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Don't send me excerpts of your novels, pendejo.
I thought you'd like this. This is really good.
"Don't be stupid foo'. Don't be a pendejo."
He looked at his homie's grip on his jacket. Most of his boys called him "Playboy" because all the ladies loved him, but those that had known him since he was a kid called him his real name.
He took another hit off his joint. He'd given up smoking over a year ago, had to, but on this day he was more nervous that he had ever been in his life. Thunder rumbled and rain poured, making it impossible to see. Thunder scared Playboy, always had. He fought to keep from shaking. He couldn't breathe, couldn't swallow. He tried to hide his fear. His mind was set. He had to do it. He yanked his arm away from his homie, and pushed the door open.
"Just keep the car runnin', ese."
The homie was a big guy, tattoos up and down his arm and a glass eye. He normally would have just kept Playboy from leaving at all, but he knew nothing could stop him. Nothing at all. He jumped out the car. It was a '57 Chevy, slick red, with a chili-pepper-hot Mexican heina painted across the hood. He had painted that picture himself. Complete with chrome wheels.
He slammed the door shut and looked up at the Cathedral in front of him. Lightning illuminated its majestic towers, windows with an eerie stained glass. He'd spent many a night imagining this would be where he'd marry her. They'd have a huge wedding with members of their families flying in from all over the world just to watch this event; this marriage he thought was so destined to be. He'd put his everything into this dream, his one and only dream, and now as he yanked the heavy Oak doors open, his heart pounded like a subwoofer.
He dried his soaked clothes with his hand and scratched his shoes on the mat so as not to squeak across the old wood floor. The church was jam-packed, mostly with Mexicans and Puerto Ricans, but some blacks.
Probably his familia, he thought. How could she even think about marrying some pinche negro?
The grand organ music permeated the building while a choir of children sang, their voices echoing throughout the church. It smelled musty in the air, a mix of wood stain and must as if they never really cleaned the place, just painted over it.
He tried not to be too suspicious, slipping past every one. Funny, he was dressed probably better than he'd ever been. Black suit, his wavy black hair slicked back, starched white shirt, polished black shoes.
He had grown into a very nice looking young man. Maybe even could have been a model, had he played his cards right. Maybe if he hadn't grown up in the slums of Northeast Vegas, he could have been one of those Latin heartthrobs that were in those magazines. Instead, most of the time he looked like the thug most people assumed he was just by looking at him.
But on this day, this very weird day, he was even wearing a tie. She would have been so proud of him if she could see him. Funny, he'd probably be the last thing she'd see.
He checked his jacket pocket to make sure it was still there. Yep, it felt like a brick pressed against his chest. But he was so numb, or more like so focused, that he was oblivious to it. All he knew was that he had to find her, and he would use any means necessary.
Wham! He bumped hard into a glass table. His thigh throbbed in pain as bullets dropped from his pocket and bounced off the tile floor. The sound echoed all over the lobby. People looked around for the source of the sound, but he managed to scoop them up before anyone could see.
He got up and noticed the beautiful ice sculpture on the table--melting, dripping like an ice cream cone in August. Melting just like his heart.
He saw his priest, the one he'd grown up with. It was as if the whole world had turned against him. They'd sided with her, when this was supposed to be their wedding. It was as if she'd slapped him across the face, as if nothing they'd been through together even mattered. The whole thing was surreal.
She loved him. She'd said that over and over to him since they were little kids. She'd taken care of him and believed in him and dreamed with him and held him when nobody else could give a care.
"Estoy aquí para ti. No matter what -- Siempre," they'd promised each other. And a promise was a promise.
"Don't be stupid, Foo'. Don't be a pendejo." His brother's scolding remarks kept playing in his head. He warned Playboy to just let it go. It wasn't worth it. Normally his homie waiting back in the car would have been all for it, but this time around he said to "olvídalo…let it go." It was as if he sensed something was going to go wrong and, no matter how high he had been, his gut was always right.


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2. Introduction
Using data collected and used as part of the UK House Price Index (UK HPI) has allowed us to publish additional statistics on house price per square metre and house price per habitable room. This new analysis and data is presented here, available down to a local authority level, for the first time.Nôl i'r tabl cynnwys
3. Method and data sources
Launched in June 2016, the UK House Price Index (UK HPI) replaced the previous house price indices separately published by us and HM Land Registry. The development of the UK HPI brought together a number of comprehensive administrative data sources, which includes house price data from HM Land Registry and property attribute data from the Valuation Office Agency (VOA).
The VOA maintains the Council Tax valuation list and has been responsible for banding properties for Council Tax since the tax was first introduced in 1993. The Council Tax valuation list is a robust source of property attributes (such as the size of the property) that covers, in principle, all residential properties in England and Wales. From this dataset two variables are used.
Number of rooms – this relates to the number of habitable rooms and so excludes bathrooms, conservatories, kitchens and utility rooms.
Floor space – the floor space is collected by two different methods depending on the property type:
Houses – reduced covered area is the method of measurement, which applies to domestic properties excluding flats and maisonettes; it is effectively the area under the roof and is calculated by measuring each floor externally from outside wall to outside wall
Flats – effective floor area is used for the calculation of flats and maisonettes; this includes living rooms, bedrooms and kitchens but excludes bathrooms, corridors hallways and landings
Following combining these two datasets, an estimated house price was calculated for each transacted property. This was then divided by the number of habitable rooms and floor space to calculate house price per room and house price per area for each transaction.
These individual transactions were then averaged (using a geometric mean) and aggregated to higher geographical levels (local authority, region and country) for each year.
p represents the price of property i
r represents the number of habitable rooms for property i
a represents the floor space of property i in metres squared
n represents the number of properties aggregated to a particular geography (such as local authority).
Results presented in this article are based on transacted properties within the year and so they are influenced by the type and location of properties transacted during that period. Given this, caution is advised when comparing estimates across years as the mix of properties is likely to have changed. Further information on the quality of the VOA data can be found in a comparison of the VOA data with the 2011 Census.Nôl i'r tabl cynnwys
4. Results
4.1 Price per room
As one might expect, the highest house price per square metre (which includes both houses and flats) is in London with an average cost of over £6,500 for each square metre. In Figure 1 we can see a clear north south divide both in levels but also in growth terms.
