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Pantry Analysis
1. Take Pictures of Your Pantry
2. We analyze your pantry
3. We create a personalized Report
4. Time for grocery shopping!
5. Coaching (additional)
Thorough Analysis
Non-Judgmental Advice
Making It Easier For Yourself
The best thing is that you don't have to leave the comfort of your own home. There is no need to have strangers come over and go through all of your food items. You simply take pictures of all your food items (wherever they are), send them to us, receive our report, and change your shopping accordingly. If all you have at home is healthy food, you are already so much closer to becoming your healthiest self.
How It Works
Share Your Pantry
After login into your private portal, you will be able to upload your pictures. When you log in with your mobile, you simply click upload, and you can start making pictures which will be saved in your portal.
You are welcome to provide us with photos of your pantry, fridge, freezer, and fruit bowl. And we are also open for a list in excel/word/pdf, receipt of your grocery shopping, weekly meal plans, etc.
The more information we have, the more accurate your pantry report.
Analyzing Your Pantry
Once we receive your photos, we will start analyzing your pantry. How we do this? We have an extensive database with hundreds of products, and we will gather those that are in your pantry.
From there we will make your personalized report, including:
- A summary
- Visual representation of the healthiness of your pantry
- Recommendation for missing items to provide a balanced pantry
- Guidance for healthy alternatives for the less healthy items in your pantry
Report Generation
Once the report is ready, we will upload it to your portal and send you an email to inform you.
There will be two documents waiting for you in your portal. The first is the main report with the summary and recommendations.
The second report is an appendix with a description of all the items including the nutrients you can find in them and their possible effects on your body and health.
Both reports are presented to you in PDF, which makes it easy for you to access and navigate.
Implement Changes
Now it is time for you to take the next step and implement the changes that fit your lifestyle and become your healthiest self.
Remember not to strive for a 100% change at once, but rather focus on small steps at a time. A new habit forms when you repeat your actions.
Most importantly don't beat yourself up when making a small side step. Enjoy the journey!!
Extra Support
Do you find it challenging to decide what those next steps should look like?
We are here to support you in your journey with additional coaching sessions. In these sessions, we will look at your goals and the steps we can define to get there.
If you don't feel like buying a package, you can also decide to purchase the sessions one at a time until you feel comfortable knowing what steps to take in your journey.
We are flexible and want to make sure this journey suits your needs; therefore you are in the driver seat of planning the sessions.
And of course the sessions are online, so you don't have to leave the comfort of your own home!


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Centre for Liveable Cities
Set up in 2008 by the Ministry of National Development and the Ministry of the Environment and Water Resources, the Centre for Liveable Cities (CLC) aims to distil, create and share knowledge on liveable and sustainable cities.
The CLC's work spans four main areas: Research, Capability Development, Knowledge Platforms, and Advisory. Through these activities, it hopes to provide urban leaders and practitioners with the knowledge and support needed to make our cities better.
For more information, please visit www.clc.gov.sg.
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URA's multi-faceted role includes being the main government land sales agent. We attract and channel private capital investments to develop sites that support planning, economic and social objectives. We also partner the community to enliven our public spaces to create a car-lite, people-friendly and liveable city for all to enjoy. In shaping a distinctive city, URA also promotes architecture and urban design excellence.Visit www.ura.gov.sg for more information.


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Comprehensive Coverage a Must for Fuel Dealers
Due to the nature of the business, propane dealers are exposed to a greater than normal number of liability risks. In order to ensure total protection, it is essential that fuel suppliers obtain broad-based insurance coverage.
The Basics and More
When considering insurance coverage, it is important to consult with an agent who is experienced in dealing with a niche industry like the fuel supply business. Under expert guidance, insurance can be specialized to fit the specific needs of the company in question.
Most packages of insurance for propane dealers include general liability, property, crime and inland marine coverage (which protects against the loss of property while in transit). Within this package, businesses have the option of adding additional endorsements or stand-alone policies. Typically, a comprehensive bundle of insurance may include the following:
- Pollution and umbrella liability for potential environmental risks encountered by handling and distributing fuel
- Mobile and fixed equipment coverage for pipes, fixtures and tank barns
- Business income for possible work stoppages due to fuel shortages or natural disasters
- Business auto/truck for vehicles used for delivery or any other business activity
- Workers compensation coverage to satisfy the legal requirement of almost every state for companies with at least one employee
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Having the proper setup for your gecko is key for a happy and healthy animal. Unlike the crested gecko, the leopard gecko's setup will cost a little more as this species requires some specific needs. Don't get me wrong here, it is not difficult to care for a leopard gecko, but you need to make sure it has what it needs to thrive.
What you will need:
- Enclosure, at least 20 gals or about 24″ x 18″ x 12″
- Heat mat (to cover 30% of enclosure)
- Substrate (please do not use loose substrate)
- Thermostat (hydrometer, thermometer also recommended)
- Minimum of 2 hides (3 is preferable)
- Moss or (something absorbent) for the moist hide
- Water dish
- Feeding dish
- Calcium dish
- Decorations
The enclosure
Leopard geckos are terrestrial, they don't live in trees. That is why you need to consider floor space more than height. I bought for my geckos the Exo Terra Natural Desert Reptile and Amphibian Low Terrarium – Medium which is 24″ x 18″ x 12″. The glass terrarium is nice but can be costly unless you're lucky enough to find one at second hand. Many people will build their own enclosures as well. The fact that the leopard gecko lives in a dry environment, makes it easier to make something yourself.
Heat Mat, Thermostat and Thermometer
The heat mat should take up about a third of the enclosure. The heat will help your gecko to digest its food and keep warm. You will need to connect a Thermostat to it so the temperature doesn't burn your gecko. Having a thermometer inside on the mat area will help you regulate the temperature better. This, in my opinion, is the hardest part. Regulate the temperature. Make sure you do the setup before getting your gecko. The temperature on the heat mat should be between 87 and 90°F.
Hiding Spots
Leopard geckos need at least two hides, but three is recommended. One will be on the heat mat, one will be used as humid hide (a gecko cave with humid moss or paper towel works wonders), and the third one will go on the cool side which should be around 74 to 80°F.
Food, Water, and Calcium Dishes
Although leopard gecko doesn't require a lot of humidity, they still need to have a water dish in their enclosure in case they are thirsty. You will need to have a dish to put the insects and a calcium dish no bigger than a water bottle cap that you will leave at all time in the enclosure. You can also use the food dish with calcium in it and have the insects dusted with calcium.
Decor & Substrate
The decor is the fun part. It's mostly for aesthetic, but it can also provide more hiding spots and things to rub against when it's shedding time. You can use artificial plants, rocks, bark pieces anything non-toxic. You can make it natural looking as you can go crazy and use a theme. It's all up to you. Although they don't live in trees, make sure to add little things to climb on. They do like to climb and explore!
For the substrate, many people prefer to use a paper towel, but I find it a bit boring. You can find Reptile Terrarium Carpet, but if you don't disinfect it properly, it's prone to bacterias. Something I found that is easy to clean, non-adhesive shelf liner. It comes in a variety of colors and pattern and you can wipe it down easily. You can find some at the dollar store. Whatever you do, just make sure your gecko can't get stuck somewhere and swallow anything. 🙂
Have fun with your setup!
**** If you have any questions about leopard geckos don't hesitate to comment below or send me a quick message through my contact page and I will answer at the best of my ability or will get the answer for you through a proper channel.


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Learn about how to submit a non-delegated mortgage insurance application via Encompass® with Essent. This practical, hands-on course is designed to introduce mortgage professionals to Essent Guaranty's Encompass® integration solution for ordering non-delegated mortgage insurance. You will learn about data submission and uploading documentation and receiving a commitment and more.


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General Ambrose's Aromatic Bitters - For with these bitters, the battle was won...
General Ambrose's Aromatic Bitters are our personal take on the original style of bitters, taking inspiration from the classics but developing our own secret recipe. Pungent and complex, these bitters are aged on a blend of woods, giving them a unique depth and roundness with strong notes of spice, dried fruits, cinnamon, vanilla, and tannins.
Spirits: These work well in place of any aromatic bitters and therefore any spirit, but they are especially good with bourbon or rye.
Ideas: Try them in an Old Fashioned or a Trinidad Sour, if you're feeling particularly bold.
Tasting Notes: Aroma notes of allspice, tree bark, dark spices, orange and a hint of juniper.
Taste follows with dried fruit, a woody bitterness, orange, vanilla, cinnamon and caramel.
Soft Night
1.75 oz (52.5 ml) rye whiskey (Alberta Premium Dark Horse preferred)
0.5 (15 ml) oz Luxardo Amaro Abano
0.25 oz (7.5 ml) cinnamon simple syrup
2 droppers Apothecary Bitters General Ambrose's Aromatic Bitters
Absinthe rinse
Twist of orange peel, for garnish
Add rye, Luxardo Amaro Abano, cinnamon simple syrup, and General Ambrose's aromatic bitters to a mixing glass with ice. Stir well.
