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Based in Nigeria, Toyin coordinates the implementation of the Media for Oil Reform (MFOR) program in Nigeria and supports broad capacity development activities for media in Africa and NRGI's priority and limited engagement countries.
Prior to joining NRGI, Toyin worked with the Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism in Lagos for more than six years as the program and research officer. She was instrumental in the formation of an investigative journalism network in Nigeria.
Toyin also worked with the civil society arm of Nigeria's Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, where she researched corruption, conflict and development in Nigeria, and was a civil society forums facilitator. She holds an M.A. in peace and conflict studies and a B.A. in English, both from the University of Ibadan in Nigeria. In addition, she has certificates in journalism, communication for development, e-facilitation and project management. Toyin is passionate about social justice.


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Many people ask me why they would work with a local lender and the answers are plentifull for me. Number one is that I am the local lender so I would rather you chose me over some big bank lender. That keeps me employed and it keeps me paying rent on my office and it keeps folks employed in that office and it keeps food on the table for my family and the family of my employees, local appraisers and title companies. That is my selfish reason but I have some selfish reasons for you as well:
- Get real advice from someone you will see in your community.
- Get the same rates and fees or less for that good advice.
- Have a resource that you can drop in on and call well after the transaction has closed.
I have been helping people for 2 decades and most of that has been right here in Sonoma County. I am proud of the work that I do and proud to have helped so many of my neighbors get into homes or save money on their mortgage payments or help work with financial planners to make a comprehensive plan for people. Most of my clients are referred to me, give me a call and find out why.
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While keeping tabs on the most current Yount cards and compiling my checklist and image database I came across this card. I don't own it.
I wasn't sure what to think at first. I wondered is this a homemade custom card? But luckily the company that made it, Hits Cards, put their website address right on the back card. Not only that but their website includes an image gallery with every card they make along with the corresponding numbered hologram on the back of the card.
They made 10 Yount cards. This is the only one I saw up for sale on eBay. You can check out all the cards and the company website here at Hits Cards
Obviously the star of this card is that huge patch with no image of the player featured, but if your looking for a gigantic relic here you go.


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When the pregnancy with her third child had complications and sent her to bed for 13 weeks, Holly Smith knew she shouldn't get pregnant again.
At first she considered a tubal ligation, but then she heard about a new procedure being offered by Dr. David Soll, a board-certified obstetrician and gynecologist at the Woman's Clinic. The procedure, called Essure, involves placing a small, flexible device into each of the fallopian tubes. Over a three-month period, body tissue grows into these micro-inserts, thus blocking the tubes and making it impossible for sperm to fertilize an egg and cause a pregnancy.
Smith became the first patient in Tennessee to have the procedure at a clinic. It took Dr. Soll 11 minutes to do the procedure and Smith was headed for home an hour later. "It was less invasive than a tubal ligation and required no recovery time," she says. "After giving birth, the last thing you want to worry about is pain and discomfort while you're trying to take care of a newborn and other children at home."
The procedure is so simple and so effective that Dr. Soll calls it "the future for women's health care in family planning." In technical terms, it is called a hysteroscopic tubal ligation because the physician goes through the cervix and into the uterus to place the devices into the fallopian tubes. With no incisions, no scars form afterwards.Based on data over a four-year period that was submitted to the FDA, women who had the Essure procedure had a 99.8 percent birth control rate with no pregnancies. Since Essure results in permanent birth control, Dr. Soll says, "we just have to make sure that the woman is a good candidate, that she doesn't want to get pregnant again."
The procedure requires no anesthesia. Patients take Motrin the night before and the day of the procedure and an anti-anxiety medication an hour ahead of time. A local anesthesia deadens the cervix.Three months later, patients return to the clinic for an X-ray to make sure the scar tissue formed around the micro-inserts and blocked the fallopian tubes.
Smith is fortunate, she says, that the procedure was available just when she needed it. A certified nurse midwife and nurse practitioner, Smith and her husband, Mike, have three children: Maloree, 9, Tanner, 5, and Preston, who was born October 2, 2005. She started going to Dr. Soll after seeing how he interacted with his patients. "He is one of the most thorough, personable physician that I have met," she says. "He takes his patient's lives personally."
Dr. Soll first did the Essure procedure as part of FDA clinical trials during his residency in Arizona. He is pleased, he says, that women now are getting better choices for permanent birth control with less risk. He compares it to a vasectomy for men. "It gives women a viable opportunity to take charge of their contraceptive health. I'm very excited about it."


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Back in 2002, former chief executive Tung Chee-hwa marked his second term with one of the biggest political shake-ups in Hong Kong's history — the introduction of the principal officials accountability system.
Seemingly convinced that Hong Kong's problems and dissatisfaction with his first five years in office could be traced to organizational and administrative flaws, Tung put an end to the days where top officials were "untouchable" civil servants as they could keep their posts even if they screwed up on the job.
With great fanfare and grand promises for a better and more effective government, Tung announced that all of his principal officials were to be political appointees chosen by the chief executive and would report directly to him.
The professional fate of these ministerial secretaries would hinge on their performance.
Right from the start, there was much debate whether this political framework ever had a chance to succeed.
But various instances in the earlier years of the accountability system put it to the test.
There was Antony Leung's Lexusgate scandal which forced him to cut short his tenure as financial secretary because he had bought a brand new Lexus just weeks before he raised the tax on new vehicles.
New People's Party chairwoman Regina Ip also abruptly ended her decades-long public service career in 2003.
She left her job as security chief for "personal reasons" but common sense suggests that the mass protests in 2003, which foiled the government's attempts to introduce national security laws under Article 23 of the Basic Law, played a prominent role in her resignation.
Funny enough, Ip and Leung resigned on the same day.
Although they were not officially pushed out of the job, the writing was clearly on the wall.
Even though Tung didn't officially give them the sack, the rules for the accountability system set out that officials may have to step down for "serious failures" relating to their portfolio or for grave personal misconduct such as conflict of interest.
Let's fast-forward 12 years, with Tung's protege, Leung Chun-ying at the helm and, once again, we have two policy secretaries who left their posts on the same day.
Whether they chose to jump or were pushed remains shrouded in mystery.
The sudden departures of former home affairs secretary Tsang Tak-shing and ex-civil service secretary Paul Tang reek of suspicion.
Having just happened out of the blue, no one apart from CY Leung has a clue as to the real reasons why both of them had to go so suddenly.
Only a fool would believe that Tsang was so relieved to finally enjoy "early retirement" or fall for Tang's apparent eagerness to spend more time with his family.
We've heard the rumors about how Beijing and CY are unhappy with Tsang's failure to indoctrinate our younger generation about the virtues of the Chinese Communist Party and his shortcomings in preventing the city's youth from taking part in last year's democracy protest movement.
There are also murmurs they are equally unhappy about Tang for failing to keep the civil service onside.
But that alone doesn't explain why their removals had to happen this week rather than in the immediate aftermath of the protests, or why they happened simultaneously.
I stand to be corrected but I cannot recall instances where the actions of Tsang and Tang amount to either grave personal misconduct or a serious failure.
The accountability system also provides an opportunity for the civil service secretary to rejoin the civil service, age permitting.
But was Paul Tang, who is three years shy from turning 60, ever given that opportunity?
CY Leung has the answer to that question, but we can only assume that the answer is "no".
I can, however, think of one clear-cut case for a deserved removal under the government's own rules — Development Secretary Paul Chan.
His conflict-of-interest row involving the ownership of farmland in the New Territories, his sub-divided flats scandal (which he squarely blamed on his wife) and his drink-driving should have landed him in hot water.
But he lacked the decency to resign, insisting there was nothing wrong with his integrity and CY Leung continues to stand by his beleaguered buddy despite such gross shortcomings on Chan's part.
Perhaps the most baffling aspect of last week's removals is CY's comical decision to replace Tsang Tak-shing with former constitutional affairs undersecretary and DAB stalwart Lau Kong-wah.
Out of the whole bunch of government officials, Lau is probably the most pitiful and pathetic.
He spent almost HK$5 million dollars on his 2012 Legislative Council campaign, making him the biggest spender in Legco election history, only to lose his seat.
He became the butt of online jokes after a picture of his campaign poster being obscured by a rubbish bin started making the rounds.
His appointment to the government as an undersecretary for constitutional and mainland affairs was seen as a consolation prize for his election defeat (even though it pays a lot more than a legislator's salary).
And to top it all off, the rubbish bin image became his omnipresent online meme after he stayed silent during tense two-hour talks over political reform between the government and pro-democracy student leaders in October last year.
In announcing Lau's appointment, the CY Leung praised him for his "ample political and administrative experience".
But this begs the question as to what exactly has Lau Kong-wah done to earn his stripes for this post?
In contrast, Undersecretary for Home Affairs Florence Hui would have been a more pragmatic choice to fill Tsang's shoes given her wealth of experience in this portfolio.
Instead, CY's choice of Lau once again proves his administration's total lack of credibility.
One of the goals that Tung Chee-hwa's government had in mind when setting up the accountability system was to "select the most suitable persons to take up principal official positions to serve the community and to enhance governance".
I wonder if Tung genuinely thought his political brainchild would serve Hong Kong well, or whether he foresaw that his successors, let alone his protege, would pervert the system to suit their whim.
But one thing is for certain: the accountability system has now become a government game of musical chairs where some players don't get a seat and others do, depending on whether they dance to CY's tune.
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No ordinary lunch
When I first set foot on the beach, the day of my arrival, I was approached by a friendly, but very persistent guy, trying to persuade me to go out on what to me looked like a rickety vessel, a Sri Lankan catamaran. A little apprehensive, I warded him off with a smile and a non-committing "maybe later". After that, every time I crossed the beach to get to the ocean, he popped up out of nowhere, following me back and forth, pleading with me.
The guy then pointed in the direction of the hotel gardens, indicating a man seated at a table, enjoying his beer. When I asked him how he had liked his catamaran trip, he looked at me blankly. Oops, wrong guy. My friend down on the beach was now waving frantically, pointing towards a relaxed looking fellow, with long hair, red t-shirt and shorts, coming towards us…
To read more, go to Catamaran Adventure
|Outside Hindu Tempel
|Pascal tending to his garden
This may be the reasons why it takes some prodding to get a chance to peek under the wonderful skin of the country and its people…
To read more go to Under the beautiful skin of Sri Lanka
|Tuk-tuk, awaiting the 7 generations…
Excerpt from Sri Lanka Arrival. To read more go to Sri Lanka Arrival
Where there aren't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirst;
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The perverted adoration of the side wound of Christ and the equally perverted worship of the female vulva
One of the biggest mysteries of late medieval Christianity is the side wound of Christ, receiving the same kind of worship the female genital, the vulva, receives.
According to an ancient legend the Roman centurion Longinus drilled his lance into the right side of the crucified Christ on top of a hill just outside Jerusalem, about 30 BC. This clinical act, meant to prove whether the convicted was actually dead, became a motive for the grotesque adoration of the wound in the side of Christ.
Even though all of the 5 wounds of Christ were adored in late medieval times, there was a special kind of worship for the side wound. Not only was it a wound that cut the meat of Jesus in two, like all of the other wounds did, but it was the biggest wound and the only one that gave access to Jesus' Holy heart. The devoted people of that time who were able to penetrate this double lip, the Vulva Christi, was able to touch the heart of God.
This adoration seems quite perverse in our Modern day, Monty-Python-y eyes and it finds an analogy just as perverse in the contemporary worship of the female vulva. The 19th century French painter Gustav Croubet, who referred to himself as a realist, placed the female organ in the heart of his painting like a Modern-day Longinus in his work L'Origine du monde from 1866. It marks the birth of the adoration of the female vulva.
Just as the people of the Late Middle ages were enchanted by the Holy heart of Christ, the modern day human (or man) seems to be obsessed with the female genitals since L'Origine du Monde. It makes you wonder where that obsession comes from and what it means. What awakens a man when he penetrates the vulva? To create a clone of himself, a sweet child or an unknown God?


