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Apr 27 2013
DANGER: Do not attempt to feed the Monkeys.
The Daily Mail
Our Boys in Blue have taken a bit of a battering in the media of late.
Therefore, I see no reason not to cash in on that fact.
I can in fact imagine that when weighing up their career choices these days, potential policemen toss a coin to decide their final choice.
Heads the police cuntstabulary. Tails MacDonalds… Best of three if the coin lands on heads the first time.
Yet the government still allow these imbeciles access to Tasers!
Tasers, despite the old bollocks hype about them being non lethal when they were first introduced, are extremely dangerous.
Likewise, anything near petrol that sparks is also extremely dangerous. Even those of very low IQ know that.
So, add one of the cuntstabulary's finest to the mix and you might as well give a chimpanzee a loaded AK 47.
It does in fact seem to me, that all our Corporate enforcement agents are good for these days is catching terrorist Swans…
On second thoughts Scrub that last remark.
Burned to death in police taser fireball: Officers fired 50,000 volts at man doused in petrol and who was threatening to kill himself
- Andrew Pimlott, 32, suffered horrific injuries and died five days later
- Was hit with 50,000 volts as he carried a canister of petrol and naked flame
- Officers jumped on him with blankets in an attempt to save his life
- The incident has raised questions about the use of tasers in the police force
By CHRIS GREENWOOD AND LUKE SALKELD
PUBLISHED: 22:00, 26 April 2013 | UPDATED: 22:53, 26 April 2013
A man who had doused himself in petrol turned into a human fireball when police shot him with a Taser.
Andrew Pimlott, 32, suffered horrific injuries in the confrontation outside his house and died in a hospital burns unit five days later.
The 50,000-volt volley was fired after he threatened to kill himself while holding a canister of fuel in one hand and a naked flame in the other.
Jack Fry, who saw the incident, said: 'There were three screams. Then we saw a man, fully on fire, from top to bottom, like you see on a film, with his arms swaying around.
'We saw two police officers appear from the side of the house. One of them jumped on the burning man and put him on the floor.
'The officers were shouting to each other and the one who had put him to the ground got an old duvet or cover and started smacking the man with it.'
The incident – the latest to raise serious questions about the increasing use of Taser weapons – is being investigated by the Independent Police Complaints Commission.
Sophie Khan, a lawyer who specialises in representing Taser victims, said the death was deeply saddening. 'Police Taser policy clearly states that using one where there is flammable liquid is prohibited,' she added.
'We do not know the facts but it is possible this tragedy could have been avoided if the officers had followed standard procedure.
'It is another incident which highlights potentially inappropriate use of Taser which is growing as a weapon of choice among British police forces.'
Officers have been warned not to use Taser weapons on people who have been sprayed with CS gas, because some brands catch fire.
The confrontation took place outside Mr Pimlott's home in the Plymouth suburb of Honicknowle on April 18.
Responding to an emergency call about a domestic incident, two officers found Mr Pimlott in the back garden with the canister. He had poured some fuel over his body.
Within moments of the Taser being fired he burst into flames, suffering serious injuries, including the loss of an ear. He was taken to Derriford Hospital in Plymouth and transferred to a specialist unit at the Frenchay Hospital in Bristol where he died four days ago. It is not known whether the two officers involved remain on duty.
Mr Fry, a 20-year-old shop worker, said the pair were 'heroes' for jumping on Mr Pimlott with blankets in a bid to put out the flames.
'There was steam coming off him and he was groaning. The sight was sickening,' he added. 'The officers then got a hosepipe and poured on water. We heard more sirens and as the paramedics and fire crews arrived I went back inside. I want to say how amazing the officer was. I think this officer is, well, I would use the word hero.'
Another neighbour said: 'I thought a bomb had gone off. It was a sound like a shot or a bomb. Then I heard a howling noise.'
Mr Pimlott, who lived with his parents, Kelvin, 61, and Jean, 63, was known to police after being jailed last December for attacking an officer. The incident followed Mr Pimlott's father calling police because his son was drunk and aggressive.
Mr Pimlott, who was jailed for eight weeks, referred to himself as being 'like Jekyll and Hyde' when drunk.
Devon and Cornwall is one of the country's most controversial Taser forces. It used the stun gun 65 times in 2011 compared with 34 times in 2010.
Last year it paid out up to £5,000 in compensation to a man who was Tasered at close range in a packed Plymouth pub.
In a statement last night, Mr Pimlott's parents said: 'Dear darling son Andrew, you were a fantastic son to us, you will always be in our hearts and thoughts. We will never forget you.'
Flying squad: How a riot van, patrol car and team of officers swooped to arrest… a swan!
- Lincolnshire Police took over half an hour to capture the fugitive bird
- Officers trapped it with a sheet and bundled it into the back of a riot van
- Last month the same force deployed marksmen to shoot an escaped cow
PUBLISHED: 23:26, 26 April 2013 | UPDATED: 23:26, 26 April 2013
He was, technically, loitering with intent.
It's just that he's also what you could truly call the lightest of lightweight criminals.
So when three police officers, a patrol car and a riot van swooped on this quiet street to take down this stray swan, they ruffled more than just one set of feathers.
Residents blasted Lincolnshire Police – the same force which less than a month ago deployed marksmen to shoot an escaped cow – for sending officers to catch the swan, after it was spotted waddling near accommodation at Lincoln University.
Student Matthew Knott, 18, photographed the moment officers arrived on the scene.
'Two PCSOs got out and just sort of stared at the swan,' he said.
'It seemed like an over-reaction, the swan wasn't doing any harm, it seemed perfectly happy sitting there.'
After half an hour of coaxing the bird, officers eventually captured it with a sheet and bundled it into the back of the riot van.
It is estimated the entire exercise cost £600 in police resources.
Resident James Phillips, 34, said he couldn't believe his eyes as police vehicles screeched past with their blue lights flashing.
He said: 'I thought someone must have been attacked or something, when a marked car and van went into the accommodation.
'Then I saw they weren't rushing out of the car so went to look what was going on and there they were, staring at this swan.
'They didn't seem to know what to do with it really, they must have spent an hour hunting it down.
'In the end someone from the shop nearby came out with their coat to try and help catch the bird.
'It wasn't doing anyone any harm and I wonder what crimes might have taken place while they were messing around with a swan.'
A spokesperson for Lincolnshire Police said: 'Police were called at around 1pm on Thursday following reports of an injured swan obstructing traffic on Ruston Way, Lincoln. So action was required.
'Officers attended the scene and returned the swan safely to the Brayford Pool. The swan was only slightly injured and RSPCA assistance was not required.'
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South32 Ltd (ASX:S32) HEFFX Trading Outlook
South32 looks ready to trade over $2.
Overall, the bias in prices is: Upwards.
Short term: Prices are moving.
Intermediate term: Prices are trending.
Note: this chart shows extraordinary price action to the upside.
The projected upper bound is: 2.31.
The projected lower bound is: 1.82.
The projected closing price is: 2.01.
SOUTH32 FPO closed up 0.050 at 1.960. Volume was 34% below average (neutral) and Bollinger Bands were 38% narrower than normal.
Open High Low Close Volume___
1.940 1.980 1.925 1.960 13,042,916
Technical Outlook
Short Term: Neutral
Intermediate Term: Bullish
Long Term: Bullish
Moving Averages: 10-period 50-period 200-period
Close: 1.88 1.71 1.42
Volatility: 27 55 62
Volume: 18,988,200 20,654,772 22,312,968
Short-term traders should pay closer attention to buy/sell arrows while intermediate/long-term traders should place greater emphasis on the Bullish or Bearish trend reflected in the lower ribbon.