Rinse a chilled old fashioned glass with Absinthe, dumping out the excess, and place a large ice cube into the glass.
Strain the mixing glass into the prepared old fashioned glass.
Flame the orange peel over the drink, rub the rim of the glass, then drop it in as a garnish.
* see recipes page for instructions on creating cinnamon simple syrup.
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Mosscape Concept will bring a
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About Mosscape Concept
Mosscape Concept is a one-of-a-kind pop-up store at Scotts Square that introduces "HortiTainment" – a combination of horticulture and entertainment. Expect a multi-sensorial experience that will delight every nature lover.
Mosscape (Professional)
Interior design enthusiasts in Singapore can look forward to the Mosscape showcase. Featuring an exclusive range of preserved plants curated by our green wall specialists, let us help you build the green wall of your dreams.
Take your pick of the exciting activities lined up, from terrarium and green wall and moss art workshops, to health and wellness talks by industry experts. We've even invited local farmers to share more about their work.
The Local Farm
We've teamed up with The Local Farm to bring you a farm-to-fork takeaway menu with locally-grown produce. Taste our fresh salads and Assam Fish Chowder Soup among other inventive, ready-to-eat delights.
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My little one is going to be 4 months tomorrow and he seems to be out growing size 2 already! So looks like we will be starting size 3 very soon! They grow so so fast!💜 his 4 month check up is tomorrow ☺
What size are your little ones ?
My little one is going to be 4 months tomorrow and he seems to be out growing size 2 already! So looks like we will be starting size 3 very soon! They grow so so fast!💜 his 4 month check up is tomorrow ☺
What size are your little ones ?
My LO (little one) is still wearing size 1 and is 4 1/2 months.
If we were still using pampers my daughter would be going into a 3 very soon. I was actually given BJs brand diapers for my shower, tried those (size 2) and actually liked them. They seem to run bigger then pampers so we can get away with the 2s for a while longer. At 3 1/2 months she was 24 1/2in, 13.15lb. We go to her 4mo checkup on the 30th!
5 months (13.5lb, 26in) and we're transitioning to size 2 this week because I don't want to buy more size 1s and we've got a few boxes of size 2s that were gifted to us. Just getting into 3-6mo clothes height wise, but still too skinny to wear pants other than 0-3mo.
Size 3 for us, he's 4.5 months and 16lbs. He kept leaking/exploding out of his size 2s when he was around 3.5 months so we moved him up a size
We are at exactly 16 weeks and he's been in size 3s for 2 months. At birth he was in size 1s 😂 and by 1 month he was in size 2. The first 2 months he packed on 6lbs. The joke is my milk is 100% fat because both my kids have been very chunky babies.
Baby is 4 and 1/2 months and is size 4
DD (dear daughter) is 4.5 months and can still wear 2's but we ran out and have 3's here so we've been using 3's which seem to fit her almost perfect. The 2's were almost a little bit too small.
About to open our 3rd box of size 3s, LO (little one) is a heavy wetter so we need the size for that more than his body size. He is probably about 13-14 lbs but he is tall, outgrowing 9m sleepers and onesies in the torso.
I think the brand of diapers you use is important as some run bigger or smaller than others. My LO (little one) is 4.5 months, 18lbs 4oz, just over 25 inches long, and fits comfortably in size 3 luvs diapers.
Sz2 for now. They are filling up quickly like they do just before we need to switch, but they fit her alright so I dunno. I need to buy a small pack of Sz3s to test and see if it's time to go up. Works out, because we have about a week's worth of 2s left so if I am going to have to move up to 3s, I for sure don't want to buy more 2s.


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Jacques Darras
RD: – Jacques Darras, you are one of the most authentic voices of contemporary French poetry. Academic, multiple-prize-winning writer, translator of Whitman and Pound, review founder and director, president of a Brussels festival, publisher, essayist, philologist, painter, multilingual performer, creator of unforgettable lyrical subversions, amazing traveller, dear Jacques Darras, you have had an astonishing life and career. At first glance, you seem like a Neoplatonist philosopher. When we read you, your appearance and your way of speaking change. The philosopher becomes a linguist gladiator, meditation becomes a spear, a trident, a bow and arrow, a curved or straight sword. Where does this need for hustle and bustle, this energy that upsets your « all around » come from?
JD: – The energy is given. My legacy comes from a couple, my parents, who were as physical as they were intellectual. They gave me a love for physical exercise, playing with the rhythm of a ball (basketball, at which I excelled) as well as playing with words, ideas, convictions. We were emerging from that great mutilation, the war, and were finding pleasure in the stretching and extension of limbs that had been confined by uniforms and imprisonment. The beach, sea and sand were the daily entertainments since I was born practically on the seashore. I acquired the maritime energy of the shore and the meaning of the cosmos. I held on to them. I hear the sounds of the waves behind and in front of me, everywhere I go. I feel the « surge. »
RD: – Compared to other introverted contemporary poets, with their hollow lyricism, minstrels of their souls, you write to gain independence. At an accelerated and sharpened rhythm on both sides. You think the best of freedom in poetry and you push it beyond its limits. Are you conscious of this?
JD: – It follows from what I just said about an acute sense of liberty. For me, it's the cardinal virtue of the republican trinity, far ahead of fraternity and equality, which have caused so much devastation in the 20th century. Not so much free, then as « free from…. » Freedom, above all, to disagree with those who claim to be returning to standards. Thus, in literature, the rejection of classicism as the French model, as well as the most shameless textualism. I can't stand models. Distance and casualness, I live on the margins of humour. But like Laurence Sterne I also mean that humour makes fun of humour.
RD: – How do you live your poetry, outside of its pores and metaphors?
JD: – I live « my » poetry as a task and as a rhythm. A « task » to be performed that would be a little like punctuation on my life (infinite parentheses and suspension points), poetry gave me the ridiculously illusory and eminently pleasant feeling of being immortal. As for rhythm, it is the work of punctuation itself, that is, support on the ground, the wake of the sentence, blocking and interruption of the line. For me the line is a fragment of (athletic) rhythmic breath to which my breath is submitted.
RD: – Since when has this vocation of language been poetically told? The poet who lives in you had, I believe, a childhood, an education and a maturation. Were there particular moments, touching memories, joys and pain that come back to him/you from time to time?
JD: – I have never quite left the childhood in which I already felt very adult. Very involved in the deadly game of life itself. The game promised to be long, to require training and patience. It did. These were separations of all kinds that caused me suffering. Each time I experienced death in miniature. Is a poem a concise, abbreviated suffering? Hence no doubt my very developed and very flexible feeling of connection. Because I feel we are all connected but most often incapable of overcoming our separations. In short I would like us to be more poetic than novelistic.
RD: – Why poet rather than novelist, when your poems are true events of the soul?
JD: – I have to say I was anticipating that question. For me the event is the poem. It connects and it separates, at the same time. It does not claim, like the novel, to bind back together beings and stories. In addition, it leaves the reader a wide range not only for imagination but above all for interpretation. The poem is a teacher of the time of life. Take, he said, (I'm parodying the mass) this is my body, my rhythm, my breath, my appearance. This being said, I have to acknowledge, however, that I've organized my poems in their different books, according to an architecture. Echoes, bridges, symmetries are revealed there that give to the whole the appearance of a construction. While composing my singular poems I was composing the « novel of my poem, » as I alluded to in Tout à coup je ne suis plus seul. Roman chanté compté [Suddenly I am no more alone. Novel sung counted] (Gallimard/L'Arbalète 2006)
RD: – To write do you use the senses of your emotions or the emotions of your senses?
JD: – For me the answer is simple: both, of course. Emotion is the encounter with a being, a place, a thing, a memory, the meaning of which makes a sign to me and a sign to itself, therefore it is a matter of explaining myself to myself. And vice versa. And I don't believe that we have never gone much farther than William Wordsworth's definition of poetry, « emotion recollected in tranquillity. » Not very romantic, in appearance, and yet all of romanticism is there! Although, for me, we are perhaps more provocateurs of meaning, experimenters without too much concern for tranquillity.
RD: – What is changing in you, poet Jacques Darras? What would you be without your pen?
JD: – It has become so inconceivable that I can barely imagine it. Immodestly, I could imagine myself in another life as a painter, a Flemish painter inspired by the colour, the fringes of the sea, the lunar festivals among the dunes, in the movements of Ensor, Spilliaert or Nolde. Another possible profession, theatre actor (I turned down a serious offer when I was 20) or basketball player for ten short years followed by retirement as a coach. I'd rather not think about it.
RD: – How, when, for whom do you write?
JD: – I write every morning for about four hours or more at my table (9 o'clock to 1 o'clock, on average), I walk in the afternoon (the fields, the big city, the sea), read (not very much) in the evening and watch travel documentaries, political debates, sports news or variety shows on TV in the evening.
