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I wanted to share this testimony so that I will never forget. God did a very personal work in my life a few months back that made me realize that He truly does want to work very personally in our lives. Well here goes:
I gave birth to a healthy baby boy back in June. Shortly after his birth I started noticing some abnormal coloring in his stools… they were constantly a dark green color and full of muccous. I knew from having breastfed all 3 of my other children that this was not normal… so I went about searching the Internet and talking to our pediatrician about it. Her advice, as well as what I read online said it was most likely an allergy to cows milk… so I said goodbye to dairy 😦
About a month after that I started a diet called Trim Healthy Mama, with all of these new diet changes I dropped to almost 35lbs below my prepregnancy weight within the first 6 months of his life… well not only was I dropping weight, so was he. I decided to stop trying to lose and focus on getting him to gain weight. I thought maybe my milk supply was low, or that it wasn't having enough fat for him to gain. He also refused to nurse ALOT. I started trying to pump and bottle feed some and he would still often refuse the milk that way. I also discovered that he was not draining my milk completely, and would leave a few ounces in there after feeding. So we went about searching for more answers. I saw a lactation consultant who diagnosed him with having a tongue tie and advised that we get it clipped by an ENT so that he could nurse more efficiently. We had him clipped at the end of January. (From Dec until then he lost 3 ounces even with me not dieting and trying to feed him often) during the recovery week, I tried to nurse as much as he would, which wasn't very often or very long… I pumped and bottle fed on top of that… I also decided to try introducing solid food to see if that would help.
Then in the middle of February we went away for 24 hours on a marriage retreat. Alex stayed with a sitter and drank bottles the whole time. (He did great on just bottles) When we returned, all of our children were sick with strep throat except Alex, but he had an ear infection. He refused to nurse more, so I started offering bottles most of the time and pumping my milk for him. Fast forward 2 weeks later and he was still refusing to nurse… I was freaking out because I did not want to keep pumping around the clock… I was exhausted!!! I felt like I had no choice but to put him on formula because we were having so many issues from birth… so for a week or so I got so discouraged. I finally decided that I really needed to seek the Lord about this issue. (Why this was my last choice, I don't know, simply human nature to try to figure it out on my own) So I stepped away from my Facebook account, and sought about praying and seeking the Lord for answers.
He gave me VERY practical answers!!! It was so clear and exact that I knew it was from the Lord! I'm still in awe of how He answered me! He gave me this schedule:
Wake up and nurse,
Pump for 20 minutes after he nurses
Feed him breakfast with us (whatever he wants to eat)
Nurse before his morning nap (if he refuses I'll pump this one too)
Feed him lunch (whatever he wants to eat)
Nurse before his afternoon nap
Pump about 4pm
Feed bottle when he wakes about 5ish
Feed him supper with us (whatever he wants to eat)
Nurse before bed
Pump before I go to bed, or sometimes I'll just wake him in the middle of the night to sneak an extra feeding in.
And the best part- I'm still able to nurse him! Plus he is getting all breastmilk still! (Well and solid food)
I am at peace about it too, and I haven even weighed him in over a month because I'm just not worried anymore. I know this routine was from the Lord, therefore I know by doing it that he is getting just what he needs! It amazes me the peace He has given me.
I hope this testimony has encouraged you, that no matter how insignificant your struggle seems to be to you, that God understands and wants to actively work in your life!!! Trust Him and seek Him! He will bless!
A lesson I learned about God's very personal working in my life.
I wanted to share this testimony so that I will never forget. God did a very personal work in my life a few months back that made me realize that He truly does want to work very personally in our lives. Well here goes:


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text: Fannie Mae, who is a "leading source of financing for mortgage lenders", has just released poor economic outlook that actually holds some very wonderful news for those trying to sell or buy a house! In their recent report titled, "Economic Growth Outlook Subpar Again as 2016 Progresses. Consumers and Businesses More Cautious Amid Slowdown in Labor Market" Fannie Mae states that their, "full-year economic growth forecast" has been lowered to "1.7 percent, down from 1.9 percent growth in...Read more


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Microsoft are talking about the next version of RDP and RemoteFX in Windows.
These tools extend the rich experiences for the remote desktop user, be it Terminal Server (RDSH), VDI or MultiPoint Server. Customers will be asking their vendors to extend these experiences to new devices and form factors that will lower the cost of the deployment without compromising the user experience.
This session is critical if you want to address a market of millions of devices by building on the RemoteFX platform.
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I connected with Caiobhe early on in my foray into the blogging community. She has been a continuous encouragement to me for the journey, and she is a lovely writer. Please join me in welcoming her to the de(tales) series.
I got off the train. I had ten minutes before my connecting train was due. I walked at the pace of the people around me as we moved forward, en masse, to hurry to our destinations and into another day.
His fluorescent orange tabard caught my eye, and as I turned my head to him I realised that on his arm was a bird of prey. A hawk at the station. Waiting on the platform.
Throughout my life I've been both proud of and embarrassed by my mother's tendency to strike up conversations with complete strangers; who in a very short space of time are no longer strangers, but people whose lives have become known to her as she tells them about Jesus and sympathizes with their aches or broken hearts or difficult circumstances.
And now I find myself talking to strangers. I'm curious about them. I want to know more. Always.
So I approached the man in the orange tabard.
I asked him if I could take a photo of the hawk. I wasn't sure why I wanted the photo, I'm not particularly interested in birds or animals, but I knew that at that moment it was something I needed to capture. He said yes, and after I took my picture we talked.