Figure 1: House Price per area (metre squared), 2004 to 2016 by English region (house and flat)
Source: UK House Price Index, HM Land Registry, Valuation Office Agency
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Between 2004 and 2016, price per area in London nearly doubled (98%) with the East of England and the South East both increasing by around 55% over the period. While there was a small increase in the floor space of properties purchased over this period (2.7% increase for England and Wales), the majority of the growth is driven by increases in house prices. Changes in the mix of properties between periods may also have contributed to the increased growth.
Looking at the local authority level, a number of London boroughs dominate the top of England and Wales's most expensive local authorities. The borough of Kensington and Chelsea is the most expensive area to buy a house, with an average price of £19,400 per metre squared, around eight times the England and Wales average.
Table 1: Top house price per area (metre squared), 2016, England and Wales
|LA name
|Kensington and Chelsea
|City of London
|City of Westminster
|Hammersmith and Fulham
|Source: Land Registry, Valuation Office Agency
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At the lower end you would pay £777 per metre squared in Blaenau Gwent, a third of the England and Wales average and less than 5% of the prices in Kensington and Chelsea.
Table 2: Bottom house price per area (metre squared), 2016, England and Wales
|LA name
|Blaenau Gwent
|Merthyr Tydfil
|Neath Port Talbot
|Source: Land Registry, Valuation Office Agency
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You can explore the data further in the associated dataset or through our interactive tool.
4.2 Price per (habitable) room
As one might expect, a similar relationship is seen if we look at price per (habitable room) as shown in Figure 2. Between 2004 and 2016 the price per habitable room at the England and Wales level increases by around 45%. Over the same period rooms increase by slightly over 1%.
Figure 2: House Price per (habitable) room, 2004 to 2016 by English region (house and flat)
Source: UK House Price Index , HM Land Registry, Valuation Office Agency
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4.3 How are rooms and square footage changing?
Table 3 shows how the number of (habitable) rooms and the floor space of purchased properties have changed over time at the England and Wales level.
Table 3: Number of (habitable) rooms and area, 2004 to 2016, England and Wales
|Floor space (m2)
|Source: Land Registry, Valuation Office Agency
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Both (habitable) rooms and floor space have seen small increases over the period with the biggest shift seen between 2008 and 2009. During this period there was an increase in the proportion of detached properties purchased (Figure 3) and a respective fall in the proportion of flats. As flats tend to be smaller than houses this contributed to the growth seen in floor space and (habitable) rooms between 2008 and 2009. Since 2012, while the proportion of detached properties has remained broadly consistent, the proportion of flats purchased has increased. This has reduced the average number of rooms and floor space slightly, but it is still above 2004 levels.
Figure 3: Percentage of properties purchased by property type, 2004 to 2016, England and Wales
Source: HM Land Registry, Price Paid data
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While we haven't published price per room and price per area broken down by property type as part of this analysis, a breakdown by house (detached, semi-detached and terraced) and flat is provided within the associated dataset. This may allow more meaningful analysis given how the floor space for both is measured slightly differently.Nôl i'r tabl cynnwys
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Michelle Obama Hilariously Breaks Down Why Melania Trump's Inauguration Gift Exchange Appeared So Awkward
The former FLOTUS also explained to Ellen Degeneres how Barack stepped in and saved the day.
Q-Tip is adding a new job title to his resume, and he's taking his role very seriously, further proving he's one of the best people for the job.
As part of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, in Washington D.C., Q-Tip has been named the program's new artistic director.
What exactly does the job entail? For the hip hop series, he will be curating a program that is designed to explore hip hop culture across all elements: deejaying, emceeing, breakdancing, graffiti writing and knowledge of self.
"With Hip Hop constantly changing and evolving, it is easy to forget the history and legacy that precede it," Q-Tip said in a statement. "I want to begin at the beginning of the Culture to help people see its roots, better understand its present and responsibly create its future."
Q-Tip will also be working alongside the visual arts organization Hi-ARTS, which has been collaborating with the events center for the past 15 years on hip hop-related programs specifically.
Check out the schedule for the 2016-2017 Hip Hop Culture Season here.
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The former FLOTUS also explained to Ellen Degeneres how Barack stepped in and saved the day.
"When my teacher asks me a question thinking I'm not paying attention, but I get it right."


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Twitch SEO: What?
Alright, alright. Let's not get ahead of ourselves here and buckle down right from the beginning.
By now, you're likely aware that videos are becoming rampantly more essential to everyday business content production.
(No, you weren't aware? Remember that time you almost fell out of bed because the Facebook autoplay video startled you? Yeah, there you go. Oh, that's almost daily? Well, point proven. Daily.)
Additionally, you might even realize that a lot of the videos you see are derived and archived from Twitch, a widely popular international streaming service. From gaming to crafting, from to business discussion to voice acting, Twitch's voluminous and diverse streams, library, and utility grow daily. In fact, per month, Twitch is home to 140 million unique visitors. Twitch also houses 2.2 million broadcasters. Daily, Twitch has a total of 15 million active users.
That's, uh… that's a couple of people.
Joking aside, that's an audience too big and promising to miss out on. What do you do with such a sea of eyes and ears? Engage them and bring them into the comfortable, beneficial fold known as your brand.
NOTE: If you've not set up a Twitch account for your company, certainly consider the benefits and, if right for your company,get that profile set up. After you've set it up, we can help you get your Twitch SEO on point and effective in your fight against the Almighty Algorithm with this, our handy-dandy guide.
Also Read : 13 Steps to More Advanced SEO
Optimizing Twitch SEO: The Name of the Game
Before we carry on much further, we should probably remind you what SEO even is. SEO stands for search engine optimization, or the optimizing of your content in a manner that can affect the order that your site appears in on a search engine results page on Google (or any other search engine). SEO is a combination of an art form and a constant, consistent gathering of knowledge.
