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Not many questions scare me more than "So, where do you see yourself in 5 years?". I don't even know how this became a standard question to ask people. Are we really expected to plan ahead for 5 years, working hard towards that goal and hoping for the best? That sounds sort of terrifying, especially if it doesn't turned out as planned.
If someone had asked me 5 years ago (and they did) where I thought I'd be today, I can guarantee you it wouldn't be where I am now. In fact, one woman pushed this point and asked me about my goals and what do I want to do and I should write it all down and wouldn't it be wonderful? I did my best to stop myself from crying in front of her because no, I couldn't see how it would be wonderful. I never thought I could have the life I do now. I always expected I'd be that same person, struggling to get by in a life she didn't particularly enjoy.
Five years ago looked like this for me:
- Working in a school supplies company, ordering text books and stationery for schools.. lugging boxes in a warehouse, faxing off orders
- Living week to week and often running out of money before pay day came around again
- Swimming in debt I never thought I'd pay off
- In a relationship that was unstable, unpredictable and unhappy
- Living in the cheapest 2 bedroom flat I could rent
- Blaming everyone else for the situation/life I had
The flipside of all that is where I am now:
- I've worked at 3 companies since that time. Currently in the public service
- I have more money than I need, I make 73% more(!!) than I did back then
- The only debt I have is a house mortgage. I was able to pay off my debt in 12 months and start saving towards a house
- In a relationship that is stable, understanding, fun and happy
- Living in a 4 bedroom house, that we're paying off as fast as the bank will let us!
- Taking responsibility (or at least trying) for my life and what happens to it
It's sort of amazing.
A lot of people feel hopeless and that their life won't get better but it can and if you put your mind to it you can make it happen. The hardest part is making the hard decisions and getting out of/away from bad relationships, whether that be friends, family or romantic. Get away from the people that bring you down. In turn, find people that lift you up and will support you. For me, that was Jarrod. He showed me that there was a better way of living and I was worth more than the situation I was in.
The second hardest part is taking responsibility for your life and accepting that not everything is going to go your way but how you react to that can make all the difference.
So, where will I be in five years? I have no idea! I expect my home and relationship will stay the same, but we'll be in somewhat less debt. Maybe I'll have finally worked out what I'd like to do for a job/career and be working in that role, or at least towards it. That's the hard one, I've spent my adult life trying to work out what I want to do and I still haven't worked it out.
Mostly, I just hope to be happy with the person I become.


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A reader of my post on the Kodak Retina Type 117 asked me to provide some instructions for how to use that camera. Usually in answer to this kind of requests I would send people over to Mike Butkus' amazing collection of camera manuals. Unfortunatelly there is no manual for the Retina Type 117 in Mike Butkus' library. So I'll give you some instructions her and show how to load the camera with film, transport the film, and rewind after all exposures are done. Continue reading "Kodak Retina Type 117 – Operations"
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Sunnyside police were led on a high speed pursuit this past Saturday at approximately 8:30 p.m. The pursuit ended on East Franklin Avenue and one individual was taken into custody. Further details were not available as of press time.
Also since last Thursday, officers have responded to two shots fired calls. At about 9:30 a.m. on Saturday a citizen in the parking lot at the Sunnyside Bi-Mart store called police, stating six to seven shots were believed to have been heard in the area. Officers investigating the call were unable to locate evidence of gunfire in the area.
At about 9:15 p.m. that day two more residents called police after what they believed were five to six gunshots fired in the area. Further details were not available as of press time.
Two burglaries and three thefts have also been reported to police since last Thursday. At 4:30 p.m. a resident in the 600 block of North Fourth Street reported her information was used for dental services she didn't receive. An employee of C. Speck Motors on Saturday reported a stereo stolen from a vehicle there and a bike was reported stolen from the 500 block of South Sixth Street the same day.
An alert neighbor witnessed a male subject breaking into an apartment in the area of South Ninth Street and East Harrison Avenue Saturday and yesterday (Sunday) a resident in the 1200 block of East North Avenue reported a computer and other items stolen in a burglary.
Sunnyside police officers have also since last Thursday responded to six 9-1-1 hang-up calls, 18 automatic alarm calls, 12 animal problem calls, four fights, two reports of criminal gang activity, a report of a rape, 13 suspicious activity calls, 15 traffic calls and eight vandalism reports. Officers have also served one arrest warrant and provided an agency assist.
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text: FLTLT Andrew STOCKWELL 8 August 2012 for International System Safety Conference 2012 Overview • • • • • • What is System Safety Overall RAAF safety philosophy How RAAF manages aircraft safety Tailoring and Integration Recognizing prior acceptance In-service safety What is System Safety • Some definitions: • FAA • System safety is a specialty within system engineering that supports program risk management. It is the application of engineering and management principles, criteria and techniques to optimize safety. The goal of System Safety is to optimize safety by the identification of safety related risks, eliminating or controlling them by design and/or procedures, based on acceptable system safety precedence. • MIL-STD-882C • The application of engineering and management principles, criteria, and techniques to optimize the safety of a system within the constraints of operational effectiveness, time, and cost throughout all phases of the system life cycle. What is System Safety • Commonality • application of engineering and management principles, criteria and techniques to optimize the safety • Military Specific • Operational effectiveness; • Time; and • Cost. Why the difference? • When was the last time your saw a civilian make an approach like this: Why the difference? • Or saw a Fed Ex aircraft drop something weighing as much 10-12 cars? Another Difference • In civil aviation the responsibilities are spread, for example: • FAA are the regulators, • Manufacturer is responsible for design and developing certification artifacts, • Operator just wants to fly it forever • Military is regulator, certifier and operator • Conflict of interest? • Handled through delineation of responsibility to different organizations and staff • Formal process for transfer of risk RAAF System Safety Philosophy • Aircraft safety must be inherent in everything: • Design, • Maintenance, and • Operations • Must be 'designed' in the system, difficult to 'reverse engineer' in later • Instilling workforce change to place emphasis on thinking of safety in every action • Empowerment of all staff to 'make it safe' RAAF System Safety Philosophy • Ever heard of ALARP: • All risks must be kept As Low As Reasonably Practicable • Not formally used by RAAF, but great idea in principle • But what is reasonable? • Operational effectiveness? • Risk vs Reward • RAAF System Safety aims to better disclose the technical risk inherent in an aircraft system, to promote informed risk treatment decisions Effectiveness from a Transport Perspective • "Our job is to get important things to needy people in tough places" • Sometimes risk avoidance can jeopardize the safety of those needy people in tough places Airworthiness Manuals • Australian Air Publication (AAP) document set for RAAF • AAP 7001.048 (AM1) - ADF Airworthiness Manual • AAP 7001.053 (AM1) - Technical Airworthiness Management Manual (re-issued 21 Oct 10 Amendment List 1 update 6 Mar 12) • AAP 8000.010(AM1) - ADF Operational Airworthiness Manual Objectives of RAAF Safety Program • • • • • • • • • safety goals consistent with world's best practice are established and documented; a safety management framework that clearly articulates the risk level to appropriate management authorities is established, implemented and maintained; safety, consistent with mission requirements, is designed into the system in a timely, cost-effective manner; hazards are identified, analyzed, evaluated and eliminated or the associated risk reduced to an acceptable level throughout the lifecycle of a system; hazards identified in-service are evaluated against established safety goals; hazard elimination/reduction is formally documented; pragmatic risk treatments are appropriately considered; historical safety data, including lessons learned are continually assessed, considered and used; and safety is not assured by a reliance on design standards alone How RAAF Manages Aircraft Safety • Design Achieving Safe Design of Aircraft AAP 7001.053 section 3 figure 22-1 How RAAF Manages Aircraft Safety • Whole of lifecycle safety considerations are achieved through: • Aircraft Certification Basis • Aircraft System Safety Program • Adherence to standards alone does not make an aircraft safe Aircraft Certification Basis • AAP 7001.054 "Airworthiness Design Requirements Manual" devoted to describing standards and process that comprise a suitable basis for certification • Selection of requirements and benchmarks from military and civil industry • Constantly evolving to ensure consistency with world's best practice Standards • Because of the wide variety of aircraft in RAAF service no one standard is