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Dr Flibble
October 2017
The Human Centipede Trilogy - Yeah, well, I guess if that's what you're into. The first movie wasn't completely awful, but the sequels were total garbage. I had heard how gross these movies are so was a little underwhelmed when I finally saw what all the fuss was about.
I haven't seen Blade Runner 2049 yet and will probably wait to see it for free like everything else. The first movie was boring as fuck but the Blade Runner world was cool.
October 2017
Man, if you thought Blade Runner was boring, you are going to hate 2049. Good movie, but slow slow movie. Also, watching it pirated, with like four pixels, is really going to deny you any appreciation of the wide shots. But hey, you do you.
Dr Flibble
October 2017
DVD quality is free or very close to it, if you have the patience to wait. I don't need to see it right now lest I hyperventilate in excitement, because I'm a somewhat functional adult capable of deferring gratification.
October 2017
The Bad Batch
Terrible and boring. Takes itself way too seriously and everything everything everything takes waaaaaaay too long. I should have heeded goodenoughs warning. I have paid the price.
Every event in the plot requires accidents and strokes of luck. It is like it was written by a being new to the ideas of time and causality. It has zero interesting things to say. Let me please spoil it for you. What happens when you lock people in a prison with no food? Terrible shit. Duh.
Do not let the trailer or cast fool you. This movie is not just horrible. I would put it on the list with Transformers 2. Art crime.
October 2017
It was so disappointing considering how good A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night was.
October 2017
And another fucking thing, no cannibal ever has removed limbs one at a time, and closed the amputation. Do you see a bunch of three and two legged cows hanging around? When you are gonna eat a critter, you gut and dress the whole thing. It is like the stupid urban myth of waking up in a tub of ice after "they" steal a kidney. If somebody is going to take an organ, they will take what they like and kill you. There are seven billion humans on Earth and waking up, missing a kidney, where the robbers expertly closed the wound has happened zero times ever.
That Stephen King story where the surgeon on a desert island eats his limbs is cool, but impossible. You lose more calories in blood loss than you will ever recoup from the meat. Cool story though. Bad Batch is not cool. It is stupid at every level.
October 2017
The Babysitter - 5/10
It's like a horror version of Home Alone, but instead of two robbers a group of cultists whom one of them is the kid's babysitter tries killing him after he witnesses them perform human sacrifice. It's a cool premise, but the it's sort of boring and there isn't much tension. It's a comedy-horror film without much comedy. The standout star of the film is a fucking Vine-star if that says anything. The deaths are kind of underwhelming too, with two of them basically being accidental.
Rings - 2/10
What the absolute fuck? The third and probable final entry in the American remake series of Ringu is quite honestly one of the worst horror sequels I've ever had the displeasure of viewing. Not only does it shit on a bunch of the mythos surrounding Samara. The first film of the remake series is probably one of the best modern horror films out there, and the sequels just took progressively worse shits on the series. This one is honestly just shite. It sets up Johnny Galecki (Leonard of Big Bang Theory) as our lead protagonist and actually one of the only interesting and three dimensional characters in the film, he watches the tape, gets the phone call, you know the rest. However, they give him one of the stupidest, underwhelming deaths I've seen. Car crash off screen, and dies from a falling electrical pole.
None of you will probably see this, so yeah I spoiled some shit. The lead actress cannot act her way out of a paper bag, and the supporting cast are just...meh. Leonard from Big Bang should have been the lead and they should have done more with the "video within a video" aspect but they threw that out as soon as they mentioned it.
Gods, this was SHIT. The only positive? The scenes that do feature Samara are great.
November 2017
Blade Runner 2049 9/10
Loved it great sequel to the original, had no issue with the pacing as i was soaking in the cinematography and the music during the slow moments, interesting that the ai was more rebellious than the protagonist.
November 2017
Thor: Ragnarok
It is just great fun. A great action movie and wonderfully goofy. It manages to have some weight while always going for every cheap laugh. It is the hardest reboot of the MCU to date. Forget all the Shakespeare or Simonson Thor we got for two movies. This throws all of that out the window for twenty solid minutes, hard. This is Thor reinvented as 1980's Flash Gordon. Thor! AHHAHH! He saved every one of us! Well except for the parts with Jeff Goldblum, then it goes hard for Buckaroo Banzai. I am not fucking kidding, I thought he might put on chaps when he started with the keyboard. It does have a serious side and I even liked a couple of the plot twists at the end.
It is such a hard reboot that you wonder if Thor dies in Infinity War, or gets a more gentle putting out to pasture. They let this director play with so many toys and break so many rules, you wonder if it is because this playset will get put away soon. They even let the director be a Kiwi rock pile. That sounds like a real real bad idea, but Korg steals some scenes. Not the greatest MCU of all time, but the best Thor movie by a country mile, and proof the MCU even knows how to course correct. I did not recognize Matt Damon in that stupid wig.
November 2017
Justice League - 2/10
What a fucking snooze-fest. Nothing happens. Literally nothing happens, the pacing is way too fast and as soon as things begin to unfold and happen the film ends. It's not good. Currently I'd throw this at the bottom of the DCEU list of films.
I had more fun watching Batman v Superman and Suicide Squad, which are two of the worst films in this franchise, but in my opinion Justice League tops both of them as the worst. I was bored, and found myself waiting for it to end.
Barry Allen is one of the only good parts of the film and his characterization still felt off and nothing like Barry from the comics. The end credit scene with Deathstroke was good too, but man. How can they not get this right?
The Good
Some of the Barry Allen scenes. Even though he doesn't feel like Barry Allen most of the time.
The Deathstroke end credit scene.
The Bad
The film's plot was incredibly lacking and nothing happens in the film until nearing the finale and then as soon as it begins the film ends.
Steppenwolf was a terrible villain, and didn't seem like much of a threat at all.
Batman literally didn't do anything in the movie other than fight for a bit.
Superman's resurrection was rushed and him turning on the others felt like a forced moment. Why the fuck would Cyborg's systems fail right here at this moment when they seemed to somewhat operational during the rest of the film? Come on.
Boring as fuck.
Too much exposition.
The ending's resolution is incredibly lackluster.
It's worse than Batman v Superman and Suicide Squad.
November 2017
Thor Ragnarok (7/10):
Yeah it's Marvel. Like, we all know what we're getting at this point. Wisecracks, lots of colour, light-hearted fun. It's the best Thor to date, Goldblum's character is funny, Hela is visually excellent. It is silly and surreal a bit and weirder than other Marvel. It still gets out of tight jams way too easily, and the Marvel schtick is still the Marvel schtick at this point. I would say it's basically above-average Marvel tier-ish. It's fun and worth seeing but probably nothing you'd want to see more than once. I mean maybe. But there's not much there really. I do appreciate Marvel movies going full on "fuck you blast all colours at once" mode, it's neat for now and a nice change of pace from some of the two and three tone trends we've been stuck with. It'll get old at some point though. It is the first Thor I thought was more than "meh." It is still not terribly memorable.
Coco (8/10):
Possibly the prettiest animated movie you'll ever see outside of maybe Shinkai. It's incredible. Jaw dropping amount of objects and light sources and colour on screen at once, the land of the dead is a marvel (ahahahaha I'm here all day). It is a brutally sad film. It is also, sadly (although for different reasons), super predictable. Down to who will show up where and when, how the plot will go, etc., and that diffuses some of the tension. It really follows the very standard Pixar plot arch at this point. But... it's beautiful, sad, has good music, and is super relatable, and it's nice to see a non American centered Disney/Pixar film.
Lady Bird (7/10):
What a nice film. A well acted, well directed caricature film that falls into the same group that something like Frances Ha or Brooklyn did. These characters are all stereotypes and while they're stereotypes based in reality and people we might know they also feel there not to exist as people but more to move the plot. The grainy filter was sort of obnoxious, it casts the entire film in a sort of retro ugliness that is distracting, which is a shame because the film does an ok job otherwise of avoiding prettying up everyone into supermodels. It is just... good. Like there's nothing that bad about the film, and it is funny and awkward, the soundtrack is fantastic, the scenery is good, but it exists to appeal to a certain subset of people and is very white and California suburban and the humor at times feels like the cliche characters; not there to develop things, but more to move things along and check boxes and exist just to say it does. I missed feeling heartbroken or boisterous or much of anything extravagant along the way other than "ok this is good that is nice and now it is done."
November 2017
Justice League
It's bad. It's dreary. Other than Wonder Woman, it has zero compelling characters. The villain is bland CGI, and the CGI is terrible. How you can spend this much for an ugly movie is ohmazin. The Joss added scenes are jarring and out of place. The whole thing has a dark knight vibe, and you end on the speed race? Your crap is better than Zacks crap, but the crap don't go together. Bad bad movie.
It is nowhere near as bad as Murder Man V Mopey Man. MovieBob has a couple of videos on Dawn of Justice that go over all the ways that movie sucks. Just Bob reading a plot synopsis made me want to jump out a window. DC movies are mostly ugly, dull, and joyless. Marvel has a schtick. A watchable, fun, schtick, based on the classic source material, not on post modern, committee made amalgamations of garbage.
December 2017
Although I didn't dislike Justice league as much as most. I thought it was enjoyable for what it was. I'm not going to be an apologist for the film, don't get me wrong. It's a bad film. Every thing you have said above is true. Affleck just didn't want to be there. He half arsed every scene. But ultimately I enjoyed what i watched and I still what to see where the franchise goes. I know I must be dumb.
December 2017
Rifftrax: The Dalek Invasion of Earth 2150 A.D.
First of all, do not confuse this with The Dalek Invasion of Earth 2150 B.C. Dr Who plus MST3K plus Peter Cushing is the greatest trinity of pop culture since Batman plus Scooby Doo plus Weird Al. It works really well. Non canonical Dr Who is perfect for MST3K. The Daleks are armed with fire extinguishers. Literally. It is so awesome. Any country that makes Sting a knight deserves to be invaded by Daleks. That this just exists makes me so happy. That it is actually a strong episode of Rifftrax is a Christmas miracle. God bless us, every one.
My personal favorite MST3K moment in my own life was going to see the D and D movie with friends and yelling at the screen. Example: Don't go in there! You don't have any graph paper! You can't map!
December 2017
Star Wars Episode VIII: The Last Jedi
Perhaps the first warning should have been the title crawl, whose third paragraph summoned a prevailing sense of unease in the way they subbed out a Proper Noun used in VII for a new one in order to copy the originals even more. VIII's plot bares almost nothing in common with VII, other then being darker. Instead, it full scale copies entire lines of dialogue and speeches to try to remind us that it's Star Wars, as if the lightsabers weren't enough.
This wouldn't be a problem if everything else didn't, well, completely and utterly suck shit. Every single character's characterization, moral arc, and motivation is warped and changed. It's one thing to shit on Lucas's lore and general ideas - I expect that. But this shits on... Episode VII. Permisively. Rey is warped, Kylo warped, Luke warped, everyone is this weird caraicature of what they previously stood for.
The plot is simultaneously threadbare and cluttered. For long stretches, nothing ~really~ happens, nothing to actually move things, and yet we are inundated with deus ex machina moments and an overabundance of cheap parlor tricks. Del Toro's entire character is awful, and that entire plot line is pointless and meaningless, to say nothing of Phasma. 3/4 of the dialogue is yelling, and what isn't yelling is really contrived, cheap, over-the-top lines delivered for EPIC DRAMA that instead fall horribly, horribly flat. And as for the humour, there are a LOT of attempts at it. Lot is not the key word here, attempts is. Most of it is just bad.
Even the acting has regressed heavily. Any emotional depth from Finn is gone. Same with Poe. \
About 1/3 of the way through I thought "this is not that good." About 1/2 through I thought "this is actually pretty bad." About 2/3 of the way through, I thought "the only thing stopping me from walking out is my crushing social anxiety and the fact that I didn't come alone."
As a movie, separate from Star Wars, it's awful. As Star Wars, separate from a movie, it's awful. It's logically inconsistent, non-sensible, cringey, and at the end of the day, just not fun. I joke about giving 10/10s to every SW movie, but there's a lot of truth there. I genuinely loved all 8 previous movies, warts and all. But this... this was too much. This was just bad movie making, bad writing, bad plotting, bad everything. Probably the single most disappointing movie experience I've ever had, and one final, glorious send-off by 2017, aka the fuck year.
Noobied by
December 2017
Never thought I'd see the day. Worse than Phantom Menace is hard to imagine. Like actually difficult. Does Will Wheaton voice a CGI Wesley Crusher, who warps in, and brings balance to the force via math, naivete and earnestness?
December 2017
I can't really give away too much. Obviously it's new and I don't want to spoil the plot or anything. But there are just entire sequences that serve no point and have really easy get out of jail free cards. There's even an entire scene that is - a really, really, really important one too - that is literally, word-for-word, something I'd expect Spaceballs 2 to do if it was made today to parody new Star Wars. Tonally it's weird. Everyone is a smarmy smart ass now. That's ok in, say, Guardians of the Galaxy. It's fucking weird here. Del Toro's character has one of the worst speech disabilities (is it supposed to be drug addled? legit disability? who knows!) I've seen portrayed in a movie. I don't know how you make Del Toro look like he couldn't act in any capacity, but they did. There are so many contrived conveniences. The casino planet happens so fast and is so silly and stupid and pointless and rushed and yet not at all important I basically checked out for it. You could cut out 30-40 minutes in the middle and nothing would change. An entire plot line is the good guys running away for like an hour. We are told early on by the bad guys that they are faster, but an hour later everything is the same. The final shot is basically Spaceballs again. They have a ring. It looks like it came out of a 25 cent coin machine at my local breakfast cafe. There's even a brand new technology introduced that I flat out hope they retcon out of existence. it completely changes the logistics now of every movie and book post Last Jedi, in a bad way. There's a major reason Lucas specifically avoided it.
I thought sleeping on it I'd feel better but nah. It's just one big stupid movie. Maybe once more people have seen it here I'll go into my major issues with characterization and motivation but there are so many bad ironies too. And even down to like the final lines it's just like... jesus my dudes. Kylo Ren in the fucking trailers said 'let the past die.' You aren't even letting it die, you're reanimating it and then shitting all over it.
I messaged Ash last night and told him to give me his thoughts before he checked twitter or the forums. I dunno if he'll post here, but here are some logs (edited for spoilers).
(me): pm what you thought before either checking twitter or NT forums
to not bias yourself
pm ehre i mean lel
just give a quick thought/synopsis/whatever
Today at 2:32 AM
I'll elaborate more later because I'm just leaving for work, but there's a lot I didn't like about it lel
Today at 4:06 AM
I'm not even sure where to start
[redacted for spoilers]
[redacted for spoilers]
And it doesn't go anywhere
[redacted for spoilers]
Today at 6:51 AM
i basically went a step further and said it was legitimately an awful movie, lel
Today at 6:54 AM
I wouldn't disagree
as I sat watching I could see it getting progressively worse
December 2017
Interestingly enough, it's on pace to be the lowest scored SW movie on IMDB since episode 2 maybe. This is actually a weird inverse where the critics appear to like it more than the fans. The score should be super high right now because they're always inflated early on when the fans are going and giving it tens. Force Awakens was like 8.8 at this point before settling at 8.1ish. Last Jedi is already at 8.1. You can take a lot of tenths off that for when it settles in about 12 months.
December 2017
I pretty much echo everything
has said. Obviously it's hard to be specific without going into spoiler territory, but suffice to say, so many scenes have no pay off or relevance to the overall narrative. There's a point when you think the film is being set up for taking the Star Wars universe in a new direction, but in the end regresses back to what we've seen before in the previous trilogies. Some of the characters were absolutely pointless and shouldn't even be in the film.
The worst thing I can say about is that some of the scenes had me almost bemused at how bad they were. So bad it invokes memories of the prequels.
December 2017
I was really worried that I was going to come here and see people enjoying Last Jedi, relieved to see that everyone feels it's as shite as I do.
They literally try (and fail) to parallel the entire original trilogy in one film. The more I think about it the more livid I become. Episode VII was mediocre but lauded because it was the first acceptable Sta Wars film in over 30 years. Rogue One is genuinely brilliant and gives me hope for non trilogy films. VIII has no excuses, and I'm irate that so many are giving it a pass.
I look forward to your impending breakdown of the film GEFM. I'm interested to see how many of our issues overlap.
December 2017
I'm going to see Last Jedi tomorrow night. I'll admit, I've been avoiding reviews and opinions to go in unspoiled and this has bummed me out.
My feelings will be up tomorrow night, so yay?
December 2017
The Last Jedi
It is pretty terrible. It is a completely different sort of terrible from Phantom Menace. Last Jedi actually makes Phantom Menace seem like a better movie in retrospect, in that Phantom Menace has a beginning, a middle, and an end. Last Jedi, starts with a Beavis and Butthead joke, gets lost for an hour, manages one compelling fight, then collapses into an endless mess, and just when you think it might end, it fails to end and has another act that makes you even more frustrated. I think I still hate Phantom Menace more, for being the most Ewok thing that ever Ewoked an Ewok, but Phantom Menace is way way more coherent. The pacing and editing of Last Jedi are unforgivable, and the script stinks, and I hate Rian Johnson forever. You could make a list of characters that serve no useful function and it would be long, and include a couple of folks on the damn posters.
All of that is not Last Jedi's greatest crime. It's greatest crime is having no rules. Look at the Marvel movies, wacky, stupid, outrageous and all. You always seem to know what the rules are. Tony can't lift the helicarrier, but he can push the rotor. There are rules, there are limits. Last Jedi has no rules. What can the force do? It can do anything the script needs it to do. Can't think how to have two characters have a conversation? Force ahoy. (If you can't figure out how to have characters talk to each other without magic, you suck as a writer, fuck you Rian Jonhson.) . Can't think of how to work in references to beloved characters? Force Ahoy. Can't solve fucking any of the fucking problems you have fucking written in your fucking script? Force ahoy. It is not the force, it is deus ex shit writing. But fucking wait, you think rewriting the force on the fly as needed makes stuff dumb? Well we are changing the rules of space combat, how FTL jumps work, and how acceleration works on a Newtonian scale. You will not understand how the central problem for the good guys works, because it does not seem to operate by any of the rules of space magic of the preceding films, nor does it operate by any law of physics you might know.
I am amazed to think how many people read this script and signed off on it. I suppose Murder Man V Mopey Man got approved multiple times as well. I am angry that Blade Runner 2049 lost money and Last Jedi will make more money than God. Last Jedi is bad movie made by bad people who should feel bad.
Noobied by
December 2017
No it is not worse than phantom menace , there are gaps of logic and lots of over dramatic scenes, but is not as bad as some people say, i didn't expect a masterpiece, rogue one is still the best of the bunch
December 2017
And what the living fuck was up with those kids, straight out a Michael Jackson video? We actually ended on one of those. If Michael Jackson had walked out of the shadows and dance/sung Smooth Criminal, it would have been creepy as fuck, and totally fit the tone. Lord, the tonal shifts in this movie are jarring as fuck. I did not have to wait to dislike this film. That Beavis and Butthead joke at the beginning showed how little they understand Star Wars, or just making a movie. Looper sucked and Rian Johnson is a hack. His jokes are not funny and you only laugh when he tries to get serious.
December 2017
Yep, it's a mess - and I think westsw's hit the nail on the head with the farting around with rule sets. The original films set out enough of a framework for you to be pretty much as lost as the farmboy Luke in what was going on, but with a clear enough sense that there was a structure that everything adhered to - Dark Side/Light Side, once you start down the path forever will it dominate your destiny etc etc etc...
The Prequels threw a ratchet in with the Prophecy and the notion of Bringing Balance to The Force. I keep thinking they are going to go somewhere interesting with that (why do so many apprentices linked to Yoda and Qui Gonn keep going bad? Is there something rotten at the core of Jedi philospophy? Is a battle of light and evil where one side tries to dominate the other actually the wrong way to go?), but every time they hint at that in the last 5 main-line films they soon duck back to the old, established duality.
Of course, I'm setting myself up for a fall (and I'm guessing we all are) for caring about this stuff too much, but I actually had a moment of clarity in the cinema last night when one character told another character to 'Reach out with your feelings' and I suddenly thought that, whilst that's a nice phrase that kind of hints at what is going on, it is also at the same time absolutely and utterly meaningless...
All of that is aside from all the shonky scripting, editing and pacing issues that everyone's mentioned. I did laugh a few times in the film but even that many chuckles felt out of place in an SW film. The original trilogy traded in wry wit, the prequels were po-faced in the extreme and only went for the broadest possible laughs with the Gungans but it was only when I re-watched TFA in prep for this one that I realised how much that was played for laughs. Weird.
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Some More Recycling
I decided as I so often do that my Identity A5 Filofax organiser needed a new dashboard. Also as so often happens I hunted around for something I could recycle and came up with a birthday card from the Card Factory. The card has a picture on both sides so for me that made it ideal for turning into a new dashboard. After some trimming and laminating here is the end result.
Dashboard Front
Dashboard Reverse
As you can see not much difference between the two.
I also decided to put a double pocket in my Identity and again recycled what I already had. This is a double pocket from a Paperchase notebook to which I have added some Washi tape.
Pocket Front - The Same On The Back But In Reverse
I have a few more simple projects that will add pages to my Filofax organisers and I shall be doing further posts shortly.
Until next time

