to the head/neck area. Certainly if the hit had been on Tom Brady, it would have been flagged.
I was surprised that the hit delivered on Jaguars quarterback Gardner Minshew in the second quarter Thursday that knocked his helmet off wasn't a penalty.
Stu from Westlingsworth, UK
O-Zone! Angst! Teeth gnashing! No depth on the team, undisciplined play. The season's already over - cancel my tickets I'm staying home to watch the English Premiership and a load of overplayed morons kick a ball around a pitch for 90 minutes...!
Sounds good.
Scott from Jacksonville
Our team didn't look any better after Baltimore's starters left the game. Their backups looked better than our backups too.
Strnbker from Dothan, AL
Evidently, penalties are a chronic condition affecting the Jaguars. What is the most common reason for this to occur on such a relentless manner?
The reason? Players not doing as they're instructed. Marrone clearly was not pleased with 10 penalties for 109 yards against the Ravens. He said after the game there will be an emphasis on the area, and that the Jaguars won't be a dumb team this season. Stay tuned.
Bob from Sumter, SC
Assuming that a young defensive lineman is big, fast, strong and works hard, in your experience, what keeps them from having success in the NFL? Reading blocks, getting off blocks, holding the point of attack, other, all of the above? Wondering what aspect of Taven Bryan's game is lacking at this level so far.
The main issue for Jaguars defensive tackle Taven Bryan as a rookie last season appeared to be football instincts – i.e., a feel for the game. Those things are hard to teach. They often come with experience and getting more comfortable in the NFL. Stay tuned.
John from St. Augustine, FL
So, who is this man Reavis?
C.J. Reavis is a first-year veteran from Marshall who spent time on the Jaguars' practice squad before signing to the active roster late in the season last season. The Jaguars liked him a lot last season and believe he can back-up safeties Ronnie Harrison and Jarrod Wilson. He's showing why this preseason.
Jason from North Pole, AK
You know what's embarrassing? The reaction of the fans in this column to a meaningless game. Marrone makes a savvy move to prevent injuries and people are angry our scout team didn't score against the number one defense in the league? Be better than that.
Fans fan. It's what they do.
Logan from Wichita, KS
Could our offensive problems be psychological? Our play-calling seems timid, our offense always has their head down. It's as if when we get the ball, they know it will be a three-and-out or turnover so they have zero hope of success. Thoughts?
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How Do I Feel About A Midlife Crisis? Whatever.
Last spring, I celebrated my 50th birthday. Some might say I've finally reached capital-M Midlife, but I've always contended that Midlife started back when I turned 39. I mean, I harbor no unrealistic dreams of longevity, based solely on the amount of chemicals I put away in the '70s in the form of Tab, Bubble Yum and Pop Rocks. Then again, I'm a Gen-Xer, for whom dry-eyed pragmatism is a generational calling card.
And it's exactly that deeply ingrained bias against bullshit that I think means my cohort and I are going to totally rock middle age.
Let me explain. At 46 million members, Gen X is small, wedged between some 80 million Baby Boomers and 78 million Millennials. We have classic middle child syndrome — ignored and overlooked and stuck between two hulking siblings who've taken up all the legroom and media attention on our 78-year road trip around the sun.
Demographic shorthand for Americans born 1964-ish to 1980-ish says that most of our parents were divorced and distracted, leaving their latchkey offspring to fill up the black hole of after-school loneliness in their souls by mainlining Stouffer's French bread pizza and waiting for the "Thriller" video to come on MTV.
As we emerged into young adulthood, the stock market crash of '87 rode shotgun and recruiters stayed away from campuses in droves. So a generation with one of the highest rates of college education also immediately became one of the most underemployed, working those "McJobs" that the media lamented were all that the Slacker Generation aspired to.
The first Gulf War had a similar chilling effect on the economy a few years later. Then the Dot Com era roared to life in the late 1990s and was great for the young Gen-X workforce — until it imploded and wasn't anymore. Just as our bank accounts and collective self-confidence finally began to recover from that burst bubble, the 21st century's Great Recession swept through, visiting layoffs and foreclosures upon families like a biblical plague that comes somewhere between "locusts" and "The Kardashians Get The Monopoly They Seek On Television Programming."
