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No Goats for Us!/
I am glad I didn't buy the goat!
Had I listened only to popular trends twenty-one years ago when I began homeschooling there'd be a goat in the back yard (or maybe several) and an AA in my son's back pocket when he graduated from home.
Neither would have been helpful to our family, and particularly for our son.
There's wisdom in learning from the experiences of those who have walked the path. I've learned from many. However, sometimes the experiences of others are not the best provisions or plans for us. Had I not taken the time to really ponder (insert prayerfully consider over a period of time) the goat purchase would have relegated my family to something short of best for them.
Families are unique, as unique as the number and ages of siblings, as unique as the colorful array of personalities. Our growing family? No different; though some days I longed for it to be the same as another family, somewhere. It would have been easier to just do what they did.
Those first years of homeschooling taught me that if I wanted to be successful (whatever that was in any given year) I was going to have to do my homework, and love the family in front of me, not the family next door or the next state over. I needed to learn, but I also needed to find the goodness in what I had. I tried to
- Connect with my husband and my children, daily. When this started slipping, others things slipped, too.
- Attend local homeschool support group meetings--especially the panel format meetings where several moms shared their journeys--but prayerfully sift out the gold nuggets our family needed, not just take home what sounded good or ideal.
- Made time for the state homeschool convention. It was big! My first several years, I took in small bites at a time as not to overwhelm my brain with could haves, should haves, if onlys.
- Subscribe to a magazine for encouragement and continuing education. From this resource (I like resources I can highlight and dog ear) I got ideas and perspectives from a wider and broader community of homeschooling families. I wasn't taking surveys, but I did want to get ideas of what worked for others. I could tweak for our learners.
- Read widely--again for continuing education and personal renewal--but reminded myself that anyone, even those not fully versed in the subject, could write an article or blog post. I learned this early on when I began regularly reading a column specific to homeschooling high school, only to discover the author was high schooling her oldest at the time she wrote the articles. Yes, she had wonderful insight and ideas, but I realized I wanted perspective from someone who could offer "been there done that" or "I would have done this differently" or "this worked for one, but not the other".
I didn't do all of the above my first year! YOU don't have to, either.
As I reflect on our homeschooling years, more than two decades and several graduates later, I realize though I have experienced a wealth of opportunities and milestones, and gained nuggets of wisdom, I am still learning. There are still learners in my home--more learners, more unique perspectives and needs--ripe with potential.
And, I do know this, looking back, pondering...
- My son didn't need the goat. He didn't need the AA, either. He needed a mom who would allow him to study Chemistry for hours at a time, practice math problems over and over, and read books from a variety of interests all afternoon, if he wanted. This is what prepared him for college coursework: long stretches of study on the same subject.
- My other son didn't need the goat, either (but dual enrollment and an AA was helpful). He needed a mom who would put aside pride (fear of what other homeschooling parents would think) and allow him to join Boy Scouts. His time in scouting offered opportunities to learn experientially from wildlife commissioners, ornithologists, biologists, contractors, and business professionals. Interacting with people of all ages and a variety of backgrounds prepared him for his career as a physical therapist. And, he gained valuable leadership skills as he climbed to Eagle.
- My oldest daughter needed choices. Choices for how to learn. Choices in curriculum. Choices in course content. And, she didn't choose goat.
I know other families chose goat, and it served them well. In some cases, very well. Ah, the beauty of home education and unique paths. Your child might need a goat. Then again, he or she may not.
Glean from the experience of others, but don't be afraid to ponder and give second thought.
YOU have the wonderful opportunity to make choices for your family--goat (or other fascinating experience), the gift of time, undivided attention, personal tutoring, or a hand to hold along the way. The list is infinite because the needs of every family--and every member in that family--are different, not like any other family.
Embrace the difference, the uniqueness. Time passes quickly.
(I am just so glad our homeschooling hasn't--at least so far--involved goats!)

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Letter: Markey to seek seat on City Council
I am excited to announce my candidacy for Mukilteo City Council Position 3.
I've lived in the Puget Sound area for 25 years, but when it came time to choose the city in which to raise our family, we chose Mukilteo. The community we call home has interesting challenges ahead.
As a member of the city's Long-Range Financial Planning Committee, I saw firsthand the magnitude of these problems. We've ignored our roads, tend to hire consultants to fix our problems and don't always follow through on our promises. We make large commitments to new projects without proper planning. If you've gone to City Council meetings, you've probably witnessed this patchwork approach that has council members funding pet projects while simultaneously proposing tax increases.
Like many of you, I own a home in Mukilteo. My kids attend school at Harbour Pointe and Kamiak. I'm concerned not only with property values and the valuable services we get for our tax dollars, but also in public safety and the sense of community we foster in Mukilteo.
I'd also like to think I'd be an excellent addition to the council. Currently, in my work at a hospital, I oversee a budget and manage employees. I've worked with our school district on their budget committee, and I've served as president of my homeowners association in Mukilteo near Big Gulch, and previously in south Everett. I've also been a Rotarian, served on the Chamber of Commerce board, and proudly served in the Army National Guard.
My history is one of working with friends and neighbors to make our community better.
I hope to see you soon: perhaps at the Farmers Market, running along Harbor Point Boulevard, or as we support our children at choir, track or soccer events.
I hope you'll consider voting for me as we face Mukilteo's challenges and opportunities together.
Tony Markey
Many great candidates up for the counsel election, including you. As a long time resident of Mukilteo, I too wanted to and did settle in Mukilteo. Even so, I have great concern about the many known unpermitted dumps...from the Military and Boeing, downgradient and around Painefield, that have been addressed in prior reports I have read. And as a child who grew up in the military, lived on some of the world's most toxic sites, are evident in the area. I contacted the Army Corp of Engineers, two years ago...wanting a meeting to point these out and request investigation. Never a response. I contacted them again the last week, still no response. I have contacted the Snohomish County health district...don't know who's side they are on. It's as if no one wants to address it. The future site of the ICOM is an evident military dump, and I don't believe this ground, one of the last undeveloped properties, should be disturbed. It's evident from the 20-ft rusting tank, and two concrete blocks...(where the trucks would drive in to dispose chemicals...it's evident from the circular cleared areas (unlined dumps)...just as the lot across the street that has a for sale sign...next to Extended stay...that mound is full of debri, and has what appears to be venting pipes, and rock lined dry well disposal areas. I want the Army corp. to test these areas. Paine field is a closed DOD site. I contacted Lenny Siegel two years ago...who sent me a report to congress...the yearly report. to date, ZERO dollars spent on cleanup of a closed DOD facility and many unpermitted military dumps. These chemicals, disposed of by the military and aerospace, cause chemical vapor intrusion into homes....and cause liver, brain cancer and many other illnesses. Time to wake up Mukilteo, and address the contamination in our beautiful city.
I want a counsel member who has a clue and will take these issues on, and demand cleanup....of these areas that are affecting our waterways, residences, and residents health. There is a huge TCE/TCA VOC plume, downgradient of Boeing that has been kept under wraps for years. Residents have a right to know. Will it affect property values? Yes. But, it's not as important as human health.
Why is this kept under wraps? TCE/TCA childhood leukemia, brain cancer, liver cancer.... remember Civil action? How many other undisclosed dumps are there? It causes vapor intrusion into buildings and structures...


