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Julia Hoban is the debut author of Willow, which is amazing. If you haven't read it, please do soon!
If I had only known then….
When Hope asked me to contribute a post in celebration of her birthday (HAPPY BIRTHDAY HOPE!!) she very kindly suggested a topic for me to write about: could I please come up with something that I wish I had known when I was Hope's age, something I know now, that might have made those years a little easier?
Well, there are many things I wish I had known as a teenager, but the first thing that came to my mind, the idea that would just not let go, the advice that I most wish Hope and all of her readers would take seriously is this:
I could of course follow that up and say BE HAPPY! But I won't do that now. As far as I'm concerned, if you could all learn to worry a little less that would put you so far ahead of the game that happiness would naturally fall into place.
Now perhaps you think I am being presumptuous suggesting that you all are worriers to begin with, perhaps this was something unique to me in my teenage years…. I am sorry to say that I feel I am on reasonably safe ground here. Worrying, unfortunately, seems to be a fairly universal human trait. We worry about our grades, money, friends and boyfriends (or lack thereof), what people think of us (possibly the biggest waste of emotional energy), our looks (tied for first as far as a waste of emotional energy goes), the list is never ending….
I think the most pernicious thing about worrying, the reason so many of us do it so often and so well is this: when we worry, we mistakenly believe that we are doing something constructive, that the act of worrying will somehow help. But let me ask you this, has worrying ever done anything for you? If you are worrying about your grades, has the worry helped you to come up with a plan to improve them? If you are worrying about money, has worrying helped you think of ways that you might save, or look for a part time job? If you are worrying about your looks, does worrying make you feel more self confident? My guess is NO! Worrying only makes the situation worse! Think of all the things you could be doing with that emotional energy! If things seem too overwhelming, if you cannot come up with a positive response to the situation, then curl up with a good book, at the very least it will be a vast improvement on worrying, and leave you feeling emotionally refreshed, instead of drained.
There's one more thing I'd like to say about the uselessness of worrying: so often, it seems as if things are turning out for the worst, that the situation we are in is just too awful, clearly being fretful and anxious is nothing more than a mild response to events. But are things really as bad as they seem? I don't want to suggest that everything happens for the best, that is not always true. But, there have been many times in my life where something apparently catastrophic has happened, only to turn out later to have been an unforeseen boon. We can never know what lies on the other side of adversity, and to worry is to be faithless, when we are most in need of faith.
I'd like to repeat my advice once more: DON'T WORRY! And this time I will add BE HAPPY! To Hope on her birthday, and to all of her readers, my very best!!!!!!
Julia Hoban
Thank you Julia!
This concludes the two week birthday celebration! I have all the contest winners picked out and they will be posted later tonight after my party. =) Hope you all enjoyed it. =)


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Ladies' Captains Announcements
We were lucky to have a fine day for our greensomes on Wednesday and it was good to have some match play as some of our newer members were able to learn some valuable tips. I have been asked to remind you all that when raking the bunkers we should rake in different directions and not just pull the rake forwards while backing out as the sand is then not distributed evenly.
Nicola is giving group lessons for the ladies at £10 per head. Usually these will be on a Thursday but next week it will be on Tuesday in order to avoid the Beaujolais Day.
Wednesday was the last chance to sign up for the Alliance and the drawer has been made.It will be sent to you by email.
I am asking you to put £1 in my Charity box every time you land in the water. I started it off with £2 for the balls I put in last time out.
Please remember to sign up for the Christmas Party on December 13th. We already have a good number so it is a great start.
Thank you all those who have contributed to our hampers and brought bottles for the Christmas Fayre on December 6th. We still need more bottles please. Janet and I will be harassing you to buy raffle tickets.
Have a good week.
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This week on UnDisciplined, we're talking about really small things, like cell cultures and their effect on research, and really big things, like our planet's climate and its effect on human movement.
Jason Shear joined us from the University of Texas at Austin. His recent article in the Journal of the American Chemical Society describes the development of a process by which we can change the size and shape of a cell culture.
Also joining us is Jordan Smith, whose recent study in the Journal Sustainability demonstrates that bad air day's in Utah's valleys are pushing more people — and more cars — into areas of the state that have good air. Smith is the director of the Institute of Outdoor Recreation and Tourism at Utah State University.


