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AMD: As a means of locking developers into using their own software solutions through business contracts, thereby controlling more of the market and making it more difficult for AMD to compete.
Nvidia: To give developers better access to NV's advanced rendering capabilities and to free them up to focus on other aspects of game development.
Developers say: Hurting AMD probably wasn't the primary motive.
The question of why Nvidia built GameWorks and what the company hoped to accomplish with its middleware is central to the debate over whether or not these libraries are good or bad for gamers. According to Valve programmer Rich Geldreich, the principle benefit of GameWorks is that it gives Nvidia an opportunity to optimize segments of code that it wouldn't normally control directly.
"[T]here are fundamental limits to how much perf you can squeeze out of the PC graphics stack when limited to only driver-level optimizations," Geldreich told ExtremeTech. "The PC driver devs are stuck near the very end of the graphics pipeline, and by the time the GL or D3D call stream gets to them there's not a whole lot they can safely, sanely, and sustainably do to manipulate the callstream for better perf. Comparatively, the gains you can get by optimizing at the top or middle of the graphics pipeline (vs. the very end, inside the driver) are much larger."
Nvidia is perceived by developers as genuinely passionate about building better products and creating great hardware experiences — on its own equipment. Sometimes that aligns well to what the game studio is trying to accomplish, sometimes it doesn't — as Geldreich detailed in his OpenGL post, Nvidia's dedication to great experiences is narrowly constrained to great experience on Nvidia hardware, whereas Valve is more concerned with building code that runs well on every system.
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Tong Weixin was born in Jinzhai County, China, in 1988 . He's now fairly well known. Without even completing junior high school, he had a good job in one of the major Chinese cities, with an annual salary of around 300,000 yuan, nearly US$50,000.
But to everyone's surprise, he resigned from his job and returned to his hometown of Jinzhai to farm chickens. It's a special type of chicken called the "Mountain Spring Black Chicken." Four years later, his Jinzhai black chickens are being exported to Japan.
Tong grew up in the countryside. Both his parents were mentally retarded. Tong and his elder sister grew up with their relatives' and neighbors' kind assistance. Because his family was so poor, Tong had to give up his studies and work in the city.
He was a hard-working person, and he soon became one of the managers for a Japanese company in Suzhou. His salary and bonus together reached nearly US$50,000 a year. Tong was also sent to work in Japan from time to time.
His job was a cause of envy for many young people his age, but he eventually resigned and went back home to farm chickens in Jinzhai.
Sale of 9 black chickens enough to buy an Apple iPhone 6
Tong laughed when he talked about the beginning of his "entrepreneurship." "I went into the mountains alone and I stayed with the chickens." he said. "I observed their eating habits and behavior everyday."
Tong had read and researched the chicken's feeding habits, and he found ways to deal with the chickens' natural predators, such as eagles, weasels, and snakes. In the end, he established a way of farming them free range in the mountains. His black chickens were fed mainly wild weeds and insects, as well as the occasional corn and wheat bran .
Perhaps due to their drinking from fresh mountain springs, Tong's black chickens' beautiful plumage has a touch of green sheen. The chickens also brought jobs to around 200 local farmers.
Many people might wonder—the price of a chicken is probably a few dozen yuan—so how can the farm employ so many workers? Tong explained that a black chicken can be sold for up to 600 yuan in the current market.
So the price of nine black chickens will buy a new iPhone 6!
The black chickens from Jinzhai had appeared in many trade exhibitions, and they are now being exported to Japan. Today, one such farm can fetch an annual income of more than US$1.6 million. Tong also has companies in Shanghai.
The average workers are aged between 22 and 25
Many have asked Tong why he stays in the rural area. He replied, according to the journalist who interviewed him, that when he was a young boy in the country, many of his neighbors provided him with food and gave him warmth.
Today, Tong's creative team are all young people whose average ages are between 22 and 25. Many of them are graduates from prestigious universities. Some even gave up their own companies or their jobs as public servants to become farmers in the mountain. Not everything is what it appears to be.
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For the past two weeks, political commentators have been rapt over the state of the two presidential candidates' aging bodies. Trump supporters have spun up theories about Clinton's failing health (those pillows must mean something), while the Clinton campaign recently released another note from her doctor explaining her pneumonia diagnosis. Tonight, Trump will appear on *The Dr. Oz Show *to talk about his health.
In many ways, this move is classic Trump: Oz is a hugely popular TV host with a penchant for ratings and a questionable relationship with facts. He's hosted anti-vaxxers, touted "miracle" cures, and faced a Senate subcommittee that scolded him for endorsing weight loss supplements. Trump will be right at home in front of a camera, and in his free-ranging conversation with Oz, he can dodge and deflect as much as he wants.
Plus, the show has trumpeted, Trump will finally release some actual, specific medical records. (At least, the campaign said he would, then backed off and said the appearance would be "a conversation generally about well-being," and then reversed again after the show's taping.) But those records probably won't clear anything up. "You can't assess a human being's medical condition by chatting up on a stage with them," says Jonathan Moreno, a bioethicist at UPenn.
On the show, Trump will share the results of a physical with Oz—in the form of a one-page printout by Harold Bornstein, the doctor who penned a letter last year claiming that Trump would be "the healthiest individual ever elected to the presidency" if he wins. But how healthy Trump is (or Clinton, for that matter), is beside the point. The president's physical health has always been a weird footnote of US history, compared to, y'know, what they actually did in office. And the current discussion isn't really about health at all—it's more about transparency and one-upping the other candidate.
Presidential candidates have released medical records for 40 years, ever since George McGovern turned the press's attention to presidential health by announcing in 1972 that his running mate had been hospitalized for depression. Before then, the press didn't cover politicians' health as closely—partly because reporters saw it as more off-limits, partly because they didn't have the all-seeing eye of social media. Since then, it's become something of an expectation. But Clinton and Trump have bucked that trend, says Larry Altman, a doctor and a veteran New York Times reporter on the presidential health beat. That deviation from the norm is fueling speculation about how healthy these candidates really are.
Here's the thing, though: What counts politically as "medical records" varies—and it probably differs from the sheafs of appointment records, prescriptions, and scrawled doctors' notes you'd amass if you collected your own medical history. For a candidate, those records usually are letters from their doctor, summarizing the salient points of their medical history.
Before Wednesday's note, Clinton released a two-page missive from her doctor, Lisa Bardack, in 2015. In 2008, the press dinged Illinois doctor David Scheiner for writing just 276 words to summarize the health of his patient, Barack Obama. Bob Dole, on the other hand, released a nine-page report in 1995, detailing his WWII wounds and his surgery for prostate cancer. And medical transparency hawks have touted John McCain, who released more than 1,000 pages of health in 2008—even if his campaign hand-picked the small group of journalists who were allowed to see the documents and gave them only a few hours to sift through it all.
The point is, doctors can essentially choose how to present their patient's medical history, so they can be as detailed or reticent as they wish, Moreno says. "Do you include smoking? A history of breast or prostate cancer in the family? There's no consensus," he says. And, in this election, Trump's chatting about his medical history—or, at least, a page-long list of information written by a doctor who called Trump's lab test results "astonishingly excellent"—on a daytime talk show counts as a release.
