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Yesterday was my birthday, and it was an awful day. I'm not saying that for pity, it just was. Nothing happened – it wasn't awful because of any event or negligence. Hubby, Kids and Dad were all very loving and thoughtful and delightful. My life is great in relative terms, and I have plenty of reasons to love my birthday.
And, it was awful.
The Awful came from inside, and not because there was another candle on the (metaphorical) cake. From where I'm sitting, there is only one alternative to aging, so I'm very thankful for every birthday and every year. I have outlived friends, I have outlived children of friends, I have survived my own stupidity. I'm grateful for every year, and I have never felt the need to fluff about my age. The Awful wasn't about aging.
The Awful came flying at the side of me like that speeding demon of a car that somehow appears out of thin out after you have looked left and right THREE times each before pulling out. And t-bone me, it did.
I want to write all the "right" things right now. I want to encourage someone by listing here the highly effective plan that pulled me out of a nosedive. But I need to be transparent, and – for today – the two are mutually exclusive. I didn't give in to the Awful, but I did have to ride it out. There was no pulling out of the nosedive, only sticking it out until bedtime gave me a Hall Pass.
I've pretty much always – all my adult life, for sure – struggled with my birthday. I don't tell many people (she says, now telling "the world"), because people pretty much universally have a need to tell you how you should think or feel on the day of your birth. (Actually …. if only it was limited to one day. Wouldn't that be nice????)
"You should be grateful!" (assuming you're not).
"What could be wrong? You have an amazing life!" (assuming a lot of good factors somehow negate the possibility of any painful ones)(also assuming that ignoring painful truth will somehow make it disappear ………)
"Awwww, you should enjoy it! It's YOUR day!" (assuming that the struggle is a choice over enjoyment, because – ya know – people love feeling like excrement instead of feeling happy…..)
Seriously, why do we do that? Is it because we are uncomfortable with the person's discomfort? In which case, making them feel more uncomfortable should surely turn the ship around then ……. (*headbang*)
I digress. I was saying that it's pretty much always been a struggle. I'm married to the best person I know, my kids are seriously amazing, I have a strong gratitude practice, I have a strong faith which helps frame things in a bigger picture. My health is …. somewhere in the middle, but closer to "good enough" than "not good," I have a ton of truly quality people in my life who love well, I even finally found a church I'll say I love – which I didn't even know could be a thing ……. so, why the Awful?
Because Shame is no respecter of persons or circumstances.
Shame is highly pervasive, and maddeningly ubiquitous. You will find it in every setting, every socioeconomic class, every educational level, every body type, every family dinner table. Everyone, at some point for some reason, battles Shame to some degree and for some measure of time. For some individuals, it does not linger, and for others, it is the mapmaker of their lives. I have struggled with it on a cellular level. If Shame was an Olympic sport, I'd legit be on that bloody Wheaties box.
I have spent many years trying to outpace Shame on my birthday. I've had a fair amount of practice at this point, clocking in at 30 birthdays in my adult life alone. I feel like that makes me an expert. I have tried so many different things – the gratitude list, the plans just for me, doing something with a friend, going to a favorite location, Ben & Jerry, even spending the day doing acts of random kindness or serving the underserved. And, sure, all of these have merit and all are beneficial. Absolutely.
They also do not make the truth less true, nor does it magically disappear as a result of executing them.
See, "wherever you go, there you are." (Did Kabat-Zinn originate that saying? I don't know.) You can adorn yourself with the finest threads, change your hair, make yourself up, drive your dream car, lose weight, change jobs – whatever it is you personally think will mark time for when you can really start living your best life. But if your core issues that result in Shame are still unresolved, that Shame will continue to leach out like rust through paint. You can't (effectively) paint over rust; you have to sand everything down and eliminate the rust, and then apply the new color. Otherwise, the rust will return, and spread, and keep ruining through the top layer.
And which version of Shame specifically shows up on birthdays? My experience, for me and with close friends, is that it hits you in the Who You Are department. Nothing brings up the meaning of your individual life like the day you were born. For me, I'm still working my a$$ off to get out from under a mercilessly heavy (personal) belief system and history that brings ugly words – lies – like "undeserving" into the conscious conversation. It's subtle at first, like just feeling uncomfortable when someone sends an eCard that describes their version of you. For me, it escalated at the speed of light into trying to look forward regarding goals and plans and seeing nothing. There was a biscuit-can-like explosion of exaggerated failures and limitations (real or perceived), which led to a truly crippling despair. It was like someone put a stick in my emotional bike spokes, and I ended up face-planting and with a massive road rash. I couldn't see.
Did you tell anyone? No. (Well, not directly and not anyone close to me.)
Why? Because I know better than to despair like that (which sounds more harsh and judgmental than I mean), and people tend to like to remind you that you know better – and the shame I already had about how I felt and my inability to get out in front of it was more than enough. I couldn't bear anyone adding to it. So I suffered in (relative) silence.
To be honest, in hindsight I don't know that telling would have helped. I really don't. I think I had to just ride it out. I'm not saying or advising that telling when you're struggling doesn't help – I would never say that, because more often than not it's the very thing that shifts the tides. What I'm saying is that I think I, personally, needed to observe what all came flying up yesterday – and what the triggers were. All of those things can be very valuable information for moving forward when we're willing to be honest, and just BE. I didn't need to Should myself to death yesterday, and I certainly didn't need it from anyone else. I think some of what happened yesterday was delayed grief over some hard truth, and that needed to happen. I think some of it was old defaults, and hurtful history, and I'm working on those. And I think some of it was facing questions I have not sat with long enough to answer (or, answers I have found before and continued to run away from). I believe in God, and I believe that my life has meaning – first and foremost because God gave me one. And even so, I couldn't get my footing yesterday. And I wanted to have some bright a-ha moment to share about it and change your life today, but I think the exercise for me (and possibly the gift for you) is coming clean about having a crappy birthday despite most things in my life setting me up for a good one.
Life is very seldom Either/Or. Most often, it's Both/And. We are way too dichotomous as a society. I am both thankful for and aware of the aspects of my life that are good and fortunate and privileged, AND I had a really hard day yesterday. I both believe my life counts and that I have worth, AND I struggled quite brutally yesterday with not being able to see a lick of it. I both believe I am here for such a time as this, and that there are things for me to accomplish – people to impact, change to affect, things to do – AND I could not hold on to any of that for any amount of time yesterday. It just wasn't there. I could not get my footing yesterday, not at all.
This post goes out to those of you who go through life, and/or special events, "Shoulding" yourself to death. This is for you who have some harsh judgments about what your days (or lives, or recovery) should look or feel like, and a fundamental inability to let that go. Feelings aren't right or wrong – they're more like indicator lights on a vehicle dashboard; they don't mean you total the car, but nor should they be dismissed as nothing.
I have a (largely) great life, I'm grateful for my life and my immediate family and relative health. I believe, fundamentally, that my life has value. I believe in God and I believe God is good. And, I struggle with shame that sometimes hijacks perfectly good days or special occasions. Both/And. I know shame is a cruel liar, AND I still get derailed by it sometimes. I won't always, but I do now. It's okay to be honest if that's you, too.
Be real. Face the truth. Tell the truth. Ride the wave. You don't have to live within the emotional confines of Either/Or. There's room for Both/And. There's room for honesty, and questions, and struggles, and mess. There is room for all you are.


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After helping to get Sun's OpenSolaris onto its own two feet, Sun's director of marketing for the open source project Claire Giordano has announced (via blog) her departure to Amazon.com search subsidiary A9. Giordano was with Sun for 16 years and her departure is a reminder to me of at least two things.
