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If you are local (Utah) tune in to Good Things Utah at 9am to see my segment that will go with this post and see the oil made first hand by me! If you are not local, I will be sharing the link in my social media accounts this weekend, so no worries!
I have talked a little about postpartum hair loss before, and I know so many of you have been asking me what I do about it. I need to get a lot better about putting this mask on every time I wash my hair (usually my showers are sooo fast while my kids are occupied with something for a few minutes!) because it really does work. Each time I use this, I notice a huge difference.
When you are pregnant, your estrogen levels go way up, which prevents as many hairs to fall out each day. Then you give birth, and it can feel like you're balding. But you aren't. But that doesn't really help. Postpartum is hard enough and then we have to deal with our hair on everyone's dinner plate even though you pulled it back, and every time you wash your hair it looks like someone shaved a long haired dog in the tub. Yeah, it's not fun.
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I recommend using it once a week, or every time you wash your hair if you are like me and sometimes it's longer than a week!
Another tip to help your postpartum hair, braid it before you go to sleep to prevent more hairs falling out while you slumber!


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Nicola Furlong's best friend gave testimony about the events surrounding the tragic night Ms. Furlong died.
Via the Irish Times: "Speaking via a video link, the witness said she had been friends with Ms Furlong since school and they were studying together at a university outside Tokyo at the time of her death."
It is now common-knowledge that Ms. Furlong and her friend attended a Nicki Minaj concert and later hit Shibuya for a night of partying.
Black Tokyo initially presented a timeline of the events surrounding the fateful morning that Ms. Furlong lost her life. Key were the events leading up to Ms. Furlong and her friend visiting Shibuya. Black Tokyo stated that a conscious decision would need to be made by the pair to either return to their city after the concert and before the last train or stay in Tokyo and take an early train home the following morning.
The majority of the press stated that the women "missed their last train" but it is now known via testimony of Ms. Furlong's friend that: "They told the men they planned to stay up all night and catch the first train back to Takasaki the following morning," according to the Irish Examiner. Why is this fact important? Simple, Black Tokyo saw the spin being created and the direction that some of the press were heading in reporting the events surrounding Ms. Furlong's death and the quasi-forcible indecency charge levied against the American men regarding actions recorded while the four took a taxi to the Keio Plaza Hotel.
Is this investigation into the rest of story done in defense of the American men? No, it's done in the hopes that the two women and two men involved in this incident have their right to a fair and unbiased trial in a land foreign in ways other than just proximity. At the end of it all, a woman, Ms. Furlong, has unfortunately lost her life. It is important to get to the truth. Her family, her friend's family and the family of the two American men on trial all need closure in order to begin with the next phase. With that said, we can now expect his version, her version and the truth in some form or fashion to come out during the trial. The same can be expected with the press, blogs and twitterverse in examining the details that led to Ms. Furlong's demise. Now let's examine some of the trial testimony!
Black Tokyo previously reported the following concerning Ms. Furlong and her friend's state of being:
"According to various reports in the Japanese press- "so drunk that they could hardly walk" heading to, being pushed in or carried to a taxi."
Since it was reported in various press reports that the women were drugged (with a date rape drug) and carried, bundled or pushed into a taxi in Shibuya, Black Tokyo looked deeper into why the women could have been in such a drunken or drugged state in such a short amount of time. Black Tokyo also reported:
"The Nicki Minaj concert was held on May 23, 2012. Doors opened at 6:00 p.m. and the show was scheduled to start at 7:00 p.m at Zepp Tokyo located in Tokyo's Odaiba area.
There is no food available in the facility, but drinks are served (beer and whiskey being the most popular)." Source
Typically concerts at Zepp Tokyo last 2-3 hours based on my experience attending shows and accompanying artists."
It was also previously reported that Ms. Furlong's friend could not remember much of what happened the night Ms. Furlong died.
"The young woman has had trouble recalling much of the events of the night and may have to return to Japan as the investigation continues. "She probably witnessed (much of what happened) but she can't remember it for some reason." via the Independent
The Irish Times reported: "A source close to the family says the woman, also from Co Wexford, remembers little about the attack."
Apparently, the friend's current video testimony refutes previous reports that she could not remember based on what was revealed during cross-examination of the witness. Early on in the investigation, Black Tokyo reported the following concerning the women's state of being:
According the source, "when they realized Nicola was unconscious, the police and ambulance were called. Everyone came out to see what was going on. The other girl (XO) knew where she was just really "out of it"."
According to different source, "the other girl [reportedly XO] was still visibly groggy, even during the police questioning."
According to the source, "it looks like the girls went to the club before the guys (allegedly XX and Blackstone) and had already started drinking."
Many questioned why Black Tokyo focused on events leading up to a night of partying in Shibuya and question whether Ms. Furlong's friend had selective memory. Now that date rape drugs have been ruled out as the cause of Ms. Furlong's death and therefore the previously assumed drugged state of Ms. Furlong's friend, the accused's defense team turned their focus on alcohol. A focus that will probably test Ms. Furlong's friend's credibility now that her memory has improved.
According to the Irish Examiner:
The defence team suggested the two women had blacked out after excessive drinking before and during a Nicki Minaj concert they had attended in the Japanese capital and after at the Scramble café bar with the two men.
The amount of alcohol consumed by the women plays a factor in looking at the physical and mental state of both women prior to and after the concert and in events leading up to the women, women with boyfriends back in Ireland, being in separate hotel rooms with the two American men currently on trial.