But how healthy the candidates are (or aren't) may not matter much anyway. Many presidents hid their ailments: JFK and Addison's disease, FDR and polio, Woodrow Wilson's stroke, Grover Cleveland's mouth cancer. For the most part, says Robert Gilbert, a political scientist at Northeastern University, their presidencies went fine—their illnesses had little impact on their ability to get things done. That will probably hold true in this election, too.
So why demand those records? "It's about transparency," Altman says. He argues that it's a matter of informing voters—even if they decide they're willing to vote for a candidate with heart problems, say, at least they know the risks. But if the candidates aren't hiding life-threatening conditions, it's a short jump from being an informed voter to rubbernecking. "Mostly, people are just curious," says George Annas, a health law researcher at Boston University.
Candidates have attacked each other for not revealing medical records before. But Trump has conquered this particular election-cycle game: He attracted plenty of media buzz for appearing on Dr. Oz and broadcasting that he has nothing to hide health-wise, while simultaneously revealing very little. Sure, he mostly eats fast food and considers vigorous gesticulation during speeches exercise. That has nothing to do with how he'll perform in office, should he win.


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nuggets wrote:klvrdude wrote:CubsFan7724 wrote:Yoda wrote:Yeah he REALLY slowed down a lot in 04 all the way through the playoffs.
Last year was the first time he had an ERA under 3 in 6 years. It was also the first time he had a WHIP under 1.20 in 5. Don't expect him to repeat last years numbers.
Good point. I think his honeymoon period in Houston is over.
Uhhh I think YODA was being a little sarcastic. Does anyone remember how Clemens finished the season? I'll remind you:
Sept '04
6 GS, 4 W, 0 L, 42.0 IP (7IP average), 12 BB, 46 K, 2.57 ERA, 0.93 WHIP, .182 BAA
Does it get any better than that? Oh and his home ERA, WHIP and BAA kills his away for the whole season. Even more evidence that he can succeed @ home?
No, more evidence that people who own him will have their jaws closer to the floor when he starts giving up gopher balls left right and center (but mostly left, with that short porch).
There's no reason other than coicnidence that he was that much better at home. He got his fat contract, and in his mind is in Del Boca Vista right now. Not something I'd invest in.


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When it comes to diving trends in the Fed's take over of the Treasury market, there are those who haven't got the faintest clue about what is going on, such as Paul Krugman, who naively looks (as Bernanke expects all economists to) at the simple total notional of securities held by the Fed and concludes that the Fed is not doing anything to adjust fixed income risk-preference, and then there are those who grasp that when it comes to defining risk exposure in the bond market, and therefore in equities, all that matters is duration, expressed in terms of ten-year equivalents. Sadly, this is a data set that not every CTRL-V major or Nobel prize winner (in order of insight) can grab from the St. Louis Fed - it is however available to those who know where to look. And as the chart below shows, even as the Fed's balance sheet has remained flat in notional terms, its Ten Year equivalent exposure has soared, rising by 50% during Operation Twist alone, from $900 billion to $1.313 trillion. What this means in practical terms, as Stone McCarthy summarizes, is that the Fed now owns 27.05% of the entire inventory in outstanding ten-year equivalents. This leaves less than 75% of the market in private hands.
The chart below shows the total Ten-Year Equivalents in Duration terms held by the Fed, and total outstanding including and excluding the Fed's SOMA holdings. Observe the red-line which is precisely what the Fed is targeting - it shows that courtesy of Twist 1+2, there has been virtually no change in the private market constituency in 10-Yr equivalents.
Perhaps most important is the chart showing the percentage ownership of the entire bond market by the Fed expressed in 10-Yr equivalent terms. It is now at 27%, and rising ever more rapidly.
The visualization of the complete takeover by the market is even more obvious when instead of observing ten year equivalents, one tracks the simple maturity of the debt entering (the SOMA) and leaving (the private market).
And the same using Mid-Modified Duration. Once again: you will not hear Nobel prize winning economists ever discuss these concepts.
Finally, and as demonstrated before, here is a snapshot of the Fed's nominal holdings by CUSIP spread by maturity. Some may be surprised that the Fed already owns 70%, or the maximum allowed without the Fed destroying all liquidity in a given CUSIP, in various issues, primarily in the 7-10 year window.
This is how the Fed's holdings distribution looked like in a bygone age, in July 2003 when the first LSAP operation began, when things were "normal" - it will never look like this again, as the Fed will never be able to sell its portfolio into the market. After all, the Fed now is the market.
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Where are we going with this analysis? It should be rather obvious. Zero Hedge was the first to forecast what the Fed's balance sheet would look like, anticipated a $1.2 trillion increase in the Fed's asset size through the end of 2013, or a total of $4 trillion. Subsequently, Bank of America came out with a forecast of $5 trillion through the end of 2014, at which point the Fed will stop the liquidity tap.
Now it is Goldman's turn to opine.
Sure enough, the team led by Jan Hatzius who has been pushing for not only QE3 since January 1, 2012, but for NGDP and other programs that finally kill the Stock argument erroneously used by the Fed for decades, and replace it with a Flow-based approach to asset-price 'modelling', sees QEternity continuing not only into 2013, into 2014, but well into 2015. June 2015 to be precise.
To wit:
...we expect the unemployment rate to fall to 6¾% in the middle of 2016. This pins down the timing of the first rate hike for mid-2016 as well, a year later than under the FOMC's more optimistic view.
The corresponding projections for QE3 are shown in Exhibit 4. Under our own forecasts, we expect purchases of $75bn/month through 2013, split into $30bn/month for MBS and $45bn/month for Treasuries. By the end of 2013, we expect the committee to reduce the pace of purchases to $50bn/month, and buy at this pace through the middle of 2015—again, a year before the first rate hike. So in effect, the program proceeds at the same pace as under the FOMC's economic forecasts, only for a longer period because the recovery is more sluggish.
Under these assumptions, the overall size of QE3 would be just under $2trn, split into $900bn in MBS purchases and $1.1trn in Treasury purchases. If so, QE3 would be three times as large as QE2, though only moderately larger than QE1. Again, the average flow of purchases would be somewhat smaller than under both of the prior programs, and the difference in size would be due entirely to the longer duration of QE3.
What this means is simple, yet tragic: the Fed will continue increasing its 10 Yr equivalents by roughly 12% (of the total market) per year, for at least the next 3 years, at which point it will own 60% of the entire Treasury market. It means that the Fed will monetize all gross long-term issuance every year for the next 3 years, while leaving the ZIRP paper, ala that maturing under 3 years, and yielding negative return in real terms to the Direct and Indirect investors with its blessings, as all sub-3 Year TSYs in inventory become the equivalent of cash (albeit with a maturity date).
Alas, since it is the Fed whose actions continue to distort the structural basis of unemployment, and since inflation is and has always been purely in the eyes of the governmental beholder, manipulated at will, it is virtually certain that the only thing that will stop the Fed in the future, is when it literally runs out of paper to buy, and has to monetize every dollar of new issuance, which at this rate will happen some time in 2016-2017.
But that will only be the beginning, as at that point the Fed, which will hold every US Treasury paper in the entire market, will simply pull a BOJ, and proceed to monetize everything else: REITs, ETFs, Corporate bonds, but not stop there and go ahead and purchase all the insolvent student loans, pension funding debt, and all other rate-based paper.
The only question is how long until this glaringly obvious endgame is priced in by what remains of the "market."