a coverall • AAP7001.054 defines acceptable standards and suitable means of compliance as well as required tailoring • Examples • 14 CFR 25.1309 (+ACs) needs additional requirements for military specific environment and usage • MIL-STD-882C needs additional requirements to specify how safety analysis should be conducted Standards Example from AAP 7001.054 Provides suitable standards and defines pros vs cons Later annexes detail how to put together a System Safety Program to best manage the cons Integration • A critical factor in any safety program is integration of the different aspects • One of these challenges particularly in civilian derivative military aircraft is Tailoring of Requirements to meet military need, particularly: • Design Assurance Levels, and • Software Safety Design Assurance Level Tailoring • RAAF adds unique design assurance levels for equipment that is: • Mission Critical • Mission Important • Not classifications in civil documentation • Important in military context Software Safety • Largest challenge in modern aircraft design • Simple in principle • Difficult to manage in practice • Difficult to quantify and accept risk • Managed through combination of standards • Aircraft software is expected to undergo multiple updates during a lifecycle • Each update effects configuration, roles and may change environment • Software changes are far more invasive than traditional system updates or changes Tailored Statements of Requirement • To allow for working with different standards and nations AAP7001.054 also specifies a number of contract deliverables • Up to each project or sustainment office to implement • Makes references to MIL-STD-DIDs, MIL-STD tasks and civil standard objectives from standards like ARPs, DOs etc • In conjunction with AAP 7001.053 defines goals for utilization of prior acceptance Recognition of Prior Acceptance • Aim to use acceptance of aircraft and modification by other airworthiness authority as basis for RAAF acceptance • Military Airworthiness Authorities: • USAF, • RAF, etc • Civil Airworthiness Authorities • FAA, • CASA, • EASA etc Challenges with Recognizing Prior Acceptance • What is the accepted configuration? • What operating roles or profiles were in the original design assumptions? • particularly relevant to military use of civil certified aircraft • What operating environment was the aircraft certified as safe in? • EMI/EMC, other intrinsic risks, etc In Service Safety • • • • • the System Safety Program Plan; the System Safety Group; the Safety Assessment Report; the Hazard Log; and the process for retention and management of residual risks Changing Safety Picture • Aircraft baseline only safe when used as 'designed' • Safety subject to changes in configuration, operating roles and operating environment • RAAF maintains annual review of airworthiness to ensure continued compliance Changing Safety Picture • Yesterday's accepted level of safety is not Today's ALARP • MIL-STD-882 constantly evolving, • Regular updates to 14 CFR 23/25, • Recent release of DO-178C • New modifications to existing aircraft are required to meet contemporary design requirements and standards So that's why its different • Civil aviation industry sets the benchmark for required level of safety • Air Forces' job is to do things that are not always safe • Policy needs to take both into account and develop a platform that is safe to operate and maintain in all roles Final Thoughts and the World of Tomorrow • Benchmark for safety is constantly moving • Standards are constantly evolving • Global requirements are changing daily • Military roles are changing to match • Where does that leave safety • If we take a snapshot we don't get less safe, • But we get further from ideal safety and accept greater risk everyday Questions ?


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Read this: LTE or not, WiMax 2 set to roll out in 2012 - Computerworld
Summary: 802.16m will be significantly faster than its predecessor. In contrast, Sprint's initial Xohm WiMax offering, which debuted commercially in 2008, delivered downlink speeds ranging between 3.7M to 5Mbps. 802.16m will also be backward compatible with 802.16e, the WiMax standard currently used by operators in the United States. - computerworld.comRead full article: LTE or not, WiMax 2 set to roll out in 2…
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Adopt A Pet — Bay Space Pet Honest
There are 1,000,000 good causes to think about adopting a dog during American Humane's yearly Undertake-a-Dog Month®" in October – in fact, it is a lot more than that. With their more than eight,000 animal welfare companions, they encourage and empower communities to make a distinction by investing in adoption and medical care programs, spay and neuter services, pet most cancers research, service and therapy animals, and numerous different lifesaving initiatives.
Our aim is to proceed to avoid wasting and undertake not less than 100 cats and kittens a 12 months and if our sources permit, to assist extra people to feed, care for, spay and neuter their cats. In the event you stay in Kansas City, MO, you must also count on to purchase a city license tag for $12 – this is one thing you will renew every year upon vaccinating your pet. If the animal is already spayed or neutered, complete your adoption and bring your new pet dwelling. We offer bios about each pet on their Petfinder web page to help you understand their wants. You can go to any of our three places seven days per week and find a pet that you simply're occupied with, or meet someone in foster at a mutually agreed upon location. If it's essential to introduce your pet(s) to our pet: We recommend visiting an animal first to ensure that it's a good candidate in your dwelling, and so that you've free hands.
Based mostly on Utah state law, we must hold each animal for a minimum of 5 days to provide the owner a chance to redeem their lost pet. They're able to maintain their business going by promoting to uninformed buyers who fall in love with the lovable pet they see in their native pet store window. All cats and dogs adopted from the shelter will be neutered or spayed, vaccinated and microchipped earlier than going house as your new pet. Most significantly, if you adopt a pet from us, you are not solely giving an animal the prospect at a brand new life, you're supporting the persevering with efforts of the RSPCA to care for all animals all through Australia. If you are considering of having a shaggy companion for the whole life, don't purchase it, undertake it, he want you. Our aim this yr is to undertake out 9,000 dogs and cats to eternally, loving homes.
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Caseworkers could do home visits to help to find good matches for the individuals who want to undertake a pet. And if you've discovered the kind of pet you assume may be best for you, you can just contact the related location to seek out out extra and make arrangements to fulfill potential new relations.


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So there is a lot of talk about Young Living and the quality of their oils. Today I would like to share a few words on one of the most exciting programs Young Living offers it's distributors.
Introducing The Essential Rewards program! It is an exciting program, that gives all distributors the opportunity to earn free reward points for every autoship order they place. They can then redeem these points for free Young Living Oils. I use this program and cash out before the holidays which allows me to give my family lots of free oils. It also allows me to get some of the more expensive oils like Sacred Frankincense and Rose for Free!!
Basic Overview: Essential Rewards Program
- You save money because points are earned for every essential rewards purchase – towards free product. You also save on shipping, because you are offered flat rate shipping.
- You will receive educational opportunities, and exclusive "member only" promotions.
- The Essential Rewards program is an easy-order process. You choose what products you want – and when you want them delivered.
- Sign up directly through your Distributor administration panel.
- Security of having the products that you consistently use and share with others. Just make your selection, and then put your mind at ease. Young Living will do the rest.
- Change your mind? Give Young Living a call and cancel the program at anytime! Of course, you'll want to make sure that you redeem your points (for free product) before you cancel; otherwise, you'll lose them.
- Your Essential Rewards order is shipped the same day each month. The cost is billed to your credit card or to your arranged payment method.
Earning Points Toward Free Products – (when you place a monthly qualifying order.)
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- After participating in the program for two months, you are eligible to redeem your essential reward points for any PV product. Call Distributor Network Services at 1-800-371-2928 and speak with one of the representatives.
I'll look forward to assisting you with getting enrolled in the Essential Rewards program – and the sooner, the better!


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Rowena Sy-Santos, founder and the chief baker of Kéyks shop in Massachusetts has been passionate about baking since she was young. Prior to establishing Kéyks, she was an information technlogy worker for fifteen years! However, when her son was born she wanted to spend more time with him and decided to follow her passion: baking. So, she decided to study pastry making inNewbury College in Brookline, MA with the hope of having more time with her son. Although she didn't complete her pastry-making course, she self-taught herself and established an informal baking service out of their home in Waltham, MA and has since began taking orders from her online website. In March 2011, she opened her bakery shop in Chelmsford, MA where she continues to fulfill cakes, cupcakes of any shapes and sizes, exotic desserts, Filipino pastries and Filipino bread such pan de sal pan de coco, spanish rolls, cheese roll, ensaymada, sans rival and empanada.
