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Very neat! The fairy hobmother was said to be a legend, and here this creature is fluttering about cyberspace selling washing appliances! I bet this fairy has very clean wings!
Congrats to you, Paula. Happy to hear 2013 is shaping up t be a good year for you 🙂
Ohhhh! I haven't been visited by the Fairy Hobmother, but I've been hoping for a visit!!! REALLY hoping! ;)I'm talkin' fingers and toes, and everything else crossed!
I've been needing to replace my dryer. The tumble dryer video is interesting.
How awesome is that, a fairy Hobmother!! I am going to check out the website I need a new washer soon. Mine makes a horrible grinding noise that drives me nuts!
Congrats on your Fairy Hobmother visit.
love this idea! I so need the fairy Hobmother come visit me, I am 28 weeks and have the flu, miserable. I need a pick me up! 🙂
Where does one give comments to the Fairy Hobmother? I need a visit… I will be happy to go where she is…
Margarita: You leave a comment here and that is enough. Plus click through to the link for appliances on line and then hopefully he will see that and send you some love.
I've had the Fairy Hobmother visit me and he is awesome! 😀
Tee hee! I actually have been visited by the Fairy Hobmother and it was great! 🙂
Congrats … looks like things are looking up. I would love to get a visit myself… if there was one in Trinidad 🙂
Woohoo, exciting!!
I haven't been visited, but maybe one day he will stop by.
what a wonderful way to start the new year. I hope the rest of your year continues on the upstring
Congrats to you on your visit. We love the Fairy Hobmother! They are awesome!
Congrats to you on being lucky enough to get the visit:) I would love a visit from the Fairty Hobmother!
I would LOVE a visit from the Fairy Hobmother. I am not sure he comes this far up north though….
I want a visit from the Hobmother! Here's hoping he comes along to see frugal edmonton mama!
No, haven't had the pleasure, but have seen a lot of my friends pretty happy to have proof the Fairy Hobmother is real! My kitchen is always looking for upgrades via fairy dust. 🙂
The Fairy Hobmother is one generous guy!! Glad that you were visited, too, Paula!
Congrats! Haven't been visited yet – but I hold out hope!
No, I've never been visited. 🙁 I have been check out their Web site. We're moving to Spain soon, and I'm really concerned I won't have a dishwasher (I HATE washing dishes), but Appliances Online sells portable dishwashers.
Congrats on the visit! I haven't had a visit yet, myself, but maybe someday 🙂
I love this post, and it's true, totally makes my day when a person I've looked up to takes the time to comment on my little ole blog. =) Glad I could comment on yours today!
Way to go! I bet this made your week a little brighter.
Appliances… I need a new dishwasher. Mine is on it's last leg. Maybe I'll go pay them a visit.
I love this idea of marketing… EVERYBODY ends up with a smile on their face! Blog visits, site visits, amazon love, comment craziness… it seems like a fun idea. Woohoo Fairy Hobmother!
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Oh how awesome! What a busy little creature this Fairy Hobmother is! I would LOVE a visit! Please visit me Fairy Hobmother! http://www.homeofohm.com 🙂
Congratulations! A great way to start the month of love! Hopes she visits our new redesigned website:) http://www.ottawamommyclub.ca


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With the rise in competition recruitment agencies are facing the challenges to select the candidates who are not only qualified but skilled. Recruitment software is a great help these days, this has revolutionized the way of working of the HR department for hiring the talent in the companies.
Selection of skilled and talented employees for the companies is a challenging task but with the help of recruitment software, it becomes easy to do it efficiently and accurately. It is beneficial for both small as well as big business houses. With the help of this software, one can produce portals; interested candidates can submit their resume and other required documents by these portals. In this way one can get the pool of talent, only after use of certain keywords:
Application tracking system is very useful for hiring the best talent which is a feature of recruitment software; it minimizes the communication gap among recruiters, HR manager, and applicants. This system is flexible and easy to use. Recruitment software has made the task very simple and convenient. There is online recruitment software is also available which is helpful for managing the data on the internet the best feature is it is user-friendly.
With the help of recruitment software, HR managers can save a lot of precious time using a library of pre-screening questions based on job requirements. This will certainly decrease the time necessary to evaluate the applicant pool and focus on qualified candidates. Time saved can be used for other lucrative activities of the business.
This software is useful for both staffing agency recruiters as well as in-house recruiters. While utilizing this software it mechanically verifies the validity of resumes and can avoid any duplicity and download resumes in database uncomplicatedly. One can attract, evaluate and find amazing talents for the companies. Surely recruitment software accomplishes the task uninterruptedly, eliminates errors and advantageous for all companies.

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Expect more "surprises" unless reporting picks up
First posted at Journalism, Journalists and the World
Observers are shocked about how young lawyers in Pakistan are rallying behind the accused murderer of the governor of Punjab province Salman Taseer, who was an outspoken proponent of liberalism.
The lawyers were once held up as the potential leaders of a liberal democratic Pakistan when they stood up to the dictatorship a couple of years ago. And now they are supporting a man who objected to political liberalism and who was a conservative Islamic fundamentalist.
What happened and why does it matter?
The New York Times has a great article discussing this issue: Pakistan Faces a Divide of Age on Muslim Law.
One paragraph summed up the problem for the United States:
Washington has poured billions of dollars into the Pakistani military to combat terrorism, but has long neglected a civilian effort to counter the inexorable pull of conservative Islam. By now the conservatives have entered nearly every part of Pakistani society, even the rank-and-file security forces, as the assassination showed.
For all the foreign aid the United States has handed out since the days of the Marshall Plan 65 years ago, very little thought has been given to "civilian" efforts of building democratic institutions — including free and independent media.
There was always money — granted, a limited amount — available through the U.S. Information Agency to sponsor study tours and international leadership exchanges. But within government circles few saw the value in spending money on working at a grassroots level to build democratic institutions such as independent media, community groups or trade unions. But even when USIA financed these types of programs, most in the agency didn't understand the purpose.
Then things started to change in the 1980s. Say what you will about Ronald Reagan and his foreign policy, it was under his administration that the National Endowment for Democracy was founded.
The NED was the first U.S. financed but private organization dedicated to working to develop democratic institutions in the developing world.
The core groups that receive grants from the NED are the international arms of the Democratic and Republican Parties, the AFL-CIO and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Other smaller groups also get one-time grants for specific programs.
In the 1990s the U.S. Agency for International Development also finally got the message that all the development work in the world will not do much to help unless the people are part of the program. And for the people to be part of any national development means the promotion of local groups independent of the national power structure.
By the end of the 20th century, the USAID Democracy & Governance program was running programs that supported community groups and independent media.
The USAID programs paid for U.S. journalists to teach classes around the world in interviewing techniques and production skills. And in the process, the U.S. journalists transmitted their deep-seated belief that media are supposed to be separate and independent from the government.
The U.S. is late to the game of democracy development. And with the budget crisis in the U.S. and no real constituency for international programs (other than the Pentagon), we should expect to see cuts in already limited programs that promote free and independent media.
And the worst part, as I see it, is that even if there were loads more stories about how the U.S. missed opportunities to promote our values of democracy and pluralism, I don't think it will matter. Too many in Congress have their minds made up that any foreign aid is a waste of time — unless it promotes their particular agenda — and too many Americans just don't care.
We will continue to be "surprised" by events around the world until we start putting some value in understanding what is going on in the world.
(I still recall when the Solidarity movement erupted in Poland 30 years ago. When a U.S. diplomat was asked why the State Department did not see it coming, he responded: "You expect us to talk to workers?" Fortunately the State Dept. has learned its lesson. Diplomats now reach out to the widest range of sources within a country as possible — the WikiLeaks cables prove that.)
