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In New York City in the spring of 1987, at the age of 33, I was shell-shocked after being told by a doctor over the telephone that I was HIV positive. As was my habit, I went to my regular 12-step meeting and shared my devastating news with the group. Many have since told me that to do so was brave. It wasn't. I was desperate. I needed help. I wanted to live. I was told that there would be no viable treatment in my lifetime. I felt as if I'd been handed a death sentence and was desperate to find anything to save my life.
I wasn't alone, of course. There were other HIV-positive folks like me hanging out on the stoop after the meeting. Well, not exactly like me; they were men. I did meet a few positive women as time passed. They helped me feel less like a freak, knowing I wasn't the only woman on earth who had "the gay disease."
"I have the terminally hip disease!" I would joke. But I wasn't feeling funny at all. I was just trying to cope the best way I knew.
However, at that first meeting where I declared my status, there was one guy who came up to me with an upbeat smile. "Nothing is incurable!" he declared. "All the cures are within you. You just need to learn how to tap into them!"
I asked him, "How do you do that?"
He said, "I've been reading You Can Heal Your Life by Louise Hay. You've got to get it!"
At the time, I was actually living in Cambridge, Massachusetts, not far from a small spiritual bookstore in Harvard Square. I always felt transported back to the 1970s as I approached its red brick building with the dreamcatchers in the windows. Then I'd walk in and enter a New Age world of self-help books, angel cards, crystals, and psychic readings. It's where I found You Can Heal Your Life -- a paperback book with a rainbow heart on the cover.
A Pathway to Spiritual Healing
Reading Louise's book was easy. It was a simple blueprint for changing one's thinking and creating a different life experience, which I found empowering. It shifted me from feeling like a victim to taking responsibility for my part in things. For example, the book asked which of these two thoughts sounded most like you, the reader: "People are out to get me" or "Everyone is always helpful." My life improved as I felt happier and more connected to others in a compassionate, caring way.
That bookstore is where I also discovered cassette tapes with Louise Hay's guided meditations and affirmations, which I would listen to in my car -- or with my Walkman on, when Louise's soft, soothing voice would lull me to sleep with its encouraging messages:
"I am in the right place, at the right time, doing the right thing."
"Every thought we think is creating our future."
"I love and accept myself exactly as I am."
In truth, Louise Hay's affirmations coincided with the principles I was already learning in the 12-step program. So many in the recovering community were doing the same thing. It was part of my 11th-step work for peace of mind.
When my HIV-related anxiety would creep back in and I was "in dis-ease with myself," as Louise put it, I would say Louise's mantra: "It is only a thought and a thought can be changed." After all, went the thinking back when we thought ulcers were caused by stress, if you can create an ulcer by worrying, why not stop worrying and heal the ulcer?
Related: AIDS, Love and Desperation at the Louise Hay Ride
No Magic Bullet
But AIDS was no ulcer. It was caused by a complicated virus that was outsmarting even the greatest scientists of the 1980s. Without effective treatment, there was no hope. I had turned down AZT (Combivir, 3TC), the only (highly toxic) medication available at the time. I was still healthy -- and hoping to stay that way until effective treatments were discovered.
Unlike some, I never interpreted Louise's words as a guarantee that positive thinking alone would heal me. I heard the word "could," not "would," heal, which to me meant hope, a possibility. At this time, I had begun working at Harvard on a research grant for substance abuse and HIV/AIDS and was attending medical updates by Anthony Fauci, M.D., of the National Institutes of Health, the country's top HIV/AIDS scientist.
In other words, I had some balance in my thinking. I took responsibility for gathering information about my disease. Yet, I believed not in magical thinking, but in positive thinking. Remaining an optimist was imperative for me. I watched many friends die who thought there was no hope and just wanted it to be over as soon as possible.
And though I never believed Louise's message of positive thinking was meant to be about a cure for any disease, I was still interested in how she connected certain ailments of the body and mind with our belief systems. Louise's own story as a cancer survivor who claimed to have healed herself was very compelling for me. Even though I was acutely aware that HIV/AIDS was a beast of its own, I needed relief from the anxiety. The hope that Hay provided was just the medicine I was looking for -- and it held the possibility that affirmative thinking, as well as healthy eating and other lifestyle choices, could help maintain my health until an effective treatment was found.
Woman to Woman
Being a woman in the mostly gay male world of AIDS support groups, I related to Hay in another way, as well. I was a newlywed who'd taken an AIDS test as a precaution before trying to get pregnant -- and in the prime of my life was now dealing with the loss of the dream of becoming a mother. Hearing a woman's voice, so caring and compassionate, was deeply comforting to me.
In 1987, Louise came to Boston for a weekend workshop that, if I remember correctly, cost a few hundred dollars to attend. I headed there, packing my teddy bear and my mirror, those Louise Hay tools of the trade. The teddy bear was to help heal my inner child, a popular theme for self-help and New Age books at that time. The mirror was to look myself in the eyes and affirm, "I love myself and accept myself exactly as I am." I felt like Stuart Smalley on Saturday Night Live, repeating to myself, "I'm good enough, I'm smart enough, and, doggone it, people like me!"
What followed was an emotional two days in a large hotel convention hall filled with strangers sharing gut-wrenching testimonials, sitting on the floor, tears flowing, bodies swaying. I have to admit that the sappy songs were awful and embarrassing to sing. But I took what I liked from the weekend and didn't stress over the rest.
Louise, however, was beautiful on her low-level stage, so calm and lovely. Her voice seemed to float across the room. I was excited to finally meet Louise. I left feeling empowered -- not necessarily because I'd met her, but because I felt as if I was taking action to help myself deal with HIV. I could have taken another path, picked up drugs again or killed myself. So, I'm grateful that I was open to other options, even when others thought they were ridiculous.
Louise's Legacy
Louise died in August at the age of 90. Yet, ever since those scary years before effective HIV medications came along in the mid-late 1990s, Louise Hay has been part of the soundtrack of my life. Just the other day, as a friend was anxiously preparing to go into surgery, I said to her a Hay mantra: "Every hand that touches you is a healing hand, divinely guided." That's become a natural reflex for me after years of listening to Louise's affirmations.
As news of her death traveled over the internet and social media, some other longtime HIV-positive folks or survivors of the plague years disparaged her teachings, calling her a dangerous, profiteering quack who told people they could cure themselves with happy thoughts -- and who blamed people for their own illness and death. "How Louise Hay's Spiritual Pseudoscience Harmed a Generation of Gay Men," read a typical piece in Slate.
I posted on my Facebook page: "Louise Hay, quack or healer?" Overwhelmingly, most people chose the latter. "I found her books very encouraging," wrote one friend. Another called her an angel who shared the healing power of love and acceptance. Still, I did have one friend who wrote, "Her tapes made me want to puke!"
Which reminded me that, back in the bad old plague days, sometimes anger was just as potent as AIDS was deadly. And why wouldn't we have been angry then? For many of us, nobody was going to help. We were on our own. From Louise, I learned how to nurture myself as the mother I wanted to be -- and would not be able to become because of HIV. My goal was not to cure myself, but to stay alive until effective treatment emerged. I would visualize myself being alive and well, one day telling my story as history -- as I am doing right now. (That's not to say I haven't asked myself why I made it and others did not.)
Yes, I agree it's too simplistic to think that affirmations could cure HIV/AIDS. I've met holistic practitioners who have pushed me to go off my medications. I've replied, "All the brown rice, seaweed, and visualization in the world isn't going to combat my viral load!" Today thankfully, we have both spirituality and effective treatment. That's a powerful combination.
Yes, Louise Hay undoubtedly profited from AIDS. But she also reached out to the HIV/AIDS community as early as 1985, before doing so became a major celebrity cause -- and two years before President Reagan first initiated the topic of AIDS in a speech. She held her first support groups for people with AIDS in her own home. And she did this at a time when there was more rage than hope, when there seemed to be no future for those living with the disease. For many, there wasn't.
At that time, Louise opened her home and her heart and carried us as we grieved. "I am safe; it's only change," she taught us to say. So, for all that, I believe that Louise Hay was a true angel who earned her wings. Thank you, Louise, and rest in peace.
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When Bobby G. cooks it is nothing short of excellent. Try his Chicken Noodle Soup. It's rich yet healthy. The secret? Cooling the soup and skimming off the fat from his homemade stock is key. You just can't get any better than this recipe.
Recipe for Bobby G's Chicken Noodle Soup
His recipe hit the big time when it was published in the winter issue of Celebrate Home Magazine (page 42). Download the magazine for free here.
Photo by Cindy Dyer.

