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Here are some of my all time favourite lipsticks from MAC. These are perfect for the
upcoming spring/summer season as most of them are bright!
|Candy Yum-Yum, Pink Nouveau, Creme Cup, Saint Germain, Viva Glam Nicki, Viva Glam Gaga 2
The reason I love MAC lipsticks is because the quality is quite amazing! They generally wear for four to six hours and all have a yummy, subtle vanilla flavour.
My favourite formulas would be creme sheen, and satin but I also love the amplified, for obvious reasons (the pigmentation is insane!).
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Things You Don't Want in a Web Hosting Company
Last updated on Jun 23, 2016
I received promotional emails last week from BlueHost ("It's been a while since we last saw you. Can we convince you to come back?") and HostGator ("We've missed you at HostGator and we want you back.")
It's like that cold feeling when you get a text from an ex wanting you back…
Just for purely demonstrative purposes these are fake text messages using the language from each email.
All fun aside, these emails got me thinking and I decided to come up with a quick list of things you do not want in a web host. Some of the items listed below might only relate to larger web hosts like the two EIG owned web hosts that emailed me last week. Other things you might only find with some smaller hosts that are unprofessional and unreliable. Some are possible signs of quite rare trickster/scammer hosts that are only looking to make a quick buck and then either do not provide what they promise, or worst case, close up shop and disappear. These are things you want to look out for regardless of the size or perceived stature of a web hosting provider.
A lack of support.
Long ticket response times. With some EIG hosting brands customers experience days or even weeks without a response to their support tickets. A recent example of tickets going unanswered by an EIG host comes from a once decent provider of customer service, A Small Orange. Here are some ASO customer's tweets from the past few weeks:
@asmallorange my site still isn't live with you and it's been 2 weeks. Support ticket submitted last week, but no response. Please help.
— Trent Gillaspie (@trentgillaspie) June 22, 2016
@asmallorange – support ticket # KNH-935-77831 has been open for 9 days now with not one single reply from you. Can I get some help???
— Brushy Mountain Golf (@BrushyMNTGolf) June 21, 2016
@asmallorange hello, you guys still haven't answered my support ticket even though i have sent it half a week ago
— indian summer (@quihieu) June 16, 2016
@asmallorange How long does it normally take to get a response on a support ticket? Submitted one over 2 weeks ago and still nothing
— Emily Chaumont (@HoneybeeJoyous) June 15, 2016
@asmallorange my support ticket has been open for more than a week with no reply. Ticket ID: QQA-715-82181
— Aayush Shastri (@aayush_shastri) June 14, 2016
Hey @asmallorange , why is your support service so bad? I've been waiting about 10 days on a ticket response, still no response!
— Aumkar Prajapati (@DasStranger) June 10, 2016
@asmallorange What's going on with Tech support? I've had support tix in the queue for a week and nothing is getting done on them.
— Nick Shoob (@NickShoob) June 10, 2016
@asmallorange What's your normal ticket response time? Going on 9 days with no help now.
— Alex K. (@LexickDesign) June 9, 2016
.@asmallorange how long does it take to respond to an open ticket #RVK-244-17326 – it has been 6 days?
— Charlotte Thompson (@CharCharT) June 8, 2016
.@asmallorange how long should it take someone from your support division to get back to me re: an open ticket? It's been 5 days?
— Red Umbrella PR (@RedUmbrellaPR) June 8, 2016
if @asmallorange made a movie about their ticket response times it'd be called 28 Days Later
— jack durden (@jackdurdencom) May 30, 2016
Never ending waits for live chat. Although having live chat support is not a deal breaker for me personally when choosing a web hosting provider because I prefer submitting support tickets.
Just waited 30 minutes on the bluehost live chat, then when i got to 1 minute it reset back to 23 minutes??? #bluehost
— Ellie Jane (@desperatelySLS) June 2, 2016
I´ve been waiting more than an hour and ur Live Chat Resets everytime it has a minute left… @bluehost #startup pic.twitter.com/N6R59rcEYp
— JULIO CÉSAR (@julsquintanilla) April 18, 2016
No notifications of planned server maintenance activities, account migrations, or other changes.
No 24/7 technical support. The billing department does not need to a be a 24/7 operation but technical support does.
No ticket support system.
GoDaddy stopped ticket/email support years ago. BlueHost and HostGator no longer do support tickets for technical issues now.
@HostGator Why has ticket support been removed? I have been a loyal customer for years and can't use my preferred method anymore?
— Heron Free (@HeronFree) June 22, 2016
@HGSupport @HostGator When did Host Gator decide to do away with their ticketing system + only do live chat now?
— Alive Support (@alivemedsupport) June 7, 2016
You may not think this is a big deal, but it is. Having only chat and/or phone support isn't the best way to provide support in an efficient and timely manner. Having a ticket with all of the information gathered from the customer and support staff in it is the best way to solve technical support issues. For quick questions using live chat can be great if there isn't much of a wait, but for more complex issues the ticket system should be utilized.
No money back guarantee.
If a web host doesn't offer a period of time where you can get your money back if you are unhappy with their service, that's an unnecessary risk for a consumer to take. I'd question the confidence the web hosting company has in the quality of service they provide. Some web hosts will even do pro-rated refunds after their money back guarantee period is over.
No uptime guarantee.
It's true that all an uptime guarantee really provides is a service level agreement that if there is unscheduled downtime for more than a stated amount in a given month you are eligible to receive some amount of an account credit. A host could have a typical uptime guarantee of 99.9% and only deliver 98% uptime every month so it's really not a guarantee that your website will not experience downtime. However, regardless of how meaningless such guarantees can be in determining how much uptime you can expect, not seeing any mention of an uptime guarantee would raise a red flag for me. This is especially true if it's an unknown company with little to no presence or history.
No background story on the company.
When you can't figure out who owns or operates the web hosting company from reading through their website it's definitely a good idea investigate further. Ask them for more details about their business before trusting them with your personal information, payment details, data, etc.
A company with a huge customer base but not enough staff or investment in infrastructure to provide quality service.
Just because a web hosting company has a ton of customers and has a huge presence on the web it does not necessarily mean that they are good. Too often advertising and marketing budgets to increase new subscriber numbers over shadow money allocated for hiring and retaining quality employees or a solid infrastructure. Growth is good so long as it doesn't negatively impact the quality of web hosting provided.
Best of luck out there folks and remember to always have your own regular backups in a safe place, no matter who your web hosting provider is and whatever the level of confidence you may have in them, backup up your websites.

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During the week our house is a bit chaotic. Managing everyone's schedules, activities, and making time to write has it's challenges. I love writing and sharing awesome recipes DH makes, but it takes time. One of the largest percentages of time for a blog post for me is editing food photos. I think I am making significant improvements in my photos, but I am definitely learning as I go along.
This past weekend we decided to make Chicken and Bell Pepper Kabobs.
Since I am still in the beginner stage with my food photography, I have not invested in a DSLR. My digital point and shoot was ok to start, but not great. I next moved to using my phone. It sounds funny, but the cameras available on phones has come so far. I like being able to to apply different filters and use assorted apps to create cool effects really make my pictures pop.
Now that I am a Verizon Ambassador, I thought using the Droid Incredible 4G LTE by HTC for some food photos was the next logical step! I wanted to put the 8.0 megapixel camera to the test. The rear facing camera is equipped with autofocus and LED flash. Right now the autofocus is my best friend. I set up the grid feature on the large 4″ LCD screen.
I can tap anywhere in the grid on the Droid Incredible 4G LTE to get the autofocus to be exactly the place I want. If I want to adjust Exposure, ISO or white balance, I can do that too!
The camera on the Droid Incredible 4G LTE is so fun to talk about I almost forgot about sharing the recipe details! If I can even call this a recipe! I used pre-made Italian dressing for the marinade and was done. And, since I am not a huge fan of bell peppers, I also decided to make some steak and mushroom kabobs using the same recipe.
Dinner can not get any easier than this.
