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Mad Men just returned for its last season, so I got together with a bunch of pals for a little viewing party! When getting together to watch Mad Men, one must always dress up :) I found this chain-esque printed dress at Goodwill...
...and thought it could be perfect to wear.
Hike the skirt and made it a bit more mod? I think it's going to be just the thing!
I started off by trimming off the bottom four inches of the dress.
Next, came some pinning. This polyester piece was super easy to work with too, making this a relatively easy tweak.
And alas...the hem! Just a little stitching to tie up the raw edges.
The waist was a pinch too large, so I ended up just cinching with a safety pin. This is something that I would have totally belted, but my belts are still in boxes.
I pulled the sleeves up and paired my new dress with some (a little over the) knee boots and sunnies.
I was totally ready for the show!
I have to say, my fave part...
Roger Sterling's mustache!!! Come. On. (I love John Slattery!)
A fun themey outfit always takes the cake.
Dress: Vintage (Goodwill) | Boots: Report | Sunglasses: Forever 21
Yeah, I'd love to live in the wardrobe department of Mad Men. I'm basically as close as you can get...
Elisabeth Moss & Marisa realness right there. Literally, incredible.


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How to Pitch a Business
When you're starting a business, you may need a small investment to get the business off the ground. In "The Brookies Build a Business", Cara spends $36 on materials to make the first batch of bracelets to sell. Whether a loan from a parent that you'll pay back with your profits or an investment for a portion of your company, you'll likely need to pitch your business first.
A pitch is your time to explain to potential investors why your business will rock it. More so, you're telling them why they should invest in YOU and your vision.
Here's what a pitch should include:
What problem are you solving? Talk about the opportunity in the market and what solution you are offering.
Market Size
Think of the market as a Home-Alone-Kevin-McCalister-large-cheese-pizza-just-for-you. Can you take a slice out of that pizza pie with your business? A sliver? Your sales are your piece of the pie, or your market share. You want to take a big slice of that pie. What if the market is getting bigger? Maybe that the large cheese pizza might be more like an extra large cheese pizza next year. If so, your business can grow as the market grows, too.
Who are your competitors? Talk about the full competitive landscape and where your business will fit. It's absolutely okay to have competition, as long as you have...
How are you different? How are you approaching the problem in a way that the competition isn't?
Business model
How will your business make money? Think about your potential customers and the value proposition that you're offering. In "The Brookies Build a Business", Cara and her friends are making money by selling unique bracelets to classmates. Those sales are their revenues. Before they started selling, they thought long and hard about their target customer and how to price the bracelets to run a strong, profitable business.
The Brookies are selling bracelets to friends at school for now, but maybe there are ways to grow that business and find new revenue streams. Perhaps they'll start selling bracelets online. Maybe they'll make custom bracelets for sports teams at schools in the neighborhood. Maybe they'll sell the bracelets to local boutiques, who will then re-sell to other customers. Or maybe they'll expand their collection to include new items outside of bracelets.
Business models vary. If you're tutoring a subject you're acing, you're making money by offering a service. If you're running an online 'zine, you might make money through running advertisements or charging a subscription fee. Maybe your lemonade stand is doing so well that you start franchises in neighboring towns.
Your investors will be very curious about your business model, and so make sure to think through each component for your pitch.
Customer acquisition
How will your business get new customers? Here's your opportunity to talk marketing strategy. Word of mouth was a big for the Brookies. They even made an announcement over the school loudspeaker as another means of marketing. Other examples of marketing include emailing, posting flyers, making a video ad, or getting mentions in the press.
Marketing is one of the best ways to demonstrate creativity in your business.
Key words
Revenue - Sales.
Costs - What you spend on making the product?
Profits - What

