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March Madness in Las Vegas: 6 Places to Avoid NCAA Basketball After Your Team Craps Out
1. A gondola ride at The Venetian
There's a time and a place for a solo trip through a canal with a gondolier in a stripped shirt serenading you in Italian. And after a devastating loss might just be that time. Don't be bashful, opt for an outdoor ride over the indoor one through the Venetian's canals. And buy the commemorative photo at the ride's end so you can show your friends. Once they see it, they'll totally forget to rib you about your team being eliminated.
2. El Loco
During this 72-second, 45 MPH roller coaster ride at Circus Circus's Adventuredome, which gives riders a 1.5-vertical G thrill, college basketball will be the last thing on your mind -- unless the thought of your decapitated head flying through the air evokes a rainbow jumper.
3.The Bellagio Gallery of Fine Art
Still looking for something to celebrate, even if it's not your hoops team? Head to the Bellagio Gallery of Fine Art's current exhibit, Painting Women: Works from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, which celebrates women not as "objects of beauty," but rather for "their ability to create it."
The 34-work, three-room exhibit spans 100 years and includes an audio tour so thorough you'll feel bad for the artworks that were omitted. Highlights include Ellen Day Hale's self-assured self-portrait; My Childhood Trees by Polly Thayer, the "first truly modern piece in MFA's collection" (seen below); and a Georgia O'Keeffe painting of a flower-blossom and we all know that represents.
4. Fizz Las Vegas
Caesar's new champagne lounge is kind of like a man cave -- when the men in question are Elton John and his partner David Furnish.
Furnish, Fizz Las Vegas's creative director, said the chic yet relaxing lounge reflects the couple's personal style. So rather than staring at hoops on TV, you'll be gazing at a two-story display of Sir Elton and Furnish's splashy photography collection (like a portrait of a PJ-clad Elton cuddling in bed with Elizabeth Taylor, who's sporting a peacock print something-or-other).
Drown your misery in $18 cocktails -- may I recommend the Jamaica Jerk Off (if for no reason other than its name?). Or, if your gambling bets performed better than your favorite team, down a $2,500 Fizz Deluxe. In case you're wondering, it combines Grand Marnier Quintessence, Hennessy Richard Cognac, Fee Brothers lemon bitters and Monin rose syrup along with egg whites and a Dom Perignon Rose Champagne, rose petal and 24-karat gold flake sprinkle finish.
That drink aside, Fizz is surprisingly not stuffy. A few weeks ago on a Saturday night, outside there was no rope line. Inside at a table (bottle service required to score one of those), two women catfished a Canadian DJ/producer via text. One table over, a fully clothed woman gave an aggressive lap dance to a man who seemed like her husband (he looked bored), but Vegas being Vegas, who knows. Sorry though. Fizz has a no-cameras policy, so you'll have to take my word for it.
5. Caesars Palace's Hangover suite
Yes Caesars's four-bedroom suite that inspired the one in The Hangover has plenty of TVs. But you'll be so busy quoting the movie ("Did, umm... did Caesar live here?"), you won't have time to think about March Madness.
Not a high roller or don't have the thousands it costs to book the room for an evening? To mark the new partnership between Caesar's Total Rewards and Starwood Preferred Guest (SPG) programs, SPG members can use their points to for a Wolf Pack Weekend: two nights in the hangover suite, VIP table for eight at PURE Nightclub, dinner at Nobu Restaurant and more. Did someone say "March Madness?" See, you already forgot.
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Our "Las Vegas Spring Break Crawl: Things to Do Beyond the Casinos," singles out this spot where you can "do yoga while the dolphins swim behind you in the glass-enclosed underwater viewing area." If that serene scene doesn't have you saying, "Namaste," just return to the sport book and chant, "Duke sucks." That always relaxes.
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Four out of five people have periodontal disease and don't know it! Most people are not aware of it because the disease is usually painless in the early stages.
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In an Instagram post, Jackie exclaimed, "my proudest career moment thank you @naomi for sharing your platform with me and coming to my channel! who's seen my new vid where I get glam with Naomi Campbell? Click the link in my bio!"
The beauty connoisseur and the supermodel extraordinaire joined forces in a YouTube video to discuss Naomi's go-to makeup regimen, her favorite supermodel, her preference in sanitary products, among other things. Although she has made herself more accessible through her YouTube Channel, it was so refreshing to see Naomi be open with Jackie about her journey through life.
This inspirational moment captures where old school meets new school. Naomi Campbell has a long-lasting career as a supermodel and she has opened doors for women like Jackie Aina. Despite her reputation for being difficult and unfriendly, Naomi shows how open she is to owning her role as the big sister among beauty and fashion industry newcomers.
Jackie referenced the video as being her proudest career moment. What an understatement! This video speaks to hard work and dedication. Of course sitting with Naomi is memorable, but the journey to this moment shows the importance in remaining consistent, working through the no's, and putting 100% into your brand. Jackie's work ethic earned her this moment with Naomi.
Collaborations like this prove that all goals are attainable, no matter how far fetched they may be. What do you think? Were you inspired by watching these two women come together?
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As mentioned before, Netflix was able to change the television industry. But how was it able to change it in just about 25 years? From having good marketing strategies to the timing. When Netflix was founded it knew that people enjoyed buying and renting movies. To make it even more convenient, Netflix started a DVD delivery system. As Marshall McLuhan mentions that we focus on the obvious. We know that there are changes, the advantages and disadvantages of a new system but rarely do we know that the new system or invention had changed our lives. Sometimes it is a long change, other times it is a subtle change that we don't even realize it (Mark Federman) "Societies have always been shaped more by the nature of the media by which men communicate than by the content of the communication" (page 8) bring up a good point on how Netflix works. The content of Netflix is great but the reason why it could become so big wasn't because of its content but the nature of the media. It is convenient. We don't have to store physical DVDs or go to a store to get a movie. We can see anything easily anywhere.
