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Luckily for me, I don't need glasses… yet. But if that day does come, I know I won't opt for contacts because it just looks incredibly painful. Everyone I know who has them says it isn't a big deal after a while, but every time I see them poking around their eyes it makes me squeamish.
So I couldn't help but scream when I saw this video of a girl who decided it would be a good idea to insert a doll's eye into her own eye socket. Regardless of the fact that you wouldn't be able to actually see out of it, it looks incredibly painful.
Check out the disturbing video here:
She's clearly in a lot of pain, as the doll's eye appears to be slightly larger than her eyelid can handle. But after a bit of poking and prodding, the toy eye comes out.
The video has since gone viral, notching up nearly 60,000 shares, 38,000 likes and 44,000 comments. While many people have commented with laughing emojis, there are some who are outraged.
Facebooker Marijane says: "Omg, why would you let your child do that in the first place?"
Mauro, another poster, left a comment which concludes: "Goodbye vision."
It's a pretty obvious warning to steer clear away from putting foreign objects, which won't even remotely help your vision, into your eye.
Oak galls, the nests in which wasps reside, are being ground into a paste for 'vaginal rejuvenation'. The small balls are being sold among online retailers, including Etsy.
However, Dr Jen Gunter spoke of the damaging side effects of this activity, explaining: "This is dangerous practice with real potential to harm."
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Seeking 'Truth': James Vanderbilt recalls the scandal that gave a black eye to '60 Minutes'
Cate Blanchett, the Meryl Streep from Down Under, is a veritable magnet for great movie roles—they just somehow mysteriously find her—but in order to film Truth, her screen magnetism pulled an entire movie crew to her backyard in Sydney.
A cinematically prolific actress, Blanchett requested a little more quality time with her husband and three sons, so the producers agreed to shoot Truth in Australia and, accordingly, found plausible facsimiles for the two major locales in the film—a suburban Dallas home and the "Black Rock" that is CBS's New York headquarters. It might just be the biggest studio concession to a star since 20th Century-Fox turned Paris into Las Vegas to mollify Elizabeth Taylor for The Only Game in Town in 1970.
Whatever, it's a small price to pay for Blanchett's dynamo portrayal of Mary Mapes, the "60 Minutes" producer whose career at CBS News crashed and burned following attacks on her team's reporting and prompted the retirement of network news anchor Dan Rather. They aired a segment critical of the military service of President George W. Bush, asserting that family influence helped him as a young officer in 1968 duck a tour of duty in Vietnam for a safe, comfy spot in the Texas Air National Guard.
At the end of the day, CBS couldn't confirm or particularly refute the authenticity of the documents about Bush's military record. Hit on the right by a Republican smear campaign on the Internet and at home by the "corporatized" Powers-That-Be at CBS, Mapes was canned on January 10, 2005, ten days before Bush began his second term.
But she remains unrepentant, as does Rather, who, at a recent screening of Truth, said, "We reported a true story, and there has never been any doubt the story was true." The fault, he feels, rested with his corporate bosses who bowed to White House pressure and sacrificed Mapes. She hasn't worked in television news since.
First-time feature director James Vanderbilt put up no resistance to Aussi-fying all of the above, but then he wrote the script from Mapes' blow-by-blow bestseller, Truth and Duty: The Press, the President, and the Privilege of Power—and tailored the part to Blanchett (not that she doesn't make adjustments, regardless of the role).
Blanchett is, of all things, half-Texan (her father was a U.S. Navy petty officer whose ship broke down in Melbourne), but those surprisingly real roots wouldn't have helped her here, since Mapes was born in Washington State and hooked up with CBS News in Texas in 1989, joining Rather the following year as his exclusive producer.
But Blanchett, like Streep, is a master of accents (remember her Oscar-winning Katharine Hepburn in The Aviator?), so she put a lot of art and energy into catching the sound between Seattle and Dallas. "It's not a thick Texas accent," Vanderbilt notes. "It comes out more in the way she says certain words and in the colloquialisms. It wasn't an impression at all. She worked hard to layer that in and get it right. She wanted to give this performance in a voice that's wasn't her own."
And the actress's thoroughness, he said, didn't stop there. "There's one line at the beginning about Mary knitting, so we had a scene of her knitting, and Cate became a knitter to justify that line of dialogue. Between every take, she'd be off knitting, knitting, knitting, just to do that one moment. Now, that's the dedication of an actor."
In several conspicuous ways, Truth is the flip side (or, more precisely, the flop side) of All the President's Men, the Oscar winner from almost 40 years ago about how a pair of Washington Post reporters, Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, brought down the presidency of Richard Nixon. Although both investigations began on the same earnest, high-minded plain of journalism, Bush's military record was harder to nail down than the Watergate ruckus, and it boomeranged badly on the fact-finders.
Fittingly, the Bob Woodward from the earlier film, Robert Redford, was comfortably recruited to play Rather here—a simple case of one icon replacing another—and, although the physical facsimile isn't there, the bearing and charisma definitely are.
"That's really what I was shooting for," the director readily confesses. "When I told people that I wanted to cast Bob as Dan, there were a couple of people who said, 'Are you sure? Because they don't really resemble each other.' I said, 'But I think it's more about the essence of who Dan is and the essence of who Bob is. They have that same gravitas, and they sort of occupy similar places in the American firmament."
Rather's was a voice that retained its homegrown Southern lilt, and Redford makes a token attempt of dropping a few g's to approximate the Texas accent. "Dan's accent can get thick at times, and Bob did enough to sort of honor that, but not so much that you're listening to him put on a twang and feel like, 'Hey, Redford's doing an accent.'
"That is a testament to his skill. He's a very subtle actor, in the best possible way. He knows that the camera picks up everything, so he can do just a little of this and a little of that, and he knows when you're looking at it 30 feet high it's going to have this effect or that effect. It's a wonderful thing as a director to have at your disposal."
As if this star power weren't intimidating enough, Vanderbilt had to contend with the fact that Redford won an Oscar for his first directorial effort (1980's Ordinary People). Happily, the star allayed Vanderbilt's worries at the outset. "He's absolutely aware of the aura he has. Very early on, we went to dinner, and he said, 'Now you're the director of the picture. I am here as an actor. I am not going to look at the monitor. That's your job. I'm not going to worry about how the film looks or what the shot is. I'm relying on you for that. I'm here to act and be in this film.' That was such an amazing gift because I know, 'Okay, this is what our relationship is going to be.'"
Rather also made Vanderbilt's double duty as adapter and director easier. "Dan's been amazing. He didn't need to open his doors to us, but we were lucky he did. He always knew that I was going to go away and make the film I was going to make. He did read a draft of the script, but there was never an approval with that, and he never gave script notes. He would give notes if I would say, 'What did that feel like?'
"By the time I had written the first draft of the script, he had given all of the input he was going to give. On the odd day, I'd call him up and say, 'Dan, I have a question about X. How do you remember this?' And Mary was the same way. But most of their input was in the research stage, just trying to get it accurate. Also, watching them interact was an incredible gift for me—not getting facts from them but just how they treat each other, how they crack each other up, how they protect each other.
"One of the really fun things about my job is that I actually get to go and do that. I get to sit with somebody and talk about their job, sort of walk a mile in their shoes, then take all that information and try to put it into a film in an entertaining and, hopefully, intelligent way. It was important for me to make it feel authentic. I wanted to get the texture of it right. All the factual stuff is verifiable, so for that you just do your homework and nail that down, but the interaction of how the newsroom feels, how reporters talk to one another—that you can only get by spending time with people and do that deep dive. I feel really privileged because I get paid to do that."
Freshly turned 40, Vanderbilt took the Billy Wilder route to the director's chair by doing his storytelling first as a screenwriter. He scripted enough successful films (two Amazing Spider-Man flicks, among them) that he finally had the clout to pull a Stallone: "Sylvester said, 'You don't get to make this movie unless I get to be Rocky,' so I said, 'You don't get to make this movie unless I get to direct it.' Luckily, they agreed. I never wanted anyone else to direct it. This one I wanted for myself."
Directing has been gnawing at him for eight years, ever since he scripted Zodiac, David Fincher's cult thriller about tracking down a San Francisco serial killer. "Zodiac was one of the best creative experiences I ever had," he admits. "After watching David do that, I started wondering if I would enjoy that process. As a screenwriter, you break through, you make it up and you carry the ball for a while, but then you hand it off, so after Zodiac I decided that I would love to see if I could carry the ball all the way across the goal line, just to see if I was decent at it."
Zodiac and Truth tell a similar story. Both movies are about intense investigations, conducted by obsessed individuals. "It was pointed out to me—I hadn't realized it before—that I'm apparently attracted to stories about people who have very strong work lives and get sucked down the rabbit hole of trying to put a story together or trying to find the answers to something."
Mapes' book struck that chord in Vanderbilt. He was predisposed to it anyway. "I love writing. This is my first love. If you asked me what I did for a living, I would say, 'I'm a writer'—and, if I can be a writer who also directs, that's phenomenal. There are some movies that I get to work on—$175-million budget films—that I don't know if I want to be responsible for that amount of money as a director. But when you make a film like Truth, if you're lucky enough to get actors like this, you can really do something that's off the beaten path and, just maybe, even exceptional."
One of the Vanderbilts, James is one who comes with a genuine news-gathering gene: CNN's Anderson Cooper is a second cousin. (Gloria Vanderbilt is a first cousin, and Timothy Olyphant is a third cousin.) At one time, he seriously thought of becoming a journalist. "I was considering it, but I never pulled the trigger," he says. "It was always The Road Not Taken for me. But my fascination with journalism and that world continued, so when I read Mary's book, it seemed like perfect material for me.
"I actually went to film school for screenwriting. There were a lot of film students at USC who looked at screenwriting as a way to get to direct, but I was always contrary to that. I thought, 'Screenwriting is an art, it has a great and storied history, and there are wonderful writers—Paddy Chayefsky, David Mamet, William Goldman…"
Now, he's one of them—and he's staying one of them. For his next project, Vanderbilt "relapsed" into writing Independence Day 3 for director Roland Emmerich. But he's hardly abandoned the idea of hyphenating himself again. "There are a couple of things I'm writing that I want to direct. I'm not sure which one will go first but, honestly, I'm just really excited to see my firstborn out there in the marketplace."