This is her story:
AMS: I have always admired your cake creations and in fact I saw a press release about Kéyks on Boston Parents Magazine. Tell us about yourself. Your education, training and about Kéyks.
Rowena: I've been in the US for 10 years now. How time flies! My undergrad is in Computer Science back in the Philippines. I've been in
corporate since graduating from school, and moving here. Cakes and
sweets are something I've been doing on the side since I was in school.
corporate since graduating from school, and moving here. Cakes and
sweets are something I've been doing on the side since I was in school.
AMS: When did you start Kéyks? Prior to starting Kéyks, where were you?
Rowena: The doors of Kéyks opened March 29, 2011. Before Kéyks, I worked in high-tech.
AMS: Growing up, did you always dream of becoming a baker and an entrepreneur?
Rowena: As a kid, I dreamed of opening my own bake shop. But this dream disappeared in my 20s. What remained was my desire to have my own business. It made sense to go into the cake business and open a
shop since I was already entrenched in it at home.
shop since I was already entrenched in it at home.
AMS: Who or what inspired you to start Kéyks? Why Kéyks?
Rowena: My son inspired me to open Kéyks. I thought I would have more time to spend with him. I quickly learned this is not the case. Why Kéyks? "keyk" is how we spell "cake" in the Philippines. I wanted to bring in my roots into the business, as this is a big part of me and the products we offer.
AMS: Could you please tell us what are the products and the mission of Kéyks?
Rowena: Kéyks strives to provide beautiful and delicious products. We offer custom creative cakes, and cupcakes, cakes, Filipino products for
AMS: What are some of the greatest achievement that you've had with Kéyks?
Rowena: Getting the shop up and operational with regular introduction of new flavors and products, building relationships with clients and bringing great people on board.
AMS: In building Kéyks, who were your support system? Who are/were your motivators?
Rowena: My husband and family are my biggest supporters and motivators. Knowing that they're rooting for me against all odds is a tremendous up-er.
AMS: If, you were to tell us what are the most important skills that you need in order to be successful (in general) in life- what are they?
Rowena: Be a realistic optimist. Be resilient. Pray daily and be thankful for small blessings.
AMS: Can you share some of your tips in starting and building your own business?
Rowena: Very cliché, but "Keep going even when the going gets tough." The struggle gets easier, and you will eventually see the light at the end
of the tunnel.
of the tunnel.
AMS: What are your next goals for Kéyks? for yourself?
Rowena: I'd like to continue adding to our product line, and continue
improving on the operational efficiencies of the shop.
improving on the operational efficiencies of the shop.
AMS: I've seen on your Facebook Page your Bike Ride, what is it all about and how is it connected to your bakery?
Rowena: My husband is an avid cyclist. He goes on weekend rides with different groups, and had the idea of a Cake Ride that starts at Kéyks.
AMS: How many cakes and Filipino pastries do you bake in a day?
Rowena: It varies.
AMS: How do you manage to stay slim despite tasting and baking goodies each day?
Rowena: We're literally on our feet all day, and moving. This is the work-out I get.
AMS: What is your favorite Filipino pastry – would you sell that in your bakery as well?
Rowena: Sans Rival. Yes, we sell this at the shop.
AMS: Finally, what is your definition of success.
Rowena: Being content and happy.


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Lauren Conrad has apparently been spotted getting close to Teen Wolf actor Colton Haynes.
The Hills star was reportedly seen flirting with Haynes at the HTC Status phone launch last week.
"She was into him, and vice versa. They went to a club afterward," a witness told Us Weekly.
However, an insider claimed that the two are nothing more than friends, saying: "They are friends and have known each other forever."
Haynes appeared on two episodes of The Hills in 2007.
Conrad split from boyfriend Kyle Howard in late June after three years of dating, but a source told the website that the two may reunite, noting that Conrad and Howard still speak to each other every day.
"They may get back together," said the source.
Conrad previously signed a three-book deal with HarperCollins, which will see the 25-year-old pen a trilogy titled The Fame Game.


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PERRY COUNTY – Perry County Memorial Hospital will host a free car seat safety clinic Saturday, Oct. 1, from 10 a.m. to noon, in the hospital parking lot.
There will be certified technicians on-site to check car seats and demonstrate proper installation. All ages of car seats from newborn to youth booster will be covered.
There will also be candy apples, a craft station, give-aways and labor and delivery suite tours.
Moose Lodge to serve dinners Friday
TELL CITY – The Tell City Moose Lodge 1424 will serve barbecue and pork chop dinners Friday, Sept. 30, beginning at 3:30 p.m. The cost will be $8 per plate.
The dinners will include a half chicken or 1 ¼ inch pork chop with creek-fried potatoes and green beans.
Moose golf scramble Oct. 1
LINCOLN CITY – If you've wanted to attend a performance at the Lincoln Amphitheatre during this 2016 season –likely the most diverse in the venue's 29-year history, your last chance to do so will be Saturday, Oct. 1.
Pink Droyd will serve as the season's finale and will perform a full laser light show and musical tribute to the band Pink Floyd.
Doors open at 4:30 p.m. central with an opening set by local solo-acoustic singer songwriter Steven Wagler at 6 p.m. and Pink Droyd will take the stage at approximately 7 p.m.
CANNELTON – The Cannelton Elementary Parent-Teacher Organization will sponsor its 71st Annual Cannelton Fall Festival from 6 to 8 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 26, in the Cannelton Community Center.
Queen candidates for this year's festival are kindergartener Suri Knapp, first-grader Arianna Hulse, second-grader Nichole Sipes, third-grader Brenna Smith, fourth-grader Makayla Hulse and fifth-grader London Malone.
TELL CITY – For those who feel frustrated about owning a high quality digital camera, but not seeing high quality results, Ivy Tech's Tell City campus is planning a "Lunch and Learn" session from noon to 1 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 4. Attendees should plan to bring their lunch and enjoy a free informational hour with an experienced and professional photographer, who can help those attending to become familiar with all of the buttons, dials, and menus on their camera.
LINCOLN CITY – The University of Southern Indiana's Historic Southern Indiana, in collaboration with Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial, will present a two-day Lincoln Colloquium Oct. 7-8 in Lincoln City. The theme of this year's seminar is "Lincoln in Public Memory."
The St. Marks Catholic Church shooting match and picnic will begin at 10:30 a.m. Sunday at the church. The ham shoot begins at 10:30 a.m. with a closed match at 2:30 p.m. First choice will be a $600 beef box. There will be chili, hamburgers, cheeseburgers, bratwurst, homemade pies, games for children and adults, bingo, quilts and country-store items. A main raffle will offer more than $6,000 in prizes. The Rev. Dennis Duvelius and parishioners extend an invitation to everyone to attend.
PERRY COUNTY – Meal tickets for a farm-to-table dinner that will seat guests on the middle of Tell City's Main Street are sold out but there will still be plenty to see and do on the evening of Saturday, Sept. 24, including a concert by a leading regional Christian musical group.
PERRY COUNTY – The Perry County Democratic Central Committee will host its Jefferson-Jackson Dinner Saturday, Oct. 1, at the Tell City Knights of Columbus. The event will begin with cocktails at 6 p.m. followed by dinner at 7.
Christina Hale, Democrat candidate for lieutenant governor, will be the keynote speaker. Other speakers will be Indiana Superintendent of Public Instruction Glenda Ritz, Lorenzo Arredondo, candidate for state attorney general, Larry Kleeman, candidate for state representative, District 74 and John Zody, chairman of the Indiana Democratic Party.
Tractor group to meet Sept. 22
BRANCHVILLE – The Ohio Valley Tractor Association will hold its next meeting September 22, at 7 p.m. at the Branchville Clubhouse.
VFW serving breakfast Sept. 24
TELL CITY – Veterans of Foreign Wars 2939 will host a breakfast buffet from 7 to 10:30 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 24, at the post home.
Scrambled eggs will be served or diners can get eggs made to order.
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For this installment, I'll be talking about two shows, and how they use language, specifically to make the dialog of their characters feel realistic. More specifically, this comes in two forms: swearing and lingo.
