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Dear Sam: I'm absolutely struggling. I apperceive I accept able abilities and could advertise myself already I am in advanced of a hiring manager, but I can't get accomplished the screening date I apperceive my resume charge be captivation me back. I anticipate allotment of the botheration ability be that I abhorrence to complete like I'm bragging. Am I actuality too humble?
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Aesthetics & Formatting
At this date in your career, your resume should be a best of two pages. Your formatting is blame your agreeable assimilate three pages unnecessarily. The one cavalcade architecture additionally does little to appoint the reader. Instead, get artistic by application a two-column resume with keywords acclaimed bottomward the larboard ancillary to actualize a fuller attending and add beheld appeal.
With your band of assignment (which spans chump service, apprentice advising and education), you could additionally add some beheld elements such as color, syms and testimonials.
Qualifications Summary
This is the breadth area you accept the best allowance for improvement. Your resume lacks a keyword-rich arbitrary statement. You should use this area to advertise what you can action an employer based on your accomplished experiences, achievements, and areas of expertise. With alone 4-7 abnormal to appoint the clairvoyant during the screening process, it is acute you accessible your resume with a arbitrary that answers the catechism of "why I should appoint you."
Develop this area afterwards you accept accounting the Professional Acquaintance section, alleviative it like the aperture to an controlling arbitrary of your experience. The arbitrary should accommodate all capacity you can't allow for the hiring administrator not to apperceive while evaluating your candidacy. This absolutely is not the abode to be humble.
Professional Experience
Include alone years of application to abbreviate the actualization of gaps or common job hops. You should additionally quantify your adventures to add absorption to your resume (showing how abounding bodies abounding contest you planned or by how abundant you exceeded your sales quotas), actuality abiding to focus added on accomplishments than responsibilities.
The aing aloft pitfall of your resume is that you are defective in content, with no focus on achievements. Some of your ammo credibility are alone four or bristles words and alone account tasks or duties.
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The Beachcomber recently announced that they beat their own 2011 fundraising record in 2012. In 2012, the Beachcomber sponsored, raised and or donated over $146,000 to local, regional and national charities--a $46,000 increase over their 2011 fundraising efforts.
During 2012, the Beachcomber held the 3rd annual Clam Jam Pan Mass Fundraiser and Eastham Elementary Fish Fry Fundraiser in June and the 20th annual Beachcomber Open Charity Golf Tournament in September. Team Beachcomber also participated in the Pan Mass Challenge in August. The Beachcomber also donated several gift certificates for auctions for a variety of Outer Cape organizations.
"Since the Beachcomber opened in 1978, we have been blessed with wonderful staff, loyal customers and a supportive community. We believe it is important for us to pay this positive energy forward and so we always include some kind of fundraising effort into our seasonal schedule. With the economy being as it is, we did not expect an increase in money raised this year, but once again, the results of our efforts far exceeded our expectations. Now we have a new benchmark to beat in 2013," said owner Todd LeBart.
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5 tax-smart strategies.
- Check your tax-advantaged retirement accounts to be sure you're contributing the maximum allowed. While it's true you'll pay taxes on withdrawals from these accounts in retirement, maximizing contributions now reduces your current tax burden. See IRA and 401(k). See IRA and 401(k) tax rates, rules, and limits.
- Take advantage of an HSA. If you have a health savings account (HSA) tied to your high-deductible health insurance plan, now's the time to max it out. An HSA lets you make tax-deductible contributions that you can later withdraw tax-free for qualified medical expenses. HSA contribution limits for 2018 are $3,450 for singles and $6,900 for families, with a $1,000 catch-up contribution allowed for those age 55 and older. And if you're lucky enough not to need the money immediately, you can save it for future use.
- Review your investment income to determine if it would be beneficial to sell some investments at a loss to reduce your income and tax bill. When choosing which investments to sell, keep the wash sale rule in mind.
- Review both your modified adjusted gross income and your investment income to determine whether you're subject to the increased Medicare tax. One of the provisions in the Affordable Care Act levies an additional 3.8% tax on certain individuals. Visit the IRS for more information.
- Donate to a charitable organization. If you make a charitable donation by December 31, 2018, you may be able to write it off on this year's taxes. Making your donation through a Schwab Charitable™ donor-advised fund account is a simple, tax-smart way to ensure that your donations have the greatest impact while also reducing your tax bill.1
Meet with your Financial Consultant to review your portfolio from the standpoint of tax- efficient investing.
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Use—don't lose—the money in your flexible savings account (FSA).
Unlike an HSA, you generally have to use the money you put into an FSA during the calendar year—or lose it. While new rules allow an employer to let you carry over $500 or give you an extra two-and-a-half months to use the funds, employers are not required to do so. Either way, now's the time to check the balance in your FSA and put those funds to work.
Take your required minimum distribution (RMD).
You won't save on taxes, but you can prevent a hefty penalty. You must take RMDs from traditional IRAs and 401(k)s by December 31. The only exception is your first RMD, which you can delay until April 1 of the year following the one in which you turn 70½. This isn't to be treated lightly: Miss the deadline and the penalty is 50% of the amount that should have been withdrawn.
Give your health insurance a checkup.
Make sure you have the most complete and cost-effective coverage available.
Make tax-free gifts.
If you can afford to be generous, Uncle Sam makes it even easier to give gifts to special people on your list. In 2018, you can give up to $15,000 each to any number of individuals with no gift tax or reporting requirements. And there's no tax for the recipient.
Make sure you've got all the forms you need related to this year's investments.*
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- Form 1099 Composite
- Schedule K-1
- Form 2439
Education Savings Account
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A number of Catholic dioceses have been encouraging their schools to take steps to become academies as part of Catholic Multi-Academy Trusts (CATs). We believe that this is a risky move that is also unnecessary in the current political climate and amidst great uncertainty about the future of the academies policy.
When schools are encouraged to become part of a MAT they are often told that doing so will bring stability and security. However, in the experience of the NEU this is often not the case.
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The polar bear has long been a poster child for global warming, but a laboratory at the University of Massachusetts is generating new evidence of the effects of rising temperatures on this threatened species.
