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How to use a Vision Board to build your business and improve your life
Vision boards have transformed the lives of celebrities like Arnold Schwarzenegger and Oprah Winfrey – and they have the power to transform your life and business too.
Vision boards are a modern manifestation tool combining concepts taken from creative hobbies like scrap booking with motivational mind-mapping techniques and brand development methods used by marketers. A vision board is quite literally a collage of pictures, phrases, poems and quotes that visually represent what you would like to experience more of in your life. For example; if you want more clients – a vision board can help you turn into a 'client magnet' or if you are looking for a relationship – a vision board will help attract your perfect mate.
And its not just Hollywood celebrities that use them. Olympic athletes, television personalities, politicians and top motivational speakers have all started to share how vision boards help sustain their success.
But according to Jayne Morris from PowerUp Coaching, vision boards don't work for everyone. This is because most people make the mistake of beginning a board without first connecting to their inner wisdom. The result is a board filled with images and words that aren't aligned to their authentic desires.
For a vision board to attract like a magnet it is important for it to be created with gratitude, positive intention, self-acceptance and a sense of flow.
Another common vision board blunder is to create a collage crammed with 'wishful thinking' rather than overflowing with belief that you can truly have whatever you put on your board.
Once completed it is crucial to hang your board somewhere that you actively spend the majority of your day. Poor positioning is something that can completely stifle vision board success.
If you'd like to kick start your life/business with a new vision for a new you, then a vision board is a powerful way to take stock on where you are at in your life and reflect on what you would like to do differently during the year ahead.
Jayne Morris recommends Seven Simple Steps to creating a Vision Board that will transform your life/business and act as giant magnet to attract what you want into your life/company.
How to Create a Vision Board – 7 Simple Steps
1. Board Basics – Choose a large piece of card, poster board, cork board or canvas big enough to spaciously arrange your selected words and images so that they have plenty of space to grow. You'll also need pens, scissors, glue or pins, sticky tape, current photograph of yourself, and a big pile of assorted magazines.
2. Prepare a Space – Find somewhere quiet where you can be undisturbed and completely relaxed. Gather all the materials you need together so that they are within easy reach. Do whatever it takes to make the space feel as comfortable and special as possible.
3. Mindset Magic – Let go of anything you feel you 'should, ought to or must' aspire towards. Give yourself permission to explore the things that you really want to welcome more of in your life/business.
Ask yourself the following questions:
"What would I like to be, do or have in my life and my business if I knew it was okay to have anything I wanted? If I knew I deserved it? If I had full support from others? If I knew I could succeed? If I had no fear? If I had abundant resources and all the time I needed?"
4. Mission Statement – Connect with your sense of purpose and write a mission statement to summarise what it is you want to manifest in your life. Often we expressed the essence of our life purpose in the things that intrigued and occupied us as children. Also in the dreams we had of what we wanted to do when we 'grew up'.
Take three deep breaths, turn your focus inward and ask yourself 'what am I here to do'. Notice what thoughts, feelings or sensations you get. Write your mission statement in the first person.
Underneath your mission statement write the things you will experience as you actualize this vision of yourself.
Write your mission statement accompanied by a current photo of yourself at the centre of your board.
5. Flick, Snip and Stick – Have fun flicking through magazines for images and words that inspire you. When you feel you have enough images sit for a few minutes sorting through your images. Simply focus on keeping all the images you love looking at and trust your intuition on any pictures that don't feel right.
Then experiment by arranging all your other images on your board in whatever way feels good. The important thing is to arrange your images with plenty of space in between, so that you send out a message to the universe that you are always open to receiving more!
6. Position with Pride – Proudly display your board somewhere in your home or office where you are most active during the day and will see it regularly (even if this is from your peripheral vision). Ensure the space around your board supports your vision, clear away any clutter or things that don't reflect the words and images on your board.
7. Ongoing Process – Allow your vision board to be a continuously moving creation with room to add more images as your ideas develop and change. Whenever you bring something on your board into being, celebrate and express gratitude for this success. E.g. pop a little smiley face next to the word or image, make a tick mark or write 'thank you!'


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I just saw the following comic stripe in ZenPencils, and I would like to share it here because I believe creating is not only related to arts, but also to programming. So this strip applies the same to all of us, developers.
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Who are The Prairie Scholars?
The Prairie Scholars, which formed in 2010, is a songwriting duet from the high plains of Texas currently living and performing in lovely Colorado. The Band is made up of husband and wife team, Andy and Jessica Eppler. Their hyper-prolific songwriting has been captured in multiple all-original albums which have received glowing reviews, both locally and internationally. With their focus on their community in Boulder County, The Prairie Scholars have worked hard to be a benefit to not only local listeners, but businesses as well, by driving tourism and out of town business into their beloved city of Longmont. The Longmont Times Call featured them in a story saying "The Prairie Scholars have been a community booster ever since they arrived from their native Texas several years ago."
The Prairie Scholars have had the pleasure of working with and performing alongside some wonderful artists in the past few years including Butch Hancock, Paula Nelson, Chris Daniels and The Kings, The Yawpers, Spring Creek Bluegrass Band and Bonnie & the Clydes.
Chiefly recording artists, The Prairie Scholars produce all of their recordings from their home recording studio in their little blue house on the hill in Longmont. Andy serves as the recording engineer for the various albums they regularly release every year.
For booking or interviewing please contact The Prairie Scholars at email@example.com
Honest, aggressive and passionate The Prairie Scholars document in their music a journey out of the flatlands and into the world in search of a home. Jessica, a Sweetwater, TX native, moved to Levelland, TX upon enrolling at South Plains College. She quickly earned the respect of her peers with her captivating songwriting and classically inspired musicality. While at school she met Andy who had also been making a name for himself as a prolific songwriter by incessant recording and performing in nearby Lubbock, his birthplace. Soon the two were married and began producing material. In 2009 they packed their bags and moved to lovely Longmont, CO. In Longmont, The Prairie Scholars found a community that was supportive and encouraging which made making the art much easier. Since moving to Longmont, The Prairie Scholars and have released several collections: Strangers in the Modern Era (2010), Live Wires (2010), The Wasteland Ramble (2012), Live Wires II (2013), Wasted Tracks (2013), 100 Year Flood (2013), The Good Old Days Now (2015), and Calming the Dreamer (2017).
The Prairie Scholars are active supporters of their local community and are proud to make their home on the Front Range of Colorado.


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Abstract: The HIV Vaccination Program needs to be reappraised in light of continuing failures and the published experiments on HIV-1.
The Wrong Road Has Been a Long Road
In [13], Dr Fauci and co-author make the penultimate statement: "the body is indeed capable of producing potent, broadly neutralizing antibodies (against HIV); however, it does not do so readily or efficiently". Such a bold statement on this one particular retrovirus requires absolute physiological back up. The problem is that NIH has never provided such information for the benefit of taxpaying public.
And such a broad brush, presumably applicable to billions of people, begs the question: which body?