First a little about the shows. The Wire ran on HBO from 2002 to 2008, with five seasons totaling 60 episodes. The Wire is, at its core, a show about Baltimore, West Baltimore to be specific. While there are a number of police officers at the center of the show, it isn't a cop show per se, and it's certainly not a procedural (shows like Bones, or Dragnet). The cast is huge and sprawling, and includes the aforementioned cops, as well as drug dealers, addicts, lawyers, politicians, longshoremen, reporters, judges, teachers, parents, clergy, and children.
Orange is the New Black is a a Netflix original series, the first season of which debuted in July 2013. The show follows Piper Chapman, an upper-middle class white woman who is sentenced to 15 months in a minimum security women's prison. The show explores the kinds of relationships and problems that arise in such places, and while the bulk of the characters are prisoners, the prison staff and Chapman's family play an important role, as do people connected to the other prisoners, often presented in flashbacks.
Both shows make liberal use of vulgarity, emboldened by their relative safety from the FCC. Part of the reason I haven't shared clips of the shows is that it would be next to impossible to find any that were "safe for work," so I didn't bother. The kind of characters the shows deal with tend to use "colorful" language in their day-to-day life, the kind of language that can't be heard on regular television, gets censored on the radio, and earns your move an "R" rating. The use of this language is important though, because when gangsters and prisoners and cops use watered down vulgarities, the characters sound unrealistic. This kind language, whether people like it or not, is a part of daily life everywhere in the world, and shows like The Wire and Orange is the New Black purport to present the real world as closely as possible (albeit as fiction).
I've had students in the past ask whether or not they should include vulgarities within quotations in their term papers, and I always tell them yes, if it's relevant. Quoting historical figures swearing because you want to be "edgy" or try and freak out your professor or teaching assistant is ridiculous (and I swear constantly in real life, so it wouldn't have bothered me anyway). But if a quote from a historical figure is particularly relevant to your argument, and it contains some vulgarity? Include it. Continue reading "From Screen to Page: Orange is the New Black and The Wire"


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Welcome to Pneumatikoi and thanks for visiting.
Pneumatikoi is a collection of accounts of revivals over the centuries. The name comes from what Paul calls, "those of the Spirit". The Holy Spirit is the foundation of all true revival, he is the one who quickens and breathes life into us.
Revival in our day is the great hope and prayer of the church. As you read the stories of revivals and the revivalists who led them, our prayer is that your desire will grow to seek God for revival today.
We are based in Scotland so we've started with our own 'home-grown' Scottish revivalists and revivals. Over the next few months we'll be adding to this with revival stories from other nations. The Spirit of God knows no borders or boundaries, his glory will cover the world 'as the waters cover the sea'.
"For things when they are past are not dead to us, but live and act upon our condition in a thousand ways. They live in memory and go to compose all our knowledge and experience and wisdom, and they affect us with repentance and remorse, or with joy and self-complacency, according to their character of good or ill: they prepare us for the present by the habits they engender and for that future by the resolutions to which they give birth."
Edward Irving, Revivalist
Charles Simeon added to England's Revivalists
John Wesley & George Whitfield added to England's Revivalists
Alexander Boddy, George Fox, John Hooper, Smith Wigglesworth & John Wycliffe added to England's Revivalists.
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Peace of Mind: How to Protect Your Home With Insurance
What You Get for That Portion of Your Mortgage Payment
If you purchased your home with a loan some time ago, you may not even notice the portion of your monthly mortgage payment that goes to your homeowner's insurance provider. New and prospective homeowners, on the other hand, are usually fully aware of what it's going to cost to insure their property as they sort through what will go into their monthly payment, even if they aren't exactly sure why they need a homeowner's policy and what it protects them and their property against.
According to an article posted to the BH Insurance website, homeowner's insurance policies protect homeowners (and the lenders who have an interest in their properties) in two key ways. First it protects the home, any additional structures, the homeowner's belongings, and the property itself against damage or loss in most cases. Secondly, homeowner's insurance also protects the owner against liability in the case of injury or loss suffered by others on the property or as a result of the property owner's action or inaction.
Will I Ever Use My Policy?
To many who have not suffered a loss that resulted in a claim against their homeowner's policy, the monthly premium may seem like money lost, never to be recovered. But, according to statistics published on the Insurance Information Institute website, more than 5% of all homeowners in the United States will likely have to file a claim against their policy in any given year.
That may seem like a small percentage, but keep in mind that those are unique claims filed each year by 5% of homeowners nationwide. Claims range widely, from fire damage and storm damage, to losses occurring as a result of theft or attempted theft.
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Though, according to the Insurance Information Institute, the overwhelming majority (as much as 97% in some years) of all claims are related to property damage, one of the most significant aspects of a homeowner's insurance policy is its coverage against liability in case of personal injury, or property damage incurred on the owner's property as a result either action or inaction on the part of the homeowner.
Between 2 and 5% of most year's homeowner's insurance claims stem from liability claims. These claims range widely and policies can be made to cover everything from falls on sidewalks adjacent to the property, to accidental death or injury blamed on an "attractive nuisance."
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There's a good reason that most lenders will step in and pay the insurance premiums for homeowner's polices that cover properties that they have a monetary interest in: they are protecting their investment. A homeowner's policy is a requirement in many states and for good reason. It protects the homeowner and the community from accidents, certain weather events, and a host of other losses that can occur. It is a far cry from money that disappears every month, never to return.
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Almost every day for five months between last October and March, the American screenwriter and dramatist John Logan set his alarm for 3am or 4am, hauled himself out of bed at his rented apartment in Dublin's Merrion Square, and set to work for two or three pre-dawn hours on the script for the next James Bond film.
Logan, 52, has written several major screenplays (Any Given Sunday, The Aviator, Hugo) and shares credits for Gladiator and the last Bond movie Skyfall. For the stage, he wrote last year's West End hit Peter and Alice, and won a Tony for Red, his play about artist Mark Rothko.
Still, being named sole screenwriter for the next two 007 films – provisionally known as Bond 24 and Bond 25 – represents his most high-profile assignment yet. So you might assume he would devote every minute of his working life to it.
But that would be to discount Logan's extraordinary energy and work ethic. Around 6 am each day, he would stop writing and travel some 12 miles to Bray, home of Ireland's leading film studios Ardmore, where his TV series Penny Dreadful was being shot. A supernatural horror melodrama, set in Victorian London in 1891, it is a co-production between Sky Atlantic and the American cable channel Showtime.
Harry Treadaway as Dr Frankenstein in Sky Atlantic's Penny Dreadful
To describe Penny Dreadful as 'his' series understates Logan's contribution. He created the story and all its characters, and wrote every word of each script in the eight episodes of its first season. Along with his friend Sam Mendes (who directed Skyfall and will also direct the next two Bond films), Logan is also an executive producer of Penny Dreadful; he has overseen every minute of production.
In TV parlance, this makes him a 'show runner,' like David Chase (The Sopranos), Vince Gilligan (Breaking Bad) and David Simon (The Wire). Yet while show runners typically write only a few episodes themselves and farm others out to a team of screenwriters, Logan has done them all himself. Meeting him in Penny Dreadful's production offices, I asked him why he felt the need.
"I grew up a playwright and when I wake up in the morning, I'm still a playwright," he said. "All the success I've had in movies is strange to me because that was never my ambition. I'd always had a yen to write a novel. But I don't write prose, I dislike it. It's not my thing. I'm a dramatist -- so you write lines for actors, and scenes for directors, producers and musicians. Yet when I'm alone I read Dickens, Thackeray and Dostoevsky. That's the literature that excites me.
"So when Penny Dreadful first occurred to me about 10 years ago, I thought – 'this could be it. This could be my 'novel'. That's why I felt it was important to write every episode -- to see if I could do it and enjoy it."