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Well it wouldnt be Christmas without Santa would it?
and of course Mrs. Santa has to be there to take care of him lol.
So here is a collection of Santa and his Mrs. tubes.
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From CIPD mini polls
Social media for recruitment
Do you check potential job candidates' profiles on social media sites?
Total votes: 451
23.06%: Yes, as soon as we get the application
17.96%: Yes, but only at the final stage
58.98%: No, we never check social media sites
What do you do?
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We are constantly consuming information. Be it tweets about the weather, email newsletters that we can't seem to unsubscribe to, Facebook updates from old classmates or sponsored ads blocking the screen of a viral YouTube-clip we really want to check out. We almost take pride in balancing it all, answering an email the moment we get it or filling in the blanks during a conversation by taking out our smartphone and doing a quick Google search. Some might call that being efficient; others would call it information overload.
Playwright Richard Foreman warned us, we are becoming "pancake people", spreading our time, activities and attention so thin that we are often just scratching the surface and not investing ourselves in-depth in any subject or conversation.
Interesting thoughts on the concept from Forbes contributor Frances Booth in the article 'Are you one of the pancake people?'
Because information is so easily accessible today, we are supposed to know everything in the blink of an eye. Be it the weather, the score in last night's soccer game, how the stock exchange is looking an hour after opening, what outfit Beyonce posted on Instagram yesterday, or the latest iOS update bug fixes.
What I think is interesting is that people are forgetting the difference between 'information' and 'important"'. We strive at reaching inbox zero, feeling kind of proud of ourselves for answering emails the second we get them. A report from McKinsey & Company claimed that the average interaction worker spends an estimated 28 per cent of the workweek managing email. That's more than a fourth of the working time. Something tells me we are not being as efficient as we might think we are.
5 tips for taking control of your information overload consumption:
1. "Hamburgers are not making us fat, eating them is"
Just because there are hamburgers doesn't mean we have to eat them for breakfast, lunch and dinner everyday; just because there is information, doesn't mean that we have to consume it. Tell yourself it is okay to not be on top of everything all the time. Be it messages, emails, news updates, social media timelines. There's no one forcing you to consume everything, at least not every day. Reflect upon how much information you are really consuming in one day, and what it's actually doing to you. What can't you live without, and what could you go without?
2. The difference between 'information' and 'important'
Seriously, not everything you read online is equally as important. Not all emails and messengers require you to answer straight away. Some don't really require your attention or answer at all. And the problem is that focussing so much on everything makes it easy for us to miss out on what's really relevant. We miss the key-messages that are urgent for work or from our loved ones. Plus, we miss that the most important things are not on our screens, but probably happening all around us. Emails piling up in your inbox are all information, but not all are important information.
3. Stop the email overload — become efficient through new routines
Create routines for sending emails at work. The time when I felt kind of important receiving a lot of emails AND being able to answer them all has stopped. Always checking your inbox to discover new emails puts down your creativity, concentration and efficiency in all other aspects of the work load. So my advice is set guidelines. Decide to only send emails with relevant information — already put together on one subject. Don't copy everyone on every email. If you have something quick to say to or ask a co-worker, use a chat programme or instant messaging instead. Skype is great for that, and you can use it both on your computer and smartphone, continuing the same conversation regardless of device. Using a task management programme like Trello really works in our team. Or hey, why not just walk over and ask in person once in a while?
4. Use technology to force focus on one thing at a time
If you're not really succeeding in focussing at one thing at a time, there is technology to help you out. Self-Control for Mac blocks out distracting websites for a set amount of time; perfect if you know what is normally stealing your attention. Focus Booster helps you focus on a single task at a time for 25 minutes apiece, helping you with you time management planing. Swingmail is an iOS app designed to only deliver conversations from your most important contacts — learning who are your prioritised contacts by studying your past email and social messaging patterns. It helps you stay focussed. Are you an Android person? Check out Snowball to manage all your conversations in one app!
5. Take a break once in a while and semi-disconnect
It is claimed that we check our phones 150 times a day. That's unlocking your phone every seven minutes on average when awake. We live in a connected society, and I don't want to tell anyone to disconnect completely. However, maybe you don't really need your smartphone laying on your table during dinner. And maybe the best way to fall asleep might not by staring at your screen trying to beat the next level on Candy Crush for 20 minutes — at least not every night. Think of the difference it would make to your everyday life if instead of looking down on your smartphone 150 times, you'd do it 75 times. I think you'll survive taking a break, at least for an hour.
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READING: Review of Exodus 5-28, Exodus 9
"I have sinned this time."
Exodus 9:27
Pharaoh had had enough, or so it seemed. His people had already suffered several plagues, and now hail was destroying everything in the field. Egypt had never seen such hail, in fact. This time, Pharaoh confessed his own heart as he pleaded with Moses to appeal to the Lord: "I have sinned this time. The Lord is the righteous one, and I and my people are the guilty ones. Make an appeal to the Lord. There has been enough of God's thunder and hail" (Exo. 9:27-28).
What is not clear, though, is that Pharaoh meant genuine repentance when he said, "I have sinned." His words, "this time," probably imply that his repentance was short-lived and shallow, and Moses' later words reflected that same suspicion: "But as for you and your officials, I know that you still do not fear the Lord God" (Exo. 9:30). Indeed, Pharaoh hardened his heart again as soon as Moses' prayers ended the hailstorm. God's people remained in Egypt as the king withdrew his offer to let them go.
It's easy to condemn Pharaoh, but I fear my sinful heart can be equally deceived, too. Here's the pattern I fear we too often follow:
- we sin,
- we sense God's judgment (at least in the form of conviction),
- we confess our sin,
- we sense God's mercy,
- but we then return to our sin once the sense of conviction and judgment has passed.
This story of Pharaoh forces me to ask whether my confession and repentance are genuine if I can so easily return to my sin when all returns to normal. In those times, my words, "forgive me this time, God," may not mean much at all.
- Confess your sin today, agreeing with God about its wrongness and turning fully from it.
- Pray for someone else who is struggling to let go of his or her sin.
PRAYER: "God, make my confession real. I do not want to return to my sin."
TOMORROW'S READING: Exodus 29-32