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Lots of women think that the key to a flawless looking complexion lies in layering on the foundation, concealer, and other cosmetics. But any makeup artist will tell you that it truly starts with the right skincare regimen and a little thing called primer. Genetics are largely responsible for our skin type, which means you can't always guard yourself against breakouts, dryness, and other common skincare woes. But what you can control is that your makeup goes on smoothly and therefore looks as natural as possible.
Skincare is truly the first step in applying makeup. It's the way to ensure your skin looks even, smooth, and as clear as can be before applying any products. So, for this latest installment of our Beauty Beginners series, we partnered with Honest Beauty to try out a few items from their skincare collection (which is formulated using safe and effective ingredients) and show you the right way to prime your face. If you follow @laurenconrad_com on Instagram, you already know how much we love Honest Beauty's makeup. But this was the first time we got to use their entire range of skincare products, and now we're hooked! (After you read our tips below, scroll to the bottom to hear how you can try some of Honest Beauty's skincare products for free! Plus $5.95 shipping). But first, without further ado, here is how to prime your face for makeup…
1. Cleanse
Learning how to properly wash your face is arguably the most important step of skincare. Before you apply any other products or makeup, you want to make sure that your pores are free from excess oil, dirt, and debris. While you can count on concealer to cover up a pesky blemish here and there, there's no real substitution for a clear complexion. So consider cleansing the first step in your makeup routine.
Lately we've been loving Honest Beauty's Refreshingly Clean Powder Cleanser. This is the first powder cleanser we'd ever tried, and we're completely hooked. Especially for all our oily skinned gals out there, we can't recommend this cleanser enough. The maize, oat, and rice powder in this cleanser help to absorb excess oil without stripping the skin, while chamomile, calendula, and aloe calm and soothe. If you have less oily skin or prefer the foamy feel of a gel cleanser, Honest Beauty's Refreshingly Clean Gel Cleanser does a great job at removing dirt and makeup without any harsh ingredients.
2. Exfoliate
Any aesthetician will tell you that exfoliating is just as important to your skin's overall health and appearance as cleansing is. It's a good idea to include a more powerful exfoliant in your weekly skincare regimen, and a gentle one on a daily basis. If your skin gets dry and flaky during the winter, exfoliating just before you apply makeup will ensure that your makeup goes on smoothly and doesn't exacerbate the problem. And if you have oily skin, exfoliating will make sure that dead skin cells and excess oil don't stay trapped in your pores under layers of makeup. For all skin types, exfoliating will also allow your skin to better absorb whatever other products you are using. To save yourself an extra step, Honest Beauty's Refreshingly Clean Powder Cleanser also gently exfoliates thanks to aspen bark, which is a botanically-derived extract which acts as a preservative (meaning it helps inhibit bacteria growth), that also helps smooth skin and refine the appearance of pores.
3. Apply Facial Mist
Facial mists are one of those products that we can't live without. In the summer months they feel cool and refreshing, and in the winter they help hydrate dry skin. For a long time we were only using facial mist post-makeup application as a way to set powder or refresh makeup throughout the day. But Honest Beauty's Elevated Hydration Mist (which contains chamomile, calendula, and aloe vera extracts) is actually ideal to use pre-makeup as well. To help prime your face for foundation, spritz on some facial mist to lock in moisture and leave your skin feeling soft.
4. Moisturize
Even if you use a tinted moisturizer or liquid foundation, you will first want to hydrate your face with moisturizer. This will ensure that your face is dewy and nourished—which makes it much easier to evenly blend makeup into your skin. Depending on your skin type, you may want to try Honest Beauty's Even Brighter Everyday Moisturizer, Younger Face Deep Hydration Cream, or Dependably Clear Oil Free Moisturizer. All three of these products have additional benefits such as improving the appearance of dark spots, replenishing nutrients, and balancing oily skin. If your foundation or tinted moisturizer doesn't already contain SPF, you can also mix in a little sunscreen during this step.
5. Primer
If we're being honest here, primer is one of those products we used to skip. But, when you're applying makeup yourself (and wearing it all day long), you will definitely notice the difference between using primer and going without it. Primers sit on the surface of the skin and create a barrier between skin and makeup. Honest Beauty's Everything Primer helps keep skin looking smooth, pores looking smaller, and delivers a subtle golden glow. It's a must during the summer months especially, as it will keep you from sweating off your makeup.
There you have it! You just primed your face like a makeup artist would, and can now move on to your favorite foundation. It might seem like a lot of steps, but keep in mind that all five should take no more than two minutes total.
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Kindah Khalidy's secret to career happiness? Find a space where you love to work. As a kid, the Northern California native romped around outdoors, building intricate forts out of, well, nature itself. "I would spend all day stapling leaves together into a curtain or making elaborate pine needle rugs," Kindah explains. "I was always more geared towards grand spaces than fantasy." And when it came to her next step, she decided to enroll at the California College of the Arts solely based on the school's airy textile studio—a space that made her feel anything but trapped inside. "My mom and I went to look at the class, and we both were like, 'This looks like a really fun space to work in,'" she recalls. "I need that great natural light, especially when I'm painting."
There, Kindah began creating one-off, hand-sewn garments composed of abstract shapes in unusual color pairings. "I think a lot of designers start creating because they're trying to fill a void—they're conjuring up something they're not already seeing in the market," says the designer, now living in Berkeley. "My designs are even a little bit out of my own comfort zone. My favorite reaction is when people scream and say 'Whoa! What is that?'"—monica derevjanik
Hone Your Craft Way-Easy Guide to Painting Textiles With Kindah Khalidy
With the craft skills of a kindergartner, you absolutely design your own fabric.
Kindah Khalidy's Totally Sweet NorCal Candy Tour
Some sugary fixes that look as awesome as they taste.


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The Sulking Conservatives
The local Conservative association in Windsor is currently in the process of selecting their prospective parliamentary candidate; after their sitting MP (a Conservative) was expelled for having improperly claimed £90K in expenses.
During the initial stages of the selection process the association has to decide who, out of the people who have put their names forward, should go through to the next stage.
The association received a large number of applications including one from Sir Malcolm Rifkind; who was a cabinet minister during past Conservative administrations, and an MP until losing his seat at the last election.
He is a most capable politician, and has a keen intellect (a rarity amongst the political classes). He is, to my view, exactly the sort of man that the Conservative Party should be desperate to employ on their lack lustre front bench.
The Windsor Conservatives selected 46 candidates to go forward to the next stage of the selection process, Sir Malcolm's name did not appear on the list.
Why did this happen?
Were there 46 candidates who outshone Sir Malcolm? Indeed, if this were the case, the Conservatives should consider themselves truly blessed.
Unfortunately, if reports are to be believed, Sir Malcolm's exclusion was not based on a hard nosed assessment of his abilities; but in fact the good old fashioned pomposity, and pig-headedness, of the selection committee.
It appears that during an interview with a local paper, Sir Malcolm had said that he hadn't yet decided if he would move to Windsor. The committee, instead of talking this through with him during the selection process, gave way to the knee jerk reaction of wounded pride and, like a sulking teenager, turned their back on him.
This sorry little tale shows that the Conservative Party is still in massive sulk about losing the last two elections. It has not grasped the fundamental point, that they need to field quality candidates in the next election; not second raters who acquiesce to the single issue prejudices of the over sixties, who run the local associations.
There are two solutions:
Lessen the power of the local associations in the selection process.
Wait for the local membership to die of old age.
I suspect that the latter is more likely to happen, rather than the former.