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Weekend links 343
Sidhe, the white people of the Tuatha Dé Danann (1954) by Leonora Carrington.
• January brings a wealth of recommended-reading lists for the new year, together with the feeling that many of those lists are merely clones of each other. Not so the recommendations at Strange Flowers which also includes links to forthcoming events such as this exhibition of Symbolist art at the Guggenheim, New York.
• Some Ceremonies are Better than Others, an exhibition of sound objects and drawings by Matthias König & Ibrahim R. Ineke inspired by Arthur Machen's The White People, at The Bries Space, Borgerhout, Belgium, from 21st January. Previously: Ineke's comic-strip adaptation of the Machen story.
• "These must-reads explore Dada, Futurism, Surrealism, and the art of opposition," says Carol Cooper. One of the titles under discussion is the Bruce Sterling book I designed and illustrated last year, Pirate Utopia. Sterling talked to Wired about the book and its relation to the present moment.
• RIP Mark Fisher, a cultural theorist whose death was announced just as extracts from his latest book, The Weird and the Eerie, were beginning to appear. One of those extracts is at The Quietus. Related: Fisher's k-punk blog and its earlier incarnation.
• James Cargill (ex of Broadcast) announces a debut release by his new group, Children of Alice. Related: Jonathan Miller's 1966 TV film of Alice in Wonderland rescored with Broadcast songs.
• We are the Martians: the Legacy of Nigel Kneale, a collection of Kneale-related essays and appreciations edited by Neil Snowdon, is finally appearing in print from PS Publishing.
• Pursuing paths hauntological, The Electric Pentacle offers "an unholy stew of library music, Kosmische, arcane ritual electronica, modular synthesisers and shortwave radio".
• Mixes of the week: The Ivy-Strangled Path Vol. XVI by David Colohan, and Low Visibility Across Sunken Village by The Geography Trip.
• "With Reflection, [Brian Eno] offers generative music for a turbulent time," says Geeta Dayal.
• Anna Biller, director of The Love Witch, talks to New Jack Witch about her film.
• The story behind Gay Bob, the world's first out-and-proud doll.
• Alice (1969) by Jon Plum | Alice (1982) by The Sisters of Mercy | Alice (2009) by Sunn O)))