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The four key features that characterize Flow, or what 10000 hours of practice gets you/
The first is an intense and focused absorption that makes you lose all sense of time. The second is what is known as autotelicity, the sense that the activity you are engaged in is rewarding for its own sake. The third is finding the "sweet spot", a feeling that your skills are perfectly matched to the task at hand, leaving you neither frustrated nor bored. And finally, flow is characterised by automaticity, the sense that "the piano is playing itself", for example.


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Green Valley Lake - the highest community in the San Bernardino Mountains - at 7,200 feet. Supervised beach and swimming area are operated all summer and paddle boats and row boats are available for rent. Fishing is excellent in the well stocked lake and hiking and mountain biking are also favorite recreational activities.
Green Valley Lake has a small downtown area that hosts a market, two restaurants, a post office, a bait and tackle shop
On July 15, as part of the Summer Faire Series:
The campground offers single-family sites for tent and RV camping. Some sites are available on a first-come, first-served basis. Each site is equipped with a table and campfire ring with grill. Flush toilets and drinking water are provided. NO OVERFLOW PARKING is available. In order to allow as many people to come as possible, we are vigorously encouraging carpooling.
Bears frequent the area; use appropriate containers for food and garbage
· Arrive after 2pm
· 6pm – Meet & Greet
· Great Outdoors will provide snacks and that will include cheese and crackers, hummus with pitta chips, a vegetable tray with dip and some fruit.
· Bring your favorite drink.
Evening campfire activities – games
I thinks it might be warm, so if you can bring one bundle of firewood it should be sufficient.
Things to do
Summer Fair series at GVL
July 15 — Pottery Demo; Lyle Ferguson talk on History of Green Valley Lake; evening concert
5:30—Wake the Bard (Irish band)
You can rent a Kayak 10.00 per hour. If you wish to do some kayaking at the lake
There are a few hikes close to the campground
Green Mountain is the highest peak in the immediate area. It is on the eastern edge of the southern ridge above Green Valley Lake. From atop this southern ridge sometimes called little green valley ridge, one has excellent views of Butler Peak and byong. 2n19 5 mile difficult
One way to get to this ridge is to begin at Green Valley campground. 2N19 rapidly climbs out of the campground to the top of the ridge. By walking along the ridge towards the EAST, the trail begins to slowly descend towards Green Valley Road. From here you can return the way you came, or you can shuttle back to the campground. Numerous unnamed routes of all levels of difficulty are available in either direction from the top of this southern ridge
Beach access
Adult Daily Beach Pass
Children Daily Beach Pass (Under 10) Must be accompanied by an adult
· 7 pm – Potluck
· Pack up and be ready to leave by 11am
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Target Birds: Oahu Amakihi, Apapane
Tantalus Drive is a loop road that takes you from 200 ft to 1500 ft in only a few miles. Near the top of the road is a great location for roadside Oahu Amakihi. The eastern part of the loop affords amazing views of Honolulu and the surrounding area.
Tantalus Dr is located near the National Memorial Cemetery-Pacific off of Auwaiolimu St. Once on Tantalus Drive, continue for 4.2 miles until you reach a flat portion of road. This is a fairly wide section of road and you are able to park along the side.
Walking along the road you will usually encounter multiple Oahu Amakihi (listen for their call) and possibly Apapane. This area also allows access to the Kalawahine Trail. If you are unable to find any Oahu Amakihi along the road, hiking along the trail is great for forest birds including amakihi and Apapane.


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Ex-Tagore National Scholar, Ministry of Culture, Govt. of India (Associated with Victoria Memorial Hall, Kolkata)
Amitava is currently a Tagore National Fellow for Cultural Research, awarded by the Ministry of Culture, Govt. of India. He was an recipient of Asia Fellowship from Asian Scholarship Foundation, Bangkok under Ford Foundation International Scholar Exchange Programme. He is an active researcher on Asian contemporary art.
Amitava has contributed many important articles in various books and journals published by Sage India, Lalit Kala Academy, Beijing and Shenzhen University and Kala Bhavan. His latest book "Survey of Sino Indian Artistic Discourse - A 20th Century Framework" is now published.
Amitava is widely recognized for his distinct style where traditional painting elements are incorporated with mixed media techniques. Explore his world of paintings and most recent work.
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Amitava is seeking speaking opportunities. He is also exploring exhibition opportunities for his paintings.


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February 11, 2016
The new WINK! Brand and Website Launch
When Liz from Wink! Weddings reached out to me about rebranding I was seriously smitten. I had been following the Wink! brand before I was even designing for the wedding industry. I loved their brand, she loved their brand but it was time for
November 25, 2015
Launch Love: Reflections Weddings & Events
We're so excited to share with you the new launch of Reflections Weddings & Events! Jasmine, the owner came to us early this year and quickly got on our waitlist to reinvent her brand and website. We don't often get to meet our clients


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Indie games meets indie comics—Queen Bee Games
Queen Bee Games, artist Jesse Jacobs, and musician James Kirkpatrick (Thesis Sahib) have announced their partnership on the production of Spinch, a fast running, sensory experience that combines the tradition of artistic indie games with the spirit of indie comics.
Transcend the material realm and enter into a world teeming with psychedelia. Assume your true form as Spinch, a hyper-agile organism consumed by a quest to rescue a litter of its missing offspring from a population of misshapen and malformed enemies.
Known for his work in indie comics, Jacobs' hallucinatory books have been translated into six languages. He has worked with the Cartoon Network on the animated series Adventure Time and Summer Camp Island. His illustrations have appeared in The New York Times, The Pitchfork Review, McSweeney's Quarterly, and Le Monde Diplomatique.
Founded in 2013, Queen Bee Games is an independent game production studio headquartered in Prince Edward Island.
James Kirkpatrick is a musician known for combining his 2D aesthetics with custom-built circuit bent electronics. Kirkpatrick creates hand held sculptures that function as both musical instruments and experimental sound machines.