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Kitchen. Monday , October 08th , 2018 - 05:35:26 AM
Open floor plans - a modern kitchen design trend that has quickly gained popularity is an open floor plan. This creates a very social atmosphere, great for both entertaining and casual nights. The 'social kitchen' often features a large island, which provides space for preparing and cooking food as well as a surface for eating or simply helping the kids with homework!
Some people might scoff at the idea of a chair being a work of art but contemporary kitchen chairs are often exactly that. The sign of the modern kitchen chair is that it does not have to serve any real purpose for people to appreciate it on an artistic level. Are your hairs artistic enough to fulfill that requirement? Could you sit one of your chairs in the living room, not put anything on it and still have people admire it for its artistic merits? If so, then you have modern kitchen chairs!
In addition to the reality that technology is on the rise, life has actually changed significantly and so have people and their requirements. Modern homes have actually also gone with lots of modifications to give you the ideal contemporary cooking area. The trend today has actually seen kitchens transform from just a store to cook food to a place of bonding with your loved ones. This modifies the means functions are performed in the kitchen area and calls for additional functions to suit the various needs which you might have. Right here are simply a few of the vital aspects of contemporary kitchen areas.
When you think of modern, no doubt you have a rush of images from sleek designs to state-of-the-art technology. Here are just a few categories to get you focused and narrow your definition of modern kitchen ideas.
When choosing furniture for your kitchen, ask yourself if you want to use art as inspiration behind your furniture choices. Modern art employs simple shapes, clean lines and bold color choices. The fewer design elements, the happier the artist becomes. A kitchen chair, for example, will consist usually of a single-piece seat that sits on four straight legs. The kitchen cabinets should be in simple shapes: squares or rectangles with simply shaped handles. These cabinets should be in bold colors or white. Chrome handles are common in the modern kitchen. If these ideas do not appeal to you, your kitchen might be based upon other design elements.
Modern kitchens today are really efficient and make life simpler for all the various users. Modern cooking areas are likewise really purposeful about every detailed detail of the strategy and design of the room. The kind of lighting discovered in modern-day kitchens keeps all the corners of the space well lit.
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New Year's Eve Party Inspiration/
New Year's Eve is a night of celebrations. Whether you decide to have your wedding, have a dinner party or throw a count down, here are our favorite New Year's Eve designs. Wishing you loads of confetti and champagne this New Year's Eve.
A wedding is a party, but a wedding on New Year's Eve is a big party! If you choose to have a New Year's Eve wedding you want to find a balance between your wedding details and the traditional New Year's Eve elements. You don't want to have one overwhelm the other. We loved this inspiration from A Savy Event. Mixing silver and gold design elements showcases the glamour of the evening but also is an elegant wedding color palette!
Now this is a party! We love this rich and moody color palette designed by Beijos Events. Think geometric shapes, a bar cart filled with bubbly and confetti. The richness of this look is accomplished by mixing deep jewel tones including pink, green and blue. Don't forget to add elements of gold to round out the look.
Photographer: Megan Welker / Design & Styling: Beijos Events
This look designed by Gray Harper Maker is everything you want for a beautiful and festive New Year's Eve dinner party. Ring in the New Year surrounded by a white and black tablescape, softened by pink and gold accents. Love this look? Be sure to check out our shopping list below!
Photography Izzy Hudgins Photography | Event Design Gray Harper Event Maker
Want to throw a bash for your besties? Sounds fabulous! We loved this girly, gilded and spunky design from Francine Ribeau Events. To capture this fun look layer different patterns, go for stripes and chevron. Use black accents as your base and glitter the room with golds and pinks!
Photography: Melissa Biador Photography | planning + design: Danielle from Francine Ribeau Events
Loving these looks? Us, too! We wanted to share our shopping list with you so you can design your own sophisticated New Year's Eve gathering. 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, Happy New Year!


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Our Aim
To maximise returns on both our own and our clients land, using sustainable yet efficient and progressive farming techniques.
We currently farm on 31 different farms in Perthshire
These are a mixture of owned, rented and contract farming agreements
This means we are currently farming 3,400 Ha's (8,400 Ac's) of arable land within the business
All the land lies within a 20 mile radius of the home farm at Easter Rhynd
We have a complete range of soils and topography to handle across the farms from sandy loam to heavy clay and from steep gradients to flat land.
4 Full time staff, 4 self employed staff, 2 students from summer through harvest and a number of seasonal workers at various stages throughout the year.
How We Do This
We grow predominantly Winter Wheat and Spring Oats but also sow some Spring and Winter Barley, Winter Oilseed Rape, Potatoes, Carrots, Turnips and Vining Peas to supplement the rotation.
The Oilseed Rape is sown using min-till techniques along with some early sown winter cereals but otherwise the vast majority (roughly 80%) is ploughed.
We have experimented with many different establishment techniques but our experience has shown nothing rivals the plough. Any financial savings made on min-till cultivations are eliminated through extra costs of chemicals.
The crops are sown using either a 8 metre Vaderstad Rapid drill or a 6 metre Lemken Solitair power harrow drill. It depends very much on soil type and soil conditions as to what drill we chose to use but having both allows us the flexibility to put in large areas per day in varying conditions.
The key to establishing good spring crops, particularly in heavier land, is to get the land ploughed during winter and allow it to weather making cultivations far simpler in spring.
Some Spring Barley is sown but the predominant crop is Spring Oats.
We rent out around 300 hectares of land for Vining Peas to WP Bruce each year which are sown by ourselves in late spring/early summer when our spring crops are established.
One of the reasons for having a range of cereals is that it allows us to spread harvest over a longer period rather than all the crops ripening at once.
The first of the Winter Barley is usually ready in July and from there it is usually fairly steady through until mid September.
We run with two Claas Combines, both 780's with 12 metre headers which allows us to cover up to 100 hectares a day which is essential in the sometimes unpredictable Scottish summers.
With a 20 mile radius to manage, logistics can be difficult as we run all our produce straight off the combines and back to the home farm at Easter Rhynd. Therefore we employ the use of a 30 tonne Western Chaser Bin to collect the grain from the combines and transfer onto lorries to be brought back to Easter Rhynd.


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Asthma is the third most common chronic disease amongst children, and the third most common reason for admission to the hospital. The CDC estimates that 7.1 million children suffer from this condition, costing over $50 billion a year. A new study from the University of Chicago found that children who undergo tonsillectomy had 37% reduced hospitalizations and 26% less visits to the emergency room. They compared about 13,000 children with asthma who underwent adenotonsillectomy to 27,000 who didn't undergo the procedure. This finding builds on previous smaller-scale studies finding similar results. A Fox News article summarizing the findings concludes with a standard disclaimer that since this was a retrospective study, causation can't be linked, and that large-scale prospective studies are needed.
What the paper doesn't address is the possible reason why removing tonsils may help asthma. I've described in the past about the strong association between large tonsils, obstructive sleep apnea and reflux. Every time a child stops breathing, a vacuum force is created in the chest and throat, with normal stomach juices coming up into the throat. What comes up not only includes acid, but also bile, digestive enzymes, and bacteria. In fact, one recent study found pepsin (a stomach enzyme) in the lungs in the vast majority of children and teens with chronic lung disease. There are also numerous reports of pepsin being found in chronic ear and sinus infection fluid.
While tonsillectomy is not a completely benign surgical procedure, this study adds to the multiple potential benefits that improved breathing and sleep can have on your child's health.
For the parents out there, did you notice any improvements in your child's asthma symptoms after tonsil surgery?


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Spring Lake, MI (March 23, 2015) –Bennett Pump's Hydrogen dispenser has recently received weights and measures approval in California. This makes Bennett the first dispenser manufacturer to receive this certification in California. This is an exciting achievement for Bennett Pump and hydrogen fueling.
To learn more about hydrogen fueling, visit the US Department of Energy's website by clicking here.


