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Information Session
Wednesday, February 6, 2019, 12:00 AM
Come join Carolinas College of Health Sciences for an information session! Learn about our programs and admissions requirements! The session will review the application process, specific program requirements, financial aid basics, and a Q&A opportunity. If you would like to meet with an advisor after the session, please bring a copy of your high school transcript, SAT or ACT score, and college transcripts. Carolinas College offers an interactive learning experience. As a result, we graduate healthcare professionals who exceed state and national averages. We accomplish this through a low student-teacher ratio and hands-on learning environments, including a world-class simulation center and access to Carolinas Medical Center. Put simply, our students learn by doing. Our students get extensive clinical experience, making them more job-ready than many students graduating from four-year programs. Our programs include General Studies, Nursing, Radiologic Technology, Medical Laboratory Sciences, Histotechnology, Radiation Therapy, and several other short term continuing education opportunities. We look forward to having you at Carolinas College of Health Sciences!
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Incredible but true: the worldwide megaseller that investigates one of the world's most extraordinary unsolved mysteries.
What hidden force haunts the Bermuda Triangle – the area of ocean that lies between Bermuda and the coast of Florida? How, since 1943, have more than 100 ships and planes and 1,000 people vanished there, without a trace?
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– Are the many UFOs that have been sighted in the area responsible?
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In an interview with state broadcaster, MBC TV, on Tuesday, 3rd November, Malawi's Minister responsible for Foreign Affairs Dr George Chaponda made remarks that suggested, explicitly and implicitly, that President Peter Mutharika did not have enough information about Mr Thoko Banda who was recently appointed to represent Malawi in a diplomatic mission to Zimbabwe.
Mr Thoko Banda has since declined the offer, following media revelations that in 2006, he described Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe 'an idiot' and a 'horrible' man.
From media reports, Mr Banda does not deny having described Mr Mugabe as such. He has even gone to tell the BBC that he cannot represent Malawi in a country that has a dented human rights record. Read the whole story on http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-29883701.
Well, a discussion around that is not within the TOR of this post but is not unworthy.
Our interest is on the Foreign Affairs Minister's remarks. Let us look at this: A state president makes an appointment without gathering adequate information about the prospective diplomat. If true, that in itself is a goof. It suggests someone in the Office of the President and Cabinet did not do their job well. That someone has done a big disservice to the president and to the nation as a whole. The president, I understand, cannot go around scouring for information about candidates for certain positions to serve in Government. He relies on his team to do this kind of work for him so that he can make decisions on our behalf.
Now, that someone failed to do their job is bad enough and should invoke the President's rethink of the caliber of the people serving him in his office. But to have a cabinet Minister make this revelation in the media is unthinkable, a PR malaise, if I can put it that way.
Why couldn't Government PR team admit it was an oversight to appoint Mr Banda to represent Malawi in Zimbabwe in view of his remarks about that country's president without saying the President did not have enough information about the candidate? I know some readers cannot help but be confused by what I am saying here.
The thing is: It is one thing to admit you did not know about a candidate you preferred but went on to give him a job and it is completely another to say you overlooked one element that has turned out to be crucial. The former suggests that you do not know how to do your job. The latter, on the other hand, is an indication that you admit you are only human and certain things can skip your good professional judgement. That can earn you a plus with regard to building your reputation as a CEO and that root would not be unethical which is one thing PR practitioners should always be concerned about. That is how I look at it, anyway.
Having said that, my final thought is that Minister of Foreign Affairs Dr George Chaponda should have sought proper advice on how to convey the message of Government's withdrawal of Mr Thoko Banda as Malawi's diplomatic rep to Robert Mugabe's Zimbabwe. What are your views on the matter?


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WASHINGTON – The International Trade Commission voted late on June 7 to ban the import of wireless devices that use Qualcomm chips and chip sets that infringe on certain Broadcom patents from entering the United States.
The ban affects cell phones, PDAs, broadband cards and other similar devices intended for consumer use. However, the ITC excluded existing models of such devices from the ban, allowing cell phones already on the market to continue to be sold.
Still up in the air is exactly how this ban will take place, and whether it will take place at all. Qualcomm announced in a press release that it would appeal; Verizon has announced that it would attempt to get the White House to overturn the ban; and both companies involved have said that they are negotiating a cross-licensing deal.
"Its a surprising decision in the way they chose to balance the various interests the parties were pushing," said Smith Brittingham, a partner with the Washington, D.C. law firm of Finnegan Henderson Farabow Garrett and Dunner. Brittingham is a former investigative attorney with the ITC.
"I had thought that the commission would choose to exclude some number of cellular phones and handsets, but the way they chose to divide the baby was by letting in older handsets while keeping out new handsets."
Brittingham said that Broadcom didnt exactly get what the company was asking for. "The commission chose this grandfathering method. This is not a traditional way for the commission."
Brittingham said that the ban will be a lot better for Broadcom than for Qualcomm because it affects a larger number of devices than what was originally sought. Brittingham also noted that theres a 60 day period in which the president can approve or overturn the ITC decision. He also noted that companies can import new devices that infringe by paying a 5 percent bond on those devices during that period.
"Qualcomm has already asked the commission to stay the order in a petition last week," Brittingham said, noting that the commission is unlikely to stay their own order. "They will appeal to the circuit court to get the get the federal circuit to stay the commissions exclusion order while the appeal is going on."
Brittingham said both approaches are long shots. He said that another path is to try to lobby the U.S. Trade Representative, who has authority to act on ITC decisions.
"There have been only a handful of presidential disapprovals in ITC cases. It hasnt happened since 1985," Brittingham said. "This is clearly a much more high profile case. I would wager to say that the possibility of a presidential disapproval is much more significant in this case."
