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30 Salutary Life Quotes Life is a game, whether you will lose or win, it depends upon you how you play it. Every step you take determines your succession towards your destiny. Life is not a joke; it needs to be taken seriously and consciously. Sometimes the decisions taken non-seriously or in anger make you regret afterwards. So always keep in mind, every decision should be taken keeping in view all its positive and negative impacts. You need to act wisely in order to control life and not let life control you. It is said that life is stricter than a teacher. A teacher teaches lesson and then takes an exam, but life takes the exam first and then teaches you a lesson for your lifetime. Life is the name of continuous struggle. If the struggle to fulfill your dreams comes to an end, there is nothing left in your life to live for. The reason and ambition should always be there that motivates you to get your aims and reach your destiny. In other words struggle keeps you alive. It makes you have faith in yourself. Remember that:
"In life nothing is impossible, the word itself says I m possible"
Audrey Hepburn
Life is all about trusting, believing and sharing. It's about spreading happiness around you. We should make everyone happy by little efforts that make this world a peaceful and lovely place to live in. Today my post is on Life quotes by different writers who have said those words of wisdom to guide us. Share these quotes with your friends and also visit other quotes on my blog like Tumblr Quotes. Thanks for visiting us.
Life is All About Happiness
Something That We Decide Ourselves There Are Alot Of Reasoning To Be Unhappy But We Choose To Be Happy BeacauseIt Makes us Feel Alive
Disappointment Quote
Life Is A Series Of Disappointments Broken Only By Dark Spells Of Depression, so live your life
Trust Life
New Year Life
2013 Another 12 Months, 52 weeks, 365 Days, 8,760 Hours, 525600 Mintutes And 3,153600 Seconds of Heartbreaks Progress & New Experiences.
People Are Like Oceans
People Are Like Oceans Some parts Are Visible But Most You Cant See Shallow Pools Of Truth And deep Pools Of Dark Mysteries
Not Perfect
Kiss, Laugh And Dream
The best Things In Life Are Unseen. Thats Why We Close Our Eyes When We Kiss Laugh And Dream.
Einstein Quote
Learn From Yesterday, Live For Today, Hope For Tommarow The important thing Is To Not Questioning
– By Albert Einstein
Peter Pan Quote
So Come With Me Where DreamsAre Born And Time Is Never Planned Just Think Of Happy Things, Ande Your Heart Will Fly On Wings, In Never Never land
– By Peter Pan
Pleasure in Life
The Greatest Pleasure In Life Is Doing What People Whast People Say You Cannot Do.
Live Forever
We All Die The Goal Isn't To Live Forever The Goal Is To Create Something That Will.
Disappointment Quote
Disappointsments Are Just God's Way Of saying "I' ve Got Something Better" Be Patient.. Live Life.. Have Faith..
Life Goes On
Love Quote
When; A Girl Is In Love, You Can See It In Her Smile.
When; A Guy Is In Love, You Can See It In His Eyres
Quote By Ghandhi
You Cannot Run From Weakness
You Cannot Run From Waekness You Must Sometimes Fight Perish It Out or And If That Be So Why Not Now And. Where You Stand
Too Much Love Hurts
Don't Trust Too Much
Don't Love Too Much
Don't Hope Too Much
Beacuse That "Too Much"
Can Hurt You So Much
Life is Too Short
Time is Precious
Life is full of Challenges
Life Is Full Of Challenges.
Being Happy Should Not be One Of them.
Life Goes on
Life is Not Measured
Life Is Not Measured By The Breaths We Take But By The Moments Thats Take Our Breath Away
Do What Makes You Happy
Do What Makes You Happy Be With Who Makes You Smile Laugh As Much As You Breath Love As Long As You Live.
Live Every Moment
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Lou Holtz quote
Life Is Ten Percent What Happens To you And 90 Percent How You Respond To it.
Life is a Lesson
Outlook Towards Life
For Everthing You Have Missed You Have Gained Something Else; And For Everthing You Gain, Lose Something Else.
It is About Your Outlook Towards Life. You Can Either Regret or rejoice.
Emily Dickinson Quote
That It Will Never Come Again Is What Make Life So sweet
– By Emily Dickinson
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If you see scorpions on your property, chances are there will be more of them. Scorpions may not travel in packs, but if one found their way in, more are likely to come. Professional pest treatments in Arizona are the best way to keep them away from your property indefinitely and eliminate any that may be hiding. But for those that need to kill an individual scorpion right away, there are a few strategies that may work.
At Home Ways to Kill Scorpions
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- Shoes and Knives – Despite their strength, you can squish scorpions or pierce their outer shell. But keep in mind that doing so often means that you have to go very close to it. You may want to consider investing in a brick.
- Boric Acid/Borax – Boric Acid, and to a lesser extent Borax, are two natural chemicals that can be sprayed or placed on scorpions and will eventually kill them. However, the process is somewhat slow, as they dehydrate the scorpions, but are not toxic. The scorpion would likely be able to sting for a while, although it will eventually die. You can also try diatomaceous earth, which also gives them little cuts.
- Stick Your Cat At It – Cats are excellent at killing scorpions, although you do have to be careful as some cats can get stung and possibly hurt. If you have a pet chicken, many chickens find scorpions to be delicious.
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The Zionist authorities began setting up checkpoints in Palestinian areas of east Jerusalem on Wednesday as they struggled to stop a wave of attacks that have raised fears of a full-scale uprising.
A police spokeswoman said checkpoints were being set up at "the exits of Palestinian villages and neighborhoods in east Jerusalem," where most of the recent martyrs have come from.
A wave of mainly stabbing operations have spread fear in the occupied territories, while a gun-and-knife attack on a Jerusalem bus on Tuesday killed two Zionists and injured more than 20 others.
The move to install checkpoints followed a decision by Zionist Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's security cabinet overnight authorizing police to seal off or impose a curfew on parts of Jerusalem.
Netanyahu has faced major pressure over the wave of Palestinians' operations as well as violent Palestinian protests in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
The upsurge in violence that began on October 1 when a group of settlers stormed the al-Aqsa complex under the protection of occupation police has led some to warn of the risk of a third Palestinian intifada.
The Zionist entity occupied Parts of Palestine in 1948 when it declared the self-proclaimed 'state', and later occupied east Jerusalem in the 1967 Six-Day War and annexed it in a move never recognized by the international community.
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Sunday, August 9, 2009
gutter grrls LIVE at the Art bar Aug. 2nd
The gutter grrls painted LIVE at the Art Bar on August 2nd, 2009. Paintings are up for one whole week. gutter grrl thug and trash started us off . gutter x and I (gutter sass) also helped paint throughout the night. gg fans colored our paint by number pages and won fab prizes! neat! We also let gg fans select the color on the canvas(hence the craziness!). But first they had to dress up in a silly costume and be photographed (of course). All part of the gutter grrl fun! gg shirts are for sale! You can take one off our hands for $15. www.guttergrrls.com
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Moms, What Is the One Thing You Can't Live Without?
Real Simplereaders weigh in on everything from Velcro to vino.
My king-size bed! When everyone fits, everyone sleeps.
Mickie Stier
Columbus, Ohio
I could not live without my camera. Every moment, whether big or small, I have captured on my camera. I love to look back at all the memories we've made and think about what a huge blessing and honor it is to be the mom of three boys.
Valerie Davis
Poway, California
Bubble baths. I am a mother of two beautiful children: One is autistic yet full of joy, and the other has a determination and energy that exceed all reasonable understanding. Needless to say, our days can be full of challenges, stress, achievements, emotional turmoil, laughter, and sometimes tears. At the end of the day, a private bubble bath for each of us seems to create a peace that reminds us to live in the moment. Or to just splash our troubles away.
