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In a recent poll, over 9 million Americans have indicated that they plan to retire to Florida. This desire is being echoed in the UK, with increasing numbers of British buyers living in the Sunshine State for all or at least part of the year. Consequently, the demand for property looks set to remain high for the foreseeable future.
The main difficulty for the British buyer hoping to retire to Florida concerns visa requirements. There is no such thing as a retirement visa that allows permanent residence in the USA. Unless you have American relatives or wish to purchase a suitable business, it is only possible for retirees to spend six months out of every 12 in Florida.
Having said that, many who follow this pattern say they have an idyllic lifestyle, spending the grey and drizzly British winter months in Florida, and then returning to the lush green fields of England as the Floridian summer begins to get hot and humid. The "snowbird" existence offers an active outdoor lifestyle with blue sky's, romantic sunsets and day long sunshine, which all sounds considerably more fun and healthy than the virtual hibernation that occurs in Britain during the winter months.
Favoured activities extend well beyond the traditional destination of Orlando and its world famous theme parks. A firm favourite with the retiree market are the award-winning beaches of the Gulf Coast, where turtles come ashore to lay their eggs and where morning and evening walks are the perfect way to start and end your day. Florida also offers wonderful national parks, exotic wildlife, manicured golf courses and fishing in spots where your catch is guaranteed and can be barbecued for dinner in the evenings.
Then, of course, there is the social side. How about Christmas lunch at a country club or one of the many resort hotel buffets? The festive feeling in America starts from Halloween and continues through Thanksgiving right into the New Year. Instead of braving the shopping crowds in Britain on a dark night, you could be watching one of the many illuminated boat displays along the Florida Coast, or dancing and dining under the stars.One of the more down-to-earth reasons to spend your retirement in Florida is that the property market is very hot, with prices rising from 22 per cent a year in Orlando to 40 per cent a year in Miami, Sarasota and Naples. Although Florida is rapidly becoming one of the most sought after overseas property destinations, there are still certain pitfalls you need to be aware of. These include practical issues such as location, finances and insurance, although a more fundamental issue is understanding Florida's housing market, which operates rather differently to that in the UK. There are lots of rules and procedures which you need to comply with, although the idea of getting your dream home at the end of it is a very good incentive.
Where to retire?
Potential retirees who have visited a number of locations in Florida over the years have an advantage. It is vital to base your final choice of destination on tangible evidence and experience of the area. Lots of British buyers make the mistake of choosing their property based only on pictures of developments they have been shown, which is a massive gamble and is not recommended.
Be careful about letting previous Floridian holiday experiences shape your ideas too much however.What may have been a fantastic one wee holiday destination could drive you mad if you actually had to live there for six months of the year.
Trips to theme parks or even walks on the same tiny stretch of beach can become tedious after a while. Look for places with theatres, museums, art centre's and good sporting facilities. Many Floridian cities offer these such as Sarasota, Naples or Fort Lauderdale. Beware the traditionally favoured areas such as Kissimmee and Miami don't necessarily offer the retiree what they seek.
Investment Considerations
Most people planning their retirement have financial constraints to consider, which tend to resolve around 2 themes: the capital cost of buying a property and the cost of living.
When thinking about the capital costs, you need you need to consider the investment performance of the area. Some areas are appreciating both more consistently and more quickly than others, and can prove to be a potential pension fund in later years. Other properties in properly zoned areas are suitable if you want to rent your home out when it is not in use.
The Gulf Coast (around Sarasota, Naples and Clearwater) and the Atlantic Coast (around Miami and West Palm Beach) are favourite areas due to the average winter temperatures hitting the 70s, the laid back lifestyle, some of the better beaches and arrange of cultural facilities. It's not all Mickey and Donald: there are excellent museums, art galleries and theatres which make for an idyllic winter lifestyle. A high percentage of British retirees are attracted to golf course developments, where a 3 bedroom house with a pool starts from around £200,000. For a slice of tropical heaven, this price compares very favourably with a second home in any other location in the world.
Esti Baughen, a British realtor who works with British clients buying property in the Sarasota area, has noticed that there has been a boom in British buyers in recent years, attracted by the combination of idyllic waterfronts and superb cultural facilities. Sally Masters, a Naples-based realtor, has seen a growing number of British buyers of condominium developments. Paula Mclaren, based in Orlando, reports extensive British interest in the unique developments in Reunion and Celebration.
An area that remains popular for the holiday-let market is Orlando, due to its collection of theme parks and flexible rental zoning in certain areas. Although rental returns have generally been satisfactory here in the last few years, there have been instances of over-optimistic claims and dubious guarantees made by property management firms. Some failed to mention the dangers posed by a concentration of short-term properties located in a particular area, leading to too many properties chasing too few renters.
Pensions for those wishing to Retire in Florida
On more practical issues, those who are hoping to retire to Florida will be pleased to know that their UK state pension remains payable after moving to the USA. The particularly good news is that, due to an agreement between the UK and the USA, the annual increase in the UK state pension is still paid. This is not the case in certain other countries, as has recently been publicised.
Where pensions remain taxable in the UK, for example for ex-UK government employees, the double taxation treaty ensures that in the vast majority of cases you are only taxed once. In other words, if you continue to pay UK tax, this can be credited against your USA tax demand.
Visas and permits
UK citizens do not currently require a visa to enter the USA and can visit under the temporary visa waiver scheme. However, they must have a machine readable passport and remain for a maximum period of 90 days. Anyone who wants to stay longer than 90 days must apply for a non immigrant visa. There is no such thing as a retirement visa for living in the US, and at the time of writing there are no plans to introduce one.
Getting a B-2 visa, which allows a stay period of 6 months, is usually straight forward for a retiree owning a home in Florida, although it should not be misused or regarded as being merely a formality. You are likely to be asked to prove that you are still resident in the UK and have sufficient funds for your stay in the US.
In order to live permanently in Florida you will require an immigrant (permanent residence) visa, which can be very difficult to obtain. Proof of owning a home is not in itself a qualification for long term residence. If you do not quality to live in America by birthright or relationship, it can be very hard to obtain a permanent residence permit.
The process of finding and applying for the correct visa is both challenging and time consuming but hugely important to complete if you want to stay on the right side of the American Immigration Department. It is vital to get professional advice as to which category of visa you should be applying for. There are many companies varying in size offering visa services, although some are tied in with employment or business opportunities. Costs for their services can differ enormously and do not always relate to the scope of the service. A number of companies offer a "no visa no charge" service, but always find out what the final cost is going to be.
This is a useful link that will give you more information. www.lisavisa.com or you could try the embassy website at:- uk.usembassy.gov
Wills and inheritance tax
It is critical to make a will if you own any assets, including owning a property in Florida. The Florida courts are bound by State Law to try and follow valid foreign wills, and the double taxation agreement between the UK and USA usually ensures your estate will not be liable for taxation twice. However, the USA will apply inheritance rules which differ slightly from English ones. For example, without a will your Florida estate would not be apportioned between relatives in the same way as it would in the UK. You would be well advised to seek out the advice of a professional who has knowledge of UK and USA law.
There is no national health service in the US, so individuals are responsible for their own expenses. Getting health insurance is vital or you could end up bankrupt. There are a number of different expat policies available if you intend to reside permanently in the US. If you have a Social Security number, you could use a mainstream US provider such as Blue Cross Blue Shield. If you are only staying in the USA for part of the year you will need to arrange an insurance policy in the UK.This requires quite a lot of shopping around as coverage for several months at a time is hard to track down.


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For as long as people have worn clothes, or perhaps a day or two after clothing was invented, clothes have needed cleaning. While this used to be accomplished by just washing them in a river, we've since invented far more effective methods of keeping your wardrobe clean.
An in house washer/dryer combo is a luxury that is easy to appreciate when you've been living without, but if you're lucky enough to have a laundromat close by, it can actually be easier to do laundry there if you've got a lot of it. A laundromat is an establishment that offers access to a bunch of pay-to-operate washers and dryers, allowing you to do multiple loads of laundry at the same time. This allows you to conveniently condense a days worth of swapping clothes in and out of machines into a single cycle. As we've all heard, not all fabrics hold up well to being tumbled around in washing and drying machines, which is where dry cleaners come in.
Mainly saved for delicates or expensive outfits, dresses, or suits, dry cleaning is a process that uses a chemical solvent in place of water to get garments clean. While paying per garment or per load of laundry doesn't seem ideal at face value, it's a small price to pay for the convenience offered by such a service. If you're local to Victoria BC, dry cleaning services and laundromats are easily accesible in the area. For more information, check out our member offers below.
