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I was talking to my wife about a conversation I had with my mother concerning the martial arts and my family. I was about 16, and noticing that nearly everyone in my family had been trained in the martial arts. My mom, for example, was trained in stick and knife, and had learned enough empty hand that she was fighting as soon as she joined a Hapkido school in Taiwan. When I first expressed an interest in the arts, it was my mother who gave me my first lessons in Kuntaw and Eskrima. And when I decided that I wanted to learn another style, it was my mother who found Jow Ga. Anyway, my mom informed me that my grandfather did not give anyone the choice about learning. When I asked him, he said it was a man's duty to teach his family to fight.
This was a lesson he often repeated to us–that a man's duty to his family was to clothe them, feed them, educate them, protect them, and part of "protect" meant teaching them to protect themselves. He did not emphasize empty handed fighting with the females in our family as much as he did teaching weapons. Papa considered empty handed fighting a more advanced study, and weapons fighting a more basic art.
By the way, our "weapons" in our styles overlaps between our Eskrima and our Kuntaw. The Bolo, for example, was not a part of our Eskrima, but our Kuntaw. And Kuntaw had some knife techniques that were somewhat different from our Eskrima. They came from different sources, and they are taught to different types of students. And one of the "types" of students are the members of our own families. This "forgotten" side of the Filipino Martial Arts is the teaching of Eskrima–the most lethal parts of our Eskrima–to our own wives and children.
About 10 years ago, I had met and befriended a young Filipina who took an interest in my school and wanted to help me promote my school. At this time, I was teaching in the Veteran's Hall in South Sacramento, and no one outside the Filipino community really knew of, or even cared about my classes. In three months my group had grown to almost 60 students, and we ended up opening our first commercial location downtown, becoming the only full-time Filipino martial arts school in town. This young lady, whom by this time had revealed herself to me as the daughter of an FMA grandmaster (who was a classmate of GM Dan Inosanto), took an interest in learning Eskrima. To my surprise, she informed me that she had never learned Eskrima! I was floored. As it turned out, I had met many–and I emphasize: MANY–family members of FMA greats, who had not learned the arts. I don't want to mention names out of shame, but some of these people appear regularly in martial arts magazines, almost monthly. I can't imagine allowing one of my children to reach adulthood without studying the martial arts. I have been married 6 times and have helped to raise more than 20 children, and all of them have (and some are still studying) learned the martial arts from me. In my household, it is as normal as prayer and good character; martial arts study leads to a healthy life and fit body, good looks, and yields very strong and secure spirits and personalities.
Although this is considered the "manly" art of fighting, a man must protect his family. His children and spouse look to him to provide shelter, food, guidance and safety. How can they look to him, when all he can do is put a roof over their heads and nice car in the garage? When danger comes to the household, they will call out to him for safety. If he is not there, he'd better have a back-up plan. This is why a man must have three things to provide for safety and protection for his family:
- martial arts training to defend his family and home, if necessary,
- weapons to use in case the situation gets "thick",
- and training for family members in the event he is not home.
I remember my Grandmother telling me story about GIs coming to our home when my mother was little, and my Grandfather was away. The story she told me was more about her jumping the gun and thinking the soldiers were there to cause trouble. They weren't, it was for something else, but something she said caught my attention; she told me when the boys (my uncles) came in to warn her, she grabbed a homemade spear she kept over the door to confront them. The spear was a skill she learned from her father, and was the only thing she had learned from him, despite that he also knew how to use swords and sticks. My grandfather's spear technique came from my maternal great grandfather, btw, through her.
My wife and I discussed my desire to keep a few firearms throughout the house besides our bedroom. I had wanted to teach my boys and my teenaged step daughter to use them, as my mother taught us to fire handguns and rifles when I was 11. We decided to use blades instead, so I have 4 machetes and several daggers. All of my children, including the five year olds, have learned the first 5 strikes in our Eskrima system. Tonight, we decided to put a razor-sharp blade in the teenager's bedroom. I'd like to put a bolo, but we will probably go with a fixed-blade dagger. When I am done typing this article, I will give her the dagger.
Three days a week, my 9 and 10 year olds accompany me to my school for training. My 13 year old boy works out almost daily in our garage, where we have weapons, weights, and a punching bag. My wife and I spar and perform bag work as a couples' activity. Twice a week, my 17 year old girl trains with my women at the school.
The point is that as martial artists, our families should be the wrong people to mess with. We should never allow them to walk around vulnerable. It is our responsibility as men to protect our women and children, as it is also our responsiblity to ensure that they are protected. In other words, teach them to protect themselves.
And when your kids fight (like mine do daily), pad them up, and let them workout their aggressions "constructively"… on each other.
You'll be glad you did. They will be more fit, they will represent you well, and at least you will know that they are somewhat safe when you're not around. On top of that, if anyone ever entered your home when illegally, you have equipped your family with the ability to take them down. All the way down.
Next time, we will talk about what your family should know–at a minimum.
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One of my favorite styles of the past is the flapper girl style. Not only the style, but the attitude. It fascinates me that the young women of the 20s changed everything for generations to come. I feel that they, in many ways, created the modern woman.
In a time when women wore their hair long and loose, they cut their hair short and popularized the bob.
In a time when women wore corsets and long skirts and dresses, they said goodbye to the corset and raised their hem lines.
In a time when the Victorian image of womanhood was prominent, they flattened their breasts and lowered their waistlines, creating a boyish look.
In a time when women didn't wear makeup, they wore rouge, powder, eye-liner, and lipstick.
In a time when courtship was the norm, they reinvented dating.
In a time when women were supposed to be modest, they flaunted their sexuality.
In a time when alcohol was prohibited, they drank.
In a time when only men smoked cigarettes, they smoked cigarettes.
In a time when fast-paced dancing was unheard of, they created the Charleston and the Shimmy.
What brave and beautiful young women they were. As a woman of 2012, I'd like to send the lovely and intriguing flapper girls my sincerest thank you for sticking it to the man!
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Reading Matters
N.C. writers: What are they doing?
Does every state produce as many writers as North Carolina? I doubt it. One of my most pleasant tasks is catching up with them.
Tony Earley, for instance, the Vanderbilt novelist from Rutherfordton County. Did you know he has recurring dreams of two small towns in North Carolina – towns so complete in every detail that he often steps into one of the restaurants for a meal?
His last collection of stories was "Mr. Tall," and he emails that he's 100 pages "into a novel about a tomato farmer, a blizzard and toxic waste," with a lot of untranslated Spanish dialogue, a language he doesn't speak. "So it has been kind of fun to write," he says.
Charlotte novelist and poet Judy Goldman (her memoir was "Losing My Sister") is now revising a new manuscript, "What We Can Count On: A Memoir about Marriage, Identity and Forgiveness." When she married, she says she was not only in love with her husband. She was also in love with the idea of the two growing old together. She didn't envision a life-rattling change when they were in their 60s.
"That's when my husband, seeking relief from back pain, had an epidural and was instantly paralyzed from the waist down," she says. "This split-second medical mishap is the starting point for a look at the changes – major and minor, abrupt and gradual – that take place in every marriage."
When you ask our poet laureate Shelby Stephenson what he's working on, you get a pleasant walking tour of his farm outside Benson.
He'd seen a bunny that morning, he emailed me, "headed for the dribblings under the birdfeeder." And when he walked around the old cow stable, "a fawn was loping to get into a fringe of deep woods."
But is he writing? Of course he is. Is he not Shelby Stephenson?
Hillsborough's Lee Smith spent the summer in Maine where she worked on related stories about older people. The proposed title story, "Silver Alert," is about "an old man who busts out of his nursing home and steals a Porsche and takes to the highway along with a pedicure girl."
She says she and husband Hal Crowther actually saw a "Silver Alert" billboard flashing across I-95 last year as they were driving home from Key West. "And it really was a Porsche, too – geezer on the lam! Though I have made up the pedicure girl."
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Counter-intuitively, Cessna meets downturn with product expansion
With six products to certify and enter into service this year and two mid-sized executive jets to bring to fruition in the next two, Cessna Aircraft has set an ambitious agenda at a time when markets remain tepid, at best.
"This is the most new models we've ever done," says Senior Vice President for Engineering Michael D. Thacker. Cessna's market is far from recovered from the 2008-09 recession, which hit the company, a Textron subsidiary, hard enough that it closed one factory in Bend, Ore., and three in Columbus, Ga. Its employee count dropped by 8,000. Textron CEO Scott Donnelly says Cessna has reduced its 2013 business jet outlook and is adjusting production rates. Some executives and machinists are opting for early retirement.
Despite all that, Thacker says, Cessna's strategy is to leverage its product commonality to broaden its lineup while emphasizing design-for-manufacturing techniques to position itself for an upturn. "We think new products do drive customer response," he says. "As we come out of this downturn, we need to be prepared with fresh, new products. The reality is that a downturn is exactly when you need to be investing."
As one of the country's oldest aircraft makers, Cessna has built tremendous customer loyalty—Thacker cites a 70-80% repeat order rate—and will count on that as the company extends the Citation 10 family's base range and seating capacity. Six products are coming to market this year—a small Citation called the M2, a new Citation X and a new Citation Sovereign, plus three general aviation aircraft updates: the Grand Caravan EX, the composite TTx and JT-A.
The second big endeavor begins next year with the Citation Latitude, which uses the Sovereign wing, cockpit and many of its systems in a new 7-9-passenger jet with a 2,500-nm range. Meanwhile, initial set-up begins on the 4,000-nm Citation Longitude, which moves into full production in late 2014 or early 2015.
Despite all this activity, Thacker says, Cessna is accustomed to developing new products, "so the pace is a normal flow." Certainly from a facilities standpoint the company will not be strained. It expects to build fewer than 200 jets this year, far off the pace of years when it has produced more than 400. Still, its previous high-water mark for new product introductions was four aircraft in a single year. To gear up, operations teams became involved early in the development process of each of the new models to assure that tooling, fixture modifications and production layouts will be in place to support the new cycle.
Cessna produces the majority of its airframes and components, including its own landing gear, in-house. Very little is outsourced, with the main exception of empennages from Fokker Aerospace for the Citation Sovereigns. The majority of fabrication and assembly is done at its two headquarters factories here. Its Independence, Kan., factory produces general aviation models along with the smaller Citation Mustang and M2 business jets. Components are trucked in from a facility in Chihuahua, Mexico.
While the company's production capacity is more than sufficient, it has been expanding beyond its service center in Paris with facilities in Doncaster (near London); Dusseldorf, Germany; and Zurich, plus a small facility in Prague.
Aside from the composites in the TTx and some fairings and secondary structures, Cessna relies on traditional aluminum alloy materials. While the dimensions of its fuselages and wings, and the considerable customization that executive jets undergo for individual customers, has limited its application of automated riveting processes, the company has shifted to metal bonding for ribs and stringers. The transition has required a big commitment of capital and infrastructure but those costs are outweighed by improved efficiency, Thacker says.
One survival strategy was the emphasis on design-for-manufacturing processes. The shift includes co-locating engineers within the factory to support individual production models. Production improvement teams offer "rapid reaction" support on development programs.
Preproduction planning includes some traditional verification methods, such as building full-scale plywood mockups to verify Dassault Systemes' Catia software designs in terms of ergonomics and maintenance procedures.
These combinations of planning and new production methods have paid off over the past two years, Thacker says. "We've really hit our stride."