SOUTH32 FPO is currently 38.4% above its 200-period moving average and is in an upward trend. Volatility is extremely low when compared to the average volatility over the last 10 periods. There is a good possibility that there will be an increase in volatility along with sharp price fluctuations in the near future. Our volume indicators reflect volume flowing into and out of S32.AX at a relatively equal pace (neutral). Our trend forecasting oscillators are currently bullish on S32.AX and have had this outlook for the last 22 periods.
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I wish my lapse of writing was due to the hazards of pulling double duty last week as A returned to the workforce.
Well, it was that, but then it wasn't, and then it was just the craziness of work.
My husband went through orientation for 2 days, then reported to work on the third day for his first shift at 11pm. He'd been told during orientation that he would work from 11 until at least 2, sometimes 5 if it was busy on the overnight shift. We discussed it, and considering they warned him the hours were bare minimum for his job, agreed that it would work. He could sleep until noon, then be up with James until he napped and then we'd all have dinner together.
It was bordering on perfect.
Then he asked for his schedule. He was scheduled from midnight to 6, 6 nights a week.
Once he woke up on Thursday, he told me what had happened and looked miserable. He had been missing James all week, wanted to be home with him to do things with him, and this shift would mean he would sleep until James was going down for a nap, and would basically only see him for a few hours a night.
Then he looked at me waiting.
And I told him to do what he needed to be happy. We never wanted that, for him to not be here for James, so if that was going to be a problem then he needed to discuss it with his manager and explain what he was promised.
They told him to go home because they didn't want to waste anymore time training.
By Saturday, his sleep schedule was back to normal and life has continued.
What did we learn last week?
That A needs to be here for James as much as possible, so it has to be part time work where he really only gets the 20-25 hours a week maximum he said he wanted to work.
And that James whines and makes noises to get his daddy's attention when he hasn't seen him for a bit. Which is cute for the first minute or so, then it begins to grate on your nerves if it is seriously a whine.
So here we are, back at the beginning...


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- Graham Hawkes is working on Deep Flight Super Falcon, a deep sea exploration vessel.
- Roddenberry Productions has signed a deal to release 500 plus hours of behind-the-scenes "Star Trek" footage.
- The Government Accountability Office issued a report that the U.S. GPS system could fail in 2010 if more satellites aren't launched soon.
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Movie Talk:
- Director Pete Docter talks about the latest Pixar animated film, "Up."
- Sam Raimi's "Drag Me To Hell" was screened at the Cannes Film Festival…yes, that Cannes.
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Health Lessons Men Can Learn From Women
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Health, Men, Women on April 27, 2016| Leave a Comment »
Single women
Posted in Luke, tagged Single, Women on January 19, 2015| Leave a Comment »
Gabriel was sent "to a virgin betrothed to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David. The virgin's name was Mary. Luke 1:27 (NKJV)
According to Christian pollster George Barna[i], teenage and young adult women are learning to prepare themselves for a changing social structure. For teen girls, this means focusing on career now and not expecting to be married until the late twenties, at least.
Barna concluded that young women are more likely than ever to feel they must get educated, find a job, and be ready for life – with or without marriage. More than ever before, young women are preparing themselves to live independently. One of the interesting findings was the fact that teen girls aspire to most of the same careers as teen-aged boys. Some young women exhibit traditional preferences for teaching, fashion, interior design, and nursing, but teen females are more likely than teen males to aspire to work in journalism, business, and law. At the same time, teen girls are equally likely to be interested in the military, arts and music, public safety including law enforcement and firefighting, and government.
Most of the women surveyed by Barna still expect to raise families; they just anticipate doing so later in life. According to this report, in total, more than 70 million adults in this nation feel as though their past decisions and life events have limited their current prospects.
The decisions that young women make today will have repercussions, for good or for bad, for the rest of their lives. Some of those decisions will make them single parents increasing their responsibilities and challenges. Having an education and a career can provide a single woman, and a single parent, with the ability to support themselves and their children.
Be careful with the decisions you make today; you and probably your children may pay a heavy price for them for a lifetime.
Father God, as singles we have the same opportunities and responsibilities. Help us to make good, wise decisions so we may avoid the adverse results of bad, poor ones.
[i] https://www.barna.org/teens-next-gen-articles/548-top-trends-of-2011-women-making-it-alone(accessed 1-10-15)
Win Your Spouse Back
Posted in Judges, tagged God, Husband, Love, Marriage, Relationship, Wife, Women on March 25, 2009| Leave a Comment »
Scripture: (Judg 19:1-3 NKJV) And it came to pass in those days, when there was no king in Israel, that there was a certain Levite staying in the remote mountains of Ephraim. He took for himself a concubine from Bethlehem in Judah. {2} But his concubine played the harlot against him, and went away from him to her father's house at Bethlehem in Judah, and was there four whole months. {3} Then her husband arose and went after her, to speak kindly to her and bring her back, having his servant and a couple of donkeys with him. So she brought him into her father's house; and when the father of the young woman saw him, he was glad to meet him.
Observation: This is one of the strangest stories in the entire Bible. A Levite set out to win back the love of a woman, but when the men of the city wanted to have sex with the Levite, instead he gave them his woman for then to do with her as they wished. After an entire night of abuse, the woman died, the Levite took her home, cut her in pieces, and sent the pieces throughout Israel seeking justice.
When sin controls people, they will stop at nothing until their sinful desires are met. Not only were they trying to do what God calls unnatural (Romans 1) by having homosexual relations, but also by abusing this woman to the point of death.
On the other hand, if we can look for something positive in this story, it is the Levite's actions and words to win this woman back related at the beginning of the story.
Application: Even though the woman played the harlot and left him the Levite went to look for her, to speak kindly to her, and to bring her back. These three steps can also be critically important to win your wife back after you have caused harm any kind of pain – like speaking harshly to her, being unkind to her, betraying her trust in you. Let's look at the three steps:
1. He went after her. He took the initiative. In the same way, if you have done or said anything that hurt your spouse, don't ignore it as if it would go away on its own, or don't expect the other to forget it as if nothing had happened. Take the initiative to go to your spouse and make things right with them. Apologize, ask their forgiveness, make every effort to make things better in the future.
2. He spoke kindly to her. Don't make things worse by denying what happened or by becoming defensive. A recognition of what you did and kind words can go a lot farther in the healing process.
3. He brought her back. It's not enough to just get back to normal but to establish a new, better normal I your relationship with your spouse.
We can make our relationships better and win back our spouse, if we are sincere in our desire and honest with our feelings, and if our attitude and actions show them we indeed love them and want the best for them.
Prayer: Father, we praise You and thank You for your gift of our spouse; may we treat them accordingly.
The Courage of a Woman
Posted in Judges, tagged Bible, Children, Christ, Church, Courage, Family, Father, God, Home, Husband, Leadership, Men, Mother, Relationship, Wife, Women on March 20, 2009| Leave a Comment »
Scripture: (Judg 4:4-5 NKJV) Now Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lapidoth, was judging Israel at that time. {5} And she would sit under the palm tree of Deborah between Ramah and Bethel in the mountains of Ephraim. And the children of Israel came up to her for judgment.
Observation: Deborah, a prophetess, was also the leader of Israel at the time. He called Barak to pursue Sisera, one of Israel's enemies. At the end, Deborah and Jael, who killed Sisera in her tent, turned out to be the courageous heroines of this story
Application: This is one of those amazing stories of courage displayed not just by one but by two women of the Bible. There are homes where men are weak and easily led by others or by sins or habits that threaten to destroy their marriage, their family, their finances, and even the very men practicing them. It is at those times when a courageous woman has to take the reins of their home lest everyone and everything they have be consumed.