He told me that this was a hawk in training. She had been brought in as part of the strategy to control the pigeons nesting in the roof of the station. The railway wanted them removed and another hawk had been scaring them away every day. This bird was learning the job. The first thing she had to do was to become familiar with the environment, so every day he brought her to fly around the station.
The next thing he said to me made me catch my breath.
'She doesn't know what to do to the pigeons, but when the pigeons see her they think they are seeing the hawk I've brought before. They go. They fly away. And this one, she doesn't know what to do and yet she already has the power; she just doesn't understand how to use it. She doesn't know about her power yet, but the pigeons do. They see it. '
And then I thanked him for chatting with me and we parted.
As I crossed the station concourse and waited for my train I went over and over his words in my mind 'this one… she doesn't know what to do and yet she already has the power; she just doesn't understand how to use it.'
I knew that I was being shown something that I had forgotten, or maybe had never really believed.
The new hawk. The untrained hawk. Flying aimlessly among the pigeons with no idea what to do. That was me.
But I, you, we look like the other hawk. We look like the one who walked on earth, took on our form and lived like us. The one who came from glory and had the power of God in him from the moment of his birth to the moments of glorious resurrection and ascenscion.
When they see us they think they are seeing Him. We bear his likeness.
We are overshadowed by the wings of the Father. We are clothed in the righteousness of the Son. We move in the power of the Holy Spirit. When the darkness sees us it sees the power of the Trinity. We don't understand it, we haven't yet learned to use it, but it is with us and it is visible to others.
I have spent months in a battle. A battle for which I have felt ill equipped, but what I needed to realize on that particular day, and what I keep needing to remember is this:
That when they see me they see Him.
I've got the power and I'm learning to use it.
Caiobhe (meaning 'Beautiful at Birth') is the pseudonym used by the writer of The Hope Diaries. Following infidelity (her own) she was found by the reality of Hope, and writes about marriage post-affair, seen through the paradigm of faith and hope in Jesus. She writes an honest account of her journey, believing above everything else that God is enough.
You can check out the other de(tales) (so far) here.


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Brett Young On The Road To Marriage
Brett Young and his wife Taylor took a long road to wedded bliss. They met when she was a college student in Arizona and he lived in California. They split when he moved to Nashville to pursue his career.
After two years apart, the time was finally right to tie the knot. Brett tells People, "All the good stuff was still there, but all the bad stuff that was borne out of immaturity was gone. It was just really easy and obvious."
The couple got married Saturday and are now on their honeymoon. When they return to Nashville, he'll accept the Country Songwriter-Artistaward from ASCAP.


text: The first school in the community of Trail Creek was established in 1897 in the Hanna Block on Bay Avenue. Forty pupils attended with a staff consisting of Principal Donald Dewar and teacher Mabel Bunting. This location soon proved to be too small for the growing town and in 1901 the community built a new school on Green Avenue on a bench above the town site with 115 pupils in attendance. A third teacher, Bessie Fraser was added to the staff. This school was replaced by Central School in 1912.


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Survivors of the Grenfell tower fire to be given 68 flats in £2bn luxury block in Kensington with 250 people still homeless after inferno
All are new social housing flats and are expected to be offered up to permanently rehouse residents from Grenfell Tower
PEOPLE made homeless by the devastating fire that ripped through Grenfell Tower last week are set to move into 68 flats in Kensington.
Some of the residents forced to leave their homes will be permanently housed in Kensington High Street in a £2billion development - after they were bought in a deal worth just £10million.
Hundreds of people were left with nowhere to live after the blaze destroyed their West London tower block - leaving 79 people missing and presumed dead.
Some of the victims will now be offered a new home in the heart of Kensington in a luxury complex of 535 flats minutes away from where they lived.
Apartments in Kensington Row are on the market for between £1.5 and £8.5 million.
It is not known how many of the displaced victims will be able to be housed in the 68 flats.
Each home will give residents the use of a gym, swimming pool and spa area, cinema and the 24-hour concierge.
All are new social housing flats and are expected to be offered up to permanently rehouse residents from Grenfell Tower.
Ministers said that 110 housing needs assessments have been completed so far - and extra construction staff have been committed by developers to ensure the work gets done on the new flats quickly.
Construction work is currently ongoing on the complex but it is expected to be completed by the end of July - with residents thought to move in soon after.
The flats - with one, two or three bedrooms - will be fully furnished. Liaison staff will be assigned to each block so the new residents will be fully supported.
Eleanor Kelly, chief executive of Southwark Council and spokeswoman for the Grenfell Response Team, said: "Rehousing those residents affected by the Grenfell Tower fire as quickly as possible is our main priority, and I am pleased that a significant amount of housing has now been identified."
A spokesperson for the Mayor of London Sadiq Khan said that the local authority and government must ensure that all residents affected are rehoused in the area, unless the chose not to.
News of the acquired housing comes as Theresa May has promised that victims and families of those involved in the Grenfell Tower fire will have their legal fees funded.
As part of the Queen's Speech announced today, there will be an interim report published to provide the basis for any "early action" if necessary.
The number of those who are thought to have died in last week's horrific blaze stands currently at 79, but could rise further.
"My Government will initiate a full public inquiry into the tragic fire at Grenfell Tower to ascertain the causes and ensure the appropriate lessons are learnt," the Queen said.
The inquiry will have a chair appointed - thought to be by the end of the week - who will run the probe.
They will decide who to call to give evidence on oath as part of the investigation - and which official papers will be released to help find out what happened.
Residents, families of those who lost their lives, the Mayor of London and the Labour Party will all be consulted on the terms of reference for the inquiry.