Brittingham said that the usual response in such cases is a cross license, which he expects to see happen here. Analyst Craig Mathias, who is a principal at Farpoint Group, agrees and said that the next move is up to Qualcomm.
"The burden is on Qualcomm in how to handle this case," Mathias said. "Qualcomm hasnt shown much interest in settling. Maybe this will be the encouragement they need."
Mathias noted that there are going to be a lot of companies upset by this, and that this is not going to be a meltdown for Qualcomm. "They can easily solve this by raising prices. This will be settled by cross licensing of patents. This is Qualcomms negotiating strategy, he said.
Mathias said that Qualcomm can create problems for itself if it doesnt settle with Broadcom soon enough. "The real danger is that if Qualcomm continues to be obstinate then the phone manufacturers will design without Qualcomm. Qualcomm cant let that happen." Then he added, "Hey, they lost. They should fess up and move on."
One way or the other, Mathias thinks some sort of settlement is a must, and that its silly to drag this out because it gives too much uncertainty for customers.
"My belief is that they will ultimately settle, sooner rather than later. The markets hate uncertainty. That should be unacceptable to any leading player today," he said.
Intellectual property attorney Bruce Sunstein agrees. "Over the long term, both companies need to make a deal," Sunstein said. "Broadcom needs access to 3G and Qualcomm doesnt need to spend its life defending patent cases."
Sunstein is chairman of the Patent Group and partner at Bromberg and Sunstein in Boston. He pointed out that Qualcomm has no option but to share its technology with Broadcom, which should make a cross-licensing deal easier to accomplish.
"Qualcomm participated in the standards making in WCDMA. They have to commit to offering licensing to all on a reasonable basis. Of course the view of reasonable is in the eye of the beholder," Sunstein said.
There are more questions than what constitutes reasonableness, said Bart Showalter, chairman of the IP section of law firm Baker Botts, in Dallas.
"The reason this case is important is that its not just the chip sets, specifically functionality that lets these phones talk to 3G," Showalter said. "The real issue is how far does that exclusion extend to the products that contains those chip sets? The chip sets infringe, so how much are we going to exclude downstream products?"
Showalter said that the ITC has answered that question through its order to exclude any new device containing infringing chips or chip sets. However, he said that the courts may not agree with the ITC, and that this could be critical in Qualcomms request for a stay pending its appeal of Broadcoms patent suits.
"Whether theyre going to be successful depends on whether the grandfathering is enough to protect the public interest," Showalter said. "The federal circuit, as we know, often has a different view of what a claim means. The federal circuit often results in overturning of district court actions."
Showalter noted that the ITC order significantly affects EvDO, and may affect WCDMA.
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The fifth web gathering of the 'Better Participatory Video Practice' series focussed on how youth campaigners in Nepal and video correspondents from VideoVolunteers in India directed their campaigns from video products to inspiring impacts.
The three central questions of the gathering were: How to fit a PV process in a wider advocacy programme or campaign? What steps to take after video production? How can video dissemination contribute to a concrete change?
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Refine your parched pallet with the Saketini at Roka Akor
Booze enthusiasts no longer need to snub the "tini" suffix on the drink menu, at least not at Scottsdale's sushi pagoda Roka Akor. More Frank Sinatra than Carrie Bradshaw, the Saketini ($10) casts aside apple flavoring or sissy liqueurs and blends traditional Japanese alcohol heavyweights shochu and sake with a slice of cooling cucumber instead of the run-of-the-mill olive. This samurai-style martini exudes simplicity, modernity and class, much like the upscale interior of the palandromical restaurant itself. If you're serious about what you drink between mouthfuls of Hamachi Serrano Chili Rolls, this straightforward spirit lets the alcohol do the talking, giving you a clean, crisp and uncomplicated taste all for $10.
7299 N. Scottsdale Road, Scottsdale, 480-306-8800, rokaakor.com
Slurp down the best parts of summer in Caffe Boa's Anastasia
Nothing says summer like sweet, plump strawberries, and the clever mixologists at Caffe Boa have loaded up their Anastasia cocktail with the season's most iconic fruit. In case you've been living under a rock in order to hide from the sun's rays the past 20 years, Caffe Boa is Mill Avenue's hotspot for a seasonal menu full of culinary wonders, such as the toasted gnocchi with pork belly and a fried egg. It also has an impressive, and perhaps slightly overwhelming, 21-page wine list. Being a wine snob is great during dinner, but to cool off, go with the Anastasia. This sassy little $12 redhead starts off with mulled strawberries and basil and ends with vodka. It's just that simple. The fresh, flavorful ingredients are sure to create an oasis for you right at the Boa bar. Pair that sweet tart with a rustic 398 House Salad or the irresistibly fresh pulled-to-order warm mozzarella.
398 S. Mill Avenue Suite 110, Tempe, 480-968-9112, cafeboa.com
Forget the lemonade stand; try The Parlor's Hibiscus Lemonade.
Phoenix's new pizza palace, The Parlor, serves up some of the best fully-customizable personal pies in the Valley with enticing topping options like goat cheese and applewood smoked bacon. But, their twist on summer's favorite thirst quencher, lemonade, is the key to cooling down after a long, hot day at work. The hibiscus lemonade is a refreshing $10 cocktail with herbal hibiscus and elderflower liqueur blended perfectly with tart, sweet lemonade and, of course, a splash of vodka. Take those tasty earthy, tea flavors and pair them with a pizza loaded up with oodles of fresh herbs grown on site, and you have a match made in heaven. The pink lemonade doppelganger might not look like much, but sip down a couple of these babies at happy hour and you could find yourself making a night of it. Not that you can ever have too much pizza and lemonade.
1916 E. Camelback Road, Phoenix, 602-248-2480, theparlor.us
Crack open a Coconut Joe Stout from Papago Brewery.