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"RECENT MALE INTERVENTION" by Catherine Wagner
Catherine Wagner's collections of poems include the forthcoming Nervous Device (City Lights 2012), and My New Job (2009), Macular Hole (2004), and Miss America (2001), from Fence. She is associate professor of English at Miami University in Ohio. Her PennSound page is here.
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We all have moments where we stop and think "I should call and check on so-and-so to see how they are", or "I should really make an effort with this person to do more". Life often has a way of getting in between relationships—whether they are friendships, your family, or even your marriage. Relationships don't just happen. They take time, effort, love, patience, sacrifice, and nurturing to keep them in existence and to help them grow. This week at Imagine Hope we are talking about the importance of nurturing relationships, and steps you can take to better any relationships that you may not be giving your full time or attention to.
How has the relationship been deprived? Relationships often suffer because we don't make them a priority. Think about how much time you invest in things such as watching your favorite television shows, surfing the internet and social media, cheering on your beloved sports team, etc.—then compare that with the amount of time that you devote to your spouse, children, family, or friends. If you aren't devoting time, the relationship often won't survive.
Are you communicating with this person? The more you communicate, the stronger the relationship will become. Make sure to be honest, open, and kind—even when there are disagreements. Are you able to approach difficulties with a positive attitude and find compromise? Can you support one another emotionally while still maintaining your own point of view? If your relationship is deprived of communication, it won't grow and will cease to exist eventually.
Keep reading this week as we provide additional tips and ways that you can nurture relationships in your own life. Thanks for reading!
Written by: Christy Fogg, MSW, LCSW
Christy Fogg, MSW, LCSW is a licensed therapist at Imagine Hope Counseling Group. Christy enjoys doing marriage counseling, individual counseling, couples and relationship counseling. Christy also provides family counseling, child counseling, and adolescent counseling.
Imagine Hope serves the Indianapolis area, including the surrounding areas of Carmel, Fishers, Noblesville, Zionsville, and Westfield.


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Studs Terkel At 95,
Still Speaking Out
I've written before that Cleveland unfortunately lacks a real counterpart to the late newspaper columnist Mike Royko. But it's just as regrettable that we have no answer to Studs Terkel, the voice of working-class populism (we might have a reasonable facsimile, however, if Roldo Bartimole would just stop resisting writing a book).
Studs just turned 95, god bless him, and he's still speaking out about our national amnesia, still complaining that the word "liberal" has become like the word "Communist" in the Cold War. He still proudly proclaims his complete ignorance of the Internet (though in a pleasing irony, he has one of the best writerly websites to be found anywhere, something I wrote about here a couple years ago). And what is it he would like on his tombstone, he was asked. "Curiosity could not kill this cat."


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How to Wear Over-the-Knee and Knee-High Boots
If you are in search of nice and elegant ideas with the biggest proportions of chic, then try considering the over-the-knee and knee-high boots for good-looking combinations. However, there are certain important fashion tips and tricks that you need to know well, to be able to put them in the right pairs with your garments. These boots have a great advantage of being equally suitable to be worn with jeans, other types of pants, dresses, and skirts as well. But each of these apparels requires an exact way of being matched with the boots. So we recommend taking the following factors into account when choosing this kind of boots. Learn how to wear over-the-knee and knee-high boots for maximum chic winter looks!
How to Choose Knee-High Boots
The very first thing you should think about is the comfort. High variants of boots require absolute and exact fit, thus apart from causing discomfort, the wrong shape or size will also ruin your nice looks, even in case of perfectly chosen apparel options. So the primary factor to pay attention to is the size and the comfort, which you can certainly find out after having a short walk in the pair you've selected. With this type of boots, especially the ones over-the-knee, you should also consider the heels being not too high, since knee-high boots limit your motions to some extent, and the extreme height of heels may cause extra trouble and discomfort while walking.
How to Wear Knee-High Boots
Knee-High Boots With Skirts and Dresses
The most important thing in the choice of combos is knowing exactly what shape goes best with the tight interpretations of knee-high and over-the-knee boots. Thus, the counterbalance of silhouettes is important here, since most probably it won't look nice if you pair tight boots with just as tight skirt and dress options. Therefore, it's important to choose the skirts and dresses loose, to make a harmonic play with the boots.
On the other hand, the length of the garments matter a lot, too, since this type of boots might be absolutely irrelevant with too short miniskirts, but will look just awesome with tulip and pencil skirt variants, having medium lengths. The optimal gap between the hem and the boots can be around 4-6 inches. The hems might both cover the upper part of the boots and be separated from it. In case of dresses, tunic options are the top fit.
Knee-High Boots With Pants
The knee-high and over-the-knee boots generally enter into attractive combinations with pants, too, just in case they are carefully chosen. Thus, it is more advisable to pair these boots with skinny and stretch pants, more often jeans, to make them look stylish and just cool.
Knee-High Boots With Leggings
This is a resourceful alternative for the mostly accentuated sassy looks. Leggings perfectly emphasize the tight silhouettes of boots and make out an effective pair. However, it is important not to risk with the proportions of the provocative nature of these tight silhouettes, which can be nicely compensated with loose and feminine tops and tunics, adding some modesty as a counterbalance.
Knee-High Boots With Outerwear
Since boots are elements more widely used during the cold season, it is also worth considering the combinations with coats and jackets. So, it's a good idea to match these boots with fur coat options, which will add some chic to the garments, as well as classic coat variants, which will create some nice business lady looks.
The jackets are nice options, too, unless the boots are not too classic and high-heeled. Some shorter heels and minimal platform looks are relevant in this case. Finally, it's important to preserve the calmer shades of the garments, in order not to create too outstanding looks.
Finally, summing up the tips, we can also mention the importance of avoiding shorts-with-over-the-knee-boots combos, since the risk of looking not that perfect is great. The same can be said about too deeply cut necklines and back cuts of dresses, too. However, in case of preserving the above-mentioned tips, you are more likely to look awesome and wonderful having just what you need when imagining some creative and different looks.
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"The Muses" by Maurice Denis, 1893
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150g Gluten free tagliatelle or spaghetti
1 Courgette (spiralized into courgetti)
150g Smoked bacon or pancetta
2 Large free range eggs
100g Parmesan
1 Clove of crushed garlic
1 tbsp olive oil
1 tbsp Greek yoghurt
2 tbsp flat leaf parsley
Cooking Instructions
Boil the pasta in a large saucepan of boiling water for 8-10mins (or according to packet instructions). Meanwhile, add the oil, chopped bacon (or pancetta) and crushed garlic to a frying pan on a medium heat and cook until the bacon begins to brown, then turn the frying pan heat to low. Spiralize or finely chop the courgette into strips and add to the frying pan for 2-3minutes.
Beat the 2 eggs in a bowl together with the yoghurt, finely chopped parsley and grate the parmesan into the mixture.
Once the pasta has cooked, drain, but keep a couple of tablespoons of the water. Tip the pasta into the frying pan with the bacon and courgette, then add the egg mixture and the tablespoons of water. Stir gently then serve immediately.
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Welcome to AHRMM's health care supply chain Lexicon. This database contains terms used throughout the health care supply chain field. Simply click on the link to access the entire definition.
AHRMM thanks Kate Vitasek and Supply Chain Visions for their contribution of certain terms to the Lexicon. Terms supplied by Supply Chain Visions are used with permission. Supply Chain Vision's Glossary of Supply Chain Management Terms appears on the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals website. AHRMM also acknowledges Michael B. Neely with Perimeter Solutions Group for his role in developing health care-specific terms.
C & FSee Cost and Freight
C-TPATSee Customs-Trade Partnership against Terrorism
CABGCoronary Artery Bypass Graft
CabotageA federal law that requires coastal and inter-coastal traffic to be carried in U.S.-built and -registered ships.
CACs or CECsSee Certified Application (or Enrollment) Counselors
CADDstands for computerized ambulatory drug delivery. The acronym "CADD" is part of the Global Medical Device Nomenclature (GMDN), which is an international system for identifying medical devices and products. The pumps are utilized primarily for pain relief and are often distributed by hospital or clinic pharmacies to allow patients to return to a home setting with infusion on-demand, usually with a preprogrammed ceiling to avoid intoxication. The rate is controlled by a pressure pad or button that can be activated by the patient with the device coded to stop administration before a dose that may cause hazardous.
CADEXSee Customs Automated Data Exchange System


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babysat my sister Page's three youngest children Seth, Meri and Vivian:
Adored these cherubs:
Let her suck on the baby binky she suddenly inexplicably desires:
Hung out with Spiderwoman:
Spoke at the Story@Home conference:
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Had lunch at my favorite spot Red Iguana:
with Chup
and held a little concert in the Green Room, for my birthday
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5 reasons to attend the Power of One conference in London
Steve Jobs is perhaps one of the greatest examples of the effect and influence one determined visionary can have, not just within an industry, but on the whole of society.
