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Have you ever had a patient that came to you with a clear idea of what he or she would like in their career, but just couldn't seem to make any progress?
Along with relationships, physical health and spiritual concerns, career issues are one of the most common motivations to seek therapy. Most often, concerns about work and money are rooted in core beliefs about success, security and worthiness that are relics of childhood learning.
Whether patients struggle with long-term stuckness, dissatisfaction or underachievement, their core beliefs can act as significant roadblocks to reaching career goals and can radically compromise financial health, too.
Core beliefs are often expressed through actions rather than words. For instance, a patient may not come forth and say that deep down she believes she's incompetent, but will express this belief through behavior; by not going for the promotion at work, not pushing herself to develop new skills or staying stuck for years in work that doesn't challenge her.
The following five core beliefs are based on schema theory, which suggests that core beliefs or schemas are developed early in life and carried into our adult lives, where, when triggered, can be intensely painful. The first step to working with core beliefs is to identify them and the ways they show up in clients' lives.
Core Beliefs
Do you recognize any of these beliefs in your clients?
1.If I can't do it perfectly, it's not worth doing.
Clients who struggle with perfectionism, fear of criticism or the vulnerability that comes with making mistakes often find themselves paralyzed. They may put off starting a new project or learning a new skill until they believe that they can execute it perfectly, which tends to result in failure to start at all. Clients with this core belief are so averse to the thought of failure that they'd prefer to stay stuck in unchallenging situations, which can severely limit career satisfaction.
While "perfectionis" clients may be high achievers at some point in their lives, they may struggle with self-compassion and relaxation, and instead may instead be highly self-critical and hyperactive.
Highly self-critical clients often operate under the assumption that their inner critic is protecting them, and that if they were to "go easy" on themselves, their performance would surely suffer. But research has shown that self-criticism does not actually motivate improved performance. If anything, it leads to increased burnout and depleted resilience.
2. I'll never accomplish my goals anyway. Why bother?
We've all worked with patients who struggle with excessive negative thinking and ruminative thought patterns. Somewhere along the line, these individuals' brains shifted to focus almost exclusively on disappointment, loss and all that could go wrong in a situation rather than make space for the possibility that things could go right.
Patients who carry excessive negative core beliefs may have learned early on that the world is a dangerous, unforgiving and disappointing place. They may have even grown up with an anxious, depressed or agoraphobic parent. Because these people are so fixated on failure and on what could potentially go wrong, they tend to stay stuck in situations that range from unsatisfying to toxic for much longer than they should.
3. Others' needs are more important than my own.
Clients who chronically put the needs of others before their own tend to sacrifice their own wants and needs for the wants and needs of others and can get caught in situations that do not serve them because of guilt, shame or a simple inability to attend to personal needs. Such clients may have grown up with a narcissistic or alcoholic parent or otherwise learned to focus on the needs of others from an early age.
For these clients, boundaries are typically non-existent and the idea of paying attention to one's own needs over those of others will often come with feelings of selfishness, guilt and even intense fear.
4. I know what I want, but I can never seem to make it happen.
While some patients struggle to even know what they want, others seem to have crystal clear visions of the work they'd like to do and the careers they'd like to have. They simply lack the discipline to make it happen.
Lack of discipline often reflects a lack of distress tolerance, diminished impulse control and a need for instant gratification rooted in an inability to sit with difficult thoughts, feelings or bodily sensations.
The good news is that impulse control can be developed through a mindfulness-based practice called urge-surfing, in which the client learns to notice his or her urges as they arise, and let them pass rather than acting on them.
5. I'm incompetent or possess a fatal flaw that makes success virtually impossible for me.
People who carry the core belief that they are incompetent or possess an irredeemable flaw may have grown up with a highly critical, emotionally neglectful or enmeshed parent.
Emotionally neglectful parents often mean well, but lack understanding of their child's emotional needs and are unable to tend to them in appropriate ways. As a result, the child learns that there is something deeply wrong with him or her, and carries that belief into adulthood.
Enmeshed parents, on the other hand, blur the boundaries between themselves and their child, hampering the child's developing sense of self and instilling the belief that the child cannot handle the world on his or her own without the parent.
For those whose core beliefs include that they are incompetent or somehow broken, taking career risks or volunteering for challenging projects each come with the risk that the incompetence or fatal flaw will be exposed. Without addressing the validity of one's believed incompetence or brokenness, it will be very challenging to take the risks that career success requires.


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Snuper Releases Dance Version Video for "Platonic Love"
Ben Cho, March 16, 2016, 10:40 a.m.
K-pop group Snuper recently made their comeback with the release of their 2nd mini-album "Platonic Love", and they've just released a brand new dance version music video! Not like the original music video for "Platonic Love", where the members all can be seen hanging out together at a roller skating rink, this video purely focuses on their dance choreography, and fans are sure to love it!
Snuper is a six-member South Korean boy group under WIDMAY Entertainment. They officially debuted on November 16, 2015 with the mini album Shall We. It is the agency's first idol group.

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The kind of record-breaking attempt where you balance an egg on your head while performing La Traviata backwards in a vat of custard - Londonist thinks those are pretty lame, on the whole.
The kind of record-breaking attempt where you stand up for free speech in the UK while pointing out the ridiculousness of the paranoid laws introduced by the government which curb the right to protest, however - those are the kind of record-breaking attempts we like to get behind. Just like the one Mark Thomas, righteously angry comedian and Londonist favourite, is organising for next Saturday (April 21), in fact. Mark is trying to organise the UK's largest-ever "mass lone protest" authorised under SOCPA and wants 2,000 individual protests to take place within a kilometre of Parliament Square - but hurry, forms have to be delivered to Charing Cross police station by 10.30am on Sunday 15th.
So far 1761 protests are due to take place - with some people doing just one protest and some following the gruelling schedule of 20 ten-minute protests, with 10 minutes' travelling time in between.
Why is this important? Over to Mark:
So far Maya Evans has been arrested and convicted of ringing a bell and reading out the names of British and Iraqi war dead. This was illegal without permission. Mark Thomas has had to get permission to wear a red nose on Red Nose Day in Parliament Square - as he might have been arrested without permission. A young woman was threatened with arrest for wearing a T shirt with some of Brian Haw's art works printed on them- when she pointed out to the police officer that she was advertising the Tate Britain show by Mark Wallinger the police withdrew the threat of arrest. A man dressed as Charlie Chaplin with a sign saying "Not Aloud" was arrested outside Downing St, he was convicted under the SOCPA law.
If the law is a bad and stupid law then challenge it! The Home Office said "We understand from the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police that during the period 1 August 2005 to December 2006 1,379 demonstrations have taken place with an authorisation." Already we have given the police over a years worth of demo's in one day. Let's get to 2,000!
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Tuesday, July 26, 2016
Catholic priest beheaded but it's okay, Obama says the world has never been less violent
Since this asinine statement, there have been several more Islamic terror attacks. Two Islamic knife-wielding terrorists have just beheaded an 86 year old Catholic priest in France. See here.
None of this will produce the slightest crack in Mr. Obama's wall of conviction. This because he is a fanatic. And the fanatic is incapable of seeing the truth.
It was the French philosopher Gabriel Marcel, a man whose thought so greatly influenced my own, who said that, "Fanaticism is essentially opinion; opinion pushed to paroxysm; with everything that the notion of opinion may imply of blinded ignorance as to its own nature...whatever ends the fanatic is aiming at or thinks he is aiming at, even if he wishes to gather men together, he can only in fact separate them; but as his own interests cannot lie in effecting this separation, his is led...to wish to wipe his opponents out. And when he is thinking of these opponents, he takes care to form the most degrading images of them possible - they are 'lubricious vipers' or 'hyenas and jackals with typewriters' - and the ones that reduce them to most grossly material terms. In fact, he no longer thinks of these opponents except as material obstacles to be overturned or smashed down. Having abandoned the behaviour of a thinking being, he has lost even the feeblest notion of what a thinking being, outside himself, could be. It is understandable therefore that he should make very effort to deny in advance the rights and qualifications of those whom he wishes to eliminate; and that he should regard all means to this end as fair. We are back here again at the techniques of degradation...fanaticism is, of its very nature, incompatible with any regard for truth; and as truth itself is not really seperable from our regard for it, we need not hesitate to say that the fanatic is the enemy of truth..." (Man Against Mass Society, pp. 149-150).
Hillary Clinton shares Obama's fanaticism and his delusion that the world has never been safer. We see this delusion in certain corners within the Church. For example, Bishop Robert McManus has asserted that, "the Catholic Church has engaged herself in inter-religious dialogue with Muslims. This dialogue has produced a harvest of mutual respect, understanding and cooperation throughout the world..."
A harvest of mutual respect?
Pray for those who are so blinded by ideology that they can no longer see reality.
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Hillary is every bit as blind due to ideology. America would not be safe with Hillary as president. The country would be in grave peril.
It's been bad enough with idiot Obama in the White House. With Hillary it would be total disaster.
- Unknown said...
Luke 10:18 Jesus tells his disciples, I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven.=BarakOBama in Aramaic/Hebrew
Translations of Barak = lightning
Yeshua spoke Aramaic / Hebrew and he would not have said these words in Greek as the New Testament thus don't turn to the Greek words for any information here. What are the words lightening and Heaven or Heights in Hebrew?
Lightning = bâraq
A primitive root; to lighten (lightning): cast forth. bârâq
lightning : by analogy a gleam; concretely a flashing sword: bright, glitter (-ing, sword), lightning.
Did Lucifer say he would ascend into the heights? Yes he did,
Isaiah 14:12 How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!
Isaiah 14:13 For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:
Isaiah 14:14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds (heavens); I will be like the most High.
Heights = bâmâh From an unused root (meaning to be high); an elevation: height, high place, wave.
A word in Hebrew used to join concepts together as a conjuction would be Vav which is often pronounced as O - Vav with a dot on top is pronounced O, .... So, to join "Lighting" and the "heights" of Heaven, one would use VAV pronounced as "O".
So, in the poetic style of Isaiah we would have Lightning and heights of Heaven as "Baraq O Bamah" .
From this we would see Yeshua saying,
I beheld Satan fall as Baraq O Bamah.
I myself speak, read, write Hebrew and worked as a nurse 2 years in Jerusalem in Sha'are Tsedek Hospital. Riki as my husband calls me.
Rita Biesemans (my Hebrew name is Rivka=Rebecca) We are messianic-catholic Jews
- TLM said...
How long Dear Lord?!! How long??!! I used to buy the propaganda that 'Our Lady of Fatima has honored the consecration' (of Russia). There are now many indications of this to be false. One of the logical questions that come to mind: Why are all these Popes consecrating the WORLD to the Immaculate Heart, if they indeed believe them to be authentic? Francis YET AGAIN consecrated 'THE WORLD' to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. He's not aware that it has been done multiple times? And since it has been done multiple times, none of them except for his were accepted? He did the same thing!! Who are they all trying to gain acceptance from, the Blessed Mother or are they trying to convince the faithful it has been done? It's as if Francis has said: John Paul 11 performed the consecration, but I will do it again just for good measure?? What a sham.
- Rita Jeannine Melanson said...
61 speeches on day 1 of the DNC. And not one mention of ISIS. This is what we can expect if Hillary is elected. An unqualified disaster!


