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Date: Dec 5, 2014 4:41 PM
Subject: HSI animal rescue team on high alert in the Philippines
HSI is on standby to offer assistance as Typhoon Hagupit/Ruby closes in on the Philippines.
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Dear liz,
Typhoon Hagupit/Ruby is bearing down on the Philippines, with winds of up to 240kph/150mph.
Our local animal rescue team is on standby to make assessments and, if need be, to provide assistance to the human and animal population. Together with the Department of Agriculture, we are monitoring areas at risk—among them, metro Manila; gathering required resources, including volunteers to help on the ground; and fast-tracking the purchase of veterinary and feed supplies as the storm progresses. We've submitted a request to be part of military airlifts into the hardest-hit localities if necessary.
Hagupit/Ruby comes just over a year after Super Typhoon Haiyan devastated the Philippines in what remains the most powerful storm ever to have hit the islands. In its wake, HSI mounted a major relief effort that saved thousands of animals' lives and returned many pets abandoned during the evacuation safely to their owners.
We hope that catastrophe will be averted, but we'll be prepared for the worst—just in case. Please visit hsi.org/disaster in the coming days for updates on our efforts and information on how you can help.
Thank you for caring about animals.
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A Phase I Environmental Site Assessment (ESA) is an investigation for potential environmental hazards. The purpose of a Phase I ESA is to comply with the due diligence property inspection requirements of the Innocent Landowner Defense under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA). Phase I inspections performed by EMS follow the protocols established in the ASTM 1527 and 1528 standards, widely accepted as the industry standard. Sampling for typical environmental hazards, such as asbestos, radon or Lead-based Paint can be included as necessary.
EMS professionals have performed Phase I ESA inspections on hundreds of residential, commercial and industrial properties. We will bring the same high level of experience and expertise to your project.
A Phase II investigation is a quantitative inspection to verify and define potential hazards which may have been identified in the Phase I. EMS will provide guidance in determining the most cost effective method to discover the extent and severity of a potential environmental hazard, as well as guidance through the maze of regulations. The Phase II inspection may include an asbestos inspection, an evaluation for the presence of lead-based paint, a subsurface investigation, or a combination of these.
Do you know enough to make decisions about mold in your buildings? Can you respond to a tenant complaint or evaluate a consultant's recommendation? Should you implement a mold Operations & Maintenance (O&M) Program?
Mold is an area of intense concern at the present time. Schools have been closed and homes vacated. Long-lasting and severe health effects have resulted from mold exposure, and settlements amounting to millions of dollars have been awarded in recent law suits. Public awareness is at an all time high. To make matters worse, there is a wealth of conflicting information and advice concerning mold.
Mold remediation is a complex issue, with no set regulatory protocols for scientific testing, analysis or removal. Let EMS help with the evaluation, control and remediation of mold problems. We provide guidance in sampling, determining the most effective control strategies and making sure the job is done right. We also provide Mold Awareness Training and a Mold Awareness Seminar.
Even though it's no longer front page news, asbestos contamination in buildings can still be a significant environmental problem. The extensive use of asbestos products in buildings has raised concerns about exposure to asbestos in non-industrial settings. However, the presence of asbestos in a building does not mean that the health of the building occupants is necessarily endangered.
The US EPA and OSHA both recommend a pro-active, in-place management program whenever asbestos is discovered. EMS will provide trained, accredited and licensed professionals to conduct an inspection for the presence of asbestos, to perform a hazard assessment and recommend appropriate responses to the asbestos. EMS will then prepare an Asbestos Management Plan or Operations and Maintenance (O & M) program to meet regulatory requirements. OSHA also requires that those who work with or around asbestos receive very specific training. See our training section for more details.
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In identifying lead based paints, the regulations distinguish between inspection, risk assessment, and survey. EMS will determine which of these investigations is most appropriate for a particular situation. We can then conduct that investigation to identify the presence of lead in paint, soil, settled or airborne dust, and in chemical or mechanical processes. Based on the information generated, EMS will identify existing and potential lead hazards and will develop a program to minimize exposures and liabilities.


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Workouts are available for all levels of fitness with no prior knowledge or experience needed. Our certified and professional instructors will coach you through each exercise move, demonstrate proper form and can provide feedback on your technique to reduce the risk of injury. The motivation, camaraderie and fun you experience while taking an aerobic class will help prevent boredom and keep you on track to achieving your health and fitness goals.
Over 80-group exercise classes are offered each week at The Lifestyle Center in two exercise studios that are equipped with state of the art aerobic floor and stereo equipment. Classes ranging from beginning, intermediate and advanced levels are open to all active members and are included in your membership. Monthly class schedules with times, days, location and class descriptions are available by clicking here and at the control desk located in the facility. Please review the class descriptions, as they will assist you in selecting classes appropriate for your fitness level.
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Please observe the following guidelines for attending a group exercise class.
- Please be on time. Warming up is important to avoid injury. If you arrive late, please warm up prior to entering the class.
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- Please keep conversation to a minimum. It's important to listen to the instructors for guidance and safety concerns.
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Combines a segment of cardiovascular exercise, a segment of strength training, ending with core training. This total body workout is open to all fitness levels.
Breathing Easy (Pulmonary Rehab Phase II)
Graduation from phase I Pulmonary Rehab or doctors referral required prior to participating in this class.
Circuit Step
3-5 minutes of stepping with 1-3 minute intervals of weight resistance training.
Circuit Strength
A circuit class with a combination of athletic and dynamic movements. This total body workout contains an aerobic workout with elements of muscular endurance. All fitness levels welcome as you can work at your own pace.
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F.I.T. combines strength training with cardiovascular intervals. This class will focus on challenging your balance, stability and core strength. Utilizing gliders, resist-a-balls and BOSU balls, this class is essential for strengthening and conditioning your core.
A full body weight resistance class utilizing variations of props to tone and sculpt the entire body. Appropriate for all fitness levels.
Functional Fusion
A self-progressive class focusing on development of the upper and lower extremities, body positions, movement skills, core strengthening, flexibility, stability, and balance. Perfect for anyone wanting to improve basic conditioning and strength.
