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I have observed that whenever a woman asserts her intelligence or independence to the world, it has to be couched in terms of an apology. The sense of wrong, pretended or real, is as much for those virtues that came to her instead of the spouse or brother, as the burden of lifelong success that such virtues usually promise.
Currently, as secretary of state, Hillary is focusing on rehabilitating the condition of women in Africa who have been raped, infected with HIV and left to die in the unending civil wars that plague the continent. She has to fight ignorance, fear, poverty, taboo, militancy before she can make any difference. But before that she has to fight her personal battles of womanhood – that insidious, murky, crippling institution of male chauvinism that survives by virtue of trivializing its women. Pls note, this is not an affront to men; just a sad legacy that many of us still content with frequently.
In order to truly emerge as secretary of state in her own right & not the wife of the ex-prez, she must lash out as she did at the African student for sometimes u have to speak louder for the hard of hearing. Perhaps, what makes this whole issue so ignoble is the idea of pitching a perfectly matched gifted couple against each other. A Rhodes scholar and one of the finest minds on international affairs, bill Clinton is more than a match for ol' hilly. But no, it has to be either her or him. Media pundits now intuit that she snapped because of the publicity that bill garnered by negotiating the release of the two American journos from north korea.
If such is the dogma the modern woman has to fight, what role do we really seek for ourselves? One of insulation and segregation or the more challenging role of integrating our positions within the society that polarizes us? The hubby thinks sexual harassment is the worse a woman can face in the workplace. I disagree. Fighting the bastion of male domination & trivialization of female roles is a far greater menace. It is subtler, more powerful, infinitely more demoralizing and definitely far more widespread.
Women's empowerment won't be delivered at the end of a gun or through economic sanctions or even overt criticism, unless it can supplant accepted cultural practices with an independent order that recognizes merit over gender and virtue over beauty and incentivizes powerful women instead of laughing away their efforts. Are we really getting there or merely comforting our daughters with a dream?


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That is the reason why the vegetarian diet began in great demand with the aim of reducing the risk of disease. However, the protein needs of vegetarians are sometimes quite difficult. For that you need to consume protein from vegetable sources.
Protein in soybean known as found in soy milk offers many benefits, especially with antioxidants. Able to protect the body against cancer and is a complete protein with amino acids essential .
Soybeans have been consumed for health benefits for centuries, and is currently processing soybeans into soy milk is a practical shape to meet the intake protein of vegetarians.
There are 20 kinds of amino acids the human body needs. Amino acids play a role in the development and maintenance of each tissue such as muscle, skin and bone tissue and whole body health.
Of the 20 amino acids, 9 of which can not be produced by the body, so-called "essential amino acids ", which means that they must be obtained through diet. Maybe we think that vegetarians can not meet needs of protein and amino acids, because they do not consume animal protein sources. But soy is a source of vegetable protein containing all essential amino acids and is the best source of protein among other vegetable products.
Soy protein also has health benefits not held by other vegetable protein products. Soybeans also contain phytochemicals that isoflavones such as daidzein, genistein and glycitein that acts as a plant growth substance to protect the body against disease.
Isoflavones contained in soy may also help prevent the disruption of brain function such as Alzheimer's disease. Even eating quality soy milk regularly may protect against osteoporosis.
Indeed, there are differences in protein content of cow's milk and soy milk. But soy milk is best protein content than other vegetable sources. You can see it in the article the ratio of nutrition soy milk and cow's milk.

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HCG True Diet Tip of the Week: Weigh your food raw
Weigh your food raw to ensure proper quantities and store in individual servings.
You have to get a food scale. There's a lot of scales to choose from. A cheap $5 one will do just as good as a $50 fancy one. Always weigh the food raw, especially the protein foods. Weight them with no skin, no fat, and no bones. Measure your vegetable and fruit accurately too. If you prepare you meals ahead of time, measure the individual servings and store them in individual containers for quick preparation.
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I'm new to Teradata and I'm finding my way around. I am in the process of converting our ORACLE scripts to TERADATA. I need help trying to come up with a solution for the following task.
In ORCALE, I'm doing the following.
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DEFINE varstring2 = "456DEF";
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DEFINE varstring5 = "&varstring3,&varstring4";
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Is there a way in Teradata to achieve the same with or without BTEQ? Is it creating a macro? Declare SET? other?
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The Taliban in Our Universities
By Farish A Noor
While teaching at the University of Malaya not long ago, I experienced a number of episodes that made me wonder about the future of the Malay-Muslims in the country.
On one occasion, I found myself in one of the science faculties of the university. I was about to deliver a lecture on the subject of civilisational development and inter-civilisational dialogue to the students who were assembled there. Just as I was about to begin, a young Malay student came up to me and asked if the lecture could be delayed for a few minutes. When I asked him why he wanted the delay, he stated that he wanted to read out a doa (prayer) on behalf of the students who were present. Caught off guard, I turned to the other lecturer present, who told me that such things happen quite regularly and that most lecturers allow the students to have their way.
The student then proceeded to read the doa, but not without making a crucial qualifying remark first: 'This is just for the Muslims. The rest of you must not take part' he said. Thanks to a few ill-chosen (or perhaps deliberately-chosen) words, the student had effectively split apart the audience into two groups: the Muslims and the non-Muslims. When he finished reciting his prayers, the young demagogue passed the floor back to me. I was then expected to speak about inter-cultural dialogue and how communities should come together!
The fact that the pharisees have taken over the universities in the land is not a revelation to us. For decades now the universities in Malaysia have experienced the steady encroachment of religious activists and ideologues who have upped the stakes in the Islamisation contest and have radically altered the social and cultural terrain of university life. Many, if not all, the student unions in the universities have been taken over by the self-proclaimed 'defenders of the faith' who claim that they represent the best in Islam and that they are the models to be emulated. Islamists have set the standards for behaviour, dress, inter-communal relations and even the mode of education in many of the institutions of higher learning in the country. The exclusionary politics of cultural difference that they promote has also led to the further fragmentation of the student body along cultural-religious lines and a hardening of racial and religious boundaries between the different student communities on campus.