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TUCSON, Arizona – An investment group from Conroe Texas traded into the inline shops at Midvale Park Community Shopping Center at 1625-1645 West Valencia in Tucson. The property commanded a sale price of $6.9 million ($235 PSF).
The center is located across the street from the newly constructed 104,479-square-feet Fry's store that opened Q3 206, with a 7,800-square-feet of inline shop space under construction, and mostly pre-leased by Rick Volk and Brenna Lacey of the Volk Company to Nationwide Vision, Great Clips and Lee Spa Nails. See Two Pads Sell for Construction at New Fry's Center on Valencia.
To the west of the Midvale Park Community Shopping Center, a Tractor Supply store is being constructed as reported last week. See Tractor Supply Expands with 4th Store in Tucson Metro.
Planning at 1955 W Valencia, located at Headley and Valencia,is under way as part of a 75,000-square-foot retail center with pads when complete at this 11.38 acres. See New 75,000 SF Shopping Center Coming to Southwest Tucson.
Valencia is a main arterial road serving the Southwest Tucson submarket with approximately 50,000 average vehicles per day. Neighboring tenants in Midvale Park include Walmart Supercenter, Lowe's, several banks and many restaurants.
Development is pushing even farther west from Midvale Park along Valencia, Circle K Stores just closed on a 61,453-square-foot lot for $1 million ($16.27 PSF) at the northwest corner of Valencia and Camino de Oeste, for a new store site.
The 29,365-square-foot of inline space at Midvale Park Community Shopping Center was built in 1988, and sold fully leased with such tenants as Little Caesar, Super Pawn, Tucson International Academy, The UPS Store, Metro PCS and El Taco Tote.
Wilcox Center II, LLC of Tucson (Neil Kleinman, manager) the seller, owned the property since 2004.
Gordon Wagner and Dave Dutson with NAI Horizon in Tucson were brokers involved in the transaction and Valerie Skylar with Partners Management in Tucson will continue to manage the property.
For additional information, Skylar can be reached at 520.745.6221. Wagner is at 520.398.5130 and Dutson can be reached at 520.326.2200.
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Sheila O'Flanagan's festive short story collection CHRISTMAS WITH YOU, published by Headline in October, has reached #4 on the Irish bestseller lists. Her previous titles have enjoyed similar chart success this year, with WHAT HAPPENED THAT NIGHT going straight to #2 in the Irish bestseller charts and THE MISSING WIFE hitting #1 on the Kindle list in June.
Tucked away in the Irish countryside, the Sugar Loaf Lodge is opening its door for the festive season. With snow falling on the mountains outside and warm fires roaring inside, it's the perfect place for guests to celebrate the happiest time of the year. But what if you've just had your heart broken? Or discovered that the man you're married to has lied to you? What if a secret from your past has finally come back to haunt you?
For some of the guests arriving at the Sugar Loaf Lodge, Christmas is looking far from tranquil. But can they find the magic and romance of the season within the walls of this beautiful hotel?
CHRISTMAS WITH YOU is the perfect festive read for fans of Veronica Henry, Carole Matthews and Marian Keyes. These enchanting closely-linked short stories from the No. 1 bestselling author bring to life one unforgettable Christmas full of surprise twists, life-changing moments ... and love. CHRISTMAS WITH YOU was previously published as A SEASON TO REMEMBER, but the re-issue features two poignant new stories and a Q&A feature with Sheila.
Sheila O'Flanagan is the award-winning author of over twenty novels, including MY MOTHER'S SECRET, IF YOU WERE ME, ALL FOR YOU (winner of the Irish Popular Fiction Book of the Year Award) and BAD BEHAVIOUR, as well as the bestselling short story collections DESTINATIONS and CONNECTIONS.
Sheila was awarded the prestigious Irish Tatler Woman of the Year Award in 2003, and currently lives in Dublin with her husband. Her books have sold over 6.5 million copies in English alone.
See more on Sheila's website.
Praise for WHAT HAPPENED THAT NIGHT
'A fabulous tale with refreshingly inspiring heroines ***** (5 stars)' – Sarah Hughes, Heat
Praise for THE MISSING WIFE:
'Another first class bestseller. I read the book in one sitting as it was so enjoyable, full of romance and kept you riveted until the last page. A must for all Sheila's fans.' – Woman's Way
'A lovely book that will keep you guessing right up until the end.' – Bella
'Insightful, witty and full of fun... This is touching, tense and clever writing.' – Irish Independent
'This GONE GIRL-esque novel will have you gripped until the very end ****.' – Look