He's done both, creating a singular, startling piece of work that is likely to divide viewers: it is genuinely jolting, sexually explicit in places and features remarkably strong language. Logan's conceit is to create a 'demi-monde', poised between the real and supernatural in 1891 London, and to juxtapose the fictional people he has created with what he calls 'literary monsters' – including Dr. Victor Frankenstein (Harry Treadaway) and his creature (Rory Kinnear), Oscar Wilde's Dorian Gray and characters from Bram Stoker's Dracula. Meanwhile, Jack the Ripper's brutal real-life murders are terrorising London.
Logan's creations include Sir Malcolm Murray (Timothy Dalton), a veteran explorer-adventurer, vaguely based on Sir Richard Burton, on a quest to find his daughter; the beautiful, enigmatic Vanessa Ives (Eva Green), who seems to have dark insights into the world of the supernatural; and Ethan Chandler (Josh Hartnett), an American exile first glimpsed doing sharp-shooting tricks for Londoners at a Wild West Show. All three, it appears, have their own demons. Billie Piper plays Brona Croft, a consumptive prostitute from northern Ireland. Helen McCrory is Madame Kali, a spiritualist who presides over a scary séance that sends Vanessa into shocking convulsions; Simon Russell Beale plays a foppish Egyptologist.
What led Logan to conceive of such a story? As he tells it, the time and place were key factors: "I had to set it specifically in 1891. There was something in the air then, a period where people were grappling with [notions of the supernatural] across realms that were theological, scientific, and what would eventually be psychological.
"In that amazing 10-year span to the century's end, Dracula, The Invisible Man, The Hound of the Baskervilles, The Island of Dr. Moreau, War of the Worlds and The Picture of Dorian Gray were written -- all expressing something about inner fear and anxiety being manifested physically through monstrousness and deviant behaviour.
"Also at that time Freud was coming up with words to classify those things, and Robert Louis Stevenson was creating the idea of Mr. Hyde as the other part of a man's personality. So it was an amazingly interesting period in terms of creation and fear of the future. Science was suddenly our friend, but also potentially terrifying."
Logan finds it no stretch to find parallels between 1891 and the world today: "People then were grappling with a large question: 'the modern age is coming, where do we fit in?' And if that isn't the reason to do this show in 2014, then there never will be a better one, because I think we're grappling with exactly the same things now. I look at social media and think: this is a world that's going to change human behaviour in primal ways. Have we really considered the moral and humane consequences?"
That sounds like a lot of intellectual baggage for a series to carry – yet Penny Dreadful also works on the level of pure (if defiantly post-watershed) entertainment. As Timothy Dalton puts it: "On one level it's exciting – there's blood, sex, violence, mystery, fear, psychological terror and a lot of very good-looking people. On another, it's quite a highbrow story about guilt and redemption."
But why those 'literary monsters'? Logan traces it back to his youth: "Growing up as a gay man I felt I'd never belong in any society, that I'd always be freakish to my family and friends. But the very thing that made me different made me who I was. Part of growing up is accepting that and embracing what other people might find monstrous about you." He finally came out in college when he wrote his first play: "That was me trying to deal with the demons of homosexuality in a dramatic way. It unlocked a lot for me personally."
If the dialogue in Penny Dreadful feels distinctly heightened, that's a Logan trademark. Remember Maximus roaring "At my signal, unleash hell!" in Gladiator? Al Pacino's long motivational lecture to his football team in Any Given Sunday? Or Skyfall's villain Javier Bardem, and his creepy discourse about killing rats? "I'm drawn to big bold, drama, rather than domestic stories," Logan says. "I've always liked big characters and lightning flashes -- the Shakespearean approach."
He always knew he wanted a female lead character, "because women in Victorian England were literally corseted – and constrained in terms of how they could interact with the world. So I thought to have a woman who has within her such fire and such power. It's that very thing that makes Vanessa Ives unique, that gives her supernatural gifts, and makes her exalted, but also a freak and unacceptable in society."
It may seem curious to shoot a TV series about Victorian London in Ireland, but all the biggest studios in England were booked solid – and as Logan points out, for exterior shots there is more Georgian and Victorian architecture in Dublin than in London these days. Thus the Irish capital's Temple Bar district doubles for Soho and the East End. Tax incentives clinched the deal to shoot at Ardmore.
Logan is delighted with the Irish studio. A wiry man with an impish grin and fidgety with nervous energy, he impulsively springs from his seat and offers to me a guided tour of the impressive sets. They include abrilliant scale re-creation of the auditorium of London's legendary Wilton's Music Hall (where several scenes in Penny Dreadful are set). "It seats 250 people and it's a working theatre," Logan says proudly.
Another stage houses Sir Malcolm's opulent mansion, with curios from deepest Africa and Egypt. Dorian Gray's quarters, with his famous portrait in a secret chamber, have a faintly Art Deco influence, marking him as a man out of his time. In yet another stage is a dark, dank space where Dr. Frankenstein tries to re-create human life in the form of his Creature. It's atmospheric, and not in a cosy way.
Will Penny Dreadful establish Logan as one of TV's great auteurs? It's too early to say: its first two episodes are visually and dramatically striking, but whether its characters and storylines sustain it beyond its first season remains to be seen.
Meanwhile he has plenty to distract him. He has written the book of The Last Ship, a Broadway-bound musical with music by Sting about a father-son relationship set in the shipyards of Newcastle. (Logan's own father worked in a Belfast shipyard.)
And then it'll be back to Bond, a passion of his since childhood – ever since Diamonds Are Forever, to be precise. He still waxes lyrical about that film, the Aston Martin in Goldfinger, and any Bond trivia you throw at him. It's no accident that from the Penny Dreadful cast, Timothy Dalton was himself a Bond in two films, while Eva Green played the stunning Vesper Lynd in Casino Royale.
He calls Skyfall "the most gratifying experience I've ever had on a movie, just because I grew up loving Bond." But he's already hoping Penny Dreadful can go beyond one season: "There's more of this story I want to tell."
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Halfway through the year, banks aren't exactly hitting their stride.
Despite growth in lending and near-record stock markets, the biggest U.S. banks are expected to show second-quarter results that continue to be hampered by low interest rates, slow trading conditions and big legal bills.
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Economic growth is strong throughout the state of Washington, and long-term prospects are good for both the Puget Sound and the Spokane areas.
Equitable's 1995 Emerging Trends ranks Seattle among its markets to watch and refers to the city as "no longer a one-horse town," since Microsoft and related technical firms entered what used to be Boeing's territory. "Explosive Microsoft and related technical companies undergird a healthy regional economy, which is diversifying and becoming more resilient," the report continues.
This upbeat mood translates into good news for the real estate market, as well: the industrial market witnessed high demand for space; office vacancies at year-end 1994 were the lowest they had been in years and lease rates began to rise; investor interest in apartments was high; and the retail market tightened as 1994 saw aggressive moves by retailers.
"In the Puget Sound area, across the board," says Kirk Johnson, managing director for Trammell Crow Co. in Washington, "it's returning to a landlord's market very quickly."
A blow that could have been disastrous for the area -- a downsizing at Boeing -- was softened as Microsoft and related technical firms entered the market. In fact, 97,000 sq. ft. of the 169,000 sq. ft. vacated by Boeing along Interstate 90 during the fourth quarter was quickly released, according to CB Commercial. And Microsoft, assisted by Trammell Crow Co., has begun construction of a 700,000 sq. ft. office facility in Redmond on a site it bought during first quarter '94.
It was largely due to the influx of these high-tech concerns, plus growth at the ports of Seattle and Tacoma, and the opening of distribution and warehousing facilities by national companies, that Seattle's CBD and suburban industrial markets ranked Nos. 1 and 2, respectively, on the list of top industrial markets by Viewpoint 1995, published by Minneapolis-based Valuation International Ltd.
Year-end 1994 industrial vacancy rates for the Puget Sound area averaged 5.86%, according to CB Commercial. Tacoma was the tightest submarket, with 2.4% "available."
"The industrial market is constrained by the lack of buildable industrial land," says Johnson, whose firm is participating in development of 1.3 million sq. ft. of industrial space this year.
