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Team Liquid continues to climb slowly, as does Flash Wolves. In China, Invictus Gaming just keeps winning, including a sub-20-minute Game 3 thrashing of Rogue Warriors, another strong team in the LPL.
Nos. 1-10: World contenders
Nos. 11-20: Playoff contenders
Nos. 21-30: Middle of the pack
Nos. 31-40: Struggling
Nos. 41-52: Bottom of the barrel
World contenders
1. Invictus Gaming
Record: 13-1 | League: LPL | +/-: --
Invictus Gaming is a good team. Whether it's the best in the League of Legends world is still up for debate, primarily because iG looks eerily similar to how it did at this point in the split this spring. Then, Royal Never Give Up stopped iG when the LPL title looked all but won for Song "Rookie" Eui-jin & Co. iG is excellent at drafting around team weaknesses in teamfighting and objective control, especially when it comes to lane counterpicks. Would iG beat all of the top teams in China and South Korea? Maybe not -- stay tuned for a thought exercise by the power rankings team on this topic -- but one of the highlight matches of last week was iG's 2-1 victory over the top team in the West Region, Rogue Warriors, and this week ends with a must-see grudge match between iG and RNG.
2. Gen.G
Record: 13-5 | League: LCK | +/-: +3
In the battle for best in LoL Champions Korea, Gen.G has done its part. Now the team waits for KT Rolster, Kingzone DragonX and Griffin's final matches. This doesn't mean that Gen.G doesn't have weaknesses. A continuing problem for this former Samsung Galaxy lineup is that when its players' champions aren't in meta, the team struggles. Fortunately for Gen.G, this split has been kind, giving over strong picks across the board such as Kang "Haru" Min-seung's Camille, the duo lane of Park "Ruler" Jae-hyeok's Ezreal and support Jo "CoreJJ" Young-in's Tahm Kench, and Lee "CuVee" Seong-jin's Gnar. Although Gen.G's love of 5-on-5 teamfighting and scaling, traditional AD carries doesn't call to mind a good early game, Gen.G's early vision control and objective setup have been fairly consistent and strong.
3. KT Rolster
Record: 12-5 | League: LCK | +/-: --
Watching KT Rolster dumpster Hanwha Life Esports this week was an excellent reminder of what this lineup is capable of, especially after a shaky 2-1 win over perennial playoff spoilers the Jin Air Green Wings. Now, KT are locked in the struggle for first place in the LCK with Gen.G, Griffin and Kingzone DragonX. It's not the first time we've said this, but it bears repeating that this KT team is reminiscent of the 2014 KT Rolster Arrows in both talent and volatility. No other team can make a 2-0 victory over 10th-place bbq Olivers feel almost like a lengthy 1-2 loss. Fortunately for KT, top laner Song "Smeb" Kyung-ho is playing better than he has at the moment, able to change entire games in KT's favor.
4. Rogue Warriors
Record: 11-3 | League: LPL | +/-: --
Jungler Sung "Flawless" Yeon-jun used to go by the name of "Flaw" before he changed it for his LCK debut on SBENU Sonicboom. Since then, Flawless' jungling has occupied two extremes: brilliant or horrifying. We saw both this week against iG, further underscoring mid laner Kim "Doinb" Tae-sang's role as a steadying influence for his junglers from the mid lane, although Flawless' penchant to push for plays even while his team is in a deficit is a team-wide issue for Rogue Warriors. Fortunately for him, support Liu "Killua" Dan-Yang continues his pursuit as the world's greatest Tahm Kench master, which helps the rest of the teammates in their more aggressive pursuits. Despite the loss to iG, Rogue Warriors has had some incredibly strong performances in cross-conference play, rallying after a close loss to JD Gaming in Week 5. Alongside iG in the East Conference, Rogue Warriors was the other LPL to qualify for playoffs last week, with three-and-a-half weeks of competitive play to go.
5. Kingzone DragonX
Record: 12-5 | League: LCK | +/-: +2
Look no further than the fact that Kingzone DragonX top laner Kim "Khan" Dong-ha sits above his teammate and mid laner Gwak "Bdd" Bo-seong for proof that the LCK Most Valuable Player points system is a bit lacking. This isn't meant as a slight against Khan -- although without similar jungle attention and 4-1 setups, he has looked a bit lost this split -- but Bdd has been the standout performer on Kingzone all split, pulling the team forward even when it was at its most disorganized on the Rift. Kingzone has settled down after the initial meta shift picking compositions that suit the team's style much better; however, the problem with Kingzone remains the team's early game. It's something that hampered it at the 2018 Mid-Season Invitational, and it's something that teams anywhere from Griffin to Gen.G in playstyle have used to beat Kingzone.
6. Royal Never Give Up
Record: 11-4 | League: LPL | +/-: -4
After a post-Rift Rivals rest, AD carry Jian "Uzi" Zi-Hao is back, and his return to Royal Never Give Up has been interesting. In his absence, RNG experimented with nontraditional compositions, flexed Liu "Zz1tai" Zi-Hao around the map, gave substitute AD carry Dai "Able" Zhi-Chun valuable starting experiences and played more around jungler Hung "Karsa" Hau-Hsuan with a somewhat stronger early game. It shouldn't be surprising that with Uzi's return, RNG has defaulted to compositions around him -- he's one of if not the best player in the world right now -- but this has also meant a return of RNG's early-game issues and awkward Vayne performances such as Game 2 against Suning Gaming, even though RNG was on the precipice of a late-game teamfight comeback. Going forward, we'd like to see a better combination of Uzi's strengths and the more flexible flashes of brilliance we saw in his absence.
7. Flash Wolves
Record: 11-0 | League: LMS | +/-: +2
Flash Wolves remains undefeated in the LMS, with 11 wins, but it cut it fairly close this weekend against Afro Gaming due to a specific roster decision, subbing out support Hu "SwordArt" Shuo-Jie for trainee Lu "ShiauC" Chia-Hao. Flash Wolves' esteemed position in the LMS and continued tight play make decisions such as this possible, but it is very clear that SwordArt is at the center of the team's success. As long as SwordArt is in the lineup, Flash Wolves can contend with the best in this early-game focused meta.