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Fitting statistical distributions to sea duck count data: implications for survey design and abundance estimation
Statistical Methodology
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Determining appropriate statistical distributions for modeling animal count data is important for accurate estimation of abundance, distribution, and trends. In the case of sea ducks along the U.S. Atlantic coast, managers want to estimate local and regional abundance to detect and track population declines, to define areas of high and low use, and to predict the impact of future habitat change on populations. In this paper, we used a modified marked point process to model survey data that recorded flock sizes of Common eiders, Long-tailed ducks, and Black, Surf, and White-winged scoters. The data come from an experimental aerial survey, conducted by the United States Fish & Wildlife Service (USFWS) Division of Migratory Bird Management, during which east-west transects were flown along the Atlantic Coast from Maine to Florida during the winters of 2009–2011. To model the number of flocks per transect (the points), we compared the fit of four statistical distributions (zero-inflated Poisson, zero-inflated geometric, zero-inflated negative binomial and negative binomial) to data on the number of species-specific sea duck flocks that were recorded for each transect flown. To model the flock sizes (the marks), we compared the fit of flock size data for each species to seven statistical distributions: positive Poisson, positive negative binomial, positive geometric, logarithmic, discretized lognormal, zeta and Yule–Simon. Akaike's Information Criterion and Vuong's closeness tests indicated that the negative binomial and discretized lognormal were the best distributions for all species for the points and marks, respectively. These findings have important implications for estimating sea duck abundances as the discretized lognormal is a more skewed distribution than the Poisson and negative binomial, which are frequently used to model avian counts; the lognormal is also less heavy-tailed than the power law distributions (e.g., zeta and Yule–Simon), which are becoming increasingly popular for group size modeling. Choosing appropriate statistical distributions for modeling flock size data is fundamental to accurately estimating population summaries, determining required survey effort, and assessing and propagating uncertainty through decision-making processes.
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President Obama assured the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday that the era of a unilateralist America is over. But, he said, the ensuing era of cooperation in addressing the world's toughest challenges also requires a new sense of responsibility on the part of all nations.
In his first UN speech as president, Mr. Obama said the United States is ready to address challenges ranging from nuclear proliferation to global economic prosperity. Yet the world cannot expect America to figure out international challenges alone, he said.
"Make no mistake: This cannot be solely America's endeavor," he told a receptive General Assembly chamber. "Those who used to chastise America for acting alone in the world cannot now stand by and wait for America to solve the world's problems alone."
At the same time, Obama said, all nations have a role to play: "Now is the time for all of us to take our share of responsibility."
Obama's "responsibility" theme echoes one he has used extensively in addressing domestic issues as well. But at the UN, the call for responsible action received an immediate rebuff from Libyan President Muammar Qaddafi, who gave a rambling and at times incoherent speech in which he called the UN Security Council the "terror council" and belittled the UN as a dictatorship of the powerful.
Mr. Qaddafi's speech, which droned on for about 90 minutes, exemplified the challenge before Obama in seeking cooperative action from the 192-nation body. The speech also seems bound to reinforce disdain in the US for the UN.
"President Obama has a very difficult task ... if he expects to invest the UN with renewed credibility," says Christopher Preble, director of foreign studies at the Cato Institute in Washington. "The UN is a weak and fractured institution" of "limited power and credibility," he adds, saying that the US has been as responsible for that weakness as other countries.
In his speech, Obama pledged a new era of US multilateral action based on "four pillars" of major challenges: nonproliferation, peace and security, preservation of planet, and global prosperity.
On nuclear proliferation, Obama said, the next 12 months could be "pivotal": The UN is set to review the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty next year, and the US and Russia are poised to agree on further reductions in their arsenals. But the challenge posed by Iran's and North Korea's nuclear programs are also part of the challenge, he said, and go to the heart of the "responsibility" of all nations to act in ways that solve the world's challenges.
"A world in which international demands are ignored will leave us all less safe," he said, referring to Iran and North Korea by name and to their flaunting of Security Council resolutions. "If nations put the pursuit of nuclear weapons ahead of the prosperity of their own people, then they must be held accountable," he added. "Treaties will be enforced."
Obama dedicated a large chunk of his speech to his efforts to find peace in the Middle East, placing resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in the context of his theme global responsibility.
And he acknowledged his personal popularity around the world, but he insisted that the "expectations about my presidency are not about me" but about rejection of an unsatisfactory status quo in the world – and "the hope that real change in possible."
To underscore his theme, Obama quoted President Franklin D. Roosevelt, saying, "The structure of world peace cannot be the work of one man ... or one nation," but must be "the cooperative effort of the whole world."
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In my distant past, I discovered that jealousy (for me) was made up of a catch-22 between a desire for privacy/autonomy and a fear of being left out/loneliness. There was nothing I could do about making either choice because it precluded the other. But there was a third emotion in there that I could do something about - competition. As I stopped my competitive urges in the moments of feeling envy - (which was really an insecurity comparing myself to this other woman because I didn't really know what made me attractive to the guy I was with,) it disassembled the whole jealousy thing for me. It made me invite the person to be closer to me as well as him; the girl I was jealous of felt the shift and disappeared, because being close to both of us was too wierd for her. Was a very interesting experience.
Lately experienced other people expecting me to be jealous. A regular friend of my boyfriend tried to "diss" me by dis-inviting me on a camping trip, and a few other events. She attempted to redefine my role in my relationship with my boyfriend as "mothering. " Perhaps she didn't know that his relationship with his mother really sucked - and that he really needed the "mothering." For some reason, she regarded our ongoing relationship as "dependent" without knowing much about it. Obviously, she didn't have much of a clue about the sort of relationship we were having.
But at the time, it really confused her how I was reacted to her, because I think that I was supposed to get jealous and forbid him to be able to see her, or I was supposed to break up with him - or something like that. He finally admitted to me that he'd been in love with her for awhile. I replied, "Of course you'd be in love with the person who makes music with you; music opens up your heart. Doing something you love makes you grateful to the people who do it with you. " This was not what he expected to hear.
I pointed out that although he had thought about how much he loved her, he didn't break our monogamy agreement. He pointed out that the reason he didn't was because she wasn't interested in him, particularly. I pointed out that she was getting all the advantages of being in a relationship without "putting out" anyway, and that if he did get involved with her, she'd shelve him after a couple of weeks as we had watched her do to the last five men who had courted her... except for the guy who had other "regular" sometimes women like her. She came back to this guy pretty regularly every four months in between the other guys.
I could totally see how and why my boyfriend liked her so much. She was a blast to hang out with, never a dull moment. We would laugh and make up songs and giggle some more in slumber party mode until we were so drunk with connections. She had a wonderful way with her kids that made them into great people. But she was also dangerously reactive and defensive and had a habit of voting with her feet. It made her quite a natural gypsy.
I'm actually writing this post after the fact, but I'm putting a date on it at the time it was happening. I don't really like drama, so I tend not to write about such things in my blog until after they aren't happening.
Later she decided to avoid me entirely. Perhaps it was because she finally decided to take my boyfriend for a spin after I'd moved out and I guess she was afraid I'd bite after that. Although I had a great relationship with her daughter that I would have liked to continue, she said I was "weird" to a friend of ours. When grilled exactly how I was so weird, she replied, "I dunno, just ...weird." I didn't react the way she imagined women should react - be defensive, back-stabbing, catty and competitive. Go figure.
She back on the island now after declaring she was moving to the mainland. But, since I decided to forgo bringing people into my life who are difficult to deal with, I guess that I'm going to forgo helping her out - although I know she needs a footing. Which is too bad, because I really enjoyed her daughter's art connection with me, and it was really fun updating her blog with her daughter when she came over to play with me. It was such a pleasure to spend time with a very dedicated artist; even if she was only nine years old. I'll miss her. It's too bad her mom thinks I'm weird.


