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Performance is a buzz word we often hear at work. When we talk about how well (or bad) we are doing at our job, we use performance as the gauge. But what is performance? What does performance really entail and how do you know if you're performing well? Let's start with a simple definition.
According to that, when we execute actions--daily routines at work, such as cleaning our desk, planning projects, meeting new clients, recording daily expenses and taking strategic decisions--do they all contribute to the performance of our job? Or is the sole act of writing thousands of lines of code every day - the most fundamental task in your job description if you are a developer - the mere basis of performance? Maybe we need a more elaborate definition.
There are three fundamental ingredients or factors that influence one's performance. These are Ability (A), Motivation (M) and Environment (E). Let's understand these factors through an equation. (I promise: this isn't turning into a math lesson!)
P (Performance) = f (A * M * E)
Performance is the function of Ability*Motivation*Environment. The higher the contribution of each of these factors, the higher the performance. Let's tackle these factors a bit more:
One's ability is a fundamental factor for performance. It's composed of knowledge, skills, attitude and other behavioral traits that can make an impact on his or her fulfillment of a job. It can be said that it is a prerequisite for performance; without it, a person will not be able to function well or perhaps fail miserably. Ability is also the most dynamic pillar of performance. As technology continue to advance, people learn more and acquire new knowledge and skills that will help perform. But if one does not take the necessary steps to continuously upgrade their knowledge base and skill set, their ability will suffer and adversely impact their performance. They start to plateau and see only stagnant growth. What should you do when this happens? Commit to continuous competency development and stay relevant to the changing work environment.
Motivation also plays a huge role in successful performance. Without it, your commitment to finish a task will slowly diminish. Motivation is the inner force that drives us to do things. By design, the job itself should provide freedom to work and opportunity to apply a variety of skills and it should connect us to a larger purpose. HR professionals should focus on designing jobs that will provide motivation for people to perform. When individuals are driven by autonomy, mastery & purpose, they are intrinsically motivated to perform. Naturally not all human beings are intrinsically motivated. Some are driven by external factors, such as compensation, rewards, recognition, perks etc.
Things such as our work place, its infrastructure, process, policies, culture, organizational structure, leadership & management styles, colleagues, communication, government, laws & regulations, market conditions & so many other tangible & intangible factors, have direct or indirect impact on performance. Ideally, a conducive environment for performance includes having an open culture, flat hierarchy, simple processes, few strict policies, clear & transparent communication, trust, self-managed teams, inspiring & inclusive leadership styles, flexibility and fun.
What happens when one factor is absent in the performance of a task? Diminished performance.
If an individual demonstrates ideal behaviors but lacks in solid results, then the environment is an issue. If results and behaviors are missing, then motivation and environment need to be addressed. Ideally competencies are evaluated at the time of selection. Motivation encourages hard work even if the environment is not necessarily conducive.
In a nutshell, ability, environment and motivation are the key ingredients for successful performance results. If any one of these ingredients is missing or less nurtured, performance may be compromised.
Considering the significance of these ingredients, it is strongly advised that individuals and organizations work together on identifying which factors contribute to their performance and proactively find ways to nurture them.


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The Research Foundation of the Canadian Athletic Therapists Association (CATA Research Foundation) is pleased that Athletic Training & Sports Health Care (ATSHC) is supportive of our efforts to promote research within our association, especially at our national educational conference. You may have noticed in previous volumes of ATSHC that you had the opportunity to read abstracts submitted to the CATA conferences, as well at the biannual World Federation of Athletic Training and Therapy meetings. The support of ATSHC is beneficial in several ways; first, the audience is expanded beyond those who attend the conference, so the ideas and results presented herein can be used to develop knowledge and progress our profession. Second, the authors are more receptive to submitting their work at our conference knowing that abstract publication in a reputable journal is part of the process. This alone will help to increase the submission rate for our conference in years to come. Finally, publication in ATSHC creates a long-term record of these projects, again sharing knowledge beyond the conference attendees.
We must remember that abstracts are just that. For the CATA conference, the CATA Research Foundation accepts and reviews research to be presented. Although we adhere to a specific format, including the need to provide results, there is not the rigorous review that the published manuscripts in this and other journals receive. One must remember this when assessing the merit and value of the abstracts for the preliminary information they provide.
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Looks so busy. I wonder how annoying it will become in daily use. I don't think swiping is the way to go here.
@talkaboutdesign you should see the cutting room floor…. I think one thing that's not evident is that almost all of the features that jump out as complex in the video are optional settings that can be turned on or unlocked. It's a fine balance between playing up how wildly different what we're doing is and handholding to assure people there is an easy way to start and find an effective new way to deal with mobile email (timeline + a few custom corners & leave it at that). Every engineer who looks at the problem immediately thinks "email should be a pay to email protocol/let's change the protocol by making people pay bitcoins to send email" Every designer who looks at the problem immediately thinks "well, we have to keep it simple" and then eyes widen at the 20 expected table stakes from normal users. They then go through a few big concepts that don't fit real usage cases in my experience. I could mock up 5-10 mind-blowing dribbble exercises in this space that we're actually prototyped and dogfooded and found to come up lacking. What we're bringing out now with Geronimo is the the offering we found through beta use to be more effective than the standard mobile email apps in usage. The novel elements are tools to that end vs ends in themselves. With mobile email until now, we're looking at an underinnovated space where photos can't be annotated, it takes 5-6 taps to add a photo to an email, and I'm looking at the same vertical chronological order list translated from the desktop. I find it particularly interesting that we are visual, physical creatures and haven't explored that way of existing more deeply in the realm of productivity apps for mobile. This iPhone in my pocket knows what angle it's at and the velocity associated it along with itself at all times…. and yet, we use none of that except in temple run etc
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The Mailbox growth hack strategy is fatiguing. Mailbox happened to be a truly superior app, but successors that implemented the same invite strategy have been sub par (remember Hop?). The bar is set very high for me when you make me wait.
@ryanmac This could get into a long winded discussion about app discovery problems, independent 3rd party developer support environment/why we can't have nice things, and more... but I'll try to keep it focused. Oh how I wish it was a a clever and intentional growth hack. I didn't believe the other companies in the space like mailbox when they seemed to play off their waiting lists as matter of necessity until our team dove into building an email client…I've dove into this with friends at the original reMail which was acquired by google, with Hoa and Dom who sold Sparrow Mail to google (advisors to Geronimo), the fluent.io guys who were some of the original google wave team but decided to fold shop, and about a dozen other founders or primary operators of email clients over the past few years. It's a smaller group than you'd think. And sadly, none of them have a "how I'd do it differently now" that fixes this problem. We need push notifications, cross platform syncing of very customized user data (we allow rearranging of the full order of a users emails), fast search, lightning fast ability to open/reply to/send emails, and finally never-ending bidirectional syncing which means an open imap connection for every single account at all times to google's servers. Those are table stakes before we do anything cool or unique which is why most people will avoid this space (I would too if I didn't have this unrelenting vision). - IMAP is let's say a primitive protocol to deal with at best. - Add in the extra layer of google's servers which can have varying throughput depending on the cohort a users account is part of. - Add in another intensive layer to ensure threads are properly formed. This is not self-serve done after syncing. - Add in a final intensive layer to process and create photo thumbnails for thousands of attachments per free account so they're easier to access on mobile And things get… heavy. The bar should be set high. I agree on that though. It's not worth the effort to build something in this email space unless it's going to be be truly different imo. I think we've done that and happy to stand behind it but unfortunately, it shall take a little while. We tried to offer a little more transparency by giving users insight into the velocity we were letting people in and using some cheeky language but it was more just a decision about what to do after the fact that our servers were getting overloaded.
