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Hello Guys I want to talk about Side Step (SS). We all know that we need to SS in this game. But from what I see, It looks like there are a lot of player who don't know when…wait. Sound is fine, right? alright. The problem I see is that people don't know when and how to SS properly. and People often think, "why can't my SS evade his moves? why does good players SS looks perfect?" So what i think is that we all know what SS is, but we don't know when and how exactly. In order to SS exactly, first we need to know what move is coming. But ask ourself. Is it possible to guess perfectly and move? I don't think its possible. Because every tekken character has more than 100 moves so its literally impossible to read whats coming. Also guess is just guess not proper theory. 'HellSweap will come' if we even block still, its guess.
So Its not like our guess is always right, we need to think about his whole move range not one move. For example, when we play against DVJ or Kazuya, We often think 'Electric or HellSweap is coming.' we can't explain in a logical way, but sometime there are situations everyone can guess enough. In those situations, we don't consider one move. we consider his move range. Eletric or Hellsweap or mid moves. Like this, in many situations, we should consider his whole move range, not only one. Also it makes sense more. So far in conclusion, It makes sens to think about whole move range and we should follow it when we side step. To be specific, when we notice some situation where Electric, Hellsweap and mid moves are coming, we can make answer about where to move because we know his range.
So if its possible to guess his whole move range in different situations, then it sounds natural that we can SS properly. Because each character has 100 moves, but in some specific situation they have only few such as Electric, HellSweap and Mids. Then what we can do here is we just make this range and follow the answer. Right? For example, So in this situation where we think Electric, HellSweap are coming, then we should move to right. Hmm..Is it difficult to follow? am I talking in a difficult way? So this is precondition today, but i'm not sure if you could follow it. I'm not saying you are bad, I'm saying this is first time i'm doing it. Understand? cool. So, one more, If we can guess his range, then its possible to move properly.
We can't easily talk about this range, but there should be some situation where we everybody can guess like Electric or HellSweap coming. Like this, there are a lot of situation we can guess his range in this game but we just don't see it. there might be one question, "It sounds right and objective, but it also sounds subjective." For example, one might ask. "Hey JD, What if DVJ uses another move in the situation? "you say in this situation, usually Electric and HellSweap are coming, but isn't it still guess not a theory?" The answer is no.
Because in long term, every player has to play in objective way. Hhe needs to follow the range as well. and we can move against that range. Of course in short game, it sounds right that he uses some moves that are out of range. However in long term, he still needs to play in objective way so there are some situation where we can guess. In conclusion, This is precondition of today.
I wanted to talk about it and going to put this theory into some situation. Alright, So I'm going to talk about the situation wher we have very little energy. I have very little, or he has very little, or both like 1%-2%. I wanted to talk first about this situation because its easy to understand for everyone. So, As I said, First in order to SS properly, we need to make his range. we don't know his move range and we try to SS, but is it useful? No. This is totally useless. Instead, If we know what moves are usually coming in this situation (very little engery), we can decide how to move. This is first step that I call making range.
Nothing special. This is so basic. The situation where we have very little energy is totally extreme. and both player know it. Because since we have very little energy, we just care about it. also time and map. In this situation, Moves are very limited because we do not have energy and everybody knows it. we just don't talk, but everybody knows "ok either d4 or df1 is coming." In this situation, Most of moves are limited like d4, df1. Because we don't have to use something slow and risky, or something that has very bad hitbox to kill very little energy. Who does HellSweap to kill very little energy? So we can say that the range in this situation are usually composed of something fast. such as df1, d4..something very safe even when its whiffed. good moves? d4. High crush, so fast, hard to whiff punish. so..also df1.
Like this there are a lot of situation where we can make range but we don't notice it. Because its very difficult. We have a few things to consider such as map, energy, his character, time.. However its still possible to make range and guess if we try. If my theory sounds right so far, then its predictable what moves are coming. Also its easier to do it once we understand the feature of all characters. Sounds right? So far, anything you feel confused? If you ask me, "i dont' know where to SS this specific move." I can't answer.
Because there are a lot moves. Also I wanted to talk about something that you can't learn yourself. You can figure out yourself. What i want to do is to let you know something you can't do yourself. I have few example. First DVJ. Oh I forgot to say that.. It might sound difficult for low rank players. But I'm sure that from Green rank to Red rank, It is very helpful and you have to know it.
Once you understand it, you will see the game further. Also you will figure out yourself in some difficult situation. Alright back to DVJ example. What is his range when I have very little enegry? Usually its composed of db1, d3, d4, 1, df1 and uf4. Because DVJ doesn't have to use something slow, risky, and that has bad hitbox as I said. No one uses Electric or HellSweap.
Who does HellSweap to kill this energy? Who does ws2? instead df1. So this is DVJ range. Here I have one more with bryan. So What is bryan range here? So..What we can think of here..is yes. db3. df2. (*people are talking on the stream) db4, db3, df2, db1…everything sounds right. So..It means Bryan never use qcb3, b1, or Taunt step to kill very little energy. So, like this, The range is limited and we can SS with this limited range. Step 2, 'We can SS with limited Range.' Theoretically, once his move range is limited, then its easier to SS because we have less things to consider. So If what I say is right, then we can make his range in certain situation and SS properly since we know this is a spot where we can see clear range. Also we can do counter-move against the range.
I have video to show you later. Earlier I talked about DVJ, so with DVJ, we can say that its better to move to left theoretically. The reason is that db2, up4, 1, df1 are weak to right SS. D3 tracks right but it doesn't have high crush. So we can say right SS is effective. So..oh i'm saying when we have little energy, not him. Example 2. we talked about bryan as well. The range of bryan here should be df2, db3, db4..etc. What i wrote here is exactly same as what you guys say. Against this range, we can say its better to do right SS and crouch. Because df2 doesn't track well and his low such as qcb3, db3 track SS. So from bryans perspective, he is likely to use low moves.
So, I think SS crouch is good for this spot and range. What you guys say on the chat is same as what I have prepared. we can discuss in this game like it. In conclusion, like these spots, we can make range and prepare against these ranges. One more tip here is..If my character has high-counter move like steve b2, then the opponent range is close to low. Because he knows that b2 is good counter move against his mid moves and its going to kill him at once.
So range is going to be close to low moves. For example, with DVJ, he doesn't want to get counter hit doing his mid moves like df1, uf4. So probably we can say db2 is more likely to come. Do you agree? Of course there are so many game style. But in any games we need objective theory and i think this is very objective one. I have videos example here from real game i played..
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Coffee not linked to increased risk of irregular heartbeat
London: Coffee consumption does not raise the risk of atrial fibrillation, a common type of irregular heartbeat that is linked to increased odds of suffering stroke and heart failure, the largest study of its kind has found.
The research included a meta-analysis of four other studies involving nearly 250,000 individuals over the course of 12 years.
Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most frequent form of irregular heartbeat, causing a substantially increased risk of stroke, heart failure and all-cause mortality.
It has previously been speculated that high coffee consumption may increase the risk of developing atrial fibrillation.
"This is the largest prospective study to date on the association between coffee consumption and risk of atrial fibrillation," said lead author Susanna Larsson, from Karolinska Institutet in Sweden.
"We find no evidence that high consumption of coffee increases the risk of atrial fibrillation," said Larsson.
"This is important because it shows that people who like coffee can safely continue to consume it, at least in moderation, without the risk of developing this condition," she said.
The study population comprised 41,881 men and 34,594 women who, in 1997, reported how many cups of coffee they consumed and were followed up for 12 years. All studies were conducted in either Sweden or the US.
There were 4,311 and 2,730 incident AF cases in men and women, respectively, in the two cohorts. The median daily coffee consumption was three cups among both men and women.
In their analysis, the researchers found that coffee consumption was not associated with AF incidence in these cohort studies, even in more extreme levels of coffee consumption.
This lack of association was confirmed in a follow-up meta-analysis that included the present two cohorts and four other prospective studies, giving a total of 10,406 cases of AF diagnosed among 248,910 individuals.
As the number of studies of coffee consumption and AF risk is quite limited, the researchers said that more large prospective studies investigating this relationship are needed.
In sex-specific analyses, coffee consumption was associated with a non-significant increased risk of AF in men, but a non-significant decreased risk of AF in women.
Whether men may be more sensitive to a high coffee or caffeine intake warrants further study, the researchers said.
Although available evidence does not indicate that coffee consumption increases the risk of developing AF specifically, coffee may still trigger other forms of irregular heartbeat, researchers said.
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Premier 19th-century revolutionary theorist, social critic.
Japan: KANNAME-SAI HARVEST FESTIVAL
Isle of Ely, England: ST. AUDREY'S (origin of "Tawdry") FAIR.
Excellent work on Utopias, see Marie Louise Berneri's Journey through Utopia (Beacon Press)
"It was good of God to let Carlyle & Mrs. Carlyle marry one another & so make only two people miserable instead of four."
One little noise of life remained I heard
The train pause in the distance, then rush by,
Brawling & hushing, like some busy fly
That murmurs & then settles; nothing stirred
Charles Turner, "On the Eclipse of the Moon of October 1865"
Marmor, Kalmon. David Edelstadt. New York, YKUF Farlag, 1950. Octavo, orange-red cloth, 410 pp., chronological bibliography, index, b/w illustrations.
1900 -- France: Louise Michel
17 octobre 1900: Elle revient à Paris.
[Source: Michel Chronologie]
1915 -- Playwright Arthur Miller lives (1915-2005). Combined social awareness with searching concern for a character's inner life. Wrote "The Misfits" for one-time wife Marilyn Monroe. He was attacked by HUAC during the 50s witchhunts but refused to name names.
Daily Bleed Patron Saint, 1998
Greenwich Village commie & bohemian, chronicler of revolutions in México & Russia.
Buried in the Kremlin Wall. Large red banner bears the collective inscription:
"The leaders die, but the cause lives on."
Since the arrest of Armando Borghi on October 13, shortly after his return of Russia & the searching on October 15 of the newspaper Umanita Nova, all the principal leaders of the U.A.I. & the U.S.I. are detained because of the factory occupations.
Their demand for provisional liberation is refused early in January, & the manufacture of a "criminal" plot fiction leads their lawyer, Merlino, to tear to shreds in the "Scintilla," the accusing documents.
When Errico Malatesta returned to Italy in October [actually Dec. 24 ed.] 1919, after being smuggled out of England on a coal boat by the head of the Italian Seamen's Federation, all the ships in the port of Genoa saluted his arrival, the city stopped work & turned out to greet him.
Hippolyte Havel
1922 -- Scotland: Unemployed workers leave Glasgow on a hunger march to London.
1924 -- US: Four Will Get You Ate? NY City boarding house keepers band together because of the high cost of living & vote to serve tenants just four prunes apiece at breakfast.
Prune Juice!
You Make My Bowels Move!
to the tune of "Wild Thing"...
All the women in the coal camps are sitting with bowed down heads,
Ragged & bare-footed, & the children cryin' for bread.
No food, no clothes for our children, I'm sure this head don't lie;
If we can't get more for our labor we'll starve to death & die!
Don't go under the mountain, with a slate hangin' o'er your head;
And work for just coal oil & carbide, & your children cryin' for bread.
"To the Village Square we must carry the facts of Atomic Energy.
From there must come America's Voice."
Albert Einstein
Many friends & partners are killed...
1939 -- Warren Billings, labor activist, released from Folsom Prison.
1940 -- ¶ Author Jack Kerouac breaks his leg during a football game this month (I don't have exact day); he had just begun attending Columbia University in September on a football scholarship.
1941 -- High Seas: A German submarine torpedoes the US destroyer Kearney 350 miles southwest of Iceland; kills 11 crew members, seriously wounding two. The Kearney, the first destroyer attacked by a German submarine, sustains heavy damage but manages to stay afloat.
1941 -- US: Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader Rep. Martin Dies (D-TX) sends the attorney general a list of 1,121 "subversive" US employees; after investigation two are dismissed. Government is justa crawlin' with commies.
1942 -- US: Army private James Rowe is hanged for murdering a fellow soldier, the first of 142 American servicemen executed during World War II, Fort Huachuca, Arizona.
Trying to determine who committed the first lynching is like trying to determine who built the first fire.
George Burrows
1943 -- US: Better (F)red Than Red?: In the face of mounting opposition to communism & the Soviet Union in American society, the Young Communist League (YCL) dissolves itself at a convention, NY City. In an about turn of face, the 400 delegates organize American Youth for Democracy, which only offers membership to non-Communists.
1943 -- France: André Respaut (1898-1973) arrested & tortured before being sent to Buchenwald, where he was known for his courage & generosity saving several deportees from death.
From 1939 to 1943, he was active in the resistance & the group "Combat." A lifelong anarchiste, he worked with an association of deportees, & wrote the books Buchenwald terre maudite (1946), Sociologie fédéraliste libertaire (1961).
André was released on April 11, 1945 by the Americans.
1945 -- Argentina: Juan Peron's popularity increased after he introduced liberal workplace policies to the point where he was considered a threat by the Junta. In early 1945 he was arrested & detained.
Public discontent was great & the main trade union federation, the Confederacion General de Trabajo (CGT), organized the first major public action for democracy on October 17, 1945. Its call for Juan Peron to be freed was supported by the Union Sindical Argentina (USA), but not the anarchist union, the Federacion Obrera Regional Argentina (FORA). Eva Peron played a large part in this demonstration.
1949 -- Spain: Six antifascist guerrillero, militants of the CNT, including José Sabater Llopart, are trapped & killed in Barcelona.
1950 -- US: "Salt of the Earth" strike begins in Silver City, New Mexico; strikers' wives "man" & walk picket lines for seven months during 14-month strike.
1952 -- George Bernard Shaw play "The Millionairess" opens, Broadway (83).
1954 -- Composer/anarchist John Cage's "34' 46.776" premiers, Donaueschingen.
1957 -- French-Algerian author Albert Camus is awarded the Nobel Prize for literature. Camus wrote for many years for the anarchiste & left wing press in France.
Camus' biographer Herbert Lottman comments on his association with numerous anarchists...
"Un mur en trompe l'oeil invente l'interdit
un homme en uniforme informe les passants:
"Ici commence l'ordre avec ses tragédies
avec ses rires jaunes, ces crimes indécents" (...)
excerpt, Délit de Vie.
1961 -- England: Sit-in at Soviet Embassy in London in protest against planned nuclear testing by USSR. Wow! Nice digs.
1961 -- France: Police massacre over 200 (possibly 300) Algerians protesting against police oppression & the curfew imposed against their community in Paris.
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Amazon Now Has Book Trade Ins
When I was in college, at the end of each semester we'd go to the book store (you know, that place that fleeced us with $100 used books) and we'd sell back those books for about one tenth to one quarter what we bought them from. We'd then use that money to help fund one of our books for the next semester (or beer). Well, Amazon is doing something similar now. Although it has to do more with when new editions of the book are released. Each edition of a book allows you to trade the book in for new editions. Take Practical C++ Programming, from O'Reilly. Apparently I bought the chipmunk book at some point. In fact, considering the fact I can see it on my shelf from where I'm sitting I am certain of it (unless I am hallucinatin' again – in which case I would really hope for something better than a freakin' tech book). When I go to the page for that book on Amazon, they know I bought it (they sold it to me after all) and they're kind enough to offer to buy it off me for about a buck and a half (about 1 / 20th what I bought it for) and sell me the new edition for about $25.30 (or $6.53 used). I know I'm poking at this just a little bit, but that's just because it makes me think of college. I honestly think it's a really great feature. There are so many options for things like books and this is just another that will keep me going back to Amazon!