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For Koftae: In a chopper add raw meat, brown onions and all the koftae masala mentioned above in a chopper.
Grease your hand, take a bit of the meat mixture and spread on your palm.
Place the egg onto the flattened meat and wrap it around.
Repeat the same procedure with the rest of the eggs.
Now take a frying pan and heat some oil.
On a low flame fry the koftas till they turn golden brown.
For curry: In a large skillet heat oil and fry onions till they turn golden brown.
Now blend together fried onion and yogurt.
In the same skillet fry cardamoms for a couple of minute, add ginger garlic paste, coriander, all spice powder, red chili, salt and then yogurt mixture.
When oil forms a layercslowly add in the koftas.
Pour in a warm glass of water and simmer for minutes.
To serve take a large serving dish, first pour the masala then slice the koftas lengthwise.
Place them on top of the masala.
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AASIA BATOOL, roll eggs in dry plain flour first then wrap them with mince and fry. Hope it will work.
aapa meny recipe try ki lakin jb meny koftay fry kiye to andon per se qeema utarna shuru ho gaya ,or kuch qeema frying pan me b chipak raha tha. mujhy btain asa q hua?
Rani, we have our almost recipes in Urdu format as well. Kindly click on "Urdu Tab"
excellent recipy but kindly try to post in urdu also so that more people get clear concepts
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text: My family had me rolling laughing Tuesday night when they hooked up the stereo to a VCD player and busted out some crazy English pop and hip hop music. Britney Spears, Nelly Furtado, and Fergie had me smiling (and swaying a little bit admittedly) but then Timbaland really got me with Apologize. It probably doesn't seem like a huge deal, but keep in mind that I have heard no English words while I have been in my house here, only Mongolian words one after another. I thought they were just rocking out, but then I figured out that they were playing it for me. They asked me if I wanted to take the music to my room, but I laughed and smiled saying I would just stay in the living room to listen to it. I think a couple of hours went by before I noticed and needless to say, I burned all the music onto my laptop and now I am listening to it again.


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There's a place in Virginia where you can come into contact with more wildlife in one day than you'd ever encounter during an ordinary ol' nature hike.
The Virginia Living Museum (524 J. Clyde Morris Blvd., Newport News, Va.) has 250+ species of (living) animals on display, including many that are on the endangered list, e.g. the red wolf, bald eagle and loggerhead sea turtle.
No pandas though. Sorry. Nope.
The museum is also chock full of activities like outdoor/indoor exhibits, a planetarium, special events and outdoor gardens. Labs and uber-local safaris are also a popular activity.
During the holidays (through Dec. 31), you can learn about the Magi and the Star of Bethlehem's "mystery" at the Abbitt Planetarium. Both are laser shows enjoyed with festive music (daytime shows $4).
The museum has provided natural and space science education to more than two million students since 1987. It's also endorsed by the U.S. Dept. of Education and National Science Foundation.
Hours are Mon.-Sat. 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sun. noon-5 p.m.


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DetailsProtect your surfaces in style with this set of four tumbled coasters. Crafted from Italian botticino marble tile, these coasters are hand printed in the USA. Featuring an Asian Buddha design, each coaster in the set displays Buddha in a different color. Complete with a solid metal display stand, the set is handmade, which provides a unique and rustic look and ensures that no two coasters are exactly alike. Lined with a cork back to protect your furniture, these heavy vintage coasters are great for everyday use and luxurious enough for your next cocktail party or dinner.Measurements
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Joseph Robertson, USA
Joseph is a well respected and good looking lad, full of ambition and dreams. He enjoys projects and hobbies of various sorts, including woodworking, welding, hiking and canoeing.On asked why Iceland?: "Iceland has always been a captivating country for me. It's nature and beauty proclaims it's untapped potential. I am excited to see connections take place in Iceland as people network and encounter a greater purpose of life and a full life with God."
Karen Meier Robertson, Denmark
I love food, cultures and traveling. I like architecture and interior design. One of my biggest dreams is to get a kiln and do pottery. I guess I have an intense personality. I LOVE to see growth, excellence and reaching the full potential. On asked why Iceland?: "I don't think I fully know why I am moving to Iceland. The short answer is because God said so. And adventures with God are my favorite thing in the world. I am so excited to live in such a breathtaking country and am looking forward to exploring the landscape. I am excited as a Dane to go and serve the Icelanders, as I think my forefathers didn't always have the best attitude towards Iceland. I love the history of Iceland."


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As the temporary slowdown in government operations enters its second week, I write to explain why conservatives have insisted on making the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act the prime source of contention
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(Editor's Note: This is part of the text of a Social Security reform bill introduced in the 107th Congress by Rep. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) and then-Majority Leader Dick Armey (R-Texas). DeMint's forthcoming bill for the 108th Congress will be based on the previous bill.) H.R. 3535 Social Security Ownership and Guarantee Act of 2001 (Introduced in House)


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Daniel 9: 20-27 is the most amazing scripture in the Bible giving us God's prophetic timeline. This presentation gives a dispensationalist futurist view based on Derek Walker's
a) re-calculation of dates relating to the second decree of Artaxerxes 458 BC, not 445BC.
b) a pattern of Great Jubilee Cycles of 490 years.
c) the revelation that the End Time 70th week of Tribulation is a re-run of the 70th week of John the Baptist's and Jesus' ministry!