A thick, dark beer is about the last thing on our minds in the midst of Arid-zona heat, but the locally brewed Coconut Joe tastes more like a trip to Waikiki than the Guinness Factory. Sittin' punchy at about 5 percent alcohol by volume, this $5 pint of delectable darkness is lighter than the normal stout with coffee overtones and a kick of coconut scent and aftertaste. While Papago beers can be found at other Valley bars, such as Old Town Scottsdale's cowboy dive T.T. Roadhouse, the cool, dim pub nestled in a shopping center off Scottsdale and McDowell roads is an ideal chill-out cave for a hot afternoon. If you aren't ready to commit to a brooding beer like Coco-Joe, the bar that bears the brewery's namesake has 30 different beers gushing forth from the tap, such as the citrus-and-vanilla-licious Orange Blossom wheat beer. Don't worry about your frosty mug sweating. You sure won't be.
7107 E. McDowell Road, Scottsdale, 480-425-7439, papagobrewing.com
Tom' Margarita rocks the Montelucia's Mbar without the brain freeze.
If you want a blended $5 margarita, go to one of the many Mexican restaurants in the Valley that serve chips and salsa out of a sombrero-shaped platter. If you want a unique, classy marg with attitude served on the rocks, head to Mbar at the Intercontinental Montelucia Resort & Spa. On cool days you can take in the peaceful, mountainous Paradise Valley surroundings on the Spanish-inspired patio seating. Unfortunately, your best bet this month is to hide inside with the air conditioning in the comfy, chic lounge at Mbar. For further cooling, order Tom's Margarita. The staple beverage for Sonoran summers, complete with Reposado tequila, fresh lime and agave, gets a twist with a burst of blood orange puree. The final product is all shook up into a $10 darling that is tangy like an orange and sweet like a berry, but just as refreshing as a margarita should be. This well-crafted cocktail has hues of orange, red and peach, mimicking the breathtaking Arizona sunset, which might be enough to remind you why you live in Arizona in August.
4949 E. Lincoln Drive, Paradise Valley, 480-627-3004, pradolife.com/mbar
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Hoping to hear that some of our readers will be getting out this coming weekend (maybe the snow will slow down for some of us!). New Years Day is often a snowshoeing day for us, getting out and loving the snow till we freeze – then we head home. Good way to clear the mind for the new year – and better than hitting the overcrowded gym on Saturday!
Need ideas for meals to pack?
FBC style Cherry Chicken Couscous is easy and no cleanup:
FBC style Pizza Ramen is trashy good food. Consider it guilty pleasure fast food for the backcountry…..
One pot style Spicy Tuna Linguine sticks to the ribs and will fill you up nicely.
One pot style Harvest Pasta is a great vegetarian friendly meal (leave out the cheese for vegan):
Trail snacks that pack some fat and energy, yet easy to eat? Easy Nut and Chocolate Truffles:
Dessert? How about Mocha Pudding. In winter making pudding is easy as can be!
Or Chocolate Pretzel Bark. It will disappear quickly in a group!
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Spell for Finding your Animal Guide:
On a piece of parchment paper or notebook paper write this incantation down and after saying the incantation place it under your pillow before retiring to bed.
Guardians of the dream world,
I call you to my side.
Reveal my animal, my protector and my guide.
Show me the beauty and grace in the radiant eyes of my guardian's face.
A guided meditation may also be helpful in discovering your animal guide. Try to find a partner to assist you while you meditate. Have your partner say the following while you meditate and focus on their words **:
Be sure to ground yourself after the meditation. Good luck!
You are standing in the middle of a lush, healthy forest. You can feel moist earth, bits of branch and bark, and small stones underneath your bare feet, and your hands rest on the rough mossy surface of a tall oak tree. You can smell the water after the morning rain all around you, leaving the forest misty and cool, glistening on the leaves and in tiny pools on the ground. The forest smells of pine and oak, birch and cedar, wet bark and damp earth, and fresh wind and rain.
Look above you to the canopy of the trees; the sky is brilliant blue through the gaps in the leaves, wispy white clouds draping the heights. The Sun shines full and bright upon the forest, turning the leaves above into dappled stained-glass of different shades of green. You reach down into a small pool and touch your lips with clear, fresh rainwater, tasting its cool pureness. The wind comes through the leaves, whispering off of branch and bush, singing its own song. The birds are singing that song as well, cheerfully filling the forest with their calls, accented by the occasional frog's note. Look at the forest around you. Touch it, smell it, taste it, and hear it. Now feel the forest, inside and out. Feel all the elements, the wind and water, the earth and the sun, and the love of the Gods all around you. Become part of that forest.
See yourself walking down a path - the path will look as you see it, and feel it. The path is your walk with your spirituality, your learning....it is the path that we all walk in different ways. Follow the path until it leads you to a grove of birch trees, tall and slender and glowing white in the sunshine. The outside of the circle is lined with beautiful wildflowers; a pool of deep, clear water stands in the middle and nine stones enclose the circle round. The sun shines bright and full overhead, and the sky moves quickly as the wind brushes its ever-moving veil of clouds along. Stand at the entrance for a moment, using all of your senses to feel the grove. When it feels right, move to wherever is calling you - the rocks, the water, the flowers..... whatever one you feel is the best for you, and is where you belong.
Close your eyes in the meditation and feel the warm sun on your face, the cool breeze through your hair, the dew on your feet and the rock beneath you. Sit and listen to all the sounds the forest makes, especially the animals. Think about how much you would like for your animal guide to come and speak to you in such a beautiful and meaningful place. Don't speak, but just listen to the forest and its creatures; hear the trees speaking, and the wind, and the animals. If you wait long enough, you may hear footsteps through the brush into the grove. Your guide will stand before you from whichever direction it emerged. Thank it for coming, and then talk to it for as long as it is willing to stay.
