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$y \geq \frac{4}{5}x - 2$
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$4x - 5y \geq 10$ Subtract $4x$ from both sides to isolate $-5y$. $-5y \geq -4x + 10$ Divide both sides by $-5$ to simplify the inequality. $y \geq \frac{4}{5}x - 2$ The inequality is now in slope-intercept form ($y = mx + b$), where $m$ represents the slope and $b$ represents the y-intercept. The slope is $\frac{4}{5}$; the y-intercept is $-2$. A solid line is used for inequalities with $\geq$ or $\leq$ as each point on the line is a solution. If the inequality has $\gt$ or $\lt$, a dashed line is used since solutions cannot be equal to any point on the line. One side of the graph divided by the line is shaded to represent the points included in the solution. To determine which side to shade, test a point that is not on the line. We will use $(0, 0)$ for example. Substitute the values of the point for $(x, y)$ and simplify. $0 \geq \frac{4}{5}(0) - 2$ $0 \geq -2$ The inequality is true with the values $(0, 0)$. If a point is a solution for an inequality, so are all the others on the same side of the boundary line. $(0, 0)$ is above the line, so the area above is shaded.


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We use mathematics in everyday life. Therefore, it is not accidental that it is called the king of all sciences. Numbers are everywhere and we cannot imagine our world without them.
15 interesting facts about mathematics
- The first woman engaged in mathematics was Hypatia from Alexandria.
- Equal sign invented in 1557 by Robert Recorde.
- If you add numbers from 1 to 100, you get 5050.
- Residents of Taipei are officially allowed not to use the number four (4), because it is considered to be "unlucky number", and its meaning incorporated with the word "death". Therefore, there are many buildings with no 4th floor, and after the third one, there is a 5th floor.
- Muslim mathematician Al-Khwarizmi is considered to be "the Father of Algebra"
- Despite the fact that many educated people lived in the Roman Empire, there was no number 0 in their mathematics. It is hard to imagine how they managed their life without the number 0 (zero)
- You may have already heard this story somewhere before. George Dantzig when he was a doctoral candidate at the University of California, he was late for a lecture. Seeing on the board some equations, he mistakenly took them for homework. Arriving home, he solved them, although he found the task rather difficult. Bringing them to the next lesson, he learned that these were 2 math problems that had been considered unsolvable.
- Negative numbers first appeared in the "Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art" in the period of Chinese Han Dynasty (202 BC- 220 AD)
- The ancient Egyptians did not use fractions.
- If you add up all the roulette numbers, you will get a mystical number of 666.
- Quadratic equations appeared in India 15 centuries ago.
- Euclid left many works on mathematics and geometry, which we still use. Interestingly, no information about Euclid himself was found.
- Rene Descartes introduced the concepts of real and imaginary numbers.
- Interestingly, the great emperor Napoleon Bonaparte left some mathematical works after his death.
- The Indian scholar Budhayana, who lived in the 6th century, is considered the first to use the Pi number.
- Johannes Widmann first recorded the classic signs of addition and subtraction. It happened about 500 years ago.
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The trophic flow of a species is considered a characteristic trait reflecting its trophic position and function in the ecosystem and its interaction with the environment. However, climate patterns are changing and we ignore how patterns of trophic flow are being affected. In the Humboldt Current ecosystem, arguably one of the most productive marine systems, El Niño-Southern Oscillation is the main source of interannual and longer-term variability. To assess the effect of this variability on trophic flow we built a 16-year series of mass-specific somatic production rate (P/B) of the Peruvian scallop (Argopecten purpuratus), a species belonging to a former tropical fauna that thrived in this cold ecosystem. A strong increase of the P/B ratio of this species was observed during nutrient-poor, warmer water conditions typical of El Niño, owing to the massive recruitment of fast-growing juvenile scallops. Trophic ecology theory predicts that when primary production is nutrient limited, the trophic flow of organisms occupying low trophic levels should be constrained (bottom-up control). For former tropical fauna thriving in cold, productive upwelling coastal zones, a short time of low food conditions but warm waters during El Niño could be sufficient to waken their ancestral biological features and display massive proliferations.
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Bibliographical noteFunding Information:
M.A.S. was supported by several funding schemes including the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), Germany, and the National University of San Marcos (Peru).
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- Argopecten purpuratus
- Climate change ecology
- El Niño-Southern oscillation
- P/B ratio
- Population blooms
- Trophic ecology


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The Complex World of SaaS
SaaS marketers are faced with an unenviable task. They must balance multiple entry points from leads to demos to trials to the metrics that really matter: MRR and ARR. Buzzwords aside, enterprise sales start with human to human contact. You need to connect with decision-makers, daily users, and everyone in between. Software as a service marketing is challenging, indeed – but together we can make it hum.
- Reaching key stakeholders at prospective accounts
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Love Out of Bounds
On Motherhood, Madness & Creativity
My eyes are hot, then wet, my tears like someone else's. I am writing into my first novel, imagining the point-of-view of the brother, Doren, who struggles with schizophrenia. Alone in my studio in a fifth floor walk-up in Hoboken, New Jersey, I look out onto the hills festooned with crumbling tenement buildings, straining to get inside the character of Doren, to be him.


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Urbex - Abandoned Victorian Tree House
Even walking right by, you might miss this special find.
I'd only seen one image of this place before, and the poster intentionally put the wrong region it was located in, to throw people off. I was in the state looking for it last year, but didn't have any luck. This year I'm back and finally found it! Set far back from the road among huge, reaching, Live Oak trees, is this abandoned Victorian style tree house.
From what I could tell, the area has been abandoned for about 13 years. This appeared to be a house built for children. There was a small living area downstairs, side room, and two upper floors big enough for small beds.
At the top was a loft with bunk beds in the window. Below, the trees had grown enough to begin pushing through the planks in the foundation.
Nearby, another large building, maybe some kind of inn. The doors and windows covered in spiderwebs.
Inside, there were still piles of firewood waiting to be burned.
I was thrilled to find this place at last. It's always a race against time to capture these spots before nature, vandals, or new development takes them away. I was worried that after over a year, I'd never be able to add it to my collection.
You can purchase a print in the urban decay gallery, or head over to my Etsy print store. Be sure to follow and add me as a favorite to keep up with new additions. And as always, please share images and the facebook page with friends to help spread the word!
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The trees are very obviously older than thirteen years. Was the house built around them?
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Slowdown? What slowdown? UK annual house price growth reached a 5-year high in October. As illustrated in our chart of the month, average UK house prices grew by 5.8% year-on-year in October, the largest annual growth since January 2015. Despite signs suggesting that the economic recovery has lost momentum in recent months, the housing market activity has remained robust. According to Nationwide, mortgage approvals for house purchase climbed to 91,500 in September – the highest level since 2007. But according to Robert Gardner, Nationwide's Chief Economist, "the outlook remains highly uncertain and will depend heavily on how the pandemic and the measures to contain it evolve as well as the efficacy of policy measures implemented to limit the damage to the wider economy".
Chart of the month: Monthly UK house price, annual % change
Source: Nationwide House Price Index, Blend Network
Market Commentary
- Annual house price growth rose to 5.8% in October, the highest rate since January 2015. This comes after several months of surprisingly strong housing market performance – September saw the strongest annual house price growth in four years.
- Despite the strength, a look at monthly price activity suggests the recent momentum may be running out of steam. UK house prices rose 0.8% month-on-month in October after taking account of seasonal effects, following a 0.9% monthly rise in September and down from 2% month-on-month increase in August and 1.7% in July. UK house prices are up by 2.9% year-to-date during the first 10 months of the year compared to the same period last year, but some high-frequency indicators suggest a slowdown.