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Thursday, February 18, 2010
On Perversity
I am disappointed that I live in a country that has a perverse notion of perversity. It seems trespassing is not a crime, invasion of privacy is not a crime, photographing/videographing someone's intimate moments without his/her consent is not a crime, distributing intimate clips of another human being is not a crime, suspending someone without a reason is not a crime, pejoratively identifying another human being as a "rickshaw-puller" as if that has any bearing on the matter is not considered reprehensible, a so-called newspaper not trying to anonymize the identity of a gay person who is sure to be ostracized and worse is considered acceptable, that an institute of "repute" does not know the difference between a crime, "gross misconduct", a scandal, and a consensual act is fine, a teachers' union not commenting upon the victimization of a colleague is not a shocking act, and so on and so forth.
However, an adult human being enjoying himself with with another adult human being with his/her consent is considered perverse, reprehensible, scandalous, worthy of punitive action, and so on and so forth.
Shame on you, AMU. And shame on you, ToI. And shame on you, the fucking "local TV channel" which had the criminal audacity to barge into someone's home because "the door was open" and videograph him. May you all realize the nature of your perversity, and leave normal human beings alone.
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I am disappointed too. I think the 'reporters' must be sent behind the bars first- who the hell do they think they are?. News/TV channels are desparate to create news and the ease of videography has led to such possibilities. Shame on AMU to have even considered such a video for taking action.
- Amit said...
Dr. Siras has been wronged -- if there's a way to reach him, I'd like him to know that there are many out there who disagree with AMU's theological fanaticism.
Consensual action between two human beings is a private affair -- Mr. VC @ AMU what's so difficult to understand about this ?
Great post Harman.
ha! lip service of support means nothing...you have no idea how can the state ( university) arm twist a person...besides who will protect Prof. Siras if fundamentalist lay seize of his house....disagreement with AMU amounts to nothing. No body will support the poor chap...no one spoke when Sabbarwal was killed, silence prevailed when Shivaji was hounded out of Baroda.... no one speaks even when things happen in their own city.... he took the right decision to save his life and recognizing that it is futile to have a sensible discussion with people who are sold to nonsense.
- Ketan said...
Unfortunate. I had exactly the same thoughts as you on reading the news.
Likewise, I was appalled to see that none of the people responsible for convincing/coercing three women to have sex and being captured on camera in N.D. Tiwari's case were charged! Or at least the media did not bring it to our notice. Also, I was surprised to not hear voices of feminists in opposing the whole Tiwari-thing!
Perversity, Freedom and a respect for an Individual and his "self" - amazing emergent phenomenon, aren't they?
- Darshan Chande said...
I am not aware of this issue in the least. But I am moved by this write up. Very true, effective and impacting!


