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My new year resolution is … …
-to complete all missions in FF7 Crisis Core before proceeding to the story mode (currently in Shinra Mansion with Cloud)
-not to neglect my inner fuujoushi
-be a better person inside and out (´∀`)
My new year resolution is … …
-to complete all missions in FF7 Crisis Core before proceeding to the story mode (currently in Shinra Mansion with Cloud)
-not to neglect my inner fuujoushi
-be a better person inside and out (´∀`)
Filed under Celebrations and Festivities, FFCrisisCore
Why must the holidays end so sooon??!!!囧rz
I don't want to go to work…I want to be a hikkikomori… Aah,what a cursed blessing it is to be employed.
Thanks to my cousin, she helped me recover my inner 'fuujoushi'.
Now my MOE meter has returned to normal levels.(´∀`)
うっほ!The following manga was inspired by Chihaya san's Chupa Chups Sephiroth~vvv
My doggie Zacks has arrived at Niebelheim and he's fought Sephiroth. It's the final chapter. I can't believe my Crisis Core gameplay's going to end very soon… (T_T)
I'm absolutely unmotivated to continue…
Filed under ネタ・漫画, FFCrisisCore
Potion will be on sale on 23rd Oct 2007 to commemorate the 7-year anniversary of FFVII and to boost Suntory's softdrink revenue (Square Enix's royalty revenue too?). (@∀@;)
What better way to ensure the success of the drink manufacturer's marketing campaign than the good old TV commercial?
… …I can't believe Zack left the Buster Sword outside the convenience store.
I wonder how the Potion tastes like? Even though I know it's basically made up of water, sugar and colouring… and that it raises my sugar level rather than HP (HP↓)… OTL
With the yummy-licious pictures of Sephiroth, Zack, Cloud and other FF7 characters plastered onto the cans, these cans are worth collecting! 16 of them in all! Any self-respecting FF7 fan would gladly suffer diabetes for their favourite characters, no?
I gladly burnt a hole in my wallet, again. This time, giving a part of my hard-earned income to Kinokuniya. I bought the last 'Crisis Core FF7 Ultimania' strategy guidebook in the store, 'The Boy' by Germaine Greer, 'Japanese Comickers 2' artbook, 2 B's Log monthly comic and 'メイド・イン・王子', a BL comic which I regretted buying (I don't like shota). Total: SGD $170++
And there's alot of books in my amazon.jp shopping cart waiting to be bought… (@Д@;)
Filed under FFCrisisCore, Spending Spree
Let's go get the long-awaited Final Fantasy Crisis Core OST! わん!わん!vvv
Finally!!! It's here!!!
I don't have to run the UMD to listen to the music anymore. Thanks to Godai, I finally got my hands on the OST!!!
There's not one track that's made me want to FFWD or skip to the next track. (which I'd usually do for any album) Takeharu Ishimoto did an excellent job in re-arranging and re-interpreting some of Nobuo Uematsu's works such as 'Those who Fight Further' and 'The Turks' Theme'. However, the only downer was in his handling of the 'One Winged Angel' march. It felt like the angel could hardly fly with the slow and elephantine chorus.
I really loved the richness of the music with the use of electric guitar, violin, piano and classic guitar. The melodies strike a chord in the heartstrings. From the adrenaline pumping 'Combat' to the carefree 'Wandering on a Sunny Afternoon' to the melancholic Crisis Core theme, 'Successor'.
I could feel my heart break when I listened to 'The Price of Freedom', a moving piece where the mournful strains of the violin is accompanied by the lonely strumming of guitar. I could imagine this would be the music when Zack dies after saving Cloud. It's so sad to listen that I'm not motivated to finish the game… I don't want to see my doggie die so tragically!!!
Filed under FFCrisisCore
I enjoyed these 2 days of pounding on my PSP after neglecting it for almost a week.
There's a few funny stuff happening to Zack although the chapter's pretty heart-rending with Angeal and Genesis' deaths. *sob sob*
Zack(after the end of the chapter) fought Genesis clones with a beach umbrella, wearing only a pair of bermudas. What amazed me was when he entered DMW mode 'Hard rush', the parasol was stuck to his bare back when he was punching and kicking the enemies furiously. Hmm… another quality adhesive product by Shinra company.
Also, Zack's finally a member in the elusive and exclusive Sephiroth Rare Fanclub.
It took me a day to explore every nook and cranny of 8th Street until I gave up and sent Zack to the Slums to sniff out the uniformed lady. By god, the good dog did find her! She was hiding behind the igloo in the children's sandbox and Zack had to endure the 3 quiz questions on Sephiroth before being admitted into the Rare Fanclub. And the 1st email from the mysterious fanclub was about Shinra shampoo which Sephiroth uses for his long silky hair. The haircare product comes in 13 frangrances such as rose, vanilla… sniff sniff haa haa (´Д`) セフィがいい香りにするよ~ハァハァ(変態)
Zack heads to the church to meet Aerith, only to find Tseng the Turk telling him that Aerith's not in. Zack asks:"What's your relationship with her?"
Tseng:"Very complex relationship. What's she to you?"
Tseng:"Nothing for me too."
What's the relationship between Aerith and Tseng?!!
Anyway, they set off for Modeoheim only to have their helicopter crashing into the nearby icy mountains in flames. It is here where Zack meets Cloud!!!Aa~~ATSUIiii!!!haahaa
The team came upon an abandoned mako reactor which has a tunnel leading to a ghost town. Zack had to do evade the eyes of the Genesis clones that are guarding the area and make his way to the tunnel. When he's seen by the patrolling clones, my poor doggie will get tossed onto a pile of snow before engaging into battle mode with the clones.Oof!
And when his body temperature reaches below normal range, Zack has to do his favourite activity-squats.
Zack reaches the reactor within and sees Genesis pointing his sword at fat-ass Prof Hollander. Zack intervened and Hollander tried to escape only to get caught by Cloud from behind.Gaaah!!!ホランダ死ね!羨ましいぃ!!!
There are white streaks in Genesis rust red hair and his blue eyes had a greyish tinge. His condition had worsened.
It was a piece of cake in putting Genesis down. I guess I had levelled him up too high at that stage of the game. Genesis quotes some more lines from 'Loveless' and then plunges himself into the dark depths of the reactor.
Zack heads to the ghost town where Tseng and Cloud are. At the Modeo baths, he finds them lying on the ground, hurt. Cloud rolls onto his hands and knees…and sits back on his butt… ka,kawaii…MOE!!!
Tseng tells him that Angeal is waiting for him. Before rushing to find Angeal, I let Zack explore the boiler room with the boiler handle he picked up earlier. After switching off the boiler, Zack could then step into the waters to reach for the treasure chest and an item hidden in the boiler.
Equipped and ready, Zack runs to the top of the building where he comes upon Angeal who told Zack that Zack's job is to fight him. Prof Hollander steps in, saying"Good job, Angeal.". Hollander reveals that he is the father of Angeal and that Project G actually means Project Gillian, the name of Angeal's mother. She was impregnated with Jenova cells and gave birth to Genesis and Angeal. Genesis was a failed experiment but Angeal was perfection. Angeal told Zack he is a "perfect…monster."Then Angeal asked Zack if he remembered the promise to fight the world of suffering. Zack replied, "Yes, but it's different for Angeal!". Angeal told him he is suffering and ordered him to demonstrate his beliefs. Then he summoned all the monsters that were created with his genes.
Prof Hollander yelled "It's irreversible! Even though it's of the same genes" and tries to stop Angeal but was pushed aside. The monsters rushed towards Zack and he was prepared to swing his sword, thinking that the monsters were going to attack him. However, they galloped past him and pounced onto Angeal. There was a blinding flash of light and standing before Zack was a mega metallic monster with Angeal's head, lion's body, bat wings and a large gaping mouth on its chest.
It slashed Zack's left cheek and Zack shouted:"Angeal! What happened to honour???"
My poor doggie had to put down its master. (TДT)
After a long hard fight, I see Angeal lying on the floor covered with snow-white feathers. His black hair and cobalt blue eyes had turned a faded grey. Zack looks sadly at him as Angeal told him to take his Buster Sword and not to let go of honour. Zack takes the sword and holds it to his forehead (the same way Angeal did in the earlier part of the game) with trembling hands. Angeal passed away and my poor doggie gazes at the sky, which has begun to rain.
Then the screen turns black and we hear Aerith say:"Although it's scary, but we'll be one step closer to the sky if we step out into the upper plate." She turns to look at Zack and we see our poor doggie CRYING!!! How heartbreaking!!! (TДT)
Aerith walks towards him, knelt behind him and wrapped her arms around him. (I want a hug too…)
Next, we see Zack sitting in the Soldier's quarters, with longer spikes of hair and gazing at the Buster Sword he's holding. There's also a cross scar on his left cheek. He gets up and heads to a room where the recruits are waiting.
On the way, he turns to one of the lower class Soldiers standing in attention, pats him on the shoulder and said "You want to be a 1st class Soldier don't you? Persevere!".(I bet the head on my shoulders that this guy is Cloud) Then towards the recruits, he orders them to hold onto their dreams and honour, the same way Angeal had said to him.
Holding up the Buster Sword to the sky and looking at it, he says :"Let's go."
End of the chapter.
Then Zack goes on a beach holiday with the Turks at Costa del Sol, wearing nothing except a pair of black bermudas and doing what he loves best- Squats. It's really amusing when he starts fighting the Genesis clones in divers suits with a beach umbrella. I wish I can see Tseng in a pair of Speedos too…
Filed under FFCrisisCore, Gaming::PSP
I had a stomachache when I arrived at the MRT station near my office so heeding the call of nature, I went to the toilet to do a really big business. Our darling senior allowed us to return to the office in the morning to submit our timeshits. So… no hurry for me to reach the office on the dot.(^^)
It's been ages since I've brought my doggie Zack out for a spin in Midgar, smashing pirated Shinra war mecha and obliterating bouncing cacti etc.
There's one particular mission under the Shinra Company folder which is very tough. My poor doggie died twice in it. He had to hack hopelessly at machines which are impervious to whatever physical attacks Zack is able to carry out. I tried Blizzardga, Firaga, Thundera, Jump, Revolving Attack… nothing worked. I could not even extract one HP out of these blasted machines. Worse, these damn mecha sucks up Zack's MP(cannot cure!) and AP(cannot dodge!) before delivering HP depleting bombs until I hear my poor doggie scream and fall to the ground.
No other place is more inspiring than the toilet. It is the source of creativity and intellectual stimulation. A light bulb lit up when I was sitting on the toilet.
I equipped Zack with Graviga(グラビが)materia, a mega-spell that takes out half of the enemy's HP, and sent him to face the mecha.
Lo and behold, the moment the purplish black orb descended upon the mecha and exploded, 3345 HP was taken out of the mechanic bastards. And all that was needed to finish them off is a swipe of Zack's sword.
So easy.
Filed under FFCrisisCore, Gaming::PSP, Revelations on work
Zack and Angeal arrived at the Shinra building where they met Sephiroth who's coolly wiping out the enemies with one hand. Genesis is attacking the building in order to kill Prof Hojo. Angeal and Sephiroth decided to wipe out the invaders and stop Genesis while Zack was sent to ensure Prof Hojo's safety.
When my doggie arrived at Prof Hojo's laboratory, I let him sniff around the place. There's 3 machines which Zack can explore. One of them allows Zack to increase his SP only if the player presses stop on time. Otherwise, Zack will suffer a decrease in SP.
The game asks:すわれてみる?
(Touch and see?)
2 options: 「当然!」 or 「いやいや、やめとこ。」
(Of course!)
The other 2 machines are much more interesting. I steered Zack onto one of them and he exclaims:
(Oh Oh!Looks complex!)
Then the game asks 何かいじってみるか?
2 options:「スイッチをおしてみる。」 or 「いや、やめておくべきだ。」
(Press the switch to see.)
There's a loud metallic thump and Zack looks around:
(What sound is that?)
Prof Hojo: 「実験用モンスターをしたの階に放ったな。」
(The monsters for experimental purposes in the level below have been released.)
So Zack is sent to steal room keys from the cat-like monsters with 'Steal' materia before exterminating them. These keys open doors to rooms with treasure chests, a bed and a toilet bowl.
The 3rd machine is even more interesting.
When Zack gets onto the platform in front of the screen, he reads the warning and says to himself:
(Danger, do not touch…? If that's what I'm told…)
2 options: 「やっぱ、触るしかないよな」 or 「やっぱ、触るバカいないよな!」
(Of course, there's nothing to do but touch it.)
He goes 「うわ!」 and there's a white flash.
Our doggie finds himself in a scorching desert.
(What the hell is this…Damn hot…Shrivelling because it
s so dry…Where is this place man!?)
Our poor doggie hunches over in resignation as he looks around.
Then, monster worms appear.
(No kidding!?Monsters at a time like this! I'll surely lose fighting in such a hot place as this!! I say, what is this!?)
He finds himself some basic materia like Kearu healing materia.
(There's no free time for thinking. I'll use what is available!)
And our doggie fights the worms. After that, he continues moaning and groaning in the searing heat.
(What's to become of me…but…Hot…Water…Give me water…My throat's rattling…Eyes blurring…What's to become of me from now…I…Am I really here…How can I get back…I say!)
More worms appear. I must say in such a big heap that I doubt I can help Zack survive.
Zack swings his sword about, yelling:
(Urgh, these guys again!!Uwa!!Stay away from me——!! What the?!)
There's a white flash and he finds himself back in the lab with the the words 「System Error」 flashing on the machine's screen.
Prof Hojo looked at him and said:
(Due to your brutishness, this sophisticated machine is damaged. You will shoulder the repair costs. I'm not talking about the total sum in a single payment. That's because it's a very huge sum. 20% of your monthly salary will be deducted. I estimate that you'll be able to pay off everything in 10 years' time.)
Our poor doggie is stunned.
(T…Twenty percent? And in 10 years!? Despite all the pains to get promoted to 1st Class and the increase in salary…)
Our poor doggie hunches over in resignation.
Curiosity can kill dogs too.
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Incorporating Reclaimed Wood into Your Bedroom
If the average night's sleep is eight hours (1/3 of a day), we sleep for about a third of our lives. If you live to be 75 years old, that's 25 years that you spend asleep in your bedroom. Woah.
And that's not even including time spent getting ready for work, reading the newspaper, watching your kids jump on the bed, etc...
To put it simply, humans spend a lot of time in their bedrooms. So, it's important that a room be a relaxing and happy place. Whether it's bright colors, a modern layout or rustic decor... a bedroom should match one's style preferences. And for this exact reason, we've worked with interior designers and customers of all kinds for many years and found plenty of ways to incorporate reclaimed wood into bedrooms.
Whether it is a barn wood picture frame, or a full wall, there are a variety of ways to tastefully add some reclaimed wood into your sleeping quarters! Here are just a few examples for your inspiration.
1. Bed or Headboard
Can't have a bedroom without a bed! Add a rustic touch to where you lay your head every night with a bed or headboard made with antique lumber. Below = a platform bed and then a mixed-species headboard we built (cat sold separately!).
Below are additional examples of a bed and a headboard. These were built by talented Woodstock customers with wood from our shop.
2. Accent Wall
Instantly add warmth and history to a room with accent wall [learn more about our accent wall here].
We love the inviting look of this sleeping space, complete with not only Woodstock accent wall, but also a live-edge bench. Big thanks to our awesome customers who send in photos like this of their finished projects.
3. Slider Door
Yes, slider doors are a stylish way to add country charm to a room, but they also save space!
They are a perfect way to transform a doorway, whether it be a bedroom closet or master bathroom. (Pro tip: add a mirror like a customer of ours did in the photo below.)
3. Flooring
Don't take it from us, take a page out of Terri Clark's book! A recent article in The Cottage Journal took readers on a tour of the country singer's rustic Nashville cottage, which we were excited to be a part of.
"Underfoot, floors made with reclaimed wood from a tobacco barn gleam in the afternoon sun as a rich, aged scent permeates the air with a sense of history. Brent Coursey, a Tennessee craftsman of Woodstock Vintage Lumber, installed the floor and barn doors."
4. Ceiling
If wood on the floors isn't for you, perhaps waking up to a unique ceiling is what you are looking for! Take a peek at this amazing tiny house by New Frontier Tiny Homes. We supplied the reclaimed oak for the ceiling.
5. Decor
If you are looking for a smaller touch of wood, perhaps smaller accents are more your style. Here are just a few examples of barn wood decor our customers have added into their homes.
These photos inspired you to renovate your own room?
Have an idea for a custom project?
Questions about our product or in need of a quote?
Get in touch with us.