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My name is Philip Manfield and I live in Cardiff.
Mission : To teach safe driving, a skill for life and have some fun
I started as a Driving Instructor in 1988 and work full time in this role. Driving instructors are not all the same, we are graded according to our abilities during our regular standards check
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I am a member of the Institute of Advanced motorists.
I am signed up to the ADI Code of Practice
An Approved Driving Instructor (ADI) has a very important role to fulfil. This goes beyond just teaching someone just to drive a car in order to pass their driving test. As a grade A instructor I deliver a high standard and a good value for money service
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Last February, Dave Navarro and I put each other to a challenge — he put my ebook on how to start a freelance business to the test in a Freelance Smackdown to see if he could make an extra $1,000-$2000 per month in his spare time. Within a month, he had made that goal.
Then I challenged his 30 Hours a Day Program to see if I could use it to make an extra $20,000 in passive income that year.
Melinda Brennan of WAHM Biz Builder recently asked… so how'd it go? I'm happy to announce, that this challenge has had an incredible positive financial impact in my life. And in astounding ways that I never expected.
In order to devote time to my new goal, I would have to free up some time. I have never been so aware of and so in awe of the power and consequences of time spent until I began working for myself.
Two Paths Diverged In A Yellow Wood…
There was a critical choice that had to be made in order to free up that time… a choice so pivotal that it would change the course of my future. It's a choice that every freelancer faces, whether or not they realize it to be a choice. One choice would be a fast path, the other a long haul.
Should I continue on as a solo freelancer? Or should I turn my freelancing gig into a company?
The Solo Freelancer Path
As a solo freelancer, my work was fairly stress-free. I was fluent at what I did. I worked with a handful of steady clients and project management was fairly straight-forward. Really, my solo freelancing career had turned into a stable work at home job.
My life was predictable and safe. I lived in my favorite place in the world – a place that I finally felt at home after years of moving around the country. It would have been so easy to just maintain that predictability and safety by cutting back a little on freelancing and devote that time to building my passive income stream.
The Living Company Path
Having taken this path, I can say that making the shift from solo freelancer to full-fledged business owner is not the simpler route. The path is riddled with fears, obstacles, tests, puzzles, and quicksand. Instead of being financially responsible for just yourself, you are now financially responsible for the people that work for you.
There may be times when there are just not enough funds in the coffer to pay yourself after you've paid everyone else and your overhead. There is training that must take place, organizational systems to set up, and more paperwork to manage. There are systems to develop to ensure that quality and deadlines are met. And all of these things demand a great deal of time.
That is why you may have noticed my blog posts becoming more infrequent during certain months. Although I consider myself a person that can juggle a LOT of tasks and, throughout my life have taken on more than what most people would consider sane, I was still hammered for time. Many times, my life felt like a game of Tetris with all of the blocks falling so fast and capacity running out.
But I'm glad I chose this path.
There are upsides of course. One is the possibility of creating something larger than yourself – a legacy that can live on without you – fulfilling one of the most primal human desires. Another is the ability to serve more people with work that you are passionate about. A third is the possibility that one day, the company can grow to a point where it operates almost on it's own, but generates revenue for years to come.
A lot of people have had amazing results keeping their business solo or almost solo while building massive income streams with info products. I mean, look at Naomi raking in the bucks with her products (and with damn good reason – the chick is a rock star). Look at Ray Edwards and other master copywriters who charge tens of thousands of dollars for copy and make money giving classes and seminars.
Sadistic or Smart?
So why go the business building route when so many others are making bank by staying solo? Perhaps I'm self-sadistic. Perhaps it's some sort of sick sense of low self-esteem or a refusal to let go. Perhaps it's the lust of wanting to have my cake and eat it too. Whatever it is, it's the road I took and I'm glad I did.
I like to tell myself that it's because I love what I do, I love serving customers who are passionate about growing their online businesses but may not have tens of thousands of dollars to spend. I like to tell myself that it's because I want to be able to scale to serve more of my clients in the same capacity.
After busting a$$ for a very long time, free time to work on the 'big picture' is within view. Just this month, we hired a personal assistant and are hiring a full-time project manager. This gives me the opportunity to create even more systems to help the business scale and to pursue other ventures, produce some products that have been on my mind for quite a while, begin offering consulting – and all while serving more of the customers that I love.
So Did I Make the $20,000?
Yes, I have made $20,000 in passive income last year.
I created a system within my existing business that worked to produce income from projects with minimal hands on involvement from me. I worked my a$$ off creating systems that can continue that trend year after year.
And I'm positioned for even further growth next year, having invested created a (mostly) automated syndication platform, Online PR News, that allows people to upload press releases at various distribution levels, that generates revenue without having to trade hours for dimes.
I thank Dave for asking me the tough questions. It got me thinking differently and this caused me to rethink everything in order to accomplish that goal.
How did Dave Do?
Read Dave's unfiltered progress and results when he challenged himself to follow the steps in my ebook "How to Start a Freelancing Business for $50 or Less":
How I Boosted My Confidence In 5 Minutes And Made Over $5000
Freelance Smackdown: Expanding Services (I'm Doing It, You Should Too)
Freelance Smackdown: Expanding Services, Part Deux
Freelance Smackdown: Day 7 Update (Now Codeine Free!)
Freelance Smackdown: Day 14 Update (With "Secret"-Busting Goodness)
Freelance Smackdown: Week 3 Update ("Once More, With Feeling")
Freelance Smackdown – Did It Blend?
How To Grow Your Business From Solo Operation to Business Operation
The details of growing a business from solo to a fully operational team could certainly fill a book. Instead writing an obscenely long blog post, I'd love to open up the comments section to stories and questions about growing your home-based business without going into debt by using creative, strategic methods.
Growing and Marketing Your Business in A Tight Economy
If you're really serious about growing your business, I highly recommend Melinda Brennan's upcoming free business marketing teleseminar, Marketing Biz Brainstorm, taking place live on March 3rd at 2:00pm EST. I've been invited to be a panelist on this call with Melinda of WAHM Biz Builder and Kelly McCausey of WAHM Talk Radio.
One of the goals of this teleseminar is to answer of your personal questions on small business marketing. When I say your questions – I mean it! The call is very much directed by the questions YOU submit when you register for free. So think of some good questions and ask them here – because this is a great opportunity to get your questions answered for free!
If you're in business for yourself, you're in a state of constant flux… where are you now? What challenges or fears do you face in terms of growth? Do you have any tips to help others scale? I'd love to hear from you!
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Magnetoelectric Device and the Measurement Unit
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For ME sensor optimization, designs should consider both frequencies far away from resonance and at resonance. For the former one, both internal and external noise contribution must be considered, as one of them will limit practical applications. With regards to the internal noise sources, I have developed two design optimization methods, designated as â scale effectâ and â ME arrayâ . I showed that they have the ability to increase the magnetic field detection sensitivity, which was verified by experiments. With regard to external noise consideration, I have investigated how the fundamental extrinsic noise sources (temperature fluctuation, vibration, etc) affect ME laminate sensors. A concept of separating signal and noise modes into difference is put forward. Optimization with this concept in mind required us to redesign the internal structure of ME laminate sensors. At the resonant frequency, the ME voltage coefficient ∞ME is the most important parameter. To enhance resonant gain in ∞ME, I have developed a three phase laminate concept, which is based on increasing the effective mechanical factor Q while reducing the resonant frequency. A ME voltage coefficient of ∞ME ~40V/cm.Oe has been achieved at resonance, which is about 2x higher than that of a conventional bending mode.
Investigations of detection circuit optimization were also performed. Component selection strategies and a new charge topology were considered. Proper component values were required to optimize the charge detection scheme. It was also found, under some specific conditions to satisfy the circuit stability, that if the lowest required measurement frequency of the charge source was f1, then that it was not necessary to make the high corner frequency fp of the charge amplifier lower than f1: as doing so would decrease the systemâ s signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). A high pass, high order filter placed behind the charge amplifier was found to increase the charge sensitivity, as it narrows the intrinsic noise bandwidth and decreases the output noise contribution, while only slightly affecting the signalâ s output amplitude.
Prototype ME unit were also constructed, and their noise level simulated by Pspice. Experimental results showed that prototypes ME unit can reach their detection limit. In addition, a new magneto-electric coupling mechanism was also found, which had a giant ME effect.
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Mac lab configuration information
Information about the configuration of the Seneca@York campus Mac labs follows.
This document was most recently updated in September 2011.
Black screen on iOS Simulator
When you attempt to run the iOS Simulator in T2109*, it may not run successfully. The iPhone device outline appears, but the screen remains black.
Here's how to fix this.
After you login to the Mac, and before you do anything else, do these two actions:
1. Start the iOS Simulator. (The easiest way is to use Spotlight; press Command+Space, and begin typing "ios simulator". Select/click the matching "Top Hit" or "Application".)
2. On the iOS Simulator menu, select Reset Contents and Settings…, and on the subsequent dialog, select Reset. Now, quit the simulator.
You can now successfully use the simulator. (We will attempt to correct this problem during the semester.)
* – This behaviour applies to T2019, and the SEQ Mac labs, S2112, S2113, S2114, and S2046.
Developer Tools group authentication
After a new (power on) Mac session, the first time that you "run" an iOS app while in Xcode, you will be asked to authenticate as a user in the "Developer Tools" group:
The credentials are:
Name: dev
Password: dev
Developer documentation update authentication
If you are prompted to enter credentials to update the developer documentation, then you can cancel. (We will attempt to remove this behaviour during the semester.)
Xcode versions in various lab rooms
As of September 16, 2011, the following shows the Xcode versions on the campus Macs.
Xcode 4.0.2
- T2109 (our classroom)
Xcode 3.2.3 (with the separate Interface Builder app)
- Library (Learning Commons)
See this page for room availability.


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A lamp with inimitable style, Bourgie is one of Kartell's best sellers, skilfully combining classic style, richness and tradition with innovation and irony. The baroque style base is composed of three interconnecting decorated layers, while the large lampshade is made with a pleated effect, to create a myriad play of reflections when the lamp is turned on. The lamp shade's unique attachment system makes three different heights possible which can be adjusted according to desired use: 68, 72 and 78 cm. Bourgie becomes a gorgeous decorative desk or table lamp. Thanks to its flexibility and strong communication value, it can be used on a side table in the living room, to create atmosphere on your nightstand, or as a standing sculpture or for reading. Following the major success of the transparent, black, gold and chrome versions, Kartell is now offering a new "gorgeous garment" that is opaque white on the outside and gold inside.
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Ammno did a lip sync to the song, "Fireflies" by Owl City. He got a standing ovation when he was done. He wasn't the least bit afraid and knew every word. It was awesome!
This young man (13), Nathan Jones, played the best drum solo I've ever heard in my ilfetime outside of a professional drummer. It blew me out of the water. We were all screaming and clapping for him. Amazing performance!
These boys are in Ammon's teacher's quorum. Brig Webb and Johnny Weakly played a great song. Johnny was on the keyboards, Brig played guitar and sang. Great job!! A man in our ward is teaching them and he is doing a wonderful job with these boys.
This boy, Zach Lundberg had two girls come up and mess up two Rubics cubes. While they were doing that, he told some facts about Rubics cubes and then proceeded to solve both of them under 3 minutes. He solved them in 2 minutes 20 seconds. We didn't believe he could do it.
Other acts in the talent show included a boy doing a routine with his weapons - he's has a black belt in Karate. He was really talented and it was fun to watch. Another 14 year old played the electric guitar and that, too, blew us away. One played a piano solo he made up (like Adam used to do) and it was very nice. Two boys (seniors) did a dance to the song, "Move it, Move it!" that was clever and fun to watch. I believe the ward will now do this as an annual event. It was such a great way to show off the talents of these kids.
Here's a picture of Kaitlin, Ammon and Dad playing Wii. Don't bowl with Dad - he killed us! Don't golf with Ammon - he's got a sweet swing. Don't play baseball with Kaitlin - she's got a mean swing. Don't box with Mom - she's plain mean.


