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Most of what I like to write about here on the Clever Girl Organizing blog is about how to make positive differences in your spaces and systems and ultimately, your life. Sometimes, however, it's important to discuss some of the darker side of life, and reiterate why organization is just as important, if not more so, in those times.
Managing your Digital Afterlife, or "Virtual Estate Planning", has been a discussion popping up more and more with professional organizers (among other related professionals) over the past several years. The idea is simple: If the bill-payer in your home were to pass away or become incapacitated does someone else know how to handle the electronic accounts and all the digital world we engage in today?
Why is thinking about this important? The first reason is obvious: If someone passes or is incapacitated, life around them still goes on. Whether it's paying the mortgage and the cell phone bill or contacting the insurance company, things must be addressed. The second reason is just as important: When someone is facing tragic illness or loss, anything that can be done to alleviate that person's stress and confusion should be done. Knowing what you need to know can go a long way in helping to make an awful time more bearable. When a friend lost her husband suddenly, she realized she did not even know the password to get into her husband's computer. You can imagine how helpless she must have felt, not being able to do anything like access his emails and contacts, find important paperwork, or even see the photos he had on his computer from their vacations.
Every day, our online and digital presence becomes more and more core to how we do business and interact with others. When the person-in-the-know is no longer in control of those accounts, it isn't as simple as opening up a drawer in a desk and knowing what comes next. Some of it is straightforward and obvious:
- What bills need to be paid?
- What automatic payments or auto-renewals hit credit cards or bank accounts that need to be stopped?
- How do accounts get closed that no longer need to stay open?
But some aren't necessarily the top of mind when someone passes away:
- What should happen to various social media accounts? Google has "inactive account manager", Facebook has "Legacy Contact" and Twitter has a policy in place that family members can utilize. But you need to plan ahead for these, and what about the sites that don't have policies at all? The website/publisher cnet.com recently did a nice round-up on some how-to steps for these sites.
- What about all the digital photos in a cloud account? What is owned and by whom? What can the family member access and obtain after a death?
- How about the iTunes library? Amazon Kindle Library? (Did you know you don't own these, and can't transfer them?)
- Email accounts… what happens there? What should happen to old emails? Who can access the account?
- Can someone even get into the laptop, the tablet, the phone?
A couple of years ago, I was inspired by a NAPO colleague at a talk she gave about this topic. She shared how she got started thinking of this, after working with a bank manager, trying to help one of his clients through this maze. I realized that, in my home, I'm the person in charge of all the accounts and paying the bills, and if something were to happen to me, my husband would be quite inconvenienced, if not completely blocked from being able to move forward with the important aspects of running our home. I instantly began the process of cataloging what our accounts were, what the passwords were, etc. It has evolved over time — it now is more robust in the information for all of our accounts – financial, communication, social media — but also includes things like "this payment comes out of bank automatically on the 15th" or "this auto-renews each May".
This year, we made it even more comprehensive. My husband and I each have a list of "in the event of my death, please contact these people personally BEFORE posting on Facebook, because that's not how I want them to hear about it" or "This is how I want my LinkedIn account handled, and what you should post to my professional network." I've created the same kind of information for my husband about my business, with things like "this is how I"d like my website and Facebook page handled" and "This is how to find my current clients to let them know".
And, the file is security protected and backed up, and my husband knows where to find it, and how to open it. While all that is great, and more than many do, I know I should be doing more. For instance, I should make sure our back-up executors know about this file and how to access it (getting right on that, after posting this; don't worry).
Yes, this is dark. I know. But I'm hoping this is helping you stop and think about your life — if you passed away or were incapacitated, what would be the implications of that on those you live, in terms of this issue? If someone else passed and you were left with the responsibilities to go forward, would you have what YOU need? This isn't just a topic for addressing with aging parents; this is something that can, as we know, impact anyone, at any time.
Want a good place to start gathering a list of items you should be tracking? I'm going to recommend the GYST Guide to Accounts, Passwords and Digital Details as a place to start brainstorming. (By the way, GYST, or "Get Your S___ Together" is a great website to help you think about organizing ALL the aspects of planning for death, not just digital details. If this is something that's been on your mind, or, worse, not on your mind, spend some time with this site, rich in resources.) Another site, Safelyfiled.com, has a free pdf that can help you with a template and walks you through information to collect.
You'll realize once you start this process that this isn't something you do once and leave aside. It becomes something that requires some important upkeep:
1) Update the passwords if you've changed them (This is assuming you're not using a password management system, like lastpass.)
2) Add new accounts when you open them
3) Make sure that the people who need to know where this information is know how to access it
Want to learn more or access some helpful resources? The Digital Beyond has a tremendous list of online companies in the market of managing post-death information and requests, and many help you store this information you're gathering. It also maintains a list of states that have enacted laws related to digital estate management, proving that this space will only continue to get more attention and shift as we move forward in time. They also offer sample legal language for you to include in your own Power of Attorney or Wills to address control issues.


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The mobile apps have transformed the scenario of businesses and reaching customers bases even from the remote areas. Whether you are a non-technical or belonging to a technical background, it is quite easy to have familiarized with Android mobile applications. Its easy and smart feature articulation makes them more likable and engaging for all kind of age groups.
Android Apps are used in many sectors and industries such as education, healthcare, beauty, on-demand apps, food, transport and more. With our experience of Android development, we can say that hiring android app developer is definitely a wise decision when you have an app idea in your mind. Waiting for the in-house app development team is something tough when you are not into the same industry. Hiring Android app development team or Android developer makes it perfect to have satisfied experience.
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On June 5, 2006, "Sony" label released "Riot City Blues", the eighth Primal Scream studio album. It was recorded in 2005, and was produced by Youth.
- Bobby Gillespie– vocals
- Andrew Innes– guitars, mandolins, banjo, Moog synthesizer
- Martin Duffy– piano, organ, harmonium, harmonica
- Robert Young– guitars, harmonica
- Gary 'Mani' Mounfield– bass guitar
- Darrin Mooney– drums, percussion
- Alison Mosshart– additional vocals
- Will Sergeant– guitar
- Chris Allen– hurdy-gurdy
- Warren Ellis– violin
- Juliet Roberts, Sharlene Hector, Sylvia Mason-James, John Gibbons – backing vocals
- Richard Beale – French horn
Track listing:
- Country Girl
- Nitty Gritty
- Suicide Sally & Johnny Guitar
- When the Bomb Drop
- Little Death
- The 99th Floor
- We're Gonna Boogie
- Dolls (Sweet Rock and Roll)
- Hell's Comin' Down
- Sometimes I Feel So Lonely


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The Centre Daily Times in State College, Pennsylvania is reporting that Penn State accepted the NCAA penalties to avoid the death penalty:http://www.centredaily.com/2012/07/23/3270275/penn-state-pre...Penn State president Rodney Erickson revealed that the university accepted the severe NCAA sanctions announced today to avoid the death penalty for the football program.In an interview with the Centre Daily Times, Erickson said, "We had our backs to the wall on this. We did what we thought was necessary to save the program."....Chris
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City scores second consecutive 5.0 on state Public Water System Capacity Assessment
The public water system of the city of Cleveland, Miss., was awarded a second-consecutive perfect score from the Mississippi State Department of Health during the fiscal year 2008 Public Water System Capacity Assessment. The city also received a perfect rating in the fiscal year 2007 report.Only 19% of the state's water systems scored a perfect of 5.0 in both fiscal years 2007 and 2008, according to the Mississippi State Department of Health Division of Water Supply.In March of each year, the Department of Health assesses each public water system in three overal areas: technical capacity, managerial capacity and financial capacity. A grade of 1.0 (poor) to 5.0 (perfect) is given for each area assessed. A perfect overall score of 5.0 is awarded when a system is graded positively on each capacity assessment.Assessments include a review of daily log books, housekeeping and bookkeeping records, budget numbers and long-range plans. Also reviewed are state-mandated reporting and sampling requirements, water quality samples, security vulnerability studies, emergency response and sample site plan and accompanying reports.The city of Cleveland water and wastewater system consists of five wells with a combined capacity of 10 million gal per day, four storage towers and distribution system, 75 miles of water lines, a collection system and 26 lift stations. Since 1992, Severn Trent Services has been under contract to operate the city's water system. As part of the collection and distribution system responsibilities, the company monitors and inspects the systems on a daily basis, handles all repairs and modifications and monitors and maintains the SCADA system."Our public-private partnership with Severn Trent Services places a continuous high priority on the quality of water delivered to our customers," said Cleveland Public Works Director Brett Moorman. "The city, water system employees and company representatives set a goal each year to achieve a perfect capacity rating. The result is that the city has one of the best-run water systems in the state."


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Since becoming your SIOR president in late 2013, I have had
the opportunity to travel to many chapters, witnessing first-hand
the enthusiasm and excitement concerning where the commercial
real estate market is headed. I am pleased to say that optimism
is high for the 2014 CRE market, higher than it's been in the last
five or six years.
That same excitement that seems to be felt in each market is also
felt at SIOR headquarters in Washington D.C. Staff has been
working diligently to promote membership and increase benefits.