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text: Willoughby : The Dragon from Suburbia October 11, 2011 Here is yet another project I have become involved with. A writer and I are in the process of developing a series of graphic short stories for Kindle, Ipad type platforms. Here is a developmental sketch and a link to our fledgling blog that will (hopefully) chronicle our progress on this exciting project. 'Willoughby' blog


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Oakland A's
A's swept by Astros despite strong outings from rookie starters
Before this season, Jharel Cotton, Sean Manaea and Daniel Mengden had made a combined zero starts pitching above Double A. Over the past three days at the Coliseum, they were the starters for the rebuilding A's in a series against the Houston Astros.
The rookies largely held their own. Cotton allowed one run in six innings in the opener. Manaea threw six shutout innings Tuesday. Mengden held the Astros scoreless for four innings Wednesday before faltering, allowing four runs over the next two innings.
If the A's are optimistic about the future, the performance of three inexperienced starters this week illustrated one reason. The series, though, also reinforced the meaning of potential, as the A's were swept by Houston with a 6-5 loss Wednesday.
Following a high-scoring trip in which they went 6-1, A's totaled eight runs against the Astros and blew late leads in the first two games after Cotton and Manaea had exited. Again with future seasons in mind, the A's had Cotton and Manaea on pitch counts that kept them from going deeper despite how they were pitching.
I don't know if it's staying a little more focused mentally or just making sure I make good pitches and execute. Basically it comes down to executing in big counts.
Daniel Mengden, A's pitcher
"At times our starting pitching's been the issue but certainly not this series," A's manager Bob Melvin said. "That's a group (Houston) that swings the bat pretty well. I think overall we held them down pretty good as far as the offensive end."
Mengden matched his predecessors early Wednesday, retiring his first 10 batters before Yuli Gurriel singled in the fourth inning. He allowed a run in the fifth on two walks, a wild pitch and a groundout, then gave up three in the sixth in a span of three batters. Jose Altuve singled, Carlos Correa delivered a run-scoring double on a two-strike pitch, and Evan Gattis hit a two-run homer – one of Gattis' two in the game and eight this season against the A's.
"Just execution," Mengden said. "The 0-2 to Correa, fastball's supposed to be up and it was belt high. And then sometimes you make a good pitch and they have good hitters here in the big leagues, and they'll hit it out."
Melvin agreed that the pitch to Gattis, a curveball, was "a good pitch. It's almost on the ground. And he golfs it out of the ballpark."
Mengden faced two more batters before exiting, still searching for his first home win. He has seven losses in eight starts at the Coliseum since being called up from Triple-A Nashville on June 11, and overall he is 2-8 with a 5.74 ERA in his rookie season. After Wednesday's start, he said he is still "getting experience every time out."
"I don't know if it's staying a little more focused mentally or just making sure I make good pitches and execute," Mengden said. "Basically it comes down to executing in big counts. When you're facing the heart of the order, like Altuve, Correa and Gattis, you can't make mistakes."
At times our starting pitching's been the issue but certainly not this series. That's a group (Houston) that swings the bat pretty well. I think overall we held them down pretty good as far as the offensive end.
Bob Melvin, A's manager
Catcher Bruce Maxwell, who also spent most of this season at Triple A before being called up in July and was behind the plate working with Mengden on Wednesday, put that adjustment another way.
"If you miss down there (in the minors), they might miss it," Maxwell said. "But up here if you miss a spot, or if you miss a good location, they usually make you pay for it."
All series it seemed the A's had a small margin for error. An RBI double by Brett Eibner in the fourth inning Wednesday hopped the fence, preventing another run from scoring. Eibner also hit a sharp liner with a runner on second in the sixth that Gurriel speared on a dive at third base, ending the inning.
The Astros went ahead 5-3 in the seventh on a close play at the plate, as George Springer sprinted for home on Gurriel's groundout to Marcus Semien and slid in under the relay of first baseman Yonder Alonso. The game ended when Arismendy Alcantara was thrown out trying to steal second base by Astros catcher Jason Castro, a call that was upheld after an umpires' review.
"There were a lot of plays in this game that were just a few inches one way or the other, and if we get them, we're probably talking about a different game right now," Melvin said. "But we didn't. And they won the game."
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Home for the Holidays
The home is more than the structure of which it is made. It's the memories that are held in our hearts forever; growing families, holiday traditions and laughter.
If anyone knows the importance of home, it is Dorothy. Dorothy is a true rarity, a born-and-raised Calgarian, she has lived in her home since 1960.
While Dorothy's house doesn't have the hustle and bustle of young kids running through the halls anymore, you can still feel the warmth of family inside. Her walls are decorated with her memories; trophies, letters, and hand-drawn pictures. Not only does she have pictures of her daughter, but she has snap shots of her grandchildren through the years, as they grow from young students to high school graduates to parents of their own families.
Even without her family at her side, Dorothy is still quite active. You can probably find her out at the nearby bowling alley, doing some 10-pin bowling. Something she's been doing since the 1940's. When she's not bowling strikes, Dorothy will be spending her time on her other favourite hobby, puzzles. She can spend hours a day keeping her mind sharp by meticulously piecing together thousands of puzzle pieces.
Recently, Dorothy noticed things were becoming a bit more difficult at home. Despite being very active, she was having a tough time eating well. "I noticed that my health was starting go downhill," she recalled. Dorothy noticed she was losing a drastic amount of weight. Part of this could be attributed to the fact that Dorothy began using a walker when she went out for errands, and it was making some tasks a bit more challenging. Grocery shopping and cooking are a lot harder when your mobility has been reduced, as a result Dorothy was not able to eat as well as she would have liked.
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"It's made a difference. I am able to keep up a healthy weight and the things I like to do."
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Great Little War Game manages to live up to its name for the most part
For as long as we can remember, good (otherwise known as "Blue") and evil ("Red") have been locked in an eternal struggle. They fight for pride. They fight for oil. They fight because the Great ("and definitely NOT cowardly") Generalissimo is bored and wants something to do in between cups of tea. But, mainly, they fight for our amusement, because they exist in a new iPhone game called Great Little War Game.
This is a turn-based RTS that will seem instantly familiar to anyone who's ever played titles in this genre. Players have a number of units that can be moved a certain number of tiles and – if they have any action points left over – can attack enemy units who happen to be within range. Once each faction has had a turn, a round ("day") is over.
Each mission in the campaign has different objectives. Players might need to wipe an opposing force off the map, use their engineers to take over other buildings, or even outlast enemy waves. Different units gain experience and level up as they take out the opposition, meaning they have more health and can do more damage.
On top of all this, oil rigs generate cash that can be spent on things like new units, air strikes, and upgrades. There are also different levels of elevated terrain, which affect the range and damage a character can deal.
It should be noted that Great Little War Game doesn't contain a multiplayer mode, which is a shame since this seems like the exact type of game that would be a lot of fun for friends to go head-to-head against each other.
The game looks pretty cute. It features 3D graphics presented from a top-down perspective, though when units attack one another things are presented in a close-up, third person perspective. All the units look solid on the screen, but some of the environmental textures seem a bit muddied at times and it isn't always easy to make out the different elevation levels on a map when an iPhone's brightness isn't always pushed up to the max.
The camera is a bit wonky, too. Even though the game will zoom in on combat automatically, there's no option to do this manually. The camera can be rotated, though even this is a bit wonky and not easy to control.
The soundtrack leaves a little to be desired as well. It's by no means bad, but the military brass overtures eventually begin to grow a bit repetitive. This is one of those cases where having an option to play one's own music would have been a great thing, and it's all the more noticeable because the feature is absent.
In terms of core gameplay, Great Little War Game is a delightful, challenging title. Unfortunately, the production values are a bit uneven and drag the rest of the game down. Still, it's a lot of fun, and strategy fans should enjoy it.