It's awfully hard to follow your bliss and become a ceramics/yoga guru at age 50 when the skyrocketing cost of your kids' college tuition has permanently pushed your blood pressure into the red zone.
Of course, the Boomers were hit hard by the recession too, so they were holding onto their upper management jobs longer. Meanwhile, the Millennials started pouring out of college and nipping at our ankles with a seemingly mystical ability to understand mission-critical social media platforms at the same lightning pace they're invented — plus lower salary requirements and higher evolutionary ability to adapt to open office plans. (I remember offices with doors. They were good.)
So by midlife, when people in my generation might have expected to be in our peak earning and leadership years with enough of a financial cushion to shop for sports cars or finally take up belly dancing, my peers and I are working our tails off just to stay in place. It's awfully hard to follow your bliss and become a ceramics/yoga guru at age 50 when the skyrocketing cost of your kids' college tuition has permanently pushed your blood pressure into the red zone.
Gen-Xers have been disillusioned so long, it has become our ambient state. The emotional crisis of identity and self-confidence that are the markers of a midlife crisis? We've been soaking in it since about 1972.
And that, I think, is where it gets interesting.
Demographers who painted Gen-Xers with the "cynical slackers" brush in the '90s are starting to realize they may have overlooked some of the more positive aspects of our collective personality attributes. If happiness can be measured as the gap between expectations and reality, then Gen-X's famously low expectations may lead us to some outrageously satisfied middle ages.
According to the Longitudinal Study of American Youth from the University of Michigan, which studied the nature and magnitude of changes for American youth in the years after high school starting in 1987, Gen-Xers are now more likely to be involved in formalized lifelong learning than any prior generation. Ninety-five percent of them talk by phone to friends or family every day. They are active in their communities. They are involved with their kids and have high educational aspirations for them. As one recent LSAY study update says of Generation X, "If we could use only three words to describe them, the most applicable choices would be active, balanced and happy."
For the record, I once had what I thought could have been a midlife crisis when a bouncer at a Vampire Weekend concert asked me if I was just there to drop off my kids. It was a gut punch for this lifelong alternative music fan. In fact, for a time I worked on a memoir about the yearlong effort that followed to find more "midlife appropriate" music, an exploration that took me to jazz clubs and heavy metal shows and landed me, at one point, doing a kick line with Fanilows while singing "Copacabana" along with Barry Manilow. An editor, gauging my chances for publication, said, "There just isn't enough at stake." Thinking it over, I couldn't disagree. I didn't develop a drug habit. I didn't leave my family to become a groupie. No fresh tattoos were involved.
The upshot of my "midlife crisis"? I still go to alternative music concerts. But now I also go to jazz, heavy metal and Manilow shows. It wasn't so much a midlife crisis as a midlife expansion.
Gen-X has always held a mindset in which idealism and realism could peacefully co-exist. Maybe it will enable us to be the generation that makes it through this phase of life without buying into the hype that says getting older is cause for the blues. The generation that can integrate who we were when we wanted our MTV with what we are today.
Over the past half century, I've eschewed most opportunities to wave my Gen-X Club membership card. That's kind of our way — we're not joiners.
But lately, I confess to renewed generational pride. Because "Oh well, whatever, never mind," wasn't just the lyric to the anthem of our youth. It's also a brilliant philosophy for midlife contentment.
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More and more I'm getting why holding tight to friends who "knew me when…" is key! Midlife is pretty OK when served up cold with beers and long-time pals.
Nancy Davis Kho
Cold beers with friends who remember when you drank cold $1 pitchers from Zayda's with them…thanks Jill!
That was great. I've been calling myself a realistic idealist since high school. Who knew it was a Gen X thing! Beats eternal disappointment or disillusionment.
Nancy Davis Kho
Realistic idealist sounds like the ideal state of mind to me, Monica. Thanks for reading!
Low standards are clearly the key to happiness – you deconstructed our entire generation and now so much makes sense to me! With 3 kids going to college soon, a full time job that never lets up, learning new 'skills' left and right, low expectations (and faking it) are really the best way to go! Thanks for writing this!
Kim Tackett
I love the idea of a midlife expansion, rather than a crisis. I am 59 and don't feel the crisis part, but I do feel like it's time to make shit happen!