- However, according to Robert Gardner, Nationwide's Chief Economist, activity is likely to slow in the coming quarters, perhaps sharply, if the labour market weakens as most analysts expect, especially once the stamp duty holiday expires at the end of March. Labour market conditions have already weakened with the unemployment rate rising.
Figure 1: UK housing market indicators
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Chanel No. 5
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Step in to the threshold of each & every day
Living your life with love light peace & joy*
If you can manage that you will quickly see
That you have found the missing pieces…
Step in to the threshold of each & every day
Living your life with love light peace & joy*
If you can manage that you will quickly see
That you have found the missing pieces…
Don't you like those lazy summer days
Where going out for a stroll means
Leaving the trail of uncertainties
Behind, enjoy life's miracle and
Exquisite grace, unfold at
Its own pace…
With not too much imagination
You see what they can see 🙂
Do you remember the time I had written a humoristic poem on the weird sprouted potatoes I had forgotten in my balcony for two months? (I still have to work on my photography category & insert the photos back in!) well, my potato plant experiment finally ended a few weeks ago & I decided to share the happiness & pride in my labor with you today… bear in mind that it was grown in a pot, I "babysat" it indoors once the cold settled in and not even organic fertilizers were used all along 🙂
It was more for the fun than the quantity gained (which wasn't much) my grandchildren & I had a ball of a time guessing… creating suspense & wondering if anything had come out of it, for all we knew there could've been nothing under! The thrill of the surprise was one of these special moments we cherish deep inside for a long time…
Do you remember when I posted quite a while back this brilliant dough recipe where it can be used for practically anything? From chocolate, raisins, poppy-seeds, lemon, coffee, carrot, almond or English fruit cake… anything your heart desires! All needed is to stamp it with your own creativity 🙂
It is sugar-egg-coloring-additive-free & as usual with extra virgin olive oil & 80% wholemeal spelt flour but you can change it to un-natural if you prefer.
I had then posted my dried fruit version in a cake & muffins possibility, now I'm introducing to you the photos of the marble, chocolate & raisins ones but as I'd baked it the same day & didn't have time to let it cool down and be refrigerated, they crumbled a bit so, my apologies for that!
For the flavors I put a little in, eg. cocoa & give it for someone to taste & add more if necessary.
An ode to season
To song and color
Music and style
Charm and bloom
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Today Screen Slate is thrilled to launch the 12-program Marshall McLuhan-inspired film and video series The Medium is the Massacre at Anthology Film Archives. It's a lineup that we're proud of, and it also represents the first in a series of ongoing collaborations with Anthology that also provide benefits to Screen Slate members, who can attend any one program of their choice for free. The support of Anthology and our readers is essential: currently 100% of our budget comes from these small monthly readership contributions, without which we could not exist. If you are a daily reader, it's imperative to our survival to chip in if you can. For the monthly equivalent of a beer or a matinee movie ticket, you can continue getting daily film listings and write-ups, but also attend events; get first access to our members-only weekly digest email launching next month; and, at the $10 level, receive our annual digest journal plus a limited edition compendium covering our first five years that will be shipping before the end of 2016. And if you sign up today, you can join us for an exclusive reception for members and their guests at 6:30 pm before tonight's screening of Arrebato to have a movie and a drink on us and meet other readers (and also get a guaranteed copy of our McLuhan-inspired zine).
A major arthouse cult classic in Spain that is all but unknown in the U.S., Arrebato is the lone solo narrative feature by director Iván Zulueta, a central figure of the post-Franco Movida Madrileña countercultural movement and close colleague—and indeed inspiration to—Pedro Almodóvar (who even has a bizarre voice-only role as a key character later in the film). It's ostensibly only loosely a "horror" film and therefore the perfect series entry for those disinclined to more traditional genre films. Like Dracula, it follows an epistolary form: Eusebio Poncela is José, a preppy B-horror filmmaker and heroin addict who has just two brief but memorable encounters with Pedro (Will Moore), an obsessive, aspiring experimental filmmaker and fellow user. As the film begins, José receives a mysterious package from Pedro with an audio cassette, a reel of Super 8 film, and an apartment key. José and his girlfriend (Cecilia Roth) pop in the tape, thread up the film, and cozy up to a creepy confessional in which Pedro narrates the history and fallout of his and José's encounters, culminating an eerie exercise in autonomous pure cinema.
Further narrative summary is futile; suffice to say, Arrebato is a vampire story without vampires, and yet to reduce it to simply an "allegorical vampire" tale feels like a dead end. Likewise, the conflation of drug use and vampirism is not as neat nor self-contained as it is in dozens of other movies conflating bloodsuckers and addiction. At its heart is a kind of abject, despondent cinephilia: the compulsion to film, watch films, and be filmed. That Zulueta never made another theatrical feature is a shame, but he left us a masterpiece. And in the spirit of the series's pairing horror features with thematically corresponding experimental films and media art, we're pleased to present it alongside Leo es pardo, Zulueta's Super 8 film that represents a kind of first stab at the subject matter.
We'll be shamelessly plugging The Medium is the Massacre all weekend and intermittently throughout its run but still acknowledge that there's a whole lot going on this weekend (including a brand new movie theater), so please bear with us while we take a break to plug our own programming. And if you make it out, say hello!


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On the shelf in my office is the 1985 edition of "The Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract". It wasn't the first material of his that I read and certainly not the last, but it looks down at me with a reminder of the era in which this fan transitioned from old-school to analytic. After all, the inaugural "Rotisserie League Baseball" book had come out in 1984 and our home league (which is still going strong) started that April.
As a kid looking at the backs of baseball cards and reading Street & Smith's preview issue along with "Who's Who In Baseball", the statistics we learned were the ones they gave us. Batting Average (BA), Home Runs (HR), Runs Batted In (RBI's) were what we used to determine if a player was fair, good or great. The back of Mickey Mantle's 1959 Topps card doesn't even tell you how many Stolen Bases (SB's) he had the previous season. The 1961 Who's Who did include SB's but nothing so exotic as Slugging Percentage (SLG) or On-Base Percentage (OBP).
So, now that at least 30 years has passed in the debate between tradition and analytics, maybe we can finally agree on the validity of one stat. No, I'm not going to try and sway you about Wins Above Replacement (WAR) because that glazed look in your eyes tells me it's a hopeless task. As with Capt. Queeg in the Caine Mutiny, I'm going to "prove beyond the shadow of a doubt…with geometric logic, that a valid stat does exist".
In his new book, "Ahead Of The Curve", Brian Kenny writes that Bill James #1 revolutionary theory about baseball is that getting on base is the most important thing in offense. It seems to make sense intuitively, but OBP was never on baseball cards, in magazines or listed in the Sporting News. After all, how did Eddie Yost of the Tigers lead the AL in Runs Scored (115) in 1959 at age 32 with a BA of only .278? Simple…he led the AL in OBP at .435. No player was going to get benched if he got on base 40% of the time, but writers and broadcasters paid no attention because it wasn't a mainstream stat. Over 40 years later, Billy Beane and the A's, followed quickly by the Red Sox, found that OBP was under-valued in the game along with the players who provided those quality numbers. The 2002 Athletics had eight offensive players with an OBP of .348 or better and they won 103 games with a small-market payroll. The 2004 Red Sox broke the "Curse of the Bambino" with eleven (11) hitters having a .365 OBP or higher.
Old-school fans and pundits still weren't convinced and argued that OBP diminished the contribution of power hitters because those HR's they hit were worth three more bases than a walk. That brings us to a slightly more traditional stat – Slugging Percentage. SLG tells us how many total bases a hitter has accumulated compared to his amount of plate appearances. After all, Roger Maris & Mickey Mantle led the AL in SLG in '60 & '61, so what could be more fair to power hitters?
