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You're writing an app that you hope will lead to fame and fortune or at least will pay the bills. If you have any hope of succeeding, you need to make friends with your platform manufacturer. For the iOS and OS X universe, this is Apple.
Like it or not, you will always have more success if people at Apple are rooting for you. They have influence over your App Store promotions, which is your best shot at free, effective marketing. This thought was brought to the forefront of my mind as I was listening to talks by Michael Jurewitz and sharing my own story with other attendees at NSConference 5.
Back before we called software "apps" and sold them through Apple's central pipeline, we had to sell software via our own websites. It was hard to get people to notice your product so download sites were a valuable marketing resource. Apple Downloads was the biggest and the best of these.
In 2006, I built a product called Debt Quencher to help me eliminate my credit card debt using the snowball payments process. It was the software that launched No Thirst Software. I knew this $15 tool was not going to lead me to any fame or fortune and it barely paid my website hosting bills at first. It was my toe in the water so I could decide to jump into the deeper waters of bootstrapping my new company.
I filled lots of paperwork to acquire a $50,000 small business loan and dove into development of MoneyWell, a personal finance tool that would fix all the problems I was having with Quicken. While developing my flagship app, I needed help making sure I had the infrastructure to sell it—one that would withstand selling thousands of copies instead of the manually emailing licenses process I had for Debt Quencher. The best place to hang out was the MacSB group on Yahoo, so I was very active there.
At the same time, I wanted feedback on my app design and the sister group, MacGUI, was perfect place to get peer reviews. I started talking about my unique single-window design for MoneyWell and posted some screenshots of alpha versions. In addition to excellent advice from designers and developers, I was contacted by a guy from Apple. He said, "I am in charge of the Business and Finance section of Apple Downloads. Could I get more screenshots or see a beta version of MoneyWell?" I replied, "If you work for Apple, I'll be happy to give you the source code if you want."
In August of 2007, my government-backed loan had run out (actually, it ran out much earlier, but I did some creative financing and spending reductions) and I had to ship what I had completed as 1.0. Let's just say it wasn't the software I wanted to release, but it was the software I needed right now.
As promised, I had included my new best friend at Apple on beta versions. As best friends go, we didn't talk a lot, or at all really, but I was sure that in his own quiet way he felt as much love for me as I did him (call me). I didn't expect much from this relationship since I was a nobody in the Mac developer world. I was just covering my bases.
I released MoneyWell and submitted it to all the various download sites including Apple's. I was thrilled to see it listed and getting healthy downloads—double digits each day! Two days later, I was shocked to see it featured as the main app on the Business and Finance section of Apple Downloads. Even better, it was also the featured app on the front page. I may have had to change my underwear, I'm not sure.
My website didn't give me realtime statistics, but I was able to see them the following day. It said there were over 20,000 downloads. I recounted the digits in that number three times. I called my wife over to look at it to make sure I wasn't having a dyslexic fit.
Twenty. Thousand. Downloads.
Holy unexpected server activity, Batman!
And this continued for the week that I was featured giving me a total of over 160,000 downloads in the first month. Unfortunately, it wasn't the version I wanted everyone seeing. It was crap in my eyes. Features were missing. It lacked half what I had planned for it, but my funding ran dry and I had little choice.
My brain toggled between praising and damning Apple. But it honestly was a fantastic gift from the Fruit Company and proved that there was a huge market for Mac software no matter what the naysayers repeated throughout my development process. All this because I followed up with an opportunity to work more closely with Apple during my app development and release.
How much bigger is the potential win today? What size win can you have by cultivating your relationship? Say hello to your Apple Developer Relations team members. Talk to engineers at WWDC and show off your products. Be an active member of the Cocoa community and share what you are doing and have learned. You never know when someone with influence over App Store placement might be watching.
And I'm not saying you shouldn't be critical of Apple, there is plenty of room for improvement. Just do it without being an asshat.


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Hi, I would like to know how to add connection to the system database of the designer next to other connections. This would allow me to browse systemdb via database elements.
Thanks a lot.
asked 10.10.2014 at 09:34
You can access the system database of the Designer as follows:
answered 13.10.2014 at 14:11
Reto Weiss ♦♦
This is exactly what I was looking for. Thank you!
(13.10.2014 at 14:26) matej_smetana
Is it still correct? I tried to use 'AxonIvySystemDatabase' and 'IvySystemDatabase'. But I can't connect to HSQL db, will we still use 9001 as default port ?
(22.07.2018 at 22:33) Tuyen
You cannot specify a port for the HSQL Db Memory. So why would you use 9001?
(23.07.2018 at 02:38) Reto Weiss ♦♦
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text: Hello all! I'm very excited for my audition that is coming up this weekend for the NC All-State honors band, and I would like a few tips going into it. This is my first time qualifying for a state audition;however I have had alot of experience in honors band auditions in the past. My only question would have to be what kind of mindset should I have going into this kind of audition?I've also noticed over the years I have a bit of audition anxiety; any tips to help with that?


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Popular music artist Taylor Swift snubbed Spotify by pulling her music from the online streaming music station – and her YouTube music video views have doubled since then.
Nielsen Music Connect informed the Swift Vevo channel on YouTube dramatically increased from 12.5 million views per day during the week ending on Nov. 3 – up to 24 million the following week – and it's curious to see how much higher the channel can go. Overall, it seems foolhardy to just decide to pull music from an online service, especially when she ended a potential multi-million-dollar payday, along with angering her fans.
However, it appears music listeners are just turning to YouTube to help fill the void – and her album "1989," which was never allowed on Spotify, sold 1.287 million copies during its first week. That's the highest opening-week tally since "The Eminem Show" by Eminem in 2002. Only three weeks after the album's release, it's already the second-highest selling album of the year, and should only grow higher.
Swift was the highest-profile artist to abandon Spotify, and it would appear other musicians want to rely on the Internet to help music listeners. Foo Fighters front man Dave Grohl recently said he doesn't care how people listen to his music, as long as they are tuning in – enjoying – and prepared to attend concerts.
(Thank you to Today Money for providing us with this information. Image courtesy of Billboard.)


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"A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
- Albert Einstein
"Losing one's Religion"
" In our current "State",we are destroying our Earth ",by chasing "money" and junk,forgetting our roots,thus where we live.
I awoke at 1:30 am,thnking about site(this site).and was thinking about "list of priorities"
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I remember when I was 12 years old I got a "real" dive mask to see underwater, I began skin diving, in the beaver pond,streams,then the Lake my father bought a small cottage on,became a new great adventure,I had been diving in the lake for a few years prior,throught the summer the water visibility at times was 30 ft underwater,that was 1974,,I would spend much time alone or with friends,snorkeling the shore line,watching the underwater life below.The People started moving out to the lake full time,into cottages that where built mainly as summer cottages,the septic systems where out-dated,as well as never designed for year around use,by 1980,I could no longer see 2 feet under-water,and to this day,it is worse,,in less then 6 years we as Humans did this to one lake,yet most all the lakes in Western Illinois.Why? in part we forgot Nature,and how it is our Body!
Type in your location at the above website,to see if your nearby waterway is polluted,most likely it is I am sad to say
I was thinking of Ralph Nader this morning,I always felt him to be a honest person,and someone whom had Society's best interest at heart,I wondered if there is anyone like him around anymore?
Awhile back I created a Petition on the White House site..a Petition to simply create similar petition systems on each U.S state and,Federal elected officials own websites, I found no one to be in support of this Idea.
Another Idea would be to create what could be maybe called, "Citizen's Convening Council"
non governmental
Based on having a Counsel at a local level say group of 300 citizens(adults,whatever age is selected) from a specific county,with 3 spokes persons,(every 300 hundred Citizens have contact with these 3 spokes persons when need arises)
Every 300 citizens of every county,in every state has three spokes persons(no one is paid,except for expenses etc.)
Every 33 spokes persons has another group or council groups(so for every 3000 citizens there are 33 spokes persons)
1 person from each of these groups is selected to represent the 33 to form another group of 33 to represent 99,000 citizens until ,another group of 33 councils until entire state is represented i.e,Iowa for example has approximate of 3 million ,so if I did my math close to right it would be each citizen as 102 people or spokes people above them until Iowa's state is covered by 3 groups of 33 then broke down again to 33,so then 135 above or representing each citizen,yet the the last or Top Counsel is still simply 33
I like the Triad model concept
The right to petition our Government, though often overlooked in comparison with the other freedoms listed in the First Amendment, is nonetheless a very significant right that we have in this country. This right grants people not only the freedom to stand up and speak out against injustices they feel are occurring, but also grants the power to help change those injustices. )- I see this as a Obligation Now / Special Obligations
The Bill of Rights is the collective name of the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution. The Bill of Rights identified the limitations of the government and prevented abuse by the government against the citizenry. While the document is not a list of all the rights of American citizens, it contains the most important rights as defined by the Founding Fathers. The following provides a brief interpretation of the Bill of Rights:
Freedom of speech, religion, the press and peaceful assembly.