Healthy Heart
For the post cardiac rehab patient and other individuals with special needs. Includes a blood pressure check, stretching, choice of cardiovascular exercise, and weight resistance exercises. A fitness evaluation is required prior to participating in this class.
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A self defense and martial arts oriented class which emphasizes techniques including; balance, leverage, deflecting attacks, maintaining proper positioning and escaping holds.
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Part of the front-end adoption process is establishing a budget. It's not a set-in-stone thing but it is a ballpark thing. Agencies want to know, up front, if we can cover the fees associated with a particular situation.
Private domestic adoption fees range from $30,000 to $50,000. There's a lot involved in that number: homestudy filing fees, background check fees, fees to cover a social worker's time in completing a homestudy, attorney fees, court fees, agency fees, expenses for the expectant mom, and lots of other stuff.
We don't have a spare $50,000. (We also don't have a spare $30,000, either, in case you were wondering.)
We don't have a ton of money saved. We have more now than a year ago, especially with me back at a full time job and us with two good incomes. However, we have debt, and our focus has been on paying that down – not on establishing an impressive savings account. That was part of why we never really pursued private adoption where we used to live. We didn't have the income to even come close, not even for paying off any loans we took out.
Thankfully, our current situation is much different. We are used to living on one salary, so now that we have two we are moving quickly on paying things off. We're also in a better position to pay off any loans we might take out.
We will be taking out loans. This will not be a debt-free adoption.
We've talked a lot about fundraising. That seems to be a thing potential adopters do. It's not something we're 100% comfortable with, though. Even writing about it makes me squirm. However, we've had a lot of friends and family ask what we're doing, how they can help. Over the years, they just keep asking. And now we are at a point where we actually could use their support. So we did a shirt and posted "we're adopting!" along with a link to the shirt.
The response was amazing. It wasn't just people getting shirts; but it was the incredible notes of support, the "sharing" to their own accounts, the offers of further resources and support down the road. We were totally blown away. Suddenly, we feel hopeful. This is possible; this is doable. We have people behind us.
We probably won't do much more "fundraising." I can't make any real claims about what will happen down the road. I just know where our comfort level is on asking for help and it's already been surpassed.
But then, so have our expectations.
Kind of overwhelming. In a good way.


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Didier Artzet: The French F1 talent that slipped through the net
Sam Smith recalls the story of Didier Artzet, one of the most naturally gifted drivers to fail to make it to Formula 1 at a time when many of his countrymen ascended the ladder all the way to the summit of the sport.
During the 1980s, a plethora of talented French drivers came through the national racing system of their home country, many of them making it all the way to F1.
Jean Alesi, Eric Bernard, Olivier Grouillard, Yannick Dalmas and Olivier Panis were among them.
Didier Artzet, as gifted as many of those listed above, somehow slipped through the net. Flaunting an almost supernatural reflex for controlling a racing car, 'Didi' was a mercurial talent, but perhaps one born in the wrong era.
With the patronage of companies such as Elf, Camel and Marlboro, there was a golden ladder that drivers could climb, if they had the talent and dedication to do so.
Until recently, French motorsport had been in a depression. Between Panis's retirement from F1 at the end of 2004 and the debuts of Charles Pic and Jean-Eric Vergne at Melbourne in 2012, there was just an up-and-down 18-month stint for Sebastien Bourdais and a fleeting spell at Renault for Romain Grosjean to represent an expectant populace.
Then there was the Jules Bianchi tragedy. French motorsport has had a gruelling time in recent years.
The French Grand Prix returns next year after a decade in the shadows. For a nation that invented the sport when Monsieur Fossier got impatient for a 'bit of sport' between Neuilly Bridge and Bois de Boulogne in 1887, the lean times could be coming to an end.
All of this though was a world away for Artzet, a driver who should have been included in a long list of French F1 achievers. But today, instead of nostalgically looking back on a dazzling F1 career, he watches the Pacific Ocean wash over the rocks on Noumea beach upon the southern tip of New Caledonia, an island 1000km east of Australia.
New Caledonia is an idyllic place with open vistas, sensational beaches, seafood you could only dream of and a water sports mecca for thrill-seekers and travelling gap year nomads.
Noumea is now home to perhaps one of the most naturally gifted drivers from that era of great Gallic expectation of the 1980s and early '90s. Artzet was championed by many of his previous generation, notably Jean-Pierre Jabouille and Jean-Pierre Beltoise, and with very good reason.
Born and bred in Nice, 'Didi' had an early aptitude for balance and reflex skills, honed by riding motorbikes through the streets of his home city.
After a brief acquaintance with French Formula Renault in 1985, Formula Three came easy, incredibly easy. In his second ever F3 race in 1986, he qualified on the front row at Monaco, ahead of Stefano Modena, Alex Caffi, Alesi and Martin Donnelly, among others.
A year later he did the job properly, wiping the floor with the fierce competition. A virtual unknown, he left seasoned single-seater observers open-mouthed with his commitment and balletic skill at the wheel on the intricate streets of the Principality.
"The 1987 Monaco F3 race was a huge breakthrough for me," says Artzet from his beachside dwelling on Noumea.
"Of course there were all the F1 bosses watching on the Saturday afternoon and I felt sure that I would have a chance in F1 after that weekend. As it turned out that was not to be but there are a thousand stories like that in racing!
"The weekend was very intense because the previous year I had qualified on the front row and unbelievably it was only my second ever race in an F3 car. In fact I had only been racing in anything at all for less than a year. It seemed to come so easy and naturally on the streets of Monaco for me. I loved it there.
"My team was called Monaco Sponsoring but really it was KTR (Keerbergs Transport Racing) and had lots of local Cote d'Azur companies helping with the budget. I was born and raised in Nice so there was a lot of interest because it was the home race for people that invested in the team.
"The pressure was really big, especially as Jean Alesi was on my arse all weekend!"
For Artzet, a secret weapon in the shape of a then-relatively unknown engineer who would go on to become an F1 regular, helped him in his breakthrough weekend.
"The big boost for the team was that Jacky Eeckelaert was leading the engineering on our Ralt and he was a very strong guy when it came to understanding what I needed from the car," recalls Artzet.