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Recognizing a moment when you're in the moment is a wild trip. Sometimes a moment is so undeniable, I tear up to an embarrassing level of crying-possibilities. When you're a feminist who believes rock 'n roll will save your soul, and that "girls to the front" should be the M.O. at every single concert, you tend to put a ton of loyalty into music, even when you're not sure about its movement. In 2014, movement is what made music a queer space for expression, and evolution. This year, I found myself awestruck and bleary eyed in front of my TV or computer so many times I lost count, because—hello, we got gay married at the Grammys.
Whether 2014 brought with it a new wave in music—out musicians covering the genre spectrum from country to hip hop, throngs of independent female-fronted bands gazing our way, or we've spun the hexagon color wheel and landed on progression—music is feeling really gay. Queerness in music is like having a lucid dream, and you go off and fly, do cartwheels through walls, scream at the top of your lungs. You just go weird; you go for it, because it feels freeing to be yourself. By the way, did you know that songwriter Sia told Howard Stern she'll only tour if it involves dogs and queers?
Whatever next year brings, we'll have to meet with retrospect when the decade ends and pay our respects to '14. We took back something—words, terms, labels, definitions, boundaries, and through music we gained even more—gender bending, queer-centric acts, performances, declarations and moments.
15. t.A.T.u. performed at the Sochi Olympics.
And we all buzzed about it for two days, having a nice laugh over their 15-minute reunion in the fame spotlight, because half our hearts went back in time to a middle school birthday party at the roller skating rink and the other half was like WTF? Of course, the pair, Yulia Volkova and Lena Katina, aren't gay, and there's been buttloads of backlash ever since they hit the headlines for their performance in unrelated instances for making alleged homophobic slurs. But—they're not gonna get us! P.S. You may not have known that the Russian translation of their band name refers to the phrase, "This girl loves that girl"—a risky performance pick considering all the hostility in Russia against queers.
14. Debbie Harry came out as bisexual.
I was busy watching Little Darlings when this news-item came out, that's my only excuse for being under a rock when it came to the Blondie rock star admitting to having feelings for the ladies. In April, the singer came out to the Daily Mail, expressing her openness toward dating women. My imagination immediately flashes to those legendary snapshots of Debbie hanging out with Joan Jett back in the day. Nudge, nudge. I'll also never forget the first time I heard/saw Blondie—on a syndicated American Bandstand episode with Debbie singing "Heart of Glass," surrounded by an airy aura of golden light. In her recent interview, the now 68-year-old said when questioned on those longtime rumors about her relationships with women, that, "Yeah, let's say women are more sensual." Sure, she had a long-term relationship with her bandmate Chris Stein, but that doesn't mean we can't fantasize about all the possibilities the 70s-icon sexed up when she was having her fun. Hey, maybe she still is. Call me? You can call me, call me—anytime.
13. Hunter Valentine stood up as trans allies and bowed out from MichFest.
Due to the festival's "Womyn born Womyn" policy, disallowing trans women from attending the annual music festival, the all-female rock band we became acquainted with circa The Real L Word, decided against performing this year, thereby taking a strong queer stance on the controversial festival guidelines. In a statement on their Facebook page, the band wrote: "The issue with us playing Michigan Womyn's Festival lies in how we do now, and always have believed that the term women includes transgender women. In our mind the term 'trans' should not be a label that alienates. We have always felt and identified as positive trans allies and feel that playing the festival would directly contradict our beliefs that a trans woman is a woman and should be seen, respected and treated as such." Of all the big events HV has been a part of in 2014, this is considerably the queerest moment for the band—in which they took a stand, created a conversation, and expressed their feelings as true trans allies.


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Phone: 251-626-0277
Degrees and Certifications:
Mrs. Jennifer Newton
This is my twentieth year teaching in Baldwin County. Currently, I am a fourth grade teacher at W. J. Carroll Intermediate School, where I also have experience teaching fifth and sixth grade. I have also taught at Spanish Fort Elementary and Daphne Middle School.
I am married and have two children, who are currently in second grade and seventh grade.


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Cultural Arts Division – City of Austin
This project is funded and supported in part by the City of Austin through the Cultural Arts Division believing an investment in the Arts is an investment in Austin's future. Visit Austin at NowPlayingAustin.com.
VSA Arts of Texas
VSA arts of Texas is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that strives to create a society where people with disabilities learn through, participate in, and enjoy the arts. Working at the intersection of multi-disciplinary arts, education reform, and disability rights, we serve as an international model in which people with disabilities have complete access to cultural, artistic and educational venues, programs and employment.
AIR-Austin is a unique, award-winning program that has received local and national media coverage. Its purpose is to match teams of web designers/developers with non-profit organizations to build new web sites or enhance existing ones to make them more accessible for people with disabilities. Over the past ten years, the Austin community has joined forces to ensure that countless people with disabilities can now access their information and better use the Internet as a tool for gaining knowledge, economic power and exploring job possibilities.
TradeMark Media
TradeMark Media is an award-winning interactive agency based in Austin, Texas.
Girling Home Health
At Girling Health Care, we know the importance of staying at home. So that's where our patients receive the medical care or personal care they need. For over forty years our compassionate, experienced caregivers have been upholding the Girling health care commitment, to provide excellent in-home medical services for both short-term and long-term patients. Because we know that being at home makes all the difference. Girling Health Care, a heritage of caring right in your home.
Longhorn Health Solutions
Longhorn Health Solutions started doing business in 2005, but they have been in the medical supply industry going back to 1980. They surveyed the industry and felt there was a very strong need for a company that focused on treating people with class and respect and not as government insurance recipients, which they feel is the prevailing model of their industry. So far, it seems to be working, for them. They are providing supplies to thousands of clients across Texas and eagerly making plans to open up new locations in El Paso and Lubbock. Longhorn Health Solutions is privately owned and operated and has chosen Austin, Texas as home for their corporate office.


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You can never really know when other people will like what you post or not. I thought my post about games in 2005 that I haven't played was pretty funny (c'mon, "tip the cow" was funny), but nobody acknowledged it. Oh well. Can't win them all.
I can't give you a top ten games in 2005, seeing as I only played eleven games from 2005 total, and two hardly count: The Menorah Game, which is mine and is not yet published, and The Rooster Coop, a small and cheaply produced game by my friend Gilad, which I don't think has been distributed, yet.
That leaves the following nine games:
ChiZo RISING: I played this only two-player with open hands. Not a good idea. With closed hands and multiple players it might be better.
Havoc: The Hundred Years War: An excellent set collecting attrition game. A great middle-weight Euro. Good with two through six players.
Louis XIV: An excellent area control Alea game. It is heavy-weight Euro, even though it comes in a small box. It's not perfect - several aspects about the scoring mechanisms are clunky, and there is the usual luck about picking cards - but it's very good. Good with two, three, or four players.
Palazzo: Played once with four players. A decent light to middle-weight game.
Pompeji - Die Letzten 37 Minuten: Played once with four players. Not truly awful, but pretty close. While the designer included lots of pretty pieces and nice thematic elements simulating chaos and disaster, these elements make every act a total crapshoot. Without phenomenal luck, everything you do gets undone. It is easy to wreck anyone else's plans. And once you have actually succeeded in doing anything, you literally have no pieces to play with for the rest of the game.
Power Grid - Italy/France: I've only played Power Grid once, and only on this map with six players. PG is an excellent game. This map, with its huge conglomeration around Paris, seemed a bit unbalanced, but this may have been more to do with the experience of the players rather than the board itself.
Shadows Over Camelot: Played once, three player. A cooperative game which is not truly cooperative because one player may be a traitor. Without the traitor, the game would probably not be that interesting. You are mostly picking cards and playing sets. Beautiful pieces and some theme and special cards and rules make it more fun, but the traitor makes it interesting.
Ticket to Ride: Europe: Played once with five players. I haven't played Ticket to Ride. This game has simple rules and was a reasonably fun game, but it would probably have been better if we had played it more viciously. A good game.
Travel Blokus. Played once. If you liked Blokus, and you wanted the equivalent two-player game without playing four colors, this is just as good.