Based on many immunosuppressive agents, as documented by Root-Bernstein [15] for environmental stressors that compromise optimum immune system function, one would expect a wide variance among individuals in this capacity. This includes a negative, not a protective effect, known as antibody dependent enhancement documented for RNA enveloped viruses like dengue virus infection. [16]
And Dr Fauci should be hauled into Congress to explain why there are "T cells that effectively control cytomegalovirus, a common chronic viral infection"[18], since CMV has roughly twenty-fold the genomic size of HIV-1 and reasonably should have a far greater capacity to "use tricks" or "escape from" immune surveillance.
Failure to recognize simple facts and their connection to previous failed attempts at an HIV vaccine means NIH conventional HIV/AIDS Vaccine Research should be scrapped as a waste of taxpayer's money. Those responsible for this boondoggle should be fired.
Dr Fauci has maintained the false belief that HIV is an organism subject to the law of evolution. If the virus really was an autonomous organism-like agent that "evades and undermines the immune system", replicons of its complete dimeric genomic would be detectable in patients so affected.
Inadequate explanations by the NIH for this failure to find the required evidence - whole virus in AIDS patients - for the past 30 years requires public scrutiny and a new team. Congress should bring their budget slashing approach to the HIV Vaccine Program where failure is always rationalized as success.
It's 27 years since Dr Gallo's claim of "continuous production" of HIV particles from his special cell culture [1] and Secretary Heckler's Press Conference in early 1984 where a vaccine was promised in a few years.
Since this initial failure, the program has been maintained with whatever rationalizations are handy as HIV experts scramble for reasons why numerous HIV vaccine program failures have "plunged the effort into disarray".[6] "(E)very failure has revealed tricks this virus uses, suggesting new ways to go after it."[6] But it is an absolute nonsense that a virus, being nothing more than nucleic acids with a protein/membrane coating, can use "tricks", or "mutate itself" in such a way as to escape immune surveillance.
A Retrovirus from Krypton?
For example, it is said that: "When HIV-1 infects a permissive cell, integration occurs within a genomic context of endogenous retroviruses. In HIV-1-infected cells, the virus initiates numerous changes in the cellular environment to enhance its own expression, which also affect the endogenous retroviruses in the genome. Intracellular defense mechanisms are compromised by proteins like Vif, which works against cellular APOBEC proteins, helping to establish a productive HIV replication."[18]
Now obviously, a mutation that prevents translation of Vif means the intracellular defensive system will block HIV infection.
So Dr. Fauci's contradictory claims that "unnatural immunity" is essential for a "prevention toolkit" to end the global AIDS pandemic require this rebuttal. Of course, it's not entirely his fault given the inbred research community that's grown up around the HIV/AIDS problem. Dr Fauci, flying in the face of Dr. Montagnier's comments that natural immunity can prevent or control HIV infection [14]; and as demonstrated in fact by "long term non-progressors", confusingly combines the natural and synthetic. "Where effective vaccines have been developed, such as smallpox, measles, and poliovirus, there exists a natural model of protection: the immune response to the pathogen ultimately clears the microbe from the body and confers durable protection against reinfection."[13] However, measles vaccinations apparently require "booster shots" given measles epidemics in vaccinated populations, which calls into question his idea of "effective" and "durable protection".
But what counts with any infection is not a vaccine that just pumps up the quantity of antibodies, it's a balanced immune response including a diverse repertoire of T-cells that will be produced within the healthy.[2] This was documented originally by Edward Kass even before subpopulations of lymphocytes were recognized, "the decline in rates of certain disorders, correlated roughly with improving socioeconomic circumstances, is merely the most important happening in the history of the health of man."[3, pg 111] And: "It is important that this point be understood in its completeness…Our research efforts in dealing with (measles) …do not account for the linear decline in deaths during the past 100 years."[3, pg 111] Figure 5 shows the "mean annual death rate from measles" in 1890 as roughly 1200 per million declining to <50 per million when the "virus" was "identified" in 1955.[3, pg 112]
Is Reverse Transcription a Natural Function of Polymerase Enzymes in Stressed Cells?
Furthermore, it is simply assumed that injection of crude virus preparations of the smallpox and polio vaccine eras were able to clear the viral agent from the body. Unknown at the time was the cell's ability to "archive", via endogenous reverse transcription, the genomes of RNA viruses like measles and polio within the nucleus. This is biochemically equivalent to the "persistence" of HIV infection as a so-called proviral form in the cell's nucleus and paradoxically, may represent a protective effect. [4]
It was biochemically proven for poliovirus by Spiegelman's group in 1977 that polymerase enzyme for reverse transcription need not be specific to retroviral RNA template. (Just as the enzyme can transcribe a DNA template.) "We have recently reported that purified reverse transcriptase … of the avian myeloblastosis virus (AMV) can mediate the synthesis in high yield of virtually complete DNA complementary copies of poliovirus RNA."[5]
Could such a "natural DNA vaccine" shift from protective to pathogenic and produce the HIV markers? An alternate exlanation for "immunodominant epitopes" leading to AIDS is in order if lymphocytes and monocytes are overloaded with latent viral infections. According to Nobel Laureate Kary Mullis, "the cells of an individual immune system could be so highly infected with latent viruses that were immunologically distinct from one another as to result in an immune dysfunction resembling the Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome". [9, Abstract] Clearly if this is the case in AIDS, attempts at vaccinating against a single agent are doomed to fail.
Return on Investment + Demand for Instant Explanations = Foot-in-the-Mouth Science
Dr Fauci and co-author state: "We have known since the mid-1980s that the body's natural immune response to HIV infection is completely inadequate. A 'natural' immune response that might adequately control HIV infection does not occur at all, occurs too rarely, is too weak, or is too slow to begin." But why should this be the case in one particular retrovirus, "behaving" as no other?* Somehow it is supposed to take over a cell even when there's no in vivo evidence for its presence in such quantities that would demonstrate this.
Are these "instant explanations" [7, pg 139-140] of non-living entities, "intellectual lethargy" on the part of molecular biologists, a "caricature of Darwinism" where "adaptive value" is the magic potion to make acceptable the idea that "HIV causes AIDS" is a confirmed hypothesis without adequate "functional or mechanistic explanations" of this putative etiological pathway?
Instead of an etiological explanation, considering the known biochemistry, Dr Fauci rests his case on "mathematical biology".