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unlearn fears
March 7, 2017
when your Mami told me we were pregnant, i went down on my knees. my legs couldn't support my body's newfound emotions. i cried. i cried hard. i cried for the 28-other months that i held her while she cried after we read another negative result. i cried for the 28-other months that we either walked into a sterile exam room or met up with Doddie, filled with all the hope of creating a family on our terms. sometimes in the middle of work weeks we'd drive into the city and back on the same day, days in a row, just to try again. i cried for the over thirty injections i gave Mami every night for two-weeks (her abdomen filled with puncture bruises -i tried my best to be the most gentle nurse). i cried for the day we went in for egg retrieval and i sat in the waiting room alone, sending positive energies and calling you forth. i cried for the day when they did the embryo transfer but i was hospitalized the night before and wasn't able to be there. i cried for the day, ten-years ago when i had a hysterectomy and said farewell to you from my own womb. but i cried mostly because Mami's heart broke so many times before the day we finally received the good news. i was overwhelmed that the Happiness of You had finally come to heal our broken hearts.
and just as quickly, fear settled in.
how do i unlearn almost 39-years of learned fears? of doctrine and dogma? how can i make sure that i don't teach you this? will i be a good parent? how can i make sure that you won't hate anyone? especially me? will lack of biology affect our relationship? will you be bullied at school because you have two moms? will my family see you as one of us? will their religion get in the way of seeing you in all of your beauty? will they see us as a family? and why do i even care about what others think?
the layers run deep.
on december of 2007, Mamá had a hysterectomy. i still remember that day clearly. your Mami and i had not yet met. i seriously thought that the reason i was unable to have my own children was a direct result of a punishment reserved for me for being queer; for not being what the world wanted me to be. and so on that day when they removed the crib that i thought would one day hold you, i became womb-less and actually believed that i was less of a woman because the sum of my parts no longer added to the expected whole woman necessary to bare and raise children.
we have waited a long time for you. every heartbreak along the way has strengthened our Love for you. but before it strengthened us, it broke us into a million shattered pieces. when you Love someone the way i Love your Mami, and you know they want something so wholeheartedly, that every time they don't get their wish, a piece of your heart experiences necrosis. it dies. it feels unrepairable. and it's not that i didn't want it as bad as Mami. it's that i had already reconciled it in my head that you were no longer a possibility in my body, so i shut that down and hardened my heart. so when Mami and i were ready to start the journey to you, i chose to focus my energies on helping her bring your Light to this world. and each time we received news that we were not pregnant, i witnessed Mami's pain and i couldn't place it anywhere but inside of me. i didn't want her to see my hurt and i felt that i needed to be stronger for her.
when your Mami and i met, one of our first conversations was around raising children. we talked about everything related to this , including and questioning if this was something reserved for "the others." we struggled with questions around heteronormativity and whether we were trying to assimilate to "them" (as if parenthood is reserved for just one set of people). we struggled with the idea that if we went through with it, we'd have to find an environment where you would be safe and you could thrive and grow, happy and healthy… and safe again.
i feared the church. that place that watched me grow and screamed from the pulpits that i was an abomination. i feared what others said, that our Love was null in front of the eyes of god because "it wasn't real." i feared it would show up in places that would affect you and your emotional and spiritual development. i feared you'd hate us, or just hate me because the biology wasn't there. And well, blood is thick and heavy and it weighs in. but it also flows…
i was immediately on defensive mode thinking that at school you'd be "the weird kids." i was scared that anyone would harm you, either physically or emotionally. I for sure would catch a case and end up in prison because i already Love you like i have never felt Love before. if anyone even attempts to hurt you i will literally loose my shit. you see, your two little lives, are always be protected by my own and Mami's as well. you should also know that you are officially covered under the insurance of our Love. that means that no harm will come your way that you are not equipped to handle. that means that you are always protected.
all of these fears, my little big Loves, are just fears based on my upbringing. this world will try to teach you things that you will need to unlearn real quick. i will do my absolute best to make sure you don't learn those lessons that come from a place of other people's void or ignorance.
the truth is always in Love.
this world you're coming into is pretty scary nut beautiful. and it is going to try so fucking hard to show you otherwise. this world will want to make you think you are something other than Loved. some will never see us as Family, some will want to make you think you don't belong here or you are something different than your peers but i will raise you to know and understand that you are perfect, whole, and complete as you are.
you come from a deeper Love. you come from a place of Hope and Faith. you come from Fight and Struggle. you come from Joy and Peace. your existence is powerful beyond measure. your existence is a revolution all its own. ignore the noise of other people's fears projected on our lives.
we are Familia. punto.
when your mother told me we were pregnant, i went down on my knees and an overwhelming gratitude filled my entire body. you became not one but two heart beating reminders that fears dissipate when i surrender to Love..
saturday mornings
January 28, 2017
Saturday mornings smelled like pancakes and mistolín at our place. The record player only played boleros. The kind that had you pausing between cleaning and grabbing whatever was near you that you could turn into a microphone and sing at the top of your lungs: "Dueño de ti, dueño de nada…no soy yo, ese a quien tu le dices mi dueño…" My mother lived a lot of those songs. She would sing them like she wrote them.
"Los sabados son de limpieza y oficio," Mami would say. As she wrapped her hair in a pañuelo, rolled up her pant legs, and slipped on her chancletas.
Saturday morning my brothers and I would wake up to the sound of Mami talking to her plants as she watered them. She'd have a couple of boxes of cereal sitting on the kitchen table with bowls and spoons. We'd serve ourselves a bowl of conflei' con leche and sat our little nalgas in the living room floor. She'd make pancakes and eggs. Manny, David, and I would sit and watch our morning cartoon marathon.
While we did that, Mami floated around. Sometimes she was in her room, other times she'd sit and watch TV with us. She'd start writing a list of what needed to get done. And she would start cleaning her room. At 10am we knew we had to shut the TV off and start picking up our rooms.
Mami only knew how to deep clean. There was no half-ass cleaning. You either cleaned the shit outta' something or you didn't. She cleaned everything and she enjoyed it. She liked to move things around and make things pretty. She played with colors and themes and figurines. She would reorganize closets and drawers, change bed sheets and bathroom curtains. Mami could've ran a business on cleaning and organizing. My mother would make our tenement apartment feel like a 5th Avenue suite.
Once the house was clean, we had to run errands: from the cashiers check place to Con Edison to paying the guy at la bodega who let you take fiaó, she had a running To-Do-List. The routine was important for her. It kept her feeling grounded.
We'd get on the train and head to downtown Manhattan. My little feet running alongside her long strides; I held her hand tightly. She'd look at us and smile. And that is how she confirmed what we always hoped would happen at the end of errands. We knew she was going to take us to our favorite place. Our anticipation and excitement grew exponentially. We were three kids: 11, 10, and 6-years-old, so our excited energy was pretty intense.
Mami would stretch dollars just so she could take us to Playland. This was one of our all-time favorite treats. She would give us each $5 to play .25 arcade games. That was 20 games each. For my brothers, that lasted much longer than for me. But it was the look on Mami's face that made me happiest. Because for her, in that moment, she was responsible for the happiness and well-being of three little lives. And in that instance, on that particular Saturday, she didn't feel like she couldn't provide. She didn't feel like she didn't have enough. No. In that moment, as our smiles grew our faces, we gave her the happiness and peacefulness of a perfect day.
Saturday morning… José José is belting El Triste and I start to clean and understand in a different light why my mother cleaned the way she did while she listened to these songs. There was some soul-cleansing happening at the same time she dusted and mopped. I'll make sure to find a way to treat myself at the end of this day… I'll find a way to paint smiles on the faces of others.
dye the narrative
January 4, 2017
this past fall i participated in a writing course. i did it as a way to "return to my writing." my writing and i had a break up. and i had been in this "writer's block" for some time that turned into days and later months. then years. it felt like an eternity since i had been able to put something together that i was proud of; something that i could read and feel good about.
created and facilitated by Vanessa Mártir, i signed up for the course: Writing Our Lives. The semester finished in early December. on the last day of class we workshopped each other's work. we were proud of what each person had put out. and at the end, we hugged, and went our separate ways. we've been keeping in touch with each other. the internet makes it easy.
last week, Vanessa posted on FB that she wanted to challenge others to take on something she had done in the closing year: write one essay per week in the year 2016. she did it. literally, she wrote an essay. per week. for one year. when i read her post asking folks to consider challenging themselves,d my initial thought was like, "eta' tipa 'ta loca o le patina el caco'?"
but i thought about it -i literally slept on it. and i asked myself that damn question that we hate when others ask, "are you a writer?" "what qualifies you to claim the title?" "have you published anything?" the more i repeatedly asked myself these questions, the more frightened i became. often, we let others determine who and what we are. when they ask these questions, we feel inadequate because we may not meet other people's definition of a writer.
well f*ck that. i'm a writer because i say so. my story has been published in every single step i have taken towards my truth.
i decided that i'm taking on the challenge. why? cause i'm crazy. and by crazy i mean that i know how difficult it is to write just one essay. i here i just committed to write one per week. but you know what? this SERVES me. it FEEDS me. it allows me to connect with my communities.
i write because for too long our collective stories have been silenced, omitted, and erased. our stories are too powerful and too poignant. they are needed so that we may dye the "dominant narrative."
for too long our communities have been silenced. we have been slaughtered and the stories written said we were the ones wielding the knives. we've been maimed and the newspaper headlines read that it was our hot blooded temperament that created the war. even our screams have been attributed to hysteria. to some sort of "glitch in our system."
John Leguizamo wrote an article about the detrimental effects of the "exclusion" of our communities and the "message it sends to every Latino child." He writes about the importance of making our lives visible.
my writing is visibility and accountability. i am here to tell my story and empower others to tell theirs, so the OUR narrative reflects us in our truth. for too long they have colonized our tongues and twisted our story to create fear and hatred. the inaccuracies have portrayed us in such negative ways that we started to believe what the stories wrote about us. even our grandmothers, whose souls were untouchable, yielded to the narrative and died believing we were somehow broken.
i am here to write my story. because the power it holds is immense. i will take on this challenge because los muchachos necesitan saber nuestra verdad. they need to know that we are legendary. they need to know that we were, are, and will always be here.
our stories, the account of our events, our experiences are unique. they stand out because we stand up. i refuse to allow others to tell my story or my people's story. so i'm here. with pen in hand, blank pages in my notebook and a lifetime of stories to share because i am invincible not invisible.
i accept the challenge as a creative battle. with the ultimate prize of reclaiming our stories so that our children can know of the pen warriors that came to tell our truth.


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Toys "R" Us stores will open at 9 p.m. on Thanksgiving, one hour earlier than last year.
It's the latest in the Black Friday retail battle to one-up the competition.
Wal-Mart moved its usual midnight opening to 10 p.m. this year, and Target stores bumped its opening up to midnight.
Black Friday is the real deal for Toys "R" Us.
The fourth quarter is the make-or-break period for the toy giant. It usually pays for the other three quarters. In 2010, $6 billion, or roughly 45 percent, of the company's full-year sales of $13.9 billion was rung up in the fourth quarter.
Toys "R" Us hopes to build on the results from last year. In the fourth quarter in 2010, the retailer reported that sales had increased to $5.97 billion from $5.86 billion. Adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization, which exclude items that don't reflect the company's core operations, rose to $802 million from $789 million in the same period from the previous year.


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I have a Contour Record 6 DVR , ARRIS Model AX013ANM, that I have NASCAR races scheduled to record just about everything NASCAR. It records races usually on Friday, Saturday & the main CUP race on Sunday. The Friday & Saturday races record & PLAY fine. The last 3 Sunday races record I have recorded, when I playback the recordings it says they have recorded & at the correct time but when I attempt to playback, the recording starts at the end of the race! I have researched & confirmed the races started on time, but all I get is the very end of the race! Even though the recording says there is 4 hours of recording.
Same thing happened yesterday. Guide says it recorded 3 hours, when I hit play, it started at 00:01 but it was the end of the race. I could not rewind it! I'm taking the dvr to swap in as soon as I can!
I canceled the recording & rescheduled for yesterday, Sunday, March 17. I started the playback last night, the recording starts in the MIDDLE of the race! I got to watch half of it, gettin better, LOL. I will swap dvr at my closest Cox office soon.
QUESTION, Do I need to bring all the boxes & remotes in or just the main DVR? Thanks.