The findings will be published to both the Prime Minister and Parliament.
Mrs May has already announced a £5m scheme to help the victims and their families rebuild their lives after the tragedy. Every household will receive at least £5,500 from the fund.
And ministers have promised that they will try to rehouse them "as close as practically possible to where they previously lived" so they can continue to access the same schools and GPs.
Yesterday the Government rejected suggestions from Jeremy Corbyn to seize empty homes to house the Grenfell Tower fire victims.
And X Factor host Simon Cowell has donated £100,000 to the Grenfell Tower victims ahead of the release of his all-star charity single.
Speaking in Liverpool, at the launch of the new series of The X Factor, he told The Sun: "I've kicked off my donation page with £100,000, which I hope will encourage others.
Stormzy will open the track, which is a cover of Simon & Garfunkel classic Bridge Over Troubled Water, with some heart-wrenching lyrics.
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Hershey Area Playhouse Presents Daddy Long Legs August 9-11, 2018
Thursday August 2, 2018
HERSHEY, Pa., August 2, 2018 – Hershey Area Playhouse is pleased to present Daddy Long Legs. Daddy Long Legs is a stage musical with a book by John Caird, and music and lyrics by Paul Gordon. It is based on the 1912 novel of the same name by Jean Webster. It is set in turn-of-the-century New England, the musical tells the story of orphan Jerusha Abbott of the John Grier Home and her mysterious benefactor who agrees to send her to college, who she dubs "Daddy Long Legs" after seeing his elongated shadow. Under the conditions of her benefactor, Jerusha sends him a letter once a month, describing her new-found experiences with life outside the orphanage.
Directed by Michael Ritter and starring Valerie Schrader as Jerusha Abbott and Travis Zimmerman as Jervis Pendleton, Daddy Long Legs is making its area debut at Hershey Area Playhouse. Audience members who enjoyed The Secret Garden or plays and novels such as Little Women and Jane Eyre are going to love Daddy Long Legs. The overarching messages in the show are about forgiveness, the definition of charity, and appreciating the simple, every day moments in life, while also including a lot of other little messages. Daddy Long Legs author, Jean Webster, was a big advocate of women's suffrage, women in higher education, and helping the poor; something that comes out a lot in Jerusha's lines thanks to the brilliant adaptation by John Caird.
"We are really excited to share Paul Gordon's wonderful score. He's done a number of period pieces, the most well-known is Jane Eyre, but they aren't done very often in our area. We hope that Daddy Long Legs might inspire people to see, and theatres to do, other Paul Gordon pieces like Sense and Sensibility or Emma," Schrader said.
When asked about the joys and challenges of this two-person musical, Schrader had this to say. "There are lots of challenges, though. Probably the biggest challenge is the sheer amount of lines, lyrics, and music there is to memorize. I basically have to do the first three songs and first eight pages of the script completely solo, because Jerusha has to set up the story before Jervis comes in. There are so many reprises that I might sing the same melody four different times, each time with different lyrics," she said. "However, one of the benefits is that anytime you have a small cast, it makes for a very collaborative creative process. The major benefit to this particular show is that my scene partner is also my best friend, it's definitely an advantage that we already trust each other."
Experience this amazing two-person musical August 9-11, 2018 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $15.00. Tickets are available by visiting www.HersheyAreaPlayhouse.com or by calling the Playhouse's box office at 717-533-8525.
Hershey Area Playhouse (www.HersheyAreaPlayhouse.com) is a 501(c) (3) non-profit organization dedicated to providing residents of the community with an opportunity to participate in the creation and production of a theatrical experience. Since its inception in 1999, Hershey Area Playhouse has staged dozens of productions at numerous venues around the Hershey area. In April 2007, the Playhouse opened its new permanent home, Hershey Area Playhouse at Country Meadows.


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We will have 8 boxes available with optional turnout, only FULL LIVERY from £150 a week including regular schooling and transport to your meets.
We have great hunting country on our doorstep, a horse walker, well maintained stables with Equimat rubber flooring, automatic water troughs, 24 hour onsite security with multi-point CCTV and a secure alarmed container to keep all your kit in. We currently have a few spaces still available and we plan to start exercising / accepting full hunter liveries, from September 1st 2016
We are VERY excited about contributing and providing one of the best hunter livery services available in Cheshire.
The JF Polo Academy was setup in 2006 in order to provide a quality service to individuals looking to learning polo at an affordable price.
Since our opening, we have continued to deliver polo lessons with the highest of standards - ensuring safety, quality and making every experience as enjoyable as possible. From day one we have taken total beginners up to the level of being able to play competently in tournaments.
Since originally setting up we have increased the amount of polo ponies that we have on site and currently have an excellent choice of horses for all levels of rider. We are confident enough in our horse power to be able to mount the very best players in the high-goal category.
James Fielding, setup the polo academy with the intention of helping any level of rider or player whether they wish to have a one-off go for fun or pursue polo as their main hobby.
With over 15 years of experience in polo having started in the Pony Club when based in the New Forest, the now Cheshire-based professional plays all year round with his main focus on the instruction here at the polo academy.
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Who's better? Kirk or Picard? Some Trekkies will say it's Jean Luc with his top notch skills as a diplomatic negotiator and commanding presence. Others will say it's James T because they're wrong.
McFarlane Toys have finally revealed their designs for these figures since gaining the rights to Star Trek. Picard and Kirk are arriving June 23rd and available for preorder now. It would probably be a good idea to get yours locked down now before the factory runs out of replicator rations...