8. Griffin
Record: 12-5 | League: LCK | +/-: --
With only one match left against 10th-place bbq Olivers, Griffin is in a fairly good spot, especially for a rookie organization with a (mostly) rookie team in such a volatile metagame. Across the back half of the split, Griffin is a middling 4-4, including an unexpected loss to the Jin Air Green Wings last week. Teams have not only figured out how to punish Griffin's passive early game, but also Griffin hasn't adjusted the team's playstyle enough to counter certain opponents, namely KT Rolster. Against Jin Air, Griffin's passivity once again came back to haunt it, as Jin Air star AD carry Park "Teddy" Jin-seong was able to scale on Ezreal before a dominating Game 3 Jhin performance. Griffin is full of young, talented players that should be able to adjust, especially since scaling AD carries were Park "Viper" Do-hyeon's bread and butter in Challengers Korea. Yet only with stronger objective control, vision and macro play to supplement the team's strong 5v5 teamfighting will Griffin be the best team in Korea.
9. JD Gaming
Record: 11-2 | League: LPL | +/-: +1
One of the more hilarious moments this past week in the LPL was watching JD Gaming top laner Zhang "Zoom" Xing-Ran give Oh My God the Benny Hill treatment on Gangplank in Game 2 en route to a 2-0 sweep. Amidst the rise of JDG as a team, especially mid laner Zeng "Yagao" Qi as one of the region's best, Zoom's contributions have often gone unnoticed, so it was nice to see him in the spotlight for a bit this past week. JDG is 6-1 in cross-conference play, further separating JDG from Suning Gaming and LGD Gaming, who now look to be squabbling over the fourth and final playoff spot from the East Region while JDG is making a run for the top spot -- or at least better seeding.
10. EDward Gaming
Record: 7-7 | League: LPL | +/-: -4
It was a struggle this week to decide just how far to drop EDward Gaming. EDG didn't receive as precipitous of a drop in the rankings as the team likely deserved based on in-game performance, but this is more due to similarly inconsistent performances from teams in every major region (also see: Hanwha Life Esports). What's actually wrong with EDG seems to be a continuation of the problems the team has had all split, especially with split calls and a loss of synergy. Not even the return of veteran jungler Ming "Clearlove" Kai worked this past week, though his leadership has helped right the ship in the past. It's particularly sad when we think of how EDG looked to be on the upswing just a few weeks prior.
Playoff contenders
11. Fnatic
Record: 10-4 | League: EU LCS | +/-: +4
Fnatic is back, and it didn't need Martin "Rekkles" Larsson. The starting of top laner Gabriel "Bwipo" Rau continues to prop up Fnatic as it seeks to win the Summer title. Fnatic's sidelane play is concentrated in the latter half of the game, and its knack for picking teamfights compliments that well. Scaling picks down bot continues to work for Fnatic but also has proven to be its downfall, as the team can be very easy to snowball against with a lack of range. Still, Fnatic is dedicated to fighting, and it continues to reap the benefits as most of Europe searches for an answer.
12. Hanwha Life
Record: 10-8 | League: LCK | +/-: +2
After the 2-0 drubbing that Hanwha Life Esports received at the hands of KT Rolster, you might be wondering why Hanwha is still here. Again, we cannot reiterate enough the general volatility across all regions that's contributing to some major fluctuations in rankings (just look at Topsports Gaming of all teams), especially when it comes to the top of North America and Europe and the middle-of-the-pack in South Korea and China. Hanwha is not a bad team, despite Game 2 against KT, and with how poorly the Afreeca Freecs have been playing lately, Hanwha moving up two spots after wins against MVP and Afreeca isn't all that crazy. Recent record is only one of the criteria. However, Hanwha is a remarkably frustrating team to watch since it's always in-game execution and small decisions that trip the team up, rather than individual talent or even draft problems.
13. Topsports
Record: 7-7 | League: LPL | +/-: +10
If you had told us at the beginning of the split that Topsports Gaming would not only become a legitimate mid-tier team in China but also crack the Top 20 of these power rankings, we would have told you that you were crazy. If you had then casually mentioned that top laner Jang "MaRin" Gyeong-hwan was no longer starting, only further concern for your mental health would have followed. Yet one of the more interesting storylines as teams in the LPL West Region jockey for playoff positioning has been the rise of TOP with top laner Xiong "Moyu" Hui-Dong (from the team's initial LPL qualification as DAN Gaming and former Star Horn Royal Club mid laner Lei "Corn" Wen). TOP managed to beat both Suning Gaming and JD Gaming 2-1 in cross conference play by capitalizing on opponents' mistakes and teamfighting. Yes, TOP is benefitting from other teams in South Korea and China struggling with this position in the ranking, but that doesn't mean the team isn't fun to watch.
14. Afreeca Freecs
Record: 9-8 | League: LCK | +/-: -3
Last split, the Afreeca Freecs contended for the 2018 LCK Spring title and the chance to go to the 2018 Mid-Season Invitational. This split, Afreeca has slowly fallen from grace. Despite an initially strong understanding of what was a volatile meta, Afreeca has not continued to adapt while other teams around it, such as Kingzone DragonX, Griffin and KT Rolster have slowly found what works for them. Support Park "TusiN" Jong-ik has been much more locked in lane this split, and combined with Lee "Spirit" Da-yoon starting the majority of the time for Afreeca in the jungle, it has made for a more lackluster early game. Although top laner Kim "Kiin" Gi-in is still flexible with champion choice, he has been a bit more out-of-sync with the rest of the Freecs, which is likely a team communication problem rather than an individual failing. Afreeca can still qualify for playoffs, but this is not a team that looks like it will make it far in the gauntlet as of right now.
15. Team Liquid
Record: 10-4 | League: NA LCS | +/-: +2
Welcome again to part of the Power Rankings where we check in on how badly North America is doing! Luckily for the fine folks in NA, pessimism usually works the best going into an event -- CLG at MSI 2016 says hello -- and TL is still the best chance the region has to make a deep run in South Korea this October. On the blue side, like most of North America, Liquid is rolling through the competition. The question will be if it can continue its momentum with a slew of red side games coming up the next two weeks before the postseason begins. Still, blue side or not, with the likes of Team SoloMid and Counter Logic Gaming sputtering to the finish line, TL is staunch in the position of summer split title favorite.
