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Hello from London. It's my third day here, and despite having been here many years ago, I've been able to see a lot of new things I didn't get to check out on my first trip. Yesterday I came across this building that says The Wellcome Collection. Is it some kind of art gallery? A misspelled centre for visitors? I decided to check it out.
London can be pricey (especially when going from the Canadian $ to the British £ …ouch), but a lot of museums and galleries here are free. That includes The Wellcome Collection. In the lobby, I hear an announcement about a free 20-minute tour starting in a couple of minutes. Great luck; I join the tour to see what this place is about.
The Wellcome Collection isn't an art gallery (although it has some art). It is a quirky museum that contains the collection of Henry Wellcome who was a British pharmaceutical entrepreneur. He was the first person to bring the medicine tablet (pill) to Britain instead of the old-timey way of having people mix powders and tonics in their home when they were sick. Wellcome was born in the 1850's and was a pretty eccentric character, as I learned on this tour.
Like the stereotypical picture of a wealthy and eccentric British man in the 19th century, Wellcome collected all sorts of stuff from auctions. He had interest in medicine and healthcare, so there was a lot of items relating to those topics. After he died in the 1930s much of his collection was auctioned off, but some remained here, and so the Wellcome Collection was started. A trust was also formed that funds medical research.
Wellcome had all sorts of items in his collection such as a horsehair toothbrush belonging to Napoleon. Apparently, Napoleon was fond of licorice, and his teeth rotted out. So Napoleon tried this new dental practice (at the time) of brushing his teeth instead of getting all his teeth ripped out of his mouth. Napolean's toothpaste was apparently opium-based, so he probably never had a toothache. Here are some more of the items in The Wellcome Collection.
The tour of The Medicine Man Gallery (the gallery specifically about Henry Wellcome and his collection) was excellent. Check at the front desk when you arrive to see when the next tour is because they are held throughout the day. If you do miss a tour, you can pick up a free audio guide for the Medicine Man Gallery that will tell you about some of the items in the gallery.
Outside the Medicine Man gallery are two more galleries. One is the Modern Medicine Gallery, which (like its name implies) talks about our current knowledge in healthcare and medicine. There is also a temporary exhibit gallery. Right now this gallery features the States of Mind, which explores (through art) the relationship between our mind science and how that has evolved. Plus they have library and reading room with books about different topics about medicine and healthcare.
Having had no previous idea, this even existed The Wellcome Collection was undoubtedly a welcomed (haha) surprise during my time in London. I don't know much about healthcare or medicine, but I found this museum a lot of fun to explore and well worth a visit. As an added bonus while there were some people there, it was a lot less busy that some of the other more prominent museums and galleries I visited in London.
Things You Should Know
The Wellcome Gallery is open from Tuesday to Sunday from 10 am to 6 pm (open until 10pm on Thursdays). Admission is free, but donations are accepted. The Wellcome Collection is located at 183 Euston Road. If you are taking the Tube get off at Euston Square and exit on Euston Street. For more information including hours of operation go here.
While in London I stayed at the YHA St. Pancras Hostel. Located within a two-minute walk of the St. Pancras/Kings Cross station this was an affordable accommodation option for budget travellers. Of course if you aren't on a budget there are plenty of great hotels in London you can book here.
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Healthy – what a better world is like
Since about new years i have been noticing some things.
The first thing is that there is a lot of laughing where i live. In the dining hall at any given meal there is general merriment around, you can usually hear someone at some place in the building laughing. I think this is a good thing. I dont experience this in many institutions.
One visitor named Link does not like to see people kissing. He was a bit shaken up by all the kissing at the New Years Eve party. And the problem continued to plague him on his visit. As it turns out, along with laughing all the time we spend a bunch of time kissing each other.
i may have found the right place.
5 responses to "Healthy – what a better world is like"
jbird says :
I remember reading Crime and Punishment and how Raskolnikov heard laughter while walking across a bridge. Pure madness it was. I am so there with all y'all mad laughers (and kissers). Sometimes I can't help but laugh at the things goin' on inside and outside of my head. So glad to know I'm not alone. . .
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I'm curious to find out what blog platform you're using?
I'm experiencing some minor security issues with my latest blog and I'd like to
find something more secure. Do you have any solutions?
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A tail feather of the now extinct huia. The beauty of this two toned feather made it a highly coveted fashion accessory. This fact, along with hunting for collections and habitat loss through deforestation were the main causes of the huia's decline and ultimate extinction.
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Ten technology-based projects will participate in another edition of the BIP, organized by U.Porto Inovação, CIIMAR and INESC TEC.
For 12 weeks the teams, composed of researchers and business elements, will work on a value proposition for their projects. During this time they will have access to mentors, methodologies and resources to help them transform innovative technologies into profitable business models.
The inaugural session will take place at Porto Business School on May 10 at 12 noon. In addition to the presentation of the ideas to the public, there will also be a round table discussion with the project managers and the presentation of the methodology adopted at the BIP, presented by Fábrica de Startups.
12:00 – 12:30 | Mesa redonda com Patrícia Teixeira Lopes (Porto Business School), Carlos Brito (U.Porto), Vítor Vasconcelos (CIIMAR), Luís Carneiro (INESCTEC) Marlos Silva (SONAE – parceira industrial do BIP) e Maria João Cardoso (Fundação Amadeu Dias)
12:30 | The BIP (Maria Oliveira, U.Porto Inovação)
12:40 | Flash Pitch of participating projects
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Joe Zanolle, ECWA matchmaker, will be on Hell in a Cell Talk Radio tonight, Wednesday, Dec 26, along w/ ECWA 2012 Wrestler of the Year GreekGod Papadon!
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Admired in art-world precincts for nearly a decade, the German-born, Queens-based duo Franziska Lamprecht and Hajoe Moderegger, aka eteam, traffic in transience. But the English translation of their domain name—"a home of my own"—is the truest compass to where the heart of their work lies. Straddling some hazy intersection of relational aesthetics, and Web and land art, eteam coordinates performative happenings and conceptual transactions between the earthly plane and the realms of the interweb, all wryly reconstructed in hypnotic video work.
In September 2002, eteam bought a remote patch of Utah desert for $450 on eBay and tried to induce trains on the nearby Union-Pacific railroad to stop, in a ludic attempt at giving geographical heft to their digital purchase. Since that piece (dubbed 1.1 Acre Flat Screen), eteam has continued to create tenuous circuits between locations on earth and virtual space through equal parts Web- and real-estate development. They've established an "international airport" on a desolate Nevada airstrip, with the neighboring town's few dozen residents acting as staff, and, more recently, connected two communities in Germany and Nevada through the common search for a stable water supply.
Eteam's best video, Prim Limit (09), chronicles a year in the life of the artists' "Second Life Dumpster"—a designated area in the then-popular online world where inhabitants were invited to discard virtual objects. Visiting avatars ponder the purpose of the concocted landfill, making for a group exercise in incidental existentialism. Eventually, a "decay code" must be applied to each article resulting in its deterioration and disappearance, layering a fictive sense of physical impermanence upon Second Life's weightless atopia.
The interzones that eteam navigates between real and virtual space can be far-fetched and even farcical, but, through the artists' thoroughness and insistence, each creation takes on an existence that can't be denied—at least, for as long as it lasts.
Go to meineigenheim.org.
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The Labor Department released its official hiring and unemployment figures for March on Friday morning, providing the latest snapshot of the American economy.
The Numbers
■ 103,000 jobs were added last month. Wall Street economists had expected an increase of about 185,000, according to Bloomberg.
■ The unemployment rate was 4.1 percent for the sixth straight month.
■ Average earnings rose by 8 cents an hour and are up 2.7 percent over the past year.
■ The Labor Department revised its estimate of February's job growth upward, but January's figure was revised sharply downward. The net result was a loss of 50,000 jobs relative to prior estimates.
The Takeaway
February's report was a barnburner: Companies added jobs at the strongest pace since 2015, and the labor force gained hundreds of thousands of workers. The report for March wasn't as strong, but still extended a remarkable run in the job market.
March was the 90th consecutive month of job growth, by far the longest streak on record. Employers have added an average of just over 200,000 jobs per month so far in 2018, a pace that has held relatively steady for the past two years. The unemployment rate hasn't budged since October, but remains at its lowest level since 2000.
"The fundamentals still remain solid," said Dan North, chief economist for Euler Hermes North America.
The slowdown in March wasn't a surprise. February's job growth was probably inflated by a surge in hiring in construction and the retail sector that reflected unseasonably warm weather in much of the country. Both sectors slumped in March as winter storms blew through the eastern United States.
"We've had such unsustainably strong results in January and February that it was largely expected that we were due for some payback," said Ellen Zentner, chief United States economist for Morgan Stanley. "The weak number in headline payrolls does not change the fact that trend job growth is strong."
Waiting on Wages
The one dull spot in February's report was wage growth, which slowed from January. That figure was revised up slightly on Friday, and earnings rebounded further in March, rising 2.7 percent from a year earlier. Economists caution against reading too much into the month-to-month data on wages, which is volatile and prone to distortions.
The bigger picture is that wage growth remains weaker than most economists would expect when unemployment is so low. Economists have proposed a long list of possible explanations, from globalization to weak productivity growth. Most still expect employers to have to raise pay eventually to attract and retain workers. But so far, employers are resisting.
"It's a standoff, almost, on wages," said Jason Guggisberg, a vice president at the staffing firm Adecco. "Who's going to go first?"
The Manufacturing Picture
The manufacturing sector has posted solid job gains over the past year, and that growth continued in March, when American factories added 22,000 jobs. But mounting trade tensions with China could threaten the sector's rebound in the months ahead.
President Trump announced late Thursday that he would consider imposing tariffs on an additional $100 billion worth of Chinese products, escalating the rapid-fire exchange of trade actions by the two countries. It isn't yet clear what impact the tariffs could have on the economy. But the threat alone could disrupt some companies' plans, economists said.
"Whether trade tensions and threats come to fruition or not, even if there's not follow-through, the lingering uncertainty and the market volatility that it creates will start to permeate business decisions and household decisions," Ms. Zentner said. Already, she said, there are signs that upper-income households are becoming less confident, a sentiment that could affect consumer spending.
Wall Street and Washington
Investors and policymakers alike are watching the job market closely for signs that the economy could be starting to overheat. Markets tumbled after a report of unexpectedly strong wage growth in January led to fears of inflation, and the interest-rate hikes it could bring.
The market reaction to Friday's report was more muted. The uptick in wages was sufficient to suggest that the job market remains healthy, but probably not big enough to force the Federal Reserve to reconsider its policy of gradual rate increases, said Michelle Meyer, head of United States economics for Bank of America.
Indeed, in a speech in Chicago on Friday, the Fed chairman, Jerome H. Powell, suggested his view of the economy had changed little in recent weeks.
"The labor market remains strong, and my colleagues and I on the Federal Open Market Committee expect it to remain strong," Mr. Powell told the Economic Club of Chicago, according to prepared remarks released by the central bank. He added that he would be "looking for an additional pickup in wage growth as the labor market strengthens further."
Mr. Powell's prepared remarks made no mention of the looming threat of a trade war with China. But Ms. Meyer said the added uncertainty surrounding trade could tend to make policymakers more cautious.
"The risks have increased given some of the headlines around trade," Ms. Meyer said.
Seeking Workers
Perhaps the biggest surprise in the blockbuster report for February was the surge of workers into the labor force. That flood of new workers partly reversed in March, when the labor force shrank by 158,000 people. Beyond such monthly gyrations, however, the labor force has been growing gradually, an impressive feat given the ongoing retirement of the baby-boom generation.
With available workers increasingly scarce, companies are going to greater lengths to find potential employees. Some are hiring people with criminal records or loosening hiring requirements. Others are trying to entice people previously on the economy's sidelines, like at-home parents and recent retirees.
"I've had more conversations about retirees in the last month than I have in the last year," said Becky Frankiewicz, president of ManpowerGroup, a staffing firm. "That's an ideal population because they're still highly skilled and they're experienced."