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Little Heroes #3: Overseas Adoption
Little Heroes #3: Overseas Adoption
This edition of Little Heroes is designed to help parents and caretakers explain overseas adoption to their children. The Little Heroes series is meant to guide you, through story and pictures, to help foster and adopted children understand why they feel the way they do based on problems that are beyond their control. The book can also be used to help siblings and other caretakers understand their own feelings about having a new child in the home, so that they, too, can participate in the healing process. The accompanying Parent's Guide provides a much fuller explanation of overseas adoption, Fetal Alcohol Syndrome and attachment problems.
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But this Sunday was busier than most. The Spells, along with their son Isaac, were caring for a pair of newborn kids and 20 baby lambs – and making preparations for about 20 more kids to be born within the week. The scene at Elkmont's Humble Heart Farms, where the Spells make and sell goat cheese and goat milk ice cream, was "totes McGoats," as they say in the Sprint commercial.
Helping the Spells keep an eye on the operation were two large herding dogs, at least half a dozen barn cats and a gargantuan elder goat named Sonny.
The Spells keep as many as 60 goats and 30 sheep at any given time, Leslie said.
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Hasta la Muerte
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Act as the death itself in this « art game » where everything was thought to offer players a unique game experience: sound effects, astonishing graphics, out of sorts world…
Your mission: accompany the souls of those whom eternal rest hour has come and thus save them from damnation. A second of inattention and this is the disaster : those souls, damned and inconsolable, will chase you relentlessly to send you back in the Limbo…
Accessible to everyone, this "survival-platformer" offers a "chase-be chased" punchy gameplay, in the manner of famous Pacman.
During this journey you will be aided by "Soulpets". These souls will give you their abilities : speed, stealth, protection and many more. As well as facilitating your mission, those powers will allow you to come back to levels in order to find additional bonuses and hidden treasures.
- Over 20 levels that will dive you in an 2D world with unique graphics!
- An innovative game experience opened to everyone.
- Meet the Soulpets and their specific powers to elaborate new strategies and to boom your score.
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- New languages (Portuguese, Russian,Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Korean)
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Akon has said some sexist stuff about women on Monday, and of course, people will probably be outraged, only to forget about the whole thing tomorrow.
In an interview with Hollywood Today Live in which he discusses winning a BET Award for his humanitarian work in Africa, the 43-year-old Akon (born Aliaume Damala Badara Akon Thiam) clarified his 2013 statement that men are "natural breeders." He took it upon himself to point out the difference between men and women:
"Why is it that every woman in the world is going through the exact same problem with a man... Just think about it. It's not a coincidence, it's just who we are. I always believed that if women took the time to understand men, you literally would run the world. The only reason why men are dominant is because we know more about women than women know about men."
Makes sense coming from the man who wrote a song about spanking in 2006 (to refresh: "Smack that all on the floor / Smack that give me some more / Smack that 'til you get sore / Smack that oh-oh!" Classic!). Akon clearly knows so much about women that he knows that they like being smacked sore.
Here's more:
"Let's think about it. [Men] are outnumbered 15 to 1. [Women] are clearly smarter than we are, and you execute a lot quicker and faster more than we do. So how is it that we run the world?"
He went on to compare human gender dynamics to those of lions: "She knows her role, the guy knows his role, and that's their understanding." Little does Akon know that male leaders in a pride only have a few years of power before the next alpha male kills him off.
Anyway, that's what he said. I'm going to go research men now.


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Expectations And Realism
I passed 25k for NaNoWriMo this morning. I probably should have been working on one of the two essays due within the next week, but I decided to start the day with some writing, and I enjoyed doing it. I also enjoyed reaching that milestone, even though a couple of years ago that would have been disappointing.
The problem with having been a very very fast writer (before I had university to get in the way, and wrist problems to slow down my typing) is that I keep trying to measure up against the person I was a few years ago. Then, I was capable of writing 50k in three or four days, and continuing to write for the rest of the month. Then, it was slow if I didn't hit 25k within the first weekend of NaNoWriMo, and here I am on day nine.
I'm ahead of target, but part of me still feels like I'm behind.
I have to consciously decide to be proud of this. And I am. It's a victory over my workload and my lack of inspiration. It's the first 25k of new material that I've written in a horribly long time. It's made up of short stories, which aren't my strong point, so it's a chance for me to explore a new medium and try out different styles of writing. Every thousand words I write is a victory in a way that maybe they wouldn't have been a couple of years ago.
That's also partly because novels allow for word-padding and filler scenes where nothing really happens, but short stories are far tauter creatures. I know that when I go back and edit these stories, I'll probably cut quite a bit, trim them and make them neater. The unedited ones will stay up on Wattpad, though.
Some of these stories, I'm proud of. There's one, Never So Red, that didn't go at all in the direction I was expecting, and as a result it's inconsistent and will need more editing than the others. But I really enjoyed how it came out, even so. I'm writing True Love Of Mine in second person, which I've never done before, and it's a rewarding experience to try something a bit different but know that I'm not committing to it for long.
Some of them, I'm less proud of. Rose and Briar was an interpretation of Barbry Allen, and while it wasn't a bad story, I felt it was poorly written even by my NaNo standards, and decided not to post it on Wattpad because I didn't think it was good enough. Why did that happen? I'm not sure. Maybe it was the writing style, or the fact that I didn't think it through before I started. I'll go back and rewrite it, because it had potential, but ultimately it didn't live up to it.
I still wrote it, though. A short story. Beginning, middle, end. I'm proud of how comfortable I've become with this form, even though I sometimes catch myself thinking, "This could make a really interesting novel." I'm trying to make sure that just because these aren't long, doesn't mean they've got no story. They're not vignettes or snapshots, so while the characters may have backstory and futurestory or whatever the word is, they also develop and experience things within the 3k-5k I've taken to explore them.
No, I haven't beaten any of my NaNoWriMo records (except that I've written every day so far even though one day was less than 200 words, and I'm not sure I've managed that in the past). I haven't wowed anyone with my ridiculous speed. I haven't made it to any write-ins.
But I've produced something that I'm proud of, and I believe now that I can hit 50k. Which, you know, is what this thing is all about. I've never doubted it in the past, but this year I did. Not anymore. I'm on a roll. I'm also about to run out of songs to adapt, so if anyone has any suggestions, leave them in the comments.
And I'll finish by linking to the stories I've written so far, so that you can read them if you wish.
Folk Stories:
- Fear Me Not — based on Tam Lin, I wrote this before NaNoWriMo began, so it has an advantage over the others in terms of how much time I spent on it.
- The Seventh One — based on The Outlandish Knight, I got off to a good start with the month by finishing this before I actually went to bed in the early hours of November 1st.
- My Broadsword And A Pistol Too — based on Geordie, this one proved more difficult to write than the one before it, but I might just not have been in the right mood at the time.
- Fare Thee Well — based on Sweet William's Ghost, this one didn't come out entirely as I'd hoped, because its sci-fi setting was a bit too vague to really play into the story. In edits, I'd like to emphasise that element of it.
- Rose And Briar — based on Barbry Allen, I just didn't like this one enough to post it. I'll edit it one day.
- Ringing You To Hell — based on False Knight On The Road, I gave this one a more modern setting and included a leather-jacket-clad ghosthunter, which made it fun to write. I think I strayed more from the original song, but there was enough of it to underpin the story and make it worth writing!
- Never So Red — based on How Come That Blood, this is marked 'mature' on Wattpad because of the violence and also some bad language (sorry, Mum). It didn't go in the direction I'd planned: my vet-turned-schoolteacher character turned into a crowbar-wielding badass within the space of two thousand words, but there we go. When I edit it, I'll hopefully make it a bit more consistent….
- True Love Of Mine — based on Scarborough Fair, this is a more fantastical, fairytale-esque retelling of a song that a lot of people will know. I haven't finished it yet, but I'm really enjoying playing around with second person, and I just hope I can do the story justice within the word limit. I may need to up my self-regulated limit to 6,000 words from 5, though. Who knows?
Have you lived up to or failed to meet any of your expectations for yourself lately? Any writing happening, or is it all huddling inside away from the freezing cold November air (or warm November air if you live in bizarre alternate worlds like Australia, I guess)?