16. G2 Esports
Record: 9-5 | League: EU LCS | +/-: --
If Fnatic is the teamfight king, G2 is the king of early lane control. G2's funnel comp might not be the de facto approach anymore, but the team's awareness around early jungle pathing and opportunities is still refined. Vision control is also a plus, but G2 has a tendency to fall to strong teamfight engage that takes it by surprise. Overstepping its control has been a problem, but it's a small problem that the talented unit should have no trouble dealing with in the long term. G2's general attention to the macro game is still a boom coming into the final week and upcoming playoffs.
17. Suning Gaming
Record: 7-7 | League: LPL | +/-: +2
We thought Suning Gaming was in a slight downturn at the end of Week 7, especially after a rough 2-1 loss to Topsports Gaming. This iteration of Suning has had the occasional game that has been reminiscent of the Jin Air Green Wings, not because of a lengthy average game time but because of a strong early game, poor mid game that gives advantages back to Suning's opponent and scaling options that can win them the game later on. Suning's mid game is a problem. Even in the team's 2-0 upset of Royal Never Give Up, Suning waffled after racking up multiple kills onto Uzi's Vayne early. In order to cement that final East Region playoff spot and keep LGD Gaming at bay, Suning needs to revisit its midgame decision-making.
18. SK Telecom
Record: 8-9 | League: LCK | +/-: -6
For the first time in the organization's League of Legends history, including OGN's Champions tournament and the post-2014 LoL Champions Korea, SK Telecom T1 will not be sending a team to playoffs. SKT additionally might not make the World Championship for the second time in its LoL history. The last time SKT missed Worlds, it was due to the rise of the Samsung Galaxy sister teams White and Blue alongside the KT Rolster Arrows' summer victory and an unlikely NaJin White Shield gauntlet run. This season is a bit similar with the rise of Griffin and decent performances from both Hanwha Life Esports and Afreeca Freecs. At this point, SKT and mid laner Lee "Faker" Sang-hyeok have become synonymous. Going forward, it will be up to SKT and Faker if they want to continue this trend.
19. Misfits
Record: 10-4 | League: EU LCS | +/-: -6
Misfits looked so untouchable for so long, but this week it not only bled but also gushed. Misfits lacked control of the early game and struggled to play from behind with its weaker sense of macro play. Steven "Hans Sama" Liv even tried the Vladimir this last week for the first time, but Schalke 04's emphasis on snowballing stamped out the pick with ease. Misfits will have to reapproach the meta game if it hopes to reclaim Europe's No. 1 spot in these power rankings.
20. Echo Fox
Record: 9-5 | League: LPL | +/-: +8
Meet Team Frankenstein. We have a world-class South Korean top laner who played in the Worlds final last year. We have an American jungler who has played on four teams in the past two years but has finally found a home on Echo Fox with a chance to win league MVP this split. There's an up-and-coming American mid laner, which hasn't happened since probably the 1970s. Echo Fox's support, Smoothie, is Canadian and was an MVP candidate on Cloud9 last split before suddenly getting benched and traded in the summer. Oh, and it just so happens that the team's other import is a rookie AD carry from New Zealand. Unbridled aggression is the only way this team knows how to play, and if its gamble on shaking up a third-place roster from last season works out, this team could be the dark horse for NA going into Worlds.


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Since the heat has hit us hard and it's just June, I have been ordering a lot of flowy dresses that look cool and are perfect for this weather. I have found this coffee stain long dress at Shein at a super low price and have been wearing it almost everyday this week because it's so comfy and light. They have it in different colour combos and even shorter, but this one was the perfect option for me.
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Shein coffee stain long dress (size XS)
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Panzer IIIJ FKL ( BIV Control Tank)
Ref: IR-12
Date Added: Wednesday, 14th June, 2006
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Price: £14.95
The B IV Schwere Ladungstrager was a fully tracked vehicle (CLASSIC kit 965 or Restricted Issue kit IR-19) designed to carry and lay a demolition charge alongside of a static target. The charge was then detonated remotely once the vehicle had withdrawn to a safe disctance. The vehicle was driven manually to within striking distance of it's target, when the driver dismounted and the vehicle was remotely controlled by radio for the final phase of it's mission.
The Panzer IIIJ (Fkl) was the original control vehicle in B IV operations. Four carriers could be subordinated to each tank and the command set could guide two carriers simultaneously. It had a range of 2000m. The control tanks were also used to provide covering fire as the carriers approached their target.
The system was widely used on the Eastern Front.
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Definitive NBS
Nick B. Steves defines 'Neoreactionary' for the Urban Dictionary, with concision, clarity, and accuracy. Altogether, a valuable and well-executed piece of work. The format comes in two parts, with an initial definition, followed by an example of usage. This one begins:
Neoreactionary. A new reactionary; typically one coming to reactionary ideas and conclusions by way of post-libertarian and/or post-anarchist paths; like traditional reactionaries one who is profoundly anti-progressive and suspicious of all egalitarian ideologies, but often more focused on free market capitalism as a solution to, or escape from, social ills than his ethnic or religious identitarian forebears; often, but not exclusively, one influenced by the writings of several well-known reactionary bloggers in the 2007-present timeframe.
With some breakfast-table usage exemplified:
As a natural conservative Bill sympathized with part of the agenda of the Center Right party, but as a neoreactionary he knew that it was merely an ineffectual brake on the progress of the left. He advocated for a new yet very ancient politics in which traditional give and take politics no longer was a factor.
Congratulations to NBS. This kind of practical workmanship does a lot to hold things together. It's sanity glue.
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- 004-Act One, Scene 3.mp3 0:09:15
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This delightful Broadway hit chronicles three Jewish sisters from Brooklyn as they gather in London to celebrate a birthday. Wasserstein's three sisters include a brilliant banker and single mother who has given up on romance, a suburban housewife who moonlights as a talk-show host and a travel writer who still wants to write her serious book.
An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Caroline Aaron, Jamie Lee Curtis, Jay Paulson, Tony Roberts, Kala Savage, John Vickery, James Warwick and JoBeth Williams.
Featuring: Caroline Aaron, Jamie Lee Curtis, Jay Paulson, Tony Roberts, Kala Savage, John Vickery, James Warwick, JoBeth Williams


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Participants: Latvian Radio Choir group, conductor Sigvards Kļava
Music: Andy Stott, Krists Auznieks
Idea: Hotel Pro Forma
NEOARCTIC is an evocative, poetic, and alarming music performance on the Anthropocene – a new geologic epoch, defined by unprecedented human disturbance of the planets ecosystems. Humans have come to be a 'force of nature', causing rapid, often unintended changes to the Earth we inhabit. Man has become a 'natural force' that causes rapid, often unintended changes on the planet that we live on – with dramatic, uncontrollable consequences.