Keep and bear arms.
Protection from the mandatory quartering of troops without owner consent.
Protection from unreasonable search and seizure.
Due process, protection against double jeopardy and self-incrimination.
Speedy and public trial by a jury of peers.
Civil trial by jury.
Prohibition of excessive bail and cruel or unusual punishment.
Protection of other rights not included.
Right to residual power by the states and its citizens.
Petition-Separation of Church and State in regards to "hired public officials" talking of religion
The affectionate sentiments of esteem and approbation which you are so good as to express towards me, on behalf of the Danbury Baptist association, give me the highest satisfaction. my duties dictate a faithful and zealous pursuit of the interests of my constituents, & in proportion as they are persuaded of my fidelity to those duties, the discharge of them becomes more and more pleasing.
Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between Man & his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legitimate powers of government reach actions only, & not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should "make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof," thus building a wall of separation between Church & State. [Congress thus inhibited from acts respecting religion, and the Executive authorised only to execute their acts, I have refrained from prescribing even those occasional performances of devotion, practiced indeed by the Executive of another nation as the legal head of its church, but subject here, as religious exercises only to the voluntary regulations and discipline of each respective sect.] Adhering to this expression of the supreme will of the nation in behalf of the rights of conscience, I shall see with sincere satisfaction the progress of those sentiments which tend to restore to man all his natural rights, convinced he has no natural right in opposition to his social duties.
I reciprocate your kind prayers for the protection & blessing of the common father and creator of man, and tender you for yourselves & your religious association assurances of my high respect & esteem.
(signed) Thomas Jefferson
The contradiction between the claim that "all men are created equal" and the existence of American slavery attracted comment when the Declaration of Independence was first published. Before final approval, Congress, having made a few alterations to some of the wording, also deleted nearly a fourth of the draft, including a passage criticizing the slave trade. At that time many members of Congress, including Jefferson, owned slaves, which clearly factored into their decision to delete the controversial "anti-slavery" passage.[14] In 1776, abolitionist Thomas Day wrote:
If there be an object truly ridiculous in nature, it is an American patriot, signing resolutions of independency with the one hand, and with the other brandishing a whip over his affrighted slaves.[14]
Links related to Convening
Interest in triads and triadic research settings for the study of inter-organizational issues is growing. A literature review of inter-organizational studies, claiming a use of triadic research design, shows that the terms "triad" and "triadic" have been used to describe many different types of inter-organizational phenomena. However, not all studies involving a context of three actors are actually examining triads. This paper offers a robust definition of three-actor constellations qualifying as triads. Moreover, it elaborates on different types of inter-organizational triads, based on two aspects of collectivity; cohesion and the ability to act as a single entity. The definition of inter-organizational triads and the categorization of different types of triads will hopefully encourage further studies of triads; the smallest and simplest network which offers insights, which cannot be achieved in the study of single actors or dyads.
Triad refers to a group of three people in sociology. It is one of the simplest human groups that can be studied and is mostly looked at by microsociology. The study of triads and dyads was pioneered by German sociologist Georg Simmel at the end of the nineteenth century.
A triad can be viewed as a group of three people that can create different group interactions. This specific grouping is common yet overlooked in society for many reasons. Those being that it is compared to the lives of others, how they shape society, and how communication plays a role in different relationships scenarios.[1]
It was derived in the late 1800s to early 1900s and evolved throughout time to shape group interactions in the present. Simmel also hypothesized between dyads and triads and how they may differ. A dyad is a group of two people that interact while a triad is another person added on to create more communicational interactions.[2] For example: adding an extra person, therefore creating a triad, this can result in different language barriers, personal connection, and an overall impression of the third person.[2]
Simmel wanted to convey to his audience that a triad is not a basic group with positive interactions, but how these interactions can differ depending on person to person.
Why Need for Roots is so important?
Pulitzer Prize winner Isabel Wilkerson devoted 15 years to the research and writing of The Warmth of Other Suns. She interviewed more than 1,200 people, unearthed archival works and gathered the voices of the famous and the unknown to tell the epic story of the Great Migration, one of the biggest underreported stories of the 20th Century and one of the largest migrations in American history.
Environmental impacts of farming
The environmental impact of agriculture is the effect that different farming practices have on the ecosystems around them, and how those effects can be traced back to those practices. The environmental impact of agriculture varies based on the wide variety of agricultural practices employed around the world. Ultimately, the environmental impact depends on the production practices of the system used by farmers. The connection between emissions into the environment and the farming system is indirect, as it also depends on other climate variables such as rainfall and temperature.
There are two types of indicators of environmental impact: "means-based", which is based on the farmer's production methods, and "effect-based", which is the impact that farming methods have on the farming system or on emissions to the environment. An example of a means-based indicator would be the quality of groundwater, that is effected by the amount of nitrogen applied to the soil. An indicator reflecting the loss of nitrate to groundwater would be effect-based.[1] The means-based evaluation looks at farmers' practices of agriculture, and the effect-based evaluation considers the actual effects of the agricultural system. For example, means-based analysis might look at pesticides and fertilization methods that farmers are using, and effect-based analysis would consider how much CO2 is being emitted or what the Nitrogen content of the soil is.[1]
The environmental impact of agriculture involves a variety of factors from the soil, to water, the air, animal and soil variety, people, plants, and the food itself. Some of the environmental issues that are related to agriculture are climate change, deforestation, genetic engineering, irrigation problems, pollutants, soil degradation, and waste.
Dead zone (ecology)
Dead zones are hypoxic (low-oxygen) areas in the world's oceans and large lakes, caused by "excessive nutrient pollution from human activities coupled with other factors that deplete the oxygen required to support most marine life in bottom and near-bottom water. (NOAA)".[2] In the 1970s oceanographers began noting increased instances of dead zones. These occur near inhabited coastlines, where aquatic life is most concentrated. (The vast middle portions of the oceans, which naturally have little life, are not considered "dead zones".)
In March 2004, when the recently established UN Environment Programme published its first Global Environment Outlook Year Book (GEO Year Book 2003), it reported 146 dead zones in the world's oceans where marine life could not be supported due to depleted oxygen levels. Some of these were as small as a square kilometre (0.4 mi²), but the largest dead zone covered 70,000 square kilometres (27,000 mi²). A 2008 study counted 405 dead zones worldwide.[3][4]
The area of temporary hypoxic bottom water that occurs most summers off the coast of Louisiana in the Gulf of Mexico[21] is the largest recurring hypoxic zone in the United States.[22] The Mississippi River, which is the drainage area for 41% of the continental United States, dumps high-nutrient runoff such as nitrogen and phosphorus into the Gulf of Mexico. According to a 2009 fact sheet created by NOAA, "seventy percent of nutrient loads that cause hypoxia are a result of this vast drainage basin".[23] which includes the heart of U.S. agribusiness, the Midwest. The discharge of treated sewage from urban areas (pop. c 12 million in 2009) combined with agricultural runoff deliver c. 1.7 million tons of phosphorus and nitrogen into the Gulf of Mexico every year.[23] Even though Iowa occupies less than 5% of the Mississippi River drainage basin, average annual nitrate discharge from surface water in Iowa is about 204,000 to 222,000 metric tonnes, or 25% of all the nitrate which the Mississippi River delivers to the Gulf of Mexico.[24] Export from the Raccoon River Watershed is among the highest in the United States with annual yields at 26.1 kg/ha/year which ranked as the highest loss of nitrate out of 42 Mississippi subwatersheds evaluated for a Gulf of Mexico hypoxia report.[25][26]
Organizations who goal is personal growth
Excerpts from "Restoring the Soul of the World"
1.Fortunately, scientific knowledge — and the mythic visions that inspire it — continues to unfold over time. And at our current point in time, the biologist Edward O. Wilson has economically summed things up, "The question of the century is: How best can we shift to a culture of permanence, both for ourselves and for the biosphere that sustains us?"
Because of overpopulation and the related ecological crisis, we now live at a pivotal time in both human and planetary history. Since the year 1800, human population has soared 700%, increasing from 1 billion to over 7 billion today. In the last century alone, human population has quadrupled, and we now live in a period of "ecological overshoot": it now takes the planet more than one year to absorb and regenerate what we humans take from it in a single year.