To avoid more "surprises," the U.S. media need to see that events in the rest of the world affect us. The few news organizations that still have international correspondents should be giving those reporters more time/space to explain how events in far-away lands affect American society, politics or economy.
Even more can be done without foreign correspondents.
- The U.S. is a nation of immigrants. Every city and town has a community with connections to "the old country." Maybe more attention needs to be paid to those immigrant communities.
- I also defy anyone to show me one community in the U.S. that does not have some sort of economic link to another country. (And I don't mean the local Honda dealership or the Chinese-made products at Wal-Mart.)
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Ten Things Never To Reveal Until You Have The Job
Job-seekers often have the wrong idea about how to conduct a job search.
They think that when they go to an interview and get into a recruiting pipeline, their assignment is to make best friends with everyone they meet on the employer side of the desk. They think that over the course of their interviews, they need to ingratiate themselves and become part of the team even before they get the job offer.
In the process of ingratiating themselves they can easily give away too much information!
Ten Things Never To Reveal Until You Have The Job
1. How many other employers you're talking with, or which ones
2. How much you earned at your last job (or your current job)
3. How desperate your financial situation is
4. How perfectly the job meets your lifestyle needs
5. How easy or difficult your job search has been
6. What you're doing for money during your job search
7. How assiduously (or not) you're pursuing your job search
8. Promising opportunities that disappeared or disappointed you during your job search
9. How much you prefer one employer over others you're interviewing with
10. How badly you want the job
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Part II of Our @ATCevent #SST2014 Series
Last week we talked about the power of TMTOWTDI (pronouced TIM-TOADY) in sourcing. The idea is that there is more than one way to source for a req. Now today we will talk about the next steps in the process: Candidate Engagement and Attraction. When reaching out to candidates via email and the phone, what is the correct way to approach them? What is the best way to message them?
The real question you should be asking is: What do you have that they want? This is a very simple question with a host of complex answers that are changing all the time. There is only one way that you will get the answers you need. By PICKING UP THE PHONE AND TALKING TO THE CANDIDATE!
Now I know that I sound angry by typing in all caps, but I'm really trying to drive home this point: Too many sourcers and recruiters are afraid to pick up the phone and instead only do what is called "email recruiting". The problem with that method is that it's difficult to get an honest (or close to honest) read of the candidate. We live in a world where people can hide. They hide behind emails, they hide behind social profiles, they hide behind comments on websites. This technological separation between people allows them a certain level of protection and feeling of bravery. The downside is that the candidate's answers are not spontaneous, they are edited many times over, and sometimes they are not even their own answers! Continue reading


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Welcome from the Heads
St George's Junior School has two sites: La Storta and City Centre.
Both Junior Schools start with Red Dragons (pre-reception, aged 3) and go up to Year 6 (aged 11), after which pupils usually join the Senior School in Year 7 at La Storta.
La Storta Junior School
The Head of St George's La Storta Junior School is Ms Christine Williams BA, PGCE, MA.
Ms Williams is Head of St George's La Storta Junior School in Rome, where she has held posts as Deputy Head, SENCO, EAL specialist and Class teacher in both Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2. Ms Williams trained as a teacher in the UK, where she specialised in the 9-13 age range. She has worked extensively in the international sector and previously taught in Nigeria. Ms Williams' first degree is in Geography, and acquiring an MA in Education enabled her to develop her interest in how children learn. She has visited a number of international schools and has enjoyed learning from and with them in terms of educational development.
I am fortunate to know St George's well, both as a teacher and a parent, since both my children worked their way through the school. Having obtained their IB Diplomas they went on to study at British universities of their choice. I can honestly say their St George's experience prepared them well, not only for their university studies, but also for life beyond school.
City Centre Junior School
The Head of St George's City Centre Junior School is Mr Michael Barber B Ed (Hons), FRGS.
Mr Barber was appointed to St George's City Centre Junior School in 2006. He is a geographer by training and inclination. He was born in Uganda and lived in Australia and Zimbabwe as a boy. He started his teaching career in Bristol before moving to South East England.
Prior to joining St George's I was the Headteacher of a Preparatory School in the south of England. Working at St George's City Centre has not only given me the challenge of using my experience working in UK Independent schools but tailoring this for children from a wide variety of cultural backgrounds. Rome is such a vibrant city to live and work in with a wealth of cultural and sporting activities.


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Aloha snorkel friends! Since the holiday season is upon us and you may have snorkel gear on your wish list, we wanted to make sure you know what to ask for and how to use it all. Join us for snorkel gear 101 and learn how to use your snorkeling gear!
Snorkel gear consists of 3 main pieces: mask, snorkel and fins. Many people like to wear a wetsuit as well to stay warm and enjoy their snorkel experience longer. The mask is your snorkel lens, it enables you to peer into the ocean's magnificence and take in a whole new world with your eyes. The snorkel is the long tube that is attached to your mask, and allows you to breathe while viewing the underwater world. The fins turn your feet into flippers and help propel you through the water to move around with ease. Now that you have all of the snorkel gear components, it is important to make sure you know how to effectively use all of those pieces. The seal of your mask is very important in your snorkel experience. When you put your mask on, make sure there is no hair in the way of the seal. If the seal is broken, your mask can fill with water. The snorkel goes on the left side of the mask. Seal your lips firmly around the mouth piece just before you enter the water and keep the top of the snorkel above the surface in order to keep water from coming in. Your fins go on your feet. You can walk down the beach into the water with them on or the other way is to enter into the shallow water and then put your flippers on. Once in the water and you get your fins on let them do the work and keep your arms behind you at the small of your back or directly out front. This is important to keep you from fatiguing quickly, as well as to prevent you from scaring away any marine life by flailing your arms. Here are a few equipment troubleshooting tips, should you need them:
- Use de-fog to view the underwater world through a clear mask.
- A good quality mask which is properly fitted is important to prevent leaking.
- For fins that might not fit correctly, you can bring an extra pair of socks to wear which can sometimes help the skin from chafing or blistering.
- Wearing a wetsuit not only helps you stay warm, it helps protect you from the sun while also helping you float in the water.
You are now ready to enjoy your new snorkel gear! Happy Holidays, and remember to book your snorkel tour on your Maui stay with Maui Snorkel Tours! We look forward to snorkeling with you…
Much Aloha,
Maui Snorkel Tours Team
*Snorkel Safely – as with any physical activity there is a risk of injury associated with snorkeling. This blog has been provided for informational purposes only; it is not intended to take the place of practical instruction.


text: On Sep 20, 2008, at 20:24 , Victor Ivrii wrote: > On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 10:24 PM, Justin C. Walker <justin at mac.com> > wrote: >> Thanks, Simon, > >> A followup question: Does this explain why trying to update or >> install >> 'pdflatex' by name, from several different mirrors, fails? > > If pdflatex is missing try to remove and then install it. It may > happen that tlmgr thinks that it is here and the latest version Hrm...if it's missing, it's already removed :-} [just kidding: I know what you mean]. I started down this path because running TeXShop with the updated TL2008 failed (can't find /usr/texbin/pdflatex). I have tried both the update and install options on tlmgr, and 4 different mirrors, to no avail. The answer I suppose is to reinstall TL2008, but I am wondering why it appears to be missing from the mirrors (it's certainly missing from the TL2008 "/usr/texbin"). Thanks for any clues you can through my way. Justin PS: for the record, here are the items in the TL2008 texbin whose names contain the strings 'pdf' and 'latex': lrwxrwxrwx 1 root wheel 11 Sep 20 15:17 bg5+pdflatex -> gbkpdflatex -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 1222 Aug 12 20:43 bg5pdflatex -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 1223 Aug 12 20:43 cef5pdflatex -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 1222 Aug 12 20:43 cefpdflatex -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 1220 Aug 12 20:43 cefspdflatex lrwxrwxrwx 1 root wheel 6 Sep 20 15:17 cslatex -> pdftex -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 1222 Aug 12 20:43 gbkpdflatex lrwxrwxrwx 1 root wheel 6 Sep 20 15:35 mllatex -> pdftex lrwxrwxrwx 1 root wheel 6 Sep 20 15:17 pdfcslatex -> pdftex -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 1220 Aug 12 20:43 sjispdflatex Also, I have a log of the tlmgr update run, and 'pdflatex' is nowhere mentioned. Go figure (TeXShop was happily producing PDFs until I updated today). -- Justin C. Walker, Curmudgeon-At-Large Director Institute for the Enhancement of the Director's Income -------- "Weaseling out of things is what separates us from the animals. Well, except the weasel." - Homer J Simpson --------


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After you have chosen your desired vehicle and gone over our finance options, you can now complete an online application to receive a quote on your finance. The application is simple and straight forward and it will only take a few minutes. Before you start, here is some general information about what you'll be asked to provide.