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an Upper Paleolithic archaeological site on Czechoslovakian territory near the city of Koŝice. The site was first opened in 1951–54 by F. Proŝek. In addition to numerous flint tools, the diggers discovered 15 pits, 0.4–0.8 m deep, which were at least part of three durable lodges up to 18 m long. The site dates from the early Orignac period.
REFERENCESBoriskovskii, P. I. "Ocherki po paleolitu Isentral'noi i Iugo-Vostochnoi Evropy." Sovetskaia arkheologiia, vol. 27. Moscow, 1927.
Bánesz, L. Barca bei Koŝice-Paläolitische Fundstelle. Bratislava, 1968.


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Upon passing the board certification exam administered by the American College of Theriogenologists (ACT), which consists of a combination of multiple-choice and essay questions, a veterinarian will be granted diplomate status in the veterinary specialty of theriogenology.
On average, 10 to 20 new diplomates in veterinary theriogenology are certified by the ACT each year. According to the American Veterinary Medical Association, there were 379 ACT diplomates in a 2011 veterinary specialty survey.
Diplomates must also complete continuing education credits each year to maintain their board-certified status and to keep abreast of advances as they are made in the field.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported a median annual wage of $82,900 for all veterinarians in the survey of May 2010. The lowest ten percent of all veterinarians earned a salary of less than $50,480 each year while the highest ten percent of all veterinarians earned a salary of over $141,680 each year.
The BLS does not separate specific salary data for each of the veterinary specialties, but board-certified specialists would tend to earn salaries towards the top end of this range due to their extensive experience and qualifications.
DVM Newsmagazine reported that the American Veterinary Medical Association's Biennial Economic Survey of 2009 found that theriogenologists earned a mean salary of $109,618. Amongst the veterinary board-certified specialties, this specialty ranked the lowest on the salary scale (with veterinary ophthalmologists earning the highest compensation amongst the specialties, pulling in a mean salary of $215,120).
The 2011 AVMA Report on Veterinary Compensation found that board-certified theriogenologists earned a median salary of $121,000 and a mean salary of $132,603. Those in the 25th percentile of earnings brought home $103,000 per year, while those in the 90th percentile of earnings brought home $207,000 per year.
Aspiring theriogenologists do also earn a salary while completing their residencies, though this compensation is much less than a veterinarian would earn in clinical practice. Residency salaries generally range from $25,000 to $35,000 per year.
Career Outlook
The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) does not separate the specialty of veterinary theriogenology from salary data collected for the category of all veterinarians, but BLS survey results indicate that the veterinary profession as a whole will show steady, stable growth over the decade from 2010 to 2020.
The results project a steady rate of growth at approximately 36 percent for the field of veterinary medicine, a much faster rate than the average rate of growth for all professions. Veterinarians who achieve board certification should continue to have particularly strong job prospects in the field.
The rigorous nature of specialty training programs and board certification exams ensure that only a small number of professionals are able to achieve board certification each year. The ACT reports that, on average, only 10 to 20 candidates achieve board certification in the specialty of theriogenology each year. Demand for theriogenologists will only be strengthened by the limited number of board-certified professionals in this veterinary specialty.