NOTE: For a deeper delve into the basics of SEO, check out our articleWhat is SEO: Back to Basics.
Because Google doesn't freely publish what its algorithms search for, SEO is based on a collection of data that we have confirmed or established about what these algorithms are looking for. It's a bit of a puzzle, but slowly, experts have figured out what algorithms are programmed to seek out and have disseminated that knowledge unto us, the people.
So how do we please these benevolent algorithmic overlords all in relation to our Twitch account?
Well, settle in, friendos. We've got some suggestions.
Title: A Bit That's Abby-Normal by SEO Standards
Right out of the gate, let's discuss what's largely different from most SEO.
Not to break your heart, because we know you worked hard on that stream title, but according to Livespace, Google doesn't give a rip about that title you so carefully chose.
We don't know why, but it seems they just don't. In general, it appears Google doesn't much (if at all) consider the title of highlights or past streams, either. Ouch?
You should still make your title coherent, clever, and creative, but it won't help your SEO, just internal Twitch "sorting," so to speak. Twitch sorts the streams and videos. Your title is a Twitch Sorting Hat (as in from Harry Potter), but Google throws a tantrum and throws the Sorting Hat on the ground and looks for a more suitable hat.
Fine, Google. Fine.
Also Read : Geotagging and SEO
Panels: Get That Google Text; Google Loves Text
In advance, note that Panels can be edited by clicking on your drop down menu in the upper right hand corner of Twitch. Click Channel and then scroll down to where Panels live (beneath the video feed). There's a small button that says Edit Panels. Click the box just to the left of Edit Panels. This toggles editing on.
In a return to normalcy much more similar to "regular" SEO, Google does, however, love text. That's true across the board for SEO, regardless of platform. It's Google food, basically, so feed the Google.
Here's where you can start "actioning":
[bctt tweet="Make sure that your Twitch account's "Panels," or the images and text that displays beneath your stream, are accurate and concise." username="DominateWithSEO"]
Let's next drop into where you can start and what you can fix in regards to images and text.
- Create an About Me Panel. About Me pages are backbone relevant and necessary to any SEO operation. Twitch is only different in that you create a Panel rather than an entire page or landing page.
- Include keywords describing your streaming style and brand. Do you variety stream? Business stream? Do you discuss marketing? Do you work on leatherworking? Make sure the term(s) that describe(s) your stream is mentioned in your Panels (most likely in your About Me). Keywords are Google's main diet. If you leave the food (keywords) out, it will feed the hungry algorithm puppy exactly what it needs and is looking for. If it gets what it wants, you are more likely to get what you want: a higher ranking and more brand visibility.
- Keep Panels brief. Don't overdo it. Google wants a description of who you are and what you're doing on its lawn, not a narrative novel. We're not saying you should be choppy or incoherent, just get to the point and get out again. Your fans will thank you, too.
- Make sure your information is correct. Check your Panel info. Okay, now check it again. Wait, once more. Okay, good. Both Google and your viewers need and want your information to be correct. Correct information drives SEO, so drive it harder and make sure your info delivery is perfect. Whether a Twitter link or a spelling, give it at least a twice-over.
- Hire an editor or coach. Whether you're hiring an editor to review your Panels or a coach to help you with all of your Twitch endeavors, you need another pair of professional eyes on your Panels especially if you want your stream and videos to be considered relevant by Google.
Descriptions: Hey, Google Cares Again!
Great news! While Google doesn't seem to give a solitary care about your titles, it is curious and even interested in what you have to say in your video and stream descriptions. This is an often missed opportunity: use your description to outline and discuss succinctly. While Google can't really interpret videos (yet, eep), text is obviously its jam, and again, it's particularly hungry for keywords (without keyword stuffing, of course).
Twitch descriptions you need to care about because Google seems to care a lot:
- Channel description
- Video descriptions
- Panels (as previously discussed)
As with all SEO, use the following guidelines in your descriptions:
- Be brief.
- Be accurate.
- Be concise.
- Use accurate keywords, and use them appropriately.
Name: Google Found You
Google likes you. You feed Google delicious keyword treats.
When you search a name in a search engine, Google especially, it searches various platforms for that name. Guess what one of those platforms is? Ding, ding, ding! That's right, Twitch!
Not only is it -A- way to find your channel, but it's Google's main way to find your channel.
Guess what that means? Time to discuss how you should be naming your channel!
- Be brief. Yes, again. Always, really.
- Be consistent in your name across all platforms. If you're Buster2000 on Twitch, you should be Buster2000 (or as close to it as possible) on all platforms. That's how Google will collectivize your name. It's looking for that one name that was typed in by the searcher. If you're Buster2001 on Twitch and everything else is Buster2000, your Twitch isn't likely to show up with your name. That's not great for your brand.
- Be unique. Use your brand and create an original username and identity. If you're too similar to other accounts, you can easily be misidentified. This is more of a Twitch-specific one rather than Google and SEO, but we thought it bears repeating.
- Don't be an ass. That's right, we said it. Don't use unprofessional names if possible. This is your brand and how the world sees you, you don't want to muck it up for a perverted joke. That's what your friends are for: perverted joke outlets. That and you might additionally get you in hot water with Twitch themselves.
- Made a mistake? Change your username! That's right, as of early 2017, you CAN change your username if needed. Don't stick with a misspelling or poorly-branded name. Get the validity and recognition from Google you deserve.
Focus The Name of the Game
While Google isn't to the scary super-level of being able to interpret videos just yet, text is the perma-food of the Googles. Titles may not matter in Twitch SEO, but virtually all other aspects of text are relevant to how you are sorted and ranked on Google's search engine result page (SERP).
We may still only have limited information on what Google looks for algorithmically, especially for a platform as relatively new as Twitch, but there's still an SEO fight to be had. Optimize your Twitch account with our suggestions and you've significantly improved the possibility of a higher rank on SERPs. Score One: You.
Rank Up That Rank!