First, of A9's existence. I had completely forgotten about the Amazon project and I guess now is as good a time as ever to remember that Amazon, much like Google, is a company with significant reach and that, also, much like Google, it will be looking for new ways to leverage that reach. We may not think of Amazon as a big league search player in the same way that we think of Google, Yahoo, or MSN. But I suspect that will change. I just revisited the A9 Web site and actually liked what I saw: that I could categorically control the scope of my search. To me, for example, the delineation between a Web search, a news search, and a blog search (between Google and some other blog search engines, I often find myself executing each of these separately) make no sense. Today, A9 vertically divides the results page on the basis of the silos you search. It's better than conducting three separate searches. But not significantly better. I can't help but wonder if there's a better way to blend the results. I expect we'll be hearing more about A9 now that it will be sprinkled with Giordano-dust much the same way OpenSolaris was. Giordano's official new title is director of product management.
Second, blogging and technology marketing (tech at the very least, if not all marketing) go hand in hand. Giordano had a number of strengths that helped OpenSolaris to rise from obscurity over a very short period of time. But moving forward, the people who fill the jobs like the one she's leaving will need to be marketing maniacs who can do all the traditional marketing stuff with one hand while holding the blogosphere equivalent of a megaphone in the other, marshaling a community of passionate loyalists (employees, partners, developers, customers, onlookers, passers-by, etc.) and leading the discussion about anything that's even remotely connected to whatever it is they're hocking. With more frequent blogs that point all over the Web, Bob Sutor is turning into just such an evangelist for IBM (in addition to his day job as Big Blue's veep of open source and open standards). How he finds the time, I have no idea. Microsoft, with all of its bloggers, has embraced this way of thinking as company religion. At least with Microsoft, everybody appears to be sharing the load (although going too far significantly worsens the signal to noise ratio).
Giordano herself will have to become just such a maniac on behalf of A9 to help it rise from obscurity. Perhaps proving that 24 hours just isn't enough time in a day, some of Sun's more prolific executives including the company's chief open source officer Simon Phipps have dialed back their loquaciousness. Phipps has two blogs. The lights are on at his personal blog WebMink which he keeps up to date on a daily basis, but it's less thought leadership and more one liners. Meanwhile, his official Sun blog (SunMink) has slowed down from a fairly steady flow to a trickle since taking over that role in Sun. Maybe it's because of Phipps' grueling travel scheduled, detailed in this US News & World Report story (or maybe he just needs an off-line blog authoring tool for those long flights). Fortunately for Sun, Phipps won't have to stretch himself to cover for Giordano's absence. To some extent, OpenSolaris community manager Jim Grisanzio already serves in that role for OpenSolaris. What's funny is that I hunted down his blog and found that his last post is discussing precisely the same issue, only in the context of something that Sun president and COO Jonathan Schwartz said about a new breed of manager at Sun during a recent Churchill Club engagement:
New managers will have to understand that they are managing a community. If you look at how our software is built at Sun, it's built in 28 countries around the world. Give me a break ... you can not possibly manage 9 time zones on your direct staff. You have to figure out how to build a community and manage a community.
Meanwhile, according to the US News story, Phipps is still trying to manhandle the globe. It'll probably kill him. So, must Schwartz's way of thinking apply only to software and platform companies? Or does it work everywhere? Instead of willing something to success, can you blog it to success? The aforementioned USNews.com story seems to confirm that such maniacism is on order. In his call to action, CooperKatz VP Steve Rubel strikes a similar chord.
Now, if only we could wirelessly transmit our thoughts into our computers....
[Editor's note: Where the word maniac (or a derivative) appears, I originally had megalomaniac. But in hindsight, that was a bad choice of words since I really meant someone who is very driven, almost maniacally so, but in a passionate, positive way. This is not the definition of megalomaniac. Thus the changes.]

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Building a Quick Quote process
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Note: This is a guide for your in house web-designers and developers only. ADM Networks do not support HTML and Javascript usage and thus any action taken using the information below is at your own risk.
It is understood that for some types of insurance (for example; motor insurance) that it might be best to offer a "quick" and indicative quote prior to developing a full quotation. This can be facilitated in SchemeServe using the steps given below:
Creating a Quick Quote Page
Assumption: You have already created a Scheme and the questions necessary for a full quotation.
Assumption: For this example the SchemeId for the Scheme is 1 – you will need to substitute your own SchemeId where appropriate.
- Create a page for the Quick Quote process to be visible on
- On this page, Click the Source View and add HTML to represent the form you want for your quick quote (for example: You might want to include Postcode and the Property Construction Date as input fields for Landlord's insurance)
- You can add an HTML button for the user to click for a quote OR alternatively you can add JavaScript later to automatically reconfigure the quote every time a change is made to the values in the fields
- You should add a button or HTML link that the user can use to access a full quotation if they're happy with the quick quote. You could use Javascript to show this button only once the quick quote process is complete. NOTE: The URL that you link to for this should be similar to this: https://TEST.schemeserve.com/getquote/agent.aspx?schemeId=SCHEME_ID_1 Where "TEST" is the subdomain of the SchemeServe website you are using and the "SCHEME_ID" is changed to represent the Scheme ID that you are using.
- Save your changes before proceeding
- Go to the custom JavaScript process
- Add the custom JavaScript that calculates the quick quote based on the HTML form you have created. This will need to use values entered by the user to lookup up premium combinations. Developers should keep this JavaScript as concise as possible to minimize the risks of length and unmanageable JavaScript in the future.


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By Sarah Hepola
MARCH 22, 1999: Consider this your map of the future. Twenty-three Web siteschosen by industry experts, created by savvy, driven individuals with a flair for the creative, and surprise, surprise, they're not all loaded with dough. What they all are is eager to please. As part of the infotainment phenomenon that has come part and parcel with the late 20th century, they feed your mind and bend over backward to make sure you're not bored. What else do they have in common? Reams of information. A sense of humor, often an irreverent wit. Crazy color -- vibrant hues as well as creamy, muted shades meant to calm and soothe. Almost every site uses sound and moving images to create an audio/video experience that will remind you of your television, but with its own unique options. They are also, quite frankly, a kick to look at. Each of these sites screams enthusiasm for several different things, from hot dogs to gap-tooth smiles, but their whispers are the same: This is what the World Wide Web can do. Of course, you could just ignore those whispers, but consider this fair warning.
These Web sites are out there, and they're looking to change the way you think.
The Charmed Horizon
Artist Kim Stringfellow's fantasia on desire combines lustrous photography, poetry, and sounds to create a virtual full-body art immersion.
Prozzäk's Simon and Milo lend a hefty dose of irony to this playful site, where their colorful cartoon alter egos do the talking.
Experience Music Project
Wanna hear a Stratocaster? Wanna find out when Mudhoney formed? This Seattle-based online museum archives the development of the Pacific Northwest music scene and houses a treasure trove of musical factoids, sound and video clips.
Precision Digital Images
The nifty rainbow strip that lets you calibrate the screen color on this graphic arts imaging Web site may tie you up for a while.
Grace Furnishings & Services
Collection of elegant, high-end furnishings spun from an organic farm in Ashland, Ore. for the sophisticated and socially conscious.
TILT (Texas Informational Literacy Tutorial)
Gentle tutorial which instructs you on finding information on the Internet. Designed for students, but my parents could use a browse.
Hollywood Stock Exchange
Finally, you can get a piece of your favorite stars. Like its predecessor fantasy football, the Hollywood Stock Exchange sets up an impressive system of bulls and bears based on the commerce of Hollywood films and actors, and lets you buy stock in them. It's free, yes, but heed this warning: It's addictive.
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Dedicated to a three-day festival of theatre, music, and movies in the Netherlands.
El Guapo's Showbiz Jobsite
This resource for actors and screenwriters combines information on businesses, money available, and training, as well as links to trades.
Footlong, the only Web site about hot dog movies
Aspiring filmmakers and seasoned smart-asses Chris Batak and Gerry Beyers go whole hog in their frank elegy to the footlong hot dog and their upcoming movie on the subject.
The Rollers Redefined Drum & Bass Web site
Local ravers Curly, Siren, and Firewheel chat up electronica.
Io Studios Inc
An otherworldly, luminous, Austin-based site offering graphic and sound design.