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Technology can help young learners when used correctly
Technology is increasingly prevalent in 21st century classrooms, even those filled with our nation's youngest students. While elementary math learners are no strangers to technology – many have been using tablets, video games and computers for as long as they can remember – the question remains whether or not employing forms of virtual learning in the classroom will be helpful or detrimental.
The consensus among educators and education experts seems to be that technology is, in fact, quite helpful when used appropriately – particularly in the case of young learners who have come to expect their information to be delivered digitally. In an effort to ensure that early childhood learning uses media and technology effectively, the National Association for the Education of Young Children and the Fred Rogers Center for Early Learning have released a position statement to guide school districts in the right direction.
Tremendous Potential
"We believe that when used appropriately, technology and interactive media have tremendous potential to nurture early learning and development," Rita Catalano, executive director for the Fred Rogers Center, said in a statement. "The position statement is intended to support all those who care for and about young children in making informed, child-centered decisions about these news tools."
According to NAEYC, research has shown that the use of computers in classrooms can improve children's elementary math skills, as well as their social, cognitive, language, literacy and writing abilities. The question is how to best integrate computer use into classrooms and curricula.
Lorah Neville, executive director of curriculum and learning services in Tempe, Ariz., believes technology that has been intelligently designed will give students the most benefits academically.
"We need to be very clear about how and why we're using it," she told Education Week. "We don't want to replicate core instruction in a digital format. We want to enhance it."
Interactive Software
Adaptive learning software is particularly adept at supplementing teacher instruction. Many of these programs are specifically designed to tailor instruction to the needs of each individual student while simultaneously collecting data and feedback that teachers can use to personalize the learning experience of their students and help them be academically successful.
According to Education Week, experts agree that young students respond best to technology that is interactive, has lots of animation, and is connected to situations that they may encounter in everyday life. The bottom line is that teachers should be incorporating technology into their lesson plans in an engaging way.
Technology in the Classroom
"[Kids] have access to technology at home, so they expect it at school," Jacinta Sorgel, one of the Tempe school district's educational technology specialists, told Education Week. "They're able to stay motivated because it's something they do all the time."
While some parents may be concerned that technology is receiving too much emphasis in classrooms, the joint position statement from NAEYC and the Fred Rogers Center for Early Learning emphasizes the fact that engaging technology and interactive media can be extremely effective when used appropriately.
Educators that employ technology in a measured way and use it to supplement their teaching and engage elementary students will be able to have a positive impact on young learners.
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It all started with makeup, his mother's makeup.
Patrice Murciano was captivated by art from a very early age. As a child he would take his mother's makeup and apply it to the back of old rolls of wallpaper abandoned in the attic. His experimental art style continued into his early-teens, experimenting very much with romantic nude paintings. He has always been attracted to the female figure and this is evident in many of his works. In the latter part of his ongoing art career he was introduced to American painter Jackson Pollock's "dripping" art technique (dripping paint onto the canvas without touching it). This greatly influenced Patrice and gave him the perfect tool for emphasizing forms of the female figure in a creative and stylish manner. Patrice perfected the technique and made it into a signature and unique style. For this reason I say, Patrice Murciano catapulted pop art into the new millenium, by introducing to the world what he refers to as "pop grunge". Simply breathtaking.
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One vocalist,
two violins, one viola, one cello,
one double bass.
Led Zeppelin, Eurythmics, Jimi Hendrix, Peter Gabriel, AC/DC, The Beatles, REM, Ray Charles, Pink Floyd, Sting, The Who….
Who said these rock,
pop and soul classics could only be played with guitars, keyboards and drums?
The instruments may be classical but
StrungOut rocks.
Is the brainchild of vocalist
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a collection of rock classics
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Travelling with the arrangements
Tim Hood now fronts a separate StrungOut in London, Madrid and Perth, Australia.
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I've never seen a Democrat who supports term limits. Also none will support border control. Democrats are the party of open borders. The hapless Libertarian party is also on record as supporting open borders. Donald Trump has tapped into something huge and could ride it all the way to the top.
"Donald Trump may be flawed, but Washington is worse, on every front."
Charles Hurt in Washington Times.com 3-20-16
As of March 21, John Kasich is 1 for 27 in the primaries and still dreams of winning the nomination. As of March 21 Ted Cruz is ahead of Trump in nine states. Kasich or anyone must win 8 states to have his/her name put into nomination at the convention.
Sean Hannity says he's been to the Southern U.S. border at least 10 times. By using e-verify, illegals couldn't get a job without proof of citizenship. Illegals pose a national security problem, an economic problem.
"We would be much worse without Christianity, but we wouldn't know it."
Joseph Sobran Sobran.com
Bumper sticker of the day: Veterans BEFORE Refugees!
ESPN: Egotists Spouting Pathetic Nonsense.
The prez didn't have time to attend Nancy Reagan's funeral. "Self-centered, classless Obama misses another funeral of a high profile conservative."
Michele Bachmann
Dr. Ben Carson, Gentle Ben, endorses Donald Trump. "He is actually a very intelligent man," says Dr. Carson.
As of Sunday, March 6, 2016 - Days since Dustin Inman was killed by an illegal alien: 5,742.
Days since the horror on 9/11…5,290.
U.S. Border Patrol Agents lost in the line of duty…105.
Days until President Obama secures American borders…Unknown.
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Artemis Fowl:The Lost Colony
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Artemis Fowl and the Lost Colony is the fifth book in the Artemis Fowl Series by Irish writer Eoin Colfer. The book, originally expected to be published in the UK and Ireland on September 7 2006, was shipped to stores early. On September 12 of the same year, The Lost Colony became available in the US, and was released soon to other cou...


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EING International School was born on December 1, 2003. Educator and teacher Mrs. Cida Rix welcomed the first guests to witness the realization of a dream. With the realization of this dream also started a new and unparalleled work in Guarujá that foresaw a new horizon for education in the city.
Since 2004 EING started to open the doors for the first students to offer a different methodology, being the only bilingual school in the area.
In 2007 EING moved to the center of Guarujá where it opened more programs with Kindergarten and Primary School.
After also inserting nursery, EING took a new step to complete the cycle of basic education by starting also with High School. EING became with this step the only bilingual school in the region and the biggest bilingual school in the 'Litoral Paulista' area (coast of São Paulo state).
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A bright yellow flower used culinarily to flavor and add color to salads, soups and other dishes. The petals are sometimes dried, powdered and used as a coloring agent. See also flowers, edible.
From The Food Lover's Companion, Fourth edition by Sharon Tyler Herbst and Ron Herbst. Copyright © 2007, 2001, 1995, 1990 by Barron's Educational Series, Inc.


text: The Israeli offensive in Gaza has killed some 85 people. The Gaza offensive, which Israel says is aimed at recovering a captured soldier and stopping armed groups from firing makeshift rockets, has piled pressure on the Palestinian government led by Hamas, which demands a prisoner swap for the Israeli corporal. Israeli tanks and armoured personnel carriers, backed by helicopters, moved into farmland near Beit Hanoun, an area often used by militants for launching rockets. Small groups of fighters opened fire at the Israeli forces, but there was no report of casualties. "There is an army activity in Beit Hanoun. There has been deterrent fire," one Israeli military source said. Israeli troops had pulled out of the northern Gaza Strip a week earlier after a large raid into the territory, which Israel had abandoned last year after a 38-year occupation. Israel killed two Palestinians and attacked the economy ministry on Saturday, striking at the Hamas administration. Israel holds Hamas responsible for the fate of Corporal Gilad Shalit, who was captured in a raid from Gaza on June 25. Israel has said it will not discuss a prisoner exchange. The Israeli offensive in Gaza has killed about 85 people, about half of them civilians. SOURCE: Reuters


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At the opening of NANOG 53, Kevin McElearney of Comcast commented that within Comcast Regional Area Networks (CRANs), the company is regularly pushing 40+ Gbps of traffic out to the global Internet. This is a massive amount of traffic and in many cases, it's more traffic than entire countries around the world push out to the Internet.
It got me thinking about just how much traffic there is on the Internet and the rate at which that traffic will grow over the coming years.
Around the world, ISPs and networks interconnect with each other at specially designed data centers called Internet Exchange points (IXes). An IX is a large data center with access to multiple fiber optic pathways to the surrounding area, a large layer 2 peering switch (typically Ethernet-based) and a number of ISPs and networks that want to exchange traffic with one another.
One of the world's most popular Internet exchanges — MAE-East — was located in Virginia and served as the East Coast hub for Internet traffic back in the day. While I was at NANOG, I had drinks with Steve Feldman, who was sharing some stories of his experience working at MAE-East. Steve was commenting on some of the upgrades that were being performed at MAE-East, saying "When we installed the Gigaswitches in the exchange, they had 100 megabit per second (Mbps) FDDI ports. We were significantly future proofing ourselves. This would be plenty of capacity for a very long time."
So this got me thinking about exactly how much traffic can we anticipate on the Internet in the next 20 years? Knowing that Internet traffic grows at a rate similar to or ahead of Moore's Law, I assumed that traffic at the East Coast IX was approximately 100 Mbps in 1996 and ran the model out through the year 2030.
Yes, that's right: macro scale growth of a single 100 Mbps Internet Exchange serving the US East Coast to over 650+ Tbps of traffic alone!
Checking this data indicates that there is approximately 102 Gbps of traffic being exchanged on the US East Coast across the facilities that have replaced the MAE-East exchange. I believe this number to be approximately correct. Given that and the projection of Moore's Law, this means we can expect to be exchanging traffic volumes of over 650 Tbps in the year 2030.
There are some exchanges around the world today that are pushing over 1 Tbps in traffic and even this amount of traffic pushes the limits of the capabilities of today's networking hardware. We have quite a bit of work to do if we're going to be ready to handle 650+ Tbps of peering traffic!
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They hung in there for nearly the entire season, but it's finally official. The defending division champion Tacoma Rainiers will not qualify for the Pacific Coast League 2017 playoffs. Though the odds have long been slim, they've managed to keep a sliver of hope alive. The "magic number" finally caught up with the Rainiers. That means that the Rainiers' season will end in Las Vegas on Labor Day. The club will play their final home game of the year on Thursday, Aug. 31, and you don't want to miss your last chance to see Tacoma baseball for the year.
The series that finally put an end to any playoff hopes was a four-game set against the Fresno Grizzlies starting on Thursday, Aug. 24. The Rainiers trailed both Reno and Fresno in the standings, and there was going to be no room for error if they were going to spark some magic and sneak into the playoffs.
The series didn't start off too well, as Tacoma was held to just three hits by Fresno right-hander David Martinez, who struck out 10 (including seven in a row, one shy of the PCL record) over seven innings. The Rainiers only run came on a solo homer by Mike Marjama in the top of the fifth inning. Meanwhile, Christian Bergman was knocked around for five runs (four earned) in 1.2 innings, and Ryan Garton didn't fare much better, allowing four in just an inning and a third. Cody Martin was finally able to stop the bleeding, allowing one run over three innings, but by then the game was out of hand at 10-1. Things got a little funky for Tacoma in the bottom of the eighth, as relief pitcher Dean Kiekhefer entered to play center field, and utility man Zach Shank moved from right-field to the pitcher's mound to show off just how versatile he really is, tossing a scoreless inning with a strikeout.
The Rainiers were able to even the series the following night against Houston Astros hurler Lance McCullers, Jr., who is rehabbing a back injury. McCullers was clearly rusty, allowing five walks while striking out just one over three innings. Three runs came across against McCullers. Tuffy Gosewisch was the only Rainier with multiple hits (2-4, 2B, 3 RBI, R, SF), though Danny Muno (3 BB), Andrew Aplin and Daniel Vogelbach (2 BB each) both drew multiple walks. Max Povse got off to a rough start, allowing a two-run home run in the bottom of the first, but settled down to toss three scoreless innings in the second through fourth innings. With Povse failing to go five innings, reliever Evan Marshall pitched three scoreless to secure the 7-3 Tacoma win and earn his first victory of the season.
After nearly allowing a PCL record for consecutive strikeouts two days earlier, the Rainiers again found themselves on the wrong end of a hot pitcher. Rogelio Armenteros took a no-hitter into the eighth inning before allowing a one-out single to Muno. That single went down as the only hit of the night for Tacoma, wasting a one-run performance by the tandem of Andrew Moore (4 IP, 1 ER), Jonathan Aro (1 IP, 0 ER), Tyler Cloyd (2 IP, 0 ER) and Thyago Vieira (1 IP, 0 ER). The rough offensive performance, along with a win by Reno against Las Vegas, put the final nail in the coffin for 2017, officially eliminating Tacoma from playoff contention.
In the series finale against Fresno, the Rainiers were certainly able to bend Grizzly right-hander Trent Thornton, who allowed 10 hits and two walks over six innings. However, they were never quite able to break him, never once posting more than a single run in an inning en route to three runs against Thornton. On the other side, Sam Gaviglio looked tough much of his 4.2 innings, racking up eight strikeouts. The fifth inning would be his undoing after giving up a grand slam to Tyler White. This was a game that was close to having a much different result, but that's baseball and the Rainiers fell 6-3 to lose the series.
With their playoff hopes dashed, the Rainiers had nothing to do during their final four-game home stand but play spoiler to the Salt Lake Bees. The Bees entered the series just one game ahead of the defending PCL champion El Paso Chihuahuas for the PCL Pacific South Division lead. Tacoma's offensive woes continued in front of a packed house at Cheney Stadium on the Monday, Aug. 28 opener. The Rainiers were only able to scrape across two runs, one of which came on a passed ball, and the other as a result of a wild pitch moving Muno to third, where he could score on Shank's sacrifice fly in the tough 3-2 loss.
The Rainiers started off well in the second game against Salt Lake, with Leonys Martin scoring on a shallow fly ball by Gordon Beckham in the first inning. Unfortunately it was all downhill from there, as the Bees rattled off eight unanswered runs on 13 hits. Perhaps taking cues from the Mariners, who just two days earlier had committed five errors in one inning, the Rainiers defense had a difficult night, committing four errors, leading to three unearned runs. The Salt Lake pitching staff, led by starting pitcher Jaime Barria, who tossed five innings, combined to limit the Rainiers to one run and just five baserunners, while fanning 12 Tacoma hitters.
Push for franchise history: Despite playing 34 games with the big club and only 85 in Triple-A, Leonys Martin sits one behind the PCL leader with 25 stolen bases. For comparison, the league leader, Iowa's John Andreoli, has played in 112 games at the Triple-A level this season (32 percent more than Martin), and has racked up 26 percent more plate appearances. Should Martin outdo Andreoli over the last week and take home the stolen base crown, he would be the first in Rainiers' history to do so, and the first in Tacoma baseball since Cleon James did it in 1971 for the Tacoma Cubs (the final year of the Tacoma Cubs before the Cubs moved their Triple-A affiliate to Wichita and Cheney Stadium became home to the Tacoma Twins). Coincidentally, the organization James played for when he accomplished the feat, is the same organization that Andreoli, the man Martin will now battle for the same crown 46 years later, currently plays for.
Up with the big club: On Friday, Sept. 1, major league rosters will expand to include the entire 40-man roster, meaning a bevy of minor leaguers will get a shot to show what they can do at the Major League level. The Rainiers scheduled to be added to the roster are right-handed pitchers Dan Altavilla, Gaviglio, Moore, Ryan Garton, Povse, and Vieira, left-hander Andrew Faulkner, and infielders Shawn O'Malley and Vogelbach.
On Wednesday, Aug. 23, the Mariners reached an agreement with the St. Louis Cardinals on a trade for starting pitcher Mike Leake. The right-hander posted a solid 3.12 ERA prior to the MLB All Star Game, but has since struggled, posting a 6.90 ERA over his last seven starts. In exchange for Leake, the Mariners gave up minor league shortstop Raydaer Ascanio.
Elsewhere on the farm: Three members of the Class-A Advanced Modesto Nuts brought home postseason hardware in the California League. Outfielder/first baseman Eric Filia was named the utility player for the postseason All-Star Game, manager Mitch Canham won Manager of the Year, and right-handed pitcher Nick Neidert was named the California League Pitcher of the Year.
Filia sits sixth in the California League in batting average at .309, and leads the Nuts in games, at-bats, walks, batting average and on-base percentage. He has also posted the lowest strikeout rate of any qualified hitter on the Nuts roster.
Canham, in his first year at the helm for Modesto, led the club to the first half title (and the automatic playoff berth that comes with it) with a 39-31 record in the first half. It was the first time Modesto had won the first half since 2004.
Before his promotion to Double-A Arkansas, Neidert posted a 2.76 ERA and 10 wins in 19 starts for Modesto, striking out just over a batter per inning. Though that ERA is the lowest in the California League among hurlers with at least 100 innings, he no longer has enough innings to qualify for the league's ERA title, due to his promotion to Arkansas.
Modesto will host the first two games of the California League Divisional playoffs beginning Sept. 6, before hitting the road for games 3 and 4. The Nuts will take on the second-half winner of the California League North Division, unless the they win the second half as well (Modesto currently sits just one game behind the Visalia Rawhide). In that case, the Nuts would take on the team with the second best overall record in the division, which would currently be Visalia, though the Stockton Ports are also in the picture.