RD: -What do you like in the current world of poetry?
JD: – You say the « world of poetry » and I would like to turn around your expression and say the « poetry of the world. » I'm fascinated by the different traditions in which I immerse myself. Thus, very recently, the Spanish-language poetry (Spain) as seemed to me in its singularity so different from French poetry both in its subjects and its forms. Likewise I find contemporary Chinese poetry (several of us are working on a substantial anthology of it) striking in what it says about the upheavals in Chinese society. Ditto for today's very rich British poetry in all its components after Larkin, Hughes and Bunting. In fact for me poetry is the best barometer of the political and social mores of a country.
RD: – Of all the passions you have, which one demands of you the most social involvement?
JD: – Strangely and without it ever being to my advantage, I cannot conceive of the practice of poetry without involving myself in the landscape itself to the extent of striving to organize it. It's madness! I would do better to refrain, but my other parental legacy induces me to involve myself with others. To which (and the rebel part of my own heritage includes them) I am absolutely not grateful, believing in I- don't-know-what ambition for power.
RD: – You associate poetry and painting. With talent. Your pictorial visions have something mystic, they contain a kind of antidote to the sensuality generated in the soul of the creator, while your poetic visions begin in the mystic and finish in politics, as Péguy could have suggest to you. Very few poets know how to paint or draw decently. Does your choice to paint have an original history and lineage?
JD: – A distant part of my father's family (a young Grand Prix de Rome winner, dead at 20 of cholera at the end of the nineteenth century) explains this tropism. My father drew and painted and very early awakened me to painting. And I spontaneously chose to love Flemish and Dutch painting. To excess. I am a great devourer of Museums and Art books. I began to paint very young (17 years old), then I put everything on hold. The recurrence surprised me twenty years ago on my contact with the light of the Channel, in Calais, on the seashore. A matter of luminous latitude and an apartment perched very high in the sky. I started again with gouache, which suited me well, the thickness of the oil and application in layers. I draw directly in the paint. The 18 gouaches of Irruption de la Manche brought a mute counterpoint to the parallelism of my waves of verses. For me silence is not in the typographical blanks, it is in the solar reserve of colours. Within reach of a more intense mimicry than language. I'll do it again. Without too much concern for professional aesthetic disapproval.
RD: – In 2004, you received the Prix Apollinaire and in 2006, the Prix de l'Académie française, for your body of work. It is a characteristic of the French to create more and more literary prizes and talk rarely about them on TV and radio. Fortunately you have important awards that boost the morale and reputation of an author. What happened afterwards? Better sales? A change of style? A change of publisher? More readers?
JD: – My spirit of independence combined with the typical size of my books has put me from the start in a difficult position for publishing. Poetry books are around 100 to 150 pages on average. My thinnest one runs to 250 pages. I haven't made the job easy for them. But that wasn't my objective, and I never compromised. I was happy to find the original collection L'Arbalète/Gallimard founded by André Velter in 2001 where I published three books that were distributed more widely than ever before! Thus becoming visible, I reaped awards. Which didn't appreciably increase my readership (between 500 and 700 readers) though perhaps it did my respectability. Which is certainly not the final goal of the poet, I agree, even though it enhances the esteem (and jealousy) of his peers. We should aim for something else!
RD: Apollinaire has always been considered a modern poet in search of the past. What connects you to that French author of Polish origin?
JD: – The Apollinaire of Zone, which relaunched poetry in the great city of Parisian through contact with posters and journals, at an unacknowledged distance from Walt Whitman, fascinates me. The critical intelligence of Mallarmé (that narrow-minded sophisticate) attacking Hugo finds itself suddenly overtaken, caught wrong-footed. I love it, in sports, that catching your opponent wrong-footed is the favourite weapon of major players. I also love the inventor of words such as « cubism » or « sur- realism » of improvised unfailing fortune. I love much less the libellous homophobe Walt Whitman with his gossip (cf. my Europe issue on the subject). But here I am, facing what fascinates me, the natural child of Europe that was that product of a cross between Italy and Poland, nurtured in the rural Rhineland like no other French poet before or after him, Hugo nor even Nerval. But then, what can we say about his obtuse patriotism in 14-18? Which would perish through the helmeted seat of stubbornness. A tangle of contradictions, Apollinaire, ultimately, who would redouble Aragon through song, that true lie. True to what extent?
RD: Just like Apollinaire, you love drawings, words games and journeys to the Land of Orpheus. You travel, for your lectures and recitals, to defend multiculturalism, in which sciences, arts and poetry form an ecosystem that care for and saves those who enter it. Please talk to us about your journeys and interdisciplinary projects.
JD: – The effects of jet lag caught up with me and made me fear for my life very recently. I'm gradually getting used to Europe again, on short flights of less than two hours, Berlin, Dublin, Seville. I, who swelled myself to the circumference of the earthly sphere, I had to release a few grams of air, relaxed Bibendum. Moreover it's Europe that worries me deeply with its scars and economic stitches in fragile white thread, like a weakened Frankenstein monster although always haunted by its destructive nocturnal escapades. Work relentlessly at the boundaries of Europe, stirring them with remembering, grafting them to the memory of the young generations, treating them with soft prophylactic poetic medicines is unceasing work. We are the laboratory of humanity's future, I'm sure of it, but we don't really know how to go about it. Our protocols are poorly written. The poets should be the constitutionalists. So what are they doing? Where are they? They are ineffective through indifference to close reality.
RD: – Maxim Gorky declared that: « Writers build castles in the sky, readers live in them, and publishers collect the rent. » Do you agree?
JD: – Certainly, but just when publishing is entering a new perilous phase, we lack the criteria for the new type of publishing. The Internet has freed energies and perhaps even boosted them, but at the risk of bringing in an almost inevitable period of transition and confusion. You'd have to be pretty shrewd to be able to predict the outcome. As for the old publishing (books) it has abandoned the principles of applied critical reading to such an extent that the general skill level has been drastically reduced. Unspeakable things are occurring in terms of regression in the last decade. So it is best to hold on, in the middle of this debacle. Combining rigour with listening, strictness with humanity seems to me to be the only course of action possible. (To be continued, as they used to say in the serials).
RD: – There are many anecdotes circulating about the « theatre of the book and of literature. » Céline accused the publishers of his time of being « vultures. » And you, Jacques Darras, would you have any criticisms to make about today's publishing world?
JD: – I think just now I gave two answers in one. You have to have acquired a healthy dose of independence and resilience as I have done over the decades to show a minimum of equanimity toward publishers in general, and publishers of poetry in particular. It is especially important when you have been educated through literary experience, that the possibility of travel and the circulation of texts be preserved. The poem has until now always travelled quickly and briskly through space, for a long time and in a roundabout way over time. I don't see what could change there.
Translator: HOWARD SCOTT, MONTREAL, Canada
REPORTER: Rodica Draghincescu (France)


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In the past half a decade, the hashtag has become a world-known symbol for social media themes, trends or even random word strings of relevant words. The use of hashtags has become extremely appealing to a huge number of social media users, particularly on sites such as Twitter (which first used the symbol as a cyber-appendage) and Facebook, the most widely used social media site.
Hashtags initially allowed Twitter users bound by the 140 character limit to summarize a tweet into a theme which other users had access to by using the same hashtag. This quickly became a revolutionary way to make information travel all over the net instantaneously, create movements and build trends that have emerged as an entire part of modern youth culture as we know it.
The Origins Of Hashtags
Hashtags were initially used to categorize images, messages, videos and other content into groups back in the day of the Internet Relay Chat (1998). Hashtags facilitated IRC users' search for media and other relevant associated content.
The same principle was applied by Chris Messina on twitter, and its first notorious use was in 2007 when people were updated in real time on the Sandiego Fires, using the hashtag #sandiegofire which over 300,000 used to gain information. The hashtag concept was put into code in 2009 when the words following the #' sign were hyperlinked and ranked as trending topics'.
Using Hashtags To Gain Exposure Or Popularity
Hashtags are incredibly successful at increasing the popularity of a brand. They provide the opportunity for quick catch phrases, which people may both easily remember, share themselves by using the hashtag, and click on to be updated on what's happening around this particular topic.
For this reason, individuals seeking to self-promote, gain followers or likes, have been using hashtags as a means of branding themselves.
1. The Catchphrase
Using a catchphrase that remains specific to you is a quick and easy way to brand yourself while forming your own e-platform. Through an expression or slogan, you will ensure that those that further use of the hashtag widen you reach of prospective followers. This means that, in making a popular catchphrase and repeatedly using it, you can promote and expose yourself to anyone that will have grown to use the hashtag.
In order to make a catchphrase an efficient hashtag, it needs to be short, preferably one or two words, and most importantly, memorable. It's an easy means of self-sustaining publicity if used correctly.