Subtitled "everyone needs a little space," this goofball site pays homage to the gap-toothed -- from the Wife of Bath to Lauren Hutton.
Righteous network of zines that will tell you what's really in vogue, from the chicks who are truly sassy.
Collaborative Web site about love and heartbreak in which the unfolding drama is a pastiche of the written experiences submitted by readers.
Bubbly chat rooms mix up the popular word games of the Fifties with the popular medium of the Nineties.
Hipster cyberpunk and Web designer Jason Kottke's sleek designs and rumbling meditations cover life, commerce, and the pursuit of happiness on the Net.
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Skater punks take note: Hardcore online devotion to inline skating.
Texas Monthly Ranch
As Texan as 10-gallon hats. Unfortunately, this Ranch is fixin' to shut down.
No monkeying around here: Clean, informative visuals with a sense of whimsy and congo drumbeats make this Austin-based interface design company one my favorite stops.
This New York City design firm specializing in putting motion on the Web knows their kinetic, hypnotic graphics are their best selling point.
The New Venue
And now for something completely different ... Honkworm, a Seattle-based digital filmmaking firm goes Monty Python with its animated short, "Les Poissons: Journey Into the Mind of the Fish."
Design-dense Webzine uses its noggin to make a reading experience that plays to the Web's strengths, melding moving images, photos, and words into a singular online reading experience.
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Do you know what is the major success barrier that keeps people from achieving their goals?
It is the emotional and mental weakness.
World is full of unsuccessful people with talent. It is a pity to see their potential going waste because of poor attitudes.
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude…… Thomas Jefferson
Life challenges are a test of your mental toughness. The thoughts of fear, guilt, uncertainties etc. stop you from making progress in life. Sometimes, intense negative thoughts make you feel paralyzed and out of control and you start ignoring important things.
RELATED: 15 Ways To Avoid Getting Lost Into The Jungle Of Negative Thoughts
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And, when you keep procrastinating, things become worse which adds to your frustrations. So you need to keep your mind in good shape so that you don't get distracted from your goals.
That is why strengthening your mind is of utmost importance if you want to be successful in life. Whatever be the situation, you should be able to overcome any success barrier.
Remember, your success is not only important for you but for your family as well. You have to fulfill so many responsibilities in life. You can't afford to be lethargic because of your mental weakness.
It is all about thoughts. When you read a motivational book or attend some seminar your mind gets filled with positive thoughts and you feel on top of the world in spite of your current circumstances.
But, how long this motivation lasts? May be few minutes, few hours or even a few days.
Imagine what life would be like if this motivation stays with you forever.
RELATED: The Bulletproof Formula To Stay Motivated
So, overcome the mental weakness and keep moving forward to have a fulfilled life you deserve.
Here are some suggestions to overcome the mental weakness so that it is no more a success barrier:
1. Get spiritual
When, you come in God's shelter nothing can harm you. Miracles start happening in your life. God loves us and does not want us to suffer. So, you must have a spiritual routine. This will give you immense mental strength and extraordinary will power.
RELATED: Why Is Spirituality Important
2. Be financially stable
When you are in survival mode and are worried about paying the bills, it becomes difficult to focus on your goals. Once you have overcome financial troubles, other things become easier to handle because you can focus better on finding solutions. You become creative too.
3. Realize the power of thoughts
True success is possible if you know how to control your thoughts. Strengthen your mind by doing personal development activities on daily basis. This will enable you to overcome any negative thoughts. Strong minds with extraordinary will power can do anything in life.
RELATED: Why Self Improvement Is So Crucial For True Success?
4. Be enthusiastic
Enthusiasm keeps you focused on your goals. It helps you to feel energetic and to overcome laziness. Enthusiasm not only helps you achieve your goals, it motivates others surrounding you as well. This is because enthusiasm is highly contagious.
5. Avoid associating with negative people
One thing that really harms your mindset is associating with negative people. You will have a pessimistic attitude towards life if you don't move away from them.
Negative people will drain your energy and will drag you down into negativity. You have to shield yourself from such people and if possible cut them away from your life.
RELATED: Strengthen Armour – Neutralize Negative Attacks
6. Value your time
All successful people are experts in time management skills which helps them achieve high levels of performance. They don't take life for granted.
Time is a treasure. Use it wisely. You can't afford to waste precious years of your life because time never comes back. Your time is your life.
7. Do not escape.
Avoid procrastination as it weakens your mind and worsen the situation. So, Instead of escaping, deal with life situations with courage. By doing this, you will gain confidence and will get rid of your fears.
RELATED: Procrastination? It's Action Time
8. Set your priorities
Get organized. Do things first which are of the highest importance. Stephen Covey has divided different tasks in four quadrants:
I. Important and urgent
II. Important and not urgent
III. Not important but urgent
IV. Not important and not urgent
Quadrant I tasks are something which can't be avoided. You need to spend rest of your time doing tasks falling in quadrant II.
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9. Be bold and courageous
Courage and boldness are the key ingredients in the recipe for success. Strong will power and a determined attitude will help you step out of your comfort zone and to step forward by giving your best.
RELATED: 10 Ways To Build Courage
10. Don't ignore your health
This is very important. When you are facing life challenges, you should not ignore your health no matter how your circumstances may seem.
Because, when your circumstances change for the better and you have bad health, you can't enjoy life.
RELATED: Good Health Despite Low Finances
Watch this video by Dr. Sean Richardson for practical advice to toughen your mind.
So, are you willing to allow yourself to overcome this success barrier?
What commitments are you going to make to yourself?
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The Somerfords Fishing Association is dedicated to providing quality coarse and trout fishing for its members. We value peace and quiet, good companionship, and a litter free countryside as well as our fishing.
We have limited membership and normally have a waiting list for places. All applicants need to be nominated and then seconded by existing members of the association. Contact 01666 823799 or Somerfords Fishing Association.
This page is for any Fishing news, be it an event, a club activity, press article or just plain gossip – anything that Village Anglers would like to know.
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England Under-20 international Nico Yennaris joins Brentford from Arsenal
Brentford have signed England Under-19 international Nico Yennaris from Arsenal for an undisclosed fee.
The 20-year-old, who can play in defence and midfield, linked up with The Bees this morning.
He signed a two and a half year deal and will be available for Brentford's Sky Bet League One match against Bristol City at Griffin Park tomorrow, Tuesday January 28.
The contract will keep him at Griffin Park until 2016.
Mark Warburton, Brentford FC Manager, said: "Nico is a player we have watched for many years as he has come through the Academy at Arsenal.
"He is a very talented player, technically good and physically sound.
"He has a real tactical astuteness for a young player.
"Nico has shown great flexibility in terms of positioning, appearing for Arsenal at right back, left back and in midfield.
"Nico is in the same age category as George Saville, Jake Bidwell and Marcello Trotta.
"He is a talented young player and I am sure he will have a bright future at Brentford Football Club.
"We are delighted to secure him permanently.
"I thank the senior staff at Arsenal for their help in finalising the deal."
Nico, which is short for Nicholas, came through the ranks at Arsenal, having joined The Gunners at the age of seven.
He signed his first professional deal in 2010, just after his 17th birthday, and made his debut in October 2011 in a League Cup tie against Bolton Wanderers.
Nico has made four appearances in total for Arsenal, including one in a Premier League game against Manchester United.
He also played for Arsenal at Under-21 level and captained The Gunners in the NextGen Series, the Under-19 tournament for the Academy teams at some of Europe's top clubs.
Nico has also had loan spells at Notts County and AFC Bournemouth and represented England at Under-17, Under-18 and Under-19 level.
He has played ten times for his country at all levels.
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Denali Repeat Photography Project
The Denali Repeat Photography project has assembled more than 200 photo pairs taken across a large cross-section of Denali from the low-lying black spruce forests to ice fields high in the Alaska Range. What unites these disparate images is that they show repeated views of a single location at different moments in time. The interval separating the pairs of photos varies greatly – from just a few years to longer than a century.
USGS Repeat Photography Project – Glacier
The Repeat Photography Project began in 1997 with a systematic search of the archives at Glacier National Park. Since 1997 over sixty photographs have been repeated of seventeen different glaciers. Thirteen of those glaciers have shown marked recession and some of the more intensely studied glaciers have proved to be just 1/3 of their estimated maximum size that occurred at the end of the Little Ice Age (circa 1850). In fact, only 26 named glaciers presently exist of the 150 glaciers present in 1850.
Digital Earth Watch
Digital Earth Watch (DEW) brings together biology, physics, chemistry, technology, art, engineering, and math in a project that supports environmental science field studies in middle schools, high schools, self-guided education, and citizen science. This site has free software, ideas for activities, and challenge questions.
PicturePost - Doing your own repeat photography
Picture Post is a part of the Digital Earth Watch (DEW) network. You can contribute photographs to any Picture Post, add your own Picture Post, measure environmental change in your neighborhood, and contribute to science networks.
Measuring Vegetation Health with PicturePosts
Abstract: The Boston Museum of Science developed monitoring stations called PicturePosts as part of its Measuring Vegetation Health program. Despite their many educational applications, PicturePosts had not been implemented in an educational environment. To encourage and assist in their use, we formed an advisory board of educators who provided input and feedback as we developed an educator's guide and installation and software manuals for PicturePosts. The educators' impressions of the Posts support the program's far-reaching potential to enhance science education.
Repeating Historic Photos of the Sierra Nevada
Alpine of the Americas Project (AAP) provides climate scientists useful observations of alpine changes while providing individuals enjoyable experiences in the mountains. Viewing ecosystem changes through repeated photos may that influence community decisions about natural resources.
Video: Repeating Historic Photos of the Sierra Nevada
Interested in the process of repeating historic photographs? View the video to walk through the steps you need to take to repeat historic photos.
Series: Panoramic Project Shows How National Parks Change Over Time
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) as a post-market leader candidate. In addition to specific proprietary factors, Trade-Ideas identified SolarCity as such a stock due to the following factors:
- SCTY has an average dollar-volume (as measured by average daily share volume multiplied by share price) of $155.4 million.
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SolarCity Corporation designs, installs, and sells or leases solar energy systems to residential and commercial customers, and government entities in the United States. Currently there are 5 analysts that rate SolarCity a buy, no analysts rate it a sell, and 2 rate it a hold.
The average volume for SolarCity has been 4.3 million shares per day over the past 30 days. SolarCity has a market cap of $5.1 billion and is part of the technology sector and electronics industry. Shares are down 3.1% year-to-date as of the close of trading on Friday.
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. The company's weaknesses can be seen in multiple areas, such as its weak operating cash flow, generally high debt management risk and feeble growth in its earnings per share.
Highlights from the ratings report include:
- Net operating cash flow has significantly decreased to -$22.54 million or 122.53% when compared to the same quarter last year. In addition, when comparing to the industry average, the firm's growth rate is much lower.
- Currently the debt-to-equity ratio of 2.00 is quite high overall and when compared to the industry average, suggesting that the current management of debt levels should be re-evaluated. Regardless of the company's weak debt-to-equity ratio, SCTY has managed to keep a strong quick ratio of 1.58, which demonstrates the ability to cover short-term cash needs.
- SOLARCITY CORP reported significant earnings per share improvement in the most recent quarter compared to the same quarter a year ago. This company has reported somewhat volatile earnings recently. We feel it is likely to report a decline in earnings in the coming year. During the past fiscal year, SOLARCITY CORP reported poor results of -$0.81 versus -$0.56 in the prior year. For the next year, the market is expecting a contraction of 366.7% in earnings (-$3.78 versus -$0.81).
- The company's current return on equity greatly increased when compared to its ROE from the same quarter one year prior. This is a signal of significant strength within the corporation. Compared to other companies in the Electrical Equipment industry and the overall market, SOLARCITY CORP's return on equity significantly trails that of both the industry average and the S&P 500.
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A woman named Jamila Majesty filed a lawsuit Thursday in Los Angeles, alleging that troubled comedian Katt Williams imprisoned her in his bathroom, and tortured her in a beating that lasted three hours. The suit also claims Williams was joined by several other "female companions/housemates" that punched and beat her; Williams was apparently upset that Majesty had used his bathroom, according to a report from The Wrap.
It gets weirder. In Majesty's description of the incident, she remembers perusing a "wiccan book," which she describes as "something evil, with teachings on sorcery and spells," and it was on a bed in Williams' house.
The lawsuit gets specific about Majesty's injury, alleging that she suffered "broken ribs, split tendons, scarring to her face and other extreme and emotional damage." Williams also allegedly burned her in the face with a lit cigarette during his attack. The damages the lawsuit is seeking are still unspecified, and no one from Williams' camp has responded to these claims as of the time of this writing.
As you likely already know, this is just another incident in a string of arrests and accusations concerning Katt Williams in recent weeks. Earlier this month, he was accused of holding five women at gunpoint and stealing their phones, arrested for allegedly attacking his own bodyguard, and back in February he was arrested for punching a store clerk in Gainseville, Georgia. Not to mention, he was jumped on stage following a bizarre sequence of events during a Beanie Sigel show in Philadelphia.


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Minorities at the UN: Javed Anis, Urban and Rural Growth Academy Bhopal, India
Javed Anis, on the behalf of Urban and Rural Growth Academy spoke at the UN Forum on Minority Issues in Geneva on 26-27 November 2013 . His intervention was based on AGENDA ITEM # 3: Protection of the existence of and prevention of violence against religious minorities. Read the full text of his intervention below.
Thank you Madam Chair
My name is Javed Anis. I am with Urban and Rural Growth Academy an NGO based in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India.
It is the responsibility of states to protect their citizens including minorities from all types of violence and ensure their safety and security. As Article 1 of the UNDM states that:
States shall protect the existence and the national or ethnic, cultural, religious and linguistic identity of minorities and states shall adopt legislation to achieve those ends.
(Therefore) in relation to draft recommendation 51:
We agree to the tenor of the draft recommendation, with the addition that the recommendation should extend to adequate rehabilitation and compensation for the victims of the communal violence.
There is a great challenge to protect the rights of Indian minorities to the international standard. In India particular groups of citizens suffer targeted violence merely because of their group identity. India does not have strong laws on violence against minorities. There are some provisions in IPC ( Indian Penal code ) but they are not effective and have been violated by political parties in India. Various political parties in India continue to give election tickets to people who have declared cases of inciting communal tension between religious groups .
The government has appointed many commissions of inquiry to the causes of communal violence but the findings and recommendations were never implemented by the subsequent government. The commission's reports, based on intensive investigations, drew conclusions that the targeted violence was unleashed on minorities with the nexus of politicians, bureaucrats and law enforcement agencies. the state didn't provide adequate compensation for the loss of life and property, and to resettle and integrate affected people in society. There is no credible mechanism in the Constitution to hold perpetrators accountable ,especially those collaborating and inciting violence against minorities.
According to the central government, from 2009 to 2013 (up to March), there have been 2,969 incidents of communal riots in the country where 9,228 people have been injured and 442 were killed.
We conducted a fact finding on violence against Muslim minorities on September 19, 2013 and found that communal violence at Chhipawad MP was well-orchestrated and aimed at terrorizing the minority community. Local politicians were involved in this riot to polarize the society on communal lines to garner votes. The compensation given to the victims (from Rs. 5,000 to Rs 50,000) is inadequate as the victims have lost almost everything including their homes, food grains, utensils clothes etc.
We therefore urge this Forum to call on the Government of the Republic of India to put the pending "Prevention of Communal and Targeted Violence (Access to Justice and Reparations) Bill, 2011" to table in parliament. The bill should: put responsibility on the duty bearers and politicians to protect their citizens; hold those accountable for inciting violence based on religious and ethnic lines; provide provisions for adequate compensation for loss of life and damage of property; and hold government accountable if they fail to provide timely compensation. The act should also hold political parties accountable for felicitating and allocating election tickets to individuals who have been participating directly or indirectly in communal violence.