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From the opening whistle-and-whipcrack theme to the final images of a vast cemetery stretching almost to infinity, THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY is surely one of the bloodiest, funniest and most wickedly entertaining portraits of human corruption ever made. Leone's surreal masterpiece of the American West during the last days of the Civil War follows a trio of equally violent and unrepentant gunslingers (Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach and Lee Van Cleef) who engage in a jaw-dropping series of double and triple crosses to get their hands on a fortune in stolen Confederate gold.
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M.I.C.: Back to Training6:00 AM
Ten days is not enough to offset thirteen weeks of separation. You would think someone high up on the food chain in the Marine Corps would know this. But since they are very "traditionally" set, odds are it's been that way since the beginning and will be until kingdom come.
Clark's ten days home had been filled with endless errands and things to take care of. While we clearly had spent every waking moment together, it felt as though we hadn't really been able to enjoy ourselves with so many things looming on our to-do list. When the time came that we had to drive back down to Jacksonville, NC for him to go back to work... I was not a happy camper.
It should have been fine, right? I mean, we survived thirteen weeks full of awful drama and life-changing training. We should easily be able to handle four or five weeks (I believe it was). But it felt like the end of the world. I had just gotten my husband back, and now they expected me to give him up? Just like that?
Driving home was the worst feeling ever. Six hours in the car, by myself, after just saying good-bye again. We've faced plenty since that time, and bootcamp was definitely by far the worst. But having Clark home for ten days almost made the upcoming time seem worse. I almost felt like if they had just kept him it wouldn't be as bad. They dangled him in front of me only to take him away again.
Clark was able to call, from what I recall, a couple of times during MCT. There was one instance where it was close to when I needed to go pick him up and attend his graduation. I was actually at work (working retail), and against protocol had kept my phone on in my locker. I was on my break when I heard it vibrating (totally God timing, there). He was on the other line, and I felt so blessed that he had finally gotten through (we had gone a number of days without communication).
I walked onto the floor and let him say hello to a friend. I was so overjoyed that he was calling that I wanted to share him. But then the line was disconnected. I had barely gotten two words in. The friend got to talk to him much more than me. I started crying. Thankfully, my manager was female and ushered me into the back and comforted me. Five minutes later Clark called again. From then on, I was allowed to keep my phone with me. I was so blessed to have some supportive friends and coworkers, and above all the support of my family (even if it was from a distance-- since my parents and younger sister were in Germany and my older sister was in California at the time).
This was a life lesson. At the time I thought I was facing a lifetime of the military. Deployments, late nights, unexpected work loads. This was preparing me for the life I saw my mother endure so gracefully. A life I thought I was prepared for, prepped for-- a life I thought I could handle. We were so young when we were first introduced to it, and we were experiencing one side of the military as children, and now another as adults. We both came from military backgrounds and thought so confidently we could handle it. But the military isn't for everyone. And while Clark was enjoying his training and what he was setting out to do, he was homesick, and my heart was aching from missing him so much.


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Tennessee law requires owners of retail liquor licenses to have resided in the state for multiple years before being able to obtain a license. A court case challenging this residency requirement has been working its way through the court system for several years, and last week the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear the case. Shanken Daily News reports:
The Supreme Court of the United States has agreed to take on the case involving Total Wine & More's entry into the Tennessee market, which the Tennessee Wine and Spirits Retailers Association (TWSRA) is fighting on the grounds that Total hasn't fulfilled the state's residency requirements. Total Wine asserts that Tennessee's residency requirement is discriminatory against out-of-state residents and therefore in violation of the Constitution's Dormant Commerce Clause.
Under Tennessee law, corporations and other business entities may not obtain a retail liquor license unless every director, officer, and shareholder of the business has been a Tennessee resident for at least nine years. Total Wine challenged the law successfully on Commerce Clause grounds in both federal district and appeals courts, and noted in its brief to the Supreme Court that Tennessee's own attorney general "twice opined that this residency statute violated the Dormant Commerce Clause and could not be enforced." In the meantime, Total was granted a license by the Tennessee Alcoholic Beverage Commission and opened its first store in Knoxville earlier this summer...
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What is Heat Stroke and How is it Treated?
Dogs are unable to tolerate very hot weather as well as people. People have the ability to sweat in order to cool themselves down, while dogs have to rely on exchanging warm air in their bodies for cooler air in their environment by panting. Excessive panting can be one of the first signs of heat stroke. You may also notice difficulty breathing, lots of thick saliva, bright red mucous membranes, dehydration, vomiting, lethargy, disorientation and uncoordination. If left untreated at this phase, heat stroke can progress to shock, causing grey or pale blue mucous membranes, bloody diarrhea, coma, seizures and death.
If you notice ANY of these symptoms of heat stroke it is advised that you begin measures to cool your dog down, starting with taking a rectal temperature. The normal temperature for a dog can be up to 102.5 degrees. If your dog's temperature is elevated, move him to a cooler environment immediately. If your dog's temperature is above 104 degrees, cool him by submersing him in cool water for several minutes and then placing him in front of a fan. Pouring cool water on him or covering his face and feet in cool, wet towels is another option if a bath is not available. Ice baths are not recommended as they can actually worsen the problem by causing the immediate constriction of blood vessels- trapping the heat inside the body. Isopropyl alcohol can also be applied to the pads of the feet to encourage cooling since dogs actually have a few sweat glands on the pads of their feet. Continue monitoring your dog's temperature every 5-10 minutes. If you are able to cool your dog's temperature to less than 103 degrees, stop these measures in order to avoid hypothermia. If you are unable to cool your dog, he should be taken immediately to a veterinarian, ideally performing cooling measures along the way. Irreversible damage to organs and cells can occur at 106 degrees.
Any dog that has suffered from heat stroke should be examined by a veterinarian. Abrupt, severe increases in body temperature can cause dehydration, while excessive vomiting can cause an electrolyte imbalance. Additionally, laryngeal edema, heart problems, kidney failure and seizures are also potential problems that can occur due to heat stroke. A complete physical examination and possible blood work and radiographs may help to prevent your pet from suffering from these potentially devastating problems. Your veterinarian will ensure that your dog's body temperature remains in a safe range and may suggest subcutaneous or IV fluids to replace fluids lost during the heat stroke.
If you have suspect that your dog has suffered from heat stroke it is imperative that you bring him to a veterinarian right away. Heat stroke is a very serious condition and can be fatal if not corrected in time. If you have any questions regarding heat stroke and your dog please do not hesitate to contact the River Road Veterinary Clinic.


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Day 9! Today you are all in for a treat, my best friend Jessica is sharing today! Jessica is actually the one who introduced me to the art of sewing! Not only can this girl sew, knit, bake, and cook, but she has even been known to do a metal art project or two! She is seriously talented and I'm so glad that we're friends. And I'm counting down the days until I can see her in real life again (only 5 more days!!). I'm thrilled she is participating this year and I know you'll enjoy her adorable, crafty tutorial!
Hello! My name is Jessica, and I am so pleased to be doing a guest post on The Pickled Herring! I love the Scandinavian Christmas series that Kathryn does, and am honored to be a part of it this year!
A little bit about myself: I am Kathryn's BFF!! We have been pals since our time in the womb! Our mothers are friends, and we have been besties since birth. We were even called Siamese twins by one of our grade school teachers. My family celebrates our Swedish heritage every Christmas by having a Smorgasbord at Christmastime. We bust out the herring, rice pudding, and korv. We even have one of the girls dress up as Lucia and serve cookies.
Kathryn is coming home to Michigan for Christmas (yay!!!) and we love to fika. So I decided to make Christmas Cozys! I'm so excited for her to see my new house and my new baby, and to catch up over a cozy cup of coffee! I have actually been working on one of those felt embroidered stockings, kind of like this, and it inspired me to add a little pizzazz with sequins.
Here's what you need: green, red and white felt, green, red and white floss, sequins, seed beads, a little bit of stuffing, and a button. (Ignore the velcro in this picture - I ended up not using it!)
So what I did first was make a template. Use a piece of paper for this.
Once you have the template made, cut out 2 of those guys from the green felt.
Then you basically weave the strips of felt to make a cute little heart!
Embroider the heart onto one of the green felt pieces, adding some stuffing beneath the heart to give it some dimension. Then add some sequins by tacking them on with seed beads.
Next, place the other green felt piece behind the one you've just embroidered, and use a running stitch and the white floss, embroider around the edges. After you've done this, you can clean up the edges by cutting away the excess (I suppose you could avoid this step by making sure the green pieces are exactly the same size, but I'm no perfectionist).
Then all you have to do is add a cute little button and cut a buttonhole!
And here is your Christmas Cozy! Now, just make sure you have 2 for when your best friend comes home for Christmas!!
Oh, and here's my Christmas baby!
Thank you, Jessica!!! I can't wait to fika it up with you in just a few short days! Come back tomorrow to hear from another good friend, Kate!