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Description of GRID Autosport
Buy GRID Autosport as a Steam Key.
It's all about the teams, the rivals and the race in an intense new world of professional motorsport. Racing alongside a teammate, you must overcome key rivals and satisfy team sponsors in ferocious races where every pass and position counts. In a huge career, specialise in your favourite racing discipline or conquer them all feel the aggression of the pack in Touring Cars, manage tyre wear and race into the night in Endurance events, race Open-Wheel cars with precision, show car control in Tuner events and react on the fly in Street races. Each unique category features series dedicated to different classes, including Touring Cars, Hypercars, Endurance GT Cars, Prototypes, Single-Seaters, Super Modified vehicles, Drift cars and many more.
Bursting with content, GRID Autosport features over 100 routes across 22 incredible locations and the world's most exciting contemporary and classic high-performance racing cars to collect, tune and upgrade. Development has been driven by Community feedback to include the return of in-car view, authentic handling and multiplayer racing powered by RaceNet to deliver new challenges every week, plus all-new Racing Clubs for online team competition. Party modes, Demolition Derby and competitive split-screen modes complement the game's extensive career mode and expansive core online game.
Feature GRID Autosport
BUILD YOUR PRO RACING CAREER: Live out your professional race driver dream. Join and switch teams, earn sponsor rewards, beat your rivals and race with a teammate. Choose your favourite style of racing or conquer them all.
HUGE RANGE OF SERIES: Compete in series dedicated to Touring Cars, Hypercars, Endurance GT Cars, Prototypes, Single-Seaters, Super Modified vehicles, Drift cars and many, many more.
EXPERIENCE DIFFERENT RACING STYLES: Take on aggressive pack racing in Touring Cars, manage your tyre wear in Endurance competitions, race smoothly and with precision in Open-Wheel cars, demonstrate your car control in Tuner competitions and react on the fly in Street Races.
RACE THE MOST EXCITING CARS: Love the cars you race as you tune and upgrade the world's most thrilling contemporary and classic high-performance racing cars. Show your style online by creating your own liveries and building your car collection.
RACENET MULTIPLAYER INTEGRATION: Join with friends to form Racing Clubs and race under your own team colours against other clubs in the community. Receive new challenges every week, track stats and climb leaderboards powered by RaceNet.
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A WORLD OF AUTOSPORT: GRID Autosport features over 100 routes across 22 incredible locations and the huge career and core online game is complimented with Party Modes plus competitive split-screen.


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The Greek island of Lesvos is a fertile paradise. With the purest olive oil, honey and sea salt. For a few years now, Lesvos has also become the island where the refugee crisis has acquired a European face. The locals still have a hard time. And 'newcomers' are stuck in refugee camps in inhumane conditions. Without any future perspective. Together with you we can change that!
We sell gift packages with the tastiest olive oil, honey and salt & herbs from Lesvos. We support local farmers and we stimulate education and entrepreneurship among 'newcomers' on Lesbos.
How it works
The purchase of our products means an income for the local farmers. Hardworking people who make their products with a lot of love and respect for nature. As their companies grow due to our demand, jobs are created for locals and newcomers. And that is exactly what we want!
We spend a fair share of the profit directly on education and giving workshops to newcomers. This increases their chance of a job or entrepreneurship. We invest the rest of the profit in Lots of Lesvos. In this way we build an inclusive entrepreneurial model that brings structural change to the island and achieves ecological, economic and social benefits. Nice circle, right?
About us
Lots of Lesvos is an initiative by The Junglebirds Foundation. The Junglebirds Foundation has been granted the status of Public Benefit Organization (ANBI) by the Dutch Tax and Customs Administration.
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Survivor - Chet you are a useless piece of baggage. If you had decided to man up and stick around for one more immunity challenge you could have had the satisfaction of being part of one of the biggest ousters in the history of Survivor (after the James in China with TWO hidden immunity idols, of course). Sadly, you couldn't make it. However, in your defense, at least you blew the whistle on Ozzy and the idol! Sure, he denied it - but now the truth is out there. Ok, that's all I've got to say about Survivor.
Lost - Damn it Lost! Must you always screw with my head!!! (don't get me wrong - I'm totally into the head screwing thing, I just have to put up a token fight).
Wait. First off let me vent about primetime television programming. I had the rare good fortune of being able to watch two of my favorite TV shows with a fellow fan and best friend. But GUESS WHAT? There's some kind of basketball playoffs going on! Really? WHO CARES! So, I wound up watching Survivor with Debentropy and then both of us took great pleasure in cursing stupid sports fans everywhere. It was fun, but not as much fun as watching Lost. Which I didn't get to see until last night. But, whatever.Ok, sad as the ending was, am I the only one who was glad Jin wasn't part of the Oceanic Six. Not that I have anything against him (after all, he looks FANTASTIC without his shirt) but how fair would that be? Everyone else makes some big sacrifice or goes crazy while Sun and Jin get to set up a happy house? I was waiting for the other shoe to drop throughout the episode - and it did in the brilliant (if tricky) application of a flash-forward AND a flash-back.
Moving on, I was happy to see Bernard - haven't seen him or Rose in a while. The reveal of Michael on the ship was kind of anti-climatic given all the leaks - but, the non-verbal exchange between him and Sayid was kind of cool. Capt Gault telling Desmond and Sayid that Mr. Widmore was the driving force of the expedition was interesting. Like Sayid said - he was surprisingly forthcoming. Still, we are left to wonder about the verity of his words given the Operative's (Michael?) message.
Overall, a good episode. I was more emotionally involved with the Desmond/Penny episode but it's nice to know that Sun's baby is ok. I guess we'll see what happens with Jin. The tombstone indicated that he died on the date that the plane crashed but I don't know if that means he's alive or if they just listed the date of the plane crash as his date of death. I have to say, the biggest surprise for me was finding out that there is another episode next week! I thought we were about to hit a dry spell or something.
So, I had more to say about Lost than Survivor. Sue me. A final question: Have all of the "Oceanic Six" been unveiled? Or is there one more? How can Aaron be one of the six if he wasn't "technically" on the manifest? Doc Jensen at EW thinks that all of the six are accounted for and that Aaron is an official member. He feels that the media would just label them all "Oceanic Six" and worry about the details later. I feel kind of sad about that. :( What does that tell us about Michael/Kevin and Walt? Are they off the radar now? Presumed dead and secretly working for Ben? I guess we'll have to wait and see!


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Residence Life
At Sixth College, we view living on campus as an integral part of our residents' education. The Residence Life Office is here to support residents' academic pursuits as well as their personal growth outside of the classroom. We encourage residents to become active in our community and to take advantage of the many opportunities for involvement in its programs, activities, and organizations.
Sixth College Handbook
The Sixth College Residence Life Handbook is a completely electronic resource this year! Please make sure to familiarize yourself with it.
Living in the apartments and residence halls provides a wonderful opportunity to:
- Meet new people
- Learn about new cultures
- Develop life skills that will extend beyond the college years
- Develop respect and caring for others
- Make responsible lifestyle choices and decisions
- Share academic, social, and cultural experiences with other students
- Learn to live peacefully in close quarters with a diverse group of people
Residence Life staff are here to assist residents when they:
- Have a question, suggestion, or complaint
- Check into or out of the Sixth College Apartments or Residence Halls
- Are locked out of their residences
- Request to change rooms
- Want to plan an activity or program
- Want to request reservations for common space use
The Director of Residence Life, Assistant Directors of Residence Life, and 27 undergraduate Resident Assistants all live in the Sixth College Housing Complex.
For all non-emergencies, our office may be reached at (858) 822-5268 during posted business hours.
For all emergencies or after-hours lockouts, call the UCSD Police Department at (858) 534-HELP (4357).


