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The Fourth Of July is quickly approaching, which is a perfect opportunity to send some extra support to our deployed men and women. I am asking for your help. How can you help? There are two ways:
1. Head over to Xerox to participate in their "Lets Say Thanks" program. It takes 30 seconds to pick a card and a message. Xerox absorbs all of the cost of printing these wonderful child designed cards and postage to help ensure our men and women know we care. Here is the other great thing.... there is no limit. Everyone in your family can send as many as you take the time to fill out. Please pass this link to all of your friends and family for their participate too.
2. Write a note on a post card. I have been told by some they don't know what to write in a letter, so they choose not write. If this is the way you feel, please grab a post card writing a small note of encouragement, such as, "Thank you for your service" "God Bless you and your family." Remember, it's not the quantity of words that matter, its the heart felt sentiment.
My goal is to send at least 150 post cards before the Fourth Of July. If you live in Susanville, I will have post cards at the Warrior Wall in Subway, and in Elise's Barber Shop on Main Street. If you do not live in my area please contact me here. You can still help. Help me bring a smile to 150 deployed service members who are fighting for us.
Thank you for helping me, support our Armed Forces making sure NO Soldier, Marine, Sailor, or Airman feels forgotten.
To encourage and fortify relationships between military service members, veterans, their families, their friends, and their Country; to nurture the path of communication for everyone, ensuring that no one is alone or left behind; and proving that we have not, are not, and will never forget the nobility of their sacrifices.
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The road to wealth is not about how much money you make, it's about what you do – your formula and your plan. Watch this video from Richard Robbins to learn more.
Richard Robbins is a good salesperson, perhaps even a great salesperson, but he is a symptom of what is wrong with organized real estate; he isn't a cure. There are two unique aspects to real estate sales, as distinct from most sales professions: 1/ practical product knowledge is virtually non-existent, 2/ the primary objective isn't about selling the actual product. The primary objective is to sell your ability to be able to sell the product — the product being real estate. Consequently, a real estate practitioner may be better at selling themselves, than they are at actually selling real estate — if they can get enough price reductions along the way, it might not adversely effect their income, anyway. The key, as always, is in getting the listings.
Richard Robbins needs his customers to believe that the main obstacle to success, basically comes down to one's work ethic and working smart. However, the main obstacle to success is really the fact of the industry being over-saturated with members, combined with the: sphere of influence factor, or, in other words, loyalties. The other key obstacles to success are: established brands — 25 year plus members, and the appeal of the Discount Brokerage model. It is very easy for discount brokerages to benefit from consumer ignorance, because it is very hard for someone who hasn't practiced in the industry to accept that there could be real "added value" with commissions at or around 5% or 6%.
Real estate sales, isn't about real estate sales, — it's about getting hired over and over and over, again. And that is why, in its current form, it could never come close to being a real profession, in a broad sense. The impetus for Discount Brokerages was two-fold: eliminate the need for prospecting and also to try and gain business from competitors spheres of influence. Discount brokerages have been successful on both counts. However, they haven't done anything to advance the quality of service, because: 1/ they likely don't have a personal interest in customers who didn't come from a sphere of influence, and 2/ they don't need to prove or have basic salesperson skills to win the business — their rates win their new business, combined with the superficial notion of savings and 3/ volume based business models don't typically have service as their highest priority.
British Columbia was the first Province to take steps to try and bring their real estate industry back to a point of accountability. Recent rumblings on REM suggest that Ontario is about to make some unique changes. I believe that if the Provinces can't effect some meaningful changes soon, steps will have to be taken to make real estate sales a university level program or degree. Some Law offices are already branching out into the business and if this trend gains momentum that could be where the industry will end up and stay — at least Lawyers understand Agency Law.
The Provinces should take steps, to encourage a business model that doesn't require any affiliation whatsoever with CREA. CREA has allowed its brands to become problematic, as it relates to what now must be an unclear public perception, of them. CREA capitulated to a non-request of the Competition Bureau by recommending to our local Association and I'm sure others, that the previous MLS rule that had required REALTOR's to personally visit any property that they would list or sell, be deleted. This was recommended, preemptively apparently, so as to eliminate any potential conflict that might otherwise arise through the course of facilitating "mere posting" type listings. I don't believe that any Canadian Province, that was more in control of their real estate industry, would've aided or abetted the deletion of any rule that clearly existed for the better interests of consumer's! In my opinion, CREA now stands in the way of what needs to be done to move the industry forward — towards being more of a profession.
You nailed it. Your first and last sentences say it all. I would have changed only one thing, that being within your last sentence "…CREA now stands in the way of what needs to be done to move the industry forward–toward being more of a profession." to "…CREA now stands in the way of what needs to be done to move the industry forward–toward being a 'true' profession."
Will wonders never cease?
Follow up to my reply/post to Alan:
Do registrants still not realize that the big winners in the short-term pump-me-up sweepstakes are people like Richard? He keeps on selling dreams of wealth to the naïve as well as to the same wannabes over and over again because they continuously need their quick short-term fixes to carry on chasing that pot of gold at the end of that elusive rainbow. Richard is feeding on a kind of addiction. Why is Richard selling his shtick to the willing masses of wannabes? Because, he can make tons more money doing that than he can actually 'selling' real estate! Richard is the epitome of what a professional real estate advocate should 'not' be. He is a money-chaser advocate. Ergo, the most money that can be chased is by selling real estate.
Hey Martha…I'm gonna get me a real estate license and make me some real money!
Hey Richard: Here's ma money. Whad'a I have'ta do ta git rich?" Make it easy for me man!
The truth is that Richard Robbin's isn't so distinct from some of the real estate Association's in Canada, in terms of how he promotes the opportunity for success.
The following are excerpts from just one Canadian Real Estate Association's online advertisement:
"Become a REALTOR®
A career in real estate can open the door to many opportunities. Today's fast-paced market offers REALTORS® a challenging career opportunity. Hardwork, dilligence and perseverance are a must to be successful.
Building a career in real estate, as with most professions requires a lot of hard work. But with commitment, there is potential for great personal and financial rewards."
Brian, you might notice that both "hardwork" and "dilligence" were misspelled, by the authors of this brilliant message.
Consider the following material as it relates to whether or not one could consider it ethical to lure a new REALTOR in this way, without simultaneously disclosing the local failure rate:
"Financial commitment – investing in yourself and your career Beginning a career in real estate is an enormous financial commitment. Investing in yourself and your career will mean that you must be able to support yourself for at least the first six months. It may be that long before you close your first deal and receive your commission cheque. It is important to have a detailed business plan to get you through your initial education, licensing/membership fees and ongoing costs for the first few months. The following outlines some of the typical costs associated with a career in real estate:"
Brian, some Boards also overtly acknowledge the need for those with Richard's skill set when they make disclaimers, such as the following:
"It is important to note that the Salesperson Licensing Course (SLC), serves to teach students about the real estate industry and provides them with a licence to practice real estate in XXXXXXX. The course DOES NOT provide students with knowledge of sales, marketing and business planning. That is why it is essential that prior to choosing real estate as a career, one must be sure that they either possess this critical sales and marketing knowledge, or are willing to learn it once registered with a brokerage in order to succeed in real estate."
Don't forget that this is all done, this lack of transparency, under under one of CREA's two key brands: REALTOR. Ethics start with how people are lured in! Once again, in my opinion, CREA has nothing left.
Maybe the authors of the verbal "become-a-wealthy-real-estate-salesperson" fishing lure scheme concocted the lines sans dew dilligence as they engaged in the hardwork of turning a phrase at the Hardrock Café…post liquid indulgence. I wonder if those wonderkinds wondered if their wonderous descriptions of pending wonderful financial rewards was aimed at people who always want to go to Wonderland…to find Peter and Tinkerbell?
I have labelled the CREAcrats thus: "People of the Bubble". PUB's (for shortness of breath) only see the world from their own vantage point of perspiration. They perspire amongst themselves, oblivious to the stale in-house odour, because that is all that they inhale. They breathe communal rehashed toxic carbon dioxide, laced with a little oxygen…just enough of the latter to keep them on their swivel chairs without being spun off prior to quitting time. PUB's love to live within their protective envelope. I think that their over stuffed envelope should be finally sealed with Crazy Glue and air mailed straight to Wonderland…where Captain Hook awaits, with gangplank newly varnished. But hey, no problem for the PUB's; I do believe that bubbles float…until all of the hot air building up within bursts them. Say, maybe that could be the Psychiatric Association of Wannabe Rich Realtors Dumpster Remains' next TV ad! Just as a PUB moves closer to the end of the gangplank (spurred on By Hook's middle finger of his good hand) Croc-o'-dial (he's Irish), asks: "Didn't your psychiatrist tell you that fantasies aren't real?"
CREA and ORE; You should not keep trying to reel in suckers the way you do. Be truthful when you advertise. Try the following lines for your next ad:
"Even though the majority of wannabe wealthy Realtors crash and burn within a couple of years after entering our professional mine field (how do you think we keep our real estate university class professors perpetually employed?), you just might be one of the lucky ones! You just might defy the odds and become a survivor, struggling to keep your head above water as you work eighty hours per week for about the same hourly income that could be earning doing almost anything else! You will likely get rid of your annoying spouse when he/she divorces you! There really could be a silver lining in them-thar grey clouds of hum-drum boringness! But wait…there's more! You could become wealthy! Be smart! Be positive! Focus on the money, because that's what 'we' do at our real estate university headquarters. Be a contributor! As you learn the ropes with your hard-earned money out-of-hand, 'you' will be helping 'us' with our never-ending in-house make-work project. You (I mean, we) will be glad you did. You might even become a CREAcrat someday! Here's to dreams…big dreams…for big dreamers! Sign up now! Wonderland awaits!
Fade to black.
All spellbinding kidding aside, not only does CREA have nothing left; it has nothing right.
Since rank and file members have no need or any benefit to be had by misleading potential new recruits, it is clear that the Boards and or Associations that choose to not be forthright about the high risk of failure, don't represent their memberships!
One of the key ways that is used to manage memberships is through the use of "nomination committees" as it relates to the election of Regional Director's etc.. These hand picked candidates are given a leg-up against any challengers who basically take on the status of an "independent"!
Through it all, CREA's trademark REALTOR is bastardized because this trademark was supposed to have ethics at the base of it, and yet here it is tied to a hideous lure of an advertisement that makes a mockery of even the ambition towards transparency!