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i was thinking today while talking to lauren and whitney (two of my roommates for my hundreds of anonymous blog fans who dont know), of things i wanted to do before the end of the month. so heres my list of what ive come up with so far..
31 things before the 31st:
- eat dinner outside at our apartment clubhouse
- take advantage of my apartment amenities
- get my camera fixed and
- take a picture everyday
- go into austin for dinner and sixth
- wear my hair differently
- hand write letters to my far away friends
- get a better idea of who to vote for
- go to a pumpkin patch
- carve pumpkins
- enjoy a ghouls (girls) night out or in
- get spooked at a haunted house
- go to a concert (matt nathanson, shannon?)
- watch the office season 4
- return all things that dont belong to me
- receive things that do belong to me
- catch up on birthday gifts (i am the world worst gift giver when it comes to a time frame)
- wash my car inside and out
- exercise my creativity and
- my body
- open an etsy shop
- volunteer
- read a book
- host a dinner party
- go rollerblading!
- design a header for my blog
- send in my yogurt lids to support breast cancer
- sing karaoke
- rearrange my closet so that fall and winter clothes are more prominent
- embrace my inner hippie
- send flowers to someone for no reason
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Boil 1 litre of full cream milk. Add a dessertspoon of fresh lime juice and a teaspoon of sour curd into the milk while it's still hot. Keep stirring as the milk curdles and seperates into paneer and whey. Place a thin muslin cloth over another vessel and pour this mixture through it so as to filter out just the paneer. Now, tie up and hang the cloth with the paneer inside so as to drain all the whey. Let stay for an hour or more.Place the paneer on a flat surface and place a heavy object on top so as to flatten it out. Let stay for sometime. Now, open cloth and cut paneer into cubes.
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This is the result of my personality quiz
That´s why I´m here. I am inconstant and tend to do everything different every day.
And now I´ve reached a point where I need to start positive habit loops in order to take off.
I have the good habit to observe and question myself a lot in everything I am doing.
I just need to control it that observe and question always be in a positive and non judgemental way. Not always can control.
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The most dangerous loop that could make me fall is not believing in myself - depression, asking why wake up. So as a closer I added this text which inspires me to be creative and desire more.
Gaze at the lights, at what they contain...
Rise up. Rise up, for you have the power.
You have wings of the spirit, wings of powerful eagles.
Do not deny them, or they will deny you.
Seek them, and you will find them instantly.
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Indiana Sens Introduce Resolution for "National Ernie Pyle Day"
INDIANAPOLIS -- "National Ernie Pyle Day" wasn't a special holiday this year, but it could be next year.
Senators Joe Donnelly and Todd Young have week introduced a resolution to honor the Hoosier journalist and war correspondent on what would have been his 118th birthday: Friday, August 3, 2018.
"Ernie Pyle's renowned career reporting throughout Indiana and World War II demonstrates the work ethic of Hoosiers and the dedication of Americans in commemorating our soldiers," said Sen. Young. "By designating National Ernie Pyle Day, his important contributions to our state and nation will be honored."
"Ernie Pyle—a Hoosier native from Dana, Indiana —forever influenced American journalism. His reporting from the battlefield in World War II captured the daily sacrifice and heroism of our servicemembers fighting in the war," said Sen. Donnelly.
Pyle studied journalism at Indiana University and later gained nationwide acclaim for his work as a roving reporter and columnist.
When the United States joined World War II, Pyle became a war correspondent. Instead of simply names, places, and numbers, Pyle often wrote from the more intimate perspective of a common soldier. In 1944, he won the Pulitzer Prize for Correspondence for "The God-Damned Infantry".
On April 18, 1945, Pyle was killed while reporting on the Battle of Okinawa. He had come ashore just one day earlier with the members of the Army's 77th Division.
Pyle was posthumously awarded the Purple Heart in 1983, a rare honor for a civilian.
He is buried at National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Honolulu.
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We have seen that the design of mod-2n binary up-counters is straightforward, with all T states produced, and cycled through in sequence. For general mod-N counters we must begin to use (simplified) synchronous sequential circuit design techniques, with each present state of the circuit used to produce the necessary steering logic to take the circuit into the desired next state. Note that because the circuit is docked the outputs are always stable. This is because although the next state is determined by the present slate, the next state and present state variables are separated by the flip-flops, unlike the asynchronous sequential circuits studied in Chapter 5.
We begin by redesigning the mod-8 counter, which should give the circuit produced above (see the end of this section). Firstly we look at how D-type flip- flops could be used and then JK-types. This will also give us our first insight into the general differences in circuits designed using these two types of flip-flop.


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Iraq's National Investment Commission (NIC) has included three major new housing programs in its list of major strategic projects to be presented during the Kuwait International Conference for Iraq Reconstruction, to be held in Kuwait from 12th to 14th February:A. First phase / building 25,000 housing units in each province for low / medium income citizens in addition to low cost housing for limited income people including the infrastructure (water, electricity, sewage ,gas and telecommunication).An economic design was selected for the Investment Housing Project in Maysan Province 2017 to build 4000 housing units in Umara City.B. The New Karbala City ProjectArea/(15) Million m2, it includes (136) various investment opportunities. Establishing an integrated city in terms of services (vertical and horizontal housing units, hotels, shopping center, educational sector recreational sport banks Islamic science office conference hall).Karbala Downtown Development (area:750 dunam) near the holy shrines, could be developed into housing complex, multi-storey garage, commercial center and tourists areas.C. Dhifaf Karbala Project:Estimated cost: US$6 billion 40 thousand housing units as phase one aiming at 85 thousand in addition to commercial centers, recreational centers and social services.
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When a Chinese official gets busted for corruption, what does he do? Bribe his way out. A series of recent reports in the Chinese press show how convenient it is for Communist Party apparatchiks, who have been sentenced to prison, to simply pay a fee and be let out of jail on "medical parole."
Lin Chongzhong, the vice-mayor of Jiangmen City, Guangdong Province, was sentenced to 10 years in prison for corruption. But after the verdict he continues to live in a mansion, drive his BMW, and frequent the same unsavory nightspots.
A Southern Weekend report on Oct. 28 notes that Lin's "medical parole" cost him only 100,000 yuan (US$15,740). He was chauffeured from the court house straight home.
Former Chaozhou City Deputy Secretary-General Liu Yimin was sentenced to five years in prison for corruption, but also got medical parole. He was not sick.
A staff member at the Heyuan People's Hospital told the Southern Weekend reporter that while it may not be all of them, a majority of high-ranking officials get medical parole during their jail terms, having fabricated some ailment.
In another case, an official sentenced to prison for over a decade, was released on medical parole and then went on to buy a plot of farmland.
Medical parole is only supposed to be applicable for serious illnesses that need immediate medical attention, or chronic diseases that cannot be treated in the prison.
Chinese Academy of Social Sciences researcher Liu Baiju said that sanction for medical parole only requires the signature of the hospital head, an official seal, and some medical charts. Chinese officials can get these easily with bribes.
The situation changes when political prisoners and prisoners of conscience get sick, though. These people, who are jailed for their political or religious beliefs, do not get medical parole.
"China's medical parole depends on the prisoner's political status, the prisoner's family background, financial positions, and connections. Political prisoners and prisoners of conscience are generally not considered for medical parole," said Ouyang Yi, a dissident, to Radio Free Asia.
Chinese human rights activists Hu Jia, Li Hong, and Guo Feixiong were put in jail on dubious charges like "attempting to subvert state power," and in spite of genuine health problems their applications for medical parole were denied.
Practitioners of Falun Gong, imprisoned for their beliefs, are rarely if ever given medical parole, despite actual illnesses.
In May 2007, well-known poet, writer, and activist Li Hong, who had been jailed for his writings and activism (which included condemning the persecution of Falun Gong), was diagnosed with a neurological disorder that was paralyzing him due to a lack of medical treatment. His wife requested medical parole but all requests were denied. On June 5, 2010, when Li Hong became paralyzed and was unable to speak or breathe properly, he was given medical parole. He died six months later at the age of 52.


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My brain had already thought of using the dot picots for an ice drop, just got to practice the dot picots a bit moreReplyDelete
Lovely pattern! Thanks Muskaan and Usha for your works, they are a great inspiration -:)ReplyDelete
Nicely done Muskaan! You managed to get perfect innermost dot picots in six petals. Cluster too are perfect! Ice drop or buttons will look pretty with this pattern. Thanks for your immense help in pdf pattern writing and presentation part and also suggesting perfect term 'Cluster' for the overlaid design. I can see your beautiful doily under the vase. Nature always helps in bringing out more creativity in us.ReplyDelete
6 rings also looks good. I think there's a compulsion to bring flowers inside, or take a photo of a view when we should just enjoy them as they are. I enjoyed reading about your rangoon creeper.ReplyDelete
Amazing flowers!Nice pattern:)ReplyDelete
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Usha, I'm becoming a pro at dot picots, then ;-P I'm glad you can't see how dirty the doily has become - too scared to wash it because the maroon colour on last round runs :-(
Jane, you are so right! I enjoy flower arranging (& I take good care trying to make them last long in the vase), but this time it was the hubster who was more excited to have them arranged and clicked ;-P
As kids someone taught us how to make a braid with these flowers - start braiding with 3, then keep adding one ... I never quite got it right and tight, but the braid does look beautiful.