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This is a new trend that seems to be popping up all over the place: online magazines. It's great! Most of them come out once every month or two, are free of charge, and you can read conveniently on your computer. This definitely helps the environment. Plus, you all remember how much I love magazines.
Some of my favorites are Rue, Lonny, Matchbook, High Gloss, and Adore. I'm excited to check out Trad Home's first issue too!
So I wanted to share with you a few things from the most recent Lonny and Matchbook. Matchbook is a "field guide to a charmed life," so it doesn't encompass as much design and fashion as some of the others. Each magazine has their niche. Here are a few of my favorite images and pages from the second issue of Matchbook.
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Why is it that I keep seeing so many beautiful New York apartments that are just unreal?!
This is not the New York that I see in friends' apartments.
And this is home to a 23 year old!
I found some more New York City apartments that I could just die over in the most recent issue of Lonny. Check them out below.
This image below is more like it. A typical NYC "kitchen"
I love this because the duvet cover above is the one I'm waiting to go on sale at West Elm to purchase, and the Fallon rug by Jill Rosenwald is in my living room in the color sage.
Although there's a less expensive Louis Ghost Chair here.
Here are some more images from Lonny:
I adore the mixture of rustic barnwood and this elaborate chandelier!
Is this not every girl's dream?
I'll come back tomorrow and share some beauts from the other magazines.


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We all know who lives in a pineapple under the sea. The real question is, which version of the SpongeBob theme song do you like better? Nick Stars or Nick Noises? Let Nickelodeon know by leaving them a comment in the comment section here on YouTube!:
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ancientribe writes \"The wildly popular, open-source Metasploit penetration testing tool project has been sold to Rapid7, a vulnerability management vendor, paving the way for a commercial version of Metasploit to eventually hit the market. HD Moore, creator of Metasploit, was hired by Rapid7 and will continue heading up the project. This is big news for the indie Metasploit Project, which now gets full-time resources. Moore says this will translate into faster turnaround for new features. Just what a commercial Metasploit product will look like is still in the works, but Rapid7 expects to keep the Metasploit penetration testing tool as a separate product with \'high integration\' into Rapid7\'s vulnerability management products.\"
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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ACET student Andrea Sebé Fernández gives an account of St. Patrick's festivities that took place recently in the city.
"On 17th March came the long awaited day for everyone. In the morning everybody was in the parade, in Saint Patrick Street. The streets were packed with thousands of people all so excited. Families, locals and tourists like us all together to celebrate a massive cultural event.
There was music, many people with green customs and lots of good feelings.When the parade was over people some people decided to return home, and then others went to the pubs to listen live Irish music. It is a very busy evening in the city, maybe the busiest night of the whole year. If you wanted you could eat something in the many posts that had restaurants on the street to sell food".
"It was a unique experience and I'm very happy to have been able to live this day in Ireland".


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Basic 2 / Max 3
Notice: 2 adults are included in the basic charge. Up to 1 extra adults can be accommodated in this room at Php 1,500 per person. Charge is payable at the hotel.
33 sqm
1 Queen Size Bed and 1 Single Size Bed
Air Conditioned
Cable TV
Free WiFi
Safety Deposit Box
3-1 day(s) before arrival : 100% of accommodation fee
On the date of arrival : 100% of accommodation fee
Without notification in advance : 100% of accommodation fee
Exploring the Queen City of the South is a lot easier if you've got a hotel that provides all your needs and takes you closer to the hippest and most happening spots in town. Thankfully, Cebu Grand Hotel is there to offer all these to travelers and more. A strategically located hotel where you can enjoy a variety of perks, Cebu Grand Hotel is where quality meets affordability.
An experienced hospitality provider
If you're the type of guest who views the track record of a hotel before booking, then Cebu Grand Hotel won't disappoint you. It has been providing accommodations for tourists and visitors in Cebu for two decades already. With this kind of experience in the hospitality industry, you can most definitely look forward to a stay that is made comfortable and convenient with its service-driven staff and above average amenities.
Past stayers have claimed that they had a grand time at Cebu Grand Hotel through their reviews on TravelBook.ph and other travel websites. A considerable number of previous guests lauded the hotel staff who are very accommodating and considerate of their needs. There were also those who appreciated how close the hotel is to all of Cebu's best spots.
Convenience at its finest
When you're on vacation, it's important to choose a hotel that will make it easier for you to get around. Especially for first timers in a new place, you need to find a place to stay that will give you easy access to the top attractions in Cebu. Since Cebu Grand Hotel is located within Cebu Capitol Commercial Complex along North Escario Street, it's near the business district, making it easier for business travelers to attend their meetings and conferences. Ayala I. T. Park is also just a kilometer away.
In addition, tourists will also find that it is located in a vibrant district filled with various commercial establishments from malls, restaurants, and bars. It also helps that the Mactan-Cebu International Airport is only 35 minutes away via taxi. If you want a smoother arrival and departure, the hotel also offers airport transfers.
Displays subtle elegance
Though Cebu Grand Hotel may not be as glamorous as the five-star properties in the area, it has a certain charm that attracts simple-minded travelers who want homey accommodations for their stay. With a bright and well-lit façade, it has a very welcoming aura, an inviting refuge for guests seeking shelter in Cebu.
Inside, it's equally gorgeous: With charming and stylish interiors, you get a stylish and chic vibe but without the expensive price tag that usually comes with a modern and elegant lodging.
An array of superb accommodations
Regardless of what type of traveler you are, you can find a comfortable room that suits your needs at Cebu Grand Hotel. There are 100 rooms onsite in total, all of which are exceptional in form and function. Each is exquisitely designed and set in a contemporary and minimalist theme to induce rest and relaxation. Not to mention, they each have the basic amenities modern-day travelers look for in a hotel.
Families and barkadas can fit comfortably in the Superior Rooms and Deluxe Rooms at Cebu Grand Hotel. Featuring spacious beddings and stylish interiors, it is the perfect place to stay for travelers on a budget.
If you have some extra money to splurge, you can book the Executive Suite for a more private dwelling. This room also has an appealing design and is perfect for businessmen who want more space to practice their sales pitch.
And for the extravagant traveler, there's the Presidential Suite. Furnished elegantly and featuring a spacious bed with a canopy, it's perfect for couples seeking a romantic dwelling for their vacation.
Modern-day amenities
More than just comfortable beds, the rooms at Cebu Grand Hotel come equipped with a satisfying array of amenities that will add convenience to your stay. Expect a hassle-free and worry-free experience when you find these features in your abode.
All rooms at Cebu Grand Hotel are air conditioned, and the ones at the third floor allow in-room smoking. In addition, each one comes with free breakfast so you can scarf down on the most important meal of the day in the comfort of your own space.
With the private toilet and bath located inside each of the guestrooms, you can have a satisfying bath after an exhausting day spent outdoors. The shower has hot and cold water settings so you can adjust it according to your preference.
You can lie comfortably on your bed or lounge in your room's sitting area as you scour through the cable channels of your television. You can even use the in-room telephone which is fit for both NDD and IDD calls. Should you need to update your social media or read an email, WiFi is readily available and complementary.
More delights you can find in your room at Cebu Grand Hotel include a minibar and a safety deposit box where you can store your belongings.
Awesome facilities
There is more to Cebu Grand Hotel than just comfortable and well-designed rooms. This midrange hotel has an exciting set of facilities and features that will surely make your stay extra special.
Since Cebu Grand Hotel is just within a business district, it recognizes the needs of business travelers, which it why it comes with its own business center that offers various services. Should you be in need of any assistance, don't hesitate to ask help from the hotel staff. There are also function rooms available onsite for those who need a venue to hold their meetings, conferences, or celebrations.
For recreation, you've got a roofdeck swimming pool where you can take a relaxing dip. You can even sample the exercise machines at the fitness center so you can stay in shape even while on vacation.
Cebu Grand Hotel also offers meals to guests so there's no longer any need for you to leave the premises in search for a bite to eat. At Café Lorenzo, your tastebuds will be given a taste of delicious Filipino and international dishes. It also offers a selection of wines and spirits if you'd like to kick back with a nightcap after a lovely meal.
|Cebu Capitol Commercial Complex, N. Escario Street, Barangay Caputhaw, Cebu City, Cebu (Show Map)
|A 30-minute drive from the Airport to the Hotel. Vice Versa.
Directions & Landmarks
Hotel is located at Escario Street, VIBO Place, Cebu city
Total Number Of Rooms
Restaurant Information
Name of Restaurant: Cafe Lorenzo Restaurant
Incidental Deposit
|PHP 1000 for incidental deposit. Refundable upon check-out date.
On-Site Credit Card Facilities
|VISA, Master, AMEX, JCB
Room Facilities
Room Amenities
Hotel Facilities
Disclaimer: It is the responsibility of the hotel chain and/or the individual property to ensure the accuracy of the photos and information displayed. Travelbook.ph is not responsible for any inaccuracies.
Friendly staff but I didn't get reasonable value for money. There's nothing much you can do in the property as there are no facilities/amenities one can usually enjoy in this class of hotel. Only good for sleeping for one night.3 Things You Love about This Hotel: Clean, Friendly staff, Good location Room: Superior Room Only - Superior Room Only Stay Date: 01/20/2018 to 01/21/2018