Garbage In Garbage Out
According to leading authorities in field: "Two assumptions are central to the theory: (1) mutation via reverse transcription during viral replication can generate viral strains resistant to neutralization by antibodies specific to earlier mutants in a particular host; (2) the virus can kill the CD4-positive lymphocytes that play a role in mounting an immunological attack directed at the virus." [8]
But many experiments on HIV-1 provide no validation of this model. According to published results, the consequence of genomic mutations is a defective virus with no ability to replicate. [11, 12]
Nowak et al may be perpetuating the fallacy of "hyperevolutionism", as explained by Stent (pg 139): "(T)here are nevertheless some intellectually noxious consequences of evolutionism, or rather hyperevolutionism, which have become manifest in our days. And the resurgence of Scientific Creationism will have done professional biologists a good turn if it causes them to reflect on these consequences. The responsibility for current excessive claims on behalf of evolutionism does not so much lie with the leading architects of modern evolutionary thought who, from Darwin onward, were generally aware of the epistemological status of their work, but with the epigones who failed to comprehend the intrinsic limitations of the theory. First, it would appear that the idea of natural selection as the grandest of all biological principles – a unifying "law" to which all explanations must ultimately refer – has been carried too far. Apparently it has been widely forgotten … that natural selection is foremost a diachronic or historical principle whose main explanatory value concerns biological processes that occur over periods of time that are long with respect to the life span of the individual organism, i.e. evolutionary phenomena. By contrast, natural selection has little or no standing as a synchronic principle that can be drawn on for explanations of biological processes that occur over periods of time that are short with respect to life spans, i.e. physiological phenomena." He goes on to criticize teaching students that "'adaptive value' will explain everything." [7]
Many examples illustrating Stent's point come from the world of animal eukaryotic parasites. They take on different forms (morphology and function appropriate to the specific host) that can be explained via physiological principles. They don't "adapt" in an evolutionary sense in their dealings with animal immune systems, they change their form [17]
Even if we don't agree with Stent, an entity should be capable of at least replicating its own genome via a complete thermodynamic work cycle if it's to evolve. (19) If this is not in evidence, and it seems to be the case with viruses, the data from HIV cell culture experiments should be interpreted physiologically "without the grandest of all biological principles". Given full length endogenous retrovirus-like elements (RLE), constituting 1% human genome, and some with open reading frames (20); polymorphisms within human population of RLE can account for different "HIV strains" extracted as "primary isolates". (21)
So when looking at the accuracy of such metaphors as "evolving" and "life cycle" in describing retroviruses there's no "historical principle" or completion of a "thermodynamic work cycle". (22,19) How can viruses be subject to natural selection when they are fixed as non-autonomous components of living eukaryotic cells or crystals when outside of organisms? Of course there are "special properties" deserving investigation. And they cut both ways – cell-killing (which can be protective, e.g. cancer cell) and cell resurrection. (10).
1. Unreal metaphor of species cannot be applied to entities that are not alive in the first place. Presumably the "quasi" in quasispecies conveys the "epistemological awareness" of the authors, but it is more likely an example of "hyperevolutionism" to say that viruses "adapt" to the immune system, or "evade it" based on mutations that most likely simply prevent replication (defective virus).
2. "(C)oevolution and coexistence of many (HIV) viral mutants in one infected person" can have an alternate explanation. Since there's no "co-evolution", only physiology, consideration of multiple latent viral infections in AIDS is called for in terms of potential vaccines.(9) The never validated math model of "an increasing number of antigenically distinct (HIV) viral strains (that) may overwhelm the immune system of the host" [8], should be reappraised considering the Mullis and Root-Bernstein models. And Dr Fauci, hopefully, will gracefully retire to make way for new views - necessary after decades of failure.
3. According to the first immunodominant epitope assumption of Nowak et al [8], it appears we have a case of Stent's "hyperevolutionism". If retroviruses are not organelles constrained by the cellular environment, the extraction of complete RNA dimeric genomes ex vivo (spinning to the 70S band) would be possible. This would be evidence for HIV's alleged immunodominance in vivo, a quantity (10^10 genomes/ml = 200ng/ml) directly from patients. But since such an isolation directly from patients of HIV-1's complete genome has never been reported, it's likely that attempting this measurement has resulted in null experiments. Apparently, there's no incentive in present NIH structure to maintain funding if a research group publishes such experiments.
*HERVs are "dead" or "inert"[18], but somehow HIV, with major genes biochemically equivalent, is very much alive.
1. Popovic ... Gallo et al; Detection, Isolation and Continuous Production of Cytopathic Retroviruses (HTLV-III) from Patients with AIDS and Pre-AIDS. Science V224, (4 May 1984), pg 499
2. Pantaleo et al; The qualitative nature of the primary immune response to HIV infection is a prognosticator of disease progression independent of the initial level of plasma viremia. PNAS, (January 7, 1997) vol. 94, 254-258. "This study reveals that the primary immune response to HIV is qualitatively different among individuals. It is highly likely that both host and virologic factors contribute to the generation of this diversity." So healthy people don't get sick from HIV. "Both vigorous humoral and cellular immune responses have been detected during primary infection, and the temporal relationship between the appearance of an HIV-specific immune response, down-regulation of viremia, and resolution of the acute viral syndrome has been clearly established."
3. E.H. Kass; Infectious Diseases and Social Change. Journal of Infectious Diseases, (January 1971), V123, 110 – 114)
4. Klenerman et al; A Non-retroviral RNA Virus Persists in DNA Form. Nature, (20 November 1997) V390, 298-301. "These findings reveal a surprising and new pathway of interaction between exogenous RNA viruses and endogenous retroviral, and perhaps other host components, that results in the persistence of virally determined DNA." And: "It may also be relevant for human persistent RNA viruses such as hepatitis C virus and measles." The authors speculate on a novel form of acquired immunity: "The ability of antigen presenting cells such as macrophages and B cells to accumulate viral DNA genome thus potentially represents a naturally produced form of DNA vaccine. In this context, even low levels of major histocompatibility (MHC) peptide complexes on a few cells in lymphoid organs may be immunologically important. The mechanisms involved in the maintenance of immunological memory may be multiple, but persistence of viral template in stable DNA form may contribute to this."
5. Myers et al; PNAS, (July 1977) V74, 2840-2843
6. David I Watkins; The Vaccine Search Goes On. Scientific American, November 2008, 69-76
7. Gunther Stent, in Montagu, ed; Science and Creationism (1984), Oxford University Press, pg 136
8. Nowak, Martin A.; May, Robert M.; Anderson, Roy M.; The evolutionary dynamics of HIV-1 quasispecies and the development of immunodeficiency disease. AIDS. 4(11):1095-1104, November 1990
9. Mullis, K; A hypothetical disease of the immune system that may bear some relation to the Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome. Genetica 95: 195-197, 1995.
10. Villareal, L; Are viruses alive? Scientific American, December 2004
11. R J Gorelick, S M Nigida Jr, J W Bess Jr, L O Arthur, L E Henderson, and A Rein; Noninfectious human immunodeficiency virus type 1 mutants deficient in genomic RNA. J Virol. 1990 July; 64(7): 3207-3211
12. Tang et al; Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 N-Terminal Capsid Mutants That Exhibit Aberrant Core Morphology and Are Blocked in Initiation of Reverse Transcription in Infected Cells. Journal of Virology, October 2001, p. 9357-9366, Vol. 75, No. 19
13. Margaret I. Johnston, Anthony S. Fauci; N Engl J Med 2011; 365:873-875, September 8, 2011
14. B. Leung Interview of L Montagnier; HIV Can Be Cleared Naturally - House of Numbers. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKyIBYKoT20 (accessed 10/8/11)
BL: Is treating oxidative stress one of the best ways to deal with the African AIDS epidemic?