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I wrote on a forum some advice to a permanent member of staff considering the option of contracting. The question was "How much experience do you need before you go contracting?".
My answer was fairly short, but I thought it was interesting enough to make into an article to share with you, especially in a time when contractors are getting a bad press.
I left university and after 18 months in two jobs, I went contracting. Not consulting, contracting. I was simply a developer assigned to a project to work on the Y2K project (remember that folks?). I knew I was a good developer and had the confidence to leave the full-time security and branch out on my own.
Rule Number One as a contractor is to have the confidence in yourself to be able to step out and say "I can do this". Confidence. Simple.
The knowledge comes second. This may surprise some people, but the reality is there is always an answer on the internet. I remember my parents not being too happy about leaving the security of a full-time role and not knowing where I would be working, but I knew that I would be OK, I had the confidence.
I feel that knowledge must be backed up by qualifications. People often undervalue qualifications, but the reality is that you are able to get a rounded education, the more you look into specific qualifications. An example was while working within the Lotus Notes Arena, I was able to understand more of the theory and have a deeper understanding of the intricacies, over colleagues without the additional education and research. My Father was a great believer in education and I am committed to this day to make sure I continue in his three-word mantra... "Education education education".
Along with knowledge, a contractor is expected to make an impact to the team / project very soon after starting. Often a day or two to show the processes / governance is all you are allowed before you actually start making progress on the task you have been taken on for.
Contractors get quite a bit of negative press and many full time employees often begrudge a contractor working along side them. Usually the main reason is down to money. This simple little thing makes many people jealous in all walks of life, but the issue between contractors vs permanent staff can often be very visible and difficult.
My reply for this is often the fact that we are actually paid more money that the usual member of staff, but we are only paid for the time we are working. The eight standard bank holidays, sick pay and our annual holiday is not paid, neither are the extras such as Training and Qualifications (remember my paragraph above). We do have other "perks" such as our subsistence and travel are paid before tax, we can pay ourselves in a way to minimise our tax, but we still have all the additional paperwork, research, accountants fees etc to make this happen.
Anyone can be a contractor. You need to have the confidence, the knowledge, the qualifications and the self motivation to go out there and sell yourself.


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A first novel is like spring lamb, tender and pink. Athenas that leap from the writer's head armor-clad—Marilynne Robinson's "Housekeeping," say—may not count. Better to find a novel that requires indulgence—Fitzgerald's "This Side of Paradise" or Agee's "Let Us Now Praise Famous Men." Débuts, even from much tougher writers, allow the reader to enjoy a guilty sense of paternalism: you protect débuts like Naipaul's droll "Miguel Street," or James's thin "Daisy Miller," or Coetzee's compacted, miserable "Dusklands," from the full force of your regular expectations.
But then there are the real treasures, the rehearsals that never got published, the artifacts that invite you to reconstruct what an author wanted to do, before she did it. Did Jane Austen know, sitting with "Elinor and Marianne" on her lap, that she would keep writing, that she would never stop, that the rudiments on her page would refine themselves into anything like "Pride and Prejudice"? Juvenilia inverts the old urge to go back and tell a writer who died in obscurity "Hey man, we all loved 'Moby-Dick.' " You dream of congratulating the young Austen.
Even Vladimir Nabokov, the high priest of readerly hygiene, occasionally allowed himself this kind of communion. He may have forbidden his Cornell students from identifying or sympathizing with any fictional characters. But identifying with the author was a different matter. Nabokov told his students of writers' travails, urging them to consider the number of days Flaubert took to write the scene with Emma and Leon in the Lion d'Or. He even acted out Gogol's death throes at the podium, waggling his nose and asking his students to imagine the leeches that were attached to the dying writer's larger, more famous proboscis.
Now we have an invitation to root for the young Nabokov. His first major effort, "The Tragedy of Mister Morn," has been translated for the first time. "Mister Morn" is a verse play, but its speeches are bright with Nabokovian gems: "within him is that spark / that scarlet comma of contamination," says one character, the revolutionary leader Tremens, of a former firebrand gone dull. Reading this tale of an exiled king from a fantasy kingdom, one wonders if Nabokov realized, in 1924, that he was writing the first draft of "Pale Fire" (1962).
We do know that he was trying to get a career started when he wrote the play. Nabokov's family had fled Russia in 1919; he had attended Cambridge and then joined his family in Berlin; his father, a politician in exile, was killed by right-wing Russian terrorists in 1922; and by December, 1923, the rump of the family had temporarily relocated to Prague. As Brian Boyd relates in his authoritative biography, the Nabokovs were seven people in a three-bedroom apartment. Vladimir and his brother Kirill shared a couch; at night, bedbugs crawled up the walls in order to fling themselves down on the two young men from on high.
It's hard to believe that Nabokov was ever young. Years later he would show up in the United States, his bags crammed with ten novels written in Russian, and one already written in English. But here he was in Prague, the young poet who still went by the pen name Sirin, staying up till five or six in the morning, writing by candlelight. He was impressed with his own exhaustion. In letters to Véra—his future wife—he reports that his head thunders like a bowling alley. Fame is in the forecast. He goes to a party, and an elderly woman asks him:
Do you go to high school here? I: !!! Woman: Oh, I'm sorry, you have such a young face. So you'll be starting lectures? What faculty? I (with a melancholy smile): I graduated two years ago, in science and literature. Woman (lost): Oh, so you've been working. I: For the Muse. Woman (picks up): So you're a poet. Been writing long? Tell me, have you read Aldanov? Interesting, isn't he? In these difficult times, books are a great help. If you take up Voloshin or Sirin, for instance, your spirits just lift at once. But nowadays books are so expensive. I: Yes, very expensive. And modestly moved off incognito. Amusing conversation? I've set it down word for word.