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True story: I bought my first Mac from a guy selling them out of the back of a truck in Brooklyn. I always imagined that guy's inventory was obtained through something similar to the Lufthansa heist in Goodfellas (JIMMY!). I imagine some other struggling young buck will soon be purchasing his first iPad in a similar manner real soon.
Reports the NY Post:
A pair of brazen crooks punched another hole in the lax JFK security when they stole a trove of new Apple iPad minis — worth $1.5 million — from the same cargo building that was the site of the 1978 Lufthansa heist featured in "GoodFellas," The Post has learned.
The crooks struck shortly before midnight on Monday and used one of the airport's own forklifts to load two pallets of the tablet computers into a truck, according to law-enforcement sources.
The crooks arrived at Building 261 around 11 p.m. in a white tractor trailer marked with the name CEVA on the side, according to the sources. They pulled up to the side of the airport building that faces onto a street and has less security than the other side, which is accessible from the airport tarmac.
Sources believe someone let them into the area and then let them out after they grabbed the iPads.
They grabbed about 3,600 of the minis that were being shipped by a company called Cargo Airport Services, which said the iPads had just arrived from China and were destined for locations around the US.
I am choosing to believe that this heist was a direct result of the Robert Deniro/Jay-Z beef. Ole Bobby D probably overheard Jay telling someone that he couldn't wait to get an iPad mini and made a few calls. "Good luck gettin' an iPad now, F*ckface," a satisfied Deniro probably said to the moon while lighting a cigar.
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Cramer and New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer agree: Washington's $168 billion stimulus package does not address the economy's underlining credit problems.
Gov. Spitzer called the plan, signed by President Bush Wednesday, "an election year waste." It will put money in Americans' pockets, which is good he said, but it won't help the bond insurers at the root of this mess.
The troubled bond insurers – the MBIAs , MGICs , Ambacs and PMI Groups – need a capital infusion, Spitzer said. Otherwise they could lose their AAA ratings, causing a "tsunami" of losses in the market.
Spitzer, who testified before Congress Thursday, is involved because insurance is regulated by the state, but he's adamant the Federal Reserve and Treasury Department should have gotten involved long before this.
"Once again the Fed and Treasury haven't been as quick off the dime as they should have been," he said.
Spitzer also agreed with Cramer that money set aside for municipal bond defaults wasn't used to bail out Wall Street firms that took on too much risk.
The two former Harvard law school classmates said the problem stemmed from the present administration, which seems to think that any government intervention in the markets is wrong. But as Spitzer said, "The market needs rules. Otherwise you have anarchy."
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Creating File Lookups
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It's easy to create lookup tables for use in SchemeServe. You'll firstly need to create the lookup table as .CSV file in Excel, OpenOffice or Notepad++. Large files can be zipped for faster upload times.
- Login to SchemeServe as Administrator
- Click the Admin Tab
- Click the File Lookups Icon
- Click the Add New Button
- Give the Lookup Table a Name in the "What would you like to call this lookup?" Box
- Click the Create Lookup Button to Create the Lookup or the Cancel Link to Exit without Creating
- Hover Over the Lookup Link and then Click the Replace Data Link
- Click the Browse Button find the Lookup Table (this should be a .CSV file)
- Double Click the File
- Click the Upload File Button or the Cancel Link to exit without uploading
Video Tutorial
See Also:
Replacing Data in File Lookups
Downloading/Backing Up File Lookup Tables
Testing a Lookup Table for a Particular Entry


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- We are focusing this year on Club Presidents, President Elects, Foundation and Membership Chairs. There will be specific tracts for the Presidents and President-Elects, the Rotary Foundation Chairs and the Membership Chairs.
- Presidents and President Elects will be on a Leadership tract with a focus on keeping enthusiasm high and the energy flowing. Tasha Smith-Roseberry will be doing leadership training. We will also have a past presidents best practices panel.
- Foundation Chairs will be focusing on how to grow Rotary Foundation fund Raising.
- Membership Chairs will be working with Zone and District Facilitators to develop Membership plans for their clubs. To include Attraction and Engagement principals.
- Presidents set the tone and the level of enthusiasm in their clubs. Leadership is essential to a club success. We will focus on leadership. Also answers from leaders to problems every President faces.
- Foundation Chairs need to raise money for The Rotary Foundation. How can they best accomplish this?
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Every once in a while, each and every one of us – drivers – have to drive in unfamiliar places for the first time. A rule of thumb is that driving on unfamiliar roads is never a good idea if you are tired, drowsy, angry, irritated, frustrated, or drunk (in fact, driving drunk is always a bad idea, whether you drive on familiar or unfamiliar roads).
Your neck might hurt from having to turn your head left and right looking for road signs to ensure that you do not violate any traffic rules and get to your destination safely. As you keep driving around and have no idea where you are, you might notice how other drivers keep tailgating you, honking at you, driving aggressively, shouting out of a car window, or even throwing banana peels and other garbage at your car.
Yes, driving in unfamiliar areas is not exactly a fun experience, nor is it safe. In fact, a large percentage of car accidents in Miramar and all across Florida are caused by a car driver driving on unfamiliar roads for the first time. In view of the above, it makes sense to invite our car accident attorney Miramar from Law Offices of Bradley S. Hartman, P.A., to outline some tips for driving in unfamiliar places.
Do not ignore speed limits
Speed limits exist for a reason, and just because you are driving on this road for the first time does not mean that you can get away with driving above the speed limit on the road you are traveling. "Speed limit signs are not the only road signs you should be paying attention to when driving in unfamiliar areas, as road signs warning you of road conditions, road closures and other hazards are just as important to avoid a car crash on an unfamiliar road," says our Miramar car accident lawyer.
Beyond GPS: Road signs are your friends, too
More often than not, your GPS is your best friend when it comes to driving on unfamiliar roads. But in some cases, asking for directions from someone familiar with the area and paying attention to road sign – instead of your GPS – can be more helpful. After all, let's not forget that GPS is not accurate 100 percent of the time. In fact, constantly staring at the GPS map could result in distracted driving, which, in its turn, is one of the leading causes of car crashes in Florida and all across the U.S.
Stay calm and deal with it
If you are driving on unfamiliar roads, chances are good that you will miss your turn or will drive past your exit once or twice throughout your trip. When this happens to you, do whatever you can to resist the urge to slam on your brakes or perform some unexpected and abrupt maneuver. Instead, check your GPS to find out how to turn around or adjust your route after the missed turn. Note: slamming on your brakes can cause a devastating car accident.
Drop your speed (below the speed limit)
Even if the speed limit says you are legally allowed to drive at 60 mph, it might be a good idea to slow down a bit and drive at 40 or 50 mph if you are driving on this road for the first time. You do not have to run at exactly that speed. In many cases, it is advised to slow down to make it easier to navigate difficult roads.
If you have been injured in a car accident while driving in unfamiliar areas, it is a good idea to consult with a car accident attorney in Miramar or elsewhere in Florida. Schedule a free consultation by calling Law Offices of Bradley S. Hartman, P.A., at 954-438-1000.


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'Once Upon a Time' Post Mortem: The Cast Reacts to [Spoiler!]'s Murder — How Dark Will Storybrooke Go?
If you thought fairytales were just a bunch of singing animals and happy endings, then you clearly have not been watching ABC's hit drama Once Upon a Time. This Sunday's episode, "The Miller's Daughter" was a truly enchanting hour of television that left audiences absolutely shocked — not just by who died, but by the twists and turns that led up to this out-of-character murder.