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"I cannot imagine a book more needed by both pastors and [laity] right now. As a counselor to a large number of charismatic students, I have struggled to help them interpret their experiences within [an] historic, biblical context. I would like to be able to put Jensen's book in their hands and say, 'Read this and then let's talk about it.' In fact, I think this book would serve as an excellent tool for group study, not only on campus, but also in the parish.
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In the Season 4 premiere of ScreenFish Radio, Steve welcomes ScreenFish'rs Julie and Paul Levac to step onto the court to talk about Battle of the Sexes! Detailing the events surrounding the legendary tennis match between Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs in 1973, Battle of the Sexes has a lot to say about the… [Read More]
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Rise Above Tribe - Sedated
We are all stewards!!
Stewards of peace,love,harmony and unity just like the national anthem says.I write this in so much pain.My country seems to be revolving at just one issue.Wait...#mynamebetraysme!! I will make it really short and to the point - someone sedated me!!
Too many scandals have been happening lately all faced with many
opinions and opposition from all angles.Instead of settling up on a concrete solution,we call each other names and look down on each other.We are in our best mode of the famous blame game.We think that some of us are superior than others just because we hold a certain title or better yet because your threats are publicized.
Fear not!!
What happened to Kenya being bigger than you and me?What happened to the promises of making Kenya a peaceful place and a productive one?
I have finally done some justice to myself.I have managed to get something useful to do when the news highlights hit the screen.Lately all you hear is grenade attacks,MCA this MCA that,power sharing,never ending by elections,tint cars....the list is endless.Since the leaders barely give a solution to the rising issues,i have turned to social media that always seem to have an answer to anything.Starting with the alco-blow to impeachment.However funny,annoying or unrealistic solutions they offer i choose to listen to them rather than worry what next scandal is on line.
I choose to rise above my tribe,to harness a positive kind of energy and see my Kenya in a different light.To love and cherish my neighbour whatever tribe they may be from.I choose to wake up and smell the coffee and realize that no man is an island;one day i will need that maize from Kericho,that omena from the lake side,that pilau from the south coast.Who better to share with if it is not my neighbour,who comes readily armed ( just in case we are being robbed) when the dog accidentally hits my alarm.My neighbour who chooses to share in my laughter and pain.
Creativity is not a vacuum,the leaders should choose to lead;to be stewards of hope and solutions.To portray love,peace and harmony.
Rise above tribe - sedate the hate and superiority,embrace love,peace,unity and harmony!!


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I adapted one of Alton's Biscuit recipes and posted the recipe on my blog. My steps are a little easier than his and they turned out super great if you ever want to try his style biscuits with butter again.
Biscuit Disaster Averted aka. 78: Alton Brown's Phase III Biscuits
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To go with all the leftover ham, I thought it might be nice to have biscuits for dinner (and leftovers for breakfast). I decided to make Alton Brown's Phase III Biscuits from his book, I'm Just Here for More Food (affiliate link). This is supposed to be his best biscuit ever.
Alton Brown's Phase III Biscuits
2 cups flour
4 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
4 tablespoons butter
1 cup buttermilk
1/3 cup yogurt
1 egg
First, Alton says to freeze your half-stick of butter, grate it into your sifted-together dry ingredients, and rub the butter into the flour mixture with your fingers. This seems extremely picky, and annoying, but I decided to try it even though I love my pastry cutter (affiliate link). You then mix together the wet ingredients and dump them into the dry ingredients and combine.
AB recognizes that this will be a very wet, batter-like dough, so he says to lightly flour a long piece of parchment or wax paper, dump the dough/batter onto it, and make a tri-fold of it. You fold the sides in toward the middle, using the paper to protect your hands, and repeat three time.
Then, it's apparently time to cut the biscuits. I don't have a round biscuit/cookie cutter, but I do have a small round glass that works pretty well when I've made biscuits before. It cut through, but there was no way I could lift these "biscuits" off of the parchment. They were very sticky and fell apart.
Let's face it – there's really no way you can cut and handle batter. Batter quite simply doesn't hold shape – otherwise it wouldn't be batter. I scraped the biscuit batter from the parchment as best as I could, and added a little more flour to it to make it easier to handle. As I patted it back out so I could try cutting biscuits again, it got stickier and stickier. I still wasn't going to be able to cut it.
I decided the only way I could salvage this was to treat it like I usually make biscuits – fold it over itself time and again, adding enough flour that I'd be able to pat it out to about an inch or less thickness. I wanted to be able to cut biscuits and actually move them onto the baking sheet.
I baked the 15 of them at 450F for about 15 minutes.
Some of them rose pretty high. You can tell how well I folded them from how they're baking apart at the layers.
I don't know how much extra flour I added, but I'd assume that I added at least a cup more based on how much emptier my flour canister is. These were a huge hassle. I think that if you wanted to make these according to Alton's instructions, you'd need to heavily flour whatever paper you're using for kneading, but I'm not convinced that it would make it worth making these biscuits. I didn't like the smell of the butter in them (I usually make my biscuits with margarine). They were nothing special. It's true I added a lot of extra flour, but I remain unconvinced that this recipe would turn out well. I was very frustrated that it didn't turn out, but I'm not going to give it another chance.
4 thoughts on "Biscuit Disaster Averted aka. 78: Alton Brown's Phase III Biscuits"
Yours look divine. They may have to be my next stop for the perfect biscuit 🙂
I love using this recipe, I just skip the folding, rolling and cutting phase! I simply line a baking dish with parchment and pour the batter in, then bake halfway, precut the lines with a spatula, and bake the rest of the way – or make them into drop biscuts, and spoon out heaping piles on a cookie sheet – they work great as a base for my sausage gravy.
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Situated at the confluence of the river Mahanadi and the Bay of Bengal, Paradip is a vibrant township and an island of excellence. It offers not only an efficient Deep Sea Port but also a few sights of tourist interest such as "Muhan" at Sector- 21, the 'Cavana' and the white sands of the Light House beach, the musical fountain at the sylvan gardens of "Smruti Udyan", the Officer's Club and Gopabandhu Stadium with swimming pool plus a host of other facilities, the 'Fourteen-Holes' golf course are the famous Paradip hospitality.
Housing facilities are provided to Port Users/Service Providers and State/Central Government employees in addition to the Port employees.
The Port has a good market complex along with many hotels and restaurants. Besides, the Port Trust has a Guest House having eighteen sea facing rooms at Sector-21 which is extensively used by various users of the Port.
A maritime museum and an aquarium equipped with 28 tanks consisting of a variety of marine and fresh water species of fish are the latest attractions for the visitors to the Port.