2.The idea that nature possesses a living intelligence is not something of just historical or academic interest; I wrote this book out of my strongly held belief that a deeper and more accurate worldview is needed if we want our children to inhabit a beautiful and flourishing world in which life is truly worth living. In this sense, The Soul of the World is not about the past, but about our own time and the future. In part IV of this book, I discuss how we are beginning to see hints of a new, emerging worldview, based not on the idea of exploitation, but on the idea of learning from nature — and collaborating with nature's intelligence — to create a better, more healthy, and more fulfilling world for all. If both human beings and the living planet are going to possess a flourishing future, gone are the days in which we can think of ourselves as the masters and controllers of nature. The alternative to control is a spirit of partnership, in which we would work in collaboration with nature's living systems, a topic explored in this book's final chapter.-David Fideler
David Fideler in conversation with Joanna Harcourt-Smith about his recent book, Restoring the Soul of the World: Our Living Bond with Nature's Intelligence
Joanna Harcourt-Smith: Welcome, David.
David Fideler: It's very nice to be here speaking with you.
Joanna: I will jump right in. The world has a soul?
David: Well, yes. That was the traditional Greek view of the world and the cosmos. And for a large part of the history of the Western world — say for around eight hundred years — that was really the normal way to look at the world: that our planet and the entire cosmos was ensouled, and a living entity, and a reflection of intelligence.
Joanna: Well I think it's the moment now, more than ever, that if the mechanistic view — the Cartesian view — wins, then we are lost as a people. So speak to us about the organic view of the universe.
David: For some reason, when you talk about that nature's intelligence — I think it's because of the mechanistic worldview — it sounds a little strange to the modern ear. But if you go back and try to understand the way the Greeks looked at it, it makes quite a bit of sense. And what it really meant to the Greeks — this idea of living nature, nature's intelligence, and soul — is summed up in the word psyche.
The Greek word psyche means life. And when the Greeks looked at the world they saw all sorts of repeating patterns — you know, the growth patterns of plants, all organisms. These are all patterns or forms emerging from the natural world. And wherever you see a form, it's a strategy for solving some kind of problem. And wherever you have a strategy, there's some kind of intelligence present. So for for Greeks, this idea of the World Soul referred to the active form-generating power that's present in the world.
This had really been the normal view of the cosmos and our planet for hundreds of years; and it was only with the Scientific Revolution that people started to model the universe as being a machine. And, as you know, it's had all sorts of disastrous consequences in terms of our own relationship with the Earth.
Joanna: That's right.
David: I always like to look at both sides of things, and there were some good things that came out of the mechanistic worldview. And one of those good things was an increasing sense of human autonomy, which I think is positive: when you look at the psychological growth of individuals, we have to become individual human beings, and part of that involves autonomy. But even a good thing can be taken too far, and in the case of the mechanistic worldview, it painted a vision of the world of that was useful in some ways but also quite damaging. And we're now left in the situation where a lot of human beings don't even feel like they're part of the living world. We refer to nature as "the environment," which is this very cold, sterile, almost medical term. It's like, "we live in this environment." It's very clinical. People don't even have a sense that they live in nature any longer — at least a lot of people.
Joanna: Right. I'm thinking about Hypatia, and how her murder might have been the beginning of the mechanistic view?
David: The murder of Hypatia was, I suppose, an attempt to suppress ancient knowledge in some way. And you know, all of these ideas do have ancient roots. If you look at the Greek philosophers, virtually all of the philosophers viewed the world as being an organism.
Plato was the first one to actually use this term World Soul — or in the original Greek, it's "soul of the cosmos." Plato said that the universe was "a Single Living Creature that contains all living creatures within it." And that it was also "one Whole of wholes." So this is a very modern idea, in a sense, because in the sciences we now have this idea of the philosophy of holism, or the philosophy of organism. We now know that organisms operate in holistic ways. That is the way that Plato viewed the world.
If you go two thousand years later, you reach Descartes, and Descartes said, "I have described this earth, and indeed the whole visible world, as a machine." That's an exact quotation. And so you can see, both of these views, of Plato and Descartes, are worlds apart.
To go back to what I was saying: most the Greek philosophers did view the world as being an intelligent organism. But there was one school, the Atomists — which is where we get our term atom — that basically viewed the world as being a collection of tiny particles, which just sort of came together. And it's through the coming together of particles that life emerged. When the mechanistic worldview emerged during the Scientific Revolution, it was really going back to that ancient idea of atomism. It was really a revival of that in some ways.
You know, they say there's really "nothing new under the sun," and I guess that's true. [Laughter]
Joanna: Right. Well I would love to hear you talk about beauty and desire.
David: For Plato especially, and also the Pythagoreans, beauty was something very, very important about the cosmos. When we see beauty in nature, it communicates something to us. The word cosmos itself goes back to the philosopher Pythagoras, and he called the universe a kosmos because the universe is beautiful. That word kosmos means "adornment" or "beauty," and it's actually where the word cosmetic comes from. And so this idea that the world possesses beauty was something very important.
And even in our own times, Gregory Bateson talked about the beauty of nature and nature's aesthetic unity. He said that there's something about the beauty and aesthetic unity of nature that reveals something about the essence of the deep unity of the natural world, which is something that we cannot otherwise express in words. And I think that's true.-read remainer @ THE COSMOPOLIS PROJECT
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Anthropocentrism (/ˌænθroʊpoʊˈsɛntrɪzəm/;[1] from Greek Ancient Greek: ἄνθρωπος, ánthrōpos, "human being"; and Ancient Greek: κέντρον, kéntron, "center") is the belief that human beings are the most significant entity of the universe. Anthropocentrism interprets or regards the world in terms of human values and experiences.[2] The term can be used interchangeably with humanocentrism, and some refer to the concept as human supremacy or human exceptionalism. Anthropocentrism is considered to be profoundly embedded in many modern human cultures and conscious acts. It is a major concept in the field of environmental ethics and environmental philosophy, where it is often considered to be the root cause of problems created by human action within the ecosphere.
However, many proponents of anthropocentrism state that this is not necessarily the case: they argue that a sound long-term view acknowledges that a healthy, sustainable environment is necessary for humans and that the real issue is shallow anthropocentrism.[3][4]
Apatheia (Greek: ἀπάθεια; from a- "without" and pathos "suffering" or "passion"), in Stoicism, refers to a state of mind in which one is not disturbed by the passions. It is best translated by the word equanimity rather than indifference. The meaning of the word apatheia is quite different from that of the modern English apathy, which has a distinctly negative connotation. According to the Stoics, apatheia was the quality that characterized the sage.
Whereas Aristotle had claimed that virtue was to be found in the golden mean between excess and deficiency of emotion (metriopatheia), the Stoics sought freedom from all passions (apatheia). It meant eradicating the tendency to react emotionally or egotistically to external events, the things that cannot be controlled. For Stoics, it was the optimum rational response to the world, for things cannot be controlled if they are caused by the will of others or by Nature; only one's own will can be controlled. That did not mean a loss of feeling, or total disengagement from the world. The Stoic who performs correct (virtuous) judgments and actions as part of the world order experiences contentment (eudaimonia) and good feelings (eupatheia).
Pain is slight if opinion has added nothing to it;... in thinking it slight, you will make it slight. Everything depends on opinion; ambition, luxury, greed, hark back to opinion. It is according to opinion that we suffer.... So let us also win the way to victory in all our struggles, – for the reward is... virtue, steadfastness of soul, and a peace that is won for all time.---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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This is one of the wonderful things about the Internet. People can be free individuals and yet also work together on the Internet to correct past errors both in human knowledge and in human society - and thus contribute to a better future for Humanity.
Most importantly, this knowledge of our dynamic unity with the world around us provides the foundations for the ecology of life on Earth and why the preservation of Nature is critical for our future survival. i.e. By knowing our true nature, we realise that we are a part of nature, of the ecology of life on earth as part of a larger ecology of matter in the observable universe (our true selves). We then realise how important it is to reverse the current destruction of Nature - which is effectively destroying us / our future survival. As David Bohm writes so profoundly;
The notion that all these fragments is separately existent is evidently an illusion, and this illusion cannot do other than lead to endless conflict and confusion. Indeed, the attempt to live according to the notion that the fragments are really separate is, in essence, what has led to the growing series of extremely urgent crises that is confronting us today. Thus, as is now well known, this way of life has brought about pollution, destruction of the balance of nature, over-population, world-wide economic and political disorder and the creation of an overall environment that is neither physically nor mentally healthy for most of the people who live in it. Individually there has developed a widespread feeling of helplessness and despair, in the face of what seems to be an overwhelming mass of disparate social forces, going beyond the control and even the comprehension of the human beings who are caught up in it. (David Bohm, Wholeness and the Implicate Order, 1980)
Human Survival & the Destruction of Nature
Climate Change and Global Warming
The Second Coming (sometimes called the Second Advent or the Parousia) is a Christian and Islamic belief regarding the future (or past) return of Jesus after his ascension to heaven about two thousand years ago. The idea is based on messianic prophecies and is part of most Christian eschatologies.