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Yes, the new Wyndham Rewards program will be great/
I saw yesterday morning that Shawn at Miles to Memories had taken a crack at comparing the much-beloved Club Carlson rewards program with the just-announced changes to the Wyndham Rewards program, effective May 11, 2015.
There are many methods of comparing co-branded hotel credit cards. Personally, I prefer using a metric I call "imputed redemption values:" the amount of cash back foregone by using a hotel's co-branded credit card instead of a 2% or 2.22% cash back card.
The method isn't perfect (it ignores points earned on paid stays and elite-qualifying nights and stays) but it has two key benefits: it makes co-branded hotel credit cards directly comparable; and it gives a rough guideline for how much your typical room redemptions should cost to make hotel points worth manufacturing at the expense of cash back.
For example, here's an imputed redemption value chart for Club Carlson, in which I've helpfully included the last-night-free benefit:
This chart illustrates the decreasing impact of the last-night-free benefit on longer stays.
By contrast, here's an imputed redemption value chart I whipped up just now for Wyndham Rewards' revalued post-May 11, 2015, program, using the Barclaycard no-annual-fee co-branded credit card earning 2 Wyndham Rewards points on all purchases:
Stating the obvious
A glance at the charts shows that, unsurprisingly, It's still true that if you're staying exactly two nights somewhere with a Club Carlson property where you'll be happy staying, those two nights will always be cheaper if manufactured with a Club Carlson credit card than with a Wyndham Rewards credit card (or any other hotel's co-branded credit card).
Some people take vacations of more or fewer than 2 days
But if you're staying a single night, your last-night-free benefit is worthless. If you're staying more than 2 nights, and especially if you don't have a second Club Carlson account you can use to book alternating pairs of nights, the last-night-free benefit rapidly loses value.
Wyndham and Club Carlson have different property footprints
This works in two different ways. First, Club Carlson and Wyndham properties are located in different places. If you want to stay where a Wyndham property is located, you need to use Wyndham points or cash. If you want to stay where the Club Carlson property is located, you need to use Club Carlson points or cash.
Second, the distribution of properties within category bands is different. In a city with exclusively high-category Club Carlson properties, Wyndham stays are more likely to be cheaper (except on two-night stays, as mentioned above), while areas with low-category Club Carlson properties will have relatively expensive Wyndham properties.
The important thing to note here is that these distributions are not random. It is knowable (or at least predictable) in advance whether you're going to be visiting areas with relatively expensive or relatively cheap Wyndham properties (for example by looking at your travel pattern for the previous few years).
In other words, you don't need to decide between Club Carlson and Wyndham in a vacuum: you can make an educated guess about how well each program will work for you based on your actual and planned travel.
Club Carlson properties are wildly inconsistent
I'm checking in for a 2-night Club Carlson stay this afternoon. A few days ago I checked out of another 2-night Club Carlson stay. I had a 2-night Club Carlson stay in Rome in January. Last year I had several 2-night Club Carlson stays in New York City.
Suffice it to say, I love Club Carlson's program, and I love the last-night-free benefit.
With that out of the way, let's be honest: Club Carlson properties can be pretty terrible. The Radisson Blu in Rome has a great location right by the train station and a great breakfast buffet, and it costs just 44,000 Gold Points per 2-night stay (about $98 in foregone cash back per night). But I'll never stay there again; it's a dump.
Of course, readers have also shared wonderful experiences at various Club Carlson properties. The point is simply that locking yourself into Club Carlson because it's the "best" rewards program requires you to be indifferent to the quality of the properties themselves.
As travel hackers, we can hold ourselves to (at least slightly) higher standards than that!
The Wyndham Rewards co-branded credit card paired with the May 11, 2015, revaluation of the Wyndham Rewards program will make Wyndham Rewards stays in areas with high-category properties in other chains the cheapest or second-cheapest to manufacture, depending on the length of your stay.
However, whether it makes sense to prospectively manufacture large numbers of Wyndham Rewards points will still depend entirely on the distribution and quality of Wyndham and other hotel properties in the areas you actually intend to visit.