That brings us to the stat that really matters when analyzing major league hitters. If you take OBP and add it to SLG, a player is rewarded for both his on-base skills and power production. The result is On-Base + Slugging (OPS) and even though we never spotted it on the back of a baseball card, it is the number that tells the tale. How do we know? Because there are only seven players with a lifetime OPS over 1.000…Babe Ruth, Ted Williams, Lou Gehrig, Barry Bonds, Jimmie Foxx, Hank Greenberg & Rogers Hornsby. Others in top 20 include Mickey Mantle, Joe DiMaggio, Stan Musial, Frank Thomas, Albert Pujols, Miguel Cabrera, Mike Trout & Joey Votto. Even old-school fans have to admit that there aren't any flukes on that list.
Votto seems to be the poster child for fans, writers and even the Reds own broadcasters, as he gets criticized for not driving in more runs. They feel that he should "expand the zone" and not walk as much. If you don't seem to remember similar comments about Bonds & Williams, you're correct. In 2015, Votto's OPS was 1.000…the 3rd time he's exceeded that threshold. As analytic pioneer Ron Shandler said earlier this year, "Critics of his approach are embarrassing themselves."
So, in today's game, you'll see what is called the "slash line" for an offensive player. OBP + SLG = OPS looks like 321/417/738, which is the average production for all major league hitters through August 15th.
In mid-August of 2016, who are the best offensive players in the game based on OPS? Let's look at the top dozen…
1) David Ortiz, Red Sox DH…404/621/1025 – Historic numbers for the 40 year-old slugger in his final season. He's been over the 1.000 four previous times in his career, but this is amazing.
2) Jose Altuve, Astros 2B…427/572/999 – If you were 5′ 6″ tall, you could hit like this…right? He leads the AL in BA & OBP while hitting 19 HR's and adding 26 SB's. A definite MVP candidate.
3) Daniel Murphy, Nationals 2B…387/612/999 – Came out of nowhere late last season at age 30 and might be the best player in the game during the last 12 months.
4) Mike Trout, Angels OF…426/557/983 – At age 25, this player is so good, he's almost taken for granted. Even on a lousy team, he still has the best WAR number in the game (7.6).
5) Anthony Rizzo, Cubs 1B…399/571/970 – The leader of the Cubbies juggernaut at age 27.
6) Josh Donaldson, Blue Jays 3B…400/562/962 – Last year's AL MVP isn't slowing down…and won't be a free agent until 2019.
7) Ryan Braun, Brewers OF…390/569/959 – Will probably never remove the stigma of the PED suspension, but these numbers are almost equal to the juiced version.
8) Matt Carpenter, Cardinals 3B…405/547/952 – Last year's HR total seemed like a fluke, but this is his best all-around campaign.
9) Joey Votto, Reds 1B…428/511/939 – Since the All-Star break, his BA is .455. Fantasy or reality, give me a guy like this.
10) Carlos Gonzalez, Rockies OF…373/566/939 – The numbers are always tempered by the fact that he plays half his games at altitude, but they still count.
11) Miguel Cabrera, Tigers 1B…384/550/934 – This future Hall-of Famer just keeps on producing. His lifetime OPS is .960, so even at age 33, he's a dangerous man in the batter's box.
12) Kris Bryant, Cubs 3B…382/545/927 – No sophomore slump for last year's NL Rookie of the Year. In fact, his numbers are even better and he's already exceeded the 26 HR's he hit in 2015.
Now, of course, we could also discuss OPS+, which adjusts the figure based on the ballparks. OK, I see that "deer in the headlights" look, we'll talk about it some other time.


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New things I learned in the past 5 months
22 May 2019
When I started the "maker life" at the beginning of this year one of my goals was to try at least one new technology with every product I build. This is a summary of the things I learned while building 5 tools in the past 5 months.
Vanilla JavaScript
I was a heavy jQuery user and I have to admit that sometimes I still use it in cases where it isn't really necessary. Thanks to the free JavaScript 30 course by Wes Bos the number of these occasions is decreasing. This course was on my list for a really long time. Basically, I started it right after it became available, but after a few lectures, I've always found something more important to do. But not this time. In 3 days I went through all the videos and I was trying to use all the things I learned while building the HashtagCalendar In the end, I felt like I should rewrite the whole thing as my main.js became a mess 😄 But this is a task for another day.
For years, my goto setup for PHP development was WAMP/MAMP. Even though I knew about the weaknesses of this solution, every time I was trying to switch to something else I had some difficulties and gave up after a few hours. There were deadlines I had to keep in mind, I couldn't spend much time just by setting up the dev environment. As my second project was built with PHP I felt that this could be the time to make the switch. I spent at least 3 whole days to find the right setup for my needs and I have to tell you, I felt more than once that "fck this sht, I'm going back to MAMP". I was facing a database connection problem for 2 days and I just couldn't find out what went wrong. Well, it turned out that that it was me 😄 I misspelled two variables in my PHP code... But finally, I'm up and running with Docker. I also see how it could be a huge help for bigger teams, but for someone who just getting familiar with PHP development, I still think WAMP/MAMP is fine and much easier to set up.
Google Sheets API
As I worked with third-party APIs previously, this wasn't a completely new thing, but I never used the Google Sheets API before. The implementation wasn't the hard part (although I felt that the documentation wasn't as detailed as it could be), getting through the review process was really time-consuming. Basically, I had to wait 2 months for the final approval. This is something I'll remember next time I want to build something on top of a Google API.
Google Jobs search API
Luckily, I could use the Jobs search API without a review process, so I implemented it on CreativeDEVjobs.com. For the first time, I had some trouble getting through the documentation, but after a few searches and tests, I found the right combination. This could be really useful to anyone who is building a job listing site.
Although I was familiar with the base concept of AMP, and I implemented it to WordPress sites previously, with the help of a plugin, I never developed an AMP site by myself before. Speed is something I keep in mind every time I build a product, for CreativeDEVjobs.com it's more important as I think most of the visitors of the site will come from search. So the time has come to give it a go. Implementing it on a simple site seems easy after you get familiar with the basic rules, and the tools like AMP validator for Chrome will also help you identify most of the problems. For me, it took about 3 hours to create the AMP ready version of the positions pages at CreativeDEVjobs.com.
Most of the tools I built previously were running on shared hosting or on a dedicated server managed by a hosting company. As I started to build my own services, I felt that it would be great if I could also manage the environment these tools are running on. I had some experiences with DigitalOcean before, but this time I went with Linode as most of the reviews I found said, that their service was better. They provide a really great setup guide. With the help of that, everyone who typed cd .. in the terminal before would be able to set up a VPS server by themselves. I don't say they should, but it's possible 😄
As everyone is really into it, I felt the pressure to start learning React and React Native as well. I haven't used it with any of my products yet, but at least now I understand the basics of it. After my great experience with JavaScript 30, I turned to Wes Bos with this one as well, I started his React For Beginners course (haven't finished yet).
The next thing on my list is GraphQL because I want to participate in the next Makers Festival. I still have a few weeks to learn that 😄
Although I feel I could learn much more, I should also keep in mind that my goal is not to update my dev skills to find a great developer position but to build products that will generate revenue. And I'm pretty sure that most of the customers won't care if it's built with React or jQuery or COBOL while it works fine, easy to use and solves their problems.


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Hi everyone! I will be working on a small project over on Facebook Live on February 7th at 11:30 AM CST. If yo miss it live, you can watch the replay. I will be creating a planner sized layout for you with the following products:
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This month's Tater Tot post is in French to commemorate the 35th anniversary of the first time I took French.
I still do not know how in the hell I got through three years of a foreign language and can only say "hello" and "pencil."
*edited to add- thanks to the comment by Suz, I remembered that I also know how to say "eat shit and die" in French as well!
Pourquoi sommes-nous si stupides?
(Why are we so stupid?)