Still looking for more guidance for both your brand and your brand's platforms? We here at Romain Berg have cumulative decades of experience in perfecting brand SEO, whether cultivating evergreen content for your blog or reworking a page that needs improvement or anything in between, we've got you covered. Let's figure out how we can get you to the front of the class. Use our Discovery Form today and let's dominate your competition.
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Your chance to choose the hottest tech of 2016 is here, with the voting for a special 10th anniversary T3 Awards now open.
It's been a decade since the first T3 Awards picked out the greatest tech on the planet and let the public help decide what the best of the best should be - and to celebrate this year's awards will be a glittering black tie event at the Royal Horticultural Halls in Victoria, London.
VR's huge impact in the past 12 months is definitely front and center in the awards this year, with the HTC Vive up for three awards, Oculus Rift two and the Samsung Gear 360 fighting for the innovation gong.
Samsung tops the nominations list with 11 - including the Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge which will compete in the always hotly-contested phone of the year.
You can cast your vote at www.t3.com/awards


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We recently kicked off the Rocky Mountain Summit with a planning session where we brought together helping organizations and individuals in the Colorado Springs area to learn more about what we're each doing to support military families. Over a wonderful lunch catered by a veteran owned business, we learned more about the good work happening on the front range and had the opportunity to share more about what we hope to bring to the table with our June Rocky Mountain Summit.
We walked away from our discussions with a whole new appreciation of why Colorado Springs is such a great location for military families. Here are our top 5:
- First of all, it's a natural treasure. If you are at all outdoorsy, you will love all the opportunities available to you. From hiking the incline to skiing with the steeply discounted Epic Pass, Colorado Springs is perfect for families looking to connect with nature and build memories.
- Military helping organizations are already well connected in the area. This means, it'll be easy for you to find the resources you need. Our hosts at the Mt. Carmel Veterans Service Center provide a host of resources off the installation and our very own, Janet Farley will be kicking off a military spouse initiative for them, so look for even more enhanced offerings very soon!
- Military spouses hold positions of influence all over Colorado and we're so thrilled to be introducing you to them at the Rocky Mountain Summit.
- Corporate partners such as USAA have a huge presence in Colorado Springs.
- In addition to working in a more traditional setting, military spouses are freelancing and starting businesses and organizations in Colorado Springs.
We are looking forward to meeting you all in June and connecting you with some wonderful community resources! Make sure you register now to take advantage of Early Bird pricing. As soon as you register, we'll add you to our Rocky Mountain Summit Facebook Group so you can start networking with these movers and shakers immediately.


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The BCAA project continues to forge ahead and is achieving great success. After agreeing a Target Cost in early March, 2007, the BCAA team commissioned its first plant at Sunnybank in June, 2007, delivering the first new water supply for Brisbane in over 20 years.
The team has continued to deliver its challenging programme of 6 water treatment plants at an amazing pace, with 3 more plants at Runcorn, Algester and Chandler now completed also and delivering excellent high quality potable water into Brisbane's distribution network.
The remaining Brisbane plant at Forest Lake is proceeding well with commissioning now commenced and the team remains on programme to deliver all plants during 2007.
The Banksia Beach plant at Bribie Island will incorporate advanced treatment using ozone and biologically active carbon to ensure substantially improved water quality for the Bribie Island community while also improving reliability of supply for Caboolture Shire residents overall.
The commitment of the BCAA Team and their contribution towards the drought relief effort has been absolutely first rate and the resulting treatment plants are a testament to the dedication of this quality team.
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This is when it hit me; in the recent past my nights were filled with dancing, boozing, and urban spelunking. Now I'm excited about caffeine free drinks.
That's it! I need to get back to scaring myself. I've gotten way to comfortable. I need to get back into doing things I love. Thinks that require risk. That's why I chose the fully caffeinated soda. I will drink the caffeine and go have an adventure.


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Valley of Fire State Park in Nevada has been on my "hiking to do list" for almost two years, but I had never made it one of my travel priorities. Every year something else that seemed "better" came up, and I passed on the opportunity to visit here. This weekend I made it there, and realized how much I had been missing out on! The amazing vistas of colored rock, petroglyphs, arches, slot canyons, beautiful desert scenery, blue bird skies, and an awesome campground had me smiling all weekend. My friends and I picked the perfect weekend to go. It wasn't a holiday weekend so there were less people, plus the temperatures in February are perfect, with an average temperature of 62F. This past weekend it got up to 80F, which is the hottest I've felt since last summer! Temperatures in summer can reach 120F, so it's best to visit the park from December-March.
When I go backpacking or on bigger day hikes, I like to use my hiking/trekking poles. I feel that they help give me balance, help me get uphill easier, and help protect my knees on the downhill. I use the Black Diamond Z Poles. Here's why I love them:
- lightweight aluminum structure (15oz)
- rapid deployment system
- soft grip for the handles
- three-section fold-able shaft
Prior to using these poles, I used the Leki Adjustable Poles with the lock system. I don't know why I used them, I never needed a different length! With the Black Diamond Poles I love that they can be super compacted yet always be the exact length I want them.
This is what they look like when compacted. Black Diamond also provides a small bag to place them when, when not in use.
Not sure what size to get? Click here.
For Valentine's Day weekend, we wanted to escape the SLC inversion, and get into warm, clean air. Since it's February, and day time highs can be up to 50-55F, we knew most places would be a mud pit from all the snow melting. We also wanted to go somewhere Charlie could be off leash, and where hiking was available. I had been to Sand Flats about two years ago when a bunch of friends and I went jeeping for my birthday. I remembered thinking it would be a cool place to camp. We also knew we'd be arriving after dark, so we needed a place that would have designated campsites. Sand Flats ended up being perfect!
Let me start off by saying that I used to scoff at backpackers who carried chairs with them into the backcountry. My thought has always been, "just find a log to sit on - why carry the extra weight?" and "tough backpackers like me don't need a chair." It wasn't until last year that I started to get lower back pain after doing really long day hikes or backpacking trips, that I started looking at various options to relieve the pain. At first, I bought REI's Sit Pad, which popped after it's first use. Thankfully REI gave me another one (it was within the time frame of when I could exchange it), but I still felt like I hunched over and had to balance on it. I'm still worried that it will pop again.