Jerrold Meyer, a behavioral neuroendocrinologist at UMass Amherst, has found that levels of the stress hormone cortisol in polar bears of East Greenland are tightly linked to changes in temperature and ice cover. Meyer is careful to point out that his research can't prove that global warming is causing increased stress in the bears. Still, he says the fact polar bears are showing physiological signs of stress in relation to climate change "raises real concerns."
"I don't think there's any one study, research paper, or anything that's going to galvanize public opinion."
For their study, published in the journal Polar Biology, Meyer and a team of international colleagues set out to measure changes in cortisol concentrations over time. Thanks to an agreement with native hunters, who are allowed to hunt a certain number of polar bears each year, the lab analyzed hair samples collected between 1988 and 2009.
As you might expect, the lab found different levels of cortisol across the samples. But they later learned that a few samples in the mix dated a few years earlier than 1988. Meyer and his colleagues were shocked that those samples were more than a century old. They came from polar bears killed and preserved as museum specimens since the late 1800s, and they turned out to have the highest concentrations of cortisol.
Why would those nineteenth century polar bears be more stressed than today's bears, which have been dealing with a rapidly changing environment? Meyer says that although mammals pump out a lot of cortisol in response to short-term elevations in stressors, hormonal activity actually decreases over time in the presence of chronic stress. So animals under constant stress might actually secrete less cortisol than animals under temporary stress. The relatively lower stress levels in today's bears may represent an adaptive response to a changing environment.
For years, the stress hormone has been measured in the blood, saliva, urine, and feces of humans and animals. Cortisol levels in these body fluids provide a decent measure of an organism's current stress level, but levels can vary wildly throughout the day and in response to immediate changes in the environment. Scientists needed a way to measure average cortisol levels over weeks and months, to get a better picture of chronic stress over time. The answer was in the hair.
Hair grows at a rate of about one centimeter per month. Throughout the month, blood delivers the nutrients needed to grow the hair, and along with the nutrients comes traces of that circulating cortisol. Imagine pulling out a piece of your own hair. As you move down the strand, away from your scalp, you are essentially moving back in time. Scientists can divide hair samples into segments, give each section a time mark, and measure the amount of cortisol present. Plot those levels across the preceding weeks and months, and you have a picture of an individual's chronic stress over time.
Meyer says stress is something humans intuitively understand. It's a word and a concept we use in our daily language, and usually carries a bad connotation. "Just saying that there's new information suggesting polar bears may be under increased stress and it seems to be related to climate change could help raise public awareness."
Yet when it comes to climate change, there may actually be a surplus of awareness. Andrew Revkin, a seasoned environmental reporter who writes the popular Dot Earth blog at the New York Times, recently gave a TED Talk about the "climate in our heads," which makes the Earth's climate change such a difficult problem to solve. In the talk he references the work of Dan Kahan, a professor of both psychology and law at Yale.
"He does empirical studies that show that more information doesn't matter quite often. More information, more science, more education actually further divides people on issues like global warming," Revkin said.
It's not that Americans are unconcerned about the environment. Rather, it seems that, compared to other environmental issues, global warming falls to the bottom of the list. In the most recent Gallup poll on the issue, 34 percent of people surveyed said they worried "a great deal" about global warming, identical to how Americans felt about the issue in 1989. In contrast, 60 percent said they were worried about polluted drinking water.
Though a major finding, Meyer says the connection between polar bear stress and climate change alone won't be enough to instigate change. "I don't think there's any one study, research paper, or anything that's going to galvanize public opinion. It adds a piece to the story. I think it's an important piece," he said.
Indeed, it adds to the unfolding story of how polar bears are coping with a rapidly warming planet. In 2012, researchers at Penn State and the University at Buffalo found that the polar bear populations have drastically changed in size for millions of years, expanding during cooler periods and shrinking as temperatures rise.


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I had been avoiding joining most swaps for the past several months because I just could not commit to a deadline. I still can't, but have jumped into a couple. The Christian Paper Artist's third playing card deck is one I could not pass up. My design is very minimal. I was going for a simple, graphic approach-- that and I had to mail art today or tomorrow if I was going to make the Oct. 31 deadline at all! Decks will be selling for $7 each if you contact Linda by Nov. 3 with your order. She also has examples of the cards from other years on her blog, so stop by and see her.
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Happy Birthday Rebecca!
Yesterday was Rebecca's 4th birthday which meant a picture appointment with the Thinking Chair. She is as precocious as she looks! There was a lack of cooperation on her part and a lot of begging and negotiating on my part. She kept wanting to lounge on the chair and I, of course, wanted her to sit up and smile pretty. At least she did the smile pretty part. :)For earlier photos to compare her growth, see my sidebar. I will be adding these photos to the collection.
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Tuesday, October 7, 2008
Bedtime Tag
I sat down at my desk as I waited for the kids to finish fiddling around and get into bed (they suddenly remember 15 things to do right at bedtime- can you say ,"stall"?)
Sitting at my desk is a dangerous thing. I find things that suddenly relate and beg to be glued together. Doesn't matter that it is past the kids' bedtime. The untidy mess on my desk beckons.
I scanned the mess of clippings and scraps and rubber stamps that didn't quite get put away. I picked up an old newspaper scrap from my desktop, pulled out a scrap of scrapbooking paper (from a box) for color and glued them both down to a manilla tag. I stamped a diva (dug out of one of the 4-5 boxes of rubber stamps I own), found she was obliterated by the newspaper type, so restamped her onto a piece of yellowed paper, tore out just her face and placed it over the original stamped image. I found the manuscript words in my handy dandy mystery novel, decided they described "Beauty" so stamped that word above, but not before I had run across a butterfly postage stamp (in a drawer while looking for something else) and glued it down (almost any design can use a butterfly!) The diva I chose is not smiling, but she does look introspective and wise. I added some fibers and DONE- in about 20 minutes. My washy watercolor scan background is curtesy of soon to be 4 years old, Rebecca. It was another piece of clutter on my desk. Not everything on my desk is dumped there by me. :)
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Sunday, October 5, 2008
Sunday Afternoon Art Tag
*Take one manilla tag that's been taking up room on your desk for a month.