text: Why Alex Bregman Will "Out Regress" Mookie Betts by D.K. Willardson October 25, 2018 A significant challenge in baseball research is identifying when a player has made a transformational adjustment that results in a step-change in playing level (i.e. J.D. Martinez in 2013) vs. a player who has a great, yet unrepeatable year. Mookie Betts and Alex Bregman both had excellent years in 2018 and a call for regression would be expected. However, this research note presents data which suggests that Mookie Betts did indeed make a transformational mechanical change and will likely perform at high levels going forward while Alex Bregman's improvement does not share the same solid underpinnings. I recently examined the relationship between backspin and performance in this post. One of the key takeaways from that research was that no player in the highest backspin quartile (since the data started in 2015), has consistently put up "superstar" numbers. In fact, Mookie Betts was in the high backspin group and had the second highest wRC+ of 122 over the 2015-2017 time period – not "bad" but far from a super-star level. With Betts' phenomenal 2018, I was curious if he was the only high backspin hitter to "break out" or if he made a significant change to his swing mechanics to hit the ball more "square." After reading that he and J.D. Martinez were working together on mechanics, I was curious if his backspin profile changed from prior years. Not only did it change, Betts had the largest reduction in backspin of all Qualified Hitters in 2018! Here is a list of the top and bottom ten backspin changers over last year: Alex Bregman, on the other hand, had the sixth largest increase in backspin of all Qualified Players. Take a look at a comparison of Exit Velocity (EV), Launch Angle (LA) and Distance for the two players on well-hit fly balls (EV>=90, LA>=15). Both Betts and Bregman had an EV increase of approximately one MPH. The change in the launch angle profile between the two hitters is significant – Betts added five degrees of launch angle compared to Bregman's two-degree reduction. Betts should have had a distance gain; however, the fact that he didn't is actually a positive based on the data. Thus, while Betts is showing a 13 ft. distance decrease over last year, Bregman had a 14 ft. increase. Most of Bregman's distance increase is from backspin – a very unhealthy source based on the data. While beyond the scope of this research note, the mechanical drivers responsible for changes in spin are Vertical Bat Angle, the amount of Explicit Swing Loft (also referred to as "Attack Angle), and the ball contact point (above or below the ball equator). Backspin increases with lower levels of Vertical Bat Angle and Explicit Swing Loft (Attack Angle) while "square" contact increases with larger values. More to follow on this in a future post. Because of the link between swing path quality and backspin, using distance as a performance metric in isolation is highly problematic – and can lead one to the opposite conclusion in projecting performance. In other words, it matters where the distance change is coming from. In addition to the amount of backspin, other metrics such as the Standard Deviation of Launch Angle and a player's IFFB% also have a strong relationship to the quality of a player's swing path. Using a quartile ranking system for each of the three metrics, four players were in the top and bottom quartiles for all metrics in both 2017 and 2018. The difference in performance of the two groups is quite telling: Wow! Considering only swing path quality metrics, the performance between the two groups is worlds apart. To get a sense of the magnitude of the change for Mookie Betts in 2018, he was in the fourth quartile for all three metrics above in 2017. He moved from the fourth to the second quartile in backspin, fourth to first in Standard Deviation of Launch Angle, and fourth to second in IFFB%. Alex Bregman, on the other hand, moved into the fourth quartile for all three swing path quality metrics in 2018. I have followed Bregman's swing for some time and have made some timely performance predictions (in both directions) based on video. The backspin and swing path quality data, on the other hand, point to longer term issues that may not surface immediately. After all, backspin improves the performance of balls hit but is inversely related to player performance given sufficient frequency (i.e. PAs). Thus, getting the precise timing of a performance shift based on the above data is difficult. However, without a swing path change for Bregman, the odds suggest that significant regression is not a matter of "if" but "when". We hoped you liked reading Why Alex Bregman Will "Out Regress" Mookie Betts by D.K. Willardson! 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"I go back to the same three to five stories of people whose lives I have helped, and I just remind myself – if I don't share this, if I don't do this, then this would never have happened."