2. The Tagging
On sites such as Tumblr and Instagram, which mostly focus on media, users have been known to frequently run through hashtags to find posts that match their interest. This gives them quick access to your page, which then gives them an insight on whether you would be an interesting follow or like. Using hashtags to self-promote on these sites will require you to establish the themes of a post, or of what you generally represent or sell, and tag them in a manner that mirrors your target audience's interests. For instance, should you be a fitness model or sell fitness clothing and other material, tagging your posts with the popular hashtag fitspo' (short for fitness-inspiration) will allow the thousands of people that regularly go through this tag either looking for inspiration or exciting products, to have an access they otherwise would not have had to your post.
3. The Follow Trains
This may be the easiest method to gain followers or likes, as all you will be required to do is to go through the hashtags follow train' or follow for follow' on whatever platform you are using, and see a list of users using this hashtag, hence willing to trade a follow or like for one. All you need to do is to follow those users for them to follow you back. You can also make your own follow train, sometimes with competitions, rewards and prizes, and trade something in exchange for people following you. For instance, a variety of aspiring make-up artists find that a simple way to gain followers is by making a train, using a hashtag that captures its concept, in which they may promise to enter new followers into competitions to win new beauty products they have already tried out.
Hashtagging is a popular way to gain recognition or exposure. Using a mixture of the tips above should guarantee you a steady increase in likes or follows, depending on the platform you are using. When using a popular hashtag, ensure you read up on what has been posted under it before. When making your own, keep it short, memorable and unique.


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According to Norene, heavy metal testing should be your friend's first port of call. "This woman and her father may have had similar environmental exposures and their metabolisms may be affected similarly when the body attempts elimination," she explains. Indeed, Sally - who suffered from the same problem from years - was told that sweaty hands and feet was a classic symptom of mercury toxicity. Once she had her amalgam fillings removed the problem disappeared.
Anna, however, reckons the condition is a sign of some kind of adrenal problem. "Avoid cold food and drink," she advises, "as they knock down your adrenal glands."
The herb sage may also be helpful in treating the problem.
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Poroshenko says Ukraine united EU around idea of peacekeeping mission in Donbas
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko stressed that the Ukrainian delegation managed to resolve an important political issue during the Fifth Eastern Partnership Summit of uniting the positions of the EU countries around the possible introduction of a peacekeeping mission in Donbas.
"We managed to solve an important issue for Ukraine - to unite the EU around a peacekeeping mission in the Donbas. We managed to include this position in the final resolution of the Summit," Petro Poroshenko said, according to the president's press service.
"We actively promote this position in the UN General Assembly and today we managed to include this position in the final resolution of the Summit," the President said.
Answering the question about the wording on "Russia as an aggressor state", the president stressed: "We have the declaration of the European People's Party, where it was recorded. If you read the declaration of the EPP, it clearly states the place and role of Russia". He added that "in the framework of the Eastern Partnership there are several countries with a different pace of European integration".
Read alsoPoroshenko in Brussels: Ukraine seeking "Four Unions" with EUPoroshenko also called one of the main achievements of the Fifth Eastern Partnership Summit the inclusion in its Final Declaration of the provisions on Ukraine's European prospects.
Commenting on the general results of the summit, the President said: "Did we manage to realize everything we wanted? The answer is No. And our position was that Europe should be tougher, Europe should be more united, Europe should be more resolute. And that's all we tried to achieve in the negotiations".
Read alsoFinal Declaration of Fifth EaP Summit releasedThe Head of State also stressed that "today it was clearly demonstrated that Ukraine is an independent player considered by European leaders". According to the president, he had meetings with 15 leaders of European countries over the last two days.


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… and I've just stepped out of it! A young woman who's a regular busker in the mall – had a 'disagreement' with her male companion. It turned VERY ugly, very quickly, and when a fella in a suit tried to intervene – things got much hotter, and on request from the young lass, the gentleman walked away.
I was watching carefully from the sidelines initially – caught up in it – grateful that this bloke intervened first, because that took some of the heat out of the situation. I had been approaching the noise in front of me as I walked up the mall. I was barely registering it – and suddenly – it's there and I almost trip over the situation! He's angry – REAL angry – he's loud, violent, verbal, and going off! She's crying, frightened, not able to defend herself, and if he swings – he'd really hurt her.
I was watching, and it became clear in an instant that this wasn't an unusual situation between these two – or for the young lady at least (and that scared me even more). I did a lap of the gawkers (of which I guess – I was one) to keep moving, kept an eye on the young fella and looked for an opening. I was beaten to it (and I have to say thankfully for purely selfish reasons) as the man in the suit got in first. He tried, but it was far too ugly, and clearly this was what the young bloke wanted – perhaps even needed – because their was latent anger there, and he was ready to blow! It didn't – but the distraction meant I could get closer – and had time to call the police. I then saw others were moving on that front before me, so put the phone down and simply interjected myself in on the situation.
I may as well have been invisible. So too, could have been another bloke who stepped into help the girl, but between his stepping in and mine – the immediate anger had started to bleed off from the moment, if only for a couple of seconds. It didn't take long to come back though, and both myself and the other fella stayed close to the young lass, simply providing a presence and a reassuring voice. It was noisy and scary I guess, but it wasn't physical yet, so we stayed in there as best we could.
I can tell you quite honestly that I hate this type of situation. It's angry it's personal, it's bloody ugly to the 'n'th degree, and it's frightening as all buggery! The 'couple' went different ways then, and the other fella tried to get the girl to leave the scene. He even offered to put her in a taxi, and pay for her to get home safe. A bloody nice and generous gesture. She was too upset to react well to this and turned him down. So he left too – feeling I guess like he'd done all he could. I stayed – because it wasn't over yet – and frankly I was scared shitless for the girl (I was scared shitless for myself – but you never realise these things until AFTER the event!). I'm not going to go into the reasons, but there were factors associated with the 'why' she couldn't get away from this bloke herself, and the reason she was in the mall in the first place. It just wasn't as simple as being able to walk away, and come back another day.
He came back – and it started again. Mostly loud, physical in that he grabbed her and held her roughly, but it never went past this – I simply stood there, close enough to step in between them if I had too. It now involved money, and as this was bandied about, it of course got hotter. I was worried that if it didn't come undone before too long, or the cops didn't bloody arrive, I was going to have to put this young fella on the ground – he was that frightening! I managed to convince them to step away form each other, and she walked away. I checked on the young bloke – but he wasn't following. I raced after the lass – but she was off, and she retreated to a lift – heading for an upstairs public toilet – and dissappeared behind stainless steel doors. Gone – and it was over.
I went back out to the young bloke to check on him. I'm a youth worker, so I can't afford to take sides, I don't have the luxury (nor the disposition) to judge people or a shitty situation, simply by what's initially presented to me. I had to see if he was still angry, and to see if he'd managed to calm himself enough, not to hurt others around him. He had – and we spoke some – I kept calm, spoke softly and made myself the smallest target I possible could – standing over six foot tall on that street. His 'angst' lay in not having anywhere to stay that night now (and I know your thinking your not surprised), and he was frustrated, because he tried to do a good thing for this lass – bought her a meal – but she couldn't eat it. She was allergic to the tucker he brought her, but he didn't know or didn't think about this. she reacted, he reacted – BOOM – it of course just turned to shit from there!
He wasn't listening to her – she tried to explain – but he was simply caught up on the rejection of the moment – I did something GOOD for you and you kick me in the teeth! I have seen this type of behaviour so many times – I've lost count. It leads to anger, and it gets people hurt. Bloody domestic violence – at home or in the streets – is some of the ugliest, UGLIEST human behaviour I have ever had to witness. I struggle with it, and I will NEVER condone it! It's explosive at times, or it lies in wait and ambushes it's victim in those quiet moments. I can't understand it – will probably never understand it – but I don't fool myself into believing it could never be me. I'm not a saint – and under pressure – all sorts of threads come undone. There but for the grace of someone's God – go I!
There would have had to been fifty people around this scenario as it unfolded, and people simply couldn't get involved. Understand I'm not judging people on this. I understand – I was one of these people initially – until I got caught up in it. Situations like this are not something that comes into the world of normal people experiencing happy and healthy lives – certainly not of this type of ugly (and this hasn't bee the ugliest I've seen) – and people are often caught in that shitty situation where they don't know how they can intervene. What do you do?
I'd like to have an easy answer for you, but as I sit here calming down myself (my body has finally stopped shaking), I know that every single one of these types of situations are different, and each bring with them they're own set of risk and circumstances. I'm not a copper (police) – so I felt bloody naked in this scenario, all i had working for me was my brain, my gob and my body language. I've done this a few times over now – and it scares the absolute bejesus out of me every single time. I hate it! I hate violence – I abhor it! I don't know if I would have dropped this bloke if need be – or even if I could and I'm so very, VERY glad, I didn't have to find out.