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James W. Marsh MD, PA
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James W. Marsh, M.D., is a board certified plastic surgeon serving the greater Sarasota, Florida area. Since relocating to Sarasota in 1979, Dr. Marsh has become the local cosmetic surgery expert in the area.
Dr. Marsh has performed over 4000 Face Procedures & Over 5000 Eyelids Procedures.
Dr. Marsh's undergraduate time was spent at Stanford and Ohio Wesleyan University. He then entered the accelerated medical degree curriculum at Ohio State University College of Medicine.
Following residencies in both general and plastic surgery, Dr. Marsh continued his plastic surgical education with fellowships and extended studies in Glasgow, Scotland; Luzanne, Switzerland; Barcelona, Spain; Norfolk, Virginia; and Salt Lake City, Utah. In 1979, he relocated to Sarasota, Florida.
As a child, Dr. Marsh spent a significant amount of time in doctors' offices, being treated for chronic asthma. At that time, he became interested in medicine as a possible profession. Having significant artistic ability, he also entertained the possibility of becoming a professional artist.
After spending summers as a hospital orderly during high school, it became apparent that his ideal life's work would be in plastic surgery, where he could combine his artistic skills with the challenges of being a surgeon.
When Dr. Marsh began his practice in Sarasota, only two other plastic surgeons were actively practicing. Therefore, Dr. Marsh was involved in all aspects of plastic surgery, including hand surgery, cleft lip and palate surgery, head and neck cancer reconstruction, trauma reconstruction, and skin cancer treatment. As his practice matured and other plastic surgeons came to Sarasota, he was able to find more and more time for his true love of cosmetic plastic surgery. Although Dr. Marsh does body sculpting and many other elective surgeries, his main emphasis has been on facial rejuvenation. This includes eyelid surgery, nose surgery, face surgery, and laser resurfacing. By concentrating heavily on the facial area, Dr. Marsh has been able to introduce other subtle nuances that improve the overall appearance of the face, including augmentation of the lips, Botox injections of the hypertrophic "frown" muscles, chin augmentation, lip and ear rejuvenation, collagen injections, and the latest in the subtleties of facial beauty.
Business Hours
Monday 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Tuesday 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Wednesday 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Thursday 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Friday 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Saturday Closed
Sunday Closed


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Mortality in the age of Facebook
I wasn't really sure where to vent about this but I'm gonna do it here. We begin with an image.
Now unless you are a family member or close friend of mine, you probably don't know why this image is so distastful so I'll explain it.
Candy Crush Saga is the "hot shit" social monetization addiction right now. Lots of people are playing it and one of it's key features is being linked to your Facebook account so that you can help your friends out and in return ask for help. Once you've done this, it takes it upon itself to make these requests on your behalf sometimes and that is what is happening here. I know this because unless the universe works very differently than I'm prepared to believe, Cori couldn't have asked me for another life.
I know this because she passed away more than 6 months ago.
When I saw this, there was a definite twinge of memory, as well as a certain ironic humor (ah yes Candy Crush, I would if I could). But it got me pondering the typical "life, the universe and everything" of it all. There was a definite happiness seeing Cori's smile again, from a time when she was clearly happier than she was over the last year or so. Chalk that up to positivity. But it also reminded me that who we are in the digital world is spread across so many systems and databases that it's almost impossible for there to be a difinitive break in the reality of a person's life. Some system somewhere is probably still billing Cori for some service she signed up for in life. Another several (or more likely several hundred) are probably still trying to sell her something: "We've noticed you haven't visited Amazon.com lately! Why not treat yourself to this revitalizing hand cream that will make you feel ALIVE!"
The strangest part is that I wouldn't even know who to contact about something like this. "Dear Candy Crush, please stop sending me messages from dead people?" With so many automated systems constantly working and aggragating, I'm not even sure that there ever can be a way to definitively declare someone as "no longer among the living" so I guess it's just tilting at windmills.
But whatever the answer is, I guess I'll just have to live with the mixture of happy and sad that greets me everytime this message pops up. I'm still not sure if I shold check it off or not.


text: It's always fun to dream about what kind of technology the new year will bring us. What's even better is looking past the new year and exploring the amazing innovations the next decade might bring. Here are some emerging technologies that may or may not become mainstream within the next 5-10 years but are fun to talk about nonetheless.


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Dedicate a Track
Track dedication is a excellent way to ensure the success and continuity of the Niggun Society. Any dedicated track donations will be recognized in print (on the CD Album/ Vinyl Sleeve) and online. Dedications can be made in honor or in memory of anybody important to you.
We are excited to annouce our partnership with the Center for Jewish Culture and Creativity. Through our partnership, donations to the Society can be tax-deductible through the CJCC's 501(c)(3). Donations through the Generosity page, however, are not deductible.
To speak with Shlomie Rabin - Founder of Niggun Society about dedicating a track call 347.634.9114 or you can email firstname.lastname@example.com
Track Listing
1: Shalosh Tenuos
Baal Shem Tov, Mezritcher Maggid & Alter Rebbe
2: Keli Atoh
Alter Rebbe - Baal Hatanya
3: Kapelyah
Mitteler Rebbe - Rabbi Dovber
4: Yemin Hashem
Tzemach Tzedek - Rabbi Menachem Mendel
5: L'chatchila Ariber
Rebbe Maharash - Rabbi Shmuel
6: Niggun Hachono
Rebbe Rashab - Rabbi Sholom Dov Ber
7: Beinoni
Fri'ediker Rebbe
Rabbi Yosef Yitzchok
8: Hu Elokeinu
The Rebbe - Rabbi Menachem Mendel
9: Hakofos Niggun
Reb Levik's Niggun - The Rebbe's Father


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We rented a car this morning and drove 45 minutes out of the city to Red Rock Canyon. It's a conservation area in the Mojave Desert that is breathtakingly beautiful. We spent an hour at the excellent visitors' centre, then proceeded around the 13 mile scenic drive. We saw the desert environment and gorgeous sandstone peaks all around. I think Andy took a million photographs. Along the scenic drive there are a dozen places to stop and walk around and look at things and take pictures. It was ver hot and dry, and not overrun with visitors. We saw some climbers high up on the sandstone cliffs, and caught a glimpse of a roadrunner darting across the road. It was truly spectacular.
You know at Disneyland, when you go on the desert rides like the old mining town roller coaster, and there are red stone caves and cacti and Joshua trees? It looks like that, only it's real, and it goes on for miles. Today was such a contrast from the rest of our visit, it was very refreshing.
My mind and heart are in two places, this final full day of our vacation. Fiona is in the air as I post this, flying home from university for the summer. Tomorrow, Andy and I will fly home and we will be re-united as a family. I am grateful to have spent today in a place of stark beauty.
question: where have you had your breath taken away?
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Why the following is true?
Corollary 1.4: An analytic function has at least one singularity on its circle of convergence.
That is, if f can be extended analytically from $B(p,R)$ to $B(p,R′)$, then the radius of convergence is at least $R′$. So there must be some obstruction to making such an extension,
This does not look like a proof. it seems that the convergent domain must be open. But is it clear? Why it can't convergent on a closed disc?


text: It's a good sign, when I leave work and the sun is just setting. Days are getting longer. I would have said that "spring is in the air" but judging by the lovely temperatures we had today spring is not even close. It was -32C with a strong north wind which made it feel like it was -46C. I actually managed to take this right after work. Tomorrow is going to be another sunny day, and it could be nice sunset again. Although the temperatures are not going to let up for another week, I hope I can shoot some nice sunsets.Keep warm.