Tara Swiger is a coach for people who make or create products they're passionate about, helping them to build profitable businesses. Her episode on finding your right people is one of my all time favourites I've recorded so far, so I invited her back on to tackle some of the issues I hear about again and again from people in our community here – specifically, how to sell ourselves without feeling awful, and dealing with vulnerability.
Tara always brings incredible value to everything she does, and I promise this episode will uplift, inspire and fill you with enthusiasm for selling your work.
Tara's website | podcast | Instagram | books & courses
Things we talk about in this episode:
- Feeling ok about self promotion and selling your stuff
- Why selling our work feels so scary and vulnerable
- Why we get perfectionist urges before we share our work online (to try and protect ourselves)
- The power of getting to the heart of why we create our work
- The difference between being self serving versus being of service
- The merits of talking to people who've purchased your work and getting feedback
- Feeling like you deserve to make money from your work
- How you don't need to have it all together in order to be successful
- How to be authentic without being a hot mess
- Why authenticity and showing who you are is super important
- The importance of making clear calls to action
- Marketing loudly and with confidence to your audience about your work
- What you can do right now to take a leap into more confident sales
- Why you don't need a huge audience to have a successful business
- Also, special guest feature from Tara's dog in the background 😂
Links from this episode:
- Tara's first appearance on Hashtag Authentic about your 'right people'
- Tara's episode on talking about your work without feeling gross
- Tara's podcast episode on 'how to be authentic without being a hot mess'
- My blog post on dealing with trolls on Instagram Live
- Tara's upcoming Creative Live classes on podcasting and youtube
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The federal government says contrary to the reported figure of 110, Boko Haram insurgents abducted 113 persons from Government Girls Secondary and Technical College in Dapchi, Yobe state.
Speaking at a press conference on Sunday, Lai Mohammed, minister of information, said the number comprised 111 students of the school and two other pupils from an unnamed primary school.
Shortly after the insurgents raided the school on February 19, a federal government delegation had confirmed that 110 pupils were unaccounted for.
At the time, there was no mention of the two pupils, one of whom the minister said had gone to the college to sell sachet water.
Speaking at the briefing in Lagos, Mohammed, who also oversees the ministry of culture, said the difference was as a result of misinformation from the school authority.
"That means one student was not captured on the list of 110 abducted students that was compiled by the school, on the basis of which the federal government gave the number of abducted schoolgirls as 110," he said.
"Also kidnapped were two other persons, who are not students of the college. They include a primary school boy who came to the school to sell pure water and another primary school girl. That brings the total number of abducted persons on that day to 113."
He said the two pupils were among the 107 persons released by the insurgents on Wednesday, adding that: "Six Dapchi schoolgirls are yet unaccounted for. All efforts will be made to secure their release."
TheCable had reported that five of the six are said to be dead while one is in Boko Haram custody.
Leah Sharibu, the remaining schoolgirl, was reportedly held back for refusing to denounce Christianity.
The minister said following talks held between the federal government and Boko Haram, the insurgents decided to return the girls to where they picked them from "as a goodwill gesture".
He said: "All they demanded was a ceasefire that will grant them a safe corridor to drop the girls.
"This is not new. Even in larger war situations, safe corridors are usually created for humanitarian and other purposes.
"Consequently, a week-long ceasefire was declared, starting from Monday, 19 March. That is why the insurgents were able to drop the girls.
"This counters the conspiracy theories being propounded in some quarters concerning why it was so easy for the insurgents to drop off the girls without being attacked by the military."


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ARRAY's Chi-Lai Poon Honored for Outstanding Service and Dedication to the Chapter and the Community
The SuperNOVA award is given to the chapter volunteer whose service to the Chapter goes above and beyond what is normally expected by a committee chair or committee member and sets the example for our other volunteers to follow.
Chi-Lai was recently the recipient of the Golden Eagle Award which recognized her outstanding service and dedication to the Chapter, which includes 7,200 members, and the Community. In her time with the association, Chi-Lai has become a well respected and important part of the Chapter. She has assumed a number of responsible positions in her time there and has proven time and time again her dedication and ability to lead and exceptional talent brought recognition by the association as well as her colleagues at ARRAY.