Netflix being electric technology could change the way society is now because "electric technology fosters and encourages unification and involvement. It is impossible to understand social and cultural changes without knowledge of the workings of media" Which is true, Netflix was introduced in 1997. There were a lot of technological improvements but we still didn't understand it well enough. We didn't that it was slowly changing the DVD industry because we couldn't understand it well enough.
McLuhan also mentions that a medium is the message; it is an extension of us. It is proven to be true with the analysis of different mediums. In this case, Netflix is an extension of us. We might deny that it isn't an extension of ourselves but we are the reason why that medium is so big. Even the content of the medium is tailored to our preferences and our likes. By watching certain movies and television shows, Netflix can give you a suggestion of other movies and television shows that you might like to watch. That isn't the only thing that it is a part of us. It tries to be like us by having a "brain". It categorizes the contents into different parts very much like our brain. Netflix is also able to tell you the likes of others by getting information from other social media like Facebook.
McLuhan argues that the message is the medium. The content or the use of the innovation is not the message. The message is the "change in inter-personal dynamics that the innovation brings with it" (Mark Federman) In the case of Netflix, it isn't the content of Netflix or how it was founded but possibly the changes of lifestyle of us as humans and the changes in users in the internet because of Netflix. It is the change of point of view in people because of Netflix. Because of Netflix, people have found ways to learn about less known shows and movies and some have a positive attitude toward the movie industry when knowing it isn't all "Hollywood". The point is that the obvious changes aren't the actual message. The message is hidden, it is not obvious.
For McLuhan, the changes, the innovation was television. It is interesting to see how that had change over time. Television is still around but the way it is watched has changed a lot. But I also believe that McLuhan knew that there would be changes. Just like he said "the medium, our process, of our time- electric technology – is reshaping and restructuring patterns of social interdependence and every aspect of our personal life. It is forcing us to reconsider and reevaluate practically every thought, every action, and every institution formerly taken for granted" Many innovations have change the way our society works from our personal life to our social life. The changes have its advantages and disadvantages but many things that we took for granted in the past and in the present might not be there anymore in the future because of the many changes.
In conclusion, like many different mediums, Netflix was able to change the way our society is. It reshaped and restructured how our personal and social life is. It changed the way different industries that we took for granted, disappear or restructure.
- Mark Federman, "What is the Meaning of The Medium is the Message?". Utoronto.ca. July 23, 2004. http://individual.utoronto.ca/markfederman/article_mediumisthemessage.htm
- McLuhan, Marshall. "The Medium is the Massage"
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William Shakespeare is not everybody's cup of tea. Most of us have had to study one or two of the bard's works in high school, learning – or at least trying to learn – the intricacies of the Middle English language that he used to put his plays and sonnets together.
With five schools in Grahamstown already participating in workshops as part of the second annual Shakespeare Schools Festival, Tumi Motsisi, a Drama student at Rhodes University and the co-ordinator for the festival, put together an extra workshop featuring Shakespeare's plays as part of Trading Live for Mandela Day. 13 Grade 11 learners from Nathaniel Nyaluza Secondary Senior School, which was not part of the festival, attended this event at the Oppidan Reading Room.
With fellow festival performers also volunteering in running the workshop, Motsisi's main goal was to help make Shakespeare more accessible and easier to understand.
"As soon as a child realises that they can speak the Shakespearean language, almost every other performance endeavour is a little bit easier," she said.
Motsisi also aimed to help these learners, whose school curriculum does not cover Shakespeare, gain confidence in themselves as performers, as well as students of the English language.
"A lot of the time, you're told that you can't do Shakespeare because English isn't your first language, but as soon as they understand what's being said, it's a really magical thing. As soon as it happens, it's like, 'I can do anything'."
The learners went through a series of warm-up exercises that concentrated on spontaneity, improvisation skills, trust-building and teamwork before getting into the Shakespearean section of the workshop. One such exercise saw the learners pairing up and "sculpting" each other into their own unique interpretations of Lady Macbeth and the mischievous Puck from A Midsummer Night's Dream. Through this exercise, Motsisi emphasised that the character archetypes, the plots and the themes seen within Shakespeare's plays can be relatable.
The last exercise had the learners reciting lines from Twelfth Night and Much Ado About Nothing. When they were gathered together, each learner was able to speak their lines with conviction and enthusiasm.
It is hoped that the school will officially become part of the Shakespeare Schools Festival next year. With the students having enjoyed the workshop and engaged with the material, this seems like a strong possibility. All the world's a stage, and there's always room for more performers.


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Their findings are published today in the European Journal of Clinical Investigation.
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Co-lead author and Director of the Oxford Empathy Programme, Jeremy Howick, said: 'There is a fundamental problem with this "gold" standard. Different placebos have very different effects, which then lead to (sometimes, mistaken) inferences about a new treatment's effects or harms.'
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Pon, Cindy. Silver Phoenix. Greenwillow Books. 2009. ISBN 0061730211
Reader's Annotation: When Ai Ling's father fails to return from a journey to the Emperor's palace she sets out on a journey to rescue him. Along the way she meets Chen Yong who is on a quest of his own. Together with his support and her own growing powers can she battle demons and other creatures she thought only existed in legends?
Plot Summary: Ai Ling has been rejected as a bride by several suitors and is despairing over bringing disgrace to her parents and yet she cannot help but be happy she will not yet be to a husband's whims and needs. She is satisfied to live in her childhood home with her parents until one day Ai Ling's father does not return from a journey to the Emperor's palace. She sets out to rescue her father and along the way meets Chen Yong, a half-Xian who is on a journey of his own to find his birth parents. Both finds out that evil creatures and demons that they thought only existed in legends really do exist and are targeting Ai Ling and those she calls friends. Can she vanquish the evil that has targeted her and rescue her father?