Bored driving? What the fark* has happened to us?
The above is an actual app that you can download to play when you're bored.
While driving your car.
*Side note-while researching this post (YES, IT'S RESEARCH), I was looking for this exact Google search:
G-rated word replacement word for fuck...
Shield your eyes if you don't like the word fuck.
Or the excessive use of the word word.
Honestly, it's a good word, but just because I like it and it's my blog doesn't mean I should throw it around like pizza dough.
Contrary to popular belief, I really don't want to purposely offend people, hence the above Google search.
That search led me to the best Reddit thread.
Like, ever.
If you ever need to replace a curse word, that thread is the place to go.
Aww, tartar sauce! Mother of fishpaste! HOLY DOLPHIN NOISES! Son of a Danny Tanner!
I'm adding it to my favorites tab so I can use it for reference.
Great Men's Asses, it's a wonderful time to be alive!
Signe signe partout un signe
(Sign sign everywhere a sign)
I also mentioned the Signs book last month, and since then I have been seeing signs everywhere.
The 1:11 thing is still going on continuously, almost disturbingly, but I am more in touch with my spirit guides now, so I don't feel as creeped out by it anymore.
Little things here and there.
For example, only one lantern lighting while we were sitting in the family room and no one had touched the remote to turn it on.
Or sending myself a text link for a fun article I found in the middle of the night so I could share it with my mom the following day at a reasonable hour.
Look at the time stamp.
And look at the content.
Want to hear something kind of eerie? Rebecca and I were both reading the Signs book at the same time and did not know that either of us was reading it.
So Rebecca had asked the Universe to send her blue butterflies as a sign that her request was received. The author says you need to ask for specific signs. Like, don't ask for just a bumblebee or a butterfly or car, but ask for a specific color.
Like a purple VW bug.
Rebecca asked the Universe for a blue butterfly. Blue butterflies are kind of rare in these parts; we are always seeing butterflies, but the butterflies we usually see are white or monarch.
Can we take a moment to just enjoy that picture?
But I rarely, if ever, see blue butterflies in the wild.
So while Rebecca and I were sitting at my kitchen table talking about the blue butterfly, something attached itself to my sliding glass door directly in front of where we were sitting.
I walked over to the window and took this picture with my phone. At first, we thought he was a moth, not a butterfly, but then I looked closer and said to Rebecca, "um, I think this is a butterfly".
To which she said, "yeah but it isn't blue."
I looked closely at it and noticed something on its wing.
A spot of blue.
Rebecca said something about her changing her mind when making the request to the Universe, and maybe that is why it sent a butterfly with only a touch of blue.
This little fella sat here for a solid 2-4 minutes and didn't flinch while I was inches in front of its little face.
This butterfly was meant for Rebecca. I believe it with all of my heart.
Then a few days later, I was at a gift shop in Door County, and spotted this in a toy store:
Someone wants her to know they got her message.
*Don't crush our dreams by saying "it's a moth" in the comments.
Tout laisser sortir
(Letting it all out)
Last month I mentioned I wanted to start a secret blog, where people can anonymously let it all out. All the crap inside of us we need to get out, but don't want the entire world to see?
Well, I did it and I already have six published posts from some brave souls who trusted me with their secrets.
Let me tell you, I am in love with all of this, so thank you to those who've already submitted and know that your secrets are completely safe with me and the community we are building.
You don't have to be a writer to submit, and there is no word count requirement.
Keep sending submissions via email, and know that there is absolutely no limit to how many posts you can submit.
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Je déteste vraiment HGTV
(I really hate HGTV)
I really do.
That doesn't mean I don't have like, twenty HGTV shows on my DVR as I write this, but I may hate them and watch them when I am bored and feel horrible about myself afterwards.
I don't know why I keep torturing myself. I mean, I just want to watch a simple House Hunters show and not face a couple of doctors who want to keep their budget small, so you know only like 1 million. Definitely nothing over 1.5 million.
Or the family with six kids, one job, and have a budget of $800,00.
Or the semi-retired couple who are keeping their $400,000 home in the suburbs and need to buy a million-dollar second home in the Caymans.
I just don't need to have it thrown in my face while I am eating Beefaroni out of the can while wearing my stretchy food eating pants.
But I am learning that House Hunters (like every show on HGTV) is mostly fake.
In fact, if you Google House Hunters fake right now, at least 100 articles will come up about people's experiences on the show and how none of it is real.
In fact, the arguments aren't even real.
In fact, the houses they are looking at probably aren't even on the market.
In fact, they probably already bought the house before the show aired and had to move all of their shit out of the house they are filmed looking at.
Look, I wasn't born yesterday and I know that television is mostly smoke and mirrors, but if they are faking it all, why can't they throw in some WORST possible versions of themselves?
And apparently, it's really hard to get on the show in the first place, which after seeing the couples who have made the cut, makes me wonder who in the hell they are weeding out.
Adieu Mme Hughes
(Farewell, Mrs. Hughes)
A few weeks ago, my mom texted me that Nancy Hughes had died. If you weren't aware, she was John Hughes' widow and, after reading the article, she was honestly the reason Mr. Hughes was so successful.
Which is interesting because I wrote this line in my screenplay about her:
Without really knowing this.
But let's be honest, behind most men is an even greater female cheering them on, making their success a possibility, sacrificing their dreams for their partner.
It was after reading Mrs. Hughes' obituary and the article in the Sun-Times that I realized I don't want the screenplay to become anything more than a lovely homage to Mr. Hughes and his movies. The family is highly protective of Mr. Hughes' work, their family name, and their privacy, as they should be.
I will continue to visit his gravesite (now hers as well), and write about things including, but not limited to, John Hughes.
Why? Maybe because doing so brings me peace. Probably because at this point, they feel like family.
A piece of trivia that I learned only after reading her obituary is that his movie She's Having a Baby was written with Nancy as his inspiration.
I re-watched the semi-autobiographical movie the week she died with completely fresh eyes.
If you were ever wondering what John Hughes and his wife were really like, this is good film to watch.
Rest well, Mrs. Hughes.
Edited to add…..
After finding out about the death of Nancy Hughes, I returned to the photo of the lantern that lit up without us touching anything.
The date stamp showed the exact day that Nancy Hughes passed away:
Au Revoir…


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Ivan covers Big Tech, India, policy, AI, security, platforms, and apps for TNW. That's one heck of a mixed bag. He likes to say "Bleh." Ivan covers Big Tech, India, policy, AI, security, platforms, and apps for TNW. That's one heck of a mixed bag. He likes to say "Bleh."
The Indian Army has asked its personnel to remove 89 apps from their phones including Facebook, Instagram, Reddit, and Tinder over security concerns. This list also includes most of the 59 Chinese apps the Indian government banned last week.
According to a report by Times of India, the Army has set a deadline of July 15 for their personnel to delete these apps. An unnamed officer told ToI that this step was taken to thwart increased targeting from intelligence agencies of Pakistan and China.
Earlier this year, the Indian Navy banned the use of smartphones and social media apps on Naval bases and ships. After last year's incident involving Isreal-based NSO group exploiting vulnerabilities in WhatsApp for snoop, the Army barred select top officials from using Facebook and WhatsApp. It also asked other officials not to discuss sensitive matters on the popular chat app.
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Inclusion of dating apps such as Tinder, Hinge, and Bumble in the ban list is not entirely surprising. Last year, the Indian Army found at least 150 profiles linked to Pakistan, posing as women or religious leaders across various apps, trying to honeytrap officers in coax information out of them.
We've contacted Facebook and Tinder for a comment, and we'll update the story if we hear back.
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My Name: a South Korean revenge thriller
My Name brings bloody action and retribution in a revenge thriller starring a terrific Han So-hee. If you like the women kicking butt genre, this show will be right up your alley. The original title was Undercover, which makes a lot more sense. It's a Netflix series.


