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In October I discovered I was a fan of Japanese writer and director Hirokazu Koreeda (是枝 裕和) when I went to see Like Father, Like Son. That cinema outing prompted me to go home and get straight on Amazon, and the result was my purchase of I Wish (奇跡).
This afternoon I put my feet up and allowed myself to travel to Kyushu (九州) – Japan's third-largest island – with Koreeda and his wonderful selection of actors. I Wish, or 'Kiseki' (li. 'Miracle') to give it its Japanese name, is just what I have grown to expect from Koreeda (possibly the best contemporary Japanese film director). The story was natural, touching, and poignant, the characters believable, and the acting sublime. Koreeda's method of selecting his child actors and then forming the story around them and letting them speak naturally without a script really does bring fascinating results.
I Wish is a story about miracles. Told from the point of view of 12 year-old Koichi (Koki Maeda), this story shows how kids live with the freedom to believe anything can happen. In fact, it's not just kids – adults can believe too if they allow themselves. Alongside Koki is his real-life brother Oshiro Maeda, playing his onscreen younger brother Ryunosuke. The two brothers, separated by quarrelling parents who have divorced and live in separate towns, decide to meet and make their wishes come true. They have heard about the new shinkansen (bullet train) that is coming to Kyushu, and believe that at the moment the high-speed shinkansen trains going in opposite directions cross paths miracles can happen. Together with a group of friends they skip school and set off on a heart-warming mission.
Like Koreeda's other films, so much of this story is about everyday life in Japan. The kids go to school, they come home, eat, and do their homework. Familiar phrases are uttered, such as "ittekimasu", "itterashai", and "tadaima" when coming and going (these phrases don't have decent translations, but they can be literally translated as "I'm off", "Please go and come back", and "I'm back"). Something which more advanced learners of Japanese might also pick up on is the use of regional dialects in the movie. My Japanese isn't good enough to notice the Kagoshima-ben and Osaka-ben used in the film ('-ben' means dialect), but the DVD contains an interesting set of interviews with the actors that point out the difficulty of improvising when having to remember to use an accent or regional dialect. Although the adults did use a script, they were still encouraged to improvise, but had to remember to do so in full character, including their accent.
I think this is the first time I've watched a film set in Kyushu, and it was interesting to see the scenery. So many of the streets could have been any part of suburban Japan (slightly run-down, stuck in a bit of a time-warp), but the addition of Sakurajima (桜島) as a backdrop was an unusual touch. Sakurajima is an active volcano in Kagoshima Prefecture which is continuously erupting. When Koichi wakes in the morning he has to clean his room because the ash from the eruptions has settled like dust. It's something he's used to, but he says he doesn't really understand why people live so close to the volcano, and he wants it to erupt properly so that they have to move away and live somewhere else.
If you're looking for a glimpse of real life in Japan, and need something to warm your heart in these chilly months, I highly recommend checking out I Wish. It's a truly beautiful film, and it might even remind you that miracles can happen if you open your heart and believe.


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Thursday, June 28th 2018, 10:25pm
players that have Tami always wins, no matter what op cards you have, a card that makes you stop playing its completely stupid, so in server 1 only have 30 or 40 players that have that card, so my request its or to make an event for us to have the possibility to have that broken card or totally remove her from this game, because its totally broken and anti strategy card, like those stupid qilins, this game its completely destroyed because of that kind of COWARD cards. Its an insult for my money spend here.... and insult for players that like to have some fun.... "and someone will say you have lots of cards to counter that and saddles and bla bla bla bla...." its bullshit, at the end how have that card or cards wins.... so its totally unfair that some new players don't have access to a card that changes this game entirely...
all the players should have access to all the cards in this game, by packs or someone else, like they did in the other versions of this game, or just remove these screwed cards for a good life of this game.....
Date of registration: Dec 10th 2015
Thanks: 9
Thursday, June 28th 2018, 10:41pm
Dude this is getting old. Get over Tohwali nerf...
Date of registration: Jun 22nd 2016
Thursday, June 28th 2018, 10:41pm
i vote to remove it
Thursday, June 28th 2018, 10:45pm
I've no problem with the nerf bro, I only login to speak to certain people in guild chat. Them whales can take all my cards away and I wouldn't care. I am posting this for this any whales who may be suffering at the hands of Tami Miwako using a tried and tested method invented by Wally. Surely there must be at least 3 (which adds up to a community). Just 2 more people and I can get myself a poll that makes no difference. Much more fun than meeting you (or any other special sausage) in arena.
Date of registration: Dec 10th 2015
Thanks: 9
Thursday, June 28th 2018, 10:49pm
Could you elaborate on your last sentence? Because I don´t understand. I´ve never complained about Tohwali, so what´s your problem with me esp. in arena? Do you have any difficulties to beat VIP0 or what?
Thursday, June 28th 2018, 10:52pm
I don't have a problem with you, the arena is empty for the most part so I couldn't have an arena problem if I wanted one. My issue is with you telling me to get over 11th being nerfed. This petition is about Tami Miwako, another card that could hurt whales and VIP0's with all the fancy gear. I am on your side, this is good for the game right?!
Date of registration: Feb 23rd 2017
Friday, June 29th 2018, 7:01am
i agree,nerf her or give acess to her to everyone
Date of registration: Apr 11th 2017
Friday, June 29th 2018, 9:09am
Date of registration: Apr 18th 2018
Location: anywhere and everywhere
Occupation: Shining Your Sword
Thanks: 2
Friday, June 29th 2018, 9:54am
lol you all saw what she was when she was here for recharge you should of got one if you wanted one why dont we all just quit asking for free stuff yes?
Friday, June 29th 2018, 7:21pm
Why would I buy another card that is going to get nerfed with a tried and tested formula? Sorry you bought a card I'm trying to get banned or given away for free to all my dudes who don't have it.
Date of registration: May 17th 2016
Location: Playing KAL many hours a day :D
Occupation: 24/7 KAL what else?
Saturday, June 30th 2018, 11:50am
Youre a cool guy i like you but i have to disagree with you wanting this [Tami Miwako] card banned or nerfed my understanding ppl who spend money and recharge to get certain cards are able to acquire that card before ppl who dont wish to spend money in the game. i will give credit where credit is due i will be the first to admit that ive been beaten by noobs who are non vip by all sorts of different methods how did they win? multiple factors however they had a strategy in place and executed it very well i hate it when kal brings out lovely cards and i recharge and spend my money that i could spend on food or other things only for it to get banned or nerfed
Date of registration: Jan 3rd 2018
Location: usa
Saturday, June 30th 2018, 2:44pm
I disagree tami is not op its killable unlike towali so why removed.
so I vote for not removing.
Saturday, June 30th 2018, 6:07pm
It's not something I want. Just trying to improve the game like everyone else. I apologise if I'm wrong for asking for another innocent small recharge card to die but this is the price of progress. A ray of hope.
Date of registration: Nov 1st 2017
Saturday, June 30th 2018, 6:26pm
I agree. Tamy is another broken card..
Date of registration: Nov 27th 2016
Location: the netherlands
Saturday, June 30th 2018, 6:37pm
pfff, and again and again. Allways WHINING ( is this the correct spelling ? )
maybe make a petition about all new recharge cards!!!
Some people are to ………… Cant say what i want because then iam not acting like an adult.
p.s. I hope i dont have made any grammer errors because they will tell instantly.
Date of registration: Jun 22nd 2016
Saturday, June 30th 2018, 6:46pm
i vote to ban nameless44
Thanks: 23
Saturday, June 30th 2018, 7:34pm
Date of registration: May 30th 2017
Location: somewhere in the Elemental Plane
Occupation: Wizard
Thanks: 56
Sunday, July 1st 2018, 3:50am
Idk why you compare Tami to 11th? Tami distracts 2 cards with 2, late 11th distracts 2 entire hand, also did lots of dmg... also playing with combos its end of game, lifewarder, judgement, riverseer, blocking you entire hand with infinite loops. so there's no comparison. They did well with 11th also did well with pans. what you are doing its comparing one broken card with one really good and helpful card. You need to realise the difference between op and broken... and Tami its not broken, its easy to counter.
This post has been edited 1 times, last edit by "Zidane" (Jul 1st 2018, 4:20am)
Date of registration: Jun 6th 2018
Sunday, July 1st 2018, 5:33am
Unfortunately, Tami Miwako will not be nerfed.
However, good luck on getting her banned on KaL.
Sunday, July 1st 2018, 6:05am
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Okay you guys so I have been on a roll with the music festivals this summer. I remember looking back before summer even started I was hoping that I got to attend a cool music festival sometime during the summer. Now summer is almost over and I just came back from Made In America in Philly! This one happened so spontaneously! About a month ago, Sprint, which is my cellphone provider held a special for their customers where they were offering the music streaming app Tidal free for 6 months. I am a sprint customer and always wanted to try Tidal so I was like okay this is dope why not. When I went to the Sprint store to get the free trial of Tidal I was informed that I was also eligible to win tickets to Made In America in Philadelphia during Labor Day Weekend. I didn't put much thought into but then a few weeks ago I was informed that I had won the tickets.
Around this time, one of my high school best friends Ellen was staying with me while she was visiting New York for a few days. I asked her if she wanted to come with me to Philly and go to this music festival and immediately she said yes and extended her trip. Ellen is one of the most "down af" friends that I have and it's one of the many reasons I love her lol! Long story short we had the best time at Made In America even though it rained for part of the weekend. We put on a poncho and made the best of it. The lineup was INSANE! We saw the one and only Cardi B perform, 21 Savage, Migos, Marshmellow, Kaskade, The Chainsmokers, Jay-Z, and many others.
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|Colorectal cancer is a significant health problem, and the advanced stages of the disease have a low response rate to chemotherapy and easily acquire chemoresistance. HIV-1 viral protein R (Vpr) has been shown to possess inhibitory effects on various malignant cells in vivo and in vitro. In this study, an Ad-Vpr construct was used to infect the multidrug-resistant human colorectal cancer HCT-8/5-FU(MDR) cell line in vitro for cell viability, apoptosis, gene expression and gene activity using the MTT, flow cytometry, immunoblotting and gel shift assays, respectively. The data showed that Ad-Vpr significantly reduced HCT-8/5-FU(MDR) cell viability in a dose- and time-dependent manner. Ad-Vpr infection promoted HCT-8/5-FU(MDR) cells to undergo apoptosis and to arrest at the G2 phase of the cell cycle. The G2 cell cycle protein Cyclin B1 accumulated in the cells after Ad-Vpr infection. Furthermore, Ad-Vpr induced activation of caspase-3 and -9, but not caspase-8, in HCT-8/5-FU(MDR) cells. Ad-Vpr suppressed expression of the Bcl-xl protein, but upregulated Bax expression and cytochrome c release from the mitochondria in HCT-8/5-FU(MDR) cells. Ad-Vpr infection also resulted in a time-dependent decrease in nuclear translocation of NF-κB/p65 protein and p65 DNA-binding activity in HCT-8/5-FU(MDR) cells. The data from the current study provide mechanistic insights into understanding the molecular basis and utility of Ad-Vpr as a novel anticancer agent for multidrug resistance in human colorectal cancer.
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Frequent Fliers Beware: Most Chronically Delayed Flights
The Bureau of Transportation Statistics defines chronically delayed flights as having "more than 50% delayed arrivals of more than 30 minutes" - and frequent fliers can certainly attest that delays will often occur at the most convenient time to fly, namely rush hour.
However, scheduling meetings that end in the early afternoon or planning to fly in late to your afternoon meetings so you can beat the crowds isn't always the best strategy.
Read on to see the most chronically delayed flights on top domestic routes in 2011.
The Surprise: United 436, Chicago O'Hare to Newark. Scheduled to depart at 3 PM, who would suspect this flight would be on the chronically delayed list for three separate months, making it the worst offender of 2011?
The rest of the flights listed below are tied for number of offenses, each showing up two times on separate months in 2011.
The Usual Suspects: What a way to kick off rush hour! Better find a charging station and get some work done while you wait.
- American 3740, Chicago O'Hare to Newark. Scheduled departure 4:55 PM.
- United 690, Chicago O'Hare to LaGuardia. Scheduled departure 5:05 PM.
- United 502, Chicago O'Hare to LaGuardia. Scheduled departure 6:00 PM.
- Jet Blue 918, Chicago O'Hare to JFK. Scheduled departure 6:35 PM.
The Early Bird Doesn't Always Get the Worm: Decided to skip the morning rush hour or end meetings really early? Bad idea - you'll end up spending extra time at the airport instead of your destination.
- SkyWest 4720, Los Angeles to San Francisco, Scheduled departure 12:30 PM.
- United 646, Chicago O'Hare to LaGuardia. Scheduled departure 1 PM.
Time for a Movie, Too?: Grabbed dinner after your meetings? Good news - you also have time for drinks.
- United 696, Chicago O'Hare to LaGuardia. Scheduled departure 7:00 PM.
- American 4671, Atlanta to LaGuardia. Scheduled departure 7:50 PM.
The take-away? Book wisely by avoiding rush hour if you can, and keep this list handy if you're traveling to these cities. Keep in mind that it's not always the airline's fault your flight is delayed - they could be dealing with a backup of planes waiting to take off, bad weather in another city, or a myriad of other things that can disrupt their service and your travel plans.