Lori Ashley
Austin, Texas
My mother-in-law. She understands the frustrations that I go through as a military pilot's wife. She never criticizes me. She just lets out a laugh and says, "I've been there, too." For some reason, those four words do more to heal me than anything else. I married the man of my dreams, but I lucked out and got the mom-in-law of my dreams, too.
Lyda Brown
Ridgeland, Mississippi
The word no. It is the most important tool in the parenting arsenal, and it is woefully underused and underrated. I wouldn't be a good parent without it.
Leah Wiethe
Cincinnati, Ohio
My timer. When it's almost time for bed, I set it for five minutes so my daughter knows in advance that she is to complete her reading and downtime within the next five minutes and then it's snooze time. No surprises, no resistance to sleep.
Kimberly Church
Doctors Inlet, Florida
Books. While I was raising four kids as a single mom, there was never a lot of extra cash for movies or formal outings. We could, however, make regular trips to the library to check out books and read together at night. Even the older kids, who were supposedly too sophisticated to join in, were known to sneak into the room once the story began.
Lois Phillips
Annandale, Virginia
A portable DVD player. Although I am absolutely against parking kids in front of the TV, on long trips in the car there is nothing better for keeping children busy and happy.
Lyne Marie Larocque
Saint-Laurent, Quebec
A face-painting kit. On rainy days, face painting is a great way to inspire pretend play (and cleverly sidestep the kids' claims that "there's nothing to do").
Lauren de Beer
Lexington, Kentucky
Red wine. Because after a long day with my two-year-old, I know I have something to look forward to after his bedtime.
Nan Price
West Hartford, Connecticut
My BlackBerry. It's indispensable for keeping measurements, doctors' appointments, playdate information, you name it! And it's perfect for answering those off-the-wall "Why?" questions. With the Web at hand, I'm only a few keystrokes away from being a supermom with all the answers. I've even looked up knock-knock jokes!
Phyllis Sommer
Highwood, Illinois
Velcro. My autistic son communicates visually by using cards. His favorite food cards are Velcro'd to the cupboard door. When he wants a snack, he can reach for his favorite food card, detach it, and give me the card. Velcro helps my son and me communicate.
Philippa Keane
Dedham, Massachusetts
My BabyBjörn carrier was the best $80 I ever spent. After three babies, its fabric is faded and stained, but it is the one baby item that I'm saving. My youngest is now too big for the carrier, but I have wonderful memories of carrying my girls through their first years.
Laura Ford
Corpus Christi, Texas
Audiobooks. My voice gave out after reading the first two Harry Potter books to my son, so we started buying the rest of the series on CD. Audiobooks are a perfect way to hold his attention on long car trips, and unlike movies, they require him to focus his attention and use his imagination to visualize the story.
Monica Cicci
Fitchburg, Wisconsin
Furniture that doubles as toy storage. My home can look like a normal adult's in mere minutes because there are trunks, cabinets, and drawers throughout the house that are designated for certain types of toys, books, and puzzles.
Jane Maus
Grand Prairie, Texas
Cold cereal. It comes in a wide variety of healthy whole-grain choices, it's a quick breakfast or snack when time is short, and it's economical.
Rebecca Darrington
Persia, Iowa
My sense of humor. It makes even the most frustrating situations manageable. Even if I am angry at the time, I always imagine entertaining my husband, who travels often, with the stories of the mishaps our children get into. And while perfecting the story for my shtick, I always get a renewed sense of the excitement they bring to our lives.
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Washington, DC –Congressman Bill Keating joined with over 160 Members of the US House to introduce HR 5087, the Assault Weapons Ban, last night.
"I saw far too many families who were victims of gun violence when I was District Attorney, and in the years since, we have all seen far too many school shootings," said Congressman Keating. "Assault weapons are weapons of war. There is no need for them for personal protection or sport and there is absolutely no need for them in our communities. We know that the previous assault weapons ban, which was allowed to lapse in 2004, helped curb the number of incidents with assault weapons. If we want to tackle this uniquely American epidemic of gun violence, that has to include stopping the sale of these killing machines."
The Assault Weapons Ban will prohibit the sale, transfer, production, and importation of:
- Semi-automatic rifles and handguns with a military-style feature that can accept a detachable magazine;
- Semi-automatic rifles and handguns with a fixed magazine that can hold more than 10 rounds;
- Semi-automatic shotguns with a military-style feature;
- Any ammunition feeding device that can hold more than 10 rounds; and
- 205 specifically-named and listed firearms.
When an assault weapon or a high-capacity magazine is used in a shooting, the number of victims who are killed increases by 63%. There have been over 8,400 incidents of gun violence so far in 2018. More than 2,200 Americans have lost their lives. More than 500 children have been killed or injured.
As the frequency of mass shootings has increased in recent years, assault weapons have become the weapon of choice for these murderers. Assault weapons were used in attacks on Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida and the Route 91 Harvest music festival in Las Vegas. Shooters have also used assault weapons to commit mass murder at Sandy Hook Elementary School and a movie theatre in Aurora, Colorado.
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One of my previous posts (Milestone Markers), deals with coffee cups.
The time was December 31, 2005, I had struck up a casual conversation with the person who runs the Coffee Crew (Edited to add: the article is no longer at the site) website, Colin Newell. The conversation turned to writing, and I submitted what follows below, but Milestone Markers was of no interest to them; the site is about coffee, not cups. Here then is what did get published there, reprinted for those who won't click on the above link. I might be a better writer now, but I present it as found at the above link, nothing edited or changed.
I was mildly surprised the original article lists 641 hits. Amazing how stuff lives on, strangers chancing across it.
My Personal Coffee Failure (Emilio J. D'Alise, January 03, 2006)
I'm a coffee failure. I admit it freely, my head held high, and my eyes fixed on distant mountaintops. I brew coffee for consumption in great quantities. Three, sometimes four, pots a day. No great care is taken in bean selection, and I grind enough at a sitting for about two weeks worth of coffee. I even use (gasp!) a Cuisinart 12-cup drip coffee maker, with timer. That particular machine is not mentioned anywhere within the Coffee Crew website. I'm sure it would be if they had an avoid section!
Mind you, I'm not knocking the Cuisinart. It does what it is supposed to do; it brews the dark brown liquid I consume in great quantities. Of course, it's not dark brown when I drink it. That's because I mix it with liberal amounts of Silk's soy creamer . . . I'll stop a moment while readers fight their gag reflexes… OK, it's not always like that; if I'm treating myself I might use the fat-free Half & Half. I don't know what's in it, but it is at least visually similar to real Half & Half.
How did I get like this? What twisted road would bring a sane man – a presumed sane man – to subject his body to such horror
It wasn't always like this. I grew up in Italy, and was introduced at a very young age to espresso. I would help grind the beans in an old hand grinder. It looked like a miniature wooden cabinet, with a hand crank on top. You slid open a metal door, poured in the beans, gave it a few turns, and slid open a wooden drawer to reveal wonderfully aromatic grounds. I don't know the exact brand, but our brewer was probably the aluminum Moka Pot (or Stovetop Espresso). The grounds were put into a small metal basket (two teaspoons, if I remembered correctly) that went between the two halves of the brewer. The bottom would be filled with cold water, the unit joined and put on the stove. Once the water reached boiling it would be pushed through the grounds, and end up on the upper compartment. I remember watching and listening to it because the unit had to be removed from the fire as soon as the last few drops finished their transformation from clear water to robust espresso. Leaving it on the stove too long would damage the aluminum. The coffee would then be poured into very small cups, and sipped while exchanging conversation at the kitchen table. It was a ritual performed once in the morning, and once in the afternoon. I think that machinery is what got me started on the road to becoming an engineer.