And do you know what the really sad part of this was for me? If the situation hadn't of been what it was – a pretty young lass who couldn't walk away from the situation mostly due to factors beyond her control, an angry young man – if this had been an Aboriginal couple – drunk and barnying (fighting and arguing) in the street on a bench seat – people would have been immune to the scene, and simply walked on by. You might think I'm pushing it there – but it's true. I've seen this behaviour more times then I could ever possibly count, and – I"m guilty of it too (for slightly different reasons).
And thanks to you lot – it's now mulled over, and I can go home with it settled in my head!
I'll worry for the lass though…
Belongum – Out!


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Verdict: A tribute to the talented engineers.
Sequel to the much-acclaimed movie Velaiilla Pattadhari, popularly known as VIP, released last week. The Hindi version of the movie released a week later and has all the quirks and entertainment that you expect it to have.
The film opens with Raghuvaran (Dhanush), a civil engineer, getting an award for Best Engineer. It was the only award in the function that was not won by Vasundhara Constructions, the number one construction company of India led by the high-headed Vasundhara (Kajol). Impressed by Raghu, Vasundhara offers him a job in his company but he declines the offer. This irks the proud businesswoman and she decides to take him down.
Dhanush is known for the challenging roles that he has portrayed in his films so far. In this movie, however, he plays a civil engineer and the guy-next-door, who is married and fears his wife. He is extraordinary at his work and keeps it cool, always. Dhanush has pulled off the character with ease and didn't leave any scope for criticism. Kajol, on the other hand, plays an arrogant and self-made businesswoman who believes her status makes her better than other people. She has done a great job with this one, looking gorgeous in her part, which kind of reminds us of Dilwale.
The film keeps its entertainment quotient high as Dhanush's character carries abundant swag throughout the movie. There are a number of songs and action sequences too. Raghu faces a lot of ups and downs in his life and that keeps you hooked in an otherwise dragged storytelling. The movie is kept open-ended, which assured us of another sequel.
There's a significant difference in the way South Indian and Bollywood movies are treated by filmmakers. Dubbed movies tend to slightly tone down the flow of the story, affecting the overall movie experience. Kajol's dubbing is on-point but her voice-over changes every now and then, which can be quite distracting. But the translators have done a great job with the meaningful lyrics and dialogues of the original movie.
At the end, you feel that the movie could have been shorter, especially because the ending is vague. The conclusion turns sweeter than you can imagine it to be while watching. Dhanush and Kajol, nonetheless, save the show with their charm and talent.
Why You Should Watch This Movie:
This is a movie for the fans of Dhanush. If you are one of them, do not miss this one, as he is nothing but charming throughout the movie. Kajol fans, please buy tickets. The movie is a tribute to engineers and reflects on their potential as a human being. The movie is a must-watch if you are looking for a feel-good wholesome entertainer.
If you need more reasons to watch VIP 2 (Lalkar), check out this video.Note: The film is a sequel and continues the story of the first part. It is recommended that you see the prequel or have an idea of the plot before you watch this one, so you get the references from the first movie.


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I Hate Jill Zarin Tuesday News Nov 23, 2010
Last night Bethenny Frankel of The Real Housewives of New
York and Bethenny Getting Married? Made her ice skating debut on ABC's new show Skating With The Stars. With just six nervous
contestants the show will just run for 6-weeks, possibly a test run for ABC to see if it is well received and if the show does well maybe a longer season with more contestants for a season two.
I enjoyed the skating and even all of the typically annoying
introductions and back stories were short and sweet enough not to annoy me all that much. They were 30-minutes into the show before the first contestant took to the ice but I barely noticed because they did a good job of moving things along.
The three judges are Johnny Weir, Dick Button and Laurie Ann
Gibson. I admit I have never heard of Ms. Gibson and as it turns out she is not involved in the skating world but is actually a dancer and worked as Director of Choreography for Motown. I think she landed on the wrong soundstage, she should have been down the hall over on Dancing With The Stars.
Bethenny skated last and was visibly nervous, she did as well as could be expected, I thought she did just as well if not better than
some of her competitors yet her scores were horribly low in comparison. It was almost as if some horrible, vile woman
from Bethenny's past had whispered in one of the judge's ear causing him to be much more harsh with his scores for Bethenny than he would otherwise have been.
Laurie Gibson had very little to say to Bethenny while she had to be cut off as she rambled on gushing over the other skaters. Weir only commented on Bethenny's weight, which everyone seems to fixate on these days. Even now, 6-months after giving birth apparently they expected Bethenny to have a bulging gut.
When the scores were revealed you could see Bethenny was
clearly disappointed, she had done very well, no mistakes and did some fairly advanced moves. While she was a bit shaky at times and was clearly nervous, she did substantially better than some of her co-stars yet received the second lowest score of the night just a few points ahead of Motley Crue's Vince Neil who was shaky and awkward.
Even the host of the show remarked that Bethenny's scores should have been higher for her performance, she was complimented for taking risks and her confidence but I noticed that Johnny Weir got a bit personal with his comments, rather than sticking to the performance, he seemed to lecture Bethenny about putting her skating first above all else in her life. It is almost as if he knows that she continues to be a hands on mom, is still running her business and filming a new season of her show while she's participating on Skating With The Stars and Weir feels she isn't focused completely on ice skating. Is Weir annoyed that his life's work isn't being taken seriously enough? Is he annoyed that Bethenny continues to film her show while performing on Skating
With The Stars or that she puts her family above all else? Maybe Jill mentioned to little Johnny that she would have been better suited for the show since she has nothing else to do anyway and it just isn't fair that Bethenny gets all of these great opportunities?
As soon as Bethenny's scores were revealed the internet went
mad with fury over Bethenny's obvious snub by the judges, the phone number to vote for Bethenny was posted and called by many of her fans in an attempt to right this wrong. Is it really possible
that Jill Zarin, even now, has this horrible power over people. Can she still affect Bethenny's life? It seems almost impossible yet we know that Jill has a relationship with Weir, they hosted a charity event together and his coach yelled at Jill to get off the ice as the professional athletes were practicing and she decided she would get all dressed up like an aging princess and skate for Bravo's cameras.
You can watch Bethenny's performance along with all of the others here:
Would this professional athlete really lower his scores because Jill Zarin told him to? We know that Jill is not above giving it a try, I would not put it past her to have called him and ask him to be particularly hard on her former best friend. Jill goes right for the jugular when she wants to destroy someone, we've seen it plenty of times before, but what about Johnny Weir? Would he risk his reputation to be so obviously biased against one of the skaters?
I thought for a moment that maybe I was being biased and that Bethenny possibly deserved those lower scores but it wasn't just me and a few die-hard Bethenny fans, there were hundreds of people who felt the same way and were Tweeting and Facebooking madly with their outrage.
What about the other judges? Laurie was unsuccessful at hiding her disdain for Bethenny, while she literally gushed about every other celebrity, she was harsh when it came to her critique of Bethenny, Weir, as I said, spoke more about Bethenny's figure than
her figure skating and Dick Button, well, maybe he is just not a reality show fan. Do the judges discuss their scores before revealing them? It certainly did not appear to be the case with the first skater. A young man named Brandon Mychal Smith skated
and while Johnny Weir and Dick Button gave him respectable first-time scores, Laurie seemed to go out of her way to score him quite a bit higher than what he earned. Even Laurie seemed to realize
the tension in the room as the scores were revealed to be so off the
Bethenny's scores were not revealed immediately after she skated, there was a commercial break in between possibly giving the judges an opportunity to compare and adjust her scores? A conspiracy theory could be completely off base but it seemed so blatant and even cruel that while she did as good a job as some of the others, her scores were so much lower.
Watching Bethenny receive her scores, she barely flinched as
Laurie and Johnny posted their scores but she reacted with shock as Dick Button posted the same. It was almost as if she expected nothing more from the first two judges but possibly felt that Button
would be fair and impartial.
Bethenny's tweets:
@Bethenny: Lacing up. I love u guys. I really do. See u
on the other side!
@Bethenny: OMG that was so terrifying.I'm so glad we had
fun and got through it. Again: what was I thinking?am I nuts?
@Bethenny: Thank god I wore a wig bc I have a full head
of gray hair now.
@Bethenny: U cannot even understand how much makeup they
put on me.I'm thinking about walking the boulevard for some extra cash.
#A Fan said: @Bethenny u wore a wig? You have to be
@Bethenny: How awesome is that? no spray in my hair!!! taking
nail polish off now. yuck!
I have to give a quick thank you to Bravo for re-running The Real Housewives of New York Scary Island episodes this morning, it never gets old. Each time I watch Kelly freak out and break down I notice something new that I've missed. Today I actually cracked up all over again watching Ramona's face as she made eyes with Alex as Kelly was freaking out, priceless!
Today is Sonja Morgan's birthday, the Real Housewives of New York star who recently filed for bankruptcy seems to be coping fairly well, here are some of her recent tweets:
@SonjaTMorgan: I am so grateful to all who r helping me with
my new career, website, product. Everyone has been supportive. Family, frds, and co workers.