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What it means to be picked as a British & Irish Lion
12.00, 19th April. Sion Park.
The British & Irish Lions Tour Manager John Spencer will reveal the names of the players selected for the tour to New Zealand. The recruitment of the Lions squad has been a hot topic amongst rugby supporters over the last 18 months, fuelled by the recent success of England, the improving performances of Scotland and the Irish victory against the All Blacks at Soldier Field, Chicago – there is a sense of optimism and excitement growing in the rugby community.
According to Shane Horgan, who toured with the Lions in 2005 in New Zealand, the quadrennial recurrence of the Lions means that "there's something quite scarce and precious about the tours" and that "the Lions fixtures always stood out to me, because of the fact it came around every 4 years". From a fan perspective, it's another 6-week extravaganza of rugby, but from a players' perspective Horgan describes being recruited as a Lion as "really special".
He continued:
"One of the best memories I have in rugby was the day I found out I had been chosen to go on tour, in particular because my Dad was from NZ and he would tell me about the times he would watch the Lions when they toured NZ. He spoke about Tony O'Reilly touring with the Lions and so had that in the background and was the prism I viewed the Lions through. So to be picked and have the opportunity to go down there and contribute was fantastic - apart from the results, I had a brilliant time!"
Whether a player or a supporter, the British & Irish Lions can leave a lasting memory. Winning on tour however, not only creates great memories but can also create history, particularly against the number one team in the world and current World Champions. BBC Sport pundit Jonathan Davies, speaking at a recent Robert Walters event, believes that the All Blacks players and the Lions squad will feel the pressure, due to the nature of the tour and sport in the country:
''If you go there, it's the national game. You cannot get away from it, hotels, schools, restaurants and bars. It's living in a gold fish bowl. It will be a challenge to keep everyone happy to be in such a massive rugby environment. When I played there it was humbler than it is now. On the field, it's unbelievable, they have been even better than they were. Kieran Read has stepped up and improved their game. They will feel the pressure; I think this is the best rugby team the Lions have had since 1971 when they won the series in New Zealand. It is because of the strength and depth of the squad all round. The forwards and the choice they have, they won't be such underdogs as people think''.
The Lions are renowned for their strong travelling support, within city centres, bars, fanzones and within the stadiums, the 'sea of red' follows the team bus wherever it goes – an estimated 25,000 will travel. Horgan said that the "supporters invest more in tours because of the irregularity of the franchise" and this is why the Lions are notorious for their fans. Former South African and World Cup winning captain John Smit has experienced facing the Lions during 2 tours in South Africa (1986 and 1997), and describes the Lions supporters as being "extraordinary" and then continued:
"It was the only team in my career I have played at home and having felt we were playing away. It adds a huge amount to what already the Lions bring on the field".
The selection process is a daunting thought if you're Warren Gatland, trying to select that first 15 with the best of the Home Nations to choose from. However for a spectator and fan from England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales there will be countless discussions and disagreements trying to put 15 names down on a pub napkin. Robert Walters, who is an Official Sponsor of the British & Irish Lions, are looking forward to watching the selection process for the tour to New Zealand unfold!
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Body Fit Ibiza
Spain · October 5 - 8 2018
Buckle down and get back in shape during this luxurious, deeply personalized fitness intensive in the stunning Mediterranean island of Ibiza.
This four-day luxury retreat is a health and fitness experience meant to spike your metabolism, tone your muscles, and rebalance your body and mind. You'll be welcomed with a consultation, where you'll receive detailed body stats and a fitness benchmark. Throughout your stay, you'll be given a huge variety of training methodologies, an expert nutrition workshop, a one-on-one physical therapy session and a one-on-one Coaching session, as well as a take away program to continue your fitness journey after your departure.
When you're not breaking a sweat, you'll enjoy dining at first class restaurants, lounging by the luxurious pool, or hitting the beautiful Ibiza beach.
- 3 nights accommodation
- daily breakfast
- daily fitness training
- one-on-one PT and coaching
- nutritional workshops
Claire and James
Claire runs 38ºN with James and with a background in NLP and coaching, her passion is in ensuring sustainable results through mindset tools and techniques.
James started 38ºN over six years ago and is passionate about making health accessible to everyone. With a Masters in Applied Psychology he brings a unique holistic approach to the 38ºN experience.
ME Ibiza
A sophisticated beachside retreat where luxury meets boho.
Nestled in a secluded bay, this luxury hotel enjoys a private, relaxing feel. With minimalist, Ibiza-inspired decor, ME Ibiza presents a truly indulgent experience for the liestyle traveler.
The rooftop offers dazzling views across the ocean, accompanied by an infinity pool and sumptuous Bali beds. The ground floor offers an upbeat but low key environment with daily DJs, Bali beds and a delicious poolside menu.
The Plan
This is an example of what a typical day on the retreat might look like.


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Her Cromwell is not quite a hero.
If you want, you can find something in their argument too, and agree that Mantel relishes the brutal realities of politics.
Peter Straughan's script for the BBC is a masterpiece. He compresses two long novels into a mere six hours of television, without ever cluttering the screen or hurrying the pace. I'll watch the series again just to try to work out how he did it. Straughan, like Mantel, does indeed show Cromwell as an operator. When the director Peter Kosminsky turns his camera on him at court, Mark Rylance's Cromwell never lets his feelings show. His face is the mask of the imperturbable bureaucrat, until the moment he is sure his back is covered and he can let rip with the withering voice of a man of power.
But to think that Mantel is just praising or dissecting a practical politician is as simple-minded as thinking she is just updating Protestant patriotism. The screamingly obvious fact about her great historical novels is that she is drawn to revolution. Her glory as a writer is that she shows better than any novelist I know how fast the old certainties can vanish; how events historians will write hundreds of millions of words about happen in a shorter time than it takes a historian to write an academic paper. One minute you must subscribe to the rules of Catholic England or Bourbon France to prosper or just survive, the next they are gone, and there is no going back.
Mantel once said of the working-class matriarchs, who dominated her—Catholic—childhood, "They'd been nowhere but they'd seen everything." You could say the same of her. Mantel understands hope, ambition, envy and, unusually for a woman writer, male sexual desire, but her writing draws its power not only from her startling imagery or her cool observation of her characters, but from her ability to heighten familiar emotions in the furnace of revolution.
In A Place of Greater Safety, the young Camille Desmoulins is caught eavesdropping on a conversation between his father and the Prince of Condé on the possibility of revolution coming to France. The prince isn't angry. He kindly asks the boy how he stayed still and silent for so long. His friendliness isn't reciprocated.
"Perhaps you froze my blood," Camille said. He looked the Prince up and down, like a hangman taking his measurements. "Of course there will be a revolution," he said. "You are making a nation of Cromwells. But we can go beyond Cromwell, I hope. In fifteen years you tyrants and parasites will be gone. We shall have set up a republic, on the purest Roman model."
Desmoulins does not build a pure republic. His revolution ends in tyranny, and Desmoulins ends on the steps to the guillotine with his comrades urging him to pull himself together and not give the mob the satisfaction of seeing him cry.
In Wolf Hall, Cromwell (Thomas not Oliver) delights in his master Henry VIII. Anything seems possible as long as he has the king's ear.
You could watch Henry every day for a decade and not see the same thing. He admires Henry more and more. Sometimes he seems hapless, sometimes feckless, sometimes a child, sometimes master of his trade. Sometimes he seems an artist, in the way his eye ranges over his work; sometimes his hand moves and he doesn't seem to see it move.
As Cromwell gathers more power, he dreams he can turn England into an industrious Protestant nation where the poor are put to work, good folk read the Bible in English and merchants prosper. Yet all his power and hopes depend on the nearest England has had to a Stalin. The violence he needs to fulfil his ambitions will destroy him as surely as it will destroy the French revolutionaries. Henry VIII's ministers, wives and nobles find, as the Bolsheviks were to find, that the most dangerous place in the world is the seat next to a tyrant.
Damian Lewis's Henry is charming, charismatic and boyish. He looks as if he barely cares for power, until the moment his eyes narrow and he pulls Cromwell close. He must have what he wants, and if he does not get it someone must pay. Eventually that someone will be Cromwell.


