text: Digital Friday Mobile Roundup: Origin, Game Launches, Angry Birds, & More By Christopher Mack|July 8, 2011 Share By Christopher Mack|July 8, 2011 Share EA Reveals Mobile Integration of Origin — At EA's Summer Showcase event yesterday, the company revealed new features for its upcoming Origin social gaming network. It syncs with iOS, and Android, allows users to import Facebook and Twitter friends, hosts universal leaderboards, lets players jump between Orgin-supported games without returning to their dashboard, and in general "lets you find out what your friends are doing." Additionally, games are saved on a cloud server, so users can pick up their games from any device. Senior vice president at Electronic Arts Interactive, Chip Lange, also showed new features for the coming released of FIFA 12 on iOS, which will allow users to link up two iPhone 4 devices as controllers, and then link those to an iPad via Bluetooth, which can then transmit the game to a big screen TV. Also, Scrabble will be made cross-platform, allowing users on one platform to play with those on another. [Launch] King.com Launches New Titles — Cross-platform social games developer King.com has announced two new titles this week for both mobile and Facebook. For the former, the iOS game of Miner Speed comes to Android, and for the latter, the company has released Mahjong Saga. [Launch] Instacolor Helps Discover New Users & Photos — TechCrunch has come across an interesting new iOS application that combines elements of Instagram and Color to make Instacolor. Signing in with an Instagram ID, users can discover new people and photos, in real time, based on their current location. [Launch] TeamLava Games Come to Android — Storm8's TeamLava has ported three of its most popular free-to-play games to Android, says VentureBeat. The games of City Story, Fashion Story, and Zoo Story are now available in the Android Market. The post also highlights several Storm8 metrics including 210 million downloads, 18 billion minutes played, and over 3 billion gifts received in games. [Launch] King of Fighters Comes to iOS — Another popular fighting game franchise has found its way onto the iOS. The King of Fighters, from SNK Playmore, is now available on iPhone for $7.99 [Launch] Glu Mobile Launches Another Gun Bros Iteration — Yet another launch of note appears today as Glu Mobile releases the freemium game Eternity Warriors. The medieval hack-and-slash app, however, is another variation of the company's popular Gun Bros. game. [Announcement] 3D Bike Game Coming to iOS — Spain-based Bravo Game Studios has officially announced the coming of its 3D trial bike iOS game Xtreme Wheels. The stunt bike title is slated for a July 14th release. A trailer can be found here. Angry Birds Film Is Real — Rovio Mobile's recently hired, former Marvel Studios chairman David Maisel has confirmed, in an interview with Variety, that an Angry Birds movie is indeed in the works. However, the release should not be expected before 2014. Mobile Worth 2% of Global GDP — Gigaom is reporting a new set of data from analyst Chetan Sharma. According to the report, the mobile industry is expected to generate $1.3 trillion in 2011, making up 2 percent of global gross domestic product. Verizon Announces Motorola Droid 3 — Earlier this week, Verizon Wireless announced the coming of its Motorola Droid 3 handset. While better than the Droid 2, it does lack faster 4G LTE capability. SMS GupShup Helps Companies Reach Mobile Users — According to TechCrunch, a group out of India called SMS GupShup is launching a new service dubbed BizShup today. The service is intended to aide small businesses, allowing them to easily create mobile campaigns and send messages to GupShup's 45 million members. Kickanotch Raises $500,000 — Mobile marketing startup Kickanotch Mobile has announced the raising of $500,000 in seed funding today. The round was led by six angel investors and Kansas Technology Enterprise Corporation. The funding is intended to expand on its cloud-based technology, mobile platforms, and hiring. Share http://adweek.it/2kbddpj copy Adweek Adweek


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Cinema City is the largest network of multiplex cinemas in Central and Eastern Europe. The company develops this network under two trademarks – Cinema City and IMAX®, in Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Bulgaria, Israel and Romania. Cinema City manages 508 screening rooms in 61 multiplex cinemas. Throughout Europe, the network owns 61 multiplexes with a total of 566 screening rooms. In addition, the company runs eight 3D IMAX® cinemas. In 2008, a further 46 multiplex cinemas were under construction, with a total of 480 screens. In Poland, Cinema City operates 25 cinemas with a total of 278 screens. Eight new cinemas are under construction. Cinema City multiplexes are located in Poland's largest cities – Warsaw (6 cinemas), Krakow (3 cinemas), Poznań (2 cinemas), Gdańsk, Katowice, Bydgoszcz, Toruń, Łódź, Wrocław and many more. New cinemas will be opened in Płock, Wałbrzych, Rzeszów, Bielsko-Biała, Częstochowa, Bytom, Gdańsk and Krakow. Cinema City recently acquired the Kinepolis cinema in Poznań, the largest multiplex in Europe in terms of area (56,000 sq. m). Kinepolis has 18 screening rooms with a total of 7,500 seats.Of all the markets in which Cinema City operates, Poland is the largest and most profitable. In 2008 alone, Cinema City noted a total of 12.5 admissions in Poland. Aside from box-office receipts, the company generates profit from film distribution (Disney pictures), advertising and real estate.

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Having haunted our dreams (nightmares) for well over three decades, it only made sense that the next classic horror villain to be realized as a Sideshow Sixth Scale Figure would be Freddy Krueger.
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Senior Aol executive Brad Garlinghouse has left the company according to multiple sources.
Garlinghouse was in charge of the Applications and Commerce Group and headed up the company's Silicon Valley operations from its Palo Alto office.
The news of Garlinghouse's departure comes admist a slew of high-profile defections among Aol's media properties.
Today, it was reported that TechCrunch senior editor Heather Harde left the company. Also, TechCrunch senior editor Sarah Lacy left the company this week for unspecified reasons according to Bloomberg.
While employed by Yahoo, Garlinghouse circulated his Peanut Butter Manifesto, a document which did a deep dive into structural problems at the company, and which was published in full by the Wall Street Journal. When Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz was fired in September, Garlinhouse famously tweeted "ding dong the witch is dead."
Since Aol and The Huffington Post joined forces as part of $315 million cash acquisition that formed the Huffington Post Media Group, the exodus of talent from Aol has been a running theme. The company has had a high turnover rate for journalists in particular, and in March laid off more than 400 full-time writers across its verticals.
Several key members of gadget and technology blog Engadget left in a huff after Arianna Huffington was installed in their boss. They reformed as a new entity, The Verge, while publishing briefly under the site title This Is My Next.