"We are once again very proud of Chi-Lai for the outstanding work she is doing with AFCEA," said Sumeet Shrivastava, President of ARRAY. "Chi-Lai is an important part of the ARRAY family and we are very lucky to have such a hard working, dedicated, and well respected member of the community to represent ARRAY."
About ARRAY:
ARRAY has received national and regional awards for its growth achievements, including being recognized frequently by Inc. Magazine, Deloitte Technology and Washington Technology as one of the fastest growing U.S. businesses. ARRAY brings the capability and the leadership of a medium-sized business but retains the agility of a small business. ARRAY has also obtained critical ISO and CMMI certifications, and is continuously focused on improving quality management to ensure that products and solutions meet only the highest quality standards in the industry.
ARRAY Information Technology, Inc. specializes in services to the National Security, Defense, and Scientific Sectors. In addition to multiple awards for its growth achievements, ARRAY is known for its employee-friendly culture and its ability to drive success for its clients through Applied Innovation. For more information, please visitwww.arrayinfotech.com.
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A Gwen Stefani superfan goes head-to-head with Gwen Stefani herself to find out who knows more about Gwen Stefani.
A Gwen Stefani superfan goes head-to-head with Gwen Stefani herself to find out who knows more about Gwen Stefani.
Damn she is fine.Reply
Wow Gwen is a stunner it's hard to believe she is 48 yrs oldReply
she turned into a hollaback girlReply
Gwen reverse ages lolReply
Wow ?????????Reply
Guillermo hahahReply
Hit like if u like gwen!!Reply
The rejected hug at 5:09 lolReply
No one else thought this was AWKWARD and Cringy AF?????Reply
this was beyond cringeReply
I find it creepy when some random person knows more about some celebrity, than the celebrity know about herself/himself.
That on a side, Gwen looks stunning!
Love her! I want to raid her closet so badly. That's the dream at least.Reply
This was SO AKWARD AND CRINGY!Reply
I thought the SUPERfan would be excited to see herReply
It's funny how people find it creepy fans can get to know so many details about their favorite artists, but have you thought that it's through interviews and articles that these artists have done? Maybe what's creepy is that artists/celebrities share so much? But I guess that's an unpopular opinion…Reply
Damn!!! She's freaking hotReply
I didn't recognize her without her red lipstickReply
Damn she looks good. What does she do, bathe in the blood of young ska kids?Reply
3:24 ball squeakReply
I can't recognize Gwen,looks different.Reply


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Into the Andes: Ayacucho, Peru
Getting There
The buses to Ayacucho leave from the nearby transit hub of San Clemente (easily reached by a short taxi ride from Pisco). The taxi driver was very helpful and showed us the two companies that service Ayacucho: Molina and Anhanza. Both of these companies offer only basic service for the 8 hour trek through the mountains. The buses leave at 12:00pm, 12:30pm, and 7:00pm. We got there a couple of hours early but Molina was all sold out, leaving us with Anhanza (35PEN/CAD$12.50).
We grabbed a coffee from a small restaurant near the bus stop and waited for our bus to arrive.


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Longtime participant Bill Herod tells Stuart Alan Becker how Cambodia NGOs evolved
A retired Christian minister who came to Cambodia in 1980 just as the country was first opening to NGOs says Hun Sen and his government, whatever mistakes they've made, have done an admirable job of fostering the Kingdom's development.
American Bill Herod, 65, first came to Cambodia with Church World Service from the Washington office and helped get things rolling – when the population was desperate for just about everything.
"We'd all been trying to get in during the Khmer Rouge time," Herod said. "We put letters under the door of the embassy in Beijing, but there was no response."
Earlier, starting in 1966, Herod had worked in Vietnam during the American War, supporting development projects but he always opposed the war for humanitarian reasons.
From Washington, he paid attention to what was happening in Cambodia.
"After the Khmer Rouge got thrown out we went to the Cambodian Embassy in Hanoi and said we'd like to come in and help the Cambodians rebuild," Herod said. "So, they agreed to allow various groups to send representatives in to have a look around.