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Gray Vs. Black Sunflower Seeds for Sprouting
Sunflower seed sprouts are highly nutritious and contain Vitamin E, calcium, zinc, potassium, magnesium and amino acids. The thin shells of the black sunflower seeds are easier to remove than the hulls on larger gray sunflower seeds. The sprouting process increases the enzymes, minerals and nutrients in either seed by 300 percent to 1,200 percent, according to an article by Vegetarians in Paradise.
Oil Content
Black sunflower seeds are referred to as "black oil" because they produce 40 to 45 percent of their total weight in oil. Oil from black sunflower seeds has the highest amount of Vitamin E, while gray seeds, which are used for snack food, supply less than half as much oil and so not as much vitamin E, according to "Organic Gardening" magazine.
Black Hulls
Sunflower seed hulls are shed as the leaves begin to unfurl from the shell during the sprouting process. The thin hulls of the black sunflower seeds soak up water readily, are easy to remove during rinsing, and germinate quickly.
Gray Hulls
Gray sunflower seed hulls are thicker and take a bit more force to open, therefore taking a little more time than the black-seeded types. Hulls are removed from the sprouts before eating. Hulls from either gray- or black-seeded types are edible, but they will alter the taste and texture of the recipe in which they are used, according to the Virginia Cooperative Extension.
Plant Growth Habits
Gray-striped sunflower seeds comes from a variety known as Mammoth Russian. Their flowers are up to 16 inches across and they grow to 12 feet tall with high yields of seeds for sprouting. The black-seeded sunflower variety known as Dove Hybrid comes from a plant that grows to 5 feet tall, with seed heads to 12 inches in diameter. Either of these varieties can be grown in the home garden and seeds can be harvested for sprouting.
Sprouting Differences
Due to their tougher seed hull, gray-striped sunflower seeds are easier to grow when sprouted in a jar then planted when root tip emerges from the seed. Plant them in a shallow pan of soil or worm castings. They are clipped for greens when two leaves have grown. Black sunflower seeds can be grown in this manner or can be sprouted in a jar placed in a dark area for four days and rinsed every 12 hours. The hulls will fall off in the rinse water.
Related Articles
- vegparadise.com: Vegetarians in Paradise: Sunflowers Transcend Seedy Existence, no author given.
- Virginia Cooperative Extension: Sprouting Seeds For Food, Diane Relf.
- "Organic Gardening" magazine; The Sunflower Huller and Oil Press; Jeff Cox; April 1979
- "The Greeley Tribune"; Outlook Looks Sunny for Sunflower Farmers; November 9, 2010
- Happyjuicer.com: Sunflower Seeds, no author given.


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Welcome to Granary Oils the home of our fantastic Cold Pressed Walnut & Rapeseed Oils which includes flavoured Rapeseed Oils and a range of skin care products made using our oils.
Walnut Oil is often described as a super food and is packed full of health benefits and best used cold. See the Walnut Oil page for more information.
Granary Oils cold pressed Rapeseed Oil has a gentle nutty flavour giving you a healthy, tasty and versatile oil for all your culinary needs.
We are at many of the local shows, Farmer's Markets, Food Festivals and other local events and you can also buy our oils online from our By Now, from the door or from independent shops around the Shipston-on-Stour area.
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When you crave an intimate touch with complete control the Love Bunny will hop to duty. It's pink, soft skin is caressed soft and warms to the touch while the phallic shaped shaft and vibrating bunny head is the perfect size and shape for some deeply thrilling stimulation. As part of California Exotic Novelties Body & Soul collection it has been designed to deliver a velvety touch and deeply rumbling vibrations.
Firm yet soft seems contradictory but the Love Bunny Vibe manages this combination with perfect balance, keeping the rigidity necessary for full and satisfying penetration while remaining flexible enough to bend and shape to the unique contours of its user, and always with a soft and caressing touch. It's all due to the high quality silicone material which is highly sought after for toys because of its hypoallergenic and hygienic properties that make it extremely safe. It should be used with only water-based lubrication so you can fully experience the sleek feel that silicone is capable of.
There are a total of three motors that work together and make every part of the Love Bunny vibrate with full intensity across seven different vibration patterns. It's easy to customise to your specifications with the controls that are located near the base and always within reach. That way you'll be able to get the most out of the feel of the full shafts curvy tip and delightful texture as well as the non-stop fluttering bunny ears at the clitoris. Choose from black or pink versions.
The fact that this is rechargeable is what made me look at it but I ended up buying it because of the shape. The nubby shaft feels really good and I love how the vibrations feel through the shaft.
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Now that summer is almost over, I wanted to take some photos that show what the season is like where I live in Redding, Ca. All shot with a Pentax 6×7, Pentax 645, Canon AE-1, Portra 400, Reala 100, and Tmax 400, scanned at Photovision.
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All shot with a Pentax 645 and Portra 400. Developed and scanned at Photovision.


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by Fred Adams
Vice President
HSA for America
Tax Benefits of Health Savings Accounts
Health Savings Accounts are helping individuals and families save thousands of dollars on their income taxes. These tax-favored accounts, which have only been available since January of 2004, can be opened by anyone with a qualifying high-deductible health insurance plan. Once you open an account, you can place tax-deductible contributions into it, which can then be used later to pay medical expenses. Any money not used grows tax-deferred, like an IRA.
Since they first became available in the beginning of 2004, HSA's have rapidly gained popularity, particularly among individuals and small businesses. Here are 10 ways an HSA can offer tax advantages over traditional health insurance arrangements:
- Reduce your federal income taxes. Regardless of how your income was earned, any money you deposit into your Health Savings Account is considered an "above-the-line" deduction, giving you a 100% write-off against adjusted gross income.
- Reduce your adjusted gross income, helping you to qualify for other lucrative tax breaks tied to overall income. By reducing your adjusted gross income, you may also qualify for additional tax breaks. For instance, the child tax credit of $1,000 begins to be phased out once a family's adjusted gross income exceeds $110,000. Keep your AGI below this number, and you maintain the full $1,000 tax credit per child.
- Reduce your state income taxes. Federal adjusted gross income is also the starting point for most state tax assessments, so saving on your state income tax bill is possible as well. Find detailed information on our state income tax page.
- Tax-deferred growth. Like funds in an IRA, the money in your account grows free from federal taxes. You do have to pay taxes if the money is withdrawn for non-medical expenses, but there is no penalty if you are over 65 years old.
- Pay for dental expenses with pre-tax dollars. Dental expenses from checkups and cleanings, to braces, to toothpaste, can all be paid for with pre-tax dollars from your HSA account. You may even purchase prepaid dental plans with funds from your HSA account. See our Low cost dental plans.
- Pay for vision care with pre-tax dollars. You can use HSA funds to pay for checkups, glasses, contact lenses, prescription sunglasses, cleaning fluids, and other expenses related to your eye care.
- Pay for alternative care with pre-tax dollars. Health insurance doesn't typically pay for treatments like chiropractic,acupuncture, homeopathy, ayurvedic medicine, herbal medicine, various forms of "energy" healing, faith healing,or any number of other so-called alternative treatments. One of the advantages of Health Savings Accounts is that the individual consumer has the right to choose their source of medical care, instead of that decision being made by an insurance company or HMO. Therefore, there are very few restrictions on the type of treatment you choose.
- Pay for aspirin, bandages, cold medicine, and other household medical expenses with pre-tax dollars. Virtually all expenses related to the treatment or prevention of a medical condition can be paid from your Health Savings Account. View the list of HSA qualified expenses.
- Pay Medicare expenses with pre-tax dollars. When you enroll in Medicare, you can use your account to pay Medicare premiums, deductibles, copays, and coinsurance under any part of Medicare. If you have retiree health benefits through a former employer, you can also use your HSA to pay for your share of retiree medical insurance premiums. The one expense you cannot use your account for is to purchase a Medicare supplemental insurance or "Medigap" policy.
- Pay for long-term care insurance with pre-tax dollars. Long-term care premiums can be paid for from your HSA, up to $260 for those under age 40, $490 if you're between 41 and 50 years, and up to $2,600 if you're 61 years or older. Find out more about long term care insurance.
A Health Savings Account (HSA) enables anyone with a qualifying high-deductible health insurance plan to shelter up to $5,450 from federal income taxes. By reducing your adjustable gross income, enabling you to pay for medical expenses with pre-tax income, and through tax-deferred growth, HSAs can reduce your income taxes.
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30 September 2015
Santander Bike Scheme to Test New 'Laserlight' to Reduce Blind Spot Risk
Santander is currently testing a new 'laserlight' on a number of their London hire bikes in an attempt to improve night-time visibility for cyclists in the capital.
The 'Blaze laserlight' is a bike light that uses a green laser to project a bicycle symbol six metres onto the road ahead, alerting other road users to an approaching cyclist at night.
Unlike the beams of standard bike lights, the laser projection is said to be visible from various perspectives, letting riders be seen in situations where they may otherwise remain invisible, such as when lorry drivers fail to see cyclists riding in their blind spots when turning left at traffic lights or junctions.
Almost two thirds of cyclists who are killed or seriously injured each year are involved in collisions at, or near, road junctions. HGVs present a particularly dangerous threat to cyclists, especially in built up urban areas. Out of the eight cycling deaths in the capital so far this year, seven have involved HGVs. Although such vehicles make up only 5% of UK road traffic, they are involved in 23% of all cyclist deaths, typically when turning left at junctions.
Santander say they are currently testing the light "robustly" on 250 London hire bikes before a prospective city-wide rollout later next year. Transport for London says the lights have already undergone trials at the Transport Research Laboratory, and they will continue to monitor how the lights perform and what people think about their effectiveness.
More than 500,000 people take to two wheels every day in London, but worries about personal safety still remain the biggest hindrance to more people taking up cycling more regularly.
Santander's partnership with Blaze will hopefully address on-going safety concerns and help reduce cycling accidents by making hire bike riders more visible to other road users at night.
Although any initiative to help address the danger of blind spots and reduce the number of collisions between cyclists and vehicles is commendable, our cycling accident lawyers would like to see more being done about cycling infrastructure in our cities particularly in regard to segregated cycle lanes.
Paul Kitson is a keen cyclist and Slater and Gordon's Principal Lawyer for the CTC, the UK's national cycling charity.
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Koh Samui is an island belonging to Surat Thani Province, off the east coast of the Kra Isthmus in Thailand, close to the town of Surat Thani on the mainland.
The island is roughly circular in shape, and is about 15 km across. The central part of the island is an almost uninhabitable mountain jungle, Khao Pom, peaking at 635 m. The various lowland areas are connected together by a single 51 km road, running mostly along the coast to encircle the bulk of the island.
Ko Samui Airport is a private airport. Several ferries connect the island with the mainland, including the car ferry from Don Sak to a pier in the west of the island, south of the main town Nathon. Public buses to all parts of the mainland operate from a small bus station located in the south of Nathon
Ko Samui, being in Surat Thani Province, has essentially two seasons; warm and tropical most of the year, with a short rainy season. Samui's weather is relatively dry for the vast majority of the year. For the rest of the year, since the weather is tropical, when it does rain, it usually doesn't last long; rain showers of 20–60 minutes are typical.