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In 2003, following the US occupation of Iraq, Israel recycled the "Low Probability" concept. Israel assumed that the US military in Iraq precluded the possibility of a conventional Arab offensive on Israel's eastern front – a lethal threat to Israel's "soft belly" (Jerusalem and greater Tel Aviv). However, in 2009, that concept has been rendered obsolete by the gradual US evacuation of Iraq and by the lowered US military profile in the Mideast, which have energized Mideast radicals. The gradual US withdrawal from Iraq should free Israel from the "Low Probability" delusion, thus preventing a 1973 War-like disaster.
How realistic are those, who blur the security irreplaceability of the Judea & Samaria (J&S) mountain ridges, which constitute the "Golan Heights" of Jerusalem, of the Tel Aviv-Jerusalem freeway and of the coastal plain?
If they would merely assume that the peace treaty with Jordan, and the demise of the Saddam regime, have eliminated the deadly threat from Israel's eastern front, DA'YE'NOU (it would have sufficed).
1. Israel constitutes 0.2% (11,000 sqm) of the Arab League members (5.56MN sqm), which are 150% and 130% larger than the US and Europe respectively (and that does not include the 643,800 sqm of Iran). The L-F-P formula assumes that Israel should concede its scarcest asset – territory – while the Arabs are expected to accord Israel that which they have not shared with one another since the 7th century – compliance and peaceful co-existence.
1. The current Jewish community of Kfar Darom was established on the site of the 3rd-4th century AD Talmudic Jewish town of Kfar Darom (The Talmud's Massekhet Sota' referred to the sage Eliezer the son of Yitzhhak of Kfar Darom). At the end of the 19th century, the land of Kfar Darom ("The Village of the South" in Hebrew) was acquired by Tuvia Miller from Rehovot, who transformed swamps into a blossoming orchard.
1. REDUCING TERRORIST PLATFORM. Israel's re-control of Gaza (given up in 1993) would REDUCE hate education (engine of homicide bombing), recruitment and training of terrorism, terrorist maneuverability, manufacturing and smuggling of terrorist equipment. General Earle G. Wheeler, former Chairman of the Joint C-O-S: "The occupation of Gaza by Israel would reduce the hostile border by a factor of five, and eliminate a source for raids and training of [Palestinian terrorists]...