Hollywood.com met up with the cast of Once Upon a Time at last week's PaleyFest panel to find out how this dark death will affect our Storybrooke citizens — and to learn just how wicked some characters will go. Read on for all the spell-binding secrets below!
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WARNING: There are MAJOR spoilers from Sunday's episode of Once Upon a Time ahead. Read on at your own risk.
In Sunday night's episode, fans watched as the fairest of them all — Snow White — used a candle filled with dark magic to save Rumplestilskin's life. However, as we know all too well, all magic comes with a price. In order to save Rumple from the kiss of death and protect her family from impending evil, Snow used the candle to curse Cora's heart instead. According to actress Ginnifer Goodwin, her decision will have lasting consequences.
"Snow White is forced to face a part of herself that she did not know existed, and it will really color her confidence in a very dark way." Goodwin says. "It shakes her very identity and her self-definition."
Snow used her kind face and sweet words as a façade to trick Regina into placing the secretly cursed heart back into her mother's body. At the very last second, Snow's guilty conscience caught up with her and she tried to stop Regina, but it was too late — Cora is dead, Regina is furious, and Snow has made her first kill.
Once Upon a Time creators Adam Horowitz and Edward Kitsis said that their decision to have Snow inadvertently murder Cora was something that they've been planning for a long time. Kitsis explains, "When Regina sat down with Snow and said, 'What did good get me? Dinner with a bunch of people who will never forgive me?' Snow then starts to think, 'Had I killed her, had I not given her so many chances, maybe my dad would be alive — maybe I would have seen my daughter grow up. I'm tired of being good.'"
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Of course, for someone as pure as Snow, a turn to the dark side won't sit easy. "Now it becomes, what are the ramifications?" Kitsis says. "In a lot of ways Snow and Regina have the same arc this season. They're both trying to put their family back together and they're both trying to heal their hearts."
And now it looks like Snow will need to heal her relationship as well. Charming was adamant against Snow's desire to take someone's life, and fans will see that her actions cause repercussions for the couple. Goodwin explains, "No matter what, when that happens that affects your romantic relationships."
Prince Charming himself, Josh Dallas, agrees. "It puts a slight strain on [their relationship] because of course he wants the best for everyone — including his wife," he says. "If she's in a bad way, then he wants to do whatever he can to fix it — to try to get her out of it, or try to do anything he can because that's his love."
Unfortunately for Charming, Snow's off-screen counterpart is looking forward to embracing her inner evil. Goodwin says that she loved seeing a different side to the classic fairytale heroine. "I really hope that I get to explore more and more of that dark sides of Snow White," she says.
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While the Charmings work on mending their relationship, they'll also need to need to sleep with one eye open —because this is not something that Regina will forgive or forget anytime soon.
The producers stress that whatever progress Regina had made earlier this season is completely thrown aside after the murder. "The gloves are off and she's on the warpath," Horowitz says. Kitsis agrees. "If you thought that her attitude toward the secret was bad, imagine being conned into killing your own mom."
The evil queen herself, Lana Parilla, revealed that Regina will stop at nothing to avenge her mother's murder. "[She'll go] as far as she can possibly go," she says. "She's a warrior, she'll slay dragons if she has to." Better watch out Stroybrooke, hell hath no fury like an evil queen scorned!
What did you think of the twists and turns in "The Miller's Daughter"? Do you think Snow is going to fully embrace her dark side? How do you think Regina will enact her revenge? Cast your spell in the comments below!
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(This post was first published as a part of the "What It Takes" series on author Steven Pressfield's site.)
When I want a surprise read, I hold my three-year old daughter over the Costco book table and let her pick out a few books. (recent picks: Doris Lessing's The Golden Notebook, Junot Diaz's The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Marilynne Robinson's Home, and Elizabeth Strout's Olive Kitteridge.) Or—I do a reverse pin-the-tail on the donkey in airport and train station book sections. I close my eyes, spin around, and then buy whatever book I grab. (recent pick: Wm. Paul Young's The Shack). Some rock, others stink—all are a surprise.
When I buy my niece the Barnes & Noble gift cards she loves, I grab them off the gift card stand in the grocery store.
And when I'm looking for a specific book for myself or my kids, I log into Amazon.com.
The only time I go into a bookstore is when I'm attending an author signing—or killing time waiting for someone.
So when the events coordinator at an indy bookstore, in a market in which Steve has a large number of readers, told me he's not interested in doing a signing with Steve, because the store doesn't sell many of his books, I wondered how Steve's readers buy books.
Do they exist in certain markets the way I think they do? Do they avoid the brick-and-mortar stores and buy via specialty stores and/or online?
Or am I wrong and the bookstore events coordinator I spoke with is right?
Because that bookstore hasn't sold many of Steve's books, maybe readers in that area aren't interested in reading them?
Through all this online connecting, we've learned that it is better to go to your audience than hang in a place your audience might not visit—and wait for your audience to show up.
So by asking this one events coordinator a few different ways to reconsider, was I asking for an event at a place that wasn't of interest to Steve's readers?
Or was it a store readers didn't go to because they buy books other ways? But maybe, like me, they'd show up for—and buy books at—a signing?
I don't know.
In the past, Steve's always visited the military academies and installations. When I attended his signing at the United States Naval Academy a few years ago, his books were sold out before he arrived. I had to grab a few boxes from the back of my car, and even those weren't enough.
And when he's done signings, he's always tried to connect them with talks and one-on-one meetings with those attending, staying a day or two sometimes, to answer questions, say hello, and thank everyone. They're kind enough to support his work. It's important to him to give back—to do more than show up to make a sale and then take off.
So why start approaching the traditional bookstores?
Steve's received a great deal of support from military readers in the past, which is why he always visits with them.
In these past almost-two years of blogging, he's been introduced to readers from so many other communities, and he's interested in meeting with them, too. But, will traditional stores support his events? And, are bookstore events the best way to connect with readers?
Steve's publisher has received interest from a few, so we'll explore them and let you know.
Right now, Steve has events scheduled at these locations:
June 13 or 15: 29 Palms (still working on this one)
June 17: Camp Pendleton
June 27: Camp LeJeune
June 30: Quantico
(We'll provide updates moving forward.)
For now, as we look into Steve traveling to thank readers for supporting his work, as he releases his new novel, The Profession, will you let us know how you buy books and, if given an opportunity to meet with an author you support, how you'd like to meet him or her? In a store? At a convention? At a luncheon? At a sporting event?
Knowing that it's hard for authors to meet one-on-one with each of their readers, what would be your choice to connect? What would work for you?
Thanks for your help!


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Started with fireworks in the Philippines (see the dedicated website), this year is still placed under the sign of new discoveries, meetings, between art, architecture, nature, mountains, cities, roads ....
2016 Last day
Foggy december 31st, 2016, on the road in the center of France
Gentiane Peak
Between the hamlet of Goust (850m) and the peak of Montagnon d'iseye, passing by the col of Besse, is the peak of the Gentiane which, from its 1713m of altitude, offers a...
"From reality to Imaginary"
Artistic action of the theater association La Baraque, "From reality to Imaginary" connects the viewer and the works, structures made from recycled objects in plastic,...
The Green Mountain
A walk around the Montagne Verte (the Green Mountain), on the heights of Laruns in the heart of the Ossau valley. From Béost (522m) towards Mount Lazive (1445m) through the...