Some of my friends started buying different types of backpacking chairs, and through their purchases I was able to try out different kinds. The REI Flex Lite Chair seemed to be the best option for what I was looking for in a backpacking chair.
Here's why I love it
It only weighs 1 lb 10 oz
Quick & easy set up
4 legs provide stability
The mesh back helps dry sweat and let the breeze through
Small side pocket to keep a flashlight or book in
Usually the Flex Lite chairs runs about $80, but you can often find these on sale throughout the year. I got my purple chair on sale through REI.com for $50 simply because they were fading out the purple. Keep an eye on sales, and grab yourself one of these before they no longer make them.
Slickrock Trail, the world famous mountain biking trail, is located in Moab, Utah. Most people bike this 10.5 mile loop, but we hiked it! Slickrock Trail is located at the Sand Flats Recreation Area, about 10 minutes outside of Moab, where we also camped for two nights. This trail is popular for its scenic, rugged expanse of Navajo Sandstone, the remnant of wind blown sand dunes. Slickrock Trail was established in 1969 for motorcycles, but the trail is now popular for both mountain bikes and motorcycles - it is closed to all four-wheeled vehicles.
Hidden Falls is a quick walk off the side of the road up Big Cottonwood Canyon - with only a .07 mile walk up the road, there's no good reason to pass it up! This is perfect in Spring when the waterfall is running full. On the 5 minute walk you will also pass by an old, closed off mine. This walk is perfect for those with little kids or family visiting that aren't big hikers but still want to see pretty scenery.
The Parrish Canyon Trail starts along the Wasatch Mountains in Centerville, Utah. Despite it's name, the hike actually takes you up the face of the mountain, over a course of several switchbacks, gaining elevation steeply until you have beautiful views of Davis County. This is a nice hike to do in Winter to get out of the inversion and to get the dogs out. If you hike up the actual creek, about 1/2 mile up you will see the Parrish Creek Pictographs. In Winter they are not usually visible due to snow.


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Greg Armsden came to Rosewater with son, Andrew when Andrew was a prominent centre player. Was our Treasurer in 2006 and was, with the President Jeff Larcombe and Secretary Charlie Rumbelow, instrumental in putting the Club back in the black after a couple of seasons of outgoings.
Greg was a competent Team Manager as well.
He is also known for his passion in supporting loosing causes - particularly in the AFL - where he is continually deflated in the performance of his team, St Kilda. Known to go home from football encounters - sort of marching out rather than: "Oh when the Saints ......"


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Today is Sunday. Traditionally it is ruled by the Sun and so the colour yellow is moslty used along with gold. I love gold candles for issues like health and well being and of course money and silver for emotional spells(and all things Moon represents). It is hard to find those candles this time of the year. But i usually "stock up" during Christmas when you see them everywhere you look. I have a gold candle with some beautiful patterns carved on it that i use when i am not very energetic or down with something and a very simple silver one that i use when i am seeking for answers and enlightment. Although during Candlemas i make my own candles that are also blessed by the Sabbat and made for specific reasons i can not make gold and silver ones. Do you know what i can use? I was thinking maybe glitter, but i am not sure about the result!
Tools in magick are helpful but not necessary. But although there have been times that i spontaniously casted a spell or had a ritual without tools they are very helpful. For others it is their athame, for others it is a cauldron for me it is the candles that are very important to me. When i look into the flame of a burning candle something deeply into my subsconcious makes me instantly connect with a higher power. Red is associated with Mars and so passion. Green with Aphrodite and so love. But there are times that i just take a small white candle infront of me and i focus on what i want. From my experience those two things that are essential in magick are the intention and the faith. The desire is the power and the faith is the way.
This is linked to the Law of attraction(although the law works in more general terms, like karma does). I have a very good example of how this works. A couple of years ago there was a play i wanted to see very much but it was sold out. A friend of mine was also bumped because it was a beautiful opera with a great cast and i told him:"Come with me and you ll see. We will find tickets." He came despite his disbelief. We waited and waited in a huge line with people like us that hoped for a cancellation. It was beyond hope and i drove him crazy by saying that we will definitelly get two tickets. Abut five minutes before it begins a nice man came towards us and said. Hey, kids are you waiting for tickets? He was very well dressed and we had about 50 euro each and there were seats that cost around 100. So we asked(very embarassed) how much the tickets worthed. And he said:"No. Take them. Our friends won't be coming and we do not need them." I was shocked. I mean i expected to find tickets one way or another but that was...surreal!And the seats turned out to be great too. My friend could n't believe our luck and he still calls me a witch although he does n't know i am. I think... I strongly believe that it was not just the desire that made it happen. I had faith as well. This is important. In Greek magick the spells not always rhyme. But they are always written in a present tense(although you are working on a future event). They go something like this : "As the moon is growing my strenth grows", or "Like the flame of the candle the negative energy is burnt", or "Every man wants me". They are based in the strong belief that they are true and happening in the very moment you chan. Of course the visualisation gets more intense that way.
When i write a spell it almost always rhymes. It may include the elements, the cardinal points, the herbs i am using and of course what i want. How do you write your spells?
Candles, intention, faith and spellcasting
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- Anonymous said...
Something like that happened to me lately - I was at a store opening where we thought we would be getting free groceries (the first 50 people to show up would). Unfortunately we didn't make it in time, but we had driven so far away that we stayed anyway and put a few things into the basket. There were SO many people there, and I had my two babies with me, so it was very demoralizing. After we had stood in line for more than 45 minutes without even being halfway to the front of the store, I started sending out messages to the universe that it'd be darn nice if we got some free food anyway. Almost immediately, a store employee came and took me and an older lady aside and said that our food was on us, and have a few canvas bags as well. It was absolutely awesome! Sometimes the universe really listens and takes requests!
Anyway, I hope you are doing well with the fires. When we heard the news stories I thought of you and hoped you are not affected!
- August 23, 2009 at 11:32 PM
- Sharon Day said...