Critical Evaluation
This book brings fantasy and mythological creatures to life as readers follow Ai Ling along her quest to rescue her father. Ai Ling combines great spunk, bravery and a dose of naiveness thrown in to make her that much more relatable. Chen Yong and his brother Li Rong were both wonderful characters. Chen Yong's steadiness and strength in face of the difficulties his mixed heritage brings him endears him to the reader and one can't help but love Li Rong's never ending cheerfulness and quips.
While the story moves along quickly and the myriad of creatures Ai Ling faces are fascinating it was almost as if there was too much thrown together without enough explanation. It seems strange that this man who is obsessed with one day reuniting with Ai Ling seems unaware of her presence while his consort is busy throwing one evil creature after another to kill her. Who is this consort and why does she have so much control over these creatures? Another question is besides being "protective" what powers does Ai Ling's jade necklace really possess? It seems like it can toss people around on a whim, beat people up and yet when she most needs it she decides the necklace would no longer be able to help her. Why? And then there is the question of Ai Ling's own powers that even the Immortals claim to have no knowledge of. Where did these powers come from?
This is a fun book to read especially those looking for a fantasy book that is not Westernized. It gives an interesting look inside the culture of ancient China and will peak the reader's curiosity to learn more about the culture.
About the author
Silver Phoenix was Cindy Pon's debut novel and was followed up with the sequel, Fury of the Phoenix in 2011. According to her website Cindy makes her home in San Diego, California and is a student of Chinese brush painting and is currently working on a children's book.
There was some controversy when Silver Phoenix was re-released with a new cover that many considered as "whitewashed". Cindy shared her feelings in a blog post stating that while she was disappointed she understood why it was done. The original cover was very different from anything else on the shelves of bookstores and it could potentially put off readers who labeled the book as too much of an Asian fantasy. She did appreciate that her publisher was trying to reach a wider audience by repackaging the book.
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Diversity of cultures
Book talking idea
Talk about the cultural restrictions of females in this society.
Discuss what it would be like growing up in an adopted family and being of mixed heritage in a culture where this is looked down upon.
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Grade 9 and up
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Why did I include this book?
I included this book because I wanted to read a book written about a culture and history that is not US or American centric. This book also caught my attention due to some controversy over the "white-washing" of the book cover to try and make it more visually appealing to consumers.


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Synopsis: Theory of Evolution and the argument from Intelligent Design are both wrong! Enter from left field: Theory of Unintelligent Design.
Discoveries in Science have dealt blow after blow to western religion:
– the Copernican revolution dethroned Earth from the center of the Universe
– Newtonian Physics and Astronomy reduced the heavenly bodies to collections of ice, rock, gas and plasma moving according to natural law rather than being pushed by Angels
– Quantum physics and modern cosmology replaced the Word with a Big Bang as the origin of the Universe
– Geology established the age of Earth to be about 4,000,000,000 years, overturning the Biblical calculation of 6,013 years
– Darwin's theory of evolution demoted Adam and Eve from Cro Magnon to Homo Erectus
– Biochemistry allowed Man join the brotherhood of all life on Earth (rather than being made in God's image — a single biochemical plan is the basis of all life — from microbe to man)
Since it has gone out of fashion to burn heretics at the stake, proponents of religion have to use gentler means of persuasion — i.e. to try giving a rational argument for the existence of a Higher Being. The argument for Intelligent Design says, basically, that life in general and humans in particular are too complicated, too well-designed, to have arisen by blind chance. In other words, evolution is a nice theory but it cannot be powerful enough to explain living beings today.
Now as far as Science goes, Darwinian evolution, after a long period of controversy, has become fairly established, and you can read Richard Dawkins for several very readable and entertaining accounts (Climbing Mount Improbable, The Blind Watchmaker are my personal favorites). As far as religion goes, trying to employ reason for promoting a non-rational practice sounds, well, irrational to me. I better appreciate the frank sidelining of reason by Zen, as in the Koan, "Does a dog have Buddha nature?" than Anselm's ontological argument.
However, all this news about Creationism being sneaked into Science teaching in USA disguised as intelligent design from a few years ago (and these attempts have continued even after the Pennsylvania court case) got me thinking about various related issues, such as the evolution of intelligent design and the decrease of rationality in the past few decades.
This has lead me to 'evolve' a third theory that will be called Theory of Unintelligent Design (this theory has emerged from a process of "Lingustical Immaterialism", which is a successor to Dialectical Materialsm — but Linguistical Immaterialism deserves a separate post).
So what is the Theory of Unintelligent Design? Very simple: Darwin got it backwards for the human race; the human race is clearly devolving rather than evolving — it is not survival of the fittest, it is survival of the fattest, survival of the fatuousest. And, surely, this cannot be a natural phenomenon, because the natural tendency for a species would be to undergo Darwinian evolution. So this must be the doing of Someone Up There, who for some yet-discovered reason, has it in for Us Down Here (see also: God Wants You dead).
Just look about you, and you will notice the ongoing metamorphosis from Homo Sapiens to Homo Insipidus. Here are some random observations that point to the coming downfall of Sapiens:
1. Some samples of the "particulars" column from bank account statements from different banks:
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|Bank of Maharashtra
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|Bank of Maharashtra
|Cosmos Cooperative Bank
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The particulars column should shed light on what the transaction was about, where the money came from or where it went. The details above are either some bizarre machine code, or beside the point.
2. Times of India publishes a daily XXX Times feature, where XXX is the name of a city. This contains several comic strips and cartoons. Which is fine, except that the same small set of comics are endlessly recycled. And this is not a temporary aberration; it has been going on for several years. Either the editors are non-Sapiens, or they believe that the readership is not Sapiens.
