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Battery inefficiency is one of the many drawbacks of 'green' energy. Batteries have been a problem for centuries. They have never performed all that well, even with today's advanced technology.
This does not refer to old-fashioned car batteries, computer batteries, flashlight batteries or the battery in your cell phone which all work well storing small amounts of power under controlled conditions.
This inefficiency refers to the large-capacity batteries that must absorb and then disperse large amounts of electricity repeatedly every single day, as the batteries for solar panels would need to do or as the batteries in electric cars need to do.
The Nikitas3.com theory is this: Batteries don't work well because electricity is a 'dynamic' type of energy. Electricity does not "store" well like gasoline in a tank.
Electricity needs to keep flowing as it does flow through the wires after it is generated in power plants. It flows directly from the power plant to an endpoint where it is consumed in a refrigerator, light bulb, electric motor, etc. It is never "stored" anywhere in a battery. Now The Daily Caller has reported:
Exorbitant battery storage costs prevent rooftop solar installations from paying for themselves in the long run, making home energy storage an impractical use for average consumers in the foreseeable future, a new study determined.
As the renewable energy industry continues to draw more interest from environmentally conscious consumers, battery storage technology is becoming more sought after as a means to harness energy for future consumption. For example, solar panel batteries can store excess energy captured during the daytime and use that energy to keep the lights on after the sun goes down. Consumers are encouraged to purchase solar panels with promises that, in the long run, they will save money on monthly electrical bills.
However, a study released Monday by the Global Warming Policy Foundation revealed that battery storage is simply too costly to provide long-term financial benefit.
This manifests itself in many ways not only in solar panels but also in electric cars. For instance:
*Electric cars have limited driving range, some as little as 40 miles. They then require many hours to charge up versus a few minutes at the gas pump. This limits their value in everyday use.
*One of the Tesla Motors electric cars is reported to have a 1,300 lb. battery for a longer driving range of close to 300 miles. This is a huge amount of dead weight that has to be hauled around every mile that the car travels.
A gasoline engine for the same-sized car weighs 350 lbs. Add another 50 lbs. average for gasoline in the tank and the extra 900 lbs. for the battery is a massive drag on the car's efficiency and wastes a large amount of energy.
*Electric cars are extremely inefficient in their basic operation. Nikitas3.com calculates that an electric car uses 2 to 4 times as much energy as a gasoline-powered car to cover the same distance.
This happens since electricity is a highly "refined" energy resource and it is an established fact of physics that 'it consumes energy to refine energy'.
*In frigid climates Nikitas3.com estimates that an electric car can use up to 8 times as much energy as a gasoline car since a battery can lose half of its power in very cold weather.
All of this extra energy consumption is obviously bad for the environment and negates any advantage of electric cars.
*The manufacture of batteries, particularly the new lithium batteries, is bad for the environment.
*These high-capacity batteries can fail from improper charging and are expensive to replace. The green' media never discuss this issue or any other shortcomings of electric cars.
Here is something else that 'greenies' don't want you to know about:
Solar panels become less efficient over time, and they eventually wear out and need to be replaced. Solar panels contain many toxic elements. They also operate less efficiently in extremely hot places like sunny Arizona where 'greenies' have claimed that they are most useful. The fact is that virtually all machines, from solar panels to automobile engines, work better under cool conditions.
We should halt the endless taxpayer subsidies of solar energy and electric cars and battery technology. If they can work efficiently after further experimentation then they can certainly be sold in the free market without subsidies.
'Greenie' Commits Bizarre Suicide
Fox News reports:
A "green" activist who was a pioneering lawyer for gay and transgender rights … committed suicide by setting himself on fire Saturday morning in Brooklyn's Prospect Park in a grisly act of protest against the ecological destruction of the Earth.
David Buckel, 60, left behind a charred corpse and a typed suicide note that said he was burning himself to death using "fossil fuel" to reflect how mankind was likewise killing itself, police sources said.
… "Most humans on the planet now breathe air made unhealthy by fossil fuels, and many die early deaths as a result," Buckel wrote in his note, which he also sent to the New York Times. "My early death by fossil fuel reflects what we are doing to ourselves." … Passers-by were horrified to see Buckel's burned remains.
This is crazy. This guy obviously had many problems besides his 'green' concerns. For this guy to kill himself in such a gruesome way and to leave his body exposed for all to see, including possibly children on a Saturday morning at the park, is really horrific. It makes you wonder what kind of person this was to begin with.
Environmentalism indeed has a long history of attracting zealots. The Unabomber wrote a manifesto that sounded like Al Gore's book Earth In the Balance.
James Lee was an eco-terrorist who in 2010 was shot by police at the Discovery Channel headquarters after taking hostages and leaving rambling messages protesting overpopulation and the need to stop humans from breeding "any more disgusting human babies."
And now we have Buckel and millions of others. We know how radical these people can be, even our neighbors, with their fringe ideas and end-of-the-world rhetoric. Some even become violent and destroy property.
In fact our so-called 'fossil fuels' have been the greatest gift to mankind of all. The use of oil, coal, natural gas and nuclear power has vastly increased our standard of living and our happiness and well-being, eliminating much of the backbreaking toil that was needed to survive for centuries.
But the 'greenies' never consider this reality. They only focus on the negative.
Just look at how these 'green' militants dress up in these weird protest costumes and use lies and "junk science" and emotion to make their case, and have convinced tens of millions of people that we must fear every speck of pollution.
This has been going on since the 1960s. Nikitas3.com remembers being frightened by many of the 'green' scare stories from the first 'earth day' in 1970. And if you want to see how laughable these dire predictions were, look at the list at the end of this commentary.
Nikitas3.com grew up in the 1950s and 1960s when everything was polluted – the land, the air, the rivers. During those decades there was more toxic pollution in the United States than in any other place or time in the history of the world. And that pollution was concentrated in major population centers which were centers of economic activity, like the city that Nikitas3.com grew up in.
Nikitas3.com grew up in a house with lead paint inside and out. Nikitas3.com grew up in a town that was polluted by nearby factories. Our air was polluted with lead from leaded gasoline burned in thousands of local cars. Paper factories dumped various colored waste into the rivers. Nikitas3.com grew up in a house where the basement had heating pipes that were wrapped in crumbling, exposed asbestos insulation.
We Baby Boomers should all have been dead long ago, according to extremist 'green' rhetoric. Yet our Baby Boom generation remembers happy youths and is living some of the longest and most prosperous lives ever.
Now the Snowflake Generation, the children of the militant 'green' Baby Boomers, is totally frightened about every micron of pollution. This adds to their inability to enjoy life, which is what environmentalists want – to instill fear and make people angry and emotional about their very survival. This is what creates people like David Buckel.
And just to remind you about the fraud from the enviro movement at the highest levels here is a doomsday list from top eco-leaders. Every one of these predictions made on the first so-called "earth day" in 1970 has been proven spectacularly and laughably wrong (thanks to Reason.com for this list):
1. "Civilization will end within 15 or 30 years unless immediate action is taken against problems facing mankind." — Harvard biologist George Wald
2. "We are in an environmental crisis which threatens the survival of this nation, and of the world as a suitable place of human habitation." — Washington University biologist Barry Commoner
3. "Man must stop pollution and conserve his resources, not merely to enhance existence but to save the race from intolerable deterioration and possible extinction." — New York Times editorial
4. "Population will inevitably and completely outstrip whatever small increases in food supplies we make. The death rate will increase until at least 100-200 million people per year will be starving to death during the next ten years." — Stanford University biologist Paul Ehrlich
5. "Most of the people who are going to die in the greatest cataclysm in the history of man have already been born… [By 1975] some experts feel that food shortages will have escalated the present level of world hunger and starvation into famines of unbelievable proportions. Other experts, more optimistic, think the ultimate food-population collision will not occur until the decade of the 1980s." — Paul Ehrlich
6. "It is already too late to avoid mass starvation," — Denis Hayes, Chief organizer for Earth Day
7. "Demographers agree almost unanimously on the following grim timetable: by 1975 widespread famines will begin in India; these will spread by 1990 to include all of India, Pakistan, China and the Near East, Africa. By the year 2000, or conceivably sooner, South and Central America will exist under famine conditions…. By the year 2000, thirty years from now, the entire world, with the exception of Western Europe, North America, and Australia, will be in famine." — North Texas State University professor Peter Gunter
8. "In a decade, urban dwellers will have to wear gas masks to survive air pollution… by 1985 air pollution will have reduced the amount of sunlight reaching earth by one half." — Life magazine
9. "At the present rate of nitrogen buildup, it's only a matter of time before light will be filtered out of the atmosphere and none of our land will be usable." — Ecologist Kenneth Watt
10. "Air pollution…is certainly going to take hundreds of thousands of lives in the next few years alone." — Paul Ehrlich
11. "By the year 2000, if present trends continue, we will be using up crude oil at such a rate… that there won't be any more crude oil. You'll drive up to the pump and say, 'Fill 'er up, buddy,' and he'll say, 'I am very sorry, there isn't any.'" — Ecologist Kenneth Watt
12. "[One] theory assumes that the earth's cloud cover will continue to thicken as more dust, fumes, and water vapor are belched into the atmosphere by industrial smokestacks and jet planes. Screened from the sun's heat, the planet will cool, the water vapor will fall and freeze, and a new Ice Age will be born." — Newsweek magazine
13. "The world has been chilling sharply for about twenty years. If present trends continue, the world will be about four degrees colder for the global mean temperature in 1990, but eleven degrees colder in the year 2000. This is about twice what it would take to put us into an ice age." — Kenneth Watt
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Joanna Krupa is taking to her Bravo Blog to reveal that she wants to move forward with her enemy, Adriana de Moura. Joanna believes everyone deserves a second chance, and she wants to see if Adriana will prove her wrong. Joanna also talks about why she was so shocked Romain asked her to sign a prenup.
Joanna writes, "Here I am, super excited to spend most of my time in Miami to plan the wedding, and he throws me this bombshell! I understand why people sign prenups if one person is more successful than the other. But from the moment Romain and I got engaged, we said our love is much stronger than a prenup and there is no reason to sign one, since we are equally successful. Never in my life would I expect him to hit me with this unpleasant surprise. Trust me, I won't give in without a fight.
I am not shocked at all about how the meeting with Lea and Adriana went. It seems Adriana loves to put the blame on everyone else but herself. I experienced that with her last year, and it seems that Lea is getting a taste of the real Adriana. Adriana turned everything on Lea, as if she is the one that did something wrong here, instead of just being grateful for Lea being a good, loyal friend to someone that she thought was a struggling single mom.
I'm sure things with Lea would get better quickly and they would have moved past this if Adriana would stop being so stubborn and just take responsibility for her lies…"Listen, I was married, I didn't tell you for whatever reason at that moment, and I am truly sorry and want us to work this out." Instead, she makes a million excuses and still tries to deny she is married, which just makes things worse for Lea ever forgiving her.
If you made a mistake in life just own up to it, be sincere, and apologize. Lea's not a robot. She's a human being with feelings, like all of us. But she also has a big heart, and I am sure she would just forgive Adriana if Adriana just came over and told her she is truly sorry. Instead, she attacks Lea, which I am not surprised about, because it reminds me of the attacks on me last season. But I want to move forward with Adriana and give her a chance to prove herself wrong, as everyone deserves a second chance if they truly mean it."
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What happens when this happens?
I guess we were powerless! Computers went on battery mode but with modem & router down, no work could be submitted. (I work from home.) *sshhh* good valid excuse for a short break.
But … the short break became a long break, which I later, on a bicycle investigation, discovered was due to a pole break.
Neighbors were in a quandary – laundry half-done & food in oven half cooked. (I ignored the "air-conditioners not working & it's warm complaints".)
We were all powerless and now depended on the power company to save us from modern day 'Hell'. Came they did, police cordoned off the streets affected and this looked like a 6-7hr job.
7 hours later … I decided to pull out the emergency cooker to churn out a 'Throw Anything In (& hope for the best) Fried Rice".
So us Powerless Beings had candlelight dinner, savouring driveway-cooked "Anything-In Fried Rice", still quite cold beers from the fridge, Men-At-Work music from Pandora via cellphone… can't complain.
Variety is the Spice of Life ~That is my motto when things are not the norm.