NEORCTIC is the result of cross-disciplinary research and artistic collaboration between researchers, composers, musicians, writers, artists, designers, filmmakers and other experts.
NEOARCTIC looks at the ruins and the risings of the modern industrial civilization. Extinctions, new life forms and new landscapes. Symbiotic relations in a modern world of complexity. The dystopian and the utopian are fusing, and a new sense of amazement at the wonders of the earth is required. The processes, the structures and their forms as interplay are the subject matter of NEOARCTIC.
Twelve outstanding singers are seen and heard on a large stage. Words are sung, whispered, shouted as songs and repetitive, hammering soundscapes. Beautiful melodies appear and disappear. The stage is a canvas for light and colours, films and projections. A landscape in constant change. Stunning sceneries ask: Where did we come from? Where are we heading? How far can we go?
The stage is covered in white fabric, a canvas on which to project light and colours, film and projections. Light fills the room with a tactile atmosphere and subtle hues, while the folds of the fabric create sharp shadows. It's a landscape in a constant stage of change.
12 songs.12 soundscapes. 12 landscapes. 1 planet.
Duration: 80 minutes
Idea - Hotel Pro Forma
Director - Kirsten Dehlholm
Music - Andy Stott, Krists Auznieks
Libretto - Sjón
Lighting - Jesper Kongshaug
Set Design - Anne Mette Fisker Langkjer
Video Design&Direction - Adam Ryde Ankarfeldt
Video Design - Andreas Sommer, Magnus Pind Bjerre, Birk Marcus Hansen
Sound Design - Kristian Hverring
Costumes - Wali Mohammed Barrech
Video&Objects - Atelier Hotel Pro Forma
Producer - Oskars Plataiskalns
Stage Management - Lauris Bimbers
Video Technician - Uģis Ezerietis
Stage Technician - Ģirts Bite
Producer - Hotel Pro Forma, Latvian Radio Choir
Deputy Producer - Sarah Ford / Quaternaire
Tour Management - Quaternaire
Director of Latvian Radio Choir - Dace Bula


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I had a wonderful time babysitting last night, so I thought that I might tell a story from one of the first times I babysat when I was eleven.
Now, babysat might be an exaggeration of the word since the parents were just one house away, but I was still in charge of five kids all under the age of nine.
At the time, a number of the parents on our block were in a book club, and they would meet every month for lunch and a discussion. But instead of doing sandwich platters and lemonade and talking just for an hour, they would get really into it and serve full, gourmet meals in the theme of whatever they just read and talk for hours. All of the kids were banished from the house and put under the care of some older kid on the block. But by the time that I was eleven, it was decided that high schoolers were no longer necessary and that I and another boy my age could handle the responsibility ourselves.
In order to tell this story properly, I'm going to need to introduce you to the cast of characters.
First, you've got me. I was eleven, rather bossy and a bit too precocious. I was also over the moon about having the chance to be a "real-live babysitter," which was a sure sign that everything was going to get out of hand. My boundless enthusiasm for something I know little about usually ends up turning into a disaster story. (Thursday's post, The Time Ella Decided to Celebrate Saint Lucia's Day and It Went Horribly, Horribly Wrong, is a great example.)
Then, there was Zach, a boy who lived down the street and one of my good friends. He was less enthusiastic about the idea and really just wanted to go back to his treehouse where we were in the process of smashing an old telephone to bits with hammers and taping the pieces to a tree with duct tape (This was one of our favorite things to do at that age, for some unexplainable reason.), but he was still game to help out.
Pippa, my sister, was nine, and both too old and self-sufficient to really warrant a babysitter.
Lee, Zach's sister, was eight and did not fancy the idea of having anyone in charge of her. She could take care of herself, thank you very much, and did have any problems alerting anyone to this fact.
Grace was two and entirely too smart for her own—or for that matter, anyone else's—good.
Jonah was five and perfectly willing to play with his trains in the corner and not bother anyone. He was also at that age where he completely idolized Zach and would try to copy his every move, much to Zach's annoyance.
And finally, there was Tobias, Jonah's brother, who was two and very easily influenced. He had also been fairly recently adopted from South Korea and was having some trouble understanding and speaking English.
We had been set up in the basement of Jonah and Toby's house and instructed not to bother anyone unless there was a serious injury. And things were going generally well for the first fifteen minutes. Grace and Tobias built with blocks, Pippa and Lee argued over what movie to watch, Zach sat in the corner with a video game while Jonah hung over his shoulder to watch, and I marched around checking in with everyone every few seconds. I was not going to let anything go wrong.
Then, Grace started throwing blocks at Tobias, who started throwing them back. I was secretly thrilled. I get to solve a conflict now! Being a babysitter is awesome! I thought. But when I knelt down to try to gently tell them that throwing blocks was unacceptable and that they needed to apologize to each other, they began throwing the blocks at me and wouldn't stop no matter how many times I asked them to.
I began to freak out as I held my arms in front of my face to block the flying wooden rectangles. Lee started yelling at them,and I started yelling back at her to "just let me handle it, alright? I am the babysitter, not you!" until finally Zach stood up and suggested that we play hide-and-go-seek.
I had forgotten about the power of redirection in my attempts to stop the block flinging, and began to feel like a bit of a babysitting failure. I was supposed to be the best babysitter ever! I had read the American Girl Doll book on it and most of the parenting books my parents owned. (At the time, I slept in our finished attic, which was a huge, beautiful room that also held an incredibly large amount of books. Once I moved in there at the age of nine, I started reading books that were way beyond my comprehension or maturity level. I was particularly fond of the pregnancy, parenting, and environmentalism books, for some peculiar reason.) I was a babysitting theory expert! I should have been amazing at it in practice, too. But Grace and Tobias had stopped throwing the blocks, and I wasn't going to be so prideful as to refuse Zach's suggestion. Besides, hide-and-go-seek is awesome.
What I had forgotten was that when playing hide-and-go-seek everyone except the seeker has to hide, and hiding means that you don't know where all the kids you're supposed to be in charge of are or what they are doing. And that was going to be my downfall.