3. Maharashtra State Electricity Board is perennially short of Electricity, so they have come up with a neat disincentive scheme. Although it is hard to decipher what the exact billing scheme is, it appears that if an ordinary house owner exceeds a threshold, say 100 units per month, the whole consumption of the month will be charged at a penal rate, right from the first unit. Now this appears unjust, but Electric power being a monopoly of the government, the consumer has no alternative. But the really neat scam piled on top of this is as follows: the meter reader comes and takes a reading of the electric meter, but there is no indication of what day he took the reading. So even if a house owner faithfully restricts his consumption to 100 units, the erratic meter reader can run up a bill of 101 units in the first month and 99 units in the next one. If the normal rate is 1 Rs/unit and the penal rate is 2 Rs/unit, the vendor just extracted 50% more money from the hapless user, just by varying the date of the meter reading (the arithmetic is left as an exercise for the reader).
And oh, I forgot to mention: there is a special surcharge for the privilege of no load shedding (planned blackouts) in Pune. That worked well for a few months, but now Pune is back to daily 2 hour power cuts. But what about the surcharge? That still continues to be applied.
4. The Income Tax department (India) mandates that institutions such as banks cut tax at source (called TDS) on interest payment. For all these years, a bank issued a TDS certificate that could be used to get credit against the income tax to be paid. After all, it is the individual's interest earnings that the banks had withheld and paid to as TDS. According to a new law, however, such credit will not be allowed unless the banks also upload the TDS details electronically to the income tax department. Now banks do not seem to be doing this diligently, since it's just extra expense for them — and they do not even respond to my emails on this issue. This situation sounds like an Aesop's fable:
A dog threatens the frogs in the garden that they should prevent the master's horse from dirtying on the driveway, otherwise they will be made to pay for it.
You can guess how the fable unfolds.
5. Distance Education programs in India are mostly for the degree of Bachelor of Education. This implies that one can learn to teach without a proximate teacher, but one cannot learn any other subject without a proximate teacher. Proof for the truth of "Those who can't, teach".
6. A national political party in India releases an election manifesto that promises to curb English language and use of computers if voted to power. Note that this is in the year 2009.
7. Only 4 out of 10 Americans believe in theory of Evolution.
8. A telephone company used to send me bills by email as pdf attachments. These days the attachment comes encrypted, with instructions on how to generate the password to decrypt it: the password is four letters of your name, followed by last 6 digits of your customer account number. The first time I got this, I thought, "My name is mentioned in email, so first four letters of the password are not too secure. But clever of them not to use 6 digits of my phone number, which many people know". But then the instructions continued, "your customer account number can be found in the Subject of this email" … Homo Moronicus strikes again!
9. Many people believe that Darwin's theory of evolution came to him by divine inspiration.
10. The Flat Earth Society has not gone extinct.
The random observations given above all point to the same conclusion: humans are devolving into lower primates (Except #9 — I put that in to see if you were awake).
Is the Theory of Unintelligent Design a scientific theory, of just, well, unintelligent design? Scientific theories must be falsifiable, so let's see what testable predictions this theory makes. Here is a short list:
1. The number of nominations per year for Darwin Awards should show an increasing trend.
2. Notwithstanding the introduction of onboard GPS, automated landing software, computerized flight control systems, etc., passenger airplanes will continue to crash.
3. Despite the signing of the nuclear treaty, India's growth story will flounder due to rising power shortages.
4. BOFH's will become extinct. That ecological niche will be tenanted by MCSA's and their ilk.
5. We shall soon see the rise of the Firm Earth Society whose members believe that the continents do not move (i.e. theory of plate tectonics is on shaky ground)
6. If the human race is devolving, so are programmers. Hence we have the Turing Test from Unintelligent Design: Over time, human observers examining the behavior of software products will find it harder to conclude that the software was written by humans (and not lower primates). Notice the change in tone from "Soul of a New Machine" of 1981 to "software Sucks" of 2006.
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Gaffer reacts to Ipswich defeatSean Dyche feels his side are still in a transitional period as they suffered a first league defeat of the season at Ipswich.
The Clarets were more than the Tractor Boys equal before the hosts struck twice in five second half minutes to soar to the Championship summit.
Dyche said: "Overall it felt a bit like welcome back to the Championship!
"Last Saturday got away from us on decisions that we can't help, but tonight I felt Ipswich edged it on the nitty gritty stuff and the anticipation that's needed to win games, even if you are not playing well.
"In the first half I felt we handled them well. They put the ball in from literally everywhere and I haven't seen that for a while.
"The left back is throwing it in from 40 yards and I thought we dealt with that well.
"We had the best chance of the half through Jelle Vossen, then in the second half I felt we started brightly and got undone by a poor tactical shape where they got in behind us.
"I must say I thought Ipswich deserved it overall. They showed they have been playing in the Championship for a couple of years and have an experienced group."
Dyche, who is rebuilding his side following the summer departures of Danny Ings, Jason Shackell and Kieran Trippier, added: "People talk about three players, but we are five down from the time Dean Marney went down last season, if you include Ashley Barnes.
"We are down to the bare bones of the squad, but I must make it clear that is still a squad that can compete.
"We have to find that right way of working and we have to realise that you have to find different ways of playing in the Championship.
"The team has to adapt to the different challenges that come our way and we are in that transition.
"We've lost some players, we're trying to bring more in and transition the new lads and mould a team that can deliver what it takes in the Championship.
"There is a massive difference and it's important that we adapt quickly. The players know and I've just reminded them of that.
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Good morning and welcome to the Regions Financial Corporation's Quarterly Earnings Call. My name is Shelby, and I'll be your operator for today's call. [Operator Instructions].
I will now turn the call over to Dana Nolan to begin.