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Important Things You Need to Consider When Choosing a Wedding Photographer.
Finding the right wedding photographer might be a cumbersome and time-consuming task. The main reason to that is because you would like your photographs to be really unique and special. When you do an exhaustive research and plan will help you select the most appropriate picture taker.
This will assist you in acquiring a photographer who understands what you want. Through research and planning you will get a photographer that know how to produce the photos that you desire. Nevertheless, before choosing a photographer, you have to think of some as components.
One of the major factors that you have to put into consideration is finding out whether the photographer has the necessary equipment. A qualified professional photographer can work in almost all forms of environments and handle all kinds of situations.
This is a very crucial factor that you need to consider if you want to take pictures in a natural settings. You require to check if the particular photographer has the required equipment to take the pictures that you need. The photographer you want to employ should be competent in capturing special moments on your big day.
The photographer should be a person that you can count on him to take exquisite pictures even if the weather is raining and gloomy outside. You need to communicate to your photographer and find out if he can provide these services.
However, a good photographer knows how to manage all possible scenarios whatever happens on your big day. Consequently taking to your photographer about your worries before your wedding day will place your mind at ease.
You likewise, need to know whether the picture taker knows about your wedding area. In case photographer has worked at your wedding location; then he must be knowledgeable about the place.
Familiarization with the location will help him shoot all types of shots from various angles. This will allow him to shoot more imaginative pictures. This implies that it won't take as long for him to photograph your wedding and reception.
A professional photographer will find the best location for your wedding to take the best shots. You may also inquire if the photographer has photographed a wedding at your chosen wedding venue.
You also need to know how long will the photographer stay. A dependable wedding photographer should end up being available to capture each moment of your special day. Every one of these exercises incorporate the pre-wedding celebrations, the function, and the gathering.
It is evident of which you want to check years again and see all of these special occasions in your wedding photos. You require to converse with your picture taker and think about the quantity of hours he will remain on your big day.