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I'm just back from my second trip to NYC and thought I would share some pictures. If you don't like tourist pictures, look somewhere else!
Tourist pictures? They'll do just fine!
Thanks for sharing.
Great set of photographs. Thank you.
Great stuff
Just makes me want to go back
me gustan tus fotos
they are great, and not touristy at all!
Great pics, thank you! Makes me want to be there NOW...only one more month for me though
great photos where is the area in photo number 2 first one ?
...and "Good Eye!" Nice compositions...... I like the very first photo very much.
thanks but i have just read my own post and you are spot on where i am going mad . I meant this one
second set of post first photo
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RECORD BREAKER Mark Beaumont will attempt to cycle Scotland's answer to Route 66 – in just 48 hours without stopping.
The Perthshire cyclist, who once pedalled round the world in 194 days, plans to complete the North Coast 500 with no breaks or pit-stops.
Starting on Monday, he will have to cover more than 10 miles an hour to complete the gruelling 500-mile stretch of coastline.
The circular route, which begins in Inverness, was recently dubbed Scotland's answer to Route 66 – one of America's most famous highways.
It was named among the top six coastal road trips in the world, and boasts stunning views of fairytale castles, mountain ranges and beaches.
Mr Beaumont, who recently broke the record for cycling the 6,718 miles from one end of Africa to the other, said he looks forward to cycling in one of his "favourite areas".
The 32-year-old said: "When I first heard of the north Coast 500 I immediately started thinking about racing the route – having cycled all over the world, I still believe Scotland has some of the best cycling.
"My favourite area, outside of my familiar Perthshire training grounds, is Scotland's north coast.
"It is easy to forget just how much beautiful coastline there is and the length of those tough but stunning roads in the far north."
He added: "Under 48 hours is the plan – so watch closely and we'll see how tough it is."
The route runs from Inverness to the Kyle of Lochalsh on the West Coast, along the north coast to John O'Groats before heading back down the east coast to complete the loop.
At a leisurely pace it would take roughly five days to complete on a bicycle, though it also targets car and motorbike enthusiasts as well as walkers.
Unmissable sights along the road include mountain ranges, Ben Hope and Suilven, the fairytale grand castle, Dunrobin, the Ardvreck castle ruins and the breathtaking Achmelvich and Dornoch beaches.
The route was only launched two months ago and was the brainchild of the North Highland Initiative, set up by Prince Charles to showcase the area.
Travel Magazine placed the route in fifth place in a list of 'six of the best' road trips on the planet.
Top was Cape Overberg in South Africa, followed by the Amalfi Coast in Italy and The Atlantic Road in Norway. The Pacific Coast Highway in America and the Coral Coast in Australia made up the list.
Mr Beaumont first made fame for an 18,000 mile round-the-world bike race, where he smashed the previous World Record by a staggering 82 days.
He followed this with a 13,000 mile ride down the length of the Rockies and Andes, climbing the highest mountains in Alaska and Argentina.
Off the bike, he has ocean rowed through the high Arctic and survived after capsizing whilst rowing the Atlantic.
Mr Beaumont has filmed a series of successful BBC documentaries, which include presenting the build-up to the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games as the Queen's Baton relay made its way around 70 nations and territories.
He is also a dedicated charity fundraiser – at the age of 12 he raised £3,000 by cycling across Scotland and recently raised over £100,000 by running and swimming across the country.
A spokeswoman for the North Highland Initiative said: "We are delighted that Mark Beaumont has chosen the North Coast 500 as his newest challenge.
"As a man who is world-famous for tackling incredible and extremely difficult routes, it is an honour that he would like to tackle our very own North Coast 500.
"Having recently been recognised as one of the top five coastal routes in the world, we also have the opportunity, with Mark's help, to make this also one of the most desirable cycling routes in the world."


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While some may find Sala Kaew Ku (also Keoku) sculpture park quirky or just plain bizarre, there's no denying that it's Nong Khai's only can't-miss attraction. The park's countless dazzling sculptures were the life's work of Boun Leua Sulilat, a Lao man who spent much of his early life absorbing mystical knowledge from an ascetic hermit named Kaew Ku, who lived in a cave in Laos. Sala Kaew Ku ... Read more about Wat Sala Kaew Ku (Wat Khaek) .
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When weather cooperates (and it usually does during dry season), this nightly cruise provides an ideal way to watch as the sunset melts into the twinkling lights of two different countries. The relaxing hour-long cruise embarks at 17:30 daily from Nagarina restaurant, located at the bottom of stairs descending from Mut Mee Guesthouse. The boat goes up the river to the Friendship bridge and ... Read more about Sunset cruises .
Buttressing the riverside promenade and stretching for what feels like forever, Tha Sadej market is a long and cramped roofed affair where you can shop for local products and no shortage of chintzy imports from throughout the Indochina region and beyond. The market offers the very latest imports from Laos, Vietnam and China. If you're keen on picking up Friendship Bridge T-shirts and ... Read more about Tha Sadej market and Riverside Promenade .
Known for its highly revered Buddha image and unusually modern wall murals, Wat Pho Chai is Nong Khai town's largest and most important temple. The resident bronze Buddha image with a solid gold head, known as Luang Phor Phra Sai, was one of three made at the request of a Lan Xiang king's daughters many centuries ago. All three images were plundered by invading Siamese in 1778, and one, Phra ... Read more about Wat Pho Chai .
Wat Phra That slipped off the bank of the river more than 150 years ago and is now only visible when the river is low during dry season. The chedi is quite far out in the river and appears as nothing more than a brown decaying triangle rising above the current. A yellow flag is tied to its upper tip to make it more easily spotted, and a white replica of the original has been recently built on ... Read more about Wat Phra That Khlang Nam (Sunken Chedi) .
Set in an attractive heritage building that once served as city hall, this disheveled museum is worth a passing wander if you care to learn about the area's history and culture. With no shortage of photographs but not much else, the museum offers comprehensible English info on Nong Khai's Vietnamese and Chinese communities, sacred temples, famous meditation monks and the archaeological sites ... Read more about Nong Khai Museum .
Located a couple of km north of Tha Bo and 43 km west of Nong Khai, Wat Ong Tue houses the largest and arguably most beautiful Buddha image in the province. Made from an alloy of gold, silver and bronze, the namesake seated Buddha is four metres tall and was cast by a king of Nakhon Wiang, a long-since disappeared minor kingdom, way back in 1562. With its sparkling gold headdress, the image ... Read more about Wat Ong Tue .
Founded by the late Ajahn Thate, who was one of the two most revered forest meditation monks in Nong Khai history (the other being Ajahn Juan of Wat Phu Tok), Wat Hin Mak Peng was named after three massive boulders that sit along a narrow stretch of the Mekong. Ajahn Thate passed away in 1994, and the forest monastery founded by this supposedly enlightened monk quickly became a prominent ... Read more about Wat Hin Mak Peng .
Also known as Wat Jetiyakhiri and located some 150 km east of Nong Khai town, Wat Phu Tok is one of the most interesting of Nong Khai's countless forest temples. The unusual cluster of rock that now serves as the monastery's centrepiece first attracted the famous meditation monk, Ajahn Juan (pronounced jew-an), in the mid 20th century. The monk was part of a forest tradition that favoured ... Read more about Wat Phu Tok .
Located 40 km west of the provincial capital, the small town of Sri Chiang Mai is best known for being the spring roll capital of Thailand -- wherever you look, spring roll wrappers sit on their bamboo frames, slowly drying in the sun -- and that's just about as exciting as Sri Chiang Mai gets. Aside from providing ample opportunity to take photos of drying spring roll wrappers, Sri Chiang ... Read more about Sri Chiang Mai .


