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At the beginning of March we headed to Bonneau for a week of community and client meetings for our two projects in the Northwest of Haiti. The team consisted of Chelina Odbert (Executive Director), Joe Mulligan (Board Member and Civil Engineer), Jessica Bremner (Program Director), Amy Linsenmayer (Landscape Architect), Andreas Quednau (Founding Partner, SMAQ), and David Harmon (Architect). Arriving in Miami from all over the globe we headed to Port-au-Prince where we then caught a small plane to Port-de-Paix. In Port-de-Paix we loaded in a truck to St. Louis du Nord where we would be staying at the Northwest Haiti Christian Mission our client for one of our projects in Haiti. For all but Chelina this was the first time any of us had been to Haiti and our first day was indicative of what would be an exciting and fruitful week of work.
Haiti, roughly the size of Maryland, is the western third of the island Hispaniola (shared with the Dominican Republic). Flying into Port-au-Prince one can see the difference in environmental degradation between the different regions of the island. For our projects in Haiti, environment is a critical element of livelihoods and economic development. One of the things you hear about Haiti, and what became extremely apparent over the week, is the need for transportation infrastructure. Our airplane runway in Port-de-Paix was unpaved and also served as a road for pedestrians, motorcycles, and cars alike. The only paved roads we encountered in the Northwest were along the main roads in the larger towns and one or two smaller communities. What does this lack of transportation infrastructure mean for Haiti? It means a 20 km trip in a military grade truck can take up to two hours. It means in places like Bonneau food insecurity and economic development is worsened by poor access that inhibits the import and export of agricultural products (nationally 50% of food requirements are imported). It means that construction, water access, sanitation, and electricity access and costs are directly related to transportation infrastructure. Our projects are directly affected by transportation infrastructure, which limits material access, markets for micro-enterprises, and construction equipment. This means innovation is key, creating new materials and repurposing old materials is required, and community participation is more then essential.


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The Great British Bake Off's Stacey said she was "relieved" not to be going through to the final as she was eliminated from the competition's semi-final.
She was given the boot on Tuesday night's patisserie-themed instalment of the Channel 4 series, clearing the way for Sophie, Steven and Kate to move through to the last leg of the contest.
Judge Paul Hollywood said it was the most difficult decision he had ever made on the show and admitted that he had to make the rare move of assessing her performance throughout the whole series, rather than the one episode, before making the choice.
After the result was announced, the Hertfordshire mum said: "I felt I had done so well to get so close to the final, but also sort of relieved that I would be leaving the tension of the competition.
"At the beginning of the episode I said that if this is the end of the road for me, then I am leaving happy."
Her unfortunate exit came after she was named star baker last week, following a weak start with her signature offering of choux-moji and choux-nicorn buns which she struggled to complete in the given time.
Hollywood branded them "a mess" while co-judge Prue Leith said the emoji-inspired buns looked more like "curry" than a tempting dessert.
Even though she came second in the technical challenge – presenting an intricate Belgian Miserable cake that the judges described as the "most complicated" ever set on the show – and was praised for the flavours in her "flamingos in love" meringue-based showstopper, the victories were not enough to save her.
"Without a shadow of a doubt, my choux buns were my worst moment, I was just setting myself up for disaster," she said.
But she continued: "For me it was the most unbelievable experience of my life to get to the semi-finals.
"I am a better baker now than I was before, and I learned that it's good to push boundaries, and also that it's not good to wear jeans in a hot tent."
The show saw special success for Sophie, who was crowned star baker after winning the technical challenge and leaving the judges "highly impressed" with her ballet tutu showstopper.
Unlike her meringues, she refused to crack under pressure, cleverly using icing work to mask the damage to the meringue bodice, which she filled with a nine-layer opera cake.
Kate came back from a difficult previous week, delighting both judges with her cocktail-flavoured choux buns.
But her fruity rainbow showstopper divided opinion: Hollywood said the multi-flavoured, technicoloured masterpiece freaked him out, but Leith told him to loosen his mind and described it as "Kate on a plate".
Meanwhile, it was a close call for Steven, who Hollywood said had not performed to "normal Steven standard".
Though he has consistently impressed judges and viewers with his culinary skills, his choux buns looked "awful" and the heat in the tent caused the chocolate basket on his hot air balloon showstopper to melt away.
But he delighted presenter Sandi Toksvig with a second rainbow-inspired colour scheme, prompting her to joke that it was the "gayest" baking challenge of all time.
The Great British Bake Off series final will air at 8pm next Tuesday on Channel 4.
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What a difference just a year makes.
If I think about what I was doing this weekend two years ago, I could tell you verbatim. I was at a very different point in my life. I was sick, living in a new city and had no idea what in the world I was doing. Not one.
If I think about what I was doing this weekend last year, I could tell you verbatim as well. I was in Texas for the weekend.
And a ton of things changed when I got back here.
Isn't it absolutely crazy how much can transform in the blink of an eye? I think God gave me this past year for a distinct reason, mainly being to prove that I can do so much for myself without others, but I also gain so much from having consistent, loving people in my life. I mean, 365 days ago I had never been to an awards show. Never taken an on-camera course. Never worked in PR in Los Angeles. Never had a salary paying job -- heck, I didn't even have health insurance. I still had my Texas plates and license (up until a week ago).
I was a different person, completely, 100%.
And now I feel like I am the strongest I have ever been. If I didn't go through all of the highest highs and lowest lows of this year, I wouldn't be able to recognize a lot of things that I have been lately -- or more so, I wouldn't be able to recognize why things happened the way they did in the past. Hindsight is always 20/20, right? You never know what the heck is happening as you live it, but later, when you're not searching for the answer, it will come to you and you'll have that "aha" moment. I've learned that every outcome ends up the way it should, and that I can't base my own self worth on somebody or something else. These things serve for both my personal life and career goals, and I'm thankful God put me to the test, and surrounded me with so much love and support in my life.
I'm looking forward to the next 365 days of my life. I can say if you're ever in wondering why God makes you go through some things, just remember: it's always a part of his plan for your life, and it's always, always, always for the best. No matter what.


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The Zero Waste Lifestyle
Foundation recipe // Eye shadow recipe // Mascara recipe //
Hello everybody! A couple of days ago I posted my new video, which was the concealer recipe video! Therefore, I thought I would make a post with a collective overview of all my zero waste makeup recipes. This way, they are easy to find! Previously I've made two zero waste make up tutorials, feel free to check them out if you like here and here.
Hello everybody! Following the topic of my last post, I thought I would talk a bit more about food, plastic free food that is. These pictures are all from my instagram, although I could image some of them have popped up here before as well. They are just to give you an idea of what I usually buy within a month of zero waste. In my daily life it is not so much what you buy, but how you buy it. A lot of the food I buy tend to be local, due t farmer's markets, and thereby also seasonal, that is if I want the best quality foods. If I have an idea of something I would love to eat, but it only comes in plastic, I try to look for alternatives or I get another idea. It can be hard constantly saying no, but to me, it is all worth the effort. Especially when I see how amazing and beautiful my plastic free shopping bag looks compared to others. Have you had any awesome experiences with plastic free food lately?
Hello everybody! It was requested that I did a food diary, and let me just say, it was really hard to remember to photo document everything for four days. That is also the reason why a few snacks went by undocumented, but I will list them in the description anyway!
Day 1: Normally, I am really bad at eating breakfast, it is not good, but I seem to forget. Therefore I usually eat brunch-y foods or large lunches. My breakfast/lunch on day 1 was an egg omelet with carrots, all fresh from the farmer's market. The omelet was made with different bell peppers, spring onion and cheese. My dinner was made with roughly the same things. The pasta is from a recyclable cardboard box, as there are no bulk pasta in my area. The veggie sauce was made with feta, bell peppers, tomato and parsley, all from the farmer's market.