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Looking back at the effect the Directive's ban on Co-Disposal has had on Hazardous Waste Disposal in the years since it was introduced in 2005.
The implementation of the Landfill Directive meant that landfill would never again be available in the UK as readily or as cheaply as it had always been. The UK government knew that in order to comply with the EU Landfill Directive the waste management industry would have to divert up to 5.4million tonnes of waste from landfill by 2010 to comply with its statutory obligations under the Landfill Directive. So, it had to bring about changes, and that was the start of the huge annual price rises through the "Landfill Tax Price Escalator policy" which has now brought taxation in the current year (2011) to £57/tonne for all industrial and commercial waste, including Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) being sent to landfill.
Another part of the big change, which brought a sea-change to the use of landfill in the UK, was the outlawing of all hazardous waste disposal to the same landfills as industrial and commercial/ MSW, barring of course the small quantities mixed in with MSW, such as battery waste and electronic waste which were to be reduced by other measures, at source.
Until then, all wastes other than a few of the most toxic of all wastes which landfill operators refused to accept had been co-disposed to general landfills. That means that the toxic waste, liquids and solids (although all liquids were prohibited to landfill before this date) had been spread into the general waste, and quite successfully allowed to react and stabilise within the body of the waste. If the percentage of toxic waste was kept to below about 20% of the waste landfilled by weight, and mixed into the waste well away from leachate drainage wells in lined and capped landfills this gave no problems of any significance. In fact the move away from co-disposal was a political one, and acceeded to by UK politicians of the day as a compromise for adoption of other UK measures throughout Europe, and not scientifically or environmentally considered by the UK waste industry to be any better than co-disposal. In other words, the UK had to do it in order to comply with long-standing EU practise which their waste industry was not about to change just because the UK and other nations had joined the common market.
It was again, the Landfill Regulations which were implemented to make the necesary UK changes to comply with the requirements of the Landfill Directive to ban the co-disposal of hazardous and non-hazardous waste from 16 July 2004. Hazardous and non-hazardous wastes have since then be dispatched to mostly separate and appropriately designated sites, possibly with the exception of asbestos waste, which is often disposal to separate haz waste cells at the same landfill site location.
Mono-disposal has ever since been creating hazardous waste time-bombs throughout the UK. However, nobody has shown any concern either at the time or subsequently, which is quite remarkable.
The Regulations also imposed a set of "waste acceptance criteria" (WAC) detailing the types of waste that can be accepted at landfill sites. Most waste, with the exception of municipal waste, now has to meet the WAC.
The Regulations also required hazardous wastes, as identified in the European Waste Catalogue (EWC) to be pre-treated to reduce their quantity and hazardous nature before landfiliing.
The Hazardous Waste Regulations 2004 govern the movement and consignment of hazardous waste from the producer to its final disposal. They replaced the Special Waste Regulations 1996 and introduced new and simpler procedures for hazardous waste, and the Regulations come into force to coincide with the implementation of the waste acceptance criteria.
To complete the picture for you, the producers of waste are subject to a Duty of Care under the Environmental Protection Act 1990 (EPA) to ensure waste does not escape from their control, is only passed to persons authorised to take it, and is accompanied by written descriptions and correctly completed waste transfer notes.
Together with pre-existing legislation relating to fridges, vehicles and batteries, the Regulations effectively made almost every business a hazardous waste producer.
At that time there was a lot of concern that businesses would simply not be able to find enough hazardous waste landfill capacity to dispose of their waste, and people actually suggested that queues would form at the few remaining Hazardous Waste Landfills left holding a licence immediately after implementation of the rules banning co-disposal. If that happened it never hit the press, and since then UK manufacturing factory closures (which were no doubt partly due to the higher cost of hazardous waste disposal to landfill), has resulted in incineration options and recycling by closed-loop waste reprocessing becoming far more common. In combination with the REACH Regulations which make using hazardous materials in products much more difficult to sustain, these measures have and greatly reduced the quantities of hazardous waste generated by UK industry.
In fact, the operators of hazardous waste landfills and hazardous waste incinerators who were investing in these facilities a few years after the co-disposal ban, in the hope of high demand for their void space, and high profits, have been largely disappointed.