Every home has a clearly defined leader, even if the relationship between spouses is egalitarian. The bible's ideal is that the man should have that headship since that is a reflection of the order in God's universe and he serves as a reflection of God and the relationship of Christ as the husband and the church as His bride. Today's reality is that some men are not that type of reflection and don't demonstrate the correct pattern established by Christ. In addition, some women are raising a family with the absence of a husband or father of her children. In these cases, women can and must serve the role of headship in their homes in order to maintain it intact and thrive even under less than ideal circumstances.
Prayer: Father, bless the women who under difficult circumstances labor to keep their families intact and healthy. May they reflect faithfully the image of Christ in their lives.
More Time!
Posted in Joshua, tagged Abuse, Children, Death, Enemy, Family, God, Marriage, Parenting, Praise, Relationship, Time, Women, Worship on March 14, 2009| Leave a Comment »
Scripture: (Josh 10:12-13 NKJV) Then Joshua spoke to the LORD in the day when the LORD delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel: "Sun, stand still over Gibeon; And Moon, in the Valley of Aijalon." {13} So the sun stood still, And the moon stopped, Till the people had revenge Upon their enemies. Is this not written in the Book of Jasher? So the sun stood still in the midst of heaven, and did not hasten to go down for about a whole day.
Observation: One of the most powerful miracles ever had just taken place after Joshua prayed that the sun would stand still; it is recorded that the sun indeed stood still for about a day. Then the kings that had joined to try to defeat Israel were captured and executed, and later buried. These wholesale destructions of entire cities is what has caused some to question God and even to come to be afraid of or bitter toward Him. We need to consider several things:
1. Israel had no home, and God wanted to provide them with a home of their own where they could live in peace and worship Him and become a witness to the whole world.
2. These nations had become so depraved by sin that their corrupting influence was not only spreading, but it could, and in some cases did, become a hindrance, a temptation, and a stumbling block to God's people.
3. The way these people dealt with their own was dehumanizing and deadly. They had temple prostitutes, the women were treated as objects to abuse and mistreat, children were abused and at times offered to idols; God could not permit this abuse on the innocent to go on forever – or until they'd destroy themselves, but in the mean time generations of innocent people would suffer.
4. Without the presence of Israel as a nation, the world was rapidly becoming like the world before the flood, and even though Israel was not always faithful to God, its presence gave the rest of the world an opportunity to know God and gave them a lease on life.
In reality, these destructions were more an act of mercy than an act of anger on the part of God. Yes, He was angry with those nations and peoples, but yet they were also His children and by putting an end to their wickedness God was saving countless others yet unborn.
Application: In thinking about the sun standing still, I just recently I received an e-mail with a story (whether it is true or not, I don't know), about the time when NASA scientists were working on plans for future launches when they ran into a problem. They entered all the information into the computer, but the computer could not compute correctly, it gave an error message, and the NASA people could not find out what the problem was, all they knew was that there was one day and about forty minutes missing that they could not account for. Apparently a Christian among them told them about this event, they changed their calculations and sure enough, they were only missing about forty minutes. Then the Christian told them of the time when King Hezekiah asked for a sign that he would be healed, and the sun went back what would be the equivalent of . . . forty minutes. Once that time was also accounted for, their calculations matched perfectly.
These stories remind me that God's miraculous power on our behalf is still available to us as families and as couples. We may not get the sun to stand still, but maybe he will make the time that we have more manageable so we can spend time learning about Him and worshiping Him, time together as families, time with our children, time for work, time for leisure, time to evangelize, time to rest. And all along, God also helps us to deal with those things that are destroying our families – negative influences on our children, not spending enough time together, not spending enough time with God in prayer and for God in praise, not spending enough time to study His word, not spending enough time working for the salvation of others. We don't need the miracle of more time; what we need is the miracle of learning how to manage properly the time that God already gives us every day. Much like we don't understand how when we return God's tithe we seem to have more than before, so when we dedicate our time to Him, He can help us accomplish more in the time we have than if we tried to manage it ourselves, without Him in it.
Prayer: Father, thank You for the time You give us. Help us to manage it wisely for You and others.
The Word to Everyone
Posted in Joshua, tagged Bible, Children, Equality, Family, Foreigner, God, Learning, Ministry, Teaching, Wife, Women on March 13, 2009| Leave a Comment »
Scripture: There was not a word of all that Moses had commanded which Joshua did not read before all the assembly of Israel, with the women, the little ones, and the strangers who were living among them. (Joshua 8:35 NKJV)
Observation: After the defeat at Ai, Joshua discovered and had to deal with Achan's sin lest all of Israel would hear about it and learn to disregard God's specific instructions concerning the people and the nations they were supposed to conquer and destroy.
In order to have a new beginning, Joshua read again the covenant God established with Israel. Today's text makes it clear that these words were read before all, but it specifically mentions women, children (little ones) and foreigners. Passages like these should show us that God intended equal treatment to all.
Application: One of my favorite short stories, which eventually was made into a movie with Barbara Streisand, is Yentl, The yeshiva Boy, originally written by Issac Bashevis Singer. The story centers on a young girl who defies tradition by discussing and debating Jewish law and theology with her rabbi father. When he dies, she cuts her hair, dresses as a young man, and sets out to find a yeshiva where she can continue to study Talmud and live secretly as a male named Anshel. She has such hunger for learning that she sacrifices her female role, and even her love for her study partner, just so she can learn all she can from the wisdom of bible and other Jewish scholars.
I'm glad we have come such a long way from the days when women were relegated to a second place, some even farther back. I have had the privilege of meeting and learning from some very bright women and feel my life has been enriched by their knowledge, their wisdom, and their experience. Without those interactions, my life, my ministry, my future would have been cheated of many valuables treasures. I count my wife as one of the brightest, most talented, women and have seen how so many others, including me, have benefitted from her keen insights and talented guidance. I have worked with and known lady pastors whose ministry and learning has proved to be a great blessing to their husbands ministry and to their churches. I have sat in classrooms where lady teachers have shared true pearls of wisdom I have then shared with many others. What a shame, if all these ladies had had to be relegated to the role of servants, quietly going about menial tasks, never allowed to express their opinions or to teach or lead others, simply because society or culture dictated they had to or they couldn't be as smart or learned as men!
Joshua taught the Bible (Moses' words) to women, children, and foreigners, because before God we all are equal and must be treated thus. I pray for the day, soon I hope, when we will all learn to treat each other and give each other equal opportunities to learn and teach, follow and lead, listen and preach, serve and be served, as God intended; we all be the ones to be benefitted and blessed as a result.
Prayer: Father, You are the God of equality and fairness, righteousness and justice. Father, may we set aside the societal and cultural barriers that keep us from enjoying Your gifts through men and women for the benefit of Your people. And may we achieve, with your help, the equality with which You created us as male and female for it will ultimately be for our benefit and for Your honor and glory.


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Question: What's the most annoying thing about having skin? Is it the fact that it is weak and thin, the only thing standing between your innards and the outside world, a horribly breakable membrane? Is it its sensitivity to environmental damage, whether that be cold, central heating, air conditioning, low humidity, excessive humidity, insect bites, gorse bushes, or axe-wielding maniacs?
Does skin's weakness to poor diet, food intolerances, and contact allergies get you down? I'm not even starting on the internally generated quirks skin can inflict, from the well known yet remarkably varied and unpredictable reactions to hormonal changes, to auto-immune generated eczema and psoriasis. And there's a whole catalogue of things that I'm not even medically qualified to mention, although I recommend that anyone curious browses the dermatology section of a medical training textbook sometime.