Day 2: This was a rather slow day, starting off with homemade naan bread and avocado cream, this is one of my go-to easy meals, as it is super easy to make and tastes delicious! My dinner was a thai curry soup with spring onion, rice, avocado and sweet potato, all left overs from the fridge, awesome. On slow and lazy days I usually use of all my left overs in awesome soup or pasta dishes, it tastes great and nothing goes to waste! On an undocumented note, I went to the store and bought bulk sweets, I brought my own tiny canvas bag and I only bought gelatin free salty liquorice, they are my favourite.
Day 3: My breakfast consisted of freshly squeezed orange juice, perhaps it sounds as a tiny meal to start of the day, but it is my favourite thing in the world. Popping in a couple of ice cubes from my stainless steel ice cube tray and I am good to go. Lunch were leftovers from day 1, so I used the last veggie sauce. As you may can tell most of this day was me working from my bed, lovely indeed! For dinner my boyfriend made me another omelet filled with onion, tomato and peppers, we usually buy our eggs at the farmer's market, they are free range and organic and they usually come with a double yolk, which is rather fun.
Day 4: I started out with a large breakfast consisting of left overs from last night's dinner, and a huge pile of yellow pepper snacks as a side dish. As you properly can tell by now, pepper is my golden food. I did not eat lunch that day, sadly, but I was too hooked playing Sims 3 to think about food. Instead, I went for a nice cup of hot chocolate, the chocolate came from bulk, so did the marshmallows. For dinner my boyfriend and I made a delicious chicken soup with fresh homemade ravioli. Unfortunately the picture was deleted so you will have to settle for a picture of last month's ravioli, they looked rather similar though. Inside the ravioli were chicken and onion, and the soup consisted of chicken broth and veggie broth boiled together, damn I love soups, and pasta.
Hey Chicks! My mum invited me on a tiny business trip today, so we are driving through the country. I tend to pack bags that are way to large compared to the amount of time I will be gone, but who doesn't right? I'll try to only bring my daily essentials – that is, my most important zero waste tools. Currently, I am looking for a smaller fork and knife, so they can fit in my jar, but for now I am using silver heirlooms, which ass a classy touch, lovely. I also bring a tissue, which can be handy at many occasions. Of course I'll also bring my straw, I pretty much take one everywhere I go! What do you bring along as your essentials?
Hey Chicks! Yesterday my boyfriend and I hosted a dinner party with the theme of zero waste! We went to the farmer's market with our canvas bags and jars and bought everything we needed. We made our own lemonade with lemon lime, orange and raspberry. Appetizers // We bought a baguette from the bakers and asked for package-free, since they are not packaged at the display, we just wrapped it in a canvas bag. We decided on bruschetta with fresh locally grown tomatoes, organic fresh garlic and wild oregano, we found a strange place where we can pick it ourselves. Main course// We went for a pork tenderloin from the local butcher. We brought a 2 liter jar for storage. On the side we had locally grown asparagus, mixed organic baked roots and a salad consisting of fresh local peas, tomatoes,cucumber, cashews and beans. Dessert// We went for a simple and super Danish traditional treat. Strawberries and milk with sugar, that is. We topped it with mint to edge it up a bit though, homegrown of course! The sugar and milk came in recyclable paper packaging, which was nice. Decor // I picked wild flowers in a field, which were so adorable on the table. We also used our new Kilner drink dispenser for the lemonade, which functions as some type for decor as well, it is lovely to look at, so why not! The last picture shows the amount of non-compostable trash that was produced during the preparation of the three course dinner, not half bad, if I have to say it myself!
Hey Chicks! Just a quick check-in. This is my favourite things to eat right now. We spent the day before yesterday picking elder flower, actually we hiked for 2 hours around the area to find the best flowers. It is the most zero waste it will ever get! We are using the flowers to make soda, makes a really nice Summer drink with some lemon and ice for sure! The strawberries are locally grown and of course, organic. They were picked an hour before we bought them, from a local farmer. I love using the seasonal fruits and veggies in my area – it is more sustainable and the quality is outstanding! What are your favourite seasonal food?
Eco Lunch box – Naturlig Hverdag // Glass Straw – Nature Baby
Hey Chicks! I thought I would share how I come around everyday aspects, but in a zero waste manner.
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Hey Chicks! As I recently received my Eco Lunch Box, I decided to show you how I would arrange my lunch in this box. In the bottom layer I keep carrots, for snacking around the day – A good tip to keep them fresh is to store slices of citrus fruits with them, which can also be used in your water during the day. In the middle layer I keep the actual lunch, which for the most part consists of left overs plus salad. In this case it is herb-y meat balls with mozzarella. In the top layer a bit of fruit for 'dessert' and some bell pepper – also used as snacks. How do you arrange your lunch and could you consider an Eco Lunch Box?
If you prepare your lunch at home: Forget paper wrapping, plastic bags or aluminum foil, it has never done anyone any good – ever. Instead acquire a lunch box – mine is from Naturlig Hverdag and their boxes come in different sizes and price ranges. If you are only bringing a little snack – use a mason jar. Personally, I bring fruit in mine and when it is empty I use it for water. If you prefer to buy food: They have salad buffets and what not in a lot of places, my university cafeteria included. I started to bring my banana leaf bow in stead of using their disposable plastic boxes. The leaf bowls weighs close to nothing and will not affect the prize of your food, if your cafeteria uses a weight to determine the prize. Overall tips: I always bring a fork and a glass straw with me in my school bag. It takes very little preparation but it makes a great difference. Stay tuned on the blog as I am soon to post some zero waste lunch box friendly recipes.
Shampoo // Mascara // Deodorant
Hey Chicks! Last week I finally got my LUSH products in the mail, lovely. What I really like about the products is, among others, the fact that they arrive in 'naked packaging' – none that is. The solid shampoo bars I've been using for a long time, but this one with honey, is divine. The deodorant bar has this really natural forest-y scent and it neutralizes fantastically. What I was most excited to try out was their mascara -eyes right, it comes in a glass flask, and the ingredients can be counted on two hands. Overall, I can recommend all of these products if you're interested in make up and beauty products that are not only healthier for you but healthy for the environment as well. Peace out!
Hey Chicks! I bring you a few small tips for no plastic shopping. Zero waste starts outside the home! As often as we can we shop at farmers markets, it is not only plastic free but also eco friendly. The simplicity of zero waste life also keeps you from buying unhealthy snacks, but instead sticking with nuts and fruit. Really there are no downsides to shopping like this.
Hey Chicks! I promised I am starting the Zero-Waste experiment, if you want you can do this with me or draw inspiration from this experience! Not only is a home without plastic and other toxic materials more healthy but also far more beautiful!
1//I've replaced my plastic dish brush with a wooden one, those can be bought in Søstrene Grene or at the eco market here. Generally go for marterials such as, metal, glass, wood, clay or pewter. 2//Store your dry foods in glass containers, avoid plastic by buying products in cardboard or paper packaging. I bought my glass containers either in Ikea or in second hand stores, just remember to give them a good boil before using them!
Hey Chicks! I collected a few tips that my boyfriend and I use in our daily lives. 1// Get a Lush solid shampoo bar! They work just as fine as a ordinary shampoo, though there is no bottle, no plastic, no waste. If you buy it in the store they'll package the bar in either paper or a little tin container, just as mine. 2// Get a reusable shaver, mine is from Third Field, the quality is amazing and it is a lot cheaper in the long run. 3// You can use baking soda for anything, including toothpaste, you can add a bit of flavour, but the result is the same as toothpaste. 4// Reuse emptied perfume bottles as small vases, it is super decorative and of course: no waste!
3// When it comes to food in general I prefer to go to specialized shops, and I do so whenever I can can, but I always buy fruit and vegetables that are unpackaged, preferably from a green grocer. 4// For oils and such alike, glass flasks with tin caps are easy to find and everything can easily be recycled! 5// Quit aluminium foil completely is one to the best tips, really, there are a thousand other options. //Make tea out of raw ingredients, star anise, lemon, black current leaves and raw liquorice are some of my favourites.
Hey Chicks! I took a small holiday break from everything pretty much, I haven't uploaded a single ting since the 23rd for which I am sorry but I really needed some time out. Well, now I am up and running and kicking of 2015 with an exciting project. My boyfriend and I are starting a zero-waste experiment, which means that we will for a given period of time produce no plastic waste or any other toxic waste products, during the beginning of 201 I will give tips and inspiration on how to limit one's amount of waste. I hope you will follow the process.