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At the last one, for example, there were some excellent sessions about ideas for the new Computing curriculum, inspecting Computing and e-safety. I wrote about the event in New ideas for a new Computing curriculum.
The next round of seminars is, once again, designed to appeal to both teachers and technicians, so the day is divided into a Technical stream and an Educational stream. The technical stream includes a diverse range of topics, including e-safety for the network support team and Windows 10. The Educational stream includes parental engagement and e-safety.
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By a vote of 55 to 45, a bill championed by Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand failed to get the 60 votes needed for passage.
The measure would have removed military commanders from deciding whether most serious allegations of wrongdoing by their subordinates should be prosecuted.
Gillibrand, a New York Democrat, said the change was needed because bias can creep into the decisions of commanders and that has led to many sex assaults not being prosecuted.


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As inquiries go, this one was more a meeting of minds than a clash of ideas. Witness after witness made points that were, if not identical, then at least angling towards the same goal. The hugely courteous panel of inquisitors gave every indication they thought the same.
That was always likely to be the case for the all-party parliamentary cycling group (APPCG) inquiry into how we can, as the title goes, Get Britain Cycling.
As I've pointed out before, if you think more people on bikes is a good idea for a country – and I've yet to hear an argument against based on logic rather than ignorance and/or prejudice; that sounds rude but it's true – then we already know how to do it. Other places have shown the way. Indeed, it took all of about 90 seconds of evidence yesterday morning before the first bike-bingo box was filled in with a mention of Denmark.
Yes, this was never going to be an inquiry where the end point would be a whole lot of ministers and civil servants reading the final report, slapping their brows and going, 'Hang on, if we build better bike infrastructure more people would cycle. Who knew?'
We ran a story yesterday which gives an idea of what was said at the first of six oral evidence sessions. Suffice to say it entirely bore out what I expected: at the core is not what should be done but whether there is the necessary, top-level, long-term, will and imagination to transform Britain's transport system.
In my curious, three-pronged role yesterday morning as observer turned witness turned reporter I found myself nodding along to more or less every practical suggestion made by the CTC, British Cycling, Sustrans and bike-use boffins Rachel Aldred and Lynn Sloman.
I was particularly impressed by the passion and eloquence of Phillip Darnton, a cycle policy lifer who lived through the false dawn of the influential but ultimately abolished Cycling Englan quango. This is a man who has seen it all before, and, as he pointed out several times, unless you achieve the sort of post-party political, long-term consensus on cycling in government as you might with, say, plans for a new highs-speed rail line or airport, it's all just so much tinkering around a ceiling of about 5% of the population cycling regularly.
The last set of witnesses was a motley quartet of media representatives: Phillip Pank and Kaya Burgess of the Times, whose Cities Fit For Cycling campaign (a title questioned, I thought correctly, by Totmes MP Sarah Wollaston who asked how it was relevant to rural constituents) was the principal instigator of the inquiry; Carlton Reid of the Bikebiz website (and many others); and, doing my mumbling best to express the mass will of this blog, me.
After listening to the learned minds beforehand I did feel, quite keenly, like a news hack who cycles rather than an expert. That said, I hope I expressed a few of the requests made by you last week. Many had been made by other witnesses but I brought up the general lack of care from drivers felt by many cyclists and the notion of a compulsory cycling element to the driving test, and also the idea of a strict liability law. Asked about the wider media's treatment of cyclists I categorised it, accurately I'd say, as too often dismissive, over-generalised and ignorant.
Ben Bradshaw, the Labour MP, who said he'd been riding a bike in London for 20 years, asked the media witnesses whether we thought government properly understood or supported cycling. I responded with the story mentioned several times before on this blog about Norman Baker, supposedly the cyclists' champion in government, absurdly claiming the UK was safer for bikes than the Netherlands.
Looking a bit withering – I can't tell if he was, it seems his default expression – Bradshaw explained he actually meant the views at the top of government, that is Cameron, Clegg et al.
This I didn't know, but I can take a guess, and that's why my hopes for this inquiry remain modest.
To begin such huge change requires vision and drive from above, especially when there's not such a huge grassroots pro-bike groundswell. Whatever one thinks of David Cameron, he is not a politician driven by big ideas. He bends with the political winds, as yesterday's speech about the EU shows. Has he got the ambition and energy to take on the vested interests of the motoring lobby and the undoubted scorn of the Daily Mail et al? You'd have to guess not.
To stress again: the inquiry is significant, hugely worthwhile and could end up a significant element in building up momentum towards a longer-term goal. But will it happen in my cycling lifetime? I'm still not convinced.


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Nonfiction Doubleheader: 2 Documentaries of Artistic Genius/
There's enduring magic in the idea of an artist undiscovered during her time but later acknowledged as a true original. The likes of Claude Monet and Vincent van Gogh faced harsh criticism during life, only to become two of the most recognizable names in art after death. It's a theme touched on in several of 2014's best films, including Mr. Turner and The Imitation Game. As for the latter, whatever device you're using to read this, you owe in no small part to Alan Turing.
Of course we, the consumers of this genius, reveal plenty about ourselves as we consume. Who doesn't feel an extra thrill at the discovery of something long undiscovered? Who doesn't feel a sliver of pride, however irrational, at appreciating the dead? It appeals to our human resistance to mortality. For once the bellows of time makes the fire burn a little brighter instead of clearing away the ash of the past. And for those of us who create anything, it represents hope that our work will someday touch someone, even if after our time is up.
A particularly tasty bite of these themes fell onto my plate recently, when I watched the documentary doubleheader of Finding Vivian Maier--nominated by Oscar this year for Best Documentary Feature--and Wild Combination: A Portrait of Arthur Russell--released in 2008.


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Written on: Saturday August 9th, 2008
A journal entry from: Europe
We feel like we have come full circle now that we are back in Mulhouse. After leaving Baden Baden we spent a relaxing week in Alsace, one of our favorite regions in France. After all this travelling we realize why we like France so much. Here the tourist is king. Even people unconnected with the industry are friendly and helpful. There is great scenery, beautiful towns, loads of outdoor activities and the most amazing food! We have spent the week exploring the beautiful villages in the Alsace wine region, hiking and biking in the Vosge mountains and eating the wonderful food and drinking the wine! We are back at our friends the Zahnds for a couple of days. We leave our bikes here and begin the long drive north to Sweden.
From Dominique on Aug 11th, 2008
Hello! NIederschaeffolsheim, that's not very difficult! Try "Oberhausbergen", "Souffelweyersheim", or Obermorschwihr! See you soon in Vanvouver I hope
From Sharon B. on Aug 20th, 2008
You guys seem to be looking younger the longer you go. National Geo Traveller has a photo contest on - you gotta get them in to win! :)


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Mass Effect 3 launched last Tuesday for the Playstation 3, PC and Xb0x 360. The reviews and fan reactions have been largely positive. Our own Ryan Fleming gave the game a nine out of ten in his review of the game. Take a look for his thoughts here.
The game brings back Shepard in male and female forms to battle the Reapers as the aliens invaded and begin destroying Earth and humanity. It also added a fairly compelling multiplayer aspect.
For the most part this trailer is just Bioware and EA bragging but its more than a little deserved.
If you don't have the game yet go pick one up.