Views about the nature of Jesus's Second Coming vary among Christian denominations and among individual Christians.
My money is on The Comet, and another Ice Age
That is, My thought is Nature is the One in Charge


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Last season I was bowling at a former England player - not a common occurrence, I can assure you - when he snicked a late outswinger to first slip. A photographer freeze-famed the moment: hands cupped, the ball about to be grasped. The photographer didn't catch the ricochet off his palms, the head-in-hands aftermath from bowler and fielder. No slip catch is easy, and I felt more sympathy than anger towards my team-mate. I knew that the drop would haunt us both, two amateurs missing a rare chance to bag an ex-international.
Momentary yet lasting, the howler is a lapse of batting, bowling or fielding - and we must add but discuss no further in fear of this article turning into a thesis, the umpire howler - a singular fail that can flush an entire game, or even a series, down the drain. But no one is perfect, and no player wins every battle. Here, NFL coaching icon Vince Lombardi encouragingly reminds us, "It's not whether you get knocked down but whether you get up."
Or, if you're a gifted spin bowler, win the next series.
Just before lunch on the final day at The Oval in 2005, Kevin Pietersen edged Brett Lee to first slip. Pietersen was on 15. The catch, a ball that would be snapped up in practice, is shelled by no other than Shane Warne. Pietersen marched on to a grand total of 158 and claimed the Ashes, that mythical little urn that, along with the cricket ball, had just passed through Warne's hands.
And he was hardly the first to fail so spectacularly. In 1902, the moustachioed offspinner Fred Tate made his England debut at Old Trafford, a game that England had to win to keep the Ashes alive. When Joe Darling skied one to deep square leg, it was poor Fred who stuck out his hand and helped it to the ground. Darling's 20 more runs proved vital in a low-scoring game, a second innings in which Tate went in at No. 11 with England needing 8 to win.
Tate scored 4. He sobbed in the changing room and sobbed at the train station. Although his son Maurice would achieve England glory, his father ended his days a broken man, a publican who harangued his few customers with the tale of his infamous drop.
It may not have been a series-losing moment, but when Kings XI Punjab beat Royal Challengers Bangalore in Mohali this year, they had two players to thank: David Miller and his 38-ball century, and Virat Kohli for the top-edged skier he spilled. Victory burst through his hands, hit him in the mouth, and landed on the turf. Kohli deflected the press from his howler by saying, "It was one of the best innings that has ever been seen in the IPL." And if it helped him move on from the horror drop, then let him praise - it's better than crying all the way home, opening a pub, and then dying a pauper.
A player's conscience, whether he forgets or regrets, must affect recovery from grave mistakes. I wonder if Geoff Boycott spent sleepless nights ruing his dreadful run out of Nottingham favourite Derek Randall at Trent Bridge in 1977. As Randall trudges off the turf, Boycott covers his face with his gloves. In mock shame to appease the crowd or genuine grief, one must take his word. "I have never felt so completely wretched on a cricket field," he later wrote. And he did go on to make a ton, "the finest I have ever played", which in Boycott's world equals success, regardless of the result or run-out victim.
"In a universe of infinite possibilities, Mark Ramprakash has tucked his bat under his arm, and we're leaping for joy"
So, can we fully recover from a howler - without being a sociopath?
US comedian Larry David featured baseball player Bill Buckner in an episode of his hit series Curb Your Enthusiasm. Larry, after losing a baseball game by letting the ball through his legs, befriends Buckner at a memorabilia signing - where Buckner, still reviled for a similar fielding error that cost the Boston Red Sox the 1986 World Series, is sitting alone. Larry and Buckner walk the New York streets as passers-by heckle and boo Buckner, mirroring the abuse and death threats he received in life after his costly fluff. But this is TV, and David has written a heroic part for Buckner - he catches a baby thrown from a burning building before the cheering crowd hoist him onto their shoulders.
This may be fiction, yet Buckner also found peace with his howler in reality. In 1990 he returned to a standing ovation from Red Sox fans, and has since formed a double act with Mookie Wilson, the player whose hit he missed.
These examples must be a lesson for those of us who fail. And what player at whatever level can boast never-ending success? Although I have an error-strewn CV of my own - shouldering arms to a ball that took out my middle stump whilst batting to save a match must be top of the table - it's back to the drop of my team-mate that inspired this article.
My coping strategy isn't winning the following series, opening a pub, praising the opposition or moving on with a near-psychopathic ambition, but cosmic philosophy.
In a universe of infinite possibilities, on a planet where sport has conspired to pit the amateur against the professional, my team-mate holds aloft a red sphere, Mark Ramprakash has tucked his bat under his arm, and we're leaping for joy.


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AMSTERDAM - Dutch health authorities said on Wednesday women who had breast implants made by a French company at the heart of a global health scare should have them removed because of the high risk of rupture, reversing an earlier recommendation.
The scandal erupted when the French government in December advised 30,000 women who had silicone implants made by the now-defunct firm Poly Implant Prothese (PIP) to have them removed. The advice followed the death from cancer in 2010 of a French woman who had PIP implants.
"Even if there is no rupture, it is advisable ... to have the prothesis removed," the Dutch Health Inspectorate (IGZ) said in a statement.
As of the end of 2010, the statement said, an estimated 1,000 women in the Netherlands had PIP implants, which were also sold under the name M-implants. Another 400 had already had them removed by the end of 2010.
Three weeks ago, the inspectorate said women should have their implants checked by their doctor but did not recommend their removal. The new recommendation was based on advice from the Dutch plastic surgery association, the IGZ said.
"The implants have an increased risk of rupturing or leaking and it is not clear whether there are physical reactions to the silicone in the long term," the plastic surgery association said on its website.
It said symptoms and complaints from leaking or ruptured implants included "a changing breast shape, pain, and the visibility of the capsule around the prothesis".
The plastic surgeons said no relationship had been established between PIP implants and breast cancer.
PIP, once the third-largest maker of breast implants in the world, is accused of using industrial-grade instead of medical-grade silicone in some of its implants. They were sold in a number of European and Latin America countries.
Health authorities have said there is no evidence of an increased cancer risk due to the PIP implants, but have said they have higher rates of rupture that could cause inflammation and irritation.


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How To Plan Your Monthly Facebook Page Strategy.
This is Day 30 of the 30 Days to 3,000 Fans program. You can learn more about the program here.
There's an old proverb which says "He who fails to plan, plans to fail" and while there are people that will debate the importance of planning, mapping out a guide for the next month will make things a lot easier.
What blog posts will you be writing? What content will be most effective to drive new fans to your Facebook? What steps will you take to promote your Facebook Page? While we've listed 29 techniques to boost your fan base, have you really taken advantage of all the suggestions we've made?
By putting aside a little bit of time ever month to plan what the best next steps are, you will come up with some new promotion ideas as well as determine what are reasonable expectations.
How Much Time Should You Spend On Your Facebook Page?
After reading through this guide you may think that developing your Facebook Page takes countless hours. Honestly it shouldn't take more than a few strategic minutes per day. Most of the tasks outlined shouldn't take a substantial amount of time. The most time consuming component of building your Facebook page is providing relevant content. Spend some time determining what blog posts your should write over the next month.
Set up Google Reader to follow the most relevant resources and repost any article that you find interesting directly on your Facebook Page. While you can always spend more time on your Facebook Page, it's possible to spend too much time on your page. In economics there is something called the "Law of Diminishing Returns" and that law applies to time you spend on your Facebook Page. The first few hours are extremely important but as you over invest, you will not only take time away from other marketing activities but also decrease the number of new fans per hour invested.
Line Up Tasks And Execute
While you can accomplish many of the tasks outlined in a short period of time, space out each task so that you have time to accomplish each step well. I personally use an application called Remember the Milk to plan out my tasks over a longer period time. One huge mistake that I used to always make was using my calendar as a method for planning tasks that need to be accomplished. Tasks lists are useful because you can go through them and mark them off without cluttering up your schedule. While you may aim to have an article completed by a specific day or an upgrade to your Facebook Page, things tend to change and you can adjust due dates as necessary (although adjusting due dates is a sign that you have too many tasks and need to start delegating).