LM: I think this is one way to approach, to decrease the rate of transmission because I believe HIV, we can be exposed to HIV many times without being chronically infected, our immune system will get rid of the virus within a few weeks, if you have a good immune system; and this is also the problem of African people. Their nutrition is not very equilibrated, they are in oxidative stress, even if they are not infected with HIV; so their immune system doesn't work well already. So it is prone, it can, you know, allow HIV to get in and persist. So there are many ways, which are not the vaccine, the magic name, the vaccine, many ways to decrease the transmission just by simple measures of nutrition, giving antioxidants – hygiene measures, fighting the other infections. So they are not spectacular, but they could, you know, decrease very well the epidemic to the level they are in occidental countries, western countries.
15. R.S. Root-Bernstein; NON-HIV IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE FACTORS IN AIDS A: MULTIFACTORIAL, SYNERGISTIC THEORY OF AIDS AETIOLOGY. Res. Immunol. 1990, 141, 815-838
16. R Anderson, S Wang, C Osiowy, and AC Issekutz; Activation of endothelial cells via antibody-enhanced dengue virus infection of peripheral blood monocytes. J. Virol., Jun 1997; 71: 4226 - 4232.
17. S Baron (ed); Medical Microbiology (1986), Addison Wesley Publishing Company
18. Garrison et al; T Cell Responses to Human Endogenous Retroviruses in HIV-1 Infection. PLoS Pathogens 2007;3(11). (accessed 10/10/11)
19. Stuart Kaufmann; Investigations. Chapter 3: Autonomous Agents, 49 (2000), Oxford University Press. "An autonomous agent must be an autocatalytic system able to reproduce and able to perform one or more thermodynamic work cycles."
20. Villesen et al; Identification of endogenous retroviral reading frames in the human genome. Retrovirolgy. 2004 Oct 11;1(1):32
21. Gallo et al; Frequent detection and isolation of cytopathic retroviruses (HTLV-III) from patients with AIDS and at risk from AIDS. Science V224, (4 May 1984), 500-503
22. Stephen J. Gould, Amy M. Booth, James E. K. Hildreth; The Trojan exosome hypothesis. PNAS, 2003 100 (19) 10592-10597


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Sociomantic, part of dunnhumby, is an ad tech company that has grown in 8 years from a bootstrapped startup to reach 6 continents, 60+ markets, and employ 250+ team members. We sat down with JB Brokaw, North American President of Sociomantic Labs, to discuss the company's incredible trajectory.
Tell us about your company's beginnings. What did you see (or not see) in the market that led you to launch?
Sociomantic got its start in Berlin at a time when online advertising was just taking off. The founders recognized the opportunity to help advertisers cut through the noise and increase engagement with their audiences, and by 2010 Sociomantic made waves as the first European demand-side platform to develop real-time bidding for e-commerce advertisers. The company name is a combination of sociology (study of people) and semantics (study of meaning in language), and represents our ability to help advertisers reach individuals across the globe by delivering personalized, meaningful messaging that inspires action.
Five years in, we were acquired by dunnhumby, a leading customer science company that harnesses consumer data to drive loyalty for retailers. This partnership has offered even more opportunities to provide relevant, personalized advertising at scale.
What were some of the biggest challenges that your team faced at zero stage?
When we launched in the US, the market was already quite saturated. We definitely experienced the "small fish in a big pond" syndrome and had to prove ourselves amidst competitors that were much larger than us in terms of headcount and marketing budget. It was daunting at first, but we soon saw that we can hold our own against the competition, and today the US is our largest market.
We also struggled with having fewer people on the ground here in the beginning; initially our creative service team was based out of Berlin, which posed some challenges as were are often under strict design deadlines from clients. Fortunately, as we've grown over the years we've built out a strong team here in NYC, including some very talented in-house designers.
Let's look at the science behind your product. What makes it different from other offerings in this space?
The real-time bidding aspect of programmatic advertising is quite complex and it's often criticized for its lack of transparency relating to where and how ad exchanges and supply-side partners place ads and spend advertisers' dollars. One thing that truly sets us apart from our competitors is the Supply Quality Index (SQX), our proprietary bidding algorithm that allows us to grade the programmatic inventory suppliers we work with based on their levels of transparency, performance and inventory quality. Simply put, if they don't measure up to our high standards, we refuse to work with them.
Another key differentiator is the complete customization of our dynamic creative, an area where we continue to receive rave reviews. Unlike other companies that only provide templates for their banner ads, our creative services team works closely with each client to build custom display ads that are aligned with its brand image. Our designers are constantly experimenting with new types of formats as well, and our portfolio of creative offerings continues to evolve each day.
How do you translate your brand's message in a way that gets you heard above the noise?
In this industry, there are a hundred different companies all touting that their platform is the best, and when you examine the nuts and bolts, the features all seem rather similar. I'm confident that our technology works and is superior to many of our competitors — after all, we were 100% bootstrapped up until our acquisition, and we would not have survived if our technology was not legit. However, we don't lead our messaging based off the strength of our technology alone, but on a joint stage with our excellent level of service.
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Every month lately I have my IgA level tested. Ever since the cancerous protein came back, signalling the end of my remission, it has been climbing.
Between October '12 and January '13 it went up 41 points. Between January '14 and March '13 it jumped another 41 points. Yikes. At that rate I was going to sail right past the upper level of normal (normal ranges run from 50 or 80 to 350 or 400, depending on the scale).
After March it went up more slowly, but it was going up. The month I took the curcumin religiously it only went up 2 points. Since then it's been spotty.
Every month friends and family hold their breath with me - "How much did it go up?"
So I just listened to Karen's voice mail..........it went DOWN!!! From 319 in August to 310 on Monday.
I hear Nelly singing "Ride Wit Me" in my head "Hey! Must be the Milky Ways."
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Cidade das Artes, located between the sea and a mountain, in Barra de Tijuca, can be seen as a public symbol, a new landmark in the Rio area, an urban signal, floating on the plain with a large visibility. The architecture echoes the beautiful curves of the Sierra Atlantica Mountains and the line of the sea. Arriving with the train on Ayrton Senna Avenue, Cidade das Artes appears as the front door of Barra da Tijuca.
Cidade das Artes can be seen as a large house, a great veranda above the city, homage to an archetype of Brazilian architecture. Between the two horizontal surfaces of the roof and the terrace are set the large curved concrete walls that contain the halls in an play of full and empty spaces.
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We've long since thrown the rule book out the door when it comes to wedding cakes! Yes, tiered Cake sculptures are the epitome of wedding elegance, but why not take a moment to consider these unusually shaped cakes?
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Nowadays wedding cake designers can create just about anything out of cake. Perhaps you'd like to capture your love in the shape of a heart-cake, or maybe you'd like something a little more theme appropriate like a deer cake to match your woodlands wedding. Alternatively, you can have a cake that's shaped like your personalised wedding monogram, just to make it that much more personal.
We also adore cakes that are non-symmetrical – whether the layers are standing at different angles, or each cake is shaped a little bit differently. For instance, why not stack round, square and triangular cakes in a traditional tier? Be creative, and think as far out of the box as your brain allows.
While the options are virtually endless, it's still important to draw the line between wedding cake and kids party creation. Try to keep it simple and striking and choose colours that complement each other. Fresh flowers also add a touch of sophistication to any cake, and you can't go wrong with a little cake sparkle.