"I ended up qualifying on pole by two-tenths but there was a big psychological battle with Alesi because as everyone knows he was very quick at street circuits and just about everywhere else too."
What should have become an incendiary rise up to F1 became a stagnant and frustrating fight against the more fashionable Alesi and Bernard, who became Camel and Elf's chosen ones for a shot at Grand Prix glory.
Artzet became a cliché. The fighter, who was great on the streets but was not refined enough for F1. That was rubbish, primarily because he never got a chance.
'Didi' had a crack at F3000 but was still on the frayed shoestring of a budget that stymied him throughout. With indifferent machinery run by an inexperienced Apomatox team in 1990, he was still able to transcend the tools at his disposal.
Qualifying eighth in Pau and finishing third in Birmingham were typically gutsy performances. Bare-knuckled, reactive and full of flair, his driving suited his character, as he admitted: "Maybe I thought too much and upset the bulls**tters!"
By 1992 he'd had enough. The F1 promises never materialised and the promise of a sportscar campaign with Toyota only amounted to a handful of races.
At the same time, the French F1 gravy train had reached a terminus in the shape of Loi Evin, a bill passed in French parliament in 1991 prohibiting alcohol and tobacco advertising, thus consigning who-knows-how-many French talents to the outer reaches of the sport and beyond.
Exasperated by the lack of chances to even test an F1 car, Artzet got a one way ticket to Noumea and began his new life.
He still gets his motor racing fix over at Eastern Creek on his Superbike (often getting close to World Superbike lap record pace), while enjoying the thrilling water sports and sunshine of his adopted homeland.
He also catches the odd Grand Prix on the TV as well - he particularly enjoys the street races!
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San Luis Obispo High senior midfielder Peter Delkeskamp called Wednesday's boys soccer match at Paso Robles "a must-win" as the two teams walked onto the field tied for second in the PAC 8 standings.
It took longer than regulation for the Tigers to break through, but when they did, they left no chance for the Bearcats to catch them.
Delkeskamp's tally one minute into the second overtime sparked a three-goal barrage in the span of five minutes, goalkeeper Brayden Mahoney made five saves, and San Luis Obispo topped short-handed Paso Robles 3-0.
"Once we got that first one, it all fell into place," said Delkeskamp, who took a feed from Willie Kirschner, dribbled around goalkeeper Juan Carlos Ruiz, and slotted the ball into the open net.
He raised his hands in celebration as soon as the ball left his foot.
"Now that I think about it," Delkeskamp said, "I kind of wish I shot it right away. But, whatever, it was a goal."
Before the Bearcats (8-2-5, 5-2-2) could muster a response, Kirschner lofted a pass from Cole Halfman into the net, and Halfman scored three minutes later on an assist from Jessee Barry.
Paso Robles had two free kicks in opportune areas in the second half, but hard-hit shots by Rafael Roman and Joshua Bustamante both missed high, and Jose Cuara's second yellow card with 15 minutes left in regulation put the home team down a man for the remainder of the match.
"We play with 10 men, it does not matter," Bearcats coach Omar McPherson said. "We were still playing. I make no excuses. (The Tigers) put goals in. We had opportunities, we just didn't put it in."
Other than the free kicks, the defense for San Luis Obispo (14-1-3, 6-1-2) kept Paso Robles out of dangerous areas — something not many teams have been able to do this year, including league-leading Pioneer Valley.
"That team attacks well when the ball is in the box," Tigers coach James Boscaro said of the Bearcats. "We had a heck of a game from our goalkeeper, who came up big for us.
"I told our boys the three goals are nice, but the zero is better on the other end."
San Luis Obispo opened the season with eight straight victories, including a 2-0 nonleague win over Pioneer Valley, but hit a 1-1-3 skid with a 1-1 tie versus Paso Robles and a 1-0 loss at Pioneer Valley.
"For a little bit there, we kind of lost our hunger and our aggressiveness," Delkeskamp said. "We've been getting it back these past couple games, and we're feeling good right now." Since suffering their lone loss of the season, the Tigers have reeled off five straight victories, outscoring opponents 29-1.
"If we tied this game, we needed a lot of help," Boscaro said. "Now that we won this one, we only need a little bit of help.
"We were tied for second with them, but now second is ours and we have our eyes on first."
The Tigers and Pioneer Valley will face off again next Wednesday in San Luis Obispo. "We've got to keep doing what we're doing," Delkeskamp said. "Come out like our coach tells us; be bullies on the field. If we keep that up, we'll win out."
Pioneer Valley improved to 8-1 in league with an 8-2 win over Mission Prep on Wednesday. The Panthers' only PAC 8 defeat came on the same field San Luis Obispo just won, when the Bearcats routed the favorites 4-1 on on Jan. 21.
"I was just telling their coach," Boscaro said, "we need them to beat PV again for us. "Paso can play. They're going to finish third in our league — if we don't slip — and their going to win some CIF games, because they can play."
McPherson, whose team was 5-7 in league last year, said it all comes to cohesion and consistency.
"If they played the way they played against Pioneer," he said of his squad, "I don't think there would be any team that could beat us in the league. We have some off days, but we'll come together.
"We've got five games left in the season. A lot can happen between now and then."