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Four members of the Chino Valley (Calif.) Unified school board have been ordered to pay a total of nearly $203,000 in fees for lawyers that mounted a challenge to the board's practice of injecting prayers and Bible readings into meetings.
The San Bernardino Sun reports that U.S. District Judge Jesus Bernal, who ruled in February in that the board's actions were improper, ordered board president Andrew Cruz and board members James Na, Irene Hernandez-Blair and Sylvio Orzco to pay a total of $202,971.70 to the Freedom From Religion Foundation for attorney fees and other costs.
Bernal found the board members' "policy and custom of reciting prayers, Bible readings, and proselytizing at Board meetings, constitute unconstitutional government endorsements of religion in violation of plaintiffs' First Amendment rights."
The Freedom From Religion Foundation, a Wisconsin-based group, sued the district in 2014 over the prayer issue on behalf of anonymous district staff, students and community members.
The four members of the school board weren't just opening meetings with a prayer — something that many government agencies do — but often repeatedly stopped meetings to make long expressions of their faith, according to regular meeting attendees.
"Our plaintiffs told us the board proceedings were more like a church service than a school board meeting," Foundation Co-President Annie Laurie Gaylor said after the judge's February decision. "So my reaction to the ruling is, 'Hallelujah!'"


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Westlake Boys' High School's incredible record of producing top sporting talent isn't showing signs of slowing down any time soon, with four students off to next month's Youth Olympics in Argentina.
Having produced the likes of rower Mike Stanley, sailor Dean Barker and Kiwi basketball great Kirk Penney just to name a few, 17-year old discus thrower Connor Bell could be the next Westlake prodigy to shine on the world stage.
After winning gold at the Youth Commonwealth Games last year, Bell has been mentored by Dame Valerie Adams, as the Olympic champion took time out following the birth of daughter, Kimoana.
"It was a real once in a lifetime sort of experience," he told 1 NEWS.
Bell is just one of the quartet selected for the games, a New Zealand record for one school, and with all four competing in different sports, likely a world first too.
Now working as Westlake director of sport, former Zimbabwe cricketer and ex-Auckland coach Paul Strang spoke of the quartet's achievement.
"If that's the case, we're very proud of that," he said.
"We're very proud of the boys actually, because we know how much hard work they put in.
"I do hope they find that balance between performing to their best, and just taking time to smell the roses and enjoy the experiences and the sights and being part of a team."
But while they might be looking forward to competing in Argentina, something else has caught they boys' eyes ahead of their South American adventure.
"I've heard Argentinians do a good steak, so I'll be feeding up in the buffet a lot of the time," Bell said.