*Glue down some antique newspaper scrap.
*Add some antique wallpaper scrap.
*Rubber stamp some manuscript to fill in some of the blank area on the wallpaper.
*Rubber stamp a diva on the wallpaper.
*Rubber stamp her shoes on the bottom of the tag.
*Flip through an old murder mystery book for words.
*Glue down your "found" phrase, adding some rubber stamped words to complete the sentence.
*Finally, punch hole, add fibers and ta-DA!
Now go make a tag for yourself. :)
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Wednesday, October 1, 2008
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Nothing new to report, but I wanted to say SOMETHING, so those of you who stop by fairly regularly will know I am still alive.
"Thinking of you".
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Morning Beauties! Happy Sunday!
I have a little Sunday beauty secret to share with you today…so pop to your local supermarket…grab a few ingredients (theres only 3) and give yourself a little pamper this evening while you have your feet up before another busy week starts!
Im going to be adding more interactive and inspiration based posts to my diary blog to keep you looking and feeling amazing…even when I can't be there in person to help! So please…if you have any questions or ideas on topics you'd like me to cover…or products you'd like my feedback on just let me know! (Pop me a comment on my Facebook page)
Today i'm going to share with you one of my FAV homemade super duper easy DIY face masks. I found this mixture browsing online at beauty blogs (in fact I'm pretty sure it was from Huda Beauty…I have a very big Huda obsession/girl crush).
For this mask you'll need 3 ingredients:
- Organic Milk
- Honey
- Nutmeg
The mask is amazing for a million different reasons, but particularly for breakouts! Unfortunately we all have them, but fortunately theres a lot of help we can give our selves. I like to use this mask whenever I'm feeling a bit stressed, not too well or basically whenever I know I've got a break out coming. Ladies…we all know too well when this is going to happen!
So a little break down of why this is so amazing before we get to the fun stuff!
- Milk- The lactic acid helps to break down dead skin cells acting as a natural exfoliator, Calcium helps to heal, Protein for tissue repair and growth, Vitamin D to stimulate collagen and minimise acne…and plenty more!
- Nutmeg- reduces swelling and inflation around clogged pores with antibacterial and anti fungal properties to combat breakouts!
- Honey- Helps with the healing of acne with anti inflammatory properties and amazing healing properties…wonderful for scarring!
Now the fun stuff!
This is soooooooo easy I can't even tell you! (Well i'm going to tell you because that's the whole point of this post, but you know what I mean)
- Grab yourself a bowl
- Add a heaped teaspoon of nutmeg
- Add a splash of milk (around 2-3 shot glass sizes)
- Mix well (the nutmeg can be a bit of a pain)
- Now add a heaped tablespoon of honey
- Mix well
- Get an old (but clean) foundation brush…synthetic hair is best as its washes out easily so a cheap one is fine
- Spread that loveliness all over your face (avoid your eyes)
- Leave the mask to work its magic for a minimum of 10 mins…I like to leave it on for around 30-45mins just while I'm just watching tv, cooking dinner etc…
- Find a Muslin Cloth or Flannel, rinse it under the hot tap and squeeze out the excess water
- Use the cloth the remove the mask thoroughly (rinsing again if necessary)
- Tone and moisturise your face as normal…and thank me later!
It really is that simple…3 ingredients (that you should have in your kitchen), mix them together, plaster your face and relax!
I LOVE LOVE LOVE this mask…I hope you do too!
I'd love to know what you guys think of this, comment on my Facebook, post your face mask selfies and share with your friends!
As always… thanks for being so bloody amazing and lovely!!


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The Amazing Spider-Man Review
Spider-Man is about to swing into cinemas, which means we're going to have to find some other way to unload our spider related puns.
After seeing Spider-Man's origins told on film only ten years ago in a series that continued until 2007, spanning three films, it may seem a little strange that the series is already being rebooted, which is why it was very important that it didn't feel like watching the same movie again. Director Marc Webb has done an excellent job and managed to tell a version of Spider-Man's origin that is interesting, exciting, grounded and very different from the tale Sam Raimi told.
This version of the story puts more of an emphasis on Peter's parents and the effect losing them had on him. It's this loss that drives him to look into their past, which leads him to Dr. Curtis Connors (Rhys Ifans). Fans of Spider-Man will remember Dr. Connors as the one armed man who accidentally transforms himself into the Lizard. The character appeared in Raimi's films, but never got the chance to make the transformation. In this movie, his potential is released and his character takes on the role of the villain, though it is an interesting dynamic as he himself aims to improve the world and doesn't see his actions as evil, actually trying to explain to Spider-Man at one point that he didn't need to be stopped.
Behind every great hero is a female who regularly gets into life threatening situations and is easily captured by evil doers. In this film that character has been replaced by a strong, smart and brave young woman called Gwen Stacey (Emma Stone). Gwen has been part of the Spider-Man universe for a long time, almost from the beginning, but her character is not well known by non-comic book readers for the very reason that she's famous to fans of the comics. In the comics, Gwen was accidentally killed by Spider-Man when he tried to save her from the Green Goblin. In the film, Gwen is the head intern at Oscorp under Dr. Connors. She is Peter's love interest, but gets to be more than that when she proves that she is just as brave and no less capable than Spider-Man.
This time around Peter is played by Andrew Garfield. After watching the movie it's clear that Garfield, and the rest of the cast, really fit. From Spider-Man to the lovable Aunt May and Uncle Ben the casting was terrific. There's an emotional depth between each of the characters, they don't just exist next to each other they genuinely have feelings for each other and those feelings aren't always positive, but that's life and it's represented very well in the movie. If you want a hero film that's more than just fighting, more than special effects, then this movie is what you're looking for. This is a movie were you will have fun watching it, but you'll also care about the characters and feel like it was worth spending two hours following their story.
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Brian Eno famously said, "Only five thousand people ever bought a Velvet Underground album, but every single one of them started a band." This is that story, except that instead of making their own music, the Red Box inspired a generation to make their own games, video or otherwise, through its emphasis on imagination and the necessity of making up houserules on the spot. More than that, the lethality of characters in old school D&D, the ability to drop in and out without letting the group down, and its public nature, makes playing it more akin to Space Invaders than the forced storytelling of Wizardry or Ultima.