Since our establishment of the new candidate membership, SIOR
now has more than 32 candidate members who are working toward
earning their designation. In addition to our membership growth,
I am pleased to announce that SIOR has established its 48th
chapter in Mexico. Felix Tejada, SIOR, and Fransisco Munoz,
SIOR, have been instrumental in working toward establishing the
chapter. With all of this positive news there are still many more
great initiatives that plan to be implemented in 2014, and I would
like to share our vision with you.
First and foremost, we are looking forward to our two World
Conferences this year. My hometown of Las Vegas, NV, will be
the host city of our 2014 Spring World Conference on April 22-
25th. It promises to be another outstanding SIOR conference.
I encourage all SIORs to attend for the invaluable networking
opportunities and education advancements (and let's not forget
fun) that Las Vegas promises to offer. Plus, be sure to save the
dates for the 2014 SIOR Fall World Conference, October 23-25
in music city, Nashville, TN.
As I have previously mentioned, one of my main focuses for 2014
is branding. A major goal is expanding our branding efforts at the
chapter level. By offering our chapters external marketing pieces,
we can increase our advertising efforts toward owners, users, and
developers of industrial and office real estate. At the beginning
of January we rolled out a complete Chapter Marketing Toolkit
which provides a comprehensive marketing platform that creates
a unified look and feel across all chapters. The toolkit includes
flyers, stationary, postcard mailers, and many other marketing
piece templates. Talk to your chapter leadership about these new
pieces and how they plan to use them in your local market.
Many of our chapters have already discovered the invaluable
benefits of our newly launched digital communications service
MySIOR. The site allows brokers to network, post private
community discussions, and share successful practices and
valuable material. Several chapters have already taken advantage
of the complementary chapter websites (to request your own,
email Alexis Fermanis, SIOR Director of Communications at
firstname.lastname@example.com). Many of you are also sharing advice or
posting questions to the SIOR central open forum, a great place
to reach out to the entire membership for inquiries or advice. The
benefits that this site offers through networking and collaboration
with the top brokers in the industry is truly an invaluable
resource that is only available through your membership. I highly
recommend each member log on to my.sior.com and start a
discussion with your community today.
Through IAMC, we were introduced to Hickey and Associates
and have since entered into a formal arrangement with the
organization. Hickey and Associates negotiates incentives that
are offered by states, counties, and municipalities, and also
provides cost segregation, labor analytics, and site selection
services. They will share their fees with any SIOR member who
brings a client to them. What they offer will be a great service for
many of you to provide to your clients.
This summer the results of our year-long strategic planning
project will come to fruition by identifying areas where we can
build on the strengths we have achieved, as well as position SIOR
for the future. This will help us maintain relevance in the industry
and continue to offer cutting-edge benefits and services to our
I am committed to maintaing SIOR's gold standard of excellence
by giving you the highest value in services the SIOR membership
has to offer. Myself, the SIOR leadership team, and the
headquarters staff are working hard to enhance the power and
benefit of SIOR in the new year. As a member, your thoughts,
comments, and concerns are important to me; if there is anything
you would like to address regarding the organization, please do
not hesitate to email me at firstname.lastname@example.com. I look forward to
seeing everyone here in Las Vegas this upcoming spring.


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You've got the book. You've got the digital product. You've got the virtual training. Now what? Simple. Now you have to promote it.
With all that's available online, you have a wealth of possibility at your fingertips.
One of the most effective methods for spreading the word, establishing credibility and positioning your message is through blogging. But it takes more than just posting on a blog.
Let's assume you have a book you are promoting. Once you have the blog post completed, then it's time to put some targeted effort into sharing the post.
The more visibility the post receives obviously the more opportunity to sell the "thing" you have for sale.
Here are 17 ways to promote your book with a blog post:
Promote your posts
- Rather than simply writing content for your blog, you will get much more traction by posting a bit of the content elsewhere in order to lead readers back to your blog postings. Send the first few paragraphs to your subscriber list with a "read full article" with the permalink leading back to the blog post.
- Post the permalink on social media. It's likely you have several social media accounts. These are ideal places for you to position your blog posts.
- Take short snippets from your blog post and use those as tweets. Within a 5 – 10 minute period, you can literally write 25 tweets, if you simply take the content out of your blog post.
- Be sure to use hashtags to gain more traction. For example, if you have a book on dog training, you could use #dog #dogtraining #dogs as some of the hashtags.
- Post on Social Network groups you belong to that permit you to do so. Not all groups allow you to self-promote, so be sure to adhere to the group rules.
- Post the blog post to Slide Share. It's amazing how quickly you can get hundreds of views for your posts on Slide Share. Invite readers to go to your blog to read more posts you've written.
- Post the full article on 3 – 6 top article directories. In the resource box you can direct readers back to your blog with something like, "For more articles by _____________ go to _____________."
- Add your post to blog communities. There are plenty of locations that allow you to promote your blog post.
- Add images specific to the topic you are writing about. In the case of your book, an image of the book cover is always a great idea.
- Stay on top of comments posted about the post and respond in a timely manner. The more interaction you have with your readers, the better.
- Keyword optimize your post and headline. This is essential for getting the most out of your efforts.
- Add video to your post. More and more every day, video plays an important role in gaining interest and traction for your efforts. A short 30-second video can do wonders for generating interest.
- Ask readers to take some type of action at the end of the post. This could be to leave a comment, opt in for something, buy your book or simply hit one of the social media share buttons. The more you can get readers to take an action, the better.
- Have various ways visitors to your blog can get on your subscriber list. Offering something that solves a specific problem will generate more opt ins than something that is too generic.
- Put portions of your blog post in an autoresponder (AR) sequence leading back to the original post by way of the permalink at the end of the AR message.
- With high-trending topics, make the media aware of your post. You never know what can happen as a result.
- Include an invitation for other bloggers, media and those with a large reach to interview you for their podcast show, blog or be a featured expert on a telesummit.
Bottom line is this: your job is to do all you can to get the word out about your book, info product, or other digital product. The fact is you're not selling the "thing."
You're actually using the "thing" as the vehicle for something bigger—your message. The packaging is only one piece to the puzzle.
Keep this in mind: if you don't do all you can to get your message out, you are actually doing those who would benefit from your information a huge disservice. Unless they know about who you are, what you do and how you can help them, you cannot impact them in the least.
Are we missing anything? How do you promote the blog posts with your important message?
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Projects | Junior Scholars Workshops
Workshop 4
The Fourth Junior Scholars' Workshop was held in Thessaloniki, Greece between 17-20 June 2004. Fifteen participants from the Balkans presented and discussed their PhD theses with five senior scholars, experts in the field of Southeast European history.
List of Participants and Dissertation Titles
- Aleksov, Bojan (Belgrade), Religious Dissent in Times of Modernisation and Nationalism: The Nazarenes in the 19 th century Hungary
- Demirtas-Coskun , Birgul (Izmir-Kocaeli), A Comparative Study of Turkish and German Foreign Policies toward the Conflicts in Yugoslavia: A search for Reconstruction of State Identities.
- Hajdarpasic, Edin (Sarajevo), Political Aspirations, Social Movements, and the Search for a Viable Polity in Tanzimat-era Bosnia (1850-1878).
- Kaytchev, Naoum (Sofia), Macedonia in Serbian and Bulgarian Public Consciousness: Images and Notions Cultivated by the Army and the School (1878-1912).
- Kera, Gentiana (Tirana), Urban Development of Tirana in the First Half of the 20th Century.
- Kyurkchieva-Philipova, Iva (Sofia), The World of the Bulgarian Muslims from Teteven Region-Transition to Modernity.
- Mitrovic, Bojan (Belgrade), The Founding of the Modern Historical Discipline in Serbia and Bulgaria (1878-1918).
- Ognyanova-Lyubomirova Irina (Sofia), Nationalism and National Policy in Independent State of Croatia (1941-1945).
- Papa, Enriketa (Tirana), The Urban Development of Shkodra: First Half of the 20th Century.
- Petrovic, Tanja (Belgrade), Linguistic Ideology and Language Shift: The Case of Orthodox Minority in the Slovenian Region of Bela Krajina.
- Skenderovic, Robert (Zagreb), Population Policy of Maria Teresa in Civilian Slavonia 1745-1780.
- Slavkova, Magdalena (Sandanski), Roma Protestant Church in Bulgaria.
- Miroslav, Svircevic (Belgrade), Local Self-government in Serbia and Bulgaria 1878-1914.
- Sygkelos Ioannis (Thessaloniki), Nationalism and Bulgarian Communist Party Ideology in Second World War and Early Post War Years.
- Vezenkov , Alexander (Sofia), Urbanisation and Demographic Changes in Bulgaria (1944-1989).