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Why Is This Everyone's Favorite Nonprofit Website?
Quick — name your favorite nonprofit website!
(How many of you said, "my own, obviously"? Probably not too many.)
After 20 years of surfing websites, most Internet users can tell the difference between a site that "works" and a site that "doesn't" without necessarily being able to articulate why they do or don't succeed.
In our kickoff meetings, we typically ask our clients to point us to websites they think are amazing; websites they want to borrow ideas from.
And in the last couple of years, pretty much every single client has had the same favorite nonprofit website.
Why? It's not just that it's a great organization doing fantastic work (though that's certainly the case.)
It's also because it accomplishes the five building blocks of great web design — and these are building blocks that you can apply to your own websites, too.
The Five Building Blocks of Great Web Design
The five building blocks of any great website are the same:
- A clear purpose
- Easy navigation
- Useful content
- Compelling calls to action
- No bad surprises
Unfortunately, these basics of a successful website can get overlooked in favor of trendy widgets, flashy graphics, unclear priorities, and death-by-committee. That's why sites that do work, like CharityWater.org, tend to stand out compared to the majority that miss the mark.
The Elemental Success of CharityWater.org
[NOTE: Charity: Water recently updated their homepage to highlight a specific — and successful — fundraising campaign. In this post we'll analyze the site's look prior to its latest update, but we believe these fundamental observations will apply through CharityWater.org's future updates, too.]
Aside from targeted landing pages, or from pages with high organic search traffic or social sharing, your homepage is many visitors' first impression of your site — and, by extension, of your organization. Even if a visitor does first come to your site through a shared blog post, if she wants to know more about you, your homepage is likely to be her next destination.
What your visitors first see on your homepage will influence their opinions of your taste, your purpose, your capability, and how well you understand them.
CharityWater.org wins big here because they do many things right, all at once.
* Uncluttered. The design is clean and relaxed. (It also scrolls vertically, as do most modern sites built with mobile in mind.)
* Inspirational. It immediately inspires through high-end and positive photography. A picture is worth a thousand words. [Note: For the updated "Sahel" campaign, the homepage immediately focuses the visitor on two major points of inspiration — a million dollar donor match and a well-produced and emotional video that focuses on the specific stories of the people being helped.]
* Focused. It's highly focused on just one thing at a time. 70% of the page is an image of a smiling girl in a faraway country happily drinking clean water. If every charity's mission could be so succinctly summarized, they could all replace their mission statements with photos.
* Targeted. Notice who they're helping? According to the headline text, it's "girls around the world." In 2014, women — and especially girls — are needle-movers in the marketing discussion. [Note: In the recent homepage update, a specific campaign for the Sahel region of Africa is the focus. But the lesson remains consistent.]
* Trustworthy. "100% of every dollar you donate will fund clean water projects." There is no larger barrier to charity than a donor's suspicion that his dollar will go toward office supplies or overhead rather than toward the cause he's passionate about. (Whether or not that's always a good thing is another question entirely.) But certainly, this statement dispels doubts and legitimizes Charity: Water in the minds of potential donors.
* Bold. The "DONATE NOW" button is unmissable, and the color scheme and direction of the text — even the direction of the girl's gaze in the photo — all drive a visitor's attention toward it. The button is also blue, a color long associated with trust and fiscal responsibility, which suits the org's mission and brand.
Diving Deeper Only Reinforces What Already Works
If we scroll down the Charity: Water homepage, we see the statistics and calls to action that support what we've already intuited from our first impression, but only after an emotional connection has been made and we have been inspired. The facts support the emotional appeal and the trust created by a website's consistency in messaging cannot be overstated.
* Their calls to action are perfectly balanced: donate, fundraise, or learn. And their support text is clear, simple, and effective. (1 in 9 of "us" doesn't have clean water? This is a subconsciously effective way to remind people in the United States and other developed nations that "us" really does mean "all of humankind, together.")
* We funded X projects in Y countries = "We've been successful, and we're here to stay. You can trust us to put your dollar to good use."
* Here are 3 things that make us different = "We know what your doubts are. Let us alleviate them quickly."
Removing Objections to the Call to Action
When your organization relies on donations to achieve its goals, you want those transactions to be as frictionless as possible. Part of that happens by creating a clear call to action, and the rest comes from removing any doubt in the mind of a potential donor. They need to know that their donation matters, and the best way to prove it does is by showing them exactly how it'll be used.
Charity: Water sets the default donation amount to $40 ($30 for the latest campaign), which forces a person who wants to give less to manually dial it down — to say, in effect, "No, I don't want to help that much." Most people will stay with the default setting, as long as the amount isn't ridiculous. While we don't work with Charity: Water ourselves, we suspect this subtle tactic actually helps the average donation to CharityWater.org go up, not down.
And if you really want to help, you can set up a recurring donation through https://www.charitywater.org/pipeline/ — but why would you? Because you want to create a long-term, specific impact.
It's one thing for a donor to optimistically send $35 a month into an unaccountable void; it's another to "fund 122 feet of piping in Pakistan" every month. Specifying a project and showing its participants makes a donor more likely to give because s/he can visualize what s/he is creating and really feels like s/he is making a difference.
And not only does Charity: Water's suggested automatic donation amounts come with specific examples of what your preferred gift can accomplish every month, but they also show the pictures of people we presume are literally involved with the maintenance of these long-term projects — in essence, your gift is helping them directly. More powerful that way, right?
Your Audience Shouldn't Have to Work Too Hard
There's a reason this is everyone's favorite nonprofit website. CharityWater.org makes everything as simple, clear, and easy to process as possible — including their whole reason for existing.
The site's explainer video lets you learn all about their mission "in three minutes." Those three words are critical. As with everything this org does, expectation management is key. Charity: Water can filter the core of their mission down to three minutes, so you, the donor, aren't inconvenienced.
If Charity: Water is this good at taking care of you, doesn't that imply they'll be equally efficient and effective at deploying your dollars for maximum value, and delivering clean water to as many people as possible?
Is your organization's mission this clear?
Does your website reflect that clarity and efficiency? Does it inspire, engage, and activate an audience?
Besides CharityWater.org, do you have a favorite nonprofit website? Tell us what they're getting right in the comments.
And then go start a campaign at Charity:Water.
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When walking or biking around town, one phenomena makes graphic designer Patrick Siney stop and pull out a camera—vandalized stop signs. Neither he nor Bloom condone the vandalism, but for the past 13 years, Siney has documented them, building the collection part of which we've pictured below.
Some of the messages left on the signs are political, including the "Stop War," "Stop Trump," and "Stop Bush" signs. Some, like "Stop Zombies" and "Stop Voldemort" are fanciful. Siney says what attracts him to the signs are his interest in the political climate and humor.
"It's a really good barometer for public opinion and indicator for what the youth and young people here are thinking," says Siney, who creates marketing and advertising materials for local businesses. "Plus, it's funny."
Siney says the signs in Bloomington are particularly interesting because the city is so engaged and politically active, especially the young people who are using stop signs as a creative means of expression.
The signs are also relevant, Siney says, because they don't have a specific audience. Instead, everyone, regardless of race, religion, class, or political ideology, sees these messages. "The people who view that stop sign have as vast a demographic as the people in Bloomington in general," he says.
Siney is looking to work with a local writer to turn the project into a book. He hopes putting the work out into the world will spark conversation and elicit a reaction, whether it be positive or negative.
"I just want to put it out there and have people form their own conclusions," he says. "I want to see people respond to them and interpret them in different ways."
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I sleep on the sun-warmed roof of the house. As I wake periodically through the night, gently and instinctively awoken by rustling, I notice the moon's progress across the sky. For the first time I am fully aware of how the night sky changes overhead, the simple revelation of something I already know: the planet is moving. Just a few feet to my left, at ground level, the quiet hoofbeats and occasional snorts of the horses sounds in the night. My senses inform me of when they are awake, when they are resting. Something sends them suddenly galloping to the far side of the field, but a restive energy sinks back over the herd before long.
I am in Skyros, Greece, a rural island in the central Aegean. It is the home of a breed of horse believed to be thousands of years old, though they currently number only a couple hundred individuals. My friends Amanda Simpson and Stathis Katsarelias have bred horses here over the past decade with the ostensible intention of preserving a piece of local history, and also because they have long been in love with these intelligent, idiosyncratic creatures.
One evening, late, after a simple meal of bread, tomatoes, and olives, Amanda rouses us all to follow her out into the fields. It is a full moon as we walk amongst the herds gathered around the remains of their hay, sleeping on the ground, looking out into the darkness. We sit on the ground, apart, and wait for the horses to come to us, stand over us, breathe into our hair and sigh and rest. A feeling of mutual understanding and connection hums through my body, like a prickling awareness of my roots reaching down into the soil.
Humanity domesticated the horse out of necessity thousands of years ago. Only in the past century or so has their practical use dwindled in many parts of the world, to the point where they are seen as an expensive pet, and horse riding a leisure activity rather than a means of transport. At Amanda and Stathis' farm some of the horses are trained for riding, driving, and to be handled by children. Others serve no purpose at all. They exist, because they have a right to; because Amanda and Stathis see the inherent value in simple interactions between our two species, and because the people of the island do not want to see their horses disappear.
The horses run in herds, although their range is limited to the boundaries of the property. They live in a liminal state, neither wild nor fully domesticated. Although we are enchanted by the image of the wild horse, in reality, very few exist. Aside from Przewalski's Horse of the central Asian Steppe, a unique subspecies, the horses we often think of as 'wild' – mustangs, brumbies – are technically feral, descended from domesticated ancestors who returned to a wild state. But in the scale of our joint evolutionary history, this period of domestication is just the blink of an eye.
There is something about the night time in Skyros, when the sound of bells has faded and the goats are locked away; when the lights are out on the island and the sky comes alive with stars; when the fences are indistinct in the darkness, creating a boundless wild space. It is a time when, sitting in the dust surrounded by small hooves, it is possible to imagine the past and a future with little resemblance to our present. A future in which horses have regained some of their original wildness. In our eyes more than anything, for we must wonder, have they really lost it – or have we simply made it impossible?
Working in proximity to horses opens up something in people. A sense of our own inherent wildness, brought out by a species we consider domesticated. We have shaped the way that horses relate to their surroundings by fencing in their ranges, adapting their diets, training them to work with us, and at the same time we have narrowed and shortened our own living space, dividing up and changing the wide world and the way we relate to it. In time to come we will need to re-evaluate the role that horses can play in the natural world. Perhaps the same goes for ourselves.
Read more biodiversity stories at VoicesforBiodiversity.org.
Alex Mullarky is a writer and environmentalist from the UK who has called Melbourne home since 2014. She is a graduate of English Literature and is particularly interested in the connection between language and landscape. You can find her on Twitter at @saesteorra.


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Planning The Most Perfect Day Of Your Life… Say I Do In Style
Is it time for you to say "I do" yet? Falling in love is a beautiful feeling and it is concreted by entering to wedlock and swearing to live and take care of each other till the end. Although it is not a must to marry a person you love to live happily ever after, a wedding is still considered as the most beautiful day of a female's life.
Getting ready
It will be easier to hand everything to a wedding planner. But there are some things you cannot just assign to somebody. In addition to that, the beauty of the day is fully felt when you do the organizing yourself. Of course the bride will be pressed down with most of the work. Apart from ensuring to make the day the best in your life, it is also important to manage the finances. If you dispense of all responsibilities via an event planner, you must also possess money to pay the exorbitant amounts they charge. So consider what parts you can do and what you can ask for help from friends and family members. Some stuff you need can be bought locally and some easily through importing products from China; by this method you can save a lot of money. Try importing the decors, cake boxes and invitations; make sure you have enough time. Check this website to find out more details.Dresses and maids
One of the most important parts of a wedding, especially to the bride, is the dress. It is said that dresses make brides to be bridezillas. Avoid having a nickname as such by ordering your dress with enough time to do any alterations. Make sure you purchase the dress you want and not your family or even your partner prefers. Because it will be you who will be wearing it. Talk to some of your friends or relatives who know you and who tend to discuss and solver matters with you rather than those who are known to contradict and argue. As the bridesmaids dresses will also have to be ordered with sufficient time for any adjustments they have to be available throughout the time duration and agree with you, or at least discuss with you if they need any changes.
After getting ready with all necessary stuff, pen down an itinerary. Assign each task to a member of your immediate family or a close friend. Do not assign any major tasks to a bridesmaid or a groomsman as they tend to get busy with following you around for photographs etc. They would also forget things in the haste to be with you. It is best to have an agenda-bearer to make sure everything is proceeding on time and according to plan. Have small things done the prior day. You can simply have cake boxes, thank you cards, wine cards etc. via ordering online with the help of an import consultant and keep them ready well in time. Don't forget to reserve photographers and videographers too. Your wedding is the most memorable day in your life and anyone would want to make it the best day to remember. If you plan right and follow the guidelines it can be so.