Annoying skin, while obviously not the worst issue facing humanity, is… annoying. Having a dry flaky face makes me feel less able to face the world. I already have social anxiety, feeling my skin split when I smile doesn't exactly make social encounters feel mutually rewarding. Eczema makes me itch and then people on public transport back away in case I have fleas. Spots make me feel like an idiot teenager. Wrinkles make me feel like an idiot teenager trapped in the body of an ageing Auntie.
So, in an effort to cure my many, many problems I tried making my own skin stuff. Stuff from shops is all either way too expensive or made of garbage that doesn't help in any way. And that's without even starting on the animal testing, plastic packaging, petrochemical byproducts, and so on. Just trying to choose the correct, non-poisonous, effective skincare product is enough to cause a stress-induced breakout.
So the news is that I'm becoming a punchable middle-class hippy cliche making my own skincare line. The good news is that you too can try my stuff. It's made out of ingredients that I understand, and that are not toxic or massively destructive to the world (as far as is possible while having to negotiate capitalist structures while doing this). I got no illusions of this being an amazing revolutionary act, but it's my new venture, trying to support positive stuff in the world while unfucking my fucked up skin. Mainly it's fully reactionary, because fuck looking like I have some kind of face disease and walking around trying to subtly scratch myself under my clothes.
Since I was a kid I've loved making potions, and I finally managed to make a useful one. I want to share that joy with the world. I've had eczema for years. And I haven't managed to cure myself, probably because it's caused by eating dairy, and you can pry my cheese from my cold, dead, horribly blistered hands. But my Unfucking Salve at least gets rid of the pain and inflammation and itching and shame for a while, when steroid creams have long become useless. This may be one of the first practically useful things I have ever created. Sat here now trying to think of any genuinely useful inventions I've got to my name, and really drawing a blank. If i can help the increasing legions of people who are annoyed by their skin, cumulatively that could make the world a very slightly better place. And if I can also persuade people to use stuff made out of local, non-carcinogenic, traditionally made ingredients, maybe the environment and humanity will be better off. Of course, burning down Unilever would be more effective, but that would also release a lot of toxins and particulates into the atmosphere, as well as landing me in trouble because 'arson is illegal' or some such bullshit.
So instead of a campaign of pyromania, I'll now be trying to formulate, alchemize, compound, invent, and whack together, some more beneficial skin stuffs. I've got a face cream trialling on myself at the moment, and I've had a shockingly low amount of spots so far. Like 2 tiny dots all week, rather than the usual uncountable multitude that outnumbers the very stars.
In the interests of ethics and scientific enquiry, I'm testing all products on myself, my friends,and my mum. Which is way more ethical than these bunch. For once, I am not the literal worst, and that is quite heartening.
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If there is a café that gained popularity primarily through social media, it has to be Via Tokyo in Hong Kong – I got to know about the place after seeing numerous Instagram posts about its amazing matcha soft serve and the cafe repeatedly winning OpenRice's Best Restaurant Awards (voted by users). I only got to try it after two trips to Hong Kong.
The original store at Causeway Bay is located at the corner of a residential building about 10 minutes walk from Causeway Bay MTR station. Via Tokyo is opened by restaurateur Kosei Kamatani, also the owner of Ramen Jo and even a shisha bar.
The dessert café specialises in Japanese soft serve ice cream and pastries made with Kyoto matcha powder (finely milled green tea) and 3.6 Hokkaido milk (a brand of premium milk from Japan with 3.6% butterfat recognized for its creamy rich texture and hint of vanilla essence).
The cafe offers three main flavours of soft serve (Vanilla, Matcha and Houjicha) in addition to seasonal flavours. Naturally the matcha flavour is the most popular. In order to encourage guests to try other flavours, the cafe doesn't serve matcha flavour on Wednesdays. A very interesting marketing strategy indeed.
The best times to visit is during odd hours (I visited at 3pm). Otherwise get ready to queue.
What would you have today? :)
Since it was my first time, I went for the 3-flavour waffle cup (Vanilla, Matcha and a seasonal Black Sesame flavour) served with shiratama, red bean paste and a candied chestnut. The taste wasn't overpowering, and the texture was firm and smooth. I was initially worried that I wouldn't be able to finish 3 servings all by myself, but obviously my fear was unfounded lol.
The cafe serves tea-based cakes as well. There is a larger cake selection at their Tsim Sha Tsui outlet, which also serves kakigori (shaved ice dessert).
If you are looking for a dessert place in Hong Kong, Via Tokyo would be a good choice for some soft serve ice cream. Another Japanese dessert place that you can also try is Sweets House Cha Cha. Itadakimasu!
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Address: Shop nos. 1A-1B, G/F., Leishun Court, 106-126 Leighton Road, Causeway Bay, Hong Kong
Nearest Train Station: Causebay MTR Exit F1, walk down Jardine's Bazaar towards Pennington St, then Leighton Road. About 10 mins walk
Tel: +852 28951116
Opening Hours: 11:00AM – 10:30PM (Sun-Thurs), 11:00AM – 11:00PM (Fri-Sat)
Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/viatokyocafe
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Address: G/F, 29 Cameron Road Kowloon Tsim Sha Tsui
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In November 2014, the married actors Jason Bateman and Amanda Anka attended a dinner party at the Chiltern Firehouse after the London premiere of "Horrible Bosses 2," in which Mr. Bateman starred. The Chiltern, an 1889 fire station turned luxury hotel and restaurant, is owned by André Balazs, who built a hospitality empire with his boutique chain the Standard, the Mercer in SoHo and Chateau Marmont in West Hollywood, Calif.
The movie's other stars, including Jennifer Aniston, Jason Sudeikis and Charlie Day, were also there with their guests. After dinner Mr. Balazs offered to take the group on a tour, leading them to an upstairs room with a view of London accessible by a firehouse-style ladder. Ms. Anka was wearing a burgundy leather dress and was hesitant to climb the ladder, according to witnesses. But Mr. Balazs insisted. As she navigated the steps, these people said, Mr. Balazs slipped a hand under her skirt and grabbed her crotch.
Ms. Anka told the group what Mr. Balazs had done. Her husband and colleagues were visibly upset. "I witnessed behavior by André Balazs that was inappropriate and offensive," said Mary Elizabeth Ellis, the wife of Mr. Day, in a statement. Downstairs, Mr. Bateman confronted the hotel owner, spitting gum in Mr. Balazs's face. The Batemans hastily left the hotel, waving as they waded through paparazzi as if nothing had happened.
Last week, the couple confirmed the incident in a statement released by their publicist. "On behalf of Jason Bateman and Amanda Anka, we can confirm that the account of André Balazs's outrageous and vile behavior on that night in London is factual," the statement said. "His actions were dealt with at the time."
Since transforming his industry with the Standard brand he created nearly two decades ago, Mr. Balazs, 60, has expertly navigated channels of celebrity, fashion and business in New York, Los Angeles and beyond. The son of Hungarian immigrants, he dated the actress Uma Thurman for years and also dated the television host Chelsea Handler. He turned the sleepy Chateau Marmont into a hangout for members of the hip Hollywood set, like Johnny Depp and the singer Florence Welch. He has bragged of employing Ivanka Trump as an intern one year when she was a student.
In recent weeks, though, as stories about alleged sexual misconduct by powerful men in business, the news media and in Hollywood have surfaced (most notably Harvey Weinstein), several women have come forward accusing Mr. Balazs of groping them.
The Times left repeated and detailed messages regarding these accusations with Mr. Balazs, his executive assistant and his personal publicist, Pierre Rougier. The messages were not returned. Attempts to reach Mr. Balazs through the general managers at his hotels were also unsuccessful.