Dana W. Nolan
Thank you, Shelby. Welcome to Regions Second Quarter 2019 Earnings Conference Call. John Turner will provide highlights of our financial performance and David Turner will take you through an overview of the quarter. The slide presentation, as well as our earnings release and earnings supplement are available under the Investor Relations section of our website.
Our forward-looking statements disclosure and non-GAAP reconciliations are included in the appendix of today's presentation and within our SEC filings. These cover our presentation materials, prepared comments as well as the question and answer segment of today's call.
And with that I will now turn the call over to John.
John M. Turner
Thank you, Dana, and thank you all for joining our call today. Let me begin by saying, in the phase of significant market volatility, we are pleased with our second quarter results. We reported earnings from continuing operations of $374 million, a 3% increase over the second quarter of the prior year and earnings per share of $0.37, an increase of 16%.
We also delivered solid pre-tax, pre-provision income growth compared to the prior year and generated 4% adjusted positive operating leverage. This quarter's results demonstrate our core business remained strong and our focus on meeting client needs is producing sustainable growth. We grew revenue, average loans and deposits and new customer relationships across our markets, while reducing expenses.
We're also experiencing success in our priority markets, which included Atlanta, Houston, Orlando and St. Louis. For example in Atlanta, the pace of new account and deposit growth is approximately two times better than that of the total company. Further, we are outperforming the general market in terms of household account growth in each respective location.
Shifting to the corporate bank, in just six months we've added a significant number of new clients across these same markets. Commercial banking growth has been particularly strong in Houston, where pipelines for credit and deposits are an all-time high. Although it's early, we believe these facts provide evidence that our investments for growth are paying off. We remain focused on those things we can control, and we continue to feel very good about our future. We are largely complete with our hedging strategy that we began about 18 months ago. These instruments will provide stability to our net interest income and net interest margin. Dave will spend some time discussing the details of that strategy in just a moment. We also remain well positioned to prudently through the next credit cycle because of our ongoing risk mitigation activities including client selectivity, sound underwriting, rigorous credit servicing and appropriate concentration limits.
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today i am bleeding and i want to take a bath. i want to soak my body in my clawfoot bathtub with sunshine streaming through the window. i want to feel that comfort. i want to sit in the garden again.
mostly, i just want to go home. and there is absolutely nothing i can do to get back there.
of course, i remember when i was there, i laid in the bath and cried until i hyperventilated. it wasn't comforting. my ex-lover's sweet kisses felt laced with poison. the house felt like a trap, like a repository of things that no longer exist. i felt like being there was killing me. i felt like living there was driving me completely insane.
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and now i have all that. and i have no idea if i made the right decision, but i have the sneaking suspicion that i didn't.
the coper in my brain reminds me that this is the pathway to somewhere better. that i never would have left pittsburgh from my old house. i know that my legs are getting stronger every day as i struggle up the giant hill that cuts me off from everywhere i need to be. i know i've lived in places far worse.
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I have heard about Girls on the Run. You know, the good kind of running. (Not the Thelma and Louise kind. There was no running off the side of a cliff in a car.) It was more like a whole bunch of girls running a 5k for the first time).
And I was there. In my Birkenstocks. I showed up to take photos at the finish line, but I was moved by the moment to join along. In my Birkenstocks. So I didn't run, but I did walk and watch as the little ones ran ahead.
First they stretched, after having their hair painted pink or blue. (I did too.)
Then they lined up at the starting line, tutus and all.
And brothers and dads came along too. In capes, of course.
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What we run towards.
What we run from.
What we run for.
Who we run for.
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TERM 2 - all grades 5/6 learn under the science curriculum.
TERM 3- all grades 2,3,4 students learn under the science curriculum
All students are welcomed into the garden Thursday & Friday lunchtimes for general gardening sessions. We will be doing regular maintenance, planting, watering, feeding the chooks, cleaning the coop and of course picking produce. Families are welcomed and encouraged to enjoy the beautiful space at this time also.
Students find the garden a great place to be challenged with new experiences whilst gaining a sense of ownership and pride for their school garden. It gives them a chance to 'go slow' and nurture themselves in their own way as they choose how they would like experience their garden. Families are welcome to join in and learn with their child at any time. Students are encouraged to ask questions, help with general duties and learn at their own pace.
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If you're struggling to make home-mortgage payments and losing your home is a real possibility, some banks are offering sweet deals on loans, some with rates as low as 2%, according to CNNMoney. About 80% of loan modifications in the second quarter of this year resulted in lower payments, according to the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency. Three months ago that number was about 50%. Unbelievably, only 4% of all homeowners in need of so-called "workouts" are getting them.
Why? One reason is that not all banks are on board the loan-modification train. Also, many people are unaware of programs to help struggling homeowners, and some prefer to just walk away, thinking they can't possibly get a new loan, brokers say. That's a shame, because borrowers who lower their monthly payments by 20% or more re-defaulted only 34% compared with the 63% who didn't.
One white knight trying to rescue homeowners is the Neighborhood Assistance Corporation of America, or NACA, a nonprofit, HUD-certified counseling agency, which is touring the country with its Save the Dream Tour. It's hit 11 cities, offering free counseling to homeowners seeking help for mounting mortgage messes. Some attendees get low-interest-rate loan commitments the very day they attend, because NACA has guaranteed deals with some lenders.
Some of the big banks are offering so-called "workouts," but it's no cakewalk, brokers say.
"I tried to modify one of my own home loans and the bank lost the paperwork six times," said Los Angeles-based broker Marc Shenkman. "It's a joke, really. I've heard of one person who got a deal," but he knew someone who had an "in" with a lender, Shenkman said.
Dan Weiss, another L.A.-based mortgage broker, says that "you'd better have all your ducks in a row. You pay more if your credit score is under 740."