Forward about twenty years (to the mid-80s) and I find myself following a different ritual. I'm part of a small group of engineers and designers who three or four times a day shuffle to the office's coffee station to fill our pint-sized cups. After brief conversations, we would shuffle back to our desks and sip our brew as we waited for the next trip. That is where I gained my immunity to all sorts of awful brews. You see, coffee brewing was not always under your own direct control. Sometimes you would get acid mud, and other time brown dishwater. Years later the advent of pre-measured packets produced consistent dark water that, although devoid of real taste, provided few surprises.
Repetition forms habits. Gradually, coffee-making at home resembled what I was used to at work. My stovetop brewer was used less and less, replaced at first by a 10-cup, and eventually a 12-cup drip coffee maker. I stopped at 12-cup because the next jump where the commercial units, holding 40+ cups. In those days, I still retained some shred of dignity, and actually sought out good coffee beans. In my 30s, I visited Hawaii and discovered Kona coffee. After that, I would mail order both regular and decaffeinated 100% Peaberry Kona Coffee from The Coffee Shack. I ground it as needed, and for a little while, redeemed myself by at least drinking something that actually had coffee flavor, and did not need creamer to mask its lack of taste.
Alas, the world conspired against me, and I let it. Owning a business is taxing. The long hours and frantic pace left no time to savor the small moments. Soon I was drinking my coffee without even being aware of it, and often it would just sit and grow cold on the corner of my desk. No use wasting Kona coffee in such a manner. I started buying coffee in bulk (Costco and Sam's were by then educating consumers as to the virtue of buying a year's supply of whatever you needed and storing it in every nook and cranny of the house). I reserved the good stuff for those rare moments when time could be taken to truly savor the experience. Those moments turned out to be rare indeed, and soon Kona Peaberry coffee was a thing of the past. I was fully immersed in the ritual of making and drinking great quantities of brown, tasteless, and often bitter water.
Then a lifeline was thrown my way. Actually, there were two lifelines. The first was in 1995, when I took my first trip back to Italy. I went a roundabout way, landing in Frankfurt, driving through Germany, Switzerland, and then headed to Udine (Northeast of Venice). Don't want to insult the Germans and the Swiss, but they should stop selling coffee (other things as well, but that's for another forum). There is no point in describing what we were offered other than to say we purchased instant coffee and made our own.
But Italy! Italy reawakened my appreciation with the art of coffee drinking and coffee making. When we crossed the border into Italy, we stopped at a rest and fueling area. The first joyous surprise was the food. They had panini! Made to order, and served hot. And they had real coffee! Served fresh, and in real cups. And after having paid the equivalent of $4 for something resembling battery acid, the $1.50 we shelled out for great tasting, flavorful, and fresh coffee did not seem bad at all. But that was not all. We spent a few weeks in Udine, living with my uncle. We had great coffee at home, enjoyed along with great conversations around the kitchen table. But the treat was to go downtown, sit at any of the establishments in any of the various piazze (like large courtyards), and enjoy any of the seemingly endless varieties of coffee. Cappuccino, macchiato, liscio, and others I cannot remember as I sit here drinking my brown water and creamer. I plan to write my uncle and ask him to send me a list I can reference for future writings. The whole experience was not really geared to coffee drinking, but rather to the social aspect surrounding coffee drinking. Smiling people, cheerful waiters and waitresses, and good conversation with friends and, sometimes, strangers.
That trip rejuvenated both my desire for good coffee, and for the social aspect of coffee drinking. I once again started ordering Kona coffee. But events conspired to cast me down in the abyss once again. American coffee shops were popping up all over, spurred by the financial success of Starbucks. Malls, supermarkets, and department stores all added small coffee shops to cater to a demanding public. Everywhere you went, you could smell the aroma of coffee being brewed. My wife and I started trying out some of the places, and even went to a few Starbucks with friends. The first few times I ordered cappuccino I politely took a couple of sips, and threw half of it away. At first I thought these were isolated instances of bad coffee and bad brewing. Then I fooled myself into thinking these were long series of isolated instances. But finally the realization hit me; I had nary one instance of a good cappuccino… or espresso… or any other Italian-sounding coffee name I tried. Distressed, but still wanting to hang on to the illusion, I started ordering regular coffee (you get about a quart for $5). When that proved to be as miserable a failure as the espresso experience, I resorted to asking for a mix of half coffee, half hot water . . . and leave plenty of room for the Half & Half.
The social aspects also left something to be desired. Mall coffee shops were crowded with pretentious people, fooling themselves to an image of sophistication by sitting aloof drinking tasteless brown swill. Actual coffee shops were crowded with pretentious people, fooling themselves to an image of sophistication by making sure everyone within earshot heard of the trouble they were having with deciding where they should go on vacation, all the while downing large quantities of tasteless brown swill. The world around me turned gray, and slowly I retreated from this mockery that bore so little resemblance to the wonderful experiences in Italy. The Kona left unused, I went back to mechanically downing cup after cup of warm liquid that resembled coffee in name only.
My second lifeline came in 2001 with another trip to Italy (this time only Italy). Three weeks of great food, great coffee, and great experiences. I even discovered espresso served over a small dollop of ice cream. Again rejuvenated, upon my return to the States I started to take more care with my coffee selection, brewing, and coffee drinking. I promised myself that this time I would hold on to this lifeline. I actually brewed espresso again, and even experimented with pouring it over various ice creams. Not wanting to repeat previous mistakes, I avoided all coffee shops, seldom ordering coffee in public, with the rare exception of an after-dinner coffee those few times we ate out.
But I still owned a business, the old habits returned, and once again drinking a cup of coffee held no more significance, or provided no more pleasure, than scratching one's head. Actually, scratching the head usually had more meaning, and was more memorable, than drinking a cup of coffee. To compensate, and to have something that could be linked to enjoyment, I started brewing a cup of tea when I wanted to experience some flavor and enjoy the moment. You see, coffee was no longer coffee, but rather something I mindlessly drank when busy at the computer, or watching TV. And non-descript Columbian beans purchased in bulk are sufficient for the intended purpose: to have a warm drink devoid of distracting qualities. Pardon me while I take a swig … bleech!
I've since closed the business, and I now have a lot of time. But it's too late for me. Brewing a cup and drinking it alone would just mock what should be an experience in both sensory and social delight. Get some friends, you say? Times have changed, but some things still remain. The same hangouts still serve the same incredibly bad "coffee", consumed in great quantities by people that must have long since lost all feeling in their taste buds. And friends no longer have time to visit in this fast-paced, modern world. Admittedly, I've moved 1, 500 miles away from where most of them live, and it would be a long commute, but that's beside the point. We live for our memories, and I'm happy with mine. Trying to relive them seems a futile endeavor fraught with danger of disappointment. Nope. I'll drink my great quantities of warm liquid, dotted with the occasional cup of tea (with sugar and a hint of lemon), and be content with writing about what might have been. sip … ahhh … bleech!
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Olympic medallist to get civic gong
Double Olympic medal winner Max Whitlock is to have his achievements celebrated by his home town.
The gymnast who won two bronze medals at London 2012 is to be presented with a gift at a special reception in Hemel Hempstead
The presentation will take place this weekend at the town's Civic Centre.
The 19-year-old, from Hemel Hempstead, Herts, took the first British men's gymnastics team medal since 1912 alongside Louis Smith, 23, Sam Oldham, 19, Daniel Purvis, 21, and Kristian Thomas, 23 when they claimed bronze on July 30.