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Needy families receive food, toys
WHITTIER - Three-hundred low-income families from Whittier received holiday food baskets and toys at a charitable event Dec. 21 at the Community Resource Center in South Whittier.The event was co-sponsored by Los Angeles County supervisors Gloria Molina and Don Knabe, along with several county agencies and community groups. Stephanie Talavera, a South Whittier resident, organized her family and friends to collect canned goods to fill the food boxes. "Our goal as a family is to be civically engaged in our community in order to build strong relationships," said Talavera.
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Archive for Other Writing I Do
THE REACTION IS THE REASON: my fat body and the slut (r)evolution poster
TERRIBLE SEX TIPS: "10 Kinds of Sex to Have This Summer"
TERRIBLE SEX TIPS: "8 orgasmic positions YOU MUST TRY"
Some sex positions have stuck in the public consciousness like wedding confetti to a sweaty ass in the back of the church. These positions are not always named correctly—with the right person, for example, "missionary" position is anything but boring or doctrinal—and they're not necessarily good for everyone, depending on who has the bad knees in the couple, but you could name a few and most people would know what you were talking about.
Then there are the things you discover with your lover(s) that you don't know any names for, they're just positions that you find yourselves in as you roll around in the bed, or on the carpet, or yeah, on the pew in the back of the church. Later, when you tell your closest friends about it, they may say, oh yeah, I like that one, but in the moment, when you have a BING BING BING thrilling through your entire body, you don't have a name for it, you don't know how you got there, it might even feel like there is an extra pair of hands in there, it feels so good, but you're sure as shit that you will remember how to get there later.
And THEN there are the positions that WomensHealthMag.com comes up with, in articles like "8 Orgasmic Positions YOU MUST TRY".
First of all, any headline title that includes the words "MUST" or "SHOULD", I tune out immediately. I don't have to do a goddamn thing, is my rebellious streak's automatic response. This is part of making women feel inadequate with what they are already doing in sex, or like they're falling behind on the sexual trends. I guess the phrasing works, or else they wouldn't use it, but I hate that it does.
Secondly, this is Women's Health Magazine. The hard-copy version of it is all "flatten those abs" or "tone those thighs", so it's not actually "health", it's just weight loss sublimated into the endless pursuit of a mirage of health. They're not particularly interested in how accessible their "new" sexual positions are; if you can't do them, then you're obviously not healthy enough (e.g. skinny enough) to be up with the trends.
Articles like this are aspirational Kama Sutras. "The Backbend"? Really? In that position, just how much do you think you can adjust the pacing of the thrusts? (This position also features the most blandly terrifying sentence I have ever read in a sex-tip article: "Just be careful not to bend the penis back too far." YIKES.) Because of where this article appears, it can't actually show more detailed logistics or talk about it more graphically than "penetration" or "depth." So when the description for the "Pop-Up" position articulates in great detail how the knees should be arranged, but doesn't say anything about how, uh, penetration happens, the reader is left to put the puzzle of flesh together in their mind and go, huh, but how does…? Answer: it probably doesn't.
Or how about the positions that need special equipment, like an exercise ball? If you don't own an exercise ball, THIS IS NOT FOR YOU. Speaking for myself, I am totally fine with that. I did some few workouts on exercise balls in my dancing days, and holy fuck, that's a lot of balance and maneuvering. If you try to lie back and get properly shtupped, you are going to fall RIGHT off, I don't care how carefully you position your hands on either side. (Let go of the floor to pull him in? NOT BLOODY LIKELY.) Or a rocking chair. Where are you gonna get that kind of sturdy chair? Even if you take into account the fact that Women's Health Mag is mostly promoting the idea of women under 120 pounds, I don't think even Cracker Barrel's deluxe models are going to stand up to that kind of treatment.
I feel like positions get labeled so that they can more easily fit into someone's sexual curriculum or, more likely, the next volume of sex positions from Women's Health Magazine. You see this approach repeated in Men's Health Magazine, and Maxim, and Cosmo, and... All the ways that we can interlock flesh become narrowed down to impractical and vague listicles for people who are already acrobats.
For the rest of us… I'm inclined to think that all we really need to have a lot of fun is curiosity, openness, and basic safety guidelines (don't put your weight to bear without checking, check in frequently about comfort and adjust as necessary). Sex is not a static posture, a single pose—except perhaps for the most formal of exhibitionists or sadists—sex is a moving, sweating, panting process. It's a dance; it's a journey. We are wrestling our way through it, and not really stopping in any one place. Our needs for what comes out of sex may change from moment to moment.
In other words, the only sex position We Must Try is mouth closed, ears open, and nerve endings at the ready, waiting to see what happens next.
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TERRIBLE SEX TIPS: "how to role-play"
I read the terrible sex-tip articles, so you don't have to.
Because trust me: they're terrible. I read them for the same reason that I read Fifty Shades of Grey: I want to know what is out there in the socio-sexual zeitgeist. What are people being told they should know or learn about sex? What crap is being floated around about how to better fuck?
It's the same terrible crap all the damn time, too. "12 ways to suck his cock"? "Six new positions to try tonight in the car"? We all know there's a heavy rotation of the same material, and I've either done them OR I've heard about them and said hahahahahaha, RIGHT. But every now and then a sex-tip article pops up that makes me so fucking angry! Amused, but ANGRY! Up until now, all I've done is mock these tedious bits in a status update, because I figured I don't really have the expertise to critique them in any substantial way. (I think I tend to dismiss my own sexual knowledge in any area other than phone sex, because I don't have any formal training in it. Maybe I should get over that.)
But a week or two ago one of those terrible articles came through my FB feed, and I found myself chomping at the bit to reply. It went straight to the heart of my own personal and professional experience, and I'm sorry, my friends, I feel the need to tear it apart point by cheesy, deluded, terrible point. (I won't, however, link to it.)
The title itself was problematic: How To Role Play In The Bedroom Without Feeling Embarrassed, Because Slipping Into Character Doesn't Have To Feel Fake. Way to set us up for feeling weird, unnamed online publication. By making "embarrassed" or "fake" the default emotions that your readers must feel, the ones that we are already feeling or would be most likely to fall into, you … fuck, you sound so negative!
The beginning of the article included this: "Consider how difficult it can be to let your guard down and be comfortable with yourself during sex. Perhaps the answer is to be someone else entirely." But the article ended with a suggestion to BE YOURSELF. Which one is it, then?
The whole piece was full of feel-good psycho-babble like that. "Injecting your own personality into your new role will help ease you into character," says <redacted expert> "Injecting", WTF. What a shitty metaphor: role play is a game, or an art, not a medical procedure. What does that even mean, in a sexual/emotional context? Are we somehow supposed to wipe our personalities clean to get the sexy new roles fully entrenched, and then, like, put bits of ourselves back in? This sounds frightening, not encouraging.
The key, said the author, is to "let your inhibitions take the night off and just have fun." OH, OKAY THAT'S EASY ENOUGH THEN. She went on to say, "Chances are your characters will be rather hilarious!" Sure, forget the potential for depth and excitement and profound sexual enjoyment. Go for the fucking laugh track.
A good portion of the suggestions were strictly surface, focusing on external elements like clothing, location, and visual/aural overload (lights off, loud music on). I can see the point of clothing and maybe location, you know, if the kids' bedtime is putting a crimp on your ability to properly vocalize, but turning off the lights? Personally I need to be able to get in the zone for role play, and for me that means being able to see the eyes of the person I'm playing with.
The article suggested other tactics that, in my experience, work directly against getting to the core of role play, like working out a script way in advance, apparently with lines too. Or just push past your discomfort! "If you're feeling nervous or embarrassed, feel free to acknowledge the discomfort and say you're feeling a little awkward or a little nervous — but it's important to try to move past it and jump right into the task at hand, much like you would if you were nervous about giving a speech or presentation in front of an audience." Yet another inauspicious framing. My mind leaps straight to powerpoint lectures in a glass-walled conference room. Don't make me think about that! We're supposed to be talking about sexy things here!
And then the bullet point on dirty talk? It felt like actor coaching … "Ease yourself into the role by whispering your 'character's' lines. The hushed tones combined with the background music will likely ease your self consciousness, says <expert redacted>."
Okay, you know what will ease your self-consciousness? Trusting your partner and treating it like a joyful, juicy game. I am all in favor of "faking it 'til you make it", but I feel like that's for public environments. In the bedroom, faking it—even in the service of supposedly sexy role-playing—just adds more distance between yourself and "the audience". Already there is so much in this piece that posits partner as audience, and role play as performance, and obviously, with the idea of performance comes performance pressure.
In a one-on-one encounter, there is no audience (except in some post-modern, performative sense, which fuck it, I'm definitely not trained in). There are no performers. There are partners in the game, in which everyone can win. For best results, role-play needs to be less about "roles" and more about PLAY.
<sigh> I need to get my ass in gear and get my workshop going. Because I feel SO STRONGLY that a) people could definitely learn more about role playing and dirty talk, but b) what is out here on the subject is mostly WHOA, really fucking terrible.
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I wish some of my callers were braver
FIFTY SHADES OF GREY and the commodification of kink (fuck, another rant)
FULL DISCLOSURE: I have some class issues.
As some writers have already noted, a big part of the draw of Fifty Shades of Grey is not the kink or sex, it's the bling. If you extract the narrative (not difficult) and the dialog (if only we could), the Fifty Shades movie is basically a video catalog for some of the posh things that enough cash can get you. (I mean, in addition to enhanced tracking capabilities and support staff who won't even blink at your order to tow and sell the car of the girl you're stalking.)
In both the movie and the book, the protagonist Ana—the blank-slate character against whom viewers/readers can easily project themselves—comes from a humbler background, not poor, just, you know, humbler. An everyday person. Her life B.C. (Before Christian) is in bright colors and jumbled chaos. It's your standard college bohemia, well, faux-hemia, because it's the movies and any realer will take you out of rom-com territory. But you know, Ana has to work at a hardware store. Wow. Much humble, so relate.
Christian, on the other hand, has the money. He has all the money, and he lavishes it on his monochrome, pristine cars and watches and wardrobe and apartment, and on his equally monochrome and oddly sterile Red Room (OF PAAAAAIN). Christian gushes wealth all over Ana, like, drips it on her in scene after scene of symbolic "money shots". If not the strongest factor for Fifty Shades' popularity, the millionaire porn aspect is definitely in the top three, because poor girl/rich man has been a solid weapon in the romance-writing arsenal since before Pride and Prejudice.
At the same time, everyday people don't really trust posh nobs, so showing Christian's money is a handy shortcut for putting him in the "Do Not Trust" category. Not that there are not many other red flags a-flying in this film—SO MANY RED FLAGS—but Christian's wealth and willingness to use it in pursuit of his "specialized interest" absolutely nail the stereotype to the highly polished mahogany table: very wealthy people are self-interested and amoral.
My knee-jerk socialist lizard brain says, "Well, duh," and we could certainly discuss how massive quantities of money that one didn't earn oneself could have a corrupting influence in one's life, but again we'd come back to the problematic equation that kink = corruption and WHY is this movie promoting that again? Anyway, I'm more interested in other questions, like how Christian's kink isn't really challenging a goddamn thing. It's set dressing. Very little of that expensive shit hanging on the walls gets used, and anyway, Ana doesn't want it.
Unlike Christian, who supposedly needs his elite brand of BDSM to be satisfied, Ana doesn't need the expensive items. She's just folks, remember? She doesn't need leather restraints and a set of antique Japanese canes (well, that's how they're racked up in the film, fucking orientalist bullshit) and an elaborate drop-down support structure for standing/hanging bondage. She doesn't need any of that. She just wants to touch Christian without asking permission. And go out to a movie. And get sensually eaten out on a regular basis. You know, the "normal relationship" things. None of that posh pervy stuff, with all the gear.
The thing is, no one NEEDS all that gear. Sure, if you have the resources and find it fun, you prioritize it as part of the budget, but consumption of kink goods is higher up on Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs. It just is. You can frequent Home Depot and the dollar store, NOT to stalk the love object of your dreams and aggressively buy suggestive items at them, but to actually stock up on playthings on the cheap because that's what poor pervs have to do. We repurpose wooden rulers and thrift-store belts and clothes pegs, because that's what you do.
But that approach doesn't sell product, and that is part of what Fifty Shades of Grey needs to do. It is an aspirational film, heavily tied to the look, the accoutrements of kink. The audience has plenty to strive for; here is kink as a sign of class. Not too much. Not too hard.
That's the great thing about a video catalog: you don't need to dig deep in order to shop around.
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The story continues with the second journal. This is an entry from her personal diary, by Elizabeth Lancaster Carsey 80-years-ago. Click here to read more.
No post today
Here's what else was happening 80-years-ago today:
Lou Gehrig signed a new contract with the New York Yankees for $36,000 plus a $750 signing bonus, making him the highest-paid player in baseball.
Amelia Earhart's plane crashed as she attempted to take off in Honolulu. Earhart and her two passengers escaped injury
A new Saturday Evening Post and New Yorker Magazine