I agreed to be the seeker first and closed my eyes and slowly counted down from fifty. When I opened them again, I heard giggling from the bathroom where Grace was standing in the shower. I found her just as she was about to turn on the faucet and drench herself. Phew! Crisis averted. With Grace in tow, I proceeded to hunt around the basement. Pippa was in a closet with Tobias, Zach was underneath the laundry sink, and Lee was behind a door. All was well, and we were ready for round two.
This time, though, things got bad very, very quickly. Grace had army crawled underneath the sofa and gotten stuck, bursting into tears and getting her legs covered with rug burn as I dragged her out by her ankles. But darling Pippa was just behind the TV and reappeared as good-natured and calm as ever. Then, I heard yells from the furnace room.
Lee, in some sort of attempt to hide behind the furnace (which is a horrible idea to begin with), had somehow managed to snag her dress on a pipe, but instead of relaxing and working it free, she was trying to use panicked brute force to wrench it off. Frustrated and anxious, she kept snapping at me as I freed her and then stomped off. But none of us could find Tobias or Zach.
As it turns out, Tobias had managed to lock himself in the closet in his dad's office. I was stuck trying to explain via yelling through two sets of doors how to unlock the closet door and let himself free. The minutes dragged on, and he began to cry. English sounds garbled when muffled by doors, and to a young child who doesn't speak the language well, it must have been even worse. He was sobbing, and I was entirely freaked out. I was not going to be responsible for his permanent imprisonment, but there was no way for me to get into the room to fix it.
To top that fiasco off, we began to hear yells and odd banging from the laundry room. It sounded like someone had stuck a bunch of sneakers that had the ability to yell into the dryer. It was all very strange, and I started to fear that there was some sort of monster lurking in there, waiting to attack all of us. Maybe it had already eaten Zach. The yelling got louder and louder, until I bravely opened the door to the dryer and discovered that he had managed to lock himself in there as his hiding place and had then proceeded to become very scared that we had forgotten about him and were going to leave him in there forever.
Kids, get out your notebooks. Never, ever use a dryer or a washer as a hiding place. Those doors lock and will stay that way until someone lets you out. Also, you know how dryers have those pieces of plastic that divide up the metal drum to keep the clothes fluffy and wrinkle free as they dry? Well, they also hurt like heck when you've had them pressing into your sides for around fifteen minutes.
It took us quite a while to get Tobias out of the closet and almost as long to get him to calm down.
But here's the thing that really gets me:
I have no idea what was wrong with me to okay this, but we continued playing hide-and-go-seek for the next hour until the parents came to pick us up. And it wasn't even like it was smooth sailing from then on out. People kept getting into these awful scrapes every single round. I got more and more anxious, and my voice got higher and higher, but it never occurred to me to stop the game and do something else.
All in all, it had not been a successful venture. I went home to go sulk in my room and finish a book on global warming, clutching my very hard earned six dollars (Ah, the days when my parents knew that I thought that two dollars an hour was a very generous offer. I also only got one dollar of allowance a week and viewed that as quite the bounty. Then, I discovered what minimum wage was, and things changed.) in my fist. In an hour or so the ice cream truck was going to come, and I needed a King Kone something bad.
Note: I have never since had a babysitting gig go so poorly. I mean, I've been thrown up on and have had kids refuse to go to bed, but nothing has ever compared to the stress and ridiculousness of that first time. In fact, I consider myself a good babysitter now. I love kids, and they seem to like me back. And while there is the occasional temper tantrum or out of control defiant rampage, all of those parenting books seem to have paid off, and I can get everything fixed up pretty quickly. I've even managed to get my most difficult sleeper's bedtime dramatics down to about forty-five minutes as opposed to the two and a half hour ordeal we used to go through when first I started with her.
For the month, you can find me updating my word count on NaNoWriMo here. (I need to do it more regularly so that it doesn't become flat for a few days, only to receive an enormous spike, indicating that I somehow magically wrote about twelve thousand words in one day.)
And as always, you can also find me on tumblr at http://emleng93.tumblr.com/, if, you know, you're into that kind of thing.


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Even before founding his own group Inner Rhythm in 1990, Robert Jospé never couched himself in one particular style. Marrying different ethno-musical elements such as Latin percussion, Caribbean dance, and traditional bebop and swing, his singular percussive voice snatches aspects from the ordered chaos of Brazilian polyrhythm, '40s big band, and the feverish heat of Central and South America. Although a heady composite, Jospé's textured music still maintains a sense of playful vibrancy with mass appeal.
Saturday 12/21. $5, 10pm, Fellini's #9, 200 Market St., 979-4279.


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Intermediality and Media Philosophy
led by PhD Andrea Virginás, Nafiseh Mousavi
Research Area:
- Intermediality
14 members, 10 posts, 1 document
last active on 09-03-2020
Everyone interested is invited to join. Phenomena of intermediality are overflowing the boundaries of art and literary history, philosophical aesthetics, media archaeology, film studies, and communication theory. Thus they have the capacity to constitute a focus that is intersectional to its core, bridging the gaps between structure and superstructure, or between the materiality of media, their semiotic processes and effects that one may categorize as aesthetic. From the basic concept of "intermediality" to the constantly evolving panorama of analogue, digital and post-digital media a vast field presents itself for systematic analysis, with immense asynchronicites and discrepancies characterizing the various geographical regions and politically defined entities, not to speak of historical evolutions into our anthropocene era.
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TechnologyOne founder Adrian Di Marco inducted into prestigious Pearcey Hall of Fame
Adrian Di Marco, Executive Chairman and founder of Australia's most successful enterprise software company TechnologyOne (ASX:TNE), has won a coveted 2015 Pearcey Hall of Fame award for his lifetime of achievement and contribution to the development of the Australian ICT industry.
For the last eighteen years, the Pearcey Foundation has recognised truly outstanding achievements by Australians in the ICT industries through three awards; The Pearcey Medal, The Pearcey Hall of Fame and The Benson Entrepreneur Award.
The three nominees for the 2015 Pearcey Hall of Fame were Mr Di Marco, Chief Scientist at APNIC Geoff Huston and Mincom's (now part of ABB Enterprise Software) Founder David Merson.
As a past recipient of the Queensland Pearcey Award and the Tony Benson award for outstanding contribution to the Australian ICT industry, Mr Di Marco was a deserving candidate. This year he also was named by AFR Boss as one of 2015's top ten CEOs who deliver, and in SmartCompany's 2015 list of top ten most influential people in the Australian IT industry.