Black Tokyo will make it crystal-clear to those that may try to spin the above statement… It does not matter whether Ms. Furlong and her friend (or any other woman) were sober or drunk, if they become victims of a criminal act, the act and the person(s) should be thoroughly investigated and if the person(s) charged are subsequently found guilty, a just punishment must be meted.
As Black Tokyo commented last year:
"By no means is Black Tokyo (BT) blaming the women. Try that somewhere else! BT is not stating ANY claim or should I say, FACT besides the point that one young lady has lost her life and the another young lady was sexually assaulted during a taxi ride according to the Japanese National Police Agency.
What BT is doing and will continue to do, is share additional details, questions and motives that others have conveniently decided to ignore.
The Irish Examiner reported:
"Ms Furlong and her friend had prepared five 500ml bottles and one 650ml bottle of vodka mixed with orange juice, which they had taken with them to the concert from their apartment in Takasaki, about 100km north of Tokyo.
The bottles had contained about one-third vodka and two-thirds juice, the woman said. However, they had drunk fewer than four of them, as two had been confiscated at the door and another was only partially consumed, she said.
What's more, she could only remember consuming two shots of tequila at Scramble, she said, adding that it was following the second that her memory of the night ends."
So let's hypothesize that the 650ml bottle and one of the 500ml bottles of vodka mixed with orange juice were the two bottles confiscated at the door. That means that Ms. Furlong and her friend would have consumed three 500ml bottles and an unknown partial amount of a fourth bottle during the trip from Takasaki to the Tokyo Zepp concert venue. A trip that takes from an hour to a little over an hour and a half. Victim A testified: "After having something to eat, they headed to the venue in Tokyo's Odaiba district at about 6.30pm, drinking one of their home-made cocktails, she said." Last year Black Tokyo reported: "Doors opened at 6:00 p.m. and the show was scheduled to start at 7:00 p.m at Zepp Tokyo located in Tokyo's Odaiba area."
This follows what was reported by the Independent.ie:
She said they each drank about 750ml of a cocktail that was two-thirds orange juice and one-third vodka.
She also said that they had drunk a cassis and soda at the concert they attended on the evening of May 23rd and that she had drunk two tequilas in a bar that she had gone to with Ms Furlong, the accused and his friend James Blackston.
Ms. Furlong's friend further stated that she lost consciousness while drinking with the men. "All I remember is is having the second shot and after that I don't remember anything." The Independent.ie reported that "It is not clear how the women became unconscious within a short time. Evidence given yesterday about blood tests appeared to rule out the suspicion that their drinks were spiked."
Ms. Furlong's friend, referred to as Victim A, further testified when asked if she had ever lost consciousness before:
"…that on one occasion, she had drunk too much at a party and had forgotten temporarily where she had left her shoes, but had never experienced a blackout from alcohol. She also said that neither she nor Nicola ever took drugs that would have made them unconscious."
According to Dr. Kenichi Yoshida, an expert in forensic medicine, "the blood test results also showed that the alcohol level in Ms Furlong's blood was 2.14mg of alcohol per 1ml of blood. The doctor further stated that this was not high enough to be a factor in her death and "in this case it is very clear the cause of death was due to strangulation," he told the court, according to the Independent.ie.
Ms. Furlong's best friend, Victim A, also testified:
"I find it very difficult to believe I was unconscious for so long" solely as a result of alcohol, she said, after describing how she had lost consciousness for several hours after drinking with the men. "I can only think it's because something was put in the drink."
"…she gave a urine sample to police the morning after Nicola's death and a blood sample to medics at Tokyo Medical University Hospital later that day. She confirmed she hadn't been told that "any drugs were found in my system" but added: "I understand that there are a lot of drugs available and you have to test for these individually and that may not have been done. "I believe there were drugs that were not detected."
The Irish Examiner reported that Victim A was: "Asked by Mr Hinds's defence team why she thought tests administered by police and hospital medical staff on the unidentified Irishwoman had revealed no traces of drugs, the woman replied that she accepted the results. However, she believed there were many drugs for which she had not been tested. "But that's just my opinion," she said."
Is it safe to hypothesize that Victim A may have been in a similar state of drunkenness since Ms. Furlong's blood sample which had shown an alcohol level of 2.14mg of alcohol per 1ml of blood? A level, according to expert testimony, is just over four times the permissible limit for driving in Ireland! Maybe, just maybe, this is why she lost consciousness.
To work out the number of standard drinks in what you are drinking use this formula:
Amount of drink in litres (Vol) x Percent by volume of alcohol (%) x Density of ethanol at room temperature (0.789). "One standard drink equals 10 grams of pure alcohol."
Again, let's hypothesize that the bottles were opened during the train ride. That means that the two women would have had approximately 1500 ml of a mix of one-third vodka and two-thirds juice or 500 ml of 40 proof or higher vodka between them, not including the unknown amount of the fourth bottle consumed. It is not known if this was Japanese vodka known as "shochu" which is a clear beverage distilled from grain, barley, sweet potatoes, or buckwheat. In terms of taste, shochu resembles vodka. Shochu has an alcohol content of between 20 and 40 percent by volume. To put that in perspective, most vodkas are 80 proof, meaning they contain 40 percent alcohol by volume.
If the shochu was mixed with juice to make "chuhai" (shortened from "shochu highball") which are fruit-flavored alcoholic drinks with an alcohol content typically between 5-8 percent and is a very common drink in Japan, especially among younger women due to the low-calorie count. A one-third vodka and two-thirds mix of vodka (or shochu) and OJ mix would be higher than canned shochu sold in most conveniences stores and many vending machines in Japan. Victim A also testified "that they had drunk a cassis and soda at the concert they attended on the evening of May 23rd." It is not known if the two bottles of vodka and orange juice taken from the women at Zepp Tokyo were returned to them after the concert.