"The first impression was that everybody in Cambodia needed everything. I was based in Washington at this time and I was getting the reports sent back to me. The situation was catastrophic. Mass starvation was just ahead, people had eaten their seed rice. There was no medicine, no food, no transportation and no communications.
"So, for example, the first shipment of food we were able to get into the country we sent in by air and when the aircraft landed there was no equipment to offload the stuff. No conveyor belts, no fork lifts, so it all had to be done by hand."
The same thing happened when ships full of necessary food were sent into Sihanoukville. People had had to carry sacks of rice down from the boat.
"There were no trucks to move the supplies from the port or the airport so we had to send in trucks and nobody knew how to drive them or repair them," he said.
"So we had to send in drivers and mechanics. The bridges were destroyed so we had to send the trucks half full because they had to go across makeshift bridges. Local communications were military. When I came in November 1980, we couldn't travel without military escorts outside of Phnom Penh."
As an NGO worker, Herod has seen Cambodia evolve. "I'm amazed at how dramatic the development has been since 1980," he said.
"We've seen what Cambodian people have done – and it is very impressive. You have a lot of capacity, skill, talent, determination – and for all its faults – you have a stable, functioning leadership.
"I've watched Hun Sen and his inner circle evolve over the last 30 years and I'm very very impressed – people like Sok An, Cham Prasidh, Hor Namhong, Khieu Khanharith, Kong Som Ol, Long Visalo, Uch Kiman, Dr My Samady and So Khun among many others.
"They have provided competent leadership through very difficult times.
"I have great confidence in the ability of these guys to provide leadership in the future – and I see no alternative.
"During my first visits here in the 1980s, it was common for experienced development workers to predict the complete collapse of Cambodia by the end of the century. The damage and destruction of the Khmer Rouge period had just been too great, recovery was said to be impossible. But Cambodian leaders did not agree and through their heroic efforts forged the way forward. All development work accomplished since 1979 is built on the foundation they established and maintain."
Herod met Minister of Finance Keat Chon in 1996 at a social function.
"When he learned I was trying to get the internet established in Cambodia he said he had used the internet in France and understood how important it would be for Cambodia," Herod said. "He said if I ever needed help in dealing with any bureaucratic difficulties I should give him a call. We did indeed run into some problems which seemed insurmountable and Keat Chon helped as promised."
Herod served as consultant to CamNet, Cambodia's first Internet Service Provider (a cooperative venture between IDRC and the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications) and as information technology teacher and adviser at Lidee Khmer's Public Internet Center - Cambodia's first internet café.
Herod first arrived in Southeast Asia in 1966 – working in Vietnam on a community development project.
"The first thing we did was go out and look at the situation and there were refugees who didn't have adequate food, shelter, water or medicine,"" he said. "We started making lists of things people needed so we could formulate a program. We decided to ask them what they needed. We did seven interviews. The priority thing they needed was white cloth.
"I said 'why do you need white cloth'? They said 'so we can bury our dead with dignity'.
"We made white cloth a priority."
The NGOs that came into Cambodia all through the 80s, Herod said, saw that everybody needed everything.
"Where you start is by asking people what they need most, immediately," he said. "Now, years later, we have hundreds of NGOs, and this is where you get into donor-diven development. "What you have now is primarily donor-driven development not client-driven development, so they are not asking people what they want any more."
Donors specify things like "I want to give money to indigenous females who are land mine victims and have HIV".
The NGOs, Herod says, are made up of administrators, accountants and field people.
"The field staff know what people need and what the problems are. The administrators are dealing with the donors, who are saying 'we will give you this money if you do this work'. "So the administrators are saying to the people in the field, this is how we want you to spend this money, because the donors insist. And the field people say, 'we have other priorities, we should be spending in a different way'.
That's the enigma that NGOs face. You've got field staff who say we need this priority. The donors say we want it spent this way. And the administrators are in the middle."
Herod says that over his 20 years with Church World Service and other NGOs he's played all three roles "and I'm terrible at the middle role". "Administrators need to understand that their role is to support field staff, not to impose the donors will at the field staff," he said. "In the NGO community in Cambodia, that's the crux of it. You've got administrators giving into the demands of the donors."
Herod thinks the NGOs should look seriously at the new proposed NGO law and work hard with the government to come up best legislation possible.