With that in mind, the upcoming Power of One conference in London takes a slightly different slant to your typical tech conference, focusing on getting developers and entrepreneurs together to celebrate how much the individual can achieve in today's tech industry.
The 1-day conference, constituting part of Internet Week Europe and taking place on Friday November 11 2011, is being held in the iconic Battersea Power Station, and is designed to motivate and inspire developers and entrepreneurs with the aid of some quality speakers and two panel sessions. The event will look back at past experiences and glance forward to what the future may hold for us.
The Next Web is teaming up with the event organizers to give some ticket discounts too, but before we get to that, here's 5 reasons why you should attend the Power of One conference.
1. The Speakers
There's a pretty impressive array of speakers lined up at the Power of One conference from around the world, including Jason Calacanis, Morten Lund and David McCandless to name but a few. Learn from the best in the business.
2. Battersea Power Station
You will also be one of the last people to set foot inside the iconic Battersea Power Station before it closes for long-term redevelopment. It really is an amazing venue.
3. Eat, drink and be merry
Breakfast, lunch and dinner will be served, not to mention a steady supply of caffeinated beverages throughout the day.
4. Party time
The conference is being held on a Friday, which means you are free to let your hair down after the event. The organizers are throwing a big post-conference party, with free beer, allowing you to mingle with the speakers and delegates.
5. Free stuff
All attendees will receive a free gift-bag on arrival, containing lots of swag for you to take home with you.
The Next Web ticket discount
Okay, this is actually a sixth reason to attend the Power of One conference.
The Next Web readers will receive a 20% discount on the conference ticket price. Simply go to register, select how many tickets you want, hit the 'Click here to enter a promotion code' button, and enter the code: TNW.
The need to knows…
What? Power of One
Where? Battersea Power Station, 188 Kirtling Street, London, SW8 5BP
When? Friday 11th of November, 2011
How much? £99 +VAT. The Next Web readers will receive an additional 20% discount by using the promo code TNW, when booking online
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Who Told You?
You know that feeling that comes when you're about to have people over and you realize the house is a disaster? I'm convinced my family gets more accomplished in a thirty-minute power clean (insert: freak out because they're on their way over) than we do in an entire month. Pick up all the toys, start the dishwasher, scrub the toilets, light some candles and voila! It doesn't look like a zoo full of animals live here! Most of the time, that also includes us stuffing all of the "I don't want to deal with that right now" things and the "we definitely don't want anyone to see that" stuff in a room and close the door. We call it the "off-limits" room. We do the same thing with our lives. We show up to church on a Sunday morning all put together or we post our selfies on social media of the moments we're eager to share and have people see and "like". But the mess, we keep locked up in a room we won't let anyone into. Sometimes the people closest to us don't even know what's behind the door. We refuse to let anyone in, even Jesus. We pretend He can't see what we're hiding. It reminds me of Adam and Eve in the garden "hiding" from God.
Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the Lord God as he was walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and they hid from the Lord God among the trees of the garden. But the Lord God called to the man, "Where are you?" Genesis 3:1-8
When they take that bite of the apple and realize they are naked, shame enters the scene. Immediately shame tells us to hide. Shame thrives off of secrecy. Darkness is the territory where the devil torments us. We have to let the light in and watch the shadows disappear and the torment cease. We have to stop hiding our past mistakes or current struggles in order to find the freedom and wholeness we were meant to walk in.
When you continue reading from the story of the very beginning, Adam says how he was afraid so he hid. The first words of God's response are three words that ring in my ear on the regular:
"Who told you…?"
"He answered, "I heard you in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; so I hid." And he said, "Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?" The man said, "The woman you put here with me—she gave me some fruit from the tree, and I ate it." Then the Lord God said to the woman, "What is this you have done?" The woman said, "The serpent deceived me, and I ate" (Genesis 3:10-13).
When you are hiding in shame or overcome with fear, pause and let your Father ask you, "Who told you…" Who told you that you were a failure? Who told you that you had to do that? Who told you that you're too far gone? Who told you that you were a mistake? Who told you that you were worthless? Who told you that you cannot change?
Before the truth can set you free, you must realize which lies are holding you hostage. Find the source of the lies, find the entry point and let your Father walk back into the beginning and say, "Who told you?" We don't want to live our lives based on what the father of lies has led us to believe, but we want to follow our heavenly Father to the Way, the Truth and the Life (John 14:6).
When we talk specifically about our sexual struggles-- whether it be soul ties, porn addiction, flashbacks that aren't from Friday but from past trauma and abuse, the inability to see our worth and value, body shaming, whatever it may be… it is important we ask God to take us back to the beginning. We need to find the introduction of the lies. Where did this start? When did this begin? Often we find we are not responsible for how it started, but we are responsible for how it ends. With the love of the Father, the power of the cross and the friendship of the Holy Spirit, we can rewrite our stories, change the narrative, and find a happy ending.
Your past does not have to dictate your future.
Ask yourself today, does my past hold unwarranted power over my present? If your answer is an obvious "YES!", today is the day to start the process. If your answer is, "ugh, maybe, I think so," that's where you start. Be kind to yourself, ask the Holy Spirit to walk with you and show you where to begin. We don't have to let the sickness from our past feed into our present. The dark room where we've tried to hide everything won't work forever. Let the light in, you won't regret it.
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Everything I read over the last few weeks as Dexter neared its end—tweets, blogs, professional TV reviewers on news sites—was pretty much negative about the entire final season, if not the last two or three or four.
But not me.
I've been hooked on the entire run, fully suspending disbelief since first stumbling on it well into the first season, when I channel-surfed into the one with a scene of Debra and her boyfriend–who soon proved to be the Icetruck Killer and Dexter's brother—together with Dex and Rita, and was so blown away by Jennifer Carpenter's acting that I finally paid attention to Howard Kaylan—who tried to sell me on the show a couple months earlier at at a Turtles show.
I'd been fine with these last few seasons, and all of this one (loved Charlotte Rampling and the return of Yvonne Strahovski)—once I caught up after missing the month of August due to the Time Warner Cable/CBS blackout. I'll admit to feeling kinda stupid reading the kind of in-depth, scholarly analysis that I never understood back in high school and ever after, and I forgot a lot of stuff that happened in the eight years of Dexter, but I never felt a wrong move—within the context of the show's fanciful if not ridiculous concept.
Until the last episode, that is. With the last two seasons focusing on his emotional growth, Dexter somehow found true love—with another killer, true, but one who likewise managed to defeat her own demons. This, perhaps, was the problem for the show's creators and detractors: How to reconcile a serial killer, albeit an ethical one, with living happily ever after?
Except, why not? The whole thing with Dexter, thanks to the wonderful characters of Dex and Deb—and especially the incredible acting by Carpenter and Michael C. Hall—was that you cared about both of them, very much so, and in Dexter's case, you were allowed to because of The Code: As far as I remember, he never deliberately killed anyone who didn't have it coming—even if he conveniently got saved by others who finished off the two big threats to his secret, Doakes and LaGuerta, thereby continuing to allow us ethically to stay loyal to him.
This isn't to discount the dilemmas posed by those two killings—and Dexter's framing of Doakes and readiness to do in LaGuerta. And turning Deb into a killer was problematic, to say the least, but not out of the context of her fucked-up character, particularly in its relation to her fucked-up brother.
That said, Dexter's ending did a disservice to that relationship under the guise of honoring it, especially as Deb had absolved him of all responsibility and blame, essentially releasing him to in fact go off with Hannah and live happily ever after. She was right in doing so, and he was wrong in not accepting it—let alone not accepting himself as the good person she rightly believed her protective big brother to be, not to mention the finally complete, healthy and adjusted person that the whole arc of the last two seasons had built up to and climaxed with in Dexter's penultimate dispatching of Harry and embracing of Hannah and fatherhood.
What appears to have happened is that the producers, writers, and maybe even the cast second-guessed itself somewhere along the line, maybe fearful of potential criticism that letting Dexter off the hook in the end would be morally wrong and too fairy tale. As an aside, I'll admit that the first time I met John Lithgow, long before Dexter, I practically dropped to my knees in confessing how much I loved him in Harry And The Hendersons, to which he looked down at me and with a Trinity Killer smile replied, "Oh, you're just an old softy."
Yes, Trinity, I'm an old softy. But I bet I'm not alone in feeling cheated of the happy ending that Dexter deserved, and by his own irresponsibly selfish self-sacrifice at the cost of his son's growing up without a father, at the very least.
If none of Dexter could be believed, the quick turnaround, in one episode, to Dexter's emotional death after finding life and love after a lifetime of suffering, could not be believed even more.