Note: Adults normally have a total blood volume of 7% to 8% of body weight, or 70 mL/kg of body weight for men and about 65 mL/kg for women. Source. So if there are 65mL/kg in the human body per female. and if Ms. Furlong's weighed 60kg or 132 lbs., there would be 4,200mL of blood in her body.
According to Ireland's National Police Service:
"The drink drive limit came down in line with European levels on the 28th October 2011, the current limit drop from 80 milligrams (mg) to 50 milligrams (mg) for all drivers and from 80 milligrams (mg) to 20 milligrams (mg) for learner, newly qualified drivers (for a period of two years after passing the driving test) and professional drivers such as bus, goods vehicle and public service vehicle drivers (PSV)." Source
In using Victim A's testimony and assuming that Ms. Furlong weighed 60kg the following is plausible:
With each woman drinking: "750ml of a cocktail that was two-thirds orange juice and one-third vodka," which they had taken with them to the concert from their apartment in Takasaki, about 100km north of Tokyo.
"Takasaki is a stop on the Joetsu Shinkansen and Nagano Shinkansen lines, and is a hub for the JR Takasaki, Hachiko, Ryomo, Joetsu and Shin-etsu lines. Frequent Shinkansen services depart Tokyo station for Takasaki every 15-30 minutes, with more frequent departures for the evening rush. You can reach Takasaki in about one hour, at a cost of ¥4800. Regular trains on the Takasaki Line depart from Ueno station 2-3 times per hour, reaching Takasaki in about 2 hours at a cost of ¥1890."
Assuming that the women took either the local train or Shinkansen (bullet train) (to estimate the amount of time it took the women to drink 750ml of their mixed-drink and not including the drink or drinks purchased at the concert), the women would have have a blood alcohol content (BAC) upon arrival to Tokyo Zepp of either:
0.057 g/100 ml (if they took the local train): Effect: "You're probably feeling a bit relaxed or you might have a feeling of "well-being" or euphoria (feeling really good or really positive). You might feel a bit warmer than you usually do. Your behavior might be a bit exaggerated or your emotions might be a bit intensified. You're probably feeling some impairment of reasoning and memory and since your level of caution is lower, it's a bad idea to drive." Source
or close to 0.07 (if they took the Shinkansen or bullet-train): Effect: "Although you can definitely tell you've been drinking, and you're probably aware that you're feeling some effects of alcohol, you might believe that you're more alert than you really are. In reality, with a BAC of 0.07 – 0.09 you'll be experiencing a slight impairment of speech, balance and hearing and your reaction time is reduced. Your caution, reasoning and memory are impaired, and your judgment and level of self-control are reduced."
So, as shown on the charts above, and assumed that Ms. Furlong weighed 60 kg, the estimated time to burn alcohol for a 60 kg Female with a BAC of 0.048 is 3-hours (if they took a local train and consumed their mixed-drinks on the train) or 4-hours if the Shinkansen was used. As discovered during the trial, Ms. Furlongs's friend explained how the two had made the two-hour train ride from Takasaki for their third trip to Tokyo.
Remember, Ms. Furlong autopsy results show: "Blood from Ms Furlong had shown an alcohol level of 2.14mg of alcohol per 1ml of blood, the court was told — a level just over four times the permissible limit for driving in Ireland." So if the legal BAC limit is 0.05 to 0.07 percent in certain rural areas in Ireland and assuming that Ms. Furlong's friend would have similar BAC test results, over four times the permissible limit would equate to:
"If your BAC is 0.20, you'll probably need help if you want to walk properly. If you fall down you probably won't feel a lot of pain – even if you hurt yourself. At this level of BAC, some people begin to vomit. At the very least, you'll feel dazed, confused and disoriented. Note: At this point your gag reflex will be impaired. This means that if you're lying down and you vomit, you could choke and die.
Remember, "according to various reports in the Japanese press- "so drunk that they could hardly walk" heading to, being pushed in or carried to a taxi."
You'll probably start to feel sick to your stomach. Any euphoria (feeling really good or really positive) you had earlier will have turned to dysphoria (an emotional state of agitation, unease or depression). Right now you might look like a "sloppy drunk".
BAC 0.21 – 0.30 (Ms. Furlong's BAC was in this range if four times the legal limit in Ireland)
If you were awake at this point you'd have very little comprehension as to where you were or what you were doing. You might pass out suddenly and it'd be hard to wake you up." Source
Victim A testified: "All I can remember is having the second shot in the bar and after that I don't remember anything. "I remember waking up. I was lying on chairs. I have a picture of Nicola being put into an ambulance, I don't have anything else."
The accused in Ms. Furlong's death has repeated stated: "I do not believe I was the cause of her death," Hinds told the court. "I had no intent or reason to hurt, harm or kill her."
So, it is plausible that the women had an estimated BAC of .057 to .07 at the time of arrival to Zepp Tokyo and, as delivered in testimony by Victim A, they "had drunk fewer than four" bottles of their vodka and juice cocktail (remember two of the bottles had been confiscated at the door which BT assumes to have been one 500 ml and one 650 ml bottle). The BAC could have higher after the concert since the women had a cassis and soda (it is assumed one drink at this point) at the concert they attended on the evening of May 23rd, and later two tequila shots in Shibuya.