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1984 Questions
Sections I-II
1. Describe Victory Mansions. Why is the name ironic? Victory Mansions, Winston's home, is a smelly, run-down place with no electricity in the daytime and an inoperable elevatior. It is certainly no mansion. 2. Describe Winston Smith. Frail, blonde, 39, blue overalls, nervous, depressed 3. What kind of invasion of privacy exist in Oceania? The two-way telescreen, the Police Patrol swooping down in helicopters to peer in people's windows, the constant fear of being targeted as an enemy by the Thought Police, the posters of Big Brother with reminders the "Big Brother is Watching You." 4. What are the three slogans of the party? War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Strength 5. What are the four ministries and their purposes? The Ministry of Truth oversees news, entertainment, education, and the arts. The Ministry of Peace is in charge of war. The Ministry of Plenty is concerned with economic affairs, and the Ministry of Love enforces laws. 6. Why was it such a terrible thing for Winston to write a diary? It indicated that he was expressing thoughts not planted in his head by the Party. What does the account in his diary tell you about this society? They are completely oblivious to human rights. 7. What hope does Winston have about O'Brien? That he is intelligent and politically unorthodox; that he knows something about the Brotherhood. 8. Who is Emmanuel Goldstein? The enemy of the people and the focus of the Two Minutes Hate. What purpose does he serve the government? It gives the people a "traitor" to unite against, reinforcing their own witless devotion. How did Winston sometimes feel toward Goldstein? His heart went out to him. In what other ways was Winston's hate channeled? Toward the girl with dark hair, who was pretty and sexless and seemed very orthodox. 9. What "thoughtcrime" did Winston commit? He wrote "Down with Big Brother" over and over in his diary. What happens to those arrested by the Thought Police? They are vaporized and their existence is forgotten. 10. What amusements do the Parsons children enjoy? They play "Thought Police;" they go to hangings, hikes, and drills with their youth group, the Spies. 11. What had Winston dreamed seven years ago? That O'Brien whispered to him, "We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness." What do you think this could mean? 12. In Oceania's society, what is the only thing that can be counted as one's own? "a few cubic centimeters inside your skull." To what does this refer? Thoughts. 13. Why does Winston consider himself a dead man? Because he is guilty of thoughtcrime, and he knows he will be found out eventually. Appendix
1. What is the purpose of Newspeak? To provide a medium of expression appropriate to the proper mental attitude of Ingsoc devotees, all unnecessary words are to be purged. 2. Into what three distinct classes are the vocabularies divided, and what are the purposes of each? A vocabulary, for everyday life; B vocabulary, compound words such as goodthink, crimethought, used for political purposes; C vocabulary, scientific and technical terms. 3. What happened to books written before 1960? Most were destroyed, but some were rewritten. Sections III-V
1. Describe Winston's dream about his mother. He was high above his mother and sister, watching them drown in a sinking ship. Why did his dream affect his so deeply? He realized that his mother sacrificed her life for him; he realized that love, loyalty and depthj of emotion like his mother's no longer existed, and that he was too young and selfish to ever have expressed his love for his mother to her. What do Winston's memories of his mother symbolize? The past, when emotions existed. 2. Why doesn't tragedy exist in Winston's world? There can be no tragedy if there is no emotion and no privacy. In what way is tragedy an important part of our lives? We can "learn" from the tragedies that happen to...
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Cut, color, clarity and carat. If you've been ring shopping, then you've heard these four words time and time again. Because when it comes to finding the perfect diamond sparkler, choosing a diamond with the least color (A is awesome, Z not so great) and flaws (aka, clarity) is key. And since we all want our diamonds to dazzle, we'll let you in on a little secret: the cut is THE most important. Why? Well, if the cut isn't amazing, it really doesn't matter if the ring is colorless or flawless... it still won't shine the way you want. And what we want is a diamond that sends off signals the minute we step into the sun, amiright? And, don't forget - bigger isn't always better when it comes to selecting the right diamond. If your gem grades higher in the other areas (especially the aforementioned cut), it will shine brighter than a larger diamond that isn't.
We're talking a lot about diamonds, but if you're one of those ladies that loves to think outside the box, we hear you. We're big fans of mixing it up when it comes to your engagement ring - and that definitely includes looking into those "other" gemstones - from sapphires to rubies to emeralds and more. Yes, you can definitely show off your chic + sophisticated side with a choice that goes a little against the norm, like your birthstone, a gem that represents the month you were engaged or even something from your great-grandmother's collection. Our tip? Don't get caught up in what you "think" you should have - go with your heart and select the stone that best represents you and your love. (Like a champagne sapphire. We LOVE those.)
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Commercial Engine Producer Navistar Beats on Earnings
Navistar International Corp. (Symbol: NAV) reported better-than-expected Q4 earnings last Monday after the bell. The commercial truck and engine producer "benefited from fewer charges and an increase in truck sales in advance of new emissions standards in January."
Earnings came in at $1.19 / share on $86 million in profits vs. a loss of $4.81 / share for the same quarter last year. Last year's heavy losses were due in large part to the termination of a contract between Ford and NAV after the closing of an Indianapolis-based Ford plant.
Sales to the U.S. military helped boost slumping commercial sales, as NAV expects to earn at least $2 billion in 2010 from military sales. Besides new truck sales, NAV is also retrofitting trucks sent to Iraq for use in Afghanistan's rough and variable terrain.
Shares gapped up through resistance on the open Tuesday morning, opening at just above $37. Shares had previously been turned back at the $36 – level in mid-November and again in mid-December. NAV also traded up on Wednesday and Thursday, finishing the week solidly above its 200-day MA and above $40 for the first time since shares broke down following a head-and-shoulders bottom in late-September. Technically speaking, this all very positive, and shares won't hit another important resistance zone until about $41.50, the point at which shares briefly pulled back before embarking on a significant downtrend. As long as the RSI remains within its current uptrend and especially if shares can successfully push through the aforementioned resistance at $41.50, you can turn this into a profitable trade.
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It is quite obvious that the leading candidate in popularity and fame for the Conservative Party is Kevin O'Leary but it is quite surprising that most Canadians do not have an idea of the other candidate to support.
In case the Conservative leadership elections do not work out in favour of O'Leary, most Canadians will be asking the question, Who then? A poll conducted by Abacus data showed that most Canadians have no idea who will be the other leader if O'Leary is not elected.
When asked about any other preferences or change in choice, most had no strong opinion about Kellie Leitch, Andrew Scheer, Maxime Bernier or Lisa Raitt.
The reason for this popularity may be attributed to the fact that O'Leary was viewed quite negatively in the eyes of the public, but since the Canadian population has gotten to know a bit more about the candidates, it seems the negative view turned to O'Leary's favour.
People who had a neutral view about the other candidates remained at their stance while O'Leary's popularity rose when people decided to either side with him or not. No press is bad press.
O'Leary is known to be more popular than Stephen Harper during his campaigns and it looks like he might just be a shoo-in for the leadership without much competition. In the case that his opponents do manage to swipe the victory, there is a big chance that most of the Canadian population would not take the candidate seriously.