Plan Well And Sleep Well
I spent the first year and a half after starting my company under an immense amount of stress as my inbox became bloated and I became an organizational nightmare. While there were numerous opportunities I found it difficult to prioritize. More recently I developed a system which works for me and that involves a combination of two things: a calendar and a to do list. As I mentioned moments ago, putting tasks where they should go will remove a lot of stress in your life. You have the potential to grow a fan base well beyond 3,000 but none of that can be done without proper planning. The only way to get there without planning is to not sleep for months on end as you attempt to balance a million tasks.
Develop a content schedule and a task list for items that you would like to add to your Facebook Page.
Daily Task
Take the lessons learned over the past 30 days to develop at least 5 tasks and begin to plan out a content schedule. As I've stated repeatedly throughout this program, content is critical to your success. If you drive an immense number of fans to your page, the easiest way is to create original content. While you've already come up with a few headlines for articles you can write, develop a schedule for writing and posting them.


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2016 Franchise to Watch: Dental Fix Rx Closes Out its Biggest Year
National Dental Equipment Repair Franchise Sells 60-Plus Franchises in 2015; Debuts in the Top 300 of Entrepreneur Magazine's List of Top 500 Franchise Opportunities in the United States
December 29, 2015 // Franchising.com // DAVIE, Fla. – Dental Fix Rx blazed through 2015, closing out its biggest year yet with 60-plus new franchise agreements signed and making its debut in Entrepreneur magazine's list of top franchise opportunities.
Dental Fix Rx ranked No. 268 in the magazine's annual Franchise 500® list, which recognized the company for its exceptional performance in areas such as financial strength and stability, growth rate and size of the franchise system. The Franchise 500 is noted as the world's first, best and most comprehensive franchise ranking of the top franchise opportunities in the United States.
The mobile dental equipment repair service franchise is growing at a fast pace due to its viable franchising offering and the immense, unmet need within the dental community for its services.
"Breaking into Entrepreneur's Franchise 500 in just a little over five years of franchising is an accomplishment that most franchise concepts can't say they've achieved," said Dental Fix Rx EVP of Business Development, Scott Mortier. "We've averaged a new unit sold and opened every week for the past 33 months, and are in a great position for continued upward growth due to little competition and the constant need for dental repair services."
To date, Dental Fix Rx has sold more than 225 franchises and operates in 37 U.S. states & three Canadian provinces, providing service to more than 15,000 customers throughout North America. Adding around 1,000 new customers every quarter, the company expects to sell all of its U.S. territories within the next three years. With 75-plus new franchise agreements expected to be signed in 2016, Dental Fix Rx is on track to surpass its 2015 growth rate.
To continue its rapid expansion and remain competitive in the marketplace, Dental Fix Rx recently launched a secondary franchise model that is designed to meet the needs of dental practices located in less populated areas. Typically, franchise territories cover up to 350 dental offices. Under the secondary model, if a territory has 250 clinics or less, that franchisee will receive the same training and support provided to all new franchises but will not initially be required to purchase the Mobile Service Center van. Once the franchisee averages three consecutive months of $10,000 in revenue, the company will then require the purchase of a Mobile Service Center van.
The Dental Fix Rx corporate team provides all franchisees an intensive eight-week training program, as well as centralized technological and account management services. By handling the majority of the back-end office support, franchise owners are able to solely focus on servicing customers.
Dental Fix Rx is the only mobile dental equipment repair service franchise. Confident in its business model, the company is one of the only franchises to offer a franchise guarantee, refunding the franchise fee if new owners do not service 40 clients within his or her first year of business. The company also does not require franchisees to pay royalty fees.
About Dental Fix Rx
Founded in 2009, Dental Fix Rx is a fast-growing mobile dental equipment repair service franchise that is revolutionizing the dental service industry by delivering immediate, on-demand equipment service, hand-piece repairs and cost-effective consumable products through its network of highly-trained franchise professionals. With local franchise owners serving businesses within their market, Dental Fix Rx completes repairs on-site from mobile repair centers that are equipped to fix a wide range of equipment found in any practice – from compressors to chair upholstery. The company has sold more than 200 franchises that service 15,000 customers throughout North America. For more information, visit www.dentalfixrx.com. For franchise information, call (855) 242-5230 or visit www.dentalfixrx.com/franchise/.
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Dunmow electrician has stolen tools returned after Irish police recover haul of loot
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It involved Interpol, quick-action from police officers in southern Ireland and more than 35,000 shares on Facebook – but eight months after a Dunmow electrician had his van broken into, some of his stolen tools have been returned.
For him, this was a happy ending Christmas story.
In April Tobias West, owner of electrical contractors Butler and West, had his van parked on his drive in Dunmow.
Overnight, thieves who were caught on CCTV, took just a few seconds to break into the van and in ten minutes made off with some £3,000 worth of tools.
They also did about £400 damage to the van during the break-in.
Mr West said: "They drilled the side door to overcome the slam lock we'd had installed after another van was broken into six months earlier in Sible Hedingham.
"They drilled a hole in the side and managed to open the door in ten seconds, they were gone within ten minutes."
Mr West thought that would be the last he would see of his power tools.
But three weeks later one Sunday morning, he had a call from police in Cork.
"They had found a shipping container full of tools, it was quite a haul and some were marked Butler and West.
"We mark the tools so that we know which ones are ours on building sites.
"We also know the serial numbers which I was able to send the police.
"They were phenomenal."
It took until December to get the tools repatriated, via Devon and Cornwall Police.
Only about £1,500 worth came back but that included a tester worth £1,000.
Meanwhile Mr West, who owns the firm with his wife, Sofie, had shared a CCTV image of the thieves breaking into the van on Facebook.
The family man and father of three, said: "We want to thank all of the 283 people who shared our original post and also inform the more than 35,000 people who'd seen the post what a good job the police do.
"The tools represent our livelihood and caused a massive blow to our trust, cash flow and productivity.
"Having them returned really has help restore our faith in humanity and the judicial system."
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Sometime before the NFL lockout started in March, Carolina Panthers wide receiver Steve Smith cleaned out his locker at Bank of America Stadium, according to a report by Pro Football Weekly.
The report also says Smith, on the same day, took down all of the decorations in the luxury suite his family used on game days.
There has been speculation for months that the veteran wide receiver might want out as the Panthers continue with a youth movement and coach Ron Rivera takes over a team that was 2-14 last season.
Smith has been mum on the topic, but this could be a sign that he wants to be traded as soon as the league's labor situation is resolved enough to allow transactions.
The report also said Smith asked to be traded before the lockout began. Smith's Charlotte home has been on the market for more than a year, but he said last season that was because he was considering moving to another home in the area that would better accommodate his family.
The team has been deliberate when discussing Smith's future publicly. At the NFL owners meeting, Rivera said he had talked to Smith before the lockout and that the team would wait to see how things sorted out.
Privately, a team official said Smith was told in January that he should sit down and think about his future. The team official said Smith was told, if he wanted out, that the team would work with him. But the official also said it was made clear to Smith that the Panthers will not simply release him or "give him away."
Smith joined the Panthers in 2001 and has spent his entire career in Carolina. The team official said if Smith wanted out, the team would seek draft picks or players as compensation in trade scenarios.
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Jennifer Lawrence has been crowned the year's best dressed woman by Britain's Glamour magazine.
The Hunger Games star took the number one spot in the publication's 50 Best Dressed Women 2014 list, with editors writing of her red carpet style, "J-Law makes a Dior gown look as comfy as sweatpants, and wears the hell out of both."
Lawrence jumped 47 places from her spot in last year's list.
Fellow Oscar winner Lupita Nyong'o was a new entry behind Lawrence in second place, while previous list-topper Kristen Stewart came third, ahead of Emma Watson and Blake Lively at four and five respectively.
Angelina Jolie, British royal Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge and Katy Perry also featured in the top 10.
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Friday, December 16, 2016
For the Love of Tea
There are so many people that rave about coffee, but tea has its own distinctive place in the hearts of many. It is the most widely consumed beverage in the world second to water. True tea is an aromatic beverage that is brewed from the cured leaves of an evergreen shrub known as Camilla Sinensis that is native to Asia. There are many different types of teas, but herbal teas are not true teas. Instead, they are steeped infusions of fruit or herbs. They are known as Tisanes to distinguish them from true teas. There are many variations of teas. These variations stem from different parts of the world in where they were grown, when they were harvested, and how they were cured.