The Puget Sound office market absorbed 517,889 sq. ft. during 1994, according to CB Commercial. Seattle absorbed 164,092 sq. ft., while the Eastside absorbed 68,301 sq. ft., and the Southend and Northend markets had combined absorption of 34,045 sq. ft.
"Weak but improving" is how Leibsohn & Company/New America Network characterizes the downtown office market. Class-A rental rates range from $15 to $25 per sq. ft., with 10.8% vacancy, and Class-B rents range from $12 to $18 per sq. ft., with 11.1% vacancy, Leibsohn reports.
Having multiple options for future consideration is no longer a given for tenants seeking office space in the Seattle marketplace, according to Peter B. Truex, senior vice president and district manager of Grubb & Ellis, Seattle. Large tenants are positioning themselves now for space requirements two and even three years away, and smaller users must become increasingly aware of the changing climate, Truex warns.
In the apartment market, 1994 was the year of the institutional buyer, according to Gregory Laycock, of Grubb & Ellis' investment properties division. Purchases by REITs and pension funds generated volume in excess of $595.8 million for a total of 13,604 units in the Puget Sound area, Laycock reports.
The most prominent deal was the sale of the Executive Life Apartment Portfolio to Equity Residential Trust, a Chicago-based real estate investment trust headed by Sam Zell. The portfolio consisted of eight Puget Sound properties and sold for approximately $100 million. Another major institutional transaction, according to Laycock, was the purchase of four properties by Essex Property Trust for $45.125 million from JMB/Heitman.
This strong activity caused prices to continue their rise. The RREEF funds, based in San Francisco, purchased Bellaire Place for $74,000 per unit, well above replacement cost. And Stamford, Conn.-based GE Capital bought The Heights at Bear Creek for $21.4 million -- the highest price paid by an institution for a property in the tri-county area in 1994, according to CB Commercial.
Vacancies in the metro area stood at 4.9% for 1994, according to Grubb & Ellis, which expects those rates to fall to 4.6% this year and 4.2% in 1996.
Similarly low is the vacancy rate in the metro area's retail market. Viewpoint 1995 reports Seattle's vacancy rate at 5.2%, with a 1.2% vacancy rate for mall space. In fact, Seattle heads Valuation International's list of top retail markets, followed by Minneapolis and San Francisco.
Retail rents downtown range from $17 to $40 per sq. ft., according to Leibsohn. Community power center rents range from $8 to $17 per sq. ft., and regional mall space goes from $20 to $60.
As far as construction activity goes, CB Commercial reported that there were 12 projects proposed or under construction in downtown Seattle, with a total estimated cost between $1.13 billion and $1.26 billion. Chief among the projects are:
* a $350 million to $400 million project at Sixth and Pine for Frederick Nelson, which represents a move by Nordstrom and a number of small retailers;
* the $100 million, 2,500-seat Seattle Symphony Hall at Second and Union;
* the $13 5 million aquarium expansion at Waterfront piers 62 and 63; the $25 million, 24,000 sq. ft. Nike Town at Sixth and Pike, plus an additional 41,000 sq. ft. of retail, including Planet Hollywood;
* a $40 million to $50 million, 321-unit apartment project at Eighth and Olive, next to the Camlin Hotel;
* the $165 million to $225 million Federal Courthouse with 600,000 to 750,000 sq. ft. of space at 1-5 between Spring and Marion;
* the $130 million convention center expansion at Eighth and Pike, doubling the size to 200,000 sq. ft.; and
* the $8.5 million rehabilitation of the Pacific Hotel at Fourth and Marion into 113 units of low-income housing.
An interesting project under way is Northwest Landing, a 3,000-acre planned community being developed by the land management division of Weyerhaeuser Real Estate Company in DuPont, Wash., between Tacoma and Olympia. When completed, the community is slated to include homes for 10,000 and jobs for 12,000 people.
State Farm Insurance is due to complete a $40 million, 364,000 sq. ft. office this summer at Northwest Landing. Westblock Products, Inc., Lone Star Northwest and Puget Power also have purchased sites in the community.
On the other side of the state, Spokane is going like gangbusters, too.
Since 1988, more than 70 companies have expanded or relocated to the area, according to the Spokane Area Economic Development Council.
Recent additions to the area include: Egghead Software, which is consolidating 10 customer service offices from around the nation to a 115,000 sq. ft. building formerly occupied by Hewlett Packard at Meadowwood Business Park; The Student Loan Marketing Association (Sallie Mae), which leased 30,000 sq. ft. downtown for a regional student loan servicing facility; and Principal Financial Group, which leased 12,000 sq. ft. of office space near downtown for a pension customer service center.
"One of the things we're seeing is there's room for maybe some spec building," says Meri Berberet, director of marketing and research for the Economic Development Council. "Some users are building their own space."
Pentzer Development Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Washington Water Power Company, saw opportunity in the area's growth and completed its first spec building, the $1 million Euclid Business Center, a 22,800 sq. ft. office and industrial complex at the company's 575-acre Spokane Business and Industrial Park, 15 miles east of downtown.
In addition, Central Premix and The Munson/Bagco Partnership recently purchased parcels totaling 14 acres at the business park.
Year-end 1994 office vacancy rates stood at 14.1% downtown and 6.8% in suburban submarkets, for a total vacancy of 9.9%, according to the BOMA Office Market Review, with Kiemle & Hagood Company, which is a member of BOMA/Spokane, as the data correspondent.
Average rent for Class-B office space downtown was $14-14, according to the report. Rent for Class-B space was $12.85.
The BOMA report mentions other reasons for optimism, indicating that over the past year, construction activity and absorption have increased, financing has been easy to obtain for some properties, fee management opportunities have increased and sales activity by owners/lenders has remained stable.


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KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Right-hander Ben McDonald was due to rejoin the major-league club late last night after making a rehabilitation start for the Class AAA Rochester Red Wings, but he probably will make another minor-league appearance before returning to the Baltimore Orioles rotation.
"No decision has been made yet," manager John Oates said. "It was the recommendation of our minor-league people that he make another start down there, but I want to see him when he gets here and talk to him about it."
Friday night's start did not go well. McDonald struggled with his control and was hit by a line drive, but he probably will be scheduled for a major-league start by the time the Orioles return home from this seven-game trip.


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We are the collective, resistance is futile! We shall move as one and...
...we shall be afraid as one!
Watch us move as the nine headed beast called the collective.
Here we move through the raspberries together
through the cabbage as one and into the lemon balm
We are the collective and resistance is futile.
oooooh, water!
BIGGER water... yippy!
Oh No!
The collective has been separated!
How do we get out of here?
We cannot be separated...we CAN NOT!!!!!!
Oh that's better!
You four just stand there all day while we stand on Seven of Nine's back and figure out how to get out of here!
*yes they did have a cinder block and a ramp, but it still took them 45 minutes to decide to use it.
The good news is they are much smarter about hunting bugs & slugs.


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text: In The Perfect Christmas Gift, Sheila Walsh has penned a perfectly pink tale of a little princess whose Christmas expectations go a bit over-the-top. As Christmas nears, Gigi is just bursting with anticipation. And when her parents give her a hint about her big gift, "white with a touch of pink," she is absolutely certain she is getting her crown After days of endless agony, Christmas morning finally arrives, and Gigi searches for a crown-sized box. But there isn't one. Instead, Gigi receives a gift more wonderful than she ever could imagine. Parents and princesses everywhere will appreciate Gigi's Christmas agony and will be encouraged to open their hearts to a gift even greater than they expected.


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We will get married!! Today, the typhoon went through Taiwan, it caused some serious damage for south Taiwan, we, I and my fiancee decided to take our wedding pictures.
Thanks for everyone for this tour, photographer, assistant photographer, visagiste, and one of my best friend- Mr.Shu. There will not be so many beautiful pictures without your attended.
In this trip, we visited a charming place-- Dan Shui Town, because I pretty like the old fasion building style, sea view and grasslands, I believe these places could help me build the image about the"romantic aura"and we can re-catch the memory that we met. I believe that "marriage" is a celestial decision; on the other words, when I walk into the marriage, I should devote myself into this family. It is undoubtedly a heavy duty for me, but it is also a sweety duty. Do my best! I always tell myself, the family is the crux of my life and I should hold it with my whole heart! I love you, Wanji!