Except I always believed Dexter. Just as years earlier, I believed in another TV hero, Thomas Magnum. Sadly, Dexter now follows Magnum, P.I. with an ending that goes against the nature of the main character: In Magnum's case, he rejoined the Navy, after spending his own eight years as a free-spirited, anti-authoritarian, non-conforming man of action, whose actions, like Dexter's, were taken in the spirit of helping those in trouble.


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FEAR means False Evidence Appearing Real. I once said that to a group of people and a man in the audience retorted, "That's your definition? My definition is 'Forget everything and run!'" (That's the clean version. He actually used another F word). But isn't it true? We abandon our rational mind and allow the amygdala or reptile brain to take over. This is the place where fear resides. Our eyes first scan for threat. For many public speakers, an audience of strangers is threatening. And that puts them in a state of fear. I discovered that nervous public speakers live in the future of wild imaginings. They focus on what could go wrong. "I hope I don't trip." "What if I lose my train-of-thought?"
Confident public speakers live in the present. They focus on the message and engage the audience. They know how to access their pre-frontal cortex, the part of the brain responsible for rational thinking.
Research shows that CONFIDENCE TRUMPS COMPETENCE. This explains why the confident person who knows less than you, gets promoted. Yes, confidence accounts for more success than knowledge or skills. Many years ago I was bilked out of $30,000 dollars from my bank account. (This was before online banking). Using a fake check, the perpetrator approached the teller in every branch and cashed the check made out to his name. When the detective questioned the bank tellers, they remembered him as "very smooth, confident." Luckily, the bank replaced my funds but we never found the culprit. He may not have been on a stage, but his platform was a teller's window. He inspired trust with his confidence.
The meaning of the word confidence comes from "con" meaning "from" and "fidere" meaning "to trust." It seems that confidence comes from trusting yourself and trusting others. A confident public speaker has a sense of trust-in the message, the audience and oneself.
How do you gain trust if you approach the platform and feel fear? You give fear the finger. But not in the way you think!
My new ebook will show you a way to short circuit anxiety by activating a special spot that few people know. Give Fear the Finger is filled with exercises, tips and techniques to move you from fear of public speaking to confidence on any platform.
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One Sentence: It is like your guilty pleasure TV show.
Rated: PG-13
Release Date: 24-May-2013
Nudity: None
This movie franchise has turned into a big budget TV show with a lot of characters that you like, and really they can't really do any wrong. There is some drama between some of them, there is a conflict that has to be resolved by the end of the episode, and you know it is going to get solved. Then there might be some bigger arc that is going across multiple episodes. It doesn't make you mad, it isn't bad, and there are some parts that still blow you away. You don't tell your friends you love it, but the secret is they love it too.
Fast And Furious 6 is another installment of a movie franchise that won't die and based on the audience reaction and the quality of the movie shouldn't die. Why not print cash, if the product is good enough I can get behind cash machining your franchise. Justin Lin and Universal got the formula down and haven't skimped on the costs when they needed to. They keep the quality up and it really still works after 6 installments. Is it award worthy? No. Do you have to first weekend this movie? No. Will it be on FX for the next 20 years, probably. But there is something great about these movies and 6 still keeps up, the fun, the cars, the booties, and the crazy action.
It's a pretty easy check to see if you will like this one. Did you like any of the other ones except for 3? Then you will like this one, and it is totally worth going to see in the theater, why not. Just go during the day and you won't run into anyone else and have to admit you paid full price to see the 6th movie in a franchise in the theater.


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This podcast solves common Windows networking security issues like Group Policy management, Windows Firewall management and Windows server management.
Windows networking security expert Brad Dinerman offers his take on different security issues like managing Windows Firewall, managing Remote Desktop and Group Policy in the second installment of our monthly "Ask the Security Expert Roundup." If any of these applications are creating problems in your Windows network, this podcast has information that you simply must have.
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Crow Sketch 1
First of all I want to thank everyone for coming to the site and giving me your support. I'm really excited to finally get a centralized place for Orange Crows information, and I'm really happy that so far you all like what you see. As promised, it's time for an update. And this week the update involves some of my character design process.Just what goes through my head as I think of some of these crazy characters? Well I'll try my best to share a bit of that with you.
In the world of Orange Crows there are large cities called Districts. The majority of the witch society takes haven in these shielded cities to avoid the outside dangers that lurk in Wilderness. The Wilderness is what they call the war torn world outside of the Distrticts, where monsters and creatures such as the witch devouring Fairies reside. Witches who break the laws of the society are cast out into the Wilderness to survive on their own, and are branded with the title of "Forsaken."
I want to show that the world of Orange Crows is broad and expansive. There are Forsaken in every part of the world with a wide variety of attire, cultures, and beliefs based on where they originated from. One of the characters who I think portrays this idea is the Forsaken Mer-Witch named Lushianya. In the world of Orange Crows, Mer-witches are really rare and only a few witches and warlocks have seen them. Most of the other Districts believe Mer-witches to be a myth, and in that myth it is rumored that they possess both witch and dragon blood.
When starting with a design, I usually like to draw a few different types of faces until I see a face that I like. For this character I already knew what kind of face I wanted to have so I skipped that step. The next thing that I like to do is draw out a few different hairstyles to see which one i like the best. i don't always have a clear image of the character I'm drawing in my head so it really helps to draw out a few random variations to choose from.
There were a few ideas i had in mind when i was working on this character. I wanted to give her an eastern influence. I was thinking about making her tail flow more, like an Chinese dragon. However, I realized that I made the tail too long and thin. This made her look more like some kind of snake woman.
I also wanted to play around with the idea of giving her a kimono,but I felt like putting a regular kimono on would be too simple. Then I thought about a motorcycle jacket. I couldn't decide between the two of them, and that's when I came up with the idea of mixing the two of them together. So in one concept I tried putting a motorcycle jacket over the kimono. In the next one I tried making the motorcycle jacket work like a kimono. Or I guess you could say it's a leather kimono with zippers, if you want to look at it that way. I'm actually still working with the design, but these sketches should give you guys and gals
the basic idea.
The next issue i needed to tackle was the hat. Again, I didn't know exactly what I wanted so I played around with a few random ideas until I could figure it out. So far the golf hat design holds my interest the most. After realizing this, I decided to spice it up by adding a design to the hat and dangling dolls. These dolls will be related to her powers and abilities. But of course you won't find out about these until you read volume 2! :)
Next, I thought about giving her a helmet like an astronaut or deep see diver so she can breathe on land. However, I didn't want a simple bubble or 'fish bowl' look. So I played around with having the helmet made out of coral and filled with water. It's an interesting idea, but there may end up being too much going on in the face area and you won't be able to see her expressions.Because of this I'm still not sure if I'm going to go in that direction with her design.
Lastly, all witches in the world of Orange Crows have wings so I needed to decide what kind of wings she should have. Sometimes I work in pencil when I concept, but other times I do quick sketches using the wacom tablet. Here are a few of the wing concepts that I was thinking of.
Well thanks for dropping by this week. I hope you all enjoyed the first installment of Crow Sketch and I hope it was at least a little bit helpful seeing some of the thoughts that go behind designing a character. I know it was a bit unorganized this time. The future installments should be better as time goes on.
11/16/2011 09:28:13 pm
Looking forward to it much.
Chris D
11/17/2011 03:07:38 am
Just as Nikola Culpa, I have no talent for drawing :( Instead, I'm an aspiring writer, and I always enjoy creating a new character with depth and detail. Seeing these sketches and what goes on in your head during such a process is a true joy to see, looking forward to enjoying more of these as the weeks go by :p
I like this new character and her chinese kind of style, it's interesting! Also, the misterious personality that shows on her face is awesome. The leather kimono idea was really criative! And I think she should have coral & fin webbing wings, but I didn't like the helmet idea much... For the same reason you didn't, but, you know, you could make it work. From my point of view, however, she should do some magic with her dangling dolls hat thingy so she could breathe on land. :P
matthew shriner
12/1/2011 01:36:51 pm
I can't wait for Volume 2! The art and story is going to e amazing!! The new girl looks mysterious;) I want to see her connection to everything! I'm so gad I bought Orange Crows at Saboten:) Thank you so much and congratulations on the popularity! I'm promoting Orange crows wherever I go! You should make shirts for Orange Crows:)
1/12/2012 08:20:18 am
I know i've answered this waaaaay late but thanks again for buying Orange Crows and I'm glad you are spreading it around. I actually do have shirts now! It's too bad I didn't get to see you at Taiyou Con:(
Sarah (nyan hat from Taiyou)
1/10/2012 04:53:53 am
idk what the website option is above this so i hope its not important that i left it blank O.o anyway, hi ther! so nice meeting you at taiyou! i love crow sketch :) you are very talented! i wanted to ask, does Lushianya have gills? and coral-y wings are most creative so im all for those!