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Overnight Cinnamon Raisin Oats
Makes 1 serving
* Gluten-free if using gluten-free oats and spices
¼ cup oats
2 ½ tsp chia seeds
2 tbsp coconut or soya yogurt, unsweetened
2 tbsp raisins
½ tsp cinnamon
½ cup almond milk, unsweetened
Place all ingredients into a small mason jar and shake until well combined. Alternatively, if you want a more portable option put the ingredients in a plastic tub with clip lids.
Place in fridge and let sit overnight.
Eat cold, or heat if desired. You can pop it in a bowl and microwave it for a couple of minutes. Top with your fresh fruit of choice (optional). Enjoy! For the yogurt look out for one with 'no sugars'. This recipe can easily be doubled up so you have enough for two days.
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I'm not a huge fan of fruit leathers, but this turned out super good! And, really, you can't go wrong with blackberries, mint and rum.
Sunday, May 27, 2007
Omnivore's Dilemma book club poll
So my question for you is:
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Hey - just posted my low impact week goals - I am quite frightened really - look fowrard to yours!
- May 27, 2007 at 12:56 AM
- QT said...
I am halfway through Part II and will probably finish it within the next couple of weeks.
- May 27, 2007 at 6:31 PM
- Sally said...
I thought I was going to have to wait to join this conversation till August, when the book comes out in paperback. But hooray, my number just came up last night at the public library, where I've had a hold on the book and have been waiting for 37 people to read the book ahead of me. I'll catch up on section 1 quickly this weekend and embark on section 2 soon thereafter. BTW, being a resident of Iowa these days (though blessedly ensconced in California this year) I can vouch for all Pollan says about the monoculture landscape out there and the slow but steady disappearance of lifeblood in the small towns. I try my best not to be a Corn Person, but it's hard to fight.
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Prairie View Campground has full-hook up sites (power, water, and sewer), easy pull-thru sites that can accommodate any length of rig from small pop-ups to 40-some foot RVs with a tow behind (our longest sites are approx. 80 feet long), and space for tents.
The campground has free wifi accessible from anywhere you decide to spend the night, propane on-site, showers and bathrooms, and coin-op laundry facilities.
We are conveniently located right off Hwy 18/20 just a mile west of the town of Lusk. Lusk is at the crossroads of Hwy 85, Hwy 18, and Hwy 20 and just 2.5 hours from the Black Hills or 4 hours from Denver.
Summer tourists, bikers headed to Sturgis, hunting parties, and people that have traveling occupations are all welcome. We enjoy the different people we meet from around the country and world and want to make your stay at Prairie View Campground a bit like staying with some good friends.
We hope that your stay at Prairie View Campground is a small slice of home in your travels.


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After watching the Video below, I find myself in the same place, asking the same questions about Netflix's modern American adaption of one of anime's greatest thrillers Death Note. Why is it in the United States? How can they still call him the protagonists alter, serial killing, ego "Kira"? What are they going to do with all these characters in a modern American setting? To my dismay none of these questions are really answered.
I still find myself struggling to wrap my head around the first question, why Americanize a work so deeply steeped in Japanese culture? Whitewashing has been an extremely unpopular practice, especially within the anime community. That leaves the option open for them to take a higher ground and make a new adaptation keeping the basic premise. They seemed to have tried to take a middle ground, keeping the name "Kira" an engrish version of the word killer. Which doesn't make sense how are all these American kids supposed to stumble upon the mispronunciation of killer in a Japanese accent? That leaves are third unanswered question, the pivotal characters, all nameless so far. We still seem to have the yin and yang that is kira and his opposite L, which I'm reserving my opinion on for now.
The only thing I can truly say that I liked in the trailer was the Apple loving Ryuk. Dark, bored, and foreboding the character was recreated almost flawlessly, is William Dafoe giving me enough reason to let this show try and win me over still? Probably. Due out in August 2017 the Netflix original film Death Note is sure to be interesting, one way or another.


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As a writer for the small business community, I care deeply about the way entrepreneurs and self-employed business people brand themselves. Taking it a step further, I sympathize for the millions of educated, intelligent individuals who take it upon themselves to put together just the right words as a means to selling their services or products. Take, for instance the following sample of a short bio (perhaps the kind listed on a Linkedin page) of a potentially highly skilled real estate agent:
"I am a people person and I love to help others realize the American dream of home ownership. I have 15 years of experience in the real estate industry and have successfully put together hundreds of real estate purchases at ABC Real Estate. I live on three acres with my family of five, love dogs and enjoy running in local marathons. If you or anyone you know have a real estate-related need, please feel free to have them call me."
Most work-from-home or single proprietor businesses just starting out may not feel it necessary (nor can they afford) to hire a copywriter for a professional sounding bio, so a simple one like the one above is the result. And while my hat is off to those of you who try to keep up with the wealth of SEO-laden content needed for online branding of your businesses, what you may not realize is how consistently you are being judged by what you say about yourself, unwittingly alienating the kinds of clients capable of taking your career to the next level. To get you going in the right direction, I offer the following bio writing tips:


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The Astral Plains · 391 School Road · Wilmington, Ohio
Smokey is a 14 year old off the track Thoroughbred gelding. Smokey broke a leg on the racetrack as a 4 year old, ending his racing career. I spent our first two years together trying (successfully) to get him sound. He's been a trusty lesson horse ever since. (Color: Grey. Height: 16.1 hands.)
Deacon is a 12 year old Rocky Mountain horse gelding. Deacon is perfect for introducing people to the world of gaited horses. Deacon has been with me since the age of two. (Color: Black. Height: 15.2 hands.)
Sonny is a 12 year old Rocky Mountain horse gelding. Sonny has a super smooth canter and is my favorite horse to ride bareback. Sonny has also been with me since the age of two. (Color: Chocolate with flaxen mane & tail. Height: 14.2 hands.)
Prince is a 14 year old Percheron/Thoroughbred cross gelding. Prince is the biggest boy of the bunch. He's not for beginner riders due to his large size and huge forward motion. But, once a student has become well balanced Prince can be a fun and challenging ride! (Color: Black. Height: 17 hands.)
Vegas is a 14 year old grade gaited pinto (grade meaning unknown breeding) although I expect he is a likely a Tennessee Walking Horse or cross. Vegas has a wonderful running walk and he enjoys going fast. (Color: Bay tobiano. Height: 15.1 hands.)
Bandolero (aka Banjo) is a 21 year old Hanoverian gelding. In his former life he was a dressage show horse. Now, he enjoys giving easy going lessons and teaching the fundamentals of dressage to his riders. (Color: Chestnut. Height: 15.3 hands.)
Pancho (grey) and Lala (grey & white spotted) are our two 5 year old miniature donkey geldings. They love getting their heads scratched and eating treats.


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text: Share: Comments Print August 20, 2014 at 4:23 PM Ocean salmon fishery going strong with decent catches of kings and coho Posted by Mark Yuasa (Ben Moos of Pullman with a nice king he caught at Buoy-10 off Ilwaco on Aug. 17. Photo courtesy of Tony Floor.) The ocean salmon fishery continues remains very good along the entire 157 miles of coastline. "The Ilwaco area is back to (two-salmon daily) limits on Tuesday, and we did see a little drop in the success right before that due to bad weather," said Wendy Beeghly, a state Fish and Wildlife biologist. "The catch at Ilwaco is still mostly coho averaging 7 to 8 pounds with some up 12 pounds and larger." Ilwaco anglers this past week averaged 1.4 salmon per rod, and 0.2 on chinook and 1.2 for coho. Just up the coast at Westport the catch average increased to 1.5 per rod with 0.4 on chinook and 1.1 on coho. "They had a good week at Westport, and still some pretty good fishing," Beeghly said. Most of the charter fishing fleet was fishing about 20 miles offshore along the 300 foot line. The smaller boats were doing well off the beach just north of Ocean Shores. Daily limit at Westport is now two kings. To the north, La Push anglers averaged 1.4 fish per rod, and the bulk of the catch was coho. At Neah Bay, it was 0.9 fish per rod, and the average was 0.2 for chinook and 0.7 for coho. The effort and catch at the Buoy 10 salmon fishery on the Lower Columbia River mouth has amped up in recent days. "There is tons of fishing pressure and tons of boats at Buoy-10, and I just looked at (Tuesday's) data which was 0.3 average per rod on chinook and 0.4 on coho," Beeghly said. "On Tuesday we saw more than 700 boats out on the water, and that was split between the ocean and river." A check from the weekend showed: 120 boats with 370 anglers Saturday caught 139 chinook and 59 hatchery coho; and 136 with 371 Sunday caught 99 and 62. Wait lines at the boat ramps on the Washington and Oregon sides below the Astoria-Megler Bridge were taking some 1.5 hours to launch their craft into the water. The tuna fishing coastwide also is still going strong. "Tuna fishermen are still doing well everywhere" Beeghly said. "I've been hearing they're going out a little further like about 40 to 45 miles at least down at the southern ports." Comments