Mr. Balazs stepped down as chairman of the Standard chain's board in March to focus, he said then, on his luxury properties.
A former employee, Sarah, who worked briefly at the front desk of the Chateau Marmont in the early 1990s, is one of the women speaking up; she asked that her last name be withheld, fearing retribution from Mr. Balazs. Her account was confirmed by a friend she told a few years ago, and she provided emails she said were exchanged between her and Mr. Balazs in October addressing the incident.
It was spring 1991, Sarah recalled, and Mr. Balazs was visiting Los Angeles and asked her to dinner in Koreatown. As an employee, Sarah said, she felt obligated to attend. At the time, Mr. Balazs was married to Katie Ford, the daughter of Eileen and Gerard Ford who started Ford Models, and with whom Mr. Balazs has two children. (In July he had a son with Cosima Vesey, a London socialite.) Sarah said they stayed at dinner a short time, before Mr. Balazs suggested they leave.
They went to a mud-wrestling club. There, Sarah said, he grabbed her arm, pinned her against a wall and covered her mouth with his mouth. He put his hand down the front of her pants and pushed his fingers in her vagina.
"I just froze," she said. They drove home in silence. (Another former employee had a similar story of Mr. Balazs once pinning her against an elevator wall and trying to kiss her. She evaded him, she said.) Months after the incident, Sarah left her job at the Chateau Marmont.
In the email exchange she said she had with Mr. Balazs and provided to The Times, she confronted him about this series of events. He responded to her email warmly, said he didn't recall what had happened, and offered to speak further. Sarah declined and recently consulted with a lawyer.
Elodie Trouche, one of Mr. Balazs's personal assistants for two years beginning in 2011, said she did not witness inappropriate behavior at corporate headquarters. "He was professional and polite," Ms. Trouche said. "It was about doing the job." She could not speak to people's experiences at the hotels where Mr. Balazs spent a lot of his time, often staying overnight.
A 26-year-old female media executive also said she had an encounter with Mr. Balazs, in 2013, in which he touched her without consent. The woman is the daughter of a prominent Manhattan couple. The Times agreed not to name her because she had not told her father. Her account was confirmed by a former roommate who said the woman told her about the incident the night it happened.
The woman said she was attending a downtown party during New York Fashion Week in September, as the guest of a male friend. Mr. Balazs was also a guest at the party. The friend knew Mr. Balazs; they said hello. The woman said the hotelier turned to her and greeted her warmly, as if he knew her. She was surprised by his effusiveness. "I was aware of who he was," the woman said. But she did not recall ever meeting Mr. Balazs. They did not speak the rest of the evening, although she said Mr. Balazs occasionally glanced at her.
Later that night, she said, she walked to the bathroom, past a table, and felt a presence behind her. She said she felt a hand reach between her legs from behind and grab her crotch. "I jumped," she said. She turned and saw Mr. Balazs. She nervously laughed and said the hotelier laughed as well before walking away.
The woman went home and told her roommate, and now regrets not saying anything to Mr. Balazs at the time.
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"Remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, 'It is more blessed to give than to receive.'"
–Acts 20:35
Consider the congregation member who for years has visited the sick in his parish, but who is fearful to seek pastoral care himself when a loved one contracts AIDS. Or the women who volunteers to be a mentor to unemployed congregants, but finds herself too embarrassed to seek help herself when she loses her job.
In a culture that prizes rugged individualism, and can interpret personal needs as a sign of weakness, many Americans find it is more acceptable to give than to receive.
Yet the blessings appear to multiply when you are able to do both, according to new research.
Americans who both meet the needs of others and are cared for in a nurturing community are much more likely to love and trust their neighbors, studies indicate.
That appears to be particularly true in religious communities where caring for one another affirms the central admonition to love your neighbor as yourself.
One new national study found congregation members who assisted others and received care themselves were dramatically more likely to place "complete trust" in their fellow worshipers than members who only gave or received help.
What's more, the trust and caring relationships members build in their congregations do not appear to end at the door of the church, temple or mosque.
The 2012 Measuring Morality Study indicates that the most religiously active Americans are more likely to both be trusting and to strive to be compassionate and merciful.
Giving individuals who are able to accept acts of mercy from others appear most likely to love their neighbors.
Reciprocity matters
It is not only religious communities that benefit from mutual care.
The worker who receives help from a mentor is more likely to extend help to a colleague. And, in any organization, the member who visits someone in the hospital and is himself consoled by other members at a loved one's funeral is likely to have more positive feelings about others in the group.
But more than self-interest is involved, research indicates.
In a new study involving 125 part-time MBA students, researchers found the concept of "paying it forward," or helping others if you have been helped, had stronger and more lasting effects in helping others than acting out of consideration of a future self-benefit.
Such actions arising from an attitude of gratitude toward others appear also to contribute to a "virtuous cycle" of cooperation, the study found. As participants "developed a history of helping one another, more and more of them had reasons to feel grateful and to reflect on benefits received, paying it forward as a result," said researchers Wayne Baker of the University of Michigan and Nathaniel Bulkley of Innovation Places LLC.
Still, religious communities appear to be especially fertile grounds for building greater trust and more tolerant and compassionate attitudes toward others, some research suggests. These communities offer their most active members multiple opportunities to build social ties and volunteer in an environment that promotes loving one's neighbor.
Consider these findings from the 2012 Measuring Morality Study:
• People who need people: Half of Americans who attend services more than once a week describe themselves as being comfortable depending on others and having others depend on them. Just a third of people who never attend embrace such dependence. Nearly twice as many non-attenders as frequent attenders said they found it difficult to trust others completely, or to depend on them.
• Helping hands: Seven in 10 of the most frequent attenders, compared to less than half of nonchurchgoers, see themselves in the statement, "It's very important to me to help the people around me. I want to care for their well-being."
• Mercy, mercy: Nine in 10 of the most active churchgoers say being caring compassionate, merciful and cooperative is an important part of who they are; two-thirds of non-attenders attach the same importance to those characteristics.
Religious communities may have special incentives based on teaching and tradition to value acts of caring for one another, researchers note.
"It speaks to a lot of ways that we expect religion to function," said sociologist Jeffrey Seymour of Gustavus Adolphus College.
Trust in synergy
Giving and receiving help do matter on their own, according to a study of more than 1,100 member or affiliates of religious communities based on data from the 2006 Portraits of American Life Study.
Congregants who only gave help to other members were twice as likely to fully trust their fellow worshipers as participants who neither gave nor received help. Members who only received help were nearly three times as likely to have the same high level of trust.
But it was the combination of both that made the biggest difference, with givers and receivers being more than five times as likely to have complete trust. Researchers Seymour, Karen Gregg of the University of St. Francis, and Michael Welch and Jessica Collett of the University of Notre Dame reported the findings in the latest issue of the Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion.
Yet being able to accept support from others does not come easy for many Americans.
In congregations, the message of being a cheerful and gracious giver is rarely balanced with the idea of seeing the same signs of grace in receiving care from others.
Leaders of religious communities and other organizations may want to consider promoting cultures that place value both on being able to accept help and to "pay it forward" to others, suggest Seymour and Baker, author of the new book, "United America."
The bottom line: It is blessed to both give and receive.
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Dorothy Winningham says:
Yes, I agree this is true. It works both ways, I am a living witness to this fact.
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You won't be able to say I didn't warn you. 2014 looks to be another strange year in the wine business. If you don't believe my predictions, remember that I was the person who predicted 2013 with astonishing accuracy, right down to the creation of the Coravin, Parker selling The Wine Advocate (OK, so I misidentified the buyers as North Koreans instead of Singaporeans, and, no, three Jongs don't make a right), and Bordeaux having a Vintage of the Century. OK, let's just get this prediction out of the way first — 2014 will be the Vintage of the Century in Bordeaux! You heard it here first. Here are the rest of my much-anticipated predictions for wine, and the wine business, in 2014.