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@erik_lukas Thanks for your detailed response. I'm very impressed with your comments. And it inspires confidence in the product. Looking forward to seeing in next week.
@erik_lukas whoa. That was quick. I'm in. Very interesting concept. Added to my home screen for the next week to use as my main mail app.
Man...there's one comment on the reviews (about line jumpers) that turned me away from hitting the GET button. Perhaps it's a bug or something.
@alanaut24 users at this point should expect a wait of a few days if they get in right now but we're bringing up some new server clusters to try to speed things up. Not sure which exact review you're talking about but there is a waiting list and users can get prioritized a very small amount while they wait by sharing that.
@erik_lukas Hey Erik. Thanks for the response. The comment was the one where the guys waitlist numbers kept jumping all over the place. Could be him, the product, or just a bug. Wasn't sure though. Apart from that, love the UI from the shots and the simplicity of design. Looking forward to trying it out. Best of luck.
@coconidodev thanks. not yet but should be shortly
Looks cumbersome and complex to me
@ourielohayon It's interesting to see the different perceptions people have. Some people want to see 1-2 solid use cases in a video. Others want the whole magic show. Those two groups will never agree so eventually the creators just have to decide and I couldn't hide all the magic we've built in. The launch videos aren't meant to be instructional but simply a showcase of new interaction patterns we've found to be more effective and enjoyable with G. Luckily the product is built in a way where it allows the user to stay with some of the simple mobile email efficiency changes we've created or to keep leveling up to more sophisticated stuff with settings and unlocking advanced features. Some simpler stuff in GIFs: Adding a photo comparison: standard vs. G Forwarding email to a frequent contact: standard vs. G


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Recent experience excepted, corrections are typically more frequent and regular than many would prefer, so investing should not occur without acceptance of this. That said, it's important to prepare, first by making the right investments, and secondly by adopting the right temperament.
The recent market weakness may pass but the seed of concerns about increased volatility, rising interest rates and inflation has well and truly been planted, suggesting these concerns will be revisited by participants.
The right temperament is exemplified by Ben Graham's Mr. Market allegory. Think about your share portfolio much as you would an inherited farm on which you owe nothing, and which will generate a reasonable average return. There will be some terrible years, but they will be balanced out by some extremely good years too. The stock market, however, is represented by the neighbouring farmer, who leans against the gate each morning and yells out a price at which he's willing to buy your farm, and another price at which he's willing to sell you his. He doesn't mind being ignored and he'll be back tomorrow with a new price. Ben Graham noted, you are free to take advantage of him, if he's in a particularly somber mood, but you must not fall under his spell.
Provided you purchased a high-quality property, you don't need to ever worry about the prices he's shouting out. And that's where making the right investment comes in. If you haven't gone for fads, or companies that may or may not ever make a profit, then you should look forward to lower prices, and take advantage of them when they eventuate.
Many investors, especially those approaching retirement believe they need to invest with the day of retirement in mind. This is a mistake. Even if you are retiring today, you potentially have 30 years of living to fund and so you will be a net buyer of stocks. Knowing that you will be a net buyer means you want lower prices in the future, particularly for those stocks you don't already own.
For the stocks you already own, provided they are high quality businesses, the correction will prove to be temporary. That's how you should be thinking about corrections.
Beware 'irrational exuberance'
At The Montgomery Fund and The Montgomery Global Fund, we build portfolios from the bottom up. Having rejected the momentum that has driven prices well beyond our estimates of intrinsic value, we have been holding relatively large levels of cash for some time. Indeed, our high cash weightings have dragged on our returns over the last two years, but the cash has also delivered much lower volatility to our investors, who generally prioritise the protection of their capital over making the last percentage point in a rally. Especially a rally that has migrated from enthusiasm to irrational exuberance.
High quality company share prices, for example those for companies like CSL and Cochlear, have implied long-term growth rates that are simply impossible to deliver without interruption. Alternatively, investors have accepted discount rates that presume interest rates will never rise again. At the more optimistic end of the market, implied growth rates for companies like Afterpay, A2Milk and Pushpay are simply other-worldly.
A recent conversation with a small cap manager who had generated high double digit returns over the last two years revealed a reliance purely on momentum to support continued superior performance. When asked; "given they are well above any rational estimate of value, and sentiment is driving momentum, how do you make the decision to exit? The answer was simply, 'you'll see them rolling over'!
Having watched, almost daily, the US 10-year bond rate climb from 1.36% in mid-2016, to 2.84% last week, we have been conscious of the need to be conservative in our adopted discount rates when estimating valuations. Consequently, we have been somewhat impatiently waiting for a setback in equities to deliver more rational prices.
Always focus on quality; those companies with high rates of return on equity, little or no debt, bright prospects for margins and unit sales volume and management with a solid track record. Pleasingly, quality companies have endured the recent market weakness better than many of the 'concept' or 'themed' stocks with underlying businesses only hopeful of generating profits or revenues in the future.
Searching for 'all weather' stocks
There are few true 'all weather' companies in the world simply because legislation or technology can always change in favour of a competing alternative. One of the few that comes close is French company Essilor. The company enjoys a 40% global market share in the manufacture and distribution of corrective eyewear. With 70% of people over the age of 40 years, and 90% of people over the age of 70 years, requiring corrective eyewear, the current market of over 4 billion people is growing daily. That's about the longest growth runway I can think of, and the company generates excellent economics.
Domestically the best examples include CSL - but it has been sold from the portfolio due to price appreciation, which has pushed the company's shares well above our estimate of intrinsic value.
Australian Private Hospital operators also enjoy long runways for growth, notwithstanding recent setbacks related to negative press about private health insurance and the conflict between state and federal imperatives. Fiscal responsibility should ensure government legislation encourages self-funded healthcare and as greenfield developments mature, fixed asset turnover will improve and market sentiment towards operators will do likewise.