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If you have gone in search of tutorials on how to write a resume, you know that there is an overabundance of information on the internet, much of it conflicting and much of it from individuals who have no true true expertise in the field. A Google search on the phrase "how to write a resume" returned more than 400,000 results!
One of the most frequent tips offered on the topic of how to write a resume includes the advice to focus on accomplishments rather than responsibilities. But, what does that mean? How do you put that advice into practice?
It is very important for you to remember that you won't get hired for what you KNOW HOW to do, you will get hired for what you DO and PRODUCE/ACHIEVE with what you know how to do. In fact, this is probably THE most important point for you to remember as you write your resume (or put together the information to have a professional write it). Many people make the mistake of selling features (responsibilities) rather than benefits (achievements/results). To stand out and get attention, you must place the emphasis on achievements, quantifying your results whenever possible. Avoid writing your resume so that it sounds like a job description. Your job duties and responsibilities don't do anything to differentiate you. They are just baseline qualifications that all your competition will have.
To illustrate this, here is an example of a resume before it was professionally rewritten. As you can see, it reads almost like a job description. There is nothing here to distinguish this job candidate from any other director of sales. There is nothing that will interest the reader and compel him to pick up the phone and call the job candidate for more information and an interview appointment.
After the resume was rewritten by Distinctive Documents, it became a powerful marketing marketing tool that showcased the job candidate's most impressive and relevant accomplishments complete with success stories that succinctly explain the challenges faced, actions taken, results of those actions (using numbers when they were available), and strategic importance of these accomplishments. What an extraordinary difference!
When you read "how to write a resume" tutorials, the above is what is meant by the advice to focus on accomplishments. Employers want to know what you can do for them and how hiring you will produce benefits for them. The most convincing way of providing this information to them this is to show them how you have produced results and solved problems for past employers. You should always try to write in terms of the "so what" of your achievement. What did you improve, save, increase, enhance, etc? What impact did the work you do have on the companies? Whenever you can do so, you should use numbers to illustrate your results (dollar figures, percentages, raw numbers, etc.), but even if you are unable to quantify achievements, the emphasis should still be on the results/benefits of your work.
While tutorials on how to write a resume can help, if you have difficulty being objective about your qualifications or identifying and presenting your accomplishments, you should seriously consider the assistance of a professional resume writer. As you can easily see from the before and after example above, a skilled professional writer can make an immense positive difference in how well your resume promotes you and in the overall results and success of your job search.


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Parents can now register their children for the 2nd Annual San Jose –Silicon Valley Chinese Star Contest for K-12 Students (deadline September 28). Students from all language backgrounds can participate in the Painting/Drawing and Team Video categories. This contest provides an opportunity for students to develop global awareness and apply 21st century skills.
First prize winner of the grades 9-12 group will have the opportunity to enter a drawing for a free 7-day trip to Beijing, China. The trip will take place between April 9-13, 2016. To register: http://www.sfsu.edu/~ci/


text: R. Dominguez moved from Austin, Texas to Denver, Colorado in 2002. Although still considering herself Catholic, she started attending Calvary South Denver for Bible study. A few months later, understanding her need for a Savior and repenting of her sin, she received the Lord Jesus and is now a born again Christian. She worked on staff at Calvary South Denver where she is involved in the women's discipleship ministry. She has a desire to obey the Lord's command to contend earnestly for the faith, so she joined Haven Ministries in 2007 to become better equipped when reaching out to people who are lost in their sin and in false religions and world views.