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#14 Baseball Gets By UAB 11-3
Feb. 23, 2007
TEMPE, Ariz. - On a blustery night in Tempe, the Sun Devils were able to fend off the UAB Blazers for an 11-3 victory in front of 3,109 at Winkles Field-Packard Stadium at Brock Ballpark. Josh Satow pitched 5.2 innings, allowing only two hits and striking out six to pick up the win, upping his record to 3-1. ASU improves to 8-3 on the season.
UAB got on the board first, pushing a run across in the second on an RBI ground out. The Sun Devils would even things up in the third with an Eric Sogard RBI single that scored Andrew Romine.
Arizona State would blow it open in the sixth inning, scoring six times to take a 7-1 lead. Three straight singles to start the inning had the bases loaded for Ike Davis. Davis knocked Matt Hall home with his ground out to the second baseman. The Blazers then walked Matt Spencer intentionally to load the bases, setting up Kiel Roling for a sacrifice fly that scored Brett Wallace to make it 3-1. Then things got wacky for the Blazers pitching staff. With Sogard on third, UAB starter Brandon Wallace threw a wild pitch to the backstop. That allowed Sogard to score, but the throw from the catcher went into the Sun Devil dugout, allowing Spencer to score from second. That made it 5-1 Devils. ASU would later add another run on a bases loaded walk to Joe Persichina, then made it 7-1 when Tim Smith scored on a wild pitch by Kyle Roberson.
When the dust had settled, the Sun Devils had a 7-1 lead after five innings of play. UAB would get two back in the sixth, but ASU would score once in the seventh and three times in the eighth to put the game away, 11-3.
Satow went 5.1 innings and allowed three runs (two earned) while fanning six. Mike Leake came on for him in the sixth, going 2.2, allowing only one hit and striking out three.
Eric Sogard went 4-5 with two runs scored and an RBI, while Brett Wallace and Ike Davis each contributed two hits apiece.
The Devils and Blazers will do it again on Saturday afternoon at 1 p.m. at Winkles Field-Packard Stadium at Brock Ballpark. Brian Flores is expected to get the start on the hill for the Sun Devils.
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Running an ecommerce business can be a challenge, particularly in the area of packing and distribution. It often happens that a business expertly handles its own packing and fulfilment at the beginning, but then the business grows and the distribution becomes harder and harder to handle. You need to provide efficient, fast distribution in order to keep customers happy but this can be very hard to do unless you are a big company with dedicated warehousing and packing facilities.
This is why increasing numbers of small and medium sized businesses are choosing to outsource their packing and fulfilment needs. Without the worry of fulfilment hanging over your head you can pay more attention to how the business is growing and developing. Here are a few of the reasons why outsourcing fulfilment is the way forward.
- You Make Cost Savings
It can be very expensive to put warehouse facilities in place for the sole use of your own company. Unless you are already established it is likely you will not have the resources available to manage this outgoing. An outsourced facility is cheaper because the cost savings are passed down by the company since a number of different businesses are sharing the facilities. Plus, the provider already has their own methods in place to run a distribution business economically.
- You Benefit From a More Efficient Service
Contract packing and distribution ensures your business operates efficiently and smoothly. Unless you already have a dedicated fulfilment system that ably handles orders and packing you will definitely benefit from the efficiency of expert providers.
- You Retain Control
Outsourcing fulfilment gives you the best of both worlds since you do not have to worry about the day to day operation of the system but you get to oversee the process and you never lose sight of what is going on. You access live data that informs you how your stock is doing, and lets you know when and where items are being delivered.
- You Get More Space
If you simply need more space for a larger inventory, outsourcing is the economical option since you get space and you do not have to pay a lot of money for the extra space. Renting or buying a new warehouse can be a tremendous drain on resources.
- You Offer a Better Service
You can offer your customers what they want, from a timely delivery to bespoke packaging, a range of transit times, and the assurance that items will arrive safe. It is hard to offer, and deliver, these benefits when you are handling fulfilment yourself.
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New York Times columnist Paul Krugman, not the staunchest friend of Hillary Clinton, is offering a plan to keep her "in check" if she becomes the Democratic nominee. Krugman would put Elizabeth Warren in the VP slot to keep an eye on Hillary so she doesn't stray too far from the Democratic base.
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Nobel Prize-winning New York Times columnist Paul Krugman has an interesting vision of the 2016 Democratic presidential ticket: Hillary Clinton for president and Sen. Elizabeth Warren "looking over her shoulder so she doesn't stray too far."
Speaking on HuffPost Live Wednesday about Clinton's domestic policy, Krugman said, "When she talks now, she sounds substantially to the left of the old Hillary Clinton."
"If she becomes president and then turns … [and] runs back to the right, that's going to be a problem. … I guess part of one's hope, if she becomes president, [is that] she will in fact feel some need to avoid alienating the Democratic wing of the Democratic Party, which is for all practical purposes led by Elizabeth Warren right now," Krugman said. [Emphasis added]
As for a presidential bid from the Democratic senator from Massachusetts, he said it "would be an interesting thing" but predicted it would be unsuccessful.
As Krugman notes, he'd prefer Warren at the top of the ticket since, as he puts it, she leads the base of the party right now. Would an all-female ticket be the next big thing in politics following Barack Obama? Doubtful as Hillary would never want to share the limelight with anyone else.