Tea originated somewhere in southwest China. Chinese legends dates the invention of tea as far back as 2737 BC. It was mostly used for medicinal purposes. Later, tea was used as a recreational drink during special occasions only. The Dutch East India Company played a role in introducing it into the European trade. This lead to the Brits drinking it as a social status preferring the black teas. They added milk and sugar to the mix. However, by the 18th century the English had to remove the tax from tea ending the smuggling trade. It soon became a popular affordable drink for all economic and social classes.
Tea was so popular that it played a part in quite a few historical events such as the Tea Act of 1773. This led to the Boston Tea Party which caused parliament to pass the Coercive Act. The Coercive Act basically enabled punishment for resistance against laws. All this among other things eventually led to the American War of Independence. The trade deficit from the British for the demands for Chinese teas eventually led to the opium wars.
Bet you didn't realize all of this happened for the love of tea. I love tea and have found the history so fascinating I decided to write a mini blog about it that can give you a little more knowledge about teas and where you can purchase samples to try and explore more about its variations. Here is a book I found authored by four writers who traveled the world as tasters. It is a heavily illustrated compendium on non-herbal tea that I think you will enjoy. The other book gives insight to all the benefits of herbal tea. I hope you find the right blend to compliment your afternoon.
To find out more about different teas come and visit me at my new site "Tea Lovers - A Cup to Go"
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Originally published at Faith Seeking Understanding. You can comment here or there.
The website www.ThinkChristian.net is hosting a short post I wrote on The Hobbit:
Anticipating The Hobbit – and adventures of our own
I've mentioned this post here a few times. I start by reacting to The Hobbit trailer and some bits from the book (nothing too spoilerish), and then move on to talk about one of my favorite parts of the early chapters: Bilbo's loss of creature-comforts as he sets out on an adventure and the way he balances his longing for home with the wonderful things he gets to see on the road.
Given ThinkChristian's audience, I framed this in distinctly Christian terms and wrote specifically about the way Christians look forward to Christ's return rather than enjoy the life they're in right now – sometimes too much IMO. But this is hardly a problem unique to Christians, and I think it's worth reading and thinking about whatever your vantage point. It's short (about 600 words) and also includes me going slightly fangirly over the Hobbit trailer. What's not to love?
If you do read it, I'd appreciate a comment over at that site. You can log in using FaceBook or Twitter, or you can sign up for a local account at their site. (It's free.) And I always love comments here as well.
Also: this is my first post at a site other than my personal blog. I'm excited!
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McNicholas & McNicholas Scholarship
This scholarship is funded by law school alumni at the firm.
McNicholas & McNicholas, LLP, was founded by a family of attorneys spanning 3 generations who have been trying cases to jury verdict on behalf of their clients in Los Angeles, California and other venues for five decades.
They have the resources available to maintain extensive and complicated litigation. They have fought many high-profile entities, including the State of California, the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD), BNSF Railroad, Goodyear and Home Depot.
A number of success stories detail their practice history, including the following:
Secured many multimillion-dollar results on behalf of our clients, including $10.8 million for a sexual abuse case, $8 million for 25 tenants living in uninhabitable conditions, $10 million for a construction worker suffering a big injury on the job, and $5.4 million for discrimination against the first African-American on the LAPD bomb squad.
The firm represents high profile individuals in various employment and compensation related matters. These have included celebrities who have suffered catastrophic injuries, investment bankers who were not paid at the close of certain deals, international institutions in licensing and contract negotiations, and financial executives.
The firm's attorneys include those recognized by Super Lawyers magazine, named among the top 100 lawyers in California and who are members of American Board of Trial Advocates.
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The book will be launched on 1 Dec 2014 (World AIDS Day)
Month: November 2014
'Title is Untitled' and 'Surrogate Author' Review by Maniparna
Not every author accentuates to include his writing in a specific genre. Sometimes authors do write as they feel the urge, to let people know about the social injustice and prejudices that are plaguing our country. There are age-old, vicious, social norms which are still practiced in the remote villages in the name of tradition and most of the times the victims are women. The condition in modern, urban society are only flip side of the coin. Educated people find new ways of oppression which are much subtle and polished. Released at the Festival of Hope in Delhi, November 22, 2014, "Title is Untitled" by Santosh Avvannavar, Kundan Srivastava and Raghunath Babu Are, is a compilation of eleven such stories which brings forth this social unfairness through some fictitious characters.
For further reading visit Maniparna's Review
What is 'Title is Untitled'?
Santosh Avvannavar, Kundan Srivastava and Raghunath Babu Are introduce their debut work, 'Title is Untitled: First Night, No Light,' released at the Festival of Hope in Delhi, November 22, 2014.
'Title is Untitled' is a unique social commentary, focused on the issue of rape and the social institutions that enable it in urban and rural India.
Instead of relying solely on statistics to present their argument, Avvannavar, Srivastava and Babu Are utilize fictitious stories to serve as 'case studies' about how women are treated in Indian society. The book covers a myriad of interwoven topics, including education, early-arranged marriage and brothel trafficking. The authors tackle serious issues in a novel format, even throwing in a healthy dose of humor towards the end of the book.
Indian actor and director Kabir Sadanand offers advance praise for the work, "We must understand [rape victims] don't need our sympathy, what they need is our commitment to stand by them. The initiative and courage to do the same as shown by the authors is inspirational."
The book is available for pre-order now on Amazon Kindle and other stores such as Amazon, B&N, Pothi.
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'Title is Untitled' Review by Rajashree Ghosh
Titled is Untitled by Santosh Avvannavar, Kundan Srivastava and Raghunath Babu Are is a compilation of eleven wonderful short stories. This book can be called a work of 'fiction for a cause' (just like Dr. Sandeep G. Huilgol's and Santosh Avvannavar's Second Heart) as each story in it imparts knowledge and awareness about the social prejudices that is plaguing our society. The book address some serious issues like prohibition of child marriage, it asks some poignant question like "Can the age for a girl to legally get married be 21 instead of 18?", which is so very true.
In the battle between good and evil, though we all know that good wins yet we have allowed the 'bad' to dominate us many times, to get the better of us, and so the result is an extremely wicked world. We tend to move towards evil knowing full well that it will harm us. Through the elven short stories, the authors have tried to point out that the Invasion of evil has taken away the title or designation of people (sister, mother, etc.) and made it untitled ( that is, victim, whore and others). In other words, when it comes to lawlessness and oppression, no one is spared. That is why, the book is very aptly titled, "Titled is Untitled". The authors have used a very simple narrative style so that their readers can relate to the goings-on of the society they live.
For further reading visit Review by Rajashree Ghosh
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MISSOULA, Mont., Aug. 1 (UPI) -- The quarterback for the University of Montana, Jordan Johnson, has been formally charged with raping a woman six months ago, officials said.
Johnson was accused of the sexual assault in March, the month after it allegedly occurred, The Missoulian reported.
After formal charges were filed, Johnson was immediately suspended from the Grizzlies football team, the newspaper said.
Charging documents allege Johnson and the woman were watching a movie in her bedroom in Missoula on Feb. 4 when he began kissing her. The woman said she kissed him back, but said she just wanted to watch the movie. He persisted despite her repeated "no's," until the sex act occurred, the documents allege.
Johnson has maintained his innocence, saying the sex was consensual.
The charge against Johnson is the latest controversy to envelop UM. In February, a running back for the football team was charged with sexual intercourse without consent. The dean of students resigned this year after it was revealed he had informed a Saudi exchange student he had been accused of rape. The student left the country, but the school did not notify the police.
The NCAA is also investigating the football team over unspecified allegations, the newspaper said.


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NEW ORLEANS — Five former Jets teammates were pallbearers at the funeral for football player Joe McKnight, who was shot and killed Dec. 1 during a road-rage incident in suburban New Orleans.
"Joe had the ability to make everybody feel he was your best friend," former Jets linebacker Bart Scott told WVUE-TV.
Several ministers spoke during the funeral service attended by hundreds of people at New Home Ministries, news media reported. Those who attended received programs with photos of McKnight, 28, his family, and his 7-year-old son, Jaiden.
Bishop William McPherson told the crowd that he had baptized McKnight and several of his siblings, The Advocate reported. "Joe is with the Lord," McPherson said.
Ronald Gasser, 54, has been arrested on a manslaughter charge in McKnight's death.
McKnight played for the Jets from 2010 to 2013. His pallbearers were former teammates Scott, Sione Po'uha, Antonio Cromartie, Willie Colon, and D'Brickashaw. Another pallbearer was LenDale White, who played at the University of Southern California prior to McKnight's arrival.
As the casket and mourners headed from the church to Restlawn Cemetery in suburban Avondale, the Free Spirit Brass Band played "I'll Fly Away."