Overall, alcohol during an hour and half train ride (estimate), a beverage (or two) at the concert, possibly the remainder of the vodka and juice mix after the concert (if the bottles were returned) and two shots of tequila are known to have been consumed (there reportedly was a vodka and Red Bull ordered at the club, as well). Black Tokyo opines that the amount of alcohol consumed is more than a sufficient cause for the women to blackout UNLESS drugs were involved (Victim A's urine sample proved otherwise and Ms. Furlong had her prescribed Xanax in her system). Did Victim A express surprise at blacking out because she had a high tolerance for alcohol? Is it important? Maybe, especially since the remainder of her testimony and credibility will come into play.
Be sure to check out the next story dealing with Ms. Furlong's toxicology report and the doctors testimonies.
The following BT'ers contributed to BT's reporting of the Nicola Furlong death investigation: @blacktokyo, @onmugen @starrwulfe @ogPegasus303
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Promulgation of Decree n° 2010-1753 dated 19 July 2010, on the procedures and conditions for the grant of concessions
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Promulgation of the new Code on offshore financial services.
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Promulgation of Law n° 2009-65 amending Law n° 2003-75 on the support of international efforts for the fight against terrorism and repression of money laundering
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Dress Up Your Words with Tagxedo
At Tagxedo, you can easily enter not only text, but the url of a website before you generate your cloud. You can hit respin to tweak your result, or use arrows to completely change theme, font, and direction. The cool thing for me was the opportunity to have my word cloud inside shapes like star, heart or even the letters JOY. And I read where Tagxedo inventor, Hardy Leung, says you can use your own custom shapes and fill them with words too. You'll find examples in the Tagxedo gallery.
So why isn't it my new favourite yet? Well, the major problem with Wordle was not being able to save my cloud to my computer. Tagxedo offers a save function (Yay!) but it kept giving me an error message : "LOC ERROR- Unable to locate localized string for resource ID 5011..png", no matter which dimensions or file type I chose. (And I'm positive there's some string in the kitchen drawer!) Seriously, that must be just a glitch with my browser/my computer/my brain, as I have seen glowing reports of Tagxedo from others. So I resorted to screen grabs to capture the examples here. Everything else at the site worked beautifully, and I loved the colour and font options.
UPDATE: I tried multiple times with both png and jpeg yesterday, only to get the same error message. Once I read Hardy Leung's comment below, I thought I would try once more before I replied to him. You guessed it, today it works fine! Kudos to Hardy for the support!
Not sure how to use word clouds with your kids? You'll find more information on this slideshow, or in 10 Ways to Use Wordles in the Classroom. I can just see the JOY shape being perfect when it comes time to make cards for Christmas with your kids. Consider adding your word clouds to the Flickr group for word clouds too. For me, it was just good to see that Tagxedo picked up words from my blog that I like to stress: fun, literacy, resources, Art, books, kids, music, reading and love. What more could a chook want?
(Many thanks to Greg Pincus from Gottabook for removing my fears that Microsoft Silverlight, the plugin you need to make Tagxedo work, was going to conflict with my Mac. The download and installation of Silverlight was fast and easy. If you don't know Greg's 30 Poets in 30 Days series, check it out by starting on the April 1 post. You'll be glad you did!)
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- Weekly Book Reviews12 April, 2010
Awesome...I'll have to check those out. Anything with lots of words has to be lots of fun :)ReplyDelete
- Hardy Leung12 April, 2010
This is Hardy Leung, creator of Tagxedo. Sorry that you ran into Png export problems. I have not had that problem or heard anyone else with that problem, so I can only suggest that you try to save the images as Jpg for now. The Png export is supposedly very standard and I am very surprised by the error message (definitely not generated by the code within Tagxedo or the Png exporter).ReplyDelete
I hope you can get the problems resolved and be able to truly enjoy Tagxedo!
-- Hardy Leung
I'm with you, Weekly Book Reviews!ReplyDelete
Hardy, you must be a techy kind of person. Are you sure there is no gremlin living inside computers that deliberately sets out to drive us crazy? After I got your comment, I went to Tagxedo to double check I'd tried both png and jpeg before I replied. And guess what? Both work fine today and no message about string.ReplyDelete
I've updated my post. Thanks so much for your comment, and indeed for Tagxedo!
- ktenkely12 April, 2010
I am already loving Tagxedo, the extra features are just fantastic!ReplyDelete
I look forward to seeing what you and your students do with Tagxedo, Kelly.ReplyDelete
- Kelly Burstow13 April, 2010
How cute is that! You get a 'feel' through words out of one shape.ReplyDelete
- Book Chook13 April, 2010
I like that aspect of it too, Kelly. Another way I use it is to forget the pretty shapes, fonts, colours. I enter some of my writing and check the words that come up biggest. Those are the ones I've used most, and if it's a word like "actually", I know I've overused it.ReplyDelete
The fact it makes frequent words biggest is something you can manipulate. So say I wanted to make a poster about literacy, and emphasize how much fun it is. I can just type/copy and paste the word fun 20 times and it will be really large sized font.
- Ian Newbold13 April, 2010
Loving the star of words I've just created using our blog. Thanks for sharing.ReplyDelete
- Book Chook14 April, 2010
I agree, Ian. It really is wonderful to see your blog emphasis visually.ReplyDelete
Tagxedo is the advanced version of wordle. Tagxedo allows you to add acents, hide or emphasize words, and put the word cloud into the shape you desire.ReplyDelete


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Much as I hate to admit it in public, my beagle is a crotch hound. Is he really a pervert as my friends claim, or is something else going on here?
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To understand how dogs determine each other's identities using scent, recall how animals mark their territories using stool and urine. Additionally, when two strange animals initially meet, they circle each other in an attempt to sniff each other's rear ends. The focus of their attention is a collection of glands around the anus and on the base of the tail that secrete very potent substances called pheromones. Among many mammals, pheromones communicate everything a top-notch photo does to us—and more. Not only do even trace amounts of pheromones inform other animals of an individual's species and sex, these also advise them regarding that animal's reproductive and social status.
Imagine finding a picture of a unknown person of the opposite sex lying on the sidewalk in front of your home. Chances are nothing in that picture would tell you whether the scarf you found a block away belonged to that person, let alone if that person were a) single and b) wanted to mate with you. However, the ability to collect and process all that data and more in a few whiffs serves as a tremendous energy-saving advantage to wild animals. Those who encounter the stool and urine of other animals on their own turf can determine whether this belongs to a potential friend or foe before they even meet. When they come face to face with a totally unknown animal, the other's scent will determine how they respond to it. The resident animal may drive off an interloper of the same species and sex or it may defer to it, depending on the other animal's social status. Females normally intolerant of the presence of males may welcome them in the breeding season and vice versa: males who shun female companionship in favor of that with other males may become ardent pursuers of females and attack those same males when they pick up the scent of a female in heat.
Because wild canids depend so heavily on scent to establish and protect their territories, find food and water, and locate receptive mates, it comes as no surprise that scent marking and processing comprises a deeply embedded part of the canine physiological and behavioral repertoire. However, even though we can say that our dogs' ancestors literally survived by a nose, that same skill may actually undermine the dog's survival in a human-canine environment. When Zippy zeroes in on Aunt Harriet's crotch the first time she visits, he views this strictly as a fact-finding mission. He needs this data so he can position her in his world and then either deal with her, if he sees her as a threat, or move on to other pursuits (such as exploring her luggage). What Aunt Harriet and Zippy's owner view as a disgusting display is the canine equivalent of Aunt Harriet's young niece and nephew peering curiously at her as they conduct their own, vision-based fact-finding mission.
Although understanding why the behavior occurs should lead us to respond to it more tolerantly, the fact remains that few people enjoy being goosed by a dog, no matter how legitimate its reasons. Because of this, it makes sense to teach your pet to sit or lie quietly whenever anyone enters your home. If Zippy's owners and all their friends and relatives ignore him when they enter, pretty soon he'll get so bored with trying to sniff or leap on constantly moving targets who pay no attention to him, he'll give up and settle down. Once he does that, his owners and guests can squat down and offer him a hand to sniff and pet him. Human hands may not carry all the news flashes available from crotches, but they usually supply enough information to satisfy most dogs' desire for data as well as their owners' need for decorum.


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Pan Ocean didn't have a full function accounting system, and was instead using local bank ledger software, with no capacity for asset management. Therefore the company recognised the need for a change in order to improve business processes.
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Corbyn: Actions of Israeli forces an outrage
The Labour leader said Palestinian protesters had a right to demonstrate against the 'appalling conditions' in Gaza.
Jeremy Corbyn has condemned the "illegal and inhumane" actions of Israeli troops following violence at the border with Gaza.
The Labour leader said the Israeli response, which has claimed the lives of at least nine Palestinians and wounded scores more, was an "outrage".
Israeli troops opened fire from across the border, killing at least nine Palestinians – including a journalist – and wounding 491 others on Friday in the second mass protest in eight days.
The killing and wounding of yet more unarmed Palestinian protesters yesterday by Israeli forces in Gaza is an outrage.— Jeremy Corbyn (@jeremycorbyn) April 7, 2018
I have asked for this statement to be read at today's demonstration supporting the Palestinian people in Gaza: https://t.co/KzxZU83cIg
In a message read out at a demonstration outside Downing Street, Mr Corbyn said: "The killing and wounding of yet more unarmed Palestinian protesters yesterday by Israeli forces in Gaza is an outrage.
"The majority of the people of the Gaza Strip are stateless refugees, subject to a decade-long blockade and the denial of basic human and political rights.
"More than two thirds are reliant on humanitarian assistance, with limited access to the most basic amenities, such as water and electricity.
"They have a right to protest against their appalling conditions and the continuing blockade and occupation of Palestinian land, and in support of their right to return to their homes and their right to self-determination.
"Firing live ammunition into crowds of unarmed civilians is illegal and inhumane and cannot be tolerated.
"We stand in solidarity with the Israelis who have taken to the streets this last week to protest their government's actions.
"The silence from international powers with the responsibility of bringing a just settlement of the Israel-Palestine conflict must end.
"The UK Government must support the UN secretary-general's call for an independent international inquiry into the killing of protesters in Gaza and review the sale of arms that could be used in violation of international law.
"The events in Gaza and the threat of renewed conflict underlines the urgent necessity of genuine negotiations to achieve a viable two-state settlement that delivers peace, justice and security to both Palestinians and Israelis."


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Over the past few seasons, I've developed a rather nice little collection of sunglasses…and this round, teal-framed pair is the very latest addition to my accessories drawer!!
The fact that they ended up being a perfect colour-match for my teal leather satchel was a rather happy coincidence; nowadays it's considered a little "old-fashioned" to wear a bag and shoes (or boots!) in the same shade…but how cool is it to match your bag to your sunnies?!
After a lifetime of absolutely despising glasses (I had vision-correcting laser surgery about 15 years ago so I wouldn't need them!) I'm not sure how this appreciation for the style possibilities of eyewear actually started; but now I often reach for a pair to add a little "something something" to my outfit combinations.