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In a sea of brown cowboy boots, these Black Deercow Boots know how to stand out from the rest. They seem more like motorcycle boots than Western boots, with a subtle all-black stitch pattern and thick chunky heels. The pointed toe is a fashion-forward feature that further sets these boots apart. It serves a functional purpose, though; you'll find it easy to slip in and out of stirrups when riding your favorite horse in Justin Boots.
These smooth black leather cowboy boots are bound to be noticed, yet since they're a neutral tone, you can wear them with just about anything. They're a little too stylish for casual occasions, but they'll look right at home at parties, cocktail bars, and rock concerts.
These dark and sleek looking boots are made from deercow leather, a cowhide that's tanned to mimic the character of deerskin. This unique hide really delivers the best of both worlds. It's as super strong as cow leather but soft and subtle to the touch like deer. This beautiful hide is paired with a durable Western rubber solo with teak insets for extra strength.
They might look hard as nails, but inside these Black Deercow Boots are real softies. A dual density medical memory foam cushion inside each boot makes you feel like you're walking on a cloud when you're pounding the pavement, minimizing the impact on your feet and joints. Justin Boots also includes removable orthotic insoles for extra comfort and support.
Justin Boots shows us something different than the usual country fare with these boots. It's a risk for the brand that's staked its reputation on traditional Western footwear, but one that pays off.
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Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey
Combsy – the solo project of Chris Combs, guitarist of Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey – will hit the road this May and June in support of their self-titled debut LP (Horton Records) which was released in late 2017. The band won't stray too far from their hometown of Tulsa with shows in Nashville, Little Rock, New Orleans, Oklahoma City, Montrose CO, Denver and Santa Fe.
Chris Combs, guitarist, composer and member of the Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey, offers his debut solo album, Combsy. Based out of Tulsa, OK, Combs has written, arranged and produced the album in its entirety.
Grateful Web Interview with Reed Mathis
Isaac Newton once said, "If I have been able to see further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants." The exciting new album and resulting tour of Reed Mathis and 'Electric Beethoven' is just that, going further standing on the shoulders of giants. The album is filled with classical allusions and improvisational rockets that launch off into another world. Mathis took a concept that he has been chewing on for quite some time and put the pieces together into a masterpiece.
Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey have announced the release of a live album The Battle For Earth out September 4 via Royal Potato Family.
Celebrating two decades of defying genres and creating ceaselessly groundbreaking music, Tulsa-based Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey is set to release Worker, their 26th album, on October 14 via Royal Potato Family. The 11-track effort marks the first studio recording from the current trio line-up featuring Brian Haas (keyboards, Moog bass), Chris Combs (guitar, lap steel), and Josh Raymer (drums).
JFJO & Mike Dillon | Shine | Boulder, CO | 3/19/14 | Review
Sometimes it's cool to catch a concert in Boulder that isn't at Boulder or Fox Theatres. We love both of those venues, but there are so many lesser-appreciated venue spaces attached to bars and restaurants primarily in the downtown area. I include Mountain Sun Brewery Restaurant & Pub, Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, Connor O'Neil's Irish Pub, and Lazy Dog Saloon all in this category. Perhaps the most underappreciated venue space downtown in Shine Restaurant & Gathering Place.
Grateful Web Interview with Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey's Brian Haas
Brian Haas, pianist and de-facto bassist of Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey, took a moment from his extensive travels to speak with the Grateful Web about the big year ahead for JFJO, including two new albums, one of which was recorded live in Denver, Colorado at Dazzle Jazz and is slated for vinyl release on Record Store Day.
Mike Dillon Band + Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey Launch Tour In March
The Mike Dillon Band and Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey are set to launch a 16-date tour of the western United States. The run kicks off with three shows in Colorado beginning in Boulder on March 19. It then cuts North to Idaho and Montana before heading to the Pacific Northwest followed by a stretch down the West Coast to San Diego. The tour wraps in April with shows in Santa Fe, NM and Norman, OK.
Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey | Dazzle | Denver, CO | 11/14/13 | Review
With twenty-one records released through the genre bending marathon existence that is Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey, the band has plenty of material to choose from. Original founder and ivory tickler Brian Haas, along with his well-versed cohorts, dug deep into their songbook for a set of re-worked classics spanning their twenty-year career last Thursday at Dazzle Jazz in Denver, Colorado.
Brian Haas & Matt Chamberlain 'Frames' | New Album Out Oct. 15
Brian Haas and Matt Chamberlain have announced the October 15 release of their debut duo recording Frames on Kinnara Records/The Royal Potato Family. The album was written entirely by Haas, founder and pianist of the internationally renowned Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey, as a through-composed work for piano and percussion.
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Progressive jam giants Umphrey's McGee's return to Las Vegas for the seventh installment of the massively popular UMBowl production was marked once again by a stand-out tour closing dual evening extravaganza where all stops were pulled out and the power given directly to the fans, for better or for worse.
On June 24, Round Records & ATO Records will release GarciaLive Volume Six: July 5, 1973 – Jerry Garcia & Merl Saunders, the latest installment of the celebrated GarciaLive archival series. The three-CD set was recorded at the 200 capacity Lion's Share club formerly located in the small town of San Anselmo, CA, just 20 miles north of San Francisco. The performance features Jerry Garcia performing with friend, mentor and legendary keyboardist/vocalist Merl Saunders. The duo is joined by drummer Bill Vitt and bassist John Kahn, who soon became a lifelong Garcia collaborator.
Progressive jam giants Umphrey's McGee's return to Las Vegas for the seventh installment of the massively popular UMBowl production was marked once again by a stand-out tour closing dual evening extravaganza where all stops were pulled out and the power given directly to the fans, for better or for worse.


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I wanted to take two seconds to mention just a few things on how users can help out developers when filing bugs, or posting them on bugzilla or the forums. I'm sure many other people out there can add to the list of helpful things, but these are the ones that I see the most.
First of all, if you're posting for help on something that didn't emerge properly, at the very least post this information: the output of "emerge -pv package" and "emerge –info".
Yes, I could grep the USE flags you're using from emerge –info, but that doesn't help with all the package.use foobery that crops up. Just post "this is my output for emerge -pv whatever" and where it dies, with a verbose error message.  Include about as much as you can, since many times there is too little information. Make it easier for people wanting to help you.
The output of "emerge –info" is really helpful too. It may not seem necessary, but it tells people which arch you're on, and also your compilation flags as well. I always look at people's CFLAGS first to see if they've got anything extremely funky in there, as that's commonly a root cause of build errors.
If you're filing a bug on bugzilla, please always put the full category, package name and version in the subject. This makes it easier for those looking at unassigned bugs to quickly know who it should be assigned to, and exactly where you are having problems. For the subject, just put "foo-bar/package-name-1.2.3 short bug summary" and that works perfectly.
Finally, thank you for actually filing bugs and posting problems. It's much better than letting them get to you and leaving in a fit of rage complaining about how everything is broken. Besides, this way if there is a serious problem, and it's not just user misconfiguration, it allows us to get it fixed properly so others can also enjoy a more stable system.
Thanks, guys. :)