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Günter Grass 1927 – 2015
Two key lights turned out in just one week, and we're left to ponder who they were and what they've left. Left is perhaps the key word, for they represented a kind of athletic, poetic leftism that seems to be fading from our world.
Grass was by far the more complex figure. We now know that as a young teen in the most horrendous period of the Nazi regime, he was an enthusiastic member of the SS, a group known for the worst violence and horror. What must he have seen (and done) that in just so many years after the war he penned his most famous text so much against war, violence, authoritarianism and all the accumulated ills his book maps out as the historical sources that made the Nazi phenomenon a national fantasy and nightmare. He lived fearful of the horror's return, perhaps because he recognized in the young self he'd been the seeds of what was to flourish and poison all. So with German re-unification his fears grew, so with the emergence of the most reactionary trends in Zionism he spoke out even fearful now that his hidden story was revealed that he'd be taken for an unreconstructed anti-semite. For all the creative limitations of much of his later work, I remember his playful plays and above all his rather brave and brilliant attack against one of my great cultural icons, Bertolt Brecht, when, in a play entitled, The Plebians Rehearse the Uprising, he portrays Brecht's Stalinist antipathy to an East German workers' revolt taking place as the master playwright is staging his own supposedly left wing version of Shakespeare's Coriolanus.
But what about Grass's own limitations and that nagging secret of his SS youth? Perhaps his secret propelled him to smash icons as a way of castigating himself. Perhaps it was the secret which lay at the center of his restless politics, and his creation of such a range of powerful images in his writing as well as his art work — the secret behind one the most mercurial literary figures in the second half of the twentieth century.
Eduardo Galeano 1940 – 2015
Galeano became a sizeable cultural icon in our Latin Americanist world — an heir to dependency theory and a kind of leftism that was more independent if less brilliant than that of Neruda or his countryman Benedetti. Half journalist, half poet, he was hardly capable of a sustained novel but shone as an informal essayist, and rose to his greatest fame as he wrote his flaming denunciatory history of the Latin world and then his four-volume pastiche telling the same story through poetic tropes and quasi-testimonial fragments.
We had something in common in that respect and commented on the similarity between his project and my own four-volume Central American Quartet, collage histories of Nicaragua, El Salvador and Guatemala. We did have some time together, especially after Lou Rosenbaum of Guild Books left the city. And it fell to me to chauffeur him around, drink with him and watch him watching the Anglo and Latin American worlds of Chicago. Once I had to present him in an event arranged I remember by Chicago's Pablo Neruda Center. And one at the 1989 Managua bookfair commemorating the tenth anniversary of the Sandinista Revolution, he and Ernesto Cardenal defended my Central American Quartet against Lawrence Ferlinghetti, who told me that my work, by taking fragments of poems by writers great and less great was an affront to all poets and to poetry itself. "My god," Galeano jibed, "he's just doing what we all do." I will always thank him for that.
Of course, Galeano was more loved by Anglo-Americans than by the academic intellectuals of the Latin American literary left. Jean Franco gave him hell in public for his simplifications and what she considered his condescending inclusion of women in his vision of history. Others complained that he pandered to a kind of anti-Americanism that passed for leftism in certain circles. He brushed them all off. "They're critics — and critics are always jealous of writers," he once told me, perhaps knowing I was one of them. My son revered him because he was one of the writers who loved football. I guess many will remember him with great affection and admiration in spite of all the criticism.
Two figures who are now gone. As many lights turn out. And we have to ask where we are and what's left of the left? And what will be left in the years we've still left?
Marc Zimmerman is author of U.S. Literature (1992), Defending their own in the Cold: the Cultural Turns of U.S. Puerto Ricans (2011); he has edited volumes on Latin American/Latino transnational processes, Latinos in U.S. cities and Chicano art in Mexican Chicago. He is currently developing essays on Chicago Latino writers and artists, as well as stories on his Latino and Latin American experiences.


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Living On Less:
In March of 2016, Lou and I decided that we wanted to try out living on $3 a day and chronicle the whole journey in a project called Living on Less. We wanted to get a handle on our spending, so that we could save up for the next chapter of our lives - moving into a van and traveling Europe. We realized that the lower we could get our monthly burn, the more time we could focus on creating for you and less time on commercial work.
We also wanted to bust the myth that we hear all the time - I'd love to go vegan, but it's too expensive! Obviously if you're getting fancy superfood powders, dining at trendy restaurants, or buying pre-made green juice everyday, your food bill will definitely go up. But the reality is that rice and beans is one of the cheapest, healthiest meals on the planet and is a staple of the majority of the world's population. Living a healthy, vegan lifestyle, can be affordable and easy, and we really hope that our free eBook (link below) helps people make this connection.
There were two key resources that we utilized during Living on Less - Early Retirement Extreme, by Jacob Lund Fisker and Mr. Money Mustache, a blog by Pete Adeney. (I cannot overstate how influential and instrumental Jacob Lund Fisker's book has been in our journey; if you only read one book this year, read Early Retirement Extreme). During this month long challenge, we learned how to cut out unnecessary spending, dramatically reduce our grocery bill, all while still finding a way to enjoy the little things in life like quality time with friends.
Living on $3 a day was definitely a challenge, but with the right preparation and realistic expectations about what life looks like on this budget anyone can do it!
Our first eBook is Here!
We decided that instead of asking you to pay for a guide on how to spend less money...
We would just ask you to please get 3 friends to subscribe to our YOUTUBE CHANNEL in exchange for the eBook!
We also made a 5-part vlog series on our YouTube channel chronicling the entire month. We show you how to make a shopping list, some easy cheap recipes, and even find falafel in Berlin for 50 cents!


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I must do the books.
I must type the type.
I must say the words and speak the speech.
Technical terms these,
Innocence and violence.
True love makes man into piñata.
Salty spiral of comfortable chaos,
A tiny riot of battling dendrites,
Opera of dead bees and cocaine,
Wagnerian warehouse of silence and silver rats,
You cannot deny that man is his own accidental invention.
A collection of spinal column orientations is all that makes a person who he is and they are dangerously easy to mimic and eventually accidentally embrace as one's own, an element of the unwittingly fabricated self.
Mine is really just a scrapbook of things I've seen and people I've wished I was for reasons I could not understand or dared not admit. The sham of my identity is no more important than your average kleenex.
I want to shrink to the size of an apple seed.
I want to be a sound with no bones, mere aether.
I want to feel no pain, to be 500 years old,
To have no ears or genitalia,
To go blind,
To destroy the sexual architecture of ilia and sacrum,
To whittle my bones to points like bamboo,
And shove them under the fingernails of eros.
For beauty is dirt.
For I will grow old and stupid anyways.
For I find a mad beast in this mirror of romance.
A pressure cooker of fragility and yearning,
So sober and salty,
It's nothing like the pornography I'd dreamed of in my youth.
The Nearest Paradise
The door to the balcony is open.
The curtains sound like whispers.
In a morphine slumber
Her cheeks are pink
Her eyes windows to dollhouses.
I did not know it would be like this.
Charcoal creatures seeping
From the cracks between today
And the forever that waits.
I did not know
About the uselessness
Of family at a time when
We all do this alone.
Chattering jaw and blue lips.
Shocking how soon we begin to move again
Once she has stopped.
Flurry of noise, preparations
For the end of the end.
It is time to cover the stillness.
Only numbers and open windows and ink left.
Hello passing cloud.
I carve out a home for you in my chest
A fluttering presence
A winged blindness.
So what is it
You mean to tell me?
Am I my mother's ghost?
Am I the slowest plan?
I find a casket
Polished ebony
In a white dust labyrinth
Under lily moon.
But it will not openfor my comprehension.
It seems each word of the dying is a clue to a puzzle
But our research doesn't matter.
The other world
Is invitation only.