Please read our Terms and Conditions to learn how we handle your personal data, as this applications will collect some of it. We would also like to inform you that a credit check will be carried in order to support your eligibility. By accepting our T&Cs, you give us your consent for this to happen.
First, we will need you to confirm that you are over 18 years of age, a UK resident and hold a valid driving licence.
You will be asked to provide details all your registered addresses for the past 3 years, as well as jobs you have held during that time.We will also need to collect your bank and income details in regards to the credit check.
Please complete all the sections on the application form, as you will not be able to submit it other ways.
We aim to provide you with a decision within minutes, therefore all of the submitted applications are processed immediately, however please keep in mind that we only operate during normal working hours.
We would like to let you know that applying online is without obligation. You are not committing to buying the vehicle and you will still be able to change the deposit, terms and even the vehicle itself .


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After causing death and destruction over the southern part of the U.S. and on the Caribbean island of Puerto Rico, hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria are dampening corporate quarterly profits in the U.S.
While the powerful storms during August and September hit insurers who now must pay for damaged property in the billions of dollars, many manufacturers, banks and retailers are also feeling the hit from the storms.
Over 50% of the companies in the S&P 500 reporting results for the third quarter the past few weeks, including Delta Air Lines, Costco and Harley-Davidson, have said during investors' conference calls that the hurricanes harmed business to a certain degree.
The CFO of Harley-Davidson said the company estimates that the hurricane impacted business by between 1.5% and 2% for retail sales during the third quarter.
The storms were part of the worst hurricane season in the Atlantic in more than 10 years, damaging or destroying homes, businesses as well as public infrastructure, while killing more than 200 people and putting a halt to normal day to day economic activity.
Senior executives from 48 of the S&P 500 companies told investors their companies had been affected negatively by the recent hurricanes.
Twelve or more companies, including Abbott Laboratories and U.S. Bancorp, also have said that their businesses were hurt by an earthquake in Mexico during September that killed 369 people. Mexico is a huge market for U.S. companies.
The American International Group estimated that losses before taxes of close to $1 billion for storms Harvey and Irma, as much as $700 million for Maria and other catastrophe losses such as the earthquake in Mexico of approximately $150 million.
Travelers Cos. on Thursday said it had recorded catastrophe losses of $700 million from Harvey and Irma, though its profit for the quarter dropped less than feared on Wall Street.
S&P 500 companies are expected on average to have increased non-GAAP per share earnings by over 4.2% during the just ended third quarter, which is the slowest growth in the last year, according to data compiled by an online research firm.
Excluding insurance companies, which are thought to have taken a hit on average of a drop of 63.3% in quarterly profits, earnings for S&P 500 companies are estimated to increase 6.9%.
During September, the lingering effects of Harvey and Irma hurt activity in factories, and blunted any rebound in industrial production in the U.S., said the Federal Reserve on Tuesday.


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In some instances, you might not want applications that are installed in the MED-V workspace to be published to the host computer Start menu. You can unpublish these applications by following the instructions at How to Publish and Unpublish an Application on the MED-V Workspace. However, if the program ever automatically updates, it might also be automatically republished. This causes you to have to unpublish the application again.
Windows Virtual PC includes a feature known as the "Exclude List" that lets you specify certain installed applications that you do not want published to the host Start menu. The "Exclude List" is located in the guest registry in the HLKM\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Virtual Machine\VPCVAppExcludeList key and lists those applications that are not published to the host Start menu. You can think of the "Exclude List" as permanently unpublishing the specified applications because any automatic updates to the applications that are listed will not cause them to be automatically republished.
Managing Applications by Using the Exclude List in Windows Virtual PC
Open the MED-V workspace in full screen.
For information about opening the MED-V workspace in full-screen mode by using the MED-V Administration Toolkit, see Opening the MED-V Workspace Virtual Machine. Or you can manually open it in full screen by clicking Start, click All Programs, click Windows Virtual PC, click Windows Virtual PC, and then double-click the MED-V workspace.
In the MED-V workspace Windows Virtual PC window, open Registry Editor.
Click Start, click Run, and then type regedit. Then click OK.
In Registry Editor, locate the HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Virtual Machine\VPCVAppExcludeList registry key.
Create a new registry value for the installed application that you do not want published to the host computer Start menu. For example, if you want to unpublish the automatically published program Microsoft Silverlight, follow these steps:
With the VPCVAppExcludeList registry key highlighted, click Edit, click New, and then click String Value.
Enter the name for the new registry value. For example, for Microsoft Silverlight, you might enter sllauncher.exe.
Double-click the new registry value and enter the value data.
The value data is the full path for the command that you want to unpublish. You can find the full path by right-clicking on the shortcut on the Start menu for the application that you do not want published. The full path is listed in the Shortcut tab under Target.
For example, for the program Microsoft Silverlight, the full path might be "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Silverlight\4.0.50917.0\Silverlight.Configuration.exe."
Important If applicable, remove the quotation marks from the full path when you enter it into the value data field.
Close Registry Editor and restart the MED-V workspace virtual machine.
The application is still installed in the MED-V workspace but is now removed from the host computer Start menu.
You can also republish an excluded application to the host Start menu by deleting the corresponding value from the VPCVAppExcludeList key. For example, to republish Microsoft Silverlight, right-click the registry value sllauncher.exe and select Delete.


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The first 1,000 Stags to purchase tickets will receive an exclusive co-branded Fairfield/Yankees baseball cap
Over 600 tickets have been sold thus far for Fairfield University Night at Yankee Stadium on September 15 at 7 p.m. As a special promotion in partnership with the Yankees, now the first 1,000 Fairfield Stags to purchase tickets will receive the co-branded baseball cap! Click here to purchase tickets, which are available until Wednesday, September 13. Don't wait!
Lucas the Stag will welcome Stags in the Stadium's Great Hall to take pictures and sign autographs as fans as they enter Yankee Stadium. Lucas will also be featured in an on field presentation prior to the game.
Fans who purchase tickets in Sections 135, 231 and 333 can enjoy all-inclusive hot dogs, burgers, chicken tenders, French fries, salad, domestic draft beer and Pepsi products from 5-6:30 p.m. in the Masterpass Batters Eye Deck.
Additionally, the first 18,000 fans in the stadium that evening receive a Yankees Knit Cap.
Current students can sign up here for bus transportation to the game. The bus will depart campus at 4 p.m. from the Barone Campus Center. Look for future updates through OrgSync as game day approaches.
For questions, please contact the Office of Student Engagement 203-254-4000 ext. 4053
This ticket promotion in partnership with the New York Yankees will be available until Wednesday, September 13 . Click here to purchase tickets.