He was more than happy to consider himself a well-kept secret. Everything was still in him.
Back in Berlin with his manuscript, Nabokov found that money was tight. The Russian literary community was drifting to Paris. No one wanted to perform "The Tragedy of Mister Morn," and a Shakespearean tragedy did not interest the émigré press. Nabokov next tried a more conventional début. "Mary" is a semi-autobiographical novel set in a real milieu in a real city; for the protagonist, Berlin is shot through with memories of teen-age romance, in Russia. Finally, Nabokov had got a viable start to his career. Reviewers praised Sirin's rapturous use of detail—a future commonplace of Nabokov criticism.
It's "Mister Morn," however, that seems most enticingly predictive of Nabokov's great work. The flutter of magic, the avuncular twinkle, the B-movie danger—it's all here. The things that make us love Nabokov or tire of him can all be found in "Mister Morn," at least in chrysalis form. A bildungsroman like "Mary" may preview the teen-age romance stirring in the latter chapters of "Speak, Memory." But the childhood romance of that memoir's earlier chapters—the same Annabel-by-the-sea memories that get "Lolita" revving—could never take flight without the wistful, distracted tone of voice he practiced in "Mister Morn." Every speech in the play seems to take some kind of renunciation as its occasion. It may be a weakness that the plot twists not at the middle but at the beginning; but the idea that a benevolent king would rule his kingdom incognito comes straight from the taproot of Nabokov's most insistent theoretical claim, that all fiction is fantasy.
In the future, an undergraduate in a Nabokov seminar, reading the master through for the first time, will be able to write a term paper about how "Mister Morn" anticipates "Bend Sinister" and "Pale Fire." Up late, typing to fill pages, he might even add a peroration about how it was criminal that "Mary" got published while "Mister Morn" languished. Nabokov's first, crazier effort is the one that shows his ambition plain. It should have been a hit. But that wouldn't be understanding how literature works.
Call it the Icarian début. The kind that might not even get published, because the author has flown too close to the sun. Gustave Flaubert would be the archetype. After completing "The Temptation of St. Anthony"—a medieval-romanticist mystery play based on three years of research—the unpublished Flaubert wanted to read his manuscript to two good friends. They did two four-hour sessions each day. At midnight on the fourth day, Flaubert pounded the table and demanded, "Now, tell me frankly what you think."
"We think you should throw it into the fire and never speak of it again." Flaubert's friends, talented enough writers themselves, followed the literary marketplace with a slavishness Flaubert couldn't match. He decidedly did not have his ear to the ground. But as the biographer Enid Starkie notes, his friends knew full well that romanticism was on the wane; a mystery play about a third-century anchorite would never please the public. Flaubert kept his friends up until breakfast time, arguing with them, but after a few days came to agree: "I was riddled with the cancer of lyricism; you operated on me, but it was only in the nick of time, and I howled with pain." His next book would be a masterpiece of restraint called "Madame Bovary."
But Flaubert always came back to his "Temptation." As soon as "Bovary" was ready for publication, the childless father of realism turned again to the visionary saint. He worked on the manuscript for most of his career, always plotting its eventual publication, hoping, for example, that his conventionally structured novel "Salammbô," set in ancient Carthage, would prepare his readers for this other, weirder novel of antique North Africa.
Flaubert crafted "Temptation" as carefully as anything he wrote. Or more—the wicked curve of his sensibility is on full display. The same "universal soul" that roars in the voice of the sea and weeps in the sap of trees also "shrieks in the marble under the teeth of the saw." Ascesis and indulgence entwine beneath the perfectionist's pen. Flaubert devised interlocutors for his saint that rival Dostoevsky's Grand Inquisitor. They tend to accuse Anthony in his solitude of intellectual sloth: "Ignorance is the foam of pride." Flaubert was obviously having immense fun. A phantom called "The Chimera" explains its career:
I urge men to perilous voyages and great enterprises. I have chiselled with my claws the wonders of architecture…. I seek for new perfumes, for vaster flowers, for pleasures never felt before. If I perceive in any place a man whose mind reposes in wisdom, I fall upon him, and strangle him.
Flaubert's friends rejected "The Temptation of St. Anthony" for understandable reasons—it made no sense as a début. And it must have been tedious to listen to. No one could have seen how it would stand in relation to "Madame Bovary"—after all, Emma is a kind of anchorite herself, within her own suffocated imagination. Even Flaubert's last book, "Bouvard and Pécuchet," reads like a secular parody of the saint's life.
We know that Nabokov was rereading Flaubert when he was writing "The Tragedy of Mister Morn." He had already read all of Flaubert in French by the age of fourteen or fifteen; in his thirties he would report that he had recently read "Madame Bovary" "for the hundredth time." Both writers are famous for their obsessive perfectionism. Yet both wobbled between different modes; both started their careers with missteps their friends could have corrected. The history of their early failures speaks to a drive deeper than a superficial scratching around for le mot juste. Nabokov knew he was a magician. And Flaubert was a voluptuary. Flaubert would always oscillate between the exotic and the viciously mundane. But Nabokov, in exile, had a ready-made metaphor for impossible dreams: as the eponymous hero of "Mister Morn" explains, "I'll quietly live out the rest of my strange life / to the secret tune of my royal memories."