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Earnings season's tearing through the health care sector, and Bristol-Myers Squibb (NYSE:BMY) and GlaxoSmithKline (NYSE:GSK) have faced off with investors this week. Bristol hit all the right points: The company saw its sales climb by 9% for the quarter, and drugs such as skin cancer treatment Yervoy are helping this big pharma staple overcome the residual effects of the patent cliff.
It's a different story for GlaxoSmithKline. The company's corruption probe in China has come back to haunt its finances. Glaxo's China sales dropped by more than 60% for the quarter, and the company's leadership isn't yet sure when the negative impact from China will end.
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WORTHING Rugby Club's ladies team overcame local rivals Lewes in their first league game of the year on Sunday.
The game was played at Worthing, owing to flooded pitches at Lewes and, in the previous league meeting, Worthing scored 65 points against a developing Lewes side.
However, four months into the season meant Worthing were not complacent in their approach and fully expected a tougher game.
Worthing kicked off and Lewes were met with a strong defence to their attack. After just a few phases of play, Worthing intercepted a pass and shot through to score their first points at the hands of centre Lauren Sandford.
Worthing's second try came in quick succession and from another interception. This time it was winger Sarah Wakeford, who snatched the ball out the air and got within five metres of the line, before scrum-half Rebecca Lovenbury scored.
Worthing led 10-0 after just ten minutes and then scored two more tries just before half-time.
The first came from centre Megan Priest, a regular on the Worthing scoresheet. She burst through the Lewes defence to put her team 15-0 ahead. The next try was scored by skipper Jo Wakeford just before the whistle, after a long period of scrappy play.
A third interception from Worthing sent Wakeford storming down the right wing to score in the corner to make the score 20-0 at half-time.
The second half was a more even contest. The sticky conditions took its toll on an over-worked pack of Worthing forwards.
Worthing still had most of the possession and, despite a flurry of attacks from Lewes which took them to within five metres of scoring, the home team stayed in control.
The final points of the game came from a second try for Priest to make the final score 25-0.
Worthing are now just a point behind second-placed Canterbury, with all to play for in the remaining games.
Worthing play Beccehamians at Roundstone Lane on Sunday, with a 2pm kick-off. New players are welcomed throughout the season with no experience necessary. Visit www.worthingrfc.com to get in touch with the team.
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Magaluf Ibiza
Expect all the best bits of the island, with 5000 likeminded party people!
It is a holiday. It is a festival. It is one week in the party destination of Magaluf that encompasses all its best elements.
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>>> A night at BCM - BCM is the biggest club in Europe, and showcases all the worlds biggest artists, from Tiesto, to N Dubz, to Calvin Harris, to Eric Prydz! Even better, they get FREE drinks all night!
>>> An MCP club pass- this will get people in to all the other main clubs in Magaluf (Boomerang, Bananas, Tokio Joes, Carwash and Honeys), with FREE drinks all night again!
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Brad HatfieldBrad Hatfield
Brad Hatfield is one of Boston's most prolific and popular musicians as well as an Emmy Award winning composer. If you've enjoyed the music of the world-renowned Boston Pops Orchestra under the direction of John Williams and Keith Lockhart, you've probably heard Brad playing the piano or keyboards with musicians such as: James Taylor, Yo Yo Ma, Bono of U2, kd lang, and Martina McBride, to name just a few.
His playing is featured on the Pop's Grammy nominated Celtic Album as well as A Splash of Pops. He was featured with the Utah Symphony under Keith Lockhart's direction and has also performed with the Boston Symphony under the direction of James DePriest.
If you watch TV or go to the movies, you've no doubt heard some of Brad's compositions or playing. That was Brad playing solo piano for the opening scene and end credits of Clint Eastwood's Mystic River. His own musical compositions have been heard on movies such as: Borat, Analyze This, The Break Up, and Cop Land, as well as the TV series: The Sopranos, Melrose Place, ER, CSI, Saturday Night Live, Walker: Texas Ranger, Touched by an Angel and many others…
When world-class musicians tour through Boston, they often call Brad to perform with them. Some of the artists that he has performed with include: Aretha Franklin, Gary Burton, Carly Simon, Andrea Bocelli, Rebecca Parris, Rita Moreno, and Mark Murphy.
Brad also maintains a busy touring schedule. He is currently a member of the George Russell Living Time Orchestra, and has done numerous European, U.S. and Asian tours during the past 18 years. He also tours with the Boston Pops Orchestra across America and the Far East.
Brad has toured the U.S. extensively with Mike Metheny including performances at the Montreal and Telluride jazz festivals. His composition, Incognito, was listed in R&R magazine as the Hot Track from Mike's #1 album Kaleidoscope on MCA Impulse.
He has also toured in Israel with fusion guitarist Mordy Ferber. He co-produced his album, Mr X., featuring Jack DeJohnette, Eddie Gomez and Dave Liebman and recently completed a follow-up CD featuring Michael Brecker and Peter Erskine
John EldridgeJohn Eldridge
I am a theater music director, pianist and conductor located outside Boston, MA and available for travel. My training, while rooted in the classical idiom, also includes jazz, blues, rock and popular styles as well as various multicultural genres. This background, combined with my sight-reading ability, makes me ideally suited for musical theater. In addition to my skills as a performer, I have extensive experience in collaborative piano, primarily with vocalists and musical theater/opera repertoire, and I am very good at teaching people how to sing well.
My recent experience has ranged from schools to community theaters and youth drama programs. I work well with children and adults alike, and have a passion for creative collaboration.
The Meadowlark TrioThe Meadowlark Trio
The Meadowlark Trio is deeply committed to new music and living composers, the Meadowlarks have commissioned multiple works from composers Nels Drue Daily, Stephanie Boyd, and Thomas Dougherty. They are also passionate about community outreach, and they regularly perform in schools, nursing homes, community centers, and hospitals. In Nebraska, they developed a chamber music program for the Lincoln Youth Orchestra.
The trioäó»s members hold degrees from Shepherd School of Music at Rice University, Boston University, Cleveland Institute of Music, and Carnegie Mellon University. Their main mentors have been members of the Chiara String Quartet, the Cavani String Quartet, Bayla Keyes, Daniel Shapiro, and Daniel Phillips.
In their free time, they enjoy making pizza from scratch, attempting to ski, and trekking foreign lands together.
Tim RayTim Ray
Perhaps best known as pianist for Lyle Lovett and Jane Siberry, Tim Rayäó»s wide-ranging skills as a soloist and accompanist have afforded him the opportunity to perform with legendary performers from all walks of music. Appearing on over 60 recordings to date, Tim has performed in concert with an extensive list of pop music icons, notably Bonnie Raitt, Aretha Franklin, Lou Reed, Rickie Lee Jones, Willie Nelson, kd lang and Soul Asylum. He regularly performs with leading figures in the jazz world, among them Gary Burton, Scott Hamilton, Eddie Daniels, Bucky Pizzarelli, Lewis Nash and Rufus Reid, and his classical credits include solo performances and concerts with Gunther Schuller, the Boston Modern Orchestra Project and the Boston Classical Orchestra.
Timäó»s busy schedule has included frequent tours throughout the Americas, Canada, Mexico, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East, and has included performances at Carnegie Hall, the White House, the Kennedy Center and the 1992 Presidential Inauguration. Tim has also performed repeatedly on äóěThe Tonight Showäóť (Johnny Carson, Jay Leno), äóěLate Night with David Letterman,äóť äóěThe Conan Oäó»Brien Show,äóť äóěAustin City Limitsäóť and various other national TV and radio broadcasts.