1/2 cup Italian salad dressing
4 skinless, boneless chicken breast halves
2 red or green bell peppers, cut into 1 1/2-inch pieces
1. Cut chicken into 1 inch cubes and bell peppers into 1 inch pieces
2. Add chicken, bell pepper, and Italian salad dressing into a ziploc bag. Refrigerat/marinate 30-60 mintues, tossing to coat occasionally. Over-marinating can result in tough or mushy meat, so remember not to marinade too long.
3. Thread meat and bell peppers onto skewers, alternating meat and peppers (or other preferred vegetables, cherry tomatoes, mushrooms, etc. Discard remaining marinade in bag.
4. 2. Preheat the grill for medium-high heat
5. Grill skewers for 12-15 minutes, or until the chicken is no longer pink in the center, and the juices run clear.
Baby gave a thumbs up on the steak, but nixed the great grill marks as "burnt". Indeed.
All of these pictures, (except for the first two) are straight out of the camera. No filter. No apps or touch ups were used of any kind to enhance the pictures. I didn't think I needed to. If I wanted to lick the screen right there, I figured you may feel the same way. At least I hope you do.
There are more features for the Droid Incredible 4G LTE camera that I have not even had time to share yet. I'm hearing a lot of buzz from other Ambassadors about the self-timer and video capabilities, but I am not there yet. There's always tomorrow, right? For now, I need to get tonight's dinner on the table before my kids fall out of their chairs from hunger.
How much time do you spend editing photos before sharing them?
Disclosure: I was selected to participate in the Verizon Wireless Ambassador Program. I was provided with a wireless device and three months of service in exchange for my honest opinions about the product. Stay tuned as I continue to share more cool features on Droid Incredible 4G LTE by HTC in the coming months


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Mega power star Ram Charan has faced lot of loss revenues as well criticism with the kind of disaster results Govindudu Andarivadele and the movie Bruce Lee gave up to him. The hero has got Thani Oruvan from Tamil and tried his best to remake it. He gave up the directorial responsibilities to Surender Reddy and production things to his uncle Allu Aravind. Now Dhruva has been into theatres and lets see what is happening.
Lead Cast: Ram Chara, Rakul Preet Singh, Arvind Swamy and others
Director: Surender Reddy
Music Director: Vijay Antony
Producer: Allu Arvind
Dhruva is a IPS officer who always believes in someone is probing us to take in such kind of things in the film. Right from the drinking powder to treatment in a particular hospital Dhruva trusts that some business mind is leading all of us. Also he states that the politicians and net has are working under a single business mind and he founds him as none other than Siddharth Abhimanyu.
Siddharth Abhimanyu is the biggest doctor/scientist in the town with great honors to him. Dhruva targets Siddarth from the right point and keeps his ultimate focus on him alone. Dhruva takes help of his friends Navadeep and others to keep out the negatives in Siddarth. The game between Siddarth and Dhruva reaches a peak point at the climax and there comes to see who won it in the last game.
Ram Charan did well for this movie and he gripped altogether a positive note for this film. His performance was matured and his body is an additional asset.
The second hero aka villain Arvind Swamy just nailed his character and everyone would love the way he dealt with the character of his.
Rakul Preet Singh did best in her Pareshanura song.
Also Read - Ram Charan has super line up after Dhruva with Koratala and Mani Ratnam?
Dhruva has main negative in the slowish first half and comparatively second half is very race. Unlike Thani Oruvan director Suri was unable to adapt the nativity into Telugu script totally powerful though. The chemistry between Ram Charan and Rakul Preet Singh is totally missing.
Songs placement is also average.
The comedy is totally missing out in the film.
Surender Reddy positively adapted the film in greater grand. He managed
the Tamil script into Telugu with good powerful script.
BGM by Hiphop Tamizha is bigger highlight. Songs are good on screen too.
Screenplay of Dhruva is good and engaging.
Cinematography is Good.
On the Whole Dhruva cinema has all aspects that Thani Oruvan has but the comparison of both would give Thani Oruvan the sure first place. Scenes between Ram Charan and Aravind Swami, Rakul Preet glamour, Songs on screen, Ram Charan's dances and body, Suri's screenplay are the things to watch. This movie is best for Ram Charan after Magadheera on performance wise but on revenue side we have to wait for it.
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The actor, who gave family drama a new meaning with his perfect son image in early 90s is back to regain the title. Salman Khan, who is currently busy pulling off his macho man avatar in recent films like Wanted and Dabangg wants to go for an image makeover. And, what better way to get back into the old mould than his popular Prem avatar in Sooraj Barjatyas next.
Salman will team up with Barjatya for his next family drama, tentatively titled Bade Bhaiyya.
Talking to a daily, a source said, Salman wants to mix and match his action roles with other kinds of films. A film with Barjatya has been on the cards for a while now. It would be a perfect departure from the macho image that Salman has been portraying for a while now.
Apparently, Salman will play the role of the ideal the elder brother in a joint-family set-up. Tentatively titled Bade Bhaiyya, the film will go on floors early next year. Apart from Salman, the rest of the cast is yet to be decided but Barjatya will most probably cast a few faces who have been regularly working with the Rajshri banner over the years. The final cast and crew, including the music team, should be decided by July, the source added....being a human...
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Buzz, Buzz, Buzz
When you have been around the music industry as long as I have, one can always tell a group is on their way up when the flies begin buzzing around. You know the type of people who profess their undying admiration for the group in the beginning of the relationship, a kind of making a deposit in the human bank. Of course, these are the same people that disappear while the actual struggle of getting just the right combination of music style and talent development is happening. They're too busy depositing the same undying admiration for every other performer available in the respective banks, a kind of playing the odds theory. After all, there are so many groups in contention at least one of them has to make a hit! As a wife, all one can do is point out who has and hasn't been around through the tough times. Then hope that her husband also has been paying attention to the intricacies of the industry, and knows how to filter out those trying to ride the tails of a group on the rise.


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Playing cards with true African American images
Posted by sherry on 9/13/11 • Categorized as Black history,Games
The bright red box with the photo and two much writing on its cover was secured with a beige rubber band drawn twice around it. The side facing me in the plastic wrapper inside a glass case at auction showed a single card of a black man, his face only slightly obscured by the rubber band.
Emblazoned above his head in big black letters was "Black History Playing Card Deck." I felt a tinge of recognition. Somewhere in the back of my mind I knew I had heard of this card game before, but could not recall having ever seen one.
The deck itself was tucked so tightly inside the box that I didn't bother to disturb it. The box itself was a bit worn and frayed, but the cards and booklet were intact. On the outside was all the information you needed to know about what was inside:
52 Portraits of Distinguished Black Americans in Four Important Fields of Endeavor: Human Rights (spades), Adventure (clubs), Science and Industry (hearts), The Arts (diamonds).
Biographies by Deloris L. Holt. Portraits by Langley Newman.
The single card on the cover was Duke Ellington, flanked by a list of notable African Americans, including Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Jesse Owens, Bill Pickett, Harriett Tubman, Sojourner Truth, Malcolm X, Percy Julian, Ida Wells Barnett and Jackie Robinson. On the flip side was a collage of small photos.
The deck was produced by the U.S. Games Systems Inc. in 1977, and came with a booklet containing biographies of each of the famous. I assumed that you played the game like any other card game by matching the suits, but with a twist: You would be learning black history and the faces attached to it at the same time.
Both Holt and Newman have to be complimented for providing such positive reminders of what blacks have contributed to the country. An educator, Holt was also the author of another educational book called "The ABCs of Black History (1971)," which contained 26 biographies of African Americans in various disciplines.
Their cards did what playing cards from way back when never even considered doing. The earliest cards I've come across at auctions and read about on the web offered some of the most degrading images of African Americans – especially children – that the mind could conceive. Black children were rarely shown as innocents who wanted to just be children. The makers of the cards projected onto them all of the animosity they could muster for people who had done them no harm.
I've seen black adult images on Old Maid cards from the 1940s and 1950s that can only be described as terrible. At one auction earlier this year, I came upon a deck of cards from 1897 called "Game of In Dixieland" that surprisingly had some photos of black children that were natural – even though the captions were typically denigrating.
In an article titled "From Hostility to Reverence: 100 years of African-American Images in Games," Denis Mercier noted that only after blacks agitated against stereotypical games or made them themselves did things start to change.