The Montgomery Global Funds own shares in Essilor
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Hi Roger what is your view on A2m as although you mentioned in your article it is in more of the opportunistic category it seems to be ticking all the right boxes in relation to your other statement "Always focus on quality; those companies with high rates of return on equity, little or no debt, bright prospects for margins and unit sales volume and management with a solid track record". Especially now A2M is an recognised/established brand in China and has a market share of approx 3% of the $10 Billion Infant Formula market there and it is highly likely they gain a further increase of the market, especially after a number of IF brands have been reduced significantly from the Chinese market at the beginning of this year in Jan 2018?
Bob Wells
Rodger, Has your view changed on A2m since their supply contract with Fonterra was announced. This is a great market and a good product. And now with supply guaranteed,good marketing must result in profits Bob Wells mar 4
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It is true that the best businesses are those that have a competitive advantage and the most valuable competitive advantage is the ability to charge a higher price and cause people to still cross the road to buy that product. Consumer brands are often used as examples of this and A2 milk has achieved the ability selling what is basically milk. The question has always been about the price of the stock and the barriers to entry. If you believe that the company can continue to grow in the future, as fast as it has in the past, then the price might in fact be cheap. If however you believe that normal market and competitive forces will produce more modest earnings growth than the price is implying, the stock is expensive. By definition (we don't own the stock), we believe the latter.


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The International League has named Norfolk outfielder Nick Green as the Batter of the Week for the period July 4-10.
Green has won the award before, August 25-September 1, 2008 while a member of Scranton/Wilkes-Barre.
Green led the IL with four home runs and 11 RBI's for the week, having his best games on Tuesday and Friday.
He had a three-hit, two-homer, seven-RBI performance on Friday at Durham to help the Tides to a 17-2 blasting of the Bulls. In the game, Green achieved season-highs in hits, homers and RBI's.
The 32-year-old Green is in his twelfth season of pro baseball. He is a veteran of around 400 games in the majors with Atlanta, Tampa Bay, the Yankees, Mariners, Red Sox, Dodgers and Blue Jays.
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Under these circumstances, what can I do? The United States has not got the accouterments ready, as General Patterson informed me, and the United States seems to be unwilling to take what I have on hand. If the United States want these now they can have them, and let our Pennsylvania reserve troops receive a like number from the United States as soon as they can get them ready. I inclose copy of letter from Secretary of War.
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P. S.-Please let me hear from you by telegraph to-morrow whether I shall deliver accouterments or not.
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DEAR SIR: Your letter of the 14th instant, relative to infantry accouterments, was received and its suggestions taken into consideration. Arrangements have been made for procuring and issuing from the U. S. arsenals accouterments in ample quantities to supply all the troops mustered into the U. S. service, and it would be unadvisable, in my opinion, to provide them otherwise.
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SIR: In compliance with verbal intimation from the General-in-Chief I present for his information in tabular form the locations of the regiments now in this department; the condition of their equipment, accouterments, clothing,&c., and the probable time they can be put in motion, fully equipped. The probable time is based on the accompanying statement from the commander of Frankford Arsenal, to which I respectfully refer. I also call attention to the offer herewith of the quartermaster-general of this State.* With his aid six regiments can be thrown into the field as rapidly as the accouterments can be distributed, say Monday. Without his assistance (accepted by telegraph through me) the term of service of some of the regiments will expire before they are equipped, or they will be provided at so distant a day that new shoes and other clothing will have to be issued, unless accouterments are provided outside of this department. Colonel Hale offers some four thousand sets. I am anxious to forward the views of the General-in-Chief and to execute his designs, and will be much gratified to have the means of putting in the field regiments well drilled and desirous of seeing service. If desirable, they can be sent forward without accouterments,
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Ludwik Fleck (1896-1961) can rightly be regarded as one of the pioneers of a historically minded epistemology. Trained as an immunologist, he belongs to a generation of scientists wo decisively contributed to a historical reorientation of the then predominant analytical style of philosophy of science that reigned supreme in, for instance, the influential Vienna circle and the Berlin school of logical positivism. Fleck stands in a row of thinkers such as the Italian mathematician Federigo Enriques (1871-1946), the French teacher of physics and chemistry Gaston Bachelard (1884-1962) and his French contemporary, the mathematician Jean Cavaillès (1903-1944) who took their starting point for reflecting about the genesis and development of the sciences in their practical groundings and procedures as well as in their social constitution. Ludwik Fleck's notions of "thought style" and "thought collective" stand paradigmatically for these two perspectival reorientations. Fleck developed them in his book Entstehung und Entwicklung einer wissenschaftlichen Tatsache, published in Basel in Switzerland in 1935. This book is a remarkable document of twentieth century history and philosophy of science. After having long been virtually unknown, it received a renaissance in the late 1970s, and today is one of the perennial classics in history and philosophy of science as a whole. In my lecture, I will give an overview of Ludwik Fleck's contribution to a new, historical epistemology, and I will situate his contribution with respect to his contemporaries, in particular in France and in Germany. A special focus of the lecture will be on the way Fleck is looking at the collective process of experimentation in the natural sciences.
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A distance education program (blended) with online didactic instruction and local on-ground experiential learning activities
Learners are prepared for entry-level practice as a nurse to work in a variety of health care settings such as hospitals, outpatient surgery centers, urgent care clinics, and long term care. The success of our learners and graduates is the core focus of Nightingale College. Our rigorous program prepares learners to practice with competence, confidence, and compassion.
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text: Since the BMW Motorrad GS Trophy began in 2008, it caught my attention but when this year they put a call out for women to submit their video application with cover letters, I put my piece together in three weeks. They're planning to announce the team tomorrow and I wasn't selected but they sent a nice note saying they had a total of 119 total submissions worldwide. I am glad that I am one of those women. I will try harder for a future submission with more intense video and ride style as well as brush up on my off-road skills.


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Winter Is Here
The new album from This Winter Machine, which has been highly-anticipated by fans of prog rock the world over, sees light of day in both digital and physical formats. The Yorkshire 5 piece recently had a track on the covermount CD of Prog Magazine and have been receiving advance airplay on radio stations globally. Indeed, the former pronounced the band as 'ones to watch' in their first edition of the new year. The album is available on all digital platforms bar BandCamp and also as a physical CD from BIG CARTEL.


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How Frequency Response Analysis is used in electromechanics
Remember FEAforAll? In case you don't, click the link (opens up in a new tab) and come back here afterward. In case you don't want to click the link, here's the short:
FEAforAll is another blog on finite elements, focusing on structural mechanics. It also follows a much more professional approach than mine. So in case you don't want to read about biceps and cheesecakes every once in a while, you might be better served by FEAforAll or Enterfea.
Frequence Response Analysis
In any case, this week FEAforAll published a nice post about frequency response analysis. You can check out the post and its awesome graphics by clicking the figure below.
So check it out, and then come back here to read my thoughts.