** guided meditation from: http://www.witchscauldron.net
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UT Arlington will host hundreds of particle physicists from all over the world Oct. 22-26 at the International Workshop on Future Linear Colliders.
The meeting, which is being held in Texas for the first time, will feature a public lecture by Nobel Prize-winning physicist Steven Weinberg titled "The Standard Model, Higgs Boson, Who cares?" at 7:30 p.m., Wednesday, Oct. 24, on the UT Arlington campus.
The semiannual conference has added significance because of a July 4 announcement from researchers at the Large Hadron Collider at the European Center for Nuclear Research, or CERN, that they've almost certainly found the elusive Higgs boson.
As the next step in discovery, the proposed International Linear Collider, or ILC, will be a 31-kilometer-long electron-positron collider to complement and expand the work of the proton-proton colliding LHC, says Jaehoon Yu, UT Arlington physics professor and co-organizer of the event.
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11 September 2017
Welcome to CS 690, Software Development Project. We will develop a large software systems project based on a current analysis and design paradigm, resulting in a valid and verified software system.
We will use several web resources:
There is no required textbook, but if you'd like a book to supplement or for reference, here are some suggestions:
The Pragmatic Programmer by Andrew Hunt and David Thomas http://amzn.to/1AkWwHo
Debugging Teams: Better Productivity through Collaboration by Brian W. Fitzpatrick and Ben Collins-Sussman http://amzn.to/1ZlFh5u
The Effective Engineer by Edmond Lau https://www.theeffectiveengineer.com/book
There are a total of 1,000 points available, broken down as follows:
There will be 6 project milestones scheduled throughout the semester. The exact requirements and expectations for each will be posted to the course web site. Your contribution will be worth 150 points each, but I will drop the lowest, so that only 5 milestones count, for a total of 750 points.
There will be a final presentation and project submission, worth 250 points.
On the 1,000-point scale, you can expect the following letter grades:
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In the end, I may choose to adjust the scale slightly to compensate for assignments or questions that turned out to be trickier than I intended. Such adjustments would never lower your grade from what is designated in the above table; if you achieve 930 points, you are guaranteed an A.
It is important to complete milestone requirements on time, so you don't fall behind. Late work will be graded as follows.
This formula specifies a lateness factor \(f\) that is multiplied by your earned score to determine a late score. The variable \(h\) represents the number of hours the submission is late.
\[ f = \frac{8.5 - \log_2{\left(\frac{h}{24}\right)}}{10} \]
You can adjust the sliders beside the graph below to visualize the effect of this formula. The green slider at the left controls the score you would have received based on the content of the work. The red slider below controls how late the assignment was turned in. The red circle in the graph indicates the adjusted score.
There will be no extra credit. Students usually ask for extra credit late in the semester after they have already squandered their original opportunities. Be sure to start your work early, so that we can detect and solve any problems before they can affect your grade.
Plagiarism is the use or presentation of ideas, words, or work that is not one's own and that is not common knowledge, without granting credit to the originator. Plagiarism is a practice that is not only unacceptable, but which is to be condemned in the strongest terms possible on the basis of moral, educational and legal grounds. Under University policy, plagiarism may be punishable by a range of penalties from a failing grade in the assignment or course to dismissal from the School of Business, Public Administration and Information Sciences. All students are required to read the handbook on avoiding plagiarism by visiting https://liucs.net/u2
Cheating includes, but is not limited to the following: falsification of statements or data; listing sources that have not been used; having another individual write your paper or do your assignments; writing a paper or creating work for another student to use without proper attribution; purchase of paper or research work for one's submission as his/her own work; using written, verbal, or electronic or other sources of aid during an examination (except when expressly permitted by the instructor, depending on the nature of the examination) or knowingly providing such assistance to aid other students.
In a course with programming assignments, it is usually okay to work with and learn from other students to some extent, but what you submit in the end needs to be your own. The most reliable way to do that would be to set aside whatever code you created together, and then recreate it from scratch on your own.
Showing up on time to class is extremely important. If you must be absent or more than 5 minutes late, please try to notify me in advance. I will be keeping track of whether you are in class, and when you arrive. A few missed classes will not count against you, but habitual absence will significantly hurt your grade. Additionally, there will be no make-up quizzes. I do not distinguish between 'excused' and 'unexcused' absence. Unless you miss an exam due to a severe medical emergency, I don't want to see a doctor's note. If you do miss an exam, the make-up exam will be different – and probably not easier.
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Reckless by Priscilla West
Series: Reckless # 1
Published: August 4, 2014
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Everything about him warned me to stay away.
I'd seen bad boys before, but he had it all and more. The rippling muscles covered in tatts, the piercing eyes hiding dark secrets, the silky voice that could make a girl come with just a whisper . . .
He was exactly the type of guy that would get me in trouble, but when he jumped off the stage, inked skin glistening with sweat and breathed his seductive words into my ear, I couldn't resist the temptation.
It was supposed to be the best one-night stand of my life, but fate didn't let it play out that way. Things happened. I got upset. I got hasty. And worst of all, I got reckless.
After that disaster, I thought it was the last I'd see of him. But what I didn't know was that I'd started something.
Something that could shatter the very thing I had worked so hard to protect.
I should have known back then that the most seductive things in life are also the most dangerous.
Reckless - Book One of Two
Reckless 2- Book Two of Two (Coming Fall 2014)
"Everything about him told me to stay away"
This book starts off with Riley witnessing the 'Jax Effect' as she called it, where women fall all over themselves for him, want him, and are practically hypnotized by his presence. Riley is with a friend at a bar and suddenly there is a band announced, the crowd goes crazy so she tries to go to the front row to see the band and what is causing all the ruckus. It was crazy getting to the front, there were women going hysterical, their boyfriends had to hold them back, a girl fainted, it was complete chaos in that bar. So when the band is done, since Jax noticed Riley he asked her to go backstage and I swear she almost got cut by all the crazy girls that were seething because they didn't get picked. When she gets backstage Riley finds out that Jax is an ass, even though he's a rock god, sex on a stick, beautiful specimen of a man. So she's not impressed. I swear the beginning had me so hooked that I wanted to read faster and faster to find out what happened next.