There's a traditional view that good writers train themselves in the forms of tradition, only to expand into experiment later. James Joyce or Virginia Woolf are easy examples. Flaubert and Nabokov present a different model. Both lunged early, striking out with full faith in their own sense of direction. They got nowhere; they went back and started in a different course. But each came back, in the end. Who knows, however, whether "Pale Fire" or the latter "Temptation" were ever what their writers wanted them to be. Michel Foucault, in an essay on Flaubert's "Temptation," compared it to "an unattainable dream."
In college, I had a friend who read only first novels. He must have picked this up from some older person. At that age, it never would have occurred to me to lay out an author's oeuvre and decide where to begin. But my friend wasn't "beginning." It was as if he thought reading the first novel was enough. But maybe he had a kind of second sight. He could tell what the author's problems would be, and how she would try to overcome them. Maybe he liked to believe in something beyond the book he held in his hands.
Benjamin Lytal's debut novel, "A Map of Tulsa," was published last week.
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So, up until recently I have just decided to focus on my studies (which end next month) and with that, I seem to NOT reply to any FB, BBM & WhatsApp messages. I am ok with that. Not constantly being available. Now, mind you I do check my FB but I don't engage #ifthereisevensuchathing. I post. I update. I share. I tag. I even hashtag. I do not reply. I do not comment. It's easier than people think. To disconnect,in certain ways. To just feel in control,even if it's just for a few hours. Even at home, I don't reply. I think it's because I just don't smaak. Like I have fuckall lis. Not for the conversation or the people but for myself. I know I am not able to 100% fully commit to replying to you. Atleast in a decent way. I'm just that person. I think you deserve my full attention. Like all of it. I don't want to be distracted by work/home and sometimes, just life in general. I just think you're that damn special to get all of my attention. Everyone deserves everyone's attention. People constantly glued to their phones pisses me the FOCK off!!!!!!!!!!! Btw, I'm typing this from the loo 😉
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Another visit with the Wizard today and Treatment. Next Month we will go for another scan. He said he didn't like having to submit me to the radiation but we need to see what the metz are doing. The PSA numbers continue to fluctuate but he isn't really concerned about them at this time, unless they make a big jump. Isn't it funny, it's been a little over two years since my original diagnoses. I'm still here. We're lucky to have gotten this far, with a stage four full blown metastatic (Castrate Resistant) Prostate Cancer, that had already metastasized. If we stay with the current treatment plan, we may get a couple or few more years.
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The Trail Conference is working hard to improve trails at Breakneck Ridge, but we need your help!
If you want to meet some of the trail heroes who are working hard to make your hikes awesome, we'd love to have you come out for a few hours to see what trail building's all about. Trail Love Days celebrate all good things about the trail community—connecting with nature, meeting great people, and creating a little trail magic.
If you aren't afraid to get a little dirty, come on out and help us keep your trails great. We'll teach you everything you need to know about what we do, plus you'll get snacks and a T-shirt. No experience is necessary, but space is limited.
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RSI Indicator Chart Patterns and Trend Lines
Traders can plot trend lines on the RSI in the same way as you can plot trend lines on the price charts. RSI trend lines are plotted the same way trend-lines are plotted on the chart; by joining consecutive highs of the Indicator or consecutive lows on the Indicator.
RSI and Trend Lines
RSI Chart Patterns
Chart patterns such as head and shoulders or triangle chart patterns that are not evident on the price chart are often formed on this indicator.
RSI indicator also often forms chart patterns such as head and shoulders or triangles patterns that may or may not be visible on the price chart. As shown on the chart below the Reverse Head and Shoulders reversal formation is clearly shown on this indicator.
Chart Patterns on RSI
Support and Resistance Levels
Sometimes levels of support and resistance are demonstrated better on the RSI than on the price chart.
In an uptrend the support levels should not be broken at any one time, if they are broken then price will also break the support levels and the upward trend is going to reverse.
In a downtrend the resistance levels should not be broken, if they are broken then price will also break the resistance levels, and the downward is going to reverse.
Support and Resistance Levels
In the example above when the third resistance level was broken the downtrend reversed to an upward trend and when the sixth support was broken the uptrend reversed and broke the upward trend line.


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The two biggest things I'm working on in 2016/
I'm not a big believer in New Year's resolutions. They imply that you're not already good enough. I view self-improvement as an ongoing process and try to take on new challenges and opportunities as they come up. Some of my previous undertakings include:
- starting my own Lean In Circle
- finding meaningful volunteer opportunities: I'm now on the leadership team of the NYC Lady Project and a volunteer at the NYC Ballet
- earning a 200 hour yoga teacher training certificate and using it to teach yoga professionally
- learning to swim as an adult
- getting a Master's degree
- learning to curl my hair
- taking Mandarin classes
- oh, and taking the leap to start my own company
So what are my goals for 2016 as a new entrepreneur?
- Banishing self-doubt
- Befriending more male entrepreneurs
Self-doubt is the wickedest, sneakiest, most insidious problem that I could face, and no one but me can control the impact it has on my work. Am I an expert? Am I credible? And on, and on, and on.
The toughest thing about self-doubt is that it's really (really) difficult to identify in the moment. I lost an entire week of my life debating my need for a second Master's degree. Spoiler alert: I decided one was enough.
One of those key feminist litmus tests is to ask, "are men doing this?" If the answer is no, I take a second look at my assumptions. And this brings me to my second goal: befriending more male entrepreneurs. The (admittedly few) guys I know who are building companies are focused on moving their businesses forward, not questioning whether they ought to be there in the first place. At least, that's been my impression so far.