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Below is a shot of the canvas as best I could shoot it in my studio lighting. The piece is so large that it is impossible to get it properly exposed, but I've managed to take a few acceptable renditions.
Note that there are still a few areas of underpainting in the foreground middle and right, as well as the center left edge. The rock wall on the right middle is also under paint. Nevertheless, details have been layered throughout the piece. I'm proceeding at a great pace and will most likely be finished soon.


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Klezmer in B012 Tonight (Last Time!)" read the sign taped to room 107 in Old Cabell Hall. We navigated our way through the crowd of students waiting in line to see Citizen Cope perform in the auditorium and made our way down the stairs to the basement classroom where the UVA Klezmer Ensemble had moved its practice.
On Tuesday, December 4, the UVA Klezmer Ensemble will join up with renowned klezmer fiddler Alicia Svigals for an evening of traditional and original tunes.
Director Joel Rubin greeted us he tuned up his clarinet and casually took roll. Ensemble members were trickling in late due to parking problems caused by the concert upstairs, but once enough people had arrived, the group sorted through their sheets of music and began to play.
Feedback is fairly new to klezmer music, but we liked what we heard. Fiddles, clarinets, bass, accordion and banjo performed tunes full of dramatic trills and woeful melodies, but the music also contained a breezy, festive sway. Rubin himself provided the perfect description, calling one tune "seriously joyous."
The ensemble is a diverse group, ranging from members of Balkan/klezmer/gypsy band Accordion Death Squad, to a German graduate student and a chemistry professor. Rubin, who is UVA's director of music performance and a world-renowned klezmer musician, founded the ensemble when he came to the University, and the group is now finishing up its third semester. Though the ensemble is only a Second Year, to use T.J.'s official lingo, Rubin says interest has caught on fast. "Once the word got out into the community, we got invited to various things," he says. "We've performed at an ethnomusicology conference, at Gravity Lounge, at 214 Community Arts Center."
"Mostly what I concentrate on with this group is teaching them repertoire from the Russian empire," says Rubin. "It was stuff collected in the early 20th century, but the melodies are mostly from the mid to late 19th century." The group also performs Hasidic music from Eastern Europe and traditional American klezmer music from New York and Philadelphia.
|To listen to an audio clip of Svigals performing and learn more about the concert, go here.
In addition to these traditional tunes, Rubin also tries to bring a guest artist to perform with the ensemble each semester. For the group's fall concert, which will take place on Tuesday, December 4 at Old Cabell Hall, Rubin will join up with Alicia Svigals, one of the foremost klezmer fiddlers and a founding member of The Klezmatics, a group that, along with performers like Rubin, has revived interest in klezmer traditions during the last couple of decades. "We're doing a couple of her pieces, which are new but based on traditional form," says Rubin. Svigals has also collaborated with the likes of Allen Ginsberg, Jimmy Page and the Kronos Quartet, so the ensemble is clearly in good company. Feedback had a great time listening to the group practice, so when they team up with Svigals it should be an exciting klezmer extravaganza.
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|Take a listen to Paul Curreri's "The Wasp":
"One of the hardest parts is lugging in the couches," Paul Curreri told us when we met up to discuss the upcoming King of My Living Room concerts that he and other singer-songwriters will put on at Gravity Lounge on Friday, November 30.
Couchs + beer + guitars = A great Friday night. Paul Curreri and nine other musicians will sit, sip and strum at Gravity Lounge on November 30.
Curreri first became involved with the series of concerts, which grew out of a party that Brady Earnhart threw in 2000 and have taken place at Live Arts, Old Cabell Hall and even Harrisonburg's Court Square Theater, when he moved to town and saw a listing for one of the shows. "I went and gave some of my demo tapes to them," says Curreri, and pretty soon he was on board for future installments, which consist of a group of talented local musicians sitting on couches, sipping on beers and trading off songs and stories.
This year the group will mix things up a little more by each performing a song by one of their fellow musicians. "We drew names out of a hat," says Curreri. "I was terrified that I'd get Stratton Salidis, because he makes up a lot of his songs on the spot, so it would hard to cover him." Luckily, Curreri drew Earnhart, though he is not sure which song he'll choose. "He's got so many good ones," he says.
|Take a listen to Devon Sproule's "Old Virginia Block":
In addition to Earnhart, Curreri and Salidis, Devon Sproule, Jan Smith, Danny Schmidt, Jeff Romano, Browning Porter, Joia Wood, and Lance Brenner will also get comfy and musical on Friday night. The 7pm set is recommended for families, while the 10:30pm show (what with all of the beer sipping) will be a more loose and venturesome affair.
The Boss
Mark your calendars! Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band will play JPJ on April 30. See you there.
|C-VILLE Playlist
What we've been listening to
"Hard Sun," by Eddie Vedder (An Indio cover, from Into the Wild) – Vedder's ragged vocals well suit the song's theme of rock hard loneliness and the aggression of just being alive.
"Emily," by Joanna Newsom (from Ys) – Reviled by some in the office, Newsom's scratchy warble belies the snowflake-like beauty of her image-rich storytelling and melodious harp performance.
"The Boys Are Back in Town," by Thin Lizzy (from Jailbreak)
"Margin Walker," by Fugazi (from Margin Walker)
"Your Hand in Mine," by Explosions in the Sky (from The Earth is not a Cold, Dead Place)


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I was looking through old blog posts the other day and noticed a pattern with the frequency of my posts. Every time my son hit another milestone, this blog became more of an afterthought rather than a priority. For the first few months of his life, he was the worst napper of all time. I was lucky to get him to sleep for 30-40 minutes at a time. I had no time at all to spend writing out recipes much less making them, shooting pics, and writing. When he started solids he suddenly started giving me two longer naps a day. It. Was. Amazing. Suddenly I had a lot of free time to do things like shower or pay bills or blog. Then he started crawling. Then he started walking. Then he dropped the second nap. I love seeing the progression from each stage to the next, but it is a constant regrouping and figuring out a new rhythm every few months.
It seems like every time I focus on one thing, something else suffers. If I'm cleaning the house, my son is bored or throwing toy trucks at the dogs. If I'm trying (and usually failing at) new activities with my son, the dogs are bored and digging up the backyard. If I'm actually thinking about and making dinners ahead of time, my son is in front of a screen longer than I'd care to admit. I think that's been one of the hardest lessons for me to learn as a new mom. You really can't do it all, and usually one thing or another gets pushed to the back burner for awhile. For me, this is where the mom guilt creeps in.
This past weekend was Mother's Day, and this year it really got me thinking about all the social constructs centered around motherhood and what that means. It's funny how before motherhood, women are viewed as individuals with a vast range of different personalities and interests, and that is okay and celebrated. But for some reason after becoming a mother, the definition of what it means to be a good woman and mom narrows quite a bit. I think every mother I know has felt this in one way or another. Suddenly, you're either a working mom or a stay-at-home mom, and that is really all people need to know about you. If you work, people wonder if it's a financial decision or because you don't want to be around kids or something (do you see anyone asking dad this?). If you stay at home, people love to come up with side job ideas for you (because surely taking care of a tiny human and home isn't enough to fill a whole day). I am so done with all the labels and the media trying to pigeon-hole us ladies into one group or another. We're all women, and we all have to put up with a lot of crap on a daily basis...figuratively and for some of us literally.
And if you're a man and still reading this post - I'm super impressed...can we be friends? :)
My husband works at a nuclear power generating station and for the past month or so they've been working a refueling outage. It means many, many days of 12-hr shifts with very little days off. It means him averaging 10-12 miles every day walking around the plant. It means 12 hour days of me trying to keep a 19 month old plus two dogs happy. It means neither one of us wants to think about dinner. And it means this blackberry bourbon lemonade has made several appearances around here at the end of a long day.
Cheers. :)
Blackberry Bourbon Lemonade
This has become my go-to cocktail lately, primarily because it has only three ingredients and doesn't require simple syrup or any specialty liqueurs. It's tart, refreshing, and sweet, with that kick of bourbon I so often need at the end of a long day of chasing a toddler.
Yields: 1 drink
2 fl. oz bourbon
4 fl. oz your favorite store-bought, fresh lemonade ( I love Simply Lemonade - don't use the frozen concentrate)
3-4 frozen blackberries (you can use fresh too, but you will need to muddle)
fresh mint and more blackberries for garnish (optional)
- Combine all ingredients in a cocktail shaker with a handful of ice. Shake vigorously.
- Strain into cocktail glass filled almost to the top with more ice.
- Garnish with fresh mint and more blackberries (optional).
- If you use fresh blackberries, muddle them in the bottom of the cocktail shaker before adding anything else.
- Experiment! Try swapping the blackberries for very ripe strawberries, raspberries, or blueberries, and see which you prefer.