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Mon 25 May 2009 in Santa Fe:
After much searching the day before, I finally got a hand held GPS, the Garmin eTrex H. Its basic and functional, just the way I like it. The hash generated for today looked perfect, just a mile behind the Camel Rock Casino, and the satellite photos made the hike look like a breeze, just past a large arroyo. The time was ripe for cherry picking, my first hash would be an easy grab with great rewards. Oh how I was wrong.
We parked at the casino and headed out, trying to hide our camera, we were a little worried about the tribal authorities, but we didn't see another soul the entire trip so it was not an issue. We headed out behind the casino down an arroyo and, at first, the terrain was nice and easy, in fact we stayed in the arroyo and searched for cool rocks. After about a quarter of the way to the spot, we hit a steep incline, Gina was apprehensive but I pushed and we continued on. Finally, about half way to the hash, she decided she had enough. The first rumbles of thunder helped convince her.
But I'm brave/stupid and, being convinced that the hash was just over the ridge we had been climbing, convinced her to find a nice rock and rest while I went on alone. The climb got tough at one point when the incline steepened and the hill was mostly loose gravel. I made it to the top and waved at Gina who was only barely visible at this point. That's when I realized I was only about half way there. At the top of the hill I had been climbing was, well, the other side of the hill, so down I went. Now when I say hill, I don't mean some grassy covered knoll, this is New Mexico and it's mostly dirt and rocks and sharp inclines around here.
Down that hill was another hill but this one wasn't as steep or high as the last. So up and down one more time and I arrived at the larger arroyo that was visible in the satellite view on Google maps. The hash was right behind some bushes on the other side. I made it, snapped a few pics and BOOM! oh yeah, that storm was rolling in. I wanted to make it back before any heavy rains started, as that would make this trip go from hard and fun to down right dangerous very fast. I scrambled up and down the first hill and about halfway up the bigger hill the hail started, it was only dime sized but I could already see the look on Gina's face.
My legs burned and I was completely out of breath, but I was pushed by the hail. I scrambled on and, when I got to the top of the hill, started yelling for Gina to head back to the car. She didn't budge. I got to the spot she was waiting at and she threw the water bottle she was holding at me, luckily I'm a ninja and it missed me. We continued back to the car in silence. The good news was the hail stopped. Back at the car we made up, snapped a few pics of us being soaking wet and went home to enjoy the rest of our Sunday.
Soooo you may ask where all the pics we took are. Well, it took me the better part of a year to actually write this, and in the mean time I reformatted my hard drive. So yes, I have no proof of any of this. But hey, it gives me an excuse to re-visit this hash on another day, maybe Memorial Day '10!
Virgin graticule, two wet rats, and making mother nature my bitch. Now THAT'S a memorial day!
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If you help with or maintain a parish website you probably have struggled with keeping a good flow of content and updates for the site at times. I've been there. Recently I did a little experiment with our parish website. I wondered what would happen with site traffic if I had just one new post per day? But I needed content and where can I get that? The solution . . . the bulletin!
When it comes to discussions regarding the bulletin there is typically complaints that come up about how many people actually reading it. So I thought, why not break it up into daily posts? What I saw from the results I liked. Daily traffic began increasing by about 50% every day a post went out.
The next question is the time to do this, and that's where the beauty of scheduled posts comes in. On Sunday I can pull the posts from this week's bulletin and schedule the posts to go out throughout the week. Takes about an hour on Sunday and I'm done for the week. At the same time, I have posts I can share on social networks for those not receiving the emails about new posts. Again, all contributing towards giving parishioners more reason to visit the parish website.
I confess that I am guilty of questioning the necessity of the bulletin at times, but the truth is that it is important to keep us all informed. But at the same time it doesn't have to be "digested" all at once. AND it's messages do not need to be lost because someone put it down after perusing it for a little bit after Mass. It's "blog food" for your site throughout the week helping to keep messages fresh and constantly raising awareness to parish happenings. And the truth is that the bulletin and the parish website should always be "in sync" anyway.
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February 7 is less than a month away and this means that I will be playing the vastly updated iOS version of my dear Roar Rampage in, errr, less than a month actually; on its release date to be precise.
Now, judging by the brand new trailer posted above the game does seem to have evolved quite a bit since the last time I saw it. It's sporting all sorts of new mechanics, graphics, mini-games, environments, enemies and, most impressively, some amazing sounds straight from the era of the arcade. Taking the fact that it already was a brilliant and wildly different re-imagining of classic destroy-'em-up Rampage with wonderful pixel art graphics, I suppose it would be safe to say that Roar Rampage iOS is something worth keeping an eye out for.