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Mi Casa de Luz is an inter-modal art collaboration between two artists, Ruth Buentello and joey lopez. Our similar cultural perspectives and our desire to experiment and share our artistic power drove us to work together.
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Join us with your friends and family from 8.00pm for a glass of mulled wine, home made mince pies and carol singing led by the landlady Denise and her guitar!
A range of carols will be sung, from the classics such as 'O Little Town of Bethlehem' to the all time favourites like 'Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer'. No singing expertise necessary!!!
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When I began studying the historical budgets and accounting materials that I have discussed this week, my primary aim was to answer a central question of my dissertation. There have been some auxiliary advantages, however, that I did not expect:
1. Between this work and the corpus analysis project I completed this summer, I got a lot more practice with Excel. I already knew the basics—inputting data, adding and deleting rows and columns, and building formulas—but I learned a lot more about how to create graphs and charts. My sister created the first few line graphs for me, and by taking them apart and swapping data in and out, I learned how to create generate my own. I also played around with different formats and settings and discovered new ways to make my data visualizations more helpful.
2. I have a better understanding of the value of money—both as currency with variable purchasing power, and as a resource that organizations and businesses carefully allocate. For most organizations, labor and personnel are both the most costly line items in their budget and the most necessary to keep their programs productive, successful, and innovative. To pay for staff and for high quality programs, there is always a balance to strike between raising income and raising barriers. For organizations that serve working class or lower middle class clients who do not qualify for subsidized or public programs, there is always a risk that clients will not be able to afford higher fees—leaving the organization with even less income and the client without a valuable resource.
3. Finally, the biggest benefit to pursing this forensic accounting was the satisfaction of learning something new. I never expected to perform so much arithmetic in the course of my dissertation research! I've been surprised to find how much I enjoy using quantitative methodologies to analyze the past. I would now like to do even more quantitative work in future research projects.
Even though my foray into historical accounting and budget analysis was intimidating, I found it enormously valuable and would encourage other scholars to attempt similar inquiries in the context of their own projects.


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I've been editing since 2011 in various roles. I'm currently working in a full-time editor role with the Queensland government.
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I specialise in editing online content for grammar, style, and voice.
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From 2015 to 2018 I ran my editing business, Hedera House, and worked with a wide range of bloggers, authors, and business owners to help them make their content shine. I also provided information about writing and editing for bloggers and writers through blog posts, a mini course, and my book Blog in Bloom.
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Rite I:
God of all times and seasons: Give us grace that we, after the example of thy servant Hildegard, may both know and make known the joy and jubilation of being part of thy creation, and show forth thy glory not only with our lips but in our lives; through Jesus Christ our Savior, who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.
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God of all times and seasons: Give us grace that we, after the example of your servant Hildegard, may both know and make known the joy and jubilation of being part of your creation, and show forth your glory not only with our lips but in our lives; through Jesus Christ our Savior, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.
1 The pride of the higher realms is the clear vault of the sky,
as glorious to behold as the sight of the heavens.
2 The sun, when it appears, proclaims as it rises
what a marvellous instrument it is, the work of the Most High.
6 It is the moon that marks the changing seasons,
governing the times, their everlasting sign.
7 From the moon comes the sign for festal days,
a light that wanes when it completes its course.
9 The glory of the stars is the beauty of heaven,
a glittering array in the heights of the Lord.
10 On the orders of the Holy One they stand in their appointed places;
they never relax in their watches.
11 Look at the rainbow, and praise him who made it;
it is exceedingly beautiful in its brightness.
12 It encircles the sky with its glorious arc;
the hands of the Most High have stretched it out.
27 We could say more but could never say enough;
let the final word be: 'He is the all.'
28 Where can we find the strength to praise him?
For he is greater than all his works.
25 O Lord, how manifold are your works! *
in wisdom you have made them all;
the earth is full of your creatures.
26 Yonder is the great and wide sea
with its living things too many to number, *
creatures both small and great.
27 There move the ships,
and there is that Leviathan, *
which you have made for the sport of it.
28 All of them look to you *
to give them their food in due season.
29 You give it to them; they gather it; *
you open your hand, and they are filled with good things.
30 You hide your face, and they are terrified; *
you take away their breath,
and they die and return to their dust.
31 You send forth your Spirit, and they are created; *
and so you renew the face of the earth.
32 May the glory of the Lord endure for ever; *
may the Lord rejoice in all his works.
33 He looks at the earth and it trembles; *
he touches the mountains and they smoke.
34 I will sing to the Lord as long as I live; *
I will praise my God while I have my being.
16 'For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not perish but may have eternal life.
17 'Indeed, God did not send the Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him. 18Those who believe in him are not condemned; but those who do not believe are condemned already, because they have not believed in the name of the only Son of God. 19And this is the judgement, that the light has come into the world, and people loved darkness rather than light because their deeds were evil. 20For all who do evil hate the light and do not come to the light, so that their deeds may not be exposed. 21But those who do what is true come to the light, so that it may be clearly seen that their deeds have been done in God.'


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Feeding Time!
Here's a snapshot from my reef cam of noon feeding time today. The fish really enjoy their green seaweed algae!
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String operations in most RDBMSs are, arguably, needlessly painful. Fortunately, Postgres is better than most in this regard, providing strong regular expression support. This section covers basic string manipulation, use of the LIKE operator, and use of regular expressions. I also make an effort to show you some alternative approaches that work reliably in most RDBMSs. Be sure to check out Postgres' string function docs page if you're not confident about these exercises.
Anthony Molinaro's SQL Cookbook provides some excellent documentation of (difficult) cross-DBMS compliant SQL string manipulation. I'd strongly recommend his book, particularly as it's published by O'Reilly, whose ethical policy of DRM-free ebook distribution deserves rich rewards.


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England international James Milner has praised the exciting number of young players making waves in the England first team before the Euro 2016 tournament in France this summer.
The Three Lion face the Netherlands in a friendly at Wembley on 29 March, three days after the side produced a thrilling comeback, beating Germany 3-2 in Berlin. Young players Harry Kane and Dele Alli impressed throughout, with Milner saying that they could dispel the idea that the team, eliminated from the World Cup group stage two years ago, is in crisis.
"I think it's exciting times. The squad's changed massively since I came into it. The older guys when I came in were the likes of David Beckham, Rio Ferdinand John Terry, Steven Gerrard, Frank Lampard.
"Now it's full turn and I'm one of the older guys, and it's exciting the amount of young talent coming through. Over the last few years we've heard English football is in trouble and there aren't enough young players coming through. And it's pleasing to hopefully prove that wrong now, with the number of young players coming through," he said.
The 30-year-old Liverpool midfielder will captain England for the first time in the match against the Netherlands who, despite reaching the semi-finals in Brazil two years ago, failed to qualify for Euro 2016.
Milner's teammate Daniel Sturridge is also due to lead the line for England for the first time since September 2014, with Leicester City's Danny Drinkwater expected to be handed his England debut.


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Tuesday, June 17, 2008
What Sucks News…1st Same Sex Marriage Offers Stark Reminder: Not All Lesbians Hot
Perhaps lost in all the hoopla of the legalization of same sex marriage in California is that not all lesbians are hot. Never was this so true as when longtime lesbian activists Phyllis Lyon, 84 and her partner Del Martin, 87 were the first to be married at San Francisco's City Hall Monday.
The ceremony, which was a beautiful public acknowledgement of a loving relationship that has spanned 50 years, was noticeably without gentle, stress relieving backrubs and glasses of wine. Neither of the participants whispered "We really shouldn't be doing this..." and neither came upon a country lake, wanted to swim, realized they had no bathing suit and then playfully skinny-dipped with each other.
Said one male witness looking at his watch, "Yeah, this is no big deal at all…" before realizing he had to "…get back to work."
The short service left many men wondering- were there really lesbians there as the phrase "Whoo!" was scarcely heard.
As for the couple, each woman pledged to love the other for the rest of their life, or until late next month, whichever came first.
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An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity. - MLK, Jr.
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I hope everyone who has a day off from work is enjoying their mini vaca! I also hope that everyone, no matter what your work schedule is like, takes a few minutes to think about the changes that Martin Luther King, Jr. allowed for/introduced in the United States and worldwide. He was a voice among the voiceless and died for what he believed in. That is the type of role model that we need today, not only in politics, but also in everyday life - someone who is not afraid to go against the majority and stand for something; to let people know that spiritual emptiness comes from superficial greed; to show that you can make a difference that will make waves across the globe. When fashions fade and you are disrobed of all airs and possessions, all that is exposed is your beliefs. Make them mean something.