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We've been helping a number of customers migrate to Windows 10 over the past year or so and the same thing keeps happening to me: I run a demo of our product MigrationStudio, and I explain how understanding your current user-base and their application usage is one of the most important steps in delivering a successful migration. But why?
There's a significant difference between the installed applications on a device, and the applications each person actually uses. In almost all cases people only ever use a subset of the applications they have installed. We've done some analysis of this on real-world data and have found that typically anywhere between 25% and 34% of a typical user's applications will ever be used.
This information is like gold-dust for anyone planning a migration to Windows 10 because it vastly reduces the number applications we have to consider before we migrate the users, and it significantly reduces the time taken and therefore the cost.
At this point, the customer normally responds that they don't have a solution in-place which provides application usage metrics. I ask "Do you use SCCM?" and the typical answer is "Yes, of course". This is the point where I explain that SCCM does track application usage, and to an extremely detailed level. Sometimes customers will say "but we haven't configured software metering" but this isn't the feature we rely on. Instead, we use the inventory feature of SCCM which is enabled by default, and captures usage of all applications which are launched with an executable file. It will track these applications regardless of how they were installed (manual installs, SCCM installed, run from a network share) and it will even track virtual applications such as App-V. And better still, it doesn't just provide a list of executable names, instead, it provides a vendor, product name and version.
Typical MigrationStudio dashboard showing SCCM data:
This is an incredibly useful resource, and most people I speak to have no idea that this exists.
How can I get access to the SCCM inventory data?
We've spent the last year refining our SCCM connector which means that MigrationStudio can run a daily extract from SCCM and present this in an easy-to-digest format. This has a number of benefits over the raw SCCM inventory data:
You can connect to multiple, separate SCCM systems and bring all the data into one instance (perfect for mergers)
MigrationStudio filters out the applications which aren't relevant to OS migrations (patches, hotfixes, drivers, utilities etc.)
MigrationStudio normalises the data to make all variations of Abobe, Adobe Inc etc consistent (this includes application names and versions too)
MigrationStudio layers Active Directory and HR data over the SCCM data allowing you to break down the application usage by department, location, office etc. This means we can easily show you which Adobe applications were used by the Leeds office in the past 14 days for example.
Simplified application rationalisation allows you to take multiple versions of a product and replace it with a single version, and automatically forward-path the users of the old versions to the single new version to make the transition to Windows 10 faster and easier.
We have a large number of customers who have been extremely surprised with just how useful the SCCM inventory data is when processed by MigrationStudio. They have been able to save a significant amount of time and money with their EUC transformation projects and have continued to gain benefits of using the data post-migration to keep on top of the application management.


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Whether you have been involved in a car accident, a sport-related injury,
or a slip and fall accident, you may be suffering from pain due to back
or neck injuries. After accidents occur, it is beneficial to see a chiropractor
to ensure your spine and neck are not misaligned, creating pain throughout
the body. In some cases, a spinal adjustment may be the answer.
A spinal adjustment, often referred to as a chiropractic adjustment, is
when a force is applied to a specific area of the back that helps normalize
spinal function. This force is applied to a joint that is considered fixated
or "locked up," disallowing the joint from moving properly.
These adjustments help return the joints to a normal position so that
the body can heal and restore that area of the body.
Below are the various things you can expect before, during, and after your
chiropractic adjustment.
1. Questions and Understanding
Your chiropractor will perform a physical examination, focusing much attention
on the spine. In addition, the chiropractor may ask you questions regarding
your health history.
2. The X-Ray
Your chiropractor might perform an X-Ray to see the alignment of your spine
and neck prior to your adjustment.
3. The Warm-Up
Many chiropractors suggest that the spine is rested and warm before the
adjustment is performed. In many cases, a chiropractor will suggest the
patient lie on the table, face down, allowing the arms to hang towards
the floor. This will allow for the spine to rest in a neutral position.
4. The Adjustment
The chiropractor will apply controlled force to the joint. This will push
the joint beyond its range of motion, loosening it so that the body can
heal the area,
5. The Recovery and Return
After your adjustment, you may feel soreness in different areas. This is
because the chiropractor loosened locked joints. The body will begin healing
the area immediately, which should allow for the side effects or any pain
to subside.
If you are experiencing neck or back pain, it is important to seek medical
help right away. The Lawrenceville chiropractors at Gwinnett Medical Back
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We take out time to understand your symptoms and work hard to formulate
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My name is Esty and I'm a teenager who as I'm sure you noticed, runs a book blog. I also dance (tap, contemporary and a little ballet), read and attend a boarding school. Hence, the name of my blog:) Just to clear up: I'm not a juvenile deliquent, nor a mind blowing genius. My school is just one of the best schools in my area and dorming happens to be mandatory. I live near so for me it's not too big a deal.
I've always loved to read and about a year and half ago discovered book blogs. I was fascinated. I mean, what could be better than to read, rave/rant about it, and then share the experience with other
I also am a fluent Hebrew speaker and I have a blog for Hebrew books too- third tab!
Please follow/comment it makes my day! You can also find me on twitter @boardingwbooks. Email: boardingwithbooks (at) blogspot (dot) com or on Goodreads.
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Benjamin Chilton - Viola
Benjamin Chilton, 21, is from Dallas, Texas. He began playing viola at the age of 16, after studying violin for five years. Having been awarded the full-tuition Olivia Juliet Hedges Endowed Music Scholarship, he recently completed a Bachelor's of Music degree at the University of Southern California where he studied with professors Che-Yen Chen and Don McInnes. In the Fall of 2017, he will begin a Master's of Music program at the Colburn School under the tutelage of Paul Coletti. Benjamin has performed in many concerts across the United States and Europe, including a performance on NPR's From the Top with the Dallas Symphony and as a soloist with Culver City Symphony as a winner of the 2013 Parness Concerto Competition. Benjamin has also been named 2nd Place in the National American String Teachers Association competition in the Senior Viola division and been featured on the cover of The Strad magazine's Summerplus Edition. In addition, he regularly plays contemporary music in Los Angeles with ensembles such as USC Thornton Edge Ensemble along with local jazz ensembles. In 2015, Benjamin was part of the featured quartet on Dynamic Films' score to An Act of Love. Benjamin has also been a fellow at the Music Academy of the West as well as of the featured quartet of the Rencontres Franco Americaines Festival in Missillac, France, where he performed alongside luminaries such as Jeremy Denk and François Salque, respectively.