Whitlock, who still lives in Hemel Hempstead, then went on to win Olympic bronze in the men's pommel horse, six days later.


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Today marks the beginning of the end. The final preliminary event (#56) kicks off today at the World Series of Poker. For those waiting for something other than poker content here on my little blog -- not yet. Today a hodge-podge, a melange even, of those items that have drifting past in the last several weeks. Bits of poker flotsam, foamy discards on the sea of green felt.
I sat with WSOP tournament director Jack Effel the other day while he fielded complaints from players about a staff decision to delay the start of a tournament. I felt a bit like the emperor's slave who stood by the king and whispered in his ear: "You too are mortal." What I told Jack several times was: "You are never going to satisfy all the players, there will always be complaints."
It's interesting how far the tournament staff go to explore the possibilities for what would seem a relatively simple game. Here I point you to a newspaper article about Jack's former business professor, who has been called on to consult on a more modern and equitable structure for WSOP tournament payouts.
"Effel now manages more than 1,000 employees, and the tournament schedule from May through July grosses more than $200 million and has 57 events. The goal for the players in any event is not only to win one of the coveted bracelets, but also a share of the prize money. The problem was designing an equitable payout structure for a single event which could have over 6,000 players."
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I mentioned before the communication changes brought about this year by Twitter. Players are now giving out not only their chip counts but also the blow by blow of an endless torrent of bad beat stories. The most common word in poker tweets could well be "donkey." If you missed the New York Times article on poker and twitter, it is well worth a read.
"It's completely changing poker for the audience," Joe Sebok says of Twitter. "Traditional poker media coverage is a lot of hand histories online. It's bland and basic. Now you get to hear players exclaim and interact - 'oh I feel so sick' or 'oh that player is a knucklehead.' They upload pictures and they reply to each other. It gives you a sense of the pressure these guys are under and what it's like to be here."
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While we are visiting the esteemed New York Times, they also ran an article written by a mother about her son's poker playing; an article written by a mother about her son's poker obession; an article by a mother about her complete misunderstanding of her son's poker game.
I could go on, but the extremely uneven article goes from an indictment of online poker to a somewhat more level discussion. This only happens when the mom discovers her son is winning and winning a lot! I have read the author (the mom) before, she is a very good writer but in this piece she really lost her edge and never quite got back to a place of saying what she meant, which I can summarize thusly:
I overreacted because I did not understand the game of poker. I was an overprotective mother and tried to prevent my son from exploring an outlet he truly enjoyed and truly excelled at. I eventually figured that out, but I am still stuck in a conservative, backward paradigm which prevents me from saying simply that my kid was right and I was wrong.
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When you around anything for a long period of time, you eventually get sick of the cliches. That being the case, it is important to notice when someone manages to expand the model and come out with a new and fresh take on an old theme. Stud poker is often called the old man's game. You hear over and over: "No one under seventy ever sits at a Stud table." Or, "You know it's a Stud tournament because of all the oxygen bottles."
Howard Lederer came up with a new and refreshing insight on this the other night, when he twittered: "Why do I love playing the $1500 Stud 8 event? Ten times tonight I said to myself: I haven't seen him in 10 years. Good to know he's not dead!"
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The Villa (11 bedrooms) is rented with its Schoolhouse (4 bedrooms) next to the villa offering a total of 15 bedrooms allowing groups of 30 people to lodge comfortably (A max of 40 people can sleep using 10 additional single beds: 7 daybeds free of charge and 3 single spare beds at extra charge).
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Four game rooms, a private cinema equipped to watch DVDs, a massive pool with separate kitchen, lounging areas, gym, 2 saunas
The Villa di Ulignano was built in the 17th century upon commission of the governor of Livorno. It is said that Napoleon Bonaparte stayed at the villa at the beginning of the 18th century and, in remembrance of such an event, a few of the rooms are named in his honor.
This exclusive villa in Tuscany is surrounded by a splendid landscaped garden with centuries-old trees where guests can relax and enjoy the tranquility of the Tuscan countryside.
The villa is immersed in the Tuscany hills just 10 km from Volterra, a characteristic Etruscan village that sits atop a hill overlooking the surrounding area. Volterra is famous for its artisan work in alabaster stone, many precious translucent pieces of art can be admired throughout the city.
The villa offers guests landscaped gardens and a large outdoor swimming pool, equipped with facilities such as a sauna, showers and toilets, dressing rooms, bar, outdoor table tennis and deck chairs.
Inside the villa, there is a private projection room, several game rooms with a billiard table, roulette and indoor table tennis as well as a large professional kitchen.
There are many additional services that can be provided upon request. These include a private chef, catering service, wedding planner, babysitter and more.
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The Villa di Ulignano is located in central Tuscany in an area dotted with small charming villages full of history such as Volterra, San Gimignano, Certaldo and Monteriggioni. In about an hour's drive from the villa, guests can reach Tuscany's beautiful Florence and Siena as well as the famous Chianti wine region, famous both for its splendid panoramic landscapes as well as for the great red wines created in the area.
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If you weren't impressed by the Xbox 360's motion-tracking camera, don't fret, as Microsoft's next-gen Kinect will supposedly blow it out of the water.
According to Nick Burton, the technology development head over at Rare Ltd., the Xbox One Kinect has "ten times the power of its predecessor." He and his team are currently working on Kinect Sports Rivals, a motion-heavy sports game that takes advantage of the Xbox One's fancy new camera.
"It can register a fingertip from three meters away, a feat that was impossible last generation, and its wider field of tracking means it can register more players and at closer distances," Burton added.
Are you at all excited for the new-and-improved Kinect that must be connected in order to play Xbox One? Let us know in the comments below.


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Secretary-general of UN-HABITATChris Menah (left), strategic planning consultant Naison (second from left), and the group's chairman Li Yu new (third left) had a group photo taken
On March 22, 2016, jingu group chairman Mr Li Yu new invited to the United Nations human settlements programme, and secretary-general of un-habitat Chris Menah Mr Discuss to cooperative housing institute in developing countries.China's ambassador to the United Nations human settlements programme, the chief representative jian-guo shen and un-habitat policy and strategic planning consultant Mr Naison participated in the discussion.
During the meeting, the chairman of the board of directors to report back to the un-habitat Li Yuxin jingu group innovation and perfect part prefabricated building system, can use from raw material to the components production, from design and construction to building standards, provide affordable whole solution, which really help developing countries effective use of local raw materials, design suitable parts, the best cost-effective building, and reduce the cost of local houses and maximum at the same time establish the local building materials industry and construction standards.In and with China construction science research institute of Peking University institute of technology to achieve the strategic cooperation, jingu in materials, building materials, construction standards and specifications research aspect, reached the domestic leading level in an all-round way.
Around the housing industrialization proposition, "one-stop" put forward by the new chairman Li Yu building materials park mode, both conforms to China's grand strategy shift capacity, and can fit the need of housing industry development, led by un-habitat highly.
"These ideas and implementation are revolutionary, if jingu group can adjust measures to local conditions, the implementation of housing industrialization will really benefit the developing countries" messiah the secretary-general said.
And both sides jingu led China construction science research institute of Peking University institute of technology, in cooperation with the United Nations established with housing institute "developing countries" have an in-depth exchange of views.The institute aims in the service of the system and the establishment of the standard materials research, building materials, preliminary plans in a country, for the pilot, using mode of government supporting project building materials park, mass build low-cost housing, at the same time, to establish the local building materials industry.Once the successful operation of this model of large-scale promotion and copy will be late on housing industrialization in the developing world epoch-making driving force.