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People ask me from time to time: "What is the best restaurant in Oslo for good meat?" A few alternatives comes to mind, like Trancher who specialize in entrecôte excellence, or Vaaghals with their wide selection of dry aged meat. One candidate stands out, though, as a place that not only serves meat, but lives meat. St. Lars at Bislett has a meaty attitude and a big ass grill. If they had a song it would be "All about the beef." If they got a child they would name it Chuck. If they were knighted the title would be Sir Loin. Catch my drift? Last year, we ate an excellent suckling pig at St. Lars before Christmas, but I heard rumors that head chef Daniel Lindstrøm had been working hard this year to make the perfect pig …
I don't like rumors. I like to know shit. Thus, we brought along Hedda's sisters and Team Rescue Juice for a meaty meal. You know what they say, it takes two to tango, three's company and four is not enough people to share a suckling pig – bring at least six people, you fucking twig.
Let's Start with a Horse tartare and a Côte de Bœuf
People think they need to starve themselves before a big meal, but that's wrong. You need to eat before a big meal. The belly needs to expand. That's why we started with a round of horse tartare and côte de bœuf. St. Lars' tartare is quite unique. The horse meat is packed with pickled beets and wood sorrel before it is shaped as the traditional puck. In stead of egg yolk you get quail egg yolk. As for the côte de bœuf I am almost left without words to describe how fulfilling it was to eat that juicy piece of meat. The fat melts in your mouth and the maillard crust is crunchy from the beating it gets at 900 degrees C on the coal-fired grill. The béarnaise sauce leaves you craving for more and you'll probably end up licking every drop like Elisabeth did. The fries with garlic skins are scrumptalicious, just to throw in a new word there. How many words can you really use to describe how great something tastes? I'm starting to run out.
In Search of Perfected, Caramelized, Crispy Skin
What is the ideal pig? And more importantly, how do you achieve the result? The suckling pig was already awesome last year, so it was hard to imagine how it could get any better. This year, chef Daniel explains, he placed the suckling pig in a salt brine together with brown sugar and vanilla from Madagascar. Afterwards, the piglet got a sous-vide bath for 12 hours at 67 degrees C, before it was cooked in the oven at 120 degrees C for 1 hour. In the next step, the temperature was increased to 185 degrees C and the door left open to let out all the steam. Lastly, the poor pig was glazed with honey and lemon and cooked for another 35 minutes at 210 degrees C.
The result? A perfect pig. The skin is like caramel. It makes crackling sounds when you break it, just like those insane Peking ducks. I've never eaten pork skin as delicious as this. The sides were potatoes gratinated with parmesan, salt-baked red beets, a broken apple sauce and a sauce on cognac, pork broth and brown butter. Holy pig!
The Story of the Rooster and the Executioner
The guys at St. Lars are not nice people. You don't want to mess with these thugs. Don't do stuff like stealing their stuffed rooster and put it up for display in your wine bar. Most likely, you're gonna end up with a live rooster being slaughtered in your bar in front of shocked customers, and they'll cut the head of the rooster with a pair of scissors, put it on a jar and make coq au vin of the rest. I am not saying that's what St. Lars owner Andreas Viestad and his restaurant manager Niclas Wallin did, but the general manager at Territoriet wine bar did recently resign to start working in the safe zone of Maaemo. Coincidence?
Did you try the suckling pig at St. Lars and how many people did you share it with? Please let me know in a comment.
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Well, I'm done two books so far this year: When Elephants Weep by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson and Susan McCarthy, and The Party's Over by Richard Heinberg.
When Elephants Weep was good in the way that I agreed with the thesis, it was fairly easy to read, and it had a lot of interesting anecdotes, but there wasn't a whole lot of concrete facts or quality arguments presented. It was pretty neutral to me. Not enough to change your mind, if you're dead-set against animals having emotion, but a nice enough read if you already believe it. 3/5
I enjoyed The Party's Over a lot more. The numerous statistics, graphs, knowledgeable sources cited (like scientists who have spent 50 years working with oil) was enough to make me have little doubt of the coming oil peak, not to mention the news that keeps coming up about crude hitting $100 a barrel and gas prices expected to keep going up. What's scary is the year that kept coming up: 2010. Yes, there were a lot of predictions, but the vast majority were at or near 2010. That is two years from now! Heinberg also details a terrifying picture of what peak oil could, and most likely will, bring: major wars over dwindling resources, even more catastrophic consequences for the environment when people switch to burning wood and coal for fuel, the failure of oil-based agriculture, etc. Definitely scary stuff, but strongly supported by evidence. I'd recommend this to anyone, whether they're in doubt or are already preparing for the end of oil. Read this book! 5/5
I'm just finishing Forbidden Fruit, and after that I'll probably be reading The Omnivore's Dilemma, then I'll be getting into some fiction.