Back already? Great!
Frequency response analysis is pretty much exactly like what the name suggests. We poke at the system at a certain frequency, and see how it responds.
In mechanics, this often means that we have force oscillating at a certain frequence, and we see how the system vibrates.
What about Motors?
We also do frequency response analysis (let's use FRA from now on) in electrical engineering. Most often, it's exactly what Cyprien described behind the links – meaning mechanical oscillations.
For instance, it might be computing how the stator of a motor vibrates due to the rotating pulling and pushing forces from the air-gap flux. If it reacts too strongly, it gets squeezed like giant donut. It won't break, but it will make one hell of a noise.
Or, we might be interested in the bending modes of the rotor. Like turbogenerators in power plants. They can have really long shafts with no bearing support in the middle. So, they might react really strongly to something as low as 50 Hz excitation. That means lots of bending vibration. And that can mean the rotor hitting the stator.
And when a 500 MW generator suffers any kind of collision, things do break down.
Or, we might be interested in a high-speed machine instead. Those are really short, and hence have high natural frequencies. But, they also rotate really freaking fast – 60 000 rpm is common. Something like that is often beyond the first natural bending frequency, requiring quite sophisticated speed control to avoid disasters.
Let's Twist Again
My third example is something our professor has studied quite a bit – torsional vibrations.
That might mean twisting the shaft along its axis, but even that's not required. Remember we are talking about rotating machines here.
Actually, the rotation itself corresponds to the simplest twisting mode of all – rigid motion.
Alone, it wouldn't be very interesting from the FRA point of view. It would simply rotate and that's it. But, we are not dealing with a passive system.
It's called electromechanics for a reason. There's a very strong coupling between electromagnetic (the torque production) and mechanic (the rotation).
In this case, we can compute another kind of frequency response function.
Indeed, we use, the speed as input, and the torque as output. In other words, we add some sinusoidal oscillation to the rotation speed of the rotor, and see what kind of oscillation we get in the torque.
Or, we can go even further than that – and add ALL frequencies to the rotor speed at the same time. In other words, use an impulse function. Of course, that's numerically quite difficult, but even an approximation yields a nice range of the total frequency response.
We can quite easily establish a correspondence between the response, and the electromechanical damping. And it turns out that under certain conditions the damping can get negative.
Meaning the motor starts to feed more and more energy to the oscillations.
And things break down.
Please comment and share! 🙂
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It's never too early to start thinking about the future. 2020 is here, make the right choice, after all they're just good people!
This enamel pin is the perfect way to show your support all year long. Make a statement, put it on your backpack, travel bag, or your favorite denim piece.
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Python: List
In python, we can do plenty of stuff with lists, these are easily maintainable and changeable as per our requirement. As these are sequence data type like array in any other language C,C++ or java, but python list is more flexible which make it more it power powerful than any other arrays.
In python list, we cam store any type of items in list means items stored could be different type or are not fixed, you could change it anytime between your program as compared to any other array like in C which is fixed in size.
let's work on Python list to understand how it work and how we can use them within our program.
Creation of List
Creating List is easy and flexible, like we can create it in below code.
>>> lst=[1,"two",3,"four",5,"six"] >>> type(lst)
So for creating one list in python, we have to mention items within square brackets like above.
Access items in List
>>> lst[2] 3 >>> lst[2:4] [3, 'four'] >>> lst[-4:-2] [3, 'four'] >>> lst[-5:] ['two', 3, 'four', 5, 'six'] >>> lst[1:] ['two', 3, 'four', 5, 'six']
So as we tried to access some items in list with index numbers. We can also used to access ranges of items indexing start from 0 (left to right) and from -1 (right to left)
While accessing list items, we should care using indexing. From left to right and right to left is different like below.
>>> lst[0] 1 >>> lst[-1] 'six'
But what if we have list inside list like below
>>> lst1=[lst,7] >>> lst1 [[1, 'two', 3, 'four', 5, 'six'], 7]
In these case, we could access them with same simple rule as we did above.
>>> lst1 [[1, 'two', 3, 'four', 5, 'six'], 7] >>> lst1[0][1] 'two'
Sometime things get complex when we start seeing them as complex, So better try to compute it simple before assume it complex.
Update List
At any point of time in program we could update or change list items as did in below code.
>>> lst [1, 'two', 3, 'four', 5, 'six'] >>> lst[1]=2 >>> lst [1, 2, 3, 'four', 5, 'six']
In above code we changed one list items, we could also add another items as well.
>>> lst [1, 2, 3, 'four', 5, 'six'] >>> lst.append(7) >>> lst [1, 2, 3, 'four', 5, 'six', 7]
In above we used in-build functions of python which has designed to append any items in next index value of List.
Removing of List items
We can do this in many ways, as in python we have many ways are available achieve same thing. Let's try how we could remove list items.
>>> lst [1, 2, 3, 'four', 5, 'six', 7] >>> lst.pop() 7 >>> lst [1, 2, 3, 'four', 5, 'six']
In Above code we could only remove last element of list, which make it bit insufficient for sometime. We have another way to target deletion of list items.
>>> lst [1, 2, 3, 'four', 5, 'six'] >>> lst.remove(2) >>> lst [1, 3, 'four', 5, 'six']
In above way, we can see we able to delete any required item in list. But what if we only know index value need to delete.
>>> lst [1, 3, 'four', 5, 'six'] >>> del lst[1] >>> lst [1, 'four', 5, 'six']
In above code we able to delete specific index value from list.
So now we know we have many ways to work with python list, but we have many other ways to work with them which not possible to mention in one post, will try to make another post for same to cover many of them.


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As one of Edinburgh's leading letting agents we want to make applying for a property and renting a flat with Cullen Property a simple and enjoyable experience.
Applying for a Cullen Property involves five simple steps. If you have any questions contact a member of the team by email or on 0131 221 1818.
This initial step involves completing an information sheet about yourself and paying £100 per tenant which will later form part of your security deposit.
Based on the information provided we will take references at this stage. During this time, we no longer actively market the property. Should the letting not go ahead, the £100 will be fully refunded to you.
If you are a student, we will ask you to provide details of a UK-based guarantor. If you do not have a UK-based guarantor you will be asked to pay 6 months rent up-front. Please be aware that paying the initial £100 does not mean you will automatically be moving in as we do require references. £100 will be paid by debit card via our online website. Our contracts department will advise you which reference to use and will send you a link to the page.
Each prospective tenant needs to complete the following forms to enable us to take up references:
We will setup your direct debit instruction on your behalf. An editable direct debit mandate will be sent to you for completion and return as part of your application process. This must be returned to us within three working days. Failing that, the property will be remarketed.
Once we have received your completed forms, we will carry out credit and reference checks, and your application is then either approved or declined.
Assuming your references are sufficient we will prepare your lease with the names and dates corresponding to the information you provided. Our team will let you know when the lease is ready to sign.