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Rakesh is Director at the Private Equity arm of Black River Asset Management. The PE funds currently manage close to $2.0 billion across the food, agriculture, metals & mining sectors.
Black River Food Fund makes growth equity investments in three food industry sectors: protein production, value-added food processing and supply chain management. We believe that the continued urbanization of emerging markets, an expanding middle class, shifting dietary preferences toward protein consumption, and the increased importance of safe, high-quality food are trends that will drive long-term growth in these sectors. We invest in leading producers/processors with forward-thinking managers who can scale rapidly and efficiently, implement food safety/quality systems, and manage risk throughout the value chain. Our geographic mandate is global emerging markets with a focus on emerging markets in Asia, Latin America, and Africa.
Rakesh has over 15 years of experience. Prior to Blackriver, he was the partner at Motilal Oswal PE, a sector agnostic mid market fund. At Motilal, Rakesh has made multiple investments in the food sector including Parag Milk Food and Mrs Bectors Food Limited.


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Hansa Heavy Lift has successfully completed transport of equipment to the Jangkrik Complex Project, off the coast of Indonesia, deliverying two dozen reels, as well as a range of subsea equipment.
HHL Richards Bay picked up the cargo at three different ports: Rosyth, UK; Le Trait, France and Tanjung Langsat, Malaysia.
Hansa Heavy Lift discharged the reels and subsea equipment in Balikpapan, Indonesia onto the offshore vessel Viking Neptun, in five mobilizations. Two more offshore vessels, the Seismic Supporter and the Deep Orient, were used to load and offload some of the equipment from HHL Richards Bay, which required additional planning.
"This was a complex project which required a very careful planning process as well as continuous communication with all parties involved from the start," said Henry Woo, head of Asia Pacific, Hansa Heavy Lift.
Ahead of commencing the project, the stowage plan had to be prepared in accordance with the different loading ports and a pre-defined discharge sequence to follow the offshore installation procedure, without shifting any cargo units.
During the final move, Hansa Heavy Lift transferred 19 empty reels to the Viking Neptun and loaded all the subsea equipment, whilst the remaining reels and equipment were discharged in Tanjung Langsat.
The seafastening calculation was prepared taking into account the sensitivity of the cargo, the strength of the reel structure and the special requirements from the product manufacturer.
Other engineering analyses performed during the planning stage included a finite element analysis to assess the strength of the vessel's deck, as well as regular rigging, seafastening and stability calculations.
"We had to be flexible to apply any changes in the planned activities within a short timeframe to avoid delays, which would affect the offshore installation progress," added Mohammad Abbas, project engineer, Hansa Heavy Lift. "We also had to provide the necessary distance between HHL Richards Bay and the offshore vessel, and as a result, we had to increase the crane outreach."
"Technip is delighted to have had the opportunity to work with Hansa Heavy Lift during the recent successfully completed offshore risers and static umbilicals installation campaign for the Jangkrik Complex Project," said Stephane Catroux, deputy package manager, TechnipFMC. "We worked very closely from the start with Hansa Heavy Lift's in-house team of technical engineers, whose strong expertise and operational experience ensured this challenging project was completed safely and on time."
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The State Bar of Michigan awarded four attorneys their allegedly prestigious "Champion of Justice Award" this year for convincing a federal judge to overturn Michigan's ban on homosexual marriage, which resulted in an appeal with the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit being filed by Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette. To be awarded this purported honor, the State Bar of Michigan reports that one must be a Michigan lawyer for at least ten years, have "integrity and adherence to the highest principles and traditions of the legal profession," exhibit "superior professional competence," and demonstrate "an extraordinary professional accomplishment that benefits the nation, the state, or the local community in which the lawyer or judge lives."
I pondered the other day, "If the State Bar of Michigan decrees these lawyers to be 'Champions of Justice' for promoting homosexual marriage by way of their legal work, does this mean that I am a 'Champion of Injustice' for having opposed them via the submission of an amicus curiae brief?" My co-counsel simply answered "LOL" when I presented this question to him by text message. (I suspect "LOL"—which stands for "laughing out loud"—was texted back to me, because the Dr. Evil "mwahahahaha, mwahahahaha" cackle would have been too time-consuming to type out on a cellular phone and exchange back and forth with exponentially increasing vigor.)
When vice is celebrated as virtue and the proponents of that which is Good are labeled political heretics by the System, it is only just and proper for one to be "bad" as far as the powers that be are concerned The Jaguar television ads which depict villains driving luxury vehicles who proudly proclaim "It's good to be bad" are right when it comes to modernity. Recently, we bad guys won a victory for traditional marriage, because as was observed by Lord Dark Helmet in Spaceballs, "Evil will always triumph, because good is dumb."
In DeBoer v. Snyder, Texas Attorney Jason Van Dyke of the Van Dyke Law Firm, PLLC, and I, Michigan and Ohio Attorney Kyle Bristow of Bristow Law, PLLC, submitted what we jokingly refer to as an "animus curiae brief" in which we articulated why the Western Legal Tradition and American history evince that there is no constitutional or natural law right for homosexuals to marry one another. Although Schuette opined that our amicus brief should only be used to "line a birdcage" by the Sixth Circuit since it did not mince words by employing the System's politically correct language or ideals, the judges disagreed with him: our brief was not only accepted and considered by the Court, but the position we articulated was in effect adopted by the federal appellate judges since they saw fit to rule 2-1 that Michigan's ban on homosexual marriage is constitutional.
Did the Sixth Circuit consider the amicus brief of us two villain lawyers and bad guy Michigan limited liability company? Judge Jeffrey Sutton, who wrote the majority opinion, which was joined by Judge Deborah Cook, cited Baker v. Nelson, 409 U.S. 810 (1972) in the opinion, and then followed it up by citing Hicks v. Miranda, 422 U.S. 332 (1975)—which were both cited in our brief in the same manner as the Sixth Circuit cited them.
Although the Left disparaged the Traditionalist Youth Network, LLC, for arguing for tradition and invoking the judicial philosophy of originalism, the Sixth Circuit invoked originalism—they called it "original meaning"—and stated rather overtly, "Tradition reinforces the point." Judge Sutton also referred to "thousands of years of adherence to the traditional definition of marriage" in his written opinion, which echoes the sentiment espoused within our brief: "[T]he Western and American legal traditions have proscribed sodomy—much less same-sex marriage—for thousands and hundreds of years, respectively." Not surprisingly, Judge Sutton mentioned the importance of tradition in the very first paragraph of his lengthy written opinion: "[M]arriage has long been a social institution defined by relationships between men and women. So long defined, the tradition is measured in millennia, not centuries or decades. So widely shared, the tradition until recently had been adopted by all governments and major religions of the world."
Also, our brief pointed out that sexual deviants with proclivities stranger than those even of homosexuals could demand the "right" to marry if the Court ruled that states cannot constitutionally regulate marriage, and the liberals mocked us for making the "slippery slope argument." Well, Judge Sutton agrees with us, which is evinced by what he opined in his opinion: "If it is constitutionally irrational to stand by the man-woman definition of marriage, it must be constitutionally irrational to stand by the monogamous definition of marriage." How do you liberals like them apples?
We argued that the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution guarantees rights "so long as those rights are deeply rooted in history and tradition," and Judge Sutton wrote that "the test is whether the right is 'deeply rooted in this Nation's history and tradition[.]'" Fancy that!
The ideals of the late Michigan attorney and philosopher Francis Parker Yockey were palpable in our amicus brief, because the brief directly took on the "Culture Distorter." The lesson to be learned from this case—which is more important that the Sixth Circuit's ruling itself—is that when right-wing nationalists seriously and fiercely defend their philosophy, they can win. The dynamism of the Faustian Soul that beats in the hearts of the Men of the West will not be stilled by the degenerate totalitarianism of the modern Left.
The Western Legal Tradition is a product of thousands of years of jurisprudence created by our Germanic, English, Roman, and Byzantine forefathers, and it is ours to protect and cherish—or it will die as our nations are dying due to a combination of apathy and liberalism.
To borrow a quip from the conclusion of our amicus brief, "It is high time for the mockery of our ancient and traditional European institutions and customs to end."
Kyle Bristow, Esq.
Kyle Bristow, Esq.
Kyle Bristow is an attorney licensed to practice law in Michigan and Ohio and has filed two amicus curiae briefs on behalf of the Traditionalist Youth Network, LLC: Brief of Traditionalist Youth Network, LLC, as Amici Supporting the Appellants, DeBoer v. Snyder, __ F.3d __ (6th Cir. 2014) (No. 14-1341) and Brief of Traditionalist Youth Network, LLC, as Amici Supporting the Appellants, Kolbe v. O'Malley, __ F.3d __ (4th Cir. 2015) (No. 14-1945). His website may be viewed at www.KyleBristow.com.


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Hoodie Winked...
Hoodwinked. "To be deceived. It actually derives from the practice of placing a hood over the head of a falcon in the Middle Ages when engaged in the sport of falconry. This was done in order to trick the falcon into believing it was nighttime, thus calming the bird down so that one could recover the prey from the bird's talons." (source: Urban Dictionary). A new deception is taking over the bird photography community now. It is called "Hoodie Winked".
The Hooded Merganser ducks are showing up all over Florida streams, rivers and a ponds. One of the most photogenic of the diving ducks, photographers all over are being deceived into thinking they can capture the perfect "Hoodie" photo. Hooded Mergansers are very animated, dramatic and fast. For years now I've tried to capture one of its iconic shake and flap photos where it sits up high on the water and flaps its wings. So far I have a side shot of a male rearing up and a back shot of a female. The male Hooded Merganser, when alarmed, will raise its white hood feathers in a display used to intimidate other rival ducks or let other Mergansers know something is amiss that they need to be aware of. The females raise their head feathers to attract the attention of the males, like showing off a new hair-doo. These diving duck's antics are a sight to behold. Trying to capture that perfect photo has left countless photographers totally "Hoodie Winked".
Undaunted by past frustrations, I plan to keep pushing that doohickey in the coming weeks until at last, one of these days, I will capture that perfect "Hoodie Winked" photo. Until then, you have a Blessed New Year. Harry


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I stood, uneasily on my two feet with foreign sandals, and began a wobbly walk through this large structure. Passing cots with sleeping people, following the lady with long hair. The moonlight shown down now upon us and I slowly looked to see what else I was wearing. A thin grey t-shirt clung to my chest, below it, a flowing skirt made of linen.
With a bit of light, I was able to take notice of her. She was petite, and the dress she wore curved at her hips and stopped at her calf. I could see her dark hair, damp and tangled like my own, hugging her shoulders. Whoever this was, she was thin, and graceful. My eyes crept towards her face and a smile slowly spread. My heart stopped. Green eyes, kind and deep looked at me and she put a thin arm on my own.
It was electric. Her touch.
I glanced at her hand, and saw it, and I knew. Her thumb bent inward, a thumb I had memorized for thirty one years. A thumb I had traced as a child, held through labor, and eventually touched after the cancer had taken her.
It was my mom.
It was my mom.
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Barnes and Noble Books in the Village, which is where I took this photo. You can see Evan reading his work in my video.
From an early age, Evan's peers applauded his writing talents. By age 15, Evan was taking a serious interest in poetry, writing and reading voraciously at the New York Public Library at 42nd Street and Fifth Avenue.
Evan was born in Manhattan in 1949. His father was a well-known vaudevillian. His family wintered in the Lower East Side and summered in Coney Island - in bungalows and at the Crystal Hotel, of which he has very strong memories. It was this early experience that still draws him to the beaches of Brooklyn, which he finds to be such special places. He moved to Brighton Beach in 1979 and has lived there since. Evan not only loves walks on the boardwalk but is also a winter ocean swimmer and was involved with the now-defunct Iceberg Athletic Club.
Evan and his peers read their work at the recent event at Barnes and Noble. Being the featured guest, Evan read three times. Poetry is not the biggest draw, and although the reading was well-attended, it appeared that most of the audience were writers and knew each other. In the case of poetry, preaching to the choir comes highly recommended, lest we induce Extreme Snoozing :)
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Gatherer's Granola signs with first national distribution chain
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Survey: 1 In 5 Workers Has A Bad Boss
What are employees complaining about? Not surprisingly, the most common gripe that workers have with bosses is that they are "stopping or slowing" a pay raise (40 percent).
But workers who have bad bosses also complained that their managers :
- Reduce or eliminate work-life balance (27 percent).
- Discourage collaborative team work (26 percent).
- Stop or slow next promotion (25 percent).
Any good bosses? Slightly more than half of the workers in the survey (52 percent) feel their bosses are having a positive impact on their careers. Interestingly, more men than women held that view (58 percent versus 47 percent). That could be a reflection of the fact that top management in corporate America still tends to be male-dominated, and the men in charge may take better care of their own through the "old boys' club." Indeed, research shows that when management is male-dominated, female employees find it harder to advance.
Bosses make unreasonable demands. Recently, a CareerBuilder survey found that nearly 1 in 4 workers complained that their bosses made unreasonable, even outrageous requests. In that survey, which was released last month, workers cataloged a long list, including being asked to act as a "surrogate mother" for a boss's child. (Careerbuilder is an AOL Jobs partner.)
More:How To Cope With A Mean Boss
So how should workers deal with a bad boss? AOL Jobs career expert Miriam Salpeter offered the following:
1. Consider the source. If you feel you're always on the receiving end of your boss's nastiness, keep in mind just how consistent the behavior is. As Salpeter notes, if your boss is "consistently critical and never credits you with positive accomplishments, recognize that it probably has nothing to do with you." That knowledge should allow you to take away whatever's constructive from the feedback.
2. Communicate. As tempting as it may be to try and cut off dialogue with a bad boss, avoid the urge. Where will that get you when you still have to work together? And to protect yourself, make sure you ask "specific questions," which should help limit the contact to the task at hand.
3. Don't allow yourself to be a victim of a bully. In the event that your boss is actually abusive, it's obviously important to document instances of the aggressive behavior. But the question is: What do you do when you've got the goods? Make sure "you've done your due diligence," Salpeter emphasizes, "because if your boss is generally well respected ... you probably aren't going to win any points by reporting the situation." And in the event that your boss has obvious backing, you should either "grin and bear it" or simply find a new job.
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Hey, what's up fam? Hope everyone's day was good. 😊
This past Sunday I've decided to start doing my own sort of devotional and I call it 'A Psalm A Day.'
Basically, if a particular verse sticks out to me, or if I want to understand more of what the Psalmist is trying to communicate I will focus on said verses.
Also, I have to read an entire chapter of the Psalms not just certain verses that I'm comfortable with reading.
I'll be honest, I've never really been the best at persevering when it comes to pretty much a lot of things.
The Bible unfortunately is definitely one of those many things that I have trouble focusing on.
Staying focus is definitely not an easy task for me. So pray for me..
They don't call it a devotional for no reason I guess.
Anyways, hopefully within a few days I'll try and write a post about Psalm 1:3 because I got something out of that verse yesterday.
A Psalm a Day, keeps the devil away, haha!
Stay awesome guys, love you ❤😱😀🙌🏽🤘🏽🙏🏽
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The Election Commission of Thailand (คณะกรรมการการเลือกตั้ง ECT), or maybe more exact the provincial branches, are responsible for organizing the elections for the local government entities. Whenever I try to to add some more data to my XML, I use the province of Surat Thani as the testing case, so that one is usually the most detailed XML.
So, I tried my luck to find some data on the local elections, especially the TAO chairmen and municipal mayors, on the website of the Provincial Election Commision (sic!) Suratthani. I found a few PDFs with results, e.g. the mayor and the 12 councilors for Yan Din Daeng subdistrict municipality (เทศบาลตำบลย่านดิน) elected on November 4 2009, sadly only the names of the winners are given, but not the actual vote numbers and the defeated candidates. However, one of the PDFs is missing and gives a 404 error, same as several other links on the main website. Only with Google I was able to find a second page with some older results. But somehow I doubt these were all the recent elections, there must have been more in the last two years than the approximately 10 which are covered in any of the PDFs. But no trace of anything like a complete list of local government entities with the end of term of their councils, so one could easily see when and where elections are forthcoming.
And my usual rant - since I tried to notify the webmaster on the missing PDF, which should contain the results for 9 entities, I noticed that the hotmail address at bottom of the website does not work at all, and at the other address my email was apparently ignored.
The website has a lot of potential of improvement, at least it is not infiltrated by malware - one better does not visit the website of the Provincial Election Commission of Nakhon Pathom...