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Salt water aquarium
We went to the pet store today just to get food for our chinchillas. The salt water fish at the store are so incredible it makes you just want to set up an aquarium today. The price of the aquarium, stand and all the equipment was startling for salt water set up. The price of the fish on top of that would set me back two pay checks so for now we're going to stop and think about this costly adventure.


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Whose Judaism Is It, Anyway?
For the sake of religious freedom, Jews in Israel should be allowed to select the rabbi of their choice for marriages, conversions and burial, argued Manhattan businessman David Arnow.
For the sake of Jewish unity, there must continue to be only one recognized form of Judaism in Israel — Orthodoxy — countered Jerusalem writer Jonathan Rosenblum.
The two men presented their opposing views last Thursday morning during a spirited one-hour discussion at the 92d Street Y sponsored by The Jewish Week. It was the eighth in a series of public forums on topics of current interest sponsored by the newspaper and moderated by its editor and publisher, Gary Rosenblatt.
The discussion, which was attended by more than 200 people, came just days before the release of a report by an Israeli commission, headed by Finance Minister Yaakov Neeman, attempting to resolve the conversion issue in Israel.
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In his remarks, Rosenblum pointed out that Israel's first prime minister, David Ben-Gurion, conferred on Israel's chief rabbinate control of all matters of personal status "because it was paramount for him that the people of Israel remain one people."
He noted that he grew up in a Conservative household and had some rabbinic training at the Conservative movement's Jewish Theological Seminary before deciding to become Orthodox.
"Until I was 25, I never met a religious Jew," he said, adding that he cannot be accused of lacking empathy toward or understanding of non-Orthodox Jews. "We're talking of most of my family and most of those dearest to me."
What he laments today, said Rosenblum, is that the Jewish lineage of those with whom he grew up will be "coming to an end in this generation or the next" because of assimilation and deviations from Orthodoxy. In fact, he said, there are even fundamental disagreements between Reform and Conservative Jews themselves.
Rosenblum, a columnist for the Jerusalem Post, explained that although the Reform movement in the United States recognizes patrilineal descent (considering as a Jew those children born of either a Jewish mother or Jewish father and who is raised as a Jew), the Reform movement in Israel does not, nor does the Conservative movement. And traditional Conservative Jews will not recognize conversions performed by more liberal Conservative rabbis if a woman was on the panel that presided at the conversion.
"By the year 2050, there will be 1 million Jews [left] in America," he asserted. There are now about 5.5 million.
Arnow, a past president of the New Israel Fund, maintained that Israel was founded 50 years ago as a nation free of discrimination that offered opportunities to all Jews.
"People in Israel ought to have a full range [of options] in terms of building a Jewish identity," everything from archaeology to the study of mitzvot, said Arnow, vice president of UJA-Federation. "It's not the state's responsibility to force one group's view of Judaism over another. There are 16 types of Christianity in Israel. That policy works for Christians, it should work for Jews as well."
He said a widely reported proposal of the Neeman Commission — involving the establishment of a joint conversion school and an Orthodox bet din or court to approve conversions — "is not the ultimate but it is a good balance" between the interests of all concerned. (The proposal is now being studied by the chief rabbinate.)
Both Arnow and Rosenblum had statistics at the ready to support their views. Arnow said that between 200,000 and 300,000 Israelis identify themselves as "progressive Jews" and that the status quo was not satisfactory for them. Rosenblum, noting that 17 percent of Israelis said in a recent poll that they had become closer to Judaism, quipped: "We will be lucky if in America 17 percent of the Jews don't disappear."
He added that the 30,000 Conservative and Reform Jews in Israel maintain that halacha or Jewish law "is not the definitive form of Judaism."
Asked by Rosenblatt what they would tell the Neeman Commission if they had the chance, Rosenblum said: "To become a citizen of the Jewish people, we [must] accept the Torah and make it binding upon us." He said that meaningful Judaism should not be about lifestyles and personal choices, but about observance of the laws given at Mt. Sinai.
Arnow said a survey recently found that about 64 percent of Israelis support the notion of religious pluralism in Israel.
"Compromise is not a dirty word," said Arnow, insisting that in this context "it is a holy word." He noted that "Judaism has survived in all kinds of political structures and it can in the democracy of Israel."
Both speakers commented on the importance of engaging in dialogues and debates that emphasized tolerance. Rosenblum noted that if such a forum were to be held in Israel, it would doubtless end up in a shouting match, with at least one participant walking out.
Audience members applauded each of the speakers, and seemed impressed with the diverse makeup of the standing-room-only crowd. Rosenblatt explained that the purpose of such forums was to advance The Jewish Week's goal of "not only covering the community, but being part of the community," and of being as inclusive as possible in reaching Jews of all beliefs and viewpoints.
During the give-and-take of the program, Rosenblum criticized the Supreme Court in Israel for attempting to take on more power for itself than it was entitled to. Arnow responded that 83 percent of Israelis recently told a pollster that they had faith in the Supreme Court, while only 28 percent expressed a similar view about the Knesset and 33 percent about the government.
Rosenblum offered statistics to show how few Reform Jews have been to Israel. Arnow noted that the Lubavitcher Rebbe had never made the trip.
Asked if he was prepared to "jettison 80 percent of the Jewish people who do not favor halacha," Rosenblum replied that he was not prepared to "jettison a single Jew. Our view is that we need every Jew to fulfill his potential within the parameters of halacha."


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I'm an Italian photographer and visual designer based in Helsinki, Finland.
Born and raised on the Italian Alps, to pursue my studies I moved to Milan, where I gained a BA in photography in 2009. The same year I travelled to Finland and fell in love with Helsinki, which shortly after became my home.
In 2012 I graduated with a Master of Arts at Aalto University School of Arts and Design, where I had been introduced to a whole new world of design, business and aesthetics.
I soon noticed that combining these two great passions of mine, photography and design, was possible: these days I work as a visual designer on weekdays and as a photographer on weekends.


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AI Technology Trends
The advancements in AI technology combined with IT/Cloud Computing have provided all the tools necessary for businesses and organizations to stay on top of the game. Using this technology business owners are able to ensure faster growth, increased productivity, better internal/external collaboration within the framework of their organization and with their partners and clients, and promote the heightened market presence and visibility.
The progressive rate at which new applications and upgrades are being developed also ensure that small businesses can take full advantage of AI programs which will help them survive in a competitive environment where bigger players rule the scene. So, it is important for every company to know in which direction this technology is going and how AI can help them find solutions to their respective needs.
After smartphones, smart homes, smart cars(and the whole Internet of Things) which have already revolutionized every field of industry from Education and Transport to Health, Agriculture and more, we now have Sophia, the first robot capable of 'emotional intelligence'. Recently made the first robot citizen of Saudi Arabia, Sophia is a perfect example of the evolution of the latest AI tech trends and effectively represents the latest tools used by companies worldwide. As an AI robot, Sophia is able to recognize human behaviour and language by various processes that of course include Natural Language Programming (NLP)- of which Semantics technology and data/text mining (that can make sense of both structured and unstructured data) are some of the main components.
Sophia's greatest strength—much like personal AI online assistants—lies in mimicking the neural pathways of the human brain through Machine Learning and using audio/visual, facial and image recognition processes. These represent another important AI trend that along with the use of Virtual Reality is already helping CEOs, clients and employees conduct relations faster (Virtual Conferences). As an AI robot it connects wirelessly to servers hosted on the 'Cloud' and uses AI algorithms to sift through all the available sources on the Internet thanks to Open Source Intelligence (OSINT). These help it filter, process and deliver any relevant and pertinent data. What makes a robot like Sophia special is that it is expected to achieve full consciousness in the next few years.
AI can already anticipate future challenges, predict fluctuations in customer demand/satisfaction, and adjust the supply chain accordingly. All while discovering new business strategies and methods to diversify and attract multiple audiences thanks to its open source analysis of all the data found thanks to open source intelligence. OSINT represents the full gamut of data on the net—from virtual libraries to academic professional sites, consumer blogs, business journals, and even previously undiscovered sources of knowledge, using a cross-disciplinary approach that will encourage collaboration among the most diverse fields of human activity. OSINT is a method of intelligence gathering used by the government and the intelligence communities to help predict and avoid potential threats like terrorist attacks or other disasters by monitoring all the content found on social media.Cyber security is crucial in today's modern society.
Thankfully, businesses can take advantage of the services of professional AI software providers like Expert System, which are offering ever more advanced OSINT tools for a number of uses (one of which is, of course, online security).
In the business world AI robots like Sophia will use these same tools to work (hopefully) in harmony with human employees. Thought not necessarily in the physical form of a human, as can be seen in Sophia, businesses will be able to continue optimizing the basics of AI functionality in the workplace. This will help in reducing bureaucracy, saving time, lowering costs on expensive hardware like cables and external memory drives, saving on energy bills, and of course increasing the overall efficiency of the company by encouraging the sharing of ideas between the employees, clients and partners of a company.