The latter is what Holt and Newman did and what others are still doing. I found several card decks with similar aims. Historian Darlene Clark Hine edited a deck of notable African American women, including Madame C.J. Walker and Josephine Baker, apparently in collaboration with the History Channel. A company called Print4Success headed by Anthony Green developed a deck of black inventors. HeroDecks Playing Cards marketed a deck that included President Obama.
On the web, I found the card deck from auction with a different cover, and it seemed to have been issued in 2003. The deck was selling for $5.50 to $39.99. I wasn't around when the auction deck sold, but I suspect that it fell in that range.


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Find info concerning Knox College soccer scores, and registering for discussion sections and departmental seminars. Not all recruiting is done like NCAA Division I teams. College coaches like to watch video of real games. If you are interested in playing college sports, make a highlight film of your high school games, ready to send to coaches once you begin recruitment. Alternatively, post your videos online, for greater exposure. Finally, check with your major department for assistance with prerequisites, tuition payment deadlines, and Knox College Soccer information. Please use the form above to request admissions info for Knox College.
Stay in great shape, even through the off-season. Being physically fit includes knowing about nutrition, staying healthy, and not overworking your body before big games. Practice the basics, over and over, especially targeting skills related to your position. Become a super-specialist, and you'll always find your place on an athletic team. Keep your eyes on the ball, and sacrifice your body if you must, but don't drop the ball.
Watch the ball all the way into your hands, and get a good initial grip. Your sixth sense needs to be developed to stay aware of other players at the same time. Follow the advice that college coaches give you, and it will make a big difference in how you play. That's because most college coaching staff were star players at some point in their careers. Irvine Valley College football game scores may indicate that it's an option to delay college entrance by a year. An extra year in high school or prep school can allow players to mature mentally, bring grades and SAT test scores up, put on weight and gain strength. Beyond consideration for Knox College soccer scores, you may think about Texas Southern University interdisciplinary studies for complementary electives to your primary course of study.
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Bullying Trauma
What makes child bullying unique from other types of traumatic experiences is that the perpetrators are often also children. Kids bully other kids for a variety of reasons, some more obvious than others. Studies show the primary motivations that compel bullies are:
- A family environment of either neglect or physical abuse
- A school or institution's lack of standards around interpersonal treatment
- Positive reinforcement around "acting out" in the form of added attention
- Our culture's glorification with winning, power, and violence
- A history of the perpetrator him or herself having experienced rejection, failure, or bullying
Usually, bullying comes about as a result of a number of the above factors existing at once. In clinical terms, to officially be considered "bullying," the behavior needs to take place repeatedly. Interestingly, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder was traditionally considered to be a disorder that arose from a single traumatic incident. However, in recent years, experts have begun to identity a second definition for PTSD that allows for the victims of repeated traumatizing incidents. Bullying falls into this category.
Some examples of types of bullying:
- Physical violence toward a child
- Verbal teasing
- Spreading rumors about a child
- Excluding a child from a group
- "Gang up" behavior
- Cyberbullying – using the Internet, Facebook, Twitter, text messaging, or other technology to demean a child
In worst-case scenarios, the abuse of bullying can lead its young victims to suicide, sometimes called "bullycide." But even though most children grow out of the stage of bullying and being bullied, victims of this hateful crime are still at risk for the long-term effects of PTSD.
With Complex PTSD, victims are "held captive" by their situations. Children who are subject to regular bullying may not have any way out of what they perceive as a trapped situation. Reporting incidents to teachers or other authority figures can be a daunting prospect, as this sort of "tattletale" behavior is so apt to exacerbate the bullying instead of halting it. A pattern of bullying can also be exacerbated by parents who may believe that being pushed around or beat up by your peers "toughens you up" and is just a "natural part of childhood."
Of course, the best way to avoid PTSD from school bullying later in life is to prevent or stop the problem early on. This takes a vigilant approach on the part of parents and especially on the part of school administrators, as school is the most common place that children experience the harassment of bullying.
Here are some potential signs that a child is experiencing repeated bullying:
- Isolated or disconnected behavior that is not normally a part of the child's personality.
- Sudden physical complaints – especially ones that prevent the child from attending school or other events
- Degraded performance with schoolwork or difficulty concentrating
- Sleep issues or nightmares
- General malaise, withdrawal, or depression
- A sense of hypervigilance, anxiety, or a high temper
The good news is that the recent media interest in school bullying has resulted in wider awareness of this epidemic, and there are now many resources available that children, parents, peers, and teachers can turn to if they know or suspect that bullying is happening.
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Boots- Dolce Vita
A few weeks ago when eShakti asked me if I wanted to review one of their items from their Spring lookbook I quickly picked out this tunic. Earlier that week I had been day dreaming/designing in my head a lace top to wear with my leather pants, so it was perfect timing to find this perfect piece!
As most of you know eShakti is an online store that allows you to customize their clothes (change necklines, sleevestyles, length...etc for a small fee). I chose to have this tunic lengthened to make sure it would cover my behind when I wore it with these faux leather pants. It did end up being a bit longer (4" above knee) than I was expecting (upper thigh)...but I'm actually quite happy with the way it turned out.
PS. Yes this is the dress that I copied to make my weekend project :)
PPS. Is someone obsessed with mixing leather and lace?
PPPS. Please help me win a years worth of shoes by voting on my look here (Leather + Colour Block)! Likes don't count as votes, so please hit the "vote" button...you can vote everyday...but I sure that's hard to remember...but then again I might just keep reminding you!! haha


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Unit 8.1. The Great war begins. 5 Steps to War in Europe. Sarajevo, June 28, 1914: A Serbian terrorist assassinates Archduke Franz Ferdinand—the heir to the Austro-Hungarian empire—and his wife. 5 Steps to War in Europe.
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Guillermo del Toro will be a part of the new Hulk TV series coming 2013. The hour long series is in development according to ABC's President Paul Lee,
"Hulk is in development. It wasn't going to be ready this season but we hope it's going to be ready for next season." – Hollywood Reporter
We know that there's rumors of another standalone Hulk film and how ABC, which owns Marvel Studios, will successfully strategize all this is to be seen.
I like Mark Ruffalo as Hulk in The Avengers, and whether ABC will save him for a stand alone movie or the TV series is to be seen.
Comic movies and TV shows seems to be the rage these days, and rightfully so!


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COOS BAY, OR – Southwestern Oregon Community College (SWOCC) has announced the hiring of Mike Herbert to replace longtime SWOCC athletic director John Speasl. The athletic director position organizes and monitors the 16 athletic programs and related activities at the college. Herbert will also continue to coach women's basketball.
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A few weeks ago I got my chance to present my paper 'Newly Inked Narratives', and among the questions I was asked afterwards was: "Do you believe that tattoo ink, which rests within skin (the barrier you mentioned earlier), is significant at a time when binaries and boundaries (particularly gender) are being blurred and stripped away?" My response was: "It is certainly symbolic, it has certainly been my experience that many who place significance in tattoos are establishing their identities outside of the gender binary." That is true, however it implies a personal political stance that is not mine. I believe in discourse, and respect, and the person asking the question I respect greatly. I knew going into the ins and outs of my politics was not appropriate there (nor suitably applicable), however it is here.
I want people to get to know me before I give them certain details, ones that people often use to define a whole person. Online I'll write about my sexuality, my transsexuality, my bipolar diagnosis- but offline I always have someone know me as me first, before divulging the heavy stuff. This is because I am not defined by those things, and to present them upfront will colour perceptions regardless of how accepting or knowledgeable they are. This is the same reason why I have avoided directly talking politics here (aside from a post on discourse, which still hinted at something more controversial). I worry that such discussion would override the purpose of this site. However talk and argue politics is all many others do, and at this point I think a single post with all the 'heavy-stuff' might be in order. I still worry that Resonance Frequency might turn from a celebration of media to a mean-spirited rant. However, now that I have a modest yet genuine body of work that reflects my true priorities, I feel more confident and wanting to share some of my feelings on modern media criticism, and the politics which increasingly surround it. So here it is: The one and only dedicated 'Politics Post', if only to get things off my chest.