@SonjaTMorgan: Thanks peeps! I am starting to make a plan
for my bday today! Yest shot my new website. Working hard
Ramona's recent tweets:
@RamonaSinger: @Bethenny getting ready to watch your debut
skating with the stars pinot grigio in hand!!xo good luck
@RamonaSinger: Oops forgot to mention we were showing off
our biceps at the GLAAD event http://twitpic.com/390xql
@RamonaSinger: At Lavo dancing my butt off!!!
@RamonaSinger: Omg I can not ever remember getting home this late at 3 am
@RamonaSinger: Ever regret staying out to late even though
you had a great time? Well I am!!!
And over the bridge in New Jersey, here's what some of the ladies are saying:
@Melissa_Gorga: @Twilighttwitti Hi Honey, I'm doing good,
crazy busy, theres " a lot " going on.. Hope your well! Everythings
going perfectly ;.)
@Melissa_Gorga: Hi, whats going on everyone?? Life has been
so crazy, but I spent the day today with my cutie little boys!
@Melissa_Gorga: So excited for Antonia she just booked a
modeling job for Neiman Marcus!!!!!
@JacLaurita: "sometimes turning the page isn't enough, sometimes you simply need to just close the book" …or slam it
& burn it… Whatever works 4 u..
(side note, the above tweet by Jacqueline was re-tweeted over 100 times on Twitter)
@JacLaurita: Did my NOH8 pictures w/Ashley.I feel good
about it.:0)I had a great time. I met some great people.Met up w/a few Jerseylicious peeps there 2
@JacLaurita: Hanging w/family,watching Nicholas dance2
YouTube videos.Specifically " Party in my Tummy"Yo Gabba
Gabba!CJ,Albie&Chris playing video games.
@JacLaurita: Pizza's here!!!! Yay! We are at Albie & Christophers place. :0)
@Teresa_Giudice: Happy Monday! Gia had a dance clinic all
weekend w/ the instructors from "So You Think You Can Dance." She LOVED it! How was your weekend?xx (Lynn: a little competition with the Gorga children?)
@Teresa_Giudice: I'm exhausted! I cooked Thanksgiving dinner
for 21 people yesterday! Here's a pic of our table: http://twitpic.com/3992yh
@Teresa_Giudice: Lots more pics over at ww.teresagiudice.com
along with food photos & news about an iPad giveaway JUST for MY FABULOUS FANS! Xx
@Teresa_Giudice: Hi Tweet♥s… up late catching up on emails, Facebook and Twitter… reading about you guys… glad you're all loving Season 2 in the UK…
@Teresa_Giudice: I guess it's snowing in Seattle… Hi Seattle! Hi Portland & Minnesota & Utah & Lake Tahoe… xx
And off to the other coast, LaLa land and the Beverly Hills Housewives:
Dedrawhitt is Camille Grammer's friend that she calls DeeDee
on the show she has since joined Camille in closing her Twitter account:
@dedrawhitt @MickeyMouth1 something happened in Vegas off camera that I can't disclose.This whole thing got blown way out of proportion.
@dedrawhitt: @KyleRichards18 and i said no that the fight was pertaining to something that happened in Vegas off camera.
@dedrawhitt: @KyleRichards18 stop creating drama!!
Thank you to MickeyMouth1 for sharing these with us!
@TaylorATweets: What is your favorite vegetable side dish to
make for Thanksgiving? I need inspiration for Thursday and want to try a few new additions to our menu.
@TaylorATweets: If you have a recipe you would like to share,
please email it to email@example.com.
@TaylorATweets: Kennedy and I are going to prepare 3 of the
recipes you submit. We will have video and photos to share on Thanksgiving Day, fun!!
And down south in Atlanta:
@NeNeLeakes: Good morning tweetie pies! I had so much
chatting with u all last nite about the show! Go read my blog on bravotv.com
Kim Zolciak announced officially yesterday that she is pregnant by her Atlanta Falcon football player boyfriend Kroy Biermann, it was
obvious to anyone who watched her on WWHL with Andy Cohen but she had apparently given exclusive rights to the announcement to Life & Style Magazine and wasn't able to confirm it until the magazine made the announcement. Here's a bit more to the story: http://www.showbizspy.com/article/219153/kim-zolciak-boyfriend-kroy-biermann-expecting-their-first-child-together.html
@dinamanzo: to: @Kimzolciak awww Congrats Kim. So happy for you! xo
@KimZolciak: Thanks Dina!!! Xxxooo
@KimZolciak: High in the sky!! I have had a reese's peanut butter cup! My favorite!!! A bag of apples and cheddar sun chips!! Oh my!
@KimZolciak: I'm serious Delta needs massage therapist on
board!! 😉
@Kandi: Shooting a video for a "Haven't Loved Right" off of my album KandiKoated 12-14-10! http://plixi.com/p/58606815
@Kandi: Tomorrow I'm shooting the video for "How Could u…Feel My Pain" Did yall go to KandiOnline.com to hear a sneak
peek of that song yet?
@Kandi: KANDI KOATED in stores 12.14.10! Thank U for all your support!!
I really like Kandi, but her self promotion is really getting old, there needs to be a balance in the tweeting, I don't think that any fan of Kandi's doesn't already know that her new CD is dropping in December. Enough already.
Apparently Sheree was in New York City with Kim Zolciak over
the weekend…
@IamSheree: Just lost @Kimzolciak at Bergdorf! We r gonna
go grab a bite! Have a safe flight back to Atl babe!
@an Atlanta fan: to @IamSheree I have to ask, but do you live
in a fantasy world? I watch the show and still haven't figured out what it is you do, or Kim.
@IamSheree: Uuummm ok…AND ur point is??? I Luv my life
hun, my fantasy, ur fantasy who's ever fantasy…I'm enjoying it! And who r u?
Tonight is a new episode of The Fashion Show, I am loving the previews that show Iman making a comment that her 9-year old could do better creating an outfit, then the brilliant editing shows her following that comment with, "why are you crying?" Hysterical!
Also tonight is a new episode of the horrible, disgusting, vile Patti Stanger on Millionaire Matchmaker, luckily I don't have to watch it,
I can just read the recap by our very own QuincyIL who will be writing a guest blog for both shows. Thank you Quincy for falling on the grenade for us all. I can't wait to see Stanger's latest score, I believe we're at zero for 10 attempts at matching her
paid cast clients. I'm anticipating a shut out on the season.
Late Addition: Thank you to @Twilighttwitti for sending me this article, this is an inteview with Johnny Weir and here is the Q&A of revelance:
Q: Do you watch Rachel Zoe's show? Do you watch the Real Housewives? Which is your favorite — Atlanta, New Jersey, New York or Orange County?
Johnny Weir: A: I love the Housewives! Rachel Zoe is also very funny, but I get jealous of the clothes so I don't always watch, but I rarely miss Housewives. I loved all of them except the Orange County ladies. My favorite is probably Nene from the Atlanta group or Jill Zarin from NYC.
And another article, Johnny Weir is quoted:
With NYC neighbor Bethenny Frankel already tweeting about her practice sessions, we wanted to know if he's a fan. "I don't watch the (Real) Housewives of New York," he confessed. But, "I'm a good friend of Jill Zarin. I always say that when someone asks me about Bethenny, but no, I'm open to all. I don't show favorites in any way."
A little contradictory…oops!
Until Next Time….


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SAN DIEGO, August 14, 2015 – It's been a good year for Polish boxers. In April, light heavyweight Andrzej Fonfara got the win of his career with a dominating victory by knockout over Julio Caesar Chavez Jr.
Friday night, cruiserweight Krzystof Glowacki (25-0-0, 16 KOs) joined the party. Making his American debut in Newark on Premier Boxing on Spike, Glowacki wasn't expected to seriously challenge German cruiserweight champion Marco Huck (38-2-1, 26 KOs) despite his undefeated record. Huck was seeking his record breaking 14th successful title defense.
In Round 6, it seemed a done deal as Huck put Glowacki onto his back for the first time in his professional career. There was plenty of the round left for Huck to close out the show. But he couldn't do it. Glowacki's will was as strong as his chin, and it made for a thrilling round as the pair both ended up throwing in a bid to survive. Put the sixth on your short list for Round of the Year.
Glowacki came out for the seventh looking surprisingly strong, still throwing his powerful left hook and never giving up. Huck had the momentum in what was a close fight to this point on the cards.
To the crowd's delight, the pair continued to throw power punches. Huck hit Glowacki hard twice in the eighth round, but the Polish fighter stood in and took punches that would have dropped a rhino.
By the 11th round, Glowacki was behind on the cards. He had six minutes to score a knockout to win, remain undefeated, and prevent Huck from reaching his record breaking win. Piece of cake.
Two minutes into the 11th round, Glowacki landed a powerhouse overhand left, sealed with a follow-up right that put Huck down for the first time in his career. Huck got to his feet with difficulty, but told referee Dave Fields he could continue. Glowacki let loose with everything he had left, and Fields ended the fight with 21 seconds left in the round.