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What to Do After a Car Accident
A car accident is the last thing anyone wants to deal with, both from a logistical and safety perspective. However, while you can reduce your chances of a collision by following guidelines and driving carefully, you can never fully eliminate the likelihood of an accident because some things are out of your control, like the other drivers on the road or unpredictable road hazards.
After a car accident, it's one of the most challenging times to be methodical and calm. You may be dizzy, shocked, full of adrenaline, or full of rage at the person you believed caused the collision. You may even be all of the above. However, it's crucial to calm yourself as much as possible and document all aspects of the collision to save yourself time, energy, and money later.
At Suburban Collision Centers, we know about collisions. We are not only here to help repair your vehicle to its formal standards but also provide you with the information that you need to address collisions with confidence. Consider our tips for everything from what to do immediately after an accident to working with a claims adjuster.
Actions Immediately After a Collision
Safety First
- If the accident is minor, move the vehicles out of traffic to a safer location. The last thing that you want is to continue to be at risk or increase the risk for others on the road.
- Make sure that your car is in park, that the engine is off, and turn on the hazard lights.
- Set up cones, warning triangles, or flares, if they are accessible.
- If there appears to be any danger of a fire or explosion, get everyone a safe distance away.
Get Help
- Check for Injuries: If you, your passengers, or any of the passengers in the vehicle seem injured, call an ambulance. This can be the first step if the situation is dire enough. Even if you are in doubt, it's better to address injuries swiftly for both safety and documentation.
- Call the Police: Even if the collision is minor and everyone is cooperating, a police report is extremely useful to the claim process and will help establish who is at fault.
Exchange Information and Document the Collision
Some state laws differ in the amount of information that you are expected to give at the scene of an accident. Most of the time, you are expected to exchange your name and insurance information with any other drivers involved. We recommend that you keep your interactions limited to a necessary exchange of information so that you don't admit fault or blame the other person.
The information that you will want to gather as much of as possible includes:
- Drivers and Passengers: Record their names and contact information.
- Vehicle Descriptions: The make, model, and year of any vehicle involved in the accident.
- Driver's License Numbers
- Insurance Companies and Policy Numbers
- Eyewitnesses: Ask for the names and contact information of any eyewitnesses available.
- Record the Accident Scene Location and/or Address
- Document the Police Officer's Name and Badge Number
We also recommend that you take pictures of the accident scene if it is safe to do so. Do not sign any document unless it is from the police or your insurance agent. And remember to be polite and not to tell anyone that the accident was your fault, even if you think it was.
There are smartphone apps available to help you with the documentation process so that you don't have to do everything from memory. We also recommend that if you have a pen and paper ready or drawing capabilities on your phone that you draw a diagram of the scene, make notes about how the collision occurred, and include the direction each vehicle was traveling.
File a Claim
While it may be tempting to offer to cover minor damages out of pocket and avoid dealing with insurance companies, you will likely find that it is more costly than you think. Consumer Reports found that many test crashes just under 10 MPH caused damage that appeared minor but cost between 3,000 to 6,000 dollars.
It's also possible that you may not know what injuries you sustained even in a minor collision. Whiplash can create unforeseen medical issues that may not be obvious while adrenaline is coursing through you. Filing a claim and covering all your bases will help you in case you need to follow up with medical expenses.
Call your insurance company as soon as possible after documenting the accident and report any damages to the best of your ability. Some insurance companies make it possible to file a claim with a smartphone app for more convenience.
Repairing Your Vehicle
Although the thought of tackling collision repairs can be a daunting one, our team has plenty of experience and is here to help you every step of the way. Once you have completed the steps above, you can get started on the road to restoring your vehicle to meet or exceed factory standards. These are some of the steps you can plan for when repairing your vehicle after a collision:
Schedule an Inspection
The first step of the process is to find out the exact condition of your vehicle. Your insurance company will likely request that you have your vehicle inspected for a repair cost estimate. Our team has the equipment and expertise to diagnose damage, give accurate estimates, and work with your insurance company. With our team on the job, you will experience transparency and convenience on a new level.
Contact a Claims Adjuster
The job of a claims adjuster is to determine how much the insurance company should pay. They look at everything from vehicle damage to medical expenses to see the big picture. They will also consult the police report and eyewitnesses to determine fault. Since the insurance company doesn't want to pay for past damage, it's the job of the claims adjuster to find out what damage occurred from the result of the collision.
Once the claims adjuster has taken all the information into consideration, they will determine the cost estimates.
Repair Your Vehicle
We are happy to help restore your vehicle once you have filed your insurance claim and your coverage is confirmed. When you choose our collision center, you will find a facility that far exceeds what you may expect from your average repair shop. With our state-of-the-art facility, specialized equipment, and expert technicians, you will have the peace of mind that you need.
Our ASE- and manufacturer-certified technicians have the experience and know-how to return your vehicle to its pre-collision quality. By using modern equipment and tools, we can restore your vehicle to manufacturer-recommended condition. We utilize a computerized color matching system to find the exact paint color needed for your vehicle.
We also use Chief EZ Liner frame machines to ensure your vehicle meets factory specifications. For even more assurance in the quality of our work, all repairs completed at Suburban Collision Centers are backed by a lifetime warranty.
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I have heard from a lot of charitable organizations that are struggling to figure out how to raise money for their respective causes over the last few months. They are scared and worried that the momentum they have built over many years, the people they help and the issues they support will not be able to weather the pandemic. A recent story on the CBC highlighted this by spotlighting a group of charities in Toronto that were worried about keeping their doors open.
A friend of mine, who runs an outreach centre, recently confided in me that he is running at the ragged edge with a lack of volunteers and more over a lack of funding to keep delivering the vital services they offer to the public.
It does seem dire.
There is hope. Fundraising is absolutely possible in the age of Virtual Events. To do so, though, we have to rethink how we are approaching fundraising revenue. I have spoke to countless planners in the Not-for-Profit sector, and the ask is almost always the same.
"How do we replicate the things that were key fundraising activities for us in 2019?"
The Silent Auction, Live Auction and Premium Table sales were the largest and most effective way to raise money, and they are afraid of losing that. The short answer to this is; you don't. Those methods don't work in a virtual environment. We all need to focus on new was to raise money for Not-For-Profits.
The good news is, there are tons of models that work every day, raise more money in an hour than most Galas will in a night and, the best part, are very easy to implement. We need to look to other industries to see how they are doing it.
The story I love to tell, and this one will expose my nerd level a bit, is about Bungie, the publisher and developer of one of the most popular video games for the last 5 years. A game I play a lot.
Each year, Bungie runs a charity fundraiser though their game for St-Judes Hospital for Children. Usually they do this by adding small cosmetic items that can be purchased in game. Proceeds from he sales go to St-Judes. Each year they raise hundreds of thousands of dollars.
This year though, with their workforce working from home and a new expansion due in the fall, they had to shift their plans. Not wanting to let down their long time partners and leave them without the critical funding they need, they decided to shift their plans to coincide with the newly created Virtual Event, Summer Games Fest, created as a replacement for E3, the annual large scale three day conference where game developers from Microsoft Xbox, Sony PlayStation and countless studios would debut their new games and in development projects.
With the new expansion coming in the fall, they new they had a set of compelling reveals that they could leverage to raise money. During the on screen interview with the Studio Director, that made a very simple ask. IF they could raise money to a certain threshold they would reveal the trailer for the fall expansion. They set the number at a reasonably achievable goal of 200,000 USD. Viewers were asked to make small donations of 5, 10, 25 and 50 dollars to the charity through a simple click to pay widget embedded on the webpage hosting the video.