Participating Professors:
- Fikret Adanir (Ruhr University-Bochum)
- John Lampe (University of Maryland)
- Karl Kaser (University of Graz)
- Marco Dogo (University of Trieste)
- Maria Todorova (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)


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Special Edition Comemorative The WW1 Painting 1914-1918"
Northern Echo
The Conceptual art and idea or symbolism behind this work is far more important than the finished Painting. One way to understand why I had to create this painting you must firstly understand the levels of violence and slaughter that occurred in the Great War. The total number of military and civilian casualties in World War One, was over 37 million, there were over 16 million deaths and 20 million wounded ranking it among the deadliest conflicts in human history. Exact figures are still in dispute, because of different definitions used each category, the questionable accuracy of the recording system used and the loss or destruction of a number of official documents. The paintings observer can return time and time again , each time finding something new, and taking away there own interpretation of what they see. This painting commemorates 100 years since The Great War WW1, respectfully portraying the acts of extreme bravery and bloody obscenity of the War. The effect it had on modern times. symbolic in its approach the painting shows the constant battle between good Peace and evil being war portrayed by God and the arch Angels Gabriel gathering a host of angels weeping as they collect the dead from the battle field under the watchful eye of death The comradeship of the daily trench life, but also the extreme acts of kindness shown by both sides towards their enemies. Acts of bravery in the face of overwhelming adversary. A focal point at which to remember and mourn comrades, fathers brother and kin rippling through the ages.
Melanie, John Palliser and family
Images of the Zeppelin in the sky, Zeppelin raids were carried out on coastal towns and London during 1915 and 1916. The silent airships arrived without warning and with no purpose built shelters people hid in cellars or under tables. There were a total of 52 Zeppelin raids on Britain claiming the lives of more than 500 people. In addition there is also an aircraft dog fight over NO MANS LAND this area of land between two enemy trench systems to which neither side wished to move openly or to seize due to fear of being attacked by the enemy in the process. this area has been populated with many images, Gas attacks, the roll of the horse, medics joined in one common purpose to save life what ever the uniform and mechanical armour in the form of the MK1 Tank. The bravery of Calvary and rallying of the pipes as they lead men over the top into no man land in Human wave attacks that caused so many casualties. I have also included field executions (SHOT AT DAWN ) that killed so many young men who's only crime was to have there minds destroyed by what they had seen and had to do. A Sentry at the Vickers Machine with a a gun team scanning their arc of fire ,gas rattle and gas mask a the ready.
At one corner of the memorial stands a Royal Navy Seaman and at the other a lone Soldier at the repose between Innocent causalities of war, heart broken children faces clutching their Fathers last letter from the front plucked from his fallen body.
In a German trench a young Adolf Hitler in the half light stares across no man's land, Demons in the darkness whispering in his ear the seeds of an ideology, showing him the image of this horror the Swastika symbol that one day would inflame the world carnage and unspeakable horror that had never been seen before once again plunging the world to the brink of destruction ...And so it goes on!
And finally Remembering the fallen of "Enemys",the grave of a UNKNOWN SOLDIER As the battlefield spreads down the painting I could not have in all conscience,not have acknowledge the terrible losses to the "The Enemy" suffered .The German Empire In 1934 the official German war history listed 2,037,000 military dead. Confirmed dead from all causes 1,936,897 (Army 1,900,876, Navy 34,836, Colonial troops 1,185); wounded 4,215,662; prisoners and missing 974,977 of which an estimated 100,000 were presumed dead. United States War Dept. figures for German casualties are: Total mobilized force 11,000,000; Total casualties 7,142,558 (including Killed and died 1,773,700; wounded 4,216,058; Prisoners and missing 1,152,800) The UK War Office listed official German figures from 1921 of 1,808,545 killed and 4,247,143 wounded, exclusive of 14,000 African conscript. I have placed a lone wooden cross dedicated the a German unknown soldier decorated with a WW1 Iron Cross. surrounded by barbed wire and wild poppies. And what effect that had on many German people.
The Battle of The Somme commemorative Stone Designed By John Palliser
Under which the trench showing the comradeship and daily trench life whilst one section of soldiers rest another prepares to go over the top. Life in World War I trenches marked a man deeply. soldiers spent the better part of the WWI in the trenches of Western Europe. Usually, a day in the trenches began before dawn when the men on the night watch passed the word for 'Stand to' the men would then tumble out of dugouts where they slept using empty sand bags for warmth. After 8am breakfast, the men cleaned rifles, shaved and tidied the trench. Snipers would head out for the day and there would be discussion of what the enemy was up to. "Certain men were always on look-out duty at vantage points with periscope often made from a mirror on the bayonet attached to a rifle..
To mark this event a limited number of signed prints are available to purchase on line.
April 2014
11 May 2014 British Heritage Art promoted the ww1 painting project to the people of Darlington at the Darlington Arts & Culture Festival.10th June 2014 Painting was finished.
1914-1918 ROLL OF HONOUR TO THOSE WHO's NAME I BEAR
ARCHIE JOSEPH BURY PALLISER 1915 SPTS/426 PRIVATE Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment) Great Britain
ARNOLD PALLISER 1916 15/696 PRIVATE Prince of Wales's Own (West Yorkshire Regiment) Great Britain
HARRY PALLISER 1918 306869 PRIVATE Prince of Wales's Own (West Yorkshire Regiment) Great Britain
JOHN ALFRED PALLISER 1918 60773 SERGT. Northumberland Fusiliers Great Britain
JOHN CHRISTOPHER PALLISER 1916 3393 PRIVATE Durham Light Infantry Great Britain
JOHN SYLVESTER PALLISER 1918 — MAJOR Alexandra Great Britain
JOHN SYLVESTER PALLISER 1918 — MAJOR Machine Gun Corps Great Britain
THOMAS PALLISER 1916 103404 SPR. Corps of Royal Engineers Great Britain
WILLIAM PALLISER 1917 40747 PRIVATE South Wales Borderers Great Britain
WILLIAM OWEN PALLISER 1918 30356 CPL. Alexandra Great Britain
How can I help
You can help by showing your support for this project and those brave men who fought in the Great War by regularly sharing this page on your social media.
Ex SPR Palliser John RE & RMP 1976-1986
Cadet John Palliser on HMS PALLISER c1970


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Five-star Mali crush Iraq to enter quarterfinals
Lassana N'Diaye scored a brace as Mali outclassed Iraq in Goa in a 5-1 win in the round of 16.
Mali dominated the match and scored through Hadji Drame (25th minute), N'diaye (33rd, 90+4), Fode Konate (73rd) and substitute Seme Camara (87th).
Iraq showed urgency in the second half and reduced the margin in the 85th minute through Ali Kareem.
Mali controlled the proceeding with a steady flow of passes and, after coming close on a few occasions, took the lead in the 25th minute.
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HIFF – Human Capital
Saturday 8th of November I went to the Hawaii International Film Festival together with Alexander, because of course we didn't want to miss an extra credit opportunity! We ended up with seeing the Italian movie Human Capital (Il Capitale Umano). The movie is directed by Paolo Virzi, and the main stars are Fabrizio Bentivoglio as Dino Ossola, Matilde … [Read…]


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Silent film actress Carla Laemmle, niece of Universal Studios founder Carl Laemmle, died Thursday night in her Los Angeles home of natural causes, according to the Los Angeles Times. She was 104.
Laemmle was considered one of the last surviving performers from Hollywood's silent film years.
Laemmle was born in Chicago but grew up in Hollywood on the Universal Studios lot after her uncle Carl Laemmle encouraged his brother Joseph to move the family to California from the Midwest in the early 1920s.
She appeared in at least 17 films, starting in 1925 with silent horror classic "The Phantom of the Opera," in which she played a ballerina. She was the last surviving cast member of the film, which starred Lon Chaney Sr.
In her 20s, she watched as sound was integrated into film and uttered the well-known opening lines to another horror classic, 1931's "Dracula," starring Bela Lugosi.
During her later years she appeared several documentaries recounting Hollywood's earliest years and the production of Hollywood's classic movies.
Almost nine decades after she began in the business, Laemmle was still appearing on camera. Her last role was in "Mansion of Blood" currently in post-production.


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Chrono Trigger's multiplayer mode *is* monster battling. A scan from Shonen Jump confirms the rumor and the existence of the Dimensional Distortion, an original dungeon created for Chrono Trigger DS. In the Dimensional Arena you can select one of your monsters and pit it against another inside the colosseum. Combat rounds advance automatically which is reminiscent of Final Fantasy VI's colosseum or the more recent Whytkin fights. Winners get rare items. It's unclear if Chrono Trigger will allow you to raise any original monsters, but the one screen shot shows an existing monster from the prehistoric ages can be placed under your control.
We'll open the floor for Chronomon jokes now.
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Monster High™ Electrified Cleo de Nile™ Doll
Amp up the fun with the Monster High™ Electrified dolls! Bolting off the screen in bold colors, bright makeup and super-charged hair, these ghouls are ready to chase their dreams and light up the world! Cleo de Nile™ doll, daughter of a mummy, is recognizable from the movie in a shockingly gore-geous dress. A multi-colored print with Egyptian icons and golden tulle trim really brings Cleo de Nile™ doll's look to life. Neon jelly accessories, including coral shoes and a blue snake-inspired leg wrap, are electrifying. Voltageous hair with blue streaks, crimped styling and a golden "gem" hairpiece keep this ghoul plugged into high fashion and hair-raising fun. Recreate favorite scenes from the movie or spark up your imagination with lively adventures of your own! Collect all of the Monster High™ Electrified dolls for even more energetic play (each sold separately, subject to availability). Includes Monster High™ Cleo de Nile™ doll wearing fashion and accessories. Doll cannot stand alone. Colors and decorations may vary.