Kurt was right about everything.
Thank you for making middle-aged cool and comfortable. I learn a lot from you.
I. Loved. This.
Thank you for re-framing my life…and for being you.
Nailed it. Such vivid memories from childhood–and not being able to get a single…freaking…job interview out of college. 😀
Rue Collettes
My Friends and I all feel that we are better mentally at "midlife" than our parents were before us. As we watch our boomer or older parents start one of the following aspects of their lives: the long slow slide into forgetting; the long dance to arthritis; the sudden realization they have to keep working because the last market collapse decreased their savings/401ks further; or conversely, we have learned to navigate the estate/will laws; DNRs; hospice; death/burial issues, including having to wait 3 months for a death certificate so you can declare your parent dead legally with the US Government. Once any of us navigate any of these treacherous waters, we pass on the lessons to our friends, so they are forearmed with a knowledge you do not realize you need to have before because our parents did not share this with us in dealing with their parents. As GenXers, we are better equipped, because we relied on each other earlier and formed our support groups outside our families.
Charlene Ross
I love this so much, Nancy – both what you said and how you said it. You're a great writer. I've always said that the key to my happiness (and I am a happy person) is that I don't expect much, so I am rarely disappointed. Not really sure if that's a good thing, but it seems to work for me! (Oh yeah, and #GenXRules!)
Christian Culpepper
Great article. Your writing really captures the essence of Gen X (of which I am one born 1966)…
Looking forward to listening to your podcasts…
Nancy Davis Kho
Thanks Christian! Up top for the 1966 babies, of which I am also one…it was a very good year. I hope you like the podcast!
Christian C Culpepper
Yes, I am going to binge-listen to the podcast(s) today…LOL
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Are you good at design? Or are you good at coming up with clever things to say? You have the basics to start a custom T-shirt business.
- A custom T-shirt business is very easy and inexpensive to start up.
- There are companies devoted to custom T-shirt sellers, allowing you to run this business without too much work.
- Since this kind of business is easy to start and run, it is very competitive.
- You will most likely rely on others for the most complicated parts of your business (like printing and shipping) and thus you will have to share your profits.
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NOTE: Before you start your business, you should read the page on this website entitled "things to think about before you start a business." After you have taken the preliminary steps for starting any business, you can take the specific steps outlined below.
Stories abound on the Internet about how easy it is to start a custom T-shirt business. In fact, Richard Lazazzera, on his website A Better Lemonade Stand, tells the tale of how he built an online T-shirt business in one day for only $24 in start-up costs and made $347 on the first day.
(Mr. Lazazzera is obviously a talented individual so this seems like a good place for us to add that all-important caveat, "Your results may vary." But you don't have to be as successful as him for this to be a worthwhile venture for you.)
The thing is that the tools available to Mr. Lazazzera are available to anyone. You don't have to buy and learn how to operate a T-shirt printing machine, nor do you have to rent a warehouse to store your inventory of T-shirts; there are companies that will do that for you. (Of course, they'll take a cut of your profits but you will earn money if you sell T-shirts.)
The website Shopify has a step-by-step guide to setting up an online T-shirt business, including connections to companies that will fulfill on-demand printing and shipping for you – that means that you don't have to pay a lot of money to create an inventory of T-shirts; they will only print shirts when someone is ready to buy them.
One thing these other businesses won't do is come up with designs/slogans for you and market them for you. Let's take these one at a time.
Creating a unique and appealing design is challenging for most people, but you can find plenty of help. For instance, the website Uber Prints offers help with design through clip art and fonts, or you can upload your own images.
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Remember when the movie "Straight Outta Compton" spawned a number of T-shirts all over the country with similar slogans? That fad has faded, but supposing you had a T-shirt business up and running at the time and quickly designed a T-shirt saying, "Straight out of (put your high school's name here)"? You probably could have easily sold a few dozen of those T-shirts just by spreading the word in your school's cafeteria at lunchtime.
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Smartphones have become such an important part of our lives that we take them everywhere. The basic phenomena now created is where the human body goes, their smartphone comes along with them. But there are often some mishaps that can result in broken phone screen of one of the closest technologies to you.