Speaking of now, Maxime Bernier seems to be the only opponent that can offer some serious competition to O'Leary, but even after his win, it is possible that he may not have the effect that O'Leary will have if he wins.
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Formal education forms a person, a student and a citizen of the country. What a country needs is well-developed and informed citizens that will retain and protect the constitutional rights and freedom of the ordinary man. All these wonderful traits can only find its foundation in good education that starts in kindergarten. One of the new schools today that aspires to bring the quality education needed by students is Rocketship Education
In the report from Washington Post, we will surmise that the creation of the Rocketship school comes from the active involvement of parents in choosing the teachers for the school. Even in the construction of the buildings and laboratories of the school came with the consult of the parents.
The teachers are interviewed by the parents to know whether they're the right fit for the school. Several sessions across months saw the teachers and relatives discussing on how to make the best out of the charter school, and this discussion creates the best balance between feedback from parents and their expectation from the teachers.
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The promise of Rocketship Education is not to foresee the promise of getting everyone to the moon with a rocket. It may be more ambitious than that. Rocketship Regional Director Jacque Patterson is confident that with the education that Rocketship can offer, the standards of a charter school will raise itself to higher limits and potential.
Right now the D.C. Public Charter School Board has allowed Rocketship to operate in as many as eight school branches in the whole district. It also plans to run up to fourth grade and can house about 350 kindergarten students who want to stay in the school for up to the 2nd grade.
The vision of Rocketship Education is to merge the concern of parents for quality education with the institution's desire to give the best training for the students. In the age of apprenticeship and the age where formal education may not be the only way to success, this partnership will give a fresh view on how education for children gets done in the modern set-up.


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Believe it or not! Same-day discharge summaries for GPs
A Queensland hospital service is aiming high with a "real-time" policy to send discharge summaries to GPs on the same day that patients leave the hospital.
The Sunshine Coast Health and Hospital Service plans to introduce the zero-delay target on October 16 with the objective of ensuring continuity of care as patients move from the acute setting to primary care.
A document circulated by GPs on Twitter, which appears to be part of a poster campaign for the no-delay target, bears the slogan: No summary. No discharge!
The artwork shows a patient telling her GP about medication she received in hospital. His response: "You were in hospital?"
Dr Piotr Swierkowski, executive director of medical services at the service, told The Medical Republic the organisation appreciated the need for speed in handovers.
"The Sunshine Coast Hospital and Health Service aims to optimise hand-over of clinical information at the time of patient discharge from hospital," Dr Swierkowski said.
"It is recognised that timeliness of this information being shared with our colleagues in primary care is very important. For this reason, the health service is making efforts to provide discharge summaries as soon as is practicable."
GPs said the health authority had worked closely with clinicians to plan the policy.
The Sunshine Coast service has responsibility for public hospitals at Nambour, Gympie, Caloundra and Maleny, as well as the new public-private Sunshine Coast University Hospital, opened earlier this year.
In the rapidly growing region north of Brisbane, 123,300 patients were discharged from hospital in 2015-16, an increase of more than 8600 from the previous year.
Dr Swierkowski, who practised previously as a GP in NSW and Queensland, had a bitter personal experience of a communication breakdown between primary and acute care in 2013.
A child patient died of meningitis after Nambour hospital doctor failed to carry out Dr Swierkowsi's written request to perform blood tests.
Queensland GP Dr Michael Rice, who practices at Beaudesert, said it was a welcome sign that hospitals in the state were coming to share GPs' views of the importance of discharge summaries as vital for patient care.
"The discovery that Sunshine Coast HSS is setting out to have 100% of these documents prepared as a clinical handover at the time the patient leaves the hospital is exciting news, he said. "A lot of Queensland GPs will remember the triplicate carbon-copy discharge summary. The GP always used to get the bottom copy."


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The approach of Hurricane Harvey last month was enough to send gas prices higher, as the Category 4 storm threatened infrastructure that refines roughly 25 percent of the U.S. gasoline supply. Those facilities went offline or greatly reduced their output while Harvey inundated south Texas with historic rainfall, and gas prices have remained inflated while the refineries have resumed full production.
Can motorists expect another bump as Hurricane Irma closes in on Florida?
Experts say the far stronger storm doesn't pose as serious a threat to the U.S. fuel supply, but the federal government and the energy sector will be challenged to meet demand once recovery begins.
"The federal government and industry is going to move heaven and earth to make sure this supply disruption is as short as possible," said Bob McNally, a fellow with Columbia University's Center on Global Energy Policy and a former energy adviser to George W. Bush. He took part in an American Petroleum Institute teleconference on Irma on Friday morning (Sept. 8).
The price of wholesale gasoline on the futures market was below pre-Harvey levels this week - down to $1.66 a gallon. Typically, the pump price follows suit unless demand drives it higher. That pressure has persisted as Texas refineries have gradually been put back online and three more hurricanes have developed in the past several days.
One proactive measure the Trump administration was being asked to take ahead of Irma's impact was issuing a waiver of the Jones Act, a federal law that requires American-flagged vessels to transport cargo between domestic ports. Allowing foreign vessels to move fuel barges to Florida, which doesn't have an extensive pipeline network comparable to other states, would help alleviate the state's supply concerns, McNally said.
U.S. Customs and Border Patrol, which handles Jones Act compliance, received but did not grant a similar request for Hurricane Harvey.
Flooding and its effect on the capacity to refine oil has been the bigger issue from Harvey -- not the ability to ship fuel. As of Thursday, remaining shutdowns at Texas facilities account for a 7.5 percent reduction in U.S. refinery capacity, according to the federal Energy Information Administration. Five of the six refineries that are still offline were in the process of resuming production, and at least six refineries were operating at reduced rates.
The Colonial Pipeline, which supplies gas to the eastern U.S., was another casualty of Harvey's flooding. As of Thursday, much of its flow had been restored, including a feeder line to Georgia that supplies northern Florida and the trucks that transport fuel by highway.
"The big picture is that there will be plenty of gasoline," said Guy Caruso, a senior energy adviser with the Center for Strategic and International Studies, during the API teleconference. But over the short term in Florida, there may be issues with meeting demand depending on the extent of storm damage.