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Beautiful 1-bedroom/1-bath pet friendly apartment with updated kitchen and bath, sleeps up to 5.
Raritan is a friendly neighborhood located next to Bridgewater. This unit is within short walking distance (1 block) to the train station, bank, post office, shopping and dining.
This apartment is fully furnished and comes complete with modern dťcor, a 42" flat screen HDTV (1080P) in the living room, a 26" flat screen HDTV in the bedroom, full size washer and dryer, microwave, dish washer, kitchenware and bed and bath linens.
There is a spare bedroom with a convertible couch/bed and the living room has an extremely comfortable queen size sleeper sofa.
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Tired of clicking to get to Paint 3D's good bits? Find out here how to permanently expand the Paint 3D sidebar and act on 3D objects and images faster (plus a keyboard shortcut).
First, Good-Bye Moon!
The closest companion to our earth is receding slowly into space.
Currently, the distance between earth and moon increases by some 3.8 cm (1.5 in) every year because the earth's spin keeps pulling on the moon faster and slightly faster as if it was connected with a string to the planet's wobbly masses.
While this is happening, why not also increase the distance between your Paint 3D canvas and its outer edge—to make room for the tool you're currently using?
How to Permanently Expand the Paint 3D Sidebar in Windows
Time needed: 1 minute.
To always see the expanded sidebar (and not have to click needlessly to show its tools) in Paint 3D:
- Click the menu button in Paint 3D.
Tip: You can also press Alt F.
- Select Settings from the menu that has appeared.
- Make sure Use compact view is Off under Settings.
Note: To hide the sidebar and avoid wasting space, make sure Use compact view is On, of course.
- Click Back.
If the sidebar is collapsed, click the tool in current use to expand it. You can magically select objects, for instance.
How to Collapse and Expand the Paint 3D Sidebar with a Keyboard Shortcut
To quickly show and hide the full sidebar and access either the full canvas or tool options easily:
- Press M.
You can then focus on it and navigate its tools using the keyboard alone as well:
- Press Alt B.
- Use the Tab, Shift Tab, ←, ↓, ↑, →, and Enter keys among others to navigate, change and apply options from the sidebar.
(How to permanently expand the Paint 3D sidebar tested with Paint 3D 4; updated March 2018; title image: StockUnlimited)


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Join us in the Journey
Come Worship with us
Are non-Orthodox visitors welcome?
Yes! We are a community comprised of both cradle-born and converts to the Orthodox Church, and are very comfortable with newcomers, inquirers and visitors! We come from all age, ethnic, and economic backgrounds. Every sincere lover or seeker of Christ, or inquirer is welcome! We can probably anticipate many of your questions about the Orthodox Christian faith! We've all been there!
So don't be afraid to ask questions about what we do and why! Our book corner also has books and pamphlets that can help answer a variety of questions. Subjects include Christian church history, theology, catechism, Orthodox spirituality, inspiration, prayer, the lives of the Saints, and stories about others who have journeyed to the Orthodox Faith.
When you enter our church, you enter the church narthex. If you visit on a Sunday, a greeter will welcome you, hand you a bulletin, and help you navigate your way around! We have printed service texts of the Divine Liturgy available on the table along the North wall as you enter the church nave, the sacred space where the congregation worships. Our normal Sunday service is the Divine Liturgy of Saint John Chrysostom. You may follow the service text, or, if you prefer, simply close your eyes and enter into the Church's beautiful worship of God.
Following the Sunday Divine Liturgy, you are invited to join us for a "coffee hour" which is a good time to get to know our parish members and meet our priest! If you are not interested in social interaction at first, that's fine! You are always welcome to follow your own pace and level of interest!
How long are the services?
Daily Vespers services (Evening prayers – Fall and Spring Wednesday nights at 6:30 P.M.) are generally 35-40 minutes in length. Great Vespers (Evening prayers - Saturday nights at 5:00 P.M.) are usually 60 minutes in length. Orthros or Matins (Morning prayers - Sunday mornings at 8:00 A.M., preceding Divine Liturgy) also averages sixty minutes in length. Divine Liturgy (Sundays – 9:00 A.M.) runs about 80-90 minutes. We think that when you have participated in an Orthodox service you will feel like "you have truly worshiped the living God!"
Is there a dress code?
The general rule for men and women is to dress appropriately, modestly and respectfully, as before the living God. Visitors wear everything from jeans to suits, long dresses to skirts, tee shirts to shirts with ties, dress shoes to sneakers. We ask, however, that you not wear shorts, mini-skirts, tank tops, low-cut or strapless dresses (unless covered by a sweater, etc.).
Is childcare provided?
Each parent is responsible to take care of their child. We encourage children to be present in Church for the services. This participation is part of a child's spiritual formation. However, if your baby or child gets fussy, talkative, or has a