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text: Dirty_habiT 2,862 Posted August 4, 2003 I, for the past year or two, have been rather disgusted by the actions of some "friends". It seems that there's an overabundance of guys that are so cheesy that they'll use false images of being a big slangin dealer or money mover just to get in some stupid girl's draws. And there's this overwhelming supply of seemingly "new" girls that are always coming "out of the woodwork" to set themselves up for failure. It's almost like they try to find some guy that can treat them right, if by treating them right I mean keeping them fucked up and buying them shit. That's fucking stupid as hell. It makes no room for guys like me who actually give a fuck. Don't get me wrong, I kinda don't give a fuck, but I am sincere and compassionate when need be, and I don't believe in falsely representing myself to others. It makes me sick. Pussy is real nice, but it is not everything. There's so many shallow girls out there that'll just jump to the next best opportunity when it's waved in their face. To me, that is worthless. You know what I say, I say oh well... and I keep working and making money, and doing things that will be good for my future. I don't post this rant because I have been burned by a girl, but, rather, because I'm in a point of observing this stupid behavior first hand. I need to move to a place where there's some respectable drunken women. Does anyone have any similar thoughts or stories to share? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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In Chinese environment, the tech giants are likely to describe their power around certain industries such as Alibaba and Tencent. Since their authority goes on expanding, the overlap is assured and mobile payment is one of those. Mobile payments are one of those areas of a rival.
It's an advantageous and well-advanced market, obtaining greater than 200 percent a year in the fourth quarter of 2016 when it strikes $186 billion in the US. Since Mobile payments are the main factor to consumer data, most probably in China, where about half of online business go on through a smartphone. Alibaba's financial partner has long influenced the market with Alipay.
Its mobile wallet started in 2009 which becomes one of the first mobile payments solutions, with Alipay held about 80% of the market for five quarters, out setting in the third quarter of 2013. Due to WeChat's collision and social benefits, in these past two years, the application, WeChat Pay has evolved into Alipay's biggest rival. WeChat Pay, which was initiated in 2013, is the mobile wallet in the middle of Chinese social messaging app WeChat.
Most recently, Analysis made a report on China's mobile payment market which states that Alipay had a share of 54.7%; Tenpay which contains WeChat Pay came in second with about 37 percent. And while Alipay saw greater transaction amounts altering its overall market share, Tenpay had almost paired a number of active users.
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If e-commerce becomes the base of Alipay, the social interplay is the driving force concerning the payments on WeChat. In general, WeChat Pay has subsidized on China's tradition of funding red packets with huge success. After getting out its own essential red packet, which allows users send up to US$29 to WeChat friends.
The mobile app says around 16 million red packets sent back during Chinese New Years in regards with Tencent. WeChat Red Packets emerges from one of Tencent's firm tariffs that every executive in the firm gives each operator a red packet with a cash gift after the Chinese New Year holiday, wrote in a blog post about WeChat.
At present, Chinese New Year is a point of huge competition among the two firms which have hired a variety of strategy to allure lot of users like offering free red packets and coupons. Alipay even combined the features of augmented reality to its app, urging users to dig up red packets with Pokemon Go. At the end of 2014, about 100 million users had combined their bank accounts with WeChat Pay and QQ Wallet payment system which is another well-known messaging system of Tencent.
Even today, offering red packets is the even more famous use of WeChat Pay as it is sending money to the WeChat contacts. It's essential to note that not either of Alipay or WeChat Pay makes money from end to end payments, which includes red packet exchanges amidst users.
But for WeChat, payments amongst users were important to begin its early user base. WeChat doesn't have a powerful e-commerce business to retreat for user gain. As soon as it persuaded that millions of users to sign up for mobile wallet, WeChat Pay could now bring its focus to online services and linking them to users.
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In the year 2015, China's online to offline market break out the ride-hailing, food delivery, and buying movie tickets. Altogether Tencent and Alibaba dive in as active shareholder. Alibaba endorsed its delivery startup Meituan, whereas Tencent endures in Yelp-like Dianping at the end of 2015, the two startups combined into Meituan-Dianping as shareholders.
Payments are a low-level entry point, he says, by which services can be combined and data on transactions and consumer attitude can be drawn out. Above all, WeChat Pay is featured as a payment option, but not Alipay. Ant Financial stated to comment.
It looks to have brought in the app features Alipay first as a settlement option. The outcome is that Tencent and Alibaba might be eager to contribute in the same firms, but they need to have control over payments option and the data bring about from them.
Even today, both Alipay and WeChat have an endless online service entrenched in their apps where the ride-hailing is made accessible inside Alipay, avail payments, mobile top-up services, movie and train ticket buying, and much more. They've become an environment, enlarging outside limits in their corresponding core enterprise in e-commerce, gaming, and other online services with their payment method as the basic foundation.
Nevertheless, it is worth asserting WeChat's social benefits over Alipay. In regards to a report announced in March by WeChat advising and research firm Channel, WeChat takes up 35 percent of time used up on mobile phones in China. By the end of 2015, it combined a "Friends" segment to its app, which allows users send each other conversation.
It then combined a feature known as "Circles," which is equal to Instagram-like feature that facilitates users to share photos and messages in groups. Somehow, it rapidly came under dispute, as users disclosed that only women were permitted to post images in certain Circles. Afterward, Alipay publicly pledged to enforce on revolting content and go on testing its Circles feature.
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The current battleground for WeChat Pay and Alipay is offline restaurants and its offline services. There are even hundreds of thousands of retailers that are on the frontier of China, says Zennon. They could even help them to get online and be financially admitted.
Last year, both Ant Financial and Tencent unveiled generous payment programs to improve third-party developers and service providers to assist physical shops in adopting WeChat Pay and Alipay. Alipay's "spring rain plan" disclosure act close behind encouraging US $150 million over three years.
At brick and mortar merchants, it's not much different to see both payments options, either through QR code or using a POS scanner, like those equipped by Lakala. In January, WeChat initiated mini-programs, entrenched apps that are especially outlined for offline and low-frequency benefits.
Mini programs could be a technique for WeChat to catch up with more businesses into its ever-expanding environment which WeChat Pay could quickly adjoin off it. Alipay is also establishing its own mini program much equivalent, in regards to a spokesperson at Ant Financial. Somehow, the correct details of what the applications mini program functionality will emerge like how users will involve it have not been revealed.
Victory Uncertain
Alipay is quite the leader in China's mobile payments marketplace. It has 450 million active users on a monthly basis, in regards with the firm. It has its own credit system known as Sesame Credit, which assimilates users acquiring and offering habits into scheming credit scores.
Alibaba is an entire environment and no one can misuse them, says Pengbo, alluding to the Chinese tech firm's experience in many shops and enterprise, like those on e-commerce sites Taobao and Tmall. Alibaba also has its own Alibaba Cloud, which provides an array of cloud services to both private and international customers.
Both Tencent and Alibaba are making a huge international association, notably those in adjacent countries in Asia. Since China's mobile payment market carry on to infuse, these nearby markets could provide a new chance for WeChat Pay and Alipay, most probably as online services in e-commerce and digital media start to develop. For both firms, it's one more chance to be first.
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Statistical Appendix (Energy Consumption in England and Italy 1560-1913. Two Pathways toward the Energy Transition)
1. Per capita Energy Consumption in England and Wales and in central northern Italy 1560-1913;
2. Consumer Price indices and Wages in England and Wales 1560-1830.
Statistical Appendix (When did England overtake Italy? Medieval and early Modern Divergence in Prices and Wages)
Consumer Price Indices and Wages
in Central-Northern Italy and Southern England
1300-1850 (2012) (excel file)
Consumer Price Index (1250-2010) (2008; revision 2015)
Wage Rates: North and South (1700-1913) (2008)
(From: P. Malanima, An Age of Decline. Product and Income
in Eighteenth-Nineteenth Century Italy, in
"Rivista di Storia Economica", n.s., XXI, 2006, 3, pp. 91-133).
Energy Consumption (1861-2000) (2008)
(Appendix from: P. Malanima, Energy Consumption
in Italy in the 19th and 20th Centuries, Napoli, Issm-Cnr, 2006).
Urban Population (1300-1861) (2005; revision 2015)
(A Database of the Italian Cities 1300-1861).
Wheat Prices in Tuscany (1260-1860) (2005)
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It is often observed that one of the essential characteristics of creativity is the "childlike" view of the world, full of freshness and plasticity. As they grow older, most children gradually lose this view. Most children appear to shift their thinking to a more rigid left-hemisphere dominance at a given age, as is expected. But it seems that some children cannot shift to the usual one-sided dominance so readily; they are delayed in the maturing process; they grow up using both sides of their brain or mature with a greater facility with their right hemisphere than is usual. This may lead to some degree of confusion, ambivalence, and awkwardness, but the intellectual resource may be profoundly richer thereby, and that makes all the difference.
Maturity is a key concept here. Maturity suggests responsibility, conventional education, having children, understanding the adult world and finding a place in it--making one's way or doing one's duty. A small child cares little for these things. He or she is too busy discovering the world, examining things closely, seeing how they behave, trying to figure out how things work, how people respond when you do different things--touch, sounds, smells, tastes, images--and all of this starts well before words or numbers. All of this is play--learning and discovering.
While maturity is, of course, necessary to make one's way in the adult world, we are aware that it is good to preserve something of the child, especially if we desire the freshness of view that seems to promote real creativity. This is generally known and understood. However, what is not generally known is that it may be a good thing when the maturing process takes a little longer than usual.
Parents are usually pleased when their children mature quickly, becoming more independent, more organized and more self-directed in advance of their peers. What is not generally known is that late maturation can serve a useful function, although it seems to contradict conventional belief.
The neurological evidence indicates that the onset of puberty stops further neurological development. That is, neurological development is not speeded up by early puberty. Rather, early puberty appears to arrest neurological development at an earlier and less fully developed stage. One neurologist observed: "The studies show that on the average . . . quick development means you sort of 'gel' earlier and you don't develop as fully. It is not just true for brain development; it is true for growth also. People who grow slowly tend to grow taller." Accordingly, it is possible that the early developer may be good at what they can do, but they may be able to do less than the child or adult who has developed over a longer period.
With respect to creativity, the freshness of the child's view is not to be underestimated. When the world of the small child is properly understood, then perhaps it is no surprise that Einstein said he was led to his discoveries by asking questions that "only children ask." This view of himself is clearly evident in the following curious passage: "I sometimes ask myself . . . how did it come that I was the one to develop the theory of relativity. The reason, I think, is that a normal adult never stops to think about problems of space and time. These are things he has thought of as a child. But my intellectual development was retarded, as a result of which I began to wonder about space and time only when I had already grown up. Naturally, I could go deeper into the problem than a child with normal abilities."
If delayed development is acknowledged as one major factor, then the child-like playfulness of this strong visual thinker may have been another. Einstein sometimes referred to the source of his ideas as "playing" with "images." When he describes the process in his own words, the fresh, childlike plasticity of the ideas and the interplay of the two hemispheres seems clearly evident: "The words or the language, as they are written or spoken, do not seem to play any role in my mechanism of thought. The psychical entities which seem to serve as elements in thought are certain signs and more or less clear images which can be 'voluntarily' reproduced and combined. There is, of course, a certain connection between those elements and relevant logical concepts. It is also clear that the desire to arrive finally at logically connected concepts is the emotional basis of this rather vague play with the above mentioned elements. But taken from a psychological viewpoint, this combinatory play seems to be the essential feature in productive thought--before there is any connection with logical construction in words or other kinds of signs which can be communicated to others. The above mentioned elements are, in my case, of visual and some of muscular type. Conventional words or other signs have to be sought for laboriously only in a secondary stage, when the mentioned associative play is sufficiently established and can be reproduced at will."
An indication of the possible effects of delayed maturation is provided by a study conducted by neurologist Martha Denckla. In some cases, delayed development in certain skills may prevent, initially, the proper performance in a range of related skills. Using a test called "map walking," Dr. Denckla shows, however, that with time surprisingly high performance may suddenly appear in the same individuals who performed so poorly a short while before. The reason for the change is that initially some component of the skill was not functioning in a full and proper manner. But once that one component begins to function, the capabilities of all the other related components can come to be applied to the task as well.
In test situation described by Denckla, a grid of dots is placed on the floor. This grid corresponds to a grid of dots on a piece of cardboard held in the subject's hand. A pattern is sketched on the cardboard grid and the subject is asked to follow this same pattern along the grid on the floor. The study results showed a surprising reversal of relative performance of different groups over time.
In a dramatic illustration of this variation on the "late blooming" pattern, those who did the worst, eventually became the best--once a certain maturational threshold had been crossed: "The younger dyslexic children, that is, children below the age of 10 years (and therefore prepubertal) had the worst performance of the three groups, as measured by walking these routes correctly. A startling "late blooming" effect, however, shone forth in the data on children over 10 years old. The teenaged dyslexic group, and in particular the familial dyslexic adolescents, demonstrated superior performance on this test. . . ."
And in another passage, Denckla puts the study into perspective: ". . . Some of the previously presented data . . . on the shift during the second decade of life from poor map-walking to good map-walking and from poor copying of design to adequate copying of design, as well as the anecdotal accounts of late blooming in dyslexics, may be related to maturation to some adequate threshold level by some critical system within the left hemisphere. Such a maturation would then allow the superior capabilities of the right side of the brain to be allied with the now-adequate motor analyzer or motor programmer within the left hemisphere. . . . Thus, what had been 'money in the bank' can now be usefully withdrawn and displayed."
The pattern of delayed maturation is not only an important trait of dyslexics, it is also an important trait of all human beings--when compared with other animals. Biologists explain that it is a dominant human trait to mature much later than other animals. Human infants must be protected longer by their parents and society.
However, during this helpless early period, the human infant is still building brain structures and connections in the same way it was while in the uterus. The rate of growth for the brains of primates and other mammals diminishes greatly soon after they are born. However, for periods of up to a year after birth, human infants show the same rate of brain growth and development that they had shown in the uterus prior to birth.
It is as if nature had chanced upon this strategy as a way of extending gestation well beyond the limits of what a normal birth canal would allow--permitting extended development of the brain in size and complexity well beyond what would have been possible otherwise. Apparently, as in the common expression, the parents and society do, in fact, in a very real sense, provide an extension of the womb. And in an extraordinarily fundamental way (in contrast to common belief), this extension (and consequent delay) can be seen as a very good thing indeed.
In The Dynamics of Creation, Anthony Storr points out that "the human infant . . . is born in a particularly dependent and helpless condition, and remains in this state for a relatively longer time than the young of many other species." He notes further that "at the anatomical level, it has long been recognized that human beings continue to display, in adult life, characteristics which in other species of primates, belong to the foetus, and which generally disappear or are superseded in the mature animal." Finally, Storr observes: "Many parents, reflecting ruefully upon the emotional and financial commitments involved [in normal human delayed maturity], might be glad to see their offspring mature and become independent at a very much earlier age. But if they did so, they would bypass much of what makes them human and civilized; for the price of culture is delayed maturity."
Adapted from In the Mind's Eye, second edition, September 2009, where full references are provided.


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Editor's Note from Alex Jones: What we have here is a clear case of a self-fulfilling prophecy. The national and local media knew exactly what they were doing. They hyped to a pool of 300 million Americans over and over again that a deranged tea partier is going to gun politicians down. Then, a highly suggestible paranoid schizophrenic acts on the hype and the media instantly blames the tea party. If they continue to hype this, it will cause more deranged copycats to act.
The terrible shooting in Tucson, Arizona left six dead including federal Judge John Roll and critically injured Rep. Gabrielle Giffords was the act of a 22-year-old that was immediately profiled as a tea party member. The mainstream media focused on two points in his many ramblings including government mind control and refusing to use a currency not backed by gold and silver. What is most curious about this is that it appears he was profiled as the shooter before there even was a shooting. In multiple interviews with Rep. Giffords, the idea of a tea party activist using violence against her was brought up either right before or after mention of the upcoming vote to recall controversial health care reform.
In the video below, Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords was interviewed about an incident where the front door of her office was shattered while stock footage of tea party protesters waiving the Gadsden flag were rolling. The interview was steered in a direction that would indicate that the tea party is posing a violent threat against democrat lawmakers. They touch on Sarah Palin's use of crosshairs on her site, explaining that this could potentially cause someone to use violence against the democrats featured in the graphic.
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- Ideal for hard surfaces and vertical mounting
- Discourages trespassers
A set of four Bell & Howell Disk Lights costs $19.95. Shipping is free. I found Bell & Howell Disk Lights at a local Bed Bath & Beyond for about $20, and used a 20% coupon to drop the cost down to $17.
Bell & Howell Disk Lights Review
As someone who likes to add solar-powered accent lighting to my yard, this As Seen on TV offering certainly caught my attention. The Bell+Howell Disk Lights are round flat disks that contain a solar cell that charge all day and stay lit all night. There is an included stake that allows you to press it into the ground to achieve accent lighting anywhere in your yard. You can also remove the stake from the light and lay it flat or use an adhesive backing to hang it vertically.
When I first opened the packaging, I found there was no mention of vertical mounting in the instructions, nor was anything included to let you mount it vertically. The commercial seems to indicate that it can be hung vertically with hook and loop adhesives, but that is not mentioned or included.
You have no doubt seen numerous lighted As Seen on TV products over the years, and I have even created an entire playlist of them on my YouTube channel (see below). My theory as to why this is such a popular category is that these types of devices are simple and inexpensive to make and usually work pretty well.
There isn't much to using Bell & Howell Disk Lights other than placing them in the desired location, letting them charge all day, and enjoying them at night. As with any solar light, placement can affect how efficiently they work. If they are in a shaded area, they may not sufficiently charge to stay on all night. Thus, hanging them in a gazebo, for example, may not expose them to enough sunlight to work properly. In a perfect scenario, they should face south when hanging up, and in direct sunlight when laying flat.
As you can see in the video below, I placed the four lights in different locations around my yard and each light stayed illuminated or a different amount of time, although I would say that their claims that it will last 10 hours is accurate.
Another important point worth mentioning is that the LED lights are said to last 10 years, but the battery that powers them certainly will not. Although this seems to be weatherproof, extreme temperatures could lessen the life of the battery. I ran a hose over one of the lights, and it was not affected, so I believe the claim that it is watertight is also correct.
Perhaps the biggest "con" to me is that they are not very bright. My cheap accent lighting lasted longer and shone brighter than these Disk Lights. What I like most is that they are stylish and can be placed almost anywhere with ease. I think this product will garner mostly positive ratings, and I would expect the batteries to last about a year in most climates, although I wouldn't expect much more beyond that.
You may have seen the Bell+Howell name used in As Seen on TV products in the past. That's because the name is often licensed to these manufacturers, not because Bell+Howell has suddenly started producing numerous As Seen on TV products. In other words, the only association Bell+Howell has with Disk Lights is by name only. I wouldn't let the Bell+Howell reputation influence your decision to buy or not to buy this product. That's not to say that As Seen on TV products sporting the Bell+Howell name are bad. In fact, I ranked the Bell+Howell Light Bar in my Top 10 Best As Seen on TV products for 2017.
Be sure to watch my full video review of Bell+Howell Disk Lights.
You may be surprised to learn that there are numerous lights just like this. Check out this 4-pack of similar solar lights that can be delivered for free via Amazon Prime and hold a solid consumer rating.
There is an entire category of As Seen on TV lighted products, and I've produced video reviews for many of them. The playlist below includes all of my reviews in this category, sorted by the most popular. Be sure to watch EverBrite, which is another solar-powered product. That item lasted about 13 months before the batteries no longer held a charge.
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Your Bell & Howell Disk Lights Reviews
Have you used Bell & Howell Disk Lights or something like it? Leave a comment below and a star rating above to let us know your thoughts.
Updated February 2018.


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Amundsen had noticed that the workmanship on the sledges was defective, and so Bjaaland rebuilt them -- ten sledges in six weeks -- and made a pair of loose runners for each. These would both guard against wear and be coated with a thin layer of ice in order to slide properly in extreme cold, something that Amundsen and Helmer Hanssen had learned from the Netsilik.
Bjaaland also trued the skis and adjusted bindings, and made sledging boxes for the Primus stoves.
October 24, 2010
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Warm clear blue water, tropical plants, crispy clean air, endless yoga, delicious food, a beautiful community, and…The Kings of Leon?!?!
Yes, one of my favorite bands, discovered while studying Tantra Yoga in Thailand with Swami Vivekananda in 2008.
A few weeks ago I found my Kings of Leon CD and once again put it on instant replay. It didn't take long for me to feel instantly transported to my beachfront bungalow in Thailand.
Every morning for 3 months I could not wait to get out of bed. I would literally jump up and open the front door to stare at the nothingness of purity that I hoped one day could be me.
The front door of my beach bungalow would remain open as I would shower and have a full view of the ocean at dusk. Not one soul on the beach except the single-file line of birds that would run across the sand quickly eating all the bugs sweeping the sand clean.
My Daily Schedule
7:00am – 9:00am – Tantra Yoga Practice
9:00am -10:00am – Breakfast/break
10:00am-12:00pm – My Sadhana
12:00pm- 2:00pm – Tantra Yoga Practice
2:00pm – 4:00pm – Lunch, Lay out, Swim
4:00pm – 5:00pm – My Sadhana
5:00pm – 7:00pm – Tantra Yoga Practice
7:00pm – 7:30pm – Dinner
7:00pm – 10:00pm – Tantra Education
The water was these 20 steps away from my bungalow as you see here.
Chances are, as you read this, you wish you were there. Let's see how you feel after reading this.
Looks like living the dream right?
That's what I thought at least. I would look around and attempt to reprogram my brain, "This is all perfect so it equals I'm happy."
This didn't fool the Shawoman that was there helping all of us make pivotal leaps.
She sat next to me and said, "I hear you saying that you are happy, but your body is crying." I was shocked and intrigued to hear this, and made appointment for a "massage."
It wasn't long until I was screaming and crying maniacally. The crazy thing was, she encouraged it. She gave me a piece of cloth to put in my mouth and I kept screaming as loud as possible, for as long as I had energy…for as long I had the strength to express the repressed anger that was carving a way out for undigested love.
Once my emotions settled, the massage began.
As she rubbed my belly, she pushed on certain points that would release screams from my most inner depths. Every point on my stomach would echo a completely different sounding scream; sounds I've never heard me make before.
The Shawoman pointed out this obvious fact and re-pushed quickly on each of the 4 points while explaining, "This one your mother, this one your father, this one your ex-fiance, this one you."
You can imagine what I said. One word was plenty.
I was only 26 years old and already a volcano of pain and sadness. I returned to the states and created this note of my laptop.
So, do you still wish you were in Thailand living My Daily Schedule?
Would you be ready to face the "ugliest" parts of you to gain happiness?
Are you ready to sacrifice pain for freedom?
This Thursday, February 28, and almost exactly 4 years later, I will be flying to Thailand once again to study at my Tantra Yoga school. With my Kings of Leon music tracks in hand, and a whole new discovery of sheer happiness up my sleeve that developed over the past few years thanks to Tantra Yoga, my loving family and friends.
So now it's just Me. I get to take this Maria to learn something so fanatically cool…the happy one.
My first belly dance teacher, is also my Tantra Yoga teacher and runs the school in Dharamasala, India were I went in 2008 (same Tibetan town where the Dalai Lama lives). She is hosting a Mystical Bellydance Teacher Training that examines and reveals the spiritual side of aborigine dance forms and belly dance (eekkkk!!!).
I will be in Thailand for 6 weeks studying the underground ancient, almost lost forms, of dance and worship where movement, music and yoga collide, creating the ultimate feminine union of undifferentiated innate power.
And the coolest part is, I still get to teach my online yoga classes!
I will be sharing my adventure with the men and women in my online classes. They are just as excited as I am to go on this trip with me. It will be such a beautiful experience for all of us to journey together as I go into the depths of spiritual study, my heritage, and my soul, and taking my students even deeper into their center points of control. A guaranteed amplified transformational experience for all those involved.
This is what I've always wanted to do, I just didn't know how or when. So I kept listening to my students' desires, and starring at my note, "Focus On What Sets You Free."
If you too are interested in joining our online classroom and would like to go on an inner adventure with us, send me message today!


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2015 Nissan JUKE vs. 2015 Hyundai Veloster
The 2015 Nissan JUKE features a unique design and a responsive performance. Its muscular body has two rear door handles at shoulder height, reminiscent of the old Nissan Pathfinder, and a spacious interior that seats five comfortably.
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But before you settle on the 2015 Nissan JUKE, Montgomeryville Nissan wants to make sure that it's the right car for you. To help you on your new car shopping process, we're here to give you a vehicle comparison of the 2015 Nissan JUKE against one of its closest competitors: the 2015 Hyundai Veloster.
Interior Comfort
Although the 2015 Nissan JUKE is smaller than the 2015 Hyundai Veloster, the former has some major advantages when it comes to interior comfort.
First, the 2015 Nissan JUKE has a seating configuration that can hold five passengers, while the 2015 Hyundai Veloster can only hold four.
Second, the 2015 Nissan JUKE is built to hold 1.2 more cubic feet of cargo than the 2015 Hyundai Veloster. And finally, the JUKE has more front- and second-row headroom and more second-row legroom than its competitor does.
Exciting and Capable Performance
The 2015 Nissan JUKE provides a fun, exhilarating ride for drivers thanks to its 1.6-liter I4 engine that produces 188 horsepower and 177 lb-ft of torque. And with an added turbocharger forced injector, you'll love the feeling of pushing down on the accelerator.
The 2015 Hyundai Veloster is built with a 1.6-liter I4 engine but can only generate 138 horsepower at 123 lb-ft of torque and doesn't have a forced injector. The 2015 Nissan JUKE also has a much higher ground clearance for rough terrain.
Four Doors vs. Three Doors
The 2015 Nissan JUKE is better suited for families and passengers thanks to its five seats but also because it's equipped with four standard doors for convenient entry and exit for all passengers.
The 2015 Hyundai Veloster only has three doors, with the third located behind the front-row passenger door. While this is an attempt to be unique, if you're trying to fit four passengers in your car, it makes a task that should be simple much more complicated. Passengers will have to wait for another individual to get out of the car and scoot across another seat just to get out.
The 2015 Nissan JUKE has a four-door approach that's proven to work and is better suited for your second-row guests.
Both the 2015 Nissan JUKE and the 2015 Hyundai Veloster feature unique designs, but thanks to the passenger and cargo space, capable engine, and convenient design, the 2015 Nissan JUKE is the better choice for drivers in Philadelphia, Doylestown, and Lansdale.
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Mourinho Demands Man Utd Sign Midfielder Ahead Of Arsenal, Liverpool & City
Jose Mourinho has informed Manchester United bosses he wants to sign Real Madrid midfielder Isco but they'll face stiff competition from their rivals
The January transfer window in now closed so it's time to look at those deals that didn't get over the line and those being lined-up for the summer. Today, Man Utd enter the race for Isco…
Jose Mourinho has informed Manchester United bosses he wants to sign Real Madrid midfielder Isco but they'll face stiff competition from their rivals, according to reports in Spain via the Express.
Isco earned a dream move to Madrid in 2013 after impressing during his time at Malaga and he's helped Los Blancos win a whole host of honours including 1 La Liga title and 3 Champions Leagues.
The 25-year-old is enjoying a solid campaign having scored 5 goals and provided a further 4 assists in 19 league games despite Madrid enduring a difficult season that sees them trail Barcelona by 17 points.
However, Madrid boss Zinadine Zidane is set to revamp his struggling squad this summer and Isco has been touted in the media as one of the players who will be sacrificed.
A move to the Premier League could be on the cards and the Express reported last week that Arsenal and Liverpool were among the clubs showing a keen interest in signing the Spanish international.
Arsene Wenger is expected to further strengthen his options this summer after another difficult campaign while Jurgen Klopp has seemingly identified Isco as a potential replacement for Philippe Coutinho following his move to Barcelona.
However, it looks like the duo have plenty of competition as the Express are now citing a report from Don Balon that claims Mourinho has told United bosses he wants to sign Isco to prevent him joining Man City.
The report says Pep Guardiola would like to add Isco to his array of attacking talent but Mourinho has pleaded with United chiefs to do their best to lure the Spaniard to Old Trafford.
Mourinho signed Alexis Sanchez ahead of their rivals in January and it seems he's desperate to do so again with Isco as he looks to add a creative midfielder to play alongside Paul Pogba and Nemanja Matic next season.
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We'll have to wait and see how things develop over the coming months but there is no doubt Isco would be a sensational signing if Arsenal, Liverpool, United or City were able to lure him to England this summer.
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Well thats not going to happen unless another swap deal can be arranged. MU have already declared a trading loss of £190 million in the last accounts so money is tight.No very tight.
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House Passes Murt Bill to Criminalize Female Genital Mutilation
HARRISBURG—The House has passed legislation sponsored by Rep. Tom Murt (R-Montgomery/Philadelphia) to criminalize the act of female genital mutilation (FGM).
"This is a major victory for women of Pennsylvania," Murt said. "My colleagues have taken a strong stand for the right to be safe from this kind of abuse. And, yes, despite its common practice in some cultures, FGM is a crime of violence against women."
House Bill 315
would specifically make it a crime to cut or allow someone to circumcise or excise the genitals of a female minor. Under the bill, FGM would be a felony of the first degree.
The bill has been endorsed by the AHA Foundation, established by human rights activist Ayaan Hirsi Ali in 2007 to promote freedom from FGM, honor violence and forced marriages.
The World Health Organization estimates that 140 million women and children worldwide have been affected by female genital cutting.
According to the AHA Foundation, more than 500,000 women in the United States are at risk of this procedure—166,000 women under age 18. The organization ranks Pennsylvania 11th in the nation, with more than 19,000 women at risk for the procedure, 6,000 of them under the age of 18.
FGM involves the partial or total removal of the external female genitalia for non-medical reasons. It is recognized internationally as a violation of the human rights of girls and women, and it reflects deep-rooted inequality between the sexes, and constitutes an extreme form of discrimination against women.
The procedure is almost always carried out on minors and is a violation of the rights of children. The practice also violates a person's rights to health, security and physical integrity, the right to be free from torture and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment, and the right to life when the procedure results in death.
The bill now moves to the Senate.
Representative Thomas P. Murt
152nd District
Pennsylvania House of Representatives
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Proverbs 16:9 states: "A man's heart deviseth his way: but the LORD directeth His steps." I have been telling my friends that this past year was nothing like what I had planned, but was exactly what God wanted. I have now moved from Michigan to South Carolina and want to declare God's marvelous work to His glory.
I had been pastoring a small church for twenty years and had no thought of retiring or leaving when a number of difficult events and situations arose making clear to my wife and I that our time to leave had come. Because I was also teaching at a nearby Christian School connected with a different church, I had to make arrangements with the school as well as the church. I made arrangements to teach one more semester which ended in December because the principle knew of a young man who would graduate then and could replace me. At the same time, I worked out a general plan with my church as to leave by the following March. That is when things began to get really interesting.
First, the young man with whom the school was hoping to replace me decided that the Lord was not leading him in that direction, and the situation in my church became more complicated producing a lot of soul-searching and praying seeking God's leading especially since I have trouble trusting my own decisions. My wife summarized our thoughts well saying that she wished God would just write out instructions on a piece of paper. Well, God took that prayer quite literally as the church then gave me a paper with arrangements and timing for my leaving. The arrangements were generous, but unexpected and different in timing from what I had planned. Around the same time, a former student of mine who had graduated from a good Christian college and was in a ministry unexpectantly left that ministry and returned to the area. He was qualified, ready, and willing to teach. God had me teach one extra semester based on an assumption that turned out to be wrong because God knew the right man would be coming by the end of that semester and not before.
By then, we were planning on leaving my church after my mother-in-law's ninety-fifth birthday in early February. We were looking on-line for a place to rent in South Carolina and soon found that affordable housing for us had an average waiting list of one year. We could stay with a sister and her family, but would need to arrange storage for our possessions and be a bother to my sister for that amount of time. Then my brother who lives in South Carolina discovered that a friend from his church was renting out a trailer. We made arrangements with the owner of the trailer who graciously allowed us to pay rent while we were still in Michigan so that we would keep the trailer until we could actually arrive.
My mother-in-law then had a major heart-attack just before Christmas and was sent home on hospice in need of special care. Since we were already told that we would leave the parsonage at the beginning of January, we moved to my mother-in-law's house. If we had not, then Mom would likely have had to go to a care facility of some kind. My wife is not strong enough to have physically cared for her without my help and so could not have lived with her Mom to care for her while I remained in the parsonage. However, this situation left us in a position of having no income while paying rent and electricity. But God again provided. My other sister and her family were renting Air BnB in the area to which we were moving. They found renting our trailer better than what they had been doing and so we made arrangements with our landlord for them to live in the trailer and pay rent while we remained in Michigan caring for my mother-in-law.
In the meantime, my wife and I, along with my sister-in-law and a very good hospice team cared for my mother-in-law at home until she died holding the hand of my wife in early April. I had the service. Meanwhile, my brother-in-law's work situation changed enabling him and my sister to rent a home close to his work. They could leave the trailer for the rental home just as we were finally ready to move to South Carolina.
This set of amazing "coincidences" does not even tell the whole story. There were many other smaller ones and the amazing strength and wisdom beyond what we would naturally possess given to us during this whole time. Although these events are open to a number of interpretations, yet there is no doubt in my mind but that God was acting in my life and directing even as Proverbs 16:9 declares. The assumption of God's existence and care makes better sense of all that happened in this past year than any interpretation that leaves out God. This activity is a way God reveals Himself to me assuring me that He exists and is keeping me even as He has promised to do.


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Healing Crystals: The A - Z Guide to 555 Gemstones128
Paperback(Second Edition)
This 2nd updated edition is based on new findings in mineralogy and new experiences and research results in the field of gem therapy, including information for an additional 125 crystals not present in the 1st edition, some of which that have been discovered in recent years. With Healing Crystals Michael Gienger presents a comprehensive directory of all the gemstones currently in use in crystal healing. Clear, concise and precise in style, with photographs of each of the crystals accompanying the text, he describes the characteristics and healing functions of each crystal.
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How to use this guide
The guide presents and defines the mineralogy and healing effects of crystals in common use, offering concise information on their basic properties. For further information, consult the indicated bibliography as needed. Terms used in the guide are as follows:
Title: the title of each entry gives the name or names of the illustrated crystal. In addition to the mineralogical name, the common or trade name is also used where relevant to define or describe the crystal in question. The scientifically recognised mineralogical names are printed in black, while common names are printed in blue. The titles serve as a suggestion to both gemstone dealers and interested readers of the correct and clear designation of the crystals.
Mineralogy: this gives a brief definition of the mineral with respect to the min- eralogy, especially its crystalline structure and nature of formation ('prim.' = molten magma formation, 'sec.' = formation through disintegration and de- posits, 'tert.' = metamorphic formation under heat and pressure).* In addition to the visible colour, these details are very important for the healing effect and application of a crystal. For further information on their significance, see Mi- chael Gienger's book Crystal Power, Crystal Healing (Cassell, London, 1998).
Indications: this gives information on the most important healing effects and areas of activity of each crystal, in particular the main properties that charac- terise the crystal and distinguish it from crystals with similar properties. Other healing effects can be found in the indicated bibliography.
(SP) refers to the 'spirit' or 'spiritual aspect', the innate nature of a person including his or her important intentions, aims and focus in life; (S) refers to the 'soul' or the 'subconscious', including temperament, emotions, intui- tive perceptions, dreams, psychological experiences, habits and unconscious reactions; (M) refers to 'mind' or 'mental aspects', including ideas, values, convictions, views as well as the manner of thinking and conscious action; (B) refers to the 'body' or 'physical aspect', the human organism as a whole with its senses, organs and functions.
Defining these four aspects clearly differentiates what can be influenced, enhanced, changed or cured with the help of the crystals.
* Abbreviations:
prim. = primary sec. = secondary
tert. = tertiary cub. = cubic hex. = hexagonal
trig. = trigonal tetr. = tetragonal rhom. = rhombic
mon. = monoclinic tric. = triclinic
am. = amorphous
Bib.: this refers to comprehensive literature in which the crystal in question, or at least crystals of the same kind or family, is described. The numbers 1 to 21 refer to the bibliography on page 123.
Rarity: this gives an estimate of the availability of the crystal in question. Natu- rally, this is often subject to variation depending on which crystals are collected or mined in which mines or discovery sites at any point in time. As a result, these estimates are never 'absolute' – they are only intended to give a clue as to the chances of finding a desired crystal in the shops in the foreseeable future. Also, the availability of a crystal is not always linked to how rare or common it is. Rare crystals that are well known are sometimes more readily available than more common but less known ones. The availability has been individually classified as follows:
Common: means it has been continuously available in large quantities over a long period of time and cut into different forms and shapes. No scarcity of the common shapes or forms is anticipated in the foreseeable future.
Readily available: means it is available most of the time. No major scarcities of particular forms are expected in the future.
Not always available: means not always obtainable. Sometimes there is a scarcity or just a few forms are available in limited quantities. The reserves fluctuate or are limited.
Scarce: means hardly available. There is a frequent scarcity over long periods of time. It is sometimes only available in very few forms. Reserves are very limited.
Rare: means extremely scarce and obtainable only at specific times. For such crystals there is only a minimal reserve, or the known discovery sites are already exhausted or no longer accessible.
This little tick box enables you to make a note of the crystals you have – giving you an overview of crystals in your collection, first aid kit, experiment kit or therapy repertoire.
Abalone (Paua shell, Mother-of-pearl)
Mineralogy: coloured shell (Aragonite, rhom., sec.)
Indications: (SP) cheerfulness, security, protection (S) helps over- come despondency, insecurity and disappointment (M) ensures careful dealing with oneself and others (B) ameliorates irritation and inflammations of skin, mucous membrane and sensory organs.
Bib.: 2 | 4 | 6 | 8 Rarity: common