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Well, how are you all, right now am in hurry, so just sharing with you something really really really lovely and excited - its none other than a pair of nude Peep toes by Soul (its our local brand), I want to do a detail post on it but unfortunatly, i cant wait to work further on it, and very much excited to share this love with you.
This pair was in my Wish list since last 3 months, and i visited that shope but was doubted to buy it due to high heel, actully currently i have some problem with my right foot's middle finger due to this i am avoiding to buy any open/fancy or high heel, Although its price was not much its Rs. 1999/- but i was hesitating to take risk with my damage finger, but last month i went to Liberty market, Lahore with my collegues, she want to give her shoes to a cobbler, and suddenly i saw Soul's outlet & entered the shope just to see that shoes, and automatically i picked this Peep toe, when i was checking shoes, the salesman gave me a sudden SHOCK, he said "mam, kindly buy this shoes as its on sale". :O oh God really, how much, he said its only for Rs. 500 (almost 6$) :D , i Reapeated my question 3 times (1-How much is this?, 2-whats the price of this shoes, 3-Whats the Last price of this shoes?) (for this my colleges smiles alot on me :O, really )Ting.. suddenly i feel the music of bells surronding me .... la la la la
I picked this shoes without wasting any single micro second. and now its me. when i wore it i feel, am flying in the air, lol.... silly....he he he he
Its available in two colors combo, this nude and Black with mustard outline (i already had a lot of collection in black and silver and this is my first nude love.Yes one more thing this is very very comfortable as well...
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Members of the Mississippi Homemaker Volunteers in Kemper County have been busy spreading holiday cheer this week.
Members gathered at the MS Care Center of DeKalb Tuesday morning to decorate the Christmas tree as a part of their community service.
Ornaments of all kind adorn the tree that beautifully stands in the lobby of the care center.
In addition to decorating the Christmas tree, gifts were also donated to all the residents of the center.
This is just one of the many projects that Kemper County Homemakers does throughout the year.
If you are interested in knowing more about this organization please contact Kemper County Extension office at 601-743-2837.


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Flexible Work Schedules Most Desired Summer Benefit, Survey Shows
(NEW YORK) -- As the lazy, hazy days of summer draw near, a new OfficeTeam survey of employees finds flexible work schedules and leaving work early on Fridays are the most coveted summer benefits.
Forty-one percent of the survey participants ranked flexible work schedules as the summer benefit they desired the most. Twenty-eight percent said leaving early on Fridays was the summer perk they would most like to have.
Workers were asked, "Which of the following summer benefits would you most like to have?" They answered:
-- Flexible schedules, 41 percent
-- Leave early on Fridays, 28 percent
-- Activities such as a company picnic or potluck, 11 percent
-- More relaxed dress code, 5 percent
-- Other, 7 percent
-- Don't know/No answer, 9 percent
The responses do not total 100 percent due to rounding.
The survey also finds that many managers are responding to their employees' summer wishes. HR managers were asked, "Which, if any, of the following summer benefits are offered at your company?" They responded:
-- Flexible schedules, 75 percent
-- Leave early on Fridays, 63 percent
-- More relaxed dress code, 57 percent
-- Activities such as a company picnic or potluck, 28 percent
-- None/Nothing offered, 6 percent
-- Don't know, 9 percent
The OfficeTeam survey involved 449 working adults 18 years of age or older and 515 human resources managers.
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Sony Pictures shuffle their release dates
Sony Pictures have updated their release calendar with a few films making the move to new dates, "Slender Man" will be moving forward two weeks from August 24th to August 10th, with "Searching" starring John Cho has moved to a limited release on August 23rd and will go wide a week later on August 31st. Along with these movies shifting, there has also been some very high profile moves too, Quentin Tarantino's "Once Upon A Time In Hollywood" has moved from August 9th, 2019 to now releasing July 26th of the same year.
Also with some moves, there has been some official dates added to films that previously didn't have them. "Little Women" from Greta Gerwig with the star-studded cast will hit cinemas Christmas day 2019, the recently announced highly anticipated "Zombieland 2" will be releasing on October 11th, 2019, roughly a decade after the original hit the big screen.
Another film getting a release date is "Bloodshot", the upcoming adaptation of the Valiant Comics series will debut on the big screen February 21st, 2020 and will star Vin Diesel in the titular role.