1/12/2012 08:18:20 am
Yes it was so awesome meeting you at Taiyou Con! Thanks so much for buying a shirt!! I'm debating on if I am going to give her gills or not. the website option is for if you want to link a site. Like if you have deviantart or another website that you want to share with people. Hope that helps :)
8/17/2012 02:59:14 pm
9/3/2013 04:35:44 pm
The sketches are amazing. I will have to say that many artist of any field like to make the perfect start and hence the end result is good. Awesome work.
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The hard-boiled,soft-shelled artist and writer known as James Perry II aka gustredcloude. When he's not lounging around with the Strawhats he is building blocks to escape his nightmares or busy strengthening social links in order to boost his Persona's levels!
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Posted 6/24/10 in Wall Street Journal
By Sarah Nassauer
You might think that the only ones following your online musings are your mom and college pals. But if they include a gripe about a hotel, the front-desk clerk at the offending property may be listening, too.
Hotels and resorts are amassing a growing army of sleuths whose job it is to monitor what is said about them online—and protect the hotels' reputations. These employees search social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter for unhappy guests and address complaints. They write groveling apologies in response to negative reviews on TripAdvisor. And they keep tabs on future guests who post about upcoming stays—and sometimes offer them extra perks or personalized attention at check in.
How to Get Heard at Hotels Jason Greene for The Wall Street Journal With more properties paying attention to social media outlets, here's how to use them to snare better service: Find out how to reach your hotel online. Search Twitter and Facebook to see if it has an account. If there's no account for the individual hotel, search for the company that owns the brand. For a Westin, search for Starwood. For a Courtyard, look for Marriott.
Before you check-in: Post a comment on the hotel's Facebook page or send a tweet saying you're looking forward to your stay. A savvy hotel will put you on its radar and may dole out perks or give specialized service.
When tweeting a complaint, be specific. Don't say "I hate my hotel," say "I hate X hotel for Y reason." Use the hotel's specific "handle," or Twitter name in your message, like @StarwoodBuzz for a Starwood property.
Use your real name so a hotel can find you in their reservation system. You can't get your complaint addressed or extra perks if you can't be tracked down. Have a lot of online friends or followers. Hotels will pay more attention to your requests.
Don't be unreasonable. If the hotel senses you're a lost cause, it may spend less time trying to fix the problem. For travelers, the upshot is that if you use social media, your complaints could have more power. In years past, guests unhappy about a lumpy bed, grimy bathroom or an awful view had to take their frustrations to the front desk or hotel manager and hope for some restitution. Now, with some guests having hundreds—and even thousands—of followers on Twitter and Facebook, complaints can have a big audience. It's like every guest has a virtual megaphone.
If you want to increase the odds that your complaint will be heard, include the full name of the hotel and your real name. Those moves got Paul Horan upgraded from a room with a view of air conditioning ducts to one overlooking the pool at the Orlando World Center Marriott Resort in Florida. Mr. Horan, a 47-year-old who works in sales at a software company, tweeted, "At the Orlando Marriott World Center for RIM WES 2010 [a technology conference]. But I have the crappiest room in the hotel."
Front-desk employee Zachary Long saw Mr. Horan's comments while searching Twitter and went into damage-control mode. Mr. Long had a note of apology for the "current room situation" slipped under Mr. Horan's door and offered to move him to a pool-view room the next day. "It was on Twitter, so it could spread," Mr. Long says. "It was a complete shock" that Marriott saw the message and reacted, Mr. Horan says.
Guests that reach out to hotels through social media channels may find themselves getting freebies and better service. Mr. Long, along with his colleague Sarah Pribila, have handed out wine, milk and cookies, and better rooms to guests they know are coming because they interacted with them on Twitter in advance. "No doubt we do go out of our way a little bit for Twitter and Facebook" commenters, says Mr. Long, in part because it's only a small number of people. For now, only about 1% of their guests are active on Twitter, Mr. Long says.
During a recent technology conference at the hotel, an attendee who moderates and edits an influential website about BlackBerry news mused about his desire for a cold beer over Twitter. Already identified by Mr. Long and Ms. Pribila as an active blogger with more than 1,000 Twitter followers, the hotel responded over Twitter, "Can I buy you a beer? Stop by the "actual" Front Desk and ask for Sarah!" The recipient, 29-year-old Chris Parsons from Halifax, Nova Scotia says, it "kind of took me by surprise. I've never had that kind of customer service—just out of the blue." The hotel bought him a bucket of 10 Coronas to share with friends on the hotel's outdoor patio.
Sometimes using social media to lodge a complaint or request can be more effective than calling the front desk. In March, a guest at the Atlantis, Paradise Island in the Bahamas needed a roll-away bed and some extra towels. It was a "high, high occupancy time for us," and the guest had called around for help to no avail, said Dean Sullivan, vice president of digital marketing at Kerzner International Holdings Limited, which owns and operates hotels including the Atlantis, Paradise Island, a 3,414 room resort.
The guest posted about it on the hotel's Facebook page. "We got in touch with the GM [general manager] and handled it within the hour," said Mr. Sullivan. Savvy hotels are using social media to boost their ratings on TripAdvisor.
Earlier this year, front desk employees at the Roger Smith Hotel, a 130-room boutique hotel in midtown Manhattan, started mentioning TripAdvisor to guests checking out. And sometimes employees will send guests a link to TripAdvisor over Twitter or email, encouraging them to leave a review. Since the beginning of last year, the hotel jumped about 100 places in New York City hotel rankings on the review site, says Brian Simpson, director of social hospitality for the hotel.
Hotels know that many travelers now use the Web—and specifically the reviews, blog posts and other online missives of past guests—to decide where to stay. About 41% of leisure travelers and 50% of business travelers say user reviews influence their travel decisions, according to a survey from comScore Inc., a firm that tracks online traffic, and Google Inc.
At the Orlando World Center Marriott, Mr. Long and Ms. Pribila track what is said about their 2,000-room hotel every day, and often into the night. One recent afternoon, Mr. Long peered at the computer in his small windowless office and opened up HootSuite, a program that lets users organize the millions of comments passing through Twitter at any given moment. He scanned the lists he has permanently set up on the software: current guests, past guests, people tweeting about Orlando hotels (so he can send notes to try to drum up business.), people tweeting about his specific hotel, and people tweeting about a conference currently at the resort. He checks HootSuite at least once an hour on his iPhone, often glancing at it while roaming the sprawling resort dotted with palm trees. Via the hotel's @TheFrontDesk account on Twitter, he and Ms. Pribila chat with future, current, and past guests. They answer questions and confront complaints. Then Mr. Long moves on to FourSquare, a website where people can use their mobile device to broadcast their physical location to friends, known as "checking in" at a location. "We monitor these people as well," says the 28-year-old.
Some hotels are hiring outside consultants like StepChange Group, a division of Powered Inc.. The Portland, Ore., company develops social media strategies for companies, and will also help staff watching online commentary and respond. More hotels are employing new services like those offered by Revinate LLC that track online comments and reviews and send out electronic reports for corporate mangers, front-desk staff and even housekeeping to gauge a property's online reputation.
Hotels are also increasingly using social media to market their properties, too, by, for example, sending out special discounts via Twitter. "Our day has sort of gone into a 24-hour cycle because we are constantly monitoring" online comments, says Mr. Sullivan of Kerzner. Mr. Sullivan—who often checks online commentary around midnight before going to bed—helped train what internally is called "the Twitter Army," at the Atlantis, Paradise Island. Staff that had previously showed an interest in social media got tips on what content to post, like updates on the resort's dolphin interaction programs, and some will start monitoring and responding to guests.
Headquarters' staff, hotel employees and top executives already monitor the company's Facebook pages and online reviews as part of their jobs, Mr. Sullivan says. The company also hired StepChange last year to work on strategy and fill in gaps, such as monitoring middle-of-the-night missives. You're unlikely to get into an online brawl with a hotel. Most hotels tend to shy away from back-and-forth public confrontation. Instead, they usually respond to negative comments by apologizing, pointing out recent improvements made at the hotel and asking the guest to contact staff over email or phone to privately solve the problem.
The Ritz-Carlton, owned by Marriott International Inc., for example, doesn't allow its properties to respond publicly to TripAdvisor reviews, but does read them and make an effort to track down guests to fix problems, says Allison Sitch, senior corporate director of public relations for Ritz-Carlton. Of course, to get better service from a hotel using social media, the hotel has to be listening.