Follow my Pinterest where I constantly update with great inspiration and alternatives to plastic products.
Hey Chicks! In addition to our zero waste project, my boyfriend and I are shopping the farmers' markets around town. As we live in Aalborg there are few, but still some, places to go to, see them all here. Here we found time, rosemary, tomatoes, fresh garlic and carrots. Not only are these greens zero waste friendly, they are much higher quality as well! Also we're either baking our own bread or buying it at a baker's, but we simply tell them to leave out the bag. Always bring a canvas bag, everywhere you go!


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Rob Zastryzny Drafted by Chicago Cubs
COLUMBIA - The Major League Baseball Amateur Draft took place on Thursday night in Secaucus New Jersey. Former Missouri Tiger ace Rob Zastryzny was selected in the second round by The Chicago Cubs.
The Cubs selected Zastryzny with the 41st overall pick of the draft. Zastryzny had a 2-9 record this past season but impressive stats with an ERA of 3.98 and 82 strike outs in 90 and 2/3 innings. The left hander just completed his junior year at Mizzou and is expected to sign with the Cubs.


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Note: Marlynn Schotland of Urban Bliss Life was one of the first bloggers I met when I started writing The Good Hearted Woman. I am so grateful for her friendship, and for her willingness to so generously sharing her time, her talent, and her heart here with us today.
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I don't remember being scared. I was on a plane headed for college 3,000 miles away, to a city I've never visited. Heck, I had never visited anywhere on the East Coast before. I knew not a soul in Boston. I was beyond excited.
Something in my gut said Boston, Mass. was the right place for me. I never questioned it, never regretted it; I just applied, got accepted, said "yes, this looks like the school for me," and never looked back.
That gut decision turned out to be one of the best decisions of my life.
My first day in my new college dorm, I met two women who would still, twenty years later, mean the world to me. One I bonded with over a similar lack of height and I fell in love with her thick Jersey accent – and attitude. Pretty sure she thought I was an ignorant hick from O-RE-GONE, but despite that, we became fast friends and eventually college roommates.
One Thanksgiving, I couldn't afford to fly back home, so my roommate's family graciously invited me and my friend's then-boyfriend to spend the holiday at their home in New Jersey. I don't remember many details, but I remember the feeling of being so nervous about staying at their home and then being so warmly welcomed by her whole family. I remember bits and pieces of silly college conversations, fragments of Thanksgiving dinner, and I remember smiling. I think I smiled a lot that weekend. It was really nice to be in someone else's home 3,000 miles away from my own family, and to be welcomed in, fed, and cared for as family.
Throughout our college years, my friend's mom – we'll call her College Mom – was a peripheral presence in my life. I'd chat with her if I picked up the phone, see her here and there, I'd hear how she was doing through my friend. It was comforting to know that even though my mom wasn't nearby, there were other parents in my life to serve as role models even from a slight distance.
I was completely surprised when, at graduation, College Mom handed me a gift. In my hands was the cookbook pictured below, Absolutely Delicious, written by Linda Allard, who was best known as a top fashion designer for the then-popular clothing line Ellen Tracy. College Mom said something to the effect of "You should always have at least one good cookbook in life." It was a completely unexpected and generous gift.
To this day, I cherish this cookbook. It sits among dozens of others. However, its pages aren't splashed with sauce or smudged from water-stained fingers. It remains relatively clean and untouched, and I honestly think I've only cooked two dishes from Absolutely Delicious. Not because the recipes aren't fantastic – they are – but because to me, this cookbook is somewhat sacred. It represents so much of who I am, and why I love to cook and bake.
In this cookbook, Linda Allard features uncomplicated recipes and only includes exact measurements sometimes. Otherwise, she offers a general outline of a recipe in order to "allow for the cook's personal taste and judgment." It's very much how I cook today: by instinct. More than a source for recipes, this cookbook is a reminder to always trust my gut, because look at all of the amazing people I can meet and incredible experiences I can have if I just trust myself.
It also symbolizes how, for me, cooking and baking are all about the people on the other end of the serving spoon. It's about extending warmth, welcome, and unconditional, no-strings-attached kindness to others. It's about creating community and family, no matter where you go… making everyone feel like family in your home.
I'm forever grateful to College Mom for her kindness over the years, and even though we haven't spoken in over a decade, I think of her each time I see the cookbook spine sticking out on the shelf. This recipe from Absolutely Delicious is simple, uncomplicated, and fast, but it's not about the recipe, is it? It's about the love that goes into it and the warmth it extends to those on the receiving end of the spoon.
Uncomplicated, Absolutely Delicious Tomato & Basil BruschettaPrint Recipe Pin Recipe
- 1-2 medium tomatoes
- 1 garlic clove finely minced
- 5-10 basil leaves finely chopped or shredded
- a few parsley leaves finely chopped
- 1-3 tablespoons good olive oil
- salt and pepper
- Chop tomatoes into small cubes and put in a large bowl. Add garlic, basil, parsley, and oil. Season with salt and pepper and toss. Let marinate for 20 to 30 minutes.
- Toast a baguette in the oven at 375 degrees for 5-8 minutes, just until lightly toasted. Remove from oven and let cool for a couple of minutes, then slice into bruschetta slices. Drizzle good olive oil over each slice. Top each slice with a spoonful of tomato topping. Serve immediately, with a smile, to friends, family, neighbors, kids, and anyone who could use some kindness in their lives.
This website provides approximate nutrition information for convenience and as a courtesy only. You are solely responsible for ensuring that any nutritional information provided is accurate, complete, and useful.
About Marlynn: Marlynn Schotland keeps up with local food, drink, travel and culture on her blog, Urban Bliss Life, a division of her boutique creative communications studio, Urban Bliss Media. Her blog, as she puts it, is her "celebration of all of the blissful things in life," where she shares wine tips, wine reviews, wine tour experiences, food, recipes, restaurant reviews, design, style, fashion, printables, and family travel adventures and tips.


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Lynn Sharp Paine is John G. McLean Professor and Senior Associate Dean of International Development at Harvard Business School. A member and former chair of the General Management unit, she co-founded the School's required course on Leadership and Corporate Accountability and currently teaches Boards of Directors and Corporate Governance in the MBA program. She also teaches in various executive programs including Making Corporate Boards More Effective, Women on Boards, Leading Global Businesses, Senior Executive Program for China, and Senior Executive Program for Africa.
Ms. Paine''s research focuses on the leadership and governance of companies that meld high ethical standards with outstanding financial results. Her most recent book is Capitalism at Risk: Rethinking the Role of Business (Harvard Business Review Press, 2011) with HBS colleagues Joe Bower and Dutch Leonard. Her recent articles include, "Sustainability in the Boardroom," "The China Rules," and "A Global Leader's Guide to Managing Business Conduct" (the latter with HBS colleagues Rohit Deshpandé and Joshua Margolis)—all published in the Harvard Business Review. She has written more than 200 cases and articles, as well as the text and casebook Leadership, Ethics, and Organizational Integrity: A Strategic Perspective. Library Journal named her book Value Shift: Why Companies Must Merge Social and Financial Imperatives to Achieve Superior Performance (McGraw Hill, 2003) one of that year's best business books.
Ms. Paine is a director of Atos SE (NYSE Euronext Paris), an international digital services company, and she recently completed two terms as a member of the Governing Board of the Center for Audit Quality in Washington, D.C. She is also a member of the academic council of the Hills Program on Governance and a Faculty Associate of Harvard University's Safra Center for Ethics. For her innovative course development, she was given the Faculty Pioneer Lifetime Achievement Award by The Aspen Institute Center for Business Education. Ms. Paine has served as a consultant to numerous firms, companies, and industry groups, and sat on various advisory boards and panels including The Conference Board's Blue‐Ribbon Commission on Public Trust and Private Enterprise after Enron's collapse and The Conference Board''s Task Force on Executive Compensation after the financial crisis. She was a director of RiskMetrics Group from 2008 until it became part of MSCI in June 2010.