Ongoing DNA research into wine grape varieties will yield some fascinating facts. Furmint, it will be shown, is not a grape at all, but a treat placed on pillows at kennels. (Oddly, as it turns out, the same is true of Antonio Galloni.) The oldest grape variety known to science will turn out to be the one used for the wines at Michael Broadbent's christening. There will be a small scandal when researchers discover that Pinot Meunier has a tiny measure of DNA from Dom Pérignon himself, making Pinot Meunier the first-known offspring of a major clusterfuck. Pinot Gris will be downgraded from wine grape to disinfectant.
Drones will begin to be widely used by wineries. The world will take notice when Jancis Robinson's litter is hit by a Hellfire missile, killing all twelve of her co-authors who were bearing her. As if any of them could bear her otherwise.
Rupert Murdoch will purchase Decanter magazine, which will then feature photos in every issue of topless fermenters. Andrew Jefford will be arrested for hacking Robert Parker's cellphone and using it to sext Natalie MacLean. This will endear him to Murdoch. At Murdoch's insistence, Decanter will proclaim Australian wines the finest in the world, particularly, "FOX's own Hill of Nancy Grace Shiraz." Rebekah Brooks will be named Decanter's editor-in-chief but will be forced to resign when it's revealed she had an affair with Jay McInerney. The woman can't resist a hack.
The natural wine movement, proven to be closely related to that other great movement, peristalsis, begins to die of its own stupidity, but is replaced by a newer, and even more fanatical, Supernatural wine movement. "Supernatural wines," its supporters will say, "are a lot like natural wines, only they live forever, and your dog mysteriously won't stop barking at them." Supernatural wines are placed in amphorae, tightly sealed, lowered into the ground for several months, carefully monitored, and when the amphorae are opened, instead of wine, magically, there are white tigers inside.
Frustrated federal officials investigating wine forgery in the United States will declare an amnesty allowing forgers to reveal all the fake wines they've placed on the market without fear of prosecution. The major wine auction houses have more returns than Wimbledon, forcing many to near financial bankruptcy, equaling or excelling their moral bankruptcy. Canada asks, "Can we get that same fake wine deal?"
A study published in the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine will show a powerful link between consuming six glasses of wine daily and penis enlargement. At least in the eyes of the women who drank all that wine.
Pinot Noir and Cabernet Sauvignon will begin to wane in popularity and be replaced by Syrah. I've made this prediction every fucking year since 1995.
Italy will decide to abandon its DOCG system altogether saying, "It's like traffic laws—no one obeys them anyway, and it's just easier to stop pretending." The DOCG system is replaced with Obamacare.
A violent war between Masters of Wine and Master Sommeliers breaks out with each side sustaining heavy losses. At the Vatican, Pope Francis, in a stunning turn of events, encourages the two sides to keep at it, saying, "I'm the only real pontificate — screw those guys, they're just blowhards." A confused Doug Frost, MS, MW. tries to kill himself. The MWs blindfold captured MSs and make them identify Swiss wines, in direct violation of the Geneva Convention. A heroic MS declares, "Give me Chasselas, or give me death — but not in that order."
Climate change has some drastic effects in various important wine regions. In Germany, Eiswein is no longer possible, and, as a substitute, producers turn to the next best thing, Schlurpeewein. Consumers hate that drinking it too fast gives you one of those nasty headaches right between your eyes. In France, the oak forests begin to die off from an invasive beetle, and French oak barriques become extremely scarce. French scientists scramble to create a faux-barrel made mostly from vegetable byproducts. Winemakers prefer the new barrels that are "lightly chard." Cork oak forests in Portugal are threatened by drought conditions, and, ironically, specially trained dogs are brought in to wet them. The greenhouse effect makes Napa Valley so hot that winery owners are forced to keep their trophy wives indoors.
All the vineyards in Australia will be grafted over, and used solely for the production of Yellow Tail. The Australian government, in defending its position, remarks, "We expect the Chinese demand to be high."


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Features: 2-piece construction with a sturdy base, Updated Geographical maps, Location of major cities for each country. Educational & Fun for all ages.
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180 Days of Geography Series provides teachers and parents with 180 days of daily practice to build students' geographical knowledge and skills. Through these weekly units, students will improve their geographic background knowledge, critical thinking and reasoning skills, map and spatial skills, and answer photo- and text-dependent questions. This essential social studies resource provides teachers with the tools they need to provide detailed instruction on map skills, key geographical concepts, and the five themes of geography: location, place, human environment/interaction, movement, and region.
Advanced World Political Deskmaps, Pack of 5
Conveniently sized desk pad maps correspond with all of the information contained on the matching wall map including elevation, profile and four thematic maps. One handy variation includes a blank map on side B that is ideal for student testing. The heavy-duty laminated finish is markable with a dry erase marker or water soluble ink. 11" x 17". Additional shipping charges apply.
Basic Map Skills Reproducible Book
Reinforce learning, check students understanding, and reduce your preparation time with these effective, affordable activity books. 24 pages.
Introduce students to important geography concepts with 93 reproducible practice pages that cover beginning map skills, landforms, bodies of water, continents and oceans. Includes 2 full-color fold-out maps that support students at multiple skill levels, plus cumulative reviews that work as a formal assessment.
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36-week progressive program requires just a few minutes a day to practice essential map-reading skills, based on the 18 National Geography Standards. Teacher resource pages, reproducible maps and globes, map transparencies, glossary of geography terms, and answer keys included. 160 pages plus 36 map transparencies.
Correlated to meet current state standards, Geography Warm-Ups provides students in grades five–eight with mental warm-ups to help them prepare for the day's lesson, while reviewing what they have previously learned. Each page features two to three warm-up activities that you can cut apart and use separately. You can also use these activities as bell-ringers, transparencies, and digital copies. Perfect for individual or whole-class instruction, this series includes over 150 warm-ups and covers a variety of topics, including: U.S. regions, continents, and geography overview.
The Georgia Map Pack of 30 is great for building map literacy. Students will be able to reference the map of Georgia all year long! Put the Georgia map in the hands of every student. Each map has two sides. Side 1 includes: A colorful map of Georgia that includes all the major cities, A map legend that includes where all the major industries are located throughout the state including: peanuts, forest products, poultry and eggs, tourism, fruit, textiles, cattle. Origin of Georgia's name, History of Georgia's flag and image of the flag, Georgia's statehood date, Georgia state seal. Side 2 includes: A black & white image of all of the counties in Georgia. Each map is 8.5" X 11" and printed glossy paper.
Junior adventurers can explore the world with Wildlife Warrior Bindi Irwin! This updated version of our bestselling Talking Globe takes adventure seekers on a high-tech, hands-on, interactive introduction to geography. 12" Dual-swivel globe for 360-degree views. Interactive smart pen packed with audio for 1,000+ facts. Explore, Find It, and Measure It modes. Smart pen tucks into the globe for easy cleanup.
GeoSafari® Talking Globe™, Grades 3 and up
Updated–now includes more than 10,000 questions! Lights and sound effects guide and reward correct answers. Features 12" geopolitical globe, automatic scoring, adjustable volume, question repeat, help button, and jacks for optional AC adapter and headphones. The Talking Globe Jr. features simple, illustrated cartography with added color-coded icons that provide visual clues for the beginner. 1-4 players. Requires 4 "C" batteries, not included, or AC adapter (sold separately).