The Pearcey Hall of Fame award recognises Mr Di Marco's success in building Australia's largest enterprise software company, TechnologyOne, which has gone from strength to strength in the 28 years since its inception.
Founded in 1987, the company has grown to become Australia's only true enterprise software company, listing on the ASX in December 1999 and recently joining the ASX-200, notching up more than $1 billion market capitalisation. TechnologyOne has a state of the art R&D centre in Brisbane where more than 300 staff develop enterprise software that is used by over 1000 leading corporations, government departments and statutory authorities.
The company has enjoyed eleven years of record revenues and profits, and has been regularly recognised as a "fixture of the Australian technology industry". On the ASX, its shares have soared an impressive 300 per cent over the past five years.
The company continues to foster emerging ICT talent in Australia through its nationally recognised intern and graduate program.
"I'm honoured to be receiving this award, which is great recognition of the successful company TechnologyOne has become today," Mr Di Marco said.
"TechnologyOne is an established, proven business with a reputation as a leading innovative technology company, which we maintain through continued significant investment in R&D.
"Our ability to evolve and adapt to a rapidly changing world, while remaining focused on what we do, has been the key to the company's long term success."
As an active member of the Australian IT community, Mr Di Marco said it is an exciting time for the industry.
"Australia is fast gaining a reputation for creative and innovative technologies, and we are developing a diverse and vibrant ICT industry," Mr Di Marco said.
"This is the best time ever to be in IT. It's very exciting, all these new devices with amazing functionality. Technology is enabling more than ever before."
Mr Di Marco has played a major role in promoting the Australian IT industry, as past director of Ersis Australia; Software Systems; and the Australian Information Industry Association, the peak body for the Australian IT industry. He was also a founding member of Software Queensland, an organisation established to promote the Queensland Software industry, and chairman of the advisory board for inQbator, a company that incubates young start up IT companies, providing them with funding to commercialise their ideas.
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About TechnologyOne
TechnologyOne (ASX:TNE) is Australia's largest enterprise software company and one of Australia's top 200 ASX-listed companies, with offices across six countries. We create solutions that transform business and make life simple for our customers. We do this by providing powerful, deeply integrated enterprise software that is incredibly easy to use. Over 1,000 leading corporations, government departments and statutory authorities are powered by our software.
We participate in only eight key markets: government, local government, financial services, education, health and community services, asset intensive, project intensive and corporate. For these markets we develop, market, sell, implement, support and run our preconfigured solutions, which reduce time, cost and risk for our customers.
For 28 years, we have been providing our customers enterprise software that evolves and adapts to new and emerging technologies, allowing them to focus on their business and not technology. Today, our software is available on the TechnologyOne Cloud and across smart mobile devices.
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Why buy property in istanbul Turkey
When considering a property purchase in the wonderful city of Istanbul, firstly you need to decide why you are buying and your budget, Is it for pure investment for capital appreciation or rental yields? or is it a lifestyle change or holiday home for you and your family?
Istanbul is like any other major city in the world, city centre and sea view properties come with a premium price tag, quite often with six-figure tags.
Scores of overseas investors have zoned in on the city over recent years purchasing properties all across the city, cashing in on both short and long term rentals. Keen-eyed investors are buying off plan properties at launch prices where property prices increase by at least 50% by the completion dates giving you guaranteed capital appreciation in very short space of time.
The are you choose is a very important factor along with your budget, home buyers with a high budget can purchase luxury Bosphorus properties, though low budget buyers should be looking in the new fashionable inner city areas of Beylikduzu, Esenyurt west of Ataturk International airport.
Farm property for sale in ISTANBUL
Istanbul farm property is surprisingly not impossible to find, though many people see Istanbul as a huge built up city with towering skyscrapers and very few open spaces, however, if you take a wider view of the sheer size of Istanbul you will no doubt be pleasantly surprised at just how much farm real estate in Istanbul is available, though not always publicly marketed due to privacy reasons by the individual owners.
Farm property in Istanbul is found in several areas, though mostly in the northern areas of the city on both the European and Asian sides, both boasting some stunning lush green landscapes in vast sizes where it is possible to find farm accommodation in Istanbul in varying sizes and a wide range of prices.
If you are seriously looking to buy farm property in Istanbul, the best place to start is on the outskirts of the city in areas such as Silivri and Sapanca which are in close proximity to Istanbul, where you will find a wider range of farm property and more in terms of value for money.
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This paper discusses the powers of the states and the federal government to impose taxes on the people. It discusses the notion of concurrent powers and exclusive powers as they relate to taxation. Concurrent powers are those that both the states and federal government share. Exclusive powers are those that only the states or the federal government can exercise.
In the case of taxes, the authority of the federal government to levy taxes does not preclude the state governments from doing the same thing since taxation is a concurrent power. The only restriction on the authority of the state governments to levy taxes relates to duties on imports and exports. Congress can levy such taxes, but state governments can only do so with the consent of Congress.
Hamilton acknowledges that the concurrent power of taxation could lead to situations in which state governments and the national government impose taxes on the same item, a situation that might be "inexpedient." However, Hamilton asserts that the prudence of governments can be relied on to avoid such situations. It is not necessarily a "direct contradiction of power" for a state government and Congress to impose the same tax.
Hamilton assuages the fear that granting the national government the ability to levy taxes will preclude the states from doing the same thing. Opponents of the constitution feared that if only the federal government could generate revenue, the state government would be left in a severely weakened position.
By protecting the authority of states to impose taxes directly on their inhabitants, the constitution ensures that states remain relevant and effective. This paper illustrates the founders' attempt to balance power between state and federal government.


text: I have been getting readings from Linda for at least 10 years. She saw me through my divorce and countless other situations, all with flawless accuracy. Recently I have started calling about a series of major life changes - buying a house, moving to a new community, starting several businesses, ending friendships and starting a new love relationship. These are just a few of the topics I've asked her about. We have talked about dreams, health, energy work, spirituality and healing. She even channeled a person who had recently died. I later found out that everything she said about this... read more →


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Canon 17mm Tilt-Shift Lens Review
Paired with a Photodiox Adapter and Sony a7sii
Updated: 07.30.2016
I've ditched the Photodiox adapter due to flare issues on the bottom left and right side of my images. Switched over to the Metabones IV. It's three times the price at $299. But, it works perfectly with the Canon 17mm T/S lens and my Sony a7-x series cameras. No flare, no vignetting at all. Well worth it when pairing with a $2500 lens, you can't compromise on quality.