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Paige represents determination and drive. Recognized for her tenacity and her pursuit to success, she works diligently around the clock for her clients: 7 days a week.
As an active member of the community, locals recognize Paige as an honest and caring neighbour. Her passion and eagerness to enrich Fort McMurray are honoured through your business and referrals.
From complimentary consultations to the sale or purchase of a home. Paige has the network, knowledge, and tools to successfully guide you through your real estate journey.
"I can't wait to meet with you and discuss how we can achieve your real estate goals together!"
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These pages *will be* completed sometime in the near future, I promise. (i mean it this time)
Skinny Puppy
this is also where you can find the elusive pictures page (eventually)
yes, there are lyrics in those Download songs!
Tear Garden
Legendary Pink cEvin?
transcriptions... transcriptions...
cEvin Key
the Man's solo projects
The following link up to pages that are not mine
A Duck
Legendary Pink Dots
LPD Online Centraal, an informative page that is updated regularly
Doubting Thomas (links to SubCon)
Another side project of cEv and Dwayne.
Skinny Puppy FAQ and Lyric Archive
Corey maintains this page. Bow down and worship him now.
I have also decided that I need to put up a Dwayne page, and a DVOA page
For the record, every bit of info I have on these pages has come from another source. Most of the lyrics have been transcribed by someone else and altered by me. These people are credited in the lyrics section. Except for the Download lyrics section, that was all me. (okay.. i'm lying. 4 songs off EOSP reprinted by permission) Any pictures I have here were randomly found on the Net, so if I have some of your pics here, and you have a problem with that, i don't give a fuck. If you for any reason wish to send me hate mail, knock yourself out. If you don't like my sense of humor, well.. thats another story, but the hate mail goes to the same address.
email c$
for those of you who are interested
About me
Last updated on 2/8/2002
waiting for the second ohgr cd.....
and the canadian leg of the tour...!!!


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Andafin can help you build your financial institution's capabilities and use the power of data to reach the next billion customers. We utilize a broad range of expertise to help our clients succeed with data-enabled growth. Depending on your company's current needs, we can help build a strong foundation for growth, including a data-enabled strategy; fill gaps and build your sustainable advantage through a variety of specialized services; and provide coaching and training to make the changes stick.
1. Build a solid foundation
To strengthen your company as a whole, we can build a roadmap to drive your organization toward a strong data-enabled strategy. This means understanding your company's strategy from the top down, and designing data systems from the bottom up that support that strategy and provide input for future direction. Depending on your company's competitive strategy, we may emphasize different drivers and data flows.
At the same time, we will look at your company's current decision making processes – how is data managed; how are questions translated to analysis; and how does the analysis produce insights for decision making? Along with examining tools, we take a careful look at the middle layer of the process, where data needs to be translated to insights by specialists with a good understanding of the company's business and senior management's information needs.
The output is a plan covering the steps your organization can take to build a sound analysis and decision making process, which can be implemented in collaboration between Andafin and your team.
2. Fill gaps and build your sustainable advantage
To address our clients' specific challenges, our specialized services include:
Data-enabled Strategy
Risk management
Product development
Key tools and processes for your data-enabled organization
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- Capabilities: With our practical expertise, Andafin will drive development and implementation of data-enabled solutions for your organization:
- Data analysis: Analysis of financial and operational data (loan portfolios, customer databases, logistics databases, etc.) to uncover useful insights for your business. Where available, we can integrate outside information (market data, credit bureau data, or even climate data) to help you better understand your customers and business.
- Systems implementation: Integration of analytics tools into your business processes, links with key systems (core banking, CRM, logistics, etc.), and implementation of cloud analytics.
- Case study: Our financial services client had collected detailed data on close to a million customers, and needed help interpreting it.
Our analysis of over 100 million data points revealed a diverse customer base, with varying needs based on characteristics the bank had not previously considered. In addition, the analysis revealed pockets of operational problems that were leading to increased credit risk despite the bank's overall high performance.
Thanks to the analysis, the bank was able to immediately isolate and resolve the operational issues, and understand ways to better serve their diverse range of customers.
Risk management
Harnessing your data to manage risk and boost profitability
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- Capabilities: Drawing on our experience with a variety of financial institutions, Andafin can help you address:
- Operational risk: We can help you detect operational risk issues with our proprietary fraud detection tools, and prevent issues from arising through internal controls assessment and business process improvement.
- Credit risk: Using data from inside and outside your company, we can build models to help you improve underwriting, and use tools such as behavioral scoring to help you better understand and manage default risk.
- Case study: After a comprehensive review of another financial services client's internal controls, we recommended a variety of improvements to prevent fraud in the future, including enhancement of fraud detection capabilities.
To our recommendation a reality, we built a custom software program to detect suspicious loans in the bank's data; the program directed the efforts of an external auditor to find many more fraudulent loans.
Product development
Building data-enabled products from the ground up
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- Capabilities: Working with key stakeholders in your organization, Andafin can support the development of new financial products, including:
- Terms, policies and procedures
- Digital delivery
- Operational, financial, and marketing analytics
- Dashboard for product management
- Case study: A payments company wanted to get into the financial services business, targeting low-income workers. Leveraging their existing strengths in transaction processing, we developed financial products suited to the customers and market, and led the establishment of the accompanying platform to deliver them. Today the products have reached hundreds of thousands of customers.
3. Coaching and training
When our clients no longer require our support on a particular issue, we have succeeded as consultants. To help build capacity within your company, we and provide training and one-on-one coaching on the broad range of topics covered by our core consulting services.
Setting the stage for your continued success


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Webinar: Hormone Imbalances - Hidden Sources of Stress That Cause Them
Hormone imbalances have quickly become a trendy topic with copious amounts of patchy info floating about the inter-web. Although increased awareness of hormone health is indeed a good thing, the fad aura of it has lead to many individuals being overwhelmed and confused on where to begin to take back their health. In part 2 of this webinar series, I dive deep into many underlying causes of endocrine disruption and hormone imbalance. Be sure to check out part 1 here if you haven't already.


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Nov. 2 (UPI) -- Boeing has received an award modification from U.S. Special Operations Command to build new helicopters.
Under the $43 million, cost-plus-fixed-fee deal, announced Thursday by the Defense Department, Boeing would build four MH-47G helicopters.
The Army uses the MH-47G to transport troops, artillery, equipment and fuel. Much of its work comes during humanitarian disaster-relief operations, to provide supplies and carry out mass refugee evacuations, according to Boeing.
Getting the new MH-47G will help satisfy an urgent need by the Special Ops for heavy assault helicopters. The helicopter specializes in performing long-range day and night missions, in inclement weather at low levels.
Since it was first commissioned in 1962, the MH-47G has undergone many upgrades through the years. The MH-47G ordered by Special Ops will have enhanced digital avionics and flight control systems, as well as a sturdier monolithic airframe.
The company said armed forces in 19 countries globally use the MH-47G, including Canada, Great Britain, South Korea and Australia. On Oct.19, the Army announced the sale of 16 new MH-47Gs to the UK for $3.5 billion.
The work on this contract, which will be performed in Pennsylvania, will be funded with fiscal 2018 procurement.