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Last week I attended my first national genealogy conference, sponsored by the National Genealogical Society, in St. Charles, Missouri.
I have so much to report on that I will spread this out over several posts. I'll begin by posting the interview I did with Dear Myrtle - Pat Richley-Erickson - on her AmbushCam! It really captures my week at the conference!
Yes, this shows why I struggled with being "on air" talent in broadcasting! Always talking out of the side of my mouth! Haha! I was always more comfortable running the board!
Main slip-up - referring to this as "NGN" rather than "NGS"! I'll admit to my mistakes!


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Never say never.
The traditional fishing village and shipbuilding yards of Tongyeong is the last place I thought I would travel back to in this lifetime.
Needing ITU triathlon practice in preparation for Rio Olympic Games plus seeking a quality hit out before the following weekend's Xterra World Championships in Maui.
I found myself roaming the live street markets once again with the bonus of racing success at the Tongyeong ITU Triathlon World Cup, South Korea.


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The recent surge of deadly xenophobic attacks in South Africa is triggering concern in several African countries. In Nigeria, the deaths have sparked reprisal attacks and calls for an end to the operation of South African businesses in the country. But as Timothy Obiezu reports from Abuja, tens of thousands of Nigerian jobs could be at stake~VOA NEWS
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I've been mulling over this post dedicated to the increasingly impressive power of social media both in the professional world and on a personal level for a while now and with today being Social Media Day, it seemed as good a day as any to finally publish this post.
Over the course of the last few months social media has become an important part of my life, mostly on a professional level. Through running my own blog I quickly had to brush up on my social media skills as the role of social media within my life shifted from sharing photos and funny videos with friends to creating and developing branding for my blog and learning to how promote it effectively.
What once was just a way to pass the time soon became my job as several opportunities opened up for me within the social media industry as a result of my blog and I was lucky enough to be approached by a few businesses to manage their social media platforms and create regular blog content for their websites.
Due to the role that social media has had in my life over the last few months I have been able to appreciate the benefits that it can have on a business when used the right way. By no means am I an expert in this field, simply a freelancer trying to put her time in wisely while on a gap year from university, so this post is solely based on my own experience and opinions on the benefits of social media but I wanted to put together a post sharing with you all a few reasons why I've grown to really appreciate it and the effect that it can have on your career and social life when used to its full potential.
This is a huge one. And admittedly an obvious one given the name "social media/networks". On a business level social media platforms such as Twitter offer a great way to network, giving you the ability to connect with and follow industry leaders and other important people within your field at the touch of a button. It's an opportunity to keep up to date with industry news and also to make yourself known within the industry to the key players in a much more informal and (again, excuse the use of the obvious word) social manner than the likes of LinkedIn or via email.
Recently, I've found the benefit of networking opportunities offered by social media more relatable than ever having managed to secure two separate internships through social media. One of these internships I saw being advertised on Twitter and thankfully, decided to chance my arm and apply for it there and then. While the other came about after being contacted by someone who had seen me mentioned in a tweet by one of their former colleagues which led to them following a link to my blog and after a few conversations, they offered me a full time job with their company. It's pretty safe to say that I'm feeling fairly grateful to the Twitter Gods right now.
2. Building a Community
This one is applicable to both personal and business use of social media to an extent and builds upon a different aspect of my point above about networking. As acknowledged above, social media is called so for a reason, it's a way to socialise. Through social media tools such as Facebook groups and Twitter chats, we're living in a virtual world where the opportunities to connect with such a wide range of people extends into the real world and suddenly the opportunities to make friends and build up an entire community of like-minded people is endless.
Professionally speaking, #BelfastHour is a great example of this and I'm not just saying that because my Mum, Dorcas Crawford, happens to be involved in making #BelfastHour happen. For those of you that don't know about #BelfastHour, I suggest that you get to know all about the weekly Twitter chat and join in on Thursday nights from 9pm-10pm. It's designed as a free digital marketing/PR tool for those of us who lack a PR budget and it's a great opportunity to get know local business people both on a professional level and personal level. Even better, they give away a prize each week that's donated by the featured business of that week.
An example of social media allowing you to build up a community on a personal level is Girl Crew set up by Irish gal Elva Carri as a way for girls to connect and go out all over the world. First up you find your crew. There are several options available for you, the majority of which are based on your location but also includes crews that appeal to your specific interests whether that's fashion or travel. Then, once you've found and joined your group you introduce yourself, post an event and hey presto, before you know it you've got a whole new crew of buddies.
This sense of community and building friendships online is something that you see a lot of in within the blogger and influencer world. You often hear of bloggers talking about how they've met some of their closest friends through the social media aspect associated with blogging. Nicki Hoyne, for example, of My Shining Armour (@myshiningarmour – follow her on snapchat, you won't regret it) is always snapchatting her meeting up with friends that she has made through connecting on Snapchat.
3. It's free PR
Ultimately, the various social media platforms available offer a cost effective method of promoting your business by directing traffic to your website through clicks and links and more clicks = more PR. Social media increases the visibility and popularity of your business by giving you the chance to make both yourself and your business more personable and accessible as you can engage with your audience on a more personal level.
Social media serves as a great way of increasing brand awareness for your business or product and as a result can really increase sales for your business. At the end of the day, if people aren't aware of a business of website's existence then they won't know to shop there and given that two thirds of the UK's population are active social media users, that's a lot of customers that you could be losing out on if you don't take advantage of social media to give your brand an extra push.
It's important to remember that not every platform is suitable for every audience and speaking from experience, each platform can take some getting used to in figuring out what does and doesn't work for you. Currently I stick to using Twitter and Instagram when promoting my blog but it's becoming very obvious that Snapchat is on the rise and is definitely having a moment in the social media marketing world so hopefully in the near future I'll be braving Snapchat and Facebook. Don't forget to keep an eye on social media trends and stay in tune to your audiences needs.
How do you think you benefit from social media on either a personal or professional level? Comment below and let me know.
Love, Niamh ♥