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i) Iron ii) Aluminium iii) Silver iv) Copper
Which of the following is known rivers is known as 'Sorrow of Bengal'?
i) Kosi ii) Gandak iii) Sone iv) Damodar
Who was the first woman Governor of an Indian State?
i) Sulochan Modi ii) Sushila Nayar iii) Sucheta Kriplani iv) Sarojini Naidu
The Hirakud Project is on which of the following rivers
i) Damodar ii) Kosi iii) Godavari iv) Mahanadi
Which is the India's largest lake?
i) Sambhar ii) Naini iii) Sishram iv) Chilka
The largest irrigation canal in India is called the
i) Sirhind Canal ii) Yamuna Canal iii) Upper Bari Doab Canal iv) Indira Gandhi Canal
Tehri Dam Project is located in which of the following State?
i) Haryana ii) Rajasthan iii) Madhya Pradesh iv) Uttaranchal
The enzyme that is present in the saliva of man is
i) Renin ii) Trypsin iii) Pepsin iv) Amylase
Where does Chambal river originate from?
i) Mhow ii) Bhind ii) Ujjain iv) Ratlam
Blood cancer is otherwise called as
i) Anaemia ii) Leucopenia iii) Polycythemia iv) Leukaemia
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Adventure.com is exactly what the name implies. A website where you'll find all kinds of adventures around the world. It just so happens to be very well designed too. Let's have a look.
First Impressions
So you already have an idea of what Adventure.com is from the actual name but it could well be a magazine or a store that sells outdoor gear, so you still need to know exactly what it is as soon as you land on the homepage. Good thing the Adventure.com designers know that too:
"Discover & book unique adventures directly with locals around the world"
That headline says all you need to know. Learn from Great Design regulars will know that great copywriting is also great design and this simple, clear and concise headline certainly is great copywriting. While the headline effectively communicates what Adventure.com is, the video in the background complements it with great footage of adventures giving you a dose of visual inspiration before you've even started exploring.
Below the headline and video, you'll come across another well designed headline:
"What does Adventure mean to you?"
As adventure can mean different things to different people, guiding the visitor to what suits them is a smart way to begin the user experience. Selecting any of the options takes you straight through to the browsing trips page with suitable adventures.
The headline for that section leads us onto typography. Typography is an expressive tool in itself and the choice of the handwritten style of Flood Std by Adobe nicely captures the adventurous mood of Adventure.com. Overusing this font can lead to a messy looking and less trust-worthy site, so it's wisely kept to a minimum but used enough to have an impact. Later in this Learn from Great Design study, you'll see it in use on the trip pages, combining well with inspiring images.
Browsing Trips
Now you know exactly what Adventure.com is, you'll want to dive right in and see what they have available, so it's a good thing they have a well designed experience to help you find just what you want.
The layout of this page is fantastic, really letting the images do the talking, making it very easy to scan through a large list of potential trips, as you'll see with the great design of the visual hierarchy.
Large lists like this need some sort of filtering system and the one here is very clear and simple to use. I particularly like the design of the rating systems used for "physical rating" and "culture shock" because it makes it clear that 5 is the extreme end of the scale at a simple glance. We all have limited cognition and attention, especially these days, so great design helps us focus on the important things rather than sitting there trying to figure out how the UI works. Simple but effective design detail like this can't be underestimated and they all add up.
Poor Hit Areas
Despite having a good filter system, you'll see in the screenshot above I've highlighted the incredibly thin areas where you have to click/tap to select the filter options you need for "featured", "region" and "country". Expanding it to the full area of the dividers would make it much easier to select each one, with both the click of a mouse or the tap of a finger. Look at all that unused space! In terms of visual design, the whitespace is great but it also indicates the entire area should be clickable/tappable which could lead to some frustrating missed taps and clicks.
Visual Hierarchy
Visual hierarchy is an important aspect of web design, especially when you have a lot of information on screen at once as we have on this page.
Thanks to the care and attention applied to the visual hierarchy, it's easy to scan just specific details of each listing. Take the location information under the title, for example. The icon, the capitalisation, the smaller size than the title above and the larger letter spacing all combine to give it a unique enough style for your eyes to hook onto from listing to listing.
The only complaint here is that the icons at the bottom can be a little difficult to decipher. Hovering over the matching icons in the filter to figure out what they are isn't ideal but at least you can discover what they each mean. It would be nice if the icons in the filter column had an always visible label.
Trip Pages
Big background images are "trendy" right now but we also know that web design trends are a complete waste of time. As designers, we may be bored of seeing websites with background images as a design style but actual users aren't. Sometimes we waste time with the most pointless things.
The large background image is perfect for this situation as an amazing first image can inspire people to find out more. First impressions are important. All good designers know scrolling isn't an issue these days but the big image doesn't take up the full screen allowing you to see there's more information below, giving you that little nudge to explore further.
Improving Readability
One criticism of this page is that the white text can become difficult to read on brighter backgrounds. The font is already slightly difficult to read due to it's handwritten/brush appearance, so let's see how we can improve it with a simple change.
As you can see in the example above, all you need to do is add a black background with only 20% opacity which can be done with some simple CSS and it doesn't make the image too dark. Of course, there still needs to be a good balance of making the text more readable but not taking away the impact of the image.
If anyone is still lacking inspiration, there's another section dedicated to other people's adventure stories.
If you look back at a previous Learn from Great Design study on Harry's shaving service, you'll see a similarity. Harry's have a section dedicated to the "story" of their company, as I explained in the study itself:
"The story supplements their offering of what their audience want with the actual service without getting in the way. It exists for those who want to go exploring to find out more about the company, so it's in a completely different section of the navigation and never distracts from the main focus of the website."
In the same way, that section exists for visitors who want to find out more about Harry's inspiring people to join by learning why they are different, the stories section of Adventure.com allows people to be inspired by other people's adventures, photos and videos.
Super Simple Sign Up
So you're inspired and want to book an adventure but of course you have to create an account first. Creating an account is almost as simple as it could possibly be.
You only actually need to enter your email address at this stage but they also ask for your name to make the service more personal. A triumph for usability! I've worked in teams where I would try to do something similar only for the marketing team to claim they "need" things like the date of birth and address at this stage and win out with upper management as a result. Well done to Adventure.com for doing the right thing for their users.
(The text is a little hard to read against the yellow background however, so that could do with an improvement.)
You're encouraged to add more details once you've actually signed up, removing the need to enter numerous fields to actually create your account. A progress bar fills up indicating how much information you've filled in.
In the first paragraph of the edit profile page, they make you aware of the benefits of completing your profile, meaning you'll be more likely to fill it in. After all, Adventure.com want you to be successful in order for them to be successful too.
"Make a cool first impression! When travelers are browsing the Adventure.com marketplace and deciding to book an adventure, they'll be checking out your profile."
Responsive Design
Adventure.com is completely responsive as is the expectation in this multi-device world and works well except for some minor issues on the text over the large images on the trip pages can sometimes escape its container.
Learn from This Great Design for Your Next Adventure
"The journey of 1,000 miles begins with the first step."
At the bottom of the homepage, this headline sits next to a sign-up form encouraging you to take the first step on your journey by creating an account. Initially I thought it was wonderful copywriting but then I thought I've heard it before. It's actually adapted from a quote be Chinese philosopher, Lao Tzu, but it works fantastically well in this case.
A web design project can feel like travelling 1,000 miles, so hopefully learning from the great design on Adventure.com will help you make the first step (and beyond!) towards creating your next great design adventure.


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See behind the battlefield with this digital exclusive edition clocking in over 200 pages including never-before-seen extras featuring the script by Brian Michael Bendis and a variant cover gallery, plus layouts, inked pages, and color pages by David Marquez and Justin Ponsor! This is the explosive first chapter in the comic event EVERYONE is talking about. A new Inhuman, with the ability to profile the future, emerges and the ramifications ripple into every corner of the Marvel Universe. Lines are drawn, bodies fall, and the Marvel Universe will be rocked to it's very core. The action starts here!
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- If you have any difficulties to download the files, please refer to this how-to download page.
- All of the comic files are packed on .CBR and/or .CBZ file formats. Here are some of the reader apps that i can recommend : YAC Reader (Win, OSX, Linux, iOS), ComicRack (Win, Android, iOS), CDisplayEx.
- To extract any compressed files, I recommend using 7-Zip.
- If you encounter any broken links or corrupt files, please write on the comment section or message me through the contact form.
- Want to see all the comic list? Please go to this page.


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With a Federated E-Commerce Account you can pay your invoices on-line using your credit/debit card or your checking account. You can manage your Federated account such as viewing invoices, credits, payment history, recent purchases, and contracts, along with paperless statements if you would like.
Use this form to let Federated Co-ops know about any changes to your address, phone-number, or email-address.


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WF 050213 People
People need people and friends need friends,
And we all need love for a full life depends-
Not on vast riches or great acclaim,
Not on success or on worldy fame,
But just in knowing that someone cares,
And holds us close in their thoughts and prayers-
For only the knowledge that we're understood,
Makes everyday living feel wonderfully good,
And we rob ourselves of life's greatest need,When we "lock up our hearts" and fail to heed,
The outstretched hand reaching to find,
A kindred spirit whose heart and mind,
Are lonely and longing to somehow share,
Our joys and sorrows and to make us aware,
That life's completeness and richness depends,
On the things we share with our loved ones,
and friends.
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This Natural Style Bed leaves the natural beauty in the design. It utilizes the beauty of each log with few bends or curves. Available in Pine or Aspen wood (extra charge). Price shown is for Twin size in Pine wood. Made in the USA.
Aspen Ridge Log Furniture offers a line of "one of a kind" log furniture. Each distinctive piece is a naturally created work of art, handcrafted with pride and craftsmanship, by master builders, to last a lifetime. All wood is carefully selected, then transformed into a unique component for any decor. Beds have mortise and tenon construction for added strength and durability. Although each piece of furniture created is similar in design, no two are identical. Mattress and bedding not included. Please call for custom orders. Cracks and checks are inherent in the natural materials used to create Aspen Ridge Log Furniture and shall not be considered defects. However, any pieces that are unsound from cracking and checking will be repaired or replaced free of charge.
Twin: 52"W x 85"L x 52"H, Queen: 68"W x 90"L x 60"H, King: 84"W x 90"L x 60"H, All sizes are approximate.
Our natural style lodge bed comes in your choice of Pine or Aspen wood with Lacquer finish.
Estimated shipping: 4-8 weeks. Most Aspen Ridge Furniture items are shipped via Motor Freight. See Shipping Log Furniture information for details. Please contact us for additional shipping charges to Alaska, Hawaii, and Canada. Pay half now & half later with no sales tax! (Balance due upon shipment)
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SFRTI needed a motion piece to be placed within one of their training decks in order to give the audience a closer, more interactive overview of their organic farming practices.
We combined an appropriate background track along with tons of movement, bright imagery, and self-explanatory text to give the viewers a taste of organic farming 101, powered by ladybugs.
At just over a minute long, this video speaks boldly for itself without the use of a narrator. It was also able to fit perfectly within the look and feel of the larger presentation.