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It is America's most watched, most hyped, most scalped, most commercial, most analyzed event, an annual sporting competition that is as much a bacchanal as it is a football game.
Oh yes, the Super Bowl, today pitting AFC titlist Denver against NFC titlist Seattle in the chill of MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J., and other days played either at venues with mild weather or ones that had temperature-controlled indoor stadiums.
"I played in the warmest Super Bowl in history – it was 84 degrees at kickoff," says Jeff Severson. "It also was historic for another reason: Our opponent, the Miami Dolphins, is still the only team ever to complete an entire season undefeated in the NFL."
Jeff Severson?
Not the old 1967 Wilson High graduate who long has become a community fixture with his trademark Gene Autry-size cowboy hat, a regular on the fairways at Recreation Park, a regular at so many local fundraisers, a regular at local hot spots with his longtime girlfriend, Lori Park.
Not the guy I long have savored poking good-natured fun at for trying to emulate Merle Haggard or Buck Jones with his guitar-strumming country-Western gigs he has staged over the years with his very own band at many Long Beach-area taverns.
Not the lovable character who co-hosted a popular local cable TV program with the late John Craig called "Pep Talk" for more than 20 years.
Not the smiling, amiable gentleman with the thick brown hair who evinces an image of being a rough-tough former NFL player about as much as I do, much less one who was in a Washington Redskin uniform that memorable Jan. 14, 1973, afternoon at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum for Super Bowl VII, when the Dolphins climaxed a 17-0 season with a 14-7 victory.
"What's so strange about that game for me is that it seems like it happened only yesterday, and that it also seems like it never happened," says Severson, who was a reserve defensive back and special-teams player for George Allen's Redskins. "It was such a surreal experience for me, especially when I first walked out on the Coliseum field for pregame warm-ups. Remember, I was only 23 at the time, and here I was playing for a great team, our Redskins, against a team no one had beaten. And I was playing in the famed Coliseum, less than 30 miles from my hometown of Long Beach.
"I think that day I helped make the tackle on the opening kickoff and played on all the special teams, as well as a few nickel defensive packages. To this day, I remember that 90,182 showed up at the game, which included about 35 friends and family members for whom I bought tickets."
Not that Jeff Severson went broke with such a charitable gesture.
"Can you believe the price of a Super Bowl ticket that year was only $15?" he says, showing me a ticket stub for Super Bowl VII.
Severson earned $7,500 as a loser's share from that game, and another $9,000 seven years later when he watched the Super Bowl XIV proceedings between the Los Angeles Rams and Pittsburgh Steelers from the Rose Bowl stands.
"I tore up my knee in my first game with the Rams that 1979 season and was on injured reserved the rest of the year," he says. "Very frustrating experience. I retired after that season."
Severson wound up playing nine years in the NFL for five teams – Redskins, Houston Oilers, Denver Broncos, St. Louis Cardinals and Rams – and wound up with two Super Bowl rings for his runner-up finishes with Washington and the Rams.
Not bad for a guy who didn't even become a starter at Wilson until his senior season – he played linebacker – and wasn't even good enough his freshman season at Long Beach City College to warrant a spot in the team photo.
"At the start of the season, I was the 83rd player on the team," he says. "But I kept plugging away, and by the end of the season, I was seeing a lot of action at linebacker."
He became a starter at LBCC the next season and good enough to earn a scholarship from Long Beach State, where he was converted to cornerback and became one of the top ones on the collegiate landscape.
He wound up with a remarkable 23 interceptions during his two years with the 49ers – a collegiate record 15 in his junior season – and he credits the team's defensive coordinator, Ernie Johnson, for his astounding success.
"Ernie Johnson is the person most responsible for completely changing my life," says Severson of the respected coach – he became legendary when at El Rancho High – who recently passed away at age 87. "He taught me about character, about values, about working hard, about being the best you can in everything you do."
Severson's teams at Long Beach State went 17-5-1, including a rousing 27-11 win over archrival San Diego State in 1970 before a large turnout at Anaheim Stadium and later that season a 24-24 tie against Lee Corso's Louisville Cardinals in the Pasadena Bowl at the Rose Bowl.
"Six of my interceptions at Long Beach State came against future NFL quarterbacks," relates Severson. "I got three each against Dan Pastorini (Santa Clara) and Brian Sipe (San Diego State) and two against Dennis Shaw (San Diego State)."
Severson is proud that he passed on his interception DNA to his grandson, Gavin Windes, a defensive lineman for St. John Bosco whose late-game interception against Concord De La Salle assured his unbeaten team the state championship.
Severson's top salary in the NFL was $100,000 – he earned that his final season with the Rams – but, unlike many of his contemporaries, he didn't squander his money.
"I luckily invested in real estate and did well," says Severson, whose holdings have afforded him a comfortable lifestyle that has included many horseback riding activities throughout western America.
After his departure from football, he also became involved in the acting business, appearing in such films as "Semi-Tough," "North Dallas Forty," and "The Best of Times," and in such TV shows as "Laverne & Shirley," "Simon & Simon," "Mr. Belvedere," "Lou Grant," "Deadwood" and many others.
"Actually, I was one of the stars in a TV pilot called 'Suburban Beat' with Shelley Fabares, but unfortunately it wasn't picked up," he says.
Severson and his California Cowboy Band still perform, and he also has just released a CD that is a compilation of his past songs.
Born in Fargo, N.D., Severson moved to Long Beach in 1957 with his family, as his parents decided to relocate – they had four children – after a tornado destroyed their home.
While attending Wilson, Severson got to know some of the Ram players because the NFL team trained at nearby Blair Field.
"Little did I know that some of the Ram players I got to know, guys like Myron Pottios, Jack Pardee, Richie Petitbon and Diron Talbert, would in a few years be my teammates with the Washington Redskins," he says. "I never, ever thought of one day playing in the NFL. The only dream I had at Wilson was to make the team and play a game at Veterans Stadium."
Jeff Severson accomplished both goals, and this overachieving 6-foot, 185-pounder made such an impression on George Allen with those interceptions he had at Long Beach State.
"George told me at a Century Club banquet in which he was the guest speaker, 'Any guy who intercepts as many passes as you did has to be an exceptional player,'" says Severson, who wound up being drafted in 12th round by the Redskins in 1971.
Severson was on the taxi squad his first season with the team, but his second one he wound up playing in that long ago Super Bowl VII against the likes of Larry Csonka, Bob Griese, Mercury Morris, Larry Little, Jim Kiick, Paul Warfield, Manny Fernandez, Nick Buoniconti and all those other players on Don Shula's peerless team.
"We thought we were better than the Dolphins, and we were even favored by two points by the oddsmakers," says Severson. "But we just couldn't get going that day, as our quarterback (Billy Kilmer) struggled somewhat (he threw three interceptions). Still, it was a wonderful experience. How many people can say they played in such a historic game?"
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After an historic vote in the Pennsylvania Senate to ban horrific live pigeon shoots, and Governor Tom Corbett's announcement he would sign the bill into law, the decades long battle to end these vicious and cruel slaughters – where pigeons are used as living targets and shot at for fun – the end was in sight.
And yet it did not happen. Why? Because House Majority Leader Mike Turzai betrayed the people of Pennsylvania and refused to allow the bill to be voted on.
Even though Turzai promised he would bring the bill to a vote, he caved to special interest pressure from the NRA and wealthy pigeon shooters. This coming year, when tens of thousands of innocent animals will be shot, wounded, maimed, and killed, all that blood and suffering will be on his hands.
Please contact Leader Turzai and ask why he broke his word and betrayed the overwhelming number of Pennsylvania residents who want pigeon shoots banned. Please be polite and respectful.
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Please contact the Pennsylvania Legislature and tell them to ban pigeons shoots once and for all. Click here to find and contact your Pennsylvania state legislator
Please contact Governor Tom Wolf and tell him that it's long past time for them to end the abominable cruelty of live pigeon shoots.
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Please contact the Pennsylvania Tourism Bureau and tell them that you won't be vacationing in PA because of illegal live pigeon shoots.
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by Dr. Will Tuttle, PhD
The World Peace Diet, which became a #1 Amazon best-seller in March, 2010, has been published in 16 languages and offers a compelling and liberating new understanding of our food and our culture. It has been called one of the most important books of the 21st century: the foundation of a new society based on the truth of the interconnectedness of all life. It is the first book to make explicit the invisible connections between our culture, our food, and the source of our broad range of problems—and the way to a positive transformation in our individual and collective lives.


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New Work in Progress…Maybe…
I've forgotten how incredibly frustrating the very early phases of a new idea can be. But maybe it's only frustrating because every few days I have a new idea to plot out. And every few days I have to walk away from it empty handed. This last idea I may keep, but I've stressed myself out so much the last few weeks I'm surprised I'm even still considering it at all. I did all the fun stuff, plotting, outlining (a few chapters), and interviewing my characters. Then I did the unthinkable…I got ahead of myself and jumped into query land with this new idea while I'm still waist deep in query land with the last one. Then I got worried, freaked out, and set the story aside while I panicked. Yeah. Waaaaaaaaaaaaaay too early for that.
In other news, barring no excitement on the looking for an agent side of things, I'm going to submit my story to Harper Voyager's Global Digital Publishing opportunity in October. How exciting is it that a division of Harper Collins is having an open call for submissions!! I'm not expecting anything (I know I'm such a pessimist, right!), but I'm not going to turn down a perfectly good opportunity to get my story read by one of the biggest publishing houses, which also happens to be my favoritest.
I'm going on sabbatical next week! I'm hoping the change of scenery and chance to relax and take a break from everything will give me a fresh outlook on things.
About the possible new idea though, it's not entirely new (98% new, 2% recycled.) It's a reincarnated idea that I ruined some 12 years ago (gosh, makes me look old!) due to lack of planning and generally just yakking with no real goal or proper plot arch in mind. I can't exactly call it rewrite as I'm literally just doing what I do best: saving a few interesting characters from the ruins and putting them in a more fitting setting. I guess I'm just worried it'll end up in the overflowing story graveyard. One minute I'm super excited about it, the next I'm convinced it's bad idea and I should find something else. I know I've felt like this before. I just can't remember what I did to pull myself out of it.


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This time, I was invited to perform at the Brangwyn Hall, Swansea. This was the first time I visited Wales, and the furtherest I have travelled for performance. Swansea is a nice little seaside city, having its own history and unique characters. Although we did not get a chance to tour around much, except a morning walk along the beach, we were charmed by it. It was very nice to get out of London, and have a breath of the fresh seaside air. During our morning walk, we encountered many lovely dogs, their running silhouettes against the bright sunlight and the glistening sea, the sight was really as if popping out of a painting.
Jingju: Brangwyn Hall
It has been quite a while since I have performed this piece of Chinese opera with full makeup. The last time was three years ago in Maidstone. This piece, Guifei Zui Jiu, or known as the Intoxicated Imperial consort (honest, the original Chinese name of the piece is really more elegant than the crudely translated English name), is one of the most famous pieces of Jingju. It depicts, the imperial consort Yang, on her way to the date with the Imperial Lee, and how the beautiful sceneries along the way echo with the excitement in her heart.
We took a walk to the seaside in the next morning. The weather was being kind to us, warm and sunny. For a moment, I really felt that summer is finally coming.
On the seashore, many beautiful seashells were washed up, embedded into the sand. Whilst we were there, we decided to collect a few as souvenirs. I always say the best things in the world are free. Indeed, these shells, although free, are perfect.
It might be difficult to sea, against the sunlight, the beach, sea and the clouds, the silhouettes of the dogs and their master create a stunning sight.
The seashells formed a beautiful belt along the beach.
So here concludes our short yet memorable little trip to Wales. I wonder where the Chinese opera will take us next time. Well, until next time…