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Happy happy! Clappy clappy! My blog is 4 years old!
Tuesday, November 12, 2013
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- Nadine Mbouta12 November 2013 at 16:17
I'd LOVE the purple one! Its so festive. Also the first thing I'd bake is a christmas fruit cake with a citrus + chocolate twist ;)ReplyDelete
I love the orange bowl (matches perfectly with my kitchen) and I will attempt to bake the chocolate fondant for my family :)ReplyDelete
- Anonymous12 November 2013 at 16:38
An emerald or yellow one. And I'd definitely bake brownies or waffles using the Nomu baking kits - the two things I just can't get right on my own.ReplyDelete
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- Anonymous12 November 2013 at 17:22
Clappy clappy! :)ReplyDelete
Congrats Nikks, I absolutely love this....ReplyDelete
I would love the Cherry bowl. I've heard great things about the Nomu brownies and would love to bake that in the new bowl :-)ReplyDelete
I would love to win the purple bowl:) Its my birthday early December so the first thing I would bake is a gorgeous chocolate cake:) Following and sharing @0820766294ReplyDelete
I would love to win the purple bowl.Its my birthday early December so the first thing I would bake is a gorgeous chocolate birthday cake:) Following and sharing @0820766294ReplyDelete
- Hayley Baxen13 November 2013 at 10:32
The Red Le Creuset batter bowl is an awesome colour. It will go fabulously with my kitchen colour scheme. I will bake my oh so heavenly Red Velvet Cupcakes mmmm. Red is sooo festive!!!ReplyDelete
Happy happy:) I'd love some of that cherry in my kitchen and I'd start of with my first ever attempt at a baked cheesecake!ReplyDelete
i would love the marseilleReplyDelete
awesome giveaway especially for bonding with the kids :)
i love the marseilleReplyDelete
this is an awesome giveaway....thank you
On the site it says Caribbean Blue is an option, which is my favourite. But at the bottom it says only available in 4 colours of which CB isn't one of them. So I guess I'd have to go with Marseilles. My kitchen is blues and lime greens. I would bake a cheesecake. I love cheesecake.ReplyDelete
I also followed on twitter & tweetedReplyDelete
Emerald one, and I would make an almond tart....following and will tweet. Lovely lovely giveaway :)ReplyDelete
I would love the purple one because well, I love purple :) and the first thing I would bake are funfetti cupcakes because rainbow sprinkles are flippen awesome!!ReplyDelete
I'd feel blessed to have any colour! Don't have much in the way of pots as it is... :)ReplyDelete
Congrats on your blog birthday!!! I only discovered your blog today :( But having a lovely read so far. Keep up the great work :) I like the purple one! So purdy :)ReplyDelete
Such a stunning competition! I need and love the purple batter bowl! Needing to bring a touch of "funk" to my kitchen and baking utensils! With this in mind the first thing I'd bake is crunchie biscuits with mu daughter Zoe because Christmas is coming up and we always bake biscuits over Christmas time! Thus, this has "Megan" written all over it! Hello!? I love baking and all things Le Creuset and Nomu …so please please pick me ♥ Tweet about giveaway and following you Twitter (@flutterbymegs)! Fingers crossed :) xxxxReplyDelete
I'd love the Caribbean Blue bowl. I'd make my flop-proof chocolate tray cake, with chocolate fudge icing.ReplyDelete
Definitely the purple one because I'd give it to my daughter and that's her favourite colour. And the chocolate fondant because every time we go out and I order it something goes wrong and I never get it...ReplyDelete
I'd love to win the Cherry bowl to bake some delicious chocolatey fudgey Nomu brownies :)ReplyDelete
I'd love Le Creuset's batter bowl in their kiwi colour, and the first thing I'd make is crumpets- been craving them! Yum!ReplyDelete
I am in love with the Caribbean Blue bowl...The first thing I would bake is delicious home-made pecan nut pie! Yummmmy! I have followed you on Twitter with the Twitter handle @Roxi_23 and I have tweeted too!!!ReplyDelete
Congrats on your milestone :) I would love to win the Red bowl & the first thing I would bake in it is a Christmas pudding. Following on twitter & tweeted @princessruwReplyDelete
rehana seedat email: firstname.lastname@example.com I'd love the Caribbean Blue bowl. I'd make my flop-proof chocolate tray cake, with chocolate fudge icing. tweeted as well @rehanaseedatReplyDelete
Happy Birthday!!! Ooh batter bowl, perfect for a birthday cake! I'd go for the carribean blue!! Oh so pretty!ReplyDelete
A red one! Yai, awesome prize :)ReplyDelete
Congrats on your blogs bday :)
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Hi! Congrats on your blog :)ReplyDelete
Awesome prize, would love RED :)
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text: The Letter Black, formerly known as Breaking the Silence, is a Christian rock band that was formed in 2006 in Uniontown, Pennsylvania. The band consists of lead vocalist Sarah Anthony; her husband, lead guitarist and vocalist Mark Anthony; bassist Matt Beal; and drummer Mat Slagle. The Letter Black started out as a praise team at their local church with Sarah and her husband Mark as a duo on vocals under the name "Breaking the Silence".[citation needed] Later when they were signed to Tooth and Nail Records they changed the name of the band to "The Letter Black". The band often does 150 shows or more a year and has shared the stage with bands such as Skillet, Decyfer Down, RED, and Hawk Nelson. They performed as the opening act in the 2010 Awake and Alive tour. They will also be the opening act for Thousand Foot Krutch's "Welcome to the Masquerade Tour.


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A divorced father of three who lives and works in Manchester, England. I have written a few short stories and published them on various sites where erotic stories are uploaded by amateurs. These stories will be updated and published here over time.
I prefer to write erotica because it allows me to express things sexual, in a way that matches my attitudes towards sex and the excitements it brings. Stimulating the mind is one way of stimulating the whole body.
If you are kind enough to download and read any of my published works, please leave a review.
**Currently working on the sequel to 'Not My Husband's Wife' - did Angela accept Mike's proposition? Watch this space for further updates. **


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by Jasper Fforde – I love Jasper Fforde's imaginative leaps and his attention to detail in making even the most seemingly outrageous premise seem almost plausible. It is obvious that he loves these worlds he creates and that he has thrashed out the nuts and bolts to make sure the story and its elements are consistent and believable (once the initial suspension of disbelief has been accomplished by the reader). The plot complications arise quite naturally out of the world as he has set it up. And the characters (good and bad) are plausible, with foibles and weaknesses and strengths that make them individual and interesting.
In the Shades of Grey series (please, Mr. Fforde, write books 2 and 3 soon!!), society is based on one's color perception, with no one able to see in full color. An ability to see in the purple end of the spectrum is most highly prized and thus highest on the societal order; full colorblindness is the lowest, with those afflicted being consigned to worker-bee status. This society has been relatively stable for 500 years, and it is the "relatively" part that leads to the story's central conflicts. The setting is Earth, but perhaps a millenium or more in the future. No one is certain and the exact timing is considered unimportant, perhaps even seditious to pursue. The most important thing is to contribute to the stability of society, as the status quo is considered officially as perfect as possible, given that humans are involved.
In this setting, a young man (Eddie Russert) who is troubled by questions and (gasp!) ideas that might make society more convenient and efficient is sent with his dad to an outlying town (East Carmine) for a temporary stay, the son to learn humility and the father to fill in for the local healer, who has gone missing. The village has secrets and Eddie must make his way through them if he wants to survive and get back to his hometown.
Fforde is a master at playful language, double entendre, puns and twists on current society. I love his writing and had a great time with this book. His next in the series is due out next year, which means a four-year lag between the first and second books… and who knows when book three will be printed. No matter, as I will read anything and everything Fforde writes. He's just that good. (finished 4/21/2012)