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Before going to sleep, in the quiet of the cabin, campers talk about their "rose, thorn and bud" of the day, and Alex Robertson always looks forward to this sharing of highlights, challenges and expectations at Camp Oochigeas (Ooch) in Muskoka, Ontario.
He believes that what makes these moments so special is not only what the children typically talk about: friendships, activities and experiences. It's what they don't dwell on: living with cancer.
"At Camp Ooch, where everyone is affected by cancer, children have the chance to put friendship and fun in the front seat and cancer in the backseat," says Mr. Robertson, CEO of Camp Ooch, who also returns every summer as camp counsellor.
At the only overnight camp in Canada that provides onsite intravenous chemotherapy and blood transfusions, the med shed – as the treatment centre is called – holds medical equipment and musical instruments and games. "Last year, I accompanied a seven-year-old to get his push of chemo every morning," Mr. Robertson recalls. "We played a game of Uno while he was getting hooked up, and after his PIC line was wrapped up, we'd join the early morning swim."
Reflecting Canada's demographics of children with cancer, the campers may have leukemia, brain and central nervous system cancers or lymphomas.
They may be recovering from surgeries and radiation, and often have further rounds of therapies ahead of them. "[Children with cancer] spend a lot of time in hospitals and with their parents or guardians since many are too sick to go to school," says Mr. Robertson. "Since their chances to socialize and make new friends are limited, they can miss out on milestones that are integral to a healthy development.
"Camp changes that," he adds. Feedback from families, doctors and nurses confirms that connecting with children their own age helps campers develop skills for interacting with others – it also fosters a sense of belonging. Camp Ooch programs are provided at no cost to campers and their families, explains Mr. Robertson. "Since we don't receive government or hospital funding, what we call the 'Magic of Ooch' happens only because of our amazing community of donors and volunteers."
Camp Ooch currently serves about 20 per cent of Ontario's children with cancer, with programs in Muskoka, at Ooch Downtown in Toronto and at various pediatric hospitals, he says. "There are still many kids who don't have access to an oncology camp, and we're aiming to increase our capacity and also reach children who are unable to attend overnight camps."
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Washington's Blog
June 6, 2012
The operator of the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant has been dumping something like a thousand tons per day of radioactive water into the Pacific ocean.
Remember, the reactors are "riddled with meltdown holes", building 4 – with more radiation than all nuclear bombs ever dropped or tested – is missing entire walls, and building 3 is a pile of rubble.
The whole complex is leaking like a sieve, and the rivers of water pumped into the reactors every day are just pouring into the ocean (with only a slight delay).


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Tuesday, May 12, 2009
What Sucks…This Whole Miss California Thing
What the hell is wrong with this country? Some evangelical bimbo joins a beauty pageant to get free breast implants, then says something against gay-marriage and now we as a country have to make sure every young, pretty girl who takes a topless picture has to think twice before she does it because she could lose everything she has if she decides to run for "Miss INSERT-STATE-NAME"?
EVERYONE needs to chill - beautiful breasts being shown are at risk here- the stakes are high. Don't drag me into your culture war!
Gay people need to understand that Miss USA has no governing power. Her opinion is completely and utterly without consequence. Why is this a story? Miss California comes out against gay marriage? Really, cause I wasn't gonna make a judgment till I heard from Miss Arizona.
Evangelical beauty contestants need to recognize that if they're gonna say that marriage should be between a man and woman only, and then flash her boobies in a somewhat non-Mary-Mother-Of-God way, people are gonna call you on it.
Producers of beauty pageants need to make sure their contestants are not asked any questions and should actively be discouraged from talking. Always. I thought we learned that through the whole "Miss North Carolina/ lack of maps" debacle.
The media needs to stop reporting on this as if it matters! Google news this morning showed that there have been almost 2400 articles written about this- 2400! There's 2 wars going on and an economic collapse!
We shouldn't have the future of topless photos have to be defended by Donald Trump! By the way, this chick didn't even win the contest!
And holy shit look at the plastic surgery Bruce Jenner has been getting!
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I miss the main photo of the duck with oil on its head. That was the perfect depiction of suckiness.
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I tend to write mostly about myself. So I want to turn the tables a bit and focus on you. More importantly on what a good job you're doing. Seriously. This isn't some after school special about "the more you know" the more successful you'll be. But right now, wherever you are, is wonderful. It sure as hell might not feel like it, but trust me, when you look back in another year or so you'll see how much you've learned and how much easier things were now. Keep up the good work. Don't let other's voices, even the one inside your head, tell you to stop pursuing your passion.
Your work is amazing. Let's not judge ourselves amongst ourselves. Take time to reflect on who you are, what makes you unique and then do what comes naturally to you.