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On the 3rd day of Christmas my true love gave to me . . .
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One of my daughter's best friends had a birthday in February, but her party (which we did not attend) was not until April. After browsing Ravelry day after day, I finally decided to knit the strawberry kisses cardigan. I finished knitting it a week ago.
I finished listening to The Secret Garden. Now I'm listening to A Little Princess, by Frances Hodgson Burnett. This book was another favorite book from my childhood.
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I want to share this amazing kit with everyone from The Flying Unicorn called Journey in Time it is full and I mean full of yummy goodness ladies. You will not go wrong with this kit it has Prima, Kaisercraft and Scrapcake papers and let me tell you they are beyond gorgeous and I mean gorgeous everyone.
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This is a layout I created using the Prima paper line:
I used a mask from The Crafter's Workshop - Mini Tile Texture available in the Flying Unicorn store..
Here is another layout I made using more of the papers available in the kit and then I fussy cut some of the titles
This paper line is called Scrapcake and this is such a unique line the colors and pattern on it is awesome.
This is a photo box with a compartment inside that holds a mini album
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"The charges against Eastman are a message to all potential whistle-blowers at Boeing," said Nick Schwellenbach, an investigator at POGO. "The message from Boeing is clear: We'll try to send you to jail if you disclose information to the press."
Eastman was discovered accessing and downloading internal Boeing information, some of which he shared with reporters at the Seattle Times and Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Eastman's disclosures to the press mostly concerned quality assurance and inspection problems he perceived while working at Boeing, though many of the articles he sparked related to increasing outsourcing of Boeing's production.
After conferring with Boeing, the King County prosecutor's office last month pursued criminal charges against Eastman for "computer trespass," a charge normally used against hackers, not whistle-blowers. The first trial resulted in a hung jury because some of the jurors believed Eastman's activities were whistle-blowing and should not result in criminal prosecution. The judge in that case told jurors not to consider whistle-blower laws.
Several lawyers have told POGO that the Eastman case is part of a disturbing trend of whistle-blowers increasingly facing criminal prosecution. The First Amendment right of free speech is a typical and powerful defense in these cases. Although a company can often legally terminate an employee, it considered extreme for a government prosecutor to attempt to jail a whistle-blower for his activities.
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Good morning and welcome to another Over The Moon Monday. I hope you have had a wonderful week. It was a busy one for me at work (which is a good thing), but I didn't get a lot of cardmaking done (which is a bad thing).
I went to Jo-Ann's over the weekend, and their new nestability dies have been flying off the shelf. I did have a 50% off coupon and managed to get one set of dies. The cashier told me they initially didn't have plans to restock them, but since they have done so well, they will be getting more in in the future.
I have added new Valentine's stamps to the store. For a limited time only, I will be offering 20% off any order (U.S. orders only), but you must use coupon code Val20 at check-out.
Let's get started on today's card. I used 2 images from the new stamps: the new Floral Heart and the Friends stamp. You can see all the new stamps here: http://www.mypapermoon.com/store/WsDefault.asp?iNew=New.
I used scraps of patterned paper to make a herringbone pattern for the background. That's a technique with the Technique Junkies and is pretty simple to do.
I stamped the heart image onto glossy cardstock that had been colored red with alcohol inks. I then cut it out and mounted on a piece of red cardstock. I added some glitter to the flowers to give them a little zing. I added some faux stitching (and if you could see my handsewing in real life, the crooked stitches are pretty real looking).
I stamped "Friends" onto black cardstock using a pigment ink, then heat embossed it with gold embossing powder. I faux stitched it with white ink.
I adhered both the heart and the friends to the background, then stamped a sentiment inside.
I hope you have enjoyed today's card. If you have made it all the way here, please leave a comment and I will have a drawing for a couple of free stamps from the new valentine's stamps. If you don't leave a way for me to get hold of you, you will have to check back next week to see if you won. Until next time, have a crafty week...


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Well, as I wait in the limbo that is the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America's first call process, I have been considering my situation.
I've have interviewed with three different congregations. One said "no" quite emphatically and quickly, for that I am thankful. I could have been pastor there, but honestly, the place was not my first choice and so I'm rather glad they said no.
I have interviewed at another church in a Chicago suburb, about four months ago, and they kept in touch with me and told me to hang on, they were having some difficulties with their process and then … nothing. I have contacted them, and they have not responded.
Nor has the Metro Chicago Synod responded to me for the last two weeks. It's a little nerve wracking, and you'd think it wouldn't be hard to send an e-mail with a "hold on" or "they made a decision" or something. I'm not asking for much.
Of course, throughout this process, I am also keenly aware — a previous candidacy committee refused to approve me, did so for reasons they mostly kept to themselves, but they did tell me they did not believe I was fit to be a pastor in the ELCA, and that given how badly our encounters went during the candidacy process, they had a hard time imagining how I'd deal with a church council. Which, to be honest, was a fair concern. At the time. It's something they could have helped with, if they'd wanted to. But they didn't.
I deal with this some in my upcoming book, which will be published by Wipf & Stock sometime in late spring, I think. My editor has my second draft, and among all the other things I am waiting for right now, I am waiting for his critique.
Bleh. I hate waiting.
At any rate, the process of dealing with first call stuff has gotten me to think a little bit about what people seek in a pastor and what God seeks in the people God calls.
Because they aren't always the same thing.
Let me boil it down to a dualism — priests and prophets. The priest's primary job is to represent God's people before God. The prophet's primary call is to represent God before God's people.
And these are not the same tasks.
What do I mean by representing God's people? Well, the job of the priest is is to present the people's petitions before God, to speak their hopes and dreams and seek God's favor on those hopes and dreams. Among settled people — and most human beings, wherever they are, are settled people, rooted to land and community and kin — those hopes and dreams are typically for ample rains (good fortune), a bountiful harvest (wealth), many children (again, a kind of wealth, but also to fill the world with kin), and victory against enemies (success in endeavors). The priest takes the concerns of the people, and offers them to God, as a sacrifice, in petitions. The priest mediates between the people and God on the people's behalf. And all the priest does is focused on the people's needs.
We are your people, O' God, the priest says. Continue to bless us.
American Lutherans are a settled people. They look primarily to priestly figures to represent them before God.
But God calls prophets too. And prophets do something different — they represent God before God's people. The words that prophets speak, the things prophets do, and the way prophets live, are all difficult for settled people, and sometimes jarring and even very offensive. But the whole point of the prophetic is to remind the settled people that God's will for them is frequently much bigger, and sometimes entirely different, from what the people want — good fortune, wealth, lot of kin, success in life. The prophet speaks the word of God, the judgmental word and the comforting word, in times of failure, misfortune, defeat, death. The prophet tells us that strangers and enemies are beloved of God too. The prophet speaks a word of redemption, a reminder that the dead (to whom settled people are very attached) have no say, no vote, no voice.
The promise of God is for the living. For the future. For us, but also for people we will never know.
Prophets are unsettling because they are unsettled. They have been ripped from place, from kin, even from their past (because past, and place, and kin can get in the way), so they can more clearly see some of what God has promised.