Riley just got her certification on accounting and her assignment is to be the tour accountant for a band called the Hitchcocks, which in turn is Jax's band, she didn't know it was them because at the bar they were announced as 'The Cocks' (clears throat.) Anyways... Riley has to fight against her desire to be with 'Rock Star Sex God' because she isn't there for that, she wants to be professional and it works for some time, until, well, it doesn't, and that's when the story gets even better. We start to see Jax's romantic side, where he is seriously swoon worthy, along with his look, hmm heaven.
"W-What are you doing?!" - Riley
"Making us even. You wanted higher stakes. Here it is." - Jax
He ripped back the leather flaps, exposing himself. I cup my hand over my mouth.
He wasn't wearing any underwear.
I picked my jaw up off the floor and collected myself.
"This is the opposite of making us even. You humiliated and embarrassed me. But this isn't embarrassing you. It's more like you're flashing me!" - Riley
"Embarrassed or not, I'm naked. You weren't." - Jax
I loved that part, so funny, I can't believe that happened and neither did Riley cause she was in freaking shock, so was I and my jaw dropped too, lol.
As the story progressed we saw a different side of Jax, he was sweeter and it was unexpected to Riley because he was this larger than life rock star, so she was pleasantly surprised. Getting near the end I was getting nervous because I didn't want things to turn dark and have a really surprising ending, there was still a kind of cliffhanger ending but some things get resolved and I was so grateful. The ending satisfied me and it was badass.
I've read the Wrecked series before I read this book and I love her writing, it's familiar to me and her writing flows so well and I'm completely drawn into her stories. I also recommend the Wrecked series, it's about a super hot fighter.


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LONDON (Reuters) - Athletes competing in the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, will be able to toast their medal wins with a glass of Scotland's "other" national drink - not whisky, but bright orange, fizzy Irn-Bru.
Scottish soft drinks maker A.G. Barr Plc will offer the drink - made to a secret recipe - and other brands including Strathmore water at all Games venues after it signed up on Monday to sponsor the event.
Games organizers are hoping for a commercial success after the popularity of the London Olympics this summer, and want to attract the likes of Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt to the competition.
Bolt, who won three Olympic golds in London to match his 2008 haul, would be a huge attraction. He did not run in the 2010 Games in Delhi.
Barr, which is seeking to expand through a merger with British rival Britvic, has been producing Irn-Bru for more than a century and likes to call it Scotland's "other national drink" alongside whisky.
Held every four years, the Games are a multi-sports event featuring 71 teams from countries in the Commonwealth - most of them with historic ties to former colonial power Britain.
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Asked by Jonathan Longman , Franklin, Louisiana
I'm 40 and diagnosed with ADHD. I was given amphetamine 30 mg once in the morning. My concern is that I'm about 120 pounds and I have nothing wrong with the way I eat. This medication is known to cause weight loss. I'm also told it raises your heart rate, and I'm currently taking atenolol for my high heart rate. I'm feeling great mentally -- I'm able to pay attention and feeling like my old self, except I'm not sleeping very well with this medication. Your input would be very encouraging.
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Dear Jonathan,
I do not know the specifics of your case, so I can't really make any specific recommendations. For example, if you are 5 feet 3 inches and 120 pounds that's a lot different from a person who is if 6 feet 3 inches and 120 pounds. So let me make a few general comments about amphetamine given for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and both weight loss and heart rate.
We know from many studies that in general that both weight loss and heart rate/blood pressure changes with psychostimulants (these include amphetamine preparations and Ritalin) are fairly minor and not everyone has these side effects.
It does appear that amphetamine can stunt growth to some degree when given in childhood/adolescence, but this is not relevant to your situation. In general therapeutic doses of amphetamine increase heart rate by only a few beats a minute and have relatively minor effects on weight. The downside of this unpredictable weight loss is that these drugs have never really been that useful for weight loss, despite their frequent use for this indication in the past.
In your particular case, the best way to determine the degree to which your amphetamine treatment is causing weight loss or any changes in your heart rate is to ask whether you lost weight or had an increased heart rate after starting the medication.
If you've always been thin and if your heart rate hasn't increased -- even if it was initially elevated -- then I wouldn't worry. If you have had significant weight loss and/or increase in heart rate since starting the amphetamine, then you really need to talk to your clinician about this.
Amphetamine can definitely disrupt sleep in some people. In fact, amphetamines were used by pilots and other military personnel to maintain wakefulness during the Gulf War.
If you're taking an extended release form of amphetamine you might talk with your clinician about trying a regular-release form that won't stay in the body for so long. Or, if you are taking your amphetamine later in the morning, you might try taking it immediately upon awakening. Alternately, you could speak with your clinician about lowering the dose.
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What's the deal w/ Norwegian public opinion on climate change?? What's the deal with ours?
Was just reading a really cool article, Aasen, M. The polarization of public concern about climate change in Norway., Climate Policy (2015), advance online publication.
Constructing Individualism and Egalitarian scales with items from Norwegian Gallup polls conducted between 2003-11, Aasen does find that both dispositions predict differences in concern w/ climate change -- less for former, more for latter.
Climate change concern was measured with the single item 'How concerned are you about climate change?' The response categories were 'Quite concerned', 'Very concerned', 'A little concerned', and 'Not at all concerned.'" Assuming, as seems certain!, that Norwegians have attitudes about climate change, it's pretty safe to expect a single item like this to tap into it in the same that the Industrial Strength Risk Perception Measure would. Aasen likely handicapped her detection of the strength of the influences she measured, however, by dichotomizing this measure ("Quite concerned" & "very concerned" vs. "a little concerned" & "Not at all") rather than treating it as a 4 point ordinal one.
