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Inspired by The Meg and Shark Week, today we are talking sharks in pop culture. We discuss these and some of our favorites: Jaws, The Shallows, Sharknado, and some shoutouts to random sharks in pop culture.
But, before we get to the sharks, we have a special presentation! Jen interviews Meg about her new book and her thoughts on writing. Red Tea, a murder mystery set in Japan, was recently published, and Meg answers all of Jen's hard-hitting questions (that maybe don't hit that hard). Buy it here: Red Tea by Meg Mezeske
As always, our intro/outro music is "We are Highscore" by Krackatoa.


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The best massage in the world at Le Meridien Limassol Spa, Cyprus
That's a very bold title isn't it? The best massage IN THE WORLD.
Obviously I haven't tried every massage in the whole entire world but I've tried a lot and this one was pretty darn good, the best I've ever had.
Le Meridien Limassol is a luxury resort and spa in Limassol, a city on the southeastern coast of Cyprus. I wasn't staying in the resort but I was invited along for an afternoon of pure relaxation in the spa and an evening spent eating sushi under the stars. Sounds pretty idyllic, right?
The 3,000-square metre, award-winning spa uses Thalgo + Elemis brands, two of my favourites and their products are well worth splashing out on if you want to treat yourself. Within the spa there are seven beautiful mosaic indoor-outdoor seawater pools, as well as 34 treatment rooms, a hammam, saunas, a heated indoor pool and relaxation areas overlooking the sea.
The treatment menu is pretty incredible and if you check it outline it's 28 pages long with 130 treatments available!
I thought it would be impossible to choose a treatment but as soon as I spotted the Elemis Exotic Frangipani Body Nourish Float I knew I'd be in for a treat.
Have you even been floating on a lilo in a swimming pool and thought, "Do you know what would make this perfect? If I had a masseuse to massage me with frangipani scented body oils!"
No? I bet you're thinking it now and realizing it's the best idea ever.
This is pretty much what my treatment was.
My floating massage bed
It began with a frangipani body scrub to make me all soft and smooth and after this was rinsed off the amazingness began.
I had a gorgeous massage that was relaxing and soft. I was given a choice of what kind of massage as I like but as a bit of a wimp I just like gentle and relaxing massages. None of this joint cracking or muscle pounding for me, thank you very much. But if that's you're thing, I'm pretty sure you can get it!
I was smothered with this beautiful, floral smelling oil as my masseuse wrapped me up into a body cocoon. I was so relaxed at this point I barely even registered what was going on.
All wrapped up like an Egyptian mummy my bed was then lowered and magically turned into a floating sanctuary. This is where the floating on a lilo part comes in!
I was submerged into warm water and floated there tranquilly without actually getting wet. I don't know how it worked and I was in no position to sit up and check so I just lay back and allow myself to float and bob and relax.
At one point I did get a little warm and I wouldn't recommend this if you're claustrophobic. My arms were trapped inside and the warmth of the water makes you a little sweaty inside your mummy cocoon. This is all to make the treatment more effective as your pores open and gorgeous oil sinks in.
When I thought it couldn't possibly get any better my masseuse began giving my head massage as she worked frangipani oil through my locks. I thought I'd died and gone to heaven.
I've never been so disappointed at the end of a massage before in my life. I could have stayed there all day floating on that incredible massage table.
I waddled out of the treatment room feeling dazed and confused and probably looking as though I'd been asleep for a month.
I left the oil on my hair until the following day and when I washed it out it was super soft and shiny – two words never normally associated with my hair!
I was more than happy to return to Le Meridien Limassol that evening to dine at Kojima Restaurant, the resort's Japanese themed restaurant. Overlooking the lagoon and with the sound of the waves crashing nearby we feasted on sushi and teppan-yaki dishes which were all prepared by a nearby chef.
It was a fantastic end to a fantastic trip to Cyprus.
Massive thanks to Visit Cyprus for inviting me along and to Le Meridien Limassol for hosting us for a spa treatment and dinner.
August 28, 2014
This sounds divine! Especially with the fact it ends in head massage – easily the best massage!
September 8, 2014
Do you recommend this resort for long stay as well ? I mean, on a luxury point of view ? Because most of Le Meridien (not all of them, but a lot) are just 4-star rated.
SusanNovember 26, 2014
Quiet interesting Monica! And this reminds me of the spa massage I had in Royal Aesthetics Club. It was the best I've ever had. What I did was Swedish massage which could get me great relief from my back pain as well as headache. The price was also reasonable ( $70 for 90 min massage ) I also had a wonderful experience there. But sorry, I've never been to Le Meridien Spa.
March 3, 2020
Oh my word this sounds so scrumptious! I've never even heard of this style of massage.

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US chemists Robert Lefkowitz and Brian Kobilka have won the Nobel Prize for work on cell receptors, yielding vital insights into how the body works at the molecular level.
The award is for chemistry but the big beneficiary should be medicine, the Nobel committee said.
The pair were honoured for describing a key component of cells called G-protein-coupled receptors.
These stud the surface of cells, making them sensitive to molecules that respond to light, flavour, smells and body chemicals such as adrenaline, and help cells to communicate with each other.
"About half of all medications achieve their effect through G-protein-coupled receptors," the jury said.
Understanding these receptors has provided a big advance for medical research, the Nobel committee said.
Committee member Sven Lidin said: "Knowing what they look like and how they function will allow us the tools... (leading to) better drugs with fewer side-effects."
Mr Lefkowitz, 69, is a professor of biomedicine and biochemistry at Duke University in North Carolina, while Mr Kobilka, born in 1955, is a professor of molecular and cellular physiology at Stanford University School of Medicine in California.
In a teleconference with Swedish journalists, Mr Lefkowitz admitted he had not heard the phone ring to get the famous piece of news.
"I was fast asleep and the phone rang. I did not hear it. I must share with you that I wear ear plugs to sleep, and so my wife gave me an elbow: 'phone for you.' And there it was. A total shock and surprise," he said.
Mr Lefkowitz admitted that his day had been thrown out of wack.
"As yet we've told nobody," he said.
"I plan to go to the office. I was going to get a haircut, which if you could see me is quite a necessity, but I'm afraid will probably have to be postponed.
"I think it'll be a crazy day at the office."
On Monday, Shinya Yamanaka of Japan and John Gurdon of Britain won the Nobel Medicine Prize for work in cell programming, a frontier that has raised dreams of replacement tissue for people crippled by disease.
On Tuesday, the physics prize went to France's Serge Haroche and David Wineland for research in quantum physics that could one day open the way to supercomputers.
The literature prize will be announced on Thursday, followed Friday by perhaps the most-watched award, for peace. The economics prize wraps up the Nobel season on Monday.
The laureates will receive their prizes at formal ceremonies in Stockholm and Oslo on December 10, the anniversary of prize founder Alfred Nobel's death in 1896.
The Nobel Foundation has slashed its prize sum to eight million Swedish kronor ($1.2 million, 930,000 euros) per award, from the 10 million kronor awarded since 2001, due to the economic crisis.


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Ask a QuestionHere are the questions asked by community members. Read on to see the answers provided by the ThriftyFun community or ask a new question.
How can I sharpen very dull hedge shears?
Clydene from Houston, TX
Try using a wet stone or a file.
My hardware store does it. I do it every winter, so it is ready for the spring season.
Yes you can sharpen hedge shears. I just did mine as well as my loppers.
Yes you can sharpen your hedge shears. Using a file you sharpen one side of each blade. I have also sharpened my loppers.
Try this
I bought a great little sharpener for about $10 I use it on scissors and shears.
How do I sharpen my hedge trimmers?
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Help us to fundraise for Julia's House by choosing to raise money when celebrating a special occasion.
Ask your guest for donations in lieu of gifts, make a donation in lieu of wedding favours, or shop in our Creekmoor bridal boutique.
Ask family and friends to make a donation to Julia's House when celebrating a special anniversary, instead buying you a gift.
Got a birthday coming up? Ask for donations in lieu of gifts with our party invitation inserts.
To celebrate your child's christening ask for donations and give a gift to a life-limited child in Dorset and Wiltshire.
Not sure what to buy someone for their birthday, anniversary or other special occasion such as Mother's Day or Father's Day? Make a donation on their behalf to Julia's House and we will send a card and gift certificate to your recipient explaining your donation and where their money will go.
We can provide Julia's House branded materials for the above occasions, or can discuss bespoke designs with you.
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Volunteering at Camp Sunrise
It takes a small, dedicated army (lovingly referred to as our "Campily") to operate AZ Camp Sunrise and Sidekicks every year. It is the passion and commitment of our all-volunteer staff that has made our programs so distinctive and so highly regarded.
To operate our programs, we need volunteers from a variety of backgrounds and with a variety of interests and experiences. We certainly need counselors, but we also need a large variety of other volunteers as well.
Activity Counselors
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Day Camp
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What is it like to volunteer at AZ Camp Sunrise and Sidekicks?
Why do our volunteers come back year after year?
At the end of my first week, just like the campers, I'd formed peer friendships that remain to this day. Not only that, I developed an awe of the campers who, despite that cancer thing, were the most vivacious kids I'd ever known. And now, those vivacious kids are vivacious adults and I'm still in awe.
Volunteering Rocks!
Bringing smiles to kids' faces
No better reward
Every summer can't come soon enough; each year brings new and old fun. I get to help touch lives and help kids through such a difficult experience. I can never have enough dirt or Jell-O, so every year I end up bringing some home!
I've been going to Camp Sunrise and Sidekicks for 10 years now simply because it is a safe and uplifting place. This Camp is a huge part of my childhood and has had a great impact on not only my life but my dear friends and family's too!
Joining our "Campily"
Ready to take the next step, and help us Celebrate Life?
AZ Camp Sunrise and Sidekicks will be accepting staff applications for the 2018 camping season in late November. Here is our simple three step application process:


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Ards and Down Area Plan 2015
Ards Borough: Ballycranbeg
|Proposal BG 01 Settlement Limit
|A Settlement Limit is designated in accordance with Policy SETT 1 in Volume 1 of the Plan and as indicated on Map No. 2/021, Ballycranbeg Settlement Map.
The Settlement Limit has been drawn to consolidate development and to allow for limited infill opportunities.
Interim sewage disposal measures or development phasing may be necessary for future housing schemes until such time as the required upgrade to the Waste Water Treatment Works for Ballycranbeg is complete and fully operational.
Those features or combination of features that contribute to the environmental quality, integrity or character of these areas are listed below.
LLPA 1 St Joseph's RC Church, parochial house and surroundings
- listed hilltop church and surroundings including traditional stone buildings - former school house and school teacher's house
- church sits on a localised hill which is an integral part of its setting and forms a local landmark visible for miles
- large dwelling of traditional character associated with church – parochial house
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Ex-adoptive mother of 7 children indicted
Submitted by Niels on Thu, 2007-04-05 06:00.
The Harris County grand jury has indicted a Houston woman on a charge of felony theft almost two years after her seven adoptive children were discovered living in a Nigerian orphanage while she worked in Iraq as a civilian contractor.
Investigators said Mercury Liggins, 49, pocketed thousands of dollars meant to support the children, who were found Aug. 4, 2004, when a San Antonio-based minister visited the orphanage to pass out food and clothing.
"She was receiving adoption subsidies for the children while they were in Africa," Child Protective Services spokeswoman Estella Olguin said. "She was getting close to $500 for each one of the children."
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NSI France Hosts Open House at Essentiel CosmetiqueApril 10th, 2015
PND NSI France partnered with their sub-distributor Essential Cosmetique for an Open House in Albi France on March 30th. Daniel Zacharias of Essential Cosmetique invited all his customers to come discover NSI's new Secrets line along with all other NSI Products.
Sylvie and Bibi of PND NSI France set up two demonstration tables, one for techniques in acrylic and gel and the other for nail art. All customers were welcome to touch and test the NSI products themselves. Jean-Lux (PND) was also present to answer any questions and assist in sales along with the team at Essential Cosmetique.
It was a very successful event and we are so pleased that many more people were able to see the magic of NSI products!


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In 2012, Frederique Constant introduces the 'Venice Editions' of the Runabout, consisting of a Chronograph version and a Three-hand Automatic with date. Both timepieces feature a stainless steel case and a silvered dial with applied, rose gold plated Arabic indexes. A light brown strap with off-white stitching accentuates the rose gold plated indexes on the dial. Our Italian clientele defined this sophisticated combination of design elements. This year Frederique Constant hosts the Runabout Challenge in Venice, Italy, so it was only logical to design the Runabout Venice Edition, based on the input from the Italian market. The outcome is a beautiful collection! But then again, it's not for nothing that Italy has always been famous for its sense of style…
The new models are available in a limited editions of 1'888 pieces per version. Featuring a case diameter of 43mm and presented in stainless steel, the new Runabout Venice Editions offer finely decorated silvered dials. With a delicate guilloche decoration at the centre, hand-applied Arabic indexes, and perfectly positioned Chronograph counters, these watches exude an uncluttered elegance, just like the Runabout yachts by which they were inspired. Through the sapphire case-back, the decorated automatic movement can be admired. Traditionally, each Runabout timepiece comes with its own luxurious, handmade wooden case that echoes the passionate craftsmanship of the yachts. Alongside the watch, a miniature reproduction of a classic Runabout boat can be found inside the unique gift box.
Runabout Challenge 2012 in Venice
End of April 2012, Frederique Constant hosted a unique event on the waters of Venice, to celebrate its connection with Runabout boats. After sponsoring the Helice Classique on Lake Geneva and the Lake Tahoe Concours d'Elegance in the USA, it was time to organize a dedicated Frederique Constant Runabout event. A select group of 200 clients and members of the press enjoyed a three-day event in the City of Water. A large fleet of Runabout boats, gathered specifically for this event proved to be stylish means of transportation and offered amazing views of Venice. During the actual Challenge, teams in each Runabout boat had to compete for the Frederique Constant Runabout Trophy. The event's aim was to pay homage and to gather many of the remaining Runabout yachts. Yachts that today – as in their heyday – symbolize elegance, sophistication and ageless design. It is these characteristics that make the devotion of Frédérique Constant to Runabout boats so apt, so perfect, because those same values and qualities apply to the Runabout Collection.


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Idrees Kenyatta Walker (born February 1, 1979) is an American former college and professional football player who was an offensive tackle in the National Football League (NFL) for six seasons during the early 2000s. Walker played college football for the University of Florida. A first-round pick in the 2001 NFL Draft, he played professionally for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers of the NFL.
Early years
Walker was born in Meridian, Mississippi in 1979.[1] He attended Meridian High School,[2] where he was a standout high school football player for the Meridian Wildcats.[3] As a senior in 1996, Walker was an all-state selection and received high school All-American honors from PrepStar and USA Today.[3]
College career
Walker accepted an athletic scholarship to attend the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida, and played on the offensive line for coach Steve Spurrier's Florida Gators football team from 1998 to 2000,[4] after redshirting in 1997.[3] Walker was a second-team All-Southeastern Conference (SEC) selection in 1999 and received first-team All-SEC and second-team All-American honors in 2000, winning the SEC's Jacobs Blocking Trophy as a junior in 2000.[3] After his junior season, Walker decided to forgo his final year of NCAA eligibility and enter the NFL Draft.[3]
After his NFL career ended, Walker returned to Gainesville to complete his degree, graduating from the University of Florida with a bachelor's degree in sociology in 2007.
Awards and honors
- Knoxville News-Sentinel All-SEC (1998)
- Football News Freshman All-American (1998)
- Co-recipient of Gators' Best Effort Award (1999)
- Second-team All-SEC (1999)
- Gators' Most Outstanding Offensive Lineman (2000)
- Consensus first-team All-SEC (2000)
- Jacobs Blocking Trophy (2000)
- All-American selection by Associated Press, Sporting News, Football News, Sports Xchange and Walter Camp (2000)
- Outland Trophy semifinalist (2000)
Professional career
The Tampa Bay Buccaneers chose Walker in first round (fourteenth pick overall) of the 2001 NFL Draft,[5] and he played for the Buccaneers for six seasons from 2001 to 2006.[6] He was originally slated to play left tackle and protect the quarterback's blindside. However, after his rookie season he was switched to right tackle, where he found success starting for the Buccaneer's Super Bowl XXXVII victory over the Oakland Raiders. After starting in seventy-three of the seventy-five games in which he played,[6] the Buccaneers released Walker on March 1, 2007.
On August 13, 2007, The Carolina Panthers signed Walker as a free agent; he was released by the team on September 1 during final cuts. On September 8, 2008, Walker was signed by the Toronto Argonauts of the Canadian Football League (CFL), and was assigned to their practice roster.
See also
- 2000 College Football All-America Team
- Florida Gators football, 1990–99
- List of Florida Gators football All-Americans
- History of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers
- List of Florida Gators football players in the NFL
- List of SEC Jacobs Blocking Trophy winners
- List of Tampa Bay Buccaneers first-round draft picks
- List of University of Florida alumni
- ^ Pro-Football-Reference.com, Players, Kenyatta Walker. Retrieved March 19, 2011.
- ^ databaseFootball.com, Players, Kenyatta Walker. Retrieved March 19, 2011.
- ^ a b c d e GatorZone.com, Football History, 2000 Roster, Kenyatta Walker. Retrieved March 19, 2011.
- ^ 2011 Florida Gators Football Media Guide, University Athletic Association, Gainesville, Florida, pp. 89, 97, 99, 102, 186 (2011). Retrieved August 31, 2011.
- ^ Pro Football Hall of Fame, Draft History, 2001 National Football League Draft. Retrieved March 19, 2011.
- ^ a b National Football League, Historical Players, Kenyatta Walker. Retrieved March 19, 2011.
- Carlson, Norm, University of Florida Football Vault: The History of the Florida Gators, Whitman Publishing, LLC, Atlanta, Georgia (2007). ISBN 0-7948-2298-3.
- Golenbock, Peter, Go Gators! An Oral History of Florida's Pursuit of Gridiron Glory, Legends Publishing, LLC, St. Petersburg, Florida (2002). ISBN 0-9650782-1-3.
- Hairston, Jack, Tales from the Gator Swamp: A Collection of the Greatest Gator Stories Ever Told, Sports Publishing, LLC, Champaign, Illinois (2002). ISBN 1-58261-514-4.
- McCarthy, Kevin M., Fightin' Gators: A History of University of Florida Football, Arcadia Publishing, Mount Pleasant, South Carolina (2000). ISBN 978-0-7385-0559-6.