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Quetzalcoatl Connection
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Referred to me by another long time client, Benito first came in to see me last year. He asked me to render his beloved dog Kimi into a tattoo for his upper left shoulder blade; that project turned out nicely.
Now we are working on connecting all of the disparate ink he already had on his left arm. At my suggestion, he chose to commemorate his heredity and family, who are from the capital city of Mexico. We are uniting his arm with Quetzalcoatl, the famed Aztec Plumed Serpent God, wrapping him around Benito's arm. When I was in Teotihuacan, Mexico (the famous City of the Dead, which as well as the Pyramids of the Sun and Moon, has many statues of Quetzalcoatl) I took tons of photos, which I used to create the drawings.
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Mar 6, 2010
Anyone with two eyes and a brain
My friend Dan Witz has a new show, New Night Paintings, opening on March 10th at the DFN Gallery 74 East 79th street between Park and 5th avenues. I urge all those with two eyes and optic nerves connected to their brain to attend.
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A guest post by Frankie Wallace
While many physical barriers to learning are often obvious, the emotional and social issues students face often go unseen and can be equally disruptive in a student's education. These invisible issues may manifest in a number of ways, including low grades, poor attendance, behavioral issues, and other misleading displays. With so many students to instruct and interact with, teachers may not be able to cater specifically to students' emotional states.
Fortunately, school counselors have the training and passion to help acknowledge and face these challenges. Here are two major ways school counselors can help students overcome emotional barriers involved with getting an education.
Boosting Self-Confidence
When students struggle to understand the materials covered in class, it can be easy to develop destructive thought patterns. Being surrounded by classmates who seem to be doing just fine in the classroom can encourage some students to believe they are inherently deficient and incapable of learning about various subjects.
This can affect the student's grades, their behavior, their personal relationships, and can have lifelong impacts on the ways they interact with the world. For example, a student who struggles with reading and comprehension skills may avoid opportunities to build these skills. Unfortunately, low literacy rates make it more difficult for people to find quality employment and may contribute to ongoing self-esteem issues. Furthermore, students with negative mentalities about their learning abilities may pass these same mindsets on to future generations.
Educators may have trouble picking up on the specific causes of a student's performance in the classroom. There are many factors that can contribute to a poor understanding of the material, and when students feel vulnerable, they may be more likely to lash out rather than ask for help. It's important to acknowledge that teachers aren't immune to intense emotions, whether or not these are intentionally expressed. In some cases, teachers may seem intimidating or outright antagonistic from a student's point of view.
In contrast, school counselors aren't responsible for giving homework and exams or assigning grades, which may draw fear and frustration from students. Because of this, school counselors are well-positioned to speak with students about their struggles, identifying thought patterns and circumstances that are interfering with their ability to learn. Afterward, counselors can work with the students to create plans for new ways of thinking.
A student's confidence may not be tied directly to school itself. Outside circumstances such as family and financial issues may contribute heavily to a student's lack of belief in themselves. To help begin rebuilding a sense of self-worth, a counselor may suggest simple exercises like creating a list of the student's positive qualities and activities they enjoy. Items on the list might not relate directly to school, but they can help bridge the gap between the student's sense of self when doing something they love versus their diminished confidence in the classroom.
Positive change in a student's self-confidence won't come all at once, even if the student is open to a counselor's suggestions. However, without some sort of healthy intervention, low confidence will only increase the chance a student will continue to struggle and retreat from educational challenges and opportunities.
Responding to Violence and Trauma
With the national spotlight on school shootings, bomb threats, and other acts of violence, it can be difficult for students to feel safe in school. Although school shootings are still relatively rare, the attention these tragic events receive can easily encourage a lasting state of paranoia.
Even efforts to create safety measures can disrupt the psychological well-being of students. For example, when schools conduct active-shooter drills, students of all ages are asked to hide from imaginary gunmen. While these practices can help protect students against future tragedies, they can also create lingering fears.
When responding to these fears, school counselors can help students to focus on the predictability of their routines and encourage them to limit their exposure to the news. It's important not to encourage outright denial of these events when they happen, but obsessing over them can create unhealthy thought patterns.
Students who bottle up their emotions may be distracted, causing them to lose focus on everyday tasks, including school work. They may also act out with anger in response to their fear as a way of coping or protecting themselves. Because of this, perhaps the most important thing counselors can do is listen to students' fears and concerns and work to identify healthy coping strategies.
Violence in schools doesn't have to involve a major crisis. Some of the greatest harm goes unseen in various forms of bullying, including physical abuse, verbal abuse, social exclusion, or damage to property. Physical hitting, spreading rumors, sexual comments, threatening, and stealing belongings are some of the most common forms of harassment in schools. Students who are victims of bullying face an increased risk for poor social adjustment, anxiety, difficulty sleeping, and depression. This affects their grades as well as their ability to grow into well-balanced adults.
One of the first steps school counselors can take is to encourage students to report bullying. This can be extremely challenging for students currently facing abuse as they are already living in fear. If they tell someone about what is happening, they may fear the bully will learn who told on them, after which, things will only get worse. While counselors can't force students to come forward, creating a clear pathway and encouraging students to speak up is one of the only ways to break the cycle of abuse.
Rather than directly punishing a bully, which could spur a violent reaction, school counselors may work with large groups to teach empathy for their fellow classmates and seek out peaceful methods for dealing with conflict. Over time, this can create more understanding student populations and help bullies to find healthy ways to deal with their own emotions.
On an individual level, school counselors can work with abused students to find healthier ways of processing their emotions related to harassment. Often students who are bullied come to believe they deserve physical abuse and change their self-image based on the insults they hear. With effective counseling, students can learn to challenge the lies bullies tell them, regaining belief in themselves and moving forward despite past abuse.
As with self-confidence issues, trauma can easily extend from circumstances outside of a student's education. These situations and events may be beyond the school system's control, yet the psychological effects on students can still have a major impact on their success.
In a perfect world, student success would depend solely on their willingness to take part in their education. Unfortunately, there are many factors that can disrupt a student's progress, creating extreme emotional challenges. However, school counselors are trained to assess and work through a vast number of difficulties a student might experience. When students can realize and take advantage of this amazing resource, they stand to perform better academically and develop social skills and coping mechanisms that will serve them for the rest of their lives.


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INTERVIEW: John Hawkes of 'The Sessions'
I, along with some fellow WAFCA members, had the pleasure of sitting down and talking with Academy Award nominee John Hawkes ("Winter's Bone" & "Martha Marcy May Marlene") about his new film "The Sessions." where he stars as a 38-year-old man who was diagnosed with polio at a young age. Not only is the role emotional, Hawkes had to physically alter his entire body during the course of the movie.
Hawkes and I discuss the physicality of the role and which of his previous characters Mark would have the most fun hanging out with. We talk about his roles in Tarantino's "From Dusk Til Dawn" and HBO's "Deadwood."
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Fast Response&Immediate Drying Are Crucial To Prevent Mold
Did you know that?
Water damage is the 2nd most damaging and costly event that happens inside of your home? Only fire damage can become more destructive and costly. Water Damage is also commonly known as Flood Damage when it happens inside of your home or business.
Mold and mildew are easily preventable but time is not on your side!
A simple ice maker leak or leaking supply line to your faucet or a toilet overflow can cause hidden water damage inside you walls, to your cabinets, drywall and framing, and wood floors due to wicking and water migration. Kitchen cabinets and bathroom vanities are high risk areas and are excellent candidates for mold growth if they become wet.
After flood damage occurs in your home or business abnormal moisture trapped within your home can cause microscopic mold spores to begin to germinate at an alarming rate feeding on organic materials, wood, drywall paper etc. in as little as 48-hours. Moisture feeds mold and in time if left untreated, mold will follow if damp areas not properly dried.
Immediate action and drying are necessary because the longer the moisture and humidity remains in your home or business the more harmful and destructive it becomes leading to Mold contamination.
Water Damage + An Organic Food Source + Time = MOLD!
Your home is your most valuable asset and people need to know what you have to do in order to make sure that your home is dry and a safe place to live in afterwards.
Reasons To Hire Flood Doctors Who Are Mold Certified Professionals
• You see visible mold growth inside your home or business
• You home smells musty or has mildew or moldyodors
• Your allergies or asthma are worse when you are inside
• Your pets have been sick
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The Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) is STILL counting postal and absentee votes on Wednesday morning as Australia waits to find out who its next Prime Minister is -- and we may not know until at least Friday.
We were told that a result could be declared as early as Tuesday -- although the Senate count could take up to five weeks to be finalised -- but Tuesday came and went, and we are still no closer to finding a winner. Of course, if neither major party secures the requisite 76 seats to form a majority government and a hung Parliament results, the wait could get a whole lot longer.
The quick version? As at 10am on Wednesday July 6, the AEC's provisional results currently say the Liberal-National Coalition has won 70 seats, the Labor Party has 71 seats, the Greens have one, the Nick Xenophon Team have one, and three other independents (Bob Katter, Andrew Wilkie and Cathy McGowan) have also won seats, while four remain "not yet determined".
Of the seats "not yet determined", three are currently held by Liberal MPs, while the fourth seat, Grayndler, is held by Labor's Anthony Albanese. Nationwide, it is an incredibly close race between Labor and the Coalition, with 5.007 million and 4.967 million votes respectively (as at 6am Tuesday July 5). This represents a 3.69 percent swing towards the Labor Party compared to the last election, when Tony Abbot won office.
But it's more complicated than that. Bear with us.
Usually we know the result of an election a few hours after polls close. The initial results of the votes, counted on the night by the AEC, give us a pretty good indication of who the winner is, so by some point late in the evening, one party leader has conceded defeat and the other has claimed victory. It didn't go that way on Saturday, with the results too close to call in a number of seats, and with neither Labor nor the Coalition winning enough seats outright to seize government (they need 76 of the 150 seats to claim victory) it meant we settled in for a long wait.
At this stage, the AEC is still counting a lot of ballots. Not just the millions that were submitted on election day, but the record number (2.54 million) that were submitted at pre-poll, through postal votes or absentee ballots. This election is so close in a number of crucial seats, that even a hundred votes here or there could make a difference. In 2013, for instance, Clive Palmer won his seat of Fairfax by around 50 votes; which shows how careful the counting needs to be.
The AEC numbers we outlined above are, we stress, provisional results and may yet change. As the count continues, they may change, just like the figures you saw on television during election night. As the AEC says on their website, "0 of 150 House of Representatives seats have been declared" -- meaning all the results thus far are only provisional, not yet official.
So, the million dollar question -- what happens now? Well, the AEC says 5000 staff will be working to get a result as quickly as possible, collecting postal votes and counting pre-polls. It is likely we could be days away from a result, with some experts claiming it won't be until Friday at the earliest.
While the result should be known long before that, the final deadline is August 8, by which time Governor-General Sir Peter Cosgrove must have received the returned elections writs.
It will be a nervous wait for both Malcolm Turnbull and Bill Shorten. Both have been scouting around the independents and minor parties, with a high chance that neither Liberal nor Labor will reach the required 76 seats and have to scramble to get the support of others to form minority government. There have also been rumblings of leadership challenges to both leaders, as their fellow MPs await their parties' fates.
It will make the likes of Xenophon quite a powerful figure in the parliament.
If you want to check out the results yourself (which are being updated regularly, as more votes are counted) check out the AEC's tally room online here.