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People residing near the banks of River Nyabarongo have expressed concerns over increasing attacks by crocodiles from the water body, saying that the reptiles have increasingly become aggressive.
The affected residents are from Mageragere and Rugarika sectors in Nyarugenge and Kamonyi districts, respectively.
Jean de Dieu Mbarushimana, a resident of Masaka cell in Rugarika, was recently attacked by a crocodile from the river.
"I had gone to the shores to search for grass for my cows when suddenly something clutched my leg. Looking back, I saw a crocodile swimming away with my lower part of the leg. I was bleeding profusely until I was taken by boat to the health centre," he said.
Théogène Munyaneza, the head of Ruramba village in Masaka cell, said crocodiles have claimed some lives.
"Crocodiles have mauled our neighbours. Besides the young man whose leg was bitten off, another man was mauled to death and before that a woman and her child were killed by the reptiles last year," Munyaneza said.
He called upon the government to help hunt down the reptiles and kill them.
Besides threatening human life, the reptiles have attacked and killed livestock around the river, Munyaneza added.
Pierre Celestin Nsengiyumva, the executive secretary for Rugarika Sector, blamed those who graze on the river banks, saying that cows should always be kept in their sheds.
When contacted, Solange Mukasonga, the Mayor of Nyarugenge District, said they had embarked on sensitising the people in Mageragere on how to cope with the situation.
"Neighbouring a river is like neighbouring a national park. What we are trying to do is to ensure that the people in the area co-exist with the reptiles because we cannot exterminate the latter," she said.
Vicent de Paul Kabalisa, the deputy director general for integrated water resources management at Rwanda Natural Resources Authority (RNRA), said they are working on a deal with a Chinese firm to help them clear the Nyabarongo water to mitigate the attacks.
He said crocodiles contribute toward the country's revenue, adding that they plan to work with Rwanda Development Board (RDB) to see how this can be achieved.
"We are also planning to negotiate with RDB to see how to make our reptiles profitable," he said.


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Telestack helps enhance wellbeing with new partnership
Telestack is delighted to announce that as part of our 2017 Health and Wellbeing Strategy, we have joined forces with the leading local wellbeing charity Inspire, the new name for Niamh (Northern Ireland Association for Mental Health). Inspire will be the primary beneficiary of all donations made from charitable work for 2017.
The campaign was kicked off by establishing Telestack as an 'Inspiration Point' for wellbeing in our local community. The Inspiration Point campaign is part of the charity's overall aim to broaden its reach and to ensure that everyone has access to information about mental health and general wellbeing. Nuala Dalcz, Director of External Affairs at Inspire wellbeing explains "unfortunately there is still a stigma that surrounds mental health and by providing easily accessible information in high traffic public venues, we hope to reach even more people than before. Throughout the year, the charity will regularly update the information within the Inspiration Point stands to focus on a range of themes across all aspects of life, form ageing to motherhood, sports to rural life."
As a supporter of the campaign, Telestack is making a pledge to have easily accessible information available for employees and to work with Inspire to promote the charity's vision of wellbeing for all. Speaking about why they decided to become an Inspiration Point partner, Eimear Cunningham, HR Manager with Telestack explains, "we take our responsibility as an employer very seriously and we recognise that our obligation to our employees extends beyond a safe working environment. We want to make every effort to ensure that our employees are healthy and happy and our partnership with Inspire better equips us to support our workforce in every way possible."
The 2017 charity work has started in earnest with a very successful coffee morning that raised over £570 and with more events planned, the company are looking forward to a buoyant 2017 in terms of fundraising. Just some of the events planned are:
- Cuilcagh Mountain – 25 March
- Abseil, Europa Hotel – 9 April
- 5k Walk/Run, Castle Archdale – 29 April
- Charity Golf Tournament – 11 & 12 May
- Ladies Night – 14 July
The success of our fundraising events is only made possible through our employees and their family and friends. We wish to thank everyone who kindly contributed and attended our coffee morning and a special mention of thanks to Samantha Thompson the primary organiser of the event.
More details about any of our charity events can be sought by contacting email@example.com.
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Grief and loss are a normal part of life and the majority of people are able to cope with grief in their own way, in their own time with the support of family, friends and community. Sometimes our grief can feel too much to deal with on our own and the help of professional bereavement support may be needed, for a time.
Liz Gleeson offers one-to-one support for those bereaved or experiencing loss of any kind, in her private practice in Greystones, Co. Wicklow. She also offers sessions on Skype, for those unable to travel to Wicklow. Liz works with children and adults of all abilities and backgrounds. She has worked extensively with people experiencing a variety of losses. Liz offers traditional 'talk therapy' as well as bereavement support through movement therapy.
Sessions are 50 minutes and cost €75.
Liz has a MSc in Bereavement Studies from the Irish Hospice Foundation and has trained in Complicated Grief Therapy with Kathy Shear of the Centre for Complicated Grief, USA and Susan Delaney of the IHF (see below). She offers annual workshops on Grief and Loss to IAHIP members and offers Open Floor workshops that explore the theme of grief through the body so that we can better understand and work through grief on every level; physical, mental, emotional and spiritual.
Complicated Grief
Complicated grief is an intense and long-lasting form of grief that can take over a person's life. It is natural to experience acute grief after someone close dies, but complicated grief is different. Complicated grief is a form of grief that takes hold of a person's mind and won't let go. People with complicated grief often say that they feel 'stuck'. Treatment for complicated grief differs from bereavement counselling or therapy. Possible symptoms of complicated grief include:
Pangs of grief are persistent, prolonged and/or very intense.
Difficulty accepting the finality of the death with persistent intense yearning/longing.
Inability to perform the usual tasks of day to day living.
Preoccupation with thoughts of the deceased.
Normal tasks seem overwhelming and require a lot of energy.
Social withdrawal and avoidance are pronounced.
High death anxiety/preoccupation with death.
Over-Idealisation of the deceased.
Rigid/ritualistic behaviour.
Chronic anger.
Complicated Grief Therapy (developed by M. Katherine Shear, MD) is a research-validated composite psychotherapy treatment protocol that has shown better response rates than interpersonal psychotherapy for people presenting with complicated grief. Liz is available for Complicated Grief assessment and treatment.
After an initial assessment, weekly sessions are 50-60 minutes and cost €100. Treatment for complicated grief involves a 16 week commitment. Sessions via Skype are also possible.
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Kings of all England, Aethelred II. 978-1016 AD
Kings of all England, Aethelred II. 978-1016 AD
York Mint, c. 1009-1017 AD. AR Penny, 1.26g (20mm). EDELRED REX ANGLO bare headed bust l. / +EADELR ICMΩ ON LVNDEI small cross encircled.
Pedigree: From the Baldwin's Vault, date uncertain.
References: North 764
Grade: A small separation of the metal at 1h on obverse. Nice strike with full details present. A few cuts on the reverse. EF (wc1015)
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Aethelred II was known as the "unready". The unfriendly pun on his name seems to have been given to him many years after his death so likely wasn't effecting him in his lifetime. Aethelred came from the House of Wessex and ruled over two periods, the first being 978-1012 AD and then 1013-1016 AD. For a short time he fled to Normandy when Denmark invaded England and the Dane conqueror Sweyn Forkbeard took the throne. After Sweyn died two years later, Aethelred returned and ruled another two years before his death in 1016.