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Marlow, UK – May 9, 2012 – Trend Micro Incorporated, a leader in cloud security, announced today at Citrix Synergy a product development initiative using Apache CloudStack currently in incubation at the Apache Software Foundation, giving Trend Micro first-mover advantage among those Apache CloudStack users searching for easy-to-deploy encryption solutions tailored to the Cloud.
Trend Micro delivers an innovative cloud encryption service, now available with a simple plug-in that makes it easier and quicker for CloudStack users to implement, rather than investing months in developing and deploying an encryption solution on their own.
Trend Micro SecureCloud is a patent-pending key management system that enables administrators to set policies that determine where and when encrypted data can be accessed. In addition, server validation applies identity and integrity rules when servers request access to secure storage volumes. SecureCloud's simple approach safely delivers encryption keys to valid devices without the need to deploy an entire file system and management infrastructure. With SecureCloud, one can protect sensitive information in cloud and virtual environments from theft, unauthorised exposure, or unapproved geographic migration to other data centers. This protection helps support internal governance and aids in complying with regulations like HIPAA, HITECH, Sarbanes-Oxley, GLB and PCI DSS.
In April 2012, Citrix moved CloudStack from the GPL to the Apache License 2.0 and contributed the CloudStack project to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF), thus turning CloudStack into a truly community run project with governance provided by the Apache Software Foundation rather than by Citrix alone. In addition, Citrix has stepped up its investment in the project and the open source community and decided to become a platinum sponsor of the Apache Software Foundation.
"Citrix just contributed CloudStack to the Apache Software Foundation in April," said Steve Quane, Chief Product Officer, at Trend Micro. "One month later, as one of the first companies to show its commitment to CloudStack since that announcement, Trend Micro has already developed an effective encryption plug-in for CloudStack, a testament to our 'Security that Fits' strategy."
The SecureCloud plug-in for Apache CloudStack is a small module that simplifies and automates the process of synchronising cloud assets into SecureCloud as part of the encryption provisioning process enabling SecureCloud administrators to easily define encryption key release policies for the data volumes that will be encrypted.
"As the industry adoption of cloud technologies in the enterprise moves mainstream, there is an increased demand for technology solutions that help address the security and compliance needs of the enterprise," said Peder Ulander, vice president of marketing for cloud platforms, Citrix. "The SecureCloud plug in for Apache CloudStack makes it easy for our customers to integrate secure data protection capabilities into their cloud. We are excited to partner with Trend Micro around their Secure Cloud initiative and look forward to working with them on this initiative and others in the future."
Trend Micro is making the newly developed plug-in for Apache CloudStack available as a controlled beta to select customers on a limited basis. Those interested in joining this beta program should contact Dan Crowe at email@example.com with "SecureCloud plug-in for CloudStack" in the subject line of their message.
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It's been a brutal summer for going by bike – be it for commuting, errands or exercise, it was the hottest July on record. Yuck. And while August hasn't exactly come in that much cooler, the past few days have been somewhat of a relief. Storm clouds cooled the sky on Monday, as I headed down the road on my skinny tires again to meet up with my friend Julie for a Monday night movie. I was a little warm by the time I got to the theater, but it made the typically sub-freezing theater feel OK. But it was after the movie, when I went to ride home that I was surprised by perhaps my first cool and refreshing ride in a very long time. The night was cool and there was a slight breeze. Seems like 9:15pm may be the perfect time to get a ride in! Not much traffic as I made my way home up Wilson Blvd in the bike lane, which, at times, can be a scary place between absent-minded pedestrians and clueless cab-drivers.
But the ride made me smile, and glad that I was able to take my bike instead of getting in a car to drive the mile and a half or battle with metro. I felt refreshed and ready to take on another week of riding … with hopefully more cooler days to come!


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Don your red and green and head out to Walt Disney World parks, where the sights and sounds of the holidays are in full swing. Magic Kingdom Park, Epcot, and Disney's Hollywood Studios bring the Christmas cheer in the following events going on now.
Magic Kingdom® Park
Mickey's Very Merry Christmas Party is bringing holiday cheer until December 22nd, with exclusive live entertainment, fireworks, and a holly, jolly holiday parade. Santa brings cheer to all, with characters greeting guests throughout the park – Meet Mickey and Tinker Bell, Nick Wilde and Judy Hopps from "Zootopia," all seven dwarfs from "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs," Jack Skellington dressed as "Sandy Claws" from Tim Burton's "The Nightmare Before Christmas," and even some of the Disney princesses along with their princes. In all, over 3 dozen characters and 17 different locations make an extra special holiday gift for those at the event. Mickey's Very Merry Christmas Party dates this week: December 11, 13, 15 and 16
Holidays Around the World surrounds you in the wondrous sights, sounds and flavors of the season as celebrated by cultures near and far. Take a festive global tour as costumed performers bring time-honored traditions to life throughout World Showcase, available now-December 29.
Canada – The Canadian Holiday Voyagers: Explore holiday customs from various regions of
Canada on a musical tour of the Great White North.
United Kingdom – Father Christmas: Join Father Christmas as he rings in the season with
traditions of the United Kingdom and good cheer.
France – Père Noël: Discover the magic of Père Noël and the joy of the season through a
Christmas letter from a child.
Morocco – Moroccan Holiday Storyteller: Take a journey through seasons of holidays in
Morocco, where celebrations are "the spice of life!"
Japan – Daruma Vendor: Hear the fascinating story of the Daruma doll and the Japanese customs of the New Year!
Italy – La Befana: Meet the kind-hearted witch who arrives on the Eve of the Epiphany to grant gifts to good children.
Germany – Helga: Listen as Helga tells the story of the first Christmas tree and the tale of her first Nutcracker.
China – Chinese Lion Dancers: Colorful dance of the holidays
Norway – Sigrid and Julenissen: A Storyteller is surprised by a mischievous Christmas gnome.
Mexico – Mariachis and Dancers: Celebrate a Feliz Navidad.
American Adventure – Meet Santa and Mrs. Claus
Hanukkah: Discover the traditions of Hanukkah, the story of the Maccabees and the miracle of the burning oil lamp.
Kwanzaa: Experience the spirit of Kwanzaa, a celebration of unity, creativity and pride.
Voices of Liberty: Appearing as Dickens Carolers to sing a seasonal repertoire of holiday favorites.
*Park hours extended now-Dec. 24 to 9:30 p.m. and until 10:30 p.m. from Dec. 25-30.
Disney's Hollywood Studios®
Make the most of the holidays with magic from the North Pole—courtesy of a visit with Santa or Santa Goofy! Come face-to-face with Kris Kringle for photos and wishes now-Dec. 24. Santa Goofy takes over for Santa from Dec. 25-31.
Shop discount Disney tickets with a Park Hopper® option at Tickets2You.com so you can visit all 4 Walt Disney World theme parks this holiday season!


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Yesterday WordPress released a security patch that fixes a huge vulnerability that they discovered in the code, so we pretty much dropped everything, and did nothing but upgrades all day.
While we usually like to wait a few days on new upgrades to ensure plugin compatibility, the notice at the WordPress site indicated that this was serious, we did take care of all of our sites immediately, except this one, which we'll be doing last.
According to Matt Mullenweg (the founding developer of WordPress),
…apply to your sites as soon as possible because it fixes a core security bug in our HTML sanitation library, called KSES. I would rate this release as "critical."
Just like with Microsoft, when a company TELLS you that something is a critical update, you should get it done.
To upgrade, just log into your admin panel, and you should see the message at the top telling you that there's a new version. Then just go to the "Updates" link on the left and follow the directions.
How else can you secure WordPress?
There are lots of easy and simple steps you can take, from deleting your default user named "admin" to removing the code that tells the world exactly what version of WordPress you're running, and we've even built a couple of them into our Core Tweaks WordPress Setup Plugin.
If you Google for WordPress security tips and WordPress security plugins, you'll find an endless list of suggestions and plugins and we've probably tried 'em all, sometimes even sacrificing performance in favor of security, which isn't always the best idea.
However, when it comes to really making your site bulletproof, we follow a guide that was written by an expert, John Hoff, called WordPress Defender.
It's a 150 page e-book, and along with 16 detailed "how to" videos, and it's the most comprehensive WordPress security guide I've ever seen.
Because of the growth and popularity of WordPress, it's going to continue to be a target, so reduce your chances of being compromised by checking it out here.
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happy valentine's day! today is the perfect day to reveal my true love: restaurant week. this year, we tested out senza. amazing! senza is located in lakeview neighborhood of chicago. they offer a pre-fixed menu that varies by season; $100 for nine courses, $50 for four. senza is a perfect restaurant for those of you with celiac disease; everything on the menu is gluten free!
moving down (from left to right) we have: a picture of the modern interior, the commemorative restaurant week menu, parsnip soup, grilled lettuce, tagliatelle (with truffles), gnocchi, scallops, white chocolate & spiked apple cider dessert.
i'm trying to stray away from food posts, but c'mon, it's food.
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Last night the 2008 softball season ended for the State College E-Free team. Here is a brief discussion of the season and a few notes.
The team finished with a 3-10 record (one of the wins was a forfeit) and 3 rain outs. I must admit that the fact that we won two games surprises me. If you had offered me straight up odds on us winning two games I would have put a grand against it. Of course, then I would be banished from church softball for life for gambling on my team. And I would have lost a thousand bucks. Though I might have gone all 1919 on my team and iced the bet through managerial hijinx and suspiciously lackadaisical play.
Pitching. Pitching was one of the highlights of the E-Free team. Adam Wilson had a Steve Carlton 1972-like season, accounting for either 100% or 67% of the team's wins (it depends how you view the forfeit). The team pitching staff ERA was also very low due to a staggering amount of the runs scored against E-Free being unearned.
Defense. The defense was bad. In the six games that I counted errors we committed 46 of them. And I was lenient in my scoring. To put the number of errors into perspective, we only scored 36 runs during those six games . . . (our opponents scored 134 runs in those games). I find it quite humorous that our team name is E-Free. We averaged more than one error in every inning we played this season.
Offense. The offense was better than the defense, unfortunately that's not a ringing endorsement. Figure 2 shows the OPS of each of the 20 players that played more than two games for the team (we had 28 different players during the season, but eight of them played two games or less). The team OPS for the season was 0.907, which is not good for slow pitch softball. So what does this tell us? Well, it means we were not very good at getting on base or hitting for power.
An interesting trend developed with the team batting average (Figure 3). The average for the first seven weeks was decidedly lower than the last five weeks. In fact, when the mean average for the season is considered (0.384), each of the first seven weeks fall below that average . . . while the last five weeks check in above the average.
Summary: I now feel more empathy for the Kansas City Royals and the Pittsburgh Pirates.


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The Roots of Treason: Ezra Pound and the Secret of St. Elizabeths.
by E. Fuller Torrey.
McGraw-Hill. 339 pp. $19.95.
Edwin Fuller Torrey, M.D., is a member of the psychiatric staff at St. Elizabeths Hospital in Washington, D.C. Although by all accounts he is an efficient administrator, his achievements as a scientist are dim to the point of invisibility. Nevertheless, he has become a fairly well-known figure on the Washington scene in recent years as a result of the controversial articles he has contributed to the Washington Post. For among the many prejudices of that powerful newspaper is a hostility to psychiatry, and in Dr. Torrey the Post has found the guru it was apparently looking for—a psychiatrist at war with his profession.
Dr. Torrey belongs neither to the American Psychiatric Association nor to the Washington Psychiatric Society, the two professional organizations with which one would expect a man in his position to be affiliated. In an obscure book called The Death of Psychiatry (1974), Dr. Torrey denounces the medical rhetoric of his profession—"disease," "patients," "diagnosis," "treatment," "cure," and so on—as not only pretentious but stultifying. From Freud to Harry Stack Sullivan to Frieda Fromm-Reichmann, Dr. Torrey views the developers of the medical model as the progenitors of the "platypus," the "dodo bird," the "dinosaur" that is contemporary psychiatry. Dr. Torrey's heroes, by contrast, are the anti-psychiatric psychiatrists of our day who either believe that people are wonderful, only society is sick, or who are confident that schizophrenia and other major psychoses are the result of specific structural or functional changes in the brain that will inevitably become the province of neurologists as soon as they are identified. Thomas Szasz, R.D. Laing, and Robert Coles are among the names admiringly invoked in the preface to The Death of Psychiatry—which may help to explain why Dr. Coles had nothing but praise for Dr. Torrey's new book on the Ezra Pound case in his recent review of it in the New York Times.
The Pound case may be said to have begun in 1925, when Pound took up permanent residence in Italy but did not renounce his U. S. citizenship. Soon he was writing letters to Mussolini, offering gratuitous advice on economic issues and signing himself "with devoted homage" and "with all my faith." He dated even his correspondence with fellow poets according to the fascist calendar, in which 1922 was known as Year I, in commemoration of II Duce's march on Rome. In early 1941, a year and a half after the outbreak of World War II, Pound began speaking over Rome radio ten times a month. His broadcasts, only seven minutes in length, were nevertheless memorable because of their emotional intensity. The degree of hatred they expressed for Jews of all nationalities, the British empire, and the United States—in particular Franklin D. Roosevelt—can be measured by brief quotations from three broadcasts in 1942, all of which could be heard in the United States over shortwave radio:
I think Roosevelt belongs in an insane asylum now. His writers are lunatics. You have come down far when a Jew by the name of Finkelstein runs your country.
You ought not to be at war against Italy. You ought not to be giving the slightest or most picayune aid to any nation engaged in waging war against Italy. You are doing it for the sake of a false accounting system.
Well, you have been fed on lies, for twenty years you have been fed on lies, and I don't say may be. And Mr. Squirmy and Mr. Slime are still feeding it to you right over the BBC radio, and every one of the Jew radios of Schenectady, New York, and Boston.
In 1943, the United States government indicted Pound for treason. When he was captured by Italian partisans in May 1945, they turned him over to American soldiers, who eventually placed him in a cage at a detention camp near Pisa. The following November, he was brought to Washington, where he underwent psychiatric examination at St. Elizabeths to determine whether he was fit to stand trial for his crimes. After four psychiatrists judged him to be unfit, he was committed to St. Elizabeths. There he lived until 1958, at which point he was released and allowed to return to Italy. His final years were marked by terrible self-hatred and a total inability to write significant poetry.
Toward the end of The Roots of Treason, Dr. Torrey characterizes the temper of American politics in the early years of Pound's incarceration at St. Elizabeths. "A Committee on Un-American Activities of the House of Representatives had come into being, and zealous young Congressmen such as Richard Nixon were digging for Communists. Alger Hiss was one of the first to be pilloried." Besides casting light on Dr. Torrey's political intelligence, these sentences say something about his audacity. For in his zeal to use the Pound case as another stick with which to beat his profession, he himself pillories the integrity of Dr. Winfred Overholser, the superintendent of St. Elizabeths and the most prestigious of the psychiatrists who declared that Pound was insane.
The former president of the New England Society of Psychiatrists and the Massachusetts Psychiatric Society, and destined to become in 1947 the president of the American Psychiatric Association, Dr. Overholser was the last of the great psychiatrists at St. Elizabeths, the worthy successor in all respects of William A. White, the best-known psychiatrist of his generation. Yet the author of The Roots of Treason would have us believe that Dr. Overholser lied on the witness stand, that he was guilty not of misjudging the question of Pound's sanity but of consciously aiding and abetting a fascist traitor's efforts to escape legal punishment by faking madness. And why did Dr. Overholser lend himself to this monstrous charade? Because he was an erudite chap who liked literature, and Pound was a famous poet. Seldom has a slenderer motive been proposed for villainy.
According to Dr. Torrey, it was Ernest Hemingway who first suggested an insanity plea as the "solution" to the "problem" of Pound's indictment for treason. Hemingway "saw in the transcripts [of Pound's broadcasts] a way to save his friend." Hemingway thought the broadcasts "could be used to prove that Ezra was 'obviously crazy.'" By introducing an out-of-context quotation of the novelist's words with cleverly slanted phrases of his own, Dr. Torrey makes it seem as if Hemingway's plan was cynically conceived. But in fact, Hemingway was honestly convinced that Pound had been mentally unbalanced for years. "He is obviously crazy," he asserted in a letter to Archibald MacLeish in August 1943:
I think you might prove he was crazy as far back as the latter Cantos. . . . It is impossible to believe that anyone in his right mind could utter the vile, absolutely idiotic drivel he has broadcast. His friends who knew him and who watched the warping and twisting and decay of his mind and his judgment should defend him and explain him on that basis. It will be a completely unpopular but an absolutely necessary thing to do. I have had no correspondence with him for ten years and the last time I saw him was in 1933 when Joyce asked me to come to make it easier having Ezra at his house. Ezra was moderately whacky then. The broadcasts are absolutely balmy.
Three weeks later, Hemingway wrote to Allen Tate:
They must not hang [Pound] nor must he be made a martyr in any way. He ought to go to a loony bin, which he rates and you can pick out the parts in his Cantos at which he starts to rate it. . . . When I last saw him in 1933 at Joyce's, Joyce was convinced that he was crazy then and asked me to come around when Pound was present because he was afraid he might do something mad. He certainly made no sense then and talked as utter rot, nonsense, and balls as he had made good sense in 1923. So I think it would be outrageous for us who followed his decline into ridiculous nonsense and idiocy not to constaté the fact and also constate what a great and fine poet and generous friend he was before he went goofy.
The idea of an insanity plea may have originated with Hemingway, but it was MacLeish who rallied other writers behind it. In retrospect, says Dr. Torrey, MacLeish candidly admitted that "I never thought Ezra was insane unless a ludicrous egotism qualifies." The admission, however, is taken from a letter that MacLeish wrote at the age of eighty-eight to none other than Dr. Torrey. The author of The Roots of Treason does not reproduce the letter in toto, nor does he tell us anything about the questions he addressed to the old man that elicited from him the reply that Dr. Torrey was fishing for. In the light of Dr. Torrey's distortion of Hemingway's point of view, it is difficult to have confidence in his representation of MacLeish's. And when one turns to R. H. Winnick's edition of the Letters of Archibald MacLeish (1983) in order to see what the poet had to say about Pound in earlier decades, new doubts arise about Dr. Torrey's scholarship.
"Pound is crazy," MacLeish told Hemingway on February 14, 1927. "Last letter he asked me to learn Arabic so as to write like myself." Two days later, MacLeish advised Allen Tate, "Don't expect anything of Pound. He's cucku." "Pound is a unicorn who turns into an ass every time you look at him too closely," MacLeish informed Louis Untermeyer in 1932. "Pound is really such a bleeding fool when he is doing anything except writing verse," he observed to John Peale Bishop in 1933. In an accompanying letter to the transcripts of Pound's broadcasts that he mailed to Hemingway in July 1943, MacLeish declared, "It is pretty clear that poor old Ezra is quite, quite balmy." The following September, he reported to his old friend from Harvard Law School days, the Boston lawyer Harvey Bundy, that "Hemingway and I have gone through the monitorings of the Pound broadcasts. We agree entirely that they are the product of a completely distracted mind."
As soon as Pound was indicted, four psychiatrists were assigned to examine him. Two of them, says Dr. Torrey, lacked professional eminence—which is certainly a case of the pot calling the kettle black. The third was an associate professor at Johns Hopkins and a "respected psychiatrist," in Dr. Torrey's grudging phrase. The fourth was Winfred Overholser. Dr: Torrey accuses Dr. Overholser of having made up his mind to save Pound from prison before he even saw him. "He decided that Pound should be protected and then set about to insure that protection. The first thing he did was to get an agreement from the other psychiatrists that they would reach a common conclusion and submit a single report."
Yet while it is true that Dr. Overholser took the lead in persuading his colleagues not to submit multiple reports, this was because he was anxious not to allow Pound's sanity hearing to degenerate into what the poet's defense lawyer, Julien Cornell, later referred to as "the usual farce," wherein psychiatrists come to very different conclusions and thus "leave to the jury a decision which should be made by the medical profession." Dr. Torrey's sinister interpretation of Dr. Overholser's pre-examination actions is utterly without foundation.
Nor is there any evidence to support Dr. Torrey's contention that the superintendent of St. Elizabeths wrung an a-priori agreement from his colleagues that their collective opinion "should agree with his." The author also does not tell us how he knows that Pound faked madness in all four of his examinations:
Pound . . . facilitated the examiner's search for pathology by offering him his own version of what had gone wrong with his head. According to Dr. King's report, Pound "experienced a queer sensation in the head as though the upper third of the brain were missing and a fluid level at the top remained."
This "exotic symptom," Dr. Torrey sarcastically comments, "corresponds to no known psychiatric or neurological condition." But does not this very fact lend credence to the idea that Pound was delusional? Although the question is obvious, Dr. Torrey ignores it.
In their letter to the court, the psychiatrists found that Pound was abnormally grandiose, expansive, and exuberant in manner, and exhibited pressure of speech, discursiveness, and distractibility:
In our opinion, with advancing years his personality, for many years abnormal, has undergone further distortion to the extent that he is now suffering from a paranoid state which renders him mentally unfit to advise properly with counsel or to participate intelligently and reasonably in his own defense. He is, in other words, insane and mentally unfit for trial and is in need of care in a mental hospital.
Dr. Torrey is indignant that Pound's attacks on the "usury" of the international banking system and his fervent belief that Jews controlled America should have been regarded by Dr. Overholser as examples of paranoid delusion. "A delusion," he writes,
is usually defined as a false belief arising without stimulation or validation by others and which is impervious to reason. Pound's economic and racial beliefs had widespread validation and are still shared by entire organizations, such as the Liberty Lobby and the Ku Klux Klan; they cannot therefore be called delusions in the generally accepted sense of the word.
Dr. Torrey is so convinced of the soundness of these observations that he cannot believe that Pound's friends and examiners did not share them. Thus the Pound case was a conspiracy, hatched in the cynical brain of a famous writer and carried to completion by the perjured testimony of a famous psychiatrist. In the process of pooh-poohing the significance of Pound's delusions, Dr. Torrey reveals his own.