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Vitae Programme 2017/18
The Vitae Annual Programme aims to continuously advance the researcher development profession to realise the potential of researchers through collaboration, innovation and reflecting sector needs.
The Annual Programme addresses the needs of our membership and therefore adds value to the sector as a whole; organisations and researchers at all levels. It achieves this by informing and catalysing our community, enabling networking and sharing of best practice to create efficiencies in the pursuit of excellence in researcher development for the research base.
'Focus on' themes for researchers
Focus on: Getting started during September
- Share popular content to help new researchers make the best start with their doctorate or research contract
- Join the Twitter #Vitaechat
- For staff supporting researchers, look out for highlights from the Vitae Researcher Development International Conference 2017, 11 & 12 September, Birmingham
Focus on: An inclusive research environment from October to December
- Consider inclusivity in the research environment to ensure that 'Every Researcher Counts'
- Listen to our podcast for researchers recorded at the Vitae Researcher Development International Conference 2017
- Ask the experts in our live #Vitaechat
Focus on: Realising your potential from January to March
- Support researchers to see the value of professional development
- Engage researchers in your development more effectively and in a sustainable way
- Look out for our new collaborative 'How to . . .' series for researchers
Focus on: Research leadership, independence and management from April to June
- Examine what it takes for early-to-mid-career researchers to reach the next level in an academic career
- Researchers can join our live online #Vitaehangout and #Vitaechat for expert opinions and Q&A on the topic
Focus on: Careers beyond academia from July to August
- Ask 'what do researchers do next?' and 'how can you achieve your career goals?'
- Connect with peers and get advice through our careers surgery webinar series and live #Vitaechat
Continuing professional development for researcher developers
Vitae Connections
Professional and career development for researcher developers
- Updates and next steps from the Vitae Mentoring for Researcher Developers pilot
- A 'Getting to Grips' event in the summer for staff with new responsibility for researcher development www.vitae.ac.uk/gettingtogrips2018
- New reports and resources to help researcher developers keep up to date with current trends and policy, and engage their researchers on the 'Focus On' themes www.vitae.ac.uk/focus-on
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Look out for national and international opportunities to share practice, discuss challenges and opportunities, and engage with Vitae on trends and priorities in researcher development
- Join our practice-sharing event in January 2018
- From February to May 2018, look out for our annual series of regionally hosted network meetings. Free to members, the aim of these is to facilitate networking and practice-sharing amongst the staff based at Vitae member organisations. They are also a key way to influence the Annual Programme for the coming year
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happy friday! this week over at PCC mary wants us to shake rattle and roll using a stamped , digi or cricut image of a skeleton or skull and crossbones..BUT instead of spooky CUTE :) be sure to go check out the rest of the DTs fun projects :)
i made a lil card and candy gift bag for this weeks project.
i used my cricut and hello kitty cartridge. isnt kitty so precious in her kitty costume :) i used the card feature for her. (4 inches). i made a shadow cut in black for her back side, now ya gotta glue her front and back tail together, just open the card to see where you do not want to put glue. if you put it in that area you can see the card will not open properly or the tail will tear. i didnt take a pic to show ya , sorry :)
i added skull and crossbones from the indie art cartridge to her lil spookably cute outfit and candy bag. i hand wrote in sharpie marker the saying ( thanks rose! thanks for the bags too:) ) i think you can kind of see where i did not glue the front and back of the tail here.
i added crystal stickles to the skull and doodled on it for a little whimsy
and stickled on the white part of the bag
hope ive inspired you to play along with this week at pcc. c'mon have a lil fun with us :) thanks os much for hangin with me and kitty today your comments always make me smile thank you for that :) have a great weekend :) xxxshelly


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Which browser is the best, Firefox or Google Chrome or Internet Explorer?
I am using Opera browser for quite so long and been thinking of using another browser. But I am not quite familiar with the most popular browsers today. So can someone please tell me which browser is the best. Is it Firefox, Google Chrome or Internet Explorer?


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Leaf Crisps
As if a golden maple leaf had alighted on a field of green, these savory crisps evoke fall. Shaped with a cookie cutter, the leaves are made from wonton wrappers that are seasoned with herbs and Parmesan cheese, then baked. Serve as a cocktail-hour nibble or with salad as a crouton substitute. (Cookie cutter from Kitchen Krafts.)
- Yield: Makes 24
Source: Martha Stewart Weddings, Fall
- 1/2 cup freshly grated Parmesan cheese
- 1 teaspoon chopped fresh thyme
- 1/2 teaspoon chopped fresh rosemary
- 24 square wonton wrappers
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- Coarse salt
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Stir cheese and herbs in a bowl. Stack 3 wrappers; cut with inch leaf-shaped cookie cutters. Repeat with remaining wrappers. Place in single layers on baking sheets. Brush with Sprinkle with cheese mixture. Season with salt. Bake until crisp and golden, 5 to 8 minutes. Let cool. Store at room temperature in an airtight container up to 3 days.


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More recipes are on the way!
When I baked my first loaf of beer bread (so simple!) I was amazed by how beautifully the malty flavour came through. By the time I moved on to pancakes I was hooked on finding ways to get the unique characteristics of different beers into my food.
I'll be adding to and revising this section as I play around with new recipes and refine some others.
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Oregon History Museum: Free days: Saturday, June 22, 2013; Saturday, October 12, 2013; Saturday, December 14, 2013.
Oregon Zoo: $4 admission on the second Tuesday of each month ( $4 Parking fee still applies). Every other day, $1.50 discount if you ride Trimet
OMSI: First Sunday of each month is $2 regular museum admission for each person, plus additional discounts for submarine tours, planetarium, Omnimax, and featured exhibits.
North Clackamas Aquatic Park: Family Sundays, two adults and four children, $12 for residents $24 for non-residents.
Portland Children's Museum: Free admission on the first Friday of each month from 4:00 pm to 8:00 pm ( $4 parking fee still applies)
Skateworld ( Hillsboro location): here's some COUPONS!
Portland Aquarium: weekday special, bring in a colored drawing and get 50% off children's admission. Valid mon-fri only.
- Friday Night – Rock n' Skate $8 includes Admission and Skate Rental (7:30 pm to close)
- Saturday Night- $8 Saturday Night includes Admission and Skate Rental (7:30 pm to close)
World Forestry Center: Only $3 admission on the first Wednesday of each month ( $4 parking fee still applies)
Playdate PDX: Last Wednesday of the month, bring in two cans of food to benefit the food bank, and get one free admission for every 2 cans.
I will add more deals as I come across them. If you know of any, please message or comment and let me know, so we can share it with others!


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After missing The Missing for so long, the team haven't disappointed with the start of thrilling new drama, Baptiste.
The crime drama has everything we need to keep us absolutely hooked – including a game-changing moment that could throw everything we already thought we knew out the window.
Here's everything we want to know after the first episode, as we sit and wait a whole week for the next instalment…
***Warning: Spoilers ahead***
Why the hell does Edward have a head in his freezer?
Things took a sharp right turn at the end of the episode when Edward returned to his Antwerp home and we saw that he was keeping the head of a man in a refrigerated basement.
Now, I don't know about you, but that's not a normal thing to keep hanging about the house.
Seeing the now deceased man dismembered right at the beginning of the episode by the Russian mob, we know that Edward is somehow connected to them.
But is he the puppet master, or the puppet in this bizarre plot?
What is Edward up to?
It's highly likely that Edward bought Natalie as part of the trafficking ring the mob is involved with, and she made her escape.
But then, why on earth has he created this charade that she's his niece, bringing in the actual police and Baptiste into his dodgy dealings in order to get her back?
Surely having the police force around would be the last thing you would want to have if you've done something that horrific.
So there's a chance he's got a bigger plan afoot.
Who is the body in the tulip field?
So…if the girl on the boat is Natalie, why did her necklace appear in the tulip field?
And not only that, who did the dog find when he was scavenging at the end of the episode?
They're connected somehow, but it's still a mystery how that would even work.
Either way, the mystery is officially getting deeper…
Why is noone looking for Natalie's sister?
On the hunt for Natalie, we discover that she has a sister that is currently being held captive in the cell alongside all the other girls waiting to be sold.
It's pretty clear that Natalie doesn't want to be found, and is in a lot of trouble, but is she really willing to leave her sister behind to suffer the same fate she did?
With nothing to do but patiently wait with the girls until she's eventually sold or found, Baptiste certainly has more on his plate than his initial mission of recovering just one missing girl.
Who is the headless man?
The beginning of the show set the tone pretty quickly by having a seemingly harmless man in his seaside home get brutally murdered by the gasman.
After being suffocated with a plastic bag, he was then chainsawed down and his head's final resting place is Edward's basement.
But who exactly was this man to deserve such a fate and how does he tie in to this tangled web of deceit and trafficking?
Baptiste continues next Sunday at 9pm on BBC1.
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"Drink water from your own cistern …." Proverbs 5:15. This verse was interpreted literally by John W. Armstrong in the early 20th century. Armstrong grew up in a family that regularly used urine to treat everything from toothaches to stinging nettles. Although people
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When I print, I like to make it an event. A big deal.
I get out all of my paper, I fire up the printer, and I decide which images I'm going to enlarge. I don't like little prints very much. I never know what to do with them. I prefer big images that I can hang on the wall or hold in my hand and really see what's going on.
Through printing, I learned something about myself concerning photography. I discovered that I like to make the world bigger with my pictures. That's why I don't care for little prints very much. In my eyes, I see life in its grandeur. I want to use my camera to convey that feeling, not diminish it.
In the film days, my printmaking device was called an enlarger. I loved that! Maybe I should call my Epson an inkjet enlarger. It's not very catchy, but you get the point.
The bottom line is… it's a big world out there. And for me, it looks so much better at 13" x 19" or even 16" x 20". My devices may be getting smaller, but certainly not the images they produce.