A summa cum laude graduate of Smith College, Ms. Paine holds a doctorate in moral philosophy from Oxford University and a law degree from the Harvard Law School. She practiced law with the Boston firm of Hill & Barlow early in her career. Prior to joining the Harvard faculty, Ms. Paine taught at Georgetown University Business School and the University of Virginia''s Darden School of Business as well as National Cheng Chi University in Taiwan, where she was a Luce Scholar. She is a permanent member of the Henry Luce Foundation''s Luce Scholar Selection Panel. She and her husband, Tom Paine, have three adult children and live in Wellesley, Massachusetts.
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AUSTIN, GENE (1900–1972). Gene Austin, singer and composer, was born Eugene Lucas on June 24, 1900, in Gainesville, Texas. He was the son of Nova Lucas and Serena Belle (Harrell) Lucas. His parents divorced, and his mother married Jim Austin, a blacksmith. Eugene took the surname of his stepfather. He grew up in small towns in Louisiana, joined the United States Army when he was fifteen, participated in the expedition sent to capture Francisco (Pancho) Villa in 1916, and served in France during World War I. He studied both dentistry and law in Baltimore, but decided on a singing career. Though he composed more than 100 songs, Austin never learned to read music. He was one of the original crooners, and his tenor voice was well-known in the early days of radio and on the hand-cranked phonographs of the 1920s and 1930s. His RCA Victor recordings sold a total of more than 86 million copies; one of the recordings, "My Blue Heaven" (recorded in1927), sold over 12 million records.
Austin started his recording career in 1923, and the next year Jimmy McHugh produced his first hit song, "When My Sugar Walks Down the Street," with lyrics by Austin and Irving Mills. Other hit songs Austin introduced were "My Melancholy Baby," "Girl of My Dreams," "Ramona," "Carolina Moon," and "Sleepy Time Gal." His compositions included "How Come You Do Me Like You Do?" and "Lonesome Road." In the 1930s Austin debuted in the movies, which included Sadie McKee (1934) and Gift of Gab (1934) . Over the years he was also featured on numerous radio programs. In 1939 he began working with Billy Wehle in a musical-comedy tent show that spent the winter in Gainesville and opened in 1940 during the Circus Roundup of the Gainesville Community Circus.
Austin was a nightclub entertainer in the 1930s, but then his career waned. After his life was dramatized in a television special in the late 1950s, he resumed nightclub appearances. He continued to write songs until the last ten months of his life, when he developed lung cancer. Austin spent most of his adult life in Las Vegas, Nevada, and in 1962 he ran for governor there, but lost badly to the incumbent, Grant Sawyer. He was married five times. He married Kathryn Arnold in 1924, and they had one daughter. After a divorce in 1929, Austin married Agnes Antelline in 1933. They had one daughter but divorced in 1940. Austin's third wife was Doris Sherrell (married in 1940 and divorced in 1946). He was then married to LouCeil Hudson from 1949 to 1966; they divorced. He married his fifth wife, Gigi Theodorea, in 1967. Austin died on January 24, 1972, in Palm Springs, California, and was survived by his wife Gigi and his two daughters. He was buried in Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California.
Austin received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. His 1927 recording of "My Blue Heaven" received a Grammy Hall of Fame Award in 1978. He was honored with a Grammy Hall of Fame Award in 2005 for his 1926 rendition of "Bye Bye Blackbird," the first recording of that song.
Austin American-Statesman, January 25, 1972. Dallas Morning News, August 6, 1956. New York Times, January 24, 1972. Newsweek, May 6, 1957. Saturday Evening Post, August 31, 1957.
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So SuperCheap is a trustworthy chain of stores selling automotive products and it honors prevailing return of faulty goods laws. Think again. They do not refund money on faulty products.
A customer purchased an electrical item in a completely sealed box. When he got home he opened the box and assembled the item. He was shocked to discover that he had to go back and buy an accessory made by the item's maker in order for the machine to run. This is an offense in itself. To make things worse the product didn't work with the new add-on.
In the legal case of Fisher and Paykel versus the Australian High Court in regard to breaches of warranty obligations, the judge found against Fisher and Paykel. The judge said that items must be complete and work straight out of the box with no further purchases necessary. Furthermore, any electrical product that plugs into a household electricity supply must work for at least FOUR years. If it doesn't the customer has to be given a refund - not an exchange, a refund.
When you buy an electrical appliance from any store it is not necessary to fork out money for extra warranties supposedly covering the next four years because it is already covered by law.
Now let us get back to the real issue: SuperCheap not abiding by faulty product laws. The customer took the faulty good back to the SuperCheap store where he bought it. He informed the shop assistant, namely, "Dee" that the item was faulty and SuperCheap should not sell products that are incomplete. Dee obviously did not like the truth, so she said she had the authority to refuse a refund and in this case the faulty item was pushed back and the customer was told to go on his way. She did not even look at the receipt. This consumer now has a new machine that does not work and the money spent on the extra accessory was wasted.
Clearly, something has to be done about this. The consumer is pursuing the case through the Office of Fair Trading and the ACCC. Justice has to be done here. It may only be a minor item but it is important that stores strictly abide by existing trading laws. People put in positions of authority to oversee returned items must be taught what the laws are, They do not have the legal right to override the law as Dee did in this case.
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Blathering Senator refuses to believe details of expert study
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Sept 19, 2013
Senile Senator John McCain, who has for months been demanding that Syrian rebels be armed by the US, says a study claiming up to 40 percent of the rebels are extremists is "not true" because he has personally met them.
Don't attempt to look for any logic in McCain's blathering, because there isn't any.
The study, released in the week by by defense consultancy IHS Jane's found that "the insurgency is now dominated by groups with at least an Islamist viewpoint of the conflict."
"The idea that it is mostly secular groups leading the opposition is just not borne out." said Charles Lister, author of the study.
Speaking to an audience at The Council On Foreign Relations, McCain stated "Not true, not true!"
"There's about 70 percent still who are Free Syrian Army," McCain said, despite the fact that the Jane's study found that only around 30 percent of rebels are fighting for secular values,
While the London Telegraph suggested that the study claimed almost half of the rebel forces are jihadist or hardline Islamists, Lister himself tweeted:
@RepStones They've taken my terminology too far. The report is an expansion of my FP piece = 33-39% being jihadist or conservative Islamist.
— Charles Lister (@Charles_Lister) September 15, 2013
Still, that is up to 40 percent jihadists or hardline Islamists, and bears no resemblance the the figure McCain has plucked seemingly out of thin air.
The Senator then attempted to make the point that Syria is a moderate nation with high literacy rates, so "they are not going to submit to a jihadis or al Qaeda group governing them."
McCain seems not to have factored in that literacy rates do little to combat a group of ruthless al Qaeda affiliated terrorists on a killing rampage with arms funneled to them by the CIA.
McCain then made an even more bizarre point, claiming that he knew the study was inaccurate because "I know who they [the rebels] are. I was in Syria and I met them."
"That's a really a convenient cop-out to say, 'Oh, we don't know who they are,'" he added, clearly irate at the line of questioning.
The latest figures estimate that there are approximately 100,000 rebels fighting to topple Syrian President Bashar al Assad in Syria. Is McCain suggesting that he's met every single one?
Lister's study places the number of "genuine moderates", that is rebels completely loyal to the Supreme Military Council, at between 20,000 and 32,000. This means that there is an army of non moderate rebels somewhere in the region of 70,000 strong, ranging from Islamic hardliners to full on liver-eating cannibals.
Business Insider produced this graphic documenting the study's findings (click to enlarge):
So who are you going to believe? Is it a senile blathering Senator who claims to "know" all the Syrian rebels after visiting the country once, or a group of respected Terrorism and Insurgency experts who have spent months studying the complexity of the situation?
The Washington Examiner reported this week that President Barack Obama has waived a portion of federal law prohibiting military assistance to terrorist groups, opening a path to transfer sophisticated weaponry to radical elements of the Syrian opposition.