Because I swear to god, if I hear the phrase "That triggered me." one more goddamn time, I'm going to rampage.
If you read between the lines of my post on discourse, you'll note that it's largely a number of tips for the people in support of #GamerGate (wow, two sentences in and I'm already- no, focus). I do believe that the tag is connected to a toxic brand and losing battle, however I do not believe that makes the radical feminist ideology it opposes correct. Sadly the current level of debate rarely rises above straw-men and the usual tired arguments (and if nothing else that's terribly boring internet drama to watch). More than ever, recent events have also shown that both parties have a large portion of people who get headaches whenever they're asked to think critically, and there are also buried intellectuals on both sides (who manipulate their respective movements to suit their ends).
In a nutshell: The problem with third-wave/ radical feminism is that it is purely a structural critique, but no longer a relevant cultural one. First-wave feminism gave women the vote, and the right to be considered legal person; very important. Second-wave feminism was concerned with the right to birth-control, and rightful integration into the workforce; an equally important step. Third-wave feminism is concerned with rape culture theory, anti-oppressive practice (and believe me, we'll get to how that started as a profit motive), intersectionality, post-colonialist theory, smashing both 'the patriarchy' and the 'gender binary', none of which affects women (or men) to the extent many have been led to believe.
"When Alexander saw the breadth of his domain, he wept for there were no more worlds to conquer."
Feminism never had Alexander's insight, it won the war but continued the battle. The problem occurred when the vast majority of women not so much gained perfect equality, but became equal enough that the remaining wrinkles shouldn't be straightened-out by a sledgehammer. Pay equality, laws involving reproductive rights, and the representation of women in the workforce are being worked on, but slowly. Legislation isn't sexy, nor is gradual progress over the course of a decade. This is why you have never read or heard the phrase: Hardcore Moderate! REPRESENT! FIGHT THE- actually, we're doing fine, but I had a concern over bill 61, clause B4.2: I think the wording is a little ambiguous, and am trepidatious about implementing such a measure at this time.
In the absence of a great threat, and with the internet coming to prominence in the 90's, it's no coincidence that third-wave feminism became obsessed with concepts like 'the patriarchy'. Look at what the internet has done to us, it has created hardline communities were dissent is shouted down and inhibition disowned. Communities like this love and require ephemeral villains to rally behind (the same way that fascists do; there I called them femanazis in a way that's actually applicable). The strength of third-wave feminism is that it does nothing but create them. It is an ideology that is based and depends on a victim-complex. The Patriarchy is a myth that cannot be killed by design, and it presents a pretty picture of a societal force dead set on championing men over women, but without a permanent face. A moving target for all your projection and ideological needs.
Radical feminism posits that all men oppress women, and attempt to explain that by saying that they are socialized to do so, by the patriarchy, which exists because men are socialized to oppress women, by the patriarchy. The problem with that narrative (as many have pointed out) is that women are making incredible progress, despite half the population having declared war on them. Some men are threatened, yes, I know this. But most of them don't give a shit. Hell, some enjoy having more women than men attend university because it's easier to figure out what courses have the best "my dick to potential pussy" ratio. (The humanities and languages, trust me. Wear one of those 'This is what a feminist looks like' shits and you'll be drowning in it)
What is oppressive, is how the left is as much a culprit as the right in shouting down and attacking critics. In the news right now is the Indiana pizzeria that was attacked because they didn't want to cater a gay-wedding (because a gay wedding would be so tacky, really people? Have you met 'the gays'? They're far to fabulous). It's funny how suddenly this gives you a new perspective on hate mobs. They exist, certainly, absolutely, that abuse is real- but it's perpetuated by a Human mob (a terrible and aimless mass of hate and stupidity). Not all gay-rights activist harass small business owners, that's a fact. Just like not all men oppress women. So why do feminist argue that statement doesn't apply? It could be because since 'patriarchy' is on a wider-scale than any pizzeria, men are 'compelled' and 'socialized' to oppress women… But then, if that's true- the enemy is socialization, and we're teaching more about equality in schools than we ever did before. Whatever your stance on 'socialization by the patriarchy', you can't deny that schools and the world at large is more equitable than it's ever been, and so let's give it a decade or so. The world catches up, it always does. Improve the damn school curriculum and teach your kids to know better, don't demonize half of humanity.
Hell, I'm posting this article online. To depending on who reads this, I'll either be god's prophet here to lead us through the darkness, or someone whose tranny ass has to die painfully and publicly because I don't like what you like. I would very much like to be the former, partially because I am. Just a few more donations, and we can build our spaceship. (Please make the cheques out to Cash)
Unfortunately schools are also teaching radical feminist material, and we do need to change that. The issue is that the modern right has to contend with its own bloat (anti-intellectualism, hard-right religious influence) that is dragging it down. The reason why radical feminism is so successful is because it has successfully appeared academic and legitimate, while painting the right as a bunch of dinosaurs. It's narrative of resistance is appealing at a time when our dominant narratives have fallen. It should have to contend with an equally sophisticated yet-rational modern conservative theory, one that simply does not exist within public discourse yet.
Of course there's one argument radical feminism has to discredit this. You all know it! Let's hear it! Internalized. Misogyny. You're not a feminist because you're a self-hating woman. You've been blinded, been duped, you're in the matrix. Or even: you're too stupid to realize it. Obviously I am: I mean I only have a 4.0 GPA, four-years of anti-oppressive social work experience, spent three years studying 20th century history, and George Orwell is the reason I write. Plus I'm articulate and witty! And I've got abs stronger than steel! And that thing I can do with my tongue!
You know what rules the world? Money. Money solves your problems. Money gets you ahead. Money makes you immune. Money talks, and it doesn't matter whose mouth it comes from. All that matters is having enough to rule the conversation.
I am not a feminist, but I'm grateful to those who won us the war.
To be a feminist right now is to threaten my identity. I like the gender binary. If gender were a social construct, there would be no transsexuals. I was born with a male body, I was socialized as a man, at every turn and pass I had people using male pronouns, and calling me a man. If my gender was a construct, then it would have been constructed as such. But I wasn't, and the day after I found out that you could transition was the day I came out. Since then I've embraced being a woman, I like it. I've had to fight for that 'F' on my license, it makes me smile every time I see it. Because for seventeen years of my life it was a fantasy. During childhood, my life today was a literal dream. After the past ten years, every single time I look in the mirror, a part of me pauses- and just smiles.
Gender exists. Every goddamn society on the face of this Earth recognizes that, no matter how isolated from one another they have been or still are. I don't want to smash the gender binary, because doing so erases a big part of who I am. I like my female societal role. I like having it acknowledged. That doesn't mean I'll put up with any crap. That doesn't mean I'm submissive (but even if I were, it would be my choice in this free society of ours). I worry that in our rush to 'liberate women' from 'oppressive gender roles' that we've conflated those gender roles with gender. Different societies across the planet all acknowledge gender, but they also perform it in different ways. In some places a man is required to be masculine, and in another it's simply one legitimate path among many. Wanting to act more masculine as a woman, or feminine as a man, is not necessarily a sign that one is outside of the binary, only that one is bending rigid gender norms.
There have always been men and women who pushed against those norms, who took on traits associated with the opposite sex, but it is only within the past five or so years that the practice is seen as disproving gender altogether. Am I suddenly wrong for thinking that this gender binary, coupled with a tradition of bending gender norms, has existed for thousands of years for good reason? Is rebellion against those norms suddenly grounds to dismantle gender as we know it? That only in the 21st century are we 'discovering' a whole new world of gender? Am I wrong for hesitating to embrace this?
I do speak from a place of being threatened, I did not feel at ease to speak my mind weeks ago. I have to wonder if there's any true conservatives left. Not the idiots in Ford Nation, but people who pride tradition, solid upstanding values, capitalism (but not libertarianism). Ones willing to think critically about where we're headed, or who interpret our traditions in modern ways; I feel that tattoos (especially today) are reflective of a very conservative version of identity (one with clear markers, rooted in society's narratives, and a sign of trust in one's community). I wonder if people feel that the Internet is an amazing thing, but its nature is twisting our society in ways we haven't acknowledged and are not prepared for. Not all progress is good, not all norms are evil, and radical feminism is a rapidly bloating beast with values anathema to my self.