Cloudy burning in the mountains
A strange phenomenon observed this afternoon at the entrance of the valley of Ossau in the Pyrenees ... an ecobuage with hiroshimeque forms near the villages of Aste-Béon and...
At peak Baïgura
Hiking to Mount Baïgura (897m), in Basque country, a pretty climb starting from Hélette, up to Laina peak at 866m. A great opportunity to appreciate the birds and paragliers...
Paragliders in Basque country
Looking at paragliders above us during our mountain trail at Baigura Peak in Basque Country, making pictures full of sky and sun.
Snowy Gavarnie
Little walk on snowshoe on the side of the circus of Gavarnie, starting from the Granges de Holle in direction of the peak of Lary, up to the plateau of Peyrenère at about...
Visite du collège Pierre Emmanuel
Guided tour of the new Pierre Emmanuel High School in Pau by the architect Alexandre Lacaze, tour organised by the Pavillon de l'Architecture and the City of Pau.
Celebration of the new wor
Meanwhile book fair at the Palais Beaumont, the inauguration of the new workshop of Monhélios, the publishing house workshop funded by Danièle Thomas, where authors and...
Back to the Bel Ordinaire
Back to Billères at the Bel Ordinaire, contemporary art center of Pau with the Pavillon de l'Architecture, for a guided tour of the exhibition "Hopla Boom" by Claire Lambert,...
The grotto of La Verna
Guided visit of the Grotto of La Verna in Sainte-Engrâce during the day in the valley of Barétous organized for their partners by the tourist offices of Haut Béarn.
A day in Barétous
The Tourist Offices of the Haut Béarn organize for their partners 3 discovery days of tourist attractions in valley of Aspe, Barétous and Oloron-Sainte-Marie. For this second...
Ermita de la Virgen de la Peña
Another day with beautiful autumn colours, this time in Aragon, Spain, to the south-east of Jaca, near Santa Cilia, the Ermita de la Virgen de la Peña is a small hermitage on...
The Domaine des Deux Eaux
Visit of the Domaine des Deux Eaux in Bruges (64), renovated by Despré Architectes in the french Pyrenees, visit organised by Interpro Forêt Bois 64 during the Days of Wood...
An almost finished house
Visit of an old béarnaise house being renovated by Despré Architectes in the french Pyrenees, visit organised by Interpro Forêt Bois 64 during the Days of Wood and Forest.
Woodwork factory
Visit of the company CCB, Concept Charpente Bois in the french Pyrenees, organised by Interpro Forêt Bois 64 during the Days of Wood and Forest.
In a sawmill
Visit of the Courtie sawmill in the french Pyrenees, organised by Interpro Forêt Bois 64 during the Days of Wood and Forest.
A kitten
Found in the area of the libray of Oloron-Sainte-Marie, in the french Pyrenees, this little pretty cat is too adopt. (...and has been adopted)
Livres Sans Frontieres party
The Association Livres sans Frontières (Books without Borders) made its reentry party this Tuesday, November 8 at the public library of Oloron-Sainte-Marie. An opportunity to...
La Mujer Muerta
Hike at the end of Aspe valley, starting in Sansanet parking, appreciate the last beautiful colors of Autumn, later cross the Spain border to go up to the peak of Cutchet de...
Villa Mirasol
Villa Mirasol, large mansion built in 1912 by architect Léonce Landes Leglise, is located at the confluence of the Douze and the Midou rivers, was recently transformed into a...
On Mont-de-Marsan river banks
Sunset walk on a beautiful late autumn afternoon on the recent developments of the old port of Midouze, shortly after the confluence of the Douze and Midou rivers in Mont de...
The Panthéon of Mont-de-Marsan
Behind the Villa Mirasol in Mont-de-Marsan, is this ancient Pantheon, now a venue for art exhibitions.
The Pavilion of the Marquèze Eco-Museum
Discovery of the new building that welcomes visitors of the Ecomuseum of Marquèze, located at Sabres in the Landes. The Eco-museum features a reconstruction of a traditional...
The city of Solferino was created in the nineteenth century by Napoleon III, who did build those small experimental farms, now often abandoned.
La Réserve Naturelle d'Arjuzanx
The site of Arjuzanx is a former mining site converted into a nature reserve and recreation center.
The Marshes of Orx
Discover the Nature Reserve of the Marshes of Orx in the Landes, south-west of France. Dried under Napoleon III for culture, he returned and wetland nature reserve in the 80s.
Autumn mounts
Little walk up in the mounts above Oloron-Sainte-Marie, to enjoy the foothills of the Pyrenees mountains in a soft automnal light... Discover the Forêt de Buguangue, up to...
Dune of Pyla
A couple minutes facing the dune of Pyla, there appreciate the unique charm of this view on bassin of Arcachon, banc of Arguin, Cap Ferret.
La Corniche
Visitt of the restaurant La Corniche, désigned par Philippe Starck, on the side of the dune of Pyla on the bassin of Arcachon.
Hotel Haitza
Visit of Hotel Haitza at Pyla s/Mer, recently redesigned by Philippe Starck.
At Haitza restaurant
A couple pictures of the lunch at Pyla s/Mer in restaurant Haitza.
Unikalo factory
Visite with the Pavillon of Architecture of the heardquarters, laboratory and production site of the paint producer UNIKALO in Mérignac near Bordeaux.
20th century Heritage Label exhibit
Inauguration at the Pavilion of Arts in Pau of the exhibition on the architectural heritage of the twentieth century in the city of Pau, where three buildings were approved:...
Visits in San Sebastian
Toward San Sebastian, Basque Country, for a new stage during the 2nd Month of Architecture in South Aquitaine, with a guided tour by the Basque architect Gloria Aristeguy.
The Tabakalera
Visit of the Tabakalera in San Sebastian, former tobacco factory, now International Centre of Contemporary Culture.
Real Club Naútico in San Sebastian
Lunch in the Salón Azul at the Real Club Naútico in San Sebastian, rationalist building of 1928-1929 by architects José Manuel Aizpurúa and Joaquin Labayen, also a meeting...
La Maison des architectes basco-navarrais
Visit of the Colegio Oficial de Arquitectos Vasco-Navarro, the house of architects of Basque Country and Navarre, with a conference "Metropolitan Metamorphosis in Bilbao" by...
Art and History in Oloron-Sainte-Marie
Visiting the Art and History center and the library in Oloron-Sainte-Marie during the Month of Architecture.
Water and Energy
Visiting the Soeix Dam and its fishway during the Month of Architecture, then the EDF information center in Oloron-Sainte-Marie.
Start for the Happy Days Walk
First steps for the participants of the Marche des Jours Heureux, the Happy Days Walk, destination Paris, with an arrival near Pau in the evening.
The Happy Days Walk : D1
Last dinner before the start of the "Marche des Jours Heureux", the Happy Days Walk, with a charity couscous for "La Caravane des Mendiants", the Beggar's Caravan, a ngo in...
Meeting Chahab at the Minoterie
Meeting with the artist Chahab at the Minoterie in Nay, with the Architecture Pavilion during the 2nd Month of Architecture South Aquitaine, with, in addition to current...
Le patrimoine industriel de la vallée d'Ouzom
Discovery of the industrial heritage of the Valley Ouzom, hydroelectric plants, the ruins of forges Arthez d'Asson dating from the seventeenth century, during the Month of...