Here is a visual review of the Canon 17mm Tilt-Sift lens.
Canon 17mm Tilt-Shift Lens Review: As a luxury real estate photographer I'm always looking to up my game. I recently had a conversation with world renown, architectural, globe-trotting photographer, Tim Griffith. He suggested I'd benefit from Canon's 17mm Tilt-Shift lens. After quick research and noting its incredible reviews, I pulled the trigger and purchased it. Holy Tilt-Shift Batman! Just came back from a test shoot with my new 17mm Tilt-Shift lens. This lens is definitely the Houdini of lenses. Each time I Shifted the lens I was stunned at how freak'n cool it was to be able to get an entire building in the viewfinder. IMHO a Tilt-Shift lens is just as important as the camera you are using. I often photograph luxury commercial real estate. Some of the buildings are so tall that even with my FE 16-35mm f/4.0 racked to 16mm I can not fit the entire building top to bottom in a single frame. And on the oft chance that I can fit the building into the frame it is severely distorted due to the wide angle lens. However, this is no longer an issue with a 17mm Tilt-Shift, it's as easy as shifting up.
A couple of caveats: #1] Make sure that the focal plane is dead on perfectly horizontal to the building you are photographing. This will prevent distortion. #2] The front lens element is bulbous as in super convex. It's really easy to pick up lens flare when shooting outdoors during high sun hours. I'd recommend using an umbrella or wearing a wide-brimmed hat to use as a Gobo to block the sun flare.
Before and After Shift Images: In each set, you'll see the image taken with no Shift and the image taken with the Shift. The Non-Shifted image is truncated, as in the entire building is not in the frame. The Shifted image reveals the entire building. I've locked off the Tilt feature. In searching for tutorials of Tilt-Shift lens, I didn't see any before and after pictures. I wanted to share these with you so that you can see the dramatic difference of the before shift and after shift images.
The 17mm T/S is paired with a Photodiox adapter [$99] to my Sony a7sii. The verdict is still out on lens flare. I did notice a bit of stray light on the bottom left and right of some of my images. A step up is the Metabones IV at $399. Which makes sense when pairing an adapter to a $2500 lens. You don't want to cut corners. Need to do a bit more testing to see if the Photodoix is a good fit.
p.s. I intend to use this lens on just about every architectural shoot from now on, and can't believe it took me this long to get it!
Here's a great 18+ minute video by photographer Vincent Laforet that covers all the basics and some advanced techniques of using Tilt-Shift lenses.
Marc Weisberg is an award-winning photographer based in Irvine, California. Marc specializes in Luxury Architecture & Real Estate Photography, Food + Wine Photography, and Portraiture. He's easy to work with and produces clean, crisp, and engaging images. Marc's photography is published internationally in over a dozen books and magazines. You can contact Marc by phone at 949.494.5084…. or email.


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I didn't find my Ira Sargent listed. It wasn't of trying.
It turns out he is in the book.
He was there as entry 1128:
A son.
No wonder I didn't find him.
I'm not certain why the last three children of Clark and Mary (Dingman) Sargent were not named in the 1895 publication. My speculation is that they simply lost touch with the rest of the family when Clark moved west, frst to Ontario and later into Illinois. All of Clark Sargent's children were born in Ontario, Canada, and he died in Winnebago County, Illinois, in the late 1840s. Clark did settle where he had no known Sargent relatives and, given that he was younger when he died and that his wife Mary died shortly after a subsequent marriage and that her second husband raised the children, it is very possible that they simply lost all touch with their paternal side of the family upon Clark's death. It is even possible that Clark wanted to lose touch with his family.
But it got me to wondering.
How often is the person of interest in a publication, only to be unnamed?
And how many families lost touch with their "families of origin" as they moved west?
The Sargents did settle in Winnebago County, Illinois, where it appears they had no immediate relatives. That's somewhat unusual but not unheard of. However, they are not as unusual as one might think. There were other Canadians who settled in Winnebago County--including several from Ontario.
The Sargents didn't move west with family. They moved west with neighbors.
Mary Sargent's second husband was an Ontario native she met in Winnebago County, Illinois. In 1850 she and her new husband and her children are enumerated in Winnebago County in the federal census. By the 1856 Iowa State Census, Mary is dead and her husband is heading a household with four of his step children of two children of his own. By 1860 they have moved to Missouri.
It's doubtful that the Sargent children had any contact with close relatives of their mother or father.
Which might explain why few stories of the family were passed down to the current generation and possibly why when the Sargent genealogy was compiled in the 1890s there probably was not any contact made with the children of Clark Sargent.


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I am very upset today !!!!!Watch my video
All the things I was brought up to believe in , freedom, democracy, Cohesion, Liberty, equality!!!
Was all stripped from me today😔 !!!
Warning for you all, today 5/FEB/2016 8.25am Flight TOM389 my wife and me boarded a flight to Morocco and just before it was going to take off we were told to get of the airplane because I was Muslim & could be a safety hazard !!!
Because my wife was wearing a hijab and me having a beard ! I thought the beard was in fashion 😎.
But seriously it was very shocking , embarrassing and disturbing to be honest especially for my wife who is nearly 6 month pregnant 😔.
They had removed us because we look like Muslims then they will have to remove me every time & I will just go to Butlins 😂. But seriously I am very proud to be a British Muslim, I was born here all my childhood friends are English , my children are born here , I pay my taxes , give jobs to local people ,support local charities , run youth projects to help kids in the community, support local football teams , feed the homeless in my community every week, went to help my neighbours in Cumbria with the floods , consider everyone as a friend a human being a neighbour regardless of colour or religion to be nice and polite.
But today I suffered the worst RACISM of my life being hurled of a plane with my pregnant wife for being a ASAIN MUSLIM ,I never thought I would see the day that the British government would become so Racist and make me a British born person ,brought up to believe in all things British, then just strip me of all those values I had been brought up with all my life !
I don't blame the British people that includes my wife , my mum ,dad, my kids , all great people just getting on with it , but the government is taking Briton into dark ages and depths I fear for the British people & way of life that I grew up with 😢 !