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CES 2018: Echobox Explorer and IEMs
Echobox seems to be doing well. I remember when Warren Chi drug me over to their 10 foot booth at CES in 2015. This year they showed up in the center of the floor in a big open 50 footer with lots of cheerful faces showing off the gear.
The ergonomically flask shaped Explorer ($599) remains their only digital audio player offering, but seems to have matured nicely over time. This fully open source Android OS player will allow you to load all your favorite Android media playing apps, and Tidal is preloaded with 3-month free trial subscription. The Explorer is wifi and Bluetooth enabled for completely wireless listening, and loaded with 64Gig of RAM with a microSD slot available for expansion.
The original single dynamic driver Finder IEM ($99) is now joined by two other wired models: the flagship Nomad ($249) single 9.2mm PEEK driver earphone with MMCX cable connectors, and the entry level Traveler ($79), which is available in four colors. All models have Titanium bodies, which are claimed to be extremely durable, and cable mounted mic/remotesall model are available in both Android and iOS flavors.
They'll also soon be releasing a Bluetooth headset with batteries in the housings so only the remote weighs down the connecting cable, and the earpieces magnetically snap together. Ashley give us the rundown in the video!


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I absolutely adore the whole natural 'undone' hair trend. Whenever I see models strutting those silky strands down the catwalk I can't help but think, YESSSS! I'm going to do my hair like that! And then I realise that when I go for the 'untamed' look I end up firmly in frizz central, when instead I am wishing I was in babe town. Ha ha!
So I recently discovered a pretty easy way to get the look - it's called 'Wonder Worker', and it's new product by 'Shu Uemura' that you add in after washing your hair - it tames frizz and moisturises your hair as it dries.
I tried it out for the first time last week and was stoked with how my hair looked. I think the thing that I'm a little speechless over is that I didn't have to blowdry my hair - I let it air dry naturally. And it looked pretty great (I think anyway!).
One thing I've always liked about Shu Uemura (I've owned heaps of their cosmetics over the years) is that they use rare and natural ingredients and oils. Wonder Worker uses Moringa Oil to strengthen your hair as well as nourish and smooth split ends.
If you're thinking of trying out some untamed tresses, I would suggest picking up Wonder Worker first. It can completely make your hair look ahhhhmazing in a few easy steps..
WONDER WORKER (150ml, RRP$45) is available in Shu Uemura Art of Hair consultant salons nationwide. To locate your nearest salon phone 1300 760 550.


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IFRS Certificate ACCA - E-Learning (Self Study)
Updated: Jul 26
About the course
International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) was designed as a common global language for business affairs so that company accounts are understandable and comparable across international boundaries.
They are a consequence of growing international shareholding and trade and are particularly important for companies that have dealings in several countries. They are progressively replacing the many different national accounting standards.
IFRS includes standards, rules and many interpretations to prepare a high-quality set of financial statements that are comparable, understandable, reliable and relevant to internal or external users.
Thousands of accountants are using or planning to use IFRS in a short period. Many professionals managed to leverage their careers quickly in new conversion projects worldwide.
Participants will deal, in a practical way, with all the requirements of IFRS, as issued by the IASB, and main interpretations (SICs and IFRICs) tied to these standards. The course includes hundreds of practical examples and many extra activities to consolidate your knowledge with an excellent level of detail. The course is primarily designed to bring a robust knowledge to participants in a practical and efficient way.
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The nature and operations of the IASB
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Presentation and profit
Accounting for assets and liabilities - part 1
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Principal differences between UK/US GAAP and IFRSsde345
Proposals for change
1. The nature and operations of the IASB
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8. Principal differences between UK/US GAAP and IFRS
9. Proposals for change
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