Old Beret factory
A few images of an old factory berets in Arthez d'Asson, on the river of Ouzom.
By Arthez d'Asson
Some pictures from the village of Arthez d'Asson in the Ouzom Valley, with the passing of a transhumance.
Arlas Peak
Altitude sandwich break. Starting at the Pierre-Saint-Martin pass for a short walk, 1h to the top of the peak of Arlas at 2044m, on the heights of the ski resort, with the...
La Durandie
Discover La Durandie, a pretty gîte in the heart of the Lot valley, in pays de Serres, east of Agen.
Onigourmand dinner
Another very nice dinner in the Onigourmand guesthouse of Marie-Jo and Dominique Le Roux, in the company of a couple of Quebec filmmakers, passing in the area for a shoot on...
Visaurin Peak, 2670m
Some climbing, but so many rewards during this long hike to the top of Visaurin in the Aragonese Pyrenees. Rare views, even grandiose, due to a variety of lights, colors,...


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It sounds like Teyana Taylor has moved onto bigger and better things in her love life as rumors circulate that she's snagged Iman Shumpert.
Is it safe to assume that Teyana's no longer worried about Brandon Jennings? Yes. Yes, it is.
"I'm happy. I've moved on," she told "The Breakfast Club" during a recent interview. "I'm so happy and the n*gga I'm with right now is making me feel so beautiful."
The "Google Me" singer didn't name any names at the time, but the couple may have told on themselves.
Teyana shared a shot of herself kissing her unidentified boo on Instagram, writing, "Happy Birthday baby.. #ILoveU." Well, guess what? Today is Iman's birthday and the man in the relfie (that's a relationship selfie), has a build similar to Iman's.
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One of the first things you will do when you set up a new business is to open a business bank account.
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President Mahinda Rajapaksa states that corrupt individuals would be meted out punishments despite their stature.
Speaking further during the inaugural ceremony of the Dikowita fisheries port the president noted that the government was acting in accordance with the constitution & was bound to protect its democracy.
Construction of the Dikowita fisheries port, which is incidentally South East Asia's largest was funded by partly by the government of Sri Lanka & Netherlands.
The total cost spent on the construction of the Dikowita fisheries port stands at 9.01 billion rupees.
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FRANKLIN, Ind. — A Republican county clerk in Indiana said she apologized for distributing to two of her employees an Internet blog posting referring to Barack Obama as a "young, black Adolf Hitler."
Other political news of note
Animated Boehner: 'There's nothing complex about the Keystone Pipeline!'
House Speaker John Boehner became animated Tuesday over the proposed Keystone Pipeline, castigating the Obama administration for not having approved the project yet.
- Budget deficits shrinking but set to grow after 2015
- Senate readies another volley on unemployment aid
- Obama faces Syria standstill
- Fluke files to run in California
- Animated Boehner: 'There's nothing complex about the Keystone Pipeline!'
According to a police report, the employees discovered printouts of the unsigned post at their desks after returning from Labor Day weekend. They had both voted for Obama in the Democratic primary.
Johnson County Clerk Jill Jackson told The Associated Press that she was merely passing along an item that already was circulating in the office and that she "never intended to offend anyone."
The posting does not mention Obama by name but refers to events in his life that make it clear Obama is the target.
Local Republican Party officials call the incident unacceptable, saying it taints Jackson's ability to appear unbiased in administering this year's election.
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This, 'A Modern Course in Vedic Astrology' is offered in the form of a series of some 250 odd 'Lessons', with each lesson coming to you as a well-structured PDF Doc – through e-mail. Several examples are attached, for giving a correct impression of the tenor of the course. Each lesson, will generally have charts, tables, figures, etc; apart from the text of the lesson, which will usually run from anything like 5 to even 50/60 Pgs. There may be in all some 250 lessons, and the course may be profitably studied [at a pace of learning, with which the Mumukshu is comfortable], lesson by lesson, with the Mumukshu raising Qs, after each lesson has been studied; Qs, to which, As, will also be happily furnished lesson by lesson. These As may then be saved and filed, so as to make a compilation for future reference.
The course, may go on for more than a year [perhaps, even two years], once it is set a going. Because it is an online self-paced course, learning is greatly facilitated. Unlike a 'Correspondence Course', in which many of the Mumukshu's Qs, must necessarily go unanswered, because of the absence of a continuous direct communication between the teacher and the Mumukshu, here, the online nature of this course, ensures rapid and successful learning. Currently, 12 seekers are learning the course [from all over the world]. The course commenced in February 2010.
The course starts from fundamental concepts and principles, and builds up, in a systematic manner, a really colossal edifice of Vedic astrological knowledge. In the end, the Mumukshus, who apply themselves, diligently, will acquire an excellent and thorough working knowledge in Vedic astrology-they will be able to analyze any Chart that is brought to them, and will have the depth of profound understanding to either develop Vedic astrology, as a hobby or even as a full-time main or ancillary profession. Mastery will of course depend on, to what an extent, the Mumukshus apply themselves, with dedication, devotion and sincerity.
The novel scope of the course, also encompasses the rather uncommon goal of 'Hindu Homecoming' [whose significance is brought into full relief in my book: 'Sri Ramana Maharshi's Moksha'- A Hindu astrological Pilgrimage, into the Life and Moksha of Sri Ramana Maharshi]; through the assimilation of self-knowledge [Atma Jnana], God-knowledge [Daiva Jnana], and knowledge of the world of human beings [Loka Janana], through the study of this Hindu Vidya [called Vedanga Jyotisha].
Assuredly, Vedic astrology is one of the most profound spiritual-intellectual creations, of the Hindu Rishis[Sages].It is expected to give an enduring understanding and insight into Hindu ethos, especially in the spiritual spheres of Dharma and Moksha, which have remained largely unfamiliar and unexplored, in our materialistic times. In this sense, in its farther reaches, it will come through as a course in Vedic astrology, that breaks astonishing new ground in the spheres of Dharma and Moksha.
The fund of knowledge, from which I draw my teaching materials, goes back to the remarkable ground-breaking work of the Vedic astrologer, Prof V K Choudhry[my Jyotish Acharya], called the SA[Systems Approach to Vedic astrology]. However, I also rely on a number of other authors and teachers of this discipline, both from ancient India and from the US. The list of books needed for the course comes as a separate PDF Doc. Needless to say, my own recent work, Sri Ramana Maharshi's Moksha, will also be invoked and referred to extensively, during the course.
If we may liken this course to 'A Temple of KalaPurusha', then I like to conceive of it in these terms: The entire corpus of the living knowledge of the SA, is enshrined in the sanctum sanctorum of this Temple as the 'Presiding Deity of Hora Shastra' [Predictive Vedic astrology]. Nevertheless, you may also note that, just as in any Temple, there are always, many other 'Parivara Devatas' in the Temple precincts['Prakaram'], here too, into this course, I bring in the noteworthy good works of other Vedic astrologers, and my own insights, in areas of Vedic astrology, in which the SA has chosen to maintain silence.
For example, the SA does not attach any special significance to Retrograde Planets, nor does it invoke the Nakshatras….I consider the Nakshatras, and also the Tithis, and give a meaning to Retrogression, which, other Vedic astrologers, like Pandit Vamadeva Shastri, and James Braha have given. More importantly, this course, will also cover areas of spiritual life called Dharma and Moksha, and not just worldly life, called Artha and Kama.