In the early 1980s, perhaps a million people bought a "Red Box" Dungeons & Dragons Basic Set. The game was at its all-time peak of popularity, assisted by advertisements on TV and in comic books. Even then, D&D wasn't all that popular; its publisher TSR had annual sales of $29 million in 1983, when coin-op arcade games were estimated to be doing $8 billion. Every one of the kids who cut their teeth on the D&D Basic Set didn't go on to make their own games, but you couldn't prove it by flashing a copy backstage at E3 and watching videogame designers geek out.
Much later, in the late '00s, people all over the world joined gaming groups to play Basic D&D like they did in the '80s. Old-school approaches to tabletop RPGs were increasingly popular for many reasons, including the one the founder of the seminal New York Red Box group, James_Nostack, gave when he asked himself "Why are we doing this?":
Gary Gygax, who with Dave Arneson invented Dungeons & Dragons in the early 1970s, passed away in March, 2008. We wanted to pay our respects by breaking out the ol' Red Box we loved so well when we were children. Turns out, though, that the reason we loved the old game is because it's incredibly fun.
Soon Vancouver, Calgary, and College Station, Texas followed suit with their own forums devoted to organizing Red Box D&D games.
This game is fun. It helps you imagine.
Understanding why Red Box D&D inspired a generation of game designers in the 80s is the same as figuring out why people are still playing it today. Fortunately, the members of the New York Red Box (NYRB) and Red Box Vancouver (RBV) are a chatty bunch, as fond of introspection as they are of their online handles. RBV's Toren Atkinson writes "As the co-designer of Spaceship Zero the roleplaying game, I really appreciate Basic D&D's 'lay down the basics of the system and let the players fill in the rest' approach to game design." cr0m, founder of the RBV group, concurs: "I've also got a newfound appreciation for the design of Basic D&D. It's got a nice balance of abstraction and detail, and mechanics like gaining experience points by finding treasure are brilliant examples of how the design enforces a certain type of play."


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Posted: Saturday, February 6, 2016 12:20 am | Updated: 1:33 pm, Fri Feb 12, 2016.
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There is far more to a delicious salad than just tossing a spring mix. So some of the most creative nonprofessional chefs across the Valley competed to raise funds for the Boys & Girls Clubs of Imperial Valley.
Teams gathered at the Old Eucalyptus School House at the fourth annual Produce Gala and Saladero contest to highlight the produce of local growers and to support afterschool programs for the three chapters of the Boys & Girls Clubs in Brawley, El Centro and Holtville, noted Misty R. Lee, the clubs interim executive director. "One thing I love about this event is our amazing volunteers who make it all possible."
Tickets cost $35 that treated guests to some amazingly creative salads and great wine. A silent auction offered unique gifts along with mystery boxes concealing beneath their festive wrapping one of several treats such as vacation packages, wine baskets, movie baskets, gift certificates for restaurants and massages. All proceeds go to benefit the Boys & Girls Clubs' programs.
Tossing salad with precision workmanship was the Imperial County Sheriff's Department corrections division. Helping was Cassandra Nelson, correctional service assistant. Their offering was a barbeque shredded beef salad. And since it won second place at the Rib Cook-off, they decide to continue the theme, Nelson remarked. "I'm pretty much the cook at home but salad is not my forte," Nelson said. "We're just here to have fun and support the cause."
The Young Farmers and Ranchers, for ages 18 to 35, was working on a "melon and prosciutto over mixed greens salad." Dicing up ingredients with the flair of an "iron chef" was Jay Watte. After an internal contest among the Young Farmers, Watte emerged as team majordomo.
"I think our salad is really strong," he said. "Everybody here makes really good salads. It could be (winning entry) anybody tonight."
Competing for his fourth year was Eric Pompa, a salesman and marketing manager for Vessey & Company but was turning a serving fork like professional. He's been preparing his antipasto salad for years. "I cook at home, for Vessey and the Holtville Athletic Club," he said. "It's good, relaxing and I don't have to eat out."
Jenna West was also a veteran competitor whose friends with all the other teams and enjoys spending time with them as well, felt compelled to come back to defend her championship with her hearty kale salad garnished with creamy Tuscan dressing. "It was extremely exciting, just overwhelming to be a part of it," she confided. "We never expected to win but we're proud to support the Boys & Girls Clubs."
Holtville resident Terri Schaffner was sampling Vessey & Company's shrimp and avocado dip. "It's excellent," she insisted. "You just can't ruin it."
Also indulging at the Vessey plat du jour was El Centro resident Byron Nelson, a longtime donor to the Produce Gala. "I've been to lots of these and this is wonderful salad."


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Science teachers Catharine Engwall, Jeff Bachey, and Chris Rivet have been working closely with the 70 students who selected a project to research and present. Each presenter was judged on the rationale and relevance of the project's scientific journey, clarity and organization of presentation, and overall learning.
Several community members volunteered to judge the event, including Chief Sampson of the Windsor Police Department and our Town Manager, Tom Marsh. We are very thankful to have such a supportive community! Top science fair candidates will advance to the state science fair in March. Windsor High School has a strong tradition of having student representation at the International Science Fair for the past consecutive five years.
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Mercedes-Benz went small in a big way with the current A-Class, introduced in 2012. And it's aiming to go big in a small way with its next A-Class in 2018.
The popular hatchback will have an interior with opulence to rival larger Mercedes models costing twice as much. The group's smallest car also will outdo its bigger brothers for style and tech, introducing both a new interior look and innovations that will spread across Benz's range.
From below $40,000, the current A-Class hatch has been a hit in Australia — it's the brand's second most popular model and is among the reasons Benz easily outsells Audi and BMW here.
The new A-Class will go into production in about April and should be here midyear. Benz has staged a sneak peek at its interior.
The cabin of the W177 (company code for the coming A-Class) is stunning, especially in high-grade form in the pre-production car shown at Stuttgart HQ.