Aasen's "individualism" scale was apparently substantially more reliable than her "egalitarianism" one (the α's are reported as "> 0.70" and "> 0.30," respectively). But assuming the indicators have the requisite relationship with the underlying disposition, low reliability doesn't bias results; it just attenuates the strength of them.
So it's pretty cool to now see evidence of the same sorts of cultural divisions in Norway as we see in the US (Kahan et al. 2012), UK (Kahan et al. 2015), Australia (Guy, Kashima & O'Neill 2014), & Switzerland (Yi et al. 2015), etc. Maybe Aasen will follow up by adapting the "cultural cognition worldview" scales for Norwegian sample!
But what really got my attention was the overall level of concern in the sample:
Yes, "individualism" and "Hierarchy" (the attitude opposite in valence to "egalitarianism") predict a steeper decline in concern after 2007, and obviously explain a lot more variance in 2011 than in 2003.
But look, first, at how modest" concern" was even for most "egalitarian" and "communitarian" (opposite of individualistic) respondents; and, second, the universality of the decline in concern since 2007.
The climate-concern item seems to be the international equivalent of a Gallup item that asks U.S. respondents "how worried" they are about "global warming" or "climate change" ("great deal," "fair amount," "only a little," or "not at all"). Here's what U.S. responses (combining the equivalent response categories) look like (with the period the overlaps w/ Aasen's data bounded by dotted lines):
You can see that the divide along "individualist-communitarian" and "egalitarian-hierarchy" lines in Norway is less extreme than the Democrat-Republican one in the U.S. Actually, if we had data for the U.S. respondents' cultural worldviews, the greater degree of polarization in the U.S. would be shown to be even more substantial.
But again, that's not as intriguing to me is what the data show about the relative levels of "concern"/"worry" in the two nations. The U.S. population is not particularly "worried" on average, but apparently Norwegians are even less "concerned," as can be see by this composite graphic, which charts the corresponding sets of responses for both nations, respectively, in the years for which there are data (note: Aasen supplied me with the Norwegian means; this Figure supercedes a slightly but not materially different one reflecting estimates from the model presented in the paper):
The trends are very comparable, and maybe the question wording or some cross-cultural exchange rate in how respondents indicate their attitudes explains the gap.
But clearly (by this measure at least) Norway is not more concerned than the U.S., which according to common wisdom "leads the world in climate denial."
Indeed, the segment of society most culturally predisposed to worry about climate change in Norway is no more concerned than the "average" American.
So what's going on in that country?!
Maybe we can entice Aasen into a guest post. I've already offered her the standard MOP$50,000.00 fee (payable in future stock options in CCP, Inc.), but I'm confident she, like other guests, will waive the fee to affirm that enlarging human knowledge is their only motivation for being a scholar (of course, there is still ambiguity, given the fame & celebrity endorsements, particularly in Macao, that comes with being a CPP Blog guest poster).
We'll see what she says!
But for meantime, this very interesting & cool paper supplies material for a fresh lesson about the dangers of "selecting on the dependent variable" in the science of science communication: If one tests one's theory of U.S. public opinion on climate change by considering only how well it "fits" the data in the U.S., then obviously one will be excluding the possibility of observing both comparable states of public opinion in societies where the asserted explanation ("balanced media norms," a creeping public "anti-science" sensibility, Republican brains, etc.) doesn't apply and divergent states of public opinion in societies in which the asserted explanation applies just as well (Shehata & Hopmann 2012).
Aasen, M. The polarization of public concern about climate change in Norway., Climate Policy (2015), advance online publication.
Guy, S., Kashima, Y., Walker, I. & O'Neill, S. Investigating the effects of knowledge and ideology on climate change beliefs. European Journal of Social Psychology 44, 421-429 (2014).
Kahan, D.M., Hank, J.-S., Tarantola, T., Silva, C. & Braman, D. Geoengineering and Climate Change Polarization: Testing a Two-Channel Model of Science Communication. Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 658, 192-222 (2015).
Kahan, D.M., Peters, E., Wittlin, M., Slovic, P., Ouellette, L.L., Braman, D. & Mandel, G. The polarizing impact of science literacy and numeracy on perceived climate change risks. Nature Climate Change 2, 732-735 (2012).
Shi, J., Visschers, V.H.M. & Siegrist, M. Public Perception of Climate Change: The Importance of Knowledge and Cultural Worldviews. Risk Analysis 2015, advance on line.


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I went to the thrift store today (Village de Value) with the intention of finding things for an installation project, and that I would be able to incorporate into my curiosity shelf. Man... Did I score some beauties! Let me list the ways...
1. Test tube spice rack. I know, right?? I'm not really planning on using it for spices, but for storage of things like beads and trinkets, or even actual specimens... I can even hang it on a wall! The test tubes are glass with cork stoppers, and this beauty was $2.00. Oh, the benefits of wandering in circles around a thrift store for over an hour...
2. Brass candlesticks. I bought three candlesticks. Two of them are a set, and I absolutely adore them. They have handle type things, with turn keys and the candle holder part can swivel. I think you can hang them on a wall and use part as a hook. I'm not sure... but whatever the case... So pretty! Though I need to clean wax off, but it's okay. I can deal with it.
3. Coin purse. I bought this because I figured that if I add a chain, I'll add a chain and use it on my White Rabbit steampunk costume. I think it'll work really well to have it as my money holder during the Comic Expo. It has a life old look to. Not real leather, but the brass and everything is quite nice.