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National Trust Summer show 2016/
This summer the National Trust are hosting 'Luke Elwes: Floating World', an exhibition of recent work on paper at their new gallery on Constable's historic site of Flatford Mill. Exhibition details and text available here
'In his works on paper Luke Elwes captures the transient nature of place and memory. His chosen territory is close by the Stour estuary and similarly flat under an East Anglian sky but quite different to that sense of timeless order and apparent tranquility found in Constable country'.
The exhibition opens on 2 July and runs until 30 August 2016 at the National Trust Gallery, Flatford Mill, Suffolk CO7 6UL


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In February 2005, NYCEDC closed on the sale of a 42-acre site to Charleston Enterprises, LLC, an affiliate of Blumenfeld Development Group, to develop the Bricktown Centre at Charleston.
The new retail center brings national retailers Home Depot, Target, and Bed Bath & Beyond to a previously underserved southern Staten Island retail market. Bricktown Centre at Charleston is expected to recapture some sales tax revenues lost to the New Jersey retail market, generating approximately $76 million in tax revenues over 25 years.
The project involves more than $100 million in private investment, including $15 million to the City for the site acquisition.
Charleston Enterprises, LLC also committed $16 million in on-site and off-site infrastructure improvements that will include the following:
- A16-foot wide greenway with bicycle and pedestrian path
- Additional landscaping
- Storm water control devices
- Traffic signals and access roads
- Utilities
Development of Bricktown Centre at Charleston is expected to create more than 630 construction jobs and 550 permanent jobs.


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First Edition: November 6, 2013
Today's headlines include reports detailing the contents of the health law's "war room" notes as well as scene-setters for today's Senate hearing testimony about healthcare.gov by Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius.
Kaiser Health News: Labor Unions May Get Health Law Tax Relief
Kaiser Health News staff writer Jay Hancock reports: "Weeks after denying labor's request to give union members access to health-law subsidies, the Obama administration is signaling it intends to exempt some union plans from one of the law's substantial taxes. Buried in rules issued last week is the disclosure that the administration will propose exempting 'certain self-insured, self-administered plans' from the law's temporary reinsurance fee in 2015 and 2016" (Hancock, 11/6). Read the story.
Kaiser Health News: Capsules: Obama Administration Hoping 800K Enroll By End Of November
Now on Kaiser Health News' blog, Phil Galewitz reports: "About 800,000 people are expected to enroll in the new online health insurance marketplaces by the end of November, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator Marilyn Tavenner said Tuesday at a congressional hearing. A CMS official said later that estimate includes people signing up for Medicaid as well as private insurance" (Galewitz, 11/5). Check out what else is on the blog.
The Wall Street Journal: Obama Recalibrates 'Keep Your Insurance' Pledge
President Barack Obama has continued to recalibrate his promise that "you'll be able to keep your health-care plan" under the Affordable Care Act, adding new language to those oft-repeated words and arguing that those who are losing their insurance will end up with better coverage. The altered phrasing comes amid criticism that Mr. Obama didn't properly characterize the law since thousands of Americans are receiving notices that their health insurance has been canceled. The administration has worked to explain how events on the ground match Mr. Obama's assurances that the new federal law wouldn't force people out of their health plans (Nelson and Nicholas, 11/5).
Los Angeles Times: Obama Adjusts Pitch For Healthcare Law
While a team of techies tries to reboot the broken federal insurance website, President Obama is trying to retool efforts to promote the flailing healthcare law. The flawed launch of the new online marketplaces has forced Obama to spend time defending the insurance exchanges rather than selling them to a skeptical public, as he had planned. More than a month into the rollout, he has few bright spots to highlight and one big gaping hole to avoid: The website he planned to sell with the zeal of a late-night infomercial pitchman does not work properly (Hennessey and Mascaro, 11/6).
The Associated Press/Washington Post: Obama To Pitch Health Care Law In Texas, Drawing Attention To High Rate Of Uninsured
Beset by hard-to-keep promises and a massive website failure, President Barack Obama is promoting his embattled health care law in the state with the highest rate of uninsured Americans in the nation, but also the state that has been among the most politically hostile to the signature initiative of his presidency (11/6).
USA Today: Obama Heads To Dallas For Health Care PR Blitz
President Obama heads to Dallas on Wednesday to make his case for uninsured Americans to enroll for coverage under the Affordable Care Act — heading to a city in a "red state" that the administration believes is prime to hear the president's pitch. Obama will be visiting an area that has one of the highest concentrations of uninsured people in the USA — with more than 670,000, or 28% of Dallas County's population, uninsured (Madhani, 11/5).
Politico: Obama To Pressure Perry On Health Care During Texas Visit
President Barack Obama plans to call on Texas Gov. Rick Perry – one of the most prominent Obamacare foes in the country - to follow the lead of a handful of other Republican governors and agree to the expansion of Medicaid in the state as he visits Dallas on Wednesday. "This isn't a political issue. This is about making sure people where they live have access to good quality, affordable health care," White House deputy senior adviser for communications and strategy David Simas said Tuesday as he previewed the president's trip (Epstein, 11/5).
The Associated Press/Washington Post: Obama's Chief Of Staff Asks Largest Health Insurers To Help Explain Cancellations To Americans
The White House is asking insurance companies to explain to Americans the cancellation letters they're receiving in the mail. President Barack Obama's chief of staff, Denis McDonough, met Tuesday with CEOs from some of the largest health insurers. The White House says McDonough updated the CEOs on fixes to healthcare.gov and problems with enrollment data sent electronically to insurers. McDonough also solicited input on whether the system is getting better (11/5).
The Wall Street Journal: Health Insurers Urged To Extend Policies Beyond Year-End
Federal lawmakers and state officials are stepping up pressure on insurers to allow consumers whose coverage has been canceled in response to the health overhaul to keep their policies beyond the end of the year. On Tuesday, one of the largest regional health plans in the nation, Blue Shield of California, said it would relax its stance on terminated policies for about 115,000 people after state regulators demanded it do so. Customers now will have until March to decide which plan to choose for 2014, a three-month extension. Because the newer plans generally cost more, the extension could save residents as much as $28.6 million on premiums, said Dave Jones, California's insurance commissioner (Martin and Radnofsky, 11/5).
The New York Times: Notes Reveal Chaotic White House Talks On Health Care Site
More than 100 pages of "war room notes" released by congressional investigators on Tuesday offer a window into the chaos that overwhelmed the Obama administration as the federal health insurance marketplace started up last month and officials realized that its problems could not be fixed quickly (Pear, 11/5).
Politico: Darrell Issa Releases 175 Pages Of Obamacare 'War Room' Notes
A slew of newly released notes documenting Obamacare's first month fill in more of the blanks of how the troubled launch unfolded but don't reveal any enrollment numbers. During the first few days following the federal exchange site's Oct. 1 launch, the Obama administration publicly blamed the HealthCare.gov glitches on high website traffic. But the 175 pages of notes from the Obamacare "war room" — released Tuesday by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee — contain little to no mention of higher-than-expected volume (Cunningham, 11/5).
The Associated Press/Washington Post: Questions Mount Over Incomplete Testing Of Healthcare.gov Website
Obama administration officials are facing mounting questions about whether they cut corners on security testing while rushing to meet a self-imposed deadline to launch online health insurance markets. Documents show that the part of HealthCare.gov that consumers interact with directly received only a temporary six-month security certification because it had not been fully tested before Oct. 1, when the website went live. It's also the part of the system that stores personal information (11/6).
The Wall Street Journal: Health-Site Security Concerns Raised
The Obama administration official overseeing the troubled federal health-insurance website acknowledged Tuesday that a North Carolina man accidentally received another applicant's personal information, raising concerns among lawmakers about the site's security (Schatz, 11/5).
Politico: Security Experts Fear ACA Vulnerabilities
Early stumbles on the hobbled Obamacare website — password glitches, incomplete testing and fractured development — underscore considerable safety risks and hint at deeper vulnerabilities, data security experts warn. Lawmakers seized on those concerns Tuesday and will most likely do so again Wednesday, reverting attention to a process that has astounded IT specialists (Meyers, 11/5).
Politico: Obamacare Could Increase Food Stamp Rolls
Republicans have another reason to hate Obamacare: It could grow the number of people on food stamps. The Obama administration has ordered a study to determine whether the Affordable Care Act, by increasing the number of people eligible for Medicaid, will also increase the number of people enrolled in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program based on how states enroll people (Parti, 11/5).
Los Angeles Times: State Insurance Chief Faults Health Exchange For Cancellations
Stepping into the national backlash over health policy cancellations, California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones faulted the state's health exchange for requiring insurers to terminate coverage Dec. 31, but acknowledged that he has little power to stop it. Jones reiterated his support for President Obama's healthcare law Tuesday, but he said these cancellation notices and the resulting avalanche of consumer complaints were an unnecessary blunder (Terhune, 11/5).
NPR: In Colorado, A Couple Finds Relief In Obamacare
There's plenty of criticism of the Affordable Care Act and how it's being implemented. But let's introduce you to someone who is quite pleased with her Obamacare experience: Lela Petersen of Flagler, Colo. She's a small business owner with a very big health insurance bill (Brady, 11/6).
The Associated Press/Washington Post: Sebelius Back To Capitol Hill For Fresh Grilling On Health Care As lawmakers' Worries Grow
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius is returning to Capitol Hill for a fresh interrogation on the health care law, this time from senators with growing concerns about President Barack Obama's crowning legislative achievement. Sebelius was due to face questions Wednesday from the Senate Finance Committee, whose chairman, Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., was a chief author of the 2010 law and remains a vocal defender. Yet in a measure of its troubled rollout, even he has concerns about the problem-plagued HealthCare.gov website and the potential security risks it poses for consumers' private information (11/6).
Los Angeles Times: Senators Grill Obamacare Administrator Over Healthcare.gov
The top Obamacare administrator told a Senate committee that setbacks will not hamper overall enrollment in the Affordable Care Act, which she said was expected to start slowly and then grow before the 2014 deadline to carry insurance coverage. Democrats joined Republicans on Tuesday grilling Marilyn Tavenner, the chief of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, which is overseeing the website for the Health and Human Services Department (Mascaro, 11/5).
The Washington Post: Medicare Chief Marilyn Tavenner Testifies Before Senate On Healthcare.gov Troubles
An administration official overseeing the federal online health insurance marketplace encouraged Americans to log on to the Web site despite its well-publicized technical problems and try to shop for coverage. Testifying Tuesday on Capitol Hill, Marilyn Tavenner said her agency, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), plans to release information next week about who enrolled through the state and federal exchanges. She said the target for the end of November is 800,000 enrollments (Somashekhar and Goldstein, 11/5).
The Wall Street Journal: HCA 3rd-Quarter Profit Up 1.4% Amid Modest Growth in Admissions, Revenue
The company said it now expects adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization for the year near the upper end of its previously guidance for $6.25 billion to $6.5 billion (Stynes, 11/5).
The Associated Press/Washington Post: McAuliffe Elected Governor, Defeats Cuccinelli After Pledging To Expand State's Medicaid Rolls
In his emotional concession speech, Cuccinelli also noted the lopsided spending and vowed he would not give up on his fight against Democrats' national health care law. … From the outset, the campaign shaped up as a barometer of voters' moods and a test of whether a swing-voting state like Virginia would elect a tea party-style governor. Republicans bet a deeply conservative candidate would be their best shot at holding onto the governor's office, passing over a lieutenant governor for Cuccinelli, a crusader against the federal health care law (11/6).
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Album Art for Play Human!!!
So psyched and happy about the album cover for my new album. Here it is in all its glory. Hope you dig it too! I can't wait to share the album with you on August 5th, here on my website, on iTunes Amazon and Bandcamp. And at the RELEASE PARTY!! That night at The Bowery Electric on the Lower East Side of NYC. Here's a link for that. See you there!!!