Radical Feminism not only has to contend with being a purely structural theory about society, but also an infection by an increasing array of influences stemming from anti-oppressive practice. That is, the belief that all people are oppressed in some way, and that we must acknowledge all of those oppressions, and make way for the oppressed to speak as the sole authorities on their experience.
Anti-Oppressive Practice (AOP) was began life as an updated 'sensitivity training'. In essence, many clients/ patients of hospitals (in the US, so profit-driven hospitals) were having issues with the staff and social workers not being respectful of their language, culture, having racist assumptions, etc. AOP was created to have hospital workers more mindful of their privileges, in order to be more respectful, so their clients/ patients would access/ pay for more services. Your anti-capitalist ideology exists in service to the worst form of it.
That's great! More people accessed services, more money was made (albeit for privatized healthcare, which even I don't support), and we don't have old school sensitivity training anymore ("They smell like that because of all the curry. They can't help it!"). The problem is that AOP doesn't work as an ideology because it assumes that all oppression of the same kind is equal. It assumes that the life of one middle-class white tranny girl is the same as another middle-class white tranny girl. Because when you're painting the world as an oppressive place, where everyone is constantly at an intersection of all their various identities, you ironically ignore the only identity that matters- the self. It can't contend with a world where someone facing oppression has nothing valuable to say, or where a rape survivor heals and learns from the experience. The devil is in the details, those little technicalities, and AOP paints with sweeping brush-strokes.
As good as it feels, AOP isn't applicable to the daily lives of the people it tries to help. Coming at someone's problem from a structural standpoint does little in the now. Whatever oppression one might face, the day that they come to you looking for help is the day you must help them. From a social work perspective, helping someone access their welfare benefits because of paperwork being misfiled is the problem, not the government's ideology which compelled it to curtail the welfare state.
For the record: I support the idea of a guaranteed income, but would sell it on the platform that all other forms of welfare become obsolete and may be dismantled should that happen. We're spending money to help people anyways, we may as well put it directly in their hands and make it their responsibility. Which from a values perspective is far better than the government spending so much time and resources (likely more than if we simply wrote a cheque every month) telling people how to use it.
Radical feminism's embrace of AOP has made it fat and bloated. Within a few short years, Post-Colonialism and others vie to share the spotlight. We have feminists claiming that Ferguson relates to reproductive rights. We have hours of valuable time dedicated to teaching employees AOP, where it all boils down to: "Some people have it better than others, it's important to be mindful of that. Don't be a dick." AOP attempts to create a space for the marginalized by privileging their voice, but that only leads to people tripping over themselves to prove they're the most oppressed.
'The Oppression Olympics' is not a joke, no matter how much it is joked about. A major component of my essays while studying AOP always dwelled on my 'social location'. In those sections I had to write out: "I'm a white, well-off, incredibly physically fit individual, who also happens to be a transsexual woman." Again, the theory here was to promote mindfulness. To apply our 'social location' to the subject at hand was to help ensure we understood oppression. Unfortunately when you place a premium on those sections, and when you have entire courses based around questioning privilege, people are going to start racing to the bottom in an effort to be the most guilt-free. Coupled with the voices of oppressed peoples being championed above all others, and you have a classroom where people are playing-up their 'oppression' to justify even speaking. I know of one woman who claims she's oppressed because her Jewish grandparents lived through the Holocaust. Yes I'm sure that was traumatic for them, but you were born in 1995.
Never underestimate the power of white middle-class guilt, it's an incredible force in this world.
Speaking of incredible things in this world (and terrible tangential segues): In my Kill la Kill is Kinky as Hell article, I wrote that rape culture is an "irrelevant and asinine concept." I would like to clarify that ambiguous statement by saying that rape culture is not only an irrelevant and asinine concept, but is also actively damaging the people its proponents wish to protect.
Rape Culture theory makes a dangerous assumption, especially when applied to the real world. At university I've seen bulletins with statistics such as 40-70% of women (depending on the statistic) will be sexually assaulted, and that many assaults happen on campus. The problem is that when someone fresh out of high school reads that, it leaves the impression that they will be sexually assaulted at some time. I talked with one woman who worried about taking summer classes (that meet between 1830-2130) because of potential assault. For the record: my university is incredibly safe, and during the summer it's still light out after class, and there's plenty of people around. But we're Human, we're terrible at assessing risk because we are biologically hardwired to assume the worst when dealing with the unknown. I spent four years in a social work program, and during that time I spoke to various campus counselors about their experiences. You'd be surprised how many have young women coming in, convinced that they've been sexually assaulted, because their boyfriend said something dickish (even by accident). The rape culture theory has become so prevalent that it threatens to become the dominant narrative. Never mind how those statistics tend to vary so much that I find any of them hard to take seriously, or that many include estimates of 'unreported crimes'.
Wait, didn't we criticize Harper a while back for building more prisons in one of the safest decades on record because: "most crimes are unreported"? Didn't the left say that was just a ploy to inflate the crime rate and justify sinking tax dollars into a purely-ideological venture?
We've all heard the argument: "Of course not all men are rapists, but if I gave you a bowl of M&Ms and told you that one-percent of them were poison, you wouldn't eat any." Which is a poor analogy, given that bowl is supposed to represent all the people you might be attracted to, never mind half the entire global population. Yeah, an M&M isn't worth the potential death, but I'm not about to stop dating men because one might hurt me. Hell if I love M&M's, if they give me purpose, if they are an integral part of my life: then fuck you for poisoning my M&Ms, we'll talk about this later but could you please pass me the bowl?
There is no cultural conceit that encourages men to rape. Remember: Context is everything, and the existence of a problematic element does not make a work problematic. Rape is a class of its own in terms of violence, but our media is violent, at times it's violent enough that it reveals aspects of our culture- namely our increasing malaise, dissociation, and desire to see all of civilization burn to the ground to make the ringing and the twitter and the Facebook updates stop. In media rape is a tool, a lazy one often, but still a useful tool in establishing a villain in many stories.
Advertisements alluding to rape sell a fantasy, but I'm not convinced that fantasy is only for men. Not with the fact that fantasy dabbles in the taboo, not with many women having rape fantasies. Not when Fifty Shades of Grey is a cultural phenomenon will I view these advertisements as perpetuating a culture, because they are only delivering on what that culture wants. These advertisements and films and novels and media of all kinds has an effect on uh… reflects something to people- like… it… you know, sound waves? Like when a glass starts shaking, or breaks? When media hits a- shit, what is it called? Oh fuck it: the point is people like stuff and demand creates supply- as much as advertising appears otherwise, they're still bound to sell goods by means of resonating (that's the word!) with consumers. The desire is there; it isn't manufactured, but articulated.
What I'm saying is that rape culture doesn't perpetuate rape, the need to indulge in the most base violent aspects of ourselves perpetuates the demand and lust for rape fantasies. Narratives have impact on us, but media is our reflection just as much. In order for media to help create us, we must first create its entirety. It's not our media, it's not our culture, it's us- all of us that demands it, and that's not inherently wrong.
I think that's a far more unsettling and challenging view of rape and our society, one that certainly makes 'rape culture' theory easy to swallow by comparison.
The phrase, "That triggered me." has become so misused that it's a meme. Like so many aspects of radical feminism, the road to hell is paved with good intentions; what started as a way to show mindfulness and respect, has turned into a blanket catch-all for people who either wish to stifle discourse, or cannot handle being challenged or uncomfortable. There is a line between "I've had traumatic experiences involving rape, may we please discuss something else." and "That's a trigger, don't say that, and you have to warn people first."
Trigger warnings were voluntary ways for writers to say: "The following program contains scenes of coarse language, and extreme violence. Viewer discretion is advised." However I have seen it imposed on more and more writers, not just on those who discussed rape and other difficult topics, but even those who just skimmed the surface. Hell, the demand for 'trigger warnings' has expanded to anything involving black humour/ violence, racism, and even topics that just remind people of rape. More so, not only do we have more and more young women convinced that they will or have been sexually assaulted or abused (because their boyfriend was an asshole and insulted them), we have many of those same people claiming 'trigger' to smother any hint of what makes them uncomfortable. You cannot demand that the world try to anticipate what might offend you, especially in ways that aren't obvious in the slightest. A Green Bay Packers fan molested you? Well shit, that's not the deli's fault!