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Chris Roberts has extensive experience in evaluating and handling vehicle defect cases for consumer victims. Unfortunately, vehicle manufacturers sometimes fail to recall vehicles that contain dangerous attributes that harm their buyers. Or they wait too long to issue a recall. Common types of vehicle defects that result in lawsuits:
Vehicle rollover accidents, where the vehicle rolls over on dry, level payment. No vehicle -- not even an SUV -- should rollover under these circumstances.
Vehicle fires. Vehicles should not burst into flames after minor collisions, or even major ones. And vehicles certainly should not catch on fire while parked.
Defective air bags. A defective air bag may fail to deploy when it should, causing enhanced injury to the vehicle occupant that should have been avoided. Another kind of defect will cause an airbag to deploy when it should not, or shoot dangerous debris towards the occupant.
Sudden acceleration. The advent of electronic throttle control in vehicles has led to a huge increase in reported incidents of vehicles accelerating to dangerous speeds and crashing, even when the driver has his foot on the brake.
If you have suffered serious injuries in an accident and you suspect a vehicle defect may have caused or contributed to your injuries, consult an experienced attorney. Chris Roberts has been handling these types of cases for more than a decade, and he has a proven track record of success litigating against some of the largest product manufacturers in the world.
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Sir Chris Hoy has followed a fairly predictable path in his retirement. A bit of media work, plenty of endorsements, a host of lifetime achievement awards and a range of bikes, available at good stockists everywhere.
He has reportedly turned down Strictly but this week he joined Frank Lampard as a sporting star with his own range of children's books.
Flying Fergus are the tales of a young boy who discovers an old rusty bike has magic powers that transport him to sporting success.
In the build-up to London 2012, it was Hoy's rivals who wondered whether he and the British team had 'magic wheels', though the truth was his six Olympic golds were achieved by an unmatched will to win and 27 inch thighs that powered him like pistons to sporting history.
Hoy's legacy is a cycling revolution that has changed the British sporting landscape but it has also created an expectation that success is now assured forever.
In Beijing - when Hoy won three medals in a single Games - Britain won seven from ten golds, a feat that that prompted cycling's governing body to change the rules for London to prevent such domination.
And yet, three summers ago, Britain again won seven from ten Olympic titles, including two more golds for Hoy.
However, at the recent track cycling World Championships, British cyclists failed to top the podium in a single event - their most disappointing performance in 14 years. They ranked tenth on the medal table with a haul of three silver medals.
Anyone who witnessed Hoy's final and most thrilling Olympic gold in the men's keirin will know that timing is his strong point. And it maybe he got out at the right time.
However, the 11-time world champion insists it's not that bad with just under 500 days to go until the Rio Games. Some think the team has been missing a leader since his retirement and Hoy believes the return to the track of Sir Bradley Wiggins could be just what's needed to lift the spirits.
"He's an iconic leader and other nations look to him as this global cycling megastar," he said.
"When he's in the track centre everybody's focusing on him, so it takes the pressure and spotlight off some of the other riders who don't particularly enjoy that attention. He's invaluable for the team as a whole.
"We lost a bit of experience after the Olympics, after Victoria Pendleton and I retired. Success creates its own problems and pressures. Now, if you're the British Olympic Team going into Rio, you've a realistic chance of medalling in maybe 60 per cent of the events.
"But in cycling now, unless it's a gold medal, it is seen as being a massive failure and you've got to manage expectations.
"We do still have realistic chances but I don't think we'll have another Beijing or London but I don't think that's a massive surprise or disappointment. I still think we have a successful Games in Rio but with less medals than previous Games.
"The World Championships in Paris was disappointing, there's no way you can spin it to make it sound like a success, as a team it wasn't.
"However, in individual cases and certain events, progress has been made since the World Championships in Colombia last year."
Hoy speaks and people listen. This week he was back in London as part of his mentor role in a Sports Aid initiative backed by energy company SSE.
A legacy project of last year's Commonwealth Games, the Next Generation scheme is providing 100 talented hopefuls with funding but, more importantly, invaluable advice and experience as they start out on their sporting careers.
Olympic silver medallist Leon Taylor, who famously mentored Tom Daley, is guiding them while Olympic gold medallist Darren Campbell is advising on nutrition and Judy Murray is helping prepare their parents for what might come ahead.
But it was Hoy that had the teenagers listening in rapt attention and patiently queuing for the obligatory selfie with Britain's most successful Olympian of all-time.
When Hoy made his British team debut at the 1993 European under-23 Championship he was told to return his tracksuit but times have changed.
"It reminds me of what it was like when I was their age and you've got your career right in front of you and the excitement that entails," he adds.
"There was nothing like this programme when I was starting out, I definitely would have loved to be involved if there was.
"I take my role as a mentor very seriously, it's an honour, it's not just about me speaking about myself and my experiences but I enjoy listening to the athletes and hearing about what they're doing.
"It's exciting to think there could be half dozen or more of these athletes who could be household names in ten years."
Who knows. Some might even match Hoy's sporting and, perhaps, even literary achievements.
By James Toney, Sportsbeat
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DNA polymerases is the enzyme that catalyzes DNA synthesis, but it is different from RNA polymerases. This particular type of polymerases have specific conditions and requirements that must be met for them to be produced. Without these enzymes, the nucleotides that are the building blocks of DNA cannot be made.
The enzymes work in pairs to create the two identical DNA strands needed to build the familiar double helix shape that the chromosomes have. The DNA polymerases being to add nucleotides to the 3' end of the DNA strand, which results in the elongation of the chain. There is no known way for these enzymes to begin a chain from nothing, but must add onto an existing 3'-OH group. This is why there has to be a primer in the steps so that the enzymes have something to start building on.