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Nigel Scott BSc, MRICS, twice past president of the Bradford & District Auctioneers & Estate Agents Association heads up the residential sales department and has over 35 years experience in estate agency.
We appreciate that the process of selling a property can be a very stressful experience and from the original market appraisal to the date of completion, our friendly and professional staff will endeavour to provide the highest level of service in order to make the process as smooth as possible.
The process begins with a free market appraisal by a qualified chartered surveyor. Following instructions to market the house, we would erect one of our distinctive "For Sale" boards, produce quality brochures with internal photographs and arrange Energy Performance Certificate's and floor plans (if requested). The property will then be displayed both internally and externally in our showroom, and extensively advertised on the internet to include rightmove, onthemarket and our own website and other leading property portals.
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Benefit Concert on February 20:
Music of Hope and Empowerment
Portland composers and classical musicians are uniting on President's Day, February 20, 2017, to present a concert entitled, "Music of Hope and Empowerment." Music of Hope and Empowerment is a benefit concert to fight hate and promote social justice. All the proceeds of the concert will be donated to the Southern Poverty Law Center, Dr. William Barber's organization, "Repairers of the Breach," and Causa Oregon.
The concert will be performed at:
St. Paul Lutheran Church
3880 SE Brooklyn Street,
Portland Oregon
Start time is 7:30 pm.
Music both new and old
Portland Composers Thomas DeNicola (piano) and Patrick McCulley (saxophone) will be performing their own compositions. Also featured is Stacey Philipps' woodwind trio, "Prevailing Winds."
Selections from Mozart's Clarinet Quintet K. 581, Dvořák's Piano Trio in F minor Op. 65, Poulenc's song cycle, Banalités, as well as music by Beethoven, Brahms, and Astor Piazzolla will round out the program, along with a classical Japanese piece by Shingo Ikegami arranged for clarinet and koto. Performers include musicians from Classical Revolution PDX, the Portland Music Collective, String Theory, Trio Musicorum Medicorum, and mezzo-soprano Sadie Gregg.
Donation/Ticket Info
Admission is via a minimum suggested donation of $10, payable at the door. In lieu of advance tickets, recent donation receipts from any of the benefitting organizations will be accepted for admission.
Donation information is:
- Southern Poverty Law Center (enter "Music of Hope and Empowerment" in the tribute field),
- Repairers of the Breach (enter "Music of Hope and Empowerment" in the instructions or comments field) or
- Causa Oregon (enter "Music of Hope and Empowerment" after In honor of).
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FACT: the High Priestess is one of my FAVORITE cards in the Major Arcana, and she's also one of the most complex, so BUCKLE UP, BUTTERCUP!
In the Rider Waite deck, The High Priestess is depicted as wearing a lunar crown on her head, which embodies three phases of the moon: waxing, full and waning, These three moon phases also symbolize the three phases of "womanhood": the maiden, mother and crone.
- maiden = before we start popping out babies
- mother = prime baby making time
- crone = when our uterus heads into retirement
See why I used the air quotes? Kind of a narrow definition of womanhood. (sidebar: The female body is AMAZING and the ability to create life is MAGIC, but not all women have access to that power in that narrow, specific way. I also love how in some witch-y circles/practices, the crone phase is one of honor, as these are women who have much wisdom to share with the coven. THAT I can get behind: defining our stages of life by our wisdom and experience, not by how we choose to use/choose not to use just one function of our amazing lady bodies #immorethanmyuterus #morethanonewaytobeamother). Moving on...
In ancient cultures that pre-date Christianity, there were a ton of cultures that worshipped the moon and female deities for their creative power, as bringing LIFE into the world was seen as the penultimate act of creative power. There's a fantastic book called Woman as Healer by Jeanne Achterberg that I highly recommend that goes deep on this very topic. #notsponsored #justobsessed
In tarot, the High Priestess is channeling figures like the goddess Isis from Ancient Egypt, who was the goddess from whom all Becoming arose.
The High Priestess is also normally depicted either sitting down or chilling, holding a book. She is still and is ready to listen and receive. But the answers she receives come from within. Her deep mystical, metaphysical and spiritual knowledge, her feminine wisdom is INNATE. She represents the deep, secret, sacred, ancestral, feminine knowledge of the moon, as the moon has been described by astrologers as a symbol for the sum total of personalities one has from previous incarnations to provide us with deep multifaceted knowledge and awareness in this life.
The High Priestess embodies this eternal knowledge: past, present and future.
Many images of the High Priestess also have her seated next to or in a body of calm water, which is symbolic of the unconscious mind and our connection to the collective unconscious.
If this whole notion of divine feminine ancestral knowledge of the High Priestess has you intrigued, I humbly recommend of my favorite books Women Who Run with the Wolves by Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estes. In it, she talks a lot about how as women today, SO 👏🏻MANY👏🏻DEMANDS 👏🏻 have been placed on us culturally that it's really common to lose our connection to the High Priestess energy within us all. It's one of those books that I feel like should be required reading (and I'm like already hoarding copies for when my friend's daughters hit their teens).
Remember the moon phases/maiden/mother/crone thing I mentioned a moment ago? Well, the High Priestess embodies all three simultaneously. She's our symbolic spiritual mama, imbued with the knowledge of the past, the present, and the future.
Drawing the High Priestess also reminds us one of two things.
First: holding space for spiritual self care is CRUCIAL, even more crucial than sheet masking while binge-watching Grey's Anatomy with a big glass of wine from the bathtub…though we should ABSOLUTELY hold space for that, too! It's about balance 🍷🛀🏻🧖♀
Seeing The High Priestess in a reading I gave myself about a year ago was actually part of the inspiration for this blog. My girl is the absolutely reminding us to take time to meditate and to journal, to read books and watch movies that challenge and expand our minds and souls, and remember to honor our intuition, our true sixth sense. If we don't consistently hold space in our lives to STOP and listen to and feel what our gut, our intuition, our interior creature is telling us, we miss out on some powerful guidance. We need to be nourishing our interior creature on the regular with some #soulcare.
In terms of Human Design, The High Priestess is like a reminder to always be checking in with our authority as we make decisions. Our bodies KNOW when something is good for us and when something is outside our integrity or not meant for us. The High Priestess reminds us to QUIET the mind, sit back, chill, and listen to our bodies TALK.
Second (and maybe as importantly): if the High Priestess appears in a reading, it might be in your best interest to remember that some things are best kept sacred and secret. Not everyone needs to know every single meditative thought you have. It's not necessary that we live tweet from the yoga mat or share our journal entries with the internet. There's an appropriate time and place and space and audience with which to share.
Want to learn more about The High Priestess and the other cards of the Major Arcana? Are you new to tarot and not quite sure where to start? The first Interior Creature Course, "The Tarot of Transformation: Using Tarot as a Tool for Decision-Making and Personal Spiritual Growth," is LIVE and we can't wait for you to join the class! It is chock full of videos and tutorials, downloadable cheat sheets, exercises and journal pages, and is designed to jump-start your journey toward giving yourself super powerful insightful tarot readings! The course is totally self-paced and you get unlimited access! And now, for this month only, scroll back up to the top of this page, sign up for our weekly newsletter, and receive a promo code to enter at checkout to access this course ABSOLUTELY FREE. 💕💕💕
Bunning, Joan. Learning Tarot Reversals. Weiser, 2003.
Skinner, Megan. Essence of the Tarot: Modern Reflections on Ancient Wisdom. Green Frog Publishing, 2016.
Wen, Benebell. Holistic Tarot: An Integrative Approach to Using Tarot for Personal Growth. North Atlantic Books, 2015.


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This is the poster for the OPNI (Objeto Pequeño No Identificado [Unidentified Tiny Object]) exhibition, a humorous reference to OVNI [UFOs, Unidentified Flying Objects] that posited an analogy between avant-garde art and a landing of extraterrestrials. The Grupo de Arte de Vanguardia used the Galería Quartier for an exhibition of small, very funny pieces. Juan Pablo Renzi remembers the occasion as follows: "At the time of the OPNI exhibition, we were already established, we were known in Rosario. The Galería Quartier invited us to present some objects, some pint-sized things for the end of the year…So that we produced a little flier with a drawing that I contributed, which actually had nothing to do with my work. I wanted to create something that was as crazy and different as possible from what I usually did." This is an excerpt taken from an interview with Guillermo Fantoni, in Arte, vanguardia y política en los años '60 [Art, Avant-garde, and Politics in the 1960s] (Buenos Aires: El cielo por asalto , 1998), 47.
The Grupo de Arte de Vanguardia de Rosario—a merger of three studios and several artists from different backgrounds (Juan Grela's students, the Grupo Taller, and recent graduates of the University's Escuela de Bellas Artes)—launched their group activities and began to articulate their ideas in late 1965. Two years later, the merger had coalesced and gained recognition as one of the most vital experimental art groups in the country.
The OPNI (Objeto Pequeño No Identificado) exhibition at the Galería Quartier in Rosario was playful, funny, and irreverent. This was all in overt opposition to the group's radical political stance a year later. Among the works presented, Graciela Carnevale had shown a kilo of feathers and a kilo of lead; Guillermo Tottis put a sausage dog between two large plastic buns and walked it around the gallery; Eduardo Favario presented a framed 5,000 pesos bill that was offered for sale at that price, and so forth. OPNI provoked a lively response in the local press.


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The offer to create a smart city in New Chandigarh was made by Korea Telecom, a South Korean company, to a visiting delegation from Punjab led by Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal.
The company also offered to provide LED and safe city (CCTV) solutions for Ludhiana and Amritsar cities.
Badal and his delegation visited the Incheon Free Economic Zone (IFEZ) operational centre and asked Korea Telecom officials to submit a proposal for developing New Chandigarh as a smart city.
Giving detail of the Songdo smart city which is part of the zone, officials disclosed that 317 cameras installed in the city monitored air and water levels, besides monitoring transport and giving real time information to people about accidents or traffic jams.
Badal is visiting South Korea to attract investment for Punjab.