Chris Sir Kindly reviewed 2013 un-habitat convention, jingu group in un-habitat headquarters set up in the sample room, it was his first exposure to the jingu original building system.Over the years, jingu people still insist on innovation, and efforts to integrate the professional resources, rich regional advantages, the developing countries use the options of the construction of local housing industry, Chris is very touched.Un-habitat in order to improve the global environment for the mission, Chris to jingu group can speed up the pace of housing industrialization, is to improve the general living conditions in developing countries, the real global village into a beautiful homeland.Both sides will be pragmatic to promote the establishment of "developing country housing institute, a solid step to this global revolution.
Group chairman Li Yuxin (left), China's ambassador to the United Nations human settlements programme chief representative jian-guo shen secretary (second from left) and un-habitat strategic planning consultant Naison (third left), secretary general Chris (left) to discuss cooperation
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Olivia Culpo's hair, it's the perfect example of #hairgoals. Not only is it bouncy and healthy, it's also a pretty brunette color with natural golden highlights that we would kill to have. I guess when you're the ambassador for ghd and former Miss Universe, having flawless hair is to be expected. But we didn't expect to learn that the actress never colored her hair.
"I would never ever go blonde! I've never dyed my hair," she said in a Facebook Live video with The Zoe Report as her hairstylist Justine Marjan cut her hair into a lob.
Justine has worked as a protégé to celebrity hair stylist Jen Atkin, who's most famously known for styling the Kardashians' hair, so there's no denying her talent. Although Justine has been styling Olivia's hair for a while, she cut her hair (live!) for the very first time yesterday, and and it's flattering for a quick Los Angeles hotel cut. Just check it out below:
Other Haircuts we're loving besides Olivia Culpo's hair:
- Have You Seen Kylie Jenner's New Cut?
- Why Hair Dusting Is the New Way to Save Your Hair Length
- Selena Gomez's New Hair Is Much Shorter (and It's Supercute)
While getting her hair styed, Olivia shared a few hair tips and one ultimate hair hack that you'll thank her (and us) for.
- Did you know Olivia doesn't splurge on shampoo? She uses drugstore finds like TRESemmé (BTW, we like
) , L'Oréal or Pantene and washes her hair every two days. Sounds like she's just like us.
We also learned that her secret for healthy hair stems from a coconut oil mask. She applies coconut oil to dirty, wet hair, puts her hair in a bun, leaves on overnight and then shampoos and conditions out the next day. Who knew?
Her hair hack for sexy, dramatic hair is the simplest thing you'll ever hear. "If you want [hair] to be very voluminous on one side, then you have to style it in the opposite direction," she says.
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Australia's Great Barrier Reef Under Serious Threat, New Report Shows
A UN report describes that despite progress in conservation efforts, industrial development is taking a major toll on this vital ecosystem.
"If there is no blue, there is no green," Dr. Sylvia Earle has said. And she couldn't be more right.
The world's oceans are responsible for providing our fresh water, for regulating global temperatures, for providing food and housing the majority of the species on Earth. And it is also taking the brunt of human negligence and greed. From overfishing to plastic pollution to acidification from the carbon dioxide we're releasing in the air, our oceans are under threat and need us to pay attention.
On this page, dive into news about both problems and solutions for one of our most valuable resources.


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The essence of the House of Prada embodied by La Femme Prada. A grand floral that restlessly shakes off the clichés of femininity, La Femme Prada starts with a surprise – frangipani – cut with spice, beeswax and tuberose. The result is innocence undercut with carnality. Launched with L'Homme Prada, together they depict an olfactory pas de deux, a pairing of equals, regarding each other with studied admiration.
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World Duty Free regularly surveys the prices of its fragrance, cosmetics, skincare, spirits, wine and champagne range on the UK high street. An independent company travels the country to find the brands stocked in its airport stores in the shops you typically buy from week-in week-out. It uses these observations to create an Average UK High Street Price; this is the comparison price it shows its savings against.
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And then a Christmas miracle occurred...
There are not many legally tellable stories from The School on the Island of Misfit Toys, but this one I will tell.
About two weeks ago I started to clench and breath shallow. My anxiety rose day by day and hour by hour. This is not normal for me. I tried all my tricks, they did not work. I took it to the Silence, and I heard "Sometimes impending joy can cause as much fear as impending doom." I started looking for impending joy. Last Monday it occurred to me. There was indeed an impending miracle. I researched it like the Vatican Saint Checkers. It held up. But the time was not full and I had to wait. Waiting is hard.
What had dawned upon me was that I had not kicked any student out of school this fall for a behavioral issue. This is my most hated part of my job. Occasionally one of them need this lesson and when they do, I teach it, but it hurts my soul every time. But this fall? No, not one. Not in any of our programs. No serious threats, no weapons, no fights. No cussing out of teachers. No expulsions, not even a hearing to consider it. Behavioral contracts had been issued, but not one was broken. I had been so busy feeding the flock that I didn't notice that the wolves were striking out.
I saw this miracle coming in a translucent form. It would not fully manifest for another seven days. Seven days for some one to blow up. The sabotage of their own success is written into these kids scripts. Seven stressful days of finals and holiday build up. This group does not always relish the holidays. I watched them like a mother hen. I checked in with all the usual suspects. I am just superstitious enough that I felt I could not tell anyone.
Last Thursday I had to call the child abuse hotline, and write up two Title IX reports, but my lambs were victims, not perps. Then the GED building was out for break.
Monday the Day HS completion group was hours from going out when we caught a cheating scandal, but - Low and Behold! - they came clean and took their lumps and we kept them in. The Day School went out.
This afternoon was torture. I just took the radio out and walked. Mid afternoon I broke and told the Dean. She didn't believe me, I checked the attendance grids again. She said she couldn't remember it ever happening before.Tonight at 5:30 the Swing Shift School was having their sacramental crappy five dollar pizzas we always buy for the last supper. I told them. I also told them that they had only 2 hours to be really bad - they laughed and went and took their final exams.
I stood at the flagpole at 7:30 and watched the last one catch her ride.
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Xuxian Jiang, along with his research team at North Carolina State University, has cooked up a proof-of-concept "clickjack rootkit" which targets Android. The rootkit is unique not only in that it can function without a device restart, but also in that it targets Android's framework, not requiring deep modifications to the underlying firmware or kernel.
Clickjacking, for those unfamiliar, is a malicious technique typically used on the web to "trick" users into handing over control of their device or confidential information.
The researchers' rootkit, which can itself manipulate an infected device, works by hiding apps on a device, and redirecting app launches to said hidden apps. An easy example, described in the video below, would be redirecting a user to a malicious browser that would intercept and exploit user input.
The video above shows a non-rooted device, and Jiang explains that the exploit does not need a privilege escalation, but instead relies on UI redressing, executed by hijacking the launcher, "which is completely different from earlier overlaying-based approaches."
Jiang also explains that "no existing mobile security software is able to detect" the exploit, and that the rootkit targets Android 4.0.4 and earlier devices.
The news isn't all bad, though. The best news is that this exploit was developed by a research team, meaning the risk of consumer devices being infected is pretty low. The good news, Jiang says, is "now that we've identified the problem, we can begin working on ways to protect against attacks like these."
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Thursday, May 5, 2016
Trump Just Entered the Danger Zone
Trump may have won the nomination, but his darkest days lie ahead. Listen to Dave Hodges encapsulate the dangers that potentially lie ahead for the GOP Presidential Candidate, Donald Trump in this 7 minute no-holds-barred report.