What's more, Lister notes that "groups on the more extreme end of the spectrum, particularly those affiliated with al-Qaeda, have proven remarkably adept at spreading their military resources across large swathes of territory, joining battles at the pivotal moment, and exploiting their superior organizational structures to establish political control and influence over territory."
Steve Watson is the London based writer and editor for Alex Jones' Infowars.com, and Prisonplanet.com. He has a Masters Degree in International Relations from the School of Politics at The University of Nottingham, and a Bachelor Of Arts Degree in Literature and Creative Writing from Nottingham Trent University.
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A few unlucky hikers were caught in one hell of a big surprise as the volcanon on which they were traveled erupted suddenly, Sept. 14.
Thankfully, no injuries were reported from enormous burst of black smoke and ash that rose up to 1.2 miles in the air.
According to The Guardian:
The 1,592-metre (5,222ft) high Mount Aso is one of the most active peaks in Japan but also a popular hiking spot. There were a handful of people at a parking lot near the peak but they were being evacuated safely, officials said on Monday. They said the eruption had come without warning.
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There's new stuff out called Maps Analyst Projects and we've got some new information to share about the projects for maps analysts at Lionbridge (Codenamed: Shasta project at Appen. It should be mentioned that the recruitment process for this project normally lasts a very limited period of time (at Lionbridge), and usually 1-2 months during different months depending on the country. However, the Shasta project could be available at any time.
The project involves evaluating online mapping, and routing related tasks in order to improve content and accuracy of map service: Apple maps.
Raters are required to conduct research, and use online tools to investigate the geographic accuracy of tasks. Work is provided to you as a list of tasks through an online work platform, which is somewhat like raterhub. Most of tasks will be in the language related to the position that you applied for. For example, if you applied for the French role, then you will be rating in French etc. You will also be required to provide comments/feedback in English.
Map Analyst & Shasta Project Payment and working hours
This project is paid on a per task basis. You need to keep track of the amount of tasks, as well as the type of tasks completed on a day-to-day basis. This information is used to generate your invoice on the billing dates. The payment rate per tasks depends on your market, including the complexity of each task, and payment may vary from, $0.22 to $1.00 per task. Since you are working in a freelance independent capacity, you can manage your working time as you like and work whatever times you want. But this is a part-time job, and the number of hours you can accrue is set at a maximum of 20 per week. You must not exceed the maximum of 20 hours per week unless authorized. Lionbridge expects new Map Quality Analysts to be active and to participate each week.
Project compatibility
This project is fully compatible with any other projects at other vendors. You are not allowed to work on another project at Lionbridge, although you are allowed to qualify on another projects if your vendor is Appen.
Maps Analyst/Shasta project qualification
In my opinion the qualification process for this particular project is quite difficult if you compare it with other projects. First, you need to study and understand 200 pages of guidelines and instructions within a limited period of time, and then complete a 2 stage exam, which consists of theoretical and practical parts, within 10 days. As with any project, you should read the Guidelines as many times as you can before you start working. There is a lot of information in the guidelines so you may want to read them multiple times. You should also use them while working, and refer to them to ensure you are applying the correct rating. There is no chance to pass this exam without getting a profound understanding of the rating rules and concepts.
Exam Preparation Approach (Maps Analyst and Shasta project exam)
Lionbridge has very good exam support so candidates should use this to their advantage as much as possible. It is highly recommended to use the below approach in order to increase your chances of successfully passing the exam:
- Read the Guidelines thoroughly and understand them
- Read/watch the content on the Pre-Exam Support Portal
- Complete the Sample Exam Questions
Completing sample exam tasks will help you understand what kind of exam tasks to expect. A typical maps analyst task is a query; address, chain/organization, point of interest, and a list of results generated by the map service based on user location, user view port, and type of query you will need to provide:
- Relevance rating (taking into account distance/user intent issue)
- Keep in mind that distance ratings are variable ratings which depend on query type (type of business), user location, area, etc. So each case should be evaluated individually in terms of proximity and distance, that is why there are no specific criteria for distance
- Name accuracy (you always need to check name accuracy on official website of organization)
- Address accuracy (check all components of address on official website/UPS ZIP code look up website)
- Pin accuracy (apply rules as per guidelines)
- The pin location, name and address accuracy do not affect the relevance rating. If the result meets the requirements for a navigational rating then you should go for it. Relevance and the pin location, name and address accuracy are independent ratings
Finally, you will provide comments if your relevance rating is below good. This just a general overview of typical task/algorithm however it gives a good understanding what kind of tasks to expect in this project.
It is very important that you thoroughly research the query, and the result in every task you are rating. In order to establish the correct rating, you need to understand the query, and you also need to verify that the information returned in a result is correct and accurate including the name, address, location, existence, popularity etc. In order to determine if the information is true, use official sources wherever possible. Include links in your comments whenever you find out that the task returned incorrect data. To determine popularity, you will need to check reviews on reputable sites to decide on the most accurate rating to apply. You do not need to include a comment for every rating, but comments are mandatory for any rating below Good for relevance or below Correct/Perfect for data accuracy.
- Reference Guidelines – If you are demoting because of a guideline intricacy, it is useful to reference the guideline/rule that influenced your decision.
- Be Concise – Don't waste time writing elaborate comments, be specific and efficient with your comments.
- Comment in English Only- Your comments will sometimes be reviewed or used by those who are not very familiar with your locale or its language.
As mentioned before you will be given 7 days to complete the exam. The theoretical part will consist of 20 questions which are entirely based on the guidelines. I think this part won't create any problem because answers to most of questions can be found in the guidelines, average estimated time for completing this part of the exam is 1 – 2 hours.
Part 2 is the most difficult part of the qualification, some of the tasks are really difficult, and will require a high level of attention, the ability to apply rating concepts, and analytical thinking. In total you will be asked to rate 20 tasks, but in fact there more tasks because some of them are complex tasks which have a list of results that have to be rated. You will be given almost all types of results to rate (chain, address, transit, POI etc.) So be careful to research and examine each case step-by-step. Keep in mind that only one attempt to pass this exam is allowed. If you need any tips or further information, do not hesitate to contact me.
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When you start working, the process will be more smooth because you have already gained a conceptual understanding of the work during testing, plus most of tasks will be in your local language. It is recommended that 2 minutes be taken to rate each task in order to complete your research accurately. Please note this is an average. Some tasks may require more time, while others may require less time. Tasks can be made available any day of the week, at any time of the day. There is no specific time when tasks are launched. If you don't see tasks, then you will need to check more frequently to see if new tasks have been added to your queue.
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Caledonia Mining Corporation plc (TSX: CAL, OTCQX: CALVF, AIM: CMCL) Exercise of Share Options
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30 March, 2016: Caledonia Mining Corporation ("Caledonia" or the "Company" - https://www.commodity-tv.net/c/mid,34988,Mines_und_Money_London_2015/?v=295214) announces that it received notice yesterday that Steve Curtis (Chief Executive Officer) exercised options over 65,000 common shares of no par value each ("Option Shares") in the Company at an exercise price of 90 Canadian cents per share.
Caledonia has applied for these 65,000 Option Shares to be admitted to trading on AIM and it is anticipated that trading in such shares will commence on 5 April 2016 ("Admission").
Following Admission, Mr. Curtis will hold 365,000 Caledonia common shares, representing approximately 0.70 per cent of the total number of common shares in issue.
The total number of shares in issue following Admission will be 52,143,946.
Caledonia has no shares in Treasury, therefore this figure may be used by Shareholders, from Admission, as the denominator for the calculations by which they will determine if they are required to notify their interest in, or a change in their interest in, the share capital of the Company under the FCA's Disclosure and Transparency Rules.
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"[Yes! The Devil!] You're looking at me as though I'm weird. My god! Are you so out of touch with most of America, most of which believes in the devil? I mean, Jesus Christ believed in the devil! It's in the Gospels! You travel in circles that are so, so removed from mainstream America that you are appalled that anybody would believe in the devil! Most of mankind has believed in the devil, for all of history. Many more intelligent people than you or me have believed in the devil." – Antonin Scalia, (a Justice of the US Supreme Court… FROM THE BENCH.)