A place for students and teachers to interact creatively. Children will have fun coloring and labeling these giant blank maps! Smooth on the front and corrugated on the back for extra durability. Large 48" x 72" size allows several students to work together.
A place for students and teachers to interact creatively. Children will have fun coloring and labeling these giant blank maps! Smooth on the front and corrugated on the back for extra durability. Large 48" x 72" size allows several students to work together.


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From Tokyo to Tallahassee, Target to Ticketmaster, Slack is where work happens
An update on the world's fastest-growing collaboration hub
Since launching four years ago, Slack has become the fastest-growing business application in history, a collaboration hub that brings the right people together with the right conversations, information, and tools they use at work.
Around the world, teams of all kinds are experiencing profound changes in the way work gets done. Organizations need to evolve and change more often (and more quickly) than ever before. Slack is emerging as the answer to this need.
Ours is a purpose-built product that supports the way people actually work today — from messaging environments, to a multitude of cloud services, to a more open, dynamic work culture. From retailers, to research universities, to the largest financial services organizations, businesses are thriving in Slack.
"There's a big effort on cross-divisional and creative collaboration, and we're using Slack as the platform of choice to do that." — John Herbert, Chief Information Officer, 21st Century Fox
We're in the early stage of this sea change, and the momentum continues to build. Today, there are over 8 million Daily Active Users (DAUs) across the more than 500,000 organizations that use Slack to get work done. We have more than 3 million paid users, and 65% of the companies in the Fortune 100 are now paid Slack customers. More than 70,000 paid teams, many of which have multiple thousands of active users, connect in Slack channels across departments, functions, borders, and oceans.
And the growth is increasingly global: More than half of Slack's users are outside of the U.S., including some of our fastest-growing markets. For example, Italy is our fastest-growing market outside the U.S. for paid users, Austria for newly paid teams, and Japan just surpassed the UK to be our second-biggest market by DAUs.
Billions of interactions take place in Slack every month — not just conversations, but files shared and revised, feedback given with emoji and gifs, and tasks accomplished in the many tools people already use that integrate with Slack. These interactions represent tens of millions of decisions made, negotiations completed, projects perfected, and sales closed. (As Away co-founder Steph Korey says, "If the decision's not in Slack, it might as well not have happened.")
"Slack use was driven by acquisitions and the need to provide our employees with best-of-breed tools to keep them as employees. People told us they would quit if we took away their Slack." — Paul Donnelly, Vice President, Collaborative and Content Services, Oracle
Large businesses on average use over 1,000 software applications across individual departments, and that number is growing. Slack's role as a hub begins with collaboration between people, but this proliferation of business software is what makes Slack's role as a platform so powerful: it serves as one interface where an entire company's tools and knowledge come together.
There are now more than 1,500 apps in the Slack App Directory, and integrations with leaders such as Google, Workday, SAP, Salesforce, ServiceNow and Concur join the more than 200,000 weekly active developers building on our platform to make this new way to work possible.
Our mission at Slack is simple: to make people's working lives simpler, more pleasant, and more productive. The experience our users have working in Slack is core to our culture and to our business success.
Our aspiration to bring the power of Slack to new people and to new types of work on an ever-larger scale has never been higher, and we'll never take for granted that people champion Slack because they love to use it (see the more than 10,000 notes in Slack Love Tweets.)
As we continue to grow, we will relentlessly work to make Slack the product and place our customers want and need it to be.


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Publication: e-Journal of Nondestructive Testing (NDT) ISSN 1435-4934 (NDT.net Journal)
Hamamatsu Photonics Integrated Microfocus X-ray SourceHamamatsu Photonics32, Hamamatsu-city, Japan
The L10101 is a fully integrated, sealed microfocus x-ray unit, consisting of x-ray head, power supply, cooler and control electronics all within a single module. The unit can provide a minimum spot size of just 5 microns making the L10101 suitable for the detection of very small cracks, defects, contaminants and artefacts. The output power of this new unit is increased up to a maximum of 20 Watts, and x-ray voltage is adjustable over the range from 20 KV to 100 KV, which is useful for the detection of different materials, from lower density plastics to metallic components.
For simple operation and low maintenance the x-ray source unit has dispensed with the requirement for a separate electronic control box and the L10101 is automatically operated from a PC using external control via a built-in RS232C interface. As all Hamamatsu microfocus x-ray units are air cooled, they do not require oil emersion compared to conventional x-ray sources.
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What happens when an artist and an environmental scientist combine forces? An exhibition that explores the aesthetics and sustainability of landscapes.
Rachel Simmons and Lee Lines, "Unconformity 1," 2013, Ink, charcoal, and photo transfer on paper
In 2010, Rollins professors Rachel Simmons and Lee Lines traveled to Iceland. Their focus was different—Simmons, after all, is a mixed media artist whose work explores marine pollution, ecotourism, and sustainable development; Lines is a physical geographer whose research focuses on conservation and environmental design. The artist and the scientist were working together with a student as part of a Student-Faculty Collaborative Scholarship project that examined Iceland's dedication to renewable energy and its role in reshaping their physical and cultural landscapes.
Combining Simmons' artistic background and Lines' knowledge of geography and environmental issues, the two used that trip—and the photographs taken while there—as a springboard for a new exhibition, entitled The Aesthetics of Scale. The exhibition, which also includes images from the United States, Switzerland, and Dominica, explores landscape in terms of aesthetics, scale, and sustainability. It is on display at the Orlando Museum of Art through April 28, 2013. Admission is free.
How did this project get started? Why Iceland?
RS: Our student, Sarah Griffis '11 was a double major in environmental studies and studio art. She had this idea in mind that she wanted to get to Iceland.
LL: An obsession, more like an obsession.
RS: Yeah, it was really an obsession that I could relate to. I had been to Antarctica in 2008 and 2009, and Iceland was a place I was obsessed with, too.
LL: I think we both had been thinking about going there for quite some time. There are all sorts of interesting things going on there with renewable energy and beautiful, physical landscapes.
What's one challenge you've faced while working on this project together?
LL: We are definitely coming from different backgrounds. I'm a physical geographer by training, and Rachel is an artist. There have been many moments along the way where it's very apparent that we see some things differently. For example, at one point, we were putting together a visual presentation—working with a specific photograph of a river flowing through a landscape in rural Iceland. Rachel and Sarah started talking about flipping the image because visually it worked better.
RS: Lee had this moment of serious concern, exclaiming "That misrepresents the geography of the landscape!"
LL: This isn't a real place if you flip it. There's no place on earth that looks like that. If someone from Iceland saw that photograph, they would surely recognize the place, but once it's been flipped it becomes a landscape that doesn't really exist.
RS: And for artists, that kind of manipulation of an image might allow them to better articulate an idea or concept, so they wouldn't have any qualms about it.
LL: We've had a lot of moments like that along the way.
RS: It's a kind of inter-cultural exchange. There's nothing like trying to understand the point of view of another academic discipline to help you understand your own.
Tell me about the process.
RS: We start the process by discussing and selecting photographs from Lee's field work. Not just any images, but photos that highlight specific aspects of scale and sustainability.
The photos are then transferred onto printmaking paper using an etching press and solvent. Afterwards, I assess the contrast and overall readability of the images and add drawing as a final layer as needed.
The fun thing that happens with this transfer technique is that by brushing the solvent on, it's like painting with the image. These techniques help push the image further away from photography into a drawing space where you can then shift the perspective of the viewer to focus on certain things. Working in the space between realism and abstraction allows us to represent the ambiguity and complexity of the landscape.
Why the ambiguity?
LL: We're not only wrestling with aesthetic questions in the art, but also with thematic questions about scale and sustainability.