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How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World – Francis WheenAugust 6, 2010 at 19:22 | Posted in books | Leave a comment
Tags: book, delusions, mumbo jumbo, wheen
In this marvellous book, Francis Wheen takes aim at all the various flavours of ideology, delusion and snake oil that have come to characterise so much decision making in the modern world. He exposes just how much of the way the world is governed and controlled rests not on factual analysis and critical thinking, but on hunches, balmy theories and mumbo-jumbo.
Of course, the obvious targets are in there – Creationism, astrology, homoeopathy. However, Wheen also sets his sights on some more sacred cows of all political flavours – from the 'voodoo economics' of Reaganism to the ideological responses to 9-11 from left-wing thinkers such as Noam Chomsky.
The whole thing is served up with a degree of flair and wit that disguises the seriousness of the arguments; each chapter is carefully researched with copious references in the end notes. It's not an academic treatise, but it's more than journalistic puffery.
You may not agree with every argument Wheen makes, but it's hard to avoid the overall conclusion that we live in a world that has abandoned critical thinking and sound epistemology, where emoting is more valuable than thinking. Hardly a recipe for success…
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The 50 mm f/1.8 is not a zoom lens; it is a prime lens or a fixed focal lens meaning it only captures an image at that particular focal range. In exchange for zoom range, prime lenses are often sharper, have better color saturation and have a much larger aperture value.
Nevertheless, its fixed 50mm focal frame has earned it the nickname the Nifty Fifty, and it truly is. On a camera with an APS-C sensor like one of the Canon Rebels, it's effectively an 85mm lens, making it a bit too tight for most group shots; if a person stood about five feet away from you, the camera would only be able to capture his upper body and face. In contrast, a typical digital point-and-shoot camera has an effective focal range of about 28mm when zoomed out, enough to fit a whole party in front of you.
Despite this limitation, it can be quite effective for candid shots and low light situations. Even with its longer focal length, it can be very useful for street photography once you get the hang of it.
I sold my copy to a friend not too long ago since I was using my Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8 L USM lens about 90% of the time, but I've kept many pictures I've taken with my 50mm, and I find myself missing it sometimes.
For anyone thinking about purchasing or borrowing this lens, here are a few advantages and disadvantages to the Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II:
Comparatively speaking, it's very affordable at around $100 (the price may be different depending on your location). However, don't let that price fool you; it's capable of some amazing shots.
It will repay itself many times over once you find out how incredibly functional it is. If you're considering an extra purchase when buying your first DSLR, your camera shop might be persuaded to lower the lens price. It's so cheap that there's really no good reason why you shouldn't get it.
2) It's sharp.
Well, it's sharp stepped down. Wide open at f/1.8, it's very soft, so much so that you might think your image isn't in focus. The narrow aperture doesn't help that fact. However, stepped down to f/2.0 or f/2.4, it becomes usable. At f/2.8 it's very sharp and you hardly notice any vignetting.
This is the beauty of the prime lens; they are incredibly sharp and they're most often used for magazine shoots and wedding engagements. If you know how to mask the 50mm's flaws, you can use it for professional shoots as well. I know quite a few photographers who do this on paid gigs to good effect.
3) It's light and simple.
The lens is much lighter than the kit lens, allowing you to hold the camera comfortably with only one hand. In addition, its uncomplicated design makes it a breeze to handle. There's no zoom ring to fiddle with, no extra buttons to press. With this piece of glass, there's only one zoom setting: what you see is what you get.
After awhile, you begin to appreciate the limitation of the prime lens. When you put the camera to your face, you don't need to zoom in or zoom out. All you need to do is compose your shot, and click the shutter.
4) It provides exceptional training.
The first few days using this lens can be very awkward, especially if you're used to the 18mm wide end of your kit lens, but the lens slowly trains your eye to determine what part of the horizon in front of you can fit into your 50mm frame.
Getting used to the nifty fifty's range, you'll find yourself becoming an expert at focal ranges: even before you raise the viewfinder to your eye, you'll immediately know whether a scene fits into a 50mm frame. After switching between lenses, you'll soon be good enough to tell which scenes require a lens with a 24mm, 35mm, 50mm or 100mm focal length.
The lens will also help you determine what kind of shooting style you want. I know a lot of photographers who bought three or more lenses at the beginning of their hobby or career, only to find out they only used two of them most of the time. When you're stuck with the 50mm, you'll often find yourself either backing up to take in more of the scene in front of you, or moving forward to get a closer look.
After a few more months of this, you'll know for certain whether you need that 10-22mm ultra-wide, or that 70-200mm bread-and-butter wedding lens.
For the price, the lens offers a great deal for new photographers. However, not all is perfect. Here are a few caveats against the lens:
1) Its Auto-Focus is slow and noisy.
Compared to the 18-55mm kit lens, the auto-focus speed is about on par. However, the 50mm is noticeably noisier. This might not bother you, but in situations where quiet discretion is key, a noisy lens might distract from the occasion.
The AF also has a problem in low-light situations. It hunts around and sometimes does not acquire focus. In addition, on some copies of the lens, you might find a slight front-focusing problem. This can be a bit irritating especially at wide apertures, but most people don't notice that problem, especially when you don't crop the image.
A little side-note for Nikon readers, the Nikon AF Nikkor 50 mm f/1.8D does not auto-focus on entry level cameras like the D3100 or D5000. While Nikkor lens can be mounted onto these cameras, the lens unfortunately does not have an internal auto-focus motor, so you will have to manually focus the lens yourself.
2) It produces ugly bokeh.
The five aperture blades of the Canon 50mm unsurprisingly offer very lazy bokeh. It's not a deal breaker, considering that the bokeh is the out of focus portion of the image, but once you know about it, you can't help but notice it.
To Nikon's credit, the Nikkor version has seven blades and produces beautiful bokeh in my opinion.
3) It's build quality is subpar.
The lens is predominantly made of plastic, and sometimes feels like a child's toy. Nevertheless, because of its small size and light weight, you probably won't notice it.
The plastic construction offers adequate protection for the glass inside. Only a deliberately hard blow to the lens would deal it any lasting damage.
These disadvantages might sound discouraging, but this is just to offer you a more objective review of the lens. If you were to ask me whether or not you should buy it, the answer is a resounding "YES"! In my opinion, the advantages more than outweigh theses small disadvantages.
Buy it, rent it or borrow it. If you can spend $800 on a camera, you can spend an extra hundred to allow you to capture better photos. Other than your kit lens, the Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II lens should be one of the first lenses you mount on your camera. If this personal review has convinced you, purchase the Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II Camera Lens along with the Fotodiox Dedicated Lens Hood, for Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II Lens as Canon ES-62 and Professional High Quality 3 Piece Filter Set For Canon SLR Cameras That Have A Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II Lens.


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Meet the entire Finnish industry
Subcontracting Trade Fair brings together industrial companies, experts and decision-makers. Approximately 20,000 industry professionals participate in this annual event, which is Finland's leading industry trade fair, where the common denominator for all participants is the desire to achieve more in a better, more effective and productive manner. Can you afford not to take advantage of these three days?


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Glass writing desk – Building a hardened glass desk from the bottom takes some lawn drainage. Building your own desk is not only fun, it is rewarding. The feeling you get when sitting at a desk you're joining is one of realization. There are a lot of patterns on the internet, but if you look around your house you can find everything you need. Everything you can build and put together will save you money. The trick is to keep the project simple and know your own mechanical constraints. Look around your house for an old door made from solid wood. Many older houses have exterior doors of maple, mahogany or oak. These doors are solid pieces of wood and look incredibly artsy under tempered glass. Purchasing a door for this project is expensive as a massive mahogany exterior dies 30 by 80 inches costs an average of 699 dollars. If you cannot find a door in your basement, ask your neighbors and friends if they have one. Remove handle and hinges.
Glass writing desk, search for a couple of two-drawer archive cabinets. The cupboards are at the bottom of the home-made desk. The massive wooden door will sit on top of the two filed cabinets with hardened glass lying flat on the door. Purchasing 2 file ships is cheaper than buying a new desktop. If you cannot find 2 file ships, go to your local store and pick up a pair. Use a wood finish as it will match wood door better than metal.
Buy a piece of tempered glass on your local hardware dealer. The measurement for the average wood door is 30 x 80 inches. Buy a piece of tempered glass of the same measurement. It is important to have edges and rounded corners and smoothed. Glass breaks and chips easily. Rounding edges and corners of tempered glass preserve its use. Set file cabinets 3 to 4 meters apart where you want the desktop. When filing cabinets are in place, put wood on top of them; the door is the desk and hardened glass goes on top. You now have a functional homemade hardened glass writing desk.