For now, hotels' approaches to social media vary widely—even among hotels of the same brand. While the Marriott Orlando World Center is very active on Twitter and Facebook, for example, the New York Marriott Downtown doesn't have either up and running.


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I arrive at Martin Parr's new gallery in Bristol soaked through having tramped, in sheeting rain, around the former industrial site in which it is housed, trying to find it. Parr, Britain's foremost documentary photographer, is up a ladder in the large back office of the pristine space, doing one of the things you guess he secretly likes doing best, filing pictures. I stand dripping on his new floor while he comes down and casts his never quite neutral eye over me. He is notably dry, in all senses. It is a small relief that he does not have a camera to hand.
Parr's photographs have always been about juxtaposition and incongruity. He made his name photographing the tribes and clubs of northern England, Hebden Bridge's "Ancient Order of Henpecked Husbands" and so on. That obsession continues, 40-odd years on, in the BBC "idents" that he currently choreographs (those punctuation marks between programmes of sea-swimmers and wheelchair rugby players and night kayakers designed to suggest our eccentric "oneness"). Through his viewfinder the way we would like to see ourselves is set against the way that others see us.
After a brief skirt around the opening exhibition in his gallery – his own recent photographs of the Black Country, proud gardeners with prize-winning leeks, tattooed teenagers on the pull – he takes me to his regular lunch haunt, an excellent little wholefood cafe in the Victorian graveyard across the road. Parr enjoys the fact of a restaurant in a graveyard, of course he does, but also insists archly that he wanted to make himself a cheap date as a gesture toward troubled newspaper finances (in the spirit, he suggests, of "while you are here we have a favour to ask"). We step across the building site puddles outside his gallery, him in proper boots, me in leaky shoes, and then past the carved angels and overgrown headstones to the steamed-up oasis of warmth that is Kate's Kitchen. He orders what he always orders from Kate, a croque and a ginger beer (a typical Parr-like continental gesture set against Famous Five posh pop, I find myself noting).
In conversation Parr has the manner of a man who has overcome youthful awkwardness to find his mature voice and comfort in his skin. He is 65 now, and tall enough to have had to take many of his pictures on his knees. His takes his role as a father figure to "underappreciated and undervalued" British street photography seriously. The new gallery space is a gesture of that intent. He has long bought the work of younger peers; he now has a place to store and exhibit it. He established the gallery foundation in part with the sale of 12,000 photography books, collected over 30 years, to the Tate.
In this sense, Parr says, he is on a one-man mission to help the British to love the most democratic of arts. "Photography is not trusted here. If I have a show in Paris, all the press will be there to review it. If I have a show in London I am very lucky to even get a paper to mention it." Perhaps, I suggest, it is that as a nation we don't want to look at ourselves too closely, for fear of what we might see.
When Parr started out looking at Britain, it was with an edge of satire and a pinch of cruelty. Social-realist photography had traditionally been an exercise in gritty black-and-white compassion and solidarity. He refused that nostalgia for post-industrial communities, had us look at them in harsher light, using flash in bright sunshine, making slabs of pale British flesh look raw, characteristically dwelling on the garishness of fast food and consumer extremes. In the years since, you wouldn't say his vision has mellowed exactly, rather that our way of seeing has caught up with it.
When Parr was first proposed as a member of the Magnum collective, its guiding light, Henri Cartier-Bresson dismissed him as being "from a totally different planet" from the inclusive humanist tradition he represented. It says something about Parr's reserved charm, and his vision, that he overcame that hostility to eventually be elected president of Magnum, a role he fulfilled until this summer.
You don't have to talk to Parr for long to experience that charm, to understand why people let him photograph them. He has a kind of unobtrusive authority in his manner, a studious curiosity with a persuasive hint of subversion. At our corner table we talk a little about where those traits came from.
Parr grew up in Epsom in Surrey, a collector of comic books, the son of keen ornithologists. He got his start in photography when as a boy he used to travel up to stay with his grandfather in Yorkshire in the holidays. He was fascinated first by the shift in tone.
"There was a community in Yorkshire there that we did not really have where I was a kid," he says. "I was really taken with that." Luckily, his grandfather, a keen amateur photographer, gave him the means to capture that spirit too. "He was a pictorialist, working with 'bromoil' a particular technique where you bleach out the picture and then re-ink it using brushes. And he was in a circle who sent round bromoils to each other and critiqued each other's work."
All this was fascinating, but Parr insists that for him it has never been about craft. His interest was always in what happened in front of the lens rather than in the processing lab. "It is about story," he says. "It doesn't matter what platform it is on or how it is taken, you still have to begin with story. Hook someone in, interest them."
These days, he suggests, there is only really one story in town. "Try as you might in Britain, you simply cannot get away from Brexit now, it infects every other story." Parr likens the current social climate to the divisions of the 1980s in which he made his name. "One of the things that galvanised photographers then was a dislike of Thatcherism, and we are in the same position. It is almost like a therapeutic process to examine your relation to these things, to this history. That is what I use the camera for."
He was not, he suggests, much surprised by the referendum result, knowing the fabric of the country as he does. "The vote was really an up yours to the southern elite, delivered by the people who probably will be most damaged by the result," he says.
Parr has lived in Bristol for nearly 40 years. Though he'd like to think he is at one remove from the London elite he insists that however hard we try he and I "are in a bubble". I'm quite taken with the idea that he considers us social equals since the best of his prints fetch up to £10,000 at auction. He, in turn, is delighted by the idea that I work for the metropolitan media and ("let me guess") my long-ago degree was from Cambridge. "We are all cliches really," he says, with a grin.
He sections the last part of his croque madame and sips at his ginger beer. The tensions in our divided nation are a crucial chapter in what he sees as his life's vocation, observing the British. His collector's mind tries to fill in all the gaps in this ongoing album.
This year he has been looking at the market towns and farmworkers of Lincolnshire, a strong Leave area, for whom leaving may well be catastrophic. He has also had access to Oxford University for a couple of years, fascinated by the "old costumes, the cutting-edge research, the lack of diversity". In a similar spirit he recently did projects on the guilds of London, squaddies in Germany, Christ's Hospital school and its Tudor uniform.
I wonder if in this quest he gets more hostility than he used to. It must be hard these days to be a bloke with a camera on a beach, for example?
"It is an occupational hazard," he suggests. "People are certainly more paranoid. You stand and fall on whether you can hold a conversation and engage." Charm doesn't always work; he admits he is exploring the possibilities of a telephoto lens. Still, he insists he goes out on assignment with a spring in his step.
After good coffee and cakes, ("what's not to like?") we walk back across the graveyard to the studio, where he proudly shows me his current favourite collection, of Russian space dog ephemera, before getting back to stocking his shelves, while I head back out into the very British rain to wait for a bus back to town, seeing Martin Parr pictures in every raincoated face and behind every windscreen that passes.
See Martin Parr's work in a new range of merchandise including coasters, trays and placemats for Magnum Photos at plinth.uk.com; Martin Parr Foundation, 316 Paintworks, Bristol BS4 3AR


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Located at a two-story house with garden, Estudio Sampere La Habana is quite unique, as in addition to housing 6 classrooms, it also includes 2 double rooms to accommodate students, a cafeteria or...
Located at a two-story house with garden, Estudio Sampere La Habana is quite unique, as in addition to housing 6 classrooms, it also includes 2 double rooms to accommodate students, a cafeteria or...
Christopher Columbus discovered Cuba on his first trip to the Americas in 1492. The Spanish soon recognised the strategic value of the island, and founded Havana with a strong military, naval and administrative base. With so many riches transiting through the island, Havana rapidly became a wealthy city, and remained so for centuries. In 1848, Havana was so prosperous that it was the third city to install gas street lights in the world.
Today La Habana Vieja (or Old Havana) is the best preserved Spanish colonial complex in the Americas and as such, a UNESCO world heritage site. When you walk through the streets of Old Havana, you can admire the architecture and the former glory of this amazing city. You can see the contrast between the colonial buildings, restored and freshly painted to attract tourists, and the run-down apartment blocks that also reflect real life in Cuba today.
Havana hosts several international festivals: Latin American cinema, ballet, jazz. In fact, live Music is played on the streets day and night, and La Habana Vieja comes alive at night with the sound of jazz, rock, reggae, rap, afro-jazz and much more… If you are learning Spanish during the day, you can learn to dance salsa, mambo or rumba at night. Or you can simply watch performances in the clubs or in the city's beautiful theatres.
If you prefer architecture, there is also plenty to see in Havana. Along with the Baroque and colonial buildings, there are beautiful examples of neoclassical and art deco architecture, as well modernist buildings that brought more radical changes the city scape from the 1950s onwards. These architectural landmarks are hotels and residential buildings as well as museums.