Within the first 200 minutes they surpassed that goal. Viewers could see the amount tick up on a real time counter that showed the total amount raised. Once they achieved that goal, they promised to reveal special items that would be in the game for each further increment they surpassed at the 300k, 400k and 500k mark. In total, during their two-hour broadcast, Bungie raised 750,000 USD for St-Judes.
All through micro transactions.
This can be adapted to your fundraiser in really interesting ways. Went to give a sponsor a truly engaging way to participate? Ask them to do a donation match. Once your audience hits a threshold of a certain amount, your sponsor jumps in to match it. A win win for everyone. The sponsor gets more than just a logo placement to show their involvement and more over, your viewers are making the large sponsorship happen, in real time, right on their screen.
The world of Virtual events are forcing us all to rethink how we approach a lot of the things we did and take for granted. We need to look at other industries and how they are adapting, or in the case of some, how they have been doing it all along.


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This bag symbolizes an internal struggle for me. Sal and I are leaving tomorrow for the weekend, and we packed Roman's bag tonight so things would go smoother in the morning. I have been so excited to get out-of-town and spend some time with Sal one-on-one, but as I look at this bag I start feeling like I don't want to go. I do this every time. If I go on travel I have the same struggle, if Sal and I go somewhere, yep, same struggle. He was such a perfect little guy today it makes it even harder! He was silly and lovey. My favorite combination. Its making me sad just writing this, so I think I'm gonna go watch a movie or do some homework. Have a good night.
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by Miss Morgans 365 Days of Photos in children, photography Tags: 365 photo project, children, my 365, photography, travel
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I completely understand. Packing is the worst part of traveling. Other than having to lug around the actual bag. I hope the weekend goes well, and maybe some great pictures will be up post-weekend?
Oh, and thank you for your continuous words of encouragement 🙂
Miss Morgans 365 Days of Photos
Jan 25, 2011 @ 20:45:03
No. Thank you! And girls nights are always good!
David Williams
Jan 21, 2011 @ 23:43:37
My youngest is 10 years and let me tell you, I still feel that way! Hope you two have a great weekend!
Miss Morgans 365 Days of Photos
Jan 25, 2011 @ 20:44:30
Im sure it wont get easier any time soon. Im already not looking forward to when he moves away to college.
Awww… I used to be the same way. My sons are grown now, but I used to get that way when they were growing up. I still get that way when my husband travels without me or I travel without him. Seems worse when I travel without him.
Miss Morgans 365 Days of Photos
Jan 25, 2011 @ 20:43:35
I travel so much and I miss them both so much when I leave. I always come back with a renewed love and appreciation for my little family though. I guess there's a silver lining in everything.
sasi (my3rdi.org)
Jan 22, 2011 @ 15:59:08
Very nice…I like this shot as this seems to tell a story.
Miss Morgans 365 Days of Photos
Jan 25, 2011 @ 20:41:42
Im glad it was able to convey what I was going through. Thats what I like about pictures!
Emily Gooch
Jan 27, 2011 @ 09:16:14
I felt the same way when my boys were young. It was hard to leave them and when we did take a trip somewhere without they boys, we ended up talking about them constantly during the trip. One thing I've always told the boys, never leave home without saying "I Love You…"
Miss Morgans 365 Days of Photos
Jan 27, 2011 @ 20:46:17
Yeah we talked about him the whole time and called him about 20 times. Hehe. We always tell him I LOVE YOU! and its the cutest when he says it back.


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Movie: The Electrical Life of Louis Wain
Director: Will Sharpe
Genre: Biopic, drama
Medium: Amazon Original (streaming and in theaters)
Louis Wain was an artist in the employ of The Illustrated London News, one of the most popular newspapers in Victorian England, when advances in photography and printing made it possible for newspapers to regularly include photographs in their pages.
Demoted from staff illustrator to contributor, Wain's professional skills seemed destined for obsolescence when he and his wife, Emily, returned to their cottage one rainy afternoon in 1886 and heard the distressed mews of a kitten. They found an adorable tuxedo cat soaked and shivering in their garden, brought him inside and were instantly smitten.
They named the baby Peter, and in the months that followed Wain made the growing kitten the subject of most of his idle drawings, sketching him in various situations and with increasingly anthropomorphic features. Wain's cat sketches were only intended for his wife, but when Sir William Ingram, editor at The Illustrated News, saw the whimsical cat drawings he commissioned Wain to fill two pages with cats as a special feature for the paper's Christmas edition.
Wain's cats were a huge hit with readers, marking the beginning of a second, much more successful career as a pet portraitist and one of Victorian England's most beloved artists. Wain gave his cats human expressions, had them do human things, and put them in contemporary clothing to the delight of newspaper readers and, later, book publishers who sold many thousands of copies of illustrated books featuring nothing but Wain's anthropomorphic cats.
The Electrical Life of Louis Wain weaves a narrative from its subject's professional life and his lesser-known private life. A polymath, philosopher, amateur boxer and author of some particular ideas about cats and electricity, Wain (played by the always-excellent Benedict Cumberbatch) was an eccentric and not particularly happy with his life until his family hired Emily Richardson (Claire Foy) as governess — a home teacher — for Wain's younger sisters.
Despite the fact that Emily was a decade his senior and such relationships were looked down upon in Victorian England, Wain and Emily married, made it clear they didn't care what others thought about them, and learned to enjoy life in each other's company. With the addition of little Peter, the Wains were a happy family.
Louis Wain did not, however, have an easy life. Three years into their blissful marriage, Emily was diagnosed with terminal breast cancer. Her illness, the subsequent mental deterioration of one of Wain's younger sisters, and Wain's own eventual struggles with mental illness cast long shadows over his outlook and his work.
Today, psychologists, art critics and scholars of the man's career still debate whether — and to what degree — his mental state was reflected in his artwork as his cats took on increasingly psychedelic and abstract qualities. What began as simple kitten sketches morphed into whimsical scenes of expressive cats and eventually trippy images that wouldn't have looked out of place as album art in the late 1960s and 1970s.
Did Wain truly suffer from severe mental illness, or was he a casualty of a society that banished its "undesirables" to asylums and "lunatic houses"? Was Wain on the autism spectrum? Did the increasingly psychedelic bent of his drawings stem from medications he was given at a time when mental illness was poorly understood and poorly treated?
It depends on what you see in the illustrations. For a man so revered by the public, Wain was remarkably casual about his output — a quality Cumberbatch displays admirably throughout the film — and he didn't bother to date his drawings. He was prolific, completing many hundreds of cat images throughout his career, in addition to the journalistic images and livestock renderings of his early career, when he was a newspaperman.
What is absolutely clear is that Wain saw something in cats that others didn't see until he showed it to them with his pencils. He was credited with a major shift in attitude toward cats and the normalization of keeping cats as pets rather than as mousers. Although cats enjoyed companion animal status in various other cultures earlier in human history, the idea of keeping a feline as a pet was novel in Victorian England.
The shift in public attitude was treated humorously — as much of the subject matter is — by the film, with a bewildered Wain accepting the presidency of the Cat Society of England at a fete in his honor, then explaining his theory that tabby markings were the result of electricity flowing through fur.
The subject of electricity comes up again and again in the film, bringing to mind Tesla and another famous British eccentric, Alan Turing, who was also played by Cumberbatch in the 2014 biopic The Imitation Game. Not coincidentally, both movies show that service to crown and country mattered little when British eccentrics were deemed too odd to tolerate. Like Wain, Turing — a war hero who famously cracked the legendary German Enigma cryptography machine — found himself on the wrong side of the UK's mental institutions when he was convicted of indecency in 1952 after admitting to police, during an interview in an unrelated investigation, that he'd once had a relationship with another man.