In one fell swoop, Glowacki ended Huck's streak, took his WBO cruiserweight title, and made a lot of new American fans in a tremendous come from behind victory. By the end of 2015, it's hard to imagine any other bout beating this one for Comeback Fight of the Year or Knockout of the Year. It's among the contenders for Fight of the Year, although I still give it to David Lemieux versus Hassan N'Dam.
After the fight, Glowacki admitted he couldn't hear hear the referee administering the count and didn't get his hearing back the rest of the sixth round because he'd taken so hard a punch.
"When I was knocked down in the sixth round I didn't know where I was and it took me a whole round to regain myself," Glowacki said. "I still cannot hear well. I was listening to my corner though and when I heard that there was only one minute left in the eleventh round I knew I had to come on strong.
"I've always had a thing against bullies and Huck was trying to bully me in there. So I brought it to him. I want to thank all my fans in Poland and from around the world for supporting me. We kept "believing" and that's how we won this world title. This is the biggest night of my life."
Both Glowacki and Huck, who made no comments after the fight, were taken to Rutgers University Hospital for observation as a precaution.
If Premier Boxing can deliver more fights like this, it will rebuild a real audience for boxing. When word goes out about this fight, which many casual fans probably missed, they'll have to pay more attention to PBC bouts lest they miss another this good.
Any chance we could put Fonfara and Glowacki on the same card in a Polish-American town like Chicago? Styles make fights and so do the venues. Make it so.
Huck and Glowacki nearly made up for the borefest that was Antonio Tarver (31-6-1, 22 KOs) vs. Steve Cunningham (28-6-1, 13 KOs) in the main event. The pair was so underwhelming and sluggish, the crowd didn't even have the energy to boo them. Justice was served when the judges scored the fight a split draw. It was a must win situation for both and neither could do it. The 46-year-old Tarver needs to hang it up and work harder in his role as a commentator for Premier Boxing, where he shows plenty of promise. The 39-year-old Cunningham has now put up two lackluster fights in a row; he should think seriously about his future as well.
Gayle Lynn Falkenthal, APR, is President/Owner of the Falcon Valley Group in San Diego, California. She is also a serious boxing fan covering the Sweet Science for Communities. Read more Ringside Seat in Communities Digital News. Follow Gayle on Facebook and on Twitter @PRProSanDiego. Gayle can be reached via Google +
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With just two full days left before Tuesday's election day, moments ago WikiLeaks unveiled it latest, Part 32 dump, of Podesta emails, which released another 2,073 emails, bringing the total to 52,481.
RELEASE: The Podesta Emails Part 32 #PodestaEmails #PodestaEmails32 #HillaryClinton #imWithHer https://t.co/wzxeh70oUm pic.twitter.com/qbIGKqo6Z3— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) November 6, 2016
Saturday's release provided more incriminating evidence of illegal activity at the Clinton Foundation, which according to an internal 2008 audit, "must act immediately to bring the Foundation into compliance with the law and standards that govern not-for-profits", it also showed that Hillary's campaign was paying for Bill Clinton's legal fees, a transaction of questionable legality, as well as exposing a Bill Clinton speech in which he hinted that the system "is rigged" and that Hillary "deserves the White House.
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In today's release, several emails stand out: one is a July 25, 2015 email from John Podesta to Neera Tanden, in which we get the continuation of the infamous "drawn and quartered thread." Recall that on October 27, we showed an email in which Tander blasted Hillary's decision to have a private server as follows:
Do we actually know who told Hillary she could use a private email? And has that person been drawn and quartered?
Today we get Podesta's response, in which he says that as a result of the server revelations "At least we now know why Cheryl didn't want her to run."
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More troubling, and a further indication of Clinton Foundation impropriety, is a January 4, 2012 email from Teneo's Doug Band, who has been extensively profiled on these pages, in which he accuses Chelsea Clinton of of "using foundation resources for her wedding and life for a decade."
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CNBC's John Harwood returns on the "objective journalist" scene, with a September 31, 2015 question to John Podesta, asking what he should ask Jeb Bush in an interview due the next day.
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This is rich...below is an email from John Podesta back in August 2015 complaining about "oversamples" in a New Hampshire poll.


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The Nation: Simon Shepherd Interviews Paula Bennett
On Newshub Nation: Simon Shepherd Interviews Paula Bennett
National's Deputy Leader Paula Bennett spent the week claiming a serious cover-up in the Prime Minister's office. She used parliamentary privilege to name three of the Prime Minister's closest advisors who, she says, knew about the sexual assault allegations against a Labour staffer. Is this about justice for complainants, transparency in the public service or scoring political points?
Simon Shepherd asked Paula Bennett if she is outright accusing the Prime Minister and Senior Minister Grant Robertson of lying about this.
Paula Bennett: Well, they're either being misleading or they have been misled. It seems to me that pretty much everybody has known for a lot of weeks that we've got sexual assault claims within the Labour Party, except the Prime Minister is what she's trying to say. Certainly, the victims have told me that they have spoken to senior staff in her office. Certainly, one of them have said that they've spoken with Grant Robertson. To be fair, none of them have said that they have spoken directly with Jacinda Ardern. So, in that context, I can only go by what I know.
Simon Shepherd: So, you can't actually say that they're lying, though, can you? You don't have evidence that the Prime Minister or Grant Robertson are lying?
Well, Grant Robertson is not saying what he knows, and I think in that context that kind of speaks volumes, really. I mean, the thing I'd say to you, Simon, it's not me that should be sitting here this morning; It's, quite frankly, someone from the Labour Party fronting up and actually saying what really has been going on.
OK. So, we have asked the Labour party, and they've said, no, they don't want to come on. But Robertson's just saying, 'Look, let's trust the process. Let's trust the QC rather than just giving details and adding to the fire.'
Well, that's incredibly appalling in its own way. So, a QC was called in five week ago. We still have no terms of reference. The very people that are deciding those terms of reference are the Labour council of whom three members sat on the original panel and, as we know, have hideously mistreated the victims and this whole process. So, five weeks on, they can't decide on what the terms of reference are. I think it's time that we accept that they cannot handle this process and that it has to be truly independent and they have to get the right experts in that do right by the victims.
OK. So, the complainants came to you five weeks ago?
Around five weeks ago. Yeah.
OK. At the time, what representations did you make? Cos you said in the House yesterday, your 'own representations on this issue'. Did you tell the Prime Minister?
I certainly suggested to them around the police—
Who's them?
The victims, sorry. Around the police because they're very serious allegations, obviously. I also indicated to them that I thought I would know someone who would be particularly sympathetic to it and very good within the police. I offered support as far as counselling and others like that.
But you didn't take it to the Prime Minister?
I did take it to the Speaker.
To the Speaker?
Yeah, but not to the Prime Minister.
Why did you take it to the Speaker and not the Prime Minister?
Because it was within parliament buildings at that point. From their perspective, that was something that they wanted to go further down. The way I read it and the way I heard it from them was actually I believed at that point that Jacinda Ardern and the Labour Party and the Council already knew what was going on. This wouldn't be new news to them. It was actually the actions that needed to change. OK. So, it is new news to them. Or the detail of the complaint or the fact that it actually involves sexual assault. That's new to the Prime Minister, she said on Monday.
Why is it not possible that you can believe that the Prime Minister has either been shielded or misled?
Just because of the number of people that now we know know. And we can see by Nigel Haworth having to stand down. We've got senior people within the party right up to the president. We then have, I'm told, senior people within her office, of her Chief of Staff. If her Chief of Staff and other senior people don't know, why was he stood down five weeks ago? So, they did know at least five weeks ago, otherwise he wouldn't have been stood down from his job. We then have two victims that've told me— Who, by the way, these victims have been proven to be honest the whole way through this. People have tried to say that they have lied. They've tried to dismiss them. But they have proven time and time again to be honest people. And they have told me they took a direct complaint to one of the Prime Minister's very senior staffers.
Which staffer did they complain to?
To Rob Salmond.
Rob Salmond. So, they are saying all of these people knew. So, they've either shielded the Prime Minister from it or she has known and she has chosen to try and avoid— So, this is what the complainants are telling you? You haven't actually seen that complaint? Have you seen any documentary evidence to back up these complainants?
No. No, I haven't.
OK. So, you're believing the complainants?
Yeah, I absolutely believe them. And that was something I made a call on, quite frankly. I did want to know who they were. They couldn't be anonymous to me in that context. But I felt that actually if you were doing victim-led then you take them at their word. And I feel like they deserve a voice, and they came to me for that.
So, is that why you take them at their word, that the Prime Minister's closest advisors— You said under parliamentary privilege that they took out a witch hunt. I think it was Andrew Campbell that you mentioned in parliament performing a witch hunt. What evidence do you have of that? Or is it just the word of the complainants?