Once the lease is ready, you need to visit to our office to sign it and pay the full deposit. At this time, we also need photographic ID such as a passport if you are a foreign national and a matriculation card or driving licence if you are a UK resident. The deposit must be split equally between the number of tenants at the property as tenants are joint and severally liable for the upkeep of the property.
The property will be re-marketed if the lease has not been signed within two weeks of you being notified that the lease is ready, or if the deposit remains unpaid within one month of the start date of the lease. Deposits must be paid by debit card or cheque.
*For monies paid by cheque you must allow at least 10 working days for clearance prior to your lease start date.
Rent is due in advance in all cases.
If your lease starts between the 1st and the 14th of the month you will need to pay from your lease start date up to the end of the month by debit card or cheque.
If your lease starts between the 15th and the end of the month you will need to pay the remainder of that month and the whole of the next month as well. This is due to the delays that some banks have in setting up direct debits.
The direct debit mandate will be set up to pay for whole calendar months and will come out of your (or your guarantor's) bank account on the first bank working day of each month. The rent is due on the first working day of the month, one month in advance i.e. April's rent would come out of the account on the first working day of April.
*For monies paid by cheque you must allow at least 10 working days for clearance prior to your lease start date.
PLEASE NOTE: all documentation, deposit and rental payments as well as lease signings must be fully completed by all tenants prior to any keys being released for the property.
We will contact you to arrange a check-in time for the day that you move into the property once all payments and documentation have been received. You will be met at the property by a Cullen Property representative who will carry out the check-in procedure with you.
Our representative will go over the inventory with you, record the condition of the property, and show you how everything works. You will also be required to sign for the sets of keys given to you. The Cullen Property representative will also take meter readings and we will arrange for utilities (gas and electricity) and council tax to be transferred into your name(s).
All documentation, deposit and rental payments as well as lease signings must be fully completed by all tenants prior to any keys being released for the property.
We will contact you to arrange a check-in time with you for the day that you move into the property once all payments and documentation have been received. You will be met at the property by a Cullen Property representative who will carry out the check-in procedure with you.
Our representative will go over the inventory with you, record the condition of the property, and show you how everything works. You will also be required to sign for the sets of keys given to you. The Cullen Property representative will also take meter readings and we will arrange for utilities (gas and electricity) and council tax to be transferred into your name(s).
Please ensure you are happy that your inventory accurately describes the condition of your property and contents before signing it. If there are any issues or queries regarding your check-in or inventory, please give us a call on 0131 221 1818.
During your check-in, your Cullen Property representative will take meter readings and we will arrange for utilities (gas and electricity) and council tax to be transferred into your name(s).
If you are experiencing an emergency with your property, such as a gas or water leak please give us a call immediately on 0131 221 1818 or call the relevant numbers below:
Gas Escape – Transco – 0800 111 999
Crime/Vandalism – Police – 999
Fire – Lothian and Borders Fire Service – 999
Noisy Neighbours – Police – 101
If the issue is not an emergency please report it through our maintenance reporting system: Report a Maintenance Problem.
At Cullen Property, we regularly deal with property and maintenance issues which can be resolved by the tenants. We have provided details on regular scenarios on our maintenance reporting system which can help you understand and fix any maintenance problems.
If the property maintenance issue cannot be self-resolved please fill out the online Maintenance Fault Report Form and we will try and resolve the property concern as soon as possible.
Emergency Contractors
If you smell gas or your Carbon Monoxide detector sounds continuously please call Scottish Gas Network (SGN) immediately
Scottish Gas Network – 0800 111 999
Please check the pressure on your boiler is topped up and sits between 1.5 and 2 and that there is power going to the boiler. Information on how to do this can be found on google and via YouTube. If the issue remains after this please call our emergency engineer who will arrange for an engineer to attend. Please note that while an engineer will be able to attend and attempt to resolve during their initial visit, there may be a delay in obtaining parts depending on when the call-out occurs e.g. weekends or extended holiday periods.
Owen Gibb & Sons Ltd – 07908 753086
If you have an uncontrollable leak, please turn off your water supply with your stop cock. Information on where to locate your stop cock can be located on your original inventory. If the leak remains uncontrollable please call our emergency plumber who will be able to assist. If you have a blocked toilet, drain or sink, please attempt to remove the blockage yourself in the first instance. If this is unsuccessful and it is your only facility of this nature, please contact our emergency plumber. Otherwise, please report via the online reporting system on our website where we will arrange for a plumber to attend when our office reopens.
Owen Gibb & Sons Ltd – 07908 753086
If you have a total power outage, please check your fuse board and make sure no fuse has tripped the system. Please also check with Scottish Power and your neighboring properties to ascertain if it is a full outage in the area. If the issue is within the local area, please contact Scottish Power for an update. If the issue is specific to your property, please call our emergency electrician. Issues such as a broken socket, light switch or entry phone system can be reported via our online system and will be dealt with upon our office reopening.
Crown Electrical – 07555703491
If the lock to your property has broken and you are unable to gain entry or secure your property, please call our emergency locksmith. If you have lost your keys and are unable to make alternative arrangements until our office reopens, our emergency locksmith will be able to assist. Please note you will be held liable for the cost of the call out where keys have been lost.
Hero Locksmith – 07434 801 049
If a window pane has broken or a window frame has become loose within it's fittings, please contact one of our emergency joiners.
SMC Joinery – 07884 203 957
If the fire panel is continuously sounding within your property, please contact our emergency engineers.
Advanced Fire – 07769 211 043
If water is entering your property directly from the roof, please contact our emergency roofers who will attend to put in place a temporary fix to the issue until we are able to contact all relevant parties to arrange a full repair to take place. If you live in a factored development, please contact the factors to arrange for the emergency work to take place.
Aspect – 07711922256
Throughout your tenancy with Cullen Property there will be property inspections with your appointed Property Manager. These visits are an opportunity for us to assess the condition of each property and to make sure there are no outstanding maintenance issues.
They will take place quarterly, lasting approximately 20 to 25 minutes. You will be notified of these visits several days prior, giving you time to prepare for your property inspection. It is not our intention to be intrusive and your co-operation would be much appreciated. Please make sure your property is presentable for our visit. If you have any issues with your property or anything you would like to discuss with us, then these visits are ideal opportunities for you to raise any concerns.
After each inspection, you will receive an email from your Property Manager highlighting any concerns or repairs which we may have noticed. These inspections help keep your home to a Cullen Property standard and contributes towards what is expected from us to receive your full deposit back. If the suggested date for your property inspection is inconvenient, please highlight this to your Property Manager as soon as possible and we can reschedule to a suitable time.
If you are still on a 'Short Assured Tenancy' before the end of your tenancy you will receive a letter/email asking if you would like to end your lease after the scheduled end date or if you would like to renew your tenancy for another term with Cullen Property. This letter will be sent out roughly three months before your tenancy end date.