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Hiiiiiiiiiii I am doing great 😀 For the past 2 days tuesday and wednesday I had to take a brake from my Whole30 challenge, I went on a liquid fast to go to the dorctor for a stomach check up. Now I'm back eating solid food again, nice cause I was hungry hahahaha. Everything was good with my stomach YAY. I tend to have digestive issues so I think I need to include more probiotic foods in to my diet to help my gut flora. I will probably start with some natural supplement first. I will do some research and let you know what I find 🙂
On tuesday morning before my liquid fast started I went to the gym. I had more energy then monday so I could actually do the workout properly 😀
Day 2 Week 3 Back and Biceps
- Hammer Strength Lat Pul: 15kg x 12, 25kg x 12, 25kg x 12
- Wide_Grip Lat Pulldown: 20kg x 12, 20kg x 12, 25kg x 12
- Seated Cable Rows: 15kg x 12 x 3
- Bent Over Two-Arm Long Bar Row: 12.5kg x 12, 12.5kg x 12, 15.5kg x 12
- Hyperextensions (Back Extensions): 12, 10, 8
- Barbell Curl: 10kg x 12, 10kg x 12, 7.5kg x 12
- Incline Dumbbell Curl: 3kg x 12 x 3
- Alternate Hammer Curl: 3kg x 24(12 per sida), 4kg x 20, 3kg x 24
Bent Over Two-Arm Long Bar Row
My Whole30 Day 23 today
- Breakfast 1 – Spinach mushroom scrambled eggs with bonebroth (will post recipe tomorrow)
- Breakfast 2 – Avocado, banana apple salad topped with nuts, cacao nibs, coconut chips, sunflower seeds
- Lunch & Early Dinner: Veggies stew with oven baked sweet potato and egg
- Evening Snack: Eating breakfast anytime hihihi Bacon & Eggs with banana almond butter sprinkled with raw cacao cinnamon and shredded coconut. Yummy


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1869 - 1940
James Cameron 4th and Jessie Low in their Wedding picture.
James Cameron 4th with their family passport picture for their trip to Australia and the young laddie James 5th.
James Cameron 4th with their family passport picture for their trip to Australia and New Zealand in the summer of 1890 when Jimmy was about 5 year old. A later picture of the young laddie, James 5th in the summer of 1929 shows him dressed in Highland formal cloths may have posed for a picture at a cousins wedding. James 4th was born Mar. 24, 1869 and died Dec. 13, 1940. They left Aberdeen about 1890 for Australia and New Zealand and stayed about a dozen years. They left again in 1922 for Australia.- In 1923 they left for South Africa, returning after 8 months of travel.
James 5th was born Sept.24, 1917 and died Feb. 4, 1980. He married Jean Allardyce in 1946 and had 3 children. Shona (b 1948), Cairine (b 1950) James (b 1954). He is James 6th known as Ramsay


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Streamlining your Agency's Sign-off Procedure
In our 2013 Email Marketing Industry Census we asked what marketers loved and hated about email. The answers from agencies highlighted "clients", "planning" and "time". Clearly ideas to help with client processes are welcome.
Consider this response to an agency approval email:
"Yes! We want to allow the management team see it before we send, but as far as we're concerned it's ready to go."
You receive this, and launch the campaign. A member of the management team spots a mistake. Or they say the quality isn't up to the right standard. Or that the message itself seems a bit off-brand.
You get the blame for sending the campaign before it had final sign-off, but you got the okay by email from another member of the management team. Well, it definitely looked like an approval. Kind of.
"The email was urgent, why didn't it go out? We've lost ground to our competitors."
You tried, but you couldn't get hold of your key contact. They were out of the office until Monday. But you could have spoken to their direct reports, who were empowered to make the decision in your key contact's absence. Except you didn't know that.
These issues could have been avoided.
You need a clear, traceable sign-off procedure agreed with your clients.
- The client gives you a list of people who can give approval.
- You agree how many approvals you need before a campaign is signed-off.
- You create your campaign, test it and make sure you're totally happy with it.
- You send a copy of the email with an approval request to your client's approval list.
- Whoever is available from the client's approval list checks the campaign, they can approve it or reject it.
- If they reject it, they send their feedback so you can make the changes and resend for approval.
- Once enough approvals are reached the campaign can launch.
No need to call people chasing sign-offs, less chance of errors as there are more checks, and clear accountability at every stage. Ultimately, each campaign is launched, on time, with final approval from the right people.
And this is the process used by the MessageFocus Approval System. It handles the entire process for you, sending emails at each stage to keep everyone informed. Everything is managed and recorded within the system.
Review your sign-off procedures with your clients, and make sure they're water-tight before something goes wrong.
If your agency needs an email system that can work around you, find out more about MessageFocus.


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The St Bedes/Mentone Tigers AFC is a not-for-profit organisation which relies heavily on the funds of sponsorship, grants and government donations for our facilities and upkeep. We are not a political organisation, but we do maintain positive relationships with our leaders from all political persuasions at a local council, state and federal government level.
Recently SBMT contacted the major parties fielding candidates in our electorate of Isaacs in anticipation of the upcoming federal election. At the writing of this post just after Anzac Day, the club had only heard back from the Labor candidate Mark Dreyfus, who has made an election commitment of $200K to SBMT for improvements to lights and coaching boxes if elected. Mr Dreyfus came down to training to announce this pledge to the players and some SBMT officials.
SBMT is growing in size of teams as well as the amount of players. Currently the lights are not of a quality required to play night matches and the cost of the upgrade rests with the club. Our current rate of expansion together with the explosion of growth in women's football means that night matches may soon be a necessity. Any election promise from any candidate will be received gratefully from all at SBMT.


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Sometimes you really have to follow your intuitions…
So I've reviewed Yume Sushi twice with mixed opinions. Great service, okay prices but not the best food. Being in the sushi crazed that I was in, my brother and I drove to Wa's. Oh no… they're closed for a number of days. Ok. Red Ember. Didn't I see a post on their facebook page that they are now open on Sundays for lunch? Nope… my imagination. What to do? At 1:45pm in the afternoon, dining choices for sushi are limited to… Sakana, which honestly I'm not a fan of. What to do? I decided to go visit Yume because I know they don't close between lunch and dinner. Plus, I decided to give them another chance. Entering with low expectations, I really just needed some raw fish in my tummy!
Here's what we ordered today:
Assorted Tempura – $9.90
Four tempura shrimps and five tempura yams. I have to say these were nicely fried and the batter was light and crispy. However, the tempura sauce was virtually tasteless… just like from my previous visit with the agedashi tofu.
Assorted maki: Negi-hamachi $4.90 Negi-toro $4.90 California $4.75 Tempura cajun prawn $7.50
These rolls were not made well – they were packed very loosely so as I picked one up with my chopsticks, the part where the seaweed should meet opened up. I wasn't a fan of the texture of the rice either – it was very mushed up and gummy. The hamachi and toro tasted ok but it wasn't ultra fresh or anything. My brother did not enjoy his tempura cajun prawn roll as he felt it was a rip-off for what it was, and it didn't taste that good. The california roll was for my toddler – he didn't like the rice but ate all of the imitation crab meat and avocado.
Assorted nigiri – everything was $1 with the exception of the Geisha, which was $3.20
For $1, I thought the chopped scallop was more than decent. The tuna was soft, not frozen but it was not easy to chew apart. The salmon roe was very fishy… ack. Scallop was ok but quite thin. My brother said he has had better cajun prawn. The Geisha, which I like to call the salmon rose, was very disappointing. The salmon was not fresh, the texture was a bit rough and the entire piece of sushi was just very small. I've had this in Hong Kong many times before and loved it, so I know what to expect. Yume, however, has failed to deliver.
Service was also lacking today. I honestly did not enjoy my meal and felt that it has ruined my appetite. Prices, with the exception of the $1 nigiri, are actually quite high for the quality. I will not return to this place in the future and the next time I'm desperate, I'll just go to T&T.