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Reston, VA – September 9, 2014 – Tune into Federal News Radio's Federal Tech Talk interview with iWorks employee Dave Pradko, as he discusses his experience as a business analyst in federal contracting, as well as his role as the Vice President of Finance of the DC Chapter of the International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA). He's joined by IIBADC Chapter President Rebecca Halstead to discuss the work the IIBADC has been doing lately, specifically their upcoming Professional Development Day.
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Baran, Nancy H., Ed.; Law, Jean L., Ed.
This booklet on automobile purchasing and maintenance, 1 in a series of 12, covers all the basic aspects of personal- and family-money management. Suitable for use by high school and college students as well as adults, this handbook discusses buying, maintaining, and operating cars. Section 1 discusses managing automobile dollars. Topics include transportation options, need for a car, car maintenance expenses, renting or leasing automobiles, and selling or trading one's present automobile. Section 2 presents factors to consider in choosing the kinds of cars to buy, including car sizes, body types, foreign or domestic makes, and automobile options. Section 3 focuses on methods of payment, insurance, and buying new cars in comparison to buying used ones. Suggestions are made in section 4 for lowering automotive costs through proper maintenance, operation, servicing, and repairs. The final section examines current changes in the automotive field: reduction in energy consumption, environmental protection, and safety. A list of organizations, books, and pamphlets is provided. (YLB)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Consumer Economics, Consumer Education, Maintenance, Money Management, Motor Vehicles, Purchasing
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As the market reels on the halo effect of Warren Buffett's annual shareholder meeting for Berkshire Hathaway, Jim Cramer thought this would be a good time to take a closer look at the Oracle of Omaha's portfolio.
"Just as we can't judge a book by its cover, we can't judge this man by his big four," Cramer said.
The "Mad Money" host has always been adamant that investors should not simply follow Buffett's stock picks, as it is really these companies' regular business and amount of cash flow driving the stocks.
Instead, Cramer thinks it makes more sense to follow Buffett's company, Berkshire Hathaway, rather than the investor. Why? Because you want all of his stocks. Not just a couple!


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I've been learning a hard lesson lately, and while it is fascinating, it is also frustrating.
Any topic about women – whether it be menstruation, pregnancy, or really anything to do with the female gender, usually finds itself in two different scenarios. In the first, we find a group of (mostly women) gathered together swapping real life stories, narratives of truth and experience. In the other we find experts, outsiders and those (men and women) who want to be in the discussion, but have yet to enter its domain.
Of the two, whose insight bears more weight?
As a woman, I want to say the group who speaks from lived experience. However, as a researcher, I know that there is truth in the expert. While we may not always agree with an expert's opinion, that does not mean there isn't truth in their words. And there is a difference between what is true and what is right.
Let me explain.
If a male medical professional were to comment on a women's experience of childbirth or menstruation, and let's be honest many have, do we see it as valid? Some would say yes, others no. What I tend to notice is that we are often critical of the opinions of male medical staff. Of course they do not understand what we are feeling, but they do understand the medical field and there is value in fieldwork and observation methodologies. And female medical professionals do understand what we are experiencing because they experience it too. They may be out of touch with our reality, but their reality is what informs the opinions and practices of our medical industry. What their truth says, often goes.
But that doesn't mean it is right.
What I am trying to draw attention to is that although something may not be of benefit to women, it does serve a purpose, and that purpose may not be good. We may not like everything we hear about pregnancy or menstruation from the medial expert, talk show host or news anchor, but there is truth in what they are saying. Whether positive or negative, the words that help frame how society views the issues that affect women's lives matter. They matter because they shape perception, and perception shapes how we respond to our world.
So the next time you hear something that makes the feminist inside of you want to grab hold of someone, digest it, re-frame it and challenge the concept with your own truth. Being in discussion with both "scenarios" of women's health is necessary if we are going to see change in the way women are cared for. Getting upset, storming out and refusing to consult with those, who in our opinion are misguided, does little to help the confusion.
I want to leave you with some insight, so that maybe the two scenarios we often see at odds of one another, may blur together and create a reality where what is true is also the right thing for women. As summer approaches, and more so the opportunity to grab a good book and sit out on the porch, I want to share some of my favourite reads to get your spring/summer readings list off to start. Both fiction and non-fiction, the following list is only a fraction of what has influenced my insight and opinions on women's health. I hope they encourage, enlighten and educate you to find some balance in advocating for a better and healthier future for yourself and women everywhere. And if anything, they may just lighten the mood a bit, because we all need an escape at times. And please do comment and add a few of your own titles. Together we can learn from each other.
1. Flow: The Cultural Story of Menstruation (2009)
Elissa Stein and Susan Kim
2. The V Book (2002)
Elizabeth G. Steward M.D. and Paula Spencer
3. Misconceptions: truth, lies, and the unexpected on the journey to motherhood (2003)
Naomi Wolf
4. The Birth House (2007)
Ami McKay
4. The Red Tent (2007)
Anita Diamant
5. The Woman in the Body (1987)
Emily Martin
6. The Handmaid's Tale (1985)
Margaret Atwood
7. Feminist Technologies (2010)
Eds. Linda L. Layne, Sharra L. Vostral and Kate Boyer
8. The Bel Jar (1963)
Sylvia Plath
9. New Blood (2010)
Chris Bobel
10. Manifesta : young women, feminism, and the future (2010)
Jennifer Baumgardner and Amy Richards


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President Obama, Bun Cha & Huong Lien
Writer Seong Hee Lee, '19
On a hot Friday afternoon in Hanoi, Vietnam, I went to a Bun Cha (traditional Hanoi rice noddle soup) restaurant, Huong Lien with my dad. There are thousands of Bun Cha restaurants in Hanoi. But my dad and I specially chose Huong Lien, the very restaurant that President Barack Obama and star chef Anthony Bourdain dined in on May 24th.
When my dad and I arrived at Huong Lien, it was buzzing with people coming in and out through a single narrow entrance. We squeezed through and found ourselves greeted by the rich scent of noodle soup and grilled pork. The inside of the restaurant was so crowded that there were no seats left at all. We had to go up to the 2nd floor. As we walked up the narrow flight of stairs a young waiter holding a large tray filled with noodles passed by while he hollered orders in Vietnamese. Another waitress with a tray full of something like fried dumplings came down the stairway. Everyone seemed to be in such a hurry no one noticed that my dad and I still didn't have any seats.
"Two people please," said my dad to a sweating waitress. She looked up at us and gave us a sorry-smile. "Sorry, wait a moment," she said as she spoke something in Vietnamese to the waiter passing by. A few moments later, he summoned us in the room on the right. As I sat down I noticed about five pictures of President Obama hanging up on the walls. President Obama with Huong Lien's owner, President Obama coming out of the restaurant and on to my side was the menu that read "Obama Combo." Obama Combo was the only menu that the store sold. Obama Combo consisted of Bun Cha which is grilled pork, fried seafood rolls and Hanoi Beer.
We ordered and after a few minutes the food came out. As I took countless pictures. The food was not exactly what I would call a president's meal. It was pretty greasy and tasted nothing like the fresh pho noodles that I had eaten in Vietnam during my trip. It tasted like Korean Bul-Go-Gi but much more greasy because of the fried seafood rolls.
I wondered why president Obama decided to visit this particular local restaurant when he could have visited a fancy hotel buffet. Food and Politics is my opinion in why he visited Huong Lien, a small local restaurant in the heart of Hanoi. Vietnam has Anti- American Sentiment left over because of the Vietnam War. Maybe the president's visit to Huong Lien was to soothe the relations between Vietnam and America. Whatever the intentions were, it is an inevitable fact that after the president's visit, the restaurant is buzzing with people non-stop.