My husband thinks my newest version might be his personal favourite; and – for right now, at least! – I think they might be mine, too!!
P.S. It's "Fun Fashion Friday" again, dear readers!! Be sure to join the party hosted by my blogger friend Dawn at Fashion Should Be Fun and get your weekend started the right way!! 🙂


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Very Lemony Cupcakes
Makes 12
For the cupcakes:
125g Stork margarine
125g caster sugar
2 large eggs
125g self-raising flour
Juice of half a lemon
Splash of milk
For the syrup:
2/3 tbsp caster sugar
Juice of half a lemon
For the icing:
Juice of half a lemon
Icing sugar
Yellow food colouring
Sugar stars
- Pre-heat the oven to 180C/350F/gas mark 4.
- Beat together the margarine and sugar until pale and fluffy.
- Beat the eggs in a small bowl or mug.
- Add a little of the eggs and sift in a little of the flour and mix well until all of the eggs and flour have been added.
- Add the juice of half a lemon and mix in.
- Add a splash of milk to the mixture. The mixture should be a little runnier than normal cupcakes.
- Spoon into cases and bake for 15-20 minutes, or until they are golden brown and spring back when pushed in the centre.
- While the cakes are in the oven, add the sugar and lemon juice to a pan and heat gently. Once combined, take off the heat.
- When the cakes are out and on a wire rack to cool, prick each one with a cocktail stick or fork and spoon over the syrup.
- To ice, mix together the juice of half a lemon and icing sugar. I just keep adding more icing sugar until I have the correct consistency! Add in food colouring until you have the shade of yellow you are after and spoon onto the cakes. Finish with yellow and white sugar stars.


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CHRISTOPHER ANDERSON - Friday, April 30, 2010
The American duo make a cross-town trip on Sunday evening to face their arch-rivals with a chance to reach the top spot of the Champions League playoff standings.
Eddie Johnson will try to build upon his two-goal performance as a potential starter and Freddy Adu can also expect to see some action on the left side.
Hector Cuper's men shocked the regular season runners-up Olympiacos last Wednesday in a 2-0 win, bringing the Martians to within a point of the top of the post-season standings.
PAOK are coming off a scoreless draw against AEK Athens, and will be chomping at the bit not only with Champions League qualification at stake, but to avenge their 2-0 loss to Aris last March.
Although Aris performed well against Olympiacos with several absences, coach Hector Cuper will have Javier Campora at his disposition. Toni Calvo and Mehdi Nafti are questionable, while the unfortunate Ian Daly picked up yet another injury in training this week. Carlos Arano will still be unavailable while serving the last of a three-game suspension.
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Ruthless Casual: Am I Scythe-Blind? (Part 1)
Here I am again, writing my gaming column. Today's topic revolves around an interesting point 'Scape made at the end of our last game. Am I Scythe blind? Am I too focused on killing Scythes and not focused enough on actually trying to win? Let's find out, after the jump.
I suppose I'd better give you some context. We played a 1250 Purge The Alien, Hammer & Anvil game. 'Scape brought another dual-Scythe concept, this time with:
Cyberscape7's Necrons
Overlord with warscythe and sempiternal weave
Royal Court: 4 Crypteks with Harbinger of Despair and 1 Veil of Darkness
5 Lychguard with hyperphase sword and dispersion shield
10 Warriors
10 Warriors
10 Warriors
Doom Scythe
Doom Scythe
Bryssnotes: In Hammer & Anvil, this list relies on the Doom Scythes and Crypteks to linebreak and mess up my home base, whilst the 30 Warriors and Lychguard hold the fort. This is a surprisingly effective way of keeping hold of what you want, even if it does seem unbalanced.
Because neither of us had tried Flying Monsters yet, I brought:
Master Bryss' Orkmons of Chaos
Big Mek on warbike with burna and bosspole
10 Boyz with slugga and choppa and 1 rokkit launcha
10 Boyz with slugga and choppa and 1 rokkit launcha
10 Boyz with slugga and choppa and 1 rokkit launcha
10 Boyz with shoota and 1 rokkit launcha
5 Lootas and 3 Meks with big shoota
3 Warbikes with Nob with power klaw
3 Deffkoptas with twin-linked rokkit launcha
Herald of Khorne with Iron Hide and Unholy Might
5 Horrors with 1 Bolt of Tzeentch
5 Horrors with 1 Bolt of Tzeentch
3 Flamers of Tzeentch
Daemon Prince with Daemonic Flight, Iron Hide, Unholy Might and Breath of Chaos
|For 1250 I thought I was doing rather well...
Bryssnotes: In this deployment, my Boyz are wasted, as they'd be shot to death trying to march up the board. I therefore need to rely mainly on the Daemons to wipe out the Warriors. The Daemon Prince is too expensive for my liking (and I really wanted a Mark of Nurgle too), but we agreed that Unholy Might boosts Vector Strikes as it's not a bonus, it replaces the original Strength, and flying around breathing people to death sounded like fun.
I declared the Herald, Flamers and one Horror squad to be my preferred section, and reserved the Koptas and all the Boyz along with the Prince and other Horror squad. Thankfully I got my preferred Daemons for once. 'Scape reserved two Warrior Squads and the Scythes.
Basic game summary goes:
- I opt to go second, ensuring 'Scape's first turn is utterly wasted. I then embark the Lootas into the empty Trukk for protection, and Deep Strike the Herald close to the Necron Warriors 'Scape deployed, in an Archeotech building that was Difficult and Dangerous terrain, to scare him into shooting it and not the Horrors and Flamers. I manage to kill off three of his Crypteks (cheers AP4 Warpfire), including the Veil one, shutting down some of his anti-Ork measures, and also kill 1 Warrior with Deffguns (some others got back up).