Those who question or challenge the credo of this new juvenile theocracy soon find themselves the target of their wrath. I experienced this myself, when in the course of my lectures I had the temerity to suggest that the Arab-Muslim thinker Ibn Khaldun was in many ways a modern thinker who founded what we now call political sociology. Ibn Khaldun's worldview, I insisted, was a modern one as he placed human beings and rational human agency at the centre of the process of civilisational development. Khaldun had argued that in order to understand how cultures and societies develop, we need to understand the workings of human society and the role played by the most important agent of history itself: the human being.
For this scandalous assertion on my part, I was soon dubbed a 'secular' thinker who had studied too long in the West and who was a product of eurocentric education. The students who opposed my views claimed that as Ibn Khaldun was a Muslim, he could not possibly have held the view that man was the centre of the world. Surely it was God, they argued, that decided which civilisation should develop and which ones should perish. The development of nation-states and economies were all part of God's cosmic drama and should an economy collapse, then it must be the result of God's anger more than anything else they claimed. If that were the case, said I, then God certainly must be against the Muslims, for the civilisation of Islam seems to have declined somewhat over the past few centuries. Some of the more vocal members of the 'Taliban' in my class then issued their own equivalent of a fatwa, claiming that my lectures were unIslamic and that I was confusing the minds of innocent and hapless Muslims.
These episodes (and there are bound to be many others) illustrate the contradictions and paradoxes that exist in our educational system today. Despite the many attempts to weed out the more bigoted and extremist members of the student body- such as the introduction of minimum grade requirements for higher student union posts- the tendencies remain and are in fact growing ever stronger. What makes matters worse is the indifference, if not the connivance of those in power who are actually colluding with the extremists and are quite happy to witness the gradual colonisation of our universities by the home-grown Talibani of Malaysia.
The saddest thing of all is the fact that thanks to these self-appointed 'guardians of the faith' among the Malay-Muslim student body, it is the Malays as a whole who will be unduly affected. As the more dogmatic religious leaders and spokesmen among them come to the fore to dictate what is right and what is wrong, what can be taught and what should not, the entire educational process itself will be held hostage by a vocal minority who remain trapped within their own exclusivist religio-cultural discourse.
The net result in the long-run is not difficult to imagine. As Malay-Muslim students reject the sciences and arts taught to them on the grounds that it does not fit with the narrow and monochromatic worldview taught to them by the party-political Mullahs outside, a whole generation of young Malay-Muslims will not be able to learn the tools of applied physical sciences, social sciences and humanities. If these young Islamist students insist that disciplines such as sociology, political theory, history, economics and the sciences are all fundamentally irreconcilable with Islam on the grounds that they are based on humanistic or materialistic premises, then what hope will there be for the future of the Malays who have to live in a global world that is torn apart by very real (and man-made) cleavages of power and interests? Can Muslims still cling on to clichés and myths of the past in the face of the painful realities of the present? And can those students who insist that the hand of God is everywhere try to explain for themselves the workings of the globalisation process which is inexorably marginalising the Muslim world further and further by the minute?
Dealing with these young fanatics in our universities is a task that needs to be taken seriously, but also with sensitivity and intelligence. It is clear by now that the measures that were introduced and used in the past have not really worked. Our universities today have become the breeding ground for a new generation of Islamist activists who will undoubtedly take up the Islamist cause if and when they are able to.
But putting aside the long-term political implications of these developments, we still need to address the difficulties that confront us in the short to medium term. As long as there is no attempt to address and correct some of the fundamental assumptions and beliefs that underlie the increasingly constricted worldview of the Muslim students in the country, the development of the Muslims themselves will be hindered. The net result will be an obvious discrepancy between the performance of Malay-Muslim students and their non-Muslim counterparts. Should this happen, it must be stated that the blame for the decline rests squarely on the shoulders of the former and not the latter.
For now, one is left only with a bleak picture of the present. It is disheartening to come across so many bright young minds that have been thoroughly taken over by the hyperbole and sophistry of religious pedagogues who have no solutions to offer except for empty slogans and longings for some 'golden age' of Islam in the past. We are reminded of the lament of Muhammad Iqbal, who wrote: 'One can only imagine the wretched state of a people who are told by their religion that the present state is fixed and unchangeable'.
Dr. Farish A Noor is a Malaysian political scientist and human rights activist. He once taught at the University of Malaya and is presently working on the topic of Islamist movements in Southeast Asia. His current project is a book on the development of the Malaysian Islamic Party, PAS.