It was one day I was in contact with one of them, and they just said, 'Look, it's just absolutely awful here. Andrew Campbell is literally walking the corridors, looking for people that are talking to the media and looking for them. And we're actually going more inside of ourselves because we're actually terrified.' The fear was genuine. I guess that's why you raised it in parliament because it's serious allegations and you're taking the word of somebody.
Is that why you raised it in parliament under privilege?
They can stand up and defend it at any time, and they're not.
Well, the Prime Minister, she is defending it. She said she's happy with the conduct of her senior staff.
All right. Well, that's her call to make, I suppose. I think that there will be a number of victims out there that would disagree with that completely.
You say you encouraged the victims or complainants to go to the police. Have any of them told you why they have not done that?
Look, it's their call, right? So, all the way through this, I have felt that they are incredibly smart, intelligent people that get to make a call on what they want to do next, and that that's not mine to make, right?
But you've laid out that option for them?
Yeah, absolutely. These are very serious allegations.
And they should have the support to go to the police if that's what they wanted as well.
That's not the path that— Look, they wanted to keep this within the Labour Party. If they had been treated fairly and respectfully and appropriately from day one, then, obviously, we wouldn't be sitting here discussing it now.
Well, the process is underway now. Nigel Haworth has resigned; so has the staff who's at the centre of these allegations; and the QC is investigating. So, why not just step back now and let the process take its course?
Because the process is not taking it's course. We have not terms of reference. The victims were expected to sign up to the QC's investigation without even knowing what those terms of reference are. The Council themselves are deciding what they are. It's not truly independent, and they don't have faith in that. And I think we do have a job to now hold the Labour Party to account. They've completely botched this every step of the way. They need to get it right now for the victims.
What about the counter pointer, though? Wouldn't it be more ethical of you to stand back? And this is what Labour says, they say they never got involved when Jami-Lee Ross was making all kinds of allegations and there were stories coming out around Jami-Lee Ross, OK? And they stood back, and they did not get involved. They said that's up to the National Party to handle that. So, why are you dipping your toe in this one?
I think that the reason they stood back then was because they had their own mess that they knew was going on. And they did know that. I would not have come forward on this if the victims hadn't come to me, yeah? So, the victims came to me. They said every step of the way they have been shut down, they have been maligned. They feel like they have no voice and no one that's actually speaking for them.
And in that context, I really thought about it, Simon, to be fair, because it was a big call to make.
And I felt that me not sticking up for them and not speaking is me yet again having them being silenced.
Is it somewhat hypocritical for you as a deputy party leader to take that stance, when National's never released its own workplace culture review?
Our health and safety review is there. People can go and look at it.
The recommendations. You haven't actually released the report, though.
So, the whole recommendations are there. We've implemented them. We want to do and wanted to do better, so it's absolutely— You can't compare allegations of serious sexual assault that have gone through a whole process that have been covered up and actually been more about managing the communications around this than it has been really seeing it as victim-led.
If it's proven that the Prime Minister did know about the alleged details earlier than this week, what do you think should happen?
She absolutely can't stay in the job if that's the case. But that is a big step to make, because she has blatantly gone out there and said that she didn't.
OK. And if it's proven that she didn't know, are you going to apologise and say there wasn't a cover-up?
But there is a cover-up, because we've got the council that's covering up. We've already got a president that's had to resign because they've been covering it up. We've got Grant Robertson, who won't say what he knows. I think it's time they came clean. It's time they fronted up. Time they gave these victims a voice, quite frankly, not me. I would rather not be here this morning. I would much rather that they were truly standing up and saying what they know and making sure that they got the process right from here.
OK. Deputy leader of the National Party Paula Bennett, thank you for your time this morning.
Thank you.


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Is there a Place for Public Religious Expression in a Secular Polity? A Revisiting of "the Wall of Separation between Church and State"Dr. Emanuel L. Paparella
It was Thomas Jefferson who first introduced the metaphor of "the wall of separation between Church and State." That metaphor eventually was widely accepted almost as an icon of a strict uncompromising separation, almost a secular dogma, championing any secular polity wherein religious influences are systematically eliminated from public life. Freedom of religion, or from religion, continues to be respected but it is understood as confined to the private sphere of one's home, or the churches on Sunday, the synagogues on Saturday, or the mosques on Friday.
When we survey the two hundred years plus of American democracy, however, an inconvenient truth emerges in regard to this governmental principle and it is this: the intention may have been to foment more freedom and tolerance but alas, for most of American history the catch phrase "separation of church and state" and its metaphoric rendering as "a wall of separation" have been used as expressions of exclusion, intolerance and bigotry, to silence people and communities of faith and attempt to exclude them from full participation from the public marketplace of ideas with initiatives informed by spiritual values that go beyond a banal New Age Movement. This is not to deny the opposite abuse, that in the 18th and 19th century there were misguided citizens who, disagreeing with the separation, attempted to frighten the general public by asserting that it would lead to political atheism and immorality. That attempt was the other side of the coin: a slanderous political bias and smear and most people saw it for what it was.
This reprehensible rhetoric returned with a vengeance with the arrival in the last quarter of the 19th century of waves of Catholic immigrants, mostly Irish, Italian, Polish, who resisted all attempts at assimilation into the Protestant establishment. They refused to buy the idea that they had to give up their religion or faith to conform to the customs of the host country, and proceeded to establish their own schools. This non-conformance alarmed the bigoted nativist elements, which included the Know Nothings and later the Ku Klux Klan. They embraced a separationist rhetoric and principles in a continuing, and more often than not violent, campaign to restrict the role of Catholics in American public life.
The question arises: why should we care about this metaphor today? We should care because the wall is all too often used to separate religion from public life, thereby promoting a religion that is essentially private and a state that is strictly secular. This would have concerned the founding fathers because they viewed religion, to paraphrase George Washington's words, as an indispensable support for social order and political prosperity.
Metaphors can at times cancel out the true intent for using them. Jefferson's metaphor has unfortunately been used to silence the religious voice in the marketplace of ideas. It is a sort of religious apartheid. Today that wall is the cherished emblem of a strict separationist dogma intolerant of any religious influence in the public square. Federal and state courts have used the "wall of separation" concept to justify censoring private religious expression (such as Christmas crèches) in public fora; stripping public spaces of religious symbols (such as crosses); denying public benefits (such as education vouchers) for religious entities; and excluding religious citizens and organizations (such as faith-based social welfare agencies) from full participation in civic life on the same terms as their secular counterparts. The systematic and coercive removal of religion from public life evinces a callous indifference toward religion in general and Catholicism in particular, and in fact contradicts basic notions of freedom of religious exercise, expression, and association in a democratic and pluralistic society.
The fact remains that a total and perfect separation is not only impractical but it is nowhere mandated by the Constitution. The wall is incapable of providing specific, practical guidelines that can be implemented in difficult disputes that require a delicate balancing of competing constitutional values, such as freedom of speech, association, religious exercise, and the non-establishment of religion. The uncritical use of the wall metaphor has unnecessarily injected inflexibility into church-state debate, fostered distortions and confusion, and polarized scholars of church-state relations, retarding the search for common ground and compromise on vexing issues. This wall has done what walls frequently do--it has obstructed the view. It has obfuscated our understanding of constitutional principles.
It is quite trendy nowadays to make envious comparisons between theocracies such as those found in the Islamic world which lamentably repress human rights, and secular democratic countries such as France which loudly proclaim egalitè, fraternitè (without a common Father however), libertè while in the name of free speech tolerate hate speech, slander and provocation. But this is too facile of a comparison. The more relevant comparison should be between a state that is both secular, democratic and religious (such as India or Turkey) and one that suppresses religion from the public square while loudly proclaiming freedom of speech. Even more relevant we should compare the historical record of polities who were religious theocracies once (as Europe in Medieval times) and the sad events of the 20th century. Paradoxically, what happened in the 20th century in secular super-nationalistic polities and ideologies (the lagers and the gulags exterminating millions of innocent people in Nazi Germany and Communist Soviet Union) inimical to religion in general, and in fact substituting religion with ideology, makes the Inquisition and the Crusades look like a picnic in comparison.


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Introduction: 7.1 Surround Sound Headphones
Ever wonder why companies make good electronics so expensive? Me to,
Step 1: The Explanition
Thankfully I had an idea I did come up with this idea on my own then it turns out some came up with it before me the link for the video is right here, BUT first you may need 3 pairs of ear buds This will make it 7.1 and not 5.1 surround sound headphones. Enjoy these great pair of headphones!
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This is the link to the video but I would like to thank you for your time.
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Cool, i made it and it works thanks!
Could you add a little bit more detail/photos? It sounds like a good concept.
I'm glad you went ahead and posted this anyway. I think one of the reasons they might sound good is that there are so many speakers in proximity to your ear, the good effects will cancel out any bad effects. A true sonic analysis might disagree with that idea, but I think your ear will do the canceling for you.
I sometimes use my sound protective "mouse ears" with my headphone buds flopping loose inside. You can turn the volume down pretty low and still sound good.