God is blessing you, the prophet says. God is faithful. You just have to understand, it doesn't look the way you think it should.
Two things come from this for me. First, I am much more prophetic than priestly. And I say that only because people keep telling me. And I suspect that will make finding a call, in a church where we like our priests and don't really know what to do with prophets (we think simply saying "rich people suck" is prophetic, but it isn't), difficult. I don't like it, but I'm okay with it. It's not like prophets in the Bible have stable careers, health insurance or pension plans. If this is who I am, then who am I to argue with God?
But there's another point, one I suspect I will spend more time in the future contemplating.
The Bible is frequently called "counter-cultural," but that term gets so misused that frankly, I do not like it. (Again, there are those who claim that saying "rich people suck" is counter-cultural, and it isn't.) Rather, the Bible is prophetic. It is a prophetic witness to a settled people that what they want, that what they think God has promised them (God to Abraham — land, blessing, lots of children), isn't going to work out in the way they think it should. There are a few priestly figures in scripture (Ezra comes to mind as the most prominent), but most of the serious characters in scripture are prophets.
Those prophets say absurd things. In the midst of the great siege, surrender. Go over to the enemy. You aren't coming home any time soon. Loving God's people is like loving a prostitute.
And they do strange things. They cure the enemy general of his leprosy, and do this without making any demands he stop the war or change sides. (And he doesn't.) They marry prostitutes and give their children strange names. They bury their underwear, dig it up later, and wear it for all to see.
The Bible is a prophetic reminder to a settled people that God's love is bigger than their hopes and dreams. It is a reminder to a settled people where oldest sons inherit and strong men protect that crafty, second-sons get the blessing and whiny nancy boys can end up saving the world. That the king can be a murderer, rapist, and indecisive boob and yet God still loves the stuffins out of him. And makes promises not just to us but to the entire world through that really awful king.
The Bible is a prophetic reminder to a settled people that the future does not necessarily depend on the past. That God's promises are for the living, for the survivors, for the remnant. The future is God's to make. And not ours.
The Bible is a prophetic reminder to a settled people who want freedom, power, and glory that our salvation, our redemption, and our liberation are the gifts of a God who surrendered to our violence, who gave in, who died ignominiously, on a cross, as a criminal and a traitor. And that those gifts don't necessarily mean what we think they ought to mean. Or look the way we think they ought to.
Honestly, I do not know when — or even if — I will find a call in this church. I trust God, and while I've been at this more than some (and it's hard not to be a little angry about that), I've been waiting a lot less than some others I know. I trust God. I do sometimes wonder if I've been led into the wilderness to die. But I trust God.


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I have some exciting news to share with you all, and some beautiful photos! As some of you may have seen on my Instagram, Corey & I travelled the Pacific Ocean from Brisbane, Queensland to New Caledonia & Vanuatu with the wonderful crew of Pacific Aria (P&O).
Before I begin telling you about our wonderful adventures, I will be doing seperate posts for the three islands we visited; therefore I will keep this post as a brief overview of where we went & our overall experience!
Our holiday began on the 10th of January where we flew to Brisbane & aborded Pacific Aria on the 12th. Our time in Brisbane included A LOT of shopping and spending money of courseg (what else are holidays for).
Cruising the ocean is an experience like no other, especially when you're on a sailing resort. It's amazing looking out to see endless ocean while you're kicked back drinking cocktails, you should try it sometime 😉
Our cruise looked a little like this:
- Day 1: depart Brisbane, at sea.
- Day 2: at sea.
- Day 3: arrive at Noumea, New Caledonia.
- Day 4: arrive at Mare Island, New Caledonia.
- Day 5: arrive at Port Villa, Vanuatu.
- Day 6: at sea.
- Day 7: at sea, arrive back in Brisbane.
Days spent at sea are far from boring. We spent most of ours playing bingo, watching shows, drinking alcohol, in the casino or eating. Quiet relaxing, right? So if you're worried about your cruise being boring, Pacific Aria provides plenty of activities that catered for all ages.
Our holiday simply went to fast & reality was right at our doorstep in no time. It's always hard going back to work when you were living up the island life four days before!
Now, keep an eye out for my upcoming post about each place we visited while we were on holidays (Noumea, Mare Island & Port Villa), there are a some stunning photos to come & I've got a few tips that may help you!
If you're interested in cruising the ocean like we did, I 110% recommend sailing with P&O. Click here to check out their website. I'm in the process of trying to pick our next one!
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Making Sure Your Las Vegas Wedding Is Perfect For most people, the day they get married to someone they love will be the most important day of their lives. Since people who love each other will want to tell the world just how much they mean to each, a wedding generally needs to be a big celebration that brings in friends and family from all over the country. When you want to be sure that everyone is having a wonderful time at the wedding, you will really need to put in some time to ensure that everything happens as planned. When you first start trying to plan the ideal sort of wedding, you're going to discover that finding a good venue will be the most important thing. There is no question that the city of Las Vegas will be the kind of place that really has the widest range of wedding chapels and other venues to get you what you need. If you're hoping to be able to enjoy yourself when you get to experience your wedding, then you will have to do some work ahead of time to find the perfect Las Vegas venue. With the help of the following guide, you'll discover just how easy it can be to find the ideal Las Vegas wedding chapels. When you first start looking around at the different types of wedding venues that are out there, it's going to be important to consider your preferred wedding style. Since people have such a wide range of ideas about the kind of wedding they would like to have, it can often take a little bit of shopping around before you'll be able to choose the type of wedding venue that will be able to provide you exactly the kind of look that you're going for. When you have a good concept of your ideal wedding, you should be able to find it a lot simpler to choose the best wedding chapel.
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You will also want to see if there is any good way for you to end up saving a lot of money on your search for a great venue. Many of the top venues will offer some Las Vegas wedding packages that will include all of the catering, the music, and the venue itself for a very reasonable price. Your wedding will be ready to go once you've managed to find this type of venue setup.
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Philosophical Witnessing
The Holocaust as Presence
Berel Lang
256 pp.
Review of Philosophical Witnessing
Book Review by Jacob Howland
Philosophical Witnessing
The Holocaust as Presence
Berel Lang
Fascinating philosophical inquiry into post-Holocaust representations of the Holocaust in political theory, ethics, and aesthetics, and an assessment of the limitations and promise of philosophical 'witnessing' in relation to those issues
"This is certainly the most perspicuous treatment of the philosophical issues arising in any effort to comprehend the Holocaust, in whatever terms, historiographical, artistic, moral, epistemological. Lang's discussions of such topics as representation, silence, denial, and the relation among religious, philosophical, and historical analyses of the Shoah are startlingly illuminating, showing especially how they resist conceptualization in conventional philosophical terms. In his treatment of this topic, Lang inevitably brings under criticism modern Western philosophy's inattention to events like the Holocaust. And he asks seriously whether Western philosophy can meaningfully address their most disquieting aspects."