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Soon June was over and … WELCOME July! This means that I have two more months of internship. It's time to begin working on other projects. My stint at the Reception Desk has ended. I think that I enjoyed it a tad too much. However, as you know there is always joy in working. The next assignment was to assist in updating the Regional Laboratory Capacity Database. The database will be used as a tool for persons within the region so that they can easily locate laboratories that meet specific analytical needs. Working on the database had two components. The first was making telephone calls to labs locally and internationally to remind them of the survey and its objectives and also to request that they provide us with the information we requested. The second part was to input the data from the responses received. In some instances I had to get responses translated as they were written in Spanish. That went smoothly. Note to self: Learn a second language. Better yet, learn two more languages. English alone will not do!
Research is one of my favourite things to do. I have something working on! We are researching the availability of educational material on marine litter/solid waste management in the Caribbean. The material should be targeted at kids. Result: there is little or no educational information available that is geared towards kids, hence the need for the project.
Having completed the research it's on to the next task. That would be creating a database for GEF IWLEARN projects to date. Database created. It's time for the final project for July, updating the LBS Focal Point Database. The Focal Points are institutions or persons with expertise in particular are who may be contacted by UNEP-CAR/RCU for their service.
Challenges faced: There were no "challenges faced."
Lessons learnt: I need to learn a second language.
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6 fresh new web design trends poised to dominate the world of WordPress
Every new year is another chance for a fresh start, and this applies to web design as much as anything else. This is a great time to review your existing projects and plan out how to incorporate the most popular web design trends predicted for the coming year.
In 2016, we saw the continuation of some already popular web design trends. Some are starting to fade — such as flat design — while others continue to gain ground (think modular design).
Generally, the trend in web design has been a shift away from heavy graphics to simple, minimalist layouts that emphasize content legibility.
In this post, we'll go over six web design trends that have been gaining ground lately and are likely to dominate the world of WordPress this year.
6 web design trends for 2017
Bold color gradients
Video backgrounds
Modular layout design
Monochromatic color schemes
Minimalist design
1. Bold color gradients
Gradients enable smooth transitions between colors, creating a captivating, layered effect that turns a dull page into a pleasantly inviting one. Over the past few years, gradients have been making a steady resurgence, although they're now used more creatively and stylishly than in the past.
Designers now tend to use bold, bright duotone color combinations to create visual appeal. Gradients often work best on a home page, and like shadows, they create depth for background images without competing for attention.
To get started with modern gradients, we recommend a tool such as uiGradients. You can also get inspiration from plenty of examples online.
2. Video backgrounds
Video backgrounds take storytelling to a new level, using a straightforward approach that combines a fullscreen video with muted audio. The video autoplays when the page loads and usually includes supporting text overlaid on a transparent background color.
Visual content is popular because users respond to it, which explains why many small business owners are incorporating some form of video marketing into their online campaigns. Like gradients, video backgrounds often work best on a homepage or landing page to quickly showcase a product or highlight the key features of a service.
Thanks to the popularity of this particular trend, there is plenty of advice online to get you started. While it's not totally similar, the new WordPress Twenty Seventeen default theme uses video headers out of the box.
3. Cinemagraphs
Cinemagraphs are perhaps the freshest and hottest trend in web design right now. Simply put, they're still images with a looping video portion, essentially creating a middle ground between still images and full video.
This trend exploded last year — and rightfully so. For starters, the part of the image in motion keeps the viewer glued to the page. What's more, cinemagraphs can also make a big impact through digital marketing campaigns. The visual appeal of a well-crafted cinemagraph (using a platform such as Flixel, for example) could make a casual user stop and notice, which (of course) is where effective marketing begins.
4. Modular layout design
Modular design employs a grid of boxes to organize and display content in square or rectangular tiles stacked neatly on a page. It results in a clean and organized look.
Modular layouts can be simple or complex, but their major advantage is that they work seamlessly with responsive design. They've gained a lot of traction in recent years because they're one of the most responsive-friendly layouts available. Portfolio sites are a perfect applications for this kind of design, but modular layouts also work well on normal blog sites that want to display post lists as tiles.
To get started with this trend, there are a number of responsive, front-end frameworks that include a grid system, such as Bootstrap. In fact, it's not that hard to find a suitable solution, meaning it should be a breeze to get onboard.
5. Monochromatic color schemes
In a nutshell, a monochromatic color scheme uses various shades of a single base color. With less contrast than other color schemes, the interface is accented in a visually cohesive way.
Monochromatic palettes are popular with minimalist designers, but they also make choosing colors for your website a lot easier. If you're a non-designer, go with a monochromatic palette. Fortunately, this is a simple trend to implement, and there are plenty of tools available to help you, such as Paletton, Coolors and many more.
6. Minimalist design
Minimalist web design strips all superfluous elements away, emphasizing simplicity and clarity. A key feature in this trend is white space — and plenty of it. This helps balance the scarcity of elements on the page and enables your site to display a sense of calm and assuredness.
Minimalist design has been popular for a while now and is perfect for authoritative blogs, portfolios and business websites. Quite simply, less clutter showcases your content to the exclusion of all else, and both text and images can benefit from this approach.
Getting to grips with minimalism is not as simple as you think. However, there are some basic principles you can apply, which should help you focus your designs on its key elements.
2017 promises to be an exciting year for web design with some new trends that will shape the way websites are built throughout the year. The common element among most of these design trends is simplicity, which gives you an idea of what to expect moving forward.
Let's quickly recap of the web design trends that are likely to explode this year:
- Bold color gradients. Gradients are making a comeback, using bolder and brighter colors.
- Video backgrounds. Media will take visual storytelling to another level.
- Cinemagraphs. This unique feature uses a looping video segment to draw users' attention.
- Modular layout design. Modular layouts organize content into grids for increased clarity.
- Monochromatic color schemes. Many sites are employing a simple scheme that uses varying tints of a single color.
- Minimalist design. In 2017, web designers will be pushing the limits of this popular design trend.
Hopefully these web design trends give you an idea of what to expect in the coming year. Once you've made updates to your site, consider revamping some of your old content to give your website a total overhaul.


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These are some of the articles and profiles that have caught my attention this year…
Via ArchDaily
Calatrava's Museum of Tomorrow – simply a breathtaking structure.
Via ArchDaily
SITE works – a long time favourite, SITE have created some amazing and playful architecture over time.
Via ArchDaily
Olson Kundig house – a stunning house.
New community place above transit hub – we need this type of thinking to reinvent our cities.
Transparent retail space reveals hidden depths – an amazing space that is accentuated by the existing aged buildings.
One Central Park's innovative sun light – this is simply genius to solve an increasing overshadow problem of tall buildings.
Kengo Kuma interview – one of the greats.
Via ArchDaily
Quebec community center – it was this image that caught my attention, architecture that changes throughout the day.
Museum of Contemporary Art – a fluid form that works harmoniously with the landscape.
University campus – buildings that form canopies.
Lighting design of urban spaces – spaces that engage the public to make it their own.
Spa in the landscape – blurring the inside-outside.


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Some time ago an interesting article surfaced on Reddit, about using recurrent neural networks to generate plausible looking text. Andrej did a very good job in explaining how they work and some of the techniques and algorithms he used. I thought this was worth some explorations on my own, so I did a bit of research and tried to implement my own networks in Haskell.
I implemented the basics using the hmatrix package to have vectors and matrices. I went to Khan Academy to learn more about these topics because I had stopped math in school before learning matrices. Once I managed to implement hopefully correctly the algorithm I used the simple-genetic-algorithm package (well, my fork, uploaded on hackage) to evolve the network via genetic selection and mutation.
This gave some results, especially when I fixed my mutation code, that in fact was doing nothing, thus emphasizing again that mutation is a critical part of genetic algorithms, and not just crossovers.
Then I went to implement proper learning algorithms, a bit less random than genetic evolution. I was clearly out of my depth there, but learned a lot. To implement gradient descent I actually used the ad library and had to rewrite the algorithms without hmatrix so they would work on simple lists. Given that a couple of weeks again I didn't even understand what AD was, I'm happy I got some stuff to work. I was lucky to find some good code in python, even trying to understand the under-specified RMSProp algorithm.
The end result is not great, though. My network can learn the really complex sentence "Hello world!" and regenerate it after a couple of thousand iterations of the learning algorithm, in around a minute on my machine. I haven't managed to parallelize the treatment yet, and running on all my cores instead of just one make performance a lot worse. On more complex sentences performance becomes really bad, as both the network becomes bigger (more characters to deal with, etc) and the data to evaluate is bigger.
Trying to use a sparse representation for characters using 2 values instead of 1 as in the standard 1-of-k encoding didn't work well. I also realize that tweaks in the cost function had a huge impact on how well and how fast the network can learn. I have started to look at cutting the data in batches but I think I need to make the learning on simple data as fast as possible before moving on.
So, nothing earth shattering, no great progress or insight, but I feel I learned a lot by implementing my own stuff and running into all the issues that are probably well known of people familiar with these subjects. My artificial intelligence is still pretty dumb, but hopefully my own natural intelligence has progressed a bit!
The code is on github of course, so if anybody wants to have a look, I'll gladly take any feedback!!
In this blog I talk about some of the personal programming I do as a hobby. By trade I'm a Java and database developer but I've dabbled in Haskell, front-end development, etc. I'm currently working as an architect but still enjoy getting my fingers dirty in code!
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Playing with Recurrent Neural Networks in Haskell
2 comments:
- Unknown said...
It may not be the most advance deep net code out there but you must have learned a lot to get there. Especially from not knowing even the matrices!
Good job!
- Unknown said...
If you haven't seen it already, Hinton has a great course on neural networks and related technology, available on Coursera and Youtube (I think).
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Ricki Lake may have started out the frontrunner, but J.R. Martinez has come on really strong in the latter half of the competition. For his "Dancing With the Stars" finale freestyle, Martinez and partner Karina Smirnoff danced to Kat Deluna's "Whine Up." What did you think?
The judges were effusive in their praise. Bruno, in his usually kooky way, called it a "jungle tribal hypnotic experience." Carrie Ann loved his ability to come back after a less-than-steller first dance. And Len commented on Karina's body.
Either way, it earned J.R. three 10s for a perfect score. Do you think that was enough to overcome his first dance? Can Karina finally win her first mirror ball trophy?


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Last weekend I had another unforgettable experience at the Vogue Festival 2014 that was held at Southbank Centre in London! Vogue Festival 2014 is a two day fashion event organised by Vogue in collaboration with Harrods. It consists of fashion talks by famous people from the industry and other fashion related activities like makeup cover photoshoots and catwalks. This event aims not only to inspire you and give you life examples and advices from famous celebrities from the fashion world, but also to bring you closely to the real fashion world behind the curtains. You can participate in a real catwalk show or you can choose to participate in a Vogue Cover Photo Shoot. You can have make up by Burberry makeup artists or you can drink your coffee at the Harrods Cafe!
I had the chance to attend the talk by Alexa Chung, Lucinda Chambers and Amanda Harlech that discussed the definition of style, what is our personal style and how to achieve it. I can say that everything they said was absolutely correct and inspired me even more! One of my favourite sayings by Lucinda was "Style is self-expression, but you have to have a self to express." Another moment that absolutely captured my attention was when the style icons discussed that style is the opposite of fashion. Amanda Harlech concluded that style is anti-fashion and it is not about following trends. I also believe that style evolves with the years and you are not born with your style you have to learn to develop it and what is more, it changes throughout the years. As you grow you become more and more certain and confident with what your style exactly is.
I will conclude with one of the most important statements that Lucinda mentioned "Other than a smile, what you're wearing is the first thing people notice."


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One way to get PLAZA that was available since the beginning – is cloning the github repo and building python virtual environment with all the packages. And I understand that nowadays this way seems too complicated and the case is ideal for learning some docker!
Join me in this journey for integrating a simple Flask application into a docker container.
I have updated this port with another write-up called Flask application in a production-ready container


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|Spring is coming. I promise.
Day one of 21 Day Fix (21DF) and so far so good. I did the modified version but I think I am going to have to modify it a little more. The first move, after the warm-up, is called "Surrenders" where you basically go down on one knee, then the other (so that you are kneeling), then step up on one foot and back up all the way. You do this on one side for one minute then the other side later in the set. Remember, I exercise with 1) bad balance and 2) bad knees. So you can imagine how challenging this is for me. I don't want to lose my balance as I am going down or up and wrench my knee or fall over completely. I pushed through it all today because I had not planned ahead and couldn't immediately come up with a substitute.
Google to the rescue. I found several suggestions for good substitutes but found one I believe is the best. Instead of going down on my knees, I'll do a forward lunge and a back lunge. As it's done on the DVD, I won't alternate but do it on one side for the first set and the other for the second.
Interestingly enough, a book I'm reading talks about planning ahead, to have contingency plans in place. Of course you can't always plan ahead but, when you can, if you can, doing so helps keep you on track. And now I have a plan in place for what I'll do instead of the Surrenders because, between my balance and my knees, they are not a good exercise for me to do.
Although there is no specific meal plan for the 21DF for most of the 21 days, there is a 3 Day Quick Fix (3DQF) which I am doing. There are six meals beginning with breakfast (oatmeal and egg whites—not together) followed with a lot of grilled and steamed foods. Grilled chicken breasts with steamed yams first. Then steamed fish with veggies, more chicken but with veggies, then fish again with veggies, and finally some ground turkey and veggies. That's four servings of veggies, 2 carbs, six proteins. And notice—the carbs are in the morning.
Okay. Egg whites are blandblandbland so I added a pinch of spices to make it a bit more palatable. I plan on doing that again. And I added a dash of cinnamon to my oatmeal. All in all, it has been a good start to my day. I'll post more about the 3DQF tomorrow. In the meantime, I feel good and accomplished.
I took my measurements and weighed myself this morning. I won't do my measurements again until I am done with the full 21 days. However, I will be weighing myself. Today is my baseline weight (and no, I'm not going to tell you). Next Sunday, I'll post a number with a + or – depending on whether I gained or lost. Needless to say, I'm hoping I lose.


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The UK government is looking for new ideas on how companies can fight the threat of cyber security – with £4m in R&D investment on offer for the best.
Innovate UK says that it will allocate grants to companies that are developing technology to fight the mounting threat of internet fraud and data theft. In particular, it will fund projects that "tackle the growing risks of disruption to internet-enabled businesses and their digital supply chains," it said.
Eligible projects will typically last 1-2 years with a total budget of £150,000-£750,000. For SME-run submissions, the government is willing to cover up to 60% of these costs.
"Proposals must be collaborative and business-led," said Innovate UK.
"We want to identify and fund industrial research that will strengthen the protection and resilience of such data, so businesses and the public can have confidence in the delivery of digitally enabled business products and services."
The deadline for registering for the competition is April 29th. Briefing events for companies will be held in Belfast, Cardiff, London and Edinburgh between 25th March and 1st April, with full details available here.


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What if I'm late?
Generally, I DO NOT TAKE LATE ARRIVALS. If you are going to be late, you need to contact me asap. If you're late, there's a chance I will have to cancel your appointment so that I can stay on time with the rest of my schedule. Please do not just show up hoping that I will be able to take you.
Why are you so strict about being on time for appointments?
Ok, here comes a little tough love....We are all big boys and girls here. Your appointment time is your appointment time, period. I realize, for some in my industry, it is standard practice to double book and run late all day. I choose not to run my business in this way. If I take everyone late, then I will run late ALL day and that is not fair to the clients who made the effort to arrive on time for their appointments. One of the things many of my clients like about me is that I am very rarely late. They know they can count on me to be on time and they can move on with their day. So, all that said, please know that if you are late, there is a strong possibility that I will cancel your appointment. Your best bet is to call or text me and verify whether or not I will still be able to take you. I understand that things come up. It's happened to all of us. And I am completely understanding of that situation. I just ask that you be understanding as well if I have to reschedule your appointment. 💙
What is your cancellation policy?
48 HOURS NOTICE IS REQUIRED FOR CANCELLATION. Less than the required notice will result in a 50% charge of the service booked. When you cancel last minute, you affect me and someone who wanted to make an appointment in that time slot. To avoid charges, please look over my cancellation policy.
Can I bring my children to my appointment?
Under 10, no. While I do love meeting all your little ones, due to liability reasons, I prefer that there be no children in my room during any appointment. I have been in business for over 15 years, and in that time, I have had many incidences when kids have been allowed in my room i.e. wax cart being knocked over, kids falling off of chairs, things getting broken, etc. etc. This is not a child friendly room and I really don't want your little ones to get hurt. In addition, it is very distracting to the parent receiving the service, which then slows everything down. Generally, if your child is 10 or over, it's not a problem for them to attend any of your short services such as a brow wax, but not during any other type of service.
What forms of payment do you accept?
Cash, check, Visa, Mastercard, Discover, and American Express.Charges will show up as Andrea Minor on your account. If possible, please do not come in with large bills to break. I don't often have a lot of change. **No postdated checks. If a check is returned, the client is liable for any and all charges associated with the charge back and no further checks will be accepted.**
What days are you off?
Sundays and Mondays. The only exception to this is around the busy holiday season or if I am going on a vacation. During those times, I may add more days and hours.
Cell phone usage.....ugggh!
Lord have mercy.....for the love......please wrap up your texting and conversations before you walk through my door. My all time favorite is when I am trying to wax someone's eyebrows and they are on the phone. Or even worse, during a facial! I can hear some of you laughing right now! And to answer your next question...yes, this really has happened. Even when you are just texting, you start to move your face around. It's a tad bit difficult to wax a moving target.
No call/no show policy.
We all forget appointments from time to time. I totally get that. But if you repeatedly do this, it's a problem. But please note the following: For existing clients, If you no show/no call me, PLEASE EXPECT TO BE INVOICED FOR !00% OF THE SERVICE BOOKED. Repeated no shows will result in suspended booking. **IF YOU NO CALL/NO SHOW ME ON YOUR VERY 1ST APPOINTMENT BOOKED, NO FUTURE BOOKINGS WILL BE PERMITTED :(


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This is a circuit can b e used to check the hfe of transistors. Both PNP and NPN transistors can be checked using this circuit. Hfe as high as 1000 can be measured by using this circuit. This circuit is based on two constant current sources build around transistors Q1 and Q2. Q1 is a PNP transistor and the constant current flows in the emitter lead. The value of constant current can be given by the equation; (V D1 -0.6)/ (R2+R4).The POT R4 can be adjusted to get a constant current of 10uA.
Q2 is an NPN transistor and the constant current flows into the collector lead. The value of this constant current can be given by the equation; (VD2-0.6)/(R3+R5).The POT R5 can be adjusted to get a constant current of 10uA.This constant current provided by the Q1 circuit if the transistor under test is an NPN transistor and by Q2 circuit if the transistor under test is a PNP transistor is fed to the base of transistor under test. This current multiplied by the hfe flows in the collector of the transistor and it will be indicated by the meter. The meter can be directly calibrated to read the hfe of the transistor.
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- D1,D2: Diode Zener 5.6volt 1/2 watt
- Q1: 2N2907 PNP transistor
- Q2: 2N222 NPN transistor
- R2,R3: 470K Resistor
- R4,R5: 100K Variable Resistot (Potensiometer)
- M1: Miliampere meter Analog (10mA)
- J1,J2: transistor sockets


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You saw lot of conversations memes are shared in the social network,that are normally be like two person chatting on particular topic.
Usually these memes are made with screenshots of whatsapp and messenger chats.
Do you think these conversations are really happened between those two persons ?
No, it can't be possible all the time. So how those memes are created ? Here is the simple trick that can explain everything.
How to create conversation memes:
Conveo: Fake Chats an Android app which allows you to have fake conversations. You control both sides of the conversation in a fake chat.
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Conveo let's you create highly realistic yet fake Calls/ Messenger chats /What's app chats/ Tweets / Fb News Feed /Notifications. You can use conveo to prank your friends, lie to your parents/friends or hide your previous lies, you can create memes of fake chats or just boast off fake chatting your favorite celebrity.
No one will be able to differentiate between real and Conveo's fake chats. You can rest assured that you won't get caught.
If you are looking for fake call app then download Conveo because its fake call is the most realistic fake calling screen with a lot of options.
You can also create fake Tweets about favorite celebrities or friends. You can also do the same with fake news feed. Conveo's fake Tweets and news feed looks so real that you can match it with the real apps and would feel no difference.
This app can only be used for fun, pranks and conversation memes.
Here is the download link for the app in Playstore – Conveo:Fake Chats
Here is the download link for the apk – Conveo:Fake chats
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Despite minute "reductions in injustice," racial disparities in medical treatment persist, and there is little incentive to make further progress.
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Saturday, November 01, 2014
JCCF and ZERO TO THREE held a virtual news briefing to release a new report on the impact of smartphones, tablets and television on small children. This transcript includes a link to the recorded webinar and answers to the questions which did not get addressed during the event.
Wednesday, October 15, 2014
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Wednesday, September 24, 2014
I was spanked as a kid.
It was rare. Sometimes with a belt.
My 50-year-old self can say with confidence that I was not traumatized by it... but as a parent, I am convinced that spanking is wrong.
Tuesday, July 22, 2014
When 17-year-old Shanti Gurung left her family and home in India to work for an Indian diplomat in New York City, she was promised at least $108 a month, room and board in exchange for light cleaning, light cooking and staffing the occasional house party.
But Gurung's reality... Read more
Thursday, May 15, 2014
"To the End of June" presents an all-encompassing look into the triumphs and failures of the American foster care system. Author Cris Beam, herself a foster mother, spent 5 years investigating the system which includes over 400,000 children in the U.S. She interviews current and former... Read more
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"A Dream Foreclosed" tells the stories of black Americans dealing with foreclosure, eviction and forced homelessness.
Investigative journalist and social justice activist Laura Gottesdiener details the experiences of African Americans as victims of predatory loans and mortgages... Read more
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Here, we've shared apps which most women and teenage girls will find useful. Our list includes the top applications for fashion, health, hair styling, safety, and more.
Girls and women have different requirements than guys. Keeping this thing in mind, we have compiled the list of best apps for teenage girls. 99.9% of the women will find the apps we've shortlisted in this article beneficial.
Best apps for Women and Girls
Hairstyle app
Like many other young girls/women, you may like to try out new hair styles and hair color. Hair stylists, being in the industry for several years have a good imagination. They are probably the best persons to suggest a haircut. Unfortunately, hairstylists may charge hefty fees for styling your hair.
To save your hard-earned money, download and use these best hair styling apps. The apps make you aware of unique and exotic hairstyles which you can try out for free. They provide step-by-step guides for the same.
iTriage health and symptom app
A teenage girl's body may undergo various changes. To understand the changes, you must use a symptom checker application. The best app for the same is iTriage. Content in iTriage has been reviewed by scholars at the world-renowned Harvard University. Hence, the information you get from this app is accurate.
iTriage app is easy to use. On its interface, you'll see the following options:
- Symptoms, doctors, facilities.
- Conditions, Medications, Procedures.
- Spotlight, News, hotlines, education.
Tap on any of the above options to begin using it.
Pose latest fashion app
Women and teenage girls are crazy about fashion. The best way of keeping oneself updated with latest trends in fashion and design industry is by downloading a fashion app.
One of the best applications for the same is Pose. The application is tiny and intuitive. When you run it, WF16 will display a list of designers and fashion enthusiasts that upload pictures of latest fashion designs. You can browse the photos uploaded by any users free of cost.
Users can post comments on their favorite images and they can even bookmark the photos for later access. If you want to upload your own designs, create a free account on Pose.
Music app for listening to songs
Life is incomplete and boring without music. If you agree with this statement, consider downloading the best free apps to download songs. The applications we've recommended let you play or download your favorite tracks in HD or SD audio quality. They work on Android or IOS devices. They let you listen to country, rock, hip-hop, rap, classic, metal and many other genres of music.
VithU personal safety app
Unfortunately, women and teenage girls are major victims of crime. As a teenager, you must download and use a smart safety app for Android. The best application which can help you during a band incident is VithU. To get started with VithU, enter the list of numbers you want the app to alert whenever you're in danger.
To send SOS alert message during an emergency, you must tap on power button twice. The app will automatically send an alert text message to the phone numbers you've entered. The message will include your location to help relatives or police in finding you.
The world's biggest social network aka Facebook will keep you in touch with your buddies. Hence, make sure that you download Facebook on your device.
Want to have fans? Install Instagram on your mobile. If you're a model or an aspiring model, Instagram can get you huge numbers of fans. All you have to do is post attractive selfies and pictures.
Girls learn cooking food from their relatives. To become an expert cook like master chefs of top hotels, download the best recipe apps. World class chefs have compiled and published the recipes which you'll find in the applications.
Conclusion: Over 500 million people use FB and Instagram on a daily basis. You may have already installed the two apps on your phone or tablet. Other applications we've covered in this article may be new for you. Make sure that you try them out.


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Matthew 7:9-11
Is there anyone among you who, if your child asks for bread, will give a stone? 10 Or if the child asks for a fish, will give a snake? 11 If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good things to those who ask him!
Job 1:1; 2:1-10
There was once a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job. That man was blameless and upright, one who feared God and turned away from evil.
One day the heavenly beings came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan also came among them to present himself before the LORD. 2 The LORD said to Satan, "Where have you come from?" Satan answered the LORD, "From going to and fro on the earth, and from walking up and down on it." 3 The LORD said to Satan, "Have you considered my servant Job? There is no one like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man who fears God and turns away from evil. He still persists in his integrity, although you incited me against him, to destroy him for no reason." 4 Then Satan answered the LORD, "Skin for skin! All that people have they will give to save their lives. 5 But stretch out your hand now and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will curse you to your face." 6 The LORD said to Satan, "Very well, he is in your power; only spare his life." 7 So Satan went out from the presence of the LORD, and inflicted loathsome sores on Job from the sole of his foot to the crown of his head. 8 Job took a potsherd with which to scrape himself, and sat among the ashes. 9 Then his wife said to him, "Do you still persist in your integrity? Curse God, and die." 10 But he said to her, "You speak as any foolish woman would speak. Shall we receive the good at the hand of God, and not receive the bad?" In all this Job did not sin with his lips.
Job 19:25-27a
For I know that my Redeemer lives, and that at the last he will stand upon the earth; 26 and after my skin has been thus destroyed, then in my flesh I shall see God, 27 whom I shall see on my side, and my eyes shall behold, and not another.
2 Corinthians 12:9
"My grace is sufficient for you, for power is made perfect in weakness." So, I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may dwell in me.
1 Corinthians 10:16-17
The cup of blessing that we bless, is it not a sharing in the blood of Christ? The bread that we break, is it not a sharing in the body of Christ? 17 Because there is one bread, we who are many are one body, for we all partake of the one bread.


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How like a cat I wish to be —
to curl up like a cinnamon roll
on a warm lap just my size
like when I nestled between Dad's side
and arm in perfect fit…
to rub and purr beneath my owner's hand
as she scratches my cheek
as she smooths my fur from head
to back and up my tail until
static electricity tingles my feet
like handing Mom my first
crayon masterpiece and feeling
her smile curl my toes…
to be picked up and hugged
for coming home when called
like standing in front of relatives
who examine my parents' work.
Diane Webster's goal is to remain open to poetry ideas in everyday life or nature or an overheard phrase and to write from her perspective at the moment. Many nights she falls asleep juggling images to fit into a poem. Her work has appeared in Philadelphia Poets, Illya's Honey, River Poets Journal and other literary magazines.


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Here are some other pics of our "white Thanksgiving."
Our neighbors were outside too (checking their cars for any hail damage) so their teenage daughter was playing with Jared and collecting as much hail as possible into our Tupperware bowl.Snow cone, anyone?Jared enjoyed seeing the hail...and collecting itNow for our Thanksgiving. It was just us (the 7 of us) for Thanksgiving. In the past, we usually traveled to California and spent Thanksgiving there with my extended family. This year (and last year, due to me being very pregnant then) we didn't get to go. It's understandable...travel with four 8.5 month olds and a 4.5 year old...during cold/flu/RSV season. Needless to say we didn't do it ;) We missed everyone and hope we can make the trip next year!!
As it turns out, we decided to make Thanksgiving dinner for us (we were going to share it with friends but our friends got sick on us). That was not fun. Chasing babies and a preschooler all day, just the two of us, AND make Thanksgiving dinner? We were crazy (and tired)!! I will say that all of the food was yummy but I don't think we're going to do that again anytime soon ;)
Here are some fun pictures of our day.
The girls, rolling and playing around (Bethany, Suzan, Anna and Brielle). Thanks to Misty U (she has all girl quads too!) for the four cute matching outfits! They were perfect for the girls' first Thanksgiving!!Bethany, Brielle, Anna and SuzanThe girls with big brother, JaredSuzan, calling everyone to say "happy thanksgiving!"Anna - "mama, are we going to have pumpkin pie??"Bethany - "i'm fishing for some fish for thanksgiving din din"
Brielle - "hey, i'm just hanging out till the dinner bell rings"Jared enjoying a holiday snackSome Thanksgiving decorations...I made this cornucopia a long time agoAnd I thought Jared would enjoy seeing some gourds, all in different shapes, sizes, textures and colors. They were cheap too - 10 for $1 at Fresh & EasyJared helping with the turkeyOkay, now some "who's who." Which one is Bethany and which one is Anna?Two peas in a pod :)On the right, looking cuteAh, this one might have given it away ;)Or this one"Awe mama, aren't we cute?" I'll reveal who is who in a later postBrielle eating some turkey (we started feeding them meats...they really don't like it :P) - "mama, are you sure this is turkey? hm..."Bethany - "must you take my picture while i am eating???"Suzan - "okay, how is it you are feeding me more turkey than my sisters? that's a lot mama!"Anna - "i am SO not liking this meat thing!!"Then Jared wanted to spend some time playing outside, to work up a Thanksgiving appetite. Jared biking...Then some time scootering...Then on his "motorcycle." Yes, he is way too big for his baby trike but he loves to ride it and say it's his motorcycle. Where he came up with motorcycle, I don't know ;)His whole purpose on riding all of his various modes of transportation was to splash in the puddlesOh, and having some fun too ;)Sweet boy!Hope everyone had a good Thanksgiving!