Two features are eye-catching; the wide screen that houses instrument and infotainment displays behind a single piece of flat glass and the dash's jet turbine-look face-level vents.
"I believe this is the most beautiful air vent available," says proud interior design director Hartmut Sinkwitz.
He's probably right. The vents are not easy to manufacture, he admits, but their intricate design adds a decorative touch to the layered instrument panel's simple shapes. No bulging cowl is needed to cover the instruments, so the top of the dash is full-width flat.
Between the front seats is the device that will replace the twist and push pointing device presently used by Mercedes. Audi and BMW use similar set-ups. The new A-Class instead uses a large touch pad with an adjacent palm rest.
Mercedes designers say the new device can do more than the old wheel, such as responding to the fingertip pinch, zoom and swipe motions familiar to any smartphone user.
Company studies have found most younger drivers — and a small majority of older drivers — prefer the pad. So it makes sense to introduce the change in the Mercedes-Benz that's most popular with younger buyers.
Designer Sinkwitz believes the touch pad is more user-friendly than the less than intuitive wave-in-the-air motion-sensitive technology found in recent high-end BMWs. "We are not in favour of gestures," he says.
The new A-Class isn't all glamour. The engineers and designers have improved interior space and outward vision and increased shoulder, elbow and headroom.
There are slimmer windscreen pillars and a larger, easier-to-get-at cargo compartment.
It's obviously a little larger but Mercedes is keeping the exterior design under wraps for now. Literally. The car displayed in Stuttgart wore full exterior camouflage, even though it was in a security guarded dimly lit room.
What is crystal clear is that other makers of premium small cars should be worried. The new A-Class threatens to make everything else look a little cheap.
All versions of the new A-Class will feature the same dash design but the flat-screen displays will vary according to model grade. The basic version has two seven-inch screens, one for the driver's instruments, and another for the central display. Mid-grade models get seven and 10-inch screens and the top-end versions get the luscious double 10-inch display seen here. Only the latter two will use full-width bonded glass technology to create the impression the two screens are actually one.


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In what sounds like the most unpleasant flight to Hawaii ever, a flushed diaper caused a plane's toilets to overflow, forcing passengers to urinate in bags and bottles.
Yep, things got messy last week on an American Airlines flight from Phoenix, Ariz., to Kona, Hawaii, NBC News 12 reports.
In video footage, a female passenger who urgently had to use the restroom spoke with a flight attendant, who agreed that the situation was "horrible" and offered the use of a plastic bag.
A passenger was horrified after she was allegedly told by an American Airlines flight attendant to urinate in a plastic bag during a flight to Kona, Hawaii. https://t.co/RgaKFlHKVZ pic.twitter.com/iLqGp2BSeu
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"What do you mean I have to pee in a bag?" the woman asked in the video.
"[Inaudible] … They're overflowing. This one has like this much left," the flight attendant responded.
The woman who posted the video — who asked to remain anonymous out of embarrassment — told News 12, "You could see the passengers looking at each other in disbelief. And they also locked two of the lavatories, as far as I can remember, so there was no access to those whatsoever."
"There was one lady who, unfortunately she had a toddler that needed to use the restroom, and same thing. She was told she had to use a bag," she said.
The airline released a statement about the situation, confirming the problem with the lavatories, and claiming the toilets were working when the plane took off. It read, in part:
"We are very sorry for the trouble this caused the 187 passengers on Flight 663. Our customer relations team will be reaching out to all of the passengers on this flight to extend our apologies."
"At American, lavatories must be working properly prior to departure. If an American flight is in the air, and all lavatories become inoperative, the flight will divert to the nearest suitable airport in order for maintenance to rectify the situation. Due to the location of the aircraft, the flight continued to its intended destination."
The airline told Fox News that the issue was a diaper that had been flushed down one of the toilets.
"All passengers have been provided 30,000 AAdvantage miles, which is enough miles for a free roundtrip on American," the rep continued. "It was later discovered that a diaper had been flushed down one of the toilets, which also caused a malfunction."
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Innes as a boys' name (also used as girls' name Innes) is of Scottish and Gaelic origin, and the meaning of Innes is "island". Place name from inis, the name of a barony in Moray. This name can also be a phonetic spelling of the Gaelic pronunciation of Angus.
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According to myth, the Maori people arrived in New Zealand riding the back of a whale; today, whales figure prominently in Maori art and stories. Now, it appears that Maori ancestors may also have systematically hunted the animals. A new technique for identifying species from short snippets of DNA in bone scraps has enabled researchers to identify the remains of five whale species in early New Zealand settlements, including smaller or slow-moving species, the likely targets for hunters. And on the opposite side of the world, a team used a simpler barcode method to suggest that the Romans hunted whales, too, potentially pushing back the first known commercial whaling industry by about 1000 years. By revealing species from once-meaningless bone fragments, barcodes are shedding light on the impact ancient cultures had on biodiversity.


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U.S. heroin and prescription drug use is an epidemic that is spinning out of control. According to a report published by Reuters, there were more than 43,000 deaths in 2013, of which more than half involved either a prescription painkiller or heroin. That number has continued to rise each year.
How do we, the U.S. population or even the healthcare community, allow this trend to continue?
What is not publicized enough is the direct connection between prescription opiates and heroin. In the U.S., 52 million people over the age of 12 have used prescription drugs non-medically in their lifetime, according to Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). In 2010, enough prescription painkillers, such as OxyContin, Vicodin and others, were prescribed to medicate every American adult every four hours for one month, reports the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime.