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by Kathy
(Minden Ont. Canada)
My mom always said "Eat your Veggies. They are good for you". So that's how I named the smoothie. For 1 serving.
5 strawberries
1 banana
1 stalk of celery
1 small cucumber
1 small piece of green pepper
1 large kale leaf
and some spinach
5 ice cubes and water.
I find it tastes better cold.
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At Stumptown Coffee Roasters coffee is king—but it's still their relationships that really keep them going.
Stumptown was started with the goal of doing things differently, with a vision that's always been a little left-of-center, and with the focus squarely on quality. They source the best coffees in the world and strive to maintain transparent, quality-based relationships with their farmers along the way. From plant to portafilter, Stumptown pays homage to these folks through their own fervent attention to detail at every step, quality control in the cupping labs, meticulous roasting profiles and extensive barista education.
Stumptown is committed to the well-being of everyone they work with, from the farmers and the communities they live in, to their employees and communities here in the States. They value their relationships with their customers, growers, and each other. With their roastery facilities in four cities, several cafes, and fantastic wholesale partnerships around the country, we think there's a lot to be proud of there.


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Head on over to Read Horror to have a gander at my second Re(a)d-Letter Day column for them, wherein I talk at some length about the literary and cinematic 'evolution' of that ever-popular creature of darkness, the vampire. From Bram Stoker's Dracula to Stephenie Meyer's Twilight Saga by way of vintage Aurora model kits, it's all there…. here's the link.
I was also interviewed by Jim Mcleod for his Ginger Nuts of Horror website recently. I get to talk about all kinds of things, not just about my publishing ambitions (although they do get a mention!) – find out what I did before becoming a publisher and what my favourite hobby is (and why I do it, as well as why I got back into it after an absence of decades). I am not entirely sure what it all says about me, so I leave that up for you to decide. The interview can be accessed here.
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text: TODD PORTNOWITZ (1986) was born in Melbourne, FL and lives and works in New York City. He holds a BA in English from the University of Florida and an MA in Italian Literature from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is the translator of Midnight in Spoleto by Paolo Valesio (Fomite, 2018), Go Tell It to the Emperor: The Selected Poems of Pierluigi Cappello (Spuyten Duyvil, 2019), and Long Live Latin by Nicola Gardini (Farrar Straus and Giroux, 2019), as well as of two young-adult novels with the Italian publisher Mondadori. He has received honors from the Academy of American Poets (Raiziss/de Palchi Fellowship, 2015, Affiliated Fellow at the American Academy in Rome) and the Bread Loaf Translators Conference. His poetry, essays, and poetry translations from and into Italian have appeared in AGNI, Asymptote, Guernica, Virginia Quarterly Review, Poesia, Poetry and Southwest Review. An Assistant Editor at Alfred A. Knopf, he is also a co-founder and editor of the Italian poetry blog Formavera, a co-director of the Brooklyn-based reading series for writer-translators, Us&Them, and is on the board of the Amy Clampitt Fund.


