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Handmade cards at the Hub!
I'm really excited to have a few of my designs for sale through the Above & Beyond charity in Bristol. At the moment there are 8 different designs available in the Fundraising Hub at the Welcome Centre of the Bristol Royal Infimary (BRI) (more designs to come!) and money from each one sold goes to the charity. … Continue reading
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I've wanted to try and do a little sketchbook cover for a little while. Next stop, Kindle cover and iPad cover!
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I just asked our Prime Minister and his government to Stop the Scandal of people with mental ill-health being stuck sleeping rough at www.mungos.org/stopthescandal
Not only is rough sleeping on the rise in the UK, but 4 in 10 people sleeping rough have a mental health problem, often with no support and no way home.
Worse still, St Mungo's research shows that some people end up sleeping rough soon after being discharged from mental health hospitals and people with mental health problems are 50 per cent more likely to end up sleeping rough for more than a year, a dangerous situation that ruins lives.
It's not right that anyone has to sleep rough on our streets – and it's nothing short of a scandal that people with mental health problems are being let down when they need help the most.
Please join me to call on our Prime Minister to Stop the Scandal by signing this letter demanding urgent action today.
Prime Minister
10 Downing Street
London SW1A 2AA
Dear Prime Minister
Will you stop the scandal of people with mental health problems left sleeping rough?
It's not right that anyone should be without a home, and it's nothing short of a national scandal that people with mental health problems are stuck sleeping rough.
We urge you to stop this scandal by leading a new, ambitious national rough sleeping strategy to deliver:
- mental health assessments and professional support to people on the street
- specialist supported housing to aid recovery
- the right support upon discharge so people don't end up sleeping rough after leaving mental health hospitals, and
- improvements to homelessness legislation to prevent more rough sleeping.
Government statistics continue to show an alarming rise in rough sleeping in England, and new research from homelessness charity St Mungo's reveals that 4 in 10 people who sleep rough have a mental health problem, rising to over half of rough sleepers from the UK.
The research also exposes how quickly someone's mental health can deteriorate when they are sleeping on the street. What's more, people with a mental health problem are around 50 per cent more likely to have spent over a year on the streets than others sleeping rough.
We believe this requires urgent attention from across government and the NHS. With the right support and routes off the street, people can look after their mental health and rebuild their lives.
Better still, the right mental health services can prevent people from sleeping rough in the first place. But right now, only 26 per cent of homelessness outreach workers say people sleeping rough are able to access the mental health services they need.
Rough sleeping is dangerous and ruins lives. People with mental health problems are particularly at risk. Please ensure that the most vulnerable in our society are not forgotten about.
Yours sincerely,
Paul Bull


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Sailor Moon: Live Action! Main Plot of the Series: Stealing people's energy and trying to take over the world, the evil organization known as the "Dark Kingdom" is running rampant across the globe. Caught in the middle of all this is 2nd year Juuban Middle School student Tsukino Usagi (Sawai Miyuu), who meets a stuffed cat doll, who turns into a senshi, named Luna (Keiko Han) & (Koike Rina). Who in turn gives her the magical ability to transform into "Sailor Moon" It turns out that this clumsy, crybaby has no choice but to stand up and fight against the Dark Kingdom. 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Dark Mercury became the senshi's new enemy and a tough one at that. Dark Mercury almost killed 'The Princess' (Sailor Venus). While fighting Kunziteand Mercury Usagi becomes the true princess and reveals the silver crystal. Venus becomes leader of inner senshi and Luna becomes a full senshi, Sailor Luna. After Mercury was healed a new student arrived at Usagi's school named Mio who turns out to be the dark Queen's shadow. In a battle for Mamoru's heart the power of the princess fully awakend to become a new form, Princess Sailor Moon. Now the battle is set up, the darkness and light will battle one more time for this world. After the final battle Usagi and Mamoru got married, on a lovely summer day surrounded by friends, Usagi got her dream to become a bride, and is learning to be a house wife like her mother. Ami is a specialized American-Japanese doctor, currently living in the USA. Rei is practicing to harness her mystical powers given to her by birth. Makoto has a steady relationship with Motoki, she has a flower shop, where she designs and arranges floral designs. Minako has become an international HIT and ranks as one of the worlds top artist, with plenty of awards to prove so. Though the five have drifted away, the events of 03'-04' will always live in their hearts, as SAILOR SENSHI. Episodes: 49 Specials: 6 Opening Credits: Kirari*Sailor Dream! Starring: - Sawai Miyuu - Hama Chisaki - Kitagawa Keiko - Azama Myuu - Komatsu Ayaka - Shibue Jouji - Sugimoto Aya - Yamaguchi Kappei & Han Keiko as Luna Recurring: - Masuo Jun - Matsumoto Hiroyuki - Endou Yoshito - Kubodera Akira - Kawabe Cheiko - Kikawada Masaya - Moriwaka Kaori - Takeshi Naoki - Matsushita Moeko - Alisa & Koike Rina as Luna Planning: - Katou Naoji - Watanabe Tetsuya - Yoshino Kenichi Chief Producers: - Okazaki Yoshiyuki - Takezawa Toshiyuki Producers: - Sakata Yuuma - Yada Kouichi - Shirakura Shin'ichirou - Maruyama Shinya Scripting: - Kobayashi Yasuko Directors: - Tasaki Ryuuta (Act.1-2, 7-8) - Takamaru Masataka (Act.3-4, 11-12, 19-20, 25-26, 37-38, 45-46,) - Maihara Kenzou (Act.5-6, 13-14, 21-22, 27-28, 33-34, 39-40, 49) - Suzumura Nobuhiro (Act.9-10, 15-16, 35-36, 43-44, 47-48) - Sato Takemitsu (Act.17-18, 23-24, 41-42) - Matsumura Fumio (29-30) - Kawaguchi Shigehisa (31-32) Stunts: -Komaki Shouko -G-Rockets Hanzawa Tomomi Imamura Yuriko Yoshihama Airi Takai Mai Sekine Asuka Miyake Ayako -Japan Action Enterprise (Youma action) Music Orientation: -Oshima Michiru Opening Theme: - Takeuchi Naoko ~ Lyrics - Haba Hitoshi ~ Composer - Kyouda Seiichi ~ Arrangement - SAE ~ Preformer(singer) Act 1-27, 28, 48 & 49 edited credits Show Stars: Show Stars do NOT incluide the specials or movies. Anyone, incluiding the main senshi, will be casted as 'guest stars' for the specials and videos. The Show Stars is for the MAIN 49 episodes only. Contributing: Please do not contribute to the cast list or guest star list unless the person is not already there. Do not contribute any of the FOUR GENERALS into the main star list. Please make sure you stay in the same format we use. Sailor V Spin-Off: No offical word has been announced about a Sailor V spin off starring Komatsu Ayaka. Rumors have been surfacing but Toei has yet to announce anything. Sawai Miyuu & Hama Chisaki has pupilcly announced they will not appear in any spin offs after Act. ZERO. Komatsu Ayaka has said no word on the matter on accepting the role as Sailor V again. THIS SHOW IS OFFICALY OVER. ACT.49 WAS THE FINAL ACT, WHILE ACT '50' AKA SPECIAL ACT WILL BE FOR DVD ONLY AND WILL NOT AIR ON TV. THANK YOU FOR A GREAT YEAR! DVD list moved to bottom of the page Information on the original anime can be found in the Bishôjo senshi Sailor Moon which I do not run or control. Newly owned and is turning around for the better!moreless
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Up for some improvements thus reviewing some blog posts; read something I wrote six years ago (November 10, 2010) – my bucket list. What did I carry out in the past six years?
I chance upon Bucket List on HBO one weekday. I remember I made my listing before. Searched and found it, but still incomplete.
So if Morgan Freeman had his bucket list, I too orchestrated my own things to do before I kick the bucket.