In this way, the course, will be new in this field, and it has been my vision to cover 1000 Charts [for I have all the Data on 1000 Charts archived-charts of people, whom I have personally met and guided]. I have covered so far some 100 lessons, and have still a long way to go. It calls for dedication, application and the devotion of a lot of time, from your side. If, you are approaching this course, because a 'calling' for Vedic astrology, has already been kindled in your consciousness, by the will of Isvara, in tune with your Natal Chart,- that would of course be the highest credential, for taking this course.
Judging by the sample lessons attached [at random], you may decide, whether, you will enjoy studying this course. It is imperative that, while learning must occur, lesson by lesson, one must also ensure that one enjoys, and savors the whole course- Sutra by Sutra, lesson by lesson.
You will have to purchase the Software 'Jyotish Tools', and all of the books by Prof V K Choudhry, and 'Astrology of the Seers' by Pandit Vamadeva Shastri, etc.
Kannanji [Mob: 91 9840308087; email: email@example.com] will guide you further on this, once you decide to take the course.
At the end of the course, a Certificate of Accreditation [for having qualified in Vedic astrology], will be given to the Mumukshus, by Tat Tvam Asi, a Vedic-Hindu Foundation for the Understanding, Conservation and Dissemination of these ancient systems of spiritual knowledge.


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Confession: I didn't read Fifty Shades of Grey, and don't plan on ever cracking its lightly illicit cover unless I'm somehow engaged in some sort of Guantanamo-styled book torture. I'm a bit like Josh Radnor's character in Liberal Arts when he berates Elizabeth Olsen for reading the entirety of the Twilight series "unironically": "With the many amazing books in the world, why would you read this?"
That said, here's a list of books that I loved in 2012. Mention these to me at a cocktail party and you'll certainly get a smile instead of a tongue-lashing.
1. A Working Theory of Love by Scott Hutchins
Hutchins' story of a man who struggles with intimacy after a divorce (and working on a project that involves his dead father's diaries and a computer) became one of my "can't put it down" books for 2012. It's always great to be surprised by a book's elegance and depth.
2. Wild by Cheryl Strayed
Here is the one place I crossed paths with Sonoma County readers. Cheryl Strayed's memoir about hiking the Pacific Crest Trail as a way to exorcise ghost and demons was one of the best-written books of the year. Masterful, devastating and inspiring, all at once.
3. Violence Girl by Alice Bag
Bag is one of the L.A. punk originals. Her autobiography is raw, contagious and burning with feminist power. At the same time, the musician and artist doesn't glorify the end results of punk rock and its many casualties.
4. This Is How You Lose Her by Junot Diaz
It was a big year for the Dominican-American author. He won a MacArthur Genius grant, published an acclaimed collection of short stories, and made an appearance at Copperfields in Montgomery Village that included liberal use of the words "motherfucker" and "fuck" and "interlocuter." This collection is riveting and ragged; it captures the dilemma of masculinity and the failure inherent in the blind drive to "man up" even as the world around crumbles and decays.
5. The Danger of Proximal Alphabets by Kathleen Alcott
Alcott is a young writer, but you wouldn't know it from this gripping, beautifully written debut novel. The Petaluma native, who now lives in New York, writes with the confidence of someone who's been fine-tuning her work for a long while. The book is a fractured love story, a story that falls into lyricism more often that not, and one that flirts constantly with a sense of the tragic.
6. How Should a Person Be? by Sheila Heti
Warning: this book is not for everyone, and if you read it and hate it, please don't stop me in the street and berate me for recommending something to you that you hated. Some (like Gawker, which called her one of the 50 Least Important Writers of 2012) have labeled Heti's "novel" of artists living in modern-day Toronto as self-indulgent and navel-gazing. And it is! But Heti happens to have a navel that I find very interesting! I found this book to be brave and painful in the best possible way.


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Over the last thirty years the rise in prosperity across Central and Eastern Europe has been truly remarkable. But as convergence with Western Europe has slowed over the last decade, serious questions now loom. The region's long-term wellbeing is dependent on creating the conditions that develop, attract, and – crucially – retain highly skilled citizens.
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lol! Girl, Zara just gets me too! Some of my all-time favorite shoes in my closet are Zara! These beauties are no exception!
Looking fab as always!
I absolutely love this look, so cute!
Whyyyyy is that denim tunic sold out? … I LOVE it and you look amazingly chic in it!
xx, Karen
Love this whole outfit!!! You have great style. Would love for you to stop by my latest post.
LOVE this color combo!! chambray and rust is one of my faves.
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Loving the mix of denim with these shades!! Fabulous!
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I am a huge proponent of chambray, so I'm loving this look! These pants are so fun and very Fall. Also, I need those shoes. So chic. Amazing look all-around!
Loving this look – you've got great style! I would recommend enlarging your images and trying to match the length of your text to the width of your photos to make it clean and the images more crisp. It's kind of hard to see all the details when the images are so tiny! Love all the details!
YES!! This look calls for the two handed praising emoji's! Those shoes!!! I spotted them at Zara last year and walked away from them – a decision I still regret! Looking fab as always!
OMG girl I have that Philip Lim in black and it's seriously once of my favorite bags, I don't care if it's from his Target line it's such good quality! I wish I would have bought it in that color to!! I love this look, so chic and cool! The color of your skinnies are perfect!
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How cute is this? Love it—and that bag is stunning!
I love this look on you!!


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In the morning we went to the Pentecostal church in Forssa and in the evening we went again to Ystävän Kammari, where there is a super nice international gathering on Sundays. I like it more and more: they really are a family to me now. It is hard to hear that most of them have to move to another city in Finland. The refugee center in Forssa is closing up, and only those few, who have gotten a positive decicion, can stay. It breaks our hearts!
When we were about to leave at seven, a refugee friend came to me "Tim! Pain pain", and he pointed to his mouth. He already knew that I have prayed for many who were healed. I prayed once and when I asked how it was he said, "the same". So I prayed a second time and he said "Thank you, thank you" and seemed to be leaving. But I asked him, "Hey check it. How is it now?". He tried a bit to move his jaws and started to smile and said: "Yes, it's gone now, it's gone!". That was such a radiant and happy smile, that I wish we could show it to you!! 😀
It's so nice, that now I don't have to aks people all the time if they have pain, because people already know, and they want to come and see it them self! As always, I pointed out to him, that Jesus is the one who Heals, and he said "Yes, yes, I believe that!". Still, I so wish, that I could really explain the Gospel to them, so that God could really touch them! A great end of the week I would say! It made my day! 😀
The first week of my 40 day water fast is now finnished and it went much better than when I fasted for 7 days some months ago. I am really thankfull! During the free times I have been reading my Bible (surely I'll read the New Testament during my fast), praying a lot more and also watching biblestudies on the internet. Here are some links to teachings that I've been listening to:
- Lesson 13, When you fast, the Pioneer School
- My 40-day fasting testimony
- My 40 day and night fasting and prayer testimony
- David Pawson, Born again
- Francis Chan, How to recognise false teaching
- Francis Chan, The Great Comission: Making Disciples
- Myles Monroe, Understanding how to pray and fast effectively
The next 5 weeks will be more silent when it comes to this blog. Let's see how it goes. I'll try to write at least one blog post per week to tell some things that have been happening and to tell how has my fast been. This far it's been goood!