"In this collection of essays Berel Lang reflects upon the role of the Holocaust in our thinking about language, silence, and representation,large themes in contemporary intellectual culture. With his customary sensitivity, patience, and thoughtfulness, Lang invites us to consider old questions and new; he continues to be a voice of responsibility and great subtlety as we seek to come to grips with injustice and atrocity in our lives and to locate ourselves between language and silence, despair and hope. Lang is always attuned to ways in which contemporary issues, such as racism and group rights, exist for us in the shadow of Auschwitz and what that ought to mean to us as we try to cope with our world."
BEREL LANG's previous books include Act and Idea in the Nazi Genocide and Holocaust-Representation: Art within the Limits of History and Ethics. Since 2005, he has been Visiting Professor of Philosophy and Letters at Wesleyan University.
This book can be purchased directly through the University Press of New England.


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Colin one of our drivers on the Oasis Kingdoms and Carnivals trip has sent us an update from Pucon in Chile.
We headed off from the campsite at about 7.30am in a couple of plush minibuses to pick up some equipment. I was a bit disappointed no one had a hangover as I had no one to point and laugh at. The morning was a bit misty so we couldn't really get a view of what we were about to do until we got dropped off at the base. On cue the top was smoking – uncontrollably my jaw did drop slightly, but luckily no one noticed so my cool, calm, controlled demeanour was still intact! I did get some questions as to why I wasn't wearing every item of clothing and waterproof gear that I had, but even looking at the snow going all the way to the top, I knew what was coming …. A sweaty climb that would last the whole morning.
Starting the walk in, I felt full of energy and desperate to get to the steeper bits but was hampered by another group ahead of us that we couldn't walk around – so when we got to the chairlift and the guide offered us the option of paying for a lift up part of the Volcano or an extra hour walking up a steep bit – I naturally opted for the climb!! When I got to the top of the chairlift I felt I had achieved something and increased my fitness a little more than normal (obviously driving a truck pushes my physical boundaries every day !!) Then we started up after the others who were now an hour ahead of us, I was so grateful we weren't at a higher altitude otherwise I would have given up there and then. When we finally caught up with the rest of the group I munched all the chocolate I had just to replenish my sugar levels while they set off again.
The last section up was nearly the end of me … I realised how unfit I was and hope of getting sponsored to climb K2 was fading fast, snow under my feet was becoming firmer and following directly in the footsteps of the person in front was all I was focusing on, why oh why did I not take the chairlift ? (most definitely worth every penny).
But the top … oh the top was phenomenal, the low rumble from inside the earth, and a view to make it worth doing all over again. You can see the volcano that erupted in June in the distance and the thin ash cloud that still covers the town and anything lower than 800m.
If the top made it worth doing all again … the descent was double that, sliding down on our bums for the icy parts and sitting on a skinny piece of plastic for the deep snow using an ice axe to steer and slow down we undid all the hard slog in a matter of an hour. The smile on my face grew when the guide would tell us ´plastic´ (mucho mucho speed) as we prepared for the next section.
Back at base dropping off the gear, we found a microbrewery pub next door, just enough time before heading off to the Thermal pools to relax.
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William Woods University is offering Jefferson City area residents the opportunity to pursue an associate of arts in liberal studies (AA) without quitting work. The program will begin with an orientation at 6 p.m. Feb. 17 at the William Woods facility in Jefferson City, 3405 West Truman Blvd.
Prospective students are encouraged to contact the university's Graduate and Adult Studies program prior to then, but walk-ins will be accepted. Call 1-800-995-3199 or contact WWU by e-mail at email@example.com.
Lynn Quick is pursuing an AA through William Woods. She recommends WWU's Graduate and Adult Studies program because, "The classes at William Woods are small and we've become like a family—we help each other."
The AA consists of a 64-hour, 21-course program of general education. Completion will qualify a student for admission into a degree-completion program of the university.
Currently, the AA program is offered in Fulton/Mexico, Columbia and Jefferson City. Courses are facilitated by practicing professionals. Classes meet one night a week for four hours and courses normally run six weeks. The program makes it possible for a person with a full-time job to complete a degree while remaining employed.
"William Woods University is a leader when it comes to designing quality programs for nontraditional adult students. Everything we do here at WWU in our Graduate and Adult Studies program is specifically designed to help adults succeed in reaching their goals as efficiently as possible," said Betty R. Tutt, vice president and dean of academic affairs.
Non-traditional students reflect a growing national trend as more full-time working adults realize the value of maintaining a sustained involvement in higher education. Many adult students recognize that they need additional education either to advance in their current positions or to change careers.
In addition to the AA, William Woods offers several other Graduate and Adult Studies programs, including ACCESS (general education), a bachelor of science degree in management, a bachelor of science in computer and information management, a bachelor of science in paralegal studies, a master of business administration, an MBA with an accounting emphasis, an MBA with health management emphasis, an MBA with human resources emphasis, a master of education (M.Ed.) in both administration and in curriculum/instruction and a specialist of education in school administration.
William Woods can tailor any of its programs for a particular business or community. More information is available on the William Woods website at www.williamwoods.edu.


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The idea that the 2016-2017 Boston Celtics are a better team without Isaiah Thomas is absolutely ridiculous. There, I said it, and it feels even better writing it down (or typing it).
The fact that the subject was brought up on talk radio over the last week doesn't surprise me. If you don't believe me, here's my Twitter post from Dec. 7.
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It's an easy take. I get it. It's December, and if you're talking basketball, breaking down the pick and roll or how to play good team defense doesn't exactly keep people interested.
This all began after the Celtics beat the Magic by 30 points without IT. This was an Orlando team that was 10-12 at the time and had played the night before in Washington. Those in the "trade Thomas" camp were quickly brought back to earth after the C's lost games against Toronto and Oklahoma City, and they will probably lose again Wednesday night in San Antonio.
Here's the thing. The idea of trading Thomas doesnt really get you anywhere. You still have too much talent to tank, and then you're still stuck in no-man's land.
You might as well keep your All-Star guard who just happens to be averaging 26 points per game this season. It's not easy to find scoring in this league. Just remember it was only two short years ago that Jeff Green led the team in scoring. Yikes.
I'm not saying Isaiah is going to bring Boston back to championship glory, but what I am saying is leave the little guy alone. Spare me the talk that Boston would be better without him.
Craig Kolodny is a sports producer at NBC Boston/necn. You can follow him on Twitter at @NBCBostonCraig.


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You have studied the magical nature of giant oni and can use your spells to imitate their esoteric features.
Prerequisites: Int 15, Still Spell.
Benefit: You can modify a ray spell to issue from the center of your forehead, where the third eye would be on a yai. This spell doesn't require somatic components.
When the spell is cast, you gain regeneration 1 for a number of rounds equal to the original level of the spell. This regeneration can't regrow lost body parts or reattach severed limbs. Fire or acid damage suppresses this regeneration for 1 round, which counts against the total duration of the regeneration effect.
Level Increase: +3 (a yai-mimic spell uses up a spell slot 3 levels higher than the spell's actual level.)
Pathfinder Player Companion: Giant Hunter's Handbook © 2014, Paizo Inc.; Authors: Alexander Augunas, Luis Loza, Ron Lundeen, and David Ross.