Temporary mortgage modifications are doing a pretty swift business, but only 31,382 of more than 700,000 loans through the federal government's Home Affordable Modification Program had turned permanent as of the end of November. Still, at least you can get temporary help. And earlier this week, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the mortgage giants, said they would suspend evictions from Dec. 19 to Jan. 3.
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These are many effective marketing tips for restaurants, and in this blog we'll share with you some direct marketing techniques for your restaurant business. To get the best results, you can focus on your favorite one first. As you get more comfortable, you can add on to your efforts with another strategy.
Automated birthday promotions.
It is common knowledge that people love to celebrate special occasions in groups. For many of your customers, their birthday is the most important day of the year. When you reach out with a promotion, you warm up the hearts of your customers. This gesture makes them more loyal to your establishment.
It's easy to put this strategy in place in your restaurant. Your staff can ask customers for basic contact details. The key pieces of information you need are; name, email, phone number, and birthday.
The best part is, you can use an affordable software solution to make this easy for you. A computer program can automate the process. In effect, you will be able to reach dozens of people within seconds.
Once you're set up, the system will send out special promotions on each day you're open. You will attract customers without even having to think about it.
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You can see the results of your marketing within hours, sometimes within minutes. Try sending out a promo with a free drink for the first "x" customers. Another great technique is to send SAIS messages with special discount codes.
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You can add another revenue stream to your business by creating a monthly membership program. You could offer benefits such as priority seating or a monthly bottle of house wine, aor a rewards program. Your customers will love you for this because it gives them a chance to feel special. And everyone loves to feel special.
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Sorry for the delay in getting another update out, but SWD numbers have been slow to rise in Northern NS. I still haven't caught any adults in the traps I have been monitoring.
We are starting to get more reports of some sporadic captures around the area, but as we near the very tail end of harvest we have escaped any major issues for the most part.
We will be sitting down this fall and trying to map out exactly why this numbers didn't increase as expected this year.
Mother nature was very kind to us in many ways this year.
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I have always had a little bit of a creative streak. I was never good at drawing. I can only really paint if I copy someone else's. Scrapbooking was fun. I sing & attempt to play guitar. I dance from my soul unskillfully. I made a few quilts. My handmade dresses never fit properly. I finally found photography and it has been my love ever since. There is so much to discover in and create with the light. I never get bored. And that's essential!
I love my husband, my three dogs, station wagons, being spontaneous, riding bikes, my wonderful friends, making delicious beverages from scratch (watermelon lemonade anyone?), creating lists, and being with my family. I am a licensed mental health counselor. Working with teens, families, and relationships is my passion. It's no surprise that these are my favorite aspects to photograph as well, specializing in weddings, seniors, and family portraits. Helping to find and capture joy, that's what it's all about.
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I love tinkering with things. Cars, bikes, toys, computers, just about anything. To me photography is a really big machine, with many parts that work together to make a great image. I was first drawn to photography when I was a teenager, taking pictures of my friends skateboarding and trying to figure out how the pros got those awesome shots (I would have killed for a Nikon F4, power winder and fish eye!). I love shooting with Jemma because we see things so differently, and its exciting to see how our perspectives build the story of how an event unfolds.
I ride bikes a lot. Mostly for fun (I'm no Lance!). I work as an insurance agent and I love my job and the people I work for. I'm the only person in my office with a pack of crayons on my desk (which get used daily). I'm a little obsessed with Chipotle Burritos and my love for the Florida Gators is only rivaled by my love for my wife, family, and our lovable rescue mutts.


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Touchwood Pacific Partners I is an American film financing limited partnership formed by The Walt Disney Company in 1990 for its then three studios, Walt Disney Pictures, Touchstone Pictures and Hollywood Pictures, but owned by general partner, a Yamaichi Securities affiliate, and about 50 limited partners.
Disney has received better terms with Touchwood than with their previous funding partnerships, Silver Screen. The Partnership offers a lower interest than Silver Screens do to the lower Japanese interest rates in 1990. Also, there are no guarantees regarding the minimum financial performance of the financed films.
Disney's Buena Vista Pictures Distribution receives a 30% fee before any money goes to a Disney-Touchwood joint venture. After the joint venture takes into account third-party participation and residuals, the joint venture pays 42% of the remaining to Buena Vista. If the limited partners do not capture back their initial investment after the last film is release plus 5 years, Disney is required to return only the distribution fees up to the original invested amount. Thus the Disney's limited its potential loss to its printing and advertising expenses which could be from $200 million to $300 million.
On October 23, 1990, The Walt Disney Company formed Touchwood Pacific Partners I which would supplant the Silver Screen Partnership series as their movie studios' primary funding source. Animated movies were not including in the slate for Touchwood. Yamaichi Securities sold in a private placement limited partnership to about 50 Japanese institutional or private investors in the amount of $191 million. An additional $420 million line of credit has been arranged for the Partnership with a group of banks led by Citibank and included Fuji Bank Ltd., Long-Term Credit Bank of Japan Ltd., and Manufacturers Hanover Trust Co.
By May 1992, the first 10 Touchwood films averaged $31 million at the box office (BO) and a low 2 to 1 revenue-to-cost ratio compare to compared to $45 million BO average and 5-to-1 ratio for Disney's 1985 to mid-1990s films. However, some Hollywood executives thought that Disney was issuing weaker films in the spring to leave the summer for high potential films. The next three films would have to match the 1985-mid1990s average.
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~With my husband I started this little collaboration to make a Haunted Doll House for my daughters. My husband makes the house and I crochet all the spooky dolls and stuff. Hopefully it will al be finished for Halloween ~
These Eye Ball Jar I made up myself. Just crochet balls, first round with black, second and third with a color that's normal for eyes and the rest of the ball in white. Make some arteries afterwards with red yarn.