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The bathroom was initially a place for bathing, but now, things have changed. The bathroom has grown to become one of the most luxurious places in the home, with elaborate bathroom designs that homeowners spends thousands of dollars to design and build.
To create comfortable and functional bathroom designs, check out the recommendations below:
1. Take note of the air circulation in the bathroom
Air circulation in the lavatory is very important. Proper circulation will keep the bathroom smelling fresh, instead of stuffy and old. To achieve freshness in the bathroom, be sure to include windows in the design, or at least an exhaust fan.
2. Consider anti-slip flooring
A wet floor is dangerous. Anti-slip tiles are a great preventative option, as the bathroom floor is likely to get wet at some point or another. This is ideal for homes with young children and elderly occupants.
3. Create adequate storage
When designing the bathroom, be sure to consider storage. Bathroom storage is important because it will provide easy access, and reduce the need to store bathroom-related items in other areas of the house. Keep your extra towels, toiletries and cleaning agents handy with proper bathroom storage, whether on the walls or under the vanity.
4. Choose the correct lighting
To make your bathroom even more beautiful, invest in awesome lighting fixtures. In addition, try to ensure that the bathroom gets enough sunlight. Proper lighting is especially important if your bathroom doubles as your dressing room. You will need to be able to check for any blemishes and irregularities on your garments before heading out.
5. Space-saving doors
Small bathroom designs are more effective if too much space isn't absorbed by the door. Consider using sliding doors where possible to save on space.
6. Note the slope of the floor
Ensure your bathroom floor has a minimum rate of 2% slope toward the drain. This will prevent a build-up in the event of an overflow of water in the bathroom.


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Pablo´s Birthday, New York
526 Canal Street
NY 10013 New York
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"Misstallica & Vaslanten"
Exhibition dates: May 23rd - June 23rd, 2019
Pablo's Birthday is pleased to announce Thorsten Brinkmann's third Solo Exhibition at the gallery, "Misstallica & Vaslanten".
Thorsten Brinkmann has been collecting found objects for than more than 20 years. With these sediments of modern culture he moves between the genres of photography, sculpture, performance, and installation art referencing motifs of art history such as still life, portrait, and landscape, while interrogating the languages they employ. Photographic self-dramatization, in which the artist functions as an actor, director, and photographer in one, creating images in the solitude of his studio with a self-timer, is one of his areas of focus.
Wrapped up in used clothing and found objects from everyday life, he transforms himself into anonymous, sometimes androgynous figures that appear as objects – sculptural figures – that allude to compositions by old masters.
The photographs are part of the long tradition of self-portraits by artists, but he practically explodes the accompanying myths by hiding his countenance and emptying them of any recognizable individuality such that they reference portraiture itself, and thereby the very question of representation.
In his latest works he began to produce photo-assemblages, were he combines photo-works with his found objects extending them into the space. With this 3rd dimension he opened a new chapter in his work. The latest development are material pictures in big glass cases, which show landscapes done with objects collected in the urban landscape.
Pablo's Birthday recently featured Brinkmann's work as a solo presentation at The Armory Show 2019 in New York. The installation focused on his latest works in a kind of Gesamtkunstwerk or "total work of art", in the tradition of Kurt Schwitters - This new exhibition follows in the same vein by painting parts of the wall in combination with artist made wallpaper elements, and installing various objects, the space becomes a conceptual armature referencing a fictional place from which all these works came. The exhibition will also showcase a new still-life series titled Vaslanten.
Thorsten Brinkmann was born in Herne, Germany in 1971, and lives and works in Hamburg. He studied Visual Communication at Kunsthochschule Kassel and Fine Arts at Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Hamburg. In 2011, Brinkmann received the Finkenwerder Art Prize, "awarded to artists who have made an extraordinary contribution to contemporary art in Germany." Brinkmann has had solo exhibitions in Belgium, Germany, The United States, and Mexico. His work is represented in museums throughout Europe and was included in Beyond Borders, The Fifth Beaufort Triennial, Belgium (2015); and Dress Codes: The Third ICP Triennial of Photography and Video, International Center for Photography, New York (2009).


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In the euphoria of the current celebrations, we must not lose sight of the former leader's foul deeds.
By Christopher Hitchens
"In George Orwell's 1939 novel, Coming Up for Air, his narrator, George Bowling, broods on the special horrors of the new totalitarianism and notices "the colored shirts, the barbed wire, the rubber truncheons," but also, less obviously perhaps, "the processions and the posters with enormous faces, and the crowds of a million people all cheering for the Leader till they deafen themselves into thinking that they really worship him, and all the time, underneath, they hate him so that they want to puke."
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In the euphoria of the current celebrations, we must not lose sight of the former leader's foul deeds.
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Solly said...
Hitchens has a lovely way of turning out quote after quote: either his own or pulling out a prescient one from somebody else. It is a rare gift to be able to sum up a person or a situation in just a sentence or two.
Karen Olsen said...
I can only hope Libya's next government will be better than the last. They definitely don't need another crazy, amoral dictator at the helm. I still recall Gaddafi up there at the U.N., babbling on for 98 minutes about gosh-only-knows-what, when he wasn't looking for someplace to pitch a tent...
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I find it ironic that he holds Omar Mukhtar as a hero when the opposition used Mukhtar's image in their posters.
Mukhtar fought Italy before the Allies came, but not before Italy ambushed and killed him. The UN gave Libya their independence and a Monarch prior to the criminal known as Gaddafi.
The corruption of the Monarch and Gaddafi can be summed up in one word: oil.
so Gaddafi was a sweet kid who got caught up in the oil game? Like charlie sheen on wall street? What's next? 9/11 happened because our cars use too much gas? Next card please...