A sought-after arranger and composer, Tim has penned numerous original works for his trio Tre Corda, for solo piano, big band, string orchestra, and an extensive body of writing for jazz trio and quartet, some of which appear on Timäó»s own Ideas & Opinions, released in 1997 on Gunther Schulleräó»s GM Recordings label. Tim has recently released 2 more recordings of original music – Tre Corda with Greg Hopkins on trumpet and Eugene Friesen on cello, and the solo piano collection On My Own vol. 1 – New Works. He received a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, and taught jazz piano and improvisation for 8 years while on the faculty of the Berklee College of Music. Tim is currently on the faculty of the New England Conservatory of Music, and conducts workshops and clinics at colleges and high schools throughout the U.S. and Canada.
"…and that Tim Ray at the piano – he slays me every single night!" äóî Bonnie Raitt, on-mike from her 2002 summer tour with Tim.
"Tim surprises us on that song every night. And it's always a good surprise." äóî Lyle Lovett, on-mike from his 2003 summer tour with Tim.
"Tim Ray, a masterful pianist, always anticipates the next great thing to play." äóî Tucson Weekly, September 1998.


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Three weeks ago I had a knockdown dragout fight with God, which naturally God won. Undefeated, that God; see previous post. Undisputed World Champion with the belts and trophies to prove it.
Whew. I feel so much better!
On December 21, 2010, I watched a documentary film on Eva Kor, a Holocaust survivor who lives in Terre Haute, Indiana, where she founded a small museum called CANDLES, Children of Auschwitz Nazi Deadly Lab Experiments Survivors – a memorial to twins who were subjected to medical torture by Dr. Josef Mengele. Eva and her twin sister Miriam were two of the kids Mengele infected with deadly bacteria.
No one who wasn't there in Auschwitz can really know what this experience was like; our brains can barely comprehend the evil – and how much worse it was for children of little understanding, ripped from their parents' arms. It's the kind of ongoing trauma that scars a kid for life, like being the victim of pedophilia, child abuse, domestic violence.
Forty, fifty, sixty years later, the child keeps wondering, "Why?" "Why did no one stop him? Why does no one want to hear about it today?"
"Why did I survive? What do I do now?"
Mrs. Kor, who's now quite elderly, has made the most remarkable response imaginable, in the face of unmitigated evil.
She remembers the abuse; in her museum she tells the story she and her sister and hundreds of other children underwent; she speaks to school groups in high schools and universities; she's written a couple of books; and finally she came to the realization that to truly survive and thrive, she had to forgive her abuser.
The film "Forgiving Dr. Mengele" is the result.
My mother, brothers and I were/are survivors of domestic violence. My father wasn't the same as Dr. Mengele, although we have a few things in common with those twins. We didn't know there was worse evil in the world, though of course there was. Somehow we got through it. And though my life was horribly twisted for many decades by the experience, I did eventually grow wise enough to forgive my parents.
I thought that would be the end of my need to grieve, and to claim my right to exist. But it wasn't; I had more forgiving to do, which I only found out once I saw Mrs. Kor's movie.
I had to forgive the homophobes too – the kids who terrorized me in high school, the criminals who tortured Matthew Shepard, the despicable president Reagan who refused to utter the word AIDS until his friend Rock Hudson came down with it years later; the Falwells and Robertsons and other professional hatemongers who drive GLBT kids to suicide.
I had to forgive them all, so in my boxing with God, I was the one who was knocked down and dragged out.
I waited for several days before I wrote about this in my last post. I was exhausted from the fight. I wasn't sure my brain could properly understand what I went through in those days just before Christmas; I didn't know if I could communicate clearly to you.
I also had to wait a couple of weeks to tell my spiritual director Marcia about it. When you need to see your therapist it can be hard to wait for your next appointment. But I did wait and she responded wonderfully. I also lent her my copy of the video, which she showed to her friends, and soon we're all headed to Terre Haute to visit Mrs. Kor. If the timing works out we'll take my pal Leonardo with us, and if not, I'll drive him there myself.
In the meantime, have I been healed? It's early yet, but the preliminary results are quite striking. I have almost no desire to destroy myself with alcohol.
That is a huge advance, because I've been fighting booze for decades. Whether I was drunk or sober or cycling between the two, I have always had a constant impulse toward the slow suicide. Alcoholism killed one of my brothers; our mother died of lung cancer from smoking. I never had much desire to jump off a bridge, but the longer I lived the more entrenched the motive became to show "the world" how damaged I was by my childhood traumas.
Of course, the world pays no attention to such scripty messages and will cheerfully let you jump off a bridge or land on Skid Row if you must, but I was caught up with something to prove. Because of this, a simplistic approach like AA never did me any good, though God bless 'em for all the people they do help.
Instead I had to deal with my version of Dr. Mengele – and ultimately walk away from him, stop fighting and accept that This Is What Homo-Haters Do.
"Father, forgive them for they know not." I'm quoting Jesus here, people.
Besides being joyfully sober, I am eating up a storm these days; I've always been one of those people who doesn't eat when he drinks, which is a guaranteed way to make yourself pathetically, disgustingly sick. I'd go days without a morsel, then I'd pay and pay and pay.
As I write I'm eating a ham and cheese sandwich. I've gained ten glorious pounds just since Christmas and am up to 125!
My sleeping schedule is still screwed up; a drunk doesn't sleep, he passes out. But I'm paying attention to my body now, sleeping when I feel a need no matter what the hour, not regulating myself with drugs. Eventually I'll get back to a normal schedule as my body rights itself.
I still have an enormous backlog of postponed work to do; my bedroom office is a huge mess of papers I avoided deciding what to do with. The garage has more recycling in storage than Oscar Winski & Co. I have stacks of books I haven't started, much less finished.
BUT the dog is doing good; my sidewalks and porches are clear of snow; the dining room positively sparkles, and my Daily Office websites have been up to date no matter what; 1.1 million served!
Best of all for my mental health, I'm back to working on my next novel, a ten-year project almost. I have three new chapters since the first of the year. It's really hard to create something at the same time you're destroying yourself.
So I have a bit of a personal miracle to live through in this my 60th year. I have been or am being healed, not from my own act or decision but from being visited by a junior-grade angel from Terre Haute.
Eva Kor doesn't like it when people praise her; she isn't a hero, she's just a survivor of evil, a person who learned, over decades, what healing would actually be like and what it takes to get there.
She says it doesn't have anything to do with religion. So while mine does (I was writhing on the floor in front of a crucifix), hers doesn't. Fine with me.
She is still a bit of an angel to me because she has the courage to live her life in public, for others, as well as privately for herself and with her family. She has always understood that she and Miriam weren't the only ones the monster tried to murder. Therefore her remembrances and her working it out have had to be public too.
When Hercules and Pugh wanted to make a movie, she went along with it, in case it would help someone else.
This hasn't prevented public criticism or repeated anti-Semitic attacks, but she is stronger than her seeming enemies. The funniest scene in the movie recounts her attempts to get a job as a real estate agent. She went to Realtor school, studied hard, graduated easily, then no one in Terre Haute would hire her; they'd hire less qualified people, but not her. And they'd lie about it; they'd give excuses. She has an Eastern European accent, but really it was more that she was damaged goods, a Holocaust survivor and public about it, which broke the rules about how to be Invisibly Jewish in smalltown Indiana. So all the real estate companies threw up roadblocks—which she took one look at and finally knocked down. "I survived Auschwitz," she tells her interviewer. "They think I can't sell real estate?"
You could say she has an iron will, but I think her quest has always been more personal than that; how she can survive, and especially how to honor her twin sister Miriam, who died several years ago of the lingering effects of Mengele's Nazi Deadly Lab Experiments.
How does a victim of pedophilia, child abuse, rape or domestic violence—or organized racism-for-profit—hang onto life, cope, grow and eventually come to terms with it all, so she can become her own true self?
Mrs. Kor's answer is that she found a way for herself through forgiveness. She doesn't say everyone has to (and there are plenty of people who utterly refuse), but she does tell the understanding she came to.
I am the one who hears echoes of Jesus in her gospel: "Love thine enemies. Do good to those who persecute you."
If you still have an old giant hurt in your soul that you cannot escape, ask yourself a simple question: Who else do I have to forgive?
I thought I'd let go of my big trauma, but it turned out I was wrong, I still had big work to do. Three weeks later, without conscious effort on my part, I happily report that I am becoming free.++
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