Whether it slipped from your hand or pocket or worse a heavy object fell on it, these accidents will completely shatter your phone's screen. Here are 9 things you can consider doing when you crack your smartphone's screen.
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Claim Insurance
Did you buy insurance for your smartphone? If yes, there is a good chance you can get your device fixed for free. Just get in touch with your insurance company and check with them if the accident covers the insurance's terms and conditions. All you have to do is stay without your smartphone till it gets fixed, which can too be taken care of with the next solution.
Use an old spare cell phone
It is a good habit to keep an old spare. But that doesn't mean you store your house with electronic junk. It is always advised to keep a decent smartphone or feature phone, which will last in case of emergencies. If your smartphone met with an accident and the screen is not working.
All you have to do is transfer your sim on the spare phone and you are good to go for at least basic functionalities. In case you don't have an old cellphone, why not try asking your friends or relatives. Ask them to lend their spare phone for a few days until you get your's fixed.
Try fixing it yourself
Even if you have little experience handling phones, why not try fixing it yourself. Thanks to the internet there are many DIY videos available on the internet, especially on YouTube. One can search for many DIY videos on fixing the screen with step by step procedures. Though this process is only advised if you are not confident enough that you can fix your smartphone by yourself. If you don't wanna take this risk, follow the next step.
Get it fixed
Visit the official service centre of the company of which the smartphone is. Before heading to the service centre, there are many companies that provide you with the list of spare part costs, consider going through them as well.
Also, it's advisable to check if your device is in warranty as some companies offer discounts and phones out of warranty can be very expensive to fix. Sure, spending money on a broken phone seems a waste, but it will be a lot cheaper than buying a new phone.
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Buy a new phone
If the device is too old and you are not getting spare parts for it, better to get yourself a new phone. Yes, it will look like a hole in your wallet, but getting an expensive repair and ending up replacing it after a few months appears to be a waste of money and time. If you can, wait for some sales that many smartphone companies and e-commerce websites run all over the year. If you spot a smartphone that is good and pocket friendly as well, waste no time in buying it.
Sell your smartphone
The smartphone, especially big brands like Apple or Samsung get good resale value and exchange offers even with a broken phone screen. There are sites like OLX or eBay where you can sell your broken phone screen smartphone to get some money out of it. Always, something is better than nothing, with cash raised by selling the old one, add some more in it and get yourself a new phone.
Recycle your electronic
If the smartphone is completely shattered and you see no scope of getting it repaired or it seems very expensive. Why not try to recycle it? By recycling, you are doing mother nature a big favour and also many companies like recycledevice offer you money if you do so.
Just visit the website and choose the condition of your smartphone. After answering a few questions, the company will offer you an amount for your device. Take that money, add a few more from your pocket and get yourself a new smartphone.
Use it if it works
If the screen of the smartphone works and you are tight on budget. Use the smartphone as much as you can and save money for a new one. Make sure that the touchscreen is working properly and there is no risk of your smartphone's screen just falling apart. Apply a screen protector over the damaged screen (if you can) to avoid further cracking of the screen. Saving money and waiting for a perfect buy is always a good option.
Get it repaired elsewhere
The reason why this option is in the last place is that if you get your smartphone repaired from outside, there is no chance the repair person is using genuine products. It gets worse if your warranty gets void and the phone is in warranty as you will lose it if any third-party part is installed.
Also, many functions do not work on these cheap replacements, in-display fingerprint scanners are prime examples of it. Do not expect the same fit and finish from these cheap replacements and they are advised only for emergency situations.
Read Also: Nokia smartphones in India to now come with insurance
These are 9 things you need to first do in case of a broken phone screen. We advise you to handle the broken screen very carefully as the shattered glass on it can result in major cuts on your skin. Yes, a broken smartphone can be very frustrating but it should not be something running down your mental health.
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Mobile Marketing Advice That You Can Trust!
Use cell advertising to get extra non-public together with your reader. Telling a story approximately your corporation or giving a testimonial, creates an emotional reaction in the reader, that may endear him or her in your income pitch. The extra that your readers feel they realize your agency and what you constitute, the more likely they may be to be proud to buy from you.