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"Mere factual innocence is no reason not to carry out a death sentence properly reached." – Scalia (Hey, we paid for the court time… kill him.)
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I started being "Corp" in 2004 on mySpace. We were the first really active daily politics bloggers and post-monkeys on MySpace when it first started. It was a trip! Thousands of like minded people all finding one another and posting about everything from climate change to 9/11 theories. Those were the days. We all met each other then too. We organized and marched against Bush policies. People also hooked up like crazy. There are a lot of mySpace babies going into 4th and 5th grade this year.
I went onto other sites like Tumblr, WordPress and YouTube to try my activism there. Ultimately I got swept into Facebook where I had a private profile with over 2000 daily readers. Then they had their pre-IPO massacre and my profile was nuked.
Today I have 733 "Likes" on a "fan page" or whatever this is... which "reaches" 1,700 people a day and I try my best to post stuff that shows the progress we make and the stupidity on the other side. But it's not the same as the old days. We all know that. FB controls and limits us in comparison to "MySpace Tom" - and while the various "politics groups" are fun, they are nowhere near as intense as the old blogs were.
In many ways, socially the western world is better than it ever was before. We are less brutal, more scientific... and better at meeting basic needs. In other ways things are worse than the Gilded age. Those who don't have, suffer horribly. Their children cannot break out of poverty... and if they are not pink-skinned, their lives are worth less and they often die horribly. Humans of all hues are not doing what is required to stop the super-heating of our globe. Things are going to be terrible for a lot of humans in the future. I feel terrible for letting my great-grandchildren/nieces/nephews/cousins down.
Things are going to get worse-- and one day they will get bad enough to where we organize and chop the heads off of the "ruling class" (oligarchs.) I wish we could just be civilized about it... but... money. Corporations_ate_our_Civil_Options.
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Why Faith Is No Longer Good Policy.
All gods ever claimed to exist were claimed to exist by humans.
Of the thousand or more god-concepts that are claimed today, right this very second, most contradict or nullify the others. All the claims we have ever seen admit that their god is not detectable from the human perspective. Each god requires you believe on faith, meaning without material evidence. Normally humans don't do that. Normally we check our bank balance to know how much we have. We don't bank on faith. Presumably,banking is not nearly as important as how you relate to the entire universe... so you would really want some solid evidence before picking one of the 1000 current (or the thousands of previous) gods to believe in without evidence.
What to do?
Your best bet is to reject claims of Allah, Shiva, Jehovah and L.Ron's Ghost until such time as there is a shred of evidence for one of them. You can't, as the church lady will admonish you to, rely on faith. Which one do you have faith in? The one that's popular geographically? That's for Kardashians, not for omnipotent creators of space and time. Nope.
You just have to take the default position. That makes sense, right? If one of these claims is true, or there is a god who has not yet been defined, you would think and hope that they would appreciate your intelligence and patience in the matter of that discovery. If that space monster blames you, he/she/it is an asswipe.
In the meantime, ain't nature grand?!
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Separation of Church and State, not a "Judeo-Christian value?"
Some genius on a friend's thread about the pledge of allegiance , went on a rant about how America was "founded on Judeo-Christian principles, that the "Separation of Church and State has been turned on it's head…" and of course that our founders wanted America to be Christian.
After asking for a definition of "Judeo-Christian Values" I added this comment to the thread:
"When my grandmother was worshiping and praying to her savior, Jesus Christ, if you called her a "Christian" she would slap you in the face. The thing that has been turned on it's head in the past few decades is the sweeping under the rug of the PROFOUND differences between sects of protestantism, not to mention the irreconcilable schisms between protestant and catholic or catholic and Greek orthodox worship of the New Testament. — "We're all Christians" is a statement of absolute ignorance of the stark differences in belief of the worlds great religions and the separate versions of the one that uses the new testament. One of the reasons the SEPARATION of CHURCH and state was implemented has never "turned"… it is to keep your sect safe from the others.
Every sect … or nearly every one… makes it clear that all the others are wrong. If there is an afterlife (no evidence of that exists) and you have to be a protestant to have a good one, you still have only 1 in 23 THOUSAND chances of picking the right one. If you factor in all of the religions that have more than a million adherents who also believe in an afterlife that is dependent on believing the "right" thing, you have a 1 in 200,000 chance of picking the right one.
The separation of Church and State lets you live your life in the "wrong one" without letting any other sect persecute you. By not allowing the government to choose Catholic, you are safe as a protestant… by not allowing the Government to test candidates to make sure that they are Episcopalian, you as a Baptist may be elected.
I cannot think of a better value than, "let me believe what I want… and let there be no test of those beliefs If I seek public service." Jews and "Christians" do not value that. They traditionally value adherence to one value whilst slaughtering tribes that believe differently. It is one of the 10 commandments not to allow those who choose the wrong belief to live with your tolerance. That is a shitty value.
Our deist founders held NO such values." Our deist founders, many of them, preferred what today would be called, atheism, or the rejection of supernatural claims, as anything other than hypothetical.
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In 2015 you have ONE job.
Fox News apparently doesn't believe that Obama is a war-time president. Though down-shifted, the Oil Wars are still raging. Fox and GOP-fundraisers are already talking about expanding American international warfare. Those are our choices now, low-burn war or super-war. How did we get stuck here? Reaganomics and WEALTH INEQUALITY. If you want this to change you have to get back in touch with your inner Democratic-Socialist — and your inner Street Protester and … your inner CLASS ACTION LAW SUIT signer. –
Want clean oceans? Want clean energy? Want to end war? Want to bring jobs home? Want to protect animals from cruelty? Want to protect children from poisons? Want to protect women from being enslaved by theocracy? Want to jail bad bankers? Want to take weapons away from city and county policing? Want to see more opportunities for regular Americans? Want to be able to buy a home? Want to be out of debt? Want universal single payer healthcare?
One thing is overarching all of our actions. One thing must happen first. We must get money out of politics and scare the hell out of the ultra-rich by SHEER NUMBERS of ANGRY AMERICANS on strike in the STREET. Our fury, our votes, our lawsuits… but mostly our numbers with a SINGLE DEMAND. Think about it for 2015
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Hi all.I have installed latst patch 1.30002 but I still have BUG on mission under LAB x7.Ok after I disable generator dooms day device, i speak with general Voronin,and he send me to speak with guide Stalker.After i speak with guide NOTHING HAPPENED.WHy?No more active task.Please help me.What can i do to jump this bug??? I can t believe this game finish at the guide:((
No more mission?O my god I play so long time to have this stupid bug??
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Kathleen Sebelius recently stepped down from the Department of Health and Human Services, and she is considering her next job: Senator for Kansas.
The New York Times reports that some Democrats are asking the former HHS secretary to run against her old friend Pat Roberts for his Kansas Senate seat.
Last fall Senator Roberts asked Sebelius to take responsibility for Obamacare's botched launch, and he asked her to step down because of "gross incompetence."


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Online Acting for Film and Television certification program
Do you want to earn money by doing something you are insanely passionate about?
Is it something you've always thought about but for one reason or another, you didn't take action?
Do you wonder what your life would be like now if only you had taken a chance and gone to drama school?
Of course, you can talk yourself out of it easily enough. You don't have the time, you can't afford it, you're too old to start now and you have kids to think about.
But you and I both know that deep down, you know you were born to be an actor. The only thing holding you back is YOU and your fears and uncertainties.
But you already know that. Now, you're ready to step up and do the work. To take responsibility for your future and commit to making this happen.
You don't want to waste any more time thinking about it. It's time to take action. You've got the drive, the determination and a kick ass attitude.
Our qualified and experienced coaches can give you all the training, guidance and support you need to launch yourself into the industry like a silver bullet!
You will learn
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Improvisation – Learn to work in the moment, improve listening skills, think on your feet, develop listening skills, improve auditions and get out of sticky situations in scenes with confidence. The benefits of improvisation are endless!