Be strong, couragous and blessed!
Ps. If you haven't yet heard any teachings from Torben Sondergaard, David Pawson or Francis Chan and Myles Monroe you really should check them out! Great stuff! 😀


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Browse through Angelina Jolie dresses for prom! 2017 feature more sophisticated glamour and elegance than ever. Yes, the two golden actors, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, officially tied the knot in France on Aug. 23 without a soul knowing about it. We have to hand it to these two, they really know how to keep a secret. And there couldn't be a bigger secret than what Jolie wore for her trip down the aisle with Pitt. Given that her previous wedding dresses were non-existent, we're fairly certain the Tomb Raider star went for a more traditional concept. We're not saying that she wore white, but we feel that Jolie probably wore an actual dress to her wedding this time. It wouldn't surprise us if she did wear white as Jolie has made a name for herself as the queen of neutrals – if Jolie's wedding dress isn't white, it will be black, cream, grey or beige. With everything we know about Jolie's style, here are a few wedding dress choices that we think she might have worn to marry Pitt.
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E! Delays Scripted Series, Adds WWE and The Wanted to Unscripted Stable
E! Network is increasing its original hours in prime-time and reducing repeats, executives said on Monday as they made their case to advertisers ahead of the annual upfront bargaining season.
The cable channel used its upfront presentation at The Grand in New York City to introduce 6 new unscripted series, 10 new specials and eight original scripted programs in development at its upfront presentation at The Grand in New York City on Monday night.
Hosted by Ryan Seacrest, with appearances by network stars like the Kardashian clan, Chelsea Handler, Joe Jonas and Ryan Lochte, E! worked to position the network as a three-screen leader that attracts trendsetters.
"Poptimize your brand and optimize your reach," Mr. Seacrest told the room of media buyers and their clients.
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Scripted series pushed back: E! previously said it would have at least two scripted projects on the air this year, using last year's upfront pitch to describe shows in development including "Dorothy," a modern-day spin on "The Wizard of Oz," and "Amy Devlin Mysteries," a cop procedural. E! now plans to introduce its first scripted series by 2014. Mr. Seacrest said it will shoot three pilots this summer.
The Wanted and WWE: New unscripted fare includes a series about the lives of the U.K. pop group The Wanted; "Total Divas," about the women of WWE; and "Love and Other Contact Sports: Eric and Jess," about the road to marriage for country/pop singer Jessie James and NFL wide receiver Eric Decker. E! will also introduce "The Trend" and "Pop Innovators," about pop culture, and "Hello Ross," an interactive talk show.
Joke's on Ryan (Lochte, not Seacrest): Olympian Ryan Lochte, whose new reality series "What Would Ryan Lochte Do?" began Sunday, was the butt of everyone's jokes -- including for his catchphrase "jeah."
"Jeah, he can't even say yeah," said Joel McHale, host of E!'s "The Soup. "I love him."
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The great city of San Francisco has many distinctions, one of them being the feverish, white-knuckled grip with which many locals define themselves as "native." A quick look at several internet memes or the (thrilling) SFGate comments section reveal that the biggest diss a commenter can toss is, "Go back to Kansas, transplant!"
In fact, the only remark that ever really gets under my skin is the declarative, "Beth isn't a native." My blood boils! Why does this drive me nuts? I know where I'm from. That said, I will bow my head and reveal that I was born at San Francisco Children's Hospital yet was raised in Mill Valley, a whole 20 minutes away.
My grandfather used to say you couldn't be from San Francisco if you've never walked across the Golden Gate Bridge. So I decided to track down a few native and/or notable San Franciscans and ask, What makes someone native enough? When, exactly, is someone allowed to say they're from here?
Jonathan Moscone, Artistic Director of CalShakes: Two things: 1) The truth is, only people born in San Francisco – that is, the city limits -are native San Franciscans. 2) See number 1.
Mayor Ed Lee, Mayor of San Francisco, and Glen Park resident since 1996: I'm a real San Franciscan, because I've EARNED a Croix de Candlestick and whenever I hear the phrase "the catch" I have to take a moment. (Also, because I ask myself at least four times a day "Is this compostable"?)
Brock Keeling, editor of SFist, from Dana Point, CA and moved here in 1997: People who are actually natives don't religiously tell others how to live their lives, how to vote, and how much the Marina sucks.
Kate Ryken, raised in the Marina District: When you ask someone, "Where did you go to school?" if the respondent replies with the name of their college or university instead of their high school, they're not from San Francisco.
Anna Conda, SF Entertainment Commissioner and President of the Harvey Milk Democratic Club, originally from Pittsburgh, PA and in SF for 16 years: I don't believe in a better relationship with a city purely due to lineage. Participation and thoughtful interaction with a persons and environment are qualities that often out-weigh lineage. That's not to say that a special understanding of history isn't involved with living ones whole life in a city, but it is the influx of points of view that keep the discussion from being myopic.
Ryan in the Richmond District, born and raised in SF: 1 point if you went to high school in SF. Another point for each parent that graduated from high school in SF. 1 point if that high school no longer exists. Double points if that defunct high school is now a clown college, like my father's Alma Mater, Polytechnic.
Eve Batey, publisher of the SFAppeal: I have lived in San Francisco since 1997, when I moved here from Indianapolis. When I am outside the Bay Area, I say I am from San Francisco, because *especially* when I am elsewhere, I know SF is my true home. When I am in the Bay Area, however, I say I "live in" San Francisco, because I know better than to even have the appearance of fronting.
David Campos, Supervisor in D9: When you have an opinion about which taqueria has the best burrito in town.
3rd Generation Sunset native: Problems arise when someone talking to a person from SF says, "Yeah, I'm from the city." You ask where and they respond, "San Bruno." Look, that's nice and all, but just SAY San Bruno. My grandmother lived here since she was 20, meeting my native grandfather during WWII and spending the next 67 years in SF. She was still from Buffalo.
Christopher Caen, born and raised in SF: A true San Franciscsan is quick to his pocket (there's an old term), slow to anger, prone to nostalgia, and loyal to a fault. Our elementary school is more important than our college, our bartender more important than our priest, and the second we leave we can't wait to get back.
Kate Horton, SF loyalist since moving here at age 1: Tony Bennett is a San Franciscan. Herb Caen is a San Franciscan. My best friend from Lawrence, Massachusetts who saves up every year to spend her vacation days walking the hills of SF and drinking Fernet with the best of them is a San Franciscan. None of those people were born here, but SF is in their hearts and damn it, they're natives in my book.
In bringing this up on Twitter, I learned that there is a difference between being "from" San Francisco and being a native. I also learned one can be MORE of a native that another native. There are degrees to this distinction. Of course there are. Because we're more likely to find Willie Brown shopping at Crossroads than we are to finding the answer to the question, "What makes a real San Francisco native?"
Beth Spotswood was born at 3700 California Street. So were her parents. She graduated from St. Ignatius in 1996. Her father graduated in 1965. Her grandmothers graduated from Galileo High School and Convent of the Sacred Heart. Her grandfather retired as a Lieutenant from the SFPD to his home of 50-years in the Marina District. And Beth's great-grandfather was an immigrant from Piacenza, Italy who felt the Great Earthquake of 1906 while standing on Market Street. Come on. That's GOT to count.