4. Black Oxford-style Pumps. Not shown, because I think a smoker owned them. They're currently de-stinking with essential oils in a plastic bag. However, they fit wonderfully and I bought them with the intention of glittering them up to make Ruby Slippers (I'm in the process of making a steampunk Dorothy costume). However... I like them too much. I might end up making spats to go over top, and I might try making glitter nylons. It's going to be such a whimsical costume.
5. Bell Jar. Another bell jar! Also, even better, I think it will fit my gopher skull perfectly. Or maybe something of my beautiful little possessions. I have to clean it first (stupid sticky tags), but hurrah! One can never have enough bell jars!
6. Glass. I bought a simple glass to go with my Ouija board project. I think a few people thought I was odd, because I was sitting in the aisle sliding upside glasses around. That's normal, right?
7. Vintage locket with little ceramic heart. Whenever I'm at a thrift shop or a flea market, I snap up any and all lockets that I find. I like using vintage lockets for my solid perfumes, because they're old lockets, that no one else has. I think it's cool because even after the perfume runs out, you have a unique necklace that no one else has. Neat!
8. Engraved Medallion. This may very well be my favourite piece that I picked up today. It's an old medallion (I think it might be silver), with a simple engraving, which reads 'Faye'. I have this weird thing with collecting personal items that have been abandoned. I think it's why I like having old photographs around. They carry such stories and mysteries. Such enigmas!


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4 comments:
- Bob Crowe said...
The irony is that this sign is out in the clean air of the Gabriola woods. I wish it were a more general prohibition.
- July 5, 2009 at 8:28 AM
- SundaySoup said...
Bob, it is here in Canada. You would be hard pressed to find a place to smoke around here! Can't smoke in bars or any buildings. You even have to be a certain number of meters away from doorways of public places so there isn't any of that huddling in doorways. Even the cigarettes in stores have to be hidden from view without any advertising allowed anywhere a minor might be present! We were thinking the other day that we know one couple and another person who smokes and that's it. Kinda wild after moving from the South!
- July 5, 2009 at 9:45 AM
- Virginia said...
No puffin' allowed on the Gab. I kind of figured that!
- July 6, 2009 at 2:28 PM
- Virginia said...
Hey Mrs. Snap, I loved your socks but the gumboots are even better! :)
- July 6, 2009 at 2:29 PM


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Plus! Jon shares his work on the Zarrow false shuffle and quickly touches on sandwich trick ideas.
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Jon performs a start to finish, 25 minute stand-up act using just a deck of cards and then breaks it all down for you in amazing detail. In this set, you will learn:
Repeat Card Under Watch: A selected card is found under the spectator's watch not once, but TWICE. In this routine, you will learn Jon's handling of Paul Harris's Whack Your Pack, as well as a way to vanish a single playing card.
Open Change: A hands-free effect! The magician never touches the cards! A randomly chosen spectator cuts to a randomly chosen card and puts that card into his pocket. The magician names that card. This can play to an audience of 5 or 500!
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Sara Bailey
The Screwtape Letters: An Internal Reflective Paper
C. S. Lewis awakens penetrating insight into human nature and the carnal man, introducing the idea that each of us is a "patient" with a personal devil determined to lead us outside the light and into our happiness of captivity.
Being a carnal [wo]man, of devious nature at times, these passages spoke to the interweaving of my heart and loosened the bonds holding my spirit captive by inner thoughts that my own "personal devil" had previously plagued me. Being a "patient" of the devils, will no longer be a choice that I make.
Just how God works with his angels to spread goodness and hope into lives of his children, Satan and his "children" work even harder to interrupt that. At times I have let thoughts placed by the devil interfere with the pure peace that comes from trusting the Lord. If I would have grasped onto his angels and been an obedient child, I would have been in a position to receive His promises and blessings.
"In every department of life it makes the transition from dreaming aspiration to laborious doing." (1) For a long time I would dream about change; about having what I always wanted to have, but could not afford to have because I had spent my change on things of no worth. In my labors, I "saved my pennies" and was able to save up enough to start collecting the things that were of the most importance to me. No longer did I listen to the carnal [wo]man telling me, "get this, save later." – I grasped onto the opposite and was given wings that allowed me to fly.
"Keep [his] mind off the most elementary duties by directing it to the most advanced and spiritual ones". (2) I feel that this passage is most applicable to me when I don't do the small things: Reading scriptures, praying, paying tithe, doing-good unto fellow men. When I don't focus on the small and simple things, which is the foundation, then when I decide that I want to have the advanced and most spiritual gifts, I can no longer reach them, due to the fact that my ladder falls though the cracked foundation I had created.
"When you have caused him to assume that the tough is permanent, can you not persuade him that 'his religious phase' is just going to die away like all his previous phases?" (3)


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Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War – Soulstorm
|Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War – Soulstorm
|Iron Lore Entertainment
Relic Entertainment (patches)
|THQ (former)
Sega (current)
|Ian Frazier
|Keith Patella
|Brian Parnell
|Inon Zur
|Warhammer 40,000
|Microsoft Windows
|Real-time strategy
|Single-player, multiplayer
Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War – Soulstorm is the third expansion to the real-time strategy video game Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War, developed by Iron Lore Entertainment. Like its predecessors, Soulstorm is based on Games Workshop's tabletop wargame Warhammer 40,000, and introduces a multitude of new features to the Dawn of War series, including two new playable factions in the form of the Imperial Sisters of Battle and the Dark Eldar. It is a stand-alone game and does not need the original Dawn of War disc to run, but players must have the prior games installed and valid cd-keys in order to play as anything but the two new factions online.
Gameplay features real-time strategy interaction. Game operation is similar to previous Warhammer titles, except for the new aerial units that do not follow these rules, and new campaign gameplay features.
Each race is given a new aerial unit which does not obey the normal rule of engagement in the Dawn of War series. These units are mostly specialists in engaging and destroying enemy vehicles and/or infantry.