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We're sharing here how much 100,000 pesos would earn if invested on 3 investment wheels because a reader has requested a comparison of earnings between investing in a Mutual Fund vs UITF and VUL using his 100,000.
READ MORE : UP CLOSE! Benefits Of Getting A Variable Universal Life Insurance Plan (VUL) | Think Philippines!
Note that this is for comparison purpose only and it's not a mean to know which is better between the 3 because each product has different investment substance, fund allocation, strategy and management let alone every investor has different status, risk appetite and money goal.
READ MORE : UP CLOSE! UITFs vs Mutual Funds vs VULs | Think Philippines!
But if you'd rather go forward this topic, go on and continue reading…
100,000 Investment Earnings Comparison from Mutual Fund vs UITF vs VUL
We used one of the best, most reliable, most established, and most decent funds in this comparison. Also we used the riskiest type of funds because we're aggressive but we're always keeping it calm
For Mutual Fund we used Philequity Fund, for UITF we chose BDO Equity Fund and for VUL we used Sun Life Variable Life Insurance that is tied up with Equity Fund.
In this comparison, we used 100,000 pesos invested for 3 years, from January 18, 2012 to January 18, 2015 to be exact.
We have used the 3-year period because Equity Funds are suitable for this investment horizon.
Here are the yields we have gathered for each fund.
Again this is just a comparison and it won't guarantee future results. Each investment has different fund allocation and composition. Each may outperform the other any day. The bottom line here is all of them will give us money in the end.
If that is your revenue investing 100,000, what more if you invested 1 million or more millions? The return is awesome! It's always the more you invest, the more you will gain. Yes, that is also why the rich becomes richer. They don't let their money sleep on savings and time-deposits. They invest them or they use them expanding new business.
There are important factors you have to consider before you decide which investment wheel you will use such as your risk appetite, your financial goal and your financial status.
READ MORE : UP CLOSE! A 2007 Mutual Fund Investor Earned PHP 9.4m in 78 months! | Think Philippines!
What is risk appetite? For the sake of newbies here, it is how you can take risks. Investments are very risky. You may not always gain, you may also lose some. To combat risks, you have to invest for long term and diversify your money.
What is financial goal? Simply how much do you want to earn. Do you want to become multi-millionaire? Perhaps you want to retire early? Or perhaps you want to use your money to build business.
What is financial status? It will be answered by the following: do you rely on just regular income from your job? How much is your current networth? If you're not employed right now, can your cash sustain your needs?
If you're into investments now, it's always best to diversify your money to different wheels. Make sure you don't invest everything on one fund alone or on one account. Also make sure, it's your 20% or 30% money and make sure you have many income generating assets that can shower you abundance in life.
What are these income generating assets I always mention? They are jobs, business and passive income. I will talk about more of them soon.
It's always better to invest some of your money than not to invest at all.
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By Amy Dee-Kristensen
In February 2003 I'd lived in Norway for nine years, I was married, I co-owned a very successful business with my husband, lived an upper income lifestyle, and was the mother of two darling little girls. In February of 2004, I was a divorced, single mother, and a non-traditional nursing student living with my parents in Mitchell, SD while I renovated a "crap" house and attended classes. (Hyo's note – ouch, been there, but not the divorced mom part…the mountaintop to the chasm, that part, yes)
Some transformations I welcomed and some I fought hard to avoid. But whether life revisions were invited in or kicked and shoved their way into my life, change came and with it my resiliency muscle was strengthened.
People deal with transformation differently. Change pessimists usually believe that conversion is difficult and stressful. They worry about their ability to cope with life adjustments. They often believe that they are "unlucky" if change is pressed upon them. Change pessimists see no benefits to change.
Change optimists accept change as a natural part of life and they see transformations as good. They have confidence that they have the ability to deal with metamorphoses. Change optimists seek out the positives that they believe comes from even difficult change.
The good news is that you can improve your ability to change. Your resiliency muscle can be strengthened by transforming your beliefs. Beliefs, habits, and responses are like cross-country ski paths, where grooves are cut into the snow. We ski in the grooves because its' easiest, the path is already cut but we are not required to ski in the groove. With effort, we can cut a new path. With effort you can strengthen your resiliency muscle and become a change optimist.
Recognizing your pattern of beliefs is the first step to becoming a change optimist. Examine an adjustment you are currently experiencing, then write down your beliefs about this change. Perhaps you are experiencing a lot of work related revisions and your current beliefs are "I cannot tolerate one more change!" or "All these changes are exhausting." or "These changes are stupid and I hate them."
Now, pretend that you are a change optimist. Transformation excites you. You feel invigorated by the challenges conversions bring. You know something good always comes from diversity and you are excited to see the growth this change will bring to your life. Exchange your negative statements about your current remodeling into positive statements such as " I am resilient and have the ability to handle any change that comes my way." or "Change invigorates and excites me." or "Change is a part of life and some good comes from all change."
Research shows that it takes between twenty-one and twenty-eight days to develop a new habit. Get out of your old groove by reciting your positive statements twice a day for the next three weeks. When confronted with a change, catch yourself slipping into the old groove, stop, and replace your old negative statements with your new positive statements.
You control your thoughts. You can decide to cut a "new groove" and become a change optimist.
Amy Dee-Kristensen, The Truth Fairy of Personal and Professional Development has been a Humorist/Motivational speaker /workshop leader for over 20 years. Visit a female motivational speaker at truthfairyspeaker.com for pdf download of 44 inspirational quotes and a fun video of Amy performing!
Great book – Who Moved My Cheese…
Get it, read it, understand it – it will help you immensely…


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Welcome to "AlanFrewWorld Merch & Memorabila"
A store where fans of Alan, and of Glass Tiger, can purchase merchandise and memorabilia, including "one-of-only-one," items and where by doing so, you will automatically be "giving back" and "paying-it-forward" due to the fact that donations will be made from EVERY item sold, to various rotating charities.
Alan's history of charity work is tireless and there are just too many organizations to list here but they include the likes of; camh (Centre for Mental Health & Addiction), Easter Seals, IJM (International Justice Mission), Autism Canada, Child Find to name but a few.
Some of the items are standard; t-shirts, sweatshirts, CD's, books etc while others are just outright fun; bobble-heads, drawings, poetry, Alan's personal items, personalized guitars, limited edition photographs etc, the sky's the limit.
Alan is proud to be a part of the "Department of Good" family, a company whose vision is dedicated to leaving this world in just a little bit better shape than it was when they found it. A philosophy near and dear to Alan's heart.
So join us and welcome to AlanFrewworld.com
Also stay tuned here for Alan's new clothing coming in the Spring Of 2019.


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Subject to Change – Part 9
They're really good people.
He'd been staring at me all morning with an expression unlike any in the room. I'd been teaching for over an hour. A hundred local church leaders and their pastors were gathered around tables, preparing to dive into a yearlong journey of discovery and discussion. Our goal? Find the future for the dozen or so congregations represented in the room.
Things at his table didn't look too promising. His pastor looked like a good guy. He'd been at the church for a couple of years now and seemed determined to slow the church's decade of steady decline. I wanted to believe he could. This pastor appeared enthusiastic and his wife seemed to genuinely enjoy the people at their table. Better days were ahead, I was sure…except for the look on this one guy's face.
This is what I do. I work with churches, trying to help them navigate a climb to greater effectiveness or turn a downward spiral in a new, more promising direction. Some days I sit with leaders from one congregation. Other days, the door's been opened to multiple congregations, and I try to aid the unique discovery of purpose and direction occurring at each of the room's round table. This was one of those days.
But he wasn't buying it. Every other face showed signs of genuine engagement. These people came to learn. Motivational speeches aren't usually needed when folks give up an entire Saturday to help their pastor find answers. Each participant had been chosen for this assignment. Pastor needed their faith, their hope, and their ability to dream with him. It's usually a fun room.
This one man wasn't having fun. His face didn't fit with the others. They smiled and nodded and jotted notes vigorously. He pushed his chair back further from the table, folded his arms, and glared at me, as though he'd accepted a mission to prove me wrong at every turn. I could read his thoughts (not really). I could anticipate his complaints (I'd heard them before). I could quote his list of reasons why nothing I suggested would ever work at his church (I figured he was the reason).
We made it to the lunch break without him derailing my confidence. I wanted to embrace the affirmation others in the room extended as I grabbed a sandwich and a plate full of chips, but he was too close. By the time I reached the drink table, he had me cornered and asked if he could sit with me.
Now, I'm a pastor, at least I had been one for quite a while. Most of us know when we're about to receive someone's well-meaning correction. You've heard it too—the auditorium was too cold on Sunday or the sermon was too long, or in that one announcement we failed to mention the part that everyone really needed to know. Such moments are meant to help us, to make us aware of what people are saying, all the while being sure that the messenger means no ill intent.
So I slid my tray in front of a couple of empty chairs and motioned for my new friend to join me. I quickly took a bite of my sandwich, believing that the chewing motion would hide any other reactions my face might have toward his rebuke. But then something else happened, and I wasn't as prepared as I had thought for what the next few moments would bring.
He wept. His shoulders began to vibrate and he fought hard to muffle the sobs that wanted to burst forth. "You don't understand," he whispered, trying to keep his overwhelming emotion from drawing the attention of the room. "You don't understand…I can't see a future…we can't have a future for our church when we're all afraid to face the past."
Suddenly my food didn't taste so good. I tried to swallow quickly, anxious to console him, wanting to trade in my suspicions for a much-needed dose of compassion. Pastor had seen the tears and slid into the seat next to me. "What is it, Bill?" he asked in such a soft voice that Bill and I could see his concern. In an instant, I went from the center of a conversation to its bystander, and I knew that I needed to do just that.
"Pastor, you don't know all that's happened. You don't know about the Jenkins and the Simpsons, and the thing with the Walkers." There was no reaction. The names didn't seem to register in the pastor's expression. "How can we talk of vision and a future when we can't deal with all the hurt of the past?"
Good question, Bill.
After a brief conversation and the pastor's pledge to engage whatever hurt Bill and his other tablemates might be carrying, our afternoon resumed. Bill wiped his eyes with a friend's oversized handkerchief and pulled his chair back up to the table, seemingly ready to participate now that he was sure his new pastor really cared enough to face whatever ugliness had been a part of where they'd been. Over the next few months, Bill was as pleasant and engaging as anyone in the room. Apparently, he was finding reason to reach for the future again.
But his question underscores something your people want you to know before you lead them in change, Pastor. We'll go where you go if you'll come where we are.