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Opposition candidate Ramesh gets most votes in PAC polls
New Delhi, Aug 6 (IANS) Opposition candidate C.M. Ramesh of the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) on Monday got the highest number of votes, 106, in the Rajya Sabha and was elected to the Public Accounts Committee (PAC).
Balloting was held to fill two vacancies in the PAC from the Upper House.
The Bharatiya Janata Party's Bhupender Yadav also made it to the Committee with 69 votes.
However, Harviansh of the Janata Dal-United (JD-U), who was also fielded as a NDA (National Democratic Alliance) candidate, lost badly getting just 26 votes.
The opposition celebrated its little victory, terming it as a "blow" to the ruling dispensation and as a sign of unity by the opposition.
"It was the BJP, particularly its chief Amit Shah, who insisted on an election. We had tried to persuade the BJP that one MP each from the ruling and opposition camps can be named against the two vacancies and an election should be normally avoided. But he insisted on a contest. So here is the result," a senior opposition leader who did not wish to be named commented.
Meanwhile, Trinamool Congress leader Derek O'Brien took to Twitter to celebrate the opposition's unity.
"Hurrah! Opposition candidate sweeps PAC election… BJP/NDA candidates left way behind. MPs in Rajya Sabha were the voters. True opposition unity ensured C.M. Ramesh of TDP got 106 votes. BJP got 69, NDA ally JD-U 26," O'Brien tweeted.
The PAC, currently headed by senior Congress leader Mallikarjun Kharge, draws 15 Members from the Lok Sabha and seven from the Rajya Sabha.


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IRMS Conference 2018
20th May 2018 - 22nd May 2018
For those who wish to be part of Europe's premier conference on information and records management, this is your chance to present your ideas and share your experience alongside some of the biggest names in the profession.
Whether you have a new concept, a case study on a special project, or just want to talk on a subject that you are passionate about to a like minded audience, don't miss out of this opportunity to present your ideas.
This year, we are inviting papers on the themes outlined below;
In line with our theme of 'Back to the Future: From Best Practice to Innovation' our main topic areas for 2018 are:
- Privacy and GDPR – Readiness for and compliance with law and regulation affecting privacy and data processing including the GDPR and the UK Data Protection Bill, PECR, The Law Enforcement Directive, Privacy Shield and Mifid II.
- Soft Skills – Skills and knowledge for the information and records management professional, including aspects such as career development, leadership, communication and documentation, team work, project management, contract management and problem solving.
- Technological Innovation – How new technological innovations can impact and support information and records management, including for example blockchain, smart contracts, artificial intelligence, visualisation, data analytics and the Internet of Things.
- Leveraging Information Value – How to implement information and records management best practices to ensure that information works for an organisation in terms of identifying, protecting and leveraging its informational, evidential, heritage and economic value.
- Deployment of Solutions – case studies from our vendor community on many aspects of information and records management
IRMS are also particularly interested in hearing about end user stories relating to for example:
– The creation of governance systems for records management and privacy, including policies, procedures, roles and responsibilities
– The implementation and ongoing management of EDRM / ECM solutions
– The practicalities of physical records management – scanning, space planning, disposal, re-filing, archiving.
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What should the future hold for Charity Hospital?
It's a question that's been asked countless times since Hurricane Katrina damaged it. Now, a panel of land use and urban planning experts hope to provide an answer.
The group will make recommendations to LSU on the best possible use for the abandoned building during a meeting this morning.
The presentation, which is open to the public, is set to begin at 9 a.m. at the LSU Human Development Center, 411 S. Prieur St. It will be streamed online as well.
The panel, made up of members representing the Urban Land Institute, visited the city beginning Nov. 5 to perform an analysis of the local market to come up with recommendations about how development of Charity can benefit the nearby medical district and neighborhood.
The mammoth Art Deco building on Tulane Avenue was closed after Katrina's floodwaters inundated its basement and ground floor.
Debate raged about whether it should reopen as a hospital, with state leaders choosing instead to build the new nearby University Medical Center to replace it.
The most-high profile plan for its future was as a new City Hall and home to Civil District Court, a plan Mayor Mitch Landrieu dropped after the state would not commit $100 of the estimated $270 million needed to assist in the transformation.
The panel that will present recommendations for Charity's future is made up of John Walsh, CEO and founder of TIG in Dallas, who is chairman of the panel; Carlton Brown, co-founder of Direct Investments LLC in New York City, who is serving as the panel's vice-chairman; Normon Dong, managing director, FD Stonewater LLC, Washington, D.C.; Brandon Hill, founder and president, Fusion Advisory Services, Birmingham, Ala.; Eric Maribojoc, executive director, Center for Real Estate Entrepreneurship, George Mason University, Arlington, Va.; Tom Murphy, senior resident fellow, Urban Land Institute, Washington, D.C.; Liz Ogbu, founder and principal, Studio O, San Francisco; Tyrone Rachal, president, Urban Key Capital Partners, Atlanta; Lynn Ross, founder, Spirit of Change Consulting, Miami; and Melani Smith, adjunct faculty, Sol Price School of Public Policy, University of Southern California, Los Angeles.


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My husband upgraded/rebuilt our computer which means I had to wait a few days here to get PSE9 up and running again! So just posting a quick list of thanks from last week today.
My brain's too crazy to add more text... working on a different text piece for 'real life' right now :)
Here's 3087-3111 gifts that God has given me for you to savor with me.
- Crazy days all blending together
- The powerful prayers of my LBS group
- Strong boy rolling over
- Karen
- Vacuuming with Karen
- Girls new crushes on Ben and Jay
- Another interview/another denial/ more opportunity for walking by faith
- Aerie saying "I read Hickory Dickory Dock!"
- Bronwyn jumping over the sunflower fort ditch I was digging
- Realization that my sweet toddlers are turning into little girls
- the right attitude of grace held on a night with little sleep and the following day
- loosing my temper over lost shoes
- the girls accepting my humble apology
- spa night
- ladies laughing at my quirkiness
- loving on the Score kids through a field day
- Girls that was somewhat tough to deal with saying "This was the best sport day ever."
- Boy Score kids rolling over my meager classroom management skills
- Tutors laughing as I scrap everything and let the boys run wild
- Late night birthday call to dad
- Easy dinner
- Running outside in a downpour to remove diapers from the line.
- Smiley face in the bar of soap
- Derek upgrading/rebuilding the computer
- Getting PSE up and running again!


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Saturday Show #41: C.I.A. Weaponization of Culture
In this exciting episode, Frank discusses the revelations that the C.I.A. has been in control of American "culture" since the beginning. This includes the funding of The Paris Review and other literary magazines, as well as the global promotion of...
Frank Marcopolos / 2 November 2013


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Because lilithlotr pointed this out on her journal: http://wilwheaton.typepad.com/wwdnbackup/2006/04/_finally_back_t.html
It's a recent entry where Wil Wheaton celebrates getting a gig he wanted as a voice in an animated series about a geek in love with a goth!!! And, in the journal entry, he references another entry where he had talked about how he had a crush on a goth girl who was a senior when he was a freshman. Gee, why does that make me think of you? *L*! I love it!