Some call it karma, others coincidence, and some say it's divine intervention. I believe in the law of attraction. Good sticks to good. Pure sticks to pure.
Hey, I heard about the fires in Athens, hope everything is okay. Here in the desert, we know what that can be like. Sending positive energy for the area.
- August 24, 2009 at 3:08 AM
- Bridgett said...
Aww...love it!
And like you, I'm very much into candles in my practice. I have a blue/purplish one lit beside me right now. :)
- August 25, 2009 at 3:41 AM
- Tavin said...
That was beautiful....I try and write my spells with the very intent of what I need or want. Usually always ryhms. I wrote one down to help with money for my 13.1 mile walk and I got a donation check in the mail yesterday!
- August 25, 2009 at 4:37 PM
- the wandering broom said...
Visualization is essential. The will triumphs above all other ingredients. Sometimes when something doesn't turn out the way I wanted it to, I blame it on the spell but secretly I know it's because I didn't try hard enough, I didn't want it hard enough, I didn't put 110% of my being into making it happen. I know this b/c the times I do, it turns out correctly. But this is easier said than done and sometimes it can't be helped but this isn't the place to discuss that since comments are supposed to be short!
Btw, I really love the candles in that photo. And you look lovely as well!
- August 27, 2009 at 8:26 PM
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I know I've addressed most of this before, but I wanted to say it again.
For the past couple years, my blogging output has shrunk to almost nothing. Which I felt a wee bit self-conscious about, and made note of, but not enough to change it or go on hiatus. Now, these days, while I still have all these geeky thoughts, I don't feel motivated to put 'em down on paper, at even the slow rate I've been doing it.
It's part of my larger, unconscious shift away from fannish activities. I've never been a powerhouse in that department, but now it's slowing down even more. Maybe it's because I'm turning thirty next year, maybe it's the inevitable result of never being able to embrace a current franchise and as a whole thing, meaning my small, obscure interests run out of steam much quicker. In that light, I consider my time in Transformers fandom to have been the best, since I had the widest range of stuff to do, and I kept up with current and popular stuff.
Maybe it's that I'm thinking seriously about a writing career, and no magazine wants to take a nostalgic ode to discovering Rodimus Prime in 1999. I have to focus on what I could sell, what I could build something on.
All of those explanations don't quite work, but here we are. I'm not about to turn, snarling, on fandom as a self-absorbed waste of time or a fundamental sign of immaturity. I don't think getting rid of fandom is a necessity for growing up as an artist or a person, even if you mean "fandom" in the sense of engaging with others or in speculation, and not simply consuming the work itself. It's all in how you handle it.
I enjoyed the time I've spent in fandom, mulling over whatever it is I do. I've got a lot of good memories, and was also extremely lucky for a woman in fandom (you know what I mean). I also never became a fanatic or a jackass.
I still have fannish instincts, towards fanfiction, meta, and certain eccentricities. Which means that I'm still not done-done, it's just that things will be even slower from now on. I have many things I would like to get around to, but don't know when I will. I'll keep the nerdery confined to a few places, but don't know how much energy I'll have to keep up with it.


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Sondra and John's stories before recovery were similar. The legal consequences experienced due to their substance use disorder served as a major wake-up call to both. Those consequences are what eventually led them to Mooring residential treatment and STEP, now known as Apricity, and finally to each other. Legal issues brought them here; learning about their disease, the support and encouragement they received at Apricity helped them find not only each other, but their shared desire to live a life in recovery.
In Sondra's words, "I had 8 years of sobriety in March and my little Jonah was a year old in March. It is the time of year that I do the most reflecting on how far I have come and how grateful I am for all the gifts that a sober life has brought to me. The best gift being my little boy, and how confident I am in knowing that I am doing a wonderful job as a mother. This is something that I would not have been capable of in my using days.
Casa Clare and Apricity gave me my entire foundation to the life that I have today. The safety and security of residential treatment followed by 7 months in the Casa Clare apartment program really gave me the time I needed in the beginning of my sobriety to build a life for myself….piece by piece".
And John's words, "Things for me are the best they have ever been and are getting better all the time! Not only am I a proud Father of a 1-year-old boy, but I have also started my own tree, lawn care, and snow removal service! STEP and Mooring (Apricity) played a major part in my success, not only in recovery, but beyond. STEP(Apricity) helped me to realize that I was capable of work, that I actually took pride in my work, and helped me to progress to where I am now. Obviously none of this would be possible without first maintaining a clean and sober life and continuing to try and improve as a man. Thank you to Apricity! You guys saved a life!"


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Christopher Bollyn
January 25, 2012
"Adelson uses his money to abuse or anoint Israeli prime ministers and American presidents (Gingrich versus Obama)."
Source – "Is Gingrich's Hard Line on Palestine Paid for by Sheldon Adelson?"
Ron Paul, a popular Southern conservative who supports states' rights, supposedly came in fourth place in the South Carolina Republican primary on Saturday, January 21. The winner, according to the tally produced by the privately-owned voting machine company ES&S, was Newt Gingrich. Gingrich is supported by Sheldon Adelson, the Zionist casino billionaire who supports the most extreme hard-liners in the right-wing Likud in Israel. The Gingrich campaign received a $5 million donation from Sheldon Adelson the week before he "won" the South Carolina primary. Gingrich calls the indigenous Palestinian population an "invented" people and supports Israel's right to attack Iran as "self defense". Gingrich told CNN he would help Israel attack Iran and would move the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem on his first day in office by executive order. These are the hard-line positions Adelson is paying Gingrich to espouse.
Mitt Romney is supported by the Crown family of Chicago, a Zionist family that is closely connected to Israeli military intelligence. Newt Gingrich, on the other hand, is supported by Sheldon Adelson, a Zionist billionaire who works closely with the same people. Are these different factions or is this a Zionist plot that has the same goal?