"I think the NGOs need to clean up their act, and they should embrace the new law," he said. "The government has a right to know where the money comes from and what their goals are.
"The western restaurants all have expensive NGO cars parked outside of them. How does that help people? Cambodia survived the Khmer Rouge abyss because of the leadership of the current government, not because of the NGOs.
"The government has also managed the economy and the development, and of course they have made terrible mistakes, haven't we all, also they defeated the Khmer Rouge – when the UN and international community gave the Khmer Rouge support and legitimacy.
"This government under Hun Sen defeated the Khmer Rouge and then in negotiations for the trials of Khmer Rouge leaders this government out-manoeuvred, out-negotiated the UN in terms of the Khmer Rouge Tribunal.
"The survivors of the Khmer Rouge survived by lying, cheating and stealing. If they didn't, they were killed. They learned those survival skills."
Herod prevented a suicide by intervening as a man tried to drink drain cleaner and lost sight in one eye as the chemicals splashed and burned off his cornea.
That's the kind of life Herod lives, working with the most difficult cases of Cambodians with severe problems on a humanitarian basis – such as those who had lived in the United States, got into trouble with the law and were deported back to Cambodia.
"The problems they face are a result of their experience in the US," Herod said.
The Church World Service is a relief and development agency of the National Council of Churches.
Herod's adopted Afro-Amerasian daughter, Coretta, 40, is a graphic artist in Atlanta.
His daughter Kyla, 35, is a social worker in Baltimore.
These days Herod spends his time working with the Bunong people in Mondulkiri, where he takes care of his adopted long-tailed macaque Memong and makes regular trips to Phnom Penh.


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Make and use a WINTER themed signature for Karma - FORUM EVENT
Create a signature that has to do with Winter or the Winter Holidays, New year, Chinese New Year etc... (save Valentines day and later in the year holidays for another time)
(You can do a Christmas Signature but it must NOT involve a religious message)
Event Dates:
Today Wednesday December 17 until Monday January 5, 2015
(exact end time is when I wake up and get online at about 5 AM west coast USA time = 8 AM USA Eastern = 1300 GMT 0)
*** Karma will be given out after the event ends*** (this way you can change and update your signature with out any worries about karma)
1) Make a signature that fits the signature area.... it can be smaller
signatures cut off because of size gets fewer karma.
Maximum size for a forum signature is approximately 800 pixels (points?) Wide x 300 High...
But it is up to you to make sure it fits and looks in proportion!
again... It is OK if it is Smaller!!!
2) The signature needs to reflect Winter, Winter Holidays, New Years, Chinese New Year, or other well known holidays held during December and January.
3) If you do not have enough forum credits to add a signature (you have to have 35 Forum credits for the forum permission to use a signature) show it as an attachment!!!
Do this ONLY if you do not have enough forum credits to put it in/as your signature.
4) Post a reply to THIS THREAD with your signature attached/activated so everyone can see it
You will HAVE TO host your signature photo at an image hosting site and use image tags in your signature editing box; Member CP >> Edit Profile >> Personalized > scroll down to Signature box
**Use the "direct" link code for your photo from your image hosting site with image tags around it.
EXAMPLE;[code][/code]If you need further help with how to display images in the forum read:
How to make a photo your forum signature
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Use of any sexual or sexually enticing photos, images, icons etc...
Use of any words photos, graphics , images promoting illegal activities in a signature
will get your account banned... so keep it clean...
*** I do not have the power to remove signatures so giving you negative notoriety so you can not post is the only recourse i have.
also remember IGG does not allow the use of national flags... no I don't know why...
Please avoid the use of religious symbols and sayings.
I understand the urge to use crosses and certain types of stars and phrases that may seem common place involving your God...
But please try to member not everyone believes as you do.
So, there is no need to possibly offend others.
And, remember when you post in this forum we have Minor children here, we are an age 13 + forum.
UP TO 50 Karma for each post
(and I figure this is a bit more involved than just posting a picture)
Signatures that do not fit properly will get points taken off.
Pictures that are an obvious re-posting of just someone else's picture or signature will get less points. (ie. if no adding of words or obviously no editing was done)
Pictures not sized correctly (ie squeezed/ non-proportional) will receive less points.