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Parallel Verses
English Standard Version
You who have made me see many troubles and calamities will revive me again; from the depths of the earth you will bring me up again.
King James Bible
Thou, which hast shewed me great and sore troubles, shalt quicken me again, and shalt bring me up again from the depths of the earth.
American Standard Version
Thou, who hast showed us many and sore troubles, Wilt quicken us again, And wilt bring us up again from the depths of the earth.
Douay-Rheims Bible
How great troubles hast thou shewn me, many and grievous: and turning thou hast brought me to life, and hast brought me back again from the depths of the earth :
English Revised Version
Thou, which hast shewed us many and sore troubles, shalt quicken us again, and shalt bring us up again from the depths of the earth.
Webster's Bible Translation
Thou, who hast shown me great and severe troubles, wilt revive me again, and wilt bring me again from the depths of the earth.
Psalm 71:20 Parallel
CommentaryKeil and Delitzsch Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament
In view of Psalm 40:15 (Psalm 70:3), Psalm 35:4, Psalm 35:26; Psalm 109:29, and other passages, the reading of יכּלמוּ, with the Syriac, instead of יכלוּ in Psalm 71:13 commends itself; but there are also other instances in this Psalm of a modification of the original passages, and the course of the thoughts is now climactic: confusion, ruin (cf. Psalm 6:11), and in fact ruin accompanied by reproach and shame. This is the fate that the poet desires for his deadly foes. In prospect of this he patiently composes himself, Psalm 71:14 (cf. 31:25); and when righteous retribution appears, he will find new matter and ground and motive for the praise of God in addition to all such occasion as he has hitherto had. The late origin of the Psalm betrays itself again here; for instead of the praet. Hiph. הוסיף (which is found only in the Books of Kings and in Ecclesiastes), the older language made use of the praet. Ka. Without ceasing shall his mouth tell (ספּר, as in Jeremiah 51:10) of God's righteousness, of God's salvation for he knows not numbers, i.e., the counting over or through of them (Psalm 139:17.);
(Note: The lxx renders οὐκ ἔγνων πραγματείας; the Psalterium Romanum, non cognovi negotiationes; Psalt. Gallicum (Vulgate), non cognovi literaturam (instead of which the Psalt. Hebr., literaturas). According to Bttcher, the poet really means that he did not understand the art of writing.)
the divine proofs of righteousness or salvation עצמוּ מסּפּר (Psalm 40:6), they are in themselves endless, and therefore the matter also which they furnish for praise is inexhaustible. He will tell those things which cannot be so reckoned up; he will come with the mighty deeds of the Lord Jahve, and with praise acknowledge His righteousness, Him alone. Since גּברות, like the New Testament δυνάμεις, usually signifies the proofs of the divine גּבוּרה (e.g., Psalm 20:7), the Beth is the Beth of accompaniment, as e.g., in Psalm 40:8; Psalm 66:13. בּוא בּ, vernire cum, is like Arab. j'â' b (atâ), equivalent to afferre, he will bring the proofs of the divine power, this rich material, with him. It is evident from Psalm 71:18. that בגברות does not refer to the poet (in the fulness of divine strength), but, together with צדקתך, forms a pair of words that have reference to God. לבדּך, according to the sense, joins closely upon the suffix of צדקתך (cf. Psalm 83:19): Thy righteousness (which has been in mercy turned towards me), Thine alone (te solum equals tui solius). From youth up God has instructed him, viz., in His ways (Psalm 25:4), which are worthy of all praise, and hitherto (עד־הנּה, found only in this passage in the Psalter, and elsewhere almost entirely confined to prose) has he, "the taught of Jahve" (למּוּד ה), had to praise the wonders of His rule and of His leadings. May God, then, not forsake him even further on עד־זקנה ושׂיבה. The poet is already old (זקן), and is drawing ever nearer to שׂיבה, silvery, hoary old age (cf. 1 Samuel 12:2). May God, then, in this stage of life also to which he has attained, preserve him in life and in His favour, until (עד equals עד־אשׁר, as in Psalm 132:5; Genesis 38:11, and frequently) he shall have declared His arm, i.e., His mighty interposition in human history, to posterity (דּור), and to all who shall come (supply אשׁר), i.e., the whole of the future generation, His strength, i.e., the impossibility of thwarting His purposes. The primary passage for this is Psalm 22:31.
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Psalm 40:1-3 I waited patiently for the LORD; and he inclined to me, and heard my cry...
Psalm 60:3 You have showed your people hard things: you have made us to drink the wine of astonishment.
Psalm 66:10-12 For you, O God, have proved us: you have tried us, as silver is tried...
Psalm 88:6 You have laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps.
Psalm 138:7 Though I walk in the middle of trouble, you will revive me: you shall stretch forth your hand against the wrath of my enemies...
2 Samuel 12:11 Thus said the LORD, Behold, I will raise up evil against you out of your own house, and I will take your wives before your eyes...
Mark 14:33,34 And he takes with him Peter and James and John, and began to be sore amazed, and to be very heavy...
Mark 15:34 And at the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani? which is, being interpreted...
2 Corinthians 11:23-31 Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I am more; in labors more abundant, in stripes above measure...
Revelation 7:14 And I said to him, Sir, you know. And he said to me, These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes...
Psalm 80:18 So will not we go back from you: quicken us, and we will call on your name.
Isaiah 26:19 Your dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, you that dwell in dust...
Hosea 6:1,2 Come, and let us return to the LORD: for he has torn, and he will heal us; he has smitten, and he will bind us up...
Acts 2:24,32-34 Whom God has raised up, having loosed the pains of death: because it was not possible that he should be held of it...
shall bring
Psalm 16:10 For you will not leave my soul in hell; neither will you suffer your Holy One to see corruption.
Psalm 40:2 He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet on a rock, and established my goings.
Psalm 86:13 For great is your mercy toward me: and you have delivered my soul from the lowest hell.
Isaiah 38:17 Behold, for peace I had great bitterness: but you have in love to my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption...
Ezekiel 37:12,13 Therefore prophesy and say to them, Thus said the Lord GOD; Behold, O my people, I will open your graves...
Jonah 2:6 I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; the earth with her bars was about me for ever...
Ephesians 4:9 (Now that he ascended, what is it but that he also descended first into the lower parts of the earth?
Cross References
Psalm 34:19
Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the LORD delivers him out of them all.
Psalm 60:3
You have made your people see hard things; you have given us wine to drink that made us stagger.
Psalm 80:18
Then we shall not turn back from you; give us life, and we will call upon your name!
Psalm 85:6
Will you not revive us again, that your people may rejoice in you?
Psalm 86:13
For great is your steadfast love toward me; you have delivered my soul from the depths of Sheol.
Psalm 119:25
My soul clings to the dust; give me life according to your word!
Psalm 119:37
Turn my eyes from looking at worthless things; and give me life in your ways.
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Combating a trend towards faceless online insurance purchases, Nevada insurance agents and brokers seek to educate the market on the importance of a trusted insurance advisor. Recently, executives in this industry met at the Las Vegas offices of City National Bank to discuss the challenges they face. Connie Brennan, publisher of Nevada Business Magazine, served as moderator … [Read more...] about Industry Focus: Insurance
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Contact: Uyghur Human Rights Project +1 (202) 478 1920
On December 12, 1997, the United Nations (UN) General Assembly designated June 26 as the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture. The UN states:
Torture is a crime under international law. According to all relevant instruments, it is absolutely prohibited and cannot be justified under any circumstances. This prohibition forms part of customary international law, which means that it is binding on every member of the international community, regardless of whether a State has ratified international treaties in which torture is expressly prohibited. The systematic or widespread practice of torture constitutes a crime against humanity.
On International Day in Support of Victims of Torture 2017, the Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP) calls on China to genuinely investigate persistent allegations of torture leveled at state authorities. UHRP also calls on the international community to challenge China on its record regarding the torture of Uyghur detainees.
"Days of commemoration for the victims of human rights abuses should mean something. Torture is one of the most egregious of human rights violations and contravenes all standards of behavior. On days such as the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, the international community should hold China accountable for its appalling record of torturing Uyghur detainees. Politics should never be a factor in standing up for the victims of China's state violence,' said UHRP Director, Omer Kanat in a statement.
Mr. Kanat added: "It is time for China to meet its international obligations toward its citizens. China should come clean about the documented cases of Uyghurs, and others, tortured while in detention. Only when China genuinely investigates these violations and offers proper restitution will it be able to claim any kind of moral leadership in the world."
Despite its status as a signatory to the United Nations Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, China continues to carry out acts of state sanctioned violence. To date, no effective mechanisms have been initiated in China to curb the practice of torture within its borders and in East Turkestan.
Uyghurs in Chinese government custody frequently suffer from physical abuse and other maltreatment. In late 2005, after making his first official visit to China, during which he visited prisons in Urumchi, Lhasa, and Beijing, Mr. Manfred Nowak, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture, confirmed that "torture was widespread" in China. Nowak added that there has been a "consistent and systematic pattern of torture related to ethnic minorities, particularly Tibetans and Uyghurs."
One of the Uyghur prisoners Nowak met in Urumchi No. 1 Prison was Muhammed Tohti Metrozi, who was deported to China by the Pakistani government in 2003 while he was preparing to leave Pakistan for Sweden through the UNHCR process. He was sentenced to life imprisonment in 2005 on charges of "splittism." Amnesty International expressed concern over Metrozi's case in 2003 and 2004. In 2011, Human Rights Watch listed him as an individual of concern because of his forced return to China.
Due to Metrozi's fluency in English, Nowak could speak with him without the help of a translator. Metrozi described how he had been tortured by Chinese police and the poor conditions in the prison. After Mr. Nowak's departure, Chinese prison authorities punished Metrozi on account of his conversation with Nowak. According to a letter sent by Metrozi's wife and parents to a member of the Uyghur diaspora, Metrozi was tortured and beaten so badly that he was not able to move for months. The letter was forwarded to Nowak's office. Eleven years after Nowak's visit, Metrozi's name appeared on a list of 11 Uyghurs whose sentences had been reduced at a prison rally on February 1, 2016.
In November 2015, UHRP and the World Uyghur Congress (WUC) jointly submitted an alternative report to the United Nations Committee Against Torture (CAT) for consideration during the 56th session of the Committee from November 9 to December 9, 2015 in Geneva, Switzerland. The submission documented no progress on torture of Uyghur detainees since Manfred Nowak's visit ten years earlier.
UHRP and the WUC highlighted several cases of Uyghurs subjected to torture by the Chinese state. Among the documented Uyghur victims included were Shohret Tursun, Noor-Ul-Islam Sherbaz and Tudahun Hoshur. Suggested reforms contained in the document were a legitimate and effective complaints mechanism for victims of torture and a strict enforcement of compliance to legal procedures during criminal investigations.
In March 2017, Radio Free Asia (RFA) reported on the case of Uyghur business man Abdurishit Haji, who was detained by Chinese police on December 16, 2016 and died in custody on January 13, 2017. Haji's son, Hesenjan Abdurishit, told RFA reporters Chinese authorities said the cause of his father's death was heart failure. However, Abdurishit added he was not aware of his father having any health issues. UHRP calls for a transparent investigation into the circumstances of his death.
See also:
Briefing: The United Nations and Amnesty International on Torture in East Turkestan
Systematic Torture in the People's Republic of China