The Zionist strategy is to stop the very popular conservative Ron Paul. Because there is obviously no candidate that can beat Paul in popularity or on the issues, the Zionists are supporting a slew of venal candidates in order to steal as many votes as possible from Paul. These candidates are essentially a gang of Zionist-funded candidates who form the anti-Paul coalition. Using privately-owned and controlled electronic voting systems like ES&S, the South Carolina primary shows how the Zionists plan to block Ron Paul from being the Republican nominee …
From this event, one can state as fact – not theory, that Israel and its supporters in the US are actively working to derail Ron Paul's race towards the GOP nomination, and the Presidency. This fact alone, should be cause for alarm from even the most moderate of public corridors. Should a foreign country, in this case Israel, be allowed to buy a significant influence through the media in American democratic elections? Should candidates be allowed to accept donations – even indirectly, from foreign interest PACs or agents thereof, thus creating a serious conflict of interest, and threat to national security?
– "Israeli Lobby launch new Super PAC effort to bring down Ron Paul" , by Patrick Henningsen, Global Research, 21 January 2012
After two weeks, the Republican Party of Iowa released its certified tally of the January 3 caucus. The certified final tally released on January 18 indicates that Mitt Romney did not win the Iowa caucus and that the results had been manipulated to give Romney the important first victory. The scale of the fraud in the Iowa caucus is so large that it suggests that there was a hidden hand manipulating the data from across the state as it was sent to party headquarters to give the victory to Romney. This suggests that the people behind Romney are likely to be the people behind the vote fraud, i.e. Lester Crown, Israeli intelligence, and the Zionist Fifth Column in the United States.
I spoke to Ryan Gough, the 24-year-old Organization Director for the Republican Party of Iowa on January 20. I asked him how there could be so many mistakes in so many precincts. The Des Moines Register, for example, reported that "typographical errors in tabulations" for two Fayette County precincts resulted in an inflated vote for Romney, who was initially reported to have carried the county by 67 votes. The final count showed Santorum carrying the county by 36 votes. Romney was reported to have won the caucus by only 8 votes on January 3. This was false.
There were similar problems in 131 precincts with double-digit errors in 51 precincts. In spite of the wrong candidate having been declared the winner, Gough defended the caucus, which he called a "volunteer-driven process" in which typographical errors had occurred across the state to benefit Mitt Romney. I don't buy it.
I reminded Gough that we had spoken a week before the primary and that he had told me that the way in which that precincts would communicate the results to caucus headquarters in Des Moines was being kept secret for security purposes. Now that the caucus was over, I asked, could he tell me how this was done. Gough said that a phone and computer system had been used but he had not gone into detail. When I asked if the telephonic system had been voice-to-voice, he said it was.
I then asked Gough if any outside agency had been involved in the tally of the results on January 3. He asked me what I meant and I told him that the Democratic Party of Iowa had used a telephonic tally system based in Florida called Voxeo in 2004 and 2008. I had been told by Nicole Sizemore of the GOP of Iowa that no outside agency would be involved in the tally, I told Gough.
Yes, Gough said, there was an outside "telecom" involved in the tally, although he said he could not reveal the name of the company. This "telecom" is the most likely culprit behind the fraudulent tally in the Iowa caucus. I am seeking information from people who were involved in the caucus to find the identity of this mysterious "telecom" that gave Romney the first, but fraudulent victory on January 3. As the rest of the primaries will use even less verifiable electronic voting machine systems, solving what happened in the Iowa caucus is important because it could expose the criminals who steal our elections.
GOP officials discovered double-digit errors in 51 of those certified precincts when they compared what was reported on caucus night with the official Form E documents signed by precinct volunteers. Eleven precincts had errors of 50 or more votes.
– Des Moines Register, 19 January 2012
"The one thing that we can't say is, we can't certify every precinct in the state."
– Iowa GOP Chairman Matt Strawn, 19 January 2012
When I began writing this article, just after Christmas, I was simply going to predict that Mitt Romney would win the Iowa primary by vote fraud, just like Obama and John Kerry had won the Democratic state polls of 2008 and 2004. My dire and pessimistic prediction was based solely on the fact that Romney was being supported by the high-level Zionist family of Lester Crown of Chicago. These are people who steal elections, I thought, and they will find a way for Romney to win the crucial first caucus – one way or another.
I repeatedly queried three different people at the Republican Party of Iowa about how the results would be tallied and after hearing that they would not use an outside contractor to count the votes, decided to qualify my dismal prediction by giving them the benefit of the doubt. I didn't want to be a bearer of bad news so I wrote this (in the article below):
Mitt Romney would most likely win the caucus if the Republican Party of Iowa were to tally the caucus results using the dodgy telephonic tally system (Voxeo) used by the Iowa Democrats in 2004 and 2008. But after having intensively queried the Republican Party of Iowa about how the results will be tallied it seems to me that the Republican Party of Iowa will be tallying the results themselves in Des Moines… Let's hope Ron Paul wins Iowa in a truly honest and transparent caucus on January 3. We certainly don't need anymore illegal Zionist wars for profit and the people of Iowa know that as well as anyone.
Today, two weeks and three days after Romney was declared the winner in Iowa, the certified final tally from the Republican Party of Iowa shows that he did NOT win the caucus at all. The caucus process and tally were completely messed up and, according to the final, but still seriously flawed results, Rick Santorum reportedly won the caucus. There is now very clear evidence of serious vote fraud in the Iowa caucus. This cannot be simply dismissed as human error. This was criminal vote fraud that cheated the entire nation. The people involved in this case of egregious vote fraud must be investigated and prosecuted.
Here are the key extracts from the Washington Post article of 19 January 2012:
Rick Santorum won the Iowa caucuses Thursday — 16 days after the last vote was cast — when the state Republican Party said a final count showed him 34 votes ahead of Mitt Romney.
Santorum's strange, belated victory also served to embarrass the Iowa GOP — which had to admit that it had misallocated some votes, and simply lost some others, in a razor's-edge election where every vote mattered.
It also cast an unflattering light on the old-fashioned and convoluted system that the party uses to collect and count caucus votes.
"It should be like a fine Swiss watch," said Iowa State political science professor Steffen Schmidt. "It's really more like a sundial." He said the system used by Iowa Democrats was not significantly better.