Did you know that Ernest Hemingway lived in la Havana for 20 years? He made friends with a local fisherman whom he used as a model for Santiago, the main character in the Old Man and The Sea. His residence is now a world famous art museum.
You cannot fully experience Havana without taking a stroll on El Malecón. On this long pedestrian path along the ocean, you will see locals fishing, children going for a swim. When you walk past Centro Habana, the crumbling facades, faded paint are possibly the most picturesque. The Habaneros tend to go to the beach on Playas del Este which is close to the city but not so heavily frequented by tourists.


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PRETZEL consists of 4 groupings of stems cascading down a centrally pivotal spine to create an excitingly dynamic and active form. Each group contains three test tubes which can be easily removed for refilling water or floral replacement without moving the vase itself, and creates a brace that supports the adjacent stems like a truss system transferring the vertical load down toward a base abutment. The decending form is inspired by motion photography that exposes the expressed movements of stepped objects in series of timeframes. The combination potentials of each floral group can create a variety of patterns tracing the subtle lines of the floral arrangement. This is a large size vase to be visible from marginal to far distances and from a variety of directions as it creates different scenes from each viewpoint.
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Thingyan food....潑水節的美食
One of the sweet dessert with red bean, it is very good but not look good.
Don't be afraid to try the new food. :)
fried little frog......炸小青蛙
That is one more thing you should try when you are in Keng Tong.....fried little frog...
The taste for the frog is very sweet and gentle.
Makok....Shan pronounce 馬果
I think your teeth already making sound ga ga ga....
sunny day Makok dip with the spicy sauce and a tea.....what a nice paradise
Only you had tasted Makok before or else you won't know how is felt.
Golden Heart Cold.....心寧的黃金
Shwe Yin Aye.....in burmese translate.....Golden Heart Cold.....
Maybe when you heard the title like this....you won't even think, this will be a cold drink in Myanmar.
It is very tasty and smelly. I am sure one bowl is not enough for you!!
pork with stick 豬肉串
When you are in Myanmar,
you shouldn't be surprise if you see many people sit in front of the pot and eat with the dish sauce....
Get used to it and try it.
That is delicious....
Although the breakfast is not in the 5 stars restaurant but the taste is better than the 5 stars.
That is why everyone miss the food from our home town Keng Tong!
Keng Tong
Keng Tong view and everything from Keng Tong my native town. Let us make a better place and keep all of us together from everywhere else of the world.
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Prague Castle reveals the city's historic past. (Photo: Stockbyte/Stockbyte/Getty Images )
Walking through the thousand-year-old cobblestone streets of Prague, historic attractions, such as royal palaces and city squares, give insight into the Czech Republic capital's storied past. A combination of plaques and guided tours reveal that in the 20th century alone, Prague experienced everything from Nazi occupation, to Soviet invasions, to the rise and fall of communism. However, with its modern architecture and contemporary artwork, Prague still keeps one foot firmly planted in the future.
Perched atop a hill on the Left Bank, Prague Castle (hrad.cz) dominates the city's landscape. The castle is actually a collection of buildings used by various Czech leaders and government officials over the years, with some edifices dating back as far as 880 AD. In addition to sprawling gardens, fortified walls and museums detailing the castle's history, the complex also includes the 10th century Gothic St. Vitus Cathedral and the Old Royal Palace.
The Charles Bridge spans the Vltava River, connecting the Left and Right Banks. The 14th century stone structure offers panoramic views of neighboring Prague Castle. The pedestrian-only bridge features 75 statues, including the famed St. John of Nepomuk which visitors rub for good luck. The bridge often showcases street performers, including artists and musicians.
Based in Prague's city center, the Museum of Communism (muzeumkomunismu.cz) explores life under the Czech Republic's ruling political party from 1948 until 1989. The interactive museum features interrogation rooms, immersion camps and classrooms which served to indoctrinate citizens. The museum also includes films, photographs and artwork relating to the time period.
The DOX Centre for Contemporary Art (dox.cz), which opened its doors in 2002, sits inside a former sheet metal factory. The museum celebrates both local and international contemporary artists, exhibiting works in such mediums as photography, graphic art and video installations. The center also features a cafe and bookstore. The museum lies 2 miles north of the city center.
Old Town Square lies in the heart of the city, surrounded by colorful 15th and 16th century buildings in Baroque, Gothic and Romanesque design. The Old Town Hall's Astronomical Clock draws large crowds between 8 a.m. and 8 p.m. as a procession of Jesus' Apostles march out of the 15th century clock at the top of each hour. Street vendors and sidewalk cafes also line the square.
Dating back to 1348, Wenceslas Square sits in the city center and stretches for nearly a half mile. The thoroughfare features a collection of souvenir shops, book stores and cafes. The square honors fallen national heroes, including King Wenceslas and political martyrs from the country's communist era. The National Museum and Prague State Opera House both lie at the square's east end.
Built in 1711, the Church of St. Nicholas (psalterium.cz) features Baroque architecture, including gold-topped marble pillars, frescoes and massive statues. Visitors may climb the towering 229-foot ceiling for views of the city. On one occasion in 1787, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart played the church organ. The church lies in Lesser Town Square.
Erected in 1270, the Old-New Synagogue (synagogue.cz) lies in Prague's Jewish neighborhood. The Gothic structure features vaulted ceilings, bay windows and flying buttresses. Visitors may tour the historic synagogue with paid admission.
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Recent reports have spawned concern that the shortage of jade yoni eggs have caused women to share their eggs, resulting in a herpes outbreak in the Beverly Hills area of California.
Despite the lack of scientific evidence of jade eggs efficacy, women flocked to Goop.com to purchase theirs upon the site's proclamation that they could "harness the power of energy work, crystal healing, (…) increase chi, orgasms, vaginal muscle tone, hormonal balance, and feminine energy in general." Additionally, the site run by Gwyneth Paltrow claims that the egg being made of nephrite jade was essential to its "power to cleanse and clear (making) it ideal for detox, too." Some women who landed on the 4,000 person waiting list inevitably bought a quartz egg, leaving them without the wonderful detoxing properties and just shoving a stupid fucking rock into their vaginas. Others took matters into their own hands.
"Well we thought we could just share the eggs, then we could even share our feminine energy that the eggs stored, isn't that how that works?" said one egg aficionado as she left the pharmacy with a newly filled Valtrex prescription. The confusion for Goop followers is understandable, as previously Paltrow has told users that you can kill deadly parasites with milk. It stood to reason that they thought a cleansing egg was a part of a Goop-filled balanced breakfast to prevent all manner of sexually transmitted infections.
However, the women of Beverly Hills are reacting with anger that their guru has let them down, and hard. "How is this possible, I was on a goddamn healing calming cleanse," exclaimed Skylar Rainbow Madison upon leaving her holistic healer's office in Silver Lake.
"I can't believe it," Gwyneth Paltrow said when reached for comment about the upscale pussy rocks, sold at her website for $66. "All I did was tell people to shove something into their pussies for like the fifth time that wasn't gynecologist or FDA approved and somehow people got sick. I can't possibly be at fault for all the stupid shit I've said, right?"
Paltrow is now working on launching homeopathic, natural, chemical free, mineral-based, traditional, old world, cleansing herpes treatment for seven easy payments of $1,995.95. Plus tax.
(This entire article has been satire. Except for the part about the fact that jade eggs are fucking stupid and don't do anything and they're not recommended by gynecologists and Gwyneth Paltrow is not a health expert. That's all true. Please don't put rocks in your pussies.).


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1 for $18, 2 or more $16 each.
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New powerful custom pc with Nividia gtx 970 graphics card (watercooled) should chew through all the Exocad 3d software we are working on.
Single Central, Clinical work carried out by Jayme Adams 360 dental care
Lingual ortho used to create space to bring UR1 back into arch
So many options!
Can't wait to start milling all the new materials out there. Loads of ideas for using peek, including Phil Reddingtons BDT technique.
Latest addition to the lab equipment
Yenadent D15s
Ivoclar multi press trial
Finally received the new multi press kit, can't wait to see the results!
No.6 Southern Street – project completion
Nondas Vlachopoulos Course - 2014
Incredible weekend course for the second time with Nondas. Yet again he has changed my technique, his work is truly stunning.
Anodised coloration technique for implant abutments.
Anodised coloration techniques for implant abutments in The White Lab studio.
Aesthetic Dentistry Awards, Finalist in two categories 2014
Finalist in two categories Conservative Ceramic – Shade Matching Case, Adam Davies with Dr Chris Ibbott. – Interdisciplinary Case, Adam Davies with Doctor's Bilal Bhatti, Amin Aminian and Neil Wilson.