If you do wish to carry on with your Cullen Property tenancy, there may be a slight increase in rent based on current property figures. However, if you have decided you would like to end your lease after the scheduled date we will begin to re-market the property and carry out viewings with prospective new tenants. These visits will always take place with a representative of Cullen Property and you will be informed in advance – your co-operation will be appreciated. If you have chosen No Key Access for your property, this does not apply to viewings as described in the lease.
If you have signed onto the new 'Private Residential Tenancy' you do not have a length period to your lease. Therefore, no lease end date. You simply have to let us know 28 days' prior to your move-out date which allows us time to re-market the property for the next tenancy. If you have any questions regarding the new Private Residential Tenancy please visit; https://beta.gov.scot/publications/private-residential-tenancies-tenants-guide/or give us a call on 0131 221 1818.
When checking-out of the property, your Property Manager will meet with you to complete a final inspection. We would recommend being present for the check-out process to discuss any property condition queries the Property Manager may have. We expect the property to be of the same high standard it was when you moved in. Therefore, we recommend checking over the inventory, the cleanliness of the property, and making sure there are no damages or unreported maintenance issues.
As part of your 'moving-in pack' we have included details on how to receive your full deposit back. By following this guide, you should see the return of your whole deposit from Letting Protection Scotland and Safe Deposit Scotland. If there are issues with the check-out process, part of your deposit will be deducted. In this instance, you will receive an email/letter explaining the deposit deductions. We aim to organise the deposit return as soon as possible. If you wish to further discuss the deductions, please give us a call on 0131 221 1818.
We consider ourselves to be one of Edinburgh's best letting agencies. Tenant testimonials are important to our process to ensure that we are giving you the best Cullen experience – our client's opinion matters. If you are a Cullen Property Tenant and would like to leave us a testimonial regarding our services, please follow the link to our Google Review Business Page.
Cullen Property is the best letting agent! They are very professional, reliable and fast.
Exceptional Staff
Best agency I have been with in Edinburgh by far
Often, we deal with property complaints which can be checked and fixed by tenants themselves. Please follow these useful links to see if any online advice and information could be of any help to your situation. If you still have queries regarding the issue, please give us a call on 0131 221 1818 and we will do what we can to help.
Electrical Safety Guide
For guidance and tips on electrical advice and safety.
Edinburgh City Council
For information on council tax, parking permits and bins and recycling.
Letting Protection Scotland
For information regarding the protection of your deposit.
Safe Deposit Scotland (SDS)
For information regarding the protection of your deposit.
Google Reviews from existing landlords and tenants
Read our reviews from both landlords and tenants. If you would like to leave your own Cullen Property Google Review please do, we appreciate all feedback.


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I read a book last night. I was up to 3 a.m. reading it to the finish. I could not put it down.
The book was called "WITH JUSTICE FOR ALL" by John Perkins. John Perkins does a great job of outlining a three step plan for dealing with the poverty that is so PREVALENT in our American culture. His ideas are based on his experiences with his work trying to break the cycle of wealth and poverty in Mississippi. John Perkins intertwines scripture as well as a plea for people to get involved.
His three step plan involves:
Relocation: a strategy for here and now –
Reconciliation: a strategy for here and now –
Redistribution: a strategy for here and now –
John Perkins is co-founder of Christian Community Development Association (CCDA). I think you will be shocked to read his take on different issues, from social action to free enterprise to racial reconciliation. He takes no political sides, actually straddles the fence nearly perfectly in my opinion. The book is centered on poor black communities but the information can applied to nearly all communities, whether black or poor or neither because it focuses on community.
"WITH JUSTICE FOR ALL" is an EXCELLENT read!
Perkins' advice is tried and true, he's done it and many other have followed his lead and done it as well, with one example being Wally Bryan with the Challenge House movement. This book intones "I am persuaded that the Church, as the steward of this gospel, holds the key to justice in our society. Either justice will come through us or it will not come at all." John Perkins's optimistic view of justice becoming a reality starts and ends with the Church. This "With Justice for All" book is Perkins's invitation to live out the gospel in a way that brings good news to the poor and liberty to the oppressed (from Luke 4:18). This invitation is extended to every racial and ethnic group to be reconciled to one another, to work together to make our land all God wants it to be. And it is a blueprint—a practical strategy for the work of biblical justice in our time. Some very applicable "EVERY COMMUNITY HAS THESE PROBLEMS" coming from the dark mouth of segregation is addressed in this book. Perkins gives powerful testimony to the survival of the civil rights movement and the shaping of true Christian culture in the face of social and economic hardship. His advice is not easy, it is hard work, but it can be extremely rewarding. I think this book should be required reading for our presidential candidates!!!!
"With Justice for All" certainly should be read by every human on Earth.
This book teaches:
Evangelism is not enough –
A powerless gospel –
Sheep without a shepherd –
Here am I, send me! –
I have a dream, too –
Your need is my need –
Filling the leadership vacuum –
Getting your feet wet –
Love is stronger than hate –
The reconciled community –
The rocky road to reconciliation –
The no-so-great-society –
Can free enterprise work for us? –


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Roberta Braga is an associate director at the Atlantic Council's Adrienne Arsht Latin America Center, where she leads projects on Brazil, anti-corruption, disinformation and misinformation in elections, trade integration, and energy in Latin America. During her time at the Council, Roberta has co-led the Center's #ElectionWatch Latin America project focused on exposing disinformation around elections in Brazil, Mexico, and Colombia; executed projects on NAFTA's impact on energy and Venezuela's oil crisis; managed the Center's work on anti-corruption ahead of the 2018 Summit of the Americas and launched the Center's work on Mercosur-Pacific Alliance convergence. Braga also manages the Center's media and communications strategy and outreach.
Braga previously worked as a strategic communications analyst at the US Department of Homeland Security, and supported corporate affairs and public relations efforts at Promega Corporation, an international biotechnology firm headquartered in Madison, Wisconsin.
Braga frequently provides English- and Portuguese-language commentary on political and economic issues in Latin America. She has been published in Newsweek and has been quoted in the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, Axios, Brazil's O Globo and Folha de S.Paulo. Originally from Brazil, Braga is a native Portuguese- and English-speaker, and fluent in Spanish.
She has a master's degree in global communication and public diplomacy from the George Washington University's Elliott School of International Affairs, and a bachelor's degree in journalism and global security from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.


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Royals Pumpkin Stencils
We want to see your best Royals-themed pumpkins! After carving your pumpkin, post it on Twitter using #RoyalsHalloween and enter to win a gold Salvador Perez jersey! See Official Rules for details.
If you need some inspiration, you can download one of our Royals Pumpkin Stencils below. Happy Halloween!