There's a fundamental tension between human-scale structures and the large industrial-scale structures that exist in many landscapes. Different places have resolved it or not resolved it in different ways. In some places, large fixed-scale structures completely dominate the landscape.
RS: Like in Central Florida.
LL: Yeah, many of these landscapes are not physically accessible to people unless they're in an automobile. Yet, in many other places, we see the persistence of the original human-scale patterns. We're exploring the tension between these two things and this is where the challenge comes in. We could easily take the work in the direction of, "Okay, these landscapes have a low carbon footprint, and these landscapes have a very high carbon footprint." But that is only a part of the larger picture.
RS: There are large geothermal plants in Iceland that are great from a carbon standpoint, but still end up feeling very industrial. It's just not clear, aesthetically, how all of this plays out.
LL: You can design very green structures that have no real connection to the landscape they're in. You know that kind of cold, eco-architecture you sometimes see, like geodesic domes. They really look out of place in the landscape. So the question becomes, how do you design landscapes that are sustainable, yet scaled in such a way that the organic patterns and structures, which have a long history in the place, remain intact?


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|Background Information
|Olof Medin
|Country of Birth
|February 1, 1996 (age 24)
|Team Singularity
Top Laner
|Favorite Champs
|Soloqueue IDs
|mors lilla olle, ALPHADRAFTdotCOM, mute all min 1, GLINBURGERKING
|Social Media & Links
|Team History
Olof "Flaxxish" Medin is a League of Legends esports player, currently top laner for Team Singularity.
Olof "Flaxxish" Medin started playing computer games at almost the same time he started walking. He began by playing Warcraft 2 and Starcraft LAN games with his brother before moving on to Diablo 2 and Warcraft 3, until he found his way to Dota. After many years of pubstomping on the Battle.net, and playing WoW and Maple Story, his classmates convinced him to try League of Legends, and he fell in love with the game with his first pentakill.
2014 Season[edit]
Flaxxish joined his first notable team, Planetkey Dynamics towards the end of the season, and played in EPS Germany - Winter 2014. He and the team managed to qualify for the group stage but were unable to progress to the offline finals.
2015 Season[edit]
At the same time, Flaxxish was part of the roster of Meloncats, and he managed to qualify for the 2015 Spring Expansion Tournament with them via the Challenger Ladder but was unable to participate in the tournament because on November 19, 2014, Riot announced that he had violated the Summoner's Code by in-game harassment, verbal abuse, and continual use of racial slurs. He was suspended from European LCS Expansion Tournament and all Riot-affiliated League of Legends tournaments through the 2015 Spring Split.[22]
At the end of March 2015, it was announced that Flaxxish's competitive ban was to be kept in place through the Summer Split, though it was noted that he had made progress.[23]
A few months later, Flaxxish joined Team Popmog, and participated in the ESL Meisterschaft - Summer 2015, but left the team before the group stage.
Soon after, Flaxxish subbed in for Atlantis eSports in the LVP Season 8 Final Cup along with Maxlore. However, the team was knocked out by wSystem in the quarterfinals. He then joined OverGaming - during his time on the team, they finished 1st at Island of Legends 2015, beating PainGaming in the final. They also competed in LVP Season 9, though Flaxxish left soon after the start of the season.
Flaxxish then joined Exertus Esports and participated in the ESL UK Premiership - Summer 2015. He also joined EURONICS Gaming, with whom he participated in the ESL Meisterschaft - Winter 2015, and against All authority to play in the ESL Championnat National - Autumn 2015.
After EURONICS Gaming disbanded, Flaxxish left Exertus Esports and joined FM eSports to continue to play in the in the ESL UK Premiership - Summer 2015, helping his new team to qualify for the playoffs, but leaving before the playoffs themselves. He also left against All authority, along with Amin.
2016 Season[edit]
At the start of the season, Flaxxish was notified by Riot that his in-game behavior had improved to a satisfying degree and his suspension had been uplifted.[24]
He went on to join Team Asterion to compete in the EUCS Spring Open Qualifier. They were knocked out of the EUW bracket by eventual qualifiers Millenium in the quarterfinals.
- First contact with pro gaming was in 2008 at age 11 - he won the DotA tournament at a LAN, the final game ending with his team destroying the other team's fountain (then possible with evasion stacking).
- Notably taunts and 1v1s Faker in a video with over 300k views.
- Once fell asleep at a LAN under a bed, on the floor, while people were looking for him.
- Always wins against his family on Settlers, the board game.
- Is an avid anime fan and was first introduced to the genre by Pokémon and Dragonball. Hunter x Hunter, Trigun, and Death Note are some of his favorite series.
Tournament Results[edit]
This table shows up to the 10 most recent results. For complete results, click here.
External Links=
The following pages redirect here:
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 new LoL lineup twitter.com
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Nova eSports' Facebook Post facebook.com
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Nova Esports accepting offers for Challenger Series spot espn.go.com
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Nova eSports' Facebook Post facebook.com
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Flaxxish's Tweet twitter.com
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 YL'de kadrolar belli oldu! (Turkish) lolesports.com
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 Flaxxish's Tweet twitter.com
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 Movistar Riders' Tweet (Spanish) twitter.com
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 Flaxxish's Tweet twitter.com
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 Emtest's Tweet twitter.com
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 Diabolus Esports' Tweet twitter.com
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 Flaxxish's Tweet twitter.com
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 13.2 GCD Archive Pages: before change - TUR - 2019-02-12; after change - TUR - 2019-02-13
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 14.2 PRIDE's Tweet (Polish) twitter.com
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 15.2 PRIDE's Tweet (Polish) twitter.com
- ↑ 16.0 16.1 16.2 Flaxxish's Tweet twitter.com
- ↑ 17.0 17.1 17.2 x6tence's Tweet (Spanish) twitter.com
- ↑ 18.0 18.1 18.2 Flaxxish's Tweet twitter.com
- ↑ 19.0 19.1 19.2 FALKN's Tweet twitter.com
- ↑ 20.0 20.1 20.2 Team Singularity's Tweet twitter.com
- ↑ Galakticos' Tweet (Turkish) twitter.com
- ↑ League of Legends Competition Ruling: Olof "Flaxxish" Medin euw.lolesports.com
- ↑ 2015 Mid-Year Long-Term Suspension Reviews lolesports.com
- ↑ Flaxxish's Tweet twitter.com


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Long has my appetite lusted for the supposed short rib splendor that lay behind the wooden doors of Il Buco Alimentari, so with Anne, Ish and Mr. FoodandPants in tow, we paid the cute, bustling spot a visit to verify the rumors.
We whet our palates with their ricotta appetizer, housemade ricotta topped with shaved porcini mushrooms, hazelnuts and mint.
Anne became more obsessed with this dish than anyone at the table, with good reason, as the cracked black pepper and healthy drizzle of olive oil melded nicely with the fresh, creamy ricotta.
We shared a plate of spit-roasted duck, plated with charred onions, dates and shaved tokyo turnip.
The duck was very lean, with a thin, soft skin, and the flesh was tender and moist throughout. The flavors were subtle, letting the simple succulence of the duck shine.
It is worth the visit also - the short rib is served off a giant Flintstone shaped bone, ridiculously tender, with a gorgeously thick layer of black peppercorn that I could not get enough of - I may just be finding myself returning for lunch, where the short rib is served in a sandwich. We'll see if my camera will be able to behold that maddeningly meaty beauty then !
Han's Nonsensical Rating: Shawwwtyy, it's your birthday, you gotta eat that short rib like it's your birthday !
Il Buco Alimentari & Vineria
53 Great Jones Street Manhattan, NY 10012
Note: They take reservations, but very loosely (i.e., seating times will vary from the reservation you make).