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The Design and Implementation of Traffic Accident Identification System Based on Video
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1 3rd International Conference on Multimedia Technology(ICMT 2013) The Design and Implementation of Traffic Accident Identification System Based on Video Chenwei Xiang 1, Tuo Wang 2 Abstract: With the rapid growth of the count of vehicles, congestion and traffic accidents frequently occur. The situation triggers a series of social problems. The application research on computer vision and digital image processing system is presented in this paper provides a real-time method which identify traffic accident and manage the traffic accident more convenient, accurate and efficient.the system also offer the technologies to analysis the traffic accident management information, traffic accident rescue and responsibility determination. Keywords: computer vision, intelligent transportation system, traffic accident identification, video, traffic accident management 1. Introduction In recent years, with the rapid development of economic and social progress, the road has been accessible everywhere, the number of cars is increasing, and then traffic problems are increasing, traffic congestion and traffic accidents occur frequently. According to statistical data, the number of national road traffic accidents involving casualties is in 2011 one year. It s a current problem to be solved focused by our country and oversea that is how to establish an effective intelligent transportation system (intelligent transportation system, ITS) which can achieve real-time traffic scene monitoring, scheduling and control. In 1 C. Xiang ( ) The School of Electronic and Information Engineering, Xi an Jiaotong University,710049,Xi an, Shaanxi, P.R.China 2 T.Wang ( ) The School of Electronic and Information Engineering, Xi an Jiaotong University,710049,Xi an, Shaanxi, P.R.China The authors - Published by Atlantis Press 887
2 the system, we should identify the traffic accident at first and deal with information about the traffic accident. This paper designs and implements the traffic accident identification system which is based on video. 2 Design of The Traffic Accident Identification and Management System The system is divided into two management levels, municipal and district levels. In accordance with the way that different districts deal with the accidents occur in own district. The system will automatically identify the traffic accident and sent back the video of the accident to the image library of district command monitoring center the accident road belongs. The system will also classify the alarm by the severity of the traffic accidents, and display the rank on monitoring terminal. The staff in district command monitoring center check and manage the alarms quickly according to the severity of traffic accidents. When traffic accident exceeds the limit level, the system will report to the municipal command monitoring center, and municipal command monitoring center checks the accident and guide treatment for traffic accident remedial work. Municipal command monitoring center only transfer the information and related videos from district command monitoring center. 2.1 Architecture Design of the Traffic Accident Identification and Management System Fig.2.1.system components figure 888
3 The hardware of the system is shown in figure The cameras capture the videos, related DSP analysis and identify traffic accident, when the traffic accident is identified, the video of it will be sent to the district command monitoring center the road belongs by wireless or wired devices. Municipal command monitoring center transfer the desired videos from district command monitoring center s image library. In the hardware of the system, the great computing power of DSP can identify the traffic accident in this road quickly and accurately. Therefore, several cameras may be divided into a set corresponds to a workstation to complete the automatic traffic accident identification. The accident-prone road can use DSP program. 2.2 Function Design of Traffic Accident Identification and Management System The system consists of communication, information storage, traffic accident identification and traffic accident management four subsystems, each subsystem s main functions are as follows: Communication subsystem: Subsystem transfers the video captured by cameras to the DSP or workstation, then DSP or workstation compute the video and sent the analysis result to district command monitoring center. And the system also completes the communication between municipal and district command monitoring center. Information storage subsystem: subsystem storages the original video of traffic accident, the level, the place, specification information dealing with the aftermath of the traffic accident, the rescue hospital and so on. Traffic accident identification subsystem: Subsystem identifies the traffic accident, intercepts the video information including the accident process and identifies the level. Traffic accident management subsystem: Subsystem alarms on the screen of the district command monitoring center after identifying traffic accidents, and then displays the alarms profiles by the level. The staff clicks the profiles to display the related traffic accidents videos and determines responsibilities. It also can quarry the history video of the traffic accidents or statistic the traffic accidents data by road, time and level. In order to ensure data completeness, subsystem backups the videos, or takes the videos in secondary storage (hard drive) into the system. System software features are shown in Fig
4 Fig.2.2 System software function of subsystems 3 Algorithm and Key Technologies of the Traffic Accident Identification 3.1 Architecture Design of the Traffic Accident Identification and Management System The environment of highway is different from urban road. This paper is based on the highway traffic accident. The environment of highway is easier, when vehicle is running, less interference on the road. The vehicle generally damage badly after the traffic accident. System processes the input video frame by frame, build the background model and segment the vehicles from it. Then system detects the vehicle stopping and detects the vehicle s outer contour curve, the outer contour curve compares with the contour curve in database. If the result proves that outer contour curve changes a lot, it shows a collision of the vehicle. If the outer contour curve has no change, it may be the part of the vehicle has been damaged. The system should detect the part feature, resulting in the traffic accident level and other information. 3.2 Key Technologies The key technologies in the system are the background modeling based on color space, the vehicle s feature extraction and description based on the outer contour and the part of the vehicle s feature extraction and description based on improved SIFT. 890
5 3.2.1 Background Modeling Based on Color Space We propose an approach to building the road real-time model based on spatial clustering (SC). In this approach, we abstract the background modeling as the process of spatial clustering in time axis. From statistical point of view, in a location of an image the background pixels color value is fluctuating in a range. Therefore, we do clustering analysis for these pixels to form a number of data clusters. Objects in one cluster are similar with each other, while objects between clusters are different. Every cluster represents one possibility of the background model. In a color image, each pixel can be regarded as a point in 3d space, whose position is together determined by the color components that constitute this point. The choice of the rules according to which these points are clustered is the key that the background model obtained is accurate or not. In this article, we use this color distortion rule and brightness distortion rule as the clustering criterion of road background modeling[1]. On this basis, we will design the algorithm as follows: Fig.3.1 the algorithm flowchart The detailed algorithm is according to the literature [2]. 891