Use your traditional site to power a variety of site visitors to your mobile platform. Urge humans that visit your regular internet site or weblog to visit you on their cellular telephones when they're out and about. This will give you but some other way to live close to your clients and capacity customers.
TIP! Set aside at least in the future a month it's utterly dedicated to viewing your stats and the effectiveness of your campaign if you want to alter well as you go along. You might possibly be better off doing this every two weeks, however, once a month is probably more sensible for busy entrepreneurs.
Giving clients favored fame is a validated manner of growing loyalty and sales, so inform your clients they're 'desired' and 'elite contributors' and produce more of them in! Making extraordinary gives only for your cellular advertising clients and giving them unique titles will increase the probability of them purchasing your products or services, and it will without a doubt get them speaking to others about the benefits of being your purchaser!
Use excessive excellent brief codes in your cellular advertising and marketing efforts! This will make certain that you create your personal emblem of the fast code you operate, and also you might not be sharing with every other corporation that could easily make use of the system abusively, inflicting you problems in the end. You will stumble upon a higher price, but that is the charge of doing mobile advertising nicely.
TIP! Use a Multimedia Messaging Service to supply your message. Multimedia Messing Service will tell your story with sound, fascinating images or complete motion video.
If you have a product to promote, and you are thinking about cell commerce, think cautiously. Mobile trade calls for a stage of safety and credit score card processing feature to be in the region. Implementing this may be costly for your enterprise. Quite regularly, it is probably simpler for the purchaser to call you on their cell phone to purchase, rather than clicking on a link to purchase.
Before you begin your cellular advertising marketing campaign, look up your weblog or internet site at the special kinds of cell phones to peer how good or terrible it looks. You are probably surprised to locate that it appears high-quality or you can be disturbed at finding that it looks lousy. If it doesn't look true, you have work to do. Modify your website online and make it cellular pleasant.
Send cellular messages out at different times of the day. Find out which time of the day gets the satisfactory response. Since you are sending messages to humans with exceptional life, some human beings may be getting to work or going to sleep whilst you send your messages. By timing your messages proper, you grow your probabilities of success.
Keep it brief! The messages which you include for your cellular advertising marketing campaign have to be short, pressing and clear! If you consist of a gaggle of filler in them, the reader is not going to take some time to examine through it. They will now not discover what you're presenting them. It can be a waste of some time!
Do not ship your messages each time. People will now not respect getting a message from you in midnight. Perhaps you could even divide your consumer base with the aid of time zones so that you do no longer send a message at an unusual hour. Avoid sending messages at some stage in holidays, besides if it's miles relevant for your campaign.
TIP! If you want to grow your web page visitors from customers using mobile gadgets, increase cellular software to your web page, and offer it to your website. Apps are a handy way for hand-held customers to get to serve with one click.
Make your cell advertising marketing campaign a laugh. When customers are, ready in line or watching for a train or bus they turn to their mobile device as a supply of enticing amusement. Therefore mobile advertising gives should offer bite-sized chunks of meaningful however wonderful information with an inherent sense of urgency.


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"The closet" means gay, bisexual, transgender people who hide their identity. They did not disclose their sexual orientation or gender identity and various aspects, including sexual identity and sexual behavior. The reason may be due to social pressure, social circles, living habits, etc. In the United States in the 1920s, discrimination and hatred against homosexuals and bisexuals triggered their counterattacks. Special groups such as homosexuals began corresponding protests and marches. They sought equal rights and non-hateful treatment. They hoped that society would no longer insult hatred. Their particularity. As a special term, closet heralds a duality, that is, the opposition between homosexuality and heterosexuality. In the development process of homosexuals' identity recognition, they are often confused and hesitant because they are contrary to common sense in society, but gradually, with their efforts, this kind of sexual orientation and identity have become more transparent and common. At the same time, the use of the term cabinet is more to help the gay community better understand the relationship between their identity and society and to ease the misunderstanding and maliciousness of the society.