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Many Latin American high school graduates struggle to find decent jobs. They often find themselves unemployed or trying to run their own business under less than optimal conditions — they either earn no salary or earn unreported wages.
Worse still, they may find themselves in the unfortunate situation of neither going to school nor working, nor looking for work. (We often refer to them as "NEET" – not in employment, education or training – youth.)
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I am more concerned with the psychological affects on me of what I am doing, more than I am with what I do. This is mainly because early on in my life I found the going pretty tough at times and I realised that for me, the name of the game was survival.
So now, everything I do, I try to set it up to give me as little psychological stress as possible. A good example of this is my vegetable garden. For years I have fought against nature in the form of slugs, snails, butterflies, and all, and eventually I realised if I am going to continue gardening and maintain my sanity then maybe I need to get organised with some defenses. Now I don't get half the knock-backs I used to get, and I really enjoy getting out there and seeing my plants not all being destroyed by greedy slimey monsters.
So how about the psychology of horse training? Well, I am working on this too. Remember here I am talking about how it psychologically affects me, not about the psychology of the horse. Obviously horses are different to vegetables (although some would disagree) in that horses are affected by your psychological state. It is important to present to the horse a sound state of mind, which in itself is a good incentive to organise your life in a way that promotes this. Horses are not impressed by erratic human behaviour - qualities such as impatience, anger, frustration, and so on do not really help. Horses work well when you are in a calm and balanced frame of mind.
But there is another side to this too. Horsework, at least in my experience, does not always progress in a steady way. Sometimes things move forwards very easily and other times things almost seem to move backwards. It is important to just keep going, and important not to get too involved in evaluating the day by day experience. I try to look at things over a period of time.
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Business Action Virtual Tour Recording – Day 3 – Familiar Skills
This past week we presented the content developed for the Business Action World Tour virtually via Live Meeting. We had hundreds of people register and join us for these events. The number one question people had was about getting access to the recordings for these events. I now have all the recordings and will publish these along with the Questions and Answers we fielded along with the calls.
On Day 3 (Wednesday, April 29) we talked about Microsoft Office, SharePoint Server and Unified Communications and how you can take advantage of them to build on the familiar skills of your end-user while building on Dynamics CRM. By building on these services you extend your CRM application to more users, implement applications that consolidate multiple user interfaces into a 2007 Office system document or SharePoint Server Web page or build workflow process that helps users to regain control of critical documents. You also extend your reach to a growing market of customers looking to get more from the investments they've made in existing systems and deliver innovative, customized solutions to your customers faster.
I've provided the link to what I think is the best quality recording but have included an edited Q&A log combining questions from all 3 events. We presented each session 3 times a day (2:00AM, 9:00AM and 6:00PM Pacific time). Thanks to Trond Brande and Almut Tadsen for handling the 2:00AM calls. Girish and I would have been pretty sleepy by the end of the week if they hadn't done such a great job. :)
Live Meeting Recording and PowerPoint Deck
I would recommend watching the High-Fidelity Recording available here.
Update: I've posted the PowerPoint decks for all the sessions on my SkyDrive.
Questions and Answers from Day 3
Question: Does Microsoft Dynamics CRM for Outlook use VSTO to connect to the Dynamics CRM?
Answer: No, the Outlook client is directly integrated. If you think of accessing the 'interface' to do modifications you can't do that. But you could add your own things with VSTO.
Question: Is this Time Sheet functionality using CRM built-in Entity OR MOSS Template?
Answer: I'm not sure I understand what you want to know. The entities for the Time Sheet have been added in CRM. Does this answer your question?
Question: This means that these are custom entities added in CRM?
Answer: yes exactly
Question: Does the Silverlight/SharePoint/CRM combination allow you to build internal portals that allow you to capture customer inputs into CRM? What are the licensing implications of doing this?
Answer: The combination has no limits so yes this is one scenario for building portals. Another method would be to build self-service web application. We'll be talking about that tomorrow in the Azure Services Platform discussion. As for licensing SharePoint and CRM both have server and CAL licensing. You'd need to discuss your specific needs with a Partner Account Manager to ensure you can address your requirements.
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The "Impossible" Job
The solution for high stress (burnout) jobs is high turnover -- so that we have a constant new supply of enthusiastic people, and not just people hanging on until retirement, and fearing to start somewhere else.
We really have a built in solution in unemployed/unemployable veterans the newspaper wrote about recently. The prisons, police and firemen are natural jobs for them to transition (decompress) into -- if we didn't have all those union rules and protocols restricting the labor pool -- to prop up salaries and benefits for those with the most seniority doing the easiest jobs. Instead of compensating these burnout people more highly to keep them at these jobs, they also need to be moving on and relieving the school teachers who are burnt out from controlling their "impossible" charges.
That really is the underlying problem of labor throughout this society -- the many people who remain in their jobs because of their seniority, rather than their enthusiasm and passion at what they do. And that kills every organization and society -- that loses sight of its reason for being. Government is for the people -- all the people, and not just the government workers. Education is about learning -- and not just lifetime job security for "teachers" who don't want to teach -- and only teach that bitterness, resentment and demand for even more for doing less.
That is what our society has become -- rather than one that works, because it realizes that is what they are there for -- getting paid a lot of money for doing, and not just lobbying for more, as though that was their only job. So we have to make it easier for people to get into and out of jobs -- rather than creating these needless barriers to entry and exit -- just to keep full employment at the human resource departments and the unions, and maintain the status quo of these problems.


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Wednesday, May 30, 2018
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1. Three Chinese companies and industries to watch
Western fears about Chinese dominance of technologies have recently focused on artificial intelligence (AI). Yet there are many other industries where China is set to lead, partly because of the sheer numbers of talented and educated people available and entrepreneurial zeal, but also because of government support and light regulation.
Biotech — pharma, healthcare, and medical devices — is one such area. Another is industrial agriculture — from the development of new crops and fertilizers to operating large-scale farms. Electric cars and the batteries that power them are one more space where China is already a dominant player. Today brings news from each of these three industries:
Shenzhen Mindray Bio-Medical Electronics is a medical hardware company that makes everything from ultrasound machines to operating tables for surgery. Caixin reports(paywall) that Mindray has "filed to raise more than 6 billion yuan ($935 million) through a listing on China's Nasdaq-style ChiNext board."Longping High-Tech Agriculture is named after Yuan Longping 袁隆平, inventor of the world's first hybrid rice varieties in the 1970s. Last year, the state-controlled company bought DowDuPont's Brazilian corn seed operations for $1.1 billion. Reuters reportsthat Longping this week announced plans to build new seed plants in Brazil to boost its market share from "15 percent currently to 30 percent in five years," and "said a natural second step will be to enter the soy seeds business, which is dominated by U.S.-based Monsanto Inc."Tianqi Lithium is a company founded in 1995 in Sichuan Province. Quartz reports that Tianqi "recently paid more than $4 billion to become the second-largest shareholder in Sociedad Química y Minera (SQM), a Chilean mining company." The deal means that Tianqi now controls more than half of the current global production of lithium. Lithium is the key ingredient in almost all of the world's smartphone and electric-car batteries.
2. Visa restrictions and the Chinese Exclusion Act
The Associated Press reports that the Trump administration "plans to shorten the length of validity for some visas issued to Chinese citizens" as part of a campaign "to counter alleged theft of U.S. intellectual property by Beijing."
"Chinese graduate students will be limited to one-year visas if they are studying in fields like robotics, aviation and high-tech manufacturing," according to an unnamed U.S. official.Those areas are priorities in the government's Made in China 2025 manufacturing plan.On the subject of keeping Chinese people out of America, The Chinese Exclusion Act, a documentary film about the 1882 law that made it illegal for Chinese workers to come to America and for Chinese nationals to become U.S. citizens, is now available free online. It's really worth your time.
—Jeremy Goldkorn
3. Mattis signals U.S. will challenge Beijing in South China Sea
The usually mild-mannered U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis had strong words for Beijing in response to a recent confrontation in the South China Sea, as reported by the Wall Street Journal(paywall), calling China "out of step with international law" in its militarization of claimed islands.
Mattis also "recalled Chinese President Xi Jinping's 2015 pledge not to militarize" disputed South China Sea islands, and said, "We have seen in the last month, they have done exactly that, moving weaponry in that was never there before." Mattis's remarks come after multiple confrontations between Beijing and other countries:
In April, China sent ships and aircraft to confront three Australian naval vessels headed for Vietnamese ports, the New York Times reports (paywall).Beijing also sent ships to confront U.S. vessels conducting "freedom of navigation operations" within 12 miles of the Chinese-claimed Paracel Islands, the Times says. This action prompted Washington to withdraw its invitation to China to participate in Rimpac, a biennial joint military exercise.A Chinese H-6K bomber landed on Woody Island in the Paracels earlier this month, at the same time that missiles and radar equipment were sent to other islands in the region, according to the Wall Street Journal (paywall).On May 11, a Chinese helicopter flew "dangerously close" to a Philippine naval vessel that was delivering supplies to Filipino Marines in contested territory, the Associated Press reports.