"At some point, it's up to the behavior of the motorist," McNally added, referring reports of gasoline hoarding in Florida ahead of Irma's arrival.


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Besides their initials, the Jonas Brothers have something serious in common with Justin Bieber -- they both belong to the list of artists lending their vocals to a new version of "We Are the World!" The original track with Michael Jackson raised $63 million to fight hunger in Ethiopia. On "We Are the World - 25 for Haiti," stars like Miley Cyrus, Katharine McPhee, Kanye West, Jennifer Hudson, and Lady Gaga will sing to benefit victims of the earthquake.
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Dictionary Definition
conservative adj
1 resistant to change [ant: liberal]
2 opposed to liberal reforms
3 avoiding excess; "a conservative estimate" [syn: cautious]
4 unimaginatively conventional; "a colorful character in the buttoned-down, dull-gray world of business"- Newsweek [syn: button-down, buttoned-down]
5 conforming to the standards and conventions of the middle class; "a bourgeois mentality" [syn: bourgeois, materialistic] n : a person who has conservative ideas or opinions [syn: conservativist] [ant: liberal]
User Contributed Dictionary
- A person who favors maintenance of the status quo or reversion to some earlier status.
- In the context of "UK|politics": A member of the Conservative party.
- In the context of "US|economics}} A fiscal conservative
Extensive Definition
- This article deals with conservatism as a political philosophy, for other uses see conservatism (disambiguation).
Conservatism as a political philosophy is difficult to define, encompassing numerous movements, and conservatives sometimes disagree about which parts of a culture are most worthy of preservation. Thus religious conservatives may be at odds with nationalist conservatives. There may be contradictions between alternative conceptions of conservatism as the ideology of preserving the past, and the contemporary worldwide conception of conservatism as a right-wing political stance. But Martin Blinkhorn asks the question, "who are the 'conservatives' in today's Russia? Are they the unreconstructed Stalinists, or the reformers who have adopted the right-wing views of modern conservatives such as Margaret Thatcher?"
Samuel Francis defined authentic conservatism as "the survival and enhancement of a particular people and its institutionalized cultural expressions"; Roger Scruton defines conservatism as the "maintenance of the social ecology" and "the politics of delay, the purpose of which is to maintain in being, for as long as possible, the life and health of a social organism"; and Russell Kirk considered conservatism "the negation of ideology".
Development of thoughtConservatism has not produced, nor does it tend to produce, systematic treatises like Hobbes' Leviathan or Locke's Two Treatises of Government. Consequently, what it means to be a conservative today is frequently the subject of debate and a topic muddied by association with various (and often opposing) ideologies or political parties. Scholar R.J. White once put it this way:''"To put conservatism in a bottle with a label is like trying to liquefy the atmosphere … The difficulty arises from the nature of the thing. For conservatism is less a political doctrine than a habit of mind, a mode of feeling, a way of living."''
Although political thought, from its beginnings, contains many strains that can be retrospectively labeled conservative, it was not until the Age of Reason, and in particular the reaction to events surrounding the French Revolution of 1789, that conservatism began to rise as a distinct attitude or train of thought. Many point to the rise of a conservative disposition in the wake of the Reformation, specifically to the works of influential Anglican theologian, Richard Hooker – emphasizing moderation in the political balancing of interests towards the goals of social harmony and common good. But it was not until Edmund Burke's polemic Reflections on the Revolution in France that conservatism gained its most influential statement of views.
Edmund Burke was an Anglo-Irish statesman, who argued forcefully against the French Revolution, but he sympathized with some of the aims of the American Revolution. His classical conservative position often insisted that conservatism has no ideology, in the sense of a utopian program, with some form of master plan. Burke developed his ideas in reaction to the 'enlightened' idea of a society guided by abstract reason. Although he did not use the term, he anticipated the critique of modernism, a term first used at the end of the 19th century by the Dutch religious conservative Abraham Kuyper. Burke was troubled by the Enlightenment, and argued instead for the value of inherited institutions and customs.
Further reading
- / Conservative political humor book
- Our Culture, What's Left of It: The Mandarins and the Masses / Theodore Dalrymple (2005) ISBN 1566636434
- Fascists and conservatives : the radical right and the establishment in twentieth-century Europe / Martin Blinkhorn., 1990
- Edmund Burke. Reflections on the Revolution in France, Hackett Publishing Company, Inc. October 1997: ISBN 0-87220-020-5 (paper).
- Crunden, Robert, The Superfluous Men: Critics of American Culture, 1900-1945, 1999. ISBN 1-882926-30-7
- Recent conservative political thought : American perspectives / Russell G Fryer., 1979
- Paul E. Gottfried, The Conservative Movement, 1993. ISBN 0-8057-9749-1
- The British Right : Conservative and right wing politics in Britain / Neill Nugent., 1977
- America alone : the neo-conservatives and the global order / Stefan A Halper., 2004
- Ted Honderich Conservatism
- Russell Kirk, The Conservative Mind, 7th Ed., 2001. ISBN 0-89526-171-5
- Russell Kirk, The Politics of Prudence, 1993. ISBN 1-882926-01-3
- The conservative press in twentieth-century America / Ronald Lora., 1999
- From the New Deal to the New Right: race and the southern origins of modern conservatism / Joseph E Lowndes., 2008
- Jerry Z. Muller Conservatism
- Right-wing women : from conservatives to extremists around the world / P Bacchetta., 2002
- Unmaking law : the Conservative campaign to roll back the common law / Jay M Feinman., 2004
- Radicals or conservatives? The contemporary American right / James McEvoy., 1971
- Robert Nisbet Conservatism: Dream and Reality, 2001. ISBN 0-7658-0862-5
- James Page, 'Ought the Neo-Cons Be Considered Conservatives? A Philosophical Response'.AQ: Journal of Contemporary Analysis. 75(6):32-33/40. 2003; available on-line at http://eprints.qut.edu.au/archive/00003599/
- Conservatism in America since 1930 : a reader / Gregory L Schneider., 2003
- Noel O'Sullivan Conservatism
- The new racism : conservatives and the ideology of the tribe / Martin Barker., 1982
- A time for choosing : the rise of modern American conservatism / Jonathan M Schoenwald., 2001
- Roger Scruton The Meaning of Conservatism
- Facing fascism : the Conservative party and the European dictators, 1935-1940 / N J Crowson., 1997
- Alexander Lee and Timothy Stanley The End of Politics: Triangulation, Realignment and the Battle for the Centre Ground (Politico's Publishing, 17 July 2006): ISBN 1-84275-174-3 (hardcover)
- James Fitzjames Stephen, Liberty, Equality, Fraternity.