The Halloween Apothecary labels I found at The Graphics Fairy.
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Automating your network can seem like a daunting task. But the truth is that automating Cumulus Linux with Ansible can be easier than many of the things you're probably already automating.
In this post, I'll show you how to get started on your network automation journey using a simple, four-step process:
- Pick one small network task to automate
- Configure it manually on a small scale
- Mimic the manual configuration in Ansible
- Expand the automation to additional network devices
To illustrate, I'll be using the following simple, bare-bones topology based on the Cumulus Reference topology. You can follow along by spinning up your own virtual data center for free using Cumulus in the Cloud.
Pick one network task to automate
The first step is to pick one thing to automate. Just one! The only caveat is that it needs to be something you understand and are comfortable with. Trying to automate a feature you've never used is sure to scare you away from automation forever, unless of course you have someone guiding you through the process.
Preferably, pick something that's quick and simple when done manually. Configuring the OSPF routing protocol between two switches falls into this category. When done manually, it's literally only three lines of configuration on each device. Let's start by manually creating an OSPF adjacency between the switches spine01 and leaf01.
First, we'll issue the following commands on the spine01 switch:
cumulus@spine01:~$ net add ospf router-id 192.168.0.21 cumulus@spine01:~$ net add ospf network 192.168.0.0/16 area 0.0.0.0 cumulus@spine01:~$ net commit
net add ospf router-id 192.168.0.21 command assigns spine01 the router ID (RID) of 192.168.0.21, which matches its unique management IP. OSPF uniquely identifies each device by its RID, so by setting the RID manually, we can easily identify this switch later on.
The command
net add ospf network 192.168.0.0/16 area 0.0.0.0 enables OSPF on the management interface (eth0, which is in the 192.168.0.0/16 subnet), and places it in area 0.0.0.0, which is the OSPF backbone area. To keep things clean and simple, we'll place everything in the backbone area.
Now let's do the same thing for leaf01:
cumulus@leaf01:~$ net add ospf router-id 192.168.0.11 cumulus@leaf01:~$ net add ospf network 192.168.0.0/16 area 0.0.0.0 cumulus@leaf01:~$ net commit
If both switches are configured correctly, they should form an adjacency. We can verify this by using the
net show command from leaf01:
cumulus@leaf01:~$ net show ospf neighbor Neighbor ID Pri State Dead Time Address Interface RXmtL RqstL DBsmL 192.168.0.21 1 Full/DR 32.278s 192.168.0.21 eth0:192.168.0.11 0 0 0
The output shows an adjacency with 192.168.0.21 (spine01), which means everything is working as expected! Spine01 and leaf01 are now OSPF neighbors.
It's fine to validate a manual configuration by issuing a
net show command on each device. But when we get around to automating this and adding more switches, we'll need a way to check everything in one fell swoop using a single command. This is where NetQ comes in.
Validating your configuration with NetQ
NetQ is invaluable for validating any Cumulus Linux configuration, whether manual or automated. NetQ keeps a record of every configuration and state change that occurs on every device.
Let's go back to the management server and use NetQ to view information on the current OSPF topology:
cumulus@oob-mgmt-server:~$ netq show ospf
cumulus@oob-mgmt-server:~$ netq check ospf Total Sessions: 2, Failed Sessions: 0
NetQ gives you a real-time view of the OSPF states of leaf01 and spine01. At a glance, you can see that leaf01 and spine01 are both in OSPF area 0.0.0.0, and have a full adjacency. The
netq show command gives you the same data you'd get by running a net show command on each switch, but quicker and with a lot less typing!
Now that we've manually gotten OSPF up and running between two switches, let's look at how to automate this process using Ansible.
Automating OSPF using Ansible
We're going to create an Ansible Playbook to automate the exact configuration we just performed manually. When it comes to automation platforms in general, and particularly Ansible, there are many ways to achieve the same result. I'm going to show you a simple and straightforward way, but understand that it's not the only way.
The first step is to create the folder structure on the management server to store the Playbook. You can do this with one command:
cumulus@oob-mgmt-server:~$ mkdir -p cumulus-ospf-ansible/roles/ospf/tasks
This will create the following folders:
cumulus-ospf-ansible cumulus-ospf-ansible/roles cumulus-ospf-ansible/roles/ospf cumulus-ospf-ansible/roles/ospf/tasks
Specifying the switches to automate
Next, in the
cumulus-ospf-ansible directory, we'll create the
hosts file to indicate which switches we want Ansible to configure. For now, spine01 and leaf01 are the only ones we want to automate. Incidentally, I prefer the
nano text editor to edit the
hosts file, but you can use a different one if you'd like.
cumulus@oob-mgmt-server:~$ cd cumulus-ospf-ansible cumulus@oob-mgmt-server:~$ nano hosts [switches] spine01 rid=192.168.0.21 leaf01 rid=192.168.0.11
This places both switches into a group called
switches. The
rid= after each name indicates the unique OSPF router ID for the switch. Ansible will use this value when executing the actual configuration task, which we'll set up next.
Creating the task
In the
cumulus-ospf-ansible/roles/ospf/tasks folder, create another file named
cumulus@oob-mgmt-server:~/cumulus-ospf-ansible$ cd roles/ospf/tasks cumulus@oob-mgmt-server:~/cumulus-ospf-ansible/roles/ospf/tasks$ nano main.yaml --- - name: Enable OSPF nclu: commands: - add ospf router-id {{ rid }} - add ospf network {{ item.prefix }} area {{ item.area }} atomic: true description: "Enable OSPF" loop: - { prefix: 192.168.0.0/16, area: 0.0.0.0 }
The task named
Enable OSPF uses the Network Command Line Utility (NCLU) module that ships with Ansible 2.3 and later. Let's walk through this.