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Refuse To Be Moved
Successful people always achieve great things because they refuse to be moved by circumstances of life. Refusing to be moved is one of the most common qualities of successful people. I don't have to tell you that your climb to the top of the ladder won't always be easy. What you may not really understand is that persistence always pay off. Sometimes you just have to plant your feet, dig in and refuse to be moved. No matter how much passion you may possess, people and circumstances will always cause your passion to rise and fall. No matter how strong you are, your vision may be distracted, circumstances will raise their ugly heads. In the end, you just need to stick around no matter how hard it gets and no matter how it takes. For example, in the Bible book of 2 Samuel 6:14, David danced before the Lord with all his strength. But when Michal saw him, rather than join him, she derided David for putting forth his best effort. Thus Michal became the only woman recorded in the Bible to die childless for this singular act. Think about it: Michal was not concerned about the return of the Ark or the fact that Israel had stayed without the Ark for years. Instead, she mocked David for giving everything he had to God. Thank God for people like David, people who will not be intimidated or be moved by challenges and circumstances.
Think about this for a moment. How do you get good at something? You have to practice what you want to be good at over and over again. You cannot become great at anything unless you spend the time practicing. This simply means that you have to work at what you want. Any person that's great in a particular area is great because he or she has rehearsed what they do a great number of times. Persistence always wins. Success here simply means stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm. It may take more than one swing to compose an efficient hit. Don't give up on strick. Remember, a river cuts through rocks not because of its power at a given moment but because of its persistence over time.
In order to develop staying power and eventually succeed in your endeavour, always maintain positivity, regardless of situation, keeping your thoughts and feelings for it will destruct your concentration and persistence. Practice mastermind group. They are people who can help you succeed towards your goal. Choose diligently who you will trust as part of your mastermind group, if possible, include only those who give an unbiased judgments and who has good attitude. You can't afford wasting your time listening to cynical advice and pessimist people. These type of people won't help you succeed instead, they will drown your energy that can eventually lead to failure. Upholding discipline and good habit can help you stay in the course, even despite difficulties.
Thank you for reading to this end, see you again for another interesting and soul uplifting spiritual and universal principles. Don't miss it. Make your comment below and please "share" or "like" this post.
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Who We Are
We are the scouts of Troop 59, although we are a small troop, we try to have as many enjoyable activities as possible.
Some facts about the troop:
We meet each Monday evening at 7:00 P.M. in the basement of the Waldron United Methodist Church.
Each summer we go to camp at Camp Orr located in the majestic Ozark Mountains of northern Arkansas on the Buffalo National River
We also attempt to go on an outing at least once a month. This may be a camping trip, a hike, or another outdoor activity.
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Where Does Islamic Terrorism Fit In With End-Time Bible Prophecy?--daily newspapers reflect a growing trend--what does it mean?
Attacks halt vital Iraqi oil exports
Security chief, 3 soldiers killed…
Baghdad, Iraq—Insurgents struck at the heart of Iraq's economic livelihood yesterday, blasting a major pipeline to halt vital oil exports and killing the top security chief for the northern oil fields…Due to damage inflicted on the two pipelines, the pumping of oil to the Basra oil terminal has completely stopped…Exports were halted last month through Iraq's other export avenue---the northern pipeline from Kirkuk to Ceyhan, Turkey—after a May 25 bombing…Gunmen killed Ghazi Talabani…in charge of protecting the northern oil fields…" (AP)
Mall plot suspect to receive testing COLUMBUS, Ohio—A man charged with plotting to blow up a shopping mall slammed his face on a table and smiled vacantly yesterday in a courtroom where a federal magistrate ordered tests to determine whether he is competent to stand trial…plotting with admitted Al-Qaida member Iyman Faris, who is now imprisoned for…plans to blow up the Brooklyn Bridge…" (AP)
2 youths among 4 killed in Afghanistan bomb hit KABUL, Afghanistan—A bomb hit a car used by NATO-led peacekeepers in northern Afghanistan yesterday, killing four civilians including two children, police said.
The attack came a week after 11 Chinese workers were shot in their beds in the same province, and a day after President Bush lauded Afghanistan as the "first victory in the war on terror."…"(AP)
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Snoring is caused by a partial blockage to the free flow of air through the passages at the back of the mouth and nose. As the muscles of the tongue and back of the throat which normally keep the airway open relax during sleep, they fall toward each other and vibrate, causing the noise.
According to the American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, an estimated 45 percent of normal adults snore at least occasionally; 25 percent are habitual snorers. Snoring occurs more frequently in males and overweight persons, and usually grows worse with age.
Mild cases of snoring may not cause a problem for the snorer but can certainly make it difficult for a spouse or roommate to sleep. If snoring is severe, it may be a sign of sleep apnea, a condition that requires a doctor's care.
Sleep apnea
Sleep apnea is a serious breathing disorder that causes brief interruptions in a person's breathing during sleep. (The term "apnea" means "without breath.")
The most common type of sleep apnea is obstructive sleep apnea, in which air is obstructed or blocked from flowing into a person's nose or mouth. Often, the blockage of air occurs as the throat muscles and tongue relax and sag during sleep. The pauses in breathing may occur up to 20 to 30 times per hour. These frequent interruptions in breathing may cause insomnia because they make it difficult to remain in a deep sleep.
How badly can sleep apnea interfere with sleep? Significantly: A report in The New England Journal of Medicine found that people suffering from sleep apnea were six times more likely to be involved in a car crash (as a result of drowsiness) than those without sleep disorders.
An estimated 4 percent of middle-aged men and 2 percent of middle-aged women have sleep apnea. But the condition could occur in people of any age. In some cases of sudden infant death syndrome, sleep apnea was found to be the cause.
Symptoms of sleep apnea include snoring, (although not everyone who snores has sleep apnea), and daytime sleepiness. It may also cause a choking sensation. Persons who snore loudly and also have obesity, high blood pressure, or a physical abnormality of the nose may have or develop sleep apnea.
The types of treatment depend on the exact cause and severity of sleep apnea. It's important to have sleep apnea treated not only because it causes insomnia and daytime drowsiness, but also because it may increase one's risk for heart attack and stroke. So it's especially important to speak to your doctor if you have sleep apnea and are also overweight, or have high blood pressure or a known heart condition.