6 Fig.3.2. Parts of results. The top row shows the original images in traffic scenes, the second row are results obtained by using non-parametric Bayesian modeling, the third row are results obtained by using proposed approach, the fourth row masked original images obtained by using proposed approach. Morphological method is not used in the experiments The Vehicle s Feature Extraction and Description Based on the Outer Contour The extracted foreground image is converted to binary image, filtering and extracting the edge, then using Douglas Peucker algorithm(dp algorithm)[3]to achieve the edge feature extraction of vehicle. Specific steps are as follows: (1) Between the endpoints of the curve A and B to make a straight line segment AB, the line segment is the string of the original curve; (2) Get the maximum distance from the original curve point H to the AB and calculate its distance called h; (3) Compare the present threshold value X with h, if h<x, use AB to approximate the original curve, end the approximation work; (4) If h>=x, the original curve divide into two parts by H, AH and BH and then carry out the step (1) (2) (3) for the two curves; (5) When all curves are dealt with, connect all the points in the approximation to get a line chart, end the approximation work. The points are the feature points of vehicle. Since the scale of the transformation influences seriously, the, this paper hope to the extracted corner points is not affected by the image scale. To address this situation, we can replace the original coordinate feature information for the vector feature information. The corner feature of the vehicle expressed in vector form, the centroid of the target is used as the original point. In this way, we can effectively overcome the defect caused by the scale transformation when we 892
7 detect corner points. In order to unify features, the vectors are normalized so that the value of the elements in the interval [0, 1] The Part of the Vehicle s Feature Extraction and Description Based on Improved SIFT In the vehicle recognition progress, we need to search and match the extracted feature points in database. As the SIFT feature vector is 128-dimensinal, its high dimensional lead to the search efficiency is extremely low. In order to ensure the rotation invariance of the descriptor in SIFT algorithm, we assign a main direction for the feature point and rotate axes according to the main direction before generating descriptors. If the descriptors itself has a good rotational invariance, this step can be omitted. As round has good rotational invariance, this paper draws on ideological division round, using a circular neighborhood instead of a matrix neighborhood to generate the 64-dimensinal feature descriptor [4-5]. It s shown as Fig.3.3. Fig.3.3 Round Neighborhood The improved algorithm has two advantages:(1)compared with the division based on matrix neighborhood, the division based on round neighborhood can assure rotational invariance, eliminates the step calculating the main direction and rotating the axes.(2)different points in different areas has its own value, the weight of the points is higher if it s close to the feature point,the Gaussian weighting before the gradient magnitude value calculating, because the Gaussian contour lines is the concentric center which center is feature point, the step Gaussian-weighted can combine with calculating feature vector in improved algorithm. Collecting the two dimensional images of the vehicle from different directions, extract features from the images to make combinations of feature descried, final generate 3D feature database of the vehicle, we can identify the kind of vehicle via searching the matching the feature database. In order to facilitate research, this paper s work applies in horizontal plane. The longitude angle has no change, rotate the camera in latitude plane capturing images. It is a key point to build multi-angle three-dimensional database that how to choice the change angle, it should ensure the feature will has less missing and no more redundancy. If the angle changing value β is too large, too much feature lost. If β is too small, there are a lot of redundant points have high similarity. Through 893
8 the statistical analysis from the result of experiments,20 is the best change angle. We search and match the features between two adjacent angles, the repeated features retain only once in database, in order to reduce data redundancy and retain the feature information more completely. In the vehicle identification, system need to compare vehicle images from videos with the vehicle features in database, the accuracy of feature points directly affects the vehicle identification is correct or not. 4 Conclusion This paper presents a traffic accident identification system based on video, designs the architecture of system and studies the related algorithms. The experiments show that the algorithms are feasible, but the algorithms are not realtime, it needs to research and improve the algorithms further in future. 5 Acknowledgement This work is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No ). 6 References 1. Kim K, Chalidabhongse T H, Harwood D, Davis L S(2004) Background modeling and subtraction by codebook construction.in: Proceedings of International Conference on Image Processing. Singapore, Singapore: IEEE, Chenwei X,Tuo W et al(2013) Roads modeling using the method of color spatial clustering.in: Journal of Image and Graphics,8(18): Douglas D H, Peucker T K(1973) Algorithms for the reduction of the number of points required to represent a line or its caricature.in: The Canadian Cartographer, 10( 2) : Mikolajczyk K, Schmid C(2005) A performance evaluation of local descriptors[j]. In:IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 27 (10): Hua LQ,Xu W et al(2013)vehicle recognition using improved SIFT and multi-view model.in: Journal of Xi'an Jiaotong University,4(47):
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Harvest is all over for another year and autumn is upon us and that means it is time for ploughing matches up and down the East region. This year R.A.B.I have been present at the Greenstead Green Agricultural Ploughing Match held mid- September and the Bedfordshire YFC Ploughing Match held in early October. Both days were met with very autumnal weather!
Greenstead Green plough day in Braintree, Essex, had an array of different machinery, from new to old, and large demonstrators on display. The horses were out showing us all how plough used to be completed over the entries. You could also have a go yourself and see how straight your line was!
Bedfordshire YFC plough day in Eaton Bray, Bedfordshire, was another fantastic day with a display of old and new tractors and youngsters having a go. Despite a downpour in the middle of the day, it was an enjoyable day.
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So I'm trying to get caught up on my reading challenge on Goodreads. This is the most I've read in a month in quite some time. I've been trying to spend less time on the internet and more time enjoying books again. So there will probably be less posts and most likely delayed posts.
What all did you read in the month of July? Let me know in the comments!!!
It's Kind Of A Funny Story
By Ned Vizzini
Published By: Disney-Hyperion on April 3rd 2007
Genres: Young Adult, Contemporary
Pages: 444
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Rating: ☆☆☆☆
Ambitious New York City teenager Craig Gilner is determined to succeed at life - which means getting into the right high school to get into the right job. But once Craig aces his way into Manhattan's Executive Pre-Professional High School, the pressure becomes unbearable. He stops eating and sleeping until, one night, he nearly kills himself.
Craig's suicidal episode gets him checked into a mental hospital, where his new neighbors include a transsexual sex addict, a girl who has scarred her own face with scissors, and the self-elected President Armelio. There, Craig is finally able to confront the sources of his anxiety.
Ned Vizzini, who himself spent time in a psychiatric hospital, has created a remarkably moving tale about the sometimes unexpected road to happiness.