England went to war with Germany to free people of the oppression & the terrible crimes hitler was causing to the world and the Jews, men & woman lost their lives to promote freedom, equality , Liberty And now we have the Hitler of our time David Cameron who as just replaced the Jews with Muslims ! Those service men & women must be turning in their graves 😔!!
So please be careful about booking or book flexi tickets that way you are covered as @thomsonholidays airline will not refund my flights !
I was not going to post this but I really am upset and I don't wish this upon any of you or anyone I fear this type of treatment will become more frequent.
I only pray that the British people talk some sense into the Government which I do not believe is representing the view of the British Public !
As William Wallace said Bravely in Brave Heart #FREEDOM ✌🏽
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"A Way Out" is a Lake County, Illinois Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion pilot program designed to fast-track those who need treatment to substance abuse programs and services.
This program is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week at participating police departments across Lake County and ensures no criminal charges will be sought for those that may be in possession of narcotics or paraphernalia as long as assistance is sought out by the prospective program participant.
"A Way Out" is a program developed by the Lake County Opioid Initiative to create additional treatment access points, reduce crime, reduce substance-related harms, re-frame the role law enforcement plays in community safety, and unite the community. For too long, substance use has been stigmatized and dealt with as a criminal issue. Substance use is a public health problem that needs to be addressed as such. Lake County Opioid Initiative is committed to developing innovative ways to create positive change in our community as it regards substance use and mental health.


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Whisper's parents went to the church they'd heard about on Sunday morning. When they got home, they were cautiously optimistic. Maybe this was the right place for them. Maybe the Rains could finally fit in somewhere, and be a part of something that would be a good, godly influence on their family. Maybe some new friends would be good for the children, especially Whisper. It was drastic… but it seemed like it was time for something drastic.
When the next Sunday rolled around, Whisper's parents were much more picky than usual about the kids' clothes. Yes, the girls were wearing skirts but… they'd better take off their jewelry too. And the boys had better wear button up shirts and keep them tucked in. Whisper started getting worried. It was a long drive to this church, and before they got there, her parents turned around and gave everybody another nervous once over.
They pulled into the parking lot. The church building was very plain and immaculate white. Even the gravel in the parking lot was flawless… not a pothole to be seen. The parking lot was full of well-kept vehicles. There were a lot of maxi vans there. A few people were standing around talking while they made their way to the building, and at the sight of them, Whisper's heart fell into her shoes. Beards. Carefully combed hair. White head coverings. Homemade dresses. Charity people. She could hardly breathe. No… she wouldn't go in there.
They parked the van at the end of a row of other vans. Whisper was rooted to her seat. No. This couldn't be happening. Her parents and brothers and sisters got out, and waited for her. NO. "Please," her parents said, "give it a try. It couldn't hurt to give it a try." NO. "Please?"
She looked at her parents. She knew they were doing their best. She knew they loved her. They thought this was a good place. These people apparently knew something special about God. Her parents were trying to do what was right- and it couldn't have been easy for them to walk in there either. Whisper got out of the van.
They walked into the building, past the stares. Even in their long denim skirts & button down shirts, which had seemed so conservative… they stood out in the crowd. People made a path to let them through… or was it to stay out of their way? Whisper couldn't tell. Not many people smiled at them. A few men came to greet Dad, but their wives and children hung back and tried not to stare.Whisper found out later that, to some of these people, this church represented more freedom of choice than they'd ever known. Families sat together, instead of men and women on separate sides of the building! Women were free to make their dresses according to whatever pattern they wanted! Some wore cape dresses, some jumpers, and some wore vest dresses! Some puffed their sleeves, and some didn't, and that was okay! Some made narrow, shorter Mennonite type skirts, others made theirs ankle length and flowing! They had freedom and liberty and so many choices, compared to their former lives in Amish or Mennonite churches.
But as far as Whisper could tell, walking into that place for the first time, they all looked like carbon copies of each other. And it was terrifying. She followed her parents mechanically and sat down. They sang lots of hymns in four part harmony. Somebody got up and preached, but Whisper couldn't recall a word of what he said. After the service, three girls came over and smiled and said hello to Whisper. A couple of fathers brought their families over and presented them to the Rains, children all standing at attention in a row, oldest to youngest. Whisper felt like she was on another planet.
They went again the next week. And the next, and the next. Sometimes people would invite them over for dinner after church. Most of them were every bit as formal at home as they were Sunday morning. Some people's homes felt homey, but others kept their houses as sterile and undecorated as the church building. "Dinner" was often a huge, elaborate meal, and as the "guests," Whisper's family was singled out and made to get their food first, while everyone watched. It was all so uncomfortable and unnatural. Whisper hated it.
One day, the phone rang at the Rains' house, and it was one of the Dietz girls, calling to invite Whisper over for the weekend. Whisper was thrilled at the chance to be gone over Sunday! In her heart she thanked the Dietz girls for rescuing her, even if only for a couple of days.
She had no idea that over that couple of days, everything would change.
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The matching Parkside Bar Height Stools have the same frame design and finish, but take the sophistication level up a notch with hammered metal back panels and black, faux leather seats that swivel a full 360 degrees. Twisting metal top rails echo the table base.


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We were overwhelmed and thrilled to receive so many amazing applicants for our 2014 STREET TEAM! Wow, some super funny, thoughtful, and creative applications. Thank you to each person who took the time to reply. We are beyond excited to announce the models we've chosen this year. Congratulations to the following 2014 STREET TEAM MEMBERS:
Kristie Bade: Northwestern High School
Alex Bellefeuille: Roncalli High School
Lydia Blume: Redfield Public High School
Abbie Hagen: Aberdeen Central High School
Dan Hartung: Aberdeen Central High School
Breanna Hauge: Aberdeen Central High School
Cheyenne Schaller: Groton Area High School
Wow, you'd think I was biased to last names that start with B and H. Ha! Be sure to talk to these STREET TEAM members to hear all about their upcoming spring mini-sessions! They'll be able to tell you exactly what the ASP experience is like! Looking forward to working with all 7 of you!


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Training programs, including the novice LP in Starting Strength: Basic Barbell Training, are typically written with a critical assumption. They assume an ideal training schedule, and no missed training sessions. The reality for many lifters, however, is that schedules get disrupted by other responsibilities, by travel, by family issues, by Life with a capital L. Today Matt and Scott compare optimal training and real life, and discuss strategies for managing those times when the two collide and throw your training off track.
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