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Where the Wild Things Are // Book design
To experiment with the relation between words and illustration, I came out with a book of a unique format as a re-make one of the greatest children's book of all time by Maurice Sendak. The idea is to take the reader to the words first, giving a space for imagination, then the illustration comes in as a surprise element everytime you flip the page.
All illustrations are drawn and painted with gouache, avoiding the depiction of a particular main character in order to keep a more abstract form of story-telling.
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Domestic Violence Research Paper
This post is dedicated to you all who are fighting for social problems in our societies and willing to write term paper on social issues. Here I am came up with Domestic violence issue which is one of the most important corruption exist. Domestic violence is a serious social problem. According to statistics, thousands of women and children throughout the world have to face domestic violence on daily basis. Domestic violence could be a good topic for sociology students to prepare their term paper or research paper on. From this post you will get some help in deciding the topics you will have to cover under Domestic violence for your research paper. There are different types of domestic abuse, including emotional, psychological, physical, sexual, and financial abuse. Many abusers behave in ways that include more than one type of domestic violence, and the boundaries between some of these behaviours are often quite blurred.
For your research paper, first you need to gather some background information about domestic violence. Where and how it came into existence? What were the reasons behind it? What type of violence started this series of violence's to be happening and many more.
Secondly, you need to gather all the topics you are going to cover in your term paper. So that it would be easier for you to do detail research for all one by one. Some of the important aspects which have to be covered are:
• Introduction to Domestic Violence
• Types of domestic violence: there are several types, you have to go through each one by one for example emotional, physical, forced marriage etc.
• Causes of Violence: it has numbers of causes which u can consider for your term paper. For examples psychological problem, behavioral, mental illness etc.
• Cycle of violence in domestic abuse
• The techniques the abuser uses
• Warning signs
• Signs of an abusive relationship
• Victims of violence
• Protection
• Management and cure
• Legal rights of victim
Domestic violence and abuse can happen to anyone, regardless of size, gender, or strength, yet the problem is often overlooked, excused, or denied. This is especially true when the abuse is psychological, rather than physical. Emotional abuse is often minimized, yet it can leave deep and lasting scars. The roots of domestic violence, also referred to as "intimate partner violence," lie in the soil of the patriarchal family. The belief that wives are the possessions of a male "head of household" who should control the behavior of all other family members is deeply embedded in social traditions. Women's disadvantaged position in the work force and their continued responsibility for child raising reinforce their economic dependence on their husbands and partners, thereby making it difficult for women to leave abusive relationships. For years, domestic violence eluded the criminal justice system because police were reluctant to interfere in family life. Fortunately the criminal justice system is now more effective in dealing with domestic violence by educating police on domestic violence situations and changing the laws to ensure that women get the protection they need from law enforcement agencies.
This issue is so broad that it could literally take books and books to truly understand the whole view of the situations. It is obvious that domestic violence cuts across lines of race, nationality, language, culture, economics, sexual orientation, physical ability, and religion to affect people from all walks of life. Racism, sexism, homophobia and other forms of oppression can impact how people experience violence in their lives and how they are able to get help. People have developed specific resources to make sure that all individuals in any circumstance can get the help and support they need to end domestic violence in their lives.
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Crazy Looking Saltwater Fish Are Nothing New...What is it?
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The ocean sunfish, Mola mola, or common mola, is the heaviest known bony fish in the world. It has an average adult weight of 1,000 kg (2,200 lb). The species is native to tropical and temperate waters around the globe. It resembles a fish head with a tail, and its main body is flattened laterally. Sunfish can be as tall as they are long when their dorsal and ventral fins are extended.
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Over the last four years, anti-choice Republicans have passed more than 200 laws against reproductive rights at the state level. Most of those are in the form of TRAP (Targeted Regulation of Abortion Provider) laws, one of the common features of which is a requirement that any doctor performing abortions have admitting privileges at a local hospital. So what are they doing now? Protesting hospitals to get them to deny admitting privileges to those doctors, of course, as my friend Robin Marty writes.
In Texas, where the state's endangered clinics are struggling to stay open, the anti-abortion organization Life Dynamics has put together a campaign notifying hospitals that offering admitting privileges to any abortion-providing doctors could be bad for them in some mysterious, unnamed way.
The letters addressed to every hospital in the state don't specify what exactly the facilities will experience if they do provide access for a doctor. But there are a number of different ways to target a hospital in order to cut off access to legal abortion. Other examples from around the country make it clear that these institutions may experience protests, picketing, and outright harassment of their medical staff and their executives.
For instance, a small group of anti-choice activists in Alabama made it their mission to take on Crestwood Medical Center for offering admitting privileges to one abortion provider in the Huntsville area. In a letter, abortion opponents referred to the hospital as "the 'lifeline' enabling the local abortion business to operate," and promised a protest on hospital grounds. The hospital itself was unmoved, responding in a statement, "We do not intend to — nor can we legally — revoke the medical staff privileges of any trained, licensed, lawful and duly credentialed physician for issues that have no bearing on his or her work or practice at the hospital."In Ohio, anti-abortion activists tucked legislation into the state's yearly budget to make it more difficult for clinics to remain open. The new law requires transfer agreements with nearby hospitals, and even limits which hospitals can offer those privileges by forbidding any institution that receives public funds from entering into an agreement with a local abortion provider. Now, that legislation could have a rippling effect, as pro-life action groups in the state seek to draw attention to hospitals that use abortion clinics to train doctors in full spectrum reproductive health care.
"What kind of logic by University Hospitals can justify training abortionists at Preterm to kill children whose only sin is that their earthly presence will be "inconvenient" while trying to save children of the same gestational age born prematurely at Rainbow Babies and Children Hospital?" demands Lake County Right to Life, a local anti-choice group in Ohio, which has urged its supporters to call the hospital's Chief Executive Officer and Board Members and demand an end to their "participation in child killing."
Together, Lake Country Right to Life and Cleveland Right to Life also organized a "prayerful witness" at the main campus of the hospital to protest the "five notorious local abortionists… listed on the teaching faculty of UH."
The hospital doesn't even need to be in the same state to be a target. An abortion opponent and pastor from Wisconsin has begun a campaign against the Mayo Clinic Health System in Rochester, Minnesota, demanding the hospital fire a doctor whom he feels didn't provide adequate care for his wife during a high-risk pregnancy. He claims that the doctor doesn't value "life" because he might be providing abortions for pregnancy complications at a different hospital — and the protests are taking place at the Franciscan-Mayo in Lacrosse, Wisconsin, despite the fact that no abortions are being performed there.
They justified these regulations on the grounds of protecting the health of the woman, but that was clearly a lie. As with everything they do, the only goal they care about is stopping women from being able to control their own reproduction.


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Are brown eggs healthier than white eggs? What is that brown spot in my egg? Do fertilized eggs taste different? How can you tell if an egg is old or rotten? The Guildbrook Farm girls answer some commonly asked questions about farm fresh chicken eggs.
Do you need to have a rooster to have eggs?
No you only need female hen to have eggs but if you want fertilized eggs then you would need a rooster.
All all eggs either white or brown?
No they aren't. They come in many different colors. For instance, this one is from a black copper maran. This one is from a buff orpington. And this one is from an easter egger.
Are brown eggs healthier than white eggs?
No. Not necessarily. The color of the egg shell doesn't matter. It all just depends on what they eat in their diet.
Do chickens lay in the same box each time?
Not necessarily. But for example, Maple our chicken, lays in the same box every time. But some of our other chickens won't.
Do chickens only lay in the morning?
No. They can lay any time of day.
How long does it take for a chicken to lay an egg?
It can be 20 to 30 minutes up to an hour. For instance, Maple's in there right now laying an egg. She has been in there for 15 minutes.
How many eggs does a chicken lay per week?
Our chickens up to 5-6 eggs per week and in the wintertime their production slows down.
Do eggs need to be refrigerated?
No they do not. Eggs have a protective coating on them called the Bloom. The Bloom protects the egg, unless if you wash it off. With the Bloom on the egg it can last on the counter top for up to 2 weeks.
How can you tell if an egg is old?
So first you have to fill up a glass jar with water. And then have your egg. And then if your egg is floating, that means it's rotten. If it's on it's tip, that means it's 2-3 weeks old. If it's going a little bit off to the side, that means it's one week old. And if it's laying completely flat that means it's fresh.
How to tell if an egg is fertilized…
So first of all you would need a rooster and a hen and they would need to be at an old enough age to mate. Once they've mated you can take the egg from the hen, crack it into a dish, and if it has a white bulls eye on it than that means it's fertilized. If it only has a white dot, that means it's not fertilized.
Does a fertilized egg taste different?
No. It tastes the same as an unfertilized egg.
Why is my yolk so orange?
Well this is an indication that the chicken is free ranging and has a very healthy diet.
Can fertilized eggs hatch on the counter top?
No. In order for the egg to develop they need to be at a 98 degree temperature and they need to have a "suspific" humidity.
Do colored eggs taste different?
No. All our chicken's eggs taste the same because they are all on the same diet.
What is this dark spot on my egg?
It's called a meat spot and it's a defect from the egg and you can just think of it as a little bit of protein. It's mostly found in dark brown eggs and it's an indicator your eggs are fresh.


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Local TV and other channel updates
Posted April 5, 2016 - Service Updates
Some local TV services have moved to new channel numbers, giving them a more prominent position in the Freeview TV guide. Other recent channel changes include the launch of True Crime (60) and QVC+1 (85), whilst BBC Three has now been removed.
You may need to retune to ensure to get the most up to date channel listing.
The following channels have moved to channel 7 from 8:
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This workshop explores the process of essay writing at Postgraduate level. It will review strategies such as analysing the question to establish focus, offer helpful planning techniques and show how to develop correct essay structure by organising ideas into a logical sequence.
Date: Friday 4 May 2018
Time: 10am - 11.30am
For: Postgraduates
Venue: Library Seminar Room 208
Registration: is essential via our workshop booking system.
Resources: You might also like to read our resources on essay writing
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3.8k Swim 180k Bike 42k Run – Temperature 31oC
Swim 01:05:28 - T1 04:50 - Bike 05:36:38 - T2 03:54 - Run 03:14:41 Total Time 10:05:31
It was an early start to the season but I have a lot of racing planned so I needed to have a crack at bagging an Ironman world champs slot early. I did Ironman South Africa in 2009 and won my first age group title there so I have fond memories. The course had changed this year and the race was now the African continental championships. The course was tougher and the field bigger and deeper but it was my best shot outside of the later European season.Working away from home less this year meant I could have a more predictable build of fitness during the winter months but peaking so early in the year had meant a lot of long, wet and cold training sessions. I know what is required to compete at the highest level so I have no complaints, just get the work done and then express the hard earned fitness out on the race track.
A beach start always adds a bit of extra excitement and as the cannon boomed we hurtled towards the surf, diving head long into the waves as they poised to break. I had placed myself at the front and centre of the start, an aggressive plan probably beyond my swimming ability but I was here to compete. As we rounded the first turn buoy I had some open water to cleanly start to hit some rhythm (and no sign of the tiger sharks that had cleared us from the water earlier in the week!). The big swell made navigation problematic with sighting the next buoy only possible at the crest of each wave. Soon enough though, I had the 3.8k under my belt and I was exiting for the showers and to my bike.Within a kilometre of starting the bike ride I knew it was going to be a very challenging day. I ride to power wattage to measure out my effort over the day combined with my heart rate. The combination of the two means I know the numbers I can hit and still run a strong marathon at the end. The malfunctioning bike computer showed neither, I was riding blind, not knowing if I was riding too hard or too easy, I was fumbling my way through the 180km of bike racing. I latched on to the wheel of some of my competitors that came past me, figuring they would be pacing their output and if it felt manageable, then ride with it. By the end of the first 90k lap I felt exhausted, I let them go and at the time I felt I had let the race ride up the road away from me. Still a full 90k of riding left and then a marathon to complete, I was on the cusp of throwing the towel in and registering a DNF for the first time.
I pedalled out the next 90k at an easy pace whilst wrestling with the notion of quitting and the relentless head wind. I resolved to finish the bike, switch to my run kit and try a couple of ks before finally deciding to hand my timing chip in. I knew I needed to find a spark again and it came from an unexpected quarter. I took some coke at the first aid start, it was cool, the sugar gave me a little energy and the caffeine perked me up. The 2k mark was actually the lap turnaround point and they gave out a green wrist band to help tick off the three laps. Now I had one and only needed two more to be finish line bound. I convinced myself to jog through this one and if the wheels didn't fall off, grab another. 14k later I picked up an orange wrist band, one more to go. On this lap I had started to pass one or two of the strong bikers who had left me standing on the first lap of the bike, the race was no longer up the road, it was coming back to me. I kept the pace going, firm enough to nail a competitive time. Lap 3 and the final yellow wrist band, full house and time to start racing for the line. We were competing in the height of the day's heat but I was eating and drinking well and running confidently by now. I started to really believe I was in the race for a podium and a Kona slot so I kept pushing. Down the red carpet of the finishing chute, I crossed the line and the announcer declared me the age group champion. I had no idea, I was stunned. I had been in a very dark place physically and emotionally just a few hours earlier and I had turned it around to win. My place at the Ironman World Champs booked and I can start to dream a little.


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Welcome to the Shakiramedia tourcenter!
Shakira will begin her Sale El Sol / The Sun Comes Out World Tour in September. At the tour center we will keep you up to date with all the tour dates. There is a tourcenter box on the right of the page, which contains the next 10 concert dates and locations.
"We want to redefine what is a concert. There will be many references to mythology. A journey through the cultures." - Shakira
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Tour Fijacion Oral
|Mumbai, India
|Sunday 25 March, 2007
|MMRDA grounds,Bandra kurla complex
|23000 people
|23000 people
|Rs 2,650 and Rs 3,650
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Head-end View wrote:Are the affected personnel being laid off or hopefully reassigned to other jobs within the MBTA?
Robert Paniagua wrote:And just wait, jusrt wait for the REAL big test on Monday, which will be the very first weekday (business day) that not one single Red Line train will employ a guard.
boblothrope wrote:At every station I've passed through, there have been one or two platform conductors who give a flashlight signal to the train operator see when the doors are clear. I assume this is temporary -- how would four employees per station be cheaper than two per train?
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Advice to would-be authors
One of the ways I see writers making a living these days is by selling the dream of authorship. It works like this: Thousands upon thousands of people want to publish a book, so writers who have published books provide them with training, advice, and support – for a fee, of course. Much of my livelihood, in fact, works off this model. As a ghostwriter, I help would-be authors write and publish their messages, often in the form of books.
As with all good things, however, I've noticed this model has a dark side. Since the Internet-of-today is all about – jargon alert! – "scaling businesses through platform building," some writing services are going bonkers with their mass-marketing approach to the business. Some offer great advice and services. But what some are marketing in attempt to scale their businesses is – and I know this will shock you – a distortion of the truth, aka, a lie.
So at the risk of being labeled a fuddy-duddy, allow me to suggest that all aspiring authors of the world take a moment, pump their proverbial breaks, and evaluate a few deeper realities of writing and publishing. Before shelling out boatloads of money for help with your book project, carefully consider some of the deeper realities that reside beneath the "marketed truth."
Marketed Truth: You can write a book in a few weeks.
Deeper Reality: Very few authors have written a good book that quickly. Writing with excellence takes time and effort. It's not always hard. Sometimes the words flow easily and quickly. But it's not always easy. Most of the time, in fact, the writing – and especially the rewriting – is challenging. Consider these words from a few successful writers:
- "Easy reading is damned hard writing." – Nathaniel Hawthorne
- "A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people." – Thomas Mann
- "When something can be read without effort, great effort has gone into its writing." – Enrique Jardiel Poncela
- "Writing is easy. All you do is stare at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead." – Gene Fowler
Marketed Truth: It's easier and cheaper than ever to publish a book.
Deeper Reality: Services like Create Space make it easy, and you no longer need the help of a traditional New York-based publishing house. But … it still will cost you if you want a quality product. Even if you're a great writer, you'll need great editors (plural), a great designer to make it look good and great marketers to help sell it. You'll have to spend time and money to get the attention of the book-buying public. And, ultimately, you still probably won't sell very many books. Most likely, you will spend far, far more to write, publish and market the book than you will make on the sales from the book.
Marketed Truth: Everyone should write and publish a book.
Deeper Reality: Speaking of fuddy-duddys, anyone remember writer/contrarian Christopher Hitchens? I seldom agreed with much that he had to say, but that doesn't mean he was never right. For instance, he's generally credited with saying, "Everybody does have a book in them, but in most cases that's where it should stay." Very true. And Walter Bagehot, a British essayist, once pointed out that, "The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything." Also true. So if you are a great writer who doesn't have much to say or a poor writer with nothing to say, you certainly can write and publish a book. But please don't inflict it on the rest of us.
OK, enough cold water. The point of all this isn't to discourage most of you from writing and publishing a book. Really, it's not. The point is to encourage anyone who is thinking about writing and publishing a book to do so with a clear view of reality. Measure the costs. Set a budget. Be smart about it.
When I talk to people who are thinking about writing a book, I almost always encourage them to do so. That's because most of them feel a compelling need to write something that's on their heart. The bigger question is this: To what end? I believe God sometimes tells us to write a book, a blog, an essay, a poem, or some other musing simply so that we can process a lesson He wants us to learn. The audience is me and God (or you and God). No one else.
Writers write because they have no choice. The message within them longs to break free and live in some form, and to suppress that message is nothing short of disobedience. So write. And if you are so called, publish what you've written. And, if so called, market what you've published. But no matter where your obedience to a message takes you, bury your expectations. As the great Flannery O'Connor put it, "When a book leaves your hands, it belongs to God. He may use it to save a few souls or to try a few others, but I think that for the writer to worry is to take over God's business."
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Want some free tips to help you think through a potential book project? I put together this list a few years ago, and I periodically update it. Click here to read my Author's Checklist. You don't even have to give me your email address. All it costs you is the time it takes to click the link and read it. But, hey, if you want to sign up to receive my blog, by all means, go for it!


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So, typically my new year's resolution is to start the year off with some sort of diet. In recent years, I've tried them all – the Atkins revolution, the South Beach Diet, the all banana diet, the porn star diet, the beans and rice diet, the zen buddha diet, the cannibal diet (okay, maybe not that one). My point is – I've tried a lot of diets. I've also quit a lot diets because they just don't seem to work. I lose enthusiasm.
The way to lose is weight is to increase output and decrease input. Simple, but easier said than done. Luckily, I found Wuyi tea which is a great way to accomplish both. The tea curbs my appetite so that I don't find myself dieting and starving myself. It happens naturally. I also get a nice energy kick from the tea. It doesn't make me jittery or cause my heart to flutter the way some of the other fad items do.
I can't speak for you, but for me traditional diets just haven't done the trick. Moreover, I feel like I'm doing something unhealthy – rather than healthy – whenever I embark on a diet. Check out Wuyi tea – it's inexpensive and may just be the trick you need to shed a couple of those unwanted inches before it is time to take your shirt off at the beach.
Best of luck.
Wise Man Say, "Drink Wuyi before it drinks you."
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I have been in the hallway of life for about 5 months now. The next obvious door has not opened, nor have I been shoved through one by God. Actually, the message has been to stay in the hallway, until now. Many fabulous people and experiences have visited me in the hallway, yet it is time to go to "My room". I remember when I was young and told to, "Go to your room!" Sometimes it was after behaving badly, other times it was to simply spend quiet time alone, or to get homework done. As I grew up I understood that actually the object was for my parents to have private time without the ears or eyes of a child around. I imagined then, that they were always talking about my pending Christmas presents. Maybe there is a place called "My room" along this hallway where I can stop and regroup. I simply need to find it.
I have been parenting myself now for many years, and have developed some great skills that I am proud of. For example, I work hard on projects with a desire to create something that not only achieves the goal, but is fun for others and eye opening. Yet some of my skills are not healthy on a long term basis. I tend to overdo, seek opportunity to help others, take on huge emotional healing projects (like this blog for example), and over exercise all the while taking no breaks. Just recently, I exercised to the point that my abs hurt so badly I thought it may be my ovary exploding. Nope, it was just from doing way too many extended plank holds and running too fast because of my awesome music selection. NO breaks, turns into painful burn out. Then, your body pretty much forces you to take a break. Well, the last time I allowed myself to burn out completely; I drove 11,000 miles and quit work for 7 months.
As wonderful as that experience was, I can't afford to do that yearly! There has to be a better way for me to love myself enough to stop, take a break and go to "My room". Through completing my first book, reading my travel journals and starting the second book, I remembered where I feel at peace; on the road. Is the road "My room" or is it something more than that?
I will just have to find out, because I am going to "My room" for 2 weeks. I am gifting me with the ultimate Valentine's Day gift; a mini solo trip to Arizona and Utah. The people I met in those two states along my journey helped to heal my heart and soul in a very unique way, and I am going back. What I am leaving behind is just as important. My roles of daughter, mother, care taker, worker, therapist, coach, and the girl who just wants to be liked at any cost are staying here, because I know that they will be waiting for me upon my return.
The moment I clicked the purchase button for the ticket my heart sang! And then my soul wept with gratitude while saying in relief, "Thank God, she FINALLY listened!" Whatever residual stress, heartache, and pain find their way with me on this trip will be left in the woods, thrown at the base of great red rocks and given to the wind. I will have sleepovers, stay up late and talk all night in "My room". I will drive alone, hike alone, and talk to God alone. The only person I am taking with me is the highest and quirkiest version of me, and she can't wait!
I will gladly "Go to My room!" I love this kind of "Time Out."
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EDITOR'S NOTE: Links to selected media news from the past week.
* Are you a wordsmith who's a closet lousy speller? In honor of the Scripps National Spelling Bee this week, here is a quiz to either make you feel really good or really bad about yourself. (usatoday.com)
* The Independent Journal Review, which uses Upworthy-like headlines to cover "conservative interests," (Watch As A Group of Soldiers Does Something Truly American For Our Fallen Heroes At Arlington) saw 12.9 million unique visitors in January; it is currently ranked as a more highly visited site than The New York Times. (Digiday.com)
* Longtime newspaperwoman Geneva Overholser says her own experience doesn't exactly jibe with what she's been reading about the new leader of The New York Times, Dean Baquet, and that might be comforting to some. (genevaoverholser.com)
PostEverything Does Well, Everything. The Washington Post website is launching a new section called PostEverything, which will draw upon freelance contributors to give expert opinions on a variety of topics, writes PostEverything editor Adam B. Kushner. "A newsroom is a finite space," said Kushner. "The conversation about ideas isn't confined exclusively to The Post, or even to the Beltway. Never trust a monopolistic claim of intelligence." Already on the site, which launched May 28, are articles ranging from a possible robot takeover of American jobs to Obama's foreign policy memes.
Cooking with Code: Do you have to Google that slow-cooker Beef Stroganoff recipe every time you want to use it? The New York Times says it has a solution, using its massive archive of recipes from some of the world's greatest cooks and food writers, according to fastcodedesign.com. The beta version of this recipe-search-and-collection site gets a positive review and just might replace your tattered file that never got properly organized anyway. It's also an example of addressing what the Times was talking about in its innovation report bemoaning a lack of easy access to choice archival material.
The Animated Selfie: A new app called Selphee allows you to take a photo, then a short video. The photo serves as sort of an introduction to the video, with easy options for sharing on bigger social media outlets, such as Instagram, reports TechCrunch. Here's an example of a creepy eye "Selphee."
The Semicolon; semiconscious? The Washington Post reports that the use of the semicolon in English literature has declined significantly over time, ranging from one every three sentences in Jane Austen's Sense & Sensibility to just one every 55 sentences in Stephenie Meyer's Twilight. This chart, by Tyler Vigen, shows the semicolon's steady descent.
Tweetable Typos: Perhaps the irony was just too rich. A typo on the front page of the Thursday New York Times — the same day as the Scripps National Spelling Bee finals— was covered by The Huffington Post, Romenesko, Poynter and Mashable, with headlines and tweets blaring across the Internet, proclaiming that the typo ("Reponse" instead of "Response") was both glaring and embarrassing. But some warnings accompanied the snark, from those who were quick to point out the hazards of journalists crowing about someone else's blooper …..
Tweets about the NYT front-page typo are lighting the fuse of a journalistic karma bomb.
— DH Statehouse (@DHStatehouse) May 29, 2014
4 Social Media Tips from News Orgs: From Nieman Journalism Lab: 1)Tweets written with "voice" and by a human net the most engagement at CNN. 2) "Producers, writers and editors" share the responsibility for posting to NBC News feeds. 3) The Wall Street Journal created a field in its back-end system for social-media friendly headlines. 4) According to the NYT: If you sent out one tweet that performed particularly well, send it out again.
Sob: Ever take a BuzzFeed quiz and felt sad by the results? This week the Comedy Central game show @midnight asked its followers on Twitter to share the results of their "#sadbuzzfeedquizzes." BuzzFeed also used the hashtag this week.
#SadBuzzFeedQuizzes When Exactly Did Your Childhood Dream Die? — Michelle (@RageMichelle) May 29, 2014
Which Rare Disease Will You Convince Yourself You Have By Reading Web MD Too Much? #SadBuzzFeedQuizzes http://t.co/UMikhDA4n3
— BuzzFeed (@BuzzFeed) May 30, 2014
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Rob Fields is a buddy of ours at The Root and his blog Bold As Love is worth checking out, especially if Black Alt Rock is your cup of tea. Here's a sample of an interview with Oakland rockers HOTTUB from guest blogger Sierra McClain
SIERRA: Throw your sets up! Where do you live and why do you love it?
HOTTUB: We love living in Oakland, because of taco trucks, street walkers, pimps, pushers, hoes, and a whole lot of "ebmud" (the best tap water in the world).
SIERRA: Does HOTTUB identify with a particular musical genre?
HOTTUB: Straight edge butt core.
SIERRA: What are your musical influences?
HOTTUB: Candy Pants, Betty Davis, Suicide, X-Ray Specs, ESG, Sly and Family Stone, Beastie Boys, The Slits, B-52s, Belle Epoque, John Waters, Lydia Lunch, Mighty Boosh, Devo, MJ, Sun-Ra, Parliament, Big L, the list can go on, but most of all Oakland!!!!
SIERRA: How would you describe your music to someone who has never heard it before?
HOTTUB: It's like a deaf person hearing for the first time! John Waters meets Daft Punk at a 2 Live Crew show.


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The ability to transcribe and translate spiritual knowledge into recognizable images and to keep a record of that information is a necessary part of personal development.
Such records and especially the ability to keep a journal are an invaluable part of dream recording. Dreaming of a pen or pencil may also suggest that we could attempt automatic or inspired writing.


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how have you been?
This is the third part of the story of "Bhuntar to Sunder Nagar via Kataula" trip. In the second post the story of our visit to Kundakari Narayan Temple at Shayari village in Mandi District of Himachal Pradesh was covered.
After an adventurous descend from the Shayari village we started on the Bajaura -Mandi road and we reached at Tihri(Uttarsal) at around 2:00PM. We were told by a side walker that the Dev(Adi Purkha Brahma) has gone for a lunch meal to the nearby village so, we were going to visit the temple only.
Along a kachha road it was a total four kilometers of journey from the main road up to the top where temple was situated at Tihri. A group of boys sitting on the parapet boundary of the old temple welcomed us and conversed about the temple.
|Front view of the old temple of Adi Purkha Brahma at Tihri, Uttarsal - clicked on 06-04-2014
They didn't know much about the temple either, however they told us about the old and new temple. Old temple was the one on the top and the new one was constructed at a 5 m sloped downward distance next to old one.
They told us that lord stays at the new temple and goes to the old temple only when someone comes with a purpose. Purpose of sitting at the old temple is to listen to the special queries and prayers of the people.
|New Brahma temple built below the Adi Purkha Brahma temple at Tihri, Uttarsal, Mandi(H.P.) - clicked on 06-04-2014
Wooden temple walls are carved with different designs and there are four masks of a man(Brahma) hung on each wall.
The new temple looks fresh and has a different opening/entrance than the usual entrances to the temples.
|Stairs leading to the entrance on the roof of the New Adi Purkha Brahma temple at Tihri, Uttarsal, Mandi(H.P.) - clicked on 06-04-2014
There is a back view of the mountain of Parashar Rishi where the famous Parashara lake is situated. Mountain top was still containing the traces of the snow.
|A view of the adjacent mountains from the varandah of New Adi Purkha Brahma temple at Tihri, Uttarsal, Mandi(H.P.)- clicked on 06-04-2014
I think this spot was a perfect one for the person who want to meditate in peace away from the noise and worldly matters provided, the basic needs are fulfilled.
There are basic facilities of water, current and transportation to the temple but for more than that one has to reach to the nearby places such as Mandi and Kullu.
Our next stop was a road side Dhaba at Kataula where, we took our lunch meal and then next at our houses at Sunder Nagar.
To read part 1 and part 2 click links below:
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Crack that job interview!
An interview is a harrowing experience in any job-seeker's life, but in this day of cost-cutting, it can be even more of an ordeal. Sweaty palms, nervous fidgeting and urgent prayers are all just part of the process.
However, interviews are not the inquisition they are made out to be, and if you play your cards right, chances are you'll return with the job in your bag. Here are some tips that will help you gain that extra edge and bring you closer to cracking that interview.
Your interview process starts even before you go to meet your prospective employer. Start by preparing for the big day. Research the company/ organisation as well as you possibly can. Check their website, read whatever published literature you can find about the company, and if you know anyone who works there, talk to them. This will give you a better insight into the company and their work. It will also show initiative on your part.
If you are very nervous about the interview, ask a friend to go through a dry run with you. Practice a mock interview at home, ask for feedback and try to iron out all wrinkles in your responses before you go for the interview.
Carry all your documents
Always, always carry at least two or three copies of your resume, and all other documents that might be relevant to the job and/ or the interview. Arriving without relevant materials says that you are unprepared and not serious about the job.
Know your skill set
Are you great at developing processes but don't know how to use the latest software? Are you good at design but hate conceptualizing? Know what your strengths and weaknesses are, so that you can play up your strengths at the interview table. A common interview question often is: "What are your three greatest strengths?" Try to come up with an answer that can be backed with examples, numbers or concrete results.
Don't back-bite
You will almost certainly be asked why you left your previous company. Be sure to give a professional reply and refrain from bad-mouthing your previous employer, no matter how bad the terms you left on were. Back-biting will only make you appear petulant and vengeful.
Watch your attitude
Don't be cocky and overconfident, but don't be subservient and passive either. The organisation is most likely looking for someone who is confident, eager to learn, and a good worker.
Communicate well
Communication skills aren't a bonus in today's job market, they are a pre-requisite. Greet the interviewer with a firm handshake, make eye contact, and speak clearly and concisely. Don't ramble but make sure you get your point across. This will demonstrate your level of confidence and clarity of thought.
It's a two- way street
Remember, an interview is an interaction to determine how well you fit into the organisation's needs as well as how the company fits into your career plan. Ask questions, be involved and make suggestions. Your prospective employer will be pleased that you showed interest and were willing to learn more.
Highlight other achievements
Sometimes, what takes you that extra mile need not be professional experience. It could be something you did on your own time that shows you in a better light to a prospective employer. For instance, if you have volunteer work on your resume, play it up. This shows a socially responsible bent of mind. If you are well-travelled, mention it. Not only does it say that you have had various kinds of exposure, it also implies you are adaptable to different cultures — this might be useful if the job requires you to travel.
Say thank you
The day after the interview, send out a crisp thank you e-mail. However, be careful you don't make it a long saga, brevity is key when it comes to thank you notes.
With inputs from Sunder Ramachandran, HR trainer and consultant, WCH Solutions.


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Part 4 in the series
By: Mr. Holmes
Needless to say I was very nervous walking to the school; so many thoughts were running through my head. I thought if I could just get in the ring and take that first bump maybe I would be ok. The school started at six. Of course, I got there at 5:30 as I had no idea how long it would take for me to walk down there. Mike was not there and neither were any of the other students. But, who was there was all the muay thai students setting up the ring at the gym.
It was my first day so I did not know who to talk to or anything. So, I was standing there waiting for Mike when this asshole comes up to me and says, "Get out of here you fat fuck." At this point, I kind of freaked. I was a young kid and not very confrontational so I just said "fuck this" and left. I have become much harder since then and if that same thing happened today I probably would be in jail for assault. What saddens me is that I never ran into that guy again for the whole year. Maybe he died or maybe he moved. In all the time of me going to that school I never saw him again.
I walked home like a little girl and started to pack my bags when there was a knock on my door. It was Mike; I explained what happened to him, (I left out the part of the muay thai guy shaming me) telling him I was there and nobody else was so I told him I thought I went on the wrong day. He said he was just running late that day and I should start tomorrow at six. In a very odd way, Mike Shaw always had the ability to calm me down and make me believe in myself without ever being an asshole. I think he knew my psyche right away and knew what I was going through.
The next day, I got to the school the same time Mike did. We talked for a while and we walked in the school. Some of the other students were there and already in the ring warming up taking different moves. Some were working on hip tosses. A hip toss is when one person sticks his arm underneath the armpit of another and flips him over so one person is lying flat on their back. The person taking it basically does a front flip with the person giving the maneuver guiding them over. I thought, no way my 380 pound (at the time) fat ass could flip over; boy was I dead wrong. I barely touched any of the other students that day. Mike got in the ring with me and started showing me the very basics like locking up, running the ropes, taking bumps, and basic chain wrestling. I would see and learn later on that this was very rare for Mike, as he hardly ever physically got in the ring. The first day went very well; I was kind of a natural at it.
I was a natural at it because of countless hours of studying wrestling tapes from all over the world. I watched all wrestling shows and tapes twice–the first for entertainment as of course I was a huge fan, the second in slow motion to study how they did things. I was ahead of the game before I even stepped foot in the ring. I studied all information on the internet, television or in magazines on pro wrestling in preparation for wrestling school.
Before I get back to the story, I owe thanks for much of my early prep to the person who is (besides my wife of course. Don't get mad honey!) my best friend in the entire world, my first cousin Steve. When we were little kids growing up we would "fake wrestle" at the backyard of grandparents' bar, Joe's Lucky 13. Steve was the best athlete that I had ever seen. He was an outstanding amateur wrestler and played varsity baseball as a freshman. The list goes on and on. He loved watching pro wrestling. He got me into it. He was five years older than me and we were both only children at the time, so I was his de facto little brother. He terrorized me for years when we were kids, making me fake wrestle all the time with him when I didn't want to. I got the snot kicked out of me by Steve when we were kids but I never hated him. He was my hero and my role model when I was growing up and in writing this I am so happy he did that. He made me into a man and developed my love for pro wrestling. He taught me how to play every sport and to be tough. I just want to thank him here and say I love you. I could not have had this amazing story and fulfilled my dreams without you.
So, I was a natural on day one. Then I got my clock cleaned taking a clothesline from this 5ft 11′ blond haired kid who weighed maybe 160 pounds at the time. I thought to myself, who is this asshole and by god does he know this is entertainment?! He called himself Supreme Brett Powers and he talked like he was a game show host. Needless to say I was not fond of him the 1st day I met him. Given time, though, I became so close to him that he stood alongside me the day I was married. That story comes next week…thanks for reading!
October 6th, come to Escanaba, MI at the Delft Night Club for UPW Pro Wrestling featuring the King of the U.P. tournament and watch as Judge Jesse and Mr. Holmes take on Romeo Valentino and Vito Von Guido in a Police Brutality Match (handcuffs and nightsticks are legal) for the UPW Tag Team Championship. Doors open at 6:00p.m. Eastern Standard Time. Check out UPW's page for more info: http://www.upwprowrestling.com/


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Rev. Matt Jones
Matt has served as Associate Pastor for the congregation since 2011 and is currently focused on congregational care. He began his journey with First Presbyterian Church as a visitor in 1998 and joined in 1999. He served from 1998-2003 as musician, vocalist and worship leader in the contemporary worship services. He sensed God's call to pursue a Master of Divinity degree through Fuller Theological Seminary and graduated in 2007. After serving a congregation in Oklahoma City for four years, Matt was called to First Presbyterian Church of Edmond. He and his wife, Gayle, have four grown-up children and enjoy living near downtown Edmond. Matt concentrates on helping people experience the deep love of Christ.
An Excerpt from the FPCE 2015 Annual Report
Written by: Rev. Matt Jones
For this grateful pastor, ministry at First Presbyterian Church in 2015 encompassed many different areas. The early part of the year was spent helping the Session and staff on the church budget, stewardship and ministry, the nominating committee on officer nominees, and deacon and elder candidates in their training and examination.
For the last six months of 2015 I have been allowed to focus an increasing amount of attention on pastoral care. This empowered me to make visits to members in hospitals and assisted living centers. I also served as a resource to the Board of Deacons, attending meetings and giving training for things such as home-bound communion. I serve on the Stephen Ministry leadership team and have been busy with pastoral counseling for members of the church.
My general pastoral duties included fourteen Sundays of the year, on which I preached from the pulpit. I served as liturgist in worship numerous times. I led several small groups over the course of the year. I presided at a few weddings and over a dozen memorial services in 2015.
Session committees for which I was a resource during the year were: Christian Connections, Communications, Finance and Property, Personnel, and Denominational Relations.
Words from Ephesians 2:10 are a great reminder for me and, I hope, for you: "For we are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do."


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Imagine a system for CRT recycling.
Imagine that the system is as effective as any bulky waste program in the nation. Like "old hat" programs for tires and white goods and auto batteries, the system succeeds at capturing 85% of all of the stuff that's generated, from Boston to Eureka Springs Arkansas. Imagine that residents participating in the program don't have to learn anything new, they can take their CRT monitor or TV, or set it out at the curb, do exactly what they would do with an air conditioner.
Imagine that retailers, if they wished to, could easily participate in the program, but if it was a hardship for them, they didn't have to. Imagine that towns don't have to charge residents a fee for the items, and don't have to worry about them being dumped in some poor country on the other side of the world.
What if you drove up to your town recycling center, open six days per week, and told them that you had a TV to recycle... and the person at the scalehouse asked what brand it was. When you said it was a Sony, you were handed a bar coded sticker to put on the screen (to track they go to the right place and are not double counted). You were told that Sony was picking up the tab for your item that day.
Imagine you are a manufacturer who has been paying for "events" around the country which just seem to go on and on, stopping traffic and creating a massive batch of stuff to pay for all at once, with no predicting the amounts. You had not known for sure whether the TVs you paid for that day would be sorted and sent to one of your other grant programs. Because everything came in all at once, you'd been paying a bigger bill for the loss of reuse value. But in this new program, you had a predictable fee, since you knew weekly or monthly how many barcoded stickers had been printed out, and could budget and track the evolution of collections in different parts of the country. You wrote a check to the recycler the same as you already pay for coupons brought to a retailer, so there's no new system to invent. You knew that every single individual who got your sticker saw evidence of your company's loyalty and greenness in writing on the same day that they brought in their item.
Imagine that towns which went the extra mile and subsidized their programs (by alloting a portion of "avoided disposal costs" to each TV) got financial assistance, but that towns that gouged and double charged for the item only got the fair portion of the bill paid. Imagine that if your product turned up at another state for double-counting, that an adhesive sticker and bar code on the screen made enforcement simple.
What if you manufactured a product made of all recyclable metals that was easy as heck to upgrade and recycle, and that recyclers competing for the item would sell you the stickers for less, immediately recognizing the value? What if there were no more concerns about "legacy" IBM product, because the metals values were so high that recyclers bid to recycle the older product for less?
What if a manufacture who made rules against reuse and "market cannabalization" found that they could protect themselves from that, but that the cost of destroying good product made recyclers charge more per sticker, instead of having the cost of their obsolescence policies spread around all consumers of all products?
What if it was really easy to change and adjust the program without amending legislation? What if changes and advances in manufacturing were responded to by recyclers bidding to issue coupons? What if manufacturers who were not participating found out that residents had to pay for their items, and they were the only manufacturer listed on a "does not participate" sign?
Imagine a pre-legislation partnership, where this system was allowed to work, and whatever everyone was happy with was unnecessary to legislate, and whatever they were unhappy with
could be tweaked with new pricing, new coupons, new methods?
Been there, done that. Welcome to Vermont.
VT Solid Waste District Coupon Letter
We collect TVs in every county, using the same system as other bulky goods. Sony is paying for coupons to be issued to the communities. Each coupon has a peel-off barcoded sticker. If Sony lets us repair and reuse a modest number, we sell them the sticker for less than face value... If they demand we send their TVs somewhere special, to another recycler, no problem, we just incoporate that into the price of coupons we sell Sony.
Press has been positive. Clients have been positive. Residents participating have been happy. We get to see exactly how many Sonys we have coming in from each neighborhood, and we share that information with Sony. If they want more research we can sort the TVs by year. If they want to add VCRs or something, no problem, we sell them more stickers and coupons and send them out. If Sony wants to expand the program to parts of New Hampshire, New York, or Connecticut, its pretty easy to order more stickers.
This is the first pre-legislation partnership, we are forming the partnership with everyone except the legislature and brands that don't want to participate. At the end of the year, if there are a LOT of the latter, we expect more of the former.


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I am, of course, talking about the angora I got at the Long Island Knitting and Crochet Guild Auction last Thursday. 10 balls, 100 grams, 12 dollars!
Can you believe it? It also came in these great shades of purple.
I really want to make something out of it, but I have no idea what. So maybe you guys can help. 100 grams, DK weight, angora. 7 balls lavender and 3 ball dark violet. I tried the ravelry search, but I don't know… I guess I just need some help. I've been toying with the idea of using it as an accent for a larger product as well.
So here's your mission if you choose to accept it: tell me what I should make with the yarn. If you know of a specific pattern, please tell me about it, but if you just have a general idea, I'd love to hear that too!


text: LINGUIST List: Vol-14-390. Sat Feb 8 2003. ISSN: 1068-4875. Subject: 14.390, Review: Historical Ling: Butt & Holloway King (2001) Moderators: Anthony Aristar, Wayne State U.<aristar at linguistlist.org> Helen Dry, Eastern Michigan U. <hdry at linguistlist.org> Reviews (reviews at linguistlist.org): Simin Karimi, U. of Arizona Terence Langendoen, U. of Arizona Home Page: http://linguistlist.org/ The LINGUIST List is funded by Eastern Michigan University, Wayne State University, and donations from subscribers and publishers. Editor for this issue: Naomi Ogasawara <naomi at linguistlist.org> ========================================================================== What follows is a review or discussion note contributed to our Book Discussion Forum. We expect discussions to be informal and interactive; and the author of the book discussed is cordially invited to join in. If you are interested in leading a book discussion, look for books announced on LINGUIST as "available for review." Then contact Simin Karimi at simin at linguistlist.org. =================================Directory================================= 1) Date: Fri, 07 Feb 2003 13:49:20 +0000 From: hassler at rz.uni-potsdam.de Subject: Time over Matter. Diachronic Perspectives on Morphosyntax -------------------------------- Message 1 ------------------------------- Date: Fri, 07 Feb 2003 13:49:20 +0000 From: hassler at rz.uni-potsdam.de Subject: Time over Matter. Diachronic Perspectives on Morphosyntax Butt, Miriam & Tracy Holloway King, ed. (2001) Time over Matter. Diachronic Perspectives on Morphosyntax. CSLI Publications. Center for the Study of Language and Information, Leland Stanford Junior University, paperback ISBN 1-57586-282-4, VI+246pp, Studies in Constraint-Based Lexicalism. Announced at http://linguistlist.org/issues/13/13-1646.html Gerda Hassler, Institut für Romanistik, Universität Potsdam Content This volume comprises seven papers examining problems in historical (morpho)syntax from the perspective of Lexical- Functional Grammar (LFG). The first paper written by Nigel Vincent entitled ''LFG as a Model of Syntactic Change'' serves as an introduction. He seeks to develop a general case for the contribution that a lexically-based correspondence model of grammar can make to our understanding of morphosyntactic change. He starts with the discussion of continuity and discontinuity in language change and points out that Lightfoot criticises grammaticalisation theorists for their insistence on continuity and directionality in change, while they in turn criticise him for ignoring the challenge that grammaticalisation data seem to pose to discontinuous models. He argues that LFG has not come encumbered with the ideological crust that has accreted around much of the current debate on language change. It is a model which allows a reconciliation of the legitimate, twentieth-century concern for linguistics to be a formal discipline with the inevitable fuzziness that comes from the anchoring of language at least in part in the pragmatically and semantically determined goals of language use. The word ''functional'' has been incorporated into the name of at least two other grammatical theories, namely Halliday's Functional Grammar and Simon Dik's Functional Grammar. While these ''functionalist'' views are committed to seeing language primarily in its socio- communicative dimension, the architecture of LFG opens up the possibility that ''functional'' in the sense of functionalist considerations might be involved in the principles which dictate the correspondence between structures. Discussing Lightfoot's position, the author argues that a differential granularity of change is what is missing in much of the generative polemicisation about change. LFG is presented as a model that allows space both for large-scale and small-scale shifts. In the theory of grammaticalisation, Vincent holds the view that sees change as having a direction. But the key question is whether this frequently observed directionality is built into the definition of grammaticalisation or whether it is an empirical hypothesis thrown up by research within this framework. The phenomenon of grammaticalisation, and especially its directional asymmetry, are real and in need of explanation. Finally, Vincent argues that they can be modelled in LFG. Vincent discusses several points dividing researchers, such as Optimality Theory. All Romance languages, for example, exhibit a class of items known as clitics, and in all the modern languages these items occupy one or more of a number of syntactically determined positions in relation to the verb. In Latin, the ancestors of the modern pronouns for the most part followed Wackernage's law and occurred in second position in their clause. Put at its most simple, the Latin distribution was prosodically determined whereas the modern distribution is dictated by syntactic principles, albeit different ones in different languages, and at different times in the history of the respective language. Anderson (2000) shows how in an analogous situation in Serbo-Croat the second position effect is economically and naturally derived through the interaction of two constraints. Discussing the advantages of LFG in explaining language change, Vincent points out that it avoids many vices of other theories: it does not beg the issue of realisation and thus can provide a representational basis for competing variants out of which change can grow. It is not forced to see morphosyntactic change as the response to the erosive effects of sound change. The second paper, written by Cynthia Allen, deals with ''The Development of a New Passive in English''. In such passives, frequently called ''indirect'' or ''recipient'' passives (example: He was given a book), it is not the theme, but the recipient that is treated as the subject. LFG offers a simple explanation of the timing of the appearance of this new construction, while the traditional assumption that case- marking ambiguity directly led to a re-analysis does not. Allen argues that the introduction of the recipient passive is in fact evidence of the re-analysis, but the re-analysis was not of the fronted indirect object as a subject, but it was the re-analysis of the indirect object in active sentences as a direct object. This change was gradual and proceeded at a different pace with individual verbs. Allen assumes a more indirect connection between the loss of case marking and the introduction of the new construction, since it is highly plausible that the loss of case marking encouraged speakers to rely more and more on constituent order for sorting out the grammatical and semantic relations of a sentence. The immediate trigger for the re-analysis, however, was the fixing of constituent order. The subject of Julia Barron's paper is ''Perception and Raising Verbs: Synchronic and Diachronic Relationships''. She examines the relationship between verbs denoting visual perception or visible appearance and subject-to-subject raising verbs denoting epistemic judgment. She looks at synchronic relations between verbs of perception and raising verbs, and then she shows how one notion of semantic bleaching may correspond to the historical dissociation of function and theta-role. Semantic bleaching, however, is not a sudden process, but a gradual one. Given that vision is the primary sensory source of intellection, it is not surprising that in many languages the verb meaning ''to see'' is related to a verb meaning ''to seem'' in its sense of ''to be perceived as''. But in many cases the subject of the equivalent of ''seems'' is some kind of stimulus providing visual information. In other cases the subject simply fulfils syntactic and information structure requirements and is non- thematic, and hence the structure is that of a raising construction. Miriam Butt has contributed a paper entitled ''A Re- examination of the Accusative to Ergative Shift in Indo- Aryan''. She undertakes a re-examination of the purported development of a split ergative system in Urdu/Hindi from an accusative system in Sanskrit. This shift is generally taken to be connected to a passive structure that is interpreted as active. A closer look at the historical facts reveals that some of the essential ingredients cannot be substantiated. The paper collects the problems with the hypothesis of a case system shift for Indo-Iran in a coherent package while adding further findings. The hypothesis that instrumental -ina was the direct ancestor of the ergative ''ne'' has been shown to be questionable. An alternative hypothesis is that the ergative is a calque from a dative form that was used either in a dialect of Hindi or in a neighbouring related language. The alternative hypothesis put forward by Butt is that Urdu/Hindi represents a continuation of a system of case marking which employed a rich variety of non-nominative subject marking, but whose structural alignment is underlyingly accusative: subjects group together vs. objects with regard to a number of syntactic properties. She hypothesises that many of the modern case markers were drawn from a set of postpositions and that they gradually took over the functions of case markers as the Sanskrit inflectional case marking collapsed. In ''Representation and Variation: On the Development of Romance Auxiliary Syntax'' Christoph Schwarze endeavours to expound on how to construct the model of linguistic competence so as to encompass historical change and that this is not achieved simply by attributing change to the conditions under which children acquire language. He starts with general assumptions about linguistic change. If there are no parameters, but only lexically encoded instantiations of Universal Grammar, syntactic change is also lexical change, and there is no reason to exclude the possibility that the variations from which language change originates can occur at any stage of an individual's life. Language change can then be defined as diachronic variation of the mentallexicon, socially shared through communication. Schwarze argues that LFG makes it possible to describe abstract grammatical information, such as tense, regardless of whether that information is expressed by morphology or syntax. This is regarded as an advantage for the analysis of the rise of Romance compound tenses and periphrastic passives, which is a process in which morphology is replaced by syntax. Schwarze first characterises the current states of the auxiliaries in Spanish, Italian and French, thereafter he sketches the developments that have led to these states. The emergence of the Romance auxiliary syntax in a period of orality is paramount to changes of lexically encoded properties of those Latin verbs which were to become Romance auxiliaries and of the Latin past passive and deponent participles. Of the two types of variation discussed in this study, local variation is more responsible for innovations, while global variation accounts for the further fate of innovations. Finally, Schwarze points out that global structures vary under the influence of conflicting principles of learnability. In ''Preferred Word Order and the Grammaticalization of Associated Path'', Jane Simpson studies the apparent paradox of some Australian languages that they have free word order, and yet they have rich morphological structure which shows evidence of grammaticalisation, that is, of bound morphemes which appear historically to have been free words. She first illustrates the cline of grammaticalisation of associated path in morphology, Then she describes a synchronic participle-verb sequence which provides a model for the move from phrase sequence towards word. Her focus is on the path that leads to grammaticalisation, and in particular the ''point of shift'' where syntactic re-analysis takes place. In the final paper Ida Toivonen discusses ''Language Change, Lexical Features and Finnish Possessors''. The data considered comes from the Finnish possessive system, which involves both independent pronouns and bound affixes which interact in a complex manner. Morphosyntactic change is described with reference to lexical features. She wants t demonstrate that the formal framework of Lexical-Functional Grammar provides all the necessary tools. Exploring the origin of the lexical split, she shows how the present lexical analysis can help us understand the evolution of the modern system. Further changes that have occurred in various Finnish dialects can easily be captured with lexical features. Critical evaluation The contributions of this book have shown that LFG can accommodate both sudden and gradual syntactic change. They explain changes as the result of a re-analysis of grammatical relations and offer new insight into this process. The language phenomena chosen in the book represent fundamental changes in the syntax of languages, and for this reason, may not be representative for language change as a whole. The authors of this volume remain convinced that modern linguistics, with its focus on structural data and on an underlying cognitive conception of competence, has achieved genuine scientific progress, and that it is possible to integrate issues that were central in the nineteenth century. The book is interesting for everyone who works on language change and grammaticalisation. The focus on LFG is not as prominent in all the contributions as one might expect it to be, but the different approaches are presented in a convincing way. There are several unfortunate typing errors, especially in the introductory paper and in the numbering of the sections of the last one. Altogether, the volume shows that a detailed and specific theory of the lexicon can be useful for understanding morphosyntactic change. References Anderson, Stephen. 2000. Towards an Optimal Account of Second Position. In: Optimality Theory: Phonology, Syntax and Acquisition. Ed. Joost Dekkers, Frank van der Leeuw and Jeroen van de Weijer. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 302-333. Bresnan, Joan. 2001. Lexical Functional Syntax. Oxford: Blackwell. Butt, Miriam and Tracy Holloway King. 2002. The Proceedings of the LFG '02 Conference. National Technical University of Athens. CSLI Publications. http://cslipublications.stanford.edu/LFG/7/lfg02.html Bybee, Joan, Revere Perkins, and William Pagliuca. 1994. The Evolution of Grammar, Tense, Aspect, and Modality in the Languages of the World. Chicago, Illinois: University of Chicago Press. Lightfoot, David. 1991. How to Set Parameters. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press. Lightfoot, David. 1999. The Development of Language. Acquisition, Change, and Evolution. Malden, Massachusetts: Blackwell. Newmeyer, Frederick. 1008. Language Form and Language Function. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press. Newmeyer, Frederick. 2001. Deconstructing Grammaticalization. In: Language Sciences 23: 187-229. ABOUT THE REVIEWER Gerda Hassler is a professor of linguistics in the Department of Romance Languages of the University of Potsdam. 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So Freshers' Week has arrived and you've just moved into your new room, be it in halls or in a privately rented house. For many of you this will be the first time that you've lived away from home, and away from all the comforts that comes with being at home. All that you have now is an empty shell lacking in personality or warmth, which may look lonely right now, but you can soon change all that and make your new room a home from home.
This article will give you a few ideas about how you can do that!
1. Photos and Posters
Everyone loves a photo collage, and they really help to personalise your room and make it feel homely. Not only are they relatively cheap, with many online photo service offering free prints too, but they are such a simple way of decorating a room. Whether you just want to put a few photos up or create a whole collage, they are something that can be built on as the year goes on, providing a source of emotional support at first when most photos are of friends and family from home, but then go on to remind you of all the good times you have throughout the year as more photos of new friends are added! Equally, posters show your interests off and help to personalise your room, covering a lot of blank space that would otherwise be unused. But be cautious with both posters and photos though, halls rules prevent the use of Blu Tack whilst some private contracts have rules regarding Blu Tack, white tack or pins, so double check with your contract before you cover your wall with photos.
2. Soft Furnishings
One thing everyone takes for granted at home are cushions, throws and lamps, and they all make a real difference in making your room feel more homely. Not only are they all very practical, but they add style and comfort to your room, and with a throw, you could save a few pounds by using that rather than turning the heating up. If you do buy some soft furnishings, it's worth remembering that your room is unlikely to be a massive space, and too many cushions could make your room look cluttered and end up causing a mess. Moreover, it's also worth remembering that on a student budget you cannot afford to buy expensive items, so try and bring some from home or look online for separate cushion cases so that you can change them over quite easily, giving you more options but no more cushions, and therefore no cluttering. Prints are extremely popular, whilst a touch lamp also means you don't have to have your main light on.
3. Knick Knacks
This is another great way of bringing a few smaller items to your room that would make a real difference to your room. Figurines, keyrings, rubber ducks, all sorts of knick knacks are out there from the mass-produced to the individual and quirky, and with Portswood and its charity shops being within easy reach for most students, there are loads of places to get a good deal. Again just be careful though, too many can make your room cluttered and messy, and when it comes to cleaning, you really do not want to have too many items that you need to dust around.
4. A homely smell
Keep with me for this one, but it's inevitable that cleaning and tidying your room will quickly fall down your list of priorities at university, and as a result you'll end up with a room that stinks of nights out (and all that they entail), unwashed plates and that piece of food you dropped months ago. Nobody likes that, and if you were at home, that smell would be quickly got rid of, so why not do the same in your new room? There are lots of ways of doing this, and my personal favourite is a reed diffuser. They last for months and help make your room smell fresh in a subtle way, no overpowering scents. Various scented items are around too, so its worth having a look online to see if there is anything you fancy. Of course, a free way of clearing the smell is opening the window, but over winter this is less practical. Candles should be avoided as almost every contract will not allow them.
5. Plants
The ultimate sign of showing you've survived your year at university is by having a plant that you still care for and nurture by the time you reach the end of the second semester. Plants not only give a nice fresh feel to the room, but they brighten it up and also give you something to focus on. Fresh flowers can also give a nice scent, but as they die quickly it is better to by a small green potted plant that will survive, with good examples being Cacti, Bonsai and Aloe Vera. With a potted plant though, it is important that the pot has a few holes in the base to allow water to escape, and remember to put the plant on a plate so that you don't get water all over your room.
These five easy steps are guaranteed to spruce up your room and make it feel more homely, with each one allowing you to express your own personality and interests. It's worth having a look around to see what deals you can get – you don't have to spend lots to have a big impact on your room. You'll end up with a space that is perfect for you.


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Galatians 1:10 For do I now persuade men, or God? Or do I seek to please men? For if I still pleased men, I would not be a bondservant of Christ. (NKJV)
I have found the driving force under many addictive, destructive or compulsive behaviors is the desire for approval. Everyone likes approval and no one seeks disapproval. The problem occurs when we make someone else's opinion more important than God's. When that occurs, we start building an idol around that person's opinion and we become a bond servant to that person. These become very insecure relationships because we fear if we do not perform well we will lose their love and approval. During Paul's day, a bond servant was someone who willingly remained as a slave to someone and he did so because he loved his master. It appears that Paul had once been a bond servant to man's approval and now willingly sought only to find God's approval. Paul's motivation for good works now came from his love for Christ and knowing that he was bought at a tremendous price. What motivates your works today? Is it for the affirmation, validation and approval of man or is it because of your love for Christ? You cannot do both.