Only I will be giving karma for this event.
Any complaints of favoritism will be removed and the poster given negative reputation.
This is a judging of ART..
Art that must fit the rules given...
and as we are human, not everyone likes the same thing, but if you show a little effort you will get max points.
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Nice Event, Ele!f68
Humbug indeed.
Merry Christmas and such!
Red and green flashing lights is winter to me...
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Merry Christmas for everyone! f92
Nothing says festive like a couple of santa hats.
lol on the Santa Hats! Mine is nothing says Winter like Snowmen singing Carols! It is actually supposed to snow here tomorrow.
Well, since the whole family has done theirs I have to put my 2 cents in it too. Great! now, who can lend me 2 cents?
>added snowflakes to mah signature
Create a signature that has to do with Winter or the Winter Holidays, New year, Chinese New Year etc... (save Valentines day and later in the year holidays for another time)
(You can do a Christmas Signature but it must NOT involve a religious message)
(You can do a Christmas Signature but it must NOT involve a religious message) WHAT?! f85 I'm not a smart man but isn't a religious holiday? f92
No, not necessarily.. check my signature - ele
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Word Vistas Serene Answers
Word vistas rock category serene pack answers all level tested 100% working for android and iOS. I just play this game in my android and already solve more than 20 packs, This game is very easy to play every player just need to slide their finger above the letters and found a word. I've play many game similar to word vistas so i can complete this game easily and share the result to other player.
Word Vistas Serene Answers
Serene level 1. EGG, GEL, GIG, LEG, LIE, GIGGLE
Serene level 2. IMP, MOP, OPS, PIE, SIM, SIP, SOP, POISE
Serene level 3. CON, ION, SIN, SON, SUN, COIN, ICON, SONIC
Serene level 4. LAPSE, LEAPT, LEAST, PASTE, PETAL, PLATE, SLATE, SLEPT, SPATE, SPLAT, STALE, STEAL
Serene level 5. DIET, DIME, EDIT, EMIT, ITEM, MITE, TIDE, TIED, TIME
Serene level 6. FELL, FILE, FILL, FIRE, LIFE, RIFE, RILE, FLIER, RIFLE
Serene level 7. LAST, SALT, SLAB, SLAT, STAB
Serene level 8. EBB, RUB, RUE, BLUE, BLUR, BULB, LUBE, LURE, RULE, BLURB, RUBLE, RUBBLE
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Q: Are Indians patriots?
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1. Where his countrymen are damaged by his individual action—through illegal immigration—the Indian will choose himself over India. Embassies observe and record national behaviour.
Violations by Indians over decades, not racism, have made visa access restrictive, quite rightly, to all Indians.
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A staple of Lowestoft life for centuries gone by is returning this week, as once again a market will be held in the Triangle Market area.
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Association between polypharmacy and the adherence to pharmacological treatment in patients with diabetes
Keywords: Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2, Therapeutics, Polypharmacy, Medication Adherence, Nursing.
AbstractObjective: to evaluate the occurrence of polypharmacy and its association with the adherence to the pharmacological treatment in patients with diabetes mellitus type 2. Methods: cross-sectional study conducted with 235 patients with diabetes mellitus type 2 through interview about the demographic and clinical data, drug therapy prescribed and adherence to treatment. To analyze the data, we used Student t-tests and Chi-square, with significance level p<0.05. Results: polypharmacy was evidenced in 88.4% of cases with a predominance of moderate level. An average of 7.5 pills per person among the 19 types of prescribed drugs were used. Adherence to prescribed therapy was reported by 88.2% of patients evaluated and there was no association with polypharmacy (p=0.266). Conclusion: it was verified that polypharmacy is a condition of high prevalence and is not associated with worse adherence to therapy.
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Tyga: 15 Times He Proved He Was a GIANT Dirtbagby Naomi Lane at . Updated at .
Tyga, the D-list rapper known primarily for his romantic relationship with Kylie Jenner, has been loathed by Kardashian-Jenner fans for years, and with good reason.
The pair recently broke up, and we can think of a number of examples of why it was a long time coming - all of which add up to one undeniable truth:
Tyga is a tremendous dirtbag.