The United States claims that it has a right to conduct "freedom of navigation operations" under international law. Mattis underscored that, although the United States is conducting these operations, the U.S. is not their sole beneficiary, stating, "A lot of nations want to see freedom of navigation. So we will continue that."
—Lucy Best
4. Trade war update: 'An unfortunate sound bite'
Peter "Death by China" Navarro, director of the White House National Trade Council, talked to NPR this morning. He remains unabashed in his China-bashing, although he calls his mission a "trade dispute," not a "trade war." The trade war, he says, was lost a long time ago by former presidents Obama, Bush, and Clinton.
"They run up a $370 billion trade surplus with us, which costs us over a million in factory jobs a year" is still the core of Navarro's argument."That was an unfortunate sound bite," said Navarro of U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin's comment last week that the trade war with China was "on hold," because it's not a war and it's not on hold.Navarro refused to answer questions about the Trump family receiving favors from the Chinese government such as trademarks, and he refused to comment on Trump's apparent caving in to China on ZTE, saying that it was a "law enforcement matter."
Latest trade war twist: China will cut import tariffs "on a range of consumer items, including apparel, cosmetics, home appliances, and fitness products, starting from July 1," reports Reuters. On the other hand, Reuters also notes that "China's state media has lashed into a U.S. announcement that it would press ahead with restrictions on investment by Chinese companies, saying Beijing was ready to fight back if Washington was looking to ignite a trade war."
—Jeremy Goldkorn
5. 'Say no to homosexuality' says Hunan school
May 17 was International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia, and Biphobia. In China, groups of college and high school studentsorganized a series of activities to raise awareness of LGBT rights violations. Their message apparently did not reach the Xiangtan Technical Secondary School of Industry and Commerce in Hunan, a vocational school with more than 4,000 students and around 300 staff members.
Comrade's Voice (同志之声 tóngzhì zhīshēng) is a Weibo account dedicated to empowering the LGBT community in China — "comrade" is Chinese slang for "gay."Today, the account posted a photo of a digital billboard (in Chinese) at the Xiangtan school displaying the following message: "Say no to homosexuality, create a bright and harmonious campus.""The failure of sex education and backward ideas have resulted in the long-standing violence and discrimination against the gay community on campus," Comrade's Voice commented (in Chinese).Many internet users pointed out that the school's hostility against homosexuality is at odds with the Chinese government's stance, given that the People's Daily argued in an April commentary that "homosexuality is not a mental illness."
—Jiayun Feng
6. Will Chinese economic growth doom the planet?
A new analysis from Greenpeace suggests that the answer is, unfortunately, yes.
Based on the Chinese government's own data on coal, oil, and natural gas demand, as well as cement production, Greenpeace researchers concluded that "China's CO2 emissions went up 4.0% on the first quarter, after a 2% increase in 2017." The authors write:
"If China's emissions are indeed going back to rapid growth, it means that the rest of the world would have to run just to stay in place — keep global emissions from increasing. The task of achieving a rapid and sustained decline in global emissions would become essentially impossible."
For some depressing details of this report, please click through to SupChina.
—Lucas Niewenhuis
Viral on Weibo: World's highest commercial bungee jump platform
Some fearless bungee jump enthusiasts leaped from the world's highest platform — 260 meters above the ground — in Zhangjiajie, Hunan Province, on May 26.
China Unsolved: The Black Dahlia of Nanjing
More than 20 years later, police still claim to have no idea what happened to 19-year-old Diao Aiqing, whose body was chopped into more than 2,000 pieces and distributed around her Nanjing campus. China Unsolved is a SupChina weekly series profiling China's most notorious unsolved mysteries.
Democracy-bashing Chinese writer enrolls her kid at American school
Yuan Xiaoliang 袁小靓 made a name for herself by bashing democracy. Her pro-China stances on social media have been widely cited by Chinese state media. But on May 22, she posted to Sina Weibo, where she has 400,000 followers, a note of praise for the American education system that announced she was trying to send her child abroad for school. Chinese netizens were not happy.
Tycoons in trouble: Wu Xiaohui
Tycoon in China fights fraud verdict, but odds are long / NYT (paywall)
A lawyer representing Wu Xiaohui 吴小晖, former head of Anbang, the gray rhinocompany that bought the Waldorf Astoria hotel in New York, said Wu "would appeal a lengthy prison sentence for bilking investors."Drone delivery
Ele.me starts using drones to cut delivery costs and time / TechNode
"There are 17 routes in total, all located in Jinshan Industrial Park in the Shanghai suburbs. With three to four flights on each route, these drones connect around 100 food vendors."Big Brother's helpers — has a Chinese company hacked the iPhone?
At Beijing security fair, an arms race for surveillance tech / Reuters
"Beijing-based Hisign Technology said its desktop and portable phone scanners can retrieve even deleted data from over 90 mobile applications on smartphones, including overseas platforms like Facebook and Twitter. A big selling point of the technology, according to one policeman from the restive far western region of Xinjiang who was eyeing a Hisign scanner, was its claimed ability to get data from Apple Inc's iOS operating system."Skiing in Hebei
China's Hebei Province targets $23 billion 'ice and snow' industry by 2025 / Reuters
"Smog-prone" Hebei is building winter sports and tourism facilities for the 2022 Winter Olympic Games and in the hope of finding "sustainable sources of economic growth to reduce its dependence on polluting heavy industries like steel and chemicals."Xi Jinping jumps on the blockchain bandwagon
Chinese President Xi Jinping calls blockchain a 'breakthrough' technology / CNBC
"A new generation of technology represented by artificial intelligence, quantum information, mobile communications, internet of things and blockchain is accelerating breakthrough applications," said Xi.World Cup dreams
China won't play in this World Cup. It still hopes to profit. / NYT (paywall)
"The tournament host, Russia, and the sport's governing body, FIFA, are beset by scandals and controversies that have cast a shadow over the event — and made it a struggle to attract corporate sponsors." As traditional sponsors pull out, they leave a void China is happy to fill.
U.S.-China espionage
Trial begins for ex-CIA man accused of espionage for China / AP
"Kevin Mallory of Leesburg, Virginia, was charged last year under federal espionage statutes with delivering defense information to a foreign government. Prosecutors say they caught Mallory last year after he returned to the U.S. on a flight from Shanghai with more than $16,000 in undeclared cash."U.S.-China relations
In a first, Hong Kong refused U.S. extradition bid following Beijing request, State Department report says / SCMP
Despite providing no information on its own case against Macau-based hacker Iat Hong, Hong Kong officials have released him to "central government custody."Australia-China espionage
Australia launches biggest spy agency review in decades amid China concerns / AFP via SCMP
"'This will be the most comprehensive review of intelligence legislation in Australia since the Royal Commission on Intelligence and Security in the 1970s,' Attorney General Christian Porter said."Israel and industrial safety
Not safe for Chinese: Israel's poor record on construction sites irks Beijing / Haaretz
"An agreement signed 18 months ago to bring some 20,000 Chinese construction workers to Israel is floundering amid Chinese concerns over safety, prompting Beijing to veto participation of its citizens in 36 building projects." The irony is rich.North Korea
Former spy chief, now top diplomat: Meet North Korea's man in New York / Inkstone
"Kim will be the first senior North Korean official to visit the United States in almost 20 years. The White House said Kim is scheduled to meet Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who recently twice visited Pyongyang."Wildlife trafficking
Shark fins found in Singapore Airlines shipment to Hong Kong despite ban – activists / AFP via HKFP
"US environmental group Sea Shepherd said the 989 kilogram (2,180 lbs) shipment had arrived in Hong Kong earlier this month from Colombo in Sri Lanka, via Singapore."Uyghurs in Xinjiang
Uyghur student missing, believed detained after return from Malaysia University / RFA
"A young Uyghur woman has gone missing after returning to her home in northwest China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) from studying abroad in Malaysia, and is believed to be detained in a "political re-education camp," according to her Germany-based sister."Trumpworld
The White House official Trump says doesn't exist / Politico
A profile of Matthew Pottinger, former Beijing correspondent for the Wall Street Journal and now "the president's top Asia hand."
On-demand sexual harassment
Sexist comments flourish on Airbnb in China / Bloomberg
"Once regarded as a fun social aspect of online services in China, the proliferation of reviews talking about women's looks — from guests being called 'a babe' to comments on a host's sex appeal — is now drawing fire as a potential safety hazard."