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The scandal over contaminated milk in China continues to spread. From two now the number of children who have died has become at least four, and some reports say six. Once the scandal erupted the government was forced to step in and ordered a nationwide investigation into all baby milk powders. The official investigation has found that 20% of China's dairy companies are involved. As we reported previously, the Sanlu Group has been distributing milk containing melamine, a chemical that can make the protein level in dairy products appear higher than it is.
|Stripped shelves in a supermarket in China
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So far two children have died and 50,000 have fallen ill, some developing kidney problems. The head of the Sanlu company was sacked, but how many more heads will have to roll in the coming period?
In the initial investigation 109 dairy companies were checked, of which 22 were found to be selling milk containing melamine. Even Yili, which supplied milk for the Beijing Olympic Games, has been involved in the scandal, and many more.
According to Chinanews.com, Sanlu's chairperson "bore very large responsibility" for what has happened. But how can all this be blamed on one person? Since March parents had been complaining to the company about their babies' discoloured urine. In fact, it has been revealed that Sanlu was aware of the melamine problem back in December of last year. So why was nothing done then? Some babies had already been admitted to hospital in March, so the managers of the company cannot claim ignorance.
As we reported in our previous article, the Sanlu group has been trying to unload responsibility to smaller farmers who supply the milk. According to the Xinhua news agency several of these have been arrested, one of whom was producing 3 tons of milk a day, contaminated with melamine. On 17 September 22 people were arrested, suspected of using the toxic chemical.
If an initial investigation found that 22 companies have been involved clearly working with many smaller dealers in this practice of adding the toxic chemical to milk powder, then the problem is not just one company and not just one top manager. It is also the case that it is not just the dairy industry that has been affected by such scandals in the recent period. Already back in 2004, at least 13 babies died after drinking adulterated milk powder. Other food companies have also been involved.
The official Xinhua news agency has revealed that among those arrested some have openly admitted to using melamine. One of these explained that in the past his milk was rejected by the Sanlu company because of its low protein content. He then discovered that if he added melamine this would up the protein levels in the tests and thus be accepted by Sanlu.
As we have seen, attempts have been made to divert attention away from the big companies and blame the small farmers, who supply the milk. The problem, however, is that the small farmers depend on middlemen. These middlemen push down the price the small farmer gets for his produce. Demand for milk products has been growing fast. In fact over the past few years the industry as a whole has been growing by around 30% a year.
In order to increase production the small farmers have been pushed into watering down the milk. But that lowers the protein levels, thus making the milk unacceptable to the large companies. That's where the melamine comes in!
Now, as a result of this scandal China's dairy industry is in serious crisis, as more and more countries impose bans on importing Chinese dairy products. The Chinese government is now desperately trying to restore the reputation of their dairy industry, and is taking measures to seriously review the milk collection system.
This whole scandal reveals the cynicism of these people. When parents were complaining about their children's symptoms they didn't get much sympathy from the officials. Once the scandal broke out, provoking the anger of ordinary working people, they stepped in. And now that their profits are being seriously affected they are stepping up their measures. The milk industry in China is calculated to be worth about $20bn, so the people at the top must be very worried.
What this scandal reflects is the greed for profit that has spread throughout the Chinese economy. Whether state owned or private, Chinese companies are now out for one thing, enrichment for the few! And the authorities turn a blind eye... until a scandal like this one erupts, with babies dieing! Then they have to step in and attempt to re-establish some kind of order. But they punish the individual in order to save the system as a whole. We have seen this many times. They are not going to remove the greedy quest for profit. Market economics is capitalism. Capitalism does not look at the needs of people. Its God is profit.
What is required is not merely the sacking of this or that individual manager. It is the system as a whole that must go. The Chinese workers have paid a heavy price for the "capitalist road". They are learning from their everyday experience what capitalism stands for. At some point they will draw the conclusion that the whole system must go. That is what terrifies the leaders of the so-called Communist Party!


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How And Why Men Fall In Love
Why do men fall in love? How do men fall in love? Do men fall in love or do they just pretend to be in love as a manipulation tactic to get a woman to have sex with them? Do the words "I love you" mean the same thing to men as they do to women?
I know that men might seem like aliens sometimes (I am exaggerating, but you know what I mean) but the reality is… the way men fall in love and the reasons why men fall in love are a lot more similar to how and why women fall in love than you would think.
Granted, there are key differences between men and women when it comes to love… but the first roadblock many women run into when it comes to relationships is thinking that men are so different than women.
Men are human beings, too.
This article helps clarify a lot when it comes to the male mindset and approach toward love.
Here are some reasons a man will fall in love with a woman:
His life is better with her in it than without her.
This means she brings something to the table; she is not an energy drain looking for him to save her but rather an addition to his life. If a woman makes a man feel like he is her only source of happiness and fulfillment, he won't really let himself fall in love. Men want a partner, not someone who relies on him to be OK.
So focus on your own life and making sure you feel OK without needing a man to define you, help you or make your world "OK."
When you can add to his life it makes him feel like he does not have to constantly "give."
When two people give relatively equally love is a lot more likely to take hold in a relationship than when one person constantly gives.
Never give just to "get," though. This reeks of having an agenda (and I will get to why having an agenda is such a love-killing mindset in the next section.
Her nature is genuine and he feels it.
If you have an agenda around him, he will feel the agenda. What is an agenda? Having an ulterior motive. Having an ulterior motive is going to come off as 1) Manipulative 2) Fake.
Men will have sex with a woman who has an agenda; men will not, however, fall in love with her. These words are horribly blunt but true. I would rather just say it than beat-around-the-bush.
So being genuine means showing your true self. I don't mean go crazy with over-sharing, spilling your life story and talking about your ex-boyfriend. Simply show your best self; men fall in love with a woman who they can truly get to know.
The process of falling in love is… well, a process. You can learn more here about this process, with specific steps you can take.
A man will fall in love both in the time he is with you and in the time away from you when he thinks about you.
Falling in love is a mental process and a physical sensation all wrapped in one delightful yet jarring process.
The Intangible (Yes, Men Get Butterflies Too!)
What do I mean by intangible and what does it have to do with men falling in love? Well, what I mean is this… there is no blueprint to force any man you want to fall in love with you if the intangible "spark" is not there. Either he will love you or not; same goes for you. Forcing love is going to kill any shot at love taking hold in your relationship.
The intangible also includes the physical and intimate connection you have with him. When he holds you, kisses you, touches you, holds your hand… he will "feel it."
This phrase, while overused and possibly taken out of context at times, reigns true: when you are in love, you just know. This is how a man experiences love; he will know in his heart.
Erin Bilgin is the Web Content Manager at Vixen Daily, where she edits both beauty and love/dating/relationship content. Her passion is spreading love in its purest form; her guiding principle rests upon the idea that peace is better than war and attacking serves no purpose in our world. She also writes for various online media publications including but not limited to: Your Tango, Talkspace & Zoosk.