Mourners included Darryl Pierce, 58, who wore a Jets hat and shirt and green pants to honor McKnight. He said he remembered McKnight playing for John Curtis Christian High School against his own son's team, Carver High School.
"He used to put on a show against us. Against everybody," Pierce said.
"Anytime he touched the ball he could take it the distance and that was exciting about Joe," said Mark Sanchez, who played with McKnight at USC and for the Jets. "But we all remember him joking around all the time, and the warm heart he had."
Earlier classmates were there, too.
"We shared ACT math together his senior year. He had big plans. He would talk about everything he said he was going to do," Michelle Maddie, a high school classmate, told WWL-TV. "He said, 'Before I leave this Earth, the world will know who I am.' And I think everybody does."


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After a 16-year partnership, Subway is severing ties with its iconic spokesman, Jared Fogle.
The divorce follows an FBI raid on Mr. Fogle's Indiana home on Tuesday. Authorities would not reveal the nature of the investigation or what they hoped to find on electronics removed from Fogle's house. However, Subway said in a statement that it believed the raid was "related to a prior investigation" of a former employee of the Jared Foundation, an organization founded by Fogle to combat childhood obesity.
Two months ago, the then-executive director of the Jared Foundation, Russell Taylor, was charged with seven counts of production of child pornography and one count of possession of child pornography for allegedly filming minor children at his home. Subway declined to say whether this was the "prior investigation" in question.
Fogle's attorney said in a statement that his client had not been arrested or charged, and has been cooperating with the investigation.
But Subway isn't taking any chances. The sandwich chain has removed all references to Fogle from its website, and said in a statement that the two parties have "mutually agreed to suspend their relationship due to the current investigation."
Fogle first rose to spokesperson fame after Subway heard that he had dropped 245 pounds by regularly eating their sandwiches while he was a student at Indiana University. The chain began featuring him in commercials in 2000 to promote their image as a healthy place to eat. Today, millions of people know him as "The Subway Guy."
"If I had to guess, I'd say one-third to one-half of Subway's growth (over the past 15 years) is because of Jared," said Tony Pace, Subway's chief marketing officer, in a 2013 interview with USA Today,
Subway has said of the recent separation that "both Jared and Subway agree that this was the appropriate step to take" given the circumstances. But long before anybody suspected Fogle of possessing child pornography, people were already starting to ask the question: does Subway still need Jared?
Some say that the chain's recent decline in sales is due to the fact that Jared's "healthy" pitches are no longer convincing.
"The 'Subway fresh' has lost its appeal with consumers, because to them fresh has evolved to mean something very different," Darren Tristano, executive vice president of industry researcher Technomic, told the Washington Post.
Others believe Subway should never even have used Fogle as a spokesman in the first place, as using a real person as a mascot made the company "highly vulnerable to scandal."
"Whether Jared is guilty or not, Subway was foolish to associate its brand with an icon the restaurant never developed in-house," writes Toni Matthews in Inquisitr. "You could argue that it was just a matter of time."
This report includes material from the Associated Press.


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20 DIY Gifts Your Grad Will Love
Searching for the perfect gift for your favorite graduate? Look no further. Browse through these clever do-it-yourself projects that high school and college graduates alike will love and appreciate.
Smash a Bottle for Cash
Celebrate one of life's greatest achievements with a smash! Clean out a clear wine bottle, remove the label, and fill the bottle with rolled up bills. Super glue the cork to the top and print out a new label to adhere to the bottle. Allow the grad to have some fun and smash the bottle safely to obtain their gift.
Make Simple, Elegant Wall Decor
Learn how to make this minimalist wall hanging for the stylish grad to display in their new dorm or apartment. Select photos of their closest friends, family and/or favorite pet for a personalized touch they will cherish forever.
Customize a Coffee Mug
Use a hand-lettered cut file to create an inspirational coffee mug for the adventurous grad. The options are endless. Vinyl works great on tote bags, too.
Bake Homemade Cookies
Does your grad have a major sweet tooth? Satisfy that craving by baking their favorite cookies. If you lack the baker's touch, opt for prepackaged cookies and an adorable themed label for whichever option you choose.
Assemble a Candy Bouquet
If you're looking for another way to please the sugar lovers, this candy arrangement is a great gift that can be easily customized with the grad's favorite candy. Choose embellishments that match their school colors and personality.
Create World Map Magnets
Use old, unused maps to make these cute and easy map magnets for the grad who longs to travel the world. Let them remember where they came from by including a magnet with their hometown or state.
Make a Homemade Spa Kit
Finals are stressful. Treat the grad to a spa day with a homemade spa kit, which includes a peppermint scrub, peppermint whipped body butter and a peppermint foot soak. Try substituting lavender or another essential oil scent that helps soothe and relax the weary soul.
Represent Their School Colors With a Mason Jar
Turn a plain Mason jar into a drinkable glass to sip on sweet tea or another preferred beverage. Add a monogram and include the grad's school colors for the straw and lid. Wrap the jar in school colors with tissue paper and ribbon for an additional festive touch.
Personalize Soda Bottles
Remove soda bottle labels and replace them with personalized labels to congratulate the grad. Choose their favorite soda or sparkling juice and decorate a bottle carrier to match the color theme. Top the bottles with a mini graduation cap and tassel as a finishing detail.
Put Together a Gift Basket
Make a gift basket the grad will actually use. Grab a colander and fill with kitchen basics such as pasta, a cutting board, a coffee mug, measuring spoons and dish towels. Include stationary or a notebook to jot down recipes.
Decorate a Wooden Craft Box
Paint a wooden craft box and attach a tassel to the lid using a tie tack post and cotton embroidery floss to resemble a graduation cap. The box can be filled with money, a gift card or another gift of your choosing.
Fill a Mason Jar With Dollar Diplomas
Looking for a gift that's easy and cost efficient? We've got you covered. Take a plain Mason jar, roll up dollar bills, tie with ribbon to resemble diplomas, put inside the jar, and adorn with a paper graduation cap. Chances are, you have these basic craft materials on hand already.
Get Crafty With a Handmade Card
A cute and clever way to celebrate the graduate, this punny card is a great idea for the last minute gift givers. Attach a gift card or money to the back and seal inside an envelope.
Use a Light Bulb to Hold Cash
Impress everyone with a creative, more unique way to give the gift of money. Add crinkle paper shred in a color of your choice and roll up cash to fit inside an empty, crafting light bulb. Complete the craft with a gift tag with a fun message to the graduate.
Fill a Box With Memories
Is your best friend graduating? Consider painting a wooden box and filling it with a few of your favorite shared mementos. It's easy to forget those little moments, but a collection of photos, ticket stubs and other memorabilia will help them remember the fun times for years to come.
Paint Wooden Blocks to Form Message
Everyone loves a good puzzle. Buy small wooden blocks, paint each side a different color and write your custom, congratulatory message in permanent marker. Place the blocks in a decorated glass jar and let the grad decode the message.
Design an Owl Mason Jar
Just like your grad, owls have a reputation for being wise. Honor the grad with this witty owl Mason jar made out of a basic materials: paper, string, paint, bottle caps, felt and googly eyes. Fill the jar with cash, a gift card or another thoughtful gift.
Repurpose a Pineapple Can
Find a fruit can with a pop top lid for this fun, surprise-in-a-can gift. After thoroughly washing the can, adhere the printable label. Fill with paper shreds and your chosen gift and seal it tight with super glue. Don't forget to add a note of congratulations.
Create a Layered Tassel Necklace and Cuff
Put your jewelry making skills to use with this matching tassel necklace and cuff. The subtle nod to the big day will translate perfectly for everyday wear!
Turn a Wood Slice Into Artwork
For anyone with an artistic flair, this cute and inspirational display would be the perfect accessory for the grad's new dorm or apartment.
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Steve Turbo Thompson
Hunters Of The Game
The madman makes his WildCat debut with a special, completely re-mixed and newly-mastered version of a Classic! A fusion of Rock, Pop, Reggae, Classical, Adult Contemporary, Jazz and more, this will totally blow your mind. Brilliant musicianship is at the forefront, as this music business veteran, skillfully plays dozens of instruments with soul and passion. The original tracks were recorded in 1986 and were nearly lost for years, only to be given a new life in 2010 here at WildCat Records. In a partnership with award-winning Producer/Engineer, Joe Phillips, Thompson displays all of the qualities that have made him an enduring icon on the musical landscape.
Steve Turbo Thompson has been a performing artist all his life. Classically trained, one day an infamous Blues man, BJ Johnson, showed him 3 chords in the key of E, with words to live by. "You can make a living playing 3 chords. Always stay 2 drinks behind the crowd. Don't drink beer, it makes you fat. Nobody likes a fat musician…unless you're famous."