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Flash Tuning Car GT
Flash Tuning Car GT Info
Flash Tuning Car GT is a car tuning game with lots of cool options for transforming your vehicle into something awesome.
Choose from a great assortment of motors including sports cars, muscle cars and classic street racers. Give it a paintjob then modifying it by adding graphics and aftermarket parts like spoilers.
Other options in Flash Tuning Car GT include modified side skirts, tires and hubs, bonnets and lights.
Create the car of your dreams, then download it and save it as wallpaper and share it with your friends.
If you've ever fancied yourself as a car designer, this is the game for you.Autosaur updated this game on 11 Aug , 2015.
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My father once gave a piece of parenting advice that has always stuck with me. His advice was to ignore 80% of what your children do wrong and admonish the important 20%.
He said not to be one of those parents that always tell his children "not to do that, be quiet, don't pick that up, etc"
But for the 20% that matters, not to budge. You need to figure out what those non-negotiables are?
For me, its lying, disrespecting parents or elders, etc.


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Members of India's film industry and fans have been celebrating the birth of a baby girl to Bollywood star Aishwarya Rai Bachchan and husband actor Abhishek Bachchan. The birth was announced on Wednesday morning on Twitter by Abhishek. Father-in-law Bollywood legend Amitabh Bachchan … [Read more...]
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Ozzy Osbourne 'trashed hotel room with dead shark'
Ozzy Osbourne once soaked a hotel room in shark's blood while on tour with Black Sabbath according to former bandmate Toni Iommi. Iommi admits at the height of the band's hellraising days Ozzy decided to go crazy with a dead shark because the group weren't excited by drugs anymore. Ok I get that. … [Read more...]
Zooey Deschanel splits with Ben Gibbard
Actress Zooey Deschanel and her husband, musician Ben Gibbard, are getting divorced. Deschanel's publicist Lauren Auslander confirmed on Tuesday the couple has separated after two years of marriage. Auslander describes the split as "amicable", with "no third party involved". The split is … [Read more...]
Kim Kardashian and Kris Humphries getting divorce after 72 days
Reality TV star Kim Kardashian is filing for divorce from basketball player Kris Humphries after just 72 days of marriage. Kardashian today released a statement confirming the divorce. "After careful consideration, I have decided to end my marriage," she said. "I hope everyone understands … [Read more...]
Robin Williams gets married for third time
Hollywood star Robin Williams has married graphic designer Susan Schneider in a luxurious ceremony in California yesterday. The wedding was held at the Meadowood resort in St. Helena in the wine region of Napa Valley. Williams, 60, met Susan just before he underwent heart surgery in 2009 and … [Read more...]
Seth MacFarlane wants Family Guy to end
Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane has admitted that he thinks the popular cartoon series should have ended by now. The 37-year-old told The Hollywood Reporter that the show, which has just finished its 10th series, has been running for too long. "Part of me thinks that Family Guy should have … [Read more...]
Robert Downey Jr labels Iron Man 2 "disappointing"
Hollywood superstar Robert Downey Jr says his recent blockbuster hit Iron Man 2 was "disappointing". Speaking to the Los Angeles Times, the Tropic Thunder star praised the first film in the comic book adaptation series but had few good things to say about the star-studded sequel. "The first … [Read more...]
Olivia Wilde gets divorced
Actress, Olivia Wilde has finalised her divorce from her husband of eight years. A judge approved Wilde's split from documentary filmmaker Tao Ruspoli on September 29 in Los Angeles. The judgment does not indicate how the former couple will divide their assets. Wilde filed for divorce in … [Read more...]
Dads Army co-writer David Croft dies
David Croft, co-writer and producer of classic comedies including Dad's Army,'Allo 'Allo, It Ain't Half Hot Mum and Hi-de-Hi has died at his home in Portugal aged 89. A family statement called him a "truly great man who will be missed by all who had the great fortune of knowing and loving him." … [Read more...]
L Word actress thrown off plane for kissing girlfriend
Former The L-Word actress Leisha Hailey has complained that she and a girlfriend were kicked off a Southwest Airlines flight in a dispute over them kissing on a plane. Hailey, 40, tweeted that a flight attendant had told her that Southwest "was a 'family' airline and kissing was not ok", and … [Read more...]
Kirstie Alley sheds 100lbs for Dancing With The Stars
Kirstie Alley has lost 100lbs in her quest to slim down just prior to appearing on US celebrity talent competition Dancing With The Stars. The 60 year-old actress has battled with her weight over the years and is an infamous yo-yo dieter. But Alley says she feels better than ever and is … [Read more...]
Spartacus star Andy Whitfield dead at 37
Andy Whitfield, the 37-year-old star of the hit TV series Spartacus: Blood and Sand, has died. His manager, Sam Maydew says Whitfield died on Sunday of non-Hodgkin Lymphoma in Sydney, Australia. Whitfield's wife Vashti in a statement called her husband a "beautiful young warrior" who died on … [Read more...]
Sandra Bullock denies romance with Ryan Reynolds
Oscar winning actress Sandra Bullock has denied reports she is in a romance with Ryan Reynolds. She also has denied that she is pregnant or planning to adopt another baby. Bullock a baby boy, Louis at the beginning of 2010, just before her marriage to reality TV star Jesse James came crashing … [Read more...]
Eddie Murphy to host the Oscars
Hollywood star Eddie Murphy will host the 84th annual Academy Awards it has been announced by the shows producers Brett Ratner and Don Mischer. It will be Murphy's first time in the role and the ceremony is schecduled for 26th February 2012. In a statement Eddie Murphy said he was "enormously … [Read more...]
Melissa George says Jennifer Aniston and Clive Owen best to work with
Australian actress Melissa George says Jennifer Aniston is her favourite co-star along with Clive Owen. Melissa George is famous for her 2003 guest star role on the sitcom, Friends, where she played the 'lesbian nanny'in two episodes Teaming up with Jennifer Aniston again in the new film … [Read more...]


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Housing Co-op Development
To date, NCF has assisted residents of twelve manufactured home communities in Minnesota and Wisconsin form cooperatives and purchase their communities from private owners. Post purchase, NCF provides continuing support to the boards of directors that govern these co-ops. NCF continues to offer short training sessions to housing co-op boards of directors on topics related to governance, membership development and operational skill-building. Session topics, format and location are developed in partnership with the board of each co-op.


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More Is Less: Too Many Choices, Too Little Satisfaction
Earlier this year, we discussed the benefits of simplification to fight decision fatigue: a relatively new diagnosis for the mental torment one feels when faced with an overabundance of options.
Sheena Iyengar delivered a fascinating TED Talk in 2011 called The Art of Choosing – based on her book of the same name – in which she discussed how choice overload affects us even in very consequential decisions, and that "we choose not to choose, even when it goes against our best self interest."
While the "individualistic" consumer trend has spawned new, niche products and promoted healthy business competition (i.e. good old-fashioned capitalism), it has wrongly encouraged big companies to increase their already robust offerings, thus stifling purchase decision-making.
Marketers should adopt the "less is more" mentality so as not to frustrate their customers who feel the exact opposite: more is less. As Iyengar writes in her book: "More choice leads to less satisfaction or fulfillment or happiness."
There are three negative consequences to offering people more and more choice:
- Reduction in Engagement –– more likely to delay or procrastinate making decisions.
- Decision Quality –– more likely to make worse decisions (medical, financial, etc.)
- Satisfaction –– more likely to choose things that make them less satisfied.
As mentioned in our previous post about decision fatigue, many successful leaders wear the same thing every day, which saves their brain power for bigger, more important decisions that require more thought, and frees them of having to ruminate over something so insignificant, by comparison.
As one of the world's leading expert on choice, she offers the 4 C's as a solution to this problem:
- Cut: It should come as no surprise that when Procter & Gamble decided to cut their Head & Shoulders SKUs from 26 to 15, their sales went up 10%.
- Concretize: Brands should help consumers feel the full weight of their decisions in a meaningful and concrete way, which helps them to not only make better choices, but to also be happier with those choices.
- Categorization: Simplify a consumer's decision-making process through categorizing the many products that your brand offers –– people feel like they're given more choice if the number of categories is shorter, not longer.
- Conditioned for Complexity: Start small and gradually increase decision-making complexity to help your customer mentally prepare for more and more choices –– they'll eventually grow accustomed to later, more intricate decision-making.