Carving Tools
To carve your pumpkin, you can use a pumpkin carving kit from your local grocery store or use the following common household tools:
- Spoon
- Serrated knife
- Pin or nail
- Paring knife
Carving Your Pumpkin
After you have removed the seeds from your pumpkin, follow these three easy steps:
- Tape the stencil to your pumpkin
- Using a carving tool, punch holes following the lines of the stencil. Remove the stencil when finished
- Have an adult help you cut along the dotted lines you have made with the pin, nail or toothpick
Always make sure you're supervised and being safe. The Royals and royals.com or mlb.com are not responsible for any liabilities or claims.


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Ray is a 30 something engineer obsessed with Gundam toys. He has a motto not to become close to anyone. During his mother's funeral he showed no emotions. His life is further turned upside ... . You can read more in Google, Youtube, Wiki
Ray is a 30 something engineer obsessed with Gundam toys. He has a motto not to become close to anyone. During his mother's funeral he showed no emotions. His life is further turned upside when he is forced to live with his older brother Maury and younger sister Lisa. Older brother Maury was a pianist but is now a recluse. Younger sister Lisa is a college student who tends to look down on those around her. Also in there home is their Japanese grandmother who doesn't speak English at all.
- Category:Drama
- Stars:Masako Motai, Alex House, Tatiana Maslany, David Rendall, Stefanie Drummond, Gabe Grey, Elena Juatco, Sachi Parker, Thom Sears, Nicole Stamp, Steven Yaffee,
- Uploader:Dat1Phit
- Country:Japan
- Director:Naoko Ogigami,
- Writer:Naoko Ogigami (screenplay)
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Phil H (de) wrote: Another zombie flick, oh...great, but wait! this one is different, its about a zombie falling in love with a female who's still alive...wait what? Yes that's right the zombie in this flick is the undead hero and goes after a young girl saving her life. He then goes about looking after her and trying to woo her for her affections, yeah it does sound kinda sick doesn't it.OK so the plot is pretty unique I give it that, its original to see a zombie flick from the zombies point of view. This still doesn't alter the fact its an incredibly silly idea and amazes me it actually got the green light. The start of the film is actually quite good as we see zombie life, the kinda things we all know from zombie horror flicks of the past here presented in a mundane way, daily undead routines. Its got a nice quirky light feel to it, a horror comedy that really got me hooked I must admit.Things do get a bit daft as the zombies try to communicate, as narrated by our hero zombie, we hear his thoughts throughout. Its at this point you're thinking this is why no one has done this before, its ridiculous. The film goes up a gear of course once our zombie meets his girl and sweeps her off her feet. Its also the start of many many plot and idea issues. Not that I'm surprised seeing the content of the film, you know not to expect a completely coherent storyline.Why do the zombies seem to shuffle along yet in flashbacks they run? why do bonies run so well? why do bonies all look exactly the same? why do bullet hits anywhere kill bonies yet zombies need one in the head? how do the zombie masses manage to recover/come back to life? we know it was some kind of biological/viral outbreak that has killed everyone and turned them into zombies. But how would the body recover from this when its been clinically dead for a long period of time? decaying, no heartbeat.Its funny how the zombies are suppose to be completely brain dead (including our hero) yet still manage to speak, think, act etc...At the start when the girl is taken by our hero zombie she can escape at anytime quite easily. All she has to do is run off because the zombies only shuffle around, plus she accepts so easily that she's been captured. Anyone else would have smashed his brains out at the first chance they got, and she gets many. Also why did the other zombies believe she was dead? just because he smeared a tiny bit of zombie blood on her face?? really?I could go on but I won't simply because its a very easy film to pick apart, but its not suppose to be a thinker. Its a silly zombie flick with a twist and leaning towards comedy, I won't say romance because its just too stupid. Yes the inevitable comparison to 'Twilight' lingers in the air but its not really like that, yes our hero zombie is an Edward type of character with lots of pretty blue eye close ups but he doesn't sparkle. The female 'love' interest is not like Bella either, its not that sappy thank god, although she does kiss him whilst he's still undead (seconds before he is revived), so is that soft core necrophilia?Nicely original apart from the whole zombie apocalypse/last remaining humans in barricaded city stuff, and I liked the undead bonie zombies. Its not overly funny nor is it overly slushy and wet, its not scary but its not for kids either, it hangs somewhere in between. Had this been a tad more adult, had a bit more dark gallows humour, it could of been in the same league as 'An American Werewolf', but it holds its own.
Meg E (gb) wrote: If you never watched this, you should. Its a must see.
Tsukasa A (au) wrote: Dealing with race, poverty and crime, the story is not so pessimistic because of humanity.
Jason Rainford M (ru) wrote: best film ive seen in years
st (kr) wrote: i loved this movie!!i still love it to this day it has meaning
Olivia P (ru) wrote: I LOVE this movie, It is so sick.
Pavan R (gb) wrote: I loved Baadshah Khan...a food watch mainly for Amitabh
Jonathan C (mx) wrote: A Coen Brothers classic about an old-school gang war. The best Neo-Noire movie in the past 30 years.
David L (jp) wrote: With superb lines, beautiful cinematography, lovable characters, deft tone and script, incredibly touching finale and a fantastic acting from Tatum O'Neal who provides one of the finest child performances ever, Paper Moon is an utter delight from start to finish and although it's at times too action oriented and Ryan's performance is polarizing, it hugely benefits from Bogdanovich's stellar direction, a great attention to detail bringing to life 1930s beautifully, breathtaking imagery and charming story with very endearing characters. It is undoubtedly one of the best films set in this period.
Scott M (ca) wrote: What a surprise. Latter day Pacino and De Niro make a bad movie.
Christopher B (gb) wrote: Pretty stupid but had some appeal.


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CNN reports Alex McNabb, the EMT who has hosted a neo-Nazi podcast and who has been described in news stories as a white supremacist, is now on unpaid leave from Jeb Stuart Rescue Squad in Stuart, Virginia. Huffington Post reported over the weekend that Virginia's Department of Health opened an investigation into McNabb. On the podcast "The Daily Shoah" and his Twitter feed, McNabb has routinely mixed his views about race with mentions of his work as an EMT and fundraising for the rescue squad.
McNabb, who describes himself as "pro-white", has continued to react to the news coverage and his critics on Twitter. McNabb calls the sudden notoriety a "character assassination attempt."
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News report: Virginia investigating white supremacist EMT
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"This individual should never be involved in patient care at any level," said Lock Boyce, the board of supervisors' chairman of Patrick County. "Not as a physician, a nurse, an EMT. Not anywhere." The rural, overwhelmingly white county in the Blue Ridge Mountains has a contract with McNabb's employers.
An attorney for McNabb's employer, JEB Stuart Volunteer Rescue Squad, told CNN that McNabb was placed on unpaid leave Monday night, two days after news reports of his comments surfaced.