Steve has performed and toured with hundreds of well-known artists over the years. Among them, Richie Havens, Arlo Guthrie, Herb Reed (of the original Platters), Juice Newton, Evelyn Champagne King. He is also an award winning video director and film maker, as well as composing scores for TV, film.
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Crown Princess (2005)
Crown Princess is a Crown class cruise ship owned and operated by Princess Cruises. Her maiden voyage took place on June 14, 2006, departing Red Hook, Brooklyn (New York) for Grand Turk (Turks & Caicos), Ocho Rios (Jamaica), Grand Cayman (Cayman Islands), and Port Canaveral (Florida).
Crown Princess, Cockburn Town, Grand Turk Island, June 28, 2006
|Crown Princess
|Carnival plc
|Princess Cruise Line
|Port of registry:
|Hamilton, Bermuda
|Caribbean, Europe
|Laid down:
|3 May 2004
|9 September 2005
|26 May 2006
|Maiden voyage:
|June 14, 2006
|Port Everglades, Florida & Southampton, United Kingdom
|IMO number: 9293399
|In service
|General characteristics
|Class and type:
|Crown-class cruise ship
|951 ft (290 m)
|195 ft (59 m)
|27.88 ft (8.50 m)
|37.4 ft (11.4 m)
|19 with no 13th
|Installed power:
|Wärtsilä-Sulzer 16ZAV40S and 12ZAV40S diesel engines
|Fixed pitch propellers with Siemens electric propulsion (19 MW each)
|maximum: 21.5 knots (39.8 km/h; 24.7 mph)
|3,080 passengers
As of 2019, the Crown Princess sails in the Caribbean during the Winter season, and in Europe for the Summer season. Like her sister ships Emerald Princess and Ruby Princess, her Skywalkers Night Club is built aft of the funnel rather than suspended over the stern as a "wing," or "spoiler", as seen on the Caribbean Princess. Her godmother is Martha Stewart.
In December 2012, the Crown Princess made a transatlantic crossing from Venice to Galveston, TX where she stayed to run Caribbean itineraries from December 2012 to April 2013. When the ship arrived in Galveston on December 22, 2012, at least 102 passengers had contracted norovirus.[1] The Crown Princess had previously been plagued by two separate outbreaks of norovirus in January/February 2012.[2]
Listing incident
On July 18, 2006 at approximately 3:30 pm ET, one hour after departing her last port of call in Port Canaveral, the Crown Princess reported "listing" or making "heavy turns".[3] The U.S. Coast Guard was contacted shortly after and crews arrived within minutes to assist the troubled vessel. The cruise ship was on its way back to New York City, and the decision was made to return to Port Canaveral due to what was initially thought to be a malfunction in the steering equipment which caused a severe tilting of the ship, and injuries.
However, the NTSB found that the second officer, the senior watch officer on the bridge, had disengaged the automatic steering mode of the vessel's integrated navigation system after it put the ship into what the officer felt was an unusually hard turn to port and took manual control of the steering.[3] The second officer turned the wheel first to port and then from port to starboard several times, eventually causing the vessel to list even more, to a maximum angle of about 24° to starboard.[3] The severe listing tumbled passengers, crew members, pool water, and everything else not secured about the decks.[4]
Fourteen passengers and crew members were seriously injured, one suffering breathing difficulties after being hit in the chest by an airborne chair, and another 284 had minor injuries.[3] Water from the four on-board pools poured into staircases and lift shafts. Most injuries were on the outdoor areas of Decks 15 and 16, where large beach chairs and tables hit and injured passengers. The other area that had many injured passengers was the balcony areas in the grand atrium. Many there were hit by falling objects and heavy marble tables.
One woman who had an extended hospital stay was thrown against the glass wall on Deck 15 and covered by pool chairs and water from the pools themselves, being trapped underwater for several seconds. One passenger said, "Afterward it was like a war zone with people walking around bleeding" and another added, "All the windows were smashed. The top deck looked like a hurricane had hit it." [5]
The matter was referred to the National Transportation Safety Board and United States Coast Guard for investigation. After an internal review by Princess Cruises, its president Alan Buckelew publicly stated that "the incident was due to human error and the appropriate personnel changes have been made."
With approval from the Coast Guard and the Bermuda flag authorities, the vessel returned to service. A full refund was given to all passengers on the ill-fated cruise, and a 50% refund to passengers on the following cruise which was set to depart July 20 but instead departed from Brooklyn on July 22. Since then, Crown Princess has resumed her normal schedule.
Cruising history
Until November 2012, Crown Princess was sailing the Mediterranean. In November 2012 the ship sailed to Galveston, Texas for the first time; where she sailed western Caribbean cruises. In April 2013 she sailed to Southampton and operated cruises to Northern Europe, the Mediterranean, and the Canary Islands. Subsequently, Crown Princess returned to the United States to Fort Lauderdale, sailing Caribbean cruises until February 2014.
On January 18, 2013, it was announced that Crown Princess would sail around South America. The Caribbean cruises from February 15, 2014 through April 26, 2014 were cancelled to allow for the South America cruise. After the South America cruise, she sailed to Mexico, Hawaii, and Pacific coastal cruises from Los Angeles, as well as Northbound and Southbound cruises from Vancouver and Whittier or round-trip Alaskan cruises from Seattle.[6]
Starting in the 2016–17 season she undertook a full season to South America.[7] At the end of the season, she returned to Fort Lauderdale to sail Caribbean cruises.
As of August 2019, Crown Princess is currently sailing the British Isles and will reposition to Fort Lauderdale for the 2019-20 Winter season, sailing Southern Caribbean itineraries.
In April 2018, the ship underwent an extensive 10-day renovation in Freeport, Bahamas. [8]
- NTSB: Heeling Accident on M/V Crown Princess
- I-Team: Cruise Ship's List Caused By Human Error Archived 2006-08-31 at the Wayback Machine
- Rae, Charles (July 20, 2006). "Cruise Brits in 'Titanic' Terror". The Sun (UK), p. 9.
- "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2013-01-31. Retrieved 2012-07-21.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
- "Princess Cruises Debuts 2016–2017 Exotics Sailings". Princess Cruises. Retrieved 15 July 2015.
- "Crown Princess Cruise Ship Returns to Sailing After Dry Dock - Princess Cruises". www.cruisecritic.com. Retrieved 2018-07-06.
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How Do I Block People From Using Facebook on My Computer?
Time spent on Facebook is time spent not working; if your office has a problem with workers visiting Facebook during business hours, you can block the site in a number of ways. If you only need to manage one or two computers, using browser extensions can stop all but the most intent workers. For offices with several computers or laptops, blocking Facebook on the entire network may be more efficient.
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If you want to block Facebook on a browser level, install an extension that blocks websites either all the time or only at certain times on the individual computers. For Chrome users, the Google-made extension Personal Blocklist allows you to block specific websites. The productivity app StayFocusd also offers a blacklist feature. For Firefox users, consider BlockSite or LeechBlock, both of which have a customizable blacklist feature. However, if the computer has other browsers, employees can get around this limitation.
Blocking Facebook on Your Network
If you want to block Facebook on the entire network, the best option is to block Facebook on your router. Many routers offer the option to block websites in the default firmware, but you can also install custom firmware such as DD-WRT or Tomato to control the websites users can access on your network.
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TRAILER: Violinist Joshua Bell's 'A YoungArts Masterclass' HBO Special Premieres Tuesday, October 14
World-renowned violinist Joshua Bell recently took to the D.C. catacombs to perform for a busy crowd who stopped to hear Bach. Now, on Tuesday, October 14, Bell will be paid tribute by HBO with a new documentary, Joshua Bell: A YoungArts Masterclass.
The National YoungArts Foundation (YAF) gives budding talents across the country an unparalleled experience to be mentored by some of the world's most phenomenal musicians.
A Grammy-award winning violinist, Joshua Bell is perhaps the best advocate for music education in this country. With this latest doc, Bell will be able to showcase not only his unrivaled talent, but how he feels music should resonate with a younger generation.
Most recently, Bell performed underground at the Union Station stop in the D.C. metro. His mission for the concert was to bring music to the youth while also breaking down the reputation as being "that guy that played in the subway and no one stopped."
And at that performance, too, were YoungArts mentees.
We get it, Joshua, and we're behind you on that.
But without further ado, here's the trailer for the upcoming doc Joshua Bell: A YoungArts Masterclass, premiereing on HBO at 7:30, Oct. 14.© 2016 The Classical Art, All rights reserved. Do not reproduce without permission.
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