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Mint Rims is exactly what it says on the tin. It's Auto Finesse's wheel wax. It has a synthetic base wax, which suitable for high-temperatures, making it the perfect blend for those rims, helping to maintain specialists finishes and making future cleaning a breeze.
Mint Rims acts as a wax and a sealant which will protect your wheels from penetration of the elements or heat, keeping them in the best-possible condition.
Auto Finesse has developed and created the ultimate blend of high-temperature synthetic waxes and fast-flashing solvent carriers, to bring you the perfect seal for any wheel. The unique blend of ingredients ensures that your rims, shoes, hoops, whatever you want to call them, are protected from heat, corrosive brake dust, and oxidation. It has a respectable level of durability of around 2-3 months, and those figures are even application on performance cars that are regularly high-speed braking.
Mint Rims is suitable for use on any wheel finish, including bare-polished, chrome, anodised, clear-coat, powder-coated, and painted. We'd say the best times to apply would be before summer and before winter seasons, this will ensure fresh protection for the harshest changes in conditions. Naturally, Mint Rims wheel wax is a wax and layering it up will serve you well, so whenever you clean your wheels, try and apply another layer (if you have time). Pop your foam applicator into the pot and half-twist once – this should do one whole wheel. If you can (we know sometimes this is unrealistic), take the wheel off and do in-between the spokes, and behind. Once applied, the need for dedicated wheel cleaners is greatly reduced, and a pH neutral car shampoo is all that is required to bring back a sparkling fresh finish.
It's also important not to overlook freshly re-furbished wheels, either. When your wheels come back from paint, powder-coat or polish is the perfect time to lay down a layer of Mint Rims wheel sealant!
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Suitable for use on all wheel finishes.
While the wheels are off the car, make sure to wax tighter areas such as behind spokes. This will help preserve your wheels and make sure you they always look factory fresh.


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Lyft, Uber, airline carrier, Airbnb, a translation app if voyaging over seas… these bare necessity travel apps. Once you've got those bases covered, the below apps will keep you feeling healthy, happy, pampered and well fed throughout any trip.
ClassPass - Unlimited indie fitness studio access
If you're a member at home, your Equinox GM can ring up the GM where you're headed and request to put you on the list. If you're either not an Equinox member or would rather check out indie fitness studios, check to see if your destination is a ClassPass city. $100 for a month gets you unlimited classes at a number of cool, local studios.
Living Social - Rub that jetlag out at a steal
Wanting to be spendy on dining hotspots, indulge in a little shopping and get a taste of local pampering? Living Social is a go-to for booking nearly any spa service in case of mani-emergencies, tight shoulders from long haul in economy, or just because you're on vacation and deserve it. Great deals, reviews to tell you who's a winner and who's a pass and geo-info so you can make sure they're close enough to the hotel.
Style Seat - Get styled by local cool kids
Similar to Living Social in what it solves for the beauty-focused traveler, Style Seat features a few cooler spots than Living Social vendors - but the hipper vibe means these spas and salons are in no need of knocking off a few bucks.
EatWith - Eat, drink, turn strangers into friends
Restaurants are fun and fabulous and checking out the scene of a new locale is always a highlight of a new trip. But what if you want to connect with real locals, dig into food as authentic as sitting in someone's own home, bring a bottle of wine from home and share with new friends? EatWith is like OpenTable for home cooks' actual homes. Pick a cuisine, date and byo!
Nutrimatix - Like an extra posh Emergen-C
Download this one before you pack your bag for personalized, individualized vitamins/supplements. Like Emergen-C and your multivitamin got together and made high quality, filler-free, orange-tasting vitamin babies. Answer a questionnaire on dietary restrictions, what your workouts are like and how much of the day you're attached to a desk - and Nutrimatix will whip up one month's worth of bespoke supps. Just toss enough of the individual packets to last your trip into a ziploc and you're set.
FitStar - No excuses hotel workouts
If your on-the-road, in-room workout program could use a little inspiration, FitStar offers both a personal training app and a yoga app. Classes are led by athletes and fitness celebs, including Tara Stiles (!), and can be tailored to any level - from beginner to machine. There is a free version for access to one workout per week, and a paid version for unlimited access to personalized sessions and 'Freestyle' sessions for either $7.99 per month or $39.99 for a year.
Calm - Meditation app
If either you're waiting for a last minute deal on hotels, or freaking out about maybe having to cancel a non-refundable vacation to accommodate a work trip - Roomer's peer-to-peer hotel marketplace is an awesome little hotel booking secret. Score last minute deals on amazing rooms while at the same time helping out a fellow traveler; or post your room to Roomer if instead of a ladies weekend in Miami you now have to do trade show duty in Orlando.
Vivino - Find the right local wine
In a new place and want to order something delicious and local but don't know where to start? Or just want to make sure you're not paying an arm and a leg over retail price for whichever local tipple this ends up being? Vivino's wine list scanner can scan in near any wine list and provide crowdsourced reviews from over ten million users (so you need not default to second cheapest wine), and average price (so you know the real value of your buzz).


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NBL Shootaround: Kings' first look at Isaac Humphries
A prized recruit from the University of Kentucky, Isaac Humphries made a shaky start in his first hit out for the Kings against the Oklahoma Sooners, but he showed promising signs in a much better finish to the game.
He began with a wild air ball and a couple of rushed shots from close range, short arming a simple baseline jumper. When he settled, however, he begun to show some of the promise that has made him an intriguing prospect, even while playing little on a stacked Kentucky squad. He showed soft hands and a nice touch around the hoop, finishing through contact a couple of times and throwing a neat pass to the Kings' other standout, Deng Acouth and having little trouble getting good post position.
He begun to find his range on baby hooks and running hooks, ending with 21 points and snaring 9 rebounds. He won't be chasing players around the perimeter, but scouting reports suggesting an immobile low-post dinosaur are probably a bit overplayed, at least at NBL level. While his jump shooting numbers at Kentucky weren't good, his mechanics looked decent and he knocked down a top of circle three when left wide open. Overall, the 19 year old looks like something of a project, but an upper tier project, and one who could start in the NBL.


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This year's SEED Summit saw over 400 staff members from across the entire network gathered at SEED Maryland's campus for two days of community building, professional development, and celebration. Summit began with the SEED Celebration Dinner, featuring performances by current SEED students, graduate remarks, and the first annual SEED Staff of the Year Awards!
This past spring, each SEED school selected their campus-wide winners in the following categories: Teacher, Student Life Team Member, Student Support Team Member, School Support Team Member, and Leader. (The SEED Foundation also nominated staff in the latter three categories.) These exemplary professionals then competed with their counterparts at the other schools for the title of network-wide winner, which was recognized with a trophy and a cash prize of $1,500. Pictured above are the 2017 network-wide Staff of the Year winners--congratulations to these SEED stars!
In addition to the Staff of the Year awards, Thursday featured plenty of joyful reunions, brainstorming sessions, and even an impromptu dance party! Friday, the second day of Summit, was dedicated to tailored professional learning. SEED Staff selected and attended four different 70-minute workshops. The workshops, which were led by other SEED staff, ranged from Technology Integration in the Classroom, to Creating a College-Going Culture, to Mindful Meditation. Over 40 different sessions were offered, including "Managing Yourself: The Starting Point for Leadership," led by our very own CEO, Lesley Poole.
Before saying "so long" to our colleagues, members of The SEED Foundation's Leadership Team took the opportunity to offer some guidance for the year to come. Chief College Success Officer Vincena Allen discussed the ways that all SEED staff, regardless of role, contribute to our students' college success. Project Director Hopi Moodie outlined SEED 20/20, a network-wide, forward-looking plan for the organization's next twenty years. Finally, CEO Lesley Poole illuminated the path that led her to SEED 20 years ago, before leading the staff in a rousing rendition of the SEED pledge.
SEED Summit 2017 was truly a network-wide effort. Nearly 40 staff from all three schools and the Foundation worked together to plan and executive this event, and over 50 staff members from all four entities led professional development workshops. We greatly appreciate their planning, organization, and leadership: Summit would not be possible without them.