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WASHINGTON, Sept. 4, 2014 — Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel today praised the actions of the Ukrainian armed forces in their current engagements in eastern Ukraine and pledged continued U.S. support for their efforts, Pentagon Press Secretary Navy Rear Adm. John Kirby said.
Hagel made the comments during a meeting with Col. Gen. Valeriy Heletey, Ukraine's defense minister, on the sidelines of the NATO summit in Wales, Kirby said in a statement summarizing the meeting.
Heletey thanked Secretary Hagel for that support, which includes millions of dollars of nonlethal material and assistance, the press secretary said.
"Secretary Hagel underscored calls by the United States, NATO and the European Union for Russia to immediately withdraw its forces from Ukraine, halt support for Russian separatists and honor its international obligations," Kirby added. "Minister Heletey also reiterated Ukraine's commitment to democratic ideals and its commitment to working with its European partners."


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The best way to analyze a company's trade secrets (and how well protected they are) is through a formal audit. Here's an overview of how to do a trade secret audit.
A trade secret audit is a proactive, dynamic analysis of a company's proprietary assets and how those assets are protected. An audit should including the following steps:
- Assemble an audit team. The audit team should consist of outside or inside counsel and appropriate business teams. Audits should be assisted by someone who is experienced with computer fraud, network security issues, and computer forensics, including managing and protecting electronically stored data. And don't forget human resources professionals.
- Determine the scope of the audit. The audit team must identify the company's overall objectives related to its trade secrets and what levels of protection the company seeks. The audit team should further determine whether patent or other intellectual property attorneys should be consulted to tailor the most appropriate kind of protection for the company's particular intellectual property assets.
- Identify potential trade secrets. The audit team should identify the company's intellectual property assets that are valuable and worth protecting, as well as any existing security protections in place to protect those assets. This process should include identifying risk areas where information assets may be susceptible to loss.
- Review current policies and procedures. Companies often have some policies or procedures in place to help protect their trade secrets, but many are inadequate, difficult to implement or understand, or ineffective. Review case decisions on whether particular company measures taken to protect trade secrets were legally adequate or inadequate.
- Review current physical and electronic security measures. The audit team should review the company's physical and computer data security practices and make recommendations to help ensure adequate security and prevent theft. This often includes recommendations about facility access, security layout, computer access, network system layout, and protection of electronic data.
- Account for technological advances. Technology changes rapidly, and companies need to keep up with the latest developments. For example, moving trade secrets into the cloud raises numerous legal, security, and business concerns.
- Review current protective agreements. Companies must monitor their current protective agreements regularly to keep them up to date on current technologies and the law. The audit team should review the company's various protective agreements (e.g., employee confidentiality agreements, blogging policies, and technology use agreements) and third party nondisclosure agreements to ensure that they safeguard the company's trade secrets appropriately.
The importance of a trade secret audit to ensure that trade secrets are adequately protected cannot be overemphasized—given the stakes, we're likely to continue to see high-profile cases of alleged trade secret theft.
You'll find a sample trade secret audit checklist along with everything you need to know about protecting trade secrets in CEB's Trade Secrets Practice in California.
Related CEB blog posts:
- Clashing Concepts: Trade Secrets and Social Media Networking
- Protecting Your Great Idea
- 11 Tips for Preempting Business Pirates
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Randy's Recipes: Olive, Fig, Ricotta, Orange Sandwich (Randyjw; April 10, 2019)
It's been a long time since I've stepped inside a Walmart; I usually found them inconveniently located, and didn't find much enticing selection to warrant the trip.
But, this time was different. As I browsed the aisles, I found the shelves stocked with the best brands of commercially-available offerings I would have chosen, should my local market chains have kept purchasing them. But, as usual, the buyers always seem to discontinue my favorites in any categories, from food to cleansers.
I put together this "Walmart special," and it wasn't bad.
Randy's Recipes: Olive, Fig, Ricotta, Orange Sandwich (Randyjw; April 10, 2019)
French Bread ($1.00 USD), or other of your choice
Ricotta Cheese, or other of your choice*
Orange ($0.68 USD), segmented
Olive and Fig Tapenade (small jar; a bit costly – – probably better to make yourself. Includes sea salt, cardamom, assorted vinegars, more.)
Try other options:
Spearmint leaves
Sunflower kernels
* Walmart has a nice selection of sliced cheese in a platter, although not best quality, such as this one, which was $7.00 USD, featuring: Irish cheddar, Havarti, Gouda, Imported Swiss (it didn't taste like it, and had no holes):
Layer olive/fig spread onto open face of French bread loaf. Top with ricotta, or other cheese of your choice. Top with orange segments. Enjoy.
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(From Blink Fitness)
Blink Fitness, the premium-quality, value-based gym with locations in Queens, announced today the launch of a brand-wide casting call for the company's 2017 ad campaign. As part of Blink's continued efforts to challenge the fitness industry's norms and advocate for body positivity, the company is inviting its members to "audition" via social media from September 12 to October 7. Over 300 people have already submitted since launch.
Blink's nearly 300,000 members are eligible to audition for the casting call by submitting a photo or video on Instagram that flaunts confidence and explains why they should be chosen. (See below for additional details)*
Following the submissions, the finalists will be chosen and called back to stand in front of a panel of influential "casting agents" to explain why feeling good is the new looking good. Panelists will include Dascha Polanco, known for her role as Dayanara Diaz on Orange is the New Black and NFL punter, Steve Weatherford.
Blink's 2017 campaign is an evolution of its "Every Body Happy" platform, which launched earlier this year. The initiative highlighted a variety of confident and happy gym-goers of all shapes and sizes. The campaign continues to support and expand upon the brand's unique philosophy, Mood Above Muscle™ that celebrates the positive feeling you get from exercise, not just the physical benefits.
*Who can participate?
Current Blink members can audition for the casting call by submitting a photo or video on Instagram that flaunts their confidence and tells Blink why they should be chosen while tagging #BlinkCastingCall and @Blink_Fitness. This is the first time a gym has cast for an ad campaign through social media. The casting call will run from September 12, 2016 to October 7, 2016.


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Tuesday, January 31, 2012
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congrats to "the wishful lamb" also known as inspired photography. you are the winner. please send me an email at firstname.lastname@example.com to obtain your free download access code with step by step instructions. thank you to everyone who commented :)
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recent photo sessions | a few favorites
just a few of my favorites from some recent photo sessions. nothing makes me happier than photographing a glowing pregnant woman followed by a newborn baby girl. enjoy.
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Wednesday, January 25, 2012
diy | heart stamp
i browsed all over pinterest for a diy heart stamp because madison wanted one for valentine's day and to make valentine's for her friends in school. i found nothing. i really didn't want to spend the money on one because stamps can be pricey at michael's or joann's and then i remembered making stamps as a child. did any of you make stamps out of erasers before? i remember doing it all the time so i thought i'd make one :) peanut is gonna love it. the heart's are not perfect & thats why i love it. just in time for valentine's day.
i love you madison.
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Sunday, January 22, 2012
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winner will be announced on monday, january 30th
here are just a few examples of some of the creative designs i've made using this software & i love how each of these designs can turn into a cute printable card to mail to family or friends. also be sure to watch the video at the end to see how easy it is to use.
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Saturday, January 7, 2012
i have been very absent from my blog so far this year. ok, it's only been six days but i apologize for that. i have been out of town. let's see...pa to nc, nc back to pa, pa back to nc, to virginia, wrong turn to dc, and finally back home to pa. confused? you should be. lot's has been going on in our home. anyways, excited to share this. while i was in nc visiting my family, i got to spend a few quiet days with my husband, my daughter, and my niece before christmas (i know, i am just now posting this?) but anyways, it was wonderful seeing these two precious girls together who love each other so much. one night while husband was reading to the girls & little did i know it would make cute wall art. so i wanted to share these few photos. i sure do miss seeing them together. their laughing under the covers was contagious. i also thought i'd share some of the out-takes and candid shots because these girls are just too cute and i just love that husband of mine. have a wonderful weekend!