See also: Police hunt for Didi driver suspected of raping and murdering a female passengerand Safety tips are the last things that Chinese women need after Didi murder case on SupChina.On-demand divorce
WeChat launches convenient divorce registration feature / The Beijinger
"With a few convenient, cold-hearted taps of the finger, past-their-best couples can now use WeChat to begin their very own 'conscious uncoupling,' in a process akin to ordering food or hailing a Didi."Naming crackdown
Proper nouns must be proper Chinese, say authorities / Sixth Tone
"Ministry mandates that housing developments with names like 'California Town' and 'Norwegian Wood' must find Mandarin monikers."Fiction
Lu Yang on growing up and writing in China / The New Yorker
A Q&A with author Lu Yang 鲁羊, whose first story published in English — "Silver Fish" — appeared in the New Yorker (paywall) this month.Educating rural youth
Left-field careers for farmers' kids / Sixth Tone
An NGO in Yunnan hopes to "inspire students to continue their studies beyond middle school, the end of China's compulsory education period."Coffee shops
Chinese café culture / The World of Chinese
Cafés are growing in popularity all over the country "as Chinese youths seek homes away from home," or what Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz calls the "third place."Life expectancy and health
Chinese babies will live healthier, but not longer, lives than those born in United States, WHO says / Reuters via SCMP
"In terms of overall life expectancy China is also catching up with the United States, which Reuters calculations suggest it is on course to overtake about 2027."
Going home
A young couple rides the subway home from Xi'erqi Station in Beijing.
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Let Go of the Spatula: Reconsidering Wedding Registries
Posted: February 2, 2012
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This post is from staff writer Tim Sullivan.
Written by Tim Sullivan
Published February 02, 2012
My brother, my best friend, and my girlfriend's sister are all getting married in the upcoming year, so I've heard a lot about wedding registries lately, and there seem to be many pros and cons. Personally, one of my least favorite things in life is going to Crate and Barrel, walking around with my scanner gun, and seeing that the only things that fit into my price range are wooden spatulas and the saucers to espresso cups (the cups already purchased). "Congrats on your everlasting love. Here's a steamer basket." I've always thought there has to be an alternative.
Here are two numbers I found interesting:
In 2010, 1.5 million engaged couples, or 88% of all couples with pending nuptials, set up a registry, according to the Knot Market Intelligence annual wedding registry survey.
- According to research by the University of Denver, more than 70% of couples getting married are living together before the wedding.
Okay, so 70% of engaged couples are living together, and 88% of engaged couples are registering. According to the survey, more than 90% of registered items are bakeware and kitchen appliances. Here's my question: Those couples that are living together, do they not have spatulas, steamer baskets, and toaster ovens yet? Is their apartment filled with mismatched plates and saucers and an uneven fork-to-spoon ratio? Do they not already blend their own smoothies?
The point I'm trying to make is that the majority of couples are living together, and I assume they have a functional household complete with everything they need. As for the couples who aren't living together, it's rare to have someone move out of their parents' house and into the house of their betrothed. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the median marriage age in 2010 was 28.2 years old for men and 26.1 for women. In the 1960s, it was 22.8 years old for men and 20.3 for women. Compared with our parents' generation, the 30% of currently engaged couples not living together have an extra six years to accumulate not one, but two sets of IKEA kitchen starter sets and warped cookie sheets.
Apparently, I'm somewhat alone in this thinking.
Things you wouldn't buy yourself
My brother brought up that he would never buy a $500 blender, but it'd be nice to receive it as a gift. Perhaps then a registry is a collection of things you'd never buy yourself. I know that GRS readers are impossible to generalize, but I can't help but think that if we're itching for a Vitamix, most of us would forgo the $599 one from Crate and Barrel and substitute in the $499 one off Amazon listed "like new" (or better yet, chose a different Vitamix then the currently hip 500 professional series and get whatever Vitamix was hip last year, for half the price). We're conscious about where our money goes, and I'd like to take into account my friends' money, as well. (I don't mean that literally…at least, I think I don't.)
I'm not saying to throw caution to the wind and leave yourself open to getting a bunch of gifts that don't fit your tastes, but if you're looking for something that doesn't come from Macy's, there are other options for registries. In my continuing conversations about registries with those closest to me, I've come up with a list of a few fun suggestions:
- The Honeymoon Registry. Okay, this one has been gaining a lot of steam in recent years. Websites like honeymoonwishes.com or honeyluna.com provide an easy way for guests to help a couple afford a honeymoon. What's in it for the gift giver? Whether it's chipping in for the hotel room or scuba equipment for a coral reef adventure, you can be assured that you'll be investing in memorable experiences, as opposed to another turkey baster.
- Big Ticket Items. My best friend and his fiancée were looking at their 500-square-foot Brooklyn apartment and couldn't bring themselves to fill it with more Stuff. They decided to register for big-ticket items. I've seen couples register for anything from new cars to a new mattress, each attendee pitching in a portion. Sites like My Dream Home Registry make it easy.
- Give to Charities. I've talked to couples that want friends and family to simply attend the wedding, not worry about buying the perfect gift. A good alternative is to pick favorite charities for your friends to make donations in your name. Justgive.org has a wedding registry section that's easy to navigate and not only celebrates love, but generosity. (That's their line, not mine.)
- Do It All. I have to admit, I love this couple's wedding site. Cheri and David were getting married and moving to France. The site had all the wedding info and R.S.V.P. forms, but it also had their registry. They decided their tastes didn't fit into one store (and definitely not into a suitcase). They put together a list of things, some objects (everything from one-of-a-kind antiques to easy-to-find box store items), some services (such as Internet for their first three months in Paris or passes for Velib, Paris' citywide bike rental system), and some high-ticket items (trip to Japan or a new dining room table.). You could choose to contribute to an item and that item would be marked off the list. What's even more exciting is that Cheri and David's idea was so popular that they started their own registry site, Merci Registry, and where couples can create their own blend of small boutique items, handmade artist goodies, and travel desires.
Weddings truly are big business and even creative couples who try to circumvent some of the higher costs of the big day itself often fall short in their creativity for registries. Couples can create registries that are personalized without relying on the mainstream box stores.
And to my brother, I love you bro, but when you move four times in the next five years, I know it's going to be me carrying that Vitamix up four flights of stairs.
What are your ideas for creative wedding registries? If you're married, what did you like about your registry process, and what would you do differently?
The original article can be found at GetRichSlowly.org:
Let Go of the Spatula: Reconsidering Wedding Registries
Read more: http://www.foxbusiness.com/personal-finance/2012/02/02/let-go-spatula-reconsidering-wedding-registries/#ixzz1lFcPNIQK


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" |speaker = [[Firestar|Fireheart]] to [[Crookedstar]] |ref = ''[[Forest of Secrets]]'', page 134}} {{Chapter |image=OS-RRChapter-3.png |chap = 12 |chapall=30 |pages = 124-135 |next = [[Forest of Secrets/Chapter 13|Chapter 13]] |pov = [[Firestar|Fireheart]]}} {{chapintro|12|12|30|124|135}} ==Chapter description== :[[Graystripe]] yowls as he launches himself after a drowning [[Kit|kit]], and Fireheart loses sight of them in the [[River Alba|river]]. The remaining tiny cat on the mat squeals desperately, trying to cling to the twigs as they are forced apart by the current. With the last of his strength, Fireheart drives himself forward to grab the kit's scruff before kicking out towards the shore. Within moments, the [[Warrior|warrior]] feels stones under his paws and manages to stand shakily on the riverbank. He is stone-limbed with weariness, and staggers out to drop the [[Reedwhisker|black kit]] at the edge of the flood. Fireheart sees that the kit's eyes are closed, and he isn't sure if it is alive. He glances downstream, and spots Graystripe splashing out of the shallows with the gray kit gripped firmly in his teeth. :The gray warrior sets down his wet bundle on the ground, and Fireheart noses both kits. He notes that even though they were both lying very still, the kits were alive due to the faint rise and fall of their flanks. Fireheart thanks [[StarClan]] for keeping them all alive, then begins to lick the black kit as he had seen mothers to for their young in the nursery, rasping his tongue against the fur to rouse the kit and warm it. Graystripe sits beside his friend and does the same for the gray kit, and soon both kits cough up river water and open their eyes. Graystripe exclaims that they're alive, his voice filled with relief. Fireheart points out that they won't live long without their mother, and sniffs the black kit. He detects a trace of [[RiverClan]] scent even though the river had washed most of it away, and is unsurprised when he mews to Graystripe that they'll have to take them home. :Fireheart's courage almost deserts him a the thought of crossing the swollen river again, because he had almost drowned rescuing the kits, and feels exhausted. His limbs are cold and stiff, and the ginger warrior wants nothing more than to curl up in his nest to sleep for a moon. Graystripe looks the same way, with his thick gray fur plastered against him and his eyes filled with anxiety. The gray warrior asks if they can get across, and Fireheart forces himself to his paws, meowing that they have to or the kits will die. He picks up the black kit and heads downstream, saying they should try to cross by the