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Emmanuel Adebayor is on the verge of joining Lyon, according to the MailOnline.
The former Tottenham, Arsenal and Manchester City striker has been without a club since he was released by Crystal Palace in June.
The 32-year-old signed a short-term deal at Selhurst Park in January but became a free-agent after scoring just one goal in 15 appearances for the south London club.
Lyon president Jean-Michel Aulas says they are close to signing 'an experienced and ambitious' attacker, while Adebayor is flying to France with a view to signing.
A move to Ligue 1 would represent a return for Adebayor to the country where he began his professional career with Metz
The 32-year-old first came to England when he left Monaco for Arsenal in 2006. Adebayor played 142 games for the Emirates Stadium club, scoring 62 goals – a return that persuaded Manchester City to shell out £25million for his services in 2009.
Lyon have taken six points from their opening four matches this season. Seven-time French champions, they were runners-up to Paris Saint-Germain last term and began their Champions League campaign this week with a 3-0 victory over Dinamo Zagreb.


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New Zealand has always been the most popular destination location for Palmers Relocations and our clients. We understand all about moving to and from New Zealand and we should, we are from there!!! With the Palmer family moving across the Tasman in the late 70's to establish our Australian based branches.
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At Palmers, we can relocate any size shipment from a single box of clothing up to a 40ft container of household goods. There are two main types of shipments we provide to New Zealand:
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Backups. We all know we should do them but how many of us actually do? It can be a tiresome job and a real pain. Often rural people and businesses have limited internet connectivity and online backups can be a complete nightmare. Here are a few tips to help you backup your data and keep it simple.
Organise your data. This should be a given but how many of us have our data scattered around the place on our computers? If you can keep all your data located under a single folder or directory in a tree like structure then when it comes time to backup you'll know where everything is. In Windows a good starting place for this is the 'My Documents' folder, alternately you can always create another folder structure in another location. Just make sure you use it for all your data.
Buy a portable hard drive. One of these little things is the simplest way to backup your data. It may not be the best and ultra safest way when compared to some online backup offerings but it is quick and easy and at least you have another copy of your data on hand. If your data is organised in one folder as described above then a backup can consist of a 'drag and drop' to the portable hard drive of your data folder.
Always keep a few of your older backups too, just in case. You can do this by just renaming the folder on you USB thumbdrive to something like backup-folder-02062011 which means backup from the 2 June 2011.
Store your backup somewhere else. Once you've got your backup, what then? Where do you keep it? Having your portable hard drive with all its backed up data sitting on your computer desk is better than no backup at all but what happens if disaster strikes? You've probably lost it all. If you can store your backup off site somewhere then you can remove 'complete data loss' from your disaster scenario. Make sure where you store your portable hard drive is dry and dust free though. I store mine in wrapped in a couple of plastic supermarket bags in my workshop. Buy a plastic lunch box, wrap your hard drive in a couple of plastic bags and stick on a shelf in the wool shed.
Don't forget your business software. Now you've backed up your data and found a place to store it you should turn your attention to the software that you or your business uses on a day to day basis. Software like your accounting software, stock management software etc. This can be as easy as making a copy of original CD's or DVD's and storing them with your offsite backup. The difficulty arises when you have no media that the software came on, perhaps you bought the software online or it was installed by someone else. There are a couple of things you can do, you can create a complete image of the computers hard drive, this is ideal. Alternately you can copy the files and directories that your software uses, often this works but sometimes you may miss an important file that may stop the application from working when you copy it back.
Compress your data if using an online service. This can slice a large amount of time of the process, especially for those dial-up users out there. By compressing your data you can reduce the size by up to 90% for mostly text type data, although if you have a mixture of data i.e. Word documents and spreadsheets etc it'll probably be more in the region of 20% - 40%. Still a large saving in the amount of data you'll be pushing over the internet. A good, free compression program I like to use is 7zip. But there others out there.
You can always contact us if you like some help with your backup needs or want to discuss ways to improve your current process.


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ASU Electronic Theses and Dissertations
This collection includes most of the ASU Theses and Dissertations from 2011 to present. ASU Theses and Dissertations are available in downloadable PDF format; however, a small percentage of items are under embargo. Information about the dissertations/theses includes degree information, committee members, an abstract, supporting data or media.
In addition to the electronic theses found in the ASU Digital Repository, ASU Theses and Dissertations can be found in the ASU Library Catalog.
Dissertations and Theses granted by Arizona State University are archived and made available through a joint effort of the ASU Graduate College and the ASU Libraries. For more information or questions about this collection contact or visit the Digital Repository ETD Library Guide or contact the ASU Graduate College at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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- Mobile Crowd Sensing in Edge Computing Environment
- The Effect of Disability on Subjective Well-Being across the Adult Lifespan: The Moderating Roles of Age at Disability Onset and Disability Type
- Mechanically Active Heterogeneous Polymer Matrix Composites
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Ensemble learning methods like bagging, boosting, adaptive boosting, stacking have traditionally shown promising results in improving the predictive accuracy in classification. These techniques have recently been widely used in various domains and applications owing to the improvements in computational efficiency and distributed computing advances. However, with the advent of wide variety of applications of machine learning techniques to class imbalance problems, further focus is needed to evaluate, improve and optimize other performance measures such as sensitivity (true positive rate) and specificity (true negative rate) in classification. This thesis demonstrates a novel approach to evaluate and optimize the performance measures (specifically …
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AWA Now Accepting 2011-2012 Good Husbandry Grant Proposals
Animal Welfare Approved is pleased to announce a call for proposals for its 2011-2012 Good Husbandry Grants. Now in its fourth year, the Good Husbandry Grants program has funded nearly one hundred projects across the country to improve farm animal welfare. Certified farmers and those who have submitted an application for AWA certification may apply for up to $5,000 towards projects such as mobile housing, breeding stock, and on-farm processing equipment. Slaughter plants working with or seeking to work with AWA farmers are also eligible for funding. The funding priorities for this year's cycle include improved genetics, increased outdoor access, welfare improvements in the slaughter process and non-lethal predator control. A primary goal of this grant program is to facilitate the growth and success of high-welfare, pasture-based systems.