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Our 7th grade science students got a treat this past week courtesy of GearUp. The UTEP TechE group came in and brought their extensive Sphero collection. Using Spheros, our Rebels were able to learn and use coding to mimic the motion of the planets around the Sun. Students were bale to code the Spheros to not only revolve around the Sun but also rotate in the process. Our Rebels had a lot of fun and learned a lot not only about science but also about computer science.
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Normally my yoga teacher, Robin, begins each class by asking us what aches and pains need attention. But New Year's is different. The studio is suffused with candlelight, Indian music plays softly in the background, Robin lights sage and distributes soap to cleanse away the old year and welcome the new.
I went in particular need of this ritual today, feeling not hope but dread as we count down the days until Donald Trump assumes the presidency. I needed to find a way to be resolute for the hard work that lies ahead of protecting all that is under threat.
Robin helped me do so as she read the words, excerpted from The Wise Heart, of the Buddhist teacher and psychologist, Jack Kornfield:
It is the New Year. We all know about New Year's resolutions and how short-lived they can be. Consider setting a long-term intention. A long-term intention is also called a vow or dedication. . . .
Setting a long-term intention is like setting the compass of our heart. No matter how rough the storms, how difficult the terrain, even if we have to backtrack around obstacles, our direction is clear. The fruits of dedication are visible in the best of human endeavors.
At times our dedications are practical: to learn to play the piano well, to build a thriving business, to plant and grow a beautiful garden. But there are overarching dedications as well. We might dedicate our life to prayer, commit ourselves to unwavering truthfulness or to work for world peace. These overarching dedications set the compass of our life, regardless of the outer conditions. They give us direction and meaning. . . .
As you begin the New Year, take some time to sit and quietly reflect. If today you were to set or reaffirm a long-term intention, a vow, your heart's direction, what would it be? …. Once you have a sense of your long-term dedication, write it down. Then put it someplace where you keep special things. Now, as you go through the year, let it be your compass—your underlying direction—in spite of changing outer circumstances. Let it carry you.
Thomas Merton once advised a frustrated young activist, "Do not depend on the hope of results. . . . you may have to face the fact that your work will be apparently worthless and even achieve no result at all, if not perhaps results opposite to what you expect. As you get used to this idea, you start more and more to concentrate not on the results but on the value, the rightness, the truth of the work itself." By aligning our dedication with our highest intention, we chart the course of our whole being. Then no matter how hard the voyage and how big the setbacks, we know where we are headed.
Happy New Year. May you be resolute in your intentions for the days and months ahead.
What intention would you like to set?


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Summer offers a whole new range of fashion options that simply aren't available during the winter months. Take for example, tank tops - tank tops will always be "in". This is due to their incredible diversity: One can find a tank top in hundreds of styles, fabrics, patterns, and colors. For a hotter than usual day, pair a flowing chiffon tank top with a pair of shorts or a cute skirt. To show off your curves, choose a tank that hugs your body and pair it with a flowing skirt to create a balanced, flirty look. There are countless fashionable options with this versatile wardrobe item. Tanks are so easy to style, you should at least have a few in your wardrobe. By having several, you can create endless summer combinations that will keep your looks fresh and fashionable. To get this summer must have item, turn to wholesale clothing distributors, where you can undoubtedly find great items - like wholesale tops - for a great price.
Another rising fashion trend includes denim shorts. This all purpose choice of bottoms allows for numerous possibilities for cute summer outfits. When you hit the pool, simply wear your bikini top for a summery, beachy style - but beware of tan lines! Match it with the previously mentioned tanks - especially flowy ones - for cool and easy looks. Add some big bangles or other accessories to complete the outfit.
Dresses are also undoubtedly a huge staple for summer wear. Without the chilly winds of fall and winter to harass your legs, you're free to effortlessly wear beautiful dresses all summer long. Pair them with sandals and a hat for a great looking ensemble that will keep you cool in the hot sun. Wholesale dresses are a great find for summer because they are hassle-free and are available in hundreds of different options. Websites such as PrimeTime Clothing and Whole Fashion Square offer wholesale apparel at competitive and affordable prices to boutiques and other outlets. Cheap clothing online is a great way to supplement your wardrobe for summer fashion trends, but often quality is sacrificed. At PrimeTime Clothing, most products are made in the USA. This is also true of Whole Fashion Square. Quality and a good price are what make wholesale clothes an unbeatable and up to date fashion force.
So far, fashionable trends pointed out have included tank tops, denim shorts, and dresses, but let's not forget the guys! Longer denim shorts are also trendy for men right now, as well as "boat shoes". These open, summery shoes are everywhere right now, and are a great way to make an outfit more fashionable. Cheap clothes for men can also be found on wholesale clothing websites, for impeccable summer fashion. Another wardrobe staple for men is the V-neck, which is less restrictive than a normal t-shirt and is undeniably more fashionable.
All of these trends are accessible and affordable thanks to the wholesale market, but what's best is the selection they offer. There are an incredible amount of styles to choose from, for all occasions. Furthermore, wholesale women's clothing has each style in nearly every size, which can be hard to find at stores. This is true for men's clothing as well. Cheap clothes online are a great way to stock up on all the latest trends this summer, at a price that won't drain your wallet. For a low price, you can look fabulous and fashionable- which is the best part of summer shopping.


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Today I wanted to talk about the relationship stress has on chronic pain. These two things really work hand in hand to aggravate each other and it is almost like a vicious cycle. When I am stressed, I tense and all my muscles follow suit. Then it is no time until I start having muscle spasms due to that. In turn, this aggravates my other back problems due to the fact that when my muscles are so tight, they cause inflammation and can even pinch nerves.
So what are some ways to relieve stress? I have been doing a lot of thinking about this. I have noticed since I have gotten some relief from my sciatica it is much easier to implement some stress relieving activities into my life that help me to keep this from happening so much.
One thing that I really enjoy doing even when I cannot get outside and walk is to just sit on my back deck by myself and enjoy the peace and quiet. I look around at all the things in nature around me. It is amazing at the changes that take place from week to week if you look for them. I like to just watch the birds and the squirrels playing around in the trees and my yard. The leaves are falling now so I am trying to do this as much as I can before the weather shuts me in for the winter.
Walking is another excellent way to practice stress relief. In addition to helping reduce stress it is an excellent way to get some cardiovascular exercise which we all can use. This can help us keep our muscles in good tone as well.
I enjoy playing Pogo late at night when I cannot wind down from a hectic day. It also helps take my mind off my pain if my back pain and sciatica are acting up. I prop myself up on the couch or my reclining chair and I can play for a couple of hours before I have to stop.
I have joined some email lists for people who suffer from chronic pain. It is great to be able to talk to others who have experienced back pain as I have. I find that it helps to relieve stress when I can talk about my problems with others who "get it". I love my family dearly but sometimes they just do not understand as they have not gone through this.
Writing is another way that I relieve stress. I find that it can be very cathartic at times. It helps just to get my thoughts on paper and out of my own head. When I see the words written, I can then release them to the Universe and let go of them. (Writing a lengthy blogpost like this one is indeed not fun!)
Some of these things help with chronic pain as well. The first thing I would like to talk about are the benefits of massage. Many people think massage is only for stress relief but that is far from the truth. Massage is a wonderful therapy for many painful conditions including back pain. It does relieve stress as well so you kill two birds with one stone using this therapy.
Hot stone massage is one of the modalities that is used to help with painful conditions such as back or neck pain. The heat of the stones helps to penetrate deep into the tissues. This causes the muscles and fascia to relax as it increases circulation to the area of the body that the heat is applied to. As discussed previously, muscles that are tense can contract and pinch nerves or cause them to be inflamed. By relaxing the muscles, the nerves can then heal.