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Having studied dinosaurs casually since I was a kid eons ago, I couldn't resist investing in Prehistoric Life. The images consist of fantastic photos of actual artifacts (fossils, skeletons), beautifully colored pictures and illustrations, and concise descriptions that seem scientifically sound to this Ph.D. chemist and contain a lot of new information and discoveries. The book is divided into a general section "Young Earth" which covers the formation of the planet, plate techtonics, mass extinctions and fossil formation and key fossil sites, "Life on Earth" which consists of a detailed collection of plant, invertebrate and vertebrate life divided by geologic period, which is presented after a brief overview that shows the land masses at the time and a timeline that shows the major events of that period in chronological order. The third and final major section of the book is "The Rise of the Humans" which covers the evolution of homo sapiens from human relatives and ancestors to the origins of modern humans, including chapters on migration, hunter-gathering, cave art and the ice age. The volume contains a glossary, dinosaur list, index and acknowledgements. I haven't decided yet how I will systematically read and enjoy this book because there is so much to it. Since I was most familiar with early sea life (trilobites, shelled organisms, fishes, etc.) through dinosaurs and mammals, I started there, picking images more or less at random, reading the captions, and following threads to answer any random questions that occurred. For example, I had read about Roy Chapman Andrews decades ago, best known for his field trips to Mongolia and the Gobi Desert where he discovered the first dinosaur eggs, and protoceratops (one of the small horned primitive ceratopsians). Prehistoric Life had a drawing of protoceratops, an acknowledgement of several different species and possible sexual variations, a photograph of the fossilized eggs found in the Gobi that were originally thought to be from Protoceratops, but are now assigned to Oviraptor (who had been thought to only be stealing eggs), and a photo of Andrews, who "is thought to be the inspiration for the movie character Indiana Jones." A second example--as a kid, I seem to remember having a plastic dinosaur that was identfied as kronosaurus, one of the plesiosaurs. Prehistoric Life shows that Kronosaurus was not as large as originally thought, and actually had a relatively short neck. On the same page is Elasmosaurus, which had an enormously long neck which, according to the text, had also been changed from what was origninally thought since the head had been mistakenly attached to the end of the tail. Most images of creatures show the size relative to man, the date within the geological period that it lived, where it lived (USA), and the approximate size (length). These two examples illustrate the ability of this book to answer my questions as they occurred, correct old misinformation with the most current scientific data, and raise possible new points of interest (Andrews = Indiana Jones?). I've just begun to explore the section on humans, but I expect the same result. There is an excellent human family tree that shows the skulls of most of the major ancestors of humans, defines the time line and relationships between each of the species. Many of these human ancestors are then discussed individually, with significant detail. Highly recommende
DK books are usually well organized, well illustrated and good browsing/reading. This is the best of several DK publications I have seen about dinosaurs/prehistoric life - their most thorough. It is one of the best of many books I have on this subject. Also useful and very interesting for students/younger readers. A definite reommend!
This book is amazing, it's really detailed and has tons of pictures on every page. It's absolutely amazing, the only down sides are this: 1. Many of the animals names are very hard to pronounce and the book doesn't teach you how to pronounce them and some of the organisms are hard to find on the net. 2. The book is very heavy, it's about 7 pounds so it may take time getting used to. Aside from that, this book is highly recommend for any science or paleontologist , paleobonist, evolutionist or any dinosaur fan old or young.
this is a great starter book. i bought it cause it was useful to mean. i always wanted a book on dinosaurs and human evolution. it was simple. i bought another one like for my little brother
Surely one of the best books produced by high-quality publisher Dorling Kindersley, this history of life on Earth covers the fossil record from earliest times to the present day. Each geological period is given an overview, stunning photographs of the fossils for each phylum that was around at the time, and reconstructions of what the landscape might have looked like. Windows on a lost world indeed ¿ some of those scenes look decidedly alien! There's a lot of information, but the layout is never too 'busy' or confusing ¿ and, very importantly, dinosaurs are given full weight, with a completele list of non-avian genera. I have to admit that this is a weighty volume... but it's a truly beautiful book, and one which I will be buying as soon as I've saved the money!(
A-Z to prehistorics. Good reference for kids.
Quite complete survey from bacteria, plants, dinosaurs, mammals, etc. I wish there were more drawings intead of boring looking fossils. Some of the drawings look familiar and may have come from previous DK books.
I have seen many books organized as this one is. I think it is a very good read and would be useful in a classroom setting. Very well illustrated and key points are noted next to the illustrations. Doesn't bog you down with a inside scientific jargon, but offers enough information to explain the points illustrated.
A veritable who's who of prehistoric life, huge in scope if a bit sparse in detail. Each chapter is a geologic era and is subdivided into plant life, invertebrates, and vertebrates both aquatic and land dwelling. Each plant or creature is illustrated with an artists rendering or photograph and a short descriptive paragraph, so the entire book reads a little like a catalog. The book does, however give a wonderful picture of the variety and complexity of life throughout the history of our planet, and serves as an excellent general reference.
I had been wanting this book for a while since I am majoring in Biology. Once I received it I was thrilled! Not only does it seem like I should have payed way more for it, but it is also a great value because of the sheer size of it. It is well over 200 pages and the organization is very well done. The book is divided into the periods of time over Earth's vast history. It starts with a simple yet comprehensive overview of how life on Earth started and goes on to break into periods of life. In each period, they have divided the sections by a brief overview of the period and what was going on in Earth at the time. Then they discuss the invertebrates, vertebrates and microscopic life that was on Earth during the period. Each section is very thorough but not to the point where it reads like a textbook. Instead DK has provided little snipets about several organisms each with a picture and description. One feature I absolutely love is that they put a little symbol next to each organism letting you know how big it was compared to the size of a human hand or a full standing human. This really helps you visualize the size without having to rely on measurements alone. Most pictures are fossils, but there are also a lot of computer-made artwork showing what some organisms would have looked like when they were in existence. I love this part! Fossils are cool, but digital art is even cooler! I haven't read through the whole book yet, but I intend to. Right now I am reading it in order, as opposed to flipping around. It has so many interesting facts and includes so many organisms, it's like having the Museum of Natural History compiled in a book! If you don't like reading everything like me, you can always easily flip to whatever period you are interested in with their well-organized table of contents. They also include "see this page" references while discussing something relevant to lead you to the right page. I just love reading it in order because that way I can see how life on Earth progressed and diversified through time. This is a great book for any student, but especially those studying biology! I have read many things that help me with what I am learning. I would recommend this to anyone though. Our planet's history, essentially our species history, is so interesting and so complex. This book is like having the entire fossil record at your hands! It is a must for all studying the science of life!
Nice design of material; handsome presentation.
I thought it was a very good book with very nice pictures but it'll take forever to read there is just so much information and the price was very good for a book of this nature.
So, apparently Barnes & Noble wants me to write a review of a book that I pre-ordered which isn't even released yet. I won't have the book for another two months. Way to go B&N.


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This may be the most sexually explicit book that I have ever written. Amazingly, the last book in the series Private School Passions was probably my previous high. In Private School Practice, not only does Chase have a steamy sex scene with one of his captors, he has two of them and they're with a different girl than the one in the last book.
Of course there's still the matter of getting through his first day of classes as Hayley and the looming night out with the Chelsea's guy friends including Jim who seemed really smitten with Hayley the night they met, but Kelsey is determined to get him ready to play the greatest role of his life and she just can't resist Chase.
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Daniel Boulud must pay $1.3 million in damages to a man who swallowed a wire brush bristle at his Bistro Modern in NYC. Although his petit fours are beautiful, Boulud is a tough cookie. He's appealing the damage award although his insurance will probably cover it.
Boulud was sued by some his employees for wage theft. He fought it tooth and nail and like the brush and bristle case, in the end he had to pay. About $1.5 million in a New York civil action and some undisclosed big bucks in a Federal Court Settlement.
It hasn't been a great year for Boulud and his Dinex Restaurant Group as they have closed DB Brasserie in the Venetian Hotel as the days of mass market fine French cuisine in Vegas may be over.
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Advertising in the health care industry is a tricky trade. From regulations to patient loyalty, it's difficult to structure a unique campaign that entices new patients. While there is no one-solution-fits-all answer, there are some basic rules that all health care offices should understand when coordinating their marketing efforts.
Be consistent.
It is important to ensure that your practice's branding remains constant across all of your marketing campaigns. This starts with your practice's name. Choose a name and stick with it. Having a static name is important for brand recognition and also plays a huge role in SEO marketing.
Continuity is also important with regards to your brand's aesthetics. If your practice's color scheme is blue and yellow ensure that every marketing piece incorporates blue and yellow. In an ideal world, your patients, and your potential patients, will recognize your advertising efforts before they see your name and logo. This only occurs by defining your brand's identity and sticking with it.
Be Prominent.
Don't assume that printing a bunch of pamphlets or posting a new deal to your website will be noticed. Talk about it. Make sure that the pamphlets are right in front of your patients as they enter or leave your office. It's also a good idea to train your staff to handout pamphlets to patients as they leave and to mention new deals when scheduling appointments. In order to guarantee patients are seeing your online deals place them on the home page of your website. Your website is essentially a digital storefront, and like the flyers in your physical office, if you want people to notice something, it needs to be directly in front of them.
Be online.
Being online is the first step, but owning your brand's digital presence is what truly counts. This process starts with your practice's website.
How old is your website? Is it mobile friendly?
To see if your website is mobile friendly check it out on a tablet or mobile device. If your site hasn't adapted its appearance to the device it's being viewed on, it's time to update your website. Having an outdated site buries your business across all Google searches, especially searches done on mobile devices.
Are you on social media?
Create a Facebook account for your practice and be sure to post consistently. The best posts are personal photos about your office, your staff and, with their permission, your patients. Funny memes and relevant GIFs work well too, but it's essential that you retain a sense of professionalism, especially online.
Also, make sure that every website your practice is listed on (Yelp, Google, Apple Maps, etc.) correctly lists your business' name, address and phone number. This verifies your business' information to search engines. It's also important to "claim" your business listings whenever possible, which is usually done by registering an account with the citation website and authenticating your phone number with a verification code provided by the site.
Be persistent.
In advertising, it's easy to presume to see the finish line before the race begins. The goals are almost always more patients and a higher ROI. When it looks like a campaign isn't going to work the simple solution to consider is halting it all together and resetting. This is usually the wrong move. Advertising is a long-term game and seeing things through is important. You never know when the right person will see your commercial, billboard, mailer, etc. If you're curious if a campaign is working, ask. Ask your new patients how they heard of you. Use promotional codes and unique tracking numbers to monitor what is and isn't working. And most importantly, record everything. If a campaign does fail, look at the stats and investigate why. Use this information in your future advertising! Knowing where your new patients are coming from is great, but also knowing what advertising pieces are merely wasting money can be just as valuable.
For more information on health care advertising reach out to the health care advertising experts at Rebuild Nation by calling 855-725-3628 or email your questions to email@example.com.


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text: Sony's typically quick about releasing the open source underpinnings of its devices. After having announced the Xperia T2 Ultra earlier this year, the company has now made the kernel files for the device available for download. The company's offering these files up for three variants of the device, the D5303, D5322, and XM50h. The software version for the first model is 19.0.1.A.0.207, while the latter two fall under 19.0.D.0.253.Read More


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There is nothing sweeter than an interesting room seen through the eyes of a fantastic photographer. Ok, perhaps world peace, equal rights, and true love might give a pretty picture a run for its money -- but not much else. So it is with much whiz bang shazam that I present the work of Vincent Leroux, whose photographs strike a perfect balance between edgy and sophisticated, all seen through the glory of natural and ambient light. Overdone photography is the devil's work. Thanks the lords of the internets for showering us with some good stuff.
Later, y'alluns. Gotta go run errands before it gets face meltingly hot.


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The five poems and poets that follow are for English or ESL teachers who are looking to do a class with some poetry.
I made videos to go with the poems just for the fun of it, but also to provide some visual food for thought. I hope they help make the poetry a pleasurable learning experience for students and an added aid for teachers.
I like in the video of Harlem how the girder's chipped away layers of paint resemble (to my mind anyway) a camel. I noticed it one day waiting for the R train at White Hall Street. It was like a dream. Is it the girder's dream down in the dark subway tunnel to be a camel? Then it could walk freely through a sunny desert.
I like watching my friend Akram react to the ocean in Sandpiper. He reminds me of a sandpiper. Have you ever played and run away from the waves in the ocean? In what ways do the ebb and flow of Bishop's lines resemble the ocean folding and coming up the beach?
As I recite Millay's sonnet, the camera pans back to reveal a target deer whose heart has been ripped apart by arrows. Cupid's arrows? What is love if it isn't meat or drink?
And I love how the happy Monkey on 9th Street seems so independent on the corner waiting for no one. Do happiness and independence go hand in hand? I filmed this back in November and the monkey is still there, March 26, a feisty fellow.
When the Figure on 12th Street vanishes under a coat of paint is it like a bad thought disappearing? Are we glad or sad to see it go?
There is a lesson plan for The Fog on this blog:
Fog by Carl Sandburg
The fog comes
on little cat feet.
It sits looking
over city and harbor
on silent haunches
and then moves on.
Harlem by Langston Hughes
What happens to a dream deferred?
Does it dry up
like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore—
And then run?
Does it stink like rotten meat?
Or crust and sugar over—
like a syrupy sweet?
Maybe it just sags
like a heavy load.
Or does it explode?
Sandpiper by Elizabeth Bishop
The roaring alongside he takes for granted,
and that every so often the world is bound to shake.
He runs, he runs to the south, finical, awkward,
in a state of controlled panic, a student of Blake.
The beach hisses like fat. On his left, a sheet
of interrupting water comes and goes
and glazes over his dark and brittle feet.
He runs, he runs straight through it, watching his toes.
Watching, rather, the spaces of sand between them
where (no detail too small) the Atlantic drains
rapidly backwards and downwards. As he runs,
he stares at the dragging grains.
The world is a mist. And then the world is
minute and vast and clear. The tide
is higher or lower. He couldn't tell you which.
His beak is focussed; he is preoccupied,
looking for something, something, something.
Poor bird, he is obsessed!
The millions of grains are black, white, tan, and gray
mixed with quartz grains, rose and amethyst.
Love is not all by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Love is not all: it is not meat nor drink
Nor slumber nor a roof against the rain,
Nor yet a floating spar to men that sink
And rise and sink and rise and sink again.
Love can not fill the thickened lung with breath,
Nor clean the blood, nor set the fractured bone;
Yet many a man is making friends with death
Even as I speak, for lack of love alone.
It well may be that in a difficult hour,
pinned down by pain and moaning for release
Or nagged by want past resolution's power,
I might be driven to sell your love for peace,
Or trade the memory of this night for food.
It well may be. I do not think I would.
Two short poems by Gregory Corso
Standing on a street corner waiting for no one is power.
The spirit of Life
pours thru the death of me
like a river
unafraid of becoming the sea—


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Tarot cards: What Card do you find expresses jail time?
Hello Tarot Readers:
I was wondering in your experience, what card implied jail time or what combination of cards imply this to you?
Blessed be.
Answer by cheir
The one headed 'At Her Majesty's Pleasure'.
Answer by Amy Geddon
Stolen credit card.
Answer by Upasakha Jason
It's not a single card. But if there were, I would suggest 8 of Swords. For major arcana, I would look to the Hanged Man reverse, or the Devil with Justice.
Answer by TheMadProfessor
The Eight of Swords could be interpreted as such in the right layout…the swords sticking into the ground around the woman could be viewed as representing the bars of a prison.
How do u read playing cards like tarot cards?
Ever since i was little i always wanted to read tarot cards but i like to be different so imma read playing cards. How do i do it
Answer by Chipmunk
There are two main kinds of cartomancy – one is tarot, the other is gypsy and gypsy is often more associated with playing cards, however there is a few variations on how you can use for tarot. Personally, I prefer the simple, no fuss version.
Cups = hearts
Wands = diamonds
Swords = spades
Coins = clubs
(some variations will have coins and wands swapped over, I only visualise wands/cups as light and swords/coins as dark and more similar to each other – however it's entirely up to you)
And from there your aces to kings are as always. Because it's not the "natural" way to read tarot (aka not tarot cards) then more than ever, each card and suit can be designated as you feel the most comfortable with and can "tune" each suit to what you feel it most corresponds to.
Answer by Rev. Lynn D.
Use This link for detailed instruction on doing readings with Tarot Cards
Are those tarot cards things in stores money making scams or real?
At barnes and nobles they sell those things. They're like 2 dices roll them and than match the result with one of the tarot cards to determine the future. Are they money making scams or real? P.S when people at my school tried them they said its just poker cards with pictures printed on to trick you. If you think they're real don't go booming it'll tell you the day you'll die or I'm a fortune teller.
Answer by TR
The tarot cards are not a scam themselves. They're a deck of cards that are supposed to let you tell your fortune, but that's an old wives tale. They don't really do anything but possibly provide some entertainment. On the other hand, if someone wants to give you a tarot card reading in exchange for money, then that certainly is a scam.
Answer by Tukmyhamster
No they're not real. Imagine what the world would be like if there was any easy way to tell the future (or any way at all actually).
Those sort of things are just for entertainment, not be taken seriously.
Answer by philebus
When your friends said that they were poker cards with pictures printed on, they were not far from the truth.
Tarot cards were created in the mid 15th century Italy for the Milanese court. The consist of a standard pack of Latin suited playing cards (these were the first suits in Europe being cups, coins, swords, and batons) and a fifth suit of picture cards. These extra cards took as their theme, not an occult philosophy or magical symbols, but a Christian triumph procession – hence their early name of trionfi, meaning triumphs and from which we get our word trump. It was the invention of tarot that marked the invention of trumps in card games – and that is what they were invented for, a family of card games that continues to be played throughout continental Europe to this day!
It was not until the end of the 18th century that a Parisian occultist, Antoine Court de Gebelin, picked up the cards and, ignorant of their actual origin, invented one about their being from Egypt and having a use for fortune telling.
Without an occult origin, fortune telling with tarot is no different in kind from fortune telling with tea leaves, dominoes, or knuckle bones – and just as hard to take seriously.
In as much as they are selling the cards as a way to learn the future, then I would say that they are scam. But, keep in mind that they can be used for some great card games and any game that has spread througout a continent and survived for nearly 600 years is going to be good – no scam!
Answer by Jan
No, this is BS and a bastardization of the true meaning of the Tarot (which is based in the Jewish Cabala originally). Dice and tarot are a stupid combo.
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