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A Change.org petition has been aimed at the show's writers David Benioff and D.B. Weiss ahead of Sunday's series finale and has reached more than 915,000 signatures. The petition began last Sunday by a user named Dylan D. from Fort Worth and is aiming to garner a million signatures, according to The Washington Post. The petitioner wrote on Change.org: "David Benioff and D.B. Weiss have proven themselves to be woefully incompetent writers when they have no source material (i.e. the books) to fall back on.
"This series deserves a final season that makes sense.
"Subvert my expectations and make it happen, HBO!"
The success of the petition is the latest sign that fans are now taking matters into their own hands.
Not only are fans demanding HBO for a season eight remake, but others have duped Google's algorithm into having a picture of Mr Benioff and Mr Weiss show up under the search term "bad writers".
READ MORE: Game of Thrones Season 8 finale: Daenerys doom sealed in her own words
Others have also re-cut death scenes so that they make "more sense".
Fans have complained about the short six-episode season which shows a lack of care in editing, unexplained loose ends and character favourites acting contrary to their nature.
Examples from the show include the Battle of Winterfell being so dark that people could not see it, to Jon Snow's indifference towards his beloved direwolf, Ghost.
There was even a Starbucks coffee cup that made it into one of the scenes.
Fans have expressed their outrage on the petition's page.
One fan said: "I agree, it's hugely rushed and poorly written. Redo!"
Another said: "This was abysmal."
One fan added: "We need better and competent writers to do a better job and remake season 8."
Mr Benioff and Mr Weiss were officially announced this week as the writers and directors for a new Star Wars film which will be released in December 2022.
READ MORE: Eurovision 2019: Game of Thrones' Euron Greyjoy makes cameo
They have also expressed their hopes to satisfy the Game of Thrones fan base.
Mr Weiss said to Entertainment Weekly: "We want people to love it.
"We also know no matter what we do, even if it's the optimal version, that a certain number of people will hate the best of all possible versions.
I'm hoping for the 'Breaking Bad' [finale] argument where it's like, 'Is that an A or an A+?'"
Mr Benioff added: "A good story isn't a good story if you have a bad ending. Of course, we worry."


text: Michael Ward is a leading expert on the works of C.S. Lewis. He is the author of Planet Narnia: The Seven Heavens in the Imagination of C.S. Lewis (Oxford University Press, 2008), presenter of the BBC documentary The Narnia Code, and co-editor of The Cambridge Companion to C.S. Lewis (forthcoming from Cambridge University Press, 2010) and of Heresies and How to Avoid Them (SPCK/Hendrickson, 2007). He is also an Associate Editor of the PoemaDay website. An Anglican clergyman, he served as Chaplain of Peterhouse in the University of Cambridge from 2004 to 2007 and is currently Chaplain of St Peter's College, Oxford. Between 1996 and 1999 he was Warden of The Kilns, Lewis's Oxford home. He studied English at Oxford, Theology at Cambridge, and has a PhD from St Andrews. Dr. Ward's chief claim to fame is that he handed a pair of X-ray spectacles to James Bond in the movie The World Is Not Enough.


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A Muslim woman staying at a beachside resort is sort of like drinking non-alcoholic beer. What's the point of it?
While my family and I were staying a couple of days at the Bohol Beach Club on Panglao Island in the Philippines, there was also a Muslim family there consisting of the parents and a young boy. Despite the fact that the location was a resort with a beach a short walk from the rooms and several pools, and the temperature was easily in the upper nineties, the Muslim wife walked around wearing a head scarf and baggy clothing, while the husband wore shorts and a t-shirt. Would it really be such a tragedy to let the lady loosen up a bit and wear a swim suit, take a dip in the ocean or relax in the pool a bit? Besides, it was not like she was attractive enough to have any guys leering at her if she wore a swim suit anyway.
My daughter caused us a bit of discomfort while we were in the pool. The Muslim family was walking alongside the pool and my daughter said, "That woman looks funny Daddy." I had to explain to her as best as I could that the woman believes there is an invisible man in the sky who wants her to dress that way. At the same time, maybe ridicule from children is exactly what these people need to hear to realize how absurd they are.


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By Anna Seacat
There are hundreds of event spaces in Indianapolis and hundreds of thousands of square feet of office space in this great city, but currently only one site for creative exchange. Studio B, one of a handful of coworking spaces in the Indianapolis metro area, just opened its new digs with a ribbon cutting ceremony hosted by the Indy Chamber on March 21, 2014. Barbara Leath, of the Indy Chamber, explained that Studio B's creative work and meeting space is a great launch pad for the creative movement in Indianapolis. Leath said, "It fills a demand among entrepreneurs, artists, start-ups, visionaries, and entrepreneurial corporations to temporarily co-work and exchange ideas." However, since the demand for coworking options is largely misunderstood, this article will address three of the most commonly held myths about spaces for creative exchange.
MYTH #1: The Coworking Concept is a Trend
Although there are only a few shared working/event spaces in and around Indianapolis, the coworking concept is thriving in other metropolitan areas. In fact, according to Forbes, coworking spaces have increased by 400 percent in the last two years. In a new February 2014 article, a Forbes contributor announced that coworking spaces are "much more than resources and a place to do business. It's a community — and it's the future of how business is going to be done. People don't want to work in tiny cubicles anymore…they want to be surrounded by a ton of passionate people going for a dream." So, unlike the traditional office spaces and event venues available in Indianapolis, coworking spaces are targeting a new market of workers who are after community and collaboration…what Studio B describes as, "creative exchange."
MYTH #2: Coworking is Only for Freelancers
As observed by Forbes, coworking and creative exchange is not a new fad; rather, it's the future of business operations. Likewise, the creativity movement in Indianapolis is not only being driven by freelancers and entrepreneurs. Corporations are beginning to realize that, in order to maintain their existing market share, they will have to start behaving and operating in more entrepreneurial ways. Consequently, these sluggish giants are sending engineers, marketers, recruiters, and administrators to temporary creative spaces for some much needed cubicle detox. NaShara Mitchell, founder of Studio B and Assistant Dean at Indiana University, explained that big businesses in Indianapolis are reaching out to her about their needs for creative space. She explained that progressive corporations are realizing the value of coworking through the exchange of skills, insights, and ideas. For instance, it is easy to see the valuable creative exchange that would occur by sitting a corporate packaging engineer next to a local artist.
MYTH #3: Coworking is Only for Young Professionals
While there may be a sector of seasoned executives who wouldn't be excited about leaving their corner office to cowork beside an engineer, it is a mistake to believe that the creative movement, which is driving the demand for coworking spaces in Indianapolis, is being solely led by young Millennials. According to an article in the most recent issue of Money magazine, entrepreneurship among "older executives" is a rule rather than an exception.
In fact, people 45 and older started 48% of new firms in 2012 (Rosato, 2014). Moreover, on the same day that Studio B opened its new doors, Upstart Business Journal coincidentally announced that coworking spaces on the east coast are now targeting "established entrepreneurs." Upstart reported that mature professionals are managing multiple, independent firms within one shared space, which promotes a free exchange of ideas and inspiration among their teams. For instance, one can easily see the mutually beneficial collaboration that could occur between a manager of R&D engineers and an Ex-Exec leading a new digital marketing agency.
Jump on Board: Be a Founding Member of the Creative Movement in Indianapolis
Studio B gave the creative movement in Indianapolis a big boost. It is designed to reflect the coworking and creative exchange concepts that are causing innovation and entrepreneurial networking to thrive in other cities. As such, Studio B is not only a desk to work at; it is the space to create, collaborate, and grow. So, whether you work in an HR department, are a program manager, or an engineer and in need of some fresh thinking and a boost in creative thought, a temporary coworking space should be a solution that your company investigates. Memberships can be purchased by the hour, day, week, or month. For more information about the creative exchange occurring in the Mass Ave district at Studio B, check out http://studiobmassave.tumblr.com/, call 317-602-7200, or email email@example.com.
Rosato, D. (2014). Entrepreneurship Sprouts Among Older Ex-Execs. Money, 43(3), 18.


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Did the media cover the wrong Sundance?
During the party following the Sundance Film Festival awards ceremony last Saturday night, I had occasion to ask Jeffrey Blitz — who'd just won the jury prize for best director for his coming-of-age dramedy Rocket Science, one of my favorite films at the festival — if he'd had a chance to rub shoulders with any, you know, famous people. He responded with a gentle rebuke: "Well, for me, the real stars of the festival are the other filmmakers."
That statement's been rattling around in my brain ever since. It reminded me of the John Edwards-esque truism that there are actually two Sundances: the one sprinkled with the Justin Timberlakes, Heather Grahams, Jared Letos, and Queen Latifahs of the world, and the much larger one without.
I mean, what's more likely: That over the course of the festival you read about a movie called Hounddog, in which Dakota Fanning gets raped, or about a movie called Padre Nuestro, in which two Mexican young men struggle for survival after being smuggled into New York City? Not to leap to conclusions here, but I'm going to guess that it's the former, and yet Padre Nuestro was no less than the film that won Sundance's top award, the Grand Jury Prize.
In fact, other than audience and screenwriter award winner Grace Is Gone (which starred John Cusack), almost all the feature films that won prizes at this year's festival were made by people like Blitz, novice directors working with almost completely unknown casts. It would appear, however, that based on the vast majority of press coverage out of Park City, Utah — like from yours truly — these filmmakers and their films could easily remain largely unknown.
Sure, movie stars and well-known actors also had top-notch indie films at the festival — for one, I'm (mostly) with the inestimable Whitney Pastorek on The Nines, which stars Ryan Reynolds and Ryan Reynolds' abs. But, heck, even I had to turn to my trusty festival catalogue during the awards ceremony to find out what the Feature Documentary Grand Jury Prize winner, Manda Bala (Send a Bullet), was actually about. To a degree, this has always been an issue at Sundance — its winners are often left-field surprises. But I can tell you that Padre Nuestro's excellence was no secret leading up to its win, and after festival director Geoffrey Gilmore opened the awards ceremony by calling 2007 a "landmark year" for Sundance, I had to wonder if the full breadth of that accomplishment had been effectively communicated to the rest of the world.
So, PopWatchers, did you, like me, lose count of the number of times you read the words "Dakota" and "rape" in the same sentence? Would you — and please be honest here — want to know about, say, World Cinema Grand Jury Award winner Sweet Mud? If all the award winners were available on Netflix tomorrow, would you move them to the front of your queue? Or do these smaller films remain stuck in media obscurity because they are, point of fact, rather obscure?