It's more than that doing so cheapens the ability of actual PTSD sufferers to articulate their suffering, it becomes an excuse to lay down and surrender. To live your life in fear of 'triggers' is to give up, and let whoever hurt you win.
Healing from trauma is a nightmare, a slow process that hurts- a lot. I've been there. After my experiences there was a time when I couldn't be touched. I would walk out of class if sensitive material was covered, because it did truly cut into me. It tore me to shreds. But as hard as it is, you have to get back up again. There came a time when I knew that if I avoided any and all hints of that trauma, then he beat me. He won. And was I going to let that sonofabitch beat me? Hell no! I sat in therapy as my therapist put her hands on me, I tried to engage just a little more in class, and I ultimately returned to the activity and context in which the trauma happened. And it was terrifying, and hard, and there were moments that triggered flashbacks, and-
I won.
I beat it. I'm in control. The flashbacks are gone. The nightmares have ceased. Hell, I've started to enjoy rape jokes (black humour is a wondrous coping mechanism), and fantasies, and I think Kill la Kill is one of the best things television as a medium has produced, and ship Ryuko and Senketsu like there's no tomorrow. I returned to having sex, I returned to doing BDSM, I returned to being an active participant in class, all of which I had loved and lost, but then reclaimed.
If you're healing from real physical, mental trauma, or if you got felt up once at a party:
"If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them." – Bruce Lee (is someone I always wished I could have a beer with)
I don't care if your boyfriend hurt your feelings, or if someone said something that made you uncomfortable, guess what- they were being assholes, but the world's full of 'em. You were raped? That's something no human should ever experience, but trust me when I say you can beat it. Because for every monster in the world there's a hundred kind and honest folk. The world is full of people who have been torn down, seen their life turn to ash in front of them, who have wept- but then planted their feet on the ground and stood the hell back up and roared. Ask for help when you need it, rest when you need it, but never surrender yourself to it. The war can take years, take a lifetime, and yet some people will fight it tooth and nail every day, and those people are goddamn heroes. Or you go right ahead, sit there behind your trigger warnings, let it consume you for all I give a damn; give up and crawl into your shell to die. Some people don't want to get better, and those people ain't worth a fuck.
I'll be outside enjoying life with the people who who refused to be broken, and we're here for you if you want to join us.
– Jaydra
Next up: An essay on The Legend of Korra, the impact of psychology and technology on fandoms, and the power ninety seconds has over three years! Candy! Puppies! Levity! Wee!
Hey, it worked for Last Week Tonight…


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Here is the schedule for the read-along so you can follow along with us (it's about a chapter a day):
Nov 7: Curtsies, chapters 1-8
Nov 14: Curtsies, chapters 9 -16, epilogue, and final thoughts on the book
Nov 21: Waistcoats, chapters 1-8
Nov 28: Waistcoats, chapters 8-16 and final thoughts on book
Nov 29: Read-along wrap up and giveaway winner announced
Remember to use #FinishingRA on Twitter for updates. You can include Dena (@denabooks) and I (@tressherm) as well.
Now I'd like to welcome Gail Carriger to my blog!
Author Interview:
1. For those who may not be as familiar with your books and specifically this series, would you give us the basic gist of the characters and story?
Comedy of manners meets urbane fantasy meets espionage meets boarding school.
The Finishing School series is set in the same world as my Parasol Protectorate adult book, only 25 years earlier, and features a finishing academy located in a giant caterpillar-like dirigible floating over Dartmoor in which young ladies are taught to . . . finish . . . everything . . . and everyone . . . as needed. There is steampunk etiquette! There is well-dressed espionage! There is Victorian fake food. There are mechanical sausage dogs named Bumbersnoot.
2. What inspired you to write the Finishing School Series?
I've always been fascinated by the idea of girls' boarding schools. I blame A Little Princess. However, I realized recently, as I was re-watching the BBC adaptation of Gaskell's North & South, that I think this TV series may be to blame. There is a line where Mr. Bell says, "Have you meet Miss Latimer? Just returned from Switzerland and very much finished." Or something like. Mr. Bell is a facetious character and I think he is meant to be contemptuously dismissing both the young lady and the very idea of women being made into mere representations of a minimalistic social ideal. But the line has always stuck with me. It made me think about the very idea of sending girls away from home to be finished, and what a powerful thing that could become, were they to learn a whole new set of social skills.
3. What have you loved the most about writing this series?
I've enjoyed casting my mind back and remembering my own high school experience (much more clearly than I thought I would). It's surprisingly easy to regress 20 years. Either that or I never quite grew up.
4. The imagery with all the gadgets, vehicles, and period dress, is just amazing! What do you base the imagery off of, if anything?
Reality. The Victorians had some pretty oddball inventions already, I tend to mash a few of them together, or twist their purpose. Otherwise I just use my imagination to fill in a plot necessity.
5. What would be your favorite item of clothing if you were one of these characters?
The chatelaine.
6. The slang is so very fun and adds so much to this series. What are some of your favorites and their meanings?
I like them all! It's fun to put old fashioned slang words, or made up ones, because they are perceived by modern readers as quite ridiculous but were taken very seriously back in the day. (This makes them that much more hilarious.)
7. Do you have a favorite scene or quote from the series that you would be willing to share with us?
Pretty much any scene involving Pillover. He is one of my favorite characters to write. Here is his introduction:
"What's that?" she asked the girl, wrinkling her nose.
"Oh, that? That's just Pillover."
"And what's a pillover, when it's at home?"
"My little brother."
"Ah, I commiserate. I have several of my own. Dashed inconvenient, brothers."
― Gail Carriger, Etiquette & Espionage
8. What is one interesting thing about you that we may not know?
I'm really good at pinball.
9. When you get a chance to read, what type of books do you tend to grab?
I have pretty specific taste, I actually did a blog post on some of the tropes that I really gravitate towards as a reader. Check that out here.
I also do a read along book group, picking once book a month. I write a blog post about why I chose the book at the beginning of the month, and then write a review at the end. Skye runs a companion discussion via my Goodreads fan group.
10. Can you share a teaser for the fourth book, Manners & Mutiny?
Nope. Nice try, though.
Thank you so much Gail!
About the Books:
Etiquette and EspionageIt's one thing to learn to curtsy properly. It's quite another to learn to curtsy and throw a knife at the same time. Welcome to Finishing School.Fourteen-year-old Sophronia is a great trial to her poor mother. Sophronia is more interested in dismantling clocks and climbing trees than proper manners–and the family can only hope that company never sees her atrocious curtsy. Mrs. Temminnick is desperate for her daughter to become a proper lady. So she enrolls Sophronia in Mademoiselle Geraldine's Finishing Academy for Young Ladies of Quality.
But Sophronia soon realizes the school is not quite what her mother might have hoped. At Mademoiselle Geraldine's, young ladies learn to finish…everything. Certainly, they learn the fine arts of dance, dress, and etiquette, but the also learn to deal out death, diversion, and espionage–in the politest possible ways, of course. Sophronia and her friends are in for a rousing first year's education.
Set in the same world as the Parasol Protectorate, this YA series debut is filled with all the saucy adventure and droll humor Gail's legions of fans have come to adore.
Curtsies and Conspiracies
Does one need four fully grown foxgloves for decorating a dinner table for six guests? Or is it six foxgloves to kill four fully grown guests?
Sophronia's first year at Mademoiselle Geraldine's Finishing Academy for Young Ladies of Quality has certainly been rousing! For one thing, finishing school is training her to be a spy (won't Mumsy be surprised?). Furthermore, Sophronia got mixed up in an intrigue over a stolen device and had a cheese pie thrown at her in a most horrid display of poor manners.
Now, as she sneaks around the dirigible school, eavesdropping on the teachers' quarters and making clandestine climbs to the ship's boiler room, she learns that there may be more to a field trip to London than is apparent at first. A conspiracy is afoot–one with dire implications for both supernaturals and humans. Sophronia must rely on her training to discover who is behind the dangerous plot-and survive the London Season with a full dance card.