Various Acting Techniques – You are unique. You need to find what works for you… Here, you will experiment and try new techniques until you find what works for you for you to deliver your best work every time.
Acting for Different Genres – Acting technique needs to adjust depending on the genre of the piece. You will be coached through the subtle differences in technique for comedy, drama, horror, sci fi, soaps and more!
The Successful Actor's Mindset – We strongly believe that having the correct mindset is of utmost importance to sustain a career as an actor. Do you limit yourself with a fixed mindset or are you ready to develop a growth mindset which will help you face each challenge with confidence?
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Through audios, videos, live calls and worksheets and you will submit your work via self tape with some written work.
After successful completion of the 1 year program, you will be eligible to take your assessment and receive certification in Acting for Film and Television by Northern Star Acting.
There's More!
You also get access to other programs including:
The Acting Biz – a 28 day intensive that takes you step by step through the business side of acting
Building a character – a 14 step process digging deep into character building
Mindset – an ongoing program designed to help you with developing the mindset you need to succeed
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This is for you if…
You want to do something that will make a huge difference to your life.
You are a badass new actor with drive and determination, but you're at a stage in your life where full time drama school just isn't an option.
You get bored easily and crave a new challenge.
You want an in depth course that has been devised by a team of qualified and experienced acting coaches.
You may have made mistakes, have had hard times and knock backs but you have picked yourself back up and carried on.
You are a creative who oozes passion and positivity, and believes that you are meant to be more than just ordinary.
You're not afraid to dream big and of working hard to get it.
You are ready to take action and take responsibility for your own life.
You have integrity and want to be part of a tribe of actors. You want to be part of a team, who help to build each other up and understand that you don't have to c**p on everyone else to get to the top.
You are a little bit crazy and wonderfully unique. You don't want to fit in a box.
You hate housework. And chit chat. You don't want to know what the weather's like, you want to know people's hopes, dreams, fears, failures and life changing experiences.
You don't sit around making excuses, because you realise that to be more than ordinary, you need to do things the ordinary don't do.
You weren't born to be ordinary, you were born to shine!
Now it's time to TAKE ACTION
Membership to the Pro Tribe is £60 a month. It's time to step up and take action. It's time for you to launch yourself into the acting world like a silver bullet, and we will be with you every step of the way. You've thought about making this happen for long enough. You've dreamt about earning a living from your true passion.


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Runway recap – OH! BY KOPENHAGEN FUR
Fashion week is over and it's time to evaluate. We had a tiny chit chat with Head of Oh! By Kopenhagen Fur, Rebecca M. Holst, about the turnout of the brand's Urbanity runway show.
What was the mission behind your show?
The show was titled Urbanity and reflected a collection with attitude – an embracing, forthcoming and open attitude. For both the show and the AW18 collection we were inspired by the art form of Urbex – which is all about exploring and making the unknown transparent. Our mission was to show this transparency in everything from the styles to the location of the show, the visual effects and the music.
Looking back – did your show live up to your expectations?
Yes very much indeed. I'm very proud of my team and I believe we truly showed our position as a brand.
Anything specific from your show you would like to highlight?
I'm still in love with the location – the rough, urban vibe and the casual styling was a perfect contrast to our luxurious fur. Besides this I think Vincent Beier opening the show was a big highlight. Soo much attitude and diversity!
What is the next step for Kopenhagen Fur?
We're preparing a more international approach and strategy for the coming season and of course we can't wait to show our SS19 collection. A collection which has a more edgy and sporty attitude, then Oh!'s previous collections, even though that we also had some sporty vibes in our AW18 show.
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Washing Your Hair and Keeping it Straight!
A beautifully straight hair spells elegance and poise at the same time. It is very easy to style, especially when slicking it back into a very sexy ponytail of wearing it in a glamorous Cleopatra Bob. Think Katy Perry, Kelly Rowland and Jessica Alba. These are women who wear their tresses straight and own it!
What may concern us about straight hair is how to keep it from frizzing and maintaining the sleek and chic look that was acquired after a lot of pressing, blow drying, and anything else that we use to train our mane. Mother Nature is not always our best friend when she challenges us with weather conditions that are not so favorable to straight hair.
Here are a few suggestions to help keep your lovely locks neat and manageable no matter the conditions.
Wash It
First, be sure that you know what types of shampoos are best suited for your hair. It can easily be determined by speaking with your stylist or reading the labels. Some products will tell you whether it is meant for oily or dry hair. Choose the one that best suits your needs.
Massage your scalp and lift the dirt that has collected. Thoroughly wash your hair from roots to ends and rinse completely. You don't want residue to develop into dandruff and dry your hair out. Yuck!
Conditioning your hair
After shampooing, use a natural conditioner. Just like shampoos, there also different kinds of conditioners made for a particular hair type. Apply a generous amount from the roots to the tips of your hair and leave it in for a few minutes before finally rinsing it.
Drying your hair
After rinsing the conditioner, dry your hair. If you're anything like me, you love to dry with a blow dryer, but you must not overdo it. The very best way to dry straight hair is to let it air dry. Trust me, you'll love the results.
Style and Profile
When the hair is dried, get ready to style by first using a fine toothed comb to flatten the hair. You can use hair polish and serums to control it easily. The secret to keeping the hair really straight is to just let it hang. If using a flat iron, be sure to use medium heat to avoid ruining your ends.
This is a simple and easy guide that will have you looking like a million bucks!


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3:37: Cindy Zeldin, executive director of Georgians for a Healthy Future talks about why the Justice Department wants to block two of the nation's largest health insurers from merging and what…
Consumer Protections & Insurance Reforms
Consumer Protections & Insurance Reforms
Our health insurance system is rapidly changing. New coverage options and consumer protections enacted as part of the Affordable Care Act have helped hundreds of thousands of Georgians secure health insurance and have expanded the rights and protections of all covered Georgians. At the same time, new models of health insurance (such as narrow networks), industry consolidation, and other changes within the health insurance system create new challenges and hurdles for consumers. As policymakers respond to these changes, it is imperative that the voices of health care consumers are at the table and that their needs are considered. Georgians for a Healthy Future monitors state and federal legislation and regulations on health insurance and weighs in on behalf of consumers.


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Former Australia great Paul Wade has backed Lucas Neill as an ideal Qantas Socceroos skipper, despite the defender currently being without a club.
Former Australia great Paul Wade has backed Lucas Neill as an ideal Qantas Socceroos skipper, despite the defender currently being without a club.
With Neill set to receive his 50th cap as national team skipper (total games) in the friendly against Scotland on Wednesday, some media commentators have asked whether he should have retained the armband for this fixture, given, like Harry Kewell, he is not currently signed to a club.
But Wade said Neill-s role and standing within the team meant he should be the first name on Osieck-s list every time, and that the national team boss had his consistent team strategy correct.
"I-ve always thought the Socceroos are not a selection team," Wade said. "If you want to start messing around with that stuff you might pick the U23s - that-s the time to blood people for the sake of it.
"I don-t care how old they are and right now Lucas Neill, if he-s fit enough, he-s certainly got more experience in the tactical side, let him remain the captain.
"Mlian Ivanovic was 35-36, Alex Tobin 37 - if you focused on their age they would never play. But they were the best and they had the ability to be the best all the time, that-s why they were made captains.
"They have to be there all the time, they have to be consistent. If the Socceroos are playing the captain should be the first to be there and Lucas is.
Wade went on to say that Neill possessed all the right characteristics of a great national team skipper.
"One thing I-ve loved about Lucas was his first interview, I thought, 'How eloquent is he?- He was that relaxed and well spoken, you would have thought you were just sitting down chatting over lunch.
"Being a captain is all about your enthusiasm and being able to do what you do and get other people to do it, without actually telling them. Lucas is that type of bloke, he does it to the best of his ability and everyone else is inspired by that."
Wade captained the national team 46 times in A internationals, behind only Peter Wilson (60) and Neill himself (49), and said that although the role of Socceroos skipper had changed slightly over the years, Neill followed in a line of Socceroos whose job it was to bring an often disparate squad together when it mattered.