We can't say with absolute certainty that all the accusations lodged against him are true, but as they say, where there's smoke, there's fire.


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Jordan Peterson has exploded in popularity over the last 2 years. As with any fame, a great deal of his nuance is lost in the vast echo chambers of trending culture. He manages just fine without it, but I think it's a real shame, because his best work lies within the extremely subtle and fine points of his arguments. Admittedly, he takes an unapologetic slant towards the far-right wing — if you had spent that much time in academia, you would too. But the point of this post is not to defend or attack Jordan Peterson, but to focus on a specific argument that seems to be thoroughly underappreciated by many.
For example, the author of this Vox article, (which is riddled with jealousy) writes:
[Jordan Peterson] argues that because we evolved from lower creatures like lobsters, we inherited dominance structures from them. Inequalities of various kinds aren't wrong; they're natural.
The relationship between human and lobster brains is outside Peterson's area of academic expertise. Experts in the field who have evaluated his claims have found them lacking, as lobsters' and humans' neurological systems are radically different.
Well Vox author, the relationship between human and lobster brains is well within my area of academic expertise. And let me tell you, Jordan Peterson's argument not only holds up, but can be extended far beyond what he is willing to say. The differences in lobster and human neurobiology is EXACTLY the point. They are drastically dissimilar, as the next line in the article clearly shows:
One important distinction is that humans have brains and lobsters (technically speaking) do not.
This only drives Peterson's point home more strongly. He's not saying that we are lobsters. Okay, well maybe some of his less nuanced followers are, but he has millions of them. Some are bound to be on the lower end of the bell curve. His point is that dominance hierarchies are MUCH older than human society (and specifically Capitalism). It is irrelevant if lobsters don't technically have brains, or even if their dominance hierarchies operate in exactly the opposite way that ours do (which, they do). The point is that they have a hierarchy, and it has a shared neurobiological basis with ours (it is evolutionarily conserved).
Amazingly, the specifics of this argument seem to sail right past many academics. Even neuroscientists fail to appreciate his reasoning, which is the basis of all neuroscientific study (that neurobiology is conserved across diverse and varied species). In this article, the author writes:
What's more, the animal kingdom is full of examples of hierarchies, with the highest level of organisation observed in insects. These are as closely related to us as lobsters are – they also have serotonin and nervous systems.
Exactly!! Now you're getting it (they aren't actually getting it). This article is not the first place I've heard this argument used. Something along the lines of, "If you think a comparison between human and lobsters is valid, you might as well say that humans were meant to be collectivists because bees (another arthropod that uses serotonin in their nervous system) live in collectivist hives."
But people can and do use bees as models for human social structure.
This kind of thought process drastically oversimplifies Peterson's point of view. He is thoroughly aware of the malleability of humans and our propensity for collectivism. His arguments for the parameterization of human sociability and dominance hierarchies are not only extremely sophisticated, but very well-evidenced.
I can't speak for him, but my guess is that he uses the specific example of lobsters for two reasons:
1) He strongly believes that individualism is the most functional mode of operation within the context of human society. His entire life's work has been the demonization of group identity politics.
2) The relationship between serotonin and the dominance hierarchies of lobsters is very well-established. The point isn't that lobsters act in exactly the same way as humans, but that dominance hierarchies are ancient evolutionary developments (divergence between humans and lobsters happened some 600 million years ago), or at the very least, that these hierarchies operate using shared convergent machinery across diverse species.
In this vein of thought, the point about bees is spot on. I would guess that future work will provide evidence of the relationship between bee social structure and serotonin. In fact, why not use bacterium as an example of the relationship? Most of our serotonin is produced by our gut microbiome after all.
The point is that serotonin is intrinsically linked to dominance hierarchies, which are extraordinarily old constructs. This is very likely because serotonin is a neurotransmitter that is tightly coupled to stimulus valence, and specifically, the acquisition of food. Hence, its presence in our guts as well as bee guts.
Perhaps if these authors could take a moment to stop being threatened by Jordan Peterson's immense status as a cultural icon in our social dominance hierarchy, they could see the subtlety in his calls for purpose.


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