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The other day, a strong and physically fit young man knocked on my car's window at a red signal, with his hands wide open, and face a picture of utter despair. As I turned to look at him, a very old but vivid memory resurfaced….
I'm sitting in the backseat of the car enjoying a plate of haleem as we stopped at the infamous 'Haleem Centre' for a casual dinner one night. As we eat, a rosy cheeked young boy of about 7 or 8 knocks with his chubby hand on the front window and offers us one of the wilted roses he is trying to sell. Papa smiles and hands him some money expecting him to walk away but he is insistent on handing a rose to my mother saying 'Mein bheek nahi maangta, cheez bechta hoon.' ('I don't beg- I sell.') Moved by the sentiment and staunch belief in principles that even grown men do not seem to have, my mother takes the rose and talks to him for a bit while my father orders a plate of haleem for him. We find out he and his siblings don't go to school but try to earn some money to assist their parents. When the waiter returns with the plate and hands it to him, the little boy says something that has been engraved into my mind ever since: 'Aik aur chamcha laadain mera bhai bhi hai, use bhi bhook lagi ho gi' ('Please bring another spoon, I have a brother who is hungry too'). Clutching the plate and two spoons, he calls out into the night, and waits patiently, bravely refusing to even taste the tempting delicacy in his hands. We watch in utter disbelief as a fourteen year old boy suddenly appears out of nowhere clutching his own small items for sale, and both proceed to sit down on the grimy footpath to eagerly share the serving I easily had had one of. Immediately we order another one for his brother and leave them to enjoy their 'feast'…
Back in reality, my car sped away from signal but I was left in deep thought for the rest of my journey. For that little boy taught me two very significant lessons that day- those that a lot of grown men in this society would do well to learn. First of all, the importance of labor and halal earnings. No work is shameful and no job is beneath you if it helps you feed and clothe yourself. All around the streets of this city we see beggars of all types and ages, so much so, that it becomes nearly impossible to differentiate the genuine ones from the fake. But I believe no matter what your situation may be, honest work is always available for those who wish to venture in that direction. Begging should never ever be a resort, forget it being your sole source of earnings.
In a world where sincerity is an unknown trait, and sharing a long forgotten action, that little boy whose perhaps one good meal of the week was that single plate of food, declined the opportunity to enjoy it alone despite knowing he would get less if he shared it with his brother. At the age of seven when kids refuse to share their candies with anyone, he chose to call his brother and left us all stunned.
For him it was the haleem, for another person something else, but I really hope that we can all resolve to share our own plates of haleem, just like that little boy.


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655 Chapin Rd - Calais
This 5.64+/- acre wooded building lot offers privacy with the excellent central Vermont location of Calais, VT. Enjoy the land of lakes and ponds from the tranquility of this sparsely populated, year-round, town-maintained, and plowed road. Property has a state approved wastewater permit for installation of a private septic system supporting a three-bedroom single family residence. The gentle natural slope of the land offers an excellent opportunity for a walk-out basement. Currently, a spring well does exist on the property, however, the installation of a drilled well is also approved within the wastewater permit. A deeded right-of-way grants access to the parcel over a roughed-in grassy driveway. A power pole is located across the road fr
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Welsh Somali Achievements Awards
The Welsh Somali Achievement Awards
Back and bigger than ever, the awards ceremony will be honouring the greatest achievements of the Somali community in Wales and promises to be one of the most important annual ceremonies for the community.
An innovative, unique and prestigious ceremony, The Welsh Somali Achievement Awards pays tribute to inspiring Somali success stories from all walks of life, and recognises inspirational role models from the fields of education, community, volunteering, sport and special accolades.
The Welsh Somali Achievement Awards is being restored this year after it came to an end in 2015 with the concept for the awards being driven when an urgent need to actively promote positive role models from the Somali community was identified.
The Welsh Somali Community
With over 100 years of rich contribution to Wales, the Somali Community have played a huge role in helping to shape Wales as it is today, they were originally drawn to Cardiff as seamen at the end of the 19th century, shortly after the opening of the Suez canal, to work in the thriving docks and some of them served in the British Navy during World War II fighting alongside the British and were awarded medals for their service.
Fast forward to today and we have qualified Doctors, Pharmacists, Academics, Professors, Engineers, Social Workers, Lawyers and Community Development Workers to act as role models to our vast array of amazing youth, and The Welsh Somali Achievement Awards will look to recognise them and celebrate everyone else that is making a positive impact in the community.


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My work often reflects on anthropological ideas as it relates to cultural identity and how it impacts our environment as a biosphere. Based on my personal experience of living in three distinct countries of Japan, Samoa and the United States, my work analyzes how communities approach and interact with our environment in different ways.
Yiwang Wang
Please click on thumbnails in each slide show for more information about each piece of art..
Leilei Chen
Our earth has become awash in plastics, pesticides, agricultural runoff, consumerism, global warming, air pollutants, and numerous other attacks on its ability to sustain life. This group of international artists have come together to open up these issues for discussion and change.
Tatsuki Hakoyama
BeiBei Chen
Environmental Artist Group
Never underestimate what a small group of committed environmental artists can do to educate, advocate, and change behavior.
Beibei and Leilei Chen are Chinese identical twins who work collaboratively on all of their art. No one knows where one artist work stops and the other one's starts. The Chens live and study art in the United States. Their artwork is heavily influenced by Chinese culture, aesthetics, and philosophy. They engage with environmental and cultural issues through ceramics and painting.
Sandra Hansen, curator
Yiwang Wang is a Chinese citizen who teaches painting at Fujian Normal University. She creates impressionistic paintings that focuses on the dangers of bee extinction, which could end human existence.
Sandra Hansen
When thousands of fish died in Lake Erie in 2014, I began investigating water damage in local waterways, the Great Lakes and the Pacific Gyre. What I learned in my research appalled me so much that I became an environmental artist. I stopped working in oil paints and am now producing handmade paper art tinged with a great deal of irony, little water waste and using primarily biodegradable and repurposed materials.


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Hertfordshire Libraries & Heritage Services
Core Commitments
Actively promote and display books that are inclusive of a diverse range of characters.
Ensure that books and book events are accessible to as wide an audience as possible.
Supplementary Commitments
Discuss inclusion and diversity with colleagues and challenge those who downplay its importance.


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Now a days as compared to earlier we have seen a trend where entire homes are decorated as per the themes as we're always looking for new and interesting ways to express ourselves through the way we decorate our homes. The search has led to North Africa. Spun out of the success of Santa Fe and Southwestern styling, Moroccan decorating is a hot item in America.
It is perhaps too early to tell about permanence but, similarities with other long standing design successes such as Mediterranean, Tuscan, Mexican Colonial, and Southwestern tend to indicate Moroccan decorating in its present form or deviation, should be with us for an extended visit.
Here we are telling you a little more about Moroccan theme as to why this form of décor is gaining popularity???Moroccan home style Morocco really is an intricate mosaic. At the bridgehead of Europe and Africa and the crossroads where east fades into west, exotic, mysterious Morocco is uncovered in its design and decoration.
In case you are in need of stimulation to delve into the possibilities Moroccan decorating offers, pause upon names of such locales as Casablanca, Tangier, Rabat and Marrakesh to arouse some imagery. Get ready for rich vibrant colors. Prepare for excess. Plan to submit to the intrigue of the styles and cultures.
Moroccan styles of décor includes a lot of Terracotta patterns long on coastal seas, backed into desert and baked under a relentless sun, Moroccans take inspiration from the colors their geography provides.
As its location the décor also has hot, vibrant oranges and reds are refreshed by deep blues and sparkling greens of the sea. Ochre Mountain ranges silvery moonlit desert-scapes and golden sands. It's the colors in plenty as you've never used before.
Deep blue for example isn't reserved for accents. It can provide the dramatic backdrop for an entire room arrangement of darkened wood furnishings, terra cotta tile, and accenting multi-colored oriental rugs. Adornments of jewel-like glass works, bold patterned fabrics in sea and sand inspired colors draped from the walls and for oversized pillows.
Be prepared for excess and lots of texture:
The materials and methods used in Moroccan decorating are an art from the ages. Modern design lines and high tech production techniques don't apply here. Very few smooth, sleek materials figure in the mix. The blending of a multitude of textures and shapes is captivating.
However you can play a little if you don't like the splash of hot colors in one room you can tone down the drama of the first room by switching to highly textured, white washed walls in the next. Darkened wood plank floors layered with sand tone, natural fiber Berber area rugs add texture and calm under foot. For a sense of the dramatic, try draping fabric from the ceiling this time.
While you're going strong, why not some gold and sea foam green upholstery. Add hallmark mosaics and vibrant orange/red artwork in intricately carved wood and camel bone frames to the walls. Instead of regular pots try using huge woven baskets for exotic plants and flower arrangements upon collections of smooth sun bleached stones to complete this look.
Need more materials for inspiration Forget your old coffee tables instead use colorful mosaic tables to brighten a room. Hand carved wood and camel bone lamps and lanterns are famed. Find interesting burnished metallic works of art to adorn a barren wall. Assortments of metallic ribbon brocades can be used on walls, floors or furnishings. Jewel toned silks; influenced by interior design ideas of Indian homes, make great throws or covering for massive pillows.
If some renovation work is involved in your make-over, install faux stone pillars in openings and design mosque tower shapes into interior design bulkheads. Arch some entry ways and where possible replace some interior doors with wrought iron banisters and gates. Don't forget about the power of scent. Cachets of cinnamon, nutmeg and exotic spices can whisk the mind to the markets of Marrakesh.
There are many Morocco's. Much of the Mediterranean north coast and particularly Spain has been Moorish influenced. Look here to uncover familiar elements such as wrought iron grill work, tiles and teas. Apply them without fear in your own adaptations of Moroccan stylings. The south of France and Tuscany offer other resources to loan back to their Moroccan source.BLOG COMMENTS POWERED BY DISQUS