Turing was subsequently placed on synthetic estrogen and drugs prescribed to "cure" his mental condition, which had the opposite effect: Turing, a shadow of his former self, his genius blunted by chemicals, committed suicide by eating an apple he'd laced with cyanide in 1954.
The Electrical Life of Louis Wain finds humor in both the light and dark moments of its subject's life, and it's a credit to the film's writers, director and actors that lighthearted moments don't spoil the more serious narrative themes. For his part, Wain was a man who endured a lot of suffering in his life, and if there's a lesson to be learned here, it's that no matter what life throws at us, spending time with cats makes things more bearable.


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"i came across another work but we felt I became employed by absolutely absolutely nothing given that creditors would take money from just my banking account the moment my pay went in.
"I became identified as having despair plus the stress impacted my expereince of living. As a whole I borrowed £4,000 from pay day loan businesses, however the quantity We owed ended up being nearer to £9,000 once all of the interest and fees had been added on.
"Now I repay the things I can, around £5 to £7 a but i don't see an occasion within the next 2 yrs when i'll be without any debt. weekâ€
Lana, from Sunderland, adds: "The national should clamp straight down on these firms and do more to aid solitary moms and dads.
"Anyone considering getting a loan that is payday guide well away from them.â€
'Our son killed himself'
GRIEVING moms and dads Geoff and Dawn Scott destroyed their son Oliver as he took their very own life after racking up thousands of pounds of financial obligation on payday advances.
The 18-year-old had been killed in September 2011 as he jumped right in front of the train at Romford facility in Essex.
Dawn, 51, claims: "Oliver was this kind of boy that is bright knew exactly about the attention percentages but he nevertheless been able to get swept up in it all.
"He had a addicting character and thought he will be in a position to constantly look out for it.â€
Popular Oliver had been doing an IT apprenticeship and utilized the loans to finance an addiction that is crippling gambling at regional bingo halls.
Dad Geoff, 56, a chauffeur, found out about the issues in February this past year and reduced their son's £3,000 debt to a quantity of organizations. But within months, Oliver had lent another £2,000 with sky-high interest from pay day loan businesses including Wonga and Toothfairy Finance.
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Dawn, a childminder, claims: "I hate to think about the harassment my son should have been through because of these businesses to push him to accomplish just just what he did — they truly are ruthless. It is madness that they're no more closely checked because of the national.
"You see all of the advertisements on television preying from the susceptible, they don't care whom they target.â€
Geoff adds: "These bad young ones enter situations they can't get free from. They'll just just take down loans simply to repay the attention on other records.
"It's a dangerous spiral.â€
'i really couldn't repay it'
FITNESS supervisor Rob Harvey discovered himself owing £3,000 after taking right out a payday that is initial of simply £400 couple of years ago.
He claims: "I became managing my ex-partner and my salary more or less covered bills and lease. However, if any such thing went wrong — such as for example my car requiring something doing to it — it left me personally quick.
"So, a month, simply to assist me with my month-to-month price of living, we took away a £400 cash advance thinking I would personally have the ability to repay the following thirty days. Rather, the following thirty days We ended up beingn't in a position to, therefore I panicked and took down a loan of £450 with another business so that you can repay it and the interest.
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MAKING concludes meet has become a struggle that is daily numerous in Britain. Whether it is bills for heating, transportation or meals, there was simply month that is too much the finish of their funds.
Because of this, millions are in the mercy among these alleged appropriate loan sharks – the pay day loan businesses whom charge sky-high interest that few are able to afford.
Tackling debt that is personal be described as a concern. But this federal Government really helps to feed the appropriate loan sharks by refusing to behave.
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Recent advances in nanorobotic manipulation of ferromagnetic nanowires bring new avenues for applications in the biomedical area, such as targeted drug delivery, diagnostics or localized surgery. However, probing a single nanowire and monitoring its dynamics remains a challenge since it demands high precision sensing, high-resolution imaging, and stable operations in fluidic environments. Here, we report on a novel method of imaging and sensing magnetic fields from a single ferromagnetic nanowire with an atomic-scale sensor in diamond, i.e. diamond nitrogen-vacancy (NV) defect center. The distribution of static magnetic fields around a single Co nanowire is mapped out by spatially distributed NV centers and the obtained image is further compared with numerical simulation for quantitative analysis. DC field measurements such as continuous-wave ODMR and Ramsey sequence are used in the paper and sub Gauss level of field sensing is demonstrated. By imaging magnetic fields at a single nanowire level, this work represents an important step toward tracking and probing of ferromagnetic nanowires in biomedical applications.
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- Electrical and Electronic Engineering


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Newsletter of The Tarot School
Vol. 10 #2 / February 1, 2018
In this Issue:
- Welcome
- Tarot Tip: Matters of the Heart –
Common Themes in Relationship Readings
- Tarot School Aphorism
- PsychWise: Tarot at the Crossroads –
Where Religion & Psychology Meet (Part 2)
- Best Practices: The Power of Consistency
- Upcoming Events
Welcome to a new issue of Tarot Tips!
And a special welcome to our new subscribers.
Who doesn't love February? There's lot's to love
about it, but today is extra-special because we
are celebrating The Tarot School's 23rd Birthday!
It's hard to believe it's been so long since we
created a place where tarot enthusiasts could
study tarot as long and as deeply as they liked.
Back in the day (yeah, we get to say that!),
there was only the occasional beginner's workshop
from a traveling tarot teacher – if you were lucky!
There were a few books, but nothing like today.
There was no online tarot community. In fact,
there was hardly an online. Look how far we've
all come!!
The new year is well under way, and for some
of us the things or people we have pledged priority
to for the new year are well in our sights. Inquiries
about commitment, partnership and matters of the
heart tend to be very prominent for the tarot reader
during this month and deserve the spotlight in this
The main tip this month, Matters of the Heart:
Common Themes in Relationship Readings,
focuses on the types of concerns that pertain to
close, intimate partnership and some questions
that may be useful to your querent.
In PsychWise, Katrina Wynne joins us again
for Part 2 of Tarot at the Crossroads, and
Best Practices talks about the importance of
consistency as a tarot professional.
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Ruth Ann, Wald, and Gina
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of your Tarot journey. In order to take the greatest
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Tarot Tip
When trouble in paradise occurs, which it does very
often, it tends to be the hot subject of many tarot
consultations. The saying that "Life doesn't come
with a manual" couldn't be more true when it comes
to dealing with couples issues. Relationship readings
are complex because there are two behaviors,
personalities and egos to deal with, and all there
separate issues.
Some common themes a tarot practitioner may deal with
include: infidelity, secrecy, emotions, future plans,
marriage proposals, communication issues, difficult
partners, or new prospects.
One of the most challenging things for a reader to do
during a relationship inquiry is to get the querent to
focus on themselves rather than on their love interest.
Questions such as, "What can I do to be a better
communicator in this relationship?" may not occur as
often as "Will we be together again?" or "Am I
wasting my time with him or her?"
In some cases, it's difficult to formulate questions
for a good relationship reading because the bottom line
or underlying current are our emotions. The following
are questions that can be used with any spread that you
may find helpful for relationship readings:
• What have you learned about yourself / your partner
in this relationship?
• How are you fulfilled by the relationship?
• How does what has happened in past relationship
affect this relationship?
• Do you feel heard/ respected by your partner?
• What type of partner do you view yourself as in the
• What feelings would you like her/him to acknowledge
and understand?
• What fears/concerns do you have regarding trust?
• How does your partner / you view the relationship?
• What are the strengths / weaknesses of the
• What is the best outcome based on the current path
of the relationship?
These questions can be used as a stand-alone spread or
combined with other specific questions based on the
needs of your querent. As is the goal of all readings,
the questions should be formulated to get the best
possible insight that will bring about hope and healing
for the seeker.