- All of 'Scape's Reserves get in, but the Scythes are unable to do much this round and one of them goes Supersonic. The Warriors on the other hand knock a wound off a Flamer and kill a Horror, not to mention kill the Herald of Khorne. The Abyssal Stave Cryptek proves next to worthless against small squads of Ld10 Daemons.
- I fail to get any of my 'good' Reserves, only the Boyz and Horrors. At this point, I initiate anti-flyer measures, which because I am an Ork player involves barraging them with rokkits, dakkaguns, big shootas and deffguns until something sticks. This works rather well, as a lucky Penetrating Hit from a rokkit Immobilises and crashes one Scythe, while the other loses a Hull Point. Meanwhile, my Flamers make short work of half a Warrior Squad, while my two squads of Horrors down the Cryptek (who gets up again), and pick off a few Warriors.
- This turn 'Scape vows to kill all of my Daemons. He succeeeds. He even gets to do the 'Riot Shield Manoevre' with Lychguard, bouncing my Wall of Breath (see what I did there?) back onto me. I also lose a Boyz mob, as they run away after a depleting from the Death Ray, and a few Boyz from another mob.
- I get my Koptas in, and my Prince emerges from the Warp in full flight mode (nothing as far as I know says I can't Deep Strike in flying). His death breath breaks the Warrior unit in the building, and the last one standing flees. Meanwhile, my Pile O'Gunz knocks a Hull Point off the last Doom Scythe (would have downed it if it weren't for Jink saves).
- For the next few turns all of 'Scape's Warriors try to down the Prince. Each time I ended up making two Iron Hide saves, which I passed consistently. Meanwhile, the Prince downed a few each round with Breath, also killing some Lychguard with Vector Strike and wiping out the fleeing Warrior. On Turn 5, the last Doom Scythe was dead, although in the process my Mek lost his Biker retinue and went down to one Wound. Oh, and at some point I killed the last Cryptek.
- Stupidly, I decided to try for Slay the Warlord, and my Prince descended from above to Challenge the Overlord. Unfortunately, I forgot you could refuse a Challenge, and without his Iron Hide to protect him, Prince Ng'mnmarci the Anagrammic was taken down to one wound in Round 1, and then to add insult to injury he was sucked into a Tesseract Labyrinth in Round 2, losing me the Linebreaker bonus. I promptly took it back with the Deffkoptas, but it was all over.
- The game went into Turn 6 and then Turn 7. By this point I had somehow killed all the Lychguard, but the Overlord went into hiding in a Warrior team. With the power of Look Out, Sir! at his disposal, and my utter lack of AP2, there was nothing I could do to force a draw.
Bryss: 5 KPs plus Linebreaker: 6
'Scape: 7 KPs plus First Blood: 8
Winner: 'Scape
Final Thoughts: I really lost the moment the Prince died. Had I remembered it was possible to refuse a Challenge, I would have kept him airborne and breathed on the Warriors some more. A combination of Vector Strike and Death Breath would have probably killed a squad, while my Lootas and Koptas moved up to provide fire support.
The points I spent upgrading the Herald of Khorne (who is my only Daemon HQ) were an utter waste, and he probably would still have been shot at without them. I could have used those points to buy the Mark I wanted on the Prince, or possibly the Mark of Tzeentch to make combat more feasible. Same goes for Bolt on the Horrors, but then I was expecting a few land vehicles and Deep Striking AP1 Bolt would have worked wonders on them.
The lack of mobility in my Ork force, and the small size of the Warbiker squad, hurt them bad here. I was really unable to assist the Daemons in any way, and considering how well the twin-linked dakkaguns did at Scythe hunting, I could have done with more of them instead of 4 useless Boyz mobs. But then, in another mission I might have wanted the Boyz...
Incidentally, our Warlord traits were useless. I got '1 VP per character slain in a challenge' on the Mek, and 'Scape got 'Scoring Unit' on the Over.
Anyway, I still have a question to answer. Has the fear of Scythes prevented me from being able to mount a proper offensive in Sixth? I'll tell you what I think about that tomorrow.
Oh, and my copy of Dark Vengeance has shipped! Here's hoping it comes early.


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Music from Korean movie Come Closer 2010.
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Thursday, July 10, 2008
The Elengant Granita
My last post described how to make ice cream. Today I provide a simpler and lactose free (!!!) alternative. The simple yet elegant Granita.Even the name brings thoughts of dinner parties and five star restaurants. And it's super delicious! Here is my favorite recipe:
24 oz raspberry- apple sauce
24 oz water divided
6 oz sugar
6 oz flavored tequila (mango and lime complement the flavor excellent)
1. Combine tequila and apple sauce
2. Combine 8 oz h2o and sugar in a small saucepan; bring to boil; stirring until sugar dissolves. Remove from heat add remaining h2o.
3. Combine raspberry mix and sugar mix, stirring. The dish must be 13 x 9 inch. Freeze 6 hours or until firm. Stir 2 times in the first 2 hours.
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A world where time is not patient with people.More than ever, software products companies must accept that pro-active innovation is the only strategy for success on long term
The peculiarity of software products: the continuous need of adapting to change. A peculiarity of the software products companies such as Microsoft (with Windows, Office or Internet Explorer), Google (with Android, Google Apps or Chrome) or Salesforce.com is their need to continuously adapt their offer to the changes in the market. For many companies (see Nokia vs Apple, IBM vs "Wintel") this challenge can be anything ranging from dangerous to deadly.