The Upside Of Unrequited
By Becky Albertalli
Published By: Blazer + Bray
Genres: Young Adult, Contemporary, LGBTQ+
Pages: 336
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My Rating: ☆☆☆☆
Seventeen-year-old Molly Peskin-Suso knows all about unrequited love—she's lived through it twenty-six times. She crushes hard and crushes often, but always in secret. Because no matter how many times her twin sister, Cassie, tells her to woman up, Molly can't stomach the idea of rejection. So she's careful. Fat girls always have to be careful.
Then a cute new girl enters Cassie's orbit, and for the first time ever, Molly's cynical twin is a lovesick mess. Meanwhile, Molly's totally not dying of loneliness—except for the part where she is. Luckily, Cassie's new girlfriend comes with a cute hipster-boy sidekick. Will is funny and flirtatious and just might be perfect crush material. Maybe more than crush material. And if Molly can win him over, she'll get her first kiss and she'll get her twin back.
There's only one problem: Molly's coworker Reid. He's an awkward Tolkien superfan with a season pass to the Ren Faire, and there's absolutely no way Molly could fall for him. Right?
Me & Milo The Great
By Michelle Schlicher
Published By: Expected publication: September 14th 2017
Genres: Fiction
Pages: 224
Purchase: Kindle
Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆
My name is Holiday Sanchez. I carry a heavy burden.
But I'm not the only one.
There are others who know what it feels like to remember. Maybe they are the answer. Maybe we can help each other. Maybe I'll finally get past it.
Maybe it just takes time—and a little bit of magic.
Fault Line
By C. Desir
Published By: SimonPulse on October 15th 2013
Genres: Young Adult, Contemporary
Pages: 240
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Rating: ☆☆☆☆
Ben could date anyone he wants, but he only has eyes for the new girl — sarcastic free-spirit, Ani. Luckily for Ben, Ani wants him too. She's everything Ben could ever imagine. Everything he could ever want.
But that all changes after the party. The one Ben misses. The one Ani goes to alone.
Now Ani isn't the girl she used to be, and Ben can't sort out the truth from the lies. What really happened, and who is to blame?
Ben wants to help her, but she refuses to be helped. The more she pushes Ben away, the more he wonders if there's anything he can do to save the girl he loves.


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A Sydney mother has been filmed spray painting a skate park with a message about the importance of wearing helmets.
Skateboarders in Cherrybrook in Sydney's north came across 45-year-old Sonia Grima on Sunday afternoon tagging their local skate park.
The young skateboarders began filming Ms Grima, who used red spray paint to write "#helmetsarecool" across a quarter pipe.
Ms Grima said she felt compelled to promote helmet safety following the recent death of 14-year-old Rosemeadow boy Michael Hannon, who was fatally struck by a car while riding his scooter on a road.
Onlookers were angry at Ms Grima's actions and could be heard in the footage yelling at her to stop.
"Don't tag the f---ing skate park," one teenager shouted.
"F--- off you f---ing idiots," Ms Grima yelled back.
"Put you f---ing helmets on before you get brain dead."
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"Before the creation of the welfare state, immigrants who came to this country were for the most part attracted by America's reputation as a land of freedom and opportunity. Laws and customs that then prevailed required immigrants to carve out their individual destinies by their own labor, perseverance, intelligence, and determination." — James Thornton, Six Great Immigrants, The New American, February 19, 1996via No Moss Here
Wednesday, July 2, 2014
Once Upon a Time in America
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Junior Application Developer for Open Science
- Recruiter
- Location
- Switzerland (CH)
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- 18 May 2018
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- Engineering & Technology, Computer Science
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- Research Related, Other Research Related
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Are you excited about open and reproducible science? Do you want to build tools, which help researchers to preserve, share and re-use data? CERN is looking for an enthusiastic full stack software developer to work in a research data team with the scientific community and move our projects and services forward. CERN, take part!
You will join a vibrant team at the Scientific Information Service at CERN. Together with CERN IT Department, we are developing, building, and enhancing research data services such as the CERN Open Data portal [http://opendata.cern.ch] and the CERN Analysis Preservation framework [https://github.com/cernanalysispreservation].
You will notably work as part of the FREYA project core team member. Funded by the European Commission under the Horizon 2020 programme, FREYA fosters adoptions of persistent identifiers across research communities in close partnership with leading scientific institutions in Europe.
As Junior Application Developer in the Open Access Section, you will bring in first-hand experience with open science services, persistent identifiers, and agile delivery of complex software applications to take a driving/leading role in delivering the CERN contribution to FREYA. This includes designing research data solutions and developing services that enable the identification of research artefacts such as data, software, environments, and connect them to authors (ORCID), their publications, grants, etc..
In particular, you will:
- Participate in the design and implementation of FREYA project objectives in relation to the Persistent Identifier Graph concept and its development and integration with diverse scientific communities.
- Participate in the development, deployment and maintenance of the CERN Analysis Preservation service notably in relation to user interfaces and usability.
- Contribute to the roadmaps, milestones, tasks with a team of software engineers in an international, distributed team.
- Develop and upgrade services and features corresponding to the identified needs of the HEP and FREYA community.
- Represent CERN for specific activities within the FREYA consortium and at related international technical events.


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Each year the Bishop of Newcastle or his Assistant Bishop visit the Parish to undertake an Episcopal Visitation and to administer the sacraments of Baptism and Confirmation for young people and adults (baptisms for babies and children take place throughout the year), and to receive members of other churches who now worship with us into membership of the Anglican Church of Australia.
Any adult who has not been baptised can be baptised, and Confirmation will be offered to young people who are 12 years old and older on the same day.
If you have not been baptised, or if you would like members of your family to be Confirmed or received please speak to Father David. Weekly preparation sessions normally take place in the month prior to the Bishop's visit.