Look at the two lines directly under
commands: - add ospf router-id {{ rid }} - add ospf network {{ item.prefix }} area {{ item.area }}
These commands look familiar! They're very similar to the ones we issued manually, but with a few key differences.
First, the
net command is missing from the beginning because the NCLU module adds it implicitly.
Second, instead of static values for the router ID, subnet prefix, and OSPF area, the variable names are surrounded by double braces. The
rid variable comes from the
hosts file, while the other two variables (
item.prefix and
item.area) come from the
main.yaml file itself, under the
loop section.
atomic: true statement flushes anything in the commit buffer on the switch before executing the commands. This ensures that no other pending, manual changes inadvertently get committed when you run the Playbook.
Speaking of the Playbook, we have only one step left before we're ready to run it!
Creating the play
In the
cumulus-ospf-ansible folder, create a file named
setup.yaml which will contain the play:
cumulus@oob-mgmt-server:~/cumulus-ospf-ansible/roles/ospf/tasks$ cd ../../.. cumulus@oob-mgmt-server:~/cumulus-ospf-ansible$ nano setup.yaml - hosts: switches roles: - ospf
This file instructs Ansible to run the configuration directives in the
cumulus-ospf-ansible/roles/ospf/tasks/main.yaml file against the devices in the
switches group. All that's left to do now is run the Playbook!
Running the Playbook
Now for the moment you've been waiting for! Issue the following command to run the Playbook:
cumulus@oob-mgmt-server:~/cumulus-ospf-ansible$ ansible-playbook -i hosts setup.yaml PLAY [switches] ******************************************************************************* TASK [Gathering Facts] ************************************************************************ ok: [spine01] ok: [leaf01] TASK [ospf : Enable OSPF] ********************************************************************* ok: [spine01] => (item={u'prefix': u'192.168.0.0/16', u'area': u'0.0.0.0'}) ok: [leaf01] => (item={u'prefix': u'192.168.0.0/16', u'area': u'0.0.0.0'}) PLAY RECAP ************************************************************************************ leaf01 : ok=2 changed=0 unreachable=0 failed=0 spine01 : ok=2 changed=0 unreachable=0 failed=0
The last two lines say
changed=0 because the automated configuration is identical to what we configured manually. Hence, there's nothing to change. This is a good indication that the Playbook works as expected, and we can safely add more switches to the automation process.
Expanding the automation
Next, let's add the rest of the switches and corresponding RIDs to the hosts file:
[switches] spine01 rid=192.168.0.21 leaf01 rid=192.168.0.11 leaf02 rid=192.168.0.12 leaf03 rid=192.168.0.13 leaf04 rid=192.168.0.14 spine02 rid=192.168.0.22
Now run the playbook again:
cumulus@oob-mgmt-server:~/cumulus-ospf-ansible$ ansible-playbook -i hosts setup.yaml PLAY [switches] ********************************************************************** TASK [Gathering Facts] *************************************************************** ok: [leaf02] ok: [leaf04] ok: [leaf03] ok: [spine01] ok: [leaf01] ok: [spine02] TASK [ospf : Enable OSPF] ************************************************************ ok: [spine01] => (item={u'prefix': u'192.168.0.0/16', u'area': u'0.0.0.0'}) ok: [leaf01] => (item={u'prefix': u'192.168.0.0/16', u'area': u'0.0.0.0'}) changed: [leaf02] => (item={u'prefix': u'192.168.0.0/16', u'area': u'0.0.0.0'}) changed: [leaf04] => (item={u'prefix': u'192.168.0.0/16', u'area': u'0.0.0.0'}) changed: [leaf03] => (item={u'prefix': u'192.168.0.0/16', u'area': u'0.0.0.0'}) changed: [spine02] => (item={u'prefix': u'192.168.0.0/16', u'area': u'0.0.0.0'}) PLAY RECAP ***************************************************************************** leaf01 : ok=2 changed=0 unreachable=0 failed=0 leaf02 : ok=2 changed=1 unreachable=0 failed=0 leaf03 : ok=2 changed=1 unreachable=0 failed=0 leaf04 : ok=2 changed=1 unreachable=0 failed=0 spine01 : ok=2 changed=0 unreachable=0 failed=0 spine02 : ok=2 changed=1 unreachable=0 failed=0
All of the switches except leaf01 and spine01 have changed. Let's use NetQ to validate those changes.
cumulus@oob-mgmt-server:~$ netq check ospf Total Sessions: 6, Failed Sessions: 0
This shows all the OSPF state changes for each switch. Although the output is a little mixed up, you can see that each switch is listed five times; one time for each adjacency. Based on this, we can tell that the automated configuration worked for all of the switches!
But to get a clearer picture, let's look just at the changes on leaf01 within the last five minutes. Of course, NetQ can do this as well.
NetQ shows leaf01 becoming fully adjacent with four other switches. Not coincidentally, this is the number of switches whose configurations changed! Because the adjacency with spine01 was made more than five minutes ago and hasn't changed, it doesn't show up in the output.
Give it a shot!
Cumulus Linux, NetQ and Ansible work together seamlessly to give you a complete automation solution. Everything you need is already there! Start by automating a simple task you're comfortable with, and only on a handful of devices. From there, you can move onto more complex tasks, adding more devices as you go.
Although automating something as critical as your network can be intimidating, it's well worth it. Automation can dramatically reduce the number of accidental configurations, fat-finger mistakes, and unauthorized changes. When you combine network automation with NetQ, you'll almost never need to log into a switch to manually check its configuration or status. Not only that, with NetQ you get a detailed log of every change that occurs on your network devices – whether it's a configuration change or a state change such as an interface going down or a route flapping. And when an improper configuration does occur, you can just rerun the appropriate Playbook to put everything back in order.


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