"PHYSIQUE PIONEERS: THE POLITICS OF 1960S GAY CONSUMER CULTURE" by David K. Johnson, the author states that American consumerism helps homosexuals better integrate into society, "American consumer culture—despite many limitations based on income, gender, and race— opened up a space for a sexual minority group to define itself"(Johnson 2). The closet was originally a self-protection mechanism due to social pressure, that is, homosexuals question and confuse their own identity, sometimes because they are difficult to understand Or accept their own sexual behavior and stay in the closet. Gradually, society begins to accept and understand homosexuality and other sexual orientations. The closet is more inclined to explain homosexuality and other interpretations of one's identity, which is more like an introduction to oneself. At the same time, consumer culture helps special groups to be better accepted by society. People take the initiative to understand these special groups because of consumer culture, and at the same time think about different sexual orientations through consumer culture, so they can accept different ideas faster.
Emotion has always been a very important factor in society, and the liberation of homosexual, bisexual, transgender, and other groups is also the liberation of the binary opposition of emotions. Love is never black and white, it is gray and fuzzy. People can't even describe clearly how they feel about others. This is the liberation of homosexuality. But such liberation is not a victory, but a rethinking of where these groups should exist in society. That is how to contact and communicate with the general group and live in harmony.


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Our Columbus Graphics Designers will differentiate your brand with stunning design work. Whether you need a new logo, branding identity or traditional/digital graphics, we have the in-house resources to turn your vision into reality.
Stellar graphic design work allows businesses to capture the attention of the viewers and convert them into sales.
Whether your company is small, medium or large, The Media Captain can help bring your vision to life through our graphic design work.
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Your logo makes an important first impression for your brand. You want to make sure you get it right. Whether you're starting a new business or need a rebrand, The Media Captain can help. Our custom logo designers will create a business logo that perfectly represents your core value, mission and goals.
We present you with a color scheme, font families along with the logo. There is typically back and forth communication after we first present the first iteration of logos. We learn what you like and don't like and work with you throughout the journey, until we deliver the final logo you love. Below are several logos we designed for our clients:
Before & After – Company Logo
There are many instances when a logo for a brand becomes outdated and needs a refresh. We have done many logo redesigns for businesses where we take inspiration from the old and update it to better represent the future. Below is an example of this!
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Branding & Identity
Our team will create a brand standards document for your company to follow. This includes the color schemes, font family and different usage of logos for various situations. For example, when using a logo for social media, a different size element of your logo will need to be created versus your main image as there is less real estate. This brand standards/brand identity can be shared with your entire company to ensure there's more cohesiveness.
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While the core focus of our agency is Digital Marketing, our design team is well versed in print design. We've helped brands with design work for newspaper advertisements, trade shows and everything in-between.
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"The Media Captain has played an integral role in enhancing the branding of CME Federal Credit Union. Each month, different departments from our organization send design requests to TMC. They assist with social media graphics, advertisements, in-house promotions and more. We can articulate our vision to the TMC team and they help bring it to life. I highly recommend their agency!"
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We've worked with eCommerce brands and retailers in selecting the right color scheme and design for bottles, packaging, boxes and other shipping elements. We have a strong focus on eCommerce marketing and development and can help align your brand from the product to the website. Don't take our word for it. Read the story of how a brand was born in Park Perfection.
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There are many other requests that come through for graphic design work for our Clients. This includes but is not limited to business cards, letterhead, email signatures, packaging of boxes and much more.
It should be noted that we don't do the actual printing. If you are looking for a great printing company, we recommend our friends at Executive Mailing Solutions. If you need support putting together all of the graphics to look good for your marketing collateral, this is where we can help.


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Former DC Department of Corrections worker accused of having boyfriend killed
WASHINGTON - Carmelita Henderson, 49, was charged with first-degree murder while armed, and conspiring to kill Levi Davis, who is also a former inmate at the jail. Henderson appeared in court Thursday afternoon.
This is a tale of jealousy and an alleged romantic relationship between a D.C. Department of Corrections mail clerk and an inmate. It ended with that inmate, Davis, murdered in September of 2015. He was shot more than a dozen times months after he was released from jail.
Documents reveal that a cooperator told police that Henderson said she planned to have Davis killed because he "got her fired from her job, was beating on her, and ruined her life."
On the night of the murder, Davis was shot in Henderson's car. Henderson was there and gave police a sensational account of two masked men opening fire on Davis, saying he tried to climb over her in the driver's seat to get away from the shooters. But witnesses say the men were not masked and Henderson was standing outside the car across the parking lot.