Video of 2016 Confirmations on the Patronal Festival of Saint Peter
Video of 2015 Confirmations on the Feast of The Most Holy and Undivided Trinity
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Nov 17, 2009
By Steve Weiss
Back in May, Stylesight's Vintage Editor, Cullen Meyer, discovered a treasure in the pocket of a coat he purchased at an estate sale. An old matchbook advertising Barneys' "nationally advertised brands" came from the 1920s, a time when the store was known not for the fashion-forward styles of today, but rather showroom samples and factory cancellations. We shared the image with the executives at Barneys New York who were so inspired by the matchbook, they took it to Band of Outsiders' Scott Sternberg to design an exclusive holiday collection around it. Called "No Bunk! No Junk!", the line, which just hit six Barneys locations for the holidays, includes a few spot-on basics, all done in black and white. It's Sternberg's "slightly twisted take on power-dressing" with a retro spin.
Band of Outsiders No Bunk! No Junk!, available now at Barneys New York's Madison Avenue, Beverly Hills, Chicago, Copley Place, San Francisco, and Scottsdale stores. For locations, visit www.barneys.com
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Director Maruthi has created a special market for himself as an upcoming director. Now for the first time in his career, he is directing a big hero in 'Babu Bangaram'. The movie is a hilarious entertainer and the first teaser has already given an indication about the kind of film movie lovers can expect.
Maruthi is a director who understands mass pulse. That is why his success rate remains quite high. Even in the latest teaser, the use of the 'Ayyo Ayyo Ayyayyo" one liner from Venky is an example of Maruthi's understanding of a hero's fan base.
Venkatesh and Nayanatara are the lead actors of this movie.
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Trimester One - Part One - The Beginning
Like any ordinary married couple, after a couple of years leading the happy couple lifestyle, something seems missing....an empty heart, a longing for a lil one, a desire to start our own family.
They say getting married marks a small change in your lifestyle. Whereas getting a child marks a HUGE difference in your lifestyle.
Well, Alan and I were always yearning to find out how big of a difference can a lil one actually be. However after 4 years of yearning, it seems that that special moment never seemed to arrive.
I hoped and prayed and went to see the doctors. And every time they assured me that everything was fine and I need not worry, all there is is time and I should be patient. But as I near the 3 series, I begin to ponder....can I have a child before I hit the big 3-0?
After a long series of discussion, we finally decided to give a last try. I set up an appointment with a well known O&G specialist in KL. It was difficult to book a slot and trying to get Alan to be there as well is equally as difficult as he is always away for business trips.
The appointment date was set at 13 March 2014. I deliberately made a morning appointment so he could continue to go work after the appointment.
But as God would will it, Alan was away on business trip that day again!
Oh well, I might as well go on with it since the appointment was made. That day was also the day that my period was due. I do hope its a lil late so if the doctor needed to check anything, it wouldn't get in the way.
Just my luck that once I stepped into the hospital, it was dark....there was an electrical failure and the whole street was experiencing electrical failure. I take it this is sign from God? That I shouldn't be here and I should return home? I stayed on and waited for about an hour before the electricity came back on. Boy was it hot and stuffy!
She did the routine ultrasound scan and took some blood samples for screening. A funny episode took place during the ultrasound screening.
Dr.: I have some good news~~!!! (in a singing tone)
Me: (Oh my God, don't tell me that I hit the jackpot the first time? Wow that was.....and before I could finish my thoughts)
Dr.: You have a very good uterus....
Holy holy shit, doctor please do not scare me like that. I almost got a heart attack ok.
We went through my medical history and she was quite surprised or should I say shocked to find out what I went through medically. As she put it, its quite a harsh treatment to put you through radioactive iodine at such a young age. Yes, I do admit, but it doesn't seem like I had any choice. I was sent home and told to phone in next week to check on the blood results.
A week passed and I returned to hospital to collect the test results. To be honest I wasn't looking forward to it as she said my hormones were low and etc....my mind was already shut and already I am paving my path motherhood would be littered with obstacles...hormones low??? Great!
As I arrive at the clinic, the nurse passed my the results and instructed me to sit while waiting for the doctor to attend to me. I am not a doctor but I did work as an analyst for 2.5 years and looking at these data, I do admit that the hormones are in the low range but there is also a slight possibility that I could be pregnant....my heart starts racing. Could it be...??
Before I could think further, the doctor summoned me and started asking if I am having a stressful job. You do not have the slightest idea doctor. Ever since I graduated I changed jobs multiple times before I didn't want to live in such stressful environment but somehow one way or another I find myself sitting in the stress chair again and again.
Anyways she went through my report and suggested that I take some supplements etc. Great, more medication? Thanks, its all I need now. I am already so depressed....Can't you recommend something else like yoga...?
"When was your last period?" interrupts the doctor before I could think further.
"Hrmmm, sometime last month on 13th."
"Well it's sort of late huh...let's see, (and she starts counting) *gasp* it's already 6 days late!..." she starts winking at me.
Oh no no no, you don't start that game with me again. You almost gave me a heart attack when you said you had good news for me last week.
"Would you like me to do a pregnancy test for you?" she starts poking the question in my face before I had time to respond to her previous comment.
I start juggling the factors, since she charges a bomb for consultation its no wonder if she charges a bomb too for the stupid urine test.
"Ermmm, its fine. I think I can do that with the DIY test over the counters." I quickly packed my bags and leave and my thoughts travel back to the time when my period was 10 days late and I was elated. But I was disappointed when the test was negative and my period came a few days later. A similar incident happened again to me so I didn't bank too highly this time as well.
But somehow something is bugging me about the test result. Something is telling me to give it one last shot. OK fine. I get your message God. I am going to the local pharmacy.
I scanned the store for the cheapest pregnancy test kit because I don't want to spend so much. Previously I bought the most expensive kit because I sooo certain. Now I just keep everything low key - lest I get disappointed again.