Incisors LTA1 Canines LTA2
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Invited back to Mandec 'part of manchester dental hospital' again tomorrow.
This time lecturing on restorative dentistry communication and advancements in ceramics.
Thanks to Riaz yar and Craig Barclay for the opportunity
SmartFix Day
Just finished live surgery day with Nigel Saynor he placed 5 in the morning and another 5 in the afternoon, good days work.......
very informative and a great group too
learning with Nondas Vlachopoulos
Nondas Vlachopoulos. His technique and style of working has completely changed the way i now work also would like to say a big thank you to Tony Laurie, Sue MaCallum and George Papadopoulos of MPF Brushes.
Manchester University, White Lab Lectures April 9th 2013
Following the success of previous years lectures on implant technology, The White Lab has been invited to advance the programme of the Universities post graduate students in the commercial knowledge of everyday dental implantology.


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Monthly Archives: October 2014
Pawsitive Alliance is almost there — only $800 needed to reach their $2,500 goal! Can you help? Any donation made by midnight October 31st will be matched! If Pawsitive Alliance reaches their goal of $2,500 in donations, a generous donor … Continue reading
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An short summary of my comments to the CFPB on the proposed prepaid card rulemaking. My full statement is available here.Read More
Generally, the biggest banks are making less on overdraft than they did just a few years ago. But Wells Fargo has managed to buck that trend.Read More
Banks want to close branches. Bank of America wants to close the most. What's the impact? Answer: more deposits and more mobile services.Read More
When the St. Louis Fed examined disparities in wealth, African-Americans still came up short even after controlling for age and educational attainment.Read More
Can Wall Street take loan mods to scale? Is this really an opportunity to do it better? On the one hand, plenty of servicers appear to be slow on the uptake. Yet doing that will be depend a great deal upon the availability of housing counselors. Those counselors handle the details of their borrower's paperwork. Housing counseling agencies are finding it more and more difficult to keep their doors open.Read More
They Have Bankruptcy in Common and Soon They Will be Too Big to Fail: The Coupling of CIT and OneWest
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These nouns refer to media and communications. (Telegraph is also often used without the.)
airwaves blower box ether grapevine gutter press infobahn information superhighway Internet mass media media net PA papers phone press printed word radio spoken word superhighway telegraph telephone tube web World Wide Web written word
She is known as the sexiest voice on the airwaves.
They circulated the screenplay on the Internet.
It's hard to make sense of the flood of medical research reported in the media.
McLintock speaks to Graham most days on the phone and regularly meets him for dinner.
He managed to transmit his passion for the written word in a way that was irresistible.


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Don't know much about American Sign Language (ASL)?
Want to know more about the Deaf?
Here are two more frequently asked questions! You can read #1 if you missed it.
First we'll address a question that I received in the comments,
Renae said:
That is a great question.
Short answer:
Snarky answer: I've got nothing. It's a good question.
Detailed answer: There are multiple genetic factors, not necessarily hereditary. There are several diseases that can be a factor in deafness as well -- prenatal and postnatal. Trauma would be perforated ear drums, head injuries, and other traumas. Some have degenerative hearing loss. They may start out Hard of Hearing and then as they age become Deaf.
95% of newborns are screened for hearing loss, but may not be caught. A few of my babies failed their hearing tests in the hospital, but was told by the nurses that it was probably just fluid in their ears.
While my kids are not Deaf (although, my oldest had bad hearing due to ear infections and had tubes put in and speech therapy afterwards) they didn't ever get their hearing checked again outside of the hospital.
Because of this, I can see how easy it would be for parents to not know.
I have a good friend who has a Cochlear implant, and knew ASL, but was mostly oral (her family didn't really know ASL). As she has gotten older her residual hearing disappeared and she is now profoundly Deaf, and her vision is gone as well. She is now blind and uses a cane and seeing eye dog.
Conductive hearing loss could be the bones in the ears don't vibrate, the hairs in the ears don't vibrate, or other mechanical issues.
Nerve damage is just what it sounds like. The majority of deaf (not Deaf) are over the age of 65 and is due to aging and excessive loud noises.
I won't go much more into that unless you want more information. There is a ton of information about the causes of deafness and the types of deafness.
I know Deaf people are proud of their Deafness and are proud of their culture. I agree. Their culture is awesome, the Deaf people I know are amazing. They have great reason to be proud.
I know none of you are questioning that, I just think it's important for people to know that they don't view Deafness as a handicap, something to be ashamed of, something to be fixed, or a disability. I mentioned this briefly in 13 Things to Never Say to a Deaf Person. Review that if you need to.
Don't tell a Deaf person they're disabled or handicapped. Unless you want to get slapped.
Can you read those people's lips and tell me what they're saying?
Short answer: No.
Snarky answer: Yeah, they're talking about how ugly your shirt is.
Fun answer: Yeah, they're talking about how ugly your shirt is. Oh wait, I already said that. Um, no, that's rude. I think I'll mind my own business. Unless I can find out gossip about you. Ha!
Reading lips is actually harder than you think. Once, there was a kid in my history class, Aaron. I had the biggest crush on him. Of course... he didn't return the favor.
I was pretty awkward looking in middle school (and elementary... and high school).
He was *gasp* talking to me one day in class and he mouthed the words "I love you" I nearly died. My 5th grade life was now complete. I turned away and giggled into my notebook. Seriously, this kid was cute. And mostly nice.
Before I could utter those dumb words right back to him (hey, in middle school a crush = love) he spared me by spilling the beans. He was saying "alligator shoes" and "olive juice."
I'll wait while you mouth those phrases....
Looks like I love you, doesn't it?
Thankfully I didn't make too much a fool of myself... even if my heart broke a bit inside. The joys of childhood.
Now try having a conversation with that. Every word and phrase could mean something else.
- Then add in that some people don't enunciate.
- Some people do not move their lips (have you seen Pitch Perfect?)
- Some people are crazy all over the place with their mouths.
- People move around, look around, turn their heads, have hair in their faces, and have their mouths full of food.
Can't read their lips? I wonder why.
30% of the words we speak (in English) are able to be easily lip read. That is if the person isn't mumbling or obscuring their face in any way.
Some people ask me, as an interpreter, if I can read lips. Um... no, why would I? Sure, if you're mouthing the words as you sign I can read your lips. Other than that I won't be able to read everything they're saying if it's just someone I'm watching from across the room (and they're not signing).
Deaf people tend to be better at it than others, specifically those that rely on it in many conversations with non-signing hearing people. But don't ask them to eavesdrop for you. That's just juvenile. Reminds me of that Monk episode, where the guy was lip reading for insider trading information. It was a good one.
Round #3 will be up next week!
If you have a question you'd like answered, please ask me! I promise I'll be nice to you!
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Behind the Bread of Louisiana/
On this week's edition of Louisiana Eats!, we'll sit down to explore New Orleans' rich baking culture with historians, bakers, and other assorted experts. We'll hear about forgotten bakeries, special baking techniques, and unique delicacies throughout Southern Louisiana.
Lemon Pound Cake
1 pk. Yellow cake mix
1 pk. Small lemon Jello
4 eggs
2/3 cup Crisco oil
2/3 cup water
½ cup powdered sugar
¾ cup lemon juice
Combine all ingredients and beat for 3 minutes until smooth. Pour into a greased and floured bundt pan and bake at 325 degrees for 55 – 60 minutes. Remove from the pan and cool on a rack.
When cooled, dissolve the powdered sugar into the lemon juice and drizzle on top of the cake.


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Formation of Licensed Ministry
All those taking programmes through St Padarn's will have an identified learning pathway shaped to their learning and development needs, designed to resource and equip them to grow in discipleship and for particular ministries.
Candidates for ordained ministry will normally:
undertake theological learning and reflection in a learning group
undertake apprenticeship learning in a Ministry Area
develop ministry skills at a summer-school and three residential weekends
belong to a 'formational cell' to support their formation into Christ
Learning pathways will take into account the experience and learning of those for whom they are designed. Identified programmes will build on previous learning and experience and develop existing areas of expertise, as well as developing new ones.
Learning pathways will normally include an expectation of when a minister might be licensed or ordained and how long the process of Initial Ministerial Training will last.
For ministry candidates a learning agreement will be negotiated and signed by the student, representatives from their sponsoring Diocese and St Padarn's. This agreement will specify the key elements of the student's pathway, expectations placed on them and those who support and resource them and the framework for ongoing review and evaluation of progress through the pathway.
Opportunities currently exist for candidates for stipendiary ministry to train full-time or part-time. It would normally be expected that candidates who are training full time for ministry will become part of the St Padarn's community that is based in the St Michael's Centre in Llandaff for three days a week.