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Wow what a week we had here in Morgantown. The weeks just keep flying by faster and faster. This Wednesday we had a big meeting with President and Sister Pitt and we talked about covenants but the best part was at the end. All 50 or 60 missionaries that were there stood up and shared their favorite scriptures of Christ. I had a hard time choosing because I just don't like picking favorites but two of my favorites are 2 Nephi 7:7-9 and 3 Nephi 17:21-22
2 Nephi 7:7-9
7 For the Lord God will help me, therefore shall I not be confounded. Therefore have I set my face like a flint, and I know that I shall not be ashamed.
8 And the Lord is near, and he justifieth me. Who will contend with me? Let us stand together. Who is mine adversary? Let him come near me, and I will smite him with the strength of my mouth.
9 For the Lord God will help me. And all they who shall condemn me, behold, all they shall wax old as a garment, and the moth shall eat them up.
3 Nephi 17:21-22
21 And when he had said these words, he awept, and the multitude bare record of it, and he took their little children, one by one, and bblessed them, and prayed unto the Father for them.
22 And when he had done this he wept again;
The best part of the week though was yesterday at church. We got a Christmas Miracle!! We had made a goal to get allof our investigators to church and when we got to church in the morning it didn't seem like anyone would make it so we could only hope that someone would come. It was about 5 minutes before sacrament and I had almost just given up all hope of anyone coming. (To preface this story, I first have to tell you that Saturday night we went to invite Patty and Jenna to church but they weren't home so we left a note saying to call us or Sister Curtis, who Patty and Jenna are friends with, to get a ride.) Well to continue the story, Charlotte, Sister Curtis' daughter, walked in and her brother was poking her so she was a little annoyed at this point. Elder Kamauu almost jokingly then says "Did you bring a friend to church today?" Charlotte then said, almost annoyed because of her brother, "Yeah." Elder Kamauu, shocked, then said, "Wait... what? Jenna is here?" We then got the same response and tone of "Yeah."
Elder Kamauu and I then looked at eachother, then down the hall, and surely enough there stood Patty and Jenna!!! So amazing!!
We later found out that Patty called Sister Curtis at 8 that morning and almost embarrased asked for a ride to church even though Jenna was sick. It was truly a miracle!!!
And then during church you'll never guess what I actually did... I sang in the choir... not well, but I did it. It ended up being really good and not nearly as bad of an experience as I thought it would be.
Well this dumb computers are about to kick me off but I hope all of you have a very Merry Christmas!! I love you all!
Elder Ryan Carter
"Joy to the world, the Lord is come; Let earth receive her King! Let every heart prepare Him room, And Saints and angels sing."
3 Nephi 1:12-13
12 And it came to pass that he cried mightily unto the Lord aall that day; and behold, the bvoice of the Lord came unto him, saying:


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Pets can be used as battle partners. If players wish to they can choose to release their Pets at any point to gain more space for new Pets. Pets can be enhanced and can even participate in the Colosseum event. These Pets can come in different grades which determine their quality and stats, which are indicated by their colors. In addition Pets come in different categories: animal, plant, machinery, dragon, doll and elf.
Pets come with many different stats and abilities that determine their usefulness and roles on the battlefield. There are also a large variety of skills that Pets can gain. Pets can be obtained through various means such as capturing them or obtaining them from dungeons and events. Players have a chance to obtain a Pet while encountering wild monsters and attempting to catch them. After clearing dungeons players can flip cards for a chance to gain boss pets. Finally dragon Pet eggs can be obtained from the Ancient Forbidden Path.
Pets can be upgraded through synthesis, star upgrade, talent boosts and other means, this can be accessed via the 'Boost' button located on the player's interface. Synthesizing a Pet allows players to combine Pets in order to increase their quality grade. Players can use skill books to teach Pets skills to use in battle, these skills can also be upgraded to improve its effectiveness. Players can even transfer abilities from one Pet to another via Pet inheritance
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It was great to get to see so many of parents and grandparents this week for conferences.
In 2nd quarter math will get a little more difficult. We will now be working with mostly new material. I will be working with students a lot on strategies to be successful. Good note taking, referring back to the notes and lesson when stuck, and being diligent about getting homework finished are some of the ways we'll talk about this week.
Both groups (self paced and Mr. Akerson paced) have math tests this week on Tuesday. We'll spend all of Monday reviewing. The rest of the week will be spent doing regular lessons
I have added our daily math menus to the math page of our class website. These are posted each day when the students walk in. I (try to) create these the weekend before while lesson planning. These are intended to help absent students, students who forgot to write the assignment down, etc. Please make sure you are on the right date and lesson. These are subject to change based on daily class circumstances.
This past week we studied Martin Luther. We first looked at his life and his 5 Solas. (5th graders should know what these are.) Then we created our own theses about what we think should change about school. Here's a video of some being "nailed" to our door.
The Islam projects came in this week and let me just say - WOW! I appreciate the time, energy and effort that so many students put into their projects. So impressive. So much creativity in both classes! I am very proud of all of them! They did a nice job defending their projects to me as well. (Some future lawyers maybe?)
We are moving on a study of Africa. The first thing to do is our map test. This week I shared with the students their list of countries, capitals and features. Africa has a lot of those! The students have map work (1st way to study) due on Tuesday (Adler) or Wednesday (Spangler). We will go over and grade those maps (2nd way to study) in class. They also have 2 quizlets shared with them in Classroom (3rd way to study). One quizlet is capitals and one will help study the countries. Another tip is study early (test is two weeks away) and study often. Take 5 minutes a night and learn 5 countries. (4th way to study) Don't save it all until the night before.
If you haven't seen it, here is the video about our Crusades


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Having been born and raised in London, Ontario, I am very passionate about my hometown and thrilled to be hosting the next City Symposium. It is happening on Wednesday, May 15th at the Wolf Performance Hall, and it is absolutely free! For more information, check out the website, http://citysymposium.com/, and I hope to see you there!


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Shedding Light on the Darkness
In the coming decade, an array of galaxy and cluster surveys will significantly improve observational tests of cosmological models to explain the accelerated cosmic expansion. In this talk, I will review some recent progresses in this area. In particular, I will discuss studies, based on cosmological simulations, on modified gravity models, how future observations can help to test these models, and some practical limitations that need to be overcome before accurate constraints can be obtained.
Time: Mar. 15, 2017, 14:30 pm
Venue: A601, NAOC


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In its citation, the jury made particular reference to the University's "institutionally well anchored policy on gender equality," and pointed out that the University had succeeded in increasing both the proportion of female professors on its faculty and the number of women on its academic staff. Among examples for "especially noteworthy activities that have been resoundingly successful," the jury mentions the family-friendly structures that have been put in place, the comprehensive mentoring programs and the training programs specifically designed for women.
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TS DSC SGT Syllabus 2018| Download Telangana TRT SGT Syllabus @ www.tspsc.gov.in. Telangana Public Service Commission released a New Notification. This Notification was released by the Government of Telangana for the Recruitment of Teachers through TSPSC TRT Notification 2017. So the Job Seekers be ready to apply online. There are about 8792 vacancies for the posts SA (School Assistant), SGT (Secondary Grade Teacher), LP (Language Pandits), PET (Physical Education Teacher).
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"Give, and you will receive. Your gift will return to you in full--pressed down, shaken together to make room for more, running over, and poured into your lap. The amount you give will determine the amount you get back."
I heard the spirit of this quotation misapplied recently and perverted into a kind of evil karma.
I really can't conceive how a person goes through life with such a view of the world and the people in it.
Their days must feel very heavy.
Even with all I've been through in my life, I've never felt that kind of bitterness or animosity towards anyone, ever. No matter what they said or did.
So after hearing those words, I began to feel very aware of and grateful for the fact that, whatever mental or emotional material I'm made of, it has never led me down such a dark path.
Anger is one thing; hasty or harsh words are another. The kind of deep-seeded sense that others deserve punishment and that one not only has the capacity but also the right to mete it out to or wish it upon others... that's just terribly sad.
I thought that perhaps the person was misremembering the Biblical story of Job and conflating it with the spirit of the verse from Luke. In the Book of Job, Satan comes before God and, when God points out that Job is "a perfect and upright man," Satan claims, "put forth thine hand now, and touch all that he hath, and he will curse thee to thy face."
To prove that he is right, God turns Job's fortunes over to Satan, who destroys everything that he has. But Job refuses to curse God or to listen to the "advice" of his shabby friends.
Instead, he remains humble in the face of the things he cannot explain; as his reward, God returns everything to him twice over.
There is also the possibility that the person had in mind the Parable of the Talents in Matthew 25 and Luke 19:11-27. In this story, told by Jesus, a man divides his property among his servants: to one, he gives five talents, to another, two, and to a third, one.
The servant with five talents invests them and earns five more, the servant with two talents invests them and earns two more. The servant who is given one talent, though, simply buries it in the ground.
When the man returns, the first two servants give him the doubled sums they have earned; the third servant, however, complains that he was afraid of the man and his harsh and vindictive nature, so he simply buried the money and has nothing additional to give to him.
The single talent is taken from him and given to the servant who earned ten, and the "lazy, evil" servant is cursed for his lack of productivity and his excuses and cast out.
The lesson is that devotion and service involve risk and labor. Playing it safe, hiding what you have to protect your own interests and then blaming others for the negative results, will not be rewarded.
In all of these examples, though, and even in the Buddhist and Hindu conceptions of karma, there is never a sense that humans can or should gloat at the thought that their fellow human beings may be receiving what they perceive as "well-deserved" punishments for something they've determined they should be punished for.
In every religious tradition I know of and in the moral philosophies of the atheist thinkers I'm familiar with, that's just showing the world that you're quite ignorant and incredibly cruel.
And it's a sure-fire way to ensure that, whenever your own portion of life's sadness and senselessness arrives, no one will be there to comfort you.
Ultimately, I decided that the words of Proverbs 18 apply here:
"In estrangement one seeks pretexts: with all persistence he picks a quarrel.And perhaps most fitting, the observation of Proverbs 18:14:
The fool takes no delight in understanding, but rather in displaying what he thinks.
With wickedness comes contempt, and with disgrace comes scorn.
The words from a man's mouth are deep waters, but the source of wisdom is a flowing brook...."
"The fool's mouth is his ruin; his lips are a snare to his life..."
"Before his downfall a man's heart is haughty, but humility goes before honors.
He who answers before he hears-- his is the folly and the shame."
"A man's spirit sustains him in infirmity-- but a broken spirit who can bear?"