Letter from Europe
Dear Sir , Inside of 25 years I've observed the shift of the mass-media in Europe from somehow different and somehow independent /original and free as much the official media can be in this "democracy-capitalism" to a "European Media" which is absolutely identical and absolutely uniformity qua content, being different only the name of that media and the country language .
Does not matter the language I read (English, Dutch, Romanian, French , Italian …) it is almost the same text, very badly translated from a general source, I suppose.
The only "free" journal in the West it is "Le Monde Diplomatique" from France! Mass media in Europe is an Imperial Orthodoxy of an Orwellian informational terrorism in one absolute monotone monologue of one schizophrenic world.
About your Dutch correspondent , he said the truth, but I would like to add that according to my experience a lot of Dutch people don't agree with the Dutch gov. and Parliament, which are only a machine to repeat what USA/Israel and Bruxelles has to say ! The manipulation, brainwashing and the diktat of "political correctness" and "we know better, always" are the perfect picture of our political ruling class . It is sometime worst than some periods of Stalin proletcultism or Mao's so called "cultural revolution".
Yes it is a Western democracy "cultural revolution" of His Majesty The LIE ! About anti- Russian propaganda, the insanity has reached the infinite! Even Shakespeare /Dostoevsky/Kafka and Cervantes are out of words to explain such insanity.
To me as a doctor it is crystal clear that all politicians in West are really psycho-sociopaths. No chance left! I can say this because I was living 38 years on the other side of the Iron Curtain, I know perfectly all it was about in all former Communist Socialist systems, but sometime painfully I discovered that the Western democracy (if exists) is worst then that! Therefore I highly appreciate what are you doing. I would like to thank you and to all like you, trying to do something positive for this world.
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US-India Project Could Revive Brain Dead Patients
A team of doctors from India and the US are working on an ambitious project to infuse life into those deemed brain dead. The Multi-Modality Approach to reverse brain death could be the path to a medical breakthrough.
As part of the project a US biotech company has been granted ethical permission to enroll 20 patients who have been declared clinically dead from traumatic brain injury. During the clinical trials scientists will use a combination of therapies to test whether parts of the patient's nervous system can be brought back to life.
The first stage of the trial named 'First In Human Neuro-Regeneration and Neuro-Reanimation' will be conducted at Anupam Hospital in Rudrapur, Uttarakhand in India.
"This project is Multi-Modality Approach to reverse brain death. We are trying to reverse brain death in this project while treating patients with laser, with regular infusion of stem cells and stimulation along with biotic peptide. I am associated with this project as a principle investigator and the project will be done in Anupam Hospital. I own the hospital, it is situated in Rudrapur, Uttarakhand," Dr. Himanshu Bansal, Principal Investigator of the Indo-US Project told Sputnik in an exclusive interview.
Multi-Modality Approach or ReAnima Project's success will make it possible to regenerate the brain of dead people.
Dr Himanshu Bansal further added that, "We have got some very encouraging results in patients in coma, persistent vegetative state. We have even offered the same protocol to a couple of brain dead subjects in Saudi Arabia as well as in Europe. We have been able to revert those brain dead subjects into a stage of consistent vegetative state as of now. So encouraged by those results, we are now trying to create a definitive study in 20 subjects and prove that the brain death is reversible. This will open the door for future research and show that all damage in the body is reversible if treated appropriately."
Dr Himanshu Bansal, Principal Investigator of the project and also owner of the Anupam Hospital, where first clinical trial will be conducted, is very enthusiastic about the project.
"Since I had been working in India as well as Europe and the US for the last eight to ten years, we have a couple of collaborations in US. This project is being collaborated with a company called Bio Quark and their sister concern ReAnima. We are collaborating with the scientists of both the companies and we are trying to prove that brain death is reversible. At the moment the study will be done in India but in the future we will be doing the same study in Europe as well as in the US," Dr Bansal told Sputnik.
Credit to Sputnik
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Obama to name Stonewall 1st national monument for gay rights
New York's iconic Stonewall Inn, where the modern gay rights movement took root, will become the first national monument honoring the history of gays and lesbians in the U.S. under a proposal President Barack Obama is preparing to approve.
Designating the small swath of land will mark a major act of national recognition for gay rights advocates and their struggles over the last half-century. Since the 1969 uprising in Greenwich Village, the U.S. has enacted anti-discrimination protections, allowed gays and lesbians to serve openly in the U.S. military and legalized same-sex marriage nationwide.
Though land must still be transferred to the federal government and other details worked out, the president is expected to move quickly to greenlight the monument following a public meeting Monday in Manhattan, according to two individuals familiar with the administration's plans. The individuals weren't authorized to discuss the plans publicly and requested anonymity.
Next month marks Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Pride Month in the U.S.
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WASHINGTON — The hurdles standing before the Keystone XL pipeline project grew ever taller Wednesday as a Nebraska court dealt the long-delayed project another significant setback.
A district judge ripped up a state law that might have been used to force landowners to allow the pipeline on their property.
As a result, the project could find itself in limbo indefinitely, even if the Obama administration allows the pipeline to cross the U.S. border — a key step that is itself by no means certain.
Lancaster County Judge Stephanie Stacy declared unconstitutional a law that had given Nebraska Gov. Dave Heineman the power to push the project through private land.
Now, unless the law is reinstated by a higher court, Calgary-based pipeline builder TransCanada Corp. might be forced to seek permission from every last landowner on the route.
Further lawsuits seem inevitable, regardless of what President Barack Obama decides.
Stacy stressed that the ruling had nothing to do with the merits of the pipeline and everything to do with the state constitution.
"TransCanada's Keystone XL pipeline has become a political lightning rod for both supporters and opponents of the pipeline, but the issues before this court have nothing to do with the merits of that pipeline," she wrote in the introduction to the ruling.
"The constitutional issues before this court will not require consideration of the current pipeline debate, nor will the decision in this case resolve that debate."
As it stands, TransCanada has settled with landowners in five of six U.S. states through which the pipeline is supposed to pass, as well as with more than two-thirds of the affected landowners in Nebraska.
But a minority have kept fighting, despite skyrocketing offers of compensation.
The company had been offering six times the original price for access to people's property, presumably to line up as many easement deals as possible in the event that Obama approved the pipeline.
TransCanada, which has complained it's been losing money as the plan sits idle, had been hoping to get building during this year's construction season.
The southern leg of the pipeline is already operational. But oil must still be transported by rail from Alberta through the northern U.S. before it can be sent by pipeline to refineries on the Gulf of Mexico.
The issue is expected to come up at a North American leaders' summit in Mexico, where Prime Minister Stephen Harper has said he intends to press Obama to approve the project.
U.S. officials have said Obama's message remains unchanged: there's a regulatory process underway, and he doesn't control it.
There's a 90-day period during which U.S. government departments can raise concerns about the pipeline, before the State Department makes a final recommendation to the president.
However, administration officials have made it clear that there is no set deadline for State, or the president, to make the final call.
There is some speculation in Washington that Obama might want to delay the politically sensitive decision until after November's midterm elections.
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A shocking exorcism spirals out of control, claiming the life of a young woman. Months later, Megan Reed (Shay Mitchell) is working the graveyard shift in the morgue when she takes delivery of a disfigured cadaver. Locked alone inside the basement corridors, Megan begins to experience horrifying visions and starts to suspect that the body may be possessed by a ruthless demonic force.
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How to Train Your Dragon Wii Review
An Introduction To How To Train Your Dragon
In 2010 DreamWorks released the animated movie "How to Train Your Dragon," and it was quite a success at the box office. This was the first move to use the new DreamWorks animation technology. The storyline was nothing special. The son of the Vikings called Hiccup befriends a dragon, and later shows his people that dragons and humans can coexist in harmony.
Previously the Viking people thought that all dragons would kill a human if they ever encountered one. Young Hiccup is able to unite the Vikings and dragons after being enrolled to become a dragon trainer. Therefore based on the success of the movie, it is only natural that a Will game be created to give fans the ability to continue enjoying "How to Train Your Dragon."
This "How to Train Your Dragon" Wii review will outline all of the best features of the game, and also the areas the game creators could have worked on a little more.
The Plot & Game Play
The plot behind the "How to Train your Dragon" Wii game is simple. The game player hs the ability to either choose to play as Hiccup or Astrid who is a Viking girl. The first thing to do in the game is to obtain or collect dragons, and there are quite a number of them available. The wii game has been created with features to change your dragon's appearance. Your dragon can vary by its wings, head, or tail as all the features to be customized. There are also status bars for your dragon to watch out for- areas such as the dragon's health or food.
After the dragons have been collected, they will need to be trained. Training involves a number of various small tasks or games needing to be completed. It is best to carry out the proper training on your dragon, as these skills are necessary for the dragon during battle. After the dragon has been trained, it is qualified to fight in the dragon tournaments.
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How The Game Measures Up
The fun aspect of the game starts once the dragon has successfully learned the necessary skills. Your dragon can be placed in combat with other dragons. The dragon can spew fire and the game player has the choice of a light or heavy attacks to the other dragon. Using the different skills for your dragon, each of their abilities such as spewing fire or jumping will be essential for different maneuvers when fighting other dragons.
Based on this "How To Train your Dragon" Wii review it was possible to see that a lot more could have been done to expand the storyline of the movie within the game. There is a small amount of roleplay and adventure. The animation is cleverly done as in the movie, but the dialogue and sound is simplistic, and this hurts the gaming experience. Based on this, the wii game is much more suited for completely dedicated fans and younger players who are able to look past the faults within the game and just have fun playing.


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About Wisconsin Fast Forward
The State of Wisconsin's Wisconsin Fast Forward (WFF) grant program is a nationally recognized, innovative talent development solution driven by Wisconsin businesses to train and retain highly skilled workers. Over $20 million in WFF grant contracts has been issued to date, supporting more than 200 worker training projects and benefitting hundreds of employers and thousands of workers across Wisconsin.
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Help for people with mild to moderate mental health problems
Hundreds of people have been given help to cope with a range of common mental health problems as part of a programme delivered by Mind practitioners via some surgeries in Cwm Taf.
The scheme – known as active monitoring – offers support to those who face anxiety, stress, mild depression, worry, low confidence, anger or grief.
Primary care clusters in Taff Ely and Cynon have agreements in place with Merthyr and the Valleys Mind to provide active monitoring within the GP practices.
The programme involves five face to face sessions of up to 40 minutes with a trained practitioner over eight weeks.
Practitioner Linda Allen, pictured, said: "The roll of the practitioner is to help people to recognise that they have the power to change the way they're thinking, which enables them to change their thoughts and behaviours.
"Quite often they need someone to listen to them and to validate their experience is really affecting their life. The biggest issues we get through the door is anxiety."
The sessions teach people proven techniques to cope with their feelings.
In the 12 months until March this year, the service received over 1,000 referrals in Taff Ely alone, with 814 people attending the 'drop in' session.
From 173 completed patient questionnaires, some 169 said that active monitoring had helped them in the short term with 153 thinking it would help them in the long term too.
Measurements of wellbeing showed overall improvements in feelings of anxiety, depression and general wellbeing and confidence.
Carrie Francis, from Aberdare, was referred to a Mind practitioner by her GP. The 28-year old secretary at a software company, and mother of a four year old boy, had suffered previously from postnatal depression and was feeling low and unsure what was happening to her.
"It turned me into a totally different person," she said. "I struggled with it for months. It is a cruel thing."
The depression returned at the end of 2017 when alongside medication, her GP recommended an active monitoring course.
"I decided to give it a go because nothing was working and I went along for an assessment, spoke about what I was struggling with and my daily routine. I was struggling even to take a shower, I was thinking I can't do this."
It had been a relief to meet the practitioner who described her negative thinking patterns and a positive thinking strategy to overcome them during six sessions.
By the second week her mental wellbeing scores were improving and continued to improve.
"Before I was really low and suffering from depression. I wasn't active at all and I didn't understand what was wrong with me as such and I needed help.
"I went to active monitoring and she told me what was wrong and said that she could help me. She gave me the techniques and strategy that was required. It was a massive relief.
"I can use the techniques in my day to day life so anytime I felt in a downward spiral I could practise what she had given me.
"Now I feel great. Unrecognisable to the person I was just seven or eight months ago. I feel more like who I was before the whole situation began. It really worked for me."
Dr Kurt Burkhardt from Parc Canol surgery, in Church Village, said that increased pressures in modern life could be part of the reason for the rise in patients coming into surgeries with low or mild anxiety or depression.
"People can't cope and they come to us to help. It can be that they don't need a referral to the mental health service but just some more time to listen to them.
"The practitioners can still refer back to us if necessary and patients can self-refer to the practitioner without the need for a GP appointment.
"The benefits are improved access to service, reduced GP workload, with the right professional seeing the patient who can sign post them to other services that may help.
"The patient gets continuity of service, longer appointment times, and they report more satisfaction with the service because there is more time for them."
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My summer is now complete. One romance? Check! One thriller? Check!
I recently began this audiobook in a dark, dark wood by Ruth Ware and could not resume my life until I made it through the last two nail biting hours. I pulled into my driveway one evening, reluctant to shut the story off, and made my way through the close of the day, but first thing the next morning, I grabbed my cell phone and gripped my blankets until it was over, stopping only for a few minutes to pad into the kitchen for a coffee refill or, well, air. I needed air because this is the kind of story that's hard to listen to by yourself. You want to grab someone's wrist or scream en masse in a dark theater. Aaaack!! There is someone in the house? THERE'S SOMEONE IN THE HOUSE!! Who IS it? Get out of there! What are you DOing? Ware skillfully, slowly builds tension and sustains the mystery right up until the last two chapters. And for someone who seems quite good at detective-ing, I did not figure this one out! I had my suspicions and enjoyed the detective game, but while some of my hunches proved true, most fundamentally did not. It was WONDERFUL! If you're an Audible subscriber, I highly recommend this storyteller's version as Imogen Church offers a chilling narration. She provides distinctive voices for all the characters, which again were skillfully done. I especially liked her Northumberland Nurse and plan to call all my best friends pet and duckie from now on. I'm not sure how the novel would read on the page, whether readers would get impatient with the protagonist's amnesia or grow weary of the manic machinations of the "hen party" organizer, who like a plucky sorority girl pulls them reluctantly into all sorts of cringe-worthy bachelorette games, but the audio version is cake. Go get some!
In a Dark, Dark Wood, By Ruth Ware (hardcover 320 pp)
Who can I trust if I can't even trust myself?
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What should be a cozy and fun-filled weekend deep in the English countryside takes a sinister turn in Ruth Ware's suspenseful, compulsive, and darkly twisted psychological thriller.