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Today marks day 27 of my Whole30. I'm almost there! If you missed my recaps of the first 2 weeks, you can check them out here and here. I can't believe it's almost done! I'm contemplating what I'm going to do once the official 30 days are up. I'm feeling so good on the Whole30 that I don't want to go back to the way I had been eating previously, but I just don't think I can be so strict 100% of the time. I'm thinking I'll do the reintro that they suggest on the Whole30 website, and then once I figure out what foods work well with my system and those that don't, I'm going to go back to a relaxed Whole30 and add in the foods that are ok for me on occasion. I've got a few other ideas I've been toying with though, so we'll see how it goes. Only 3 more days!
Anyway, here's my recap of week 3…
Day 15:
Breakfast: Italian Beef from Slender Kitchen, frozen veggies with olive oil and Mrs. Dash, clementine, V8 Spicy Hot
Lunch: Chocolate chili from Mel Joulwan, salad, clementine, Cranberry Lime Seltzer
Dinner: 5 spice slow cooker pork ribs from Mel Joulwan, green beans with olive oil and Mrs. Dash
Snack: Banana applesauce pouch
Notes: My energy was pretty good today, but I did have a bit of some stomach upset in the afternoon. I didn't want to eat dinner, but I made myself, and I felt a lot better after eating.
Day 16:
Breakfast: Chocolate Chili, salad, apple
Lunch: 5 spice ribs, green beans with olive oil and Mrs. Dash, clementine
Dinner: Paleo chicken and dumpling soup (minus the dumplings) from A Healthy Life for Me, coconut water with pineapple
Snack: no snack
Notes: My sleep has been great lately. I fell asleep right away last night and didn't wake up at all during the night. I have been having a lot of cravings lately, but they only last for a little bit. It's usually when I see something that my mouth starts to water, and I really want it or something similar, but I haven't had too many cravings where they just came up from nowhere.
Day 17:
Breakfast: Coconut water with pineapple, chicken soup
Lunch: Italian Beef, Romaine salad, apple
Dinner: Banana Bread Larabar
Snack: no snack
Notes: I had a pretty busy night tonight, so I didn't feel like cooking anything. I also wasn't very hungry, so I just grabbed one of my Larabars out of my emergency stash for dinner.
Day 18:
Breakfast: Italian beef, clementine, romaine salad, coconut water
Lunch: 5 spice ribs, green beans
Dinner: Eggs, roasted potatoes
Snack: no snack
Notes: This morning I woke up right away with my alarm. I did some foam rolling before my coworker got to work to join me for our morning workout, and it felt amazing! I mean it hurt like hell while I was doing it, but my muscles felt pretty loose for the first time in a couple weeks. As soon as I was done with our workout, they felt like they had seized back up, but for about a half hour, I felt good. 🙂
Day 19:
Breakfast: Italian Beef, chopped broccoli, clementine, V8 spicy hot
Lunch: Chocolate chili
Dinner: Eggs, chicken apple sausage
Snack: no snack
Notes: I woke up pretty easily this morning. I felt good all day. I got in a good foam roller workout that felt amazing. It was painful at the time, but my muscles felt so much better after.
Day 20:
Breakfast: coconut water
Lunch: no lunch
Dinner: Steak, baked sweet potato with ghee, grapefruit Izze
Snack: no snack
Notes: Busy day again, so I really didn't eat breakfast or lunch. We had a date night, so we grabbed some takeout (we were supposed to actually eat at the restaurant, but the wait would have been way too long, and we had to catch a movie.)
Day 21:
Breakfast: coconut water
Lunch: blood orange
Dinner: a slice of carne asada, plantain chips, nibbles of the food we were cooking
Snack: no snack
Notes: Another busy day, so I didn't eat much. The meat we made for dinner didn't smell right, so we tossed it, and I didn't feel like making anything else.
Week 3 Recap:
Week 3 has been great. I'm not really feeling any of the negative effects of the first couple weeks. I can tell I've lost some weight, and I'm definitely feeling the tiger blood! I have so much energy during the day, I can get through my workouts without a problem and am even starting to look forward to getting them done in the morning to get my day going. I've had a few stomach issues here and there, but I think that I've really confirmed that eggs do not work for me. I know I've written about them being something I shouldn't eat in the past, but I had been eating them on occasion without any ill effects. This week I had some, and I had the worst stomach cramps a couple hours after eating them. It makes me pretty sad, but I know that I can still eat them occasionally if I want to if I'm willing to deal with the consequences.
Anyway, that's all I've got for today! Again, if you're on a Whole30 journey, I'd love to hear about your experience in the comments below! And if you're interested in starting the program, you can read all about it on their website or get the book here!
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So I am slowly working on this story, sadly when I was working on this my comp crashed and I only had this on my comp, so I have this thus far.
The story I am just calling the letters series, here is letters 1 to 6, this is still a work in progress. So yea, whats you think? I may occasionally post more of these up.
Week 3, day 1
So you sent me here as a scout, in a full blown war. You said nothing, NOTHING, about the war, you just said it would be a quick pop in, pop out mission and that I would only be here for a week, maybe nine days max. in the last three I have been caught by two different groups, managed to escape both times, barely, I was also shot at, on five separate occasions, almost killed twice, and fell off a cliff. I thought you held me in a higher respect. I thought you were trying to kill me after I found out there was a full on war here.
Week 3, Day 3
Really? You think that response calms my fear for my life? Really? Just because we have tougher skin than their shots can penetrate you think I am safe? How? Ok, I am calm now. But could you please inform me as to why you really sent me here and why these people are so important? I feel that if I am here I should be able to be allowed to know.
Week 4, Day 1
You didn't reply, why? What are you hiding? You said you wanted me to find the best and brightest of their race, that was all, but I want to know why. You have given me no clues to what you want them for. But from what you said I have found three members of their race, but it is hard to get close to them, their people are similar to our own, but their social structure is different to ours, and even though we claim that our social structure produces intelligence I have noted that their structure produces some that far more intelligent than the brightest in our home. What is it that you want from them?
Week 4, Day 2
So that's it is it? You really claim that we need to kidnap these kids and raise them in our own society? But how can we tell we have the best? Even the smartest has about average intelligence at their youngest ages? And what do you want them for? We can't just take them from their schools. We have no authority to do that here.
Week 4, Day 3
So that's it? You want them to be our leaders and produce a new society of people for us? Then you want the strategic thinkers to lead armies, against who? And why? Do you know what I have been through every day? Burning hot suns, freezing cold nights? And what for? Generals, Commanders? And you want them removed from their home?
Week 4, Day 4
Of course, you want them to fight our war, the one we have been in for decades, for almost as long as most of us have been alive. That was always your plan, take what you can, and if you find something new take that too. Why? What for? To kill our enemies when they have their own to fight.


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William Calvin, otherwise known as "That guy who talks about throwing a lot", is one of my favorite popularizers of neuroscience. The Cerebral Symphony (1989) is an attempt to explain what it is that makes human consciousness so special. One of my favorite things about Calvin's approach to human consciousness is that, in his view, "The term should capture something of our advanced abilities rather than covering the commonplace" (p. 78). In other words, the primary explanandum of consciousness studies is not the "sensory qualia" we share with nonhuman animals, but rather, our ability for abstract thought, imagination, and "mental time travel". That is, Calvin is trying to explain the more "narratological" aspects of consciousness (to borrow a term from Julian Jaynes, who Calvin cites approvingly on this issue) as opposed to the more sensorimotor aspects. However, being a Darwinian, Calvin doesn't want to necessarily say that capacities that make humans able to narrate and imagine sprung out of evolutionary thin air, so perhaps there are some functional overlaps with other primate species.
The central explanatory tool of the book is what Calvin calls a "Darwin Machine", which is a variant of the "neural darwinism" approach to brain function. Calvin's idea goes something like this: suppose the evolution of the ability of humans to throw (and thus hunt more efficiently) necessitated the development of a "neural sequencer" that plans linear motor patterns. Now imagine you have a massive array of sequencers operating in parallel but generating different "variations on a theme". Calvin's idea is that consciousness is the sequence that best survives based on various selection criteria that change depending on the task at hand. This is in fact very similar to Dennett's notion of "multiple drafts" or "fame in the brain", and I think I first heard of Calvin's book in Dennett's 1991 book Consciousness Explained. To me it sounds like pretty much the same theory, which limits the originality of Dennett's theoretical framework (supposing that Calvin came up with the idea first). Overall, The Cerebral Symphony is an interesting and theoretically insightful account of human consciousness that is solidly grounded in Darwinian thinking (perhaps to a fault). The book is also interspersed with sociological commentary on the scientific community at Woods Hole in Cape Cod Massachusetts, which makes for relatively easy reading.


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Buy Out
This (via Mangan) is such naked precious metals propaganda — and yet it's so right.
… markets are behaving exactly as one would expect at the end of a major economic era. That is, markets are totally divorced from the reality of what is going on both economically and geopolitically. Markets are now in a manic phase, driven by false hope and momentum. […] It clearly helps that many economic figures are manipulated and therefore totally inaccurate. If we add to this the most massive money creation in history, we can be certain that these are not normal times. […] We are experiencing the beginning of a hyperinflationary period, with hyperinflation, so far, being noticed only in financial markets, property markets, and other key assets such as art and classic cars. […] And currencies will continue their decline to zero. Continued money printing will guarantee this. And we have to remember that the major currencies don't have far to go since they are down between 97 and 99 percent in the last hundred years. As currencies start the next major phase of decline we will experience hyperinflation in all parts of the economy. This hyperinflation will be happening in most major countries. …
It's not just that the analysis is solidly grounded in an obdurate realism (this is the raw economics of Gnon), it's also that:
(a) Gold is the traditional medium of economic-regime exit, and therefore
(b) This discourse is immediately anti-politics (or resistance).
It says: Get out! That's not a message to be easily decrypted for representational content, because it's a war cry.
How does a hyperinflationary collapse begin? With a flight to gold. There's going to be hyperinflation — flee to gold. It's a circuit. The Cathedral's economic authorities are entirely justified in considering such messaging aggressive (even 'terroristic'), in the specific mode of a self-fulfilling prophecy. If people listened, they'd bring everything crashing down.
It's no less crucial to understand that, by inversion, the voice of central monetary authority is equally incapable of isolating the communication of objective information from the continuous flow of psychological operations. When the state monetary apparatus speaks, it exercises effective power. It commands. The sole value of fiat currency lies in a popular habit of obedience, which the state money power systematically sustains. There is no other usage of macro-economic signs.
'Buy gold' is a counter-revolutionary instruction to participate in the destruction of the state money system.
(… and now we have Bitcoin too.)
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Close to 6,000 of the Israeli Defense Soldiers are lone soldiers who serve far away from their biological families. About half of the lone soldiers are children of families who live outside of Israel. Many of them leave relatives, friends and a comfortable life abroad and come to Israel motivated to serve and support the nation. Others are Israelis who cannot live in their homes because of extreme poverty or broken families. These lone soldiers often serve in combat units in the IDF.
As opposed to other soldiers who go home to their families for the weekend, lone soldiers go back to an empty apartment. They don't have parents to hug them, wash and iron their uniform, cook dinner for them and mostly, no one to support them. Even though the IDF helps pay for rent, many soldiers find it difficult to deal with the financial burden. At Vision for Israel, we appreciate the sacrifice of the lone soldiers, so caring for them became one of our outreach projects. We work closely with Yachad United for Israel's Soldiers by providing large travel backpacks, care packages and financial aid that will help the soldiers during their service.
In addition to the donations given to lone soldiers, Vision for Israel provides support to all IDF soldiers by donating essential supplies, personal care items and renovating recreation rooms in different bases. We salute our soldiers and will continue our endeavor to improve their lives.


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I might be doing this tomorrow.
And I might literally die.
We're doing the Tough Mudder with a few friends of ours.
My first time and my husbands third!
They made this video when they did the Tough Mudder in Arizona last month.
{The hubby can be seen at 1:16, falling in the mud}
Isn't it awesome?! - - the video, not his fall. Well, his fall was sorta awesome too.
What am I thinking. . .
I may or may not be back on Monday.
Happy Friday!
And don't forget about the shabby apple giveaway that ends on Monday.
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Hey everyone! In this post we're going to talk about how to use PHP to connect to a database.
The first thing we're going to do is create a configuration file. I named it "config.php".
It's important to create a config.php file so that if you only have to change on file if you ever have to update your password, username, or host.
Always be sure to use detailed variable names so that you know with out a doubt what they are. Being as specific as possible is a really good habit to get into.
We're going to set up our variables to look like
<?php $database_name = ''; $database_username = ''; $database_password = ''; $database_host = ''; ?>
Simply fill in the appropriate values into the variables and save the file.
Now we need to go to the file that we want to actually connect to the database with. In my example, I used "connect.php"
The first thing you want to do, is to include the configuration file we created moments ago, "config.php"
To do this, you simply use the php function "include()" like so
<? include('config.php'); ?>
Now that we have the configuration file included, we can go ahead and start requesting a connection to the database.
We'll start off using the "mysql_connect()" function, supply it with the host, username, and password variables from "config.php", and place a error message incase anything goes sticky.
<? include('config.php'); mysql_connect($database_host,$database_username,'$database_password') OR die('could not connect to database!'); ?>
Okay so if you were to save the file, and view it right now you wouldn't see anything, unless there was an error connecting to the database. So if you're stuck here, make sure your database information is all correct. If you need help creating a database, check out my video on How To Make A MySQL Database.
Once we've made the connection to the database server (which is "localhost"), it's time to tell the server what database we want to really connect to. For this we use the "mysql_select_db()" function and simply supply the "$database_name" variable. Ofcourse, we're going to throw in a error message incase anything goes wrong.
<? include('config.php'); mysql_connect($database_host,$database_username,$database_password) OR die('could not connect to database!'); mysql_select_db($database_name) OR die('could not select database'); ?>
If you're able to access the page with no errors, then you are successfully connected to your database! You can go on to the next step of grabbing information from it, or inserting the data into it.
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Obsessive Surrealism
DiN (2007)
11 tracks, 63:29
Grade: A
Bakis Sirros (Parallel Worlds) reinvents retro-EM on Obsessive Surrealism, one of the best EM recordings of the year. As he weaves his way through eleven tracks (many under six minutes - a decision that I applaud, frankly), he immerses the listener in a shadowy realm where a myriad of past EM and electronica influences (chief among them are John Carpenter's soundtracks) merge with a dark yet lush contemporary tint. A smattering of synth-pop touches, perhaps trace elements of Jarre, Tangerine Dream, or Synergy also surface, as well as echoes of contemporaries like Current, Di Evantile, and others. The music (much of it created on modular analogue instruments) is always couched in an atmosphere permeated with dread, foreboding, menace and mystery. Because the music frequently has a cinematic aspect to it, I think Sirros' biggest influences were the music from films such as Escape from New York, The Fog, and to lesser degrees, Big Trouble in Little China and The Thing (and yes, I know The Thing soundtrack was actually composed by Ennio Morricone, thankyouverymuch). Regardless whether you will agree with me on this point, Obsessive Surrealism is an entertaining disc and certainly plays better in the foreground rather than as sonic wallpaper. You'll really want to listen to this one.
The opening "Beneath Fear" gives you a good indication what to expect. Muted bell tones are set off against assorted skittering electronic FX and minor chord washes. Rhythms emerge gradually but build in intensity along with the addition of moody chorals. "Different Pathways" begins with a steady snare and bass drum beat. Burbling static and organ-like chords are right out of The Thing, and have that same "hair stands up on the back of your neck" effect, as if something is approaching and it's not gonna be pleasant. Yet, the energy of the song (unlike Carpenter's soundtracks) is dialed up to a higher intensity level. It's almost infectious, an intriguing counterpoint to music suffused with dread. "Empty Human Cells" evokes Escape from New York at times, with the same pulsing rhythms and flurry of synths that marked one of Carpenter's more sought after works.
Sirros settles down only occasionally (too bad) e.g. on "Increasing Complexity" with its echoed piano, bell tones, and undulating drones, eventually married to some midtempo synth bass beats and weird effects. He takes aim at a mixture of '80s dance/synth pop crossed with neon-lit Berlin on the bouncy, energetic "Distracted." Harold Faltemeyer meets Tangerine Dream, perhaps? The CD ends with the dark Sturm und Drang of "Crying Spells," a welling-up dose of propulsive yet oppressive power, reminding me of Big Trouble in Little China crossed with The Keep (soundtrack by Tangerine Dream).
Despite my numerous allusions to other artists (notably Carpenter and his unnamed accomplice Alan Howarth), don't be mistaken in thinking Obsessive Surrealism reeks of copycatting. Bakis Sirros is certainly an original. The music here is a hybrid of retro analogue-driven and contemporary EM, with the emphasis on the former but not in a derivative fashion. More than anything else, what Sirros' infuses this CD with is a delightfully sly mixture of fun and frights. Charged with a shadowy spookiness and a dose of creepy menace around every corner, the album is very highly recommended.
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It's almost T-Day, y'all!
I know it's not Monday, but I still thought this was good.
This year I'm flying solo like a festively roasted bird. And honestly, I have procrastinated in making any plans for the big day! I may crash a friendsgiving, or I may go on a long and crave-worthy hike (weather/smoke permitting!) and catch up on "The Christmas Prince" with some Indian take-out. Then my folks are coming down over Black Friday so we can hang out and prep for Buttercup's fourth (Fourth!!) birthday party. How did you get so big? Stop getting so big.
But I know not everyone can be so lucky as to enjoy take-out and watch cheesy Netflix rom-coms on Thursday. So if you're stuck with a big houseful of people and have some apprehension for the ritual of sitting with others to stuff your face, never fear! I've put together a little "do's and don'ts" list for your gratitude feast.
DO: Make time for a little movement before the party
If you're feeling stressed about the day (especially if you're the host that's cooking the thing! I've been there, and I feel ya), almost literally all the research shows* that 30 minutes of movement can improve your mood and energy. So before you roll up your sleeves and shove your arm up that bird carcass, put on your shoes and go for a walk around the block, fire up a quick Aaptiv class (<– affiliate link!), or have a pillow fight with your kids. Exercises gives you endorphins, and endorphins make you happy. And you know what they say about happy people.
DON'T: Exercises to try to "Earn It" or "Pre-Burn" the calories
I know, I said that you should move around before the party starts, and I'm not trying to be confusing. There's a difference between exercising because it makes you feel good and keeps you healthy, and exercising to punish yourself or to be deserving of indulging in food later. Now, I totally used to be one of those people who would go for a run the morning of Thanksgiving to give myself some caloric wiggle room for the day. And my whole evening the mental chatter would include, "Did I run long enough to eat this? Or this? Oh shoot, I forgot to include the calories in the wine!" Instead of relaxing and enjoying the experience of enjoying a good meal in good company, I was mentally calculating and planning a gym visit in the moring to cover for all the extra indulging I did. Total holiday spirit, amirite? So give yourself a pass and some grace this time around.
DO: Enjoy any and all dishes and "worth it" treats that make you feel festive and happy
Unless you have an allergy or aversion to something that's really going to mess with you, it's perfectly okay to unabashedly enjoy whatever you want during a celebration. All the stuffing? You do you. Both pumpkin AND apple pie? It's like we're meant to be. Starting with a salad and saving the indulgences for after you get in your veggies? A brilliant and strategically sound move. Allow yourself to relax and enjoy what you want, be that the marshmallows off the sweet potato casserole or the roasted brussel sprouts. You do not need to apologize or feel bad about yourself for making choices that feel right for you and doing what you love!
DON'T: Feel pressured to eat something you don't really want
One year, after dinner I was feeling quite satisfied and decided to forego dessert. I received some mild pressure and questioning from my family about not having a slice of pie in front of me. "No, thank you" I responded to the offer, sipping my coffee and enjoying the cozy post-dinner downtime. Folks, we are all adults here and are perfectly capable of making our own choices. If you know the stuffing is going to mess you up, you've never been a fan of mashed potatoes, or you don't want to be uncomfortably full but they're passing pie around, you can say no. It's totally up to you.
DO: Take time to participate in or start a holiday tradition that's not about the food
Yes, we are free to eat, drink and be merry. But let's be honest, there can be a lot of time where we sit around and stare at each other, mindlessly muching. So after the meal, plan an activity to get everyone away from the table and spending some non-food time together. In my family, we are huge cribbage and jigsaw puzzle players. Or go for a neighborhood walk, play charades, or break out some crafty goodness projects. The best memories are the ones created from shared experiences.
DON'T: Comment on people's diets, what's on their plate, or what they've eaten/didn't eat
Otherwise known as the "keep your eyes on your own plate" rule. This should be more general knowledge, but we work with what we have in this life. No one likes to sit down to a meal only to be told what we're eating is wrong or unhealthy. We've all had that one family member (or maybe BEEN that one family member #guilty) that wants to dispense all the diet opinions over dinner, and comment on the food choices of others, whether it's by choice or doctor's orders. Just this one time, let's just not. As much as you like and appreciate the freedom and autonomy to make your own decisions about what you do with your health and body, allow others the same dignity to live their own lives as well.
The Nutshell
See what I did there? Holidays are a time to hit the pause button on all of the Life Stuff and enjoy some of the simple pleasures of life. As long as you make choices that feel good to you and keep you moving to the next chapter, you are rocking your own road.
Go make it a great holiday!


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I met an old flame on Tuesday night and we were sharing an ice cream cone on the way back to the car. We saw a half-starved little puppy begging for food. He promptly went back to the restaurant got some chicken, fed the dog and reported it to a blue-cross friend who promised to come and pick up the dog even though it was after-hours.
It was then that he referred to the fact that I've been around some interesting animals in my life (both lovely and horrible) and that I should blog about them. I promised I would.
Three-Legged spawn of Satan:
That's what it was folks! A three-legged, fast-as-a-bullet, black and white blur, that sent my heart leaping out of my mouth every evening. Now this mutt would wait for my school bus to drop me off and then chase me all the way home. I was six and a half. Terrified!!
This went on for many weeks, until, that fateful day that I broke free of the curse. I had taken my baby brother (who was then one and a half), for a walk. We were walking on the pavement, and I was distracted for just a couple of seconds. Out of nowhere the dog had rushed my brother and had him pinned to a wrought iron gate. That was all I could take. Picking up a few stones and emboldened by the scream tearing out of my throat, I managed to chase the hound from hell for good. Whopped his ass pretty good too!
Now, I know that you blue-cross warriors are clucking your tongues and shaking your solemn heads.
Poor little handicapped doggy…
What a horrible girl!
He was just looking for some attention.
If it makes you feel any better, at least I didn't make it any more handicapped than it already was.
If it had hurt my little brother I would've hunted it down and ripped its malicious little head off.
I will follow this up with sequels based on popular demand 🙂


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Putik Lada
By FOONG CHENG LEONG
from:The Star
BLOGGING has become the new way of life of Malaysians. It is without doubt a new form of media where a large number of the public refer to these days in addition to the mainstream media.
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A Clinic RN and a Single Mom blogging through the depths of sanity. My life as I know it started with coffee and conversation in a smoky room. This is where I'm at now.
We miss him, too. Mostly, though I miss seeing what kind of father he would have been and watching him grow into the man he wasn't sure he could become. It's unbearably sad that he died with so much potential and unable to ever see himself the way you did.
I remember the day that picture was taken and all the hope and happiness you were both full of. No matter what else happens you will always know that the fact that the two of you listened to your hearts instead of your friends and family gave you the time you did have together and the beautiful and precious Ari!


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The RSPCA is appealing for information after three skinny chickens were dumped in a pigeon basket in pouring rain in Merseyside.
A member of the public found the three birds huddled together in a brown basket on the Liverpool Loop Line, between Fazackerley to Hunts Cross, near to Longmoor Lane.
They contacted the RSPCA and inspector Helen Smith collected the birds, who were all very thin and hungry.
Inspector Smith said: "All that was in the basket with them was some sodden wet straw for bedding. We have no idea how long the poor chickens were there for, out in the rain. It is so sad that someone thought it was ok to dump defenceless birds like that."
They were found on Wednesday (3 October) at around 8.20am, so it is likely they had been there overnight.
Inspector Smith added: "The chickens were dumped in a pigeon carrier wicker basket, which is quite distinctive and we hope that someone will come forward after recognising it."
The chickens, who have been named Lulu, Lillian and Loretta, are now being cared for at a private boarding establishment.
Anyone who has any information about who dumped the chickens can call the RSPCA's appeals line, in confidence, on 0300 123 8018.
The abandonment comes a day after Inspector Smith also dealt with the dumping of a dog just four miles away, in Shevingtons Lane, Kirkby. A man in a green Land Rover was seen pulling up at the side of the road in broad daylight, dumping the Staffordshire bull terrier and then driving off.
"Last month we received 82 calls about abandoned animals in Merseyside," said Inspector Smith. "I will never understand why someone would abandon any animal, whether they be a dog, chicken, cat, rabbit, mouse, tortoise – any animal.
"Every animal has specific welfare needs and it's so dangerous to leave any animal abandoned and having to fend for itself. Abandoning pets should never be seen as a solution to a problem."
To help the RSPCA continue rescuing, rehabilitating and rehoming animals in desperate need of care please visit our website.


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Cycling with shoe clips
Jason and I took a bike ride on the trail and I finally got a chance to try out the pedal clips. Clipping in was much easier than I thought and the cycling felt wonderful!
Unclipping isn't too difficult but the learning curve is definitely there. I clipped out fine the first few times but later when I had to stop short for traffic, down I went: crashing down on my left hip and scraped up my hand. So that's what those cushy cycling gloves are good for! I put the gloves on and cycled unclipped for 4 miles before my confidence returned.
Lotus and I sporting our "hair is growing out head toppers."
We tried another trailer and Jason reports it rides well…
Not long after my fall. Still smiling!
Also on the camera are my two nephs I got to snuggle recently. Little Rune let me pretty much nom on his cheek the whole time. Yay! Icen was too busy with serious play for Aunty snuggles. He and Lotus were tearing up the deck with trike races.


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If Michael Rooker intimidates you, it's only because most of the characters he has portrayed in film and television are not typically the nicest of guys. Well, don't let that fool you. The 60 year old actor (yeah that's right 60) is not only a cool guy, he is a classically trained actor from Chicago's Goodman School of Drama, and he has created an enormous fan base from his roles in classic films like Days of Thunder, Cliffhanger, Mallrats, and the recent Marvel hit Guardians of the Galaxy. He made an appearance at the Wizard World Comic Con this past month, and AMovieGuy.com was lucky to get a chance to talk with him about some of the great movies he has been in, and projects he has coming soon.
AMG.COM: Were you a fan of comic books growing up? What was or is your favorite super hero/villain?
ROOKER: Yeah I was. I liked the Silver Surfer and the Incredible Hulk, I grew up with these things and they are still in the back of my mind every day. They are some of my favorite characters.
AMG.COM: You have said that Yondu will be returning for Guardians of the Galaxy 2, how have you prepared for this character and where can we expect you to take him in this universe?
ROOKER: I'm still preparing. It is a very intriguing and complicated character (Yondu), so I am thinking about it and preparing for Guardians of the Galaxy 2. I am excited to see where his character goes. It is something I walk with every day and mull over a lot of stuff.
AMG.COM: You have worked with Sylvester Stallone on Cliffhanger and Arnold Schwarzenegger on The 6th Day; settle the score, who was the bigger bad ass out of the three of you?
ROOKER: You don't have to have a lot of muscles, or lift a lot of weights to kick ass so...(hesitant) I can't say. They are both awesome guys. They could both crush me, (Arnold Schwarzenegger voice) Arnold could crush me with his little pinky! No they are awesome I enjoyed working with both of them on those films.
AMG.COM: You worked with the late great action director Tony Scott on the classic Days of Thunder, what was your experience like working with him on that film, and what place does that film have in your heart?
ROOKER: I cherished Days of Thunder before he passed away, but even after his passing it is still very heart wrenching when you think of how sad and unfortunate it is. He was a beautiful man. He and his brother (Ridley Scott) are both absolutely great. They devoted their lives to a craft that is only getting stronger.
AMG.COM: You took your first film role in Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer without even reading the script, and it jump started your career. Would you ever do something risky like that again, where you take a role without (reading) a script?
ROOKER: It wasn't a risk actually; it was more of a test. I was perfectly happy with doing theater, it didn't pay the mortgage at all, but I still loved doing it. I thought, "You know, I am going to try this film thing. I hear they shoot out of sequence, so I really don't know if I am going to be good at that." So I took the movie as a test for myself, to see if I could do it and if I could grow from it creatively. I did, quite a lot actually. The Henry script was a work in progress from day 1. When I went in to give my audition, they only had ideas on 3 x 5 cards. So, I am good at taking ideas and making them my own. When you get a script you're not always looking at all the words, I mean don't get me wrong, you read it, but I am more interested in what is underneath the script. I am good at getting my imagination to work well with what is on the page. It has to be organic in real life, so when I work, everything I do or say on screen is something that needs to be said, not because it has been on that page for months. I care about making it real.
AMG.COM: Mallrats 2 is going to happen, what part is your character "Svenning" going to have this time around? How did Kevin Smith approach you about it?
ROOKER: Kevin didn't even approach me. He just knew I was going to do it. He knew before I knew that I would do it. I haven't really seen a script, so hopefully he's going to do it at some point. All the fans are looking forward to it. I know I am looking forward to seeing it, we'll see. As you know, I am a big fan of chocolate covered pretzel fan- Dark chocolate. That is probably one of the best candies ever. The whole crunchy with the chocolate, it is something delicious, like my character in Mallrats, I can't live without it.
AMG.COM: Well thank you so much Michael we really appreciate it.
ROOKER: You are great man. Thank you for talking today, thanks for your interview.


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This weekend I both volunteered and competed at the Byron Bay International Open (2* rating).
It was a really fun experience to see the set up and get to know the faces and the hard work that goes into creating a BJJ comp. I saw work going into things I'd never even considered before and it made me appreciate competing in it even more.
I worked on the point keeping table for the kids brackets, got ready, warmed up and headed to my mat. I had straight finals for both Gi and No Gi brackets (Female, Novice, 56kg) against a great opponent whom I really respect. I felt confident in my movement and happy with my rolls and I got to take a few things back to the dojo to work on for the next comp. what more could I ask for?


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Today we continue with our interview with Abednego B. Osindi. You can read Part One of the interview here. Check out Abednego's blog and follow him on Instagram too!
On Learning Japanese
Did you speak any Japanese before going to Japan?
I knew no Japanese at all (ぜんぜん – nothing). I had only heard of konnichiwa (hello), and ohayou gozaimasu (good morning). Indeed, the first few days in Japan were a real headache because Japanese is everything. Thanks to the "survival Japanese" lessons in my university, my communication ability is getting better each day.


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A woman has been fined $2750 after trying to bring packets of bird nest into New Zealand.
Cher Shar Wong, 62, a retired NZ citizen who lives here and in Taiwan, was arrested at Auckland International Airport on Wednesday and charged with trying to bring in the goods three years earlier.
She was charged under the Biosecurity Act 1993 with two counts of knowingly making false and misleading statements to an inspector and knowingly attempting to possess unauthorised goods under the Crimes Act.
The Ministry for Primary (MPI) industries said that in February 2010, she tried to bring in four packets of bird nest by claiming it was sea weed.
Wong was convicted in Manukau District Court on Wednesday and fined $2750, MPI said in a statement.
The sentencing judge said aggravating factors were the high biosecurity risk posed by the bird nests and that Wong clearly knew she wasn't allowed to bring the nests into the country.
Wong had previously been accredited by the former Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry to work as a transitional facility operator.
Such operators receive training in how to identify biosecurity risks.
MPI spokesman Greg Keys said: "This is someone who understood our biosecurity system and knew the biosecurity risks of what she was doing.
"The size of the fine reflects the severity of the offences. I sincerely hope it sends a clear message to anyone else who is considering flouting our biosecurity rules."


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LONDON, Aug 12 (Reuters) - Global commodities trader Trafigura has started shipments of Permian basin crude to the Corpus Christi oil hub in Texas via the newly operational Cactus II pipeline system, the company said in a statement on Monday.
Trafigura signed a long-term agreement with pipeline operator Plains All American Pipeline LP last year to transport a total of 300,000 barrels per day (bpd) of crude and condensate on the pipeline.
The Cactus II Pipeline system will have the ability to transport 670,000 bpd. (Reporting By Julia Payne; editing by David Evans)


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Soo Theatre Project Presents Its 2006 Season Finale
The Soo Theatre Project presents its 2006 Season Finale on Thursday, September 21 and Friday, September 22.
Featured both evenings at 8 p.m. will be the EUP Fine Arts Council production of Harvey Schmidt and Tom Jones's classic musical, The Fantasticks. Directed by Dave Rhinard, the cast includes Karen Hughes, Phil Quinn, Lisa Dunn, Richard Morrison, Dave Rhinard, Bob Zahara, Mike Kasper and Dan Harris. The orchestra will be Maureen Delaney-Lehman on piano and Mary Lou Hughes on harp.
Thursday's performance of The Fantasticks begins at 8 p.m. Tickets for Thursday's performance are $10 for adults, $5 for students, and free admission for children 5 and under.
Friday's performance includes a special opening act at 6 p.m with music on stage provided by Gentleman George Snider, Roy Nason, Jack Kinney, Wild Fate, Tim Hatfield, and Dennis Brooks. The Fantasticks will follow at 8 p.m. Pizza and refreshments will be available at the Theatre from 6 to 7:30 p.m. on Friday evening. Tickets for Friday's performance are $12 for adults, $6 for students, and free admission for children 5 and under.
Tickets are available at the Soo Theatre Box Office, 534 Ashmun Street, Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan. For more information, call the office at 906-632-1930.
This is sure to be a fun show for the whole family. Hope to see you there!


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May 21, 2017
After seven years, Clay finally gets Ryan to watch Martin McDonagh's IN BRUGES. We also take a MYSTERY TRAIN to Memphis, and discuss Legion, Marvel's Agents of Shield, and late-period Hitchcock, Billy Wilder, and William Wyler. A little bit of everything in Ryan's first episode as regular co-host!


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Introduction to Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 4.0
Course Length – (5 Days)
This course is designed for new (or existing) users who want to become proficient with Pro/Engineer Wildfire 4.0 as quickly as possible. The course focuses on core modeling skills and is a comprehensive hands-on course. Topics include sketching, part modeling, creation of assemblies, drawings, and other basic model management techniques. This course also includes a comprehensive design project that enables you to practice your new skills by creating realistic parts and assemblies, and drawings.
At the end of each module, you will find a set of review questions to reinforce critical topics from that module. Your instructor will discuss these with the class each day. After completing the course you will be well prepared with the basic skills to work effectively on the product design projects using Pro/Engineer Wildfire 4.0.
In this course, you will learn how to create basic parts, assemblies, and drawings and leave with the skills necessary to use Pro/Engineer Wildfire 4.0 in a business environment.
Audience: This course is intended for product designers, drafters, industrial/conceptual designers, and routed system designers. People in related roles will also benefit from taking this course. This is the foundation training class for necessary for using any modules and functions of Pro/Engineer.
- Creating Part Models
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- Creating Direct and Datum Features
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- Editing Geometry and Duplicating Design Model Features
- Managing Design Models
- Creating and Modifying Assemblies
- Creating and Modifying Drawings
- Managing Parent/Child Relationships
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Vice President
Michelle De La Rosa
At Large Members
Scott Fish
Mike Kiedrowski
Terry Rogers
JD Shelton
USA Racquetball Board of Directors Election
Candidate Solicitation Procedure
Candidates are being sought to fill upcoming vacancies.
USA Racquetball is currently seeking individuals to serve as Board members. The Board should ideally reflect the diversity of our members, including experience (both life and business), geographic, gender, age and ethnicity. Potential candidates should possess a strong work ethic, excellent communication skills (both verbal and written), passion for the sport, and the time to be very involved, well beyond the two annual face-to-face meetings and regular conference calls (e.g. committee work).
Specific experience in marketing, fundraising, public relations, finance and technology is preferred. Potential Board members should be willing to be directly involved in fundraising activities, be Citizens of the United States who are at least 18 years of age and maintain a current USA Racquetball membership. Below is an expanded explanation and information from the USA Racquetball By-Laws pertaining to the duties of serving on the Board of Directors.
1. Attendance at face-to-face meetings (National Singles and US Open).
Bylaws 404.0.C
C. If a Board member has two physical consecutive unexcused absences from biannual Board of Directors meetings, he/she automatically vacates his/her position on the Board. Electronic participation is allowed for one biannual meeting in each calendar year if the conference call attendance requirement has been met as described in this section.
2. Conference calls the last Monday of every month, 90-120 minutes+.
Bylaws 404.0.C
If a Board member who has served all 12 months in a calendar year does not attend at least 50% of the scheduled conference call meetings in the course of that year, he/she automatically vacates his/her position on the Board. (Exception: excused absences as determined by the Executive Committee) For Board members who have served part of the calendar year, if he/she does not attend at least 50% of the scheduled conference call meetings during his/her time of service, he/she automatically vacates his/her position on the Board.
3. Member or chair of 2-3 working committees with corresponding meetings as scheduled by the committee chair.
Are you up to the challenge to help guide our Sport? Or, do you know someone you would like to see serve on the Board?
Please send your indication of Candidacy* by Wednesday, October 23, 2019 to: firstname.lastname@example.com or contact Terry Rogers at firstname.lastname@example.com for more information.
*Please include a digital picture (head shot) and a statement in 200 words or less, "Why I want to serve on the USA Racquetball Board of Directors"
Any member of USAR in good standing as of the first of the year prior to the election year (and who has already applied to be included on the Board slate but has not been chosen for the slate) may run for the Board of Directors by completing an official Board petition which requires the signatures of 125 USAR members over the age of 18 years old in good standing who request that the individual be added to the slate of Board candidates.
Board Member Criteria:
Potential appointees should possess a strong work ethic, excellent communication skills (both verbal and written), passion for the sport, and the time to be very involved, well beyond two face-to-face meetings and regularly scheduled conference calls throughout the year (e.g. committee work). Directly involved in fundraising activities. Specific experience in marketing, public relations fundraising and technology a strong preference.
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Vegan Daniella Monet is a Mermaid for PETA
PETA turned more than a few heads late last week with their furry (and almost-naked) ad of model Joanna Krupa – but for actress Daniella Monet's upcoming campaign, it's all about scales and tails.
The 23-year-old Nickelodeon star, a vegan for over 12 years, recently tweeted photos of her and Hannah Fraser – rumored to be "the first freelance mermaid in the world." According to Money, Fraser was there to give her lessons for a new photo shoot for PETA.
"Taking lessons from a real mermaid today for an underwater @PETA photo shoot," Monet tweeted. "So excited! Check out @hannahmermaid. Mermaid power! What an amazing shoot. So grateful to have met hannahmermaid. One of the most memorable experiences of my life. Thank you @peta, @jackguyphoto, and @hannahmermaid for such an amazing shoot."


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Meet the Studio – altVFX
Date: Wednesday 5th September
Time: 7:00pm to approx 8:00pm
Venue: JMC Academy
Speaker: Executive Producer Tyrone Estephan and VR Creative Technologist Raymond Leung – altVFX
Alt.vfx is a world-leading visual effects and post-production company with studios in Brisbane, Sydney, Los Angeles and Melbourne.
We are owned and driven by a collective of leading artists and producers, all of whom share a vision – to create the most stunning visual content possible, across all mediums.
From visual effects to virtual reality, Alt collaborates with leading agencies and filmmakers across the world, helping creatives tell their stories across a vast range of projects.
Please join us at JMC in September.
Cost: Free for Sydney ACM SIGGRAPH members, guests and non-members.
RSVP: Seating is limited so RSVPing via Facebook is essential.
Probably best known for the annual SIGGRAPH International conference on computer graphics for film, televisions and new media industries, ACM SIGGRAPH also puts on a variety of programs year-round and worldwide to benefit the SIGGRAPH community. The event listed above is hosted by our local chapter with JMC Academy and is free for all chapter members.


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Seven has always been my lucky number ( plus 17 as I'm born on July 17 😉 ) and this is exactly how I feel today, on my 7th MS diagnosis anniversary.
Lucky. Blessed. Grateful.
Then again…believe the diagnosis and NOT the prognosis 🙂
My world as I knew it collapsed when I heard "you have MS" on June 25 2012. That summer I had a very aggressive MS relapse and the number of active lesions in my brain/ spine went from 8 to "we didn't bother counting them" within 6 short weeks. The prognosis didn't look good, initial EDSS was 3.5, my entire body was numb, I couldn't feel the difference between hot and cold water, my right arm and hand were so weak it was impossible to hold anything. But that was all nothing compared to the fatigue I experienced.
I'm so so grateful for my "health" each and every day. Not even in my wildest dreams could I have imagined that things would turn around from where I've been 7 years ago – to be able to experience all those moments in the past 12 ( 24) months.
As you've most likely noticed I don't really blog anymore these days and only use my Stumbling Princess Instagram account but as this is another important milestone I felt it definitely deserves a good old blog post.
Let me quickly recap what happened in the past 12 months – I couldn't stop smiling ( or let's say laughing ) when I selected the following pics to document what I've been up to this past year as no one would have ever thought I could do these things again considering my initial diagnosis – or even enjoy doing them.
You gotta love life, you can't make this stuff up, lol.
3 – 2 – 1 – Here we go, wohoo!
Juli 2018- September 2018
Thank you Courtney, trainers and fellow workout buddies at F45 Frederiksplein, F45 truly is "team training , life changing" and I love being part of this community. Can you imagine they dedicated their first anniversary to me and MS research? The F45 community collected donations for Mission Summit to support Project Y at Amsterdam UMC not only on the big day itself – but all week long! Thank you again to everyone who donated to this cause that is so close to my heart ❤
My first F45 Challenge! I lost 7.7kg ( see, 7 is my number) , 10% body fat, gained muscle, got super fit and a nice little six pack. I started to workout almost daily and noticed the more and harder I work out, the better I feel. If I live like an athlete in terms of training, nutrition and lifestyle I hardly have any MS symptoms.
I also (kick) boxed a lot during these months and took my first hot power yoga class, something I never tried as the typical MS health "recommendations" say heat and MS don't mix well. Glad I went to this class as it was the beginning of a new adventure.
I even won the second place of the F45 Challenge and got 3 months membership for free – so went back for more and signed up for yet another 8 week challenge.
September 2018
Since 2012 September means one thing to me: MRI.
No matter how often I've been there, it'll always be a bit nerve wracking as I usually have to wait a week for the results. That's actually also the only time of the year I see my neurologist at the VUmc MS Center – he shares the results and usually can't wait to hear what ( unusual) things I've been up to the past 12 months.
It was yet another stable MRI! My neurologist agreed to not use any contrast fluid ( very bad for you ) this year and even better – he told me if my upcoming MRI is clean again, I won't need to come for yearly MRI's anymore but only every other year! So fingers crossed for September 16 please, I'm busy manifesting yet another perfect MRI 🙂
After the MRI/ waiting game we went straight to Italy for a week of hiking around the beautiful Lake Lugano and I must have been on every surrounding peak as I couldn't get enough of the mountains and unspoilt views.
October – December 2018
I've finished my second F45 Challenge and officially arrived in the muscle/ fat "athlete" category! What an interesting experience to see your body transform in ways you thought weren't possible, especially in such a short time and considering all those "labels" like MS and age. I get so much energy from my workouts that I never have to push myself to exercise – I always love to train and am so grateful that I can as I remember the times I couldn't even cycle for more than 2 mins at the physio's practice before my body started to strike.
Yoga became more and more part of my schedule which at first was very confusing to me as, until then, I never really enjoyed it and used to be quite bored…but then I tried hot power yoga and I had no choice but to surrender to the heat and yoga.
January- February 2019
Another long "healing through adventure" trip!
This time we traveled around Vietnam and Laos, tried to not get hit by scooters in Hanoi's crazy traffic, did some ( foggy & muddy) trekking in Sapa, enjoyed incredible sunsets in Luang Prabang, cycled along Trang An river in the picturesque Ninh Binh area.
My highlight was the 3 day Tiger Cave Adventure in Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park, home to the largest caves in the world. Not only did I experience how dense a jungle really is and how hungry leeches are – we also hiked, climbed and swam through several caves. By doing so I also traumatised myself a little during one incident when I was all of a sudden fully aware that I'm in the middle of nowhere, deep inside the earth, the next road is a full day jungle hike away and I'm abseiling on a wet, slippery rock inside a cave so huge no torch light can make it all the way to the bottom. Yep, that was definitely my scariest moment in the past 12 months.
But for the rest I felt like my funny self during this trip 😉
March – May 2019
I couldn't help but giving in to the wish to deepen my own yoga practice so I signed up for a 200h Vinyasa Yoga Teacher Training at Equal Yoga, the studio that made me fall in love with ( hot power) yoga.
I'm so grateful I got to learn so much about yoga, the philosophy, the asanas, ayurveda – but most of all for how that experience – and yoga magic – made me "feel".
My YTT family – thank you for accepting me as I am, I really felt "equal" at Equal Yoga and not like the "oldest student with MS". I'm so grateful for my teachers and new friendships with fellow students. Turns out I can open up and "feel" again as I was the one crying ( not out of sadness but joy and pure awe) during our very first meditation on day one and also "closed the circle" after our final savashana together as I made everyone cry.
All of this just happened a little over a month ago and I'm still in the phase of letting it all sink in but I'd love to follow further workshops and trainings in the next year(s), especially everything yoga therapy/ healing and breathwork related.
That was my yearly review in a nutshell. 7 years, wow.
As every single day in the past 12 months I woke up feeling very grateful for what I have and especially for the love and support I receive. Thank you to my "inner circle" aka my parents, Mr. X, Ruby, besties and close friends but also to all those beautiful, inspiring people I've met the past months.
I'm really excited what the future holds, bring on the next 12 months 🙂
xoxo from Amsterdam, Anja


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Fully Decentralized Policies for Multi-Agent Systems: An Information Theoretic Approach
Part of: Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 30 (NIPS 2017)[PDF] [BibTeX] [Supplemental] [Reviews]
Conference Event Type: Poster
Learning cooperative policies for multi-agent systems is often challenged by partial observability and a lack of coordination. In some settings, the structure of a problem allows a distributed solution with limited communication. Here, we consider a scenario where no communication is available, and instead we learn local policies for all agents that collectively mimic the solution to a centralized multi-agent static optimization problem. Our main contribution is an information theoretic framework based on rate distortion theory which facilitates analysis of how well the resulting fully decentralized policies are able to reconstruct the optimal solution. Moreover, this framework provides a natural extension that addresses which nodes an agent should communicate with to improve the performance of its individual policy.


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Capterra knows business software inside and out; for years, the trusted review site has helped millions of users find the right business software solutions when they need it most.
So, when iContact placed 13th (out of 300 email marketing solutions listed) on Capterra's just-released Top 20 Most User-Friendly Email Marketing Software list, we were pretty happy — especially when we learned some of the reasons why we ranked so high.
"Capterra's User-Friendly Email Marketing report is determined by calculating amount of clicks and time needed to complete an email marketing task," said Rachel Wille, Senior Product Research Analyst at Capterra. "iContact earned a position in the top 15 due to receiving a perfect score for their training and support offerings, along with great resources such as an easy to access report section."
We were pleased to see that reviewers gave us very high marks for ease of use and for our award-winning customer service. The live support we offer to all our customers is a feature that we strongly believe gives us a big edge over our competitors. But, just as importantly, it was great to hear that users felt that they got a lot of bang for their marketing buck; as one reviewer put it,
"I have used a number of other products that were on the free to cheaper end - they do not even start to compare with the features that are available on iContact. Very happy so far, I have had all the help/education that I need and the product is extremely user friendly."
That comment really struck a chord with us. As a company, iContact has always maintained a firm commitment to providing an affordable and excellent user experience from beginning to end. In fact, as part of that commitment, this spring we are releasing a number of exciting updates to our products. If Capterra reviewers think iContact is easy-to-use and effective now, just wait until they see the terrific enhancements we have in store!
Exciting Changes Coming This Spring
Arriving soon, just on the horizon for iContact and iContact Pro — email the way it should be:
- A sleek, new interface with customization that's easy-to-learn — because we know our customers are busy and they need results now.
- A redesigned email editor with drag and drop — because creating and sending emails should be effortless.
- New template creation and layout options for powerful results from the get-go — point and click formatting changes, and no expertise necessary to perform like a marketing pro.
- Split-testing and instant preview so that effective campaigns can be designed right from the start — no guesswork involved.
"For many years, we have been a trusted email marketing tool for businesses and organizations large and small," says Nancy Vodicka, VP Marketing for iContact. "But in an increasingly competitive marketplace, the needs of our customers continue to evolve. We want to keep playing an important part in helping our customers achieve growth and success, so we need to continue our own product evolution. We listened when our customers told us what they needed to make their campaigns even better. And then we got to work creating the tools to make that happen. It's an exciting time for our customers and for iContact. We can't wait to show them the fresh look and new experience we have in store!"
So thanks, Capterra reviewers, for the nod. We are thrilled to achieve the 13th slot in the top 20. We won't rest there!