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Talk about dedication. Megan Dickerson, Hope Farms' summer intern, wakes up every morning at 5 a.m. -- 4:30 on Saturdays -- to make the one-hour-plus journey from her home in Wallis, Texas, to the farm, where she can be seen digging, watering and harvesting produce alongside Justin Myers, the foundation's chief agricultural officer, and other volunteers. Megan calls herself the "Urban Farm Girl," and is an avid home baker and recent graduate of Houston Community College's Culinary Arts program.
Dickerson grew up in a small, rural community, so farming is second nature to the Texan. Indeed, she lives on a farm in Wallis with her father and son; the family raises beef cattle and horses, and Dickerson wouldn't have it any other way. Her focus is to become a part of an initiative that promotes food education, access to consumable foods and the overall well-being of society to build healthy food systems. Dickerson joined the Hope Farms family in May as a summer intern. When asked what drew her to Hope Farms, she replied: "We are teaching others how to cook and eat the vegetables that so many do not have access to on a consistent basis."
Here is a Q & A with Dickerson, who is also the owner of online baking company Simple & Sweet.
Recipe for Success: How did you hear about Hope Farms?
Dickerson: The Recipe For Success Foundation was mentioned in my Healthy Cuisine class, by Chef Judith Boykin. I visited the website and stumbled upon Hope Farms and reviewed the opportunities to volunteer and give back to the community, and I've been hooked ever since then.
R4S: Why did you volunteer?
Dickerson: Historically, I've been quite involved with volunteering my time. I recently graduated in Culinary Arts, and I wanted to volunteer my time becoming involved in a mission that not only could ignite my passion but afford me the knowledge to understand my focus on healthy cuisine, food systems, and how they translate from farm to fork. When I discovered, after doing research, that I once lived in a food desert, it was imperative to step in and be a part of this initiative.
R4S: What is the most important thing you have learned thus far working at the farm?
Dickerson: That we are all part of community on a much larger scale than imaginable, and if we look past cultural differences, working side by side we can achieve anything. Hope Farms has taught me that with a little ingenuity we can educate a community about the many vegetable varieties available to them and show them how to prepare meals on a budget. In addition, I have learned that the farm brings hope.


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Important Notice: At the Meeting held on February 10, 2017, the new board of directors of SBSP was elected, assuming the presidency, Prof. Dr. Igor Cesarino and the first treasurer Dr. Paula Elbl, as well as other members whose names will be announced soon !! We welcome the new administrators and inform that the headquarters of SBSP will be installed in the Department of Botany of the University of São Paulo. In this transition phase, we will try to make changes to this site as efficiently as possible.
Due to the efforts of Doctor Sonia as Editor-in-Chief and the Editorial Board, specially Eduardo Leite Borba and Solange C. Mazzoni-Viveiros as Managing Editor, the journal started to be published only in English since the issue 35 (2012), using the name Brazilian Journal of Botany (BrazJBot). On January 2013 the BrazJBot was published by Springer International Publisher. The Dr. Sonia legacy goes on with the new Editorial Board, headed by the new Editor-in-Chief Dr. Antonio Salatino. Thanks to the intense work realized for Editorial Board (Managing Editors, Assistant Editors, Associate Editors, Publishing-Supervisors, Eletronic-Supervisors and Editorial Advisory Board), it is possible to say, proudly, that BrazJBot is becoming an important Botanical worldwide reference.
Brazilian Journal of Botany – BRJB (formerly Revista Brasileira de Botânica) is the official publication of the Sociedade Botânica de São Paulo (SBSP). The journal presently covers a wide diversity of themes in plant science: physiology and biochemistry, ecology, biogeography, morphology and anatomy, mycology, phycology, palynology, cytogenetics, molecular biology and diversity, economic botany, systematics and phylogeny. Manuscripts describing new taxa are suitable for publication only if grounded on solid data from multiple sources, such as morphology, anatomy, phytochemistry and molecular evidence. Floristic inventories and checklists are acceptable only when new and relevant information on other aspects, such as conservation strategies and biogeographic patterns, are provided. BRJB does not consider for publication papers dealing exclusively with methods and protocols (including micropropagation), biological activity of extracts with no detailed chemical analysis, checklists and floristic surveys. Review papers can be solicited by the Editorial Board. SBSP decided that, in order to meet the current and future administrative costs, a submission fee will be charged for non-members of the society.
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Before you start your job search you need to identify your career goals. Are you looking for employment to fill your immediate needs or are you looking to take the next step in your career path? Determining your employment needs will help streamline your job search by enabling you to tailor your resume and job search activities to meet your career objectives.
Getting hired means joining an existing team that has its own personality and work environment. Employers are looking for people who can add value to this team, meet certain requirements and blend into the work environment well. Knowing who you are and what you can do will enable you to identify whether or not you may be a good fit for a potential employer.
Take a minute to review these questions to highlight your goals in your job search:
- Why are you looking for employment?
- Why did you accept your current position or your last job?
- What job responsibility did you like the most?
- What job responsibility did you like the least?
- Are you interested in changing fields?
- What's the most important factor in selecting your next job?
- Money?
- Location?
- Hours?
- Work environment?
- Anything else?
Personal Inventory
These questions are designed to help you understand what you want from a job. Sometimes we take jobs that we think are right for us, but they don't fit our personalities. Be honest with yourself. Answer the following questions with explanations.
- Is full-time work important to you?
- Do you have obligations that require you to have flexible hours?
- Are you naturally outgoing? Is it easy for you to talk with others?
- Are you competitive? Is it fun for you to compete with others on a team?
- Do you enjoy working on a team?
- Do you prefer working alone?
- Do you enjoy teaching others?
- Do you enjoy working with your hands? Building things?
- Are you detail oriented? Do you like working with data and numbers?
- Do you like to work outside or in an office environment?
- Do you prefer to work from home?
- Are you creative?
Career Goals
Now that you know more about your abilities and employment preferences, take a moment to reflect on your career goals. Think about where you are now and where you want to be in 10–20 years. What is it going to take to get you there?
Many employers require certain levels of experience and education to fill a position. Do you need additional education to meet your goals? If so, see if the jobs you are looking for now offer education benefits like tuition reimbursement or financial assistance. You may also want to think about whether or not the job you are seeking now will provide the necessary experience to move your career forward. Learn more about career education options here.Related posts: