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Authentication & Security
Patent published yesterday shows how Apple might use NFC, Bluetooth, Wifi for Payments & Offers
Apple filed a patent application in Sep 2012 which got published on 16th January 2014 that reads METHOD TO SEND PAYMENT DATA THROUGH VARIOUS AIR INTERFACES WITHOUT COMPROMISING USER DATA. It talks about a commercial transaction(s) method using the concepts of NFC secure element as well as Bluetooth, wifi and others. The method first establishes a secure link over a first air interface by a purchasing device. This secure link is between the purchasing device and a point of sale device. The method further identifies a second air interface, which is different from the first air interface, and the second air interface is used to conduct a secure commercial transaction.
Basically it looks like a concept where Apple is going to use the goodness of NFC (securely initiating the transaction) and the goodness of relatively longer-distance technologies like wifi, iBeacons and Bluetooth in general. Connecting the dots I think it is very much possible that NFC and secure element approach could be used for initiating the payment transaction as long as the customer is near the POS and use slightly longer distance communication protocols (and perhaps iBeacons) for other transactions that can be carried out, in the same session such as push offers, discounts, receipts, and other good stuff. The two transactions would have a shared secret describes the patent.
In the growing competition towards conducting a wireless commercial transaction that is both user friendly and secure Apple doesn't want to leave any stones unturned. The proximity payments at the merchants, at the restaurants, at the POS are the most interesting part of the Commerce value chain that the technologists are trying to disrupt. And this disruption is being attempted at Apple, at Paypal, at dozens of startups, and joint initiatives such as ISIS.
The security concept described in the patent is believed to employ the same logic used in NFC secure elements and chip and pin cards. Apple also described in the patent application that - Currently, payment information such as credit card data in mobile devices is sent directly from a secure element (SE) located in a device such as a mobile phone through proximity interfaces, such as near field communications (NFC), without an associated application processor (AP), such as an application program in the device, accessing the payment information. Preventing the AP from accessing the sensitive payment information is necessary because current payment schemes use real payment information (credit card number, expiration date, etc.) that can be used to make purchases through other means, include online and via the phone, and data in the AP can be intercepted and compromised by rogue applications. Thus, there exists a need for a secure method of executing a commercial transaction that is both secure and user friendly.
Apple's iPhone 5S brought the biometric fingerprint concept last year and has a secure enclave that stores authentication data for verifying fingerprints input, but Apple has stayed away from including NFC in its phone so far. We have discussed in the past that Apple is not going to completely stay away from NFC and is working on various permutations and combinations involving patent related to NFC.
Quick Flashback on some of our other articles around Apple in Payments:
Oct 24: Apple made yet another payments move in October Special event on Tuesday
Oct 23: How did Apple succeed in fingerprint technology where others have failed?
Sep 28: Apple's First iBeacon Location Made Public
Sep 9: Would Apple become a Payment "POWER HOUSE" after tomorrow?


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b-day dinner at yuc
Yesterday evening at Yuc in Stockholm with Rebecca! I had a lovely birthday yesterday, it's only one thing that came with it that I didn't wish for... I got a cold :(. Today it's really bad... I think I have a fever... hopefully it's a lot better tomorrow so I can work but I don't think it's likely. However, Yuc was a really nice place. Good Mexican food and a lot of vegan options! A perfect place to go if you want to share small plates of food or if you're going on a date!.

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What is a Drug and or Alcohol Intervention?
The addict is often the last person who realizes he or she needs help. Family and friends commonly take the lead and start the process of rehabilitation with the use of proper intervention. Those who care for you must let you know how much they value your life by simply urging you to seek a professional addiction treatment program. Your loved ones want back the person they used to know before drugs and alcohol ruined their lives.
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Ladies International Wrestling Association Convention, Las Vegas, NV,
June 16 - 18, 1999
In 1999, Diane was recovering from two separate accidents, and multiple surgeries. Imagine the concern she felt when she received the invitation to attend the LIWA convention in Las Vegas. Diane felt her dream of returning to the ring was just that, a dream. However, the sounds of the crowd, and the euphoria of the fight kept calling her. Finally, Diane gave in, packed up her bags and some friends, and off they went to Las Vegas.
Once at the convention, Diane was surprised to meet all the fans she thought she had left behind.
She was busy signing autographs left and right, and posing for pictures. Diane was elated that so many fans remembered who she was. She spent time with each and everyone of them, making sure they they were not negelected. Diane loves her fans and would not allow any of them to go unattended.
Diane also mingled with the wrestlers and established new friendships as well as rekindled old ones.
Finally the time came for Diane to see if she still had what it took in to make it in the ring. With a combination of anxiety and excitement she slipped into her suit and when the time came made her way to the ring. Her first match was a battle royal. Diane was worried about the healing injuries and if she would be able to withstand the punishment that would soon begin. At the sound of the bell, Diane joined the melee, and hooked up a few times. But with the fear of injury lurking in the back of her mind, she could not fully concentrate on the match, and with an overwhelming number of girls ganging up on her, she was eliminated from the competition.
The second match was a tag team match with Diane partnering with Violet Flame taking on Margaret Garcia and Josie Navarro. Diane realized that her fear was more damaging than the injuries, and was determined not to give in to her apprehensions. The crowd popped when Diane and Violet entered the ring, and soon the match was underway. Diane was stellar as she tore into Josie Navarro, not letting up from the start. Soon the only thing in Diane's mind was what hold or painful punishment she could inflict next. Before she knew it the match was over, with her and Violet the declared winners.
Thank God that Diane attended the LIWA convention, because now she knows she HAS what it takes to get back into the ring.
Here are some pictures from those historic matches. Select the match you wish to view and enjoy.


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Create Your Future Roadmap
A roadmap is a planning tool you can use to organize and control your future. You have a better chance of meeting goals that are thought-out, documented and known to others who may help you achieve them. Roadmap plans view life as a continuous process from earlier in your life through aging adulthood.
An aging adult can also create a roadmap to anticipate what may happen in a future path. An "event" occurs when an accident, stroke, or fall affects a person and their family. This has a traumatic impact on the person's family because it was sudden and unexpected. This then forces the family to consider the circumstances of the older adult while under pressure which can be very difficult and expensive. Family members who may not get together often must now work to solve a situation that is very fluid and involves a person they all love and care for.
Creating a roadmap plan for the future that may anticipate an event doesn't have to be a morbid task. Communication among family members about the possibility of a stroke or fall of an aging parent creates a sense of direction and a time line for action when the event does happen. There is a lot you can decide if done ahead of time. Choosing a hospital, physicians to call, relatives to contact, travel plans can all be prepared in advance and updated periodically. Having a written document also creates commitment for those involved. Use this roadmap tool to better control your future.


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Business in Action, 8th Ed.
Appendix C: Information Technology
"Sometimes it's hard to know what statistics are worthy of trust.
"Before, entrepreneurs would usually pay more attention to their gut rather than trust data.
Jennifer Frost has the infographic at GrammarCheck.
"Every webpage you visit, your online purchases, the songs you listen to on the internet, pages you follow on Facebook or any likes you leave under posts on social media create your digital footprint, which is a gold mine of information about you, information that can be used to influence your behavior.
From Chatbots to VR: How Technology Is Forcing Business Communication to Both Poles of the Humanness Spectrum
"Businesses can only operate as effectively as they can communicate.
"We feel that technology is bad, while it actually isn't.
"We feel that technology is bad, while it actually isn't.
"Many artificial intelligence researchers expect AI to outsmart humans at all tasks and jobs within decades, enabling a future where we're restricted only by the laws of physics, not the limits of our intelligence.
"AI is one of the hottest topics in the technology world today.
"As a research scientist at Google, Margaret Mitchell helps develop computers that can communicate about what they see and understand.
Bryan Kramer (photo, left) weighs in on the topic at Forbes.
"Machine learning is on the verge of seriously impacting workplace communications.
"When it comes to digital infrastructure and the relationship we have with it, it feels as if we're at an important crossroads right now.
''Whether it's coming from analysts, technology leaders, or academics, there's a lot of talk about machine intelligence becoming as influential and ubiquitous as electricity.
"Artificial intelligence (AI) is already becoming entrenched in many facets of everyday life, and is being tapped for a growing array of core business applications, including predicting market and customer behavior, automating repetitive tasks and providing alerts when things go awry.
"We already live among robots: tools and machines like dishwashers and thermostats so integrated into our lives that we'd never think to call them that.
"Only time will tell.
Abby Wolfe tells the story of Erin McKean (photo, left) who went from lexicographer to start-up founder.
"As a research scientist at Google, Margaret Mitchell helps develop computers that can communicate about what they see and understand.
"Amazon Go is being called the grocery store of the future, where lines and cashiers don't exist.
"The real strength of Artificial Intelligence lies in its ability process large and complex amounts of data far more effectively than humans.
"When you talk to an AI chatbot, who do you think writes those professional, peppy responses?
"How smart can our machines make us?
"Although artificial intelligence has become commonplace — most smartphones contain some version of AI, such as speech recognition — the public still has a poor understanding of the technology.
"Here's a New Year's resolution for 2018: de-clutter your digital history.


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Def Dee - Deja Vu - (Limited 12" Vinyl LP)
- Deja Vu Intro
- Place Your Bet (Instrumental)
- C'mon Now (Instrumental)
- Church (Instrumental)
- We Back Interlude (Instrumental)
- Clan In Front Feat. Zar & Kaimbr
- Marciano Feat. Roc Marciano
- I'm Ghetto (Instrumental)
- New Burners Feat. Blu, La, Flex Matthews
- My Own Category Interlude Feat. Damu The Fudgemunk
- Ay Girl Skit
- Pay More Attention (Instrumental)
- Toss n Turn Feat. One Be Lo
- Yeah Feat. El Da Sensei
- Beau Feat. Raw Poetic
Deja Vu is the sophomore release from Seattle's torch bearing producer / vocalist, Def Dee. Building upon a potent and well received discography that includes a standout beat tape known as "Cheap Heat" as well as his debut album, 33 and a Third (released on Mello Music Group), Deja Vu is Def Dee's testament to quality hip-hop. The project is a unique listen and plays especially well as a complete album. It has a Lyricist Lounge vibe but Def Dee isn't simply rehashing the sounds of yesterday; his approach to unquantized rhythms and samples is unique and sonically refreshingly.
Though this is Dee's second full length, it is his first appearance on vinyl through a special venture with Redef Records via friend/ mentor, Damu the Fudgemunk. To mark the occasion, Def Dee was given the task of producing a complete work and he delivered with ease, showing that he can bang with the best of them. On Deja Vu, Def Dee acts as music director while an accomplished team of MCs effortlessly covers a wide variety of topics and ideas throughout the program. The album features a handfull of instrumentals alongside cameos by Roc Marciano, El Da Sensei, Blu, One Be Lo, Raw Poetic and other creatives. Def Dee is making a strong statement with Deja Vu. Are you listening?
Get Deja Vu on iTunes or BandCamp || VINYL version is also available at Fat Beats, UGHH, & HHV


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I just finished a number of SharePoint governance workshops and so I wanted to share a number of thoughts on the subject.
1. The terms SharePoint governance and best practices are hugely overhyped.
I think this quote from Governance Man – has fallen into my trap ;-) sums it up quite nicely:
I have had a couple of experiences now, where I have been called in by clients who have the typical SharePoint chaos. Things have gotten out of hand and as a result, key stakeholders started to lose faith, and the project team really felt the pressure from the powers to be. There were strong undercurrents of desperation to get things sorted, like… yesterday. Under these circumstances, they asked for help on "governance". They needed "governance", they must have "governance" and they spoke about governance as if it was something that a pizza driver can deliver to their door (and if it was not there in 30 minutes, it was free).
2. SharePoint is not a silver bullet and if you use it wrongly no governance plan can save you.
Project managers which are assigned the task of managing a project implementation which uses SharePoint will typically ask questions like "What do you mean SharePoint is not a BPM platform?", or "How do I integrate SAP and SharePoint?" or "How do I do contract management in SharePoint?". As you see the questions can be quite diverse. And the problem is, that the are answers will be quite diverse as well. There are a lot of design decisions you need to make - all with certain tradeoffs. You can start with out-of-the-box, add a layer of customization or even proceed to some serious SharePoint development. And then there is a huge amount of third party tools out there.
SharePoint is not targetted at a specific vertical or horizontal and if your company's strategy is to always choose for best of breed and is able to support an enormous variety of platforms and applications – SharePoint is probably not a good solution. If your business really needs a 99% percent match for all of their requirements and can't live with trade-offs – there is no other choice then greenfield development.
SharePoint is all about reuse and platform capabilities. Aim at leveraging the out-of-the-box functionality and when there is not match with the requirements try talking about the processes which created the requirement in the first place.
3. When talking about SharePoint governance and best practices make sure that your audience has a basic (to intermediate) understanding of SharePoint fundamentals
There is a lot of best practices regarding SharePoint infrastructure setup on TechNet and MSDN. So you can always point to those as a reference. It is however necessary that people understand concepts such as WFE's, SharePoint web applications, site collections, etc … It is not that because you know SQL Server inside out that you also understand SharePoint inside out (allthough a thorough understanding of SQL is definitely a good thing). You really need adequate resources within your company which are sufficiently trained to support a SharePoint implementation.
4. Yes, … you will probably need some third party tools
People are always amazed by the fact that they will actually need some third party tools to make SharePoint meet the requirements of their users. Also when you look at SharePoint from a manageability and operations standpoint you will notice that there are some gaps that are filled in with third party tools (or other Microsoft products) – some questions you should probably ask yourself:
- Did you think about antivirus when doing a SharePoint implementation?
- What about backup and restore?
- Did you take a look at the standard usage statistics. Are they sufficient for your needs? Remember that you need a feedback cycle to measure the success of your deployment so you will probably need some more elaborate statistics then the ones which are provided by SharePoint.
- What about monitoring?
5. Keep the organizational culture in mind when thinking about governance
One of the best postings I read about this is Make SharePoint governance plans plain and simple which talks about companies which are considered icons and examples within their industry (or even accross industries). In his posting he translated some internal guidelines from PCL Construction – called Pool's rules into relevant SharePoint specific statements – here are my 2 favourites:
- Give encouragement and show appreciation
… Providing encouragement and showing appreciation is especially important for fledgling SharePoint environments; participation and adoption are paramount to success. It's also critical for ongoing success; consider your own population and develop a program that continuously provides encouragement and support to all communities involved. Make sure that you actually encourage Knowledge Sharing – for some thoughts on this topic – see Knowledge is power! So why share knowledge …
- If you don't have the funding, time, human resources or the budget to effectively create, deploy and maintain a SharePoint solution, don't start one.
And on that bombshell :-) …
Related postings:
- To best practice or not to best practice
- Problems with SharePoint governance
- Why SharePoint development projects failed – Part II
- Why do SharePoint implementations fail
- Inadequate resources to support the implementation - Part 3: I really don't remember signing up for this
- Stop blaming technology and own up to the responsibility
- The hidden cost of SharePoint in the enterprise
- The one best practice to rule them all – Part 5
- Root causes of Communication Fragmentation – Learning styles and behavioral styles
- Root causes of Communicaiton Fragmentation – Organizational culture
- The long and short of corporate culture


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This course presents effective tools to create value for any idea. This idea might be for example a product, service, technology, concept, patent, start-ups, person or. It assembles the most comprehensive research on the topics of entrepreneurship, technology transfer, new product development and marketing with the lecturer's methodologies. The tools presented in the course have already been proved to be critical to create value for labs, start-ups, SMEs businesses, Fortune 500 multinationals, NGOs, and personal careers. By applying these tools, participants will be able to transform simple ideas into ambitious projects.
The Value Creation program is specifically designed to help participants understand:
PhD students at Universidade NOVA de Lisboa.
PhD holders working at NOVA (Professors, researchers,...)
Everyone that wishes to transform challenges into opportunities as well as bring a simple idea (e.g. product, service, technology, personal brand) to the market. More specifically:
Doctoral, post-doctoral and professors interested in the topics of value creation that help to:
7th edition: 31/10 and 7/11/2017 (Tuesdays) | 9am - 6pm | Venue: NOVA School of Business and Economics | This edition will be held in Portuguese (NEW)
Course Coordinator & Lecturer:
- Presentation of final coursework (100%):
The projects provide participants a very tangible and direct understanding about the tools to grow in saturated markets. As such, the evaluation approach with this course is based in the presentation of these projects.
Lectures / Practical activities - 16 hrs
Independent working hours - 10 hrs
Day 1 (morning):
How to create value for services, technologies, products, patents and people in the Marketplace
Day 1 (afternoon):
Creating value through market selection
Day 2 (morning):
Creating value while innovating
Day 2 (afternoon):
Using Marketing Planning for Value Creation and Growth
Pre-course preparation (optional):
For students that wish to be better prepared for the course, before the beginning please make a summary of the different steps of a marketing plan. The different steps of a marketing plan are discussed in several slides (password: "mkt ") and in 6 short-videos available in my website: http://www.lflages.com/mkt (if you have difficulties in opening the videos, you may also find them at: http://www.youtube.com/user/maclinuxmaclinux).
Doyle, Peter & P. Stern (2006), "Marketing Management and Strategy", FT Prentice Hall, 4Ed.
R.C. Dorf, T.H. Byers & A. J. Nelson (2011), "Technology Ventures: From Idea to Enterprise", 3rd ed., McGraw-Hill Int'l Ed.


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While the 2.5% rate restoration for Respite, Facility Habilitation Individual, Community Habilitation Individual, and Residential Habilitation and Support remains in the Senate version of the budget for both years of the biennium, the $1-million appropriation per year for group homes was removed.
The session returned to "normal" after a week of scrambling to repair the damage done by the national furor over the Religions Freedom Act's original passage.
Of the bills on the INARF "watch list", two passed on Third Reading. They are:
SB 380, requiring the Law Enforcement Training Academy to include an overview of Crisis Intervention Training for new police officers, passed the House, 96-0.
HB 1401, which broadens the definition of Medicaid Fraud, passed the Senate 49-0.
The "DD Terminology bill", SB 420, replacing "mental retardation" with "intellectual disability" throughout the code, passed a Senate Concurrence vote, 49-0. A House amendment added more places within the code where the terminology needed updating, and the Senate agreed with that amendment.
Here are four bills which passed from committee this week and are eligible for Second Reading before the Tuesday deadline:
SB 166, expanding the permitted uses for the Spinal Cord and Brain Injury fund, passed from the Ways and Means Committee, 24-0.
SB 327, making changes to the charity gaming provisions, passed the House Public Policy Committee, 9-3.
HB 1265 requires a hospital to provide each admitted patient or their representative the opportunity to designate a "lay caregiver" to receive information from the hospital. It passed Senate Health 8-0.
HB 1303 was amended in the Senate Commerce Committee to increase the requirements to allow an individual "credentialed or certified" by a national professional/occupational organization to seek to place themselves on a State registry. It passed, 6-4.
A resolution asking the Legislative Council to assign the topic of employment for persons with disabilities to an Interim Study Committee passed Senate Health, 7-0. It will now go to the Senate floor for a final vote.
The full text of these and other bills that INARF is watching can be found at http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2015/bills/.


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Lianne Cruz - Reel
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Hi Lianne,
Thanks for the kind words about the blog. I think you show a lot of potential and its a good sign that you're critical of your own work.
Few comments on your two dialogue tests. I really liked the subtext in your acting performances but I did find the mix of spline and stepped keys distracting.
(1) Dialogue 1:
(a) "mathletes"
This could be stronger - I would accent the dialogue by squinting the eyes on "m" and then popping them wide open. I expect to see the jaw open on "le" and close on "tes". On adding this I might rotate the head back up to support it.
(b) "queer"
I would like to see more intensity and frustration in the performace. You could try adding tension to the fingers with a stronger hand pose, and perhaps adding staggers to make her feel like she's boiling over.
(c) "I'm a pusher"
She's mimicing the girl with the intention of making her look and sound stupid, I would like to see a change in the way she moves to reflect this. I would suggest filming yourself as reference, and really play up the sarcasm. I would also go the other way with the facial expression, starting with a squint and then accenting the "p"s by widening the eyes.
(2) Dialogue 2:
(a) I think she could be more anxious from the start - nervous finger drumming on the car door might help get this idea across, and even some eye darts towards him and then quickly looking away if there's time.
(b) As she kneels down her screen left hand needs more work - try spreading the fingers and/or adding a little push away from the door.
(c) Her expression in the last shot could be a more hopeful almost pleading one. I think there's enough time to add a little widening of the eyes and maybe a tightening of the lips as she awaits his answer with slight trepidation.
(a) The connection of his elbow to his wrist sometimes feels too independent. I would expect to see the hand compensate for any translation in the elbow.
(b) Similarly have a look at the connection between his knee and ankle. I would expect to see the foot roll to compensate for a move in the knee.
(c) His left knee swims a little bit - it would be difficult to move when your weight is resting on it.
(d) When he looks from her back to the tyre, the timing of the chest, head and right arm needs to be broken up - they all hit the final pose at the same time.
(e) His lip synch seems underplayed - for example on "yeah yeah", I would like to see a tighter shape on "y" which broadens into "eah".
Regarding your polishing, in general, something you should concentrate a bit more is, the phyisics of your character, working more on how gravity affects his mass and the different parts of the body, also very important are the connections and the weight between those parts.
This is the main principle of "Force", why is that part stopping? How does it connects to the rest? What append to the character if this or that part is moving?
Hope you find this useful, good luck!
-Anim Dailies
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Balnaves is rated a 5 star winery by Halliday, and has been for well over a decade. It is one of the great names in Coonawarra – thus winemaker Peter Bissell was Qantas "Winemaker of the Year in 2005 and Balnaves was Hallidays "Winery of the Year" in 2008. Due to their reputation, their wine was purchased by a so called wine investment syndicate that was run by a couple of English spivs – this almost inevitably went broke and the unfortunate investors lost most of their investment. The corporate undertakers (this time McGrath Nichol) spent 5 years extracting their fees, the investors ended up with perhaps 20% of their investment cost and finally we were able to selectively purchase wines such as this lovely old Coonawarra cabernet. Like the 1999 Cab Merlot, this beautifully packaged red is from an outstanding year and is in great condition and ready to enjoy. Despite its age, the deep plum colour has lovely clarity and depth and while the bouquet shows excellent complexity and development it is still fresh and clean. Beautifully smooth, it has lovely suppleness highlighted with rich, ripe fruit and is all balanced by long, gentle and fine-grained tannins. This gently dry wine is a rare opportunity to see how wonderful well-made and fully mature Coonawarra cabernet's can be. Drinking perfectly now, we would recommend that you gently decant it (even if only into a water jug) and then relatively quickly straight into your glass. Very limited. (NB : cork closure – the corks are in excellent condition)
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'Welcome Back'
Five years ago, the charming mushmouth Ma$e decided it was time for a change. This P. Diddy protégé had an epiphany, you see, so he abruptly retired, moved to Atlanta and became a pastor. It was a big change, although not as big as you might think: he brought his big-money boasts with him from the stage to the pulpit; one imagines that his sermons do not dwell too long upon the issue of camels and needles.
Earlier this year, he announced that he was returning to hip-hop, but he promised not to be too preachy. So his comeback single, ''Welcome Back,'' made reference to his day job only in passing: ''See, I rep the most high, still I'm the most fly/ I win so much, they wanna know who I'm coached by.''
Tuesday, Ma$e released his third album, also called ''Welcome Back'' (Bad Boy/UMG), a surprisingly tepid collection that might have benefited from a bit more preaching, or at least a bit more passion. (Does Mel Gibson make beats?) Instead of sounding freed by his newfound faith, Ma$e sounds straitjacketed: provoked (in different ways) by women who ''think I'm extra pretty'' and fair-weather friends who ''kick you when you're down,'' he's not allowed to respond, can't even flirt or curse, so he just smiles wanly and keeps moving.
When he mentions the Bible, it's often by way of lousy similes: ''I'm here to save the city like Sodom and Gomorrah,'' or ''I'm back like Moses to bring the law.'' Even his lush-life boasts sound half-hearted, and after 49 minutes of bland paeans to ''eating at the lobster bar'' and ''ice on my arm,'' you start to wonder: why rap about wealth if you're not decadent enough to really enjoy it?
Every once in a while, though, Ma$e really gets saved -- by the beat. On ''Breathe, Stretch, Shake'' (with P. Diddy), he rides a brittle club track without ever acknowledging what, precisely, is being shook. And the album's mesmerizing finale, ''Do You Remember,'' has a sparse, echoey beat, with Ma$e mumbling the sort of irresistible nonsense that made him a star in the first place: ''Wrist so heavy that's it's hard to say hello/ I'm something you gotta have, like strawberry Jell-o.''Continue reading the main story
'Straight Outta Ca$hville'
Young Buck
Ma$e may be back, but his era is long gone. 50 Cent and his G Unit have shown the world that big-money boasts often sound best when they're surrounded by bloody threats; that catchy choruses often sound best when they're snarled, not sung; that listeners love rappers who balance charm with menace.
Whereas 50 Cent has a laid-back, singsongy style (slightly reminiscent of Ma$e, in fact) and Lloyd Banks delivers his lyrics in a low purr, Young Buck, another G Unit member, is louder and more declarative. On ''Straight Outta Ca$hville,'' he spits out tough, slanted phrases, full of sharp syncopation, with distended vowels that come courtesy of his hometown: ''Ca$hville,'' Tenn.
Young Buck is proud of his one-track mind: give him 16 bars and he'll eagerly explain how he's heartless with a gun and even more heartless with a woman. 50 Cent and Lloyd Banks smuggle a sly sense of humor into their rhymes, but Young Buck's sensibility is both meaner and more joyful. In ''Prices on My Head,'' he takes a perverse satisfaction in describing the iron laws of a ruthless universe (with ''hustlers'' substituted for a racial epithet):
You see these [hustlers] get out the pen, and think it's good,
Go get a pack and come right back to the same hood.
They think these young [hustlers] gon' let 'em post up and get it --
Ain't been home but 6 months and got his wig splitted.
This album isn't revelatory, but it is convincing, and although Young Buck's subject matter never surprises, the tracks sometimes do. ''Bang Bang'' (produced by Needlz) is built around a spooky Nancy Sinatra sample, and on ''Black Gloves,'' Young Buck swings hard over Doug Wilson's 6/8 beat. Then there's ''Bonafide Hustler,'' where another G Unit member, Tony Yayo, sing-raps a drug dealer's tale to the tune of ''Hush, Little Baby'' -- a sign that his eventual solo debut may be worth the wait.
'All City'
Northern State
While mainstream rappers struggle to stay ahead of the trends, some hip-hop refuseniks pride themselves on falling behind. The all-white, all-female trio Northern State specializes in old-fashioned hip-hop, evoking a mythical time before the genre was allegedly ruined by all the usual ills: materialism, sexism, internal rhyme, tricky rhythms.
Northern State's full-length debut is ''All City'' (Columbia), and it can be rough going, especially when the three rappers fall back on stilted clichés: ''America the beautiful, goodnight and God bless/ Power to the people but we're so powerless.'' (The trick, as Young Buck knows, is to find unstilted clichés.)
This is a very lyric-centric album -- the three seem more interested in words than in flow. But they're at their best when they digress from beats-and-rhymes purism. The album ends with ''Summer Never Ends,'' a sweet, squiggly ode featuring the tongue-in-cheek crooner Har Mar Superstar. And in ''Time to Rhyme,'' Hesta Prynn finds an extra-verbal way to get her point across: ''Me and Sprout, we go so-so simpatico/And me and Spero, we oh-oh-so radical,'' she rhymes, but what you remember is the little chuckle she lets out halfway through.Continue reading the main story


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Quick Fixes of Common Beauty Mistakes
Everyone makes mistakes and this refers to beauty as well. And yes, there is a number of beauty mistakes, which at times need to be fixed very quickly, despite the fact that most likely you will get into panic trying to find the way out of that embarrassing situation. So we are here to help you with some quick fixes of common beauty mistakes almost all of us make sometimes.
1. That Ugly Night Manicure
This can't but have happened to you at least once. Trying to fix the ugly and imperfect manicure you've left for the night before and applied right before going to bed, the best way is evening out the wrinkles with a buffing block and applying a second layer of color to the bare parts of the nails.
2. When Applying a Conditioner, Don't Do That for All Over the Hair
This is another common and widespread mistake many ladies are in the habit of repeating. To prevent that oily and greasy look, you just need to start applying the conditioner at your ears moving to the ends. In this way you'll be able to have the volume and not have to wash your hair that often.
3. If There's Red Lipstick on Your Teeth
Felt this? We're pretty sure you did! And in order to avoid this unpleasant phenomenon, you'll need a tissue to which you need to press you lips letting them blot. Afterwards just stick your forefinger in your mouth and pull it out removing the extra lipstick from the inside of the lips. You can also use some Vaseline on the lips to make it impossible for the lipstick to adhere to the teeth.
4. If That's Not the Color You Picked for Your Hair
Experimenting may lead you to quite frustrating results, especially if you're not attentive enough during the process. One of such consequences may be the wrong shade of your hair, which is, indeed, frustrating at times. So if nothing else can be done in that short period of time you may simply hide the problematic parts, opting for hairdos like messy knots or ponytails.
5. If Eyeshadow Keeps Falling Down On Your Cheeks
In order to avoid this frustrating and sometimes quite time-consuming problem you need to hold a tissue over your cheeks to avoid having the drops of eyeshadow on the makeup and foundation.
6. Those Hickeys!
Too common, too frustrating, too hard to deal with! This curious and at times irritating types of hematomas need to be treated as such. Thus, using some lasers can be the 100% effective and efficient way of getting rid of them. Still, if you don't have time even for that, you may conceal them, applying some yellowy-greenish cream to it in order to mix with the maroon and to pat it with a brush to soften the edges. You can finish all off with a shimmery powder.
7. Just Look at Those Deodorant Marks on Your Clothes!
To quickly and efficiently remove these marks from your clothes you just need a dryer sheet to get rid of those white marks. Otherwise, remove the garment and rub the two pieces of the marked area against each other.
8. If the Pillow Doesn't Want to Let You Go and Leaves Those Marks All Over Your Face for Revenge!
Just fight it back using a gentle micro-exfoliating cleanser, succeeded by a moisturizing mask to revitalize the skin. Otherwise you may also use a face massage. An ice-cold washcloth is another way out.
9. That Blush Is…. Ermm… Too Much
In this case you can just dust the extra proportions away or use a translucent powder over the cheeks to diffuse the color. In case you're wearing a cream blush, you can use a slight layer of foundation over the extra pieces of blush.
10. Panic Caused by Rash Caused by an Aggressive Face Mask
If you're not allergic, this is way better to solve. If you don't have antihistamine like Benadryl at hand, you can use a DIY treatment made with cold milk compress and ice cubes. A 5% hydrocortisone tropical cream twice a day is the necessary finish.
So it's not as hard as you thought! Just don't get into panic and try to think and act reasonably in case of any beauty problem and you'll find the solutions way quicker!
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There's going to be a unique opportunity in Oklahoma City next week to experience 5,000 years of Chinese culture. Shen Yun 2014 is coming to the Civic Center Music Hall March 25 and 26 and will feature classical Chinese dance and music from the Shen Yun Symphony Orchestra, which blends ancient Chinese instruments with a full Western symphony orchestra.
Since its establishment in 2006, the company has become a global sensation, performing for over a million audience members across five continents around the world. To get your tickets to this quickly sold-out show, visit the Civic Center Music Hall.


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Hurdler Liu Xiang Crashes Out
There's always 2016. Superstar Chinese hurdler Liu Xiang crashed into the first hurdle in his 110m heat, bringing his Olympics to an end on Tuesday morning. Liu is China's most prominent athlete and won gold in Athens in 2004, but he was forced to drop out of his medal defense in Beijing in 2008 because of an Achilles injury. A leg injury may also have been to blame for his problems in today's heat. Earlier this year Liu ran the current world-record time of 12.87, and he had been expected to take back the gold at this year's Olympics.


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Binghatti Developers, the real estate arm of Binghatti Holding group of companies, have confirmed their intentions to invest more than Dh2 billion over the next two years on projects throughout Dubai and the UAE in an exclusive interview with Gulf Property.
Muhammad BinGhatti, Chief Executive Officer and Head of Architecture at Binghatti Developers, said: "Our current portfolio consists of more than 15 projects completed or under development throughout Dubai. We mainly focus on the mid-segment of the market in areas like Dubai Silicon Oasis, Jumeirah Village Circle, Liwan, and Dubailand Residence Complex. However, we have ensured diversity in our projects with high-end luxury projects such as the Swarovski Sparkle Towers in Dubai Marina, a joint venture with Tebyan Real Estate Development, a project worth over Dh1 billion."
The company expects to complete the Dh1 billion Swarovski Sparkle Towers in the first quarter of 2017. The project is a joint venture of Binghatti Developers with Tebyan Real Estate Development in Dubai Marina.
The company's operations focus on Dubai, however they have rapidly expanded to other Emirates with upcoming projects in Abu Dhabi and Sharjah. Their recently handed over project, Binghatti Apartments is yielding some of the highest rental prices in the area, with some investors netting 12 per cent yields.
Investment Plans
With the UAE having one of the fastest population growth rates in the world and Expo 2020 right around the corner, the rental market is projected to continue experiencing growth and stability in the future.
BinGhatti said: "We intend to continue investing heavily in our Dubai projects. We have already invested Dh1 billion over the last two years and the figure continues to grow as we acquire and develop new plots. We are forcasting an investment of Dh2 Billion over the next two years on projects throughout Dubai and the UAE. It's a great time to be shopping for plots right now."
BinGhatti is confident that the health of the Dubai Real Estate market is something which investors should take as a great opportunity.
"Now is the perfect time to buy. Today it is undeniable that Dubai is a mature Real Estate market, any mature market should experience corrections. These corrections occur to prevent a repeat of the 2008 downturn. Furthermore, the leadership of the UAE Government has ensured that the country remains a stable and secure safe haven for investors throughout the MENA region." BinGhatti added.
The company has recently acquired a number of plots throughout Dubai in some areas including Dubai Silicon Oasis, Dubai Land Residence Complex, Liwan, Jumeirah Village Circle, and Sharjah. We are still in discussions for additional plots in Business Bay and Dubai Marina.
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Lorkans are a race who left their original homeworld and settled on a planet in Brakiri space that they named Lorka VII around the Earth year 1767.
The Lorkans were not a particularly old or advanced race but their technological development was accelerated by the discovery of advanced technology left behind after the original inhabitants of Lorka VII after they died out centuries before.
The Lorkans believe in a deity they refer to as "The Most Holy". According to Lorkan tradition The Most Holy appeared to them and declared that those who were without sin and corruption, would be led to a promised land, which turned out to be Lorka VII. They also believe that the great machines and secrets, mysteries that they found were a gift from The Most Holy who had turned his anger against those who had lived there before and deemed them unworthy of his bounty. Their prophecy states that the world and its secrets are theirs so long as they remain pure and without corruption. Possibly because of this belief the Lorkans have acquired an attitude of self superiority and condescension towards other races that rivals even the Lumati. As such other races see the Lorkans as pompous and possibly self-deluded fanatics who hide behind their dogma as a way of legitimising their claim to a world of advanced technology they themselves don't fully understand, but are generally unwilling to share what they have. For the next five centuries they maintained these beliefs of their own innate purity and refused to let any other race to visit their world for fear of contaminating the world itself with their innate corruption and ethical inferiority.
The religious elite of the Lorkans however are considered (especially by themselves) to be pure and above any temptation and as such are able to interact with other races offworld without fear of being corrupted. This however changed in 2267 when Captain Matthew Gideon of the Excalibur met with the Lorkan representatives to Babylon 5, Ris and Polix, requesting permission for the crew of the Excalibur to land on Lorka VII in hopes of finding something that will help them cure the Drakh plague. As it turns out Ris and Polix, despite being Religious leaders, had been selling advanced Lorka VII technology to other races for several years and keeping the profits for themselves. Fearing that Gideon would discover their dealing if they visited their homeworld they attempted to kill him and Captain Elizabeth Lochley. After their attempt failed they claimed that being exposed to alien corruption led to their moral downfall. As a result the Lorkan leadership reversed their policy on offworlders visiting Lorka VII and told Gideon that he and his people were welcome to come and move freely among them. According to one of their officials, it was believed that without something to test their faith, that they had grown complacent and that interacting with a species as corrupt as Humans would be the supreme test of their faith. [1]
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HBO Is RUINING The Wire and We Have the GIF That Proves It
HBO has confirmed to the blog HBO Watch that the full run of The Wire is being remastered to be re-aired in HD, possibly as soon as this autumn. A commenter who claims to work at the visual effects company on the project says that the remasters will include "all new VFX"—which made us here at Brow Beat a little nervous.
We got even more nervous when a source leaked this SHOCKING GIF from the remastered episodes, which reveals an enormous change HBO has made to a crucial scene. Spoilers ahead, naturally!


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Rivers Sporting Community on Monday unanimously endorsed Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike for a second term.
This is as the Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike urged the sporting community to defend their votes in 2019.
Thousands of sportsmen, women and their supporters declared that their endorsement of Governor Wike is premised on the governor's revival of sports after the former administration destroyed it.
The sporting community marched from Isaac Boro Park through the streets of the Old GRA to the Government House, Port Harcourt. The procession was carnival-like, as the sports community celebrated Governor Wike.
Mr Franklin Owhor moved a motion endorsing Governor Wike for the 2019 re-election. He said the sporting community will support the governor to emerge victorious.
The motion was seconded by Prince Kali Obi, who said that all members of the sporting community are wholeheartedly in support of the Rivers State Governor.
President of Sports Writers Association of Nigeria (SWAN), Mr Honour Sirawoo said that Governor Wike emerged as the Power of Sports Award winner because of his outstanding credentials.
He said that the award received the widest international media coverage, because the international sporting press appreciates the investments of Governor Wike in the sports sector. He said Governor Wike needs to continue for greater development of the state.
Technical Director of Nigeria Football Federation, Mr Christopher Green described Governor Wike as the Pillar of Sports in Africa .
Green said: "Governor Wike has brought national and international recognition to Rivers people. We are proud to be Rivers people because of the performance of the Rivers State Governor ".
Goodwill messages came from Female Athletes led by Matilda Otuene and Leader of Rivers Sporting Community, Sir Allwell Egorugu.
Responding, Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike said that it is obvious that the APC Federal Government is not interested in conducting elections , hence all Nigerians must be vigilant.
"The sign is there that they want to rig the elections. They want to simply write results. What happened last Friday when they invaded the State High Court is an eye-opener", he said.
The governor reiterated that the APC Federal Government has not executed any project in Rivers State. He wondered why the Minister of Transportation has not used his position to attract any project to the state.
"Because they have done nothing in Rivers State, they will plan to rig. But I can only wish them bad luck. Be prepared to defend your votes", he said.
He said that his administration has touched the lives of the people through pro-people projects. He said the 2015 defeated Rivers State APC Governorship Candidate lived in Diobu but failed to construct their roads as Works Commissioner. He said the roads have been constructed under his leadership.
While thanking the Rivers Sporting Community for their endorsement, Governor Wike said that henceforth Rivers athletes will be sponsored for major foreign sports events. He announced that five Rivers Angels players, five Rivers United Players and three Go-round Football Club players will be sponsored to the World Cup in Russia.
He said that CAF President will be in Rivers State on 28th May, 2018 to flag off the construction of the Real Madrid Football Academy in the state.
Simeon Nwakaudu,
Special Assistant to the Rivers State Governor, Electronic Media.
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Day 13 – Solomon Builds the Temple
Bible Ref: 1 Kings 6, Ornament: Temple
King David wanted to build a beautiful temple for God, but the Lord said, "No David, but your son Solomon will build it for me".
David started getting everything ready for the temple, and all the people brought their precious things: gold, silver, bronze and precious stones. He also stored up iron, wood and marble, and gave Solomon all the plans that God had given him for the building of the temple.
King Solomon was a good king, very clever and very wealthy. He began to build the beautiful temple for the people to come and worship God.
God said to Solomon, "If you do what I tell you and follow all of my commandments and instructions, I will come and live among your people for ever, even as I promised your father, David".
At last the temple was finished. It was made of wood and stone and marble, but was completely covered with gold and silver and precious stones, inside and out – it shone so brightly, and everyone was amazed at how beautiful it was. It really did shine to represent the glory of God. It had been built exactly as God had designed it.
God was very pleased with Solomon and all the people. God came and filled the temple with His presence in a cloud – the priests and all the people couldn't stand there anymore because the glory of God filled the temple.
But the years passed, and when Solomon became old, he disobeyed God and didn't follow Him like his father David.
Many years later God's glory left the beautiful temple that King Solomon had built, and eventually it was completely ruined and burned, all because the people stopped loving and obeying God.


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How To Be A Positive Role Model
Show them your VALUES
Be Vulnerable
Open up and share your truth with them. Prevent yourself from sugar coating your life story and be willing to expose your struggles.
Be Authentic
Allow yourself to unapologetically be you around them. Do not hide who you are or pretend to be someone you are not.
Be a Listener
Give them an opportunity to talk and genuinely hear them out. Allow them to express themselves and share their truth with you.
Be Understanding
Create a safe, judgement free space around them. Empathize with them and relate to what they are struggling with.
Be Encouraging
Fill their buckets with positive affirmations and tell them that you believe in them. Praise them when they accomplish their goals.
Be Supportive
Let them know you are there for them and will accept them for who they are. Attend events they are apart of and involve yourself in their life.
They need YOU
Richard Reyes is the founder/executive director of the PLUS ME project. To date, he has shared his personal narrative with over 40,000 students throughout Southern California and proudly considers himself a role model.
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The BBC Article can be found here: The Britons Leaving the UK to get their relatives in. It is a rather 'enlightening' article on the Surinder Singh Route for anybody who want's to follow it up.
However, regardless of how insightful the article is, it is rather depressing that their headline is accusing British citizens of bypassing immigration regulations by using a technicality. As it is outlined on the front page of this website. This route is based on a ruling of the European Courts. Any ruling in the European Courts is enforcable in the UK's legislation.


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Zap! Splat! Give It Impact!
new internationalist
issue 187 - September 1988
Photo: Robert Penn / CAMERA PRESS
Zap! Splat! Give it impact!
Blood and guts and a death a minute. The mass media keeps pumping out
multi-million-dollar-making images of violence which it calls 'entertainment'.Some say
this makes us more brutal; others that it gets rid of our aggression.
Judy Gahagan thinks there is more to it than that...
We had reached the central room of the exhibition. It showed the medical experiments carried out on inmates: how the experiments were conducted; whether or not the inmates had survived. There were also photographs of inmates during the course of the experiments - that is close-ups of people in terrible agony - taken by the doctors and administrators as part of the programme.
Near me was a group of teenagers with their teacher. I heard a couple of' them asking if there was a cafe on the memorial site. And I looked at them curiously, wondering how they were reacting to these nightmares of the near past, so close to this charming and beautiful city. With stupefaction? Horror? Anger? But no. Most of them wore an expression which to me as a teacher of teenagers was very, very familiar ... they were bored.
How come? Partly because they had seen 'this kind of thing' before on television. But more because this documentary account of the Third Reich and the concentration camp of Dachau was not entertaining in the way they are used to. In this our electronic century they are used to being entertained - nearly all the time - and are bored when not.
In his book, Amusing Ourselves to Death Neil Postman has pointed out that television has become the natural format for representing all experience - an entertainment format. Everything - history, social problems, politics, real life, fictional life, wild life, everything has to be re-packaged as entertainment. And it must have impact and be arousing.
The problem is that there are many subjects, like violence, which ought to do more than just have impact and be arousing. They ought to make us think and make connections. The Dachau photographs had an horrendous impact But the important part of the exhibition was the text. That made the connections between the horrors of the camp and the ordinariness of the procedures which had made the camp possible: the copies of laws for special 'provision' for gypsies, homosexuals and the mentally retarded; the sets of procedures laid down by doctors for the conduct of experiments; the orders for ovens in this pleasant suburb where 60,000 people were murdered. The words - and not the pictures - showed the true banality of evil.
Now many think that the big problem with television violence is to do with the explicitness of the images, and whether they make people more brutal of indifferent. Maybe. But there is a bigger problem - that television obscures the important aspects of real violence: its ordinary and apparently harmless causes. Dramatic effects are easy to film, causes are not. For example a film about a baby dying because of inadequate health provision is more 'entertaining' than an analysis of why the privatization of health care kills.
Sorry, reader, I know it is time for a break for a picture, but I must pursue this argument in words, I'm afraid, so bear with me... Important violence is the real violence out in the world, a violence which results from political decisions. So though the violence of The Texas Chain-saw Massacre is nasty and the making and sale of such videos tells you a lot about the kind of (I was about to say 'culture') barbarity we live in, it is not as important as the actual violence I have just been describing.
The trouble with television is that many kinds of violence are welded together into a single stream of consciousness, linked by the thought-absent watching of viewers and the bland behaviour of the presenters: Tom and Jerry, The 'A' Team, Beirut, some drama about a psychotic killer, a documentary about torture, Tom and Jerry again, a car chase, a commercial for a hairspray which seems to be showing its resilience under conditions of pitched battle - each image is erased by the presenter coming on with the next thing. The presenters - attractive, bland, reasonable - maintain the same demeanour whether they are introducing news from the Ethiopian famine or the mating of the giant panda in Beijing zoo.
But what about the effects of television violence on behaviour? Does watching it make people more brutal, more accustomed to brutality, more fearful and less inclined to intervene in real life situations? The answer is we don't really know - even though there are mountains of research on the subject. The problem is that violent behaviour is never caused by one factor, it is caused by an unknown number. The manner in which people commit violent acts or adopt a violent style of behaviour often shows similarity to popular media scenarios. But all this means is that media provide the costumes in which to clothe aggressive behaviour. Basically we don't know to what extent violent individuals choose to watch violent programmes or the extent to which television further amplifies their already violent tendencies. Researchers can't even agree on what actually counts as violence in the media to start with.
One thing is clear, however: in the last 20 years the frequency, scales and explicitness of violence (and sexuality) on film has increased. For the law of diminishing returns applies, and to continue to have impact (and therefore be profitable) new ground must continually be broken. The moral panics over Straw Dogs, say, or Clockwork Orange are soon resolved and we break through the acceptability barrier again and again to new levels of close-up brutality. Meanwhile the assumption that violence is entertaining at all goes unquestioned. Even films which supposedly condemn war and violence, like 'The Killing Fields', nevertheless are a box office hit by their concentration on it. They do not challenge the assumption that though violence may be wrong, it is entertaining. And in the latter case the audience can enjoy a sense of moral indignation without foregoing the 'excitement' of the action. Why is violence entertaining?
Well, for a great many of us it isn't, but we are not consulted. The promoters and producers of public entertainment can largely dictate what is entertaining by their own promotional techniques, so what is entertaining will largely be what they decide is entertaining. So why violence? Probably because nearly all the people working in media production and promotion business are men. And to be male in our barbarity is to have a thirst for violence... often referred to as 'action'. What we are seeing reflects the tastes of the sample of people who control what we see. And at the moment these diets confirm to the public, the idea that violence is both inevitable and, more importantly, entertaining.
The political advantages of a public narcotized against argument, fed on undigested violence, fictional and real, and uninterested in thinking about its real causes, are immense. The censorship and repression to which the media of totalitarian societies are subjected is not necessary in the capitalist democracies. We watch voluntarily - if you can call addiction voluntary - and we can see anything we like... as long as we don't take it seriously or make any connections. And the dominance of the fun entertainment mode guarantees that we will not.
And now dear reader, it is time for a break, for a commercial, or at least a picture!
Judy Gahagan is a freelance writer and former psychology lecturer living in London.
ANDREW SCHAUSS, a US expert on nutritional medicine, sits talking to Dick Jones, a 23-year-old violent offender imprisoned in Lewis County Jail.
'What did the other doctors you've seen make of you?' asks Schauss.
'They were always coming up with something different,' says Jones. 'Brain dysfunction, behaviour disorder, antisocial, hyperactive, sexual masochist. But what I was looking for was the answer to my problems.'
The process of dietary detective work eventually leads to Jones' mother who smoked heavily during her pregnancy and regularly overdosed on sugary coffee. This, Schauss believes, is a major cause of hyperactivity in children.
'Was he very active in the womb?' asks Schauss.
'Sure!' she answers. 'He beat the hell out of me!'
Schauss prescribes a new diet for Jones, on the strength of which he is released into the community and succeeds in holding down a job.
This is just one of the many recent success stories that suggest our diets may cause - or cure - violent or antisocial behaviour.
However, the idea that human aggression may at least in part have a nutritional basis is still controversial - and far from being universally accepted.
Nevertheless, certain basic facts are indisputable. It is quite clear from research that poor people generally eat an inferior diet compared to those better off and that children from families on welfare have the lowest nutrient intake of all.
It is also clear that in Western countries children eat more crisps, french fries and other potato products than any other single food. Cookies and cakes come a close second - with more eaten by weight than vegetables. This junk food diet delivers too little protein, calcium and vitamins and too much sugar and fat.
Now, not only is this food unhealthy, it also helps provoke violent behaviour. When the diets of chronic juvenile offenders have been analyzed, it has been found that they were exceptionally high in sugar and low in nutrients. And when these dietary deficiencies were corrected, behaviour improved.
A two-year study of 3,000 young offenders tried replacing junk food in their diets with more nutritious food and found that assaults and fights declined by 25 per cent. Another American study reduced the sugar intake of young offenders. The results here were even more convincing. Assaults dropped by 82 per cent and thefts by 77 per cent compared to the preceding 12 months.
The evidence is growing all the time. For example many people now know that the food additive tartrazine (E120, found in yellow-coloured foods) can cause violent bouts of hyperactivity in children. But to eat a good diet we not only need to avoid suspect foods, we also need the cash to buy good food and be kept better informed by our governments about what is in our food. This is not always possible. Expert-committees' findings and reports on food, health and nutrition in Britain for example, are all covered by the Official Secrets Act. This makes it a criminal offence to disclose, say, the proposed fat content of a sausage. Now that's unhealthy.
Peter Cox
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A harmonious anti-authoritarian society that's based on voluntary
association of free individuals in autonomous communities, mutual aid
and self-governed. Anarchism is based on no authority and a mutual bliss between people as well as absolute freedom. In this government no person holds any power, everybody helps everybody. The
Native Americans and ancient china had a social system similar to this
where there is no wealth or property except it was preformed in small
groups so there was no possible conflits of resources.Autocracy: A
form of government where unlimited political power is in one persons
hand such as an emperor or a dictator regardless of bloodline. An Autocracy can be formed by either a rising dictator or by heredetary terms. An
example of an Autocracy is ancient rome when Seizer was in power and
Augustus who had complete control but only because the people loved
them. This is a unique government in that
it can only be held with the full respect of the people in which case
the whole population is happy because their ruler is giving them some
form of freedom and good ethics.Democracy: The
majority of the people in a given populartion has the power because it
is they who have the duty to make the decisions for morality and laws. The
most fair of the governments in many perspectives since all the power
is given to them except when it is manipulated such as in
representative Democracy where the representatives could be greedy. A
direct democracy is more fair in that the citizens meet and discuss all
maters then make dicisions instead of being represented by another
person.Oligarchy: A
political system where all the power is set in a select group of
people, it could be a select group because of wealth, military power
ruthlessness or family structure. Oligarchy
is not always the top power, sometimes it has strong economical power
in which they can control someone in power through threats or
manipulation. When John of England
reluctantly signed the Magna Carta he was forced by an Oligarchy to
share power by letting other members of society have a say in
government. Another example of Oligarchy is the Medicis which was a family in Flourence.|Theocracy: The source of this government is religion or faith in which case is the dominant role. Religion takes over the political power so all decisions are based on a god. A theocracy is the definition of a government that has caused more death than any other and is the podium of tyranny. There are still forms of Theocracy today even sometimes in our own government in the United States or in Iran with Islam. The
best example of a Theocracy is the Pope in the Crusades where thousands
of men were sent to their deaths as was well as in the name of the Lord
murder, rape and pillaging came from the knights in Jerusalum.Tribalism: The first form of social structure for man in history within a small group. Also none as primitive communism this system is based off of no private property and everybody is equal with no organization. The lack of organization is not a defect it is mearly how the structure works, very simple and peaceful. The
native Americans also connected with this system in which case was know
as savage because they lacked technology and long distance
communication and had extremely spiritual religious means with more
than one god.


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Researchers from the University of the West of England in Bristol have discovered a means of creating intelligent, powerful biocomputers using the slime found on rotten leaves and logs.
It is a theory first presented in the 70's by researchers at the University of California in Berkeley. In 2008, the theory was put into practice using titanium dioxide nanoparticles. Now researchers want to create a "living computer" with the slime mold.
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How Can You More Effectively Market Your Veterinary Practice?
You are a veterinarian, and caring for animals is your main concern. However, as someone who runs a small practice, you are also a business owners. Even if you are the best veterinarian in your city, you are probably not marketing yourself online, or on how to manage the online veterinarian reviews that are posted written by clients. when people are looking to find a veterinarian, they oftentimes read these reviews. Therefore, it is probably a good idea to hire a marketing professional to monitor your online reputation.
Maybe paying for the services of an reputation management consultant seems like a lot of money. But you have to keep in mind that the cash you put towards monitoring veterinarian reviews is a necessary investment in your practice, making it more likely that pet owners looking to find a veterinarian will choose your practice. Hiring a professional can influence whether what is reported about you in reviews that impact those hoping to find a veterinarian will positively
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A little history about the toilet may interest you as you consider the new fixtures you wish to install such as a new shower base that can match other furnishings. An ancestor of the modern flush toilet was installed at Richmond Palace around 1600, during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. However, the Queen refused to use it because she thought it was too noisy. Today, modern toilets a


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The acclaimed young adult novel The Giver was published at the tail end of my elementary school career, and as an angsty tween ready to discover the untold truths of the world, I was more than drawn to the tale of a future dystopian society and Jonas, the young man who would defy it. Author Lois Lowry has a way of reaching young people is all I'm saying.
Most of my friends loved the book too, and now that we're all grown up, I have a feeling the movie theaters will be packed with people our age when the film adaptation is released August 15. Because I am seriously so excited to see one of my favorite childhood books on the screen, I can hardly stand it. And the newly released trailer for The Giver has me lamenting that I have to wait two more months before I can appease my inner book nerd.
The film has an all-star cast, including Meryl Streep as the Chief Elder and Jeff Bridges as the title character, The Giver. Up-and-comer Brenton Thwaites plays Jonas, who becomes the Receiver of Memory in preparation to council the elders.
Because this world has done away with history, color, icky feelings, and basically all humanity. As Meryl Streep says in trailer, "When people have the freedom to choose, they choose wrong."
Other names of note are Katie Holmes and Alexander Skarsgard, who play Jonas' parents, and Taylor Swift as the mysterious Rosemary.
Take a look and be excited.
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This pièce de résistance is inspired by "Rio", the enormously popular animated film that was released by 20th Century Fox on March 22, 2011 in Brazil, and on April 15, 2011 in the United States. All the color and dazzle of the rain forests surrounding Rio de Janeiro is to be found here, along with the characters, themselves, most notably "Blu" and "Jewel" (voiced by Jesse Eisenberg, Anne Hathaway, respectively). Here we have a large cake with the movie logo meticulously represented on the top, and the sides of the piece ornamented with large flowers and other native "jungle" fauna. This is augmented by two additional tiers of individual cupcakes, depicting other characters from the movie, faithfully represented, resting on lush beds of jungle leaves. This "Rio Set" is sure to make a lasting impression on your guests, whether for birthday, or any other occasion that calls for cake!


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Murder on Music Row
|"Murder on Music Row"
|Song by George Strait with Alan Jackson from the album Latest Greatest Straitest Hits
|March 7, 2000
|October 27, 1999
|MCA Nashville
|Larry Cordle, Larry Shell
|Tony Brown
|Latest Greatest Straitest Hits track listing
"Murder on Music Row" is a song released in 2000 made popular as a duet between country music artists George Strait and Alan Jackson. Although not released officially as a single, it gained attention for its criticism of mainstream country music trends at the time, and received enough unsolicited airplay to chart at number 38 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks (now Hot Country Songs) charts.
"Murder on Music Row" is a lament and criticism of the ongoing trend of country pop crossover acts and pop influences on country music, a trend that has pushed traditional and neotraditional country music (and those who perform it) to the periphery. The lyrics metaphorically compare the pop trend to a horrible act — "an awful murder down on Music Row" — and how "The steel guitar no longer cries and you can't hear fiddles play / But drums and rock and roll guitars are mixed up in your face."[1] In addition, the song states that older traditional country artists "wouldn't stand a chance on today's radio," citing by nickname Hank Williams ("Old Hank"), Merle Haggard ("The Hag"), and George Jones ("The Possum").[2]
Original version
American bluegrass group Larry Cordle & Lonesome Standard Time originally recorded the song as the title track of their 1999 album Murder on Music Row.[3] Their version was awarded the Song of the Year award at the 2000 International Bluegrass Music Awards.[4]
George Strait/Alan Jackson version
The song was later covered by Country music artists George Strait and Alan Jackson. Originally, the two singers performed the song together at the 1999 CMA awards show;[5] Strait and Jackson later recorded it for 2000's Latest Greatest Straitest Hits album. The studio version, although never released officially as a single, reached number 38 on the Hot Country Songs chart from unsolicited play and served as the b-side to Strait's late-2000 single "Go On."[6] In 2000, it also received the Country Music Association's award for Vocal Event of the Year,[7] as well as the CMA's Song of the Year award a year later.[3][8]
Chart performance
|Chart (2000)
| Peak
|Canada Country Tracks (RPM)[9]
|US Hot Country Songs (Billboard)[10]
Dierks Bentley/George Jones version
In 2006, Dierks Bentley and George Jones recorded a version of the song that was included on the album Songs of the Year 2007 that was only available in Cracker Barrel restaurants.
- ↑ Alan Jackson gives Nashville the finger
- ↑ "Murder On Music Row" lyrics from LyricsFreak.com
- 1 2 Larry Cordle signs with Lonesome Day Records
- ↑ "Murder On Music Row" and McCourys Rake In Bluegrass Hardware
- ↑ It Don't Matter Who's in Nashville, George Strait Is Still the King
- ↑ Whitburn, Joel (2008). Hot Country Songs 1944 to 2008. Record Research, Inc. p. 407. ISBN 0-89820-177-2.
- ↑ Alan Jackson Facts
- ↑ CMA World
- ↑ "Top RPM Country Tracks: Issue 9826." RPM. Library and Archives Canada. May 1, 2000. Retrieved July 8, 2013.
- ↑ "George Strait – Chart history" Billboard Hot Country Songs for George Strait.


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North Hampshire Hospital - ECLO Service
- Address: Eye Clinic, Aldermaston Road, Basingstoke, Hampshire, RG24 9NA
- Tel:07928 525 720
- Email: [email protected]
- Opening times:
- Tuesday 8am - 4pm
- Thursday 8am - 4pm
Hannah Keegan also works from Andover War Memorial Hospital every Wednesday and Royal Hampshire County Hospital on Mondays and Fridays. Please contact her if you would like to make an appointment.
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Eye Clinic Liaison Officers (ECLOs), or similar early intervention support staff, work closely with medical and nursing staff in the eye clinic, and the sensory team in social services. They provide those recently diagnosed with an eye condition with the practical and emotional support which they need to understand their diagnosis, deal with their sight loss and maintain their independence.
Most importantly, ECLOs have the time to dedicate to patients following consultation, so that they can discuss the impact the condition may have on their life.
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Posted on October 15, 2013 by Joseph
This Saturday, I'll be joining a horde of local authors in Sherwood Park for a book fair. I'll be reading my children's story "The Tokayak's Tokomak", which is a guaranteed crowd-pleaser. Come by, say hi, and support local artists!
Here are the details posted from the WITP website:
Book Sale and Fair
Saturday, October 19, 2013
1:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Free Admission
Book purchases are cash only
Grab a coffee, shop for books, and meet local authors at this annual celebration of writers and poets. Plus, listen to authors share their works in an open-mic session and snag an autograph on your new purchases.
Click here to find out who is coming to Words in the Park 2013!
Open-mic schedule:
1:00 pm- Mandy Eve-Barnett hosts Children's Authors
2:00 pm- Sharon Baggs hosts Poets
3:00 pm- Linda Pedley hosts Life Stories
Strathcona County Library, 401 Festival Lane, Sherwood Park (in the Community Centre). Driving/Parking Directions
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Hey friends! So after ACL I'm always super excited to explore all the new artists I heard perform, and I usually try to buy their latest album there at ACL. On my playlist this week is:
1. Past Lives- BØRNS
Super cute song about life and love. Upbeat melody that just makes me happy!
2. Let It Happen- Tame Impala
Chill song that lasts forever (I think it's somewhere around 8 minutes long?!) that's great for listening to while studying or working.
3. Electric Love- BØRNS
I seriously can't get enough of this song! It's so happy and peppy, and you've probably heard it on a Hulu commercial :)
4. Peanut Butter Jelly- Galantis
If you can make it through this whole song while sitting still, I applaud you. I can't help but get up and dance to this song, and it never fails to lift my mood!
5. Seeing Stars- BØRNS
Sensing a pattern here? I loved seeing this song live, it's a pretty cute little love song, and I'm officially a huge fan of BØRNS now :)
Those are my newest additions to an ever-growing playlist of upbeat songs that can always make me smile. What's your newest favorite song? Let me know below and hope to see you again here soon!


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In its quiet 10-acre forest and meadow setting, our house and the three art studios within are the perfect workplaces for our artistic pursuits. Have a look inside!
Textile Studio
Jennie Henderson's spacious studio is in our house's Great Room. Five of her nine looms are continuously warped and in progress. Her tapestries and loom-controlled weavings are all of original designs. Rugs, wall hangings, throws, shawls, and scarves are some of the kinds of pieces regularly produced here.
Ceramics Studio
Decorative pottery is produced in a garage space that contains an electric kiln, a vintage electric Shimpo potters wheel, a Lockerbie kick wheel, drying shelves, and all the other basic studio equipment. Production is almost all pit fired and black fired pottery. Final wood firing is done in a field beside the house in a fancy brick-lined pit for firing the colorful pots, or metal chambers for the black firing process.
Drawing Studio
Tucked into a cozy room of its own, this creative space is where ideas are hatched and turned into visual expressions. Sketches and drawings are produced here as well as paintings, graphic designs, multimedia pieces, and sculptures. Supplies are in drawers and shelves along with art books, sketchbooks, files filled with notes. There are two door-size easels and a few smaller ones.


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Personalized Baseball Team Player Number hoodies, jerseys and t-shirts have crossed bats and sports ball logo, with room to add a custom name or team name for gifts. We carry mens and womens shirts in sizes from Sm to 5X in some styles. We have kids sizes too, great for local teams.


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Kel isn't at all the animal locked in a cage that he appears to be. Secrets keep him there, hidden from those who hunt him. But what does a man do when he needs physical contact to survive, but can't stand the burning pain that comes with another's touch? He's found a way to get a small fraction of his needs met at the nightclub, Sleeves. What happens when he lets in an unknown woman with a healing hand? Casey can see past the vulgar mouth to the affection-starved man hiding inside. When she does, all hell breaks loose, and the past finds him. Will he be able to avoid the agency, or will they add Casey to their twisted experiments? She entered the cage with him, and now it seems there's no way out.
What Worked For Me:
Casey, our heroine, was fantastic. She was smart, kind, comforting, and strong. She was a total good girl. Yes, she had her own dark secrets from her past and has struggled and made herself better but she is the complete opposite of our hero. Kel, our hero…well, he shows us his tender side (see below), he's gorgeous and built, and very confident (see below). He has been tortured and believes his first true-love (he doesn't call her that) has been killed by him. Damaged soul doesn't even begin to cover him. The sex scenes were the best part of the whole book. They were erotic and raunchy and absolutely perfect. Even the tender love-making between Casey and Kel caused my pulse to race (and my panties to dampen). Kel is also extremely protective of Casey (and his son he thought was dead) and it is beautiful to see such a damaged person care about someone else so much. Overall, this was a graphic and raw book that had a lot of potential and I will try the next book by this author, just to see if the writing gets better. I loved the surprise pregnancy thrown in as well (see below).
What Didn't Work For Me:
Kel is Bad Ass…to the point I almost wanted to choke him out. Seriously. CHOKE. HIM. OUT. And not in a dominatrix way, but in an I-can't-believe-you-said-that-you-total-douche-bag-she's-too-good-for-you kind of way. He cries way too much (once would be fine but he seems to have constant tear-duct leaks during the course of the book). The way he talks to the heroine, well, that's just not cool, no matter how understanding Casey seems to be. Had a man talked to me that way outside of sex, trust me, he's gonna be on the ground crying like a little girl. The plot would've been very good had it not been so choppy. It didn't quite flow as smoothly as I like and a little more back-story would have been helpful in understanding Kel. This had almost a futuristic feel to it, which wasn't bad but it seemed to ride a fine line between futuristic and contemporary that leaves you slightly confused.
The heroine is without ovaries at the beginning of this book but because of an experimental serum injected into her, he ovaries grow back. She gets pregnant (to her, and my, delight) This gives you the feeling this book takes place more in the future than the present, especially with the advanced healing properties, and accelerated aging.
Would I Recommend This Book:
Possibly, to the right person who didn't mind this type of raw and gritty read.
Final Star Rating:
3 of 5 stars
Buy Links:
Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Sleeves-ebook/dp/B00EKLM6VG/ref=sr_1_9?ie=UTF8&qid=1381252398&sr=8-9&keywords=sleeves


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This Sinful Sunday I wanted to thank Molly, for replacing my lost pinwheel!
And of course let you see why I love pinwheels on my body.
I just love the sensation of the pinwheel! And on my leg it's quite fun to do 😉
Wondering yet what I'm doing with my pinwheel?
Doing this of course!
Yes I am still walking around with a big M on my leg 😉
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