Leonora, known to some as Lee and others as Nora, is a reclusive crime writer, unwilling to leave her "nest" of an apartment unless it is absolutely necessary. When a friend she hasn't seen or spoken to in years unexpectedly invites Nora ("Lee""?") to a weekend away in an eerie glass house deep in the English countryside, she reluctantly agrees to make the trip. Forty-eight hours later, she wakes up in a hospital bed injured but alive, with the knowledge that someone is dead. Wondering not "what happened?" but "what have I done?," Nora ("Lee""?") tries to piece together the events of the past weekend. Working to uncover secrets, reveal motives, and find answers, Nora ("Lee""?") must revisit parts of herself that she would much rather leave buried where they belong: in the past.
from an NPR Interview with author, Ruth Ware
On the book's geographic setting
It's Northumberland, which is quite far north, so it's a cold place to live and it's quite an isolated place to live. You know, it's not like America — there's not, you know, huge swaths of wilderness. But you can definitely be a long way from civilization and a long way from help. And a big part of — which I think is one of my own phobias — a big part of the book is that they're out of mobile contact. Their cellphones don't work. So immediately they're kind of in this isolated situation where they can't get help even if they want to.
On the glass house where the bachelorette party takes place, and the constant feeling the guests have of being watched
I think it came from having watched a lot of movies as a kid. Things like, you know, the Scream movies where there are teens and people in an isolated location and the camera is the eyes of the killer. And very often you get those shots where the camera is circling the house looking in through the windows. And it's incredibly creepy to be sort of outside looking in at people who are being watched unawares. And as I was watching, my instinct would always be: "Close the curtains!" This whole movie would never happen if you just had blinds. And I suppose it was born out of that — the idea that you might want to shut the blinds, and not be able to.
On the mystery writers who have influenced her
I read a huge amount of it as a kid. You know, Agatha Christie, Josephine Tey, Dorothy L. Sayers, Sherlock Holmes. And I didn't consciously channel that when I was writing, but when I finished and reread the book, I did suddenly realize how much this kind of structure owed to … Agatha Christie. And it wasn't consciously done, but … I would say I definitely owe a debt to Christie.
An "Entertainment Weekly "Summer Books Pick
A "Buzzfeed" "31 Books to Get Excited About this Summer" Pick
A "Publishers Weekly ""Top Ten Mysteries and Thrillers" Pick
A "BookReporter" Summer Reading Pick
A "New York Post ""Best Novels to Read this Summer" Pick
A "Shelf Awareness ""Book Expo America 2015 Buzz Book" Pick


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I have been coming to Nicky for life coaching for over 5 years now. In the course of that time Nicky has helped me on so many levels and with so many areas of my life. I first came to see Nicky after the birth of my first child as I was looking for a deeper meaning in my work life and was determined not to go back to the cut throat corporate culture I'd left behind before going on maternity leave. Since then Nicky has been a constant source of support and guidance whenever I've faced challenges; be it dealing with tricky work colleagues, identifying my life purpose and life goals, finding the perfect place to live or helping advise on sleep training for my little angels! I always look forward to my sessions with Nicky. Her beautiful home is amazingly peaceful and I always leave feeling tranquil, rebalanced, and with a practical list of actions! My sessions with Nicky are constantly evolving as she brings in additional elements to complement the overall experience. Thank you Nicky! You continue to be a rock of support!
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VESTAVIA HILLS, AL (WBRC) - Vestavia Hills police a shooting Saturday afternoon that injured two people in the parking lot of Chuck E. Cheese's in Vestavia Hills was accidental.
A shooting that injured two people in the parking lot of Chuck E. Cheese's in Alabama was accidental, but injured a 2-year-old. (Source: WBRC)
Lt. Michael Keller with Vestavia Hills PD confirms an adult and child were shot in the restaurant's parking lot. The male victim was shot in the chest and the child was shot in the leg.
The female child was transported to Children's with injuries that appear to be non-life threatening. The male victim has been taken to UAB Hospital with serious injuries.
Vestavia police say the shooting happened while the man was changing the child's diaper.
"You don't expect anyone would bring a gun around where kids would be. It just doesn't make any sense," John Gerrard said.
John and Ashley Gerrard, of Bessemer, took their 2-year-old daughter to the Chuck E. Cheese's and were there at the time of the shooting.
"I was very scared," Ashley Gerrard said. "When you think about someone else's child being shot, you don't want yours to be. Anything can happen, anywhere."
For the Gerrard family, keeping their family safe, is sometimes a gamble.
"You never can tell anywhere you go. It's like flipping a coin," said John Gerrard.
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I have gotten really slack.
I haven't welcomed in the newest A-100 in, well, forever.
I had even lost count. I had to go back to the A-100 yahoo group to figure it out.
And I have no idea who the new bloggers are.
So if you are out there and want to be added to my blogroll, let me know.
And if you are joining the Foreign Service in the 175th A-100 class (the 166th, 168th, 169th, 171st, 172nd, 173rd, or 174th or any other ones I missed),
I do want to welcome any bloggers from those classes, including:
Cupcake Diplomacy (longtime female FSO blogger now featuring tandem issues!)
I heard from another 175th blogger, Of Elephants and Castles. The blog is written by a female FSO and her male EFM. Make sure to check it out!
And welcome!
Wednesday, January 15, 2014
Welcome to the 175th A-100
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- Me, A Kid in the World said...
Thanks for the welcome! If you're interested in another blog to add to your very extensive FS blog list, you can add meakidintheworld.blogspot.com. It's about Foreign Service life from the perspective of an 11-year-old boy. :-)
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John Whitmore, in his article, Will coaching rise to the challenge? throws down a wero (challenge) for coaching as a profession.
He opens by describing some of the possible benefits of the economic crisis in the States (the article was written in 2009), highlighting the fact that apparent negative setbacks can be a catalyst for review and change. In particular Whitmore outlines how people can be sparked into taking opportunities to escape from the illusion of wealth, especially with support such as that provided by coaching. The process can lead to a change in attitude and viewpoint – both of which are fundamentally important in shaping outlook. Coaches can ask new questions about a person's job, relationships and lifestyle that can help them re-assess their purpose, life, and values. As such, two primary products of coaching are a growth of a person's awareness and responsibility, which apply to all aspects of life.
Whitmore also talks about leadership, ranging from the pragmatic (people in leadership roles are often unaware of the benefits and availability of coaching), to the conceptual (we do not need to wait around for the 'next great leader'). Instead, he advocates for leadership from within, in part through the development of self-responsibility – something that many people need to develop. Coaches, using skills such as asking, as opposed to telling, and pulling rather than pushing, alongside rigorous frameworks and strategies for working with sustainable change, can help people develop the skills to meet and adapt to altering circumstances.
To achieve this, Whitmore asserts that coaches need to keep up to date with current affairs and global shifts – and this is where he throws down the wero – can coaching change? It has already made a move from a one-to-one coaching to working with large groups and institutional change. Can it become more global so that it can impact humanity as a whole? To do this would require a change of focus from individual to collective responsibility, as well as an acceptance that, if a coach's ideals are more inclusive than the person who they are coaching, then their values need to precedence.
I thoroughly enjoyed reading this article, although I had to think long and hard about the notion of the coach's ideals taking the forefront. The more I mull it over, however, it makes sense. As a mentor working in a group of mentors, we have often discussed how we work with mentees whose ideals differ fundamentally to ours to the point that they are not comfortable on any level. In particular some of the unquestioned biases that a mentee may have. We talked about the skill of asking questions that help a person hold up a mirror to themselves seeming to be essential, as well as carefully asking the difficult questions. There was also agreement. however, that if a mentee's views were derogatory and extremely biased we would clearly state disagreement. It's a tricky space to work in, but as Whitmore says, coaching (and I would also add mentoring) has "the means to construct exactly what is most needed all over at this time, the individual and collective responsibility essential for the survival of life as we know it" (Whitmore, 2009, p. 3). Would be great to read what you think.
Whitmore, J. (2009). Will coaching rise to the challenge? The OCM Coach and Mentor Journal 2009, pp 2-3.