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Author: Dawid Adach
The goal of the following tutorial is to guide you on how to install all software required to start our journey with Angular. If have your environment ready, you can skip to next tutorial. However, if you never worked with Angular before this is a place to start at. Below steps will guide you on how to install all prerequisites regardless of platform (Windows, macOS, unix) you are using. Let's start!
1. Command line
Command line is a crucial for each developer. If you haven't used it before it's a high time to get familiar with it. It might look complicated and difficult to learn, however, once you put your hands on it you will find that is very powerful and useful tool.
How to run command line?
Keyboard shortcut:
On your keyboard press: + R . You will see
Run windows. Type
cmd and click OK or press Enter
You will see screen as below:
That's it. You can now use a command line, however, please keep in mind that Windows Command Line is frankly speaking - crappy tool. That's why we strongly encourage you to use some alternative like GitBash (installation guide here). It has more unix-like commands which are more user-friendly than built in windows commands.
How to run command line?
Keyboard shortcut:
Press cmd ⌘ + space to open Spotlight search, type
terminal and hit Enter ⏎
You will see screen as below:
Unix unlike Windows or macOS, doesn't necessarily have Graphic User Interface (GUI), therefore in some distributions like RedHat, CentOS, Debian, Ubuntu Server terminal will launch immediately after booting machine.
In case you use some GUI, them may look differently, however in most cases you they will have Windows like "Start" button which will open search menu which allows you to find
terminal app.
Sample start screen on Ubuntu:
Also terminal windows and colors may vary depends on distribution, sample Ubuntu terminal:
Since you know how to run terminal, let's move to our runtime environment - Node.js.
2. Installing Node.js and Node Package Manager (npm)
- Download the Windows installer from the Nodes.js® web site.
- Run the installer (the .msi file you downloaded in the previous step.)
- Follow the prompts in the installer (Accept the license agreement, click the NEXT button a bunch of times and accept the default installation settings).
- Restart your computer. You won't be able to run Node.js® until you restart your computer.
- Download the Windows installer from the Nodes.js® web site.
- Run the installer (the .msi file you downloaded in the previous step.)
- Follow the prompts in the installer (Accept the license agreement, click the NEXT button a bunch of times and accept the default installation settings).
curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_8.x | sudo -E bash -
sudo apt-get install -y nodejs
Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® / RHEL, CentOS and Fedora
curl --silent --location https://rpm.nodesource.com/setup_8.x | sudo bash -
sudo yum -y install nodejs
Arch Linux
pacman -S nodejs npm
3. Verifying installation
It's time to check that we have Node and NPM installed correctly. We will simply run few commands to see what version of each is installed and to run a simple test program:
- Test Node: Open command line and type:
This should print a version number, so you'll see something like this:
node -v
- Test npm: To see if NPM is installed, type:
This should print NPM's version number so you'll see something like this:
npm -v
- Verify JS: Create a file called
hello.jsand type inside:
console.log("Hello world from MDB");
Open terminal, navigate to folder where you have created a file and type
you should see following output:
node hello.js
Now let's get back to our current project.Click NEXT LESSON button to proceed further.
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Miss Betsy – (day 8)
December 21, 2010
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The final abduction left Miss Betsy a changed cow.
One would never know to look at her. She was a standard dairy Holstein, lovely white with black spots, wide ears that swayed when sounds caught her attention, soft muzzle so well designed to crop grass and munch grain. Her long, narrow tail did the usual job of most such appendages, swishing the odd annoying fly with a soft slap. She had a wonderful pattern on her sides that reminded most folks who admired her of Australia, but Miss Betsy didn't pay any attention. She was a cow, after all, with bovine goals, hopes and dreams. Those being food, sleep and, well, the other things mammals do who aren't particularly bright or challenged to come up with something witty to say. (Read More)


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The kitesurfing rental formula includes a nominative booking board to choose. Depending on availability on site and weather conditions, you can test all the other boards range from NORTH Kiteboarding.
Of course you can adjust the size of your kite from 6 to 17 m² according to the weather conditions, you can change it as many times as you want !
In the rental package is included: wetsuit, harness, life vest and helmet + the possiblity to change equipment according to availability.
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Have Well Water? Here's What You Need To Know Before Installing Fire Sprinklers
House fires can cause a significant amount of damage, especially if the fires are able to spread before the nearest fire department arrives. In many rural areas where private wells supply water to homes, this can result in a significant loss of property and, sometimes, loss of life because the nearest fire department may be quite a distance away.
Fortunately, homeowners can install fire sprinklers in their homes to reduce property loss. In fact, homes equipped with fire sprinklers average $2,166 in property loss from house fires as compared to $45,000 in damages for homes without sprinklers. However, it's crucial for existing homes with wells to have pressure tanks to provide water to fire sprinklers. Here's what you need to know to install fire sprinklers.
A Sprinkler Needs More Water Per Minute than Well Pumps Provide
According to Bob Vila, guru of home improvement projects, one fire sprinkler needs 15-20 gallons of water per minute, which is enough to put out 80-90% of fires. The problem with this for homes with well water, however, is that well pumps typically only have a pumping capacity rate of 5 gallons of water per minute.
This means that even if a fire sprinkler in the home is activated, there will not be enough water provided by the well to put out a fire, especially since the well was originally drilled based on the assumption that the home only required a rate of 5 gallons per minute.
Increase Water Pressure by Installing a Pressure Tank
Due to this significant difference in the flow-rate, homes that have well water should use a stand-alone system when retrofitting their home with fire sprinklers. Since a higher flow rate than your well pump can provide is necessary for the fire sprinklers to operate, you'll need to install a pressure tank.
The existing well pump will be used to pump water from the well and into the water line that enters your home. The water line will be redirected into a pressure tank. Inside the pressure tank, the air gets compressed as water gets pumped into the tank.
This air pressure inside the tank is what forces the water out at a high rate when a faucet is opened and/or a fire sprinkler is activated. When the water level inside the tank drops to (or below) a preset level as water leaves the tank, a water pump inside the tank is activated to ensure the rate of the water pressure that is leaving the tank is continuous.
That way, the sprinkler system will continue to operate without any change in the water pressure. At the same time, the tank will refill with water from the well as necessary until the sprinkler system is deactivated by you or the fire department or the storage tank is refilled.
Prepare for Electricity Outages by Installing a Backup Power Supply
Since pumps need electricity to work, you'll want to install a backup power supply in case you lose power. Of course, a house fire can damage the electrical wiring in your home and cause your home to lose power, which means your fire sprinklers will not work unless you have a backup power source for the pumps in the well and pressure tank.
If you live in an area that experiences frequent power outages, you should consider installing a generator as a backup power source. Otherwise, a basic battery backup will work. Speak with your well drilling service for more information about the types of power backup supplies that are available for your particular make and model of pumps in your well and pressure tank.
For more information about fire sprinklers, contact a company like Nor Cal Fire Protection.


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The first two pictures are from the recent Skull Island Wrap Party in Vietnam. The third picture is from Tom's birthday party in Australia. As you can see, he's wearing his birthday button but not in the other pictures.
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