External links
- "Best Conservative Blogs on the Internet," UrbanConservative.
- "Chronicle of Bias," a site that seeks to advance the conservative viewpoint in the media and argue against liberal bias.
- Dictionary of the History of Ideas, Conservatism.
- The Daily Conservative.
- The Conservative Hawk
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Bircher, Bourbon, Epistle side, Methuselah, Tory, antediluvian, antique, back number, backward, bitter-ender, careful, cautious, centrist, chary, circumspect, clockwise, compromiser, conformist, conservational, conservationist, conservatist, conservatory, conserving, controlled, conventional, dad, decanal side, dexter, dextral, dextrocardial, dextrocerebral, dextrocular, dextrogyrate, dextrogyratory, dextropedal, dextrorotary, dextrorse, die-hard, diehard, discreet, dodo, elder, extreme right-winger, fogy, fogyish, fossil, fud, fuddy-duddy, fundamentalist, granny, hard hat, has-been, hidebound, imperialist, keeping, laudator temporis acti, longhair, matriarch, mid-Victorian, middle-of-the-road, middle-of-the-roader, moderate, moderationist, moderatist, monarchist, mossback, neutral, nonprogressive, off, old believer, old crock, old dodo, old fogy, old liner, old man, old poop, old school, old woman, old-fashioned, old-fogyish, old-line, old-timer, opposed to change, orthodox, patriarch, politic, pop, pops, preservative, preservatory, preserving, proper, protective, prudent, radical right, reactionarist, reactionary, reactionist, reasonable, recto, regular old fogy, relic, restrained, right, right field, right hand, right of center, right side, right wing, right-hand, right-wing, right-winger, right-wingish, rightist, royalist, saving, sober, social Darwinist, square, stable, standard, standpat, standpatter, starboard, starboard tack, starets, stick-in-the-mud, temperate, tory, traditional, traditionalist, traditionalistic, true-blue, ultraconservative, unexcessive, unextravagant, unextreme, unprogressive, waryDemocrat, Labourite, Republican, Tory, Whig, heeler, loyalist, partisan, party faithful, party hack, party man, party member, party wheelhorse, registered Democrat, registered Republican, regular, stalwart, ward heeler, wheelhorse


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In case anyone in the free world hasn't heard the news yet: we're expecting a baby in January!
Here is the first long awaited belly shot. I started showing around 10 weeks, at least for people who knew I was pregnant. There isn't any hiding it anymore! Here is my super huge 14w 5d belly!


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Preparing the next PL Solo Projects release. This is a sample of the new instrumental Hip-Hop tune. Flanging low end echo from a pizzicato sample pulled out with Dedalus delay app. Drum track made with Patterning app. Cello is recorded through iRig Pro to iPad. Violin added with iSymphonic Orchestra app.
Testing the Ton – drum machine designed for live play on iPad
Testing the Ton – drum machine designed for live play on iPad. Added some magical Dedalus delay on top. And the best news: It's free.
"Puppets" by PL Solo Projects released
"Puppets" by PL Solo Projects now available on Spotify, Apple Music, Deezer, Google Play and Groove🔊
Testing the SyndtSphere by Klevgränd
This is Klevgränd SyndtSphere synthesizer playing a simple chord progression in Cubasis2. Drum sample made with Patterning app by Olympia Noise Co.
Out of the Dark Zone released in Spotify, iTunes, Deezer, Groove and Google Play
"Out of the Dark Zone" is an instrumental tribute to the spring. For the clear and crisp mornings of April giving the promise of the summer in front of us.
Audio Coding for Instagram Videos
Problem I tumbled into when posting my first Instagram videos: NO SOUND! WHAT THE HECK? After Googling around I found out that Instagram requires AAC coding for audio. This is how I managed to get best results for me:
- Export audio from DAW (in my case Cubase) in WAV file with 44.1kHz/16 bit resolution
- Import the WAV file to video editing software (in my case Pinnacle Studio 19) and add it as audio to the video project
- Export video file from video editing software with the following audio settings: 44.1kHz/Stereo/16b/MPEG-4/192 (Pinnacle 19 can only export with audio codec MPEG-4)
- Open video file in HandBrake software and encode with AAC codec and Bitrate 192
And it's a wrap! This worked for me. Might be any number of other possibilities to achieve the same result. If you know better one, please leave a comment.
Programs used: Cubase Artist 8.5, Pinnacle Studio 19, HandBrake
Mixing "Out of the Dark Zone"
Eenie, meenie, miney mo… What's the best compressor for this? Speed-mixing the next masterpiece 😉 If you don't believe it yourself, no one else will! "Out Of the Dark zone" is a song for the spring. For the clear and crisp mornings of April giving the promise of the summer in front of us.


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Mortgage borrowing by first-time buyers surges 26% in June to £5.9bn
First-time buyers borrowed a total of £5.9 billion in June - marking a 26% surge on May amid a "busy month" for the mortgage market - according to banks and building societies.
Trade association UK Finance, which released the figures, said first-time buyer borrowing was also up by 9% compared with June 2016.
Despite the upswing in activity in June, UK Finance said it did not believe overall performance levels would be sustained in the second half of 2017, amid signs that the market is now softening.
People taking their first step on the property ladder took out bigger loans in June compared with the previous month, at £139,000 on average in June compared with £137,000 typically in May, its figures showed.
Separate figures released jointly by the Office for National Statistics (ONS), Land Registry and other bodies showed that, across Britain, the average first-time buyer faced paying 4.9% more in June for a home than they did a year earlier, with the typical price paid at £188,947.
UK Finance's figures also showed that home-movers borrowed £7.8 billion in June, which was also by up 26% on May, as well as an increase of 15% year on year.