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Welcome to Empowered Learning Transformation Centers! At Empowered Learning Transformation Centers, we believe that every child deserves an opportunity to grow and learn in a warm and nurturing environment, with caring, experienced and educated individuals that focus on the needs of the child. Providing developmentally appropriate activities and positive interaction and supervision while promoting diversity, values and creativity is a daily goal. We believe our early childhood educators must embrace the whole family to assure the success of the child, and that family involvement and support enhance a child's growth and potential.
What We're Learning This Month at Empowered Learning Transformation Centers!
Check out our calendars page for weekly themes, show and tell items, and special events!
Looking for Qualified Teachers!
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Now enrolling new students age 6wks – Pre-K. Contact us or stop by for a tour! We'd love to share what Empowered Learning Transformation Centers has to offer!
Books on the Go (Preschool Outreach)
This program provides materials and staff to deliver crates of quality preschool books to area day care providers and present a Story Time while they are there. The response from day care centers has been overwhelming.
The classes are taught to develop lifelong healthy habits through adventures with songs, use of equipment, stories and games. Dynamic discussions are held on health-related topics, such as exercise, hygiene, self-esteem, muscle recognition and most importantly, nutrition.
Dancing Stars is an introductory dance class that meets weekly at Empowered Learning Transformation Centers. It is offered for boys and girls ages 3-5. Dancing Stars is a part of Upper Freehold Township Stretch N Grow program! Children learn beginner dance techniques, proper posture, balance and coordination, flexibility and much more. Each semester ends with a recital so that parents and families can see everything their child has learned!
Children are given the opportunity to paint their own pottery for special holidays, using hand, foot and finger prints.
Children are given the opportunity to learn basic Spanish and Sign Language.
Each month we focus on two or more Nursery Rhymes! Nursery Rhymes are very important for many reasons. Rhyming plays an important part in early literacy. Nursery Rhymes are full of words that your child may not hear during a routine day. Hearing these words in context increases your child's vocabulary. A large vocabulary is a critical skill for successful reading comprehension. What better way to help your child love written and spoken language than presenting it in silly songs, fun poems and easily remembered stories. These are just a few of the many reasons to make nursery rhymes an important part of your child's life.
During the summer months children are given the opportunity to play in sprinkles, water tables, spray bottles and other water activities outside in the open field.
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THIS is little 'Petite Miss NI'.
Faith Richardson, who celebrates her fifth birthday today, won the crown as part of the Junior Miss NI competition.
The Ballynahinch youngster was competing in the four to six year-old category at Saturday's event which was held in the Loughshore Hotel, Belfast, and was organised by Models and Pageants UK.
Faith's mum, Nicola Hunter, said she was encouraged by the comments of friends who thought Faith could be a model.
"I saw the advertisement for the event on Facebook and I had to send a full length and up close face photo to get through into the finals," she said.
"There were four different themes — style yourself, recycled materials, back in time and evening wear. She was under five so she did not have to give an interview. She had to do a catwalk and said the best thing was winning and getting a crown on her head."
Nicola said Faith, a pupil at Drumlins Integrated Primary School, would hold the crown for two years.
"It was a real confidence booster," she added.


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TWIMM graced his presence on NEW LEASE MUSIC for the first time with debut single entitled 'Blame', taken from his forthcoming EP set for release early next year.
He previously recorded under INDIANS and real name Soren Juul, in which he felt 'both names had outlived their artistic roles'. His current moniker marks a new chapter as a renewed singer and songwriter – with no disguises.
Kicking off his new chapter is an atmospherically lush pop vibe, coupled with a message of accepting loss after a long battle. Soren explains further."You have to be ok letting go of all the good intentions and maintain a little respect for yourself."
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Celerity is quickness, speed, rapidity of motion or thought. It seems an apt description of EMC which may be about to introduce a new high-end NAS box.
EMC currently has four NAS products:-
- NetWin 200, a Windows Storage Server 2003-powered entry-level box
- NS Series/integrated - NS500 or NS700 for distributed file serving with one or two data movers and integrated Clariion storage
- NS Series/Gateways - NS500g, NS700G, NS740G with one, two or four data movers and external storage
- Celerra Clustered Network Server (CNS) with 2 - 14 data movers and integration with external Clariion and/or Symmetrix arrays.
The NS and CNS products are branded Celerra and run EMC's DART - Data Access in Real Time - operating software, currently at rev level 5.3.
It contains HighRoad, a multiplex file system - MPFS - which can integrate NAS and SAN into a unified storage network. It can dynamically chose either LAN or SAN routes for data to optimise performance and is said to offer direct channel access to single data images.
The supposed Celerra NSX will run DART 5.4 and be able to virtualise file systems. It could be capable of 300,000 NFS (Network File System) operations per second. EMC's CNS delivers up to 325,000 NFS ops/sec.
In comparison Network Appliance's GF980C is claimed to deliver up to 72,000 NFS ops/sec in a dual cluster configuration.
SpecFS results (here) don't exist for the precise models mentioned. NetApp's FAS 980 - a disk array product - with two 'cores' (meaning CPUs I think) has a 36,083 score. EMC's NS700 in a clustered configuration with two CPUs has a 36,335 score.
Celerra NSX will have a 4-8 blade design with 16TB capacity per blade. With DART 5.4 it will be able to merge direct-attached storage and iSCSI storage into a single entity. It will be possible to move data between disk tiers and so have an ILM base function. Various NSX components will be redundant and hot-swappable.
It is reported that a 4-blade NSX will cost $278,250 (c£155,000 at current conversion rates) and be available from May onwards.
Network Appliance and IBM have just allied together in the NAS area. This was shortly after NetApp announced that its G-Series could virtualise multi-vendor arrays and would be known as the V-Series.
Hitachi Data Systems has just announced its TagmaStore NAS blade. Techworld discussed the HDS, IBM and NetApp moves here.
If the EMC NSX product plans come to life then EMC appears to have a capability in the TagmaStore NAS blade area. However, unlike the TagmaStore NAS or the V-Series from NetApp the NSX will not, it appears, be capable of multi-vendor virtualisation. That function is located by EMC within the storage fabric and carried out by its Storage Router.
For the NSX to virtualise multi-vendor drive arrays then it would have to have a Storage Router behind it which then linked to the heterogeneous arrays. This is do-able easily at a link-the technical-lego-blocks level but whether it's in EMC's plans we don't know.
The NAS product and technology area is moving with, and there's no better word for it, celerity. We can be sure that IBM and Network Appliance will be talking urgently about high-end NAS strategy and may even bring an announcement forward.


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