IT industry is specialized from many points of view, but when it comes to the speed at which change takes place, we are speaking of the champion en-titre with indisputable chances at a title for the coming decade and a half. Software products have gone from development cycles of several years (in the 70s and 80s) to iterations of only two weeks. The speed of adoption of new technologies has reached maximum levels (see the speed at which radios have been adopted, vs. the one for tablets). The competitive space is increasingly fierce, new software products companies could be set up by two students in a dorm starting with a negligible capital and a box of open-source software components.
In short, we are talking of the three needs that create strategic urgency in software products companies:
- The need to adapt quickly to the change in the client's/market's demands.
- The need to adapt quickly to the development of technology.
- The need to adapt quickly to new competitors or to new offers coming from the existing ones.
Innovation: adaptation to change through new solutions
The typical story of software products companies is the following: an entrepreneur identifies a need on the market, coagulates a technical team around a product idea which would answer that particular need and, if the stars align the right way, the product is a success, generates income that would continue the development of the product and would ensure enough profit so that the entrepreneur (and then the investors) could find the effort as profitable in the long term as well.
In a world in which change of any nature (i.e. of the clients' requests, the development of technology or of the competitional space) occurs slowly, or, in the words of Marin Preda, in a world in which time is patient with people, the company would not feel any need of changing the recipe for success discovered in the beginning. The product would evolve following the same cycle of development, the technical team would programme using the same architecture, and the lack of competition would have the effect of a sedative on all these habits, slowing even further with once-sharp reflexes of the young company. And it would be absolutely perfect. This, if such a world existed.
The problem is that we live in a world where time is not patient with people, and more than ever the software products companies must come to terms with the fact that the only successful strategy in the long run is the pro-active innovation or, more bluntly put, the adaptation to change through new solutions (as opposed to the adaptation to change as a must).
Innovation starts by continuously assuming risks
I will go back briefly to the typical story of the software products companies. A critical aspect which is most times overlooked is the fact that that particular entrepreneur has taken on a high risk (most of the times from the all-in category) attempting a new concept. Success stories start once that moment is overcome and the concept is working, but before the first client, before the first paid bill and before the first press coverage there is a concept that is defined, tested and, if there is enough proof to validate it, it is launched into production.
The majority of the software products companies abandon their entrepreneurial spirit or at least the product teams do, which leads them towards a type of thinking in which the need for certainty eliminates the risk-taking. And why should they be blamed? Why should you take on risks when you can get things done without a triple toe loop?
I would say that there is no point in doing this, if the company does not plan to remain in the economic landscape for more than 5 years. For everyone else, taking on risks is like oxygen is for the aerobic micro-organisms, namely vital. Just like the oxygen, taking on risks had better come in a continuous flow, in a controlled manner, and not on the brink of cerebral hypoxia (when we are talking about taking on risks as a must or recreational innovation).
The pro-active innovation team
If the success strategy is pro-active innovation, then the tactics comes in the shape of a team of proactive innovation, attached to a product and directly subordinated to a person interested in the long-term performance of the company. This team would be busy experimenting with new concepts, taking on risks with the aim of transforming assumptions into knowledge. This team would be characterized by creativity, passion for problem-solving and tolerance for failure. This team would explore Continuous Delivery, Behaviour Driven Development, Mobile-Centric User Applications, User Experience Design or Big Data and would develop plans for the implementation of these concepts into the commercial product. This team would be evaluated by the speed at which it turns assumptions into knowledge, and its members would be motivated to be leaders in the industry in which their product is active, and not the followers of others.
In short, this would be the team that would maintain the spirit that made possible the success of the product in the first place – taking on risks in introducing new concepts, a critical need for long-term success of any software product company.
Short-term optimization inhibits long-term potential
Working with many software products companies from Europe, I have noticed that these understand the need for pro-active innovation, but act in the spirit of optimization of costs on in the short-term.
Of course, a pro-active innovation team is expensive, and the short-term advantages are limited. Nevertheless, the same companies end up investing millions of Euros in modernization projects determined by changes in the market that have an impact on the product's technical architecture, when such changes would have been significantly cheaper had the oxygen reached the patient before he required a transplant.
In conclusion, now, on the verge of the budgetary planning for 2014, software products companies should assign budget for a pro-active innovation team which would start with an evaluation of the existing product and would develop a continuous innovation programme which would maintain the blade of competitiveness forever sharp.


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Indexed from a scanned copy. Art ids by Jim Vadeboncouer Jr. Indicia states "published with the cooperation of the U. S. Marine Corps." Date listed is copyright date.
Inside front cover. Includes indicia.
Format is a cross between a comic and a text article. It's panelled like a comic but no dialogue and all text is typeset.
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Ride UK have made it to Tallin, Estonia for the 12th instalment of Simple Session! We're here for the whole weekend covering the event, so be sure to keep checking back for updates, videos and more… In the meantime check out this sweet time lapse video of the course!
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Famine #73: Stuck with You
It's Weekend Writing Warriors time again, and I'm still featuring snippets from Famine. Here's another excerpt from it. This precedes last week's post by a few chapters. ===============
Matilde crossed her arms and glared at the night passing beyond the wide observation windows. "I ain't getting away, am I? I'm stuck with you."
"I'm not your warden." Bartholomew rested his forearms upon his knees and interlaced his fingers. "But I can't help you if you run away from me."
She went to a window. "I think the monsters want you, not me."
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