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In a not entirely surprising move, news is out that pastor Rob Bell of the bestselling Love Wins (2011) which questions and denies belief in damnation, is joining forces with queen of the New Age, Oprah Winfrey. They will work together in Oprah's new drive to take people to an empathy and gratitude "space" where they will be open to their life potential. The media of 2014's northern autumn is set to be illumined by their various hopes, encouragements and facilitations of soul life in the course of a "The Life You Want" tour of America.
Rob Bell is more recently author of What We Talk About When We Talk About God (2013). It's a book Winfrey has praised and in which Bell highlights how images of God among American Christians can be diverse and sometimes even a bit crazy – which they can be. But in turn, and as misleading as those he critiques, Bell also maintains that when we talk about God "we're talking about something very real and yet beyond our conventional means of analysis and description". I think he just means our philosophical sense of the Absolute, but Christians of course maintain that God is not "something" but "somebody". And however hard to encompass and evoke in words, God is not wrongly called "Father" along with certain character-relevant titles the Bible supplies to deity.
While I'm prepared to say that the "evangelical" Bell is, as charged, a bit of a heretic in relation to creedal Christianity, an individual moving perhaps inexorably towards simply the "spiritual not religious" position, to New Age spaceiness with notions of compassion and inclusion Oprah Winfrey style, nevertheless in one thing Bell is more or less correct and maintains something Christians don't sufficiently realize or admit yet. This is:
"there's a growing sense that when it comes to God, we're at the end of one era and the start of another, an entire mode of understanding and talking about God is dying as something new is being birthed."
Ironically, some sections of the conservative, evangelical and charismatic churches, namely people at one level most keen to affirm traditional biblical beliefs, are open proof of Bell's claims. They are so when today they transition towards a new vision of God in terms of King, Kingship and Kingdom and speak of Jesus "coming back as a Lion". With this they merely adhere, if unconsciously, to certain patterns they deny exist or might dismiss, not just as heresy but even occult "abomination".
The fact is they are reflecting the same era shift with which the birth of Christianity synchronized. Theology and the inter-relation of Old and New Testaments with what can seem like their contradictions are imperfectly understood and insufficiently resolved unless and until the astrology (thrown out by St Augustine who definitely misread the connections of OT and NT), is assimilated to the biblical teaching of "dispensations" as these affect images, vision and understanding of God. Magi didn't come to Jesus' birth or the Essenes seek for the Messiah in the stars for nothing. They were witness to an era change that theology badly, and however belatedly, needs to acknowledge.
An era representing an entire mindset and symbol system of huge thematic significance for society, alters in something a bit over approximately two millennia as the sun at the spring equinox rises against the background a different section of sky named for the constellations. We are currently on the cusp of a very major change whose precise moment cannot be measured or known, from Pisces into Aquarius. The age of Pisces was entered around the time Christ was born and there were significant celestial signs within Pisces, a "water" sign of the seas and fish and fisherman. Jesus duly begins teaching beside the Sea of Galilee where he works with disciples who are fishermen he goes tell fish for people.
Strictly speaking there was and is not a Piscean era but rather a Piscean/Virgo one in which an equinoctial sign (currently Pisces) works with its opposite sign. An era's ideal is realized through its opposite sign. Virgo is the sign of service and perfection and the Piscean era's ideal is expressed through especially Jesus who comes to serve, who is self-described as "the Bread of Heaven" (Virgo is the sign of wheat and bread) and who is born under Virgo in Bethlehem (house of bread) and preached as model and saviour for humanity.
In the age of Taurus approx 4000-2000 BC, though imagery of the bull or cow was widespread , the ideal was something to do with the opposite Scorpio (death and transformation) hence there was everywhere the cult of death, supremely so in the pyramids of Egypt which also embrace some of the sexual mysticism of Scorpio. In the Age of Aries (2000-0) the fiery ram, an age of combat and super-patriarchy, the ideal was contained in Libra, sign of laws and marriage and peace. Thus Israel, even while it fights for or defends territory and accords women few rights, stresses precisely law, the marriage covenant and dreams of ultimate peace. Jesus as "Lamb of God" dies in effect as the last sacrifice of the Aries dispensation, completing it and its rituals of blood sacrifice to become first Fisherman (or even in the odd discourse of some early church fathers, first fish) of the Piscean era. The Vesica Pisces would determine the shape and pattern of the bishop's mitre. The nave of a church was so-called because the church was regarded as a boat or Noah's ark of salvation.
In the Roman empire the gladiatorial combats which pitched a man with a sword against another with a net reflected sensed cusp of era changes. The sword, force and iron of Aries and its ruler Mars was in combat with the fishing net of Pisces, a sign whose rulers, Jupiter and Neptune, embrace elements of luck positively (Jupiter) and the trick or deception that use of the net demanded and which belong with Neptune negatively. So what are we experiencing now on the cusp of Pisces and Aquarius?
Aquarius is the socially orientated individualist/eccentric. Elements of Aquarian symbolism and character are already manifest in the widely expressed, often radical drive of persons to individualism at the same time as groups and social communication networks (Facebook, Twitter etc) join people to realize "difference" through and with group support (though notice "the Net" on which this universal communication floats still evokes Piscean themes!).
Meanwhile, accepted negative expressions of Pisces and Neptune are just everywhere from the addictions, deceptions and pollutions (not least of the sea itself) while the higher values of the Aquarian era are scarcely yet known or manifested. Those ideals are still stored up in Leo, sign of kingship, high order, drama, and of course the Lion. And as said there are those Christians who are talking wildly about Jesus becoming or coming back as a lion. This is clearly not the figure of the folksy, familiar Jesus, itself almost a distortion of Jesus as Emmanuel (God with us) which something in the grace and mercy themes of Pisces/Jupiter have nonetheless allowed American religion to indulge.
A Jesus who returns would indeed need to be Revelation's "Lion of the Tribe of Judah" who establishes an ideal universal rule from Zion – Aquarius is the sign of any Utopia and the word itself was popularized and derives from an Aquarian writer, Thomas Moore. Certainly the Messiah would not need to be some quirky Aquarian whose individualism, negatively expressed, could be close to that of an anarchist or the kind of eccentric dictators which Aquarians from Kaiser Wilhelm to Kim Jong-Il in North Korea ended by being.
There is at very least a symbolic plausibility in the claim of the late Catholic seeress, Jeane Dixon (herself dismissed by conservative Christians for presuming to speak in terms of astrology) that at era's end the anti-Christ has been born under Aquarius. Obviously this person of her visions may or may not exist, but it would not be too surprising if in the way Dixon envisaged, a confused world ran to the false arms of an Aquarian political guru rather than a genuine Leonine leader. It would simply be a form late Piscean inclusive spacieness joined to an eccentric Aquarian rebellion against the past (something futuristic Aquarius regularly engages).
Although we exist on a cusp where Piscean soul feelings and more socio-political Aquarian urges merge and blend, the fact is that the Aquarian era is unlikely to drift in as a mystery hidden from the world like the birth of Christ associated with anonymous, disappearing Magi. Given the associations of Aquarius and its planetary ruler/symbol Uranus with crisis, surprise, accident, lightning and revolution, Aquarius is likely to arrive with a bang as a shock leaving little doubt that it had finally been inaugurated.
What evangelicals who are so often taken up with "the last things" might need to consider, is whether the Second Advent as forecast by Jesus should be referred to precisely the inception of the Aquarian era and the end of the Piscean one. Consider that the glyph of Aquarius is lightning, and is not the Second Advent described as like the lightning from east to west (Matt 24:27) and the shock of a delayed midnight bridegroom? (Matt 25:6). At the same time, the doctrine of Rapture which precedes the absolute, visible Second Coming, envisages a great disappearance of prepared believers and Neptune's symbolic rulership includes any mystery and disappearance – with Neptune currently strong in Pisces, sign of disappearance, we have the frustrating disappearance into the seas of flight MH 370 which, with just a little reason, Billy Graham's daughter, Anne Lotz, has compared to the mystery of….sure enough…..the Rapture!
While all this symbolism can be debated, as regards the original point which concerned images of God which Oprah's new friend Rob Bell perceives as changing, the main thing is this. I suggest that what is dying at the end of the Piscean era is especially the faith approach to God. Faith is always required ("without faith it is impossible to please God" Heb 11:16) but there's faith and faith and at the end of the era and in preparation of the new one it needs some renewal and refinement. Some are losing faith completely, that's the neo-atheism. Others are becoming increasingly confused about it as sects and theories proliferate, others are mixing poetry and science or literalizing poetry and conservatively insisting that six days can trump everything any scientist past or present could ever say about life on earth.
One major species of end-of-era confusion goes the New Age way. The end of the era, like the last degree of a sign, exaggerates or perverts the sign and so a romantic Neptunian veil of holy ignorance and charitable acceptance is thrown over every belief and summarizes all spiritual endeavour mystically in a way that makes God a Something that is Wholeness and seekers from all directions equally enlightened. Nevertheless, so late in time and the era it's not quite traditional, ascetical "apophatic" mysticism (in which no positive affirmation of an unknowable deity can ever be made) which mindful of Cappodocian Fathers and Meister Eckhart who posited a God beyond God, is the direction Bell will likely develop and take followers… Today, less ascetic and more individualised than these radical, minority expressions of a medieval mysticism , the "spaces" to which life coach Oprah helped by Bell will conduct devotees, is where they can individually fulfil their rich potential, realize they life they want, as individualistic Aquarians (Oprah is one) and anticipate the coming age, at the same time as Virgo Rob Bell sorts out the problems of lost or disappearing Virgoan ideals in religion.
But none of this will hugely satisfy or even succeed unless at worst to facilitate, as Dixon imagined, America contributing to place the world into the hands of a mad political guru. Ultimately of course nothing can or will quite satisfy the rather scientific, futuristic Aquarius than absolute evidence anyway. While absolute evidence of anything can be hard to come by, short of the Aquarian era being the time when "every eye shall see him" (Rev 1:7 ), integral approaches are less elusive. And really it's a complex ,"integral" approach to God and just about everything in life which is desired – Ken Wilbur, the philosopher of Integralism is an Aquarian.
Jeane Dixon forecast, and Jung piously hoped, the day would come when astrology will get taught in schools. To the extent astrology is traditionally an Aquarian/Uranian subject, something of the sort ought to occur. And it certainly wouldn't hurt if on the way to a more integral, holistic understanding of things astrology were assimilated and applied to religion. (If you have doubts that could be any useful exercise you need only read the many possible meaningful insights into religion and personal belief patterns one can reach by reading my The Astrology of Beliefs. http://amzn.to/19v1jJf ).
However, I believe one of the more important barriers to cross and which involves correcting past wrong thinking in the light of a lot of new knowledge, is to realize the immanence as well as the transcendence of God and discard what's preventing it, namely the unmystical, damaging doctrinse of ex nihilo creation which in the first two centuries of Christianity was rightly not taught, creation being thought of as ex materia. All said and done this is only what a plain sense reading of bible teaches. Beyond it and philosophically we may deduce as Jewish mystics would do that the original stuff of life was drawn from or belonged within God even if as a womb-like vacuum he created within himself. If pure nothingness could even exist it would be God's rival. Everything exists through God as St Paul taught (for that matter we could say even hell does so being as God's fire without the other elements).
The purely transcendent God is disappearing, faith in God being chased away to the borders of the universe and beyond by an end-of-era science scepticism which cannot and will not perceive God as also working within the universe, an intellectual position which then gives greater scope to these exhausting, largely fruitless and unhelpful arguments over creation and evolution. Only when God is both over and under, outside and within reality and more integrally apprehended can and will the needed doctrine of the Creator be restored. It is almost certainly the next age which will have a "science" of God and things spiritual in which finally nature becomes like another and revealing scripture. And that includes for sex to which religion must restore the sacred and which it can more readily do once the existence of God in and through everything is rightly understood.
My rather original fusion of spiritual and material in Solomon's Tantric Song, (http://amzn.to/14aa5Qe) is involved with this more integral approach which also has room for a few gay perspectives. (The next age positively must come to terms with homosexuality – Aquarius and Uranus are as profoundly associated with it as the Aries and Mars with their related era basically aren't. Rob Bell is being again only more change and era sensitive than some fellow clergy in being open by evangelical standards to the gay issue. There is no need to see the increasing toleration as only and intrinsically an end-of-age decadence even if some forms of toleration may be so). Whether or not the reader would endorse my approach to specifically the Song of Solomon (which doesn't take the either/or one all mystical or all material of nearly all interpretations past and present), it has a better chance than some of being correct to the extent rabbinic tradition places correct understanding of this book of mysteries as an end of times discovery!
I haven't said a great deal about either Rob Bell or Oprah Winfrey, but to make the present point I don't especially need to. At one level the article's title refers to something which is news and a media fact. More broadly I would regard it as symbolic of and name for an entire thought trend which will increasingly overtake society, especially American society, if a critical outlook, an awareness of the times we are living in and celestial symbolism are ignored.