OK got it, the cheapest test kit. RM14 for 2! Ha!! Now that is a bargain!
I went home and thought long before I put the kit to test. My heart starts pounding. My mind is blank. I couldn't think and my body is moving like a lab rat....OK, calm down, whatever happens happens. Breathe in, breathe out....I read the instructions from the label, wait 30 seconds to 1 minute for colour to appear. If 2 lines appear, then you are pregnant. If 1 line appear then you are not pregnant. Yeah I've seen the 1 line far too many times.
OK, wait 30 seconds. I am sure not to screw up the test kit. Somehow 30 seconds seem to pass like a breeze for almost immediately, 2 distinctive blue lines are staring back at me....
My first reaction was "uso!" (Japanese term for you're lying)
I turn to the packaging to view the sample photo and there it is, in the exact sample pattern, 2 blue lines - indicating that you are pregnant.
For a while I couldn't breath and I couldn't think. My heart skipped a beat even.
All I could do was call Alan and told him the wonderful news...for in 9 months time, we would be cradling our lil one.
Alan was received the news calmly and I could sense the hush hush in his happiness. He is of course in office still and I don't expect him to throw fists in the air or leap a feet high.
I placed the phone down and sat on my bed...slowly sinking into my knees and thoughts. Tears of joy slowly flowed down my cheeks...
When you wanted something so badly and you prayed to God with all your heart, but you never got what you wanted but still you prayed and waited patiently. After awhile you start to lose hope but you never never lose your faith. And when finally God answered your prayers, all you could do then is get down on your knees and cry...and that was precisely what I did that evening, that evening of 20 March 2014.


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I am so excited for today's post and you should be too, because at the end of this post there will be a giveaway for an awesome canvas!
A few months ago I was scrolling through Instagram and I came across this amazing painting of sorority letters by a girl named Mary Kathryn Martinson. I had honestly not seen any like it before. I instantly followed the account and kept telling myself that I had to place an order soon. When I decided to start blogging I knew the first person I wanted to link up with for a giveaway would be Mary Kathryn. After contacting Mary Kathryn, she was instantly on board for a giveaway and I was extremely excited.
To share a little about Mary Kathryn, she is currently a sophomore at the Savannah College of Art and Design in Savannah, Georgia. She is majoring in Graphic Design and minoring in Photography. She is from Huntsville, Alabama and has a background in fine art. At SCAD there is not Greek Life, but when her friends from back home pledged different sororities, she began painting them their letters as a gift. This instantly turned into painting letters for their bigs, littles, and sisters. She now has paintings in 10 different states and has represented 14 sororities at 14 different schools.
Mary Kathryn was so generous as to paint me my own set of letters, and I must admit they are perfect.
One of my favorite things about Mary Kathryn's work is how much care she puts into each canvas. Each canvas is hand painted so no two are exactly alike. Also she takes time to package them in the most adorable ways. (She used my sorority colors for the ribbon!)
She also is quick with her work. Once I contacted her about this post, she had my letters painted and sent out within a week, which is really awesome. I am 100% positive that my future little will be receiving her own personal set of letters from Mary Kathryn.
Now for the part you've all been waiting for. Mary Kathryn has so graciously agreed to paint a personalized 8x10 monogram initial canvas for one lucky winner. You can enter this giveaway through the Rafflecopter entry below.
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|Steel-jawed: Cavill is undoubtedly the right fit for Kal-El.
|One of Adams' few scenes with Cavill.
|Michael Shannon is reliably intense as General Zod.
|Steel-jawed: Cavill is undoubtedly the right fit for Kal-El.
|One of Adams' few scenes with Cavill.
|Michael Shannon is reliably intense as General Zod.
Fascinating last paragraph, Chris. I've felt for a while that - particularly in the 'Marvel Cinematic Universe' - this recent cycle of comic book flicks have become too samey. I've taken to watching them on DVD and Netflix, and with the exception of X-Men: First Class, have quite happily skipped through the final 30 mins of carnage that comes with these movies as standard. In their attempt to create something akin to Marvel Comics Universe, they're starting to replicate the problems of that universe: cookie-cutter storytelling, the frittering of jeopardy, interminable cross-selling cross-overs. Can't help but think that the Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D TV show will intensify these problems, rater than dilute them.ReplyDelete
Honestly feel that if Cavill Superman tried to save a cat up a tree, it would result in smashing three buildings that knocked the cat off the branch... The wholesome goodness of Superman ('statistically the safest way of flying, Miss Lane') completely abandoned.
Oh, and that ridiculous tentacled world-engine; almost a return of the infamous Mechanical Squid/Spider of the Jon Peters/Kevin Smith "Superman Lives" script (which would have starred Nicholas Cage).
I was more excited by the Wayne Enterprises satellite that Zod was pummelled into.


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Meet Robbie Owens-Russo.
The guy behind Insight's men's line. He lives how i've lived, and how i aspire to dwell again come Fall......"in a little house with a tropical backyard" Only this guy's from South Bondi in Australia instead of the Hawaiian Island. Two kids and smokin wife- this guy is livin the life.
He got his start with the label in the Art Department, and then evolved into the Lead Men's Designer-as i know all too well means wearing about 14 different hats all at the same time.
Men's labels always intrigue me cuz it's a harder market, so i like to see how it's done on the other side of the coin. Insight is one of my favorite brands because of it's deep surf roots, and the i don't give a fuck attitude that they appropriately dish out in just the right doses. Robbie's workspace is all you need: a total mess, with lots of sunshine and his pistachio-green fish precariously balanced in a bin next to his desk. I too keep my lime green fish teetering atop folders, old promo-cards and other such tee shirt samples next to my own desk.