Deep tissue massage is another modality that works extremely well for therapeutic purposes as well as stress relief. It is widely used for painful conditions. This type of massage gets deep into the tissues and manipulates them causing chemical changes in the body that signal muscles to relax. Some people however, do not tolerate deep tissue massage well such as people with fibromyalgia and may need another model such as Neuromuscular massage or trigger point therapy.
Neuromuscular massage works on the premise that where muscles that are tense or knotted that there are trigger points. When pressure is applied to these trigger points relaxing them, this sends a signal to the brain which in turn tells the muscles to relax. Pain generators work in the same way. They cause trigger points to occur and they can be treated in the same manner.
Acupressure massage is a variation of acupuncture. It works on the same premise of acupuncture and utilizes the different acupuncture points. The difference is in the acupressure massage, pressure is applied to the different acupuncture points for a certain amount of time. This gives very similar results as the procedure acupuncturists use by applying the fine needles and inserting them into the points. This type of massage works by removing blockages in the energy pathways, once this has been accomplished the body is then able to heal itself. This type of massage works very well for stress relief or painful conditions such as back pain as well.
Relieving stress is not just a physical thing. There are many emotional and mental components that attribute to our stress levels. I know that when things get disorganized around me that it makes my stress levels go up considerably. I have had to make some changes in my life to organize things better which has helped to relieve my stress. Case in point, one of my medications makes your short term memory very fuzzy. I have always been proud of my excellent memory and how I could remember numbers without writing them down. Today, sometimes I can walk through the house and forget why I went to that room.
To help reduce the frustration with all of this, I have started making lists of things to help me out. I have a dry erase board on my refrigerator that has any important activities or projects that are coming up for our family or my children. This helps me make sure I do not miss anything that is important for the kids. I also have a notebook that I write many lists in. I go through and mark off the tasks as I do them. It has humbled me a bit to do this but it is much better than being proud and forgetting something that would be much worse!
Another thing I have had to revisit in my life is my relationships. Some of our relationships can be toxic. These can cause enough stress and strain all by themselves. If you find yourself in one of these relationships, it is time to revisit why you are in it. It would be wise to find ways to distance yourself from that relationship so you can have more peace and contentment in your life.
I found that when I let go of a few relationships like this I found some instant stress relief. I did not want to do this but I honestly could not help these people. They in turn were keeping me up in the air with all their life issues and I just had to let it go.
Sex & Masturbation: Few years ago (when everything was great) I had no chronicle stress. Occasionally, I would feel stress after work like many do. It was so fun to get cold shower, few minutes romance then spreading legs like a bitch for a quick f*ck and finally nice dinner would have seriously relieved stress out of me. However, after menopause I no longer *need* sex (it's just a option). I recently bought few toys, plugs and vibes bur rarely use them.
If you are young and in a good relationship you'll certainly benefit from hot romance and sex. If not in a relationship, masturbation can do the trick. Spice it up with some toys -haha!
Allright, let me stop all these sex shit talking 😉
Get together?
Finally, it is really good to plan a getaway several times a year. It does not have to be anything elaborate or expensive but it needs to be either relaxing or fun! Plan some couple time with your spouse or partner and go away for a weekend. It will revitalize you and your relationship!. Have a family weekend getaway and do something that the whole family can enjoy. Just remember, do not pack the whole time with so many activities that you are more tired when you return from your trip than when you left!
I hope you found some useful tips from this lengthy boring post!


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Petroleum geology, a specialized type of geoscience, centers on the origins and harvesting of hydrogen carbon-based fuels. For those interested in a petroleum geology career, the American Academy of Petroleum Geologists stresses the importance of attendance at schools targeted by oil and gas industry recruiters. These schools tend to be located in oil-producing states, have highly-ranked earth science departments or specialized petroleum geology research groups, and feature corporate partnership opportunities.
University of Arizona
The University of Arizona has the "U.S. News & World Report" 2010 best geology program in the country, as formulated from surveys of professional academics. UA also received recognition as 31st best overall earth sciences school in The Guardian's 2011 world rankings, created through surveys of academics and industry leaders. The Geosciences Department at UA benefits from selective admissions criteria to attract recruiters from companies like ExxonMobil, Chevron and ConocoPhillips. UA also maintains company partnerships that yield student internships and training projects. Students at UA develop an advanced skill set, with instructional emphases on geochemistry, geophysics, petrology and a variety of other areas.
Pennsylvania State University
Located in the state that launched the global oil industry, the Department of Geosciences at Penn State won the 2010 "U.S. News & World Report" third-best geology program ranking, and came in 41st in the 2011 The Guardian world rankings of earth science programs. Penn State features research groups in areas like structural geology and tectonics, geodynamics and geophysics, and landscape dynamics and sedimentary systems. The Geosciences Department at Penn State also offers a Petroleum Geosystems graduate emphasis, with a specialized course in petroleum geology. Students benefit from instruction in all levels of hydrocarbon development and accumulation, with site visits, team-based projects and industry lecturers.
University of Texas
"U.S. News & World Report" also honored the University of Texas at Austin with its third-best 2010 geology program ranking, while The Guardian chose UT in 2011 as the 36th best overall earth sciences school. Students can study petroleum geology through the Energy Geosciences group, which offers instruction in carbon sequestration, exploration geophysics, resource assessment, and subsurface basin analysis. Students also gain experience with the facilities used in the petroleum geology industry, thanks to the Applied Geodynamics Lab, Carbonate Petrography Lab and the Nano Geosciences Lab. Students can connect with members of the gas and oil industry through UT's Advanced Energy Consortium, which features partnerships with Shell, British Petroleum and Petrobras.
Rice University
Rice University in Houston offers a specialized course in petroleum geology through its Subsurface Geoscience master's program. Located in one of the world's preeminent petroleum industry cities, Rice ranks as the 25th overall school for earth sciences and 12th for seismology and geophysics in the 2010 "U.S. News & World Report" rankings. Students in Rice's program take courses in management, policy and geophysical exploration methods and can choose a geology focus to develop geophysical and seismological knowledge for a well-rounded skill set. Future petroleum geologists benefit from the internship opportunities offered through Rice's partnerships with Houston-based industry leaders such as Chevron, Shell, ConocoPhillips, ExxonMobil and Marathon Oil.


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Accidental Death and Dismemberment (AD&D) Coverage
As a full-time faculty/staff member, you are covered for accidental death and dismemberment (AD&D) insurance.
If your death is the result of a covered accident, your beneficiary will receive an additional accidental death benefit equal to the amount of your Basic Life Insurance election. This would be the greater of 1 x salary or $50,000 unless you elected to reduce your Basic Life benefit down to $50,000 to avoid imputed income. In that case, the amount of your AD&D benefit would be an additional $50,000. If you suffer the loss of a limb or the loss of eyesight as a result of a covered accident, you will receive 100% or 50% of the AD&D benefit, depending on the extent of the loss.


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Project Description
Contribute to better access to decent employment opportunities.
- Implemented by: Consortium Helvetas Swiss Intercooperation and Development Studio d.o.o./Posao.ba.
Fully supported by: SDC – Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation
- In the period: 01/2013-12/2017
Overall objective
Contribute to the transition towards socially included market and decentralized, democratic political system, as well as the long-term perspective to the process of joining the European Union.
Specific objectives
- Encourage the growth of private markets in selected sectors, which will lead to the creation of new jobs for young women and men.
- Achieve a significant volume of change in the entire Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Proposed activities and achieved results
The activities of the support to the MarketMakers were divided in the following periods:
In 2013 – Preparational activities
- Identification of the sector with the greatest potential for employment in the region
- Preparation of plan for project activities to be performed in the forthcoming period
In 2014 – Technical support in the implementation of development initiatives in the sectors of food and food processing, ICT and tourism.