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Steve Earle To Appear on The Late Show With David Letterman
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Make sure to watch Steve Earle & The Dukes this coming Monday, February 23rd for their last appearance on The Late Show With David Letterman! 11:35pm ET. (Letterman's last week of shows before his retirement.)
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The California Academy of Sciences +21 evening. Half-price tickets, alcoholic beverages, DJs, and hundreds of twenty and thirty-something "singles looking to mingle." Was it science, or simply chemistry?
Full access to the rain forest, the aquarium and the Extreme Mammals exhibit. A Capoeira show. All the cool and dorky science fun, minus the kids. Only, this was really just a bunch of grown kids in a giant adult-sized playground. Grown women shrieking as they ran to the children's eel cove. Some guy shouting things at the sharks. A museum dude showing a special exhibit of baculum, or penis bones (he was particularly proud of the one belonging to the walrus, which the Eskimos use as a club to hunt. "It's really heavy!" he exclaimed!) It was surreal.
Up with the Extreme Mammals, I learned what it takes to fit into this category, and quite frankly, I felt like a mediocre mammal. I have no large tusks, no enormous antlers or a crazy-long tail! But I was particularly taken with the AMAZING ADJECTIVES they included in all of the descriptions. Someone was having fun with their thesaurus! Things like "the biggest brain ever!" and "massive metatarsals" and "unbelievable arm strength" and "the most mind-blowing creatures to ever walk the earth." Props to the crafty wordsmith who wrote the clever catch phrases. My friend Susannah would have been in heaven at the marsupial display, where it explained the "awesome pouch births" with the title, "Hang in there, kids!" Oh, bless them, trying to make science fun!
Down in the aquarium, it was a pretty dreamy scene. The lights were low, the house music was turned up, and the cocktails were flowing. I half expected to find a couple making out near the nautilus tanks. But alas, it all seemed fairly PG-13, and I managed to get some great shots of the underwater party animals. My last image was seeing a group of friends plopped down in front of the Phillipine Coral Reef, staring up at the scene, mesmerized while the DJ played Men at Work's Down Under to close out the night.
Outside in the foggy night, groups of excited mammals were saying their awkward goodbyes, perhaps exchanging phone numbers, perhaps wondering how the hell to get home from the middle of Golden Gate Park. All in all, the evening was very amusing. A very entertaining way to witness science in action.


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Singapore startup Touché launches what it boasts to be the World's first Biometric Loyalty & Payment Solution platform.
Startup Touché CEO Sahba Saint-Claire (right) with CTO German Ruiz holding the Touche biometric payments terminal. Businesses are charged a pre-agreed monthly all-in flat-fee for the solution that includes the hardware, which processes payments through DBS Bank.
CEO Sahba shared with me the company's roll-out plans.
Hopefully we'll see pilot roll-outs in Singapore from February and in Japan from March.
The company now has 23 staff based in Singapore and Barcelona.
CTO German briefed me on the state of payments processing in the industry and the standards currently in place and being developed.
Sahba tells me that in just 3 months, 50 restaurants, 20 hotels and 5 private social clubs have shown interest in taking up this solution in Singapore; while discussions are being held with the potential partners, departmental stores, malls, technology firms, and retail chains etc.
To me, the biometric platform that Touche has developed serves as an identity verification & management platform that holds much potential for wide-spectrum application in this digital age.
The payments and loyalty programme management that they are launching now are but the first two applications leveraging this platform.
Good food and excellent service at Grignoter – the venue for Touche launch in Singapore. The Bordeaux-themed French wine restaurant is one of two early adopters in Singapore that has rolled out Touche.
Applications that the company could explore in the future include direct debit payments, fund transfers, management of airport check-ins – all of which require rigorous verification of private identity data.
Touche picked Japan as its main market, other than Singapore, because Japan had announced in April 2016 that it will develop fingerprint payment technology in time for use during the upcoming Tokyo 2020 Olympics.
Japan plans to deploy fingerprint-based systems for registering fingerprints for tourist arrivals; to analyse tourist movements and spending habits; to link up bank and credit card accounts to enable payments for purchases using fingerprint readers in restaurants and retail stores.
Touche is currently in discussions with potential strategic partners in Japan to roll out its platform in the country.
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text: March 26, 2018 Get Crazy at AT&T Park With These Concerts AT&T Park is not only home to world championship baseball, but also to a bevy of iconic concerts. From Lady Gaga to James Taylor to Metallica, AT&T Park has redefined stadium concert experiences in the San Francisco Bay Area. 2018's calendar of events offers more bands not to be missed in exclusive Northern California appearances. This is the year to check off your favorite acts on your live music bucket list. Ed Sheeran: Tuesday, Aug. 21, 2018 Multi-platinum-selling and multi-award-winning artist Ed Sheeran adds AT&T Park to his North American stadium tour this year, appearing on Aug. 21, 2018. This is Sheeran's first-ever stadium tour in the States and supports his latest album, which recently won Best Pop Vocal Album at the Grammy Awards. This show promises to be one of the most accessible, with ticket prices starting at $39.50 and maxing at $125 (excluding taxes and fees). General-sale tickets are on sale here. The Eagles with Zac Brown Band: Thursday, Sept. 20, 2018 Legendary band The Eagles land at AT&T Park for their only Northern California tour appearance in 2018. Their 2014 tour broke numerous U.S. box office records and sold out Madison Square Garden five times and the Forum in Inglewood six times. The Eagles were inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1998 and received the Kennedy Center Honors in 2016. Special guest Zac Brown Band will appear. Tickets and more information available here. Journey and Def Leppard: Friday, Sept. 21, 2018 Challenging for Tour of the Year is the double-bill of rock icons Journey and Def Leppard, teaming up for a 58-city tour. AT&T Park will be the only Northern California stop on the tour. The bands, who also toured together 12 years ago, will perform popular hits such as "Don't Stop Believin'", "Faithfully", "Photograph", and "Rock of Ages". Tickets and more information here. For more information on these concerts, and other great events at AT&T Park, please visit AT&T Park online here. AT&T Park's concert series is produced in part by Giants Enterprises, the San Francisco Giants' hospitality and event consultancy team. Giants Enterprises hosts one-of-a-kind experiences at AT&T Park and its facilities, including the annual signature Giant Race, custom private events, and the upcoming Rugby World Cup Sevens. Source: sftravel.com


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This juicer was hand thrown in pieces and meticulously joined together, resulting in a solid and functional kitchen utensil and future heirloom.
This piece has been hand-thrown, fired, and glazed using a skilled oxidation technique in very high temperature. The result is a speckled brown texture.
Tiny Clay Company is a Brisbane based artist who trained in ceramics at the National Art School. Her style is characteristically rustic and functional.


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Business Analytics is a particularly valuable tool when it comes to the measurement and analysis of cashflow. Everyone knows that cashflow is the lifeblood of a small business. With WinWeb's new Business Analytics tool, it is possible to take a deeper look at your cashflow than we have ever previously been able to provide for you.
The Analytics application allows you to compare your actual cashflow over a period of time against your projected cashflow for that same period. The statistics will go into great detail about every month of the financial year. You will be able to find out exactly what your income and expenses were at any specific time.
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Happy Hour
{Discovered this adorable house (that I desperately want) while shooting these photos, and briefly thought that we had been transported over to Europe...unfortunately, no such luck!}
I haven't seen my brother and my Mom since Christmas. While time certainly does fly, and it doesn't seem like it's been all that long, the reality is is that it had been far too long. On a last minute whim, we recently decided to rearrange our crazy schedules so that we could surprise them while they were visiting my Grandma, and I was so glad that we did. Getting to spend time with them, even if just briefly, will certainly be one of the more happier moments of this summer. No matter how hectic things can get in life, it is important to never forget to make time for the ones who bring you the most happiness.
{While chopping up swiss chard for this recipe, I couldn't resist taking a picture of how pretty the slices of stem looked, almost as if they were little stars}
{The family that wears stripes together.....// Having fun & goofing off with my little brother}
{Finally made it to try this ice cream place}
{Sunsets from our neighborhood never get old}


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This Friday 21st March Richard Crow will perform live in session. Plus exclusive audio from AAS group's Cult Of Possible Elements performance at IMT gallery, as part of a showcase of RHP CDRs artists.
Richard Crow is an inter-disciplinary artist working in the field of experimental audio research, live performance and site-specific installation. He utilises sound and noise in a performative way, for its disruptive and subjective qualities and above all for its psycho-physical implications for the listener and viewer. Over the past two decades his solo and collaborative site-specific installations and performances have consisted of highly conceptualized interventions into base materiality, investigations of alternative systems of organisation and research into a certain material decadence, most notably with the project The Institution of Rot which he co-founded with the writer Nick Couldry in 1992.
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$\bullet$ Louise Riofrio shows us how her prediction for the baryonic matter fraction was confirmed by the WMAP 7 year data.
$\bullet$ Dark Matter Awareness Week is now wrapped up, and there are some photos on Facebook.
$\bullet$ The LHC has begun to rule out popular ideas from string theory, and Tommaso reports on a new CDF result.
$\bullet$ Jeffrey Morton tells us about an upcoming conference on higher dimensional category theory and quantum gravity! As the blurb explains, all the pioneers in this field are men, although they did invite a token woman.
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- Hope you all had a great weekend!
- I have updated the calendar with the most recent additions of the upcoming Parent Appreciation Tea on June 19 (8am-9am) as well as with our upcoming farewell events for Division 11: the Picnic and Water Park on June 19th (11:30-2:00) and an Ice Cream Party on June 24th (after lunch). Please note that all family members are welcome to come to our picnic on the 19th!
- The Byng band students will be performing this Thursday, June 11th outside by the playground (weather permitting) starting at 1:30pm. Please feel free to join us!
- Tomorrow SBr. is Special Helper.
- We will be having a fire drill at 11am tomorrow morning.
- There is a Freezie and Candy Bag sale after school this Thursday, June 11th outside by the Office. All items are $1 and proceeds go towards the Grade 7 Grad Gift.
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Ayumi Hamasaki's TeamAyu Diary 7/9-13/09
SO. For some reason LoKi wants me to translate Ayumi Hamasaki's blog, the original Japanese text of which is found on her TeamAyu fanclub website. A few things to note here:
1) It is against TeamAyu's terms of service to post the original Japanese text here so I will never do this.
2) I don't own the photos, Ayu & her management do, so I will never put a Gaijin Kanpai! watermark on them. That said, please don't repost them.
3) I'll be posting these in batches. This batch is July 9th to the 13th, 2009. I'm already very far behind so her blogs between the 13th and 18th won't be posted. I'll be better next time.
4) I'm trying to go for accuracy, so not only will ayu's crazy text sizes & emoticons be emulated whenever possible, translation notes & clarifications will be added when necessary.
Click on the "read more" link for the translations. Enjoy!
09 July 2009
Today is my sixth and last show here!!!!!
I'm attacking it head-on with everything I've got------o/~
Well, whether you wanna believe that or not is your choice☆
Again today, I'll take a deep breath,
lift my head, and sing with my entire body.
My train
10 July 2009 10:56 AM
...I missed it.
I couldn't meet you guys....
I'm so disappointed...
I wanted to see you... (v_v)
To all of you who waited for me, I'm really sorry.
So now this defeated Chon-san* is in the car on the way back home to Tokyo.
Nagoya was awesooommmme.
It felt like a grand finale, but this tour isn't quite over, is it?
The energy seriously made me feel like it might be.
Waaaah, so much smiling, so much crying.
Sorry for being all crazy up & down like that...
Okay, I'm done now.
My dinner today!
Minazo was right next to me thinking very very hard at that moment,
going "ira--!" a few times for some reason. lol
*Ayu calls herself Chon-chan or Chon-san sometimes. Long story, running joke with her dancer Zin.
**There's fish called Ayu. It's like this river trout thing. So Ayu's eating Ayu, get it?
So very me...
11 July 2009 04:21 AM
Whether I've done something or not done something, maybe it's sad, but I've kind of gotten used to when people make a fuss over speculations & guesses, and I just walk off somewhere far away, preparing myself for the worst, but I never backtrack because the progress I've made thus far has to continue.
This foundation is always there: I alone know the truth about myself, what I know, what I think.
After this, that'll still be true.
No matter what, as far as my own life and my choices, I have confidence in everything I do.
The chance of rain on the 13th has dropped really fast, it seems, so I think I have an idea of what everyone in TA wants(*^_^*)
I heard you guys made whole bunch of Teruterubouzu*.(T_T)
All of us decided to do it every day too.
It was destined, I think.
Fate can't be changed, but you know, fate can change.
No doubt about it, TA's power can reach the sky and beyond.
Even though I do things my own way, no matter what
Even though I look at the same scenery, at the same velocity
I survive because I have decided.
Connect our hands, so we'll never be separated.
*Teruterubouzu look like tissue paper ghosts that people in the USA make on Halloween. In Japanese culture, they're supposed to ward off bad weather.
13 July 2009 5:34 AM
made a very scary looking teruterubouzu
so me & everyone told him
never to make one again.
Of course, he wasn't trying to be mean on purpose, he's just really terrible at making teruterubouzu.
I actually should say that today, seriously...
I'm feeling really good!!!!! Totally!!!
Unfortunately everyone in TA can't participate, but everyone in TA who can participate, all the dancers, so many of the staff members, all have one thought.
My precious treasures... I can hear you all say "It's okay"(*^_^*)


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Jenny McCloy, Board President
Jenny has over 20 years of experience as an advocate for a child with special needs. She is a mother of four, and has a degree in speech/language pathology.
Martha Ostendarp, Director
Martha is retired from her position as Early Matters Coordinator at Down Syndrome Association of Greater Cincinnati, and she is the grandmother of a child with Down Syndrome.
Jeremy David, Director
Jeremy is a music specialist in the K-6 classroom with Forest Hills School District. He holds a Masters in Music Education from University of Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music.
Ramzi Nuseibeh, Director
Ramzi is a small business owner, member and current president of a service-oriented organization in Lawrenceburg, IN, and an experienced fundraising event planner.
Ken Rinehart, CFP®,CRPS®, Director
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Ken has over 29 years of experience in Investment Management and Retirement Plan Consulting Services. He has extensive experience in plan design, investment policy, investment option selection and fiduciary responsibility. He is a CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ and holds the Certified 401(k) Professional (C(k)P®) designation from TRAU, the Chartered Retirement Plans Specialist (CRPS ®) designation from the College for Financial Planning and the Accredited Investment Fiduciary (AIF®) designation from the Center for Fiduciary Studies. Ken and his wife, Barb, reside in Anderson Township and are blessed with two children, Paige and Alex.
Pam Rieke, Director
Pam has over 15 years of experience working with adults with disabilities at organizations such as United Cerebral Palsy, LADD and Down syndrome Association of Greater Cincinnati. She has worked with Melodic Connections and their students on many occasions before joining the board. Her expertise includes advocacy and fundraising.
Susan Casella Odell, Director
Susan is a family succession adviser for Coppertree, Ltd., her family's business. Her focus is on communication and encouraging younger generations to get involved and give back. Prior to joining Coppertree, she taught preschool special education for 7 years, where she saw very well how much music impacted her students. She graduated from the University of Dayton with a degree in education.
Ratan Tadiparthi, Director & Chair of Community Outreach & Engagement
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Sue Antczak, Director, Chair of Finance, Non-voting Member
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By: Kevin Maisto
Yesterday, we were able to hear from Reince Priebus, the outspoken Chairman of the Republican National Committee. While differing politically, I was intrigued to hear from one of the principal shapers of our political system.
He began by touting Congressional election victories (unsurprisingly, the failure of Romney/Ryan 2012 didn't seem to be mentioned much), attributing much of the success to a greater emphasis on data to predict voting. For example, analysts attribute Florida Representative David Jolly's surprising victory in his 2014 special election to the new "Honeybadger" system of data used by the RNC. This consists of a continually updating system of voter information, specifically in regards to effects of targeted messaging on voter turnout.
This is just one example of an ever-growing aspect of the political arena. The GOP has developed a so-called Data Trust to allow candidates access to extensive knowledge about their constituents, allowing more effective branding and a greater impact on sought-after markets of voters. This also follows a national and international trend to utilize the unprecedented amounts of consumer data.
As a marketing student and a strong believer in the impact of data analytics (remember Target?), I am in full support of political parties taking advantage of consumer and voter data. It is only natural to attempt to understand your constituents better and create a more targeted campaign. Ideally, this would also create an electorate that can better represent the American people.
Unfortunately, idealistic thoughts don't seem to last in Washington, D.C. Chairman Priebus, in discussing political strategy and the use of big data, made one truly disappointing comment. Essentially, the Democratic and Republican National Committees separately rank voters on scales of 0-100 depending on their propensity to vote for each respective party. Most of the messaging can then be focused towards those voters who could be easily persuaded to vote for either candidate. This prevents waste and allows for more effective campaigning. All good things, all good things.
However, there is also the group of voters who are ranked 0-10, meaning that they will never vote for the party conducting the research. For Republicans, this would be any voter who would always vote Democratic. In order to gain a strategic advantage, messaging to that group of constituents shall be exclusively negative in order to dissuade any voting at all.
Strategically and logically, I can understand. Naturally, if you know that someone will never vote for your candidate, make sure they don't vote for the other one.
Nationally, democratically, ETHICALLY speaking, this is ABHORRENT. When did we allow the destruction of our ideals in order to win an election? Our government was founded on the principle of a representative democracy. For our two largest political parties to be engaging in strategies that dampen the freedoms we all hold leaves me disgusted in the process. This can certainly be linked to our lowest midterm election turnout since WWII – only 36.4% of eligible voters in 2014.
Ultimately, American voters control the political process. By allowing data to prevent us from contributing to the foundation of our nation, we are effectively relinquishing our hold on the government. It is crucial that we regain that control and remind those in charge of the effect that the voting bloc can wield.


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Today is Day #15 and it's been a few days since we arrived at Jorge Chavez International Airport (LIM) in Lima, Peru. The flight in from Costa Rica wasn't too bad – another Copa flight – and only about 3 hours and 15 minutes. Once on the ground in Peru, we were amazed on how easy it was to get through immigrations, pick up luggage, and final out through customs. It seemed to take only 10 minutes or so. Much better than the typical 45 minutes I remember from our domestic SFO days!
It took about 50 minutes to reach our apartment in Miraflores… partially due to traffic, and partially due to the fact that there appears to be ZERO direct transit roads through this city with the exception of the road along the Pacific coast.
Our apartment for the week consists of the entire 4th floor of one of the many apartment buildings lining the cliffs along the Pacific Ocean. We even had our own elevator entrance which was pretty cool. The view from the balcony was awesome. We could see the waves of the Pacific and we overlook a few soccer fields. A running path across the street is perfect for Jeni and I… and there were runners and bikers although through the day and night.
It was perfect for our first family workout session. Kiddos were oh so happy that mom and dad were forcing them to attempt interval training!
This area was perfect for exploring on foot – with an bike and walking path winding along the costal cliffs and numerous parks scattered throughout the area. And dogs! Lots and lots of dogs! The kiddos enjoyed playing with a few of the furry friends.
Every spot along the way allowed for views of the beach and water's edge below the 250ft cliffs.
For this two week trip to Peru, the kiddo's grandparents made the trip down from Texas to join in on the fun! These are Stephen's parents – Jerry and Becky.
In addition to some incredible dining experiences at Central and Maido (blog postings to come), we've spent time walking around the Miraflores and San Isidro neighborhoods. We didn't have any particular destination in mind – just spending time exploring the city streets.
We will admit that the areas we have been exploring is only a small segment of the city, and one that resembles New York City rather than the standard living areas of this city of 10 million. But we did have a chance to visit one of the larger markets in which thousands of residents shop for their daily food and necessities.
This post only touches on our initial impression of this great city… there is much more to come about out exploits and experiences in the coming days. We have a post from the kiddos chronicling their paragliding experience…(SPOILER ALERT! Kiddos had a ton of fun!)
… a RUNNING THE WORLD blog post following our LimaRunningTours experience (in which we hired a local guide to take us on a run through another area of Lima… and a brand new category with an introductory post!
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[L]ocal organisation Morecambe Bay Partnership is seeking volunteers to help fight vegetation, which is threatening nationally important 'Heritage at Risk' sites on Birkrigg Common, near Ulverston. The next work party will take place on Saturday 24th June from 9.30am.
Volunteers are sought to help undertake some targeted vegetation clearance, to reduce bracken growth at this important and much loved Furness site, so helping to increase the visibility of, and reduce the risk to, important archaeological remains. The work will also help to improve natural habitats, opening up grassland and encouraging grazing, allowing better feeding areas for birds and reducing further encroachment of bracken.
New and existing volunteers are invited to join the work party on Saturday 24th June – no previous experience is needed and all tools and safety equipment are provided. Volunteers just need to bring along their enthusiasm and a willingness to get stuck in! The works will involve cutting the bracken, to weaken the plant and restrict its growth over subsequent growing seasons.
Morecambe Bay Partnership is leading this important work, as part of its Bay-wide programme to conserve, understand and celebrate the Bay's intriguing but sadly overlooked cultural heritage. Three of the archaeological sites on Birkrigg Common are listed on the 'Heritage at Risk' register produced by Historic England (formerly English Heritage) and require immediate action to control this vegetation, to preserve and protect them for future generations. Morecambe Bay Partnership has been working with volunteers since 2015 to tackle the problematic bracken and is already seeing fantastic results, with much reduced destructive bracken growth on the archaeological sites.
The work party will meet at the Malt Kiln, Bardsea for tea/coffee at 9.30am on Saturday 24th June. Supervised children aged 8 and over are welcome. Work will involve manual removal of vegetation with slashers/rakes and some lifting, so a degree of physical fitness is required. For more information visit www.morecambebay.org.uk/events.