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Female Orgasm – Unlocking the Neuroscientific Mysteriesby Donna Reish | July 2, 2011
Recently Brain Blogger featured an article entitled Your Brain on Sex and Love. While it delineated a few recent studies that focused on what goes on in the brain during sex, few recognize how little is known about human sexuality, particularly the neural and psychological responses that stem from it. Logistically, it is difficult to study human sex in a lab setting, simply because it is difficult for test subjects to engage in intercourse, or even to self-stimulate, in an fMRI scanner. MindHacks explains how the alternative use of PET scanners is still problematic:
[The test subjects] still had some considerable problems to overcome though, not least of which was timing an orgasm to occur during a predefined time-slot, during which brain activity could be monitored. PET requires a radioactive tracer to be injected into the bloodstream, and although the radiation is very weak, it's best to use only as much as necessary. This means the intuitive approach of continuous scanning and waiting for the pop of the cork is just not feasible.
Female sexuality is particularly enigmatic, simply because the sex function in women is so much more complex than that of their male counterparts. A study conducted by Dutch scientist Gert Holstege and featured in a BigThink article showed that while the areas in male brains activated during orgasm were not surprising, the activated areas in the female brains were slightly different. For one, the female brain becomes noticeably silent in certain areas, like in the lateral orbitofrontal cortex and the dorsomedial prefrontal cortex, two areas in the brain that process feelings and thoughts associated with self-control and social judgement. Holstege noted that "at the moment of orgasm, women do not have any emotional feelings."
New Scientist published a piece late last year featuring an experiment that revealed that pain processing centers in the brain also activate during female orgasm. Dr. Kamisaruk of Rutgers University, who is an early pioneer of neuroscieintific sex studies of the female orgasm, noted that at the moment of climax, women's pain threshold drops drastically, and that "the fact that these areas are both active during pain and intense pleasure suggests that they may be involved in the analgesic effects of orgasm."
While of course the study of men's sexual response is important, it may be more important from a medical standpoint to delve into the female brain considering the much higher numbers of sexual dysfunction in women. Even women in good health have a difficult time achieving climax. Reportedly, 10% of women have never had an orgasm, and as many as 50% of women have trouble being aroused.
One interesting ability that Kamisaruk found is unique to women is that some women he worked with were able to "think themselves" to orgasm. Without using any external stimulation, women closed their eyes and, using only sometimes erotic imagery but just as commonly very random and abstract thought processes, achieved an orgasm that was indistinguishable from orgasms achieved through self-stimulation. Kamisaruk also observed that when some women visualize a certain part of the body, that part of the body becomes sensitive. Kamisaruk believes that further study on this phenomenon could be helpful beyond simply treating sexual dysfunction, but could aid in pain management and the prevention of obesity, among other common health concerns.
In the final analysis, however, as pointed out in Brain Blogger and the New York Times, sexual dysfunction can be understood on a cultural level as well. Stifled sexual pleasure, particularly in women, can result from cultural taboos and poor relationships. As such, the relatively recent excitement about so-called "women's Viagra" is still as yet a pipe dream, and would it behoove both the scientist and the average person to understand human sexuality through as many lenses as possible.
Komisaruk BR, & Whipple B (2005). Functional MRI of the brain during orgasm in women. Annual review of sex research, 16, 62-86 PMID: 16913288
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Case 1
Competing against the market leader is always going to be difficult. It was particularly challenging for Lexmark UK, who were competing against HP in a major central government department. Our Market Intelligence team were tasked with increasing market share over a 3 year period. In consultation with Lexmark we defined immediate, medium and long – term objectives. The process involved initial secondary research followed by more detailed primary research and the gathering of human intelligence.
We identified:
- Key individuals; movers and shakers with budget.
- The department's language: enabling bids and proposals to be written in a form familiar to the targets.
- Existing and upcoming projects.
- Buying criteria.
The resulting intelligence enabled Lexmark to meet with senior civil servants in the department and win significant volumes of business.
Business results included:
- £6 Million win within the first year for equipment and services.
- Further £2 Million win in public agencies associated with the department
- Displacement of HP as the Market Leader in the department
- 40% market share after 3 years.
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Case 2
Small companies rarely win major contracts on their own but for our client, a $12 Million opportunity was too attractive to ignore. The Nottinghamshire based software company employing 30 engineers had developed a product which enabled merchant banks to transmit sensitive information over the Internet. The contract was to supply infrastructure, software and services. Our client had the software but neither the size nor balance sheet to bid for the work. They needed to know which system integrator to partner with, where the competition was likely to come from and what price/service combination would create a winning bid.
Our Key Account Intelligence team quickly mapped the competitive environment and set about obtaining the human intelligence that would give our client the edge. During a three month period we:
- Identified all the active competitors.
- Made contact with and started to influence buying teams.
- Discovered the key purchasing criteria.
- Arranged meetings between our client and key influencers.
- Identified all prime contractors and their competitive position.
- Proposals to partner from all the bidding primes.
- Accurate estimation of competitors pricing.
- Contract secured for $12 Million in the first year and services throughout the life of the contract.
Case 3
Tendering for major contracts can be a risky business. Especially when the cost of bidding can run into hundreds of thousands of dollars. For one medium sized European System Integrator, a significantly reduced win ratio spelt trouble. The problem was that the organisation simply did not know what was going wrong. Feedback gave them no clues. Their products and solutions were similar to competitors, yet they always managed to be slightly more expensive than the winning bid.
We were engaged to create a Wargaming scenario prior to a multi – million pound contract. Our consultants constructed an exercise tender situation with three individual scenarios, representing expression of interest, initial bid and best and final offer. At each stage members of the team interacted with both their 'suppliers, sub – contractors and the authority issuing the tender'. The exercise:
- Was held off site, in a business school with access to normal corporate communications and services.
- Each scenario took three days to complete.
- The whole exercise was run over a six week period.
- Bid team members were debriefed and coached on each element of their performance.
- Several weaknesses were identified including:
- negotiation with suppliers and sub-contractors.
- poor management of confidential material.
- bid management and co-ordination.
- intelligence gathering from both the market and the issuing authority.
- Training was put in place, minimising identified weaknesses.
- Win ratio returned to 1 in 3 (rather than the 1 in 8 it had fallen to).
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Entering new markets and new product launches are challenges that should be exciting in a good way. For a US Software company a lack of presence in Europe compromised their competitive position. By the time we were called in a significant sum had been spent on product development and promotion. Despite all their efforts, they had yet to make a sale.
In an increasingly connected world, it is possible to win decent market share and business in places far removed from your home market. But you need good intelligence if you are going to succeed. We were engaged to first identify and then recruit good channel partners. Our Market Intelligence team engaged with the client to develop a channel proposition that worked in different European countries. The team then:
- Analysed different countries, identifying the most attractive markets.
- Identified Resellers and Value Added Resellers.
- Identified sources of funding for inward investment.
- Assisted with the recruitment and support of resellers.
- Over 40 new clients signed up in a 6 month period.
- A network of 18 value added resellers recruited in 6 major European countries.
- Revenue in excess of $4m in the first 12 months.


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Catering Supervisor
|Antrim, County Antrim
|Job type
|Up to £8.90 per hour
|about 1 year ago
|Start date
|Karyn Beverland
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Job description
Working on behalf of our sister company Diamond Recruitment, Grafton are recruiting for a temporary Band 3 Catering Supervisor, 30 hours per week, will include weekend and evening work.
Catering Supervisor required on a temporary basis based in Antrim
Role: Catering Supervisor
Rate of Pay: £8.90
Location: Antrim
Hours: 30 hours
Duration: 6 months
Main duties/Responsibilities:
- To cater for any dietary requirements and special functions as the need may arise.
- To ensure that the food is cooked and stored and stored in hygienic conditions
- To utilise staff, materials and equipment in an efficient and effective manner
- Responsible for maintaining records of food temperatures, and also cleanliness of cold rooms and deep freeze units
- To report any defects in equipment, linen and food commodities and ensure that defects are rectified
- To attend staff training and assist senior catering staff with development and training of junior staff as required
- To carry out Health and Safety practice, as laid down by department
- To ensure a high standard of personal hygiene and hygienic catering practices are maintained at all times as laid down within the Trusts Hygiene and Post Control Policy.
- To contribute ideas on staff menus, functions and the catering service in general
- Assist with catering staff inductions and training
- To order and check food supplies and to ensure that the procedures are adhered to at all times in relation to quantity and quality control
- To take control of the Catering Department as appropriate
- To undertake such other duties as may be assigned by the Head of Department
- Minimum of 1 years experience in supervisory role
- Knowledge of general hygiene and safe working practices
- Good verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to work within timescales
- Evidence of ability to communicate effectively with customers and colleagues
- Ability to work shifts: Morning, Evenings and Weekends (as applicable)
- All staff will be required to work various locations within the Catering Department
- Willingness to complete - Level 2 CIEH Food Safety Certificate
To be shortlisted for this role all applicants MUST meet the essential criteria. If you are interested please upload your CV to the link provided.
Successful candidates may need to apply for an Access NI Certificate with Diamond Recruitment regardless if you already have a valid certificate. It will be a cost of between £26 - £33 depending on clearance level.