After more than a yearlong investigation and interviewing a long list of witnesses and people with knowledge of the murder - Henderson was arrested Wednesday.


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Head - EHS - Real Estate (20-25 yrs)
To Create and audit Environment, Health and safety measures for the projects and offices. To create - Zero Accident- work environment. The Head of Health, Safety and Environment (HSE) will be responsible for providing professional health, safety, and environment management leadership within all levels of staff responsible for project execution, including all levels of staff of any consultant or contractor engaged in the project.
- Overall 20+ years of relevant experience
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2. Initiate and oversee a HSE leadership change programme across Projects.
3. Set the strategic direction for effective HSE management and appropriate workplace wellbeing programmes for employees/ consultant employees/contractor employees.
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Article About Joseph H. and John A. Stevens.
By James A. Stevens, Burnet, Texas.
Joseph H. and John A. Stevens were among the first to respond to the call to arms for the South, enlisting in the spring or summer of 1861 with Company K, 14th Mississippi Infantry. This company was first organized in the year 1837 and did honorable service in the Mexican War, being a part of the 1st Mississippi, Col. Jefferson Davis commander. It still keeps up the organization, although the original members are long since dead. It came into existence at Columbus, Miss. So great were the discipline and intelligence of the company that for several months after the clash of arms began it was detailed as guard on the Mobile and Corinth; was afterwards a participant with the regiment in the Bowling Green campaign under Albert Sydney Johnston; was captured at Fort Donelson and in prison some six months in North Mississpppi, East Tennesee, Georgia, and on to the end at Bentonville, N. C.
This article is written to relate two incidents that happened to the Stevens brothers. During a fight (I think it was at Waterford, Miss.) Joseph H. Stevens shot from his horse a Federal major and thought for many years after the war that he had "killed his man." One day during the seventies or eighties, while he was serving as circuit clerk for Lowndes County, Miss., a stranger from a Northern State called at the office to have some legal papers drawn up, and when the business had been transacted the conversation naturally drifted to the late war. Upon comparing notes it turned out that the visitor did service in a Federal regiment in North Mississippi and was in the fight above mentioned. He proved to be the officer whom my brother thought he had killed. The narrative of both so perfectly fitted that they rejoiced that the shot had not been fatal, and they promptly "shook hands across the once bloody chasm." Gen. John B. Gordon's book, "Reminscences of the Civil War," relates an incident very similar to the above.
The other brother, John A., and the writer of this became prohibitionists before the war began and when about to join different commands signed a paper that neither would drink anything stronger than water or coffee while in the service. It turned out that, though we generally had plenty of water except times on a forced march, coffee was scarcer than ham most of the time toward the last. One day during that terrible Georgia campaign my brother wrote me that after several weeks of fighting, marching, exposure, and starvation, his command had by some means drawn a "ration" of whisky, and he so nearly dead that he violated his pledge and drank his liquor. In his letter he asked me if he had done right. My reply was: "Yes, but don't you do it any more." Soon after this the poor boy, then about nineteen years of age, was shot down in the trenches at Atlanta, a Minie ball tearing out one of his eyes. It was the first time he had ever been off duty, and as he fell bleeding he said: "Boys, I've got a furlough at last." The regimental surgeon was sent for and upon examining the wound said: "John, you must take some whisky." "I'm not going to do it, doctor." The doctor then said: "Well, if you don't, you'll die." The boy calmly answered: "Let me die then; I'm not going to take any liquor." And he didn't. Although gangrene afterwards got into the eye and the other went blind for a little while from what the Macon hospital surgeons called "sympathy," the boy pulled through by the skin of his teeth and lived till the year 1909. Twenty years after the war he was paralyzed in the jaw from the effects of the old wound, but recovered apparently from that visitation.
SOURCE: Confederate Veteran Magazine, October, 1916.
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Fogolar Furlan di Calgary Scholarship in Italian
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Fogolar Furlan di Calgary
Founders of Fogolar Furlan di Calgary originated from Friuli Venezia Giulia in Italy. Association values Italian language & culture; promotes opportunities & advancement in post-secondary ed in Italian. Scholarship commemorates assoc's 50th anniversary.