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Week in Review 5/29/2006
Memorial Day counts as a Sunday in our book.
Just some of the things mentioned last week:
- Hoboken Golf
The only one of its kind in Hoboken.
- Tutta Pasta
What is it really like?
- Whiskey Bar
- Helmers'
Will be back after the fire. Within three months.
- Environmental Action
They come to Hoboken to state their case.
- Hollywood Tans
The franchise celebrates its six month anniversary.
- Baby Sign Language
We believe this is a must-do class for your baby.
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Gummy surprised the audience of JTBC's "Sugar Man" which aired on March 29th. The singer performed her song, "You Are My Everything", from the "Descendants of the Sun" OST.
The performance is the first-ever life performance of the song, which managed to wow both the audience and panel members.
Gummy manages to sing the song with her deep and soothing voice, as well as pouring her feelings into the chorus.


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Say what you want but I am totally jealous. I mean totally. Words have been created for this series of books and films. Words like Twihard and Twilighters.
What about Tinglerosas or Sardonicistas? I would settle for Macabers or HauntedHillers. But no. I am green with envy! Say what you want, but these stories have followers and these followers have names, names that are now and forever in the urban dictionary.
Hey I am for true love and love at first site– does that make me a Twilighter or a Twihard? You tell me.
1. Twihard
Stupid obsessive people (mostly teenage girls) who are "in love with fictional characters and wouldn't know a good book if it punched them in the face.
Twihard: "OMG!! Isn't Edward Cullen like so hot??? I'm gonna marry him!!!"
Awesome person who isn't insane: "Dude, he's not real."
Twihard: "How could you say that?! I'm in love with him!!"
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2. Twilighter
An serious/obsessive reader of the Twilight Saga by Stephenie Meyer, one leap above Twilighters.
The difference between being a Twilighter and being a Twihard, is that Twihards have embraced a new Twiligion… er…. I mean, religion based on Twilight. They live and breath Twilight. Most Twihards are for Edward and Bella. Therefore, those Twihards are all for true love & love at first sight. Point out one thing to a Twihard, and they can relate it to Twilight instantly. Savage and wild, they need every single thing to be perfect in the upcoming Twilight movie.
What about Sarah and Edgar in my new novel "From the Grave: The Prayer?" Will there be "Gravers?" Or "Prayerlights?" Romance and unrequited love is in the air.


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This one was inspired by the twin bro! I've had this one locked up for awhile, but decided today would be a good day to unleash upon all of you. It is a bit dated, granted, but it still goes hard in the paint. DJ Chuckster remixes british singer Neon Hitch's Bad Dog. Check it out…great song to rock out to this weekend.
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DJ Chuckie — N****s' Satisfaction in Paris (Dirty Dutch Bootleg)
Ball so hard b-ball so hard b-b-b-b-ball so hard…..
DJ Chuckie brings us a little mash-up of Kanye & Jay-Z's N***a's in Paris and Benassi's Satisfaction. Did someone say "banger?" Yup.
Mohombi — Bumpy Ride (DJ Chuckie Remix)
Another legit remix coming our way from one of the dirty Dutchmen, DJ Chuckie. Babu and I had the amazing opportunity to witness Chuckie do his thing (read: HEADLINE) at Sensation White 2011 in Hasselt, Belgium and this dude unquestionably shut the place down. Bumpy Ride is unique in that the name of the song fits very well with how Chuckster mixed it, with plenty of low building points balanced with high bumping wompwompwomps. Personally, my favorite part of the song starts at 1:00. Peep it. Love it. DL it.


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Consumer intent is one of the most powerful tools you have for understanding your customers. It's far more revealing than demographic factors such as your audience's age or gender and can help you build a far more complete picture of your customer. Understanding intent is essentially a question of understanding why a person is motivated to act in a particular way at a particular time – and how your brand can be part of it.
Intent is also particularly effective at helping you engage with your mobile audience, who are much more likely to be hunting for an immediate solution to their need. Research data from Millward Brown in 2015 suggested that brands could be missing out on up to 70% of potential mobile customers by failing to identify intent effectively.
Understanding intent is vital to understanding the customer journey and the best way to insert yourself into it. Working effectively with intent data means being fast and flexible, using technology to communicate quickly. It's all about reaching the consumer in that microscopic moment of time when they're most decisive.
It's not an easy challenge for businesses to rise to but the tools available to understand and respond to intent are improving all the time.
Immediacy is an important part of understanding and reacting to intent. The point when a consumer is looking for something is absolutely key to engaging with them. By understanding their intent in that moment, you're much more likely to transact with them in some way by reaching them at whatever stage of the journey they're at.
Overcoming assumptions
Engaging with intent can be a way to free yourself from your own prejudices. It's easy to develop a rigid view of who is using your product or service; focusing on consumer intent rather than the characteristics of the consumer in their daily life can help you overcome your own assumptions.
It's less about seeing your audience as a set of channels or devices, or a collection of demographic stereotypes, and more a question of seeing them as individuals engaging with your brand at particular points in the decision cycle.
There are plenty of examples of brands misunderstanding their audience because they focused on narrow demographic assumptions. Brands are starting to wake up to the fact women buy video games, do DIY and enjoy superhero films, and that men buy makeup and are increasingly buying items such as groceries and laundry powder. Narrow demographic assumptions aren't helpful to either the consumer or the retailer.
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They're also inefficient. Audiences are far more fragmented than they have been in the past, with demographics that are harder to pin down. People aren't as predictable as they were a few decades ago based on their age or gender. They're also pretty hostile to brands that make assumptions about how they live their lives.
With audiences that are tricky to pin down with demographic understanding, it makes more sense to target instead, the people that are actively making moves in your direction. It's better to engage with what people do rather than who they are.
Engaging with intent
So how do you identify intent, understand and then engage with it? From a search perspective, it all starts with what Google calls a micro-moment – the point at which a customer suddenly becomes ready to engage with a brand like yours. They could be looking to buy something, learn something or do something else online.
Your search strategy can help you understand micro-moments and respond to them using content tailored to users with that particular intent and using paid search advertising based on what they're searching for online.
A big part of your success in the area of intent comes from understanding how to make the most out of those micro-moments and how to map searcher intent to your keyword strategy. It can be hard to interpret intent when it comes to understanding how people search the internet.
A good tip for understanding SEO and intent is to try to understand how Google interprets things. If you're thinking of building a search campaign on a particular keyword, perform a search for it and see whether the results returned are informational or transactional – it'll help you understand the intent behind the keywords you're targeting for organic and paid search.
There are many ways to respond to intent once you've identified some patterns in user behaviour. Some users may be signalling that they just want to quickly close a sale – it's important to take them on a brief journey to complete this.
Others may want to research further, get a question answered and learn something. There are many different content formats that can meet their needs, from technical specifications for your product to informational videos or content that simply gives a succinct answer. Try to understand the most suitable content format to meet specific user intent types at particular moments in time and for their specific scenario, such as on a mobile whilst travelling.
You may be able to tackle some of their needs right from the search engine results page using tools such as those offered by Google My Business. For example, fast food chain restaurants often find that the most common intent they encounter is customers on mobile trying to find the nearest branch.
That's why McDonald's and Starbucks are easy to find within the search results without having to click into the brand's own website. Many businesses also add their opening hours and contact number into their Google profile to make them easier to find by customers with specific intentions to visit or contact them.
It's important to understand that you can't just do intent-focused marketing as a one-off activity. Understanding and responding to customer intent is an ongoing activity and you'll need to refine your process as you go along. By basing your marketing strategy around customer intent you'll be well on the way to making the most of the opportunities available to your business.