stepping-stones. Graystripe pads after him, carrying the gray kit through the wet grass at the edge of the floodwater. :Fireheart thinks that when the water was at it's usual level, the stepping-stones were an easy route across for the RiverClan [[Cat|cats]]. He knows the largest leap is only a tail length, and they controlled the territory on both sides. Fireheart sees that the rising water completely covered the stones, but where they had broken the surface a dead, bark-stripped tree lay across the river. He guesses some of the branches must've gotten caught on the submerged stones, and he exclaims to Graystripe that they can use it to cross. Fireheart adjusts his grip on his kit and starts to wade out to the splintered end of the tree trunk. The kit sees the water rushing a mouse-length below it, and begins to mewl and struggle feebly. Graystripe gently growls for them to stay still as he adjusts his grip, commenting that they're going to go find [[Mistystar|their mother]] now. :Fireheart isn't sure if the kit is old enough to understand, but the kit goes limp, making it easier to carry. He has to keep his head lifted high to keep the tiny creature out of the water as he flounders towards the tree, and finally reaches it without swimming. Fireheart springs upward, scrabbling for a grip on the wet, rotting wood. Once he pulls himself up, the ginger warrior's main concern is keeping a grip on the smooth, slippery trunk. He gingerly places his paws in a straight line and pads toward the opposite bank with the river churning beneath him. Fireheart thinks that it sucks at the tree as if it wanted to sweep it, and it's burden of cats, away downstream. The warrior glances back and sees Graystripe following with the gray kit, determination creasing his face. At the far end of the tree, Fireheart ducks to avoid a tangle of branches. He tries to be careful not to get the kit's fur caught on splinters, and notes that it's harder to find paw-holds as the branches tapered. Fireheart runs out of anything that might bear his weight when there'a still gap of a few fox-lengths separating him from the far side of the river, so he takes a deep breath, flexes his hindlegs, and leaps. :When he lands, his front paws hit the bank while his back paws kick madly in the rushing current. The black kit starts to struggle again, and Fireheart keeps his teeth clenched in it's neck fur as he scrabbles upwards to stand safely on the bank. His front claws sink into the soft earth as he lurches forward a few paces to set the kit down gently. Glancing around, he spots Graystripe pulling himself out of the river a little way downstream. The gray warrior shakes himself, and lowers his kit to the ground as he comments that the floodwater tastes foul. Fireheart suggests that he look on the bright side -- that the water will disguise his scent. He tells Graystripe that RiverClan can't know he's the warrior trespassing on their land, because if they found out it would be bad. :Fireheart breaks off as three RiverClan cats -- [[Leopardstar|Leopardfur]], [[Blackclaw]], and [[Stonefur]], emerge out of the bushes just beyond Graystripe. He picks up the black kit, and pads along the bank to stand beside Graystripe. The gray warrior hauls himself to his paws, and the two cats set down their burdens, then they both turn to face their enemies. Fireheart wonders if the [[Patrol|patrol]] had heard what he's said to Graystripe, because he knew he and his friend were to exhausted to stand up to strong, fresh warriors. His head spins as he tries to summon energy for a fight into his frozen paws, but to his relief, the RiverClan cats halt a few tail-lengths away. Leopardfur growls ask she questions what this is, and her ears flatten. Beside her, Blackclaw snarls and asks why the [[ThunderClan]] warriors are trespassing on their territory. Fireheart quietly mews that they aren't trespassing, but actually have pulled two RiverClan kits from the river and want to bring them home. Graystripe points out that they didn't almost drown just for fun, and Stonefur paces forward to sniff the kits. The RiverClan warrior's eyes widen as he says it's true, and that these are in fact Mistyfoot's missing kits. :Fireheart stiffens in amazement, and thinks that he'd heard Mistyfoot recently bore kits, but he didn't know the ones he and Graystripe rescued were hers. He is even more thankful he was able to save the kits' lives, but knows he can't let the RiverClan cats know the [[Queen|queen]] has ThunderClan friends. When Leopardfur hears his answer, she doesn't relax the fur on her shoulders as she snarls that they don't know they rescued the kits, because they could've been trying to steal them. Fireheart stares at her, and can't believe after they'd risked their lives in the floodwater he and Graystripe were being accused of stealing kits. He spits that she's a mouse-brain to think that, because no ThunderClan cat tried to steal kits when the river was frozen over. Fireheart questions why the [[Deputy|deputy]] would think they were doing it now, because they'd nearly drowned. Leopardfur looks thoughtful, but Blackclaw stalks up to the ginger warrior and thrusts his head aggressively in his face. Fireheart snarls, ready to counter a blow when the RiverClan deputy tells him sharply to back off. She says that they will let the ThunderClan cats explain themselves to Crookedstar, and see if he believes them. :Fireheart starts to protest, because he knows they would have to go with the RiverClan cats in their exhausted state. He thinks that he and Graystripe would have no hope of winning fight, and notes that at least Graystripe would be able to check on [[Silverstream]]. Fireheart meows to Leopardfur that that's alright, and hopes the RiverClan leader can see the truth when it's in front of his nose. The RiverClan deputy leads the way along the bank, and Blackclaw picks up one kit, stalking threateningly alongside Fireheart and Graystripe. Stonefur brings up the rear of the patrol, carrying the remaining kit. When they reach the island where RiverClan's camp was, Fireheart sees that a wide channel of racing water separates it from the ridge of dry ground, wrenching at the overhanging boughs of willow trees. He notes that no cats were visible through the reeds, and spots silver water lapping among the bushes that concealed the camp. :The RiverClan deputy's eyes widen in alarm, and she states that the water has risen since they left camp. A yowl sounds from the top of the slope, and a voice calls for Leopardfur. Fireheart turns to see [[Crookedstar]] emerge from the shelter of bushes with his coat soaked, fur sticking out in all directions, and his twisted jaw making him look like he was mocking the ThunderClan cats. Leopardfur demands to know what happened, and the RiverClan leader replies in a voice flat with defeat that the camp has flooded, so they've moved up in the forest. As he speaks, two or three more cats emerge curiously from the bushes, and Fireheart notices Graystripe brighten when he sees Silverstream. Crookedstar narrows his eyes and asks Leopardfur what she's brought him, commenting that they have enough trouble without ThunderClan spies. The RiverClan deputy tells him that Fireheart and Graystripe claim to have pulled Mistyfoot's kits out of the river, and beckons to Stonefur and Blackclaw to bring the kits forward. Blackclaw sets down the kit he was carrying and spits that he doesn't believe a word of it, because they can't trust ThunderClan cats. :At the mention of the kits, Silverstream turns and disappears rapidly into the bushes. Crookedstar pads forward, and leans in to sniff the pathetic bundles. Fireheart notes that by now, they were recovering from their ordeal and trying to sit up, but still looked completely waterlogged. Crookedstar turns his cold green gaze to the ThunderClan warriors, and remarks that Mistyfoot's kits did go missing when the camp flooded. The leader asks how the warriors have come to find them, and Fireheart exchanges an exasperated glance with Graystripe. He replies sarcastically that he and his friend flew across the river, exhaustion making him short-tempered. :A loud yowling interrupts him, as Mistyfoot breaks out of the bushes and races over to her kits. The queen crouches over the tiny scraps of fur, staring around wildly as if she thinks other cats will try to take them away from her. She starts to lick them, trying to comfort them both at once as Stonefur reassuringly presses against her. Silverstream follows her friend more slowly, stopping beside her father Crookedstar. Fireheart is relieved when she eyes the ThunderClan cats, but her gaze passes with apparent indifference over Graystripe. He is sure she won't give them away, just as more cats begin to emerge and gather curiously around. Fireheart recognizes [[Graypool]], who gives him no sign she has ever seen him before. He also sees Mudfur as he crouches beside Mistyfoot to examine the kits. :Fireheart notes that all of the RiverClan cats are wet through, and the way the fur clings to their pelts shows they are skinnier than ever. He recalls that he'd always thought RiverClan as plump and sleek, well-fed on fish from the river, but that had changed when Silverstream told him [[Twoleg|Twolegs]] had stolen or scared away most of the [[Prey|prey]]. Fireheart knows that even though the Twolegs had left in leaf-bare, it didn't do RiverClan any good because they'd been unable to hunt while the river was frozen, and now, the thaw had driven them out of their camp instead of giving them much needed prey. In spite of his pity, he can't help but note the unfriendliness in the every cat's eyes, and the hostility in their flattened ears and twitching tails. Fireheart realizes that he and Graystripe would have to work hard to convince Crookedstar they had really saved Mistyfoot's kits. :The Clan leader is prepared to give them a chance to explain, and orders the warriors to tell him what happened. Fireheart begins at the point where he'd heard the kits wailing and stranded in the river, but Blackclaw breaks in contemptuously that ThunderClan has never risked their lives to save RiverClan's. He bites back an angry retort, and explains how he'd pushed the kits through the torrent to the riverbank. Crookedstar hisses at the black warrior to be quiet, and comments that the Clan will figure out of they're lying soon enough. Mistyfoot looks up from where she still nuzzles her kits, and meows that they're not lying because ThunderClan wouldn't steal kits when all Clans are finding it hard to steal themselves. Silverstream observes calmly that Fireheart's story makes sense, and explains to the ginger warrior that they had to abandon camp to shelter in bushes when the water started to rise again. She says that when warriors came to move Mistyfoot's kits, they could only find two of them. Silverstream notes that the whole [[Nursery|nursery]] floor had been washed away, and they must have