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Tuesday, October 25, 2016
For a blog entry last week, I pondered the presidential elections I've covered, albeit from a distance.
I decided to expand that to presidential elections during my lifetime for this blog entry.
Most have been like Super Bowls: noncompetitive.
Let's examine the evidence.
1960: Kennedy vs Nixon. This one was a nail biter.
1964: Johnson over Goldwater in a walk.
1968: Nixon barely defeats Humphrey.
1972: Nixon glides over McGovern.
1976: Carter defeats Ford in a squeaker.
1980: Reagan romps over Carter. The networks called this one at 8:15 PM.
1984: Another Reagan romp. The victim this time is Walter Mondale.
1988: Bush gets 426 electoral votes to Dukakis' 111.
1992: Bill Clinton won 100 more electoral votes than needed. George Bush fails to win reelection.
1996: Clinton over Bob Dole. It wasn't close.
2000: One of the few exceptions. Bush wins just five more electoral votes than Al Gore.
2004: Bush won the vast majority of States, but John Kerry had the big ones. This was another close one.
2008: Barack Obama had a fairly easy time defeating John McCain.
2012: Obama and Mitt Romney had roughly the same number of states, but once again, the Democrat had the big ones. Obama wins again.
2016: According to most polls, this one is breaking Hillary Clinton's way, but this has been an exceptionally unusual year. You never know. Two weeks until election day.


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Finally, I can declare this my first all makeup trove! :D That is, if I don't take into account for the extra samples like the hair oil and slimming tea.
Ah, the main motivation for me to purchase this trove, Maybelline Eye Studio Lasting Drama Gel Eyeliner in S01 Black & Silver Swirl. I've been itching to try out Maybelline's gel eyeliner for the longest time as I have read lots of good reviews online. Furthermore, it retails at S$19.90 I think? Which is like 80% the price of my trove already!
This Laneige Snow BB Soothing Cushion was another item that attracted me hehe. Quite a popular item recently and I wanted to try it out, so I picked it despite it being sample sized only. It comes with this card that will give us $10 off at Laneige Boutiques, which I thought was quite a good idea since people might want to get the full-sized product after trying it. This baby is really awesome to use, I received a full-sized one from another sponsor recently, and I might be reviewing it on my blog when I have the time. Strongly encourage you people to try it!
Another full sized product that I picked to make my trove more value for money hehe... Cyber Color Ex Volume Waterproof Mascara! I actually own this mascara before, and I would say it is acceptably pleasant to use, with a good brush that works through my lashes quite well. This retails at about S$25 so I kind of got my money back already.
Couldn't help myself from picking a makeup remover, they are like staples/ necessities to me so getting more won't hurt hehe. Picked this Silkygirl Gentle Eye Makeup Remover this time round, it is sample sized at 25ml which is quite an okay size for a sample and good for travelling~
Also picked these miniature Dejavu Lasting Fine Eyeliner, yeah, because they are makeup and I thought it won't hurt to try out other brands of eyeliners, so I got them in both shades. This was kind of disappointing to be honest, I already knew that these are miniatures upon carting out, but I didn't expect that there is only about 0.5cm of functional eyeliner to use. :O
As usual, some extra samples from the VanityTrove team..
L'Oreal Kerastase Elxir Ultime sample vial
2 packets of fruity lite slimming tea
Yay I can't wait to pick the items/samples for my next trove again, hope it can be full of makeup again :D


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Telluride Mushroom Festival and The Telluride Institute are proud to present the 32nd annual Telluride Mushroom Festival August 15-18, 2013. This year's festival is focused on the use of fungi as medicine for the environment and for people.
This year's theme of Fungi as Medicine will provide the perfect context in which to understand all the amazing aspects of mycology- food, medicine, mycoremediation, and production. "This theme will allow us to strengthen the cross-disciplinary approach for which Telluride Mushroom Festival is known, enabling people to better understand the interactions of fungi in our world" said festival Director Scott Koch. "This festival will raise awareness about the role of mushrooms in healing the environment and in treating conditions of the human body and mind,"
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Simmba Movie Review: Rohit Shetty's Boisterous Brand Of Cinema Isn't For Everyone
Simmba Movie Review: The Ranveer Singh-Sara Ali Khan starrer starts with a bang and then falls flat almost immediately
- Movie Name Simmba
- Director Rohit Shetty
- Actor Ranveer Singh, Sara Ali Khan. Ajay Devgn
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So, when Simmba bursts onto the screen, in slow-mo, as a deafening background score plays out, to headline a revolution that aims to empower women, you know it's not going to be an ordinary experience.
"He's a little cracker who'll spark a big explosion one day," a man predicts, as he watches a young Simmba break a bottle to take on the big guys.
That threat hangs in the air, and we wait over three hours for Shetty's big bang theory to play out.
Alas, it never does.
Instead, he struggles to groom his new-found rogue cop to go Dabangg-ish, and even hands him the same stunning villian - played magnificiently by Sonu Sood. However, his writers Yunus Sajawal and Sajid Samji are unable to recreate the magic that Abhinav Kashyap and Dilip Shukla spun in 2010. And, they are left to rehash Telugu film Tiger, instead.
So, they pack in everything they possibly can to spice up their (Bollywood masala) uprising.
Much like Karan Johar (who also makes a fleeting appearance in a song-and-dance) and Farah Khan, Shetty parades his celeb pals in interesting cameos to pump up the action in Simmba.
He even cuts back on his trademark car stunts and, suddenly, slips into a courtroom drama in a half-hearted bid to win justice for a wronged woman.
Unfortunately, it falls flat.
Shetty's probably aware of his weakness and his inability to create what Aniruddha Roy Chowdhury did in Pink, so he quickly cuts down the legal mess and sets out to display his own form of justice, instead. One that Sridevi, unfortunately, managed to unveil in Mom last year.
His only saving grace is Ranveer, who lights up the screen with his charm and cheekiness. From mastering the twang to teasing his enemies, to twirling his moustache, Ranveer goes all out to bring to life a raucously magnetic Simmba. Yet, he never manages to make it "mind-ish blowing". There are fleeting moments, one where he dances unabashedly before busting a rave party. But, those moments are rare.
Sara Ali Khan wins two songs, some gorgeous outfits and a foreign trip. And, she even lands a profession, one that involves lots of lunchboxes!
Shetty lacks finesse as a filmmaker to pedal a social crusade. Apart from using it to manipulate the audience, there's no sincerity in his rebellion that's packed with innumerable slow-mo shots to glorify his men in uniforms - and, there are three of them in here! Yes, with a promise of another adventure unfolding in 2019.
It's ironical, and highly unforgivable, that a movie that attempts to empower women, doesn't even give its female characters much to do, barring handing them token lines so their Simmba can play hero.


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