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DACC's North campus is our original building, built in 1975. While many of the programs sound like the programs you knew in the '70's, they have evolved over the years to meet the needs of today's colleges and employers.
Take a look at our Automotive Diagnostics Lab or find out what our welders are able to accomplish and you'll understand just how far career and technical education has come.
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January 28, 2013
On February 5th, or rather National Pancake Day, chain restaurant IHOP is continuing their tradition (since 2006) by offering a free short stack of pancakes.
In addition to offering the free flapjacks, the restaurant is also taking the opportunity to raise donations for the Children's Miracle Network Hospitals and various other local charities. For the past seven years, the company has raised over ten million dollars for the cause.
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Colchester topped Champlain Valley 21-12 in a Division I high school football game Saturday.
The question of whether Vermont government leaders were complicit in the massive Jay Peak Resort fraud case moves for the first time to a courtroom next week.
A number of foreign investors are suing the state for damages related to what they call failed oversight, collusion with Jay Peak management and an eventual cover-up by the officials who were charged with keeping tabs on a project that turned into a Ponzi scheme.
Monday morning in Vermont Superior Court in Hyde Park, lawyers for the investors and from the Attorney General's Office are expected to argue chiefly about whether the government should be immune from the lawsuit, whether the case should be dismissed outright, and whether the investors are entitled to dig into state records to search for evidence, said Russ Barr, a Stowe attorney who represents the investors.
Source: http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/story/news/2017/09/22/eb-5-fraud-lawsuit-against-vermont-heads-court/690810001/
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May 25, 2020
Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters (PG)
By Amy Diaz
8/15/2013 - The half-human, half-god son of Poseidon battles a fellow demi-god to prevent the end of the world in Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters, a sequel that I'm pretty sure none of us wanted to a movie nobody particularly liked.
Percy (Logan Lerman) is still hanging out at Camp Hogwarts, I mean Camp Half-Blood, with other children of gods, training to fight with spears and arrows and participating in seemingly pointless climbing competitions. Along with buddies — many of whom are some kind of cousins, I think — like the part goat Grover (Brandon T. Jackson) and Athena's daughter Annabeth (Alexandra Daddario), Percy seems to be just killing time until a giant magical robot bull breaks through the protective force surrounding the camp. (This force field has its own boring backstory — suffice to say, force fields are down and in danger of staying that way.) Along with Tyson (Douglas Smith), a fellow son of Poseidon who is also a Cyclops, Percy and his buddies have to go on a quest to find the Golden Fleece and stop Luke (Jake Abel), son of Hermes (Nathan Fillion), from resurrecting Kronos and bringing about the end of the world.
There's more to it, but that's the gist and some of that plot actually doesn't make a lot of sense when you step back from it so why unravel further? Sea of Monsters actually has a lot of plot, a lot of plot that requires a lot of exposition. With all the talking about what the movie's about, things like action and character development and moderately interesting dialogue seem to take a back seat. As with the first Percy Jackson movie, Sea of Monsters feels a lot like a discount Harry Potter — in this case, a discount version of one of the more filler-ish entries in the Harry Potter saga.
The movie seems unsure about who Percy Jackson is: is he a shining-star chosen one, like Harry? Is he a seeming screw-up who shows his worth in a crisis? Is he a reluctant hero? The movie seems to have him try on all three — without ever making any character traits feel organic to an actual person. The series has a built in mythology cornerstone that should make for interesting storytelling: All of these teenagers are the children of gods who have given their offspring significant powers but no parental attention. This story element seems like it could offer interesting plot possibilities — as well as give some much-needed emotional heft to these very faintly drawn characters — but the movie uses this detail only to explain the sullenness of the villain and not for much else. (Perhaps because Sean Bean, Steve Coogan and Kevin McKidd — who played gods Zeus, Hades and Poseidon, respectively, in the last movie — weren't available for another go-around.)
Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters feels lifeless and unfinished, like an idea for a movie that nobody got around to fleshing out.
Rated PG for fantasy action violence, some scary images and mild language. Directed by Thor Freudenthal with a screenplay by Marc Guggenheim (based on the book by Rick Riordan), Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters is an hour and 46 minutes long
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Directed by: Marino Girolami
Stars: Maurizio Merli, Raymond Pellegrin, John Saxon
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Also known as: A Special Cop in Action, Cop Hunter, Opération jaguar
Description: Commissario Betti. Once again, he's aggravated at the amount of crime going on in the city and his attention is focused mainly on two big crimes; a bank robbery and a kidnap plot. The Commissioner battles bravely to ensure the crooks are brought to justice but soon realises that there's no point in merely sorting out the henchmen and decides to go after the man he believes is heading the criminal operations; slimy businessman Albertelli, although bringing justice on the head criminal may not be so easy…
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My singing debutby themtb2008
Did I spell that right? I made a youtube video on this "law of attraction" theory. It talks about positive issues and things like that. The people who make those videos are REALLY dong some inspiring work. One had an instrumental song on it, and I took the music and made lyrics. Being blakc and liking rock, I really wanted to sing this type of music. My video is called "what say you" if you go to Youtube. Its a picture of a black and white fence up close. Its about 7ths on the list. Tell me what you guys think. And dont make fun of me.


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Featuring Darlene Zschech Posted on March 10, 2010
With the open door theory, I love to have people in my home, chatting to them while we are just doing life. Rather than having meetings and more meetings, invite someone to your home to chat while you potter at home, bring them over to be with you while you write a song, if you are driving the kids around, going to the air- port, make a point to grab one of the young ones who's been asking to have time with you and just get them involved in the real world.
You see, without an open door policy, for those we influence we foster an imagi- nary notion of what life in ministry looks like. There have been so many times in my life when I have been buying groceries or dropping off the dry cleaning, picking up the kids from school, and people literally stop me to ask me if this is REALLY what I do when I am not on a platform. Scary stuff! But in this culture of celebrity, there is a world created in the minds of many people that is almost more real to them than their real world existence, and unfortunately, with so much of the world's mentality seeping into the church unchallenged, a sub-culture within a church culture creates itself as the goal to pursue.
We do live within a culture that urges us to take control of our own lives, to be- come equipped to be masters of our own destinies, to do whatever we need to do to get to the top, and then somehow use the Bible to support our notions. But that is not the way the Word of God was given to infuse us. The Bible was not written as a handy script to adapt or modify, to fit into our particular situation.
Eugene Peterson said it like this, 'The author of THE book is writing us into His book, we aren't writing Him into ours. We find ourselves in the book as followers of Jesus. Jesus calls us to follow Him and obey or we do not.'
SO we raise, and train and love people TO the Lord, not our own version of what this is.
So leaders, I put the challenge out to you! IS your life a door open or door closed life? Do you put out a vibe that you welcome questions or are you a 'don't go there' type of leader?
It's that whole area of our UNSEEN lives - our Monday to Saturday - to use a phrase by Pastor Bill Hybels, it's 'who you are when no-one's looking'.
Some of the super practical areas that we can easily address are things like teach- ing the team what healthy boundaries are in life and how to put them into place. Because everything we do is a seed sown, the importance of making healthy choices is supreme, and when there are just NO boundaries, lives quickly get out of balance. Do a teaching series on what BALANCE looks like day to day.
How do we achieve balance? Answer their questions through the Word of God. TEACH them. And whatever you are not sure of, learn it, then go teach it!
I recently had to write down a morning routine for someone in my world who just wasn't coping with getting on with the day. Too basic you think? Doesn't relate to how you lead? Think again lovely one, for when the basics in life are sloppy, so will other areas of your life follow suit. How to develop discipline for each day is an ex- tremely important principle to teach our children, natural or spiritual... reading the Word, developing your gift, in being a punctual responsible human being, becoming more generous, the list is endless.
Even more practically, (I know you men are now reeling) things like how to dress, what is acceptable and what is not. Many young women today are being raised by the fashion industry rather than mentors or family, and it only takes a little bit of time and a little bit of care to teach the young what is right. It's not about style or flair, all of that stuff is fine and fun. No, it's about Holiness, that's our standard. Treating our body as a temple of the Holy Spirit and teaching our kids to honour that.
And leaders, PLEASE don't sit in judgement of young men or women that don't dress or look like what you'd prefer. Spiritual transformation takes place on the inside and then over time works its way through the whole of our beings. I get very upset when young people are discounted because of how they look, or how things 'appear' to be. God views us from a whole different perspective. He formed us, cell by cell, wove within our framework a need for Him and a need to accomplish purpose.
John 4:35, 'Do you not say, "Four months more and then the harvest"? I tell you, open your eyes and look at the fields! They are ripe for harvest.'
We are told to OPEN our eyes, the harvest is there and ready. But you know, the harvest doesn't look like it used to. It is covered in tattoos and needle-marks, and scars from slashed wrists and earrings in every possible place, but we love the harvest. And more importantly, God so loved us, every one of us, that He gave His finest to bring redemption for us.
Now that's the finest example there is.
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- In Jesus' Name Official Video by Darlene Zschech
- God Is Here Song Story by Darlene Zschech
- I Am Yours (Official Video) by Darlene Zschech
- I Am Yours Song Story by Darlene Zschech
- Your Name/Cry Of The Broken (Official Video) Darlene Zschech