"The only reason I became captain was because a) it was a name you could pronounce and b) nobody else was left because they all went overseas," he joked.
"As far as being able to bring a team together it was probably easier when I was captain than they way they do now - they pop in have five days to play and then get out.
"That-s a tough gig, when you bring players from all different types of football and who don-t see each other very often; there-s always a good connection but it needs someone to keep it fun and enjoyable, and having the enthusiasm to drive it.
"Charlie Yankos, for example, was captaining his country when we were all part-time footballers, working 9-5 Monday to Friday, and got the weekend off to play Brazil.
"Whilst there wasn-t the media pressure and the public focus, there was still a problem of trying to make it as professional as possible while these fellas were making $300 a win, $200 a draw and $100 a loss.
"I wouldn-t put Lucas any higher than anybody else but as far as the presence on the ground when he-s playing you knew areas of the ground were being organised because he-s got a big mouth, he-s got authority, and he-s been doing it for so long people on the park react to that."
The Qantas Socceroos take on Scotland in an international friendly at Edinburgh-s Easter Road Stadium on Wednesday, 15 August. Kick off is at 8pm local time (Kick off is at 5am AEST, Thursday, 16 August).
Australia-s FIFA World Cup qualification journey resumes on Tuesday, 11 September, when the Qantas Socceroos meet the challenge of Jordan in Amman. Kick off is at 7pm local time (2am AEST, Wednesday, 12 September).
The Qantas Socceroos are next in Australia in 2013, starting with a FIFA World Cup qualifier against Oman at Sydney-s Stadium Australia on Tuesday, 26 March. Kick off is at 7.30pm local time.
The Qantas Socceroos return to Stadium Australia on Tuesday, 18 June to continue their FIFA World Cup qualification journey against Iraq. Kick off is at 7.30pm local time.


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9:00~17:00(Admission is until 16:30)
Closed Days
Mondays (first following weekday if Monday is a public holiday) and Year Ends and New Year Holidays (12/29-1/2)
◇◇August is always open◇◇
Admission Fee
Collection Exhibition
410 yen for Adults (Group Admission Fee: 310 yen), 200 yen for University and High School Student (Group Admission Fee: 100 yen)
- Group admission charge is applied for more than 20 people. The Matsumoto City residents of more than 70 years old are free.
- City residents of more than 70 years old are free.
- No charge below junior high school students (Plan exhibitions might be chargeable).
- A disabled person with a disability book and 1 his/her helper are free.
- In addition to these, other discounts are available.
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Halloween is coming up and it's the time of the year when we're desperately looking for costume ideas.
Well, we might just have you covered.
Because who else is better to turn to when in need of inspiration for your Halloween makeup than your favorite beauty guru?
Oh hi, Michelle Phan.
This year, just in time for Halloween, YouTuber Michelle teamed up with her squad of fellow beauty bloggers — JKissa, IAmKarenO, Chrisspy and Desi Perkins — to create five different characters from the anime series Sailor Moon.
We're talking gorgeous, cartoonish-looking creatures with giant anime eyes.
Michelle recreated the look of Kōan, the youngest of the four Ayakashi Sisters from the Black Moon Clan.
Need we say it's absolutely stunning?
The manga character of Kōan is known for being obsessed with makeup and shopping.
"I know, that's so me, right?" Michelle jokes.
The look is also pretty spot-on if you're planning to dress up as a witch, vampire or a dark fairy for Halloween, she explains in the video. Watch her entire tutorial below:
Make sure to check out the stunning manga makeovers by the rest of Michelle's squad.
Our Halloween makeup game will be strong this year. Surely.


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Dry and very crunchy, the McDonald's Sweet BBQ Bacon with Buttermilk Crispy Chicken sandwich was a bit of a let-down. And being smaller than expected, the only thing big about this fast food menu item is its name.
Being one of McDonald's "Signature Crafted Recipe" sandwiches, I was looking forward to something a bit more exciting, akin to what I liked in the Maple Bacon Dijon with Artisan Grilled Chicken sandwich that was recently reviewed. While that sandwich wasn't the greatest fast food chicken sandwich in the world, this one was downright disappointing.
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LINCOLN, Maine — All the pre-meet scoring of how the Penobscot Valley Conference wrestling championships might turn out left Dexter coach Adam Gudroe feeling little but uncertainty.
So his team went out and put the mystery to rest.
The Tigers relied on the quality of their depth — including four individual champions — to earn their first PVC title since 2001 on Saturday by topping a 19-school field competing at Mattanawcook Academy.
Dexter, which had placed second at the PVCs each of the last three seasons, scored 177 points to top defending champion Bucksport, which finished second.
Bucksport scored 145.5 points to edge third-place Ellsworth (140.5), while Penobscot Valley of Howland (119) and Fort Kent (110.5) rounded out the top five, followed by Foxcroft Academy (97) and Caribou (94.5).
"I scored this match 27 times, I'm telling you, trying to think of all the possible outcomes, and every single one came out close," said Gudroe. "Nothing came out where we were going to be the winner definitively.
"But the kids stepped up."
Dexter advanced six wrestlers to the championship finals, led by senior Doug Richardson who scored three pins to win his third conference title at 189 pounds.
He was the only wrestler at the meet to successfully defend a 2009 individual championship, pinning Matt Johnston of Mattanawcook Academy in 47 seconds to win the final.
"My first match kind of went not the way I planned," said Richardson. "I wanted to get done as fast as I could to get ready for the other matches, but I ended up wrestling my best in the finals match anyway."
Seniors Lee Gustin (160 pounds) and Zach Poirier (285) also won their weight classes for Dexter, and the Tigers got a big boost early in the finals when sophomore Vincent Malinauskas won at 112.
Dexter got runnerup finishes from Tyler Salisbury (103) and Andrew Levensalor (125), while Andy Adams — who began the season as a junior varsity performer — finished third at 119.
"We all performed extraordinary today," said Richardson. "We came out and did exactly what coach wanted us to do. We wrestled hard, and left everything on the mat."
Bucksport, which graduated nine starters from last year's team, got individual victories from Jacob Stewart (140), Jordan Fogg (145) and River Robertson (171). Dale Sweet (135) and Chris Powell (189) each finished third, while Alex Brown (103) and Damon Klinedinst (215) placed fourth.
"Outside of one senior and one junior we have a bunch of sophomores who are starting to come into their own," said Bucksport coach Larry Clement. "We were hoping for a top-five finish, and for us to come out second is a huge accomplishment for such a young team."
Ellsworth was led by second-place finishes from Dakota Jewett (145), Dakota Hellum (152) and Michael Phillipon (171).
Old Town, which finished eighth in the team standings with 79.5 points, was the only other school to crown more than one individual champion. Kiowa Vickrey won the 130-pound title, while Lee Larry rallied to pin Zac Ragot of Washington Academy of East Machias with 2.8 seconds left in the 215-pound championship match.
"It was hard, I put everything I had in that match," said Larry, who earlier in the week had earned his 100th career victory. I treat every match like it's my last.
"I knew I had just enough time to get him to the ground and get my points."
Among other champions, 119-pound Bryan Malo of Piscataquis of Guilford earned the Pirates their first individual conference title since the school reinstated the sport in the 2007-08 season after a long absence.
Other titlists were Mark Smith of Foxcroft (103), Brendan Wood of Caribou (125), Josia Moore of George Stevens Academy of Blue Hill (135), and Fred Lear of John Bapst of Bangor (152).


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Good day gentleman, relax and make peace with the day.
I took it that Larry was pointing out that most engine builders find lengths that start and leave it at that. He's right to remind us that cold starting and hot running deserve more attention than has been discussed here.
He knows the length needs to be altered but like me doesn't have a suitable model yet to test and confirm which way to go.
My tests have shown an increase in frequecy with tube temp increases and fuel increases and the optimal hot running lengths should therfore be calculated if efficiency is a goal.
An adjustable length intake for me is not an option, I dont do moving parts.
Oh and guys, I think we should call this thread complete.
In fact, none of this is.
Even the Cheapest Jet Should Breathe Like a Reynst!
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