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NHRA's Four-Wide Nationals return to Concord
The National Hot Rod Association's Four-Wide Nationals make their fifth pass at Concord's zMax Dragway next weekend.
The NHRA's unique event – four lanes are used instead of drag racing's traditional two – begins with Friday and Saturday's qualifying sessions and ends with finals on Sunday.
Four-wide racing has been a staple at the Concord dragway since 2010. Here's an update on what's been happening on the NHRA's Mello Yello Drag Racing Series this season:
Top Fuel Dragster: Doug Kalita leads the standings by a healthy 73 points over Antron Brown. Defending-champion Shawn Langdon is languishing in seventh place without a victory. Tony Schumacher, who won at Las Vegas on March 30, is fourth, 150 points behind Kalita.
Funny Car: Alexis DeJoria leads the division with two victories, but is in third place behind Robert Hight and John Force. DeJoria's victory at Las Vegas, coupled with a victory by Erica Enders-Stevens in the Pro Stock car division, was the second time in NHRA history two women had won pro classes in the same event. Force, incidentally, won his 16th Funny Car championship in 2013.
Pro Stock Car: Enders-Stevens' victory at Las Vegas allowed her to take a 15-point lead in the standings over Jason Line. Allen Johnson, who has two victories this season, is third. The division has been without Charlotte's Greg Anderson (a four-time champion), who has been out all season after undergoing heart surgery earlier this year. He hopes to return in a few weeks. Also, 2009 champ Mike Edwards isn't competing this year after selling his entire racing operation in the offseason.
Pro Stock Motorcycle: Steve Johnson won at the season's only race thus far (the Gatornationals in Gainesville, Fla.). Hector Arana Jr., last year's four-wide winner, is third behind Johnson and Scotty Pollacheck.


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After posting another solid quarter, and year, you'd think Facebook stock would be flying high. In fact, just recently, several analysts have either maintained or even raised their price targets, including one suggesting Facebook will hit $105 a share. Considering Facebook is currently sitting at about $74 a share and change, that's a lot of upside, especially after performing so well in 2014.
But based on Facebook's stock price since announcing earnings on Jan. 28 -- after an initial pop, it's actually declined by over $3 a share -- investors have a few concerns. And while Facebook does face some challenges, that doesn't necessarily mean its recent decline in value is warranted, or that it will continue. However, for investors considering Facebook, there are a few areas worth keeping an eye on.
The elephant in the room
Though Facebook CFO Dave Wehner warned investors months ago that spending would increase, this recent quarter's expenses still caught a few by surprise. As per Wehner before the recent earning news, overhead could jump by as much as 70% compared to previous quarters. Turns out, Wehner was overly optimistic.
On a GAAP (including one-time items) basis, Facebook spent a whopping 87% more in 2014's Q4 than it did the prior year. The dramatic increase in overhead was attributed to a few factors: as per COO Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook continues to invest in its ad measurement tools, as well as prepping for the roll-out of video spots across its site.
Toss in infrastructure-related costs and assimilating recent acquisitions, particularly the $19 billion WhatsApp, let alone the $2 billion deal for Oculus, and overhead was sure to skyrocket. Worth keeping an eye on going forward are future expenditures. Why? Because according to Wehner, Facebook is likely to increase spending even further in 2015, by as much as 50% to 75% over last year's inflated outlay.
A dose of Instagram, if you please
As noted in a recent article leading up to Jan. 28's earnings news, there were a couple of key areas Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg could share that would have investors cheering. One, pushing high-priced video ads out to the masses will begin paying dividends in 2015.
Facebook video ads are coming none too soon as it tries to make a dent in Google 's dominant video ad market share, thanks to its wildly popular YouTube property. According to eMarketer estimates, video spots will generate nearly $8 billion in sales this year, of which Google owns about 19%. And Google's ramping up its own video spot solutions, to not only gain market share, but fend off the likes of Facebook.
The other item investors would have loved to hear was that Facebook was making a concerted effort to truly monetize Instagram -- now. Unfortunately, that was conspicuously absent from Facebook's earnings call. There's no denying Instagram and its now over 300 million monthly average users (MAUs) is ideally suited for Facebook-like spots, especially video -- it's a natural for a photo-sharing site. But it appears investors will need to wait a while longer.
As for the future
Though certainly not a major issue, another area worth monitoring is Facebook's MAU growth -- or lack thereof. Last quarter's 1.39 billion MAUs was only a slight improvement over Q3's 1.35 billion. Of course, Facebook properties like WhatsApp boasts over 700 million MAUs, and Messenger has skyrocketed to over 500 million, so considering its multiple platforms, user growth continues. However, as things stand, its primary site is responsible for the vast majority of revenues today, so until its other platforms start adding meaningfully to sales, growth hinges on Facebook alone.
The MAU "problem" is that there are more people across the globe without Internet access than with it. So until Zuckerberg's Internet.org initiative takes off, and Google starts sending its Project Loon connectivity balloons and solar-powered drones into orbit, where's Facebook's MAU growth going to come from?
When it's all said and done, analyst estimates of $100 a share aren't far-fetched as Facebook continues pumping up the ad revenues. But as is the case with any stock, that doesn't mean there aren't a few roadblocks Facebook will need to overcome along the way. Are expenses, delays in monetizing Instagram, or slowing MAU growth deal-breakers? No, not at all, but they are worth keeping tabs on.
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text: Tamara Ecclestone loves bags. Particularly Hermes Birkin bags. But even her billionaire father – Formula One boss Bernie Ecclestone, Britain's fourth richest man sometimes feels her bag-buying habit is getting out of hand. Speaking to InStyle magazine, the socialite – whose estimated worth is £300m – said: 'Sometimes he's like, "Another handbag, Tamara? That's a bit nuts"…I think he's glad that I'm not hurting other people. I've never been to rehab. It could be worse.' Ecclestone, 28, is standing inside her legendary walk-in wardrobe, a multi-room experience in her Chelsea home that is stuffed to bursting with designer garments, accessories, shoes and bags. In the shoe section there are over 120 pairs of Louboutin heels – an average cost of £500 each. And she has a glass cabinet reserved exclusively for some 30 Hermes Birkins in every colour of the rainbow – bags which routinely sell for between £5,000 and £100,000. But soon Ecclestone will be packing all her glittering possessions into boxes (or, rather, she'll be paying someone else to do it), and leaving the house that has a swimming pool in the sitting room… for one that has a nightclub in her basement, a bowling alley and a million pound bathtub. She and her dogs – Alvin, Puggle Socky, Buster, Hob Nob and Duke – will be relocating to the £45m Kensington mansion (complete with £18m of refurbishments) she bought for herself and her now ex-boyfriend, stockbroker Omar Khyami, 38. But for now, her clothes and bags are keeping her warm at night, even though her mother, former Croat model Slavica, says her daughter's wardrobe appalls her. She said: 'My mum walks into my wardrobe and goes, "You're sick, Tamara! This isn't normal!' Which it probably isn't, but… it makes me so happy.' In the new house, Ecclestone's wardrobe will be spread over an entire wing and feature a lingerie cabinet, handbags on a conveyor rack and two TVs.


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