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Today Android has become a possible contender to major market players Windows & Apple especially in the smart phones section. It is the revolution launched by Google Inc to grab a respective market share & erode a sheer dominance of the Windows OS. Android is a mobile operating system initially developed by Android Inc. Android was bought by Google in 2005. Android is based upon a modified version of the Linux kernel. Google and other members of the Open Handset Alliance collaborated on Android's development and release. The Android Open Source Project (AOSP) is tasked with the maintenance and further development of Android.The only disadvantage to it is that It is still at an initial stage with fews infancies & stabilities but it has given the edge to lot of mobile phone manufacturers to provide better options & applications developed by them for their users.
Handset Alliance & Market Development: On the 5th of November 2007 the Open Handset Alliance, a consortium of several companies which include Texas Instruments, Broadcom Corporation, Google, HTC, Intel, LG, Marvell Technology Group, Motorola, Nvidia, Qualcomm, Samsung Electronics, Sprint Nextel and T-Mobile was unveiled with the goal to develop open standards for mobile devices. Along with the formation of the Open Handset Alliance, the OHA also unveiled their first product, Android, a mobile device platform built on the Linux kernel version 2.6. On 9 December 2008, it was announced that 14 new members would be joining the Android Project, including PacketVideo, ARM Holdings, Atheros Communications, Asustek Computer Inc, Garmin Ltd, Softbank, Sony Ericsson, Toshiba Corp, and Vodafone Group Plc.The new developments are now taking place in terms with Samsung Tab, Dell Streax, & other devices Like Micromax Android. In early 2010 Google collaborated with HTC to launch its flagship Android device, the Nexus One. This was followed later in 2010 with the Samsung-made Nexus S. The world's first TV running Android, called Scandinavia, has also been launched by the company People of Lava. In Q4 2010 the Android O.S. was the world's best-selling smartphone platform, dethroning Nokia's Symbian from the 10 year top position, according to Canalys. With the growing number of Android handsets, there has also been an increased interest by third party developers to port their applications to the Android operating system. As of December 2010, the Android Marketplace had over 200,000 applications.
Versions of Android: 2.0/2.1 (Eclair), 2.2 (Froyo), 2.3 (Gingerbread), 3.0 (Honeycomb), Ice-cream sandwich,
Licensing: With the exception of brief update periods, Android has been available under a free software / open source license since 21 October 2008. Google published the entire source code (including network and telephony stacks) under an Apache License. Google also keeps the reviewed issues list publicly open for anyone to see and comment.
This new Google's invention has taken a market like storm creating new waves of cut throat competition & fine edge technologies between the giants like MS, Apple, Google & many more.


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Student Loan Debt Relief Coming Soon:
Filed under: Student Loans
It's bad enough that many students end up with a horrendous amount of repayments to make upon their graduation from their schooling. Then on top of this debt they have the interest that goes with it. There is finally some help on the horizon in this regard.
It has been determined that the three student loans that are operated by the government will experience a drop in their student loan interest rate by half a percentage point. Many students who had to borrow to assist them with the payments for their undergraduate studies ended up with a 4.29% interest rate where as starting next year this will drop to 3.76%. For the graduate students they will now experience a reduction, as well as, parents who took out loans to assist with the payments for their children's' schooling.
While this is all good news, there are stipulations of the interest rate drop that will depend on the type of federal loan that they are utilizing, in addition to, the amount of the overall debt and the repayment period. There is also no guarantee that these rates will not go up again.
Many students find themselves in dire situations all because of their student debt load. These individuals should seek out the advice of a qualified student loan debt attorney who can advise them as to their rights according to their specific needs, and what options may be available to them as potential solutions to get out from under this type of debt load.


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How to Make Your Own Adhesive Wall Stencils
Contact paper or vinyl shelf paper serves as material to make your own wall stencils for art, phrases or designs of your creation. The adhesive backing on contact paper means you won't have to worry about paint sliding beneath the stencil, creating blobs that ruin your design. The cling-on stencils are completely removable afterwards, leaving no residue behind. Save the stencil after using it once by smoothing it down onto a sheet of wax paper or its original backing paper.
Draw your desired stencil design on a sheet of paper with a pencil. If your design idea is larger than a sheet of paper, tape two or more sheets together, then draw the design as intended. Skip this step if you're turning a printed image into a stencil.
Cut out the design using scissors. The paper design acts as a template to transfer the image onto the contact paper.
Place the contact paper or shelf paper face-down on a clean work surface so the backing paper faces up. If the paper curls up, weigh the ends down with books or any other objects at hand.
Center the paper cutout over the back of the contact paper, setting it face-down so it seems backwards. Aligning it this way on the backing paper ensures that the design shows up, aligned as intended on the front of the contact paper.
Trace the design onto the backing paper using a permanent marker. Set the paper cutout aside.
Cut the image out of the contact paper or shelf paper using a craft knife without cutting a slice through the bordering contact paper, since you're making a stencil. A craft knife allows more control than scissors when cutting out fine details.
Things Needed
- Blank paper or printed image to copy
- Pencil
- Tape (optional)
- Contact paper
- Books (optional)
- Marker
- Scissors
- Craft knife
- Dust the walls before placing the stencil on the surface to ensure the stencil sticks. This also ensures the stenciled paint won't have dust embedded in it.
- If the design portion cut away from the stencil material remains unscathed, save it as a removable window or wall decal.
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Hey Guy! Season1 is performed by David C. Roberson & Jeff Hunt.
To see the entire first season without the hassle of clicking more than once, check out the embedded playlist below. For individual episodes, scroll a little further down.
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text: Arkansas State Parks Trip Ideas Filter Park [X] Crater of Diamonds Region Southwest Northwest Park Activity Climbing Watchable Wildlife [X] Diamond Digging Trail Type Trail Difficulty Author Meg Matthews [X] Waymon Cox [X] Monika Rued Date Published August 2020 July 2020 June 2020 February 2020 December 2019 November 2019 October 2019 August 2019 July 2019 June 2019 May 2019 April 2019 February 2019 December 2018 September 2017 June 2017 May 2017 October 2016 June 2016 March 2016 Pagination Page 1 Next page Next › Amid Change, Some Things Remain the Same at the Crater of Diamonds Aug 2020 ⁄ Waymon Cox Greetings from Crater of Diamonds State Park! We have all seen changes this year due to COVID-19, and many of us are still adjusting. Guidelines and restrictions—detailed on the park's website at www.CraterofDiamondsStatePark.com--have been put in place to help protect our visitors and staff. With the many disruptions we have faced this year, however, it can be comforting... Two Visitors Find Large Diamonds at Crater of Diamonds State Park Jul 2020 ⁄ Waymon Cox Confirmation of two large diamonds found at Crater of Diamonds State Park made for a busy week last week at the park, one of the only places in the world where the public can search for diamonds in their original volcanic source. Visitor Finds 2.23-Carat Diamond at Crater of Diamonds State Park Jun 2020 ⁄ Waymon Cox The summer of 2020 started with a sparkling surprise for one western Arkansas woman. Fifty-six-year-old Beatrice Watkins, of Mena, visited Arkansas's Crater of Diamonds State Park, in Murfreesboro, on Saturday, June 20, with her daughter and granddaughters. Within 30 minutes of arriving, she had unknowingly picked up the largest diamond found there, so far this year. Spring Mining Tips Feb 2020 ⁄ Waymon Cox Greetings from Crater of Diamonds State Park! Over the next few weeks, travelers across the country will be making plans for spring break travel, and many will choose to visit Crater of Diamonds State Park. Spring break can be a great time to visit Arkansas's diamond site, and the following tips can help you make the most of your diamond-searching adventure! Winter Forecast for Crater of Diamonds State Park Dec 2019 ⁄ Waymon Cox We've had lots of cold weather over the past few weeks, and many of us are wondering what kind of winter we're in store for this year. Taking a look back at previous winters and considering more recent weather trends may give us a good idea of what to expect in the months to come. Diamond Searching by Specific Gravity Nov 2019 ⁄ Waymon Cox Greetings from Crater of Diamonds State Park! When digging dirt to sift for diamonds at the park, finding certain other minerals can make your search more productive. Look for locations where running water has carved a path through the plowed dirt of the diamond search area. As water from runoff and other sources wash through the field, it picks up heavier materials and... VISITOR FINDS 3.29-CARAT DIAMOND AT CRATER OF DIAMONDS STATE PARK Oct 2019 ⁄ Waymon Cox After summer-like heat gave way to cooler temperatures this week, 65-year-old Pat Choate and her husband John made the two-hour drive from their home in Jacksonville, Arkansas to search for diamonds at Crater of Diamonds State Park in Murfreesboro. Originally from the Murfreesboro area, the couple has visited Arkansas's diamond site numerous times over the years and have... New Excavation Project Ongoing at Crater of Diamonds Oct 2019 ⁄ Waymon Cox A lot has happened at Crater of Diamonds State Park in the past few days, as a new trenching plan seeks to expose unsearched diamond-bearing material and create new opportunities for diamond finds in the park's 37.5-acre search area. Visitor Finds 3.72-Carat Yellow Diamond at Crater of Diamonds State Park Aug 2019 ⁄ Waymon Cox Sometimes, a small change can change your life. On Friday, August 16, 27-year-old Miranda Hollingshead of Bogata Texas, visited Arkansas's Crater of Diamonds State Park for the first time. But according to Hollingshead, that wasn't her original plan. "I was just going to pick up a transmission that day, but my siblings were in town and wanted to do something fun together."... Visitor Finds 2.12-Carat Diamond at Crater of Diamonds State Park Jul 2019 ⁄ Waymon Cox After spending about two hours searching for diamonds, Josh Lanik left Crater of Diamonds State Park with a brandy-colored gem weighing just over two carats. Pagination Page 1 Next page Next ›


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Tuesday, May 26, 2015
Jay and I go to the Tulip Festival
It started with some fun stops at Sinclair stations...Then Jay got a painful leg cramp after he fell asleep in a strange position and was pretty upset there was no Sinclair where we pulled off, so he got something more awesome (and messy). Poffertjes line in the back of the store. Beautiful tulips, delicious pancakes.
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Jay Graduates from Preschool
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Saturday, May 9, 2015
Andy's Monster Truck Party (take 1)
We had so much fun at Andy's monster Truck party. The weather was super rainy, but we made the best of it. I plan on doing an official post with details this summer, but here are all the pictures for fun now! Eagerly waiting for the party to start:
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Eddie Allcorn: A tale of two tournaments
Monday 15th May 2017
When Kent annihilated Derbyshire by 169 runs for a win inside three days to warm the hearts of the St Lawrence faithful on a viciously cold day I thought we might rue the breaking up of the season into blocks.
We risked losing our precious four-day Championship momentum and also, with the Royal London One-Day Cup condensed into three weeks and qualification extraordinarily reduced from eight to six teams, our hopes of a return to Lord's for a final to end our historic jinx might be over before it had really got started… and so it proved.
First the good news, the Derbyshire rout was complete. The first innings score of 259 only looked about par, but with Stevens leading the carnage when the visitors took guard with 6-57 a 100 lead in a low scoring game meant only one thing.
Mr. Stevens then carried on his stupendous form with a fine 90 and a crucial partnership with Rouse. Unfortunately for the young keeper he was left stranded on 95*.
308 all out and a lead of 408 was always going to be too much for the visitors and on day three Harris (4-56), that man again Stevens (3-63) and Coles (2-57) did the honours.
Wilson's gutsy 97 for Derbyshire made it a bit of a contest but the real task for the hardy souls including the Nackington Road grumblers was fending off the chance of frostbite.
One fan went to extremes donning three Kent shirts, one from each format – a dream customer in the club shop!
One wonderful addition to their range was a natty Kent 1870 bobble hat for keeping warm. The bobble is humongous (very trendy), but given how many were being worn by the end of the game, an inspired marketing decision until the weather relents…
During the Derbyshire game, the Members' forum provided those present with an excellent insight into the position of Kent re the proposed T20 Franchise competition set for 2020.
Kent County Cricket Club now have an official new double act. The always eloquent CEO Jamie Clifford was on great form, but now has an equally open and charming partner in crime, new Chairman Simon Philip.
They faced a room full of understandably deeply concerned Kent Members and reassured them of Kent's position on the fundamentally controversial changes to the domestic game, some of the shenanigans behind the scenes and the less than clear path going forward… If you get the chance, pop along to the next one.
Back to events on the pitch and once we'd all thawed out we rocked up for the Hampshire home game in the Royal London Cup. On another cold and grey day, the sparse crowd endured a rather comprehensive loss.
Kent were 40 runs and a bowler light and the visitors trundled home. With little wiggle room for manoeuver to qualify they then rattled up a whopping 352-6 in 50 overs at Taunton.
I listened in silent horror to the radio commentary via the internet as Somerset chased it down with 15 balls to spare…
Unfortunately, a theme was developing. Prior to the tournament, I had bemoaned the fact that Billings, one of our key explosive middle-order batsmen would miss the group stage whilst in the IPL.
In the end Kent scored over 250 in five of the first seven games and lost all five. The problems were in the bowling department.
It was great to see Billings back at The Oval in a rain affected game and the six Coles put onto the middle tier of the OSC stand was memorable, but defeat confirmed our premature exit.
That evening I ended up drowning my sorrows in Canterbury, still wearing my old van Jaarsveld Kent shirt I was introduced to Darren Stevens and was so star struck all I could mumble was something about his rather harsh lbw earlier in the day.
I wish I'd known what he was going to do next, a record 147 Blitzkrieg for Kent, 14 sixes and yet another painful defeat, this time at Swansea.
The Grumblers were at least back in form, losing one-day games from promising positions on freezing afternoons is just their cup of tea, but it must be mentioned that one member has a "magic flask", every time he opens for a refill he captures a crucial wicket for Kent!


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Everybody has a story. What's yours? Register by October 12 to be a "human book."
Your story will make a difference. The DiMenna-Nyselius Library is looking for students to volunteer to be "human books" at the University's third annual Human Library on November 8.
An international movement, Human Libraries have taken shape all over the world since 2000, to combat hate-based violence. Through the power of dialogue, these projects seek to reverse stereotypes that can be both limiting and damaging. Similar to a traditional library, human books can be checked out and read. The "reading" of a human book involves a one-on-one discussion where the reader can learn and inquire about the human book's story.
Participants from last year's Human Library found the unconventional conversations to be rewarding. One human book said, "When I first chose my topic I wasn't sure people would find it interesting or impactful, but seeing their reactions after answering their queries made me so happy and assured me that I was making change."
Fairfield University first hosted the Human Library two years ago. Barbara Ghilardi, reference and instruction librarian at the DiMenna-Nyselius Library and one of the event's organizers, believes that the project can build on last year's success.
"What will be great about this year's Human Library is not only will we have new stories, but people will be able to check in with some of our books from last year, labeled as 'sequels', so they can continue to share their stories with the community. We received incredible feedback from both readers and books, so we knew our community would want to come together again to share dialogue."
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Feeling excited, happy, tired, nauseated, grateful, hungry, thirsty, shocked, giddy, denial, sad, happy again and more. The feelings are all so there and yet… there is a numbness. A feeling that I'm making this all up. Feeling that somehow, I have messed this all up. Feeling disconnected.
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2014 CMA Awards Winners List
The 2014 CMA Awards are finally upon us! Some early winners were announced before the show today (Nov. 5), with Keith Urban and Miranda Lambert taking home Musical Event Award with 'We Were Us' and Dierks Bentley took home the coveted Music Video of the Year Award for 'Drunk on a Plane.'
Luke Bryan took home the big award for Entertainer of the Year, and Blake Shelton and Miranda Lambert took home Male Vocalist of the Year and Female Vocalist of the Year, respectively.
Keep checking back as we'll be updating this list throughout the night!
For complete 2014 CMA Awards coverage, be sure to head over to Taste of Country!
Entertainer of the Year
Luke Bryan -- WINNER
Miranda Lambert
Blake Shelton
George Strait
Keith Urban
Female Vocalist of the Year
Miranda Lambert -- WINNER
Martina McBride
Kacey Musgraves
Taylor Swift
Carrie Underwood
Male Vocalist of the Year
Dierks Bentley
Luke Bryan
Eric Church
Blake Shelton -- WINNER
Keith Urban
Vocal Group of the Year
Eli Young Band
Lady Antebellum
Little Big Town -- WINNER
The Band Perry
Zac Brown Band
Album of the Year
'Crash My Party,' Luke Bryan
'Fuse,' Keith Urban
'Platinum,' Miranda Lambert -- WINNER
'Riser,' Dierks Bentley
'The Outsiders,' Eric Church
Song of the Year (Awarded to Songwriters)
'Automatic,' Miranda Lambert (Written by Nicole Galyon, Natalie Hemby and Miranda Lambert)
'Follow Your Arrow,' Kacey Musgraves (Written by Kacey Musgraves, Brandy Clark and Shane McAnally) -- WINNER
'Give Me Back My Hometown,' Eric Church (Written by Eric Church and Luke Laird)
'I Don't Dance,' Lee Brice (Written by Lee Brice, Rob Hatch and Dallas Davidson)
'I Hold On,' Dierks Bentley (Written by Brett James and Dierks Bentley)
Vocal Duo of the Year
Dan + Shay
Florida Georgia Line -- WINNER
Love and Theft
The Swon Brothers
Thompson Square
New Artist of the Year
Brandy Clark
Brett Eldredge -- WINNER
Kip Moore
Thomas Rhett
Cole Swindell
Single of the Year
'Automatic,' Miranda Lambert -- WINNER
'Drunk on a Plane,' Dierks Bentley
'Give Me Back My Hometown,' Eric Church
'Meanwhile Back at Mama's,' Tim McGraw and Faith Hill
'Mine Would Be You,' Blake Shelton
Musical Event of the Year
'Bakersfield,' Vince Gill and Paul Franklin
'Meanwhile Back at Mama's,' Tim McGraw and Faith Hill
'Somethin' Bad,' Miranda Lambert and Carrie Underwood
'We Were Us,' Keith Urban and Miranda Lambert -- WINNER
'You Can't Make Old Friends,' Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton
Music Video of the Year
'Automatic,' Miranda Lambert
'Bartender,' Lady Antebellum
'Drunk on a Plane,' Dierks Bentley -- WINNER
'Follow Your Arrow,' Kacey Musgraves
'Somethin' Bad,' Miranda Lambert and Carrie Underwood
Musician of the Year
Sam Bush
Jerry Douglas -- WINNER
Paul Franklin
Dann Huff
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No one would ever dare taunt a pancake, and few of us would want to snicker at a sweet roll or badger a bun.
All breakfast food is to be enjoyed, appreciated, and devoured. Fact.
But a very impressive contigent of breakfast eaters have moved into a particular corner over the last decade, and it is a corner scented with eggs and bacon and sausage and slices of melty cheese and, almost above all, really toothsome, incredibly grippable, tie-it-all-together bread.
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That corner we speak of belongs solely to the breakfast sandwich, which, of course, has been around as long as breakfast and sandwiches. In recent years, though, restaurants have been blithely experimenting with gourmet-quality sandwich add-ins, with local egg-porium Eggslut at the front of that innovative pack.
The company's beloved brioche bun, and those considerable queues out front of the truck and stores, are clues that something a little dif is afoot in the whole morning sammie game. What began as a food truck, then an always busy stall at Grand Central Market, is now a boutique eggery with outposts in Las Vegas and Venice.
And, as of March 23, 2017, Glendale, on Brand Boulevard, not far from Colorado.
It isn't all about eggs and other proteins and carbs stuff in a hunk of brioche at Eggslut. Coddled eggs, too, have gotten the love, and an egg salad boasts a hold-it-together elixir that's straight-up honey mustard aioli.
Where will The Sluts — those are the memorably monikered coddled eggs — get to crackin' next? No yolk: Eggslut is on the up and up and up and up, as is our nearly universal devotion to incorporating the sandwich format at every meal of the day.
Surely a dessert sandwich is the next soon-to-be classic around town?
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SHANGHAI (AP) — Rory McIlroy pulled out of the Turkish Airlines Open next week, leaving him a long shot to capture the Race to Dubai on the European Tour.
McIlroy presumably withdrew over security concerns. A car explosion in the parking lot of the Antalya Trade and Industry Chamber on Tuesday slightly injured about a dozen people. The tournament will be held at Regnum Carya Golf & Spa Resort in Antalya.
Turkey has been rocked by a wave of deadly bomb attacks in the past 18 months blamed on Kurdish rebels or Islamic State group militants.
"I think it's obvious," was all McIlroy said Sunday when asked why he chose to withdraw.
The Turkish Airlines Open is the first of three tournaments in the Final Series to the Race to Dubai. McIlroy is No. 3 in the standings, trailing by a wide margin Masters champion Danny Willett and British Open champion Henrik Stenson.
McIlroy closed with a 66 at the HSBC Champions, well behind Hideki Matsuyama and one shot behind Stenson. Willett finished at the bottom of the pack.
Stenson will also skip Turkey, as will American Patrick Reed.
"I guess it's out of my hands," McIlroy said. "I took the decision not to go to Turkey next week. Those boys can battle it out. If I have somewhat of a chance going into Dubai, that's great. If not, they've had big wins over the course of the season. They've played well – two major championships. I'm OK with that."
McIlroy said he contemplated playing the Turkish Airlines Open all week and said he "slept much better" after deciding not to go.
It also helps that he already has won the Race to Dubai three times in the previous four years. He has won the PGA Tour money list twice, and this year he won the FedEx Cup on the PGA Tour for the first time.
"The fact I've won the FedEx Cup this year, won the Race to Dubai before, made the decision a little easier," McIlroy said.
This is the second time this year the 27-year-old McIlroy withdrew from a big event. He also was among those who pulled out of the Olympics in Rio over Zika concerns.
The Nedbank Challenge follows the Turkish Airlines Open, with the European Tour season wrapping up with the DP Tour Championship in Dubai.


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|Posted: Jan 17, 2013
Almost 250 nanomedicine products approved or in clinical study
|(Nanowerk Spotlight) According to an expert group of the European Medicines Evaluation Agency Source ("Reflection paper on nanotechnology-based medicinal products for human use"), "the majority of current commercial applications of nanotechnology to medicine is geared towards drug delivery to enable new modes of action, as well as better targeting and bioavailability of existing medicinal substances. Novel applications of nanotechnology include nanostructure scaffolds for tissue replacement, nanostructures that allow transport across biological barriers, remote control of nanoprobes, integrated implantable sensory nanoelectronic systems and multifunctional chemical structures for drug delivery and targeting of disease."
|While most reviews on nanomedicine tend to focus on specific sectors or take a very forward-looking stance and fail to provide a complete perspective on the current landscape, a new review article in Nanomedicine: Nanotechnology, Biology and Medicine ("The big picture on nanomedicine: the state of investigational and approved nanomedicine products") provides a more comprehensive and contemporary inventory of nanomedicine products.
|The authors gathered information on 247 nanomedicine products that are already approved or in various stages of clinical study and describe each based on various dimensions, including FDA classification, approval status, nanoscale size, treated condition, nanostructure, and others.
|They point out, though, that it is difficult to locating basic information on nanomedicine products: "This is partly due to the lack of a clear definition and categorization of nanomedicine as a unique product class. However, it is also difficult to identify products that do not use nano-related terminology in their literature, and this can serve as an impetus for companies to avoid nano branding, if they perceive an elevated regulatory effort or negative public perception."
|The table below provides a breakdown of the type of nanostructures utilized in the confirmed and likely nanomedicine products. The various forms of free nanoparticles were the most prevalent categories, with significant numbers in both commercial products and investigational applications.
|Type of nanostructure for confirmed and likely nanomedicine applications and products, by developmental status. (© Elsevier)
|The high level of development in nanoscale liposomes and emulsions should be highlighted; many developing drug-delivery platforms take advantage of liposomal and emulsion formulations.
|In the above table, "therapeutic" is defined to include drugs, vaccines, and biologicals that are intended to directly remedy a medical condition. All other applications and products were generally classified as "devices".
|Based on their documentation of the many nanomedicine products already in use in humans, the study indentifies several interesting trends forecasting the future of nanomedicine. "The most overwhelming trend observed in the data is the many cancer treatments under development. This circumstance can be tied to the significant investments the National Cancer Institute (NCI) has made in nanotechnology over the past decade, the fact that cancer is the worldwide leading cause of death, and the inherent benefits that nanoplatforms offer for therapeutic delivery. However, it might also be due in part to the sense that life-threatening cancers warrant the investigation of treatments using emerging technologies such as nanotechnology."
|Medical uses for confirmed and likely nanomedicine therapeutics (top) and devices (bottom) identified. (© Elsevier)
|Another theme playing a major role in today's nanomedicine that is likely to undergo significant development in the near future is in vivo targeting. The review identifies a large number of products utilizing the enhanced permeability and retention (EPR) effect, as well as several taking advantage of more active modes of targeting.
|Looking ahead, the authors project that the next phases of development in nanomedicine are likely to take advantage of combined applications in the form of both multimodal treatments (utilizing nanomedicine in combination with current treatments) and theranostic platforms (single nanomedicine applications with multiple modes of action).
|Based on their difficulties with clearly identifying nanomedicine applications, the authors state that this reveals two clear needs that should be addressed for any regulatory approach for nanomedicine to succeed: "1) developing an effective and clear definition outlining the field and 2) creating a standardized approach for gathering, sharing, and tracking relevant information on nanomedicine applications and products (without creating additional barriers for medical innovation).
|"Both the NCL and FDA are taking steps in the right direction, but broader-reaching efforts are necessary to clarify the definition of ?nanomedicine,? track key data, and facilitate coordination among agencies in this complex arena."
|By Michael Berger – Michael is author of three books by the Royal Society of Chemistry: Nano-Society: Pushing the Boundaries of Technology, Nanotechnology: The Future is Tiny, and Nanoengineering: The Skills and Tools Making Technology Invisible Copyright © Nanowerk
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I am familiar with the concept of getting some bush inside a car. Putting a car inside a bush? Not so much.
This solar-powered vehicle is a testament to the fact that some people just have too much time on their hands – and not enough bush in their lives!
BTW: I love the fact that this video has no voice-over or explanation whatsoever. I guess the inventor/videographer figures the whole concept is self-explanatory. Silly me. I don't get it.
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Nearly half of federal website domains have policies in place to deal with spoofed emails after an October 2017 Department of Homeland Security directive mandated the use new email and web security standards.
According to a December 2017 report by cybersecurity company Agari, approximately 47 percent of the 1,106 federal domains have adopted policies for Domain-based Message authentication, Reporting and Conformance (DMARC), which allows for improved detection and management of spoofed emails. That figure is up from 34 percent in November 2017.
DMARC is designed to alert email senders of attempts to spoof or impersonate a web domain and to block spoofed emails from recipients before they are delivered. The protocol works in conjunction with a digital watermark supplied by the official domain owner.
"While still low, the set of government domains now has a significantly better adoption level than the commercial sector, where two-thirds (67 percent) of the domains have not published any DMARC policy," wrote the report's authors.
Agari provides DMARC-related services to the private and public sector, including many federal agencies.
Last year, DHS issued binding operational directive 18-01, instituting a series of deadlines for federal agencies to implement new email and website security standards. By Jan. 15, 90 days after the order was issued, agencies are expected to have configured all second-level domains with DMARC records and set those policies to "monitor," meaning they will take no action on suspicious emails that do not have a valid Sender Policy Framework or DomainKeys Identified Mail signal.
That means that a large majority of domains (84 percent by Agari's count) are still technically vulnerable to being spoofed, as the directive doesn't require agencies to start automatically rejecting these emails until October 2018. However, the company has characterized the DHS timelines as "aggressive" and noted that DMARC protection is designed to be deployed in phases.
The advanced stages of DMARC installation can be challenging, noted John Wilson, field chief technology officer for Agari in a blog published in November 2017. "Agencies often roll this out in phases to avoid negatively affecting email deliverability."
The report noted that 23 agencies have achieved 100 percent DMARC adoption, including the Departments of Veterans Affairs, Health and Human Services and Education.
While speaking to the National Institute of Standards and Technology's Information Security and Privacy Advisory Board on Oct. 27, Michael Duffy, branch chief for DHS' cybersecurity and communications office, laid out some of the department's reasoning behind issuing BOD 18-01.
"What we did with 18-01 was say there is a baseline of security across the federal dot-gov [domain] that really needs to be elevated, [particularly] email authentication," he said.
Duffy said the department was not only worried about the ramifications of bad cyber hygiene from federal users but also maintaining the trust of American citizens "who are also interacting with our systems day to day."
"We want them to be confident in the information and that the information is being protected accurately," he said.
The directive also requires agencies to configure all internet-facing mail servers to use more secure connections using STARTTLS by Jan. 15, ensure all federal websites use secure HTTPS connections and disable older, less secure connections by Feb. 13.
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Derek B. Johnson is a senior staff writer at FCW, covering governmentwide IT policy, cybersecurity and a range of other federal technology issues.
Prior to joining FCW, Johnson was a freelance technology journalist. His work has appeared in The Washington Post, GoodCall News, Foreign Policy Journal, Washington Technology, Elevation DC, Connection Newspapers and The Maryland Gazette.
Johnson has a Bachelor's degree in journalism from Hofstra University and a Master's degree in public policy from George Mason University. He can be contacted at [email protected], or follow him on Twitter @derekdoestech.
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VARANASI -- National woman footballer Poonam Chauhan died of dengue during her treatment at a private hospital in Varanasi.
She was 29.
Poonam, who played for the Indian football team in 2010, passed away on Tuesday night. She was admitted in the hospital about a week ago.
She was a part of the team that had won a gold medal at the South Asian games. She also played for the UP state football team and was one of its most crucial members.
Chauhan was currently working as a football trainer at Varanasi's Sigra stadium.
Also on HuffPost India.


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With early dental implants, there had to be a good amount of bone for the implant to sit correctly and remain in place. This meant many candidates needed to have a bone graft before they could have their implant. That made the process longer and required additional surgeries. This, in turn, increased the cost and recovery time. Thankfully, Arch-on-4 implants no longer typically require bone grafts. The four posts can be placed in some different parts of the mouth, so even if one area doesn't have a good amount of bone, another spot can usually be found that does.
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While I have been missing from the blog, my other activities continue onwards.
One of them was the MNS Get Together which I attended two Saturdays ago at Botanical Garden. I've been an MNS member for 2 years now and though I am subscribed to the YahooGroup and am in the loop of information, I am frankly not a big birding fan. A lot of them are birding enthusiasts but not me. (I am a botany fan though.)
Just like Nic has his PHT (Penang Heritage Trust) membership, I have mine as a result of having a soft spot for animals and nature and conservation. So I think my membership dues will help MNS do its bit for the eagles, tigers, tapirs, owls,elephants, monitor lizards and the whole jungle fraternity!
But last Saturday really opened my eyes to what a bunch of nature fans the rest of the MNS members are. They were armed with binoculars and Nikon and Canon cameras. Not my compact type of camera. Those professional cameras complete with separate bazooka-like lenses.
After a rather yummy buffet dinner, we were all herded into groups of 10 to take on the night walk in the Botanical Garden. What's special is this – you cannot go into the garden at night without special permission. That's why so many MNS members turned up. Not for the dinner, splendid though it was.
We were there for the WALK.
Yes, a night walk! What a fascinating idea, right? That attracted me to the gathering in the first place.
Nic and I were in the first group and we strolled, not knowing what to look for. The rest were true nature lovers – they came with powerful torches to shine into the big leafy trees. Mrs Hum told me we were looking for the reflective shine of the eyes of creatures such as owls. She described seeing a pair of owls nesting in the garden.
Being the first-timers that we were (and the urban creatures that I am), we didn't spot anything. The veteran members were the ones who spotted everything – from frogs in the drains and ponds to owl and colugos in the trees! And they go to extremes to take that snapshot of the animals.
But the night walk was so amazing because when the night's quiet and there are no joggers in the garden, it's special.
It's special and fascinating when the garden is shrouded in darkness and finally I got to listen to tiny frogs making big noises, watch termites busily going somewhere on the cannonball tree and really look at the tadpoles in the pond. The night was not totally dark as my eyes grew accustomed to the night and I saw shapes of trees and saw a bright night sky above.
I was also in awe of the water system in the garden especially when we decided to walk up to the reservoir and Tajul regaled us with stories of the clever British who dug special underground ducts for irrigating the garden.
What a lovely way to spend a Saturday night!
By the way, the amazing animal photos are not taken by me. They are courtesy of Oo Choo Yee and Dr Khaw Chun Sien.
Oh yes, tomorrow is Car Free Day while on Saturday night you are supposed to join the movement to switch off your lights for an hour between 8.30pm to 9.30pm. While some critics call this hypocritical, I always think that any little support and contribution we do to raise awareness is better than none at all. Starting small is nothing be ashamed of, it's doing NOTHING that kills us all. I know for some people that it is virtually impossible to NOT use their car for a whole day tomorrow but how about switching off your lights on Saturday? At least you can enjoy what darkness is all about.
Prowling the Garden
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Allan Macrae from Assynt was a man who made history. So was Tommy Riley from Drumchapel.
They both died on the same day last week but never met. Yet in many ways they were gentle brothers in the same fight for expression and dignity. They left a mark on their communities – and changed my life.


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Hopefully just a brief post in response to one I consider to be spectacularly wrong.
- Don't test other people's code.
- Don't test implementation details.
- Don't pad your test suite with pointless tests.
- Don't have code which is only ever called by tests.
- TDD is awesome; don't make it look bad.
What's all this about then?
The author of the above-linked post knows a hell of a lot about TDD and the various disciplines that go along with it, and I've generally got a lot of respect for him and his work, but when you're wrong, you're wrong, and when you're an authority figure and you're wrong it needs to be pointed out in case you make a lot of other people wrong too.
The assertion (no pun intended) at issue is that this line of code requires a unit test to cover it:
public int Year { get; set; }
The proposed tests for this single line of code are:
public void GetYearReturnsAssignedValue()
var sut = new DateViewModel();
sut.Year = 2013;
Assert.Equal(2013, sut.Year);
public void GetYearReturnsAssignedValue2()
var sut = new DateViewModel();
sut.Year = 2010;
Assert.Equal(2010, sut.Year);
The post goes on to discuss using parameterized tests to "save time", but never thinks to suggest writing some reflection code that finds all the public types in an assembly, then all the public properties on all of those types, and tests setting them to all the possible values to make sure it always works, if you will excuse the reductio ad absurdum (of course, this wouldn't show up in your code coverage, so you'd probably end up using T4 templates to generate parameterized tests and then check them into your test suite…).
Anyway, here are a few reasons why it's wrong.
1. It's testing the compiler, not your code
The line of code being tested is syntactic sugar for a property with a backing field. The tests are checking only that the compiler has done its job properly, and that's already been extensively tested by the people who wrote the compiler. You don't need to test it again. This applies to all language features, standard library functions and classes, and public APIs. You don't test the .NET StreamWriter class to make sure it writes to a stream; you test the code you've written to make sure it writes the right thing to the stream.
2. It's test-driving an implementation detail, not application logic
This Year property is clearly used by some application logic, otherwise it is redundant and should be excised. Both the getter and the setter for the property will be covered by the tests which test whatever the class with the year property actually does, and hopefully with a representative range of valid values.
There is no user story on the board which says "As a developer using the DateViewModel, I want to set the Year property to a positive integer, so that I can get it back again later".
There may be a user story that says "As a user, I want to be prevented from accidentally adding events in the past", in which case there should be some validation code that happens in the view-model when the Year property changes, and that should be tested.
In the paragraph headed "Causality", the author makes the argument that "the tests drive the implementation". This is true, but what you are implementing here is not a Year property; it's some kind of higher-level date-related functionality that is required by your application. The Year property is a part of that implementation; it is not the implementation itself.
3. Pointless tests are worse than no tests at all
Using the suggested approach to testing, it would probably be possible to achieve 100% coverage of all public properties and methods in a project without actually testing 100% of the application logic. Now you have a metric that tells you you've done everything right, even though you've done everything wrong.
For example, let's say our hypothetical DateViewModel also has Day and Month properties, and a Date property, all of which have getters and setters. Setting any of Day, Month or Year should change the Date property, and setting the Date property should change all the others. But with tests that test each property in isolation, you have 100% code coverage, and no useful information at all. Conversely, if you have a test for the Year property that asserts against the Date property, and a test for the Date property that asserts against the Year property, then the other tests are redundant, and redundant tests serve only to make the test suite look better than it really is.
4. It hides code redundancy
Code coverage is not just a metric for making sure you're testing properly, it's an excellent way of detecting redundant code. If you have worthless tests covering essentially non-functional code, then neither the compiler nor your coverage tool will ever be able to say "this property doesn't appear to be used by anything".
5. It presents TDD in a terrible light
The author of the post suggests that Bob Martin's statement that "you don't need to test-drive trivial code" is "horrible advice for novices". I would submit that the counter-advice he goes on to give is far more horrible, since it makes TDD look unnecessarily time-consuming, pedantic and pointless. Telling people that they can't apply judgement, common sense and pragmatism to TDD is going to result in them writing the whole thing off as a bad job, which is a far worse outcome than them maybe skipping the odd test here and there (which they will learn not to do over time, as those missed tests come back and bite them in the backside).
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Guide (film)
Guide is a 1965 romantic drama Indian film, starring Dev Anand and Waheeda Rehman. It was directed by Vijay Anand, who contributed to the screenplay. The film is based on the 1958 novel The Guide, by R. K. Narayan.[1]
Film poster
|Directed by
|Vijay Anand
|Produced by
|Dev Anand
|Screenplay by
|Vijay Anand
|Based on
|The Guide
by R. K. Narayan
|Music by
|S. D. Burman
|Fali Mistry
|Edited by
|Vijay Anand
Babu Sheikh
Release date
Running time
|183 minutes
The film was a box office hit upon release.[2] The movie proved memorable for its award-winning performances by the lead actors and memorable music by S. D. Burman. Time magazine listed it at Number Four on its list of Best Bollywood Classics.[3]
A 120-minute U.S. version was written by Pearl S. Buck, and directed and produced by Tad Danielewski.[4] The film was screened at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival, 42 years after its release.[5]
The movie starts with Raju (Dev Anand) being released from jail. Raju was a freelance guide, who earned his living by taking tourists to historic sites. One day, a wealthy and aging archaeologist, Marco (Kishore Sahu) comes to the city with his young wife Rosie (Waheeda Rehman), the daughter of a courtesan. Marco wants to do some research on the caves outside the city and hires Raju as his guide.
While Marco devotes himself to the discovery of the cave, Raju takes Rosie on a tour and appreciates her dancing ability and innocence. He learns about Rosie's background as a daughter of a courtesan and how Rosie has achieved respectability as the wife of Marco but at a terrible cost. She had to give up her passion for dancing since it was unacceptable to Marco. Meanwhile, Rosie tries to commit suicide by consuming poison. Marco, upon learning of the incident, returns from the caves to see Rosie and is furious with Rosie after seeing her alive. He tells her that her act of committing suicide was a drama, otherwise, she would have consumed more sleeping pills so that she could really have died. Upon returning to the caves which were discovered, Rosie learns that Marco is spending time and enjoying the company of a native tribal girl. She is enraged at Marco and both indulge in a seriously heated discussion, which concludes with Rosie leaving the caves, and she once again wants to end her life.
Raju calms her down by saying that committing suicide is a sin and that she should live to pursue her dream. She finally says good-bye to the relation of being the wife of Marco. Now she needs support and a home. Raju gives her shelter. Rosie is considered a prostitute by Raju's community (as classical dancing traditionally was prostitutes' work at royal courts), which leads to many problems, including his mother and her brother insisting that Rosie be kicked out. Raju refuses and his mother leaves him. His friend and driver also fall out with him over Rosie. Raju loses his business and the entire town turns against him. Undeterred by these setbacks, Raju helps Rosie embark on a singing and dancing career and Rosie becomes a star. As she rises as a star, Raju becomes dissolute — gambling and drinking. Marco comes back on the scene. Trying to win Rosie back, he brings flowers and has his agent ask Rosie to release some jewelry which is in a safe deposit box. Raju, a bit jealous, does not want Marco to have any contact with Rosie and forges Rosie's name on the release of the jewels. Meanwhile, Rosie and Raju drift apart due to Rosie's incomprehensible behaviour when she tortures Raju by not obliging him a caring hug even and asks him to leave her room else she says she will have to go out. Before this, they also had a discussion about how a man should live when Rosie remembers Marco and tells Raju that Marco was probably correct when he used to say that a man should not live on a woman's earnings.
Raju retorts by saying that she is under a misunderstanding that she has become a star on her own and it was only because of Raju's efforts that she became famous. Later, Rosie learns of the forgery release. Raju is convicted of forgery, resulting in a two-year sentence. Rosie does not understand why Raju indulged in forgery when he could have easily asked her for money. It was not money, it was the loving fascination for Rosie which urged Raju not to reveal Marco's visit to Rosie so that she doesn't remember him again and to eliminate the probability of Rosie and Marco's togetherness if at all, there was any little chance. On the day of his release, his mother and Rosie come to pick him up but they are told that he was released six months ago because of his good behaviour.
Meanwhile, upon his release, Raju wanders alone. Despair, poverty, rags, hunger, and loneliness engulf him until he finds a wandering group of sadhus (holy men) with whom he spends a night at a derelict temple in a small town. Raju impresses the woman with the logic in taking a husband and she submits, which convinces Bhola that Raju is a swami (holy man). Impressed by this, Bhola spreads the news through the village. Raju is taken as a holy man by the village. Raju assumes the role of village holy man (Swami Ji) and engages in skirmishes with the local pandits. And drama started here. Due to drought Raju was forced to fast for 12 days so that it rains. Meanwhile, his mother, friend, and Rosie unite with him and patch things up. In the end, it rains but Raju dies.
- Dev Anand as Raju
- Waheeda Rehman as Rosie Marco/Miss Nalini
- Leela Chitnis as Raju's Mother
- Kishore Sahu as Marco
- Gajanan Jagirdar as Bhola
- Anwar Hussain as Gaffoor
- Rashid Khan as Joseph
- Ram Avtar as Pandit (well built one)
- Narbada Shankar as pandit
- Nazir Kashmiri as villager
- Praveen Paul as Bhola's wife
Dev Anand was approached by American director Tad Danielewski and Pearl Buck to be cast in an American film based on a novel by an Indian author. Although Dev Anand had refused, he took up the opportunity for a collaboration when he met Tad again at the 1962 Berlin Film Festival. Somebody suggested The Guide. Dev Anand purchased the book and read it at one go. He called up Pearl who invited him to the United States to discuss the project. With their approval, he called up R. K. Narayan and procured the rights to the book.[6]
Pearl tutored Waheeda Rehman on her diction for the English part. But due to differences of opinion between the two production teams, Anand postponed the Hindi version, thereby freeing Chetan Anand to direct Haqeeqat which was later highly acclaimed. It also became an opportunity for Vijay Anand who stepped in, as the film proved a landmark for him.[6][7]
The song, Aaj phir jeene ki tamanna hai which was picturised on Waheeda Rehman was shot in the Chittor Fort in Rajasthan.[5] The climax of the film was shot in Limdi town, 90 km from Ahmedabad as it has Bhogavo river which flows only during the monsoon. Chetan Anand was a classmate of erstwhile royals of Limbdi, Janaksinhji of Jhala family at Doon School in Dehradun, taught English at Limdi, in 1941.[8]
|Soundtrack album by
|1965 (India)
|Film soundtrack
|The Gramophone Company of India (Private) Limited
|Sachin Dev Burman
|Sachin Dev Burman chronology
The film's music was composed by Sachin Dev Burman, the songs were written by Shailendra and they were sung by Mohammed Rafi, Lata Mangeshkar, Kishore Kumar, Manna Dey and Sachin Dev Burman. The soundtrack was listed by Planet Bollywood as number 11 on their list of 100 Greatest Bollywood Soundtracks.[9]
|Picturized on
|"Aaj Phir Jeene Ki Tamanna"
|Lata Mangeshkar
|Dev Anand & Waheeda Rehman
|"Din Dhal Jaaye"
|Mohammed Rafi
|Dev Anand & Waheeda Rehman
|"Gaata Rahe Mera Dil"
|Kishore Kumar & Lata Mangeshkar
|Dev Anand & Waheeda Rehman
|"Kya Se Kya Ho Gaya"
|Mohammed Rafi
|Dev Anand & Waheeda Rehman
|"Piya Tose Naina Laage Re"
|Lata Mangeshkar
|Waheeda Rehman
|"Saiyaan Beimaan"
|Lata Mangeshkar
|Dev Anand & Waheeda Rehman
|"Tere Mere Sapne"
|Mohammed Rafi
|Dev Anand & Waheeda Rehman
|"Wahan Kaun Hai Tera"
|Sachin Dev Burman
|Dev Anand
|"He Ram Hamare Ramchandra"
|Manna Dey & Chorus
|Dev Anand
|"Allah Megh De Paani De"
|Sachin Dev Burman
|Dev Anand
Rafi recorded a song 'Hum hi me thi na koi baat yaad na tumko aa sake tumne hame bhula diya hum na tumko bhula sake', then this song was replaced by 'Din dhal jaye'.
The film was selected as the Indian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 38th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.[10] Guide was also first film to win all four of the major awards (Best Movie, Best Director, Best Actor and Best Actress) at the Filmfare Awards.
|38th Academy Awards
|Academy Award
|India's official submission for Best Foreign Language Film
|Dev Anand
|Not Nominated
|Eighth film submitted by India
|National Film Awards
|13th National Film Awards
|Certificate of Merit for the Third Best Feature Film
|Filmfare Awards
|14th Filmfare Awards
|Best Film
|Received on behalf of Navketan Films
|Best Director
|Vijay Anand
|Best Actor
|Dev Anand
|Best Actress
|Waheeda Rehman
|Best Music Director
|S.D. Burman
|Best Female Playback Singer
|Lata Mangeshkar
|For "Aaj Phir Jeene Ki Tamana Hai"
|Best Dialogue
|Vijay Anand
|Best Cinematographer (Color Category)
|Fali Mistry
|Best Story
|R.K. Narayan
R. K. Narayan disliked the film adaptation of his novel. Reviewing the English version of the film for the magazine Life, he called it "The Misguided Guide".[11]
See alsoEdit
- ^ "Guide; a human odyssey". Retrieved 24 June 2015.
- ^ "BoxOfficeIndia Top Earners 1960-1969 (Figures in Indian rupees)". Retrieved 24 June 2015.
- ^ Corliss, Richard (27 October 2010), "Guide - 1965 - Best of Bollywood", Time.com, retrieved 31 July 2012
- ^ "Tad Danielewski Filmography". Fandango.com. 29 March 1921. Retrieved 3 August 2011.
- ^ a b Gitanjali Roy (1 May 2013). "8 things you didn't know about Guide". NDTV Movies. Retrieved 3 May 2013.
- ^ a b Anand, Dev (2007). Romancing with Life - an autobiography. Penguin Viking. pp. 182–184. ISBN 0-670-08124-8.
- ^ Suresh Kohli (4 October 2008). "Blast From The Past: Guide 1965". Chennai, India: The Hindu. Retrieved 27 April 2013.
- ^ "'We hunted for a firang for Dev sahab in 5 hrs'". Pune Mirror. 6 December 2011. Retrieved 18 December 2013.
- ^ "100 Greatest Bollywood Soundtracks Ever-Part 4". Planet Bollywood. Retrieved 7 March 2011.
- ^ Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
- ^ Guy, Randor (26 July 2001). "A flood of fond memories". The Hindu. Retrieved 28 April 2017.
- The Guide (Modern Classics). Penguin Books. 2010. ISBN 978-0-14-341498-8.


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Adoreum was engaged by Moncrief to develop impactful strategic alliances to promote the brand; open up distribution channels with commercial partners worldwide and directly introduce new clientele.
Adoreum began by compiling a list of potential ambassadors to approach for a long-term affiliation with Moncrief. They included appropriate influencers and brand partners who Adoreum believed could actively promote the brand in the right circles.
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