The Kaurava conflict began after a sudden appearance of a Warp Storm near Kaurava IV. The nine factions were drawn to investigate the system with their own fleets and conflicting intentions. However, the Warp Storm wreaked havoc on their navigation interfaces, stranding them on the four planets and three moons of the system. The nine factions are then forced to battle between planets to ultimately conquer the planetary system and discover the reason for the warp storm.
The reason for the Warp Storm, as explained after the conquest of Chaos Forces, began with an ignorant Imperial Guardsman with latent psyker genes who was whispered to by the Chaos Gods, telling him to prepare a ritual. His actions unknowingly summoned the Alpha Legion to the Kaurava System, thus starting the conflict.
As with its predecessor Dark Crusade, Soulstorm features a "meta-campaign" featuring 31 territories spread over four planets and three moons.
One difference however, is that unlike Dark Crusade, there are no persistent bases. Once the player conquers a province, the base structures the player has built up will not be present in future conflicts. This can be remedied by reinforcing provinces with buildings and units in between battles, or by establishing a forward base using the Sisters of Battle army ability. Each Stronghold has a unique ability, each race starts with that ability.
Another difference is that the strength of an attacking enemy army is no longer based on strength of province they're attacking from, but their army size.
The fate of the Kaurava System depends on the actions taken by the various factions fighting over it, but the only known details on the canonical ending initially came only from dialogue in the sequel, Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II. Scout Sergeant Cyrus states that the Kaurava campaign was a failure, and that the majority of the Blood Ravens led by Captain Indrick Boreale were wiped out, costing the chapter half of its manpower in a single campaign. As a result, the severely undermanned Blood Ravens cannot afford to lose their recruiting worlds in sub-sector Aurelia and must defend them at all costs.[1] It is revealed in Dawn of War III that the Orks led by Gorgutz were the canonical victors and the ones responsible for Indrick Boreale's defeat, but Gorgutz became bored with the conquest and would later go to Cyprus Ultima to serve under Gitstompa after hearing of the planet Acheron while battling the Eldar on the Kaurava System. Though this contradicts the ork victory ending in the game as the ork faction victory epilogue stated that right after winning Gorgutz led his own "campaign of galactic conquest" that was "staged" from Kaurava with the forces he organized in Kaurava and equipped with the weapons made in "fields of orkish factories" his orks built for this "purpose" after conquering the system.
Multiplayer remains the same as in previous titles, with players given the ability to either play via LAN or on the GameSpy network. A new 'medal' system has been added that provides rewards for certain player milestones (5-to-1 kill ratio, etc.), but there is no means of viewing the complete collection of medals a player has earned. It is assumed this problem will be addressed when an official patch is released along with other various bug fixes and corrections to the game, such as the current issue restricting certain masses of players from joining online multiplayer games.
Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War – Soulstorm was developed by Iron Lore Entertainment as the third expansion to the Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War. On January 13, 2008, Relic released a 1.12 GB demo of Soulstorm on several gaming websites. The demo allows players to play a tutorial, as well as one skirmish and one scenario map as the Dark Eldar. The demo's loading screens also show the new additional flying units added in the expansion. The demo scenario simulates an assault on the Space Marine stronghold if one were playing the Dark Eldar in the campaign game.
On March 4, 2008, Soulstorm was released first on the North American market, some days later everywhere else. After the end of patch support, the game's community continued the support with own made unofficial patches.[2]
Soulstorm received generally mixed to positive reviews from critics. As of November 2012, the game had an average score of 74% based on 35 reviews on the review aggregator GameRankings.[3] On Metacritic, the game had an average score of 73 out of 100, based on 37 reviews — indicating mixed or average reviews.[4] IGN gave the game a score of 7 out of 10, citing solid gameplay but lack of anything innovative.[citation needed]
- ^ Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II
- ^ Maktaka (2013-04-06). "Soulstorm Bugfix Mod". Retrieved 2014-09-10.
As we wait for an official patch from Relic to address the bugs, a large list of fixable (and some unfixable) bugs have been compiled at Forums.relicnews.com. I've fixed every bug on the list that I could [...] I'm not including any balance changes in this mod, it's exclusively for bug fixes.
- ^ "Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War: Soulstorm Reviews". GameRankings. Retrieved 2012-11-24.
- ^ "Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War - Soulstorm (pc: 2008): Reviews". Metacritic. Retrieved 2012-11-24.


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Premier African Minerals
Premier African Minerals is currently developing a portfolio of strategic metals and agri mineral projects located across Africa.
Premier is an emerging tungsten producer from the RHA Tungsten Mine and is advancing the sizeable Zulu Lithium and Tantalum Project in Zimbabwe. In addition, the Company has a controlling interest in TCT IF, an operating forestry business with a significant limestone deposit in Mozambique.
Premier also has a number of significant investments in the mineral sector in Africa. Its shareholding in Circum Minerals Limited is valued at US$10.2 million. And it has a 4.5% interest in Casa Mining Limited, a privately-owned gold explorer, developing the 1.2 million ounce Akyanga deposit in the DRC.
Premier has a long history of project of discovery, acquisition and development across Africa and the Company is managed by a dedicated team of professionals which have a strong track record is project development and value creation.


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However, that's not the main point why I am writing this post. The main focus of this post is to announce that Burberry Prorsum Autumn /Winter 2013 Womenswear show will be held on the 18th of February, Monday,12.00 am ( Malaysian time). Once again, there will be a live streaming show right from London here on my blog. So lets count down together to the live show on the 19th.
At the mean time, lets have a small recap of last year A/W 2012 Womenswear. I cant wait but anticipated to see what Christopher Bailey is going to bring it out this time.
Once again, dont miss out the live streaming Burberry Prorsum A/W 2013 Womenswear show on the 18th February, Monday midnight at 12.00 AM here on the blog.