In fact, Iowa Republican leaders seemed to cast doubt on their own results, saying Thursday that it was hard to declare a "winner" without knowing what happened in those eight precincts.
Thursday's final count came from these forms, which had to be submitted by Wednesday evening. The Des Moines Register, citing unidentified officials in the Iowa GOP, reported that in 131 precincts, the forms showed numbers different than those reported on caucus night.
But some Form E's didn't show up at all.
The state party found that it was missing results from eight precincts, spread across five counties.
Source: "Santorum finished 34 votes ahead of Romney in new Iowa tally; votes from 8 precincts missing", by David A. Fahrenthold and Debbi Wilgoren, Washington Post, 19 January 2012
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Sometimes I just feel like I'm going crazy. Today is one of those days. I feel like running away from home. I need a vacation, really. I'd like a week away, with no phone, in a hotel room, with just me, my computer, an internet connection, and a few good books. In a city I've never been before where nobody knows me.
I also have some updating to do…maybe I'll do that tonight. Or hell, I'll do it right now.
My sister's visit:
It actually went quite well. I only wanted to strangler her 3 times, and all three of those times were probably just because I was over reacting. Something I am known to occasionally do. I know everyone would find that hard to believe.
I think I might try to keep in touch with her and see if we can't get a good relationship started.
The work issue:
They didn't get ride of the wrong person. They only got rid of the problem maker. I hear she was very, very pissed when she found out she was being let go and she kind of told off the boss a little. Smart move, always. I think she never thought she would be getting in trouble over this…she just thought she could start some shit and it wouldn't splatter on her. She was wrong.
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I am cutting a part in such a way that it creates two bodies (parent conf). I need to store each of these bodies in their own configuration (children conf). How can I delete one body for each configuration?
I tried the following three methods, but the parent and children configurations all have the same features with what I tried (both bodies deleted in all configurations). Code attached.
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text: cymbaltawithdrawal5600 Posted January 10, 2015 A guy who suffered badly from a severe adverse reaction From Paxilprogress, a now defunct site Hi, I couldn't find my old post with my updates on it, but it has been some time (years i think) since I have been on here, and I was just feeling well enough to come on and make a report. Just the fact that I am able to feel calm again while writing would have been enough for me to be happy, I would have settled for semi-functional. I became aware of many things which would aggravate systems in the body, and I cut them out, I just ate natural food as much as possible and basically just allowed my body to do its thing without feeding it extra burdenous waste. There are many things that I believe help the body repair, but many people do not believe the same things that I do so if you want to contact me in private I can give you more information, however many of these things are covered on here at least in part such as Omega 3's etc, but I can go into detail as I know it helps reading things that give you hope. I am much better, and semi-functional, however I am very sensitive to stress, and assume it will take some time, perhaps years to gain a stress threshold, however it is very likely that my reaction in the first place was caused by sensitivity so just returning to baseline is a huge goal. I just wanted to give people hope because I was under the impression that I would be gone forever because my reaction came from such a small amount, and no one seemed to understand it, so if anyone has such a reaction from a few pills, just know that it has happened to others, probably some of which haven't even found this site, these are just the ones we know of. The good news is that if you make it easy on your body, and if you find some way to get through 750 days etc (counting days makes it seem like you are getting somewhere), then you can likely make progress such as I have. Alot of this came all at once to the point to where you feel like you are not making progress at all 2 years into it but then a month goes by and something subtle happens then the same in another couple. It is very subtle in this sense. I did focus on nutrition, which I consider 100 percent essential, but your body will do its best if you cannot afford the best foods, it will extract what it can. As far as an exact, I would estimate my homeostasis at around 85% when things are optimal, and perhaps peaking at 90 or so functionality-wise. This is obviously subject to stressors. I will continue on my nutrional pursuit, as some things that I believe were caused by the body making repairs, thus sobbing other areas of nutrients in order to adapt, has taxed my body, but in reality it is worth it even with the effects I have been left with, just to have a relative calm state. I will keep pushing forward and see if I cannot perhaps feel better than I felt even before stumbling down the dark road of pharmaceuticals. I encourage all to pursue your course, and in due time if you do not give up, you will reap rewards. Prior to fluoxetine, I ingested a few MAOI cocktails, and had used various stimulants (ephedra) years ago. This is likely why I reacted so badly to this drug. 7/14/08 - Severe reaction to Prozac & Ativan! 7/15/08 - Discontinued all meds! First 2 years: Extreme Derealization/DP Extreme agitation & akathisia Unable to understand people Severe negative thoughts. Constant restlessness inside, anxiety & agitation, and anhedonia. Now: 85% stable 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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What is meditation? Yoga?
Meditation, Mindfulness and Yoga are popular words these days. What do they mean?
Mindfulness is being aware of the present moment and not thinking forward or backward to the future or past. It is simply being here, now, in the raw moment with a reserved and removed awareness.
Meditation is a state of sustained concentration and focus. We have probably slipped into meditation doing the things that we love or are passionate about, like hobbies or activities.
Think about the last time you were doing something that you really enjoyed. Can you imagine it? Can you be there, in that moment?
How did you feel? Focused on what you were doing? Not thinking about anything else?
That is a state of concentrated focus, or a type of meditation.
Meditation is sustained concentration on a chosen object or idea. We can use meditation techniques to help increase our natural ability to remain concentrated on something.
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Emotional stability
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What is Yoga?
Yoga in America is a popular way for people to be active because of yoga's various physical styles which are accessible, in one way or another, to the majority of the population.
Yoga is, however, more than just stretching or trying to empty your mind. Yoga is a science of the self, the individual; an investigation into the inner-self to understand and know the origin and essence of existence. Just as we have external empirical sciences to study the world, so the peoples of India have kept and refined the empirical internal science of self-study, or contemplative yogic meditation.
The techniques that yogic traditions employ are either devoid, or invite for the symbolic replacement, of religious icons. So they [the techniques] can easily be applied to any spectrum of human belief system from atheism to conservative orthodox traditions.