This guy is not only a kick ass designer, mentor to his team, and creative free-spirit, he's also a soul surfer. He found surfing in 1999 - the same year i did, when i moved to Maui. I love that he states the firm connection to inspiration, and being in the water. "every second is different, every wave is approached differently - but with the same formula i've picked up from years of experience" He goes on to say that he carries this philosophy over into his creative process. YES. Proof, that i'm on the right track, that i'm not the only one that is effected in this way.
I totally get it, man.
interview/quotes taken from UO blog: 'about a guy', photos UO blog and www.insight51.com


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|from 1995
This time, we get to listen from the comfort of red velvet threater seats in the rather posh Straz Center.
|Straz Center
|Carol Morsani Hall
I think we all know what my big question for tonight is.
What am I going to wear?
I am, after all, going to see a Grammy-Award winning band, in a theatre, with my incredibly hot husband. I want to look good, right?
This gave me the perfect excuse to finally give in to my desire to join Polyvore (yeah, I know, I'm late to this band wagon too). Here's what I came up with.
Something a bit City Boho
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Indie Folk Alterna Rock-ish
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For the Almost Punk Rock Prom Queen
|I'm pretty sure this one's my favorite. Click image for details.
The one I Wish I'd Thought of
|Black and White by JKLMNODavis. Click image for details.
Sadly, I don't actually own any of these outfits. I do own some pretty cute stuff, though, so I'll let you know what I end up wearing. Oh, I might tell you about the concert too.
By the way, what was your first concert? And, of course, what did you wear?


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The Fever Mode is an item in Despicable Me: Minion Rush, and it was introduced in the 4.5.0 version.
When running in the Special Missions, the player can choose to equip the item, which can be used for three times during the run, just like the prop mini-games in previous mission. Once picked up, the Minion rushes faster and becomes invincible against obstacles, and the special items spawns more often in the way. The initial timespan of the item is 15 seconds.
Fever Mode can be upgraded as well, however, unlike the previous props, it doesn't show up in the shop but in the market (for upgrade) and the inventory (for remaining fever modes available).
Yellow Level Cost
|Level 1
|Level 2
|Level 3
|Level 4
|Level 5
| 180 Tokens
(+2 seconds)
17 seconds
| 350 Tokens
(+2 seconds)
19 seconds
| 600 Tokens
(+2 seconds)
21 seconds
| 1,000 Tokens
(+2 seconds)
23 seconds
| 1,500 Tokens
(+4 seconds)
25 seconds
| Orange Level Cost
and Ability
| 2,200 Tokens
(+2 seconds)
27 seconds
| 3,000 Tokens
(+2 seconds)
29 seconds
| 3,900 Tokens
(+2 seconds)
31 seconds
| 4,900 Tokens
(+2 seconds)
33 seconds
| 6,000 Tokens
(+2 seconds)
35 seconds
|Level 6
|Level 7
|Level 8
|Level 9
|Level 10
After the first part of the mission Bubble Gum Invasion, all the existing Fever Mode was cleared and a series of mini-games appear as the counterparts of Fever Mode in the following missions. The mini-games have same function and upgrades cost as much as Fever Mode, yet, any of their upgrades (if the player upgraded) didn't pass to following fevers.
- The item has the same shortcoming as Golden Shield - while running, the player needs to prevent the Minion from falling into the void, or the game ends.


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Ballet flats, originally uploaded by andreaban2009.
Reason for heading o BV was to get a present for an 8 year old and a card for AJ who's birthday I clean forgot would you believe it? I feel like a heel. And a bad friend.
AJ is an even tempered person who hasn't quite learnt how to how grudges. So we're still the best of friends. And I got her a nice simple card and some presents with a little funny something thrown in.
Hope she likes it. I haven't had a chance to pass her her present. Mondays are usually chaotic for most. And today is no exception.


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It is our honor to introduce to you Shawn and Emily Siganowich! The couple met through family and had always been close, but as they got older something just clicked. They became inseparable. "He's my first love and my only, and I couldn't ask for any better. He truly is my fairytale come true" says the bride.
Shawn proposed to Emily after five years of dating. He surprised her with a couples photo shoot for her birthday. During the shoot the photographer had Shawn stand behind Emily because she wanted 'a specific couples photo she saw on pinterest'…so Emily went along with it. When the photographer told her to turn around to face Shawn he was on one knee. "It was perfect" Emily said.
Their wedding took place on May 6, 2017 at the stunning Dennis Vineyards. (We're obsessed with their muscadine wine!!) Emily's favorite part of their wedding was the ceremony, she loved having their friends and family there to witness her and Shawn tie the knot. She walked down the aisle in a beautiful Stella York gown that had a breathtaking back, which she said "YES" to here at Poffie Girls! The Bride and Groom later shared their first dance to "Never Stop" by Safetysuite.
The Newlyweds escaped from reality to honeymoon in Punta Cana at an all-inclusive resort. "We basically just ate food and laid on the beach. Best. Vacation. Ever." Emily said. (Definitely our kind of honeymoon!!)
This couples favorite date night consists of ordering takeout or fast food, filling the floor with blankets and pillows, and watching their favorite shows. [Netflix and chill?;)]
Emily's advice to Bride and Grooms-to-be is: "on the day of your wedding, don't stress. Whatever happens-happens. Just relax and enjoy your day. Don't miss a moment, and take everything in. It's not every day all your loved ones are in the same place at the same time. This will be the happiest day of your life; don't miss it worrying about the little things. It'll all be perfect!"
Congratulations to Shawn and Emily!! Thank you for letting us share your beautiful story!


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Although the Pick of the Day is described as a 1956 Lincoln Continental Mark II, this elegant hardtop was marketed by Ford just as the Continental.
In the sparkling days of Camelot on the Potomac, Ford Motor Co. smartly lent a new 1961 Lincoln Continental four-door convertible in white to the glamorous First Lady for her personal use.