Meanwhile, buy-to-let lending totalled £3 billion, up 3% on May and a 3% increase compared with a year earlier.
And home owners took out £6 billion-worth of re-mortgage loans, up 5% by value on May and 7% compared with June 2016.
Paul Smee, head of mortgages at UK Finance, said: "June's figures show a busy month in the mortgage market, with home-movers having their highest monthly activity levels for over a year and an especially high number of loans for first-time buyers.
"Buy-to-let activity remains subdued compared to its 2015 peak but consistent month to month since stamp duty changes in April 2016.
"But there are also signs of a softening market and we are not anticipating that this performance will be sustained in the second half of 2017.
"A slightly lopsided market could well show some growth in house purchase lending but alongside reduced re-mortgage and buy-to-let activity."


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Top 11 UX design principles #4: Minimize anxiety
In May, I received the following notice from the Federal District Court:
The United States District Court for the District of Colorado summons you for jury service on the date and place shown below:
May 29 through July 5, 2015: Call the jury recording after 3:30 each Friday. If your name is listed, you must report the following Monday morning at 7:30. The average length of trial is 3-5 days.
For five weeks, the District Court requires me to clear my schedule, cancel business trips, tell clients that deadlines and meetings might need to slip, arrange extended hours of childcare for my son on a moment's notice, and anticipate an unknown impact on my income.
The threat of jury duty over an extended period makes me anxious—far more anxious than I would be if the courts had simply assigned me a specific date and time to show up, and told me to expect to miss a week of work. This anxiety caused by uncertainty and lack of control over my time affects other areas of my life: I'm forgetting things, making mistakes, and feeling generally irritable.
I wish I could say I wasn't surprised by these consequences, or that I'd seen them coming. The fact is, after two decades analyzing the human side of technology, I've seen over and over how anxiety compromises performance.
Which brings me to my fourth design principle in the Top 11 UX Design Principles series:
Minimize anxiety.
Uncertainty and lack of control lead to anxiety. Anxiety taxes users' working memories, thereby reducing their task performance with your user interface. When users feel out of control, they become anxious and irritable, they fumble, and user experience goes out the window.
Users are happier with certainty, even if it takes longer.
Years ago, designers thought that everything in a user interface should be accessible within three clicks (the over-used 3-click rule). However, more recent research has shown that feelings of control and progress toward achieving tasks contribute more to users' perceptions of ease than the number of clicks. Users prefer to feel in control over a longer process than to feel unsure about fewer clicks.
Give your application an anxiety test.
Walk through your website or application from a user's perspective.
- Are you making users guess or proceed with uncertainty?
- Do users wonder about the overall process and their progress toward task completion?
- Do you cast doubt about confidentiality of users' personal or financial information?
- Do poor alignment and typos erode credibility?
- Are the results of users' actions unpredictable?
- Are elements crowded together, creating a cluttered, anxiety-inducing workspace?
Once you've ironed out anxiety, consider adding benign risk.
OK, so feelings of risk (and resulting anxiety) are bad for learning and task performance. Yet, benign risk is shown to increase attention and learning. Gambling in safe surroundings, for example, has been shown to cause a dopamine surge in expectation of reward. Many popular game-based applications rely on this reward expectation.
One of our clients, Charles Smith, is Chief Research Officer at Knowledge Factor. Together, we're designing award-winning learning applications. Recently, Charles sent me a cool little chart, the Circumplex Map of Complex Human Emotion.
The two scales are activation (a measure of arousal) and valence (does an experience feel good or bad). Charles explained that the sweet spot for learning is at the one o'clock position on the chart. It's the state of being alert and slightly positive experience (valence): in-control, empowered, but engaged and in a curious state.
Not surprisingly, my jury duty emotions, like "stressed" and "tense," show negative valence. Will I have to re-arrange my week after 3:30 pm on a Friday, or not? How much is this volunteering going to cost me? These particular emotions don't induce reward anticipation. We don't want application users to be tense, or stressed because they aren't certain of an outcome.
Anxiety that arises from not having control over important tasks is distinct from the satisfaction and fun of a carefully drafted experience sprinkled with a benign risk.
So what do jury duty and video games have to do with a great user experience?
We need to design an experience to gives people clear expectations, control, and confirmation of their progress toward their goals.
But not all anxiety is bad. Like an adventure game where you begin knowing your safety is assured, a little anxiety in safe surroundings can lead to a fun, rewarding experience.
If you're concerned your site or app fails the anxiety test, drop me a line. I'll get back to you quickly, assuming I am not sequestered.
This is the fourth in my series of top 11 user experience principles. If you start at the beginning of the series you'll learn why I turned it up to eleven principles instead of ten.


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Ariana Grande has FINALLY let her hair down, guys. LITERALLY.
We appreciate it when celebs have "uniforms." For Janelle Monáe, it's usually the black-and-white tux situation; for Adele, it's almost always the long black caftan. But, for Ariana Grande? It's maybe-not-always-but-BASICALLY-always the highest ponytail to ever exist. Ever! (Or are there two sometimes? Unclear!)
Because, like, can you EVER think of a time where Ari wasn't rocking large fractions of her hair up? (See: Exhibit A, Exhibit B, Exhibit C.) No, no, you cannot ever think of such a time.
Check out more photos of Ariana Grande's hair-stravaganza after the jump.
Well, all of that changed approximately six hours ago when the "Snow In California" singer bravely took to Instagram to showcase her locks without that beloved high pony! (A true Christmas miracle, if you ask us.) She captioned: "I never wear my hair like this & when I do it doesn't last long. don't get used to it.." followed by yet ANOTHER photo post of her once again sporting her pony adding "@jonescrow took this. sorry about the hair style I know y'all hate it but I'm trying to switch it up more. this is just how I'm comfortableee. it's just hurrrr anyway."
The high pony returns... possibly with a vengeance.
No stress, bb girl! It is just hair, and the most important thing here is that you just do YOU. That said, it must feel good to have your hair down, even for, like, 10 minutes? Totally worth the hair-related headache break, non? 'Cause don't you even try to pretend that your tight ponytails don't have you on a perma two Advil every six hours regimen.
Photo credit: Ariana Grande's Instagram