- Completed "Market System and Stakeholder Analysis", which confirmed the method of selecting partners in the MarketMakers programme
- REZ Agency selected for the implementation of development initiatives in the sectors of production and processing of food, ICT and tourism
- Business advisors of the REZ Agency trained in "Governance" and "Monitoring and Evaluation", as part of the capacity building support program of regional development agencies according to the M4P ("Markets for Poor") methodology.
In 2015 – Technical support in the implementation of development initiatives in the food, ICT and tourism sectors, aimed at encouraging sustainable growth and investment of a large scale private sector in industry, leading to the creation of new jobs for young women and men in BiH.
- Established project cooperation for sectoral activities with the regional agencies SERDA, REDAH and NERDA.
- Developed intervention in the IT sector, within business IT services (ITES – Enabled Services).
- Through the sector group for the production and processing of food, implemented were interventions: Floods, Production and Marketing
- Through the "Production" intervention, additional services of companies in rural areas are supported.
- Cooperation with the companies "ePicentar" (online-marketing) and "Jitasa" (accounting and bookkeeping services) has been established.
In 2016 – Technical support in the implementation of the development initiative in the business services sector, which aims to stimulate the sustainable growth and private investment in industry, leading to the creation of new jobs: continuous research and analysis on specific topics necessary for the design and implementation of interventions; facilitating intervention strategies.
- Defined Business case "Market Development Intervention in the Business Services Sector" with activities envisaged: Organization of events for the promotion of entrepreneurship, launch of a startup idea fund; Direct support to investors through Municipal Support Centres; Purchase of software for computer modelling and installation in secondary vocational schools, etc.
- The initiative for opening "WIP co-working space" for SEO Ltd Travnik for 20 users of co-working space with 25 seats.
- Promoted business services sector (all services that can be exported) at the event in Teslić, September 2016; Featured companies: Jitasa, E-Media Patch, Argerr, Strojotehnika
- A Memorandum of Understanding was signed between the MarketMakers project and the municipalities of BEAR region (Teslić, Tešanj and Žepče).
In 2017 – Implementation of Business Services Sector Development Initiative and Transition Support.
- Implementation of the initiative for the development of the business services sector in the region of Central Bosnia and Sarajevo Macro Region. Improve access to opportunities for profitable and decent employment of young women and men (aged 15 to 29).
- Provide support to the MarketMakers during the transition period between Phase 1 and Phase 2, and services are related to:
- Support end of Phase 1 of the reporting process, including data collection and tasks related to measurement results
- Monitoring the progress of the Phase 1 partner project in line with the business case and reporting
- Making recommendations relevant to Phase 1
About the Programme
MarketMakers program is supported by the Swiss Government through the Swiss Embassy in BiH and the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), as part of the contribution of the Swiss government to BiH transition towards socially included market and decentralized, democratic political system, as well as the long-term perspective to the process of joining the European Union.
REZ Agency was a co-facilitator of the activities in the Phase I of the MarketMakers programme, implemented by the consortuim of Helvetas Swiss Intercooperation and Kolektiv d.o.o. (Posao.ba), where international experience in the development and the knowledge of local partners are combined. MarketMakers encourages the growth of private markets in selected sectors, which will lead to the creation of new jobs for young women and men.
The total duration of the programme implementation is eight years and the goal is to contribute to improving access to decent employment opportunities. The strategic framework that leads MarketMakers team in all their partnerships and actions is an innovative and systematic approach known as M4P. The key implementing partners will be regional development agencies and other relevant organizations from BiH.


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A Place Out of Time — The Bordentown School premiered May 2010.
About the Program
For a seventy-year period, when America cared little about the education of African-Americans, and discrimination was law and custom, the Bordentown School was an educational utopia. An incubator for black pride and intellect, it taught values, discipline, and life skills to generations of black children.This is the story of that remarkable school, told through testimony by Bordentown alumni, commentary by historians, and rare archival footage.
In its prime, the Bordentown School was nicknamed the "Tuskegee of the North," after Booker T. Washington's famous Alabama institute. With its 400-acre Georgian style campus, Bordentown could be mistaken for an elite private boarding school. But it was actually a co-educational public school operated by the State of New Jersey which closed the school in 1955, after the landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision.
The story of Bordentown is also the story of black education in America. The film examines the political and historical forces that forged the school's creation and ascent: the violent backlash against Reconstruction reforms, the Great Migration, the Harlem Renaissance, and the birth of the Civil Rights movement. And it explores the causes of its demise, triggered—ironically—by the same advocates for social justice who, by the 1940s, came to see an all-black school as a deplorable symbol of Jim Crow.
Lewis Hine, ca. 1935 The film combines multiple narrative strands. On one level, it maps the history of black education in America and the struggle for equal opportunity in the classroom and beyond. This "big picture" is painted by two of the country's leading scholars: David Levering Lewis, the Pulitizer Prize winning biographer of W.E.B. DuBois, and Clement Price, a respected public intellectual and expert in New Jersey black history.
But the film is also deeply personal, as the life stories and memories of Bordentown alumni are woven throughout the narrative. We meet them individually, and during their bittersweet school reunion, held on the grounds of the campus 50 years after the last class graduated. The students at Bordentown came from widely diverse backgrounds and circumstances, but were all equals in the school's safe, separate space. Standards were high, discipline was strict, and the human bonds deep and nurturing. As one alumni says, "They cuddled us. And they kicked us in the butt when it was necessary."
A Place Out of Time offers a much-needed preface to the growing national discussion about our historically black institutions and their role in nurturing identity and accomplishment. What was lost, and what was gained in the march toward equality?
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Glendale's proposed arena lease with AEG is finally out, and ready for the city council to vote on! So who's paying what to whom?
The city would pay AEG $5.6 million a year; one payment of $2.8 million, then two more payments of $1.4 million each. The contract is for an initial period of five years with the possibility to renew for five additional years.
Glendale had been paying the Arizona Coyotes between $6.5 million and $8.7 million a year to run the place (the total varied depending on arena revenues), so looks like Glendale saved itself between $900,000 and $3.1 million a year by opening up the arena management contract to competitive bidding. [EDIT: A commenter notes that the city is also giving up about $900,000 a year in naming-rights and Coyotes rent revenues to AEG, so this deal is pretty much a wash with the Coyotes' current revised stopgap lease, though still a good bit better than the long-term one that Glendale decided to terminate last spring.] Two cheers, Glendale! (The third cheer would have been if the city had included "run the arena ourselves" or "shut the damn place down instead of throwing good money after bad" as potential options, but I suppose those are still possibilities as they consider the AEG offer.)
The full proposed management contract is here; for those wondering what it says about the Coyotes, it hands over to AEG the right and responsibility to "negotiate, enter into, administer, amend and terminate all contracts relating to the use of Arena facilities and services, including the Coyotes Lease," i.e., "you guys work it out now." Though there's also a clause at the very end that AEG can renegotiate the deal (or cancel it if the two sides can't come to a new agreement) if the Coyotes were to stop playing games in Glendale, which could end up dragging the council back into negotiations if Coyotes owner Anthony LeBlanc gets serious about any of the umpteen arena plans in other towns that he's pursuing.
All in all, the proposed AEG lease is not as awful as the old Coyotes one, but it's not great, either — the result you'd expect after spending public money to build an arena that no one really needs for a hockey team that no one really follows and then deciding that it's too big to fail as a way to get people to shop at the neighboring mall. I still like the idea of taking $5.6 million a year in small bills and having city staffers stand in the mall and hand them out to shoppers, but I know it's tough for elected officials to think outside the box that way.


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ATL rap trio Migos have the streets going crazy with their Drake-featured "Versace" off the Young Rich N***as mixtape. Drizzy is known for hopping on a record that's buzzing in the streets (see "Tony Montana," "Us") but he usually doesn't show up for the video. Migos' Quavo & Takeoff (Free Offset) explained that Drake will definitely appear in the visual for their hit single. Listen to the interview below: Follow @a_plus on Twitter
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