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Bellingham-based band The Step Dads brought the deep garage rock cuts to the KAOS studios on Music Department Live!
Nate, Nick, Zach and Sacky make up the Step Dads and the band just released their first EP called Quarter-Life Crisis on March 9th.
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Stuffed Peppers are a fantastic make-ahead option for busy families. Make a batch on a day off work and store in fridge for meals that week. The flavours tend to set and get better after a day or so. Be sure to reheat thoroughly and keep no longer than 3-4 days in the fridge.
Prep-time: 45-minutes
Number of servings: 4-6
- 6 medium peppers (coloured and/or green)
- 1 cup brown rice or quinoa (uncooked)
- 2 tsp cooking oil
- 1 lb lean ground beef
- 2-4 cloves of garlic
- 1 tsp Italian seasoning
- 2 tsp Worcestershire sauce
- 1 cup minced onion
- 1 cup minced mushrooms
- 1, 28 ounce can diced tomatoes (with juice)
- ½ cup grated cheddar or mozzarella cheese
- salt and pepper (freshly ground pepper is best)
· Cut the tops off each of the peppers and pull out the seeds, and centre ribs are removed so there is room to stuff! Chop up the pepper off sides of stems and put aside. If pepper does not stand on its own, make a small slice on the bottom to make it level, being sure not to create a hole in pepper.
· If you like a crispier, firmer stuffed pepper, skip this step: Boil water in a large pot, cook peppers until tender-crisp, about 4 minutes. Do not overcook! Remove from water and rinse with cold water.
· Combine quinoa or brown rice in a medium saucepan after rinsing. Add a small amount of oil and stir for about a minute until water evaporates and grain gets a little toasty! Add 2 cups of water, bring to a boil. Add a pinch of salt, cover and simmer for 15 minutes or until water absorbed. Remove from heat and fluff with fork, keeping partially covered.
· Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
· Heat oil in a large frying pan on medium/high heat to brown the beef for about 8 minutes, breaking up with a spoon, and until no longer pink; adding the Worcester sauce near the end. Remove from pan.
· Reduce heat to medium. Add garlic, onion, mushrooms and reserved chopped peppers. Sauté until vegetables are tender, about 8 minutes. Return beef and juices to pan.
· Stir in diced tomatoes and remaining spices, and simmer, stirring occasionally, until most of the liquid is absorbed, about 15 minutes, adding salt and pepper to taste.
· Remove from heat; stir in quinoa or rice.
· Place peppers on parchment paper in a shallow baking dish or tray. Stuff mixture into peppers and top with shredded cheese. Bake approximately 15 minutes.
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Breanna Hooks
Re: Pinterest
Wed Jul 10, 2013 14:48
I also have used Pinterest to get ideas, especially for anchor charts! I love being able to pin them because I know I can always find them. I can't tell you how often I'm talking to someone about something I found on the internet and I try searching every key word I can think of to find it again but it seems I can't find it! Using this will allow me to keep it all in one place! Do you think you would incorporate Pinterest into your classroom?
Ashley Dezern,
Tue Jul 9 21:35
I decided to use Pinterest as my social bookmarking. I like to get on Pinterest and get ideas to use in the classroom but have never pinned anything before. I have enjoyed pinning things and realized ...
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Debby Wyant,
Wed Jul 10 21:48
Ashley, I like the use of your word - organization. Pinterest seems to be a tool to help with that. Good luck with it and can't wait to see your site.
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Debby Wyant,
Wed Jul 10 21:41
Ashley, as things seem to get more complicated, I like the use of the word - organization. We could all use a little more of that in our lives. I think using pinterest would help accomplish this.....!
Re: Debby
Ashley Dezern,
Wed Jul 10 21:56
Yes I definitely like how organized Pinterest is! And, lots of great ideas on there.
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Debby Wyant,
Wed Jul 10 23:07
Ashley, I might have spoken toooooooo soon. I have been working on my new Pinterest site, and am having difficulty with the organization piece of it.....so, for now, just finding sites and adding...
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Ashley Dezern,
Thu Jul 11 15:27
haha try put your stuff into different boards to help you keep things separate and organized.
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Karie Steelman,
Wed Jul 10 17:01
I wanted to try other social bookmarking sites but most parents and mostly mothers are already on pinterst. Since they probably already have an account, this won't be an added thing for them to set...
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Ashley Dezern,
Wed Jul 10 22:18
I think it would be great to have for parents to use. Especially since a lot of the moms are on Pinterest a lot!
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"Troubles with Bayesianism: An Introduction to the Psychological Immune System" Mind & Language (Forthcoming)
"Against Dispositionalism: Belief in Cognitive Science", (with Jake Quilty-Dunn) Philosophical Studies (Forthcoming)
"Inferential Transitions", (with Jake Quilty-Dunn) Australasian Journal of Philosophy (Forthcoming).
"Seeing and Conceptualizing: Modularity and the Shallow Contents Of Perception," Philosophy and Phenomenological Research (2017) 94:3
"Attitude, Inference, Association: On the Propositional Structure of Implicit Bias", Nous 50:3 (2016) 629–658
"Believing without Reason: Or Why Liberals Shouldn't Watch Fox News", (with Jake Quilty-Dunn) Harvard Review of Philosophy 22 (2015):42-52
"The Automatic and the Ballistic: Modularity Beyond Perceptual Processes", Philosophical Psychology 28:8 (2014):1147-1156
"Thinking is Believing", Inquiry 57, no. 1 (2014): 55-96.
"Against Alief", Philosophical Studies 165, no. 1 (2013): 197-211.
"Numerical Architecture", Topics in Cognitive Science 5, no. 2 (2013): 367-86.
"Explaining the Abstract/Concrete Paradoxes in Moral Psychology: NBAR Theory" (with David Ripley), Review of Philosophy and Psychology 3 no. 3 (2012): 351-68.
"Locke's Answer to Molyneux's Thought Experiment" (with Mike Bruno). History of Philosophy Quarterly 27, no.2 (2010): 165–80.
"Responsibility and the Brain Sciences", (with Felipe De Brigard and David Ripley). Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 12, no. 5 (2009): 511–24.
Journal Commentaries
"What is the Narrow Content of FENCE (and Other Definitionally and Interpretationally Primitive Concepts)?" Behavioral and Brain Sciences 34 no. 3 (2011): 138.
"Expectations and Morality: A Dilemma" (with David Ripley). Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 33, no. 4 (2010): 346.
Book Chapters, Reviews, and Encyclopedia Articles
"Associationist Theories of Thought", Stanford Encyclopedia Entry, (2015).
"Poetic Opacity: How to Paint Things with Words" in The Philosophy of Poetry, ed. John Gibson. Oxford: Oxford University Press, (2015).
"The Powers That Bind: Doxastic Voluntarism and Epistemic Obligation" (with Neil Levy) in The Ethics of Belief, ed. Jon Matheson. Oxford: Oxford University Press, (2014): 12-33.
Review of The Cambridge Handbook of Cognitive Science, K. Frankish and W. Ramsey (eds.) (with Bryce Huebner). Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, (2013):
"A Potted History of Mental States" (with Mark Phelan), in Philosophy: Traditional and Experimental Readings, ed. Fritz Allhoff, Ron Mallon, and Shaun Nichols. New York: Oxford University Press, (2012): 193-202.
"Brain Damage and Dualism" (with Shaun Nichols and Mark Phelan), in Philosophy: Theoretical and Empirical Explorations, ed. Fritz Allhoff, Ron Mallon, and Shaun Nichols. New York: Oxford University Press, (2012) 212-6.
The Architecture of Belief: An Essay on the Unbearable Automaticity of Believing
Dissertations are funny things. I wouldn't suggest reading them for a good time. That said, a few times a year I'll be asked to send someone a copy. In case you're one of these odd folks who want to read a dissertation, a version of mine is linked above. I highly recommend reading something more fun (I was compelled to excise the jokes, so it is brutally unfunny. Belated apologies to Jesse Prinz, Josh Knobe, Susanna Siegel, Bill Lycan, and especially Fred Dretske. He appreciated the jokes in an earlier version and would be horrified at the thought of posting this without humor. He really was the best. May he rest in peace).
Also, I've won some awards, which is nice. Here are a few of the most august of them (I list them knowing how distasteful this may be. Alas.) In late December 2017 I received an NEH Fellowship, which is generous and excellent of them. Earlier in 2017 I received the Baruch College Presidential Excellence in Scholarship Prize. Earlier than that I was lucky enough to be selected for other things, like the ACLS New Faculty Fellowship, the Cognitive Science Society's inaugural Glushko Dissertation Prize, the Roger Shepard Prize (for best dissertation in the cognitive sciences--yes it was that Roger Shepard, which is very cool), the Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship, the UNC Society of Fellows Fellowship.


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