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About Us
Kent based MKA Architects has built a reputation for original and high quality design since its formation in 1985. Our Kent based team aim to design and create high quality spaces and buildings which enrich and inspire you.
We are experienced in working in a wide range of sectors including commercial, education, housing (private and multi-unit) and public buildings anywhere from rural spaces to city centres.
With extensive knowledge in the field of planning, we have negotiated planning permissions within the Green Belt and Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONBs). In addition, we have experience working with listed buildings of all grades in design and planning and also construction.
Our approach to design innovation is to work closely with all partners and stakeholders through every stage of the project, to evaluate each site and opportunity individually, to identify each unique opportunity and to develop its potential.
We have developed close relationships with Local Planning Authorities in and around Kent and the home counties and work with many partners in the field of Planning and Local Authority Development Control.
With every project, we set ourselves the goal of achieving the highest standards of architecture, believing that good design creates good working and living environments, promotes good social interaction, and therefore has the potential to improve lives.
In addition to our design, planning and management skills, MKA Architects are committed to improving the quality of our built environment and as a consequence have been part of design competitions and award judging panels and have been represented on the South East Regional Design Panel (SERDP) and Kent Design Future (KDF) Enabling Team.
Meet the team
MKA Architects choose the design, planning and technical team to best serve the needs of your project. Our personnel consist of Project Architects, Architects, Planning Associate and Architectural Technicians as well as Admin support staff. MKA have also forged strong working relationships with a group of external professionals who provide a service for particular areas of each project, such as environmental consultants and Structural Engineering.
Mike Kilgour, Director
BArch DipArch RIBA FCIOB
Mike formed MKA Architects in 1985 after working for two local practices. Mike has extensive knowledge of the Kent area and has particular skills in Planning and Commercial development projects.
While Business Development keeps Mike busy day to day, his interest lies firmly with conservation and listed building projects, with a passion for balancing contemporary design with period buildings. He strives to get to the heart of what businesses require to do their job successfully and how we can help them achieve this through great design.
His abilities are also employed outside of the Practice, where he is a School Governor and co-runs a music company.
Joe Martin, Associate Director
BA(Hons), B.Arch, RIBA
Joe has worked at MKA since 2006, prior to that working as a Project Director in an award-winning London practice. Joe has a broad range of experience from residential to education and from individual projects to large scale estate/urban regeneration and master planning work.
Before qualifying as an architect, Joe worked for an international London-based interior design firm designing interiors for prestigious hotels and residences around the world.
He has a passion for great design whether the property is commercial or residential, a listed building or sleek and modern. He looks for good design details and works assiduously to a client's brief until its fruition.
Chris Norsworthy, Snr Project Architect
BA(Hons), BArch(Hons), RIBA
Chris joined us in April 2015 from a large, successful London practice where he gained experience in multi-million pound schemes. His interest in residential developments and new-build construction continues to motivate him from both a planning and technical perspective, particularly on challenging sites.
Keeping abreast of new technology and various methods of construction helps to drive Chris with all his projects. His experience in Building Information Modelling (BIM) assists MKA in developing this aspect of the Practice.
Phil Reeves, Snr Technician
IT Manager ACIAT
Phil has worked at MKA Architects since 1997 and as one of the longest standing members of the team, he has a wealth of experience around Kent and the home counties. Whether he is working on multi million pound projects to domestic extensions; or on residential, commercial and industrial projects or housing developments and schools, he has a keen eye for detail.
Supporting the team with up to date knowledge on Building Regulations and construction best practice, Phil is also our IT and CAD Manager and has been trained to use Autodesk's BIM software Revit.
Phil enjoys working on one-off housing projects and commercial builds incorporating new technology and contemporary designs.
Lucy Harvey, Planning Associate
Lucy joined the Practice in October 2017 having worked for over 14 years in Development Management within two local authorities in Kent, where she dealt with a wide range of new build residential, commercial and retail schemes, changes of use, single dwellings and residential extensions.
Lucy has a particular interest in heritage and design and brings in house expertise on how to negotiate the Planning System, together with up to date knowledge of current planning legislation, case law and emerging policy to the MKA team.
Clare Barbary, Office Manager
Clare joined the team in March 2016 and is the first point of contact for all incoming phone calls and visitors. Aside from the usual day to day administrative tasks, she also assists with accounting and manages the website and all social media along with any press and PR.
Outside of the Practice, Clare is a Hadlow Parish Councillor and is a regular volunteer in the local community where our office is based.
Christine Kilgour, Company Secretary/ Finance
Christine has been part of MKA Architects from its inception in 1985 and remains a key member of the team. Her many roles within the Practice include managing the accounts and advising on all HR and legal matters that may arise.
A developing interest in architecture inspired Christine to widen her knowledge through obtaining a degree in the History of Art.
Find us at:
MKA Architects, Rosewood, High Street, Tonbridge TN11 0EF


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If you've traveled in Asia, you'll notice how coffee drip bags have become quite popular. Even Starbucks in Japan now manufactures several different types with a variety of roasts you can try. Unfortunately, they're not available in the US market yet, perhaps because Starbucks Via is a bigger seller.
Let me tell you: they taste much better than Via. Much! In this article, I'll use the Starbucks Origami Personal Coffee System (good name, eh!)
What are coffee drip bags?
I call it the bag with ears because that's what it looks like! It's a tiny pouch that is sold in foil sealed bag. It should look like this.
The Simple Method is outlined here. But today I'd like to teach the Advanced Method.
What you need
- A kettle that you can boil a little amount of water
- A jug of some sort (I'm using one from my drip coffee maker)
- A cup (duh!)
- A cooking thermometer
- A water measure with fresh water for the coffee
- And a packet of coffee (I'm using Starbucks Caffe Verona which contains 10g of finely ground coffee)
- I also used additional hot water to warm the coffee pot and the mug.
Let's make it!
Step 1
When you open it you open the bag, you'll find a paper pouch that is also sealed.
This is the filter paper, filter frame, & coffee grounds. Open the pouch very carefully, don't use scissors, don't pull too hard and try really hard not to tear it!
Step 2
Boil the water and add the required amount to the measuring cup. Pour the remainder in the cup to warm it; and into the jug to warm it.
Step 3
Toss out the hot water in the coffee jug, check the coffee hot water isn't too hot or too cold. I tend to use about 90~95C range. Add this to the jug.
Step 4
Add the coffee grounds to the jug and stir once. Wait about 60 seconds for the infusion process to work.
Step 5
Toss out the hot water in the cup. Then place the empty filter bag & support on the cup and pour the contents of the jug slowly into the filter paper until the jug is empty.
Step 6
Tidy up. Add milk & sugar if you need it.
Using Coffee Drip Bags to make coffee
Extra Tips for using these coffee drip bags!
The advantage of this system is that you get a better more flavorful cup of coffee than the simple method.
The minimum additional item you need to do this in a hotel is some kind of jug. You can judge the water amount by eye or cup size in the room.
Just don't infuse too long because the flavor may change or become too bitter. If it tastes too strong or goes a little cold, you can add some hot water, too. Just don't add too much.
Remember: the temperature decreases with time so try to keep your equipment warm; add hot water to the final cup, and don't let it sit too long. Adding cold milk straight from the fridge will cool the drink even more.
Better than instant
It's way better than instant coffee you find in many hotel bedrooms; and if you can't bear the hotel coffee in the restaurant, you can finally have your own 'mini' coffee bar in your room! After all, not every hotel has a decent coffee shop!
Have you seen these portable coffee filters before? What did you think of them? Have you tried?
For more information and recipes on to our How To Make Coffee Page


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This little cigar is a triumph of its genre and in tune with the times. It offers a steady and even burn. The blend is typical Cohiba Siglo line, beany and spicy, but the Siglo I surprisingly also plays with touches of saltiness. This Tres Petit Corona is a relaxing and fresh cigar that enjoys sharing its blend with the smoker. The more experienced aficionado will get more out of the blend, but this cigar can be enjoyed by all.
By it's very composition, this cigar offers a milder smoke, as it contains fewer amounts of the leaves that give strength to a Cuban cigar.
This cigar burns very well. It delivers cedar woody notes with hints of cocoa aroma.
The final is marked by a touch of spiciness. It ends on hot notes due in part to the short size.
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