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Preemptive Analgesia Following Uterine Artery Embolization
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|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT01555073
Recruitment Status : Terminated (Subjects did not meet inclusion criteria)
First Posted : March 15, 2012
Results First Posted : September 18, 2014
Last Update Posted : July 28, 2016
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Uterine leiomyomata, also known as fibroids, are an extremely common benign lesion being present in 30-50% of all women. Traditional surgical treatment of symptomatic fibroids has been hysterectomy in post child bearing woman. However, over the last decade, the use of a minimal invasive technique called uterine artery embolization has become increasingly popular due to high patient satisfaction, cost effectiveness, and shorter recovery period. The purpose of this randomized blinded placebo controlled study is to compare pre-emptive analgesia vs non-preemptive analgesia for immediate postoperative pain control, long term pain control, and improved quality of life in woman following uterine artery embolization surgery. The study consists of four drug groups including a placebo group. The addition of pregabalin and celecoxib together with epidural analgesia may improve pain management as well as leading to a better post-procedure outcome in women following uterine artery embolization.
Many investigators believe that the ischemia in the normal myometrium is the primary source of pain immediately following surgery making postoperative pain management challenging. Epidural fentanyl may offer an advantage when encountering visceral pain. In addition to being an effective analgesic for chronic pain syndromes, the use of pregabalin provides effective postoperative analgesia when it is administered pre-emptively before an operation. Preemptive analgesia involves the introduction of an analgesic regimen before the onset of noxious stimuli, with the goal of preventing sensitization of the nervous system to subsequent stimuli that could amplify pain. In human trials, pregabalin has been demonstrated to reduce pain, improve sleep, and mood disturbances in patients with post herpetic neuralgia. The use of celecoxib in combination with pregabalin has shown to provide more effective analgesia by providing antihyperalgesia. Therefore, the addition of pregabalin and celecoxib together with epidural analgesia may improve pain management as well as having an effect on long term sequelae.
|Condition or disease
|Uterine Fibroids Uterine Artery Embolization
|Drug: pregabalin/celecoxib Drug: pregabalin/placebo Drug: celecoxib/placebo Drug: Placebo group
|Phase 4
|Study Type :
|Interventional (Clinical Trial)
|Actual Enrollment :
|23 participants
|Intervention Model:
|Single Group Assignment
|Triple (Participant, Investigator, Outcomes Assessor)
|Primary Purpose:
|Official Title:
|A Prospective Randomized Blinded Placebo Controlled Comparison of Multimodal Pre-emptive Analgesia on Long Term Outcome Following Uterine Artery Embolization
|Study Start Date :
|October 2011
|Actual Primary Completion Date :
|August 2013
|Actual Study Completion Date :
|October 2013
Active Comparator: Pregabalin/celecoxib group
pregabalin/celecoxib twice a day for 13 days.
Drug: pregabalin/celecoxib
pregabalin/celecoxib; 75mg/400mg day of surgery and (75mg/200mg) twice a day for 13 days.
Other Names:
Active Comparator: Pregabalin/placebo group
pregabalin/placebo twice a day for 13 days.
Drug: pregabalin/placebo
pregabalin/placebo; 75mg/placebo day of surgery and (75mg/placebo) twice a day for 13 days.
Other Name: Lyrica
Active Comparator: Celecoxib/placebo group
celecoxib/placebo twice a day for 13 days.
Drug: celecoxib/placebo
celecoxib/placebo; 400mg/placebo day of surgery and 200mg/placebo twice a day for 13 days.
Other Name: Celebrex
Placebo Comparator: Placebo group
Placebo group, two placebo tablets day of surgery and twice a day for 13 days
Drug: Placebo group
Placebo group, two placebo tablets day of surgery and twice a day for 13 days
Other Name: Placebo
- Post Operative Pain Control [ Time Frame: Expected average of 12 weeks ]To evaluate the post operative pain control of the four groups in immediate postoperative period and months following uterine artery embolisation procedure.
- Quality of Life [ Time Frame: Expected average of 12 weeks ]To register the quality of life of patients receiving the four study arms following uterine artery embolisation during immediate and long term time periods.
Choosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision. Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contacts provided below. For general information, Learn About Clinical Studies.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years to 65 Years (Adult, Older Adult)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Adult female patients (>18 years of age) who are undergoing elective uterine artery embolization will be included in the study.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Exclusion criteria for the study are patient refusal to be included in the study, the presence of language barrier that inhibits proper communication with the patient
- Contraindications to regional anesthesia
- History of allergy to amide local anesthetics or narcotics
- Known hypersensitivity to pregabalin, creatinine clearance ≤ 60 mL/min
- The presence of a progressive neurological deficit
- The presence of chronic opioid analgesia
- The presence of a coagulopathy or infection, pregnancy
- Patients with cardiovascular disease
- Patients who take daily antiplatelet medications, patients with peptic ulcer disease
- History of psychiatric disorder or inability to follow study protocol.
- Dropout criteria include failed epidural analgesia, inability to tolerate side effects (nausea) from pregabalin, and the inability to contact during follow up.
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT01555073
|United States, Illinois
|Northwestern Memorial Hospital
|Chicago, Illinois, United States, 60611
|Responsible Party:
|Antoun Nader, Professor in Anesthesiology and Orthopaedic Surgery, Northwestern University
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
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|First Posted:
|March 15, 2012 Key Record Dates
|Results First Posted:
|September 18, 2014
|Last Update Posted:
|July 28, 2016
|Last Verified:
|June 2016
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Neoplasms by Histologic Type
Sensory System Agents
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Calcium Channel Blockers
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Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action
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Clare Lim
Another year, another batch of MSc year one students!
There are twelve of us this year. We come from Canada, Colombia, Singapore, the UK, and the United States. Our academic backgrounds range from archaeology and chemistry to fine art and biblical studies. For some of us, it hasn't been so long since we were undergrads, while some of us have had several years of work experience in different fields. But what we are very happy to have in common is a great interest in conservation.
This year, we will be very busy with lectures, seminars, research projects, lab work, and extra projects.
During lectures, which are delivered by our course coordinators and guest lecturers, we learn about the materials that many objects are made of, and how they are usually conserved. In lab skills sessions, we learn more about specific conservation techniques.
We will spend much of our time in the lab working on interventive treatments. Each of us will treat at least ten objects during the year. We have the privilege of working on objects from various collections, including those of the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology. For each round of object allocations, we get to choose from a selected range of objects. (If more than one person wants the same object, the conflict is settled by very civilised rounds of rock-paper-scissors.) While each object allocated does mean adding another task to a growing list of deadlines, it's still always exciting to have the opportunity to work on and learn about interesting objects.
We have access to several analytical techniques at the UCL Institute of Archaeology (IoA), including, but not limited to, Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), and portable X-ray fluorescence spectrometry (pXRF). We use these analytical techniques in our research projects. They are also useful for helping us to find out more about our allocated objects, so that we can make informed conservation decisions.
Not everything takes place just within the walls of the IoA. We also get to go on trips outside the lab. Click here to read about our fieldwork on Hinemihi, a Maori meeting house, at Clandon Park!
These are just some of the things we will do in our first year in the MSc in Conservation for Archaeology and Museums. Stay tuned for more, and keep an eye on our Facebook page, Twitter and Instagram too!


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Writer: Yorgos Lanthimos
Cast: Colin Farrell, Rachel Weisz, Lea Seydoux, Ben Whishaw, Michael Smiley, Angeliki Papoulia, Ashley Jensen, Oliva Colman, Jessica Barden
Cert: 15
Running time: 118mins
Year: 2015
The lowdown: The crazy little thing called love has meat in its claws in The Lobster. Colin Farrell is David, a resident of The City, where singlehood is outlawed. Recently divorced, he has 45 days to find another partner in a luxury hotel or be transformed into an animal of his choosing (the eponymous lobster). Funny and disturbing, sometimes simultaneously, think Being John Malkovich meets The Notebook with script notes by Franz Kafka.
The full verdict: The Lobster opens with an act of donkeycide. By the end of the film you'll understand why, ifRead More


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A few adventurous, hardy Kachemak Bay Birders spent 2.5 hours birding the Spit at mid-day. The weather wasn't too bad, just a little choppy on the east side. Jim Herbert was the leader.
The following species were seen:
Horned Grebe
Pelagic Cormorant
Long-tailed Duck
Black Scoter
Common Goldeneye
Greater Scaup
Common Merganser
Mew Gull
Glaucous-winged Gull
Rock Sandpiper (1900)
Dunlin (45)
Bald Eagle
Rock Dove
Common Raven
NW Crow
Black-billed Magpie
Common Redpoll (135)
Song Sparrow
Grey-crowned Rosy Finch (75)
If I get some photos, I'll post them on the website, (she hinted...) It was, of course, A Great Day to Bird!!
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