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Moustag – a interactive luggage tag
Since I travel more often it seemed fun to me to test gadgets. A while back I tested MousTag in Budapest. Today I tell you more about this awesome interactive luggage tag.
About MousTag
MousTag is runned by dutch travel junkies who are currently living on Bali, Indonesia. In their travels they have always been delighted to see how many honest people there really are. From lost phones in taxis, to forgotten passports in receptions, people have always been willing to return, that which you have lost if they only have a way of reaching you. That's why they have created MousTag, to make it as simple as possible for your lost items to be returned but without you needing to give away sensitive private information like name and adress.
A interactive luggage label – how does it work?
- Buy a MousTag
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- Easy setup
Download the MousTag app in the google play or app store. Just scan your tag with NFC or your QR code scanner and add your items in their app. You are ready to travel easy and securely in seconds.
- Lost and found
Find your lost luggage with a touch of a button, and get instant notifications if found by someone.
- Travel log
Map your travels, add pictures and see exactly where you've been. Use their app for an extra dimension in travel.
- Share travels
Share your travels on their website and social media to show everyone your travels you experience with MousTag, your travel companion!
What is my opinion?
I'm always afraid when I see my suitcase slowly disappear into the darkness. Somehow I'm afraid of losing my suitcase. But when I found this MousTag and tested it for my trip to Budapest. I felt more comfortable. Because you can see where your suitcase is and if your suitcase is lost you can leave a message for the finder.
Registering your tag is also easy, you scan the QR code on the tag with your phone with the QR scanner in the app. I also think it's fun you can add photographs to your own travel map in this app. While you are traveling you can send your MousTag link to people so they can follow.
I 'm very excited about MousTag but…
The only things I miss: the app does not work completely offline, you need a WiFi connection or mobile network. And you'll see in which building or street is your suitcase but not the exact location. I could see my suitcase was at Eindhoven Airport, but not exactly where it was. No idea if this is too technically. One thing is for sure, I'm excited! MousTag is from now on my new travel companion!
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I've wanted to crochet a scarf or cowl using the cross hatch stitch for the longest time. I found the perfect yarn yesterday in JoAnn. The crochet cross hatch stitch cowl is light and airy—perfect for mild Florida winters. It works up rather quickly; I made the cowl in less than 2 hours. I used a multicolored yarn, but a solid color will look nice, too. If you like this pattern, you may also like my free crochet pattern for the Quick Crochet Cowl. It's worked in the Tunisian simple stitch and makes a denser fabric than the cross hatch stitch.
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- Lion Brand ® Yarns, Landscapes®, 3.5 oz / 100 g, 147 yd / 134 m, color # 209 Wildflowers, 1 skein
- Crochet Hook, Size K (10.5 / 6.6 mm)
- Large eye blunt needle
7 rows and 7 cross hatch stitches = 4 inches (10cm). Gauge tension is not critical for this project although a different gauge tension may affect the final size of the finished cowl.
Begin (beg)
Chain (ch)
Double crochet (dc)
Foundation Row (fr)
Single crochet (sc)
Skip (sk)
Slip (sl)
Space (sp)
Stitch (st)(sts)
Together (tog)
Top of turning chain (tch)
Yarn over (yo)
Single crochet: insert hook in st, pull up a loop, yo, pull thru both loops on hook. Double crochet: yo, insert hook into st, yo, draw up a loop, yo, draw yarn thru two loops, yo, draw yarn thru last two loops on hook. Cross hatch stitch: Ch 3, 2 dc in 1st sc, *sk next 3 dc, [1 sc, ch 3, 3 dc] in next ch-3 sp, sk next st.
- This pattern is written in American Standard crochet terms.
- Use medium yarn weight 4.
- Block before finishing.
Machine wash on gentle cycle. Lay out horizontally for drying. Any dry cleaning solvent other than trichloroethylene may be safely used. No bleach product may be used. Do not iron.
Fill a small spray bottle with cold water. Spray cowl until damp. Layout long cowl on blocking mats, smooth evenly, and pin in place until dry. Follow FINISHING directions in the tutorial.
7″ (17.78 cm) x 29″ (73.66 cm)
Crochet Cross Hatch Stitch Cowl Tutorial
Ch 36.
FR: Work 2 dc in 4th ch from hook, sk 3 ch, 1 sc in next ch, *ch 3, 1 dc in each of the next 3 chs, sk next 3 ch, sc in next ch, rep from * across, turn.
ROW 1: Ch 3, 2 dc in 1st sc, *sk next 3 dc, [1 sc, ch 3, 3 dc] in next ch-3 sp, sk next st, rep from * across, ending skip last 2 sts, sc in tch.
ROWS 2 – 58: Rep ROW 1 for pattern. Do not fasten off.
FINISHING: Block before finishing (see BLOCKING above). Lay each end of the scarf side by side. Line up the rows and sew tog with remaining yarn. Weave in loose ends.
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Disturbing footage shows a man carrying two handguns, storming into an Ohio hospital's psychiatric emergency room, shooting a security officer and firing on police. The gunman fatally shot himself in the incident.
Cincinnati Police Chief Eliot Isaac identified the gunman in the Wednesday afternoon shooting as Isaiah Currie, 20, of Cincinnati. In November Currie was arrested after firing rounds into a park and playground, injuring one.
Some of the drama that unfolded at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center complex was captured on surveillance video and 911 recordings. The video begins with a calm looking Currie entering the hospital's sliding glass doors.