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- Offered annually to an undergraduate student in third or fourth year in the Faculty of Arts majoring in Italian
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Missional Perspectives for Church Leaders 01 – INTRODUCTION TO MISSIONAL
Part of the ministry resources on Missional Church and Church Leadership, Church Health and Renewal. It discusses perspectives that were important to the first edition of the site, and is now part of the site archive.
When the site was first published in 2012, Missional was one of several Philosophies of Church Leadership and Church Health, which also include Church Growth, Emergent, and other Missionally Responsive Trajectories.
This is part of a larger article on Missional Perspectives. See the index at the bottom of the page for all the articles in the series.
- Missional philosophy begins with theology
- Missional philosophy sees all of life as missionary in essence
- Missional philosophy underscores the increasingly marginalized status of Christianity
- Missional philosophy emphasizes the need for the church's initiatives to arise out of prayerful attunement to God's movement in the immediate surroundings
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Note: This guide is a convenience duplicate of Church Leadership Foundations, Missional Philosophy.
The Missional Movement reflects a unique understanding of church leadership and renewal. In fact it would be inaccurate to speak of it as an approach or method. Missional is a theological and philosophical orientation that informs all one does. Below are a few of the more important features:
Missional philosophy begins with theology
Most materials on church leadership assume theology at best or ignore it at worst, which is why I prefaced my section on church renewal methods with a piece on Ecclesiology, the theology of the church. Yet, the missional understanding goes deeper than ecclesiology, into the theology of mission in general. Missionals differentiate between the missio Dei (mission of God), the broader scope of God's work, and missiones ecclesiae (missions of the church), the missionary nature of the church as it participates in God's larger work. The idea is that God has a mission of reconciling the world to himself in Christ, and the church, although primary, is but one agency in accomplishing it.
Missional philosophy sees all of life as missionary in essence
Missional avoids seeing missions as one of several activities of the church, e.g. simply appointing missions committees to administrate foreign missions. Instead it sees all of life, and therefore all of the church, as missionary in essence. God is a missional God. His people are a missional people, sent into the world to be a sign, foretaste, and instrument of the coming kingdom.
Missional philosophy underscores the increasingly marginalized status of Christianity
Although the church should never have conceived of itself as anything less than missionary, the current situation heightens this awareness. The anthropological term "liminality" expresses it well. The church now exists in an in-between state due to the diminishment of religion in societal structures, the end of Christianity's dominance in the beliefs and values of the general public, deepening polarization among Christian communities regarding faith and ministry, and the overall uncertainty of the church's future. The "churched-culture" of North America no longer exists. A new world is being shaped, and the impact Christianity has on the outcome depends on how well it engages the missionary challenges before it.
Missional philosophy emphasizes the need for the church's initiatives to arise out of prayerful attunement to God's movement in the immediate surroundings
This is a form of what missionaries have always called "contextualization." Missional methods are very localized, with each church community defining anew its engagement of the missional context. To extract methods or approaches from one setting and duplicate them in another will probably be unfruitful and perhaps even unfaithful.
These and other features are characteristic of the missional philosophy. To gain further understanding, the essays linked below on Missional Perspectives address multiple areas of missional interest, including philosophy, theology and strategies.
Related Ministry Resources
Missional Perspectives for Christian Ministry:
- Missional Perspectives for Christian Ministry 01, Introduction (this article)
- Missional Perspectives for Christian Ministry 02, Emergent and Evaluating-Emergent
- Missional Perspectives for Christian Ministry 03, Missio Dei Definitions and Contributions
- Missional Perspectives for Christian Ministry 04, Missio Dei Guiding Observations
- Missional Perspectives for Christian Ministry 05, Missio Dei Guiding Observations (Continued)
- Missional Perspectives for Christian Ministry 06, Other Missionally Responsive Trajectories
- Missional Perspectives for Christian Ministry 07, Must We Respond to Postmodernism?
- Missional Perspectives for Christian Ministry 08, Evangelism
Related Ministry Resource Guides:
- Missional Church Resources, Introduction and Index
- Church Leadership and Renewal, Index to Resources
- Ecclesiology
- Evangelism
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