been swept along to where the ThunderClan warriors heard their cries. :Crookedstar nods slowly, and Fireheart notices that the hostility of the RiverClan cats is fading, save for Blackclaw who turns his back on the enemy cats with a snort a disgust. The leader meows that they are grateful then, but sounds grudging as if he can hardly bear to be in debt to a pair of ThunderClan warriors. Mistyfoot looks up, and her eyes glow with gratitude as she says that without them, her kits would've died. Fireheart dips his head in acknowledgement, and impulsively asks the RiverClan leader if there is anything he and Graystripe can do to help because he knows prey is scarce. Crookedstar growls that they don't need help from ThunderClan, hissing RiverClan cats can look after themselves. Graypool meows that he's a fool, with a sharp glare shot at her leader. Fireheart feels a new surge of respect for the elder, and guesses that not many cats would dare to take that tone with Crookedstar. The elder rasps tho her leader that he's too proud for his own good, considering RiverClan can't feed themselves even with the thaw. Graypool reminds him that there are no fish to eat, and the river is practically poisoned. Fireheart is too shocked to speak, and Graystripe mews in surprise. :Graypool explains to them that it's the Twolegs' fault, because last newleaf the river was clean and full of fish, but now it's filthy with rubbish from their camps. Mudfur adds that the fish are poisoned too, and cats who eat them fall ill. He comments that he's treated more cats for bellyache than in all the time he's been medicine cat. Fireheart stares at Graystripe, then glances back at the RiverClan cats, noting that most of them couldn't meet his eyes as if they were ashamed a warrior of another Clan knows their troubles. He urges them all to let him and his friend help, and promises they'll catch prey in their territory and bring it to them until the river has gone down and is clean. Even as he makes the offer, Fireheart knows that he is breaking [[The warrior code|the warrior code]] which demands loyalty to his Clan alone. He thinks that Bluestar would be furious if she knew he is prepared to share ThunderClan's precious prey like this, but can't bring himself to abandon another Clan in need. Fireheart is reminded that it is Bluestar herself who once said their Clan's welfare depends on there being four Clans in the [[The forest territories|forest]], and he decides that it must be the will of StarClan. :Crookedstar narrows his eyes in suspicion, and slowly asks if they will really do this for them. Fireheart meows yes, and Graystripe promises that he will help too with a swift glance at Silverstream. The RiverClan leader grunts that his Clan thanks them, and says that none of his cats will challenge them in their territory until the floods go down and they return to their camp. He adds that after that, RiverClan will fend for themselves again, then turns and leads his way back to the bushes. His subdued cats follow him, casting furtive glances back at Fireheart and Graystripe. The ginger warrior can see that not all of them trusted them or their off of help. Mistyfoot nudges her kits to their paws, and thanks the ThunderClan cats, murmuring to Fireheart that she won't forget this. Fireheart and Graystripe are left alone as the RiverClan cats disappear into the bushes, and begin to head down the slope to the river. Graystripe shakes his head in disbelief, and comments they must be mad hunting for another Clan. Fireheart retorts that they couldn't do anything else, unless they'd left them to starve. Graystripe agrees, but notes that they'll have to be careful because they'll be crowfood if Bluestar finds out. The ginger warrior adds silently that Tigerclaw would be angry too, as he knows the deputy already suspects he and Graystripe have friends in RiverClan, and thinks he might be about to prove him right. ==Characters== ===Major=== {{mclist|1| *[[Firestar|Fireheart]]{{r|os3|124}} }} ===Minor=== {{mclist|3| *[[Graystripe]]{{r|os3|124}} *[[Reedwhisker|Unnamed black RiverClan kit]]{{r|os3|124}} *Unnamed gray RiverClan kit{{r|os3|124}} *[[Leopardstar|Leopardfur]]{{r|os3|127}} *[[Stonefur]]{{r|os3|127}} *[[Blackclaw]]{{r|os3|127}} *[[Crookedstar]]{{r|os3|130}} *[[Silverstream]]{{r|os3|130}} *[[Mistystar|Mistyfoot]]{{r|os3|131}} *[[Graypool]]{{r|os3|133}} *[[Mudfur]]{{r|os3|134}} }} ===Mentioned=== {{mclist|2| *[[Bluestar]]{{r|os3|134}} *[[Tigerstar (TPB)|Tigerclaw]]{{r|os3|135}} }} {{Endspoiler}} ==Notes and references== {{Reflist}} {{Chapters|Forest of Secrets}} {{Cliffnotes}} [[de:Geheimnis des Waldes/Kapitel 12]] Templates used on the current version of this page: Template:Chapintro (view source) Template:Chapter (view source) Template:Chapters (view source) Template:Chapters/b (view source) Template:Cliffnotes (view source) Template:Endspoiler (view source) (protected)Template:Main Quote (view source) Template:Mclist (view source) Template:Navbar (view source) Template:Num (view source) Template:R (view source) Template:R/b (view source) Template:R/input (view source) Template:Reflist (view source) Template:Startspoiler (view source) (protected)Template:Transclude (view source) Module:Chapterlist (view source) Return to Forest of Secrets/Chapter 12. 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Du Fu (712 – 770) was a Tang Dynasty poet. Here he is writing here about the very wet autumn of 754 in what is now the Chinese megacity of Xi'an.
Lamenting Autumn Rains
Blustrous winds, unending rains, autumn of chaos.
The four seas, eight directions one solid cloud:
Horses going, cows coming, who can make out for sure?
Muddy Jing River, clear Wei, how to tell them apart?
From grain tips, ears sprouting, millet heads turned to black;
No word of how farmers, farmers' wives are faring.
In the city, exchange a bed of quilt, get a meagre peck of grain –
Just agree, don't argue over which is worth more!
We have had weather like this in England in the past. The summer of 1314 was wet and cool and the harvest poor. In May 1315, it began to rain and continued for 15 months with widespread crop failures and food prices doubling between by midsummer. It wasn't till 1325 that food supply returned to normal. Then the Black Death came and wiped out 40% of England's people. The young were especially vulnerable, just as they are to today's pandemics.


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The AAPD (American Association of People with Disabilities) recently spoke out against the nominee for one of the most powerful positions in America. The reason? "...based on his previous rulings as a DC Circuit Court Judge that have devalued the lives and liberty of people with disabilities...Judge Kavanaugh's rulings and statements on health care, self-determination, employment, and education threaten the rights of all Americans with disabilities."
The sentiment is far from isolated. Ady Barkan, who suffers from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, went so far as to partner with Maine People's Alliance and Mainers for Accountable Leadership to launch a Crowdpac campaign that would unleash funds supporting an opponent to Maine Senator Lisa Collins if she approves President Trump's pick for Supreme Court. The group has raised over $1 million to date, with no signs of slowing down.
After public hearings conclude on Friday, the Judiciary Committee will send their recommendation to the Senate, who will then proceed to debate and vote on the candidate.


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by the gorgeous Palah Chingu
"I don't fear death; I fear remaining silent in the face of injustice. I am young and I want to live. But I say to those who would eliminate my voice: I am ready, wherever and whenever you might strike. You can cut down the flower, but nothing can stop the coming of the spring." ― Malalai Joya, Raising My Voice
I got this book at the fair price near the Chowrasta market, Penang. How I love that place because they sold books in a very reasonable price. However, since I read this book, I have deep admiration towards Malala Joya's courage and boldness for speaking what is on her mind. She's even willing to risk her life for championing women rights in Afghanistan. She is what I called the true figure of Afghanistan Heroine. It is truly lucky that she had educated father. Born into the war torn country, having an educated father is a blessing to her. She has not been denied her right to education like majority of Afghanistan girls had. Malalai Joya started being an activist at the young age. Her family supported her dreams and understands that what Joya did is a proof of how much she loves her country. Even in Taliban Years at Afghanistan, She constantly travels to teach young girls so that they can read and continually have access to education. In this book, Joya does not try to sugarcoat or hide anything on what happened in Afghanistan. She told and exposed everything from the withdrawal of US force from Afghanistan, to the period when Hamid Karzai is appointed as a President and until now, where the majority of government's minister and members of Parliament are part of warlords and religious extremists.
She often travel to overseas to speak about the plight and dilemma of her peoples and her country. She often invited to the talks and events to share her experience and to make her message came across clearly especially to other countries political leader. She talked about how comfort she is at the other country but she still thinking about her country. How many people spent times in the darkness due to no access of electricity and how many people fell sick because of lack of access on clean water. Her true love towards her country is reflected upon that. I know that no even once she mentioned she wanted to move to another country despite death threat made against her is increasing. She managed to escape so many times and would not give up easily.
It is truly a real eye opening story to me. A very young girl who dared to raise her voice in the Afghanistan's Parliament criticizes majority of MPs who did not give a shit about people. They do not care about improving the rate of literacy, discarding the poverty and let alone in championing women rights and freedom. When Joya spoke boldly, she's being scorned not by the fellow male MPs, but also by female MPs who Joya believes is just for display so that the world believes that the current government is on the path of instilling Democracy. She was banned for so many times from parliament due to so many complaints have been made against her.
This is truly amazing book. Amazing because you can feel how honest Malalai Joya pours her feelings into the book. Amazing because how insightful she wrote this book based on the aspect of war, Afghanistan people, Democracy and her not yet achieved dreams and hopes.


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