In this bestselling sequel to New York Times bestselling Etiquette & Espionage, class is back in session with more petticoats and poison, tea trays and treason. Gail's distinctive voice, signature humor, and lush steampunk setting are sure to be the height of fashion this season.
Waistcoats and Weaponry
Class is back in session…
Sophronia continues her second year at finishing school in style–with a steel-bladed fan secreted in the folds of her ball gown, of course. Such a fashionable choice of weapon comes in handy when Sophronia, her best friend Dimity, sweet sootie Soap, and the charming Lord Felix Mersey stowaway on a train to return their classmate Sidheag to her werewolf pack in Scotland. No one suspected what–or who–they would find aboard that suspiciously empty train. Sophronia uncovers a plot that threatens to throw all of London into chaos and she must decide where her loyalties lie, once and for all.Gather your poison, steel tipped quill, and the rest of your school supplies and join Mademoiselle Geraldine's proper young killing machines in the third rousing installment in the New York Times bestselling Finishing School Series by steampunk author, Gail Carriger.
Book Trailer:
Check out this fun book trailer for the series!
Giveaway Time!
Enter to win the entire Finishing School series!
Ends Nov 28, 2014
Open internationally (as long as the Book Depository ships to you for free)
Entrants must be 13 or older or have their parent/guardian enter for them. Winner must respond to my email within 48 hours or a new winner will be chosen. Winner is chosen randomly. Contest void where prohibited. Good luck!
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Fifa 12 Trading Tips #2: Mass Bidding
Fifa 12 Trading Tips is a series of hubs in which I will detail a tip that will help you make money on Fifa 12. All of these tips can be done effectively at the time I post them but the market crash may have killed them in a couple of months. All of these tips should work for Fifa 13 as well.
Step By Step
Step 1
Think of a popular team idea, such as Brazilian teams or Liga BBVA teams and then think that, if you were making that team, who would be your ideal striker or right midfielder or something. This is how I arrived at Hulk for the example. In a Liga BBVA side, David Villa would be the obvious choice for a left midfielder. In a Serie A team Thiago Silva would be a great choice for a centre back. Choose a player using these theories.
Step 2
Search for that player's lowest Buy Now and undercut that by 250 coins. Now take the 5% tax away from that card and then take 1000 coins off of that total. This will show you roughly how much you should buy the player for. Search for all players that are going for that price and bid on as many as you can. Then search for Buy Nows for that price to see if anyone has placed a player up, trying to seriously undercut the next lowest buy now.
Step 3
Move onto a different player whilst those auctions are finishing. Sell the players if you win them.
Step 4
For this method you choose a player who costs at least 10k but you need to have at least three times his worth. For an example I will use the Hulks that I was looking at. His lowest Buy Now was 11750 so I went out and tried to buy him for 10k. I mass bidded on all of the cards that were going for 10k and waited. I got a few of these cards and put them all up for sale with the same buy nows of 11500. This means that if anyone wants to buy a Hulk they will find mines as it is the cheapest. Over the course of a day all of my Hulks sold giving me just under 1000 coins profit per card once tax was included. If I had 8 Hulks then that gives me around 7.5k for no more than 30 minutes work. If I were to mass bid with several players and won about 20 cards and was able to sell each on for 1000 coins profit you have generated 20k after one day of selling and only an hour or so of actual work. This is a great way to make coins especially if you do not have much time to trade.
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C&C Asset Management, Inc.
4389 Seabreeze Drive
Jacksonville, FL 32250
Guy Whiteman, President
Type of Business:
C&C Asset Management, Inc. is a full service asset management company, specializing in equipment inspections, appraisals, equipment recovery, remarketing, on site collections and business and fleet liquidations.
In Business Since: 1999
Trade Associations: ELFA
C&C provides a one stop shop for it's customers. They manage all of your "outside" collection and asset management responsibilities and become an extension of your back room office. Why utilize several recovery agencies when you can assign everything to one that can service the entire country at the same flat rate. No more wasting time trying to locate a recovery agency or going through the process of determining the good from the bad.
Are you tired of trying to get a detailed condition report and good photographs of your equipment? Tired of the buyer knowing more about your repossessed asset than you do?
C&C recognizes that the value of your collateral is determined by its condition. That's why they use only experienced equipment mechanics to inspect your repossessed or off-lease equipment. Their detailed condition report with digital photographs is included with each repossession at no additional cost. It contains a repair estimate and current auction values to assist in your pricing. They are consistent in the manner in which they report the results. No more trying to decipher a hand written report.
C&C can remarket your equipment and maximize your return quickly by utilizing the best advertising options available in conjunction with our network of vendors and end users.
C&C personnel have been active in the finance and leasing industry since 1974 and have over 30 years of experience repossessing, inspecting, appraising and remarketing a wide variety of commercial assets. They offer this fast, responsive service in all 50 states and Canada. Their expertise is focused on, but not limited to, the following types of collateral: construction equipment, logging, trucks, trailers, buses, forklifts, above ground mining equipment, machine tools, agricultural equipment, hearses, limos, aggregate, golf course management, office equipment, medical equipment and aircraft.


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Rich in biodiversity, the Panhandle is a unique part of Florida.
This 11,000 square mile area has the highest stream density in the state, and includes three of Florida's five largest rivers. With agricultural and timber economies in the interior, significant federal and state ownership in forests and military bases, and resort development pressures on the coast, the region is just beginning to feel the effects of sprawl and habitat fragmentation.
In each of its three eco-regions–the Gulf Coastal Plain, Apalachicola Bay, and Red Hills–change is coming. Two of the fastest growing counties in the Gulf Coastal Plain, Okaloosa and Walton, face coastal development, accelerated erosion, and sprawl which threaten the natural sandhill community and longleaf pine/wiregrass ecosystem that remain here.
In the Apalachicola Eco-Region, the Apalachicola Bay supports 90 percent of Florida's commercial oyster fishery and one third of the shrimp harvest – it continues to be threatened by increased water demands from the Atlanta metro area and from impacts from upland farming areas in Georgia and Alabama.
The Red Hills/St. Marks River Eco-Region is threatened by continuing population growth in the Tallahassee-Thomasville urban areas. Urban growth is projected to be significant in this portion of the eco-region and has begun to impact adjacent counties.
1000 Friends of Florida works to protect the region's significant natural lands and distinct sense of place while promoting compatible, sustainable economic development. This is accomplished through improving the capacity of local and regional leaders and citizens, enhanced land use planning, and coalition building.
Information by 1000 Friends of Florida:
Ecosystem Services and Land Conservation in the Red Hills Region of Florida (2013) — This PowerPoint presentation by Tall Timbers Planning Coordinator Neil Fleckenstein, AICP, features information on Tall Timbers' model land conservation easement program and the recent study, Valuing Ecosystem Services in the Red Hills Region of Southwest Georgia and North Florida. It was presented at 1000 Friends' February 13, 2013 Dr. John M. DeGrove Community Steward Webinar.
Social, economic, and cultural factors that influence community support for coastal conservation (2008) – This 1000 Friends of Florida report looks at Carrabelle, Florida, and similar coastal communities.
Military base encroachment issues and planning (2005) – Military base encroachment is a major issue in the Florida panhandle and this article by 1000 Friends of Florida outlines key planning tools. See updated article
Saving special places: A citizen's guide to protecting natural resources in Florida's Panhandle (2004) – Prepared by 1000 Friends of Florida, this guide includes planning strategies to protect natural resources, and success stories in the Florida Panhandle.
Valuing ecosystem services in the Red Hills of Southwest Georgia and North Florida (2012) – Tall Timbers Research Station and Land Conservancy quantifies some of the values of ecosystem services in North Florida and South Georgia.
The value of agricultural lands and open space in the Red Hills Region of Southwest Georgia and North Florida (2004) – This cost of services study was prepared on behalf of Tall Timbers Research Station and Land Conservancy, 1000 Friends of Florida, The Georgia Conservancy, and The Conservation Fund.
Jackson County sustainable tourism plan (2006) – This plan evolved out of Jackson County's desire to expand its tourism industry as a means of offering its residents more opportunities for economic activity and an avenue for community development.
Regional transportation links:
Bay County Transportation Planning Organization
Capital Region Transportation Planning Agency
Florida-Alabama Transportation Planning Organization
Northwest Florida Transportation Corridor Authority
Okaloosa-Walton Transportation Planning Organization
Regional planning links:
Apalachee Regional Planning Council
North Central Florida Regional Planning Council
West Florida Regional Planning Council
Local government contacts:
Calhoun County Chamber of Commerce
Escambia County Permitting and Development
Leon County Office of Sustainability
Tallahassee-Leon County Planning Department
Okaloosa County Growth Management
Santa Rosa County Development Services
Wakulla County Planning and Community Development
Panhandle citizen groups and resources:
Apalachee Audubon Society (Tallahassee and the Big Bend)
Choctawhatchee Audubon Society (Okaloosa and Walton counties)
Francis M. Weston Audubon Society (Pensacola)
Northwest Florida Environmental Conservancy
St. Andrew Bay Resource Management Association
South Walton Coastal Conservancy – Beach-to-Bay Connection
South Walton Community Council
Tall Timbers Research Station and Land Conservancy
Panhandle Newspapers
The County Record (Calhoun County)
Daily News (Northwest Florida)
Wakulla County News and Information


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LONDON — Bernard-Henri Lévy, the flamboyant French philosopher who gave himself the credit for spurring international military intervention in Libya last year, called on Wednesday for France to rally its allies behind similar action in Syria.
In an open letter to President François Hollande, France's most public intellectual called for measures, including a no-flight zone, to confront the regime of President Bashar al-Assad.
The Syrian leader's continued hold on power depended on "our abstention, our laissez-faire attitude, our cowardice," he said.
Mr. Lévy's intervention reflected widespread international outrage at the massacre in the Syrian village of Houla, where women and children were among more than 100 civilians killed.
The reaction included a powerful call to action by the London Times, which on Wednesday carried a front page photograph of a murdered child and asked its readers: "What kind of people would we be if we allowed the slaughter to continue?"
But public demands for governments to "do something" in the face of a slaughter of innocents have run up against the realpolitik of politicians who fear that intervention could lead to something worse.
As my colleague Neil MacFarquhar writes, U.S. officials see little appetite among Americans for a military campaign, adding that "there is concern that if the government of Syria falls it could be replaced by an extremist Islamist leadership."
William Hague, the British foreign minister, noted that there was no support for military intervention from a United Nations Security Council that includes Russia and China, so the West would continue to rely on sanctions to force a political transition in Damascus.
This is the kind of reasoning that Mr. Lévy would dismiss as excuses for inaction. In his open letter, published in a number of European newspapers and The Huffington Post, he condemned those:
"who now go about everywhere muttering 'Syria is not Libya, and Assad is not Qaddafi or that Russia and China will inevitably veto it' – the result being that we do nothing, we risk nothing, we continue to sit here idly in the face of the atrocities?"
He said an action plan was already on the table and was only waiting for leadership to implement it.
The plan, according to Mr. Lévy, includes security perimeters at the Jordanian and Turkish borders; no-kill zones within Syria that would create sanctuaries that opposition elements could defend; no-flight zones for government attack helicopters, and no-drive zones to keep out armored vehicles carrying troops and weapons.
Mr. Hollande, responding to the philosopher's challenge, said in his first television interview since becoming president that he did not rule out military intervention. But Mr. Hollande said that could only be carried out within the context of a decision of the U.N. Security Council in which Russia holds a veto.
He will have an opportunity on Friday to sway the Russians, when President Vladimir Putin visits Paris. For the moment, that persuasion will be limited to pressing Mr. Putin to support international sanctions against Damascus, rather than military force.
The Russian network RT, widely regarded as pro-Kremlin, said on Wednesday that the Houla massacre "seems to have become a turning point for Russia's rhetoric on the Syrian crisis."
"The specter of military intervention in Syria is looming in European capitals," RT commented. "Moscow is growing critical of Damascus too, but insists that the story is not as straightforward as it may seem."
Mr. Lévy said Europe and its friends in the Arab world should ignore the Russians and the Chinese and go it alone.
In an interview on Wednesday with Europe 1, in which he described Mr. Putin as "the butcher of the Chechens," the philosopher claimed Western governments were hiding behind Russian and Chinese vetoes in order to do nothing.
"Even without the U.N., we must end the massacre in Syria," he said, proposing a joint initiative by the European Union and the Arab League.
He welcomed Mr. Hollande's latest comments on possible military intervention but said it was not enough.
"If we do not intervene, there will be a greater destabilization. It's dangerous to leave him (Assad) in place."


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This Fall, join us each Sunday at 10:00 am as Pastor Tim leads us to new ways to tell others about Jesus and share our faith. Tim Harlow's Life on Mission: God's People Finding God's Heart for the World inspires this sermon series with new ways to connect, serve, grow, share and pray to foster spiritual growth and answer Jesus' call to be a witness to His glory.
The series begins on Sunday, October 2, 2016.
Listen to Life on Mission sermons here.


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Car chasing dogs is a serious problem. More serious than a lot of owners realise.
Not only does dog car chasing put the dog at risk, but it also puts the car driver and many other road users at risk.
Car chasing dogs do not usually live to an old age.
Many owners think that their dog's car chasing habit is amusing, and joke about it, but they will think otherwise when their dog is injured, or worse if a child or adult is hurt because of their dog's car chasing habit. A car chasing dog will also chase motorbikes, and push bikes. It really is no joke to be chased by a dog when on a bike, and far more dangerous to the biker.
Car chasing is a totally natural behaviour, for a dog, as a dog's natural instinct is to chase anything that moves, be it a cat, rabbit, a jogger or a bike. But the fact that, car chasing is natural does not mean that it should be allowed to happen and become a habit. Car chasing can be because of its predatory instincts or out of playfulness, also possibly out of territorial instincts, chasing away an intruder. Car chasing becomes a problem with regular callers, like the milkman, the paperboy or the postman, who call regularly. Your dog will soon anticipate their arrival and lay in wait for them, chasing them off of the premises, this is a guarding instinct and one that they come to enjoy.
If your dog has the car chasing habit, he should never be allowed to run loose, where he would have the opportunity to chase cars, until he can be controlled by a command from you.
Training to help you cure your dog of car chasing.
Start at home, with him on a lead. Throw toys for him, and immediately command him to "leave" or call him to you, if he does not respond you can enforce your command with a firm tug on the lead. Practise this until he responds, as he should. Offer a reward every time he responds quickly.
Next get a friend to run, cycle or drive pass. Practice all if possible, but most particularly the one he is already " bad" with. And practice the same technique until your dog responds immediately, again giving a reward for the right behaviour.
If you are the victim of a car chasing dog, you are limited to the action you can take.
Runners can buy small handheld machines that either emit a very load noise (anti-attack devises) or there are some that give out a high pitch sound that cannot be heard by humans but are not liked by dogs. With an appropriate loud " No" followed by a "good boy" in a friendly voice, and possibly a tit bit. In some cases the tit-bit will be beneficial, in others it could cause the dog to come to you looking for a reward.
Bikers, that are subject to car chasing dogs, could possibly use similar devises, also possible a water spray. Dogs do not like water sprayed into their faces. Bikers are limited to how they can act due to the possibility of failing off.
Car drivers do have an addition choice, but need to act carefully. I have found that car chasing dogs do not like the sound of hard braking, and it only has to be applied a couple of times to make the dog weary.
This can only be implemented if the dog is beside you, or behind you as you drive off. You do not need a lot of speed, but when you can see that the dog is in a safe position, really "stand" on your brakes. The sound of the wheels sliding on tarmac, or even better on gravel, will cause the dog to back off. He will come back for a second try, but runs off after a second dose. You will notice that the next time you meet the dog, he will still be interested in "having a go", but will be weary and one braking application will send him away.
I do stress the need to be careful. It is a shame that this technique is too dangerous for bikers to use, unless they are very accomplished.
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