Tarot School Aphorism
WHERE RELIGION AND PSYCHOLOGY MEET (Part 2)
(excerpted from Spiritual Roots of Tarot, taught by
Katrina Wynne, M.A. as a recorded online class at
by Katrina Wynne, M.A.
Note -
If you are a regular reader of Tarot Tips, you
may have noticed that Part 1 of this article appeared
in the January 2018 issue, but may have seemed a tad
jumbled up, for which I apologize. Writing while
traveling for me is a bit like spinning plates…sometimes
a plate falls…ugh. So, please allow me to share with you
Part 2 of this series with some overlap from the beginning
article…much more accurate and comprehensive.
Thank you!]
"…the eternal religion that shows man as emanating
from the Divine and points out the path he must ascend
in order to realize the truth of his being—that he
himself is Divine."
― Eden Grey
I know what you are thinking...you read the word
"religion" in this title and already you are either
fascinated or repulsed by this idea. Please take the
leap, keep an open mind, and be prepared to be
surprised by this brief presentation on the historical
confluence between Tarot, religion, and psychology…
all having common roots in philosophy.
Philosophy is the foundation of any religion or belief
system, the "In the beginning…." statement or
story. The moment we start learning the terms and
characters in a new area of study, it's like learning
a new language. Be it science, religion, or Tarot, we
are being introduced to a belief system that informs
the structure and boundaries of that code. The leap of
faith, or transforming moment of discovery, is the
moment when we embrace the new philosophy and
dive in to learn more…and to possibly add our
wisdom to the mix.
Just as our human biology and consciousness has
evolved, building upon the experiences of the past, the
hit and miss struggle for survival and meaning in life,
so has the Tarot grown. But what are the ancestors of
this system? What are the building blocks that have
brought us to this time?
"My religion consists of a humble admiration of the
illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail
and feeble mind."
— Albert Einstein
Religions come in many forms and can be traced
throughout most of written human history. Ultimately,
each religious belief system relies upon a philosophy
of where we came from, how to behave, the nature of
life, and/or how to prepare for an afterlife (yes, I
know I am oversimplifying a huge topic).
In Part 1 of this series, I summarized the various
forms of theism, including the following: paganism,
pantheism & polytheism, atheism, and monotheism.
You may wish to review them here:
As you probably know, the history of people and their
religions, backed by ever evolving philosophical
thoughts that were rejected or adopted through the
institutionalization process of the powers that be
(cultural, religious, etc.), is intimately entwined
with the images and values imbued in the Tarot cards.
The major historical characters from the Western
world who processed and promoted specific
philosophical ideas that can directly be traced to
various religions, as well as integrated into the Tarot,
include the following names: Ancient Greece philosophers -
Heraclitus, Pythagoras, Plato, Aristotle; Neoplatonic
philosophers – Iamblichus, Plotinus; and many others.
Just as we find various interpretations of the cards
and their meanings, separately or as a whole deck,
the philosophical leanings swing between unitive
or dualistic values, mundane or spiritual concerns,
reactive or proactive purposes.
For example, in the opening quote from Tarot luminary
Eden Grey, we can clearly see a spiritual message that
resembles the Kabbalistic lessons portrayed through the
Tree of Life…which is "Emanationism" in its essence,
as presented in Plotinus' work, Enneads. In Grey's eyes,
the purpose of the Tarot is to be used as a tool for
proactively realizing a higher truth and Divine presence
within the querent.
Religion and philosophy merge with the work of the
designer of the Thoth Tarot deck, Aleister Crowley
(artist, Lady Freda Harris). In his autobiography,
Crowley claimed that his purpose in life had been to
"bring oriental wisdom (philosophy) to Europe and to
restore paganism in a purer form." Crowley's life was
a journey from West to East and back again, collecting
magical, spiritual, and profound mystical experiences,
then weaving them together for the foundation of his
religion of Thelema.
Equally significant is the influence of philosophy
upon modern psychology, and then in turn the
application of psychological ideas to the interpretation
or understanding of the Tarot cards as well as approaches
to reading. Often, these ideas or values are parallel to
religious teachings.
In psychology, much like with science and religion,
there are different philosophies and approaches to
working with, understanding, and then healing the
psyche and the mind, or just addressing elements of
the intellect.
We see various schools of thought, each with their
take on the unique workings of the human mind:
Behaviorism (Watson, Pavlov, Skinner), Cognitive
Psychology (Piaget), Psychoanalysis, (Freud, Jung,
Erikson), Gestalt Psychology, and Humanistic
Psychology (Maslow, Rogers) to name the major ideas.
When engaging in a reading of the cards, do you
strongly believe in a cause and effect approach to
interpreting the cards? "You did that…and now this
will happen?" This is close to the way Behaviorists
approach the mind and its effect on our chosen or
automatic behaviors.
Most readers align with the Humanistic values of
free will, personal growth, and the concept of
The approaches of various religions also touch upon
these philosophies of being. Quick example, many
religions have their rules for how to behave in life,
what not to eat, what one is expected to wear, marriage
arrangements, etc. They are reinforced with rewards and
punishments, much like with Behaviorism. To contrast,
Buddhism as a spiritual philosophy leans more towards
self-actualization and Humanistic Psychology values.
In summary, psychology and religion both apply
overlapping philosophical ideas in search of the
human soul and to promote well-being in life.
Tarot is a psycho-spiritual representation of these
ancient wisdoms as well as the tool used to explore
and awaken this awareness in each querent.
May all your Tarot journeys be fruitful and multiply!
For modern ways of reading Tarot cards applying
psycho-spiritual values, please read
An Introduction to
Transformative Tarot Counseling
by Katrina Wynne, M.A.
It is available as a Kindle e-book on Amazon.com or can
be ordered directly from Katrina:
"Spiritual & Biblical Roots of Tarot" a 2-part
recorded class is available here:
About Katrina:
Katrina Wynne, MA, CTM, CTI, CLC
is an internationally renowned Transformative
Tarot Counselor™ and trained psychotherapist
with close to 50 years' experience living the
wisdom of Tarot.
Contact Katrina at:
- website
- weblog
- podcast
Best Practices for Professional Readers
By Gina Thies
If you had to choose one word that would be important
to a tarot practice, what would you choose? Would you
say the word accurate? How about the word trustworthy?
These are great options but in my experience it would
be consistency. Have you ever noticed how you say yes
to people, services or brands because of their
consistency? It is the one marketing strategy in terms of
being persuasive that effectively works!
My clients often comment on how consistent I am and
by that they are relating to two areas. One being that
insights in my reading don't shift just to appease my
client, but I share my insights with confidence and the
level of professionalism is high and reliable.
People typically prefer to make choices among products
and services that align with their own sense of value,
quality and attitudes. This is why certain demographics
can be targeted based on their preference for consistency.
It is a behavioral and emotional reaction. This preference
also gets strengthened as people mature. Think for a
moment how unsettling it is when something you are
attached to or are used to changes in quality, taste or
value. Change can be uncomfortable. People won't
change services or buy something new without proper
motivation. This is where consistency can be useful.
A new product or service needs to align with their
pre-existing ideas, beliefs, and sense of quality or
values while also freeing them from these pre-existing
Understand how consistency can be beneficial when
you work with existing clients, but also in targeting
potential clients. If you have clients who use your
services on a regular basis, you may have found your
niche or your ideal client. This information will help
you target specific areas or demographics in your
marketing scheme.
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Goldman Sachs signed a deal to provide custody services for $23 billion-asset advisory firm Steward Partners, marking the first major independent RIA client for Goldman's nascent custody business. A Goldman executive says that the firm is not just "dipping our toe into this market," but that it is wholly committed to the independent RIA channel, potentially setting it up to compete with Schwab and Fidelity, the heavyweights in that space.
In other wealth management news this week: