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Though it is highly advised that you do not take a product that uses a chemical known as minoxidil, one thing was noticed when researching how to take this product was that a balding shampoo (or some type of topical hair loss treatment) tends to be more effective that taking it internally.
How you take these treatments is not limited to a balding shampoo - it can be any type of treatment that goes on the outside of your scalp rather than going on the inside. Regardless, what was found was that there is an interesting aspect of a balding shampoo that is not true in terms of internal pills - that is that getting the ingredients directly to your hair follicles - the area of your hair that is involved with hair growth - is far more likely to be able to occur if you put the ingredients right on your scalp itself. By putting the balding shampoo of your scalp, the pores in your head soak in the ingredients they need to stimulate hair growth.
When we learn more about how a balding shampoo works, we also realize that there may be a better way to treat hair loss than either a topical treatment (like a balding shampoo) or a nutritional supplement.
The answer is by using both together. Even though a balding shampoo may be more effective than a nutritional supplement, there is no denying that fighting hair loss from the inside has benefits of their own. So if you take a balding shampoo or topical treatment with a nutritional supplement, you will be able to treat hair loss from both the inside and the outside of your body, which is the best way to be completely certain that you are going to be able to make the necessary changes to the way your body works in order to know that you are going to be able to grow your hair back correctly. Balding shampoo and some type of internal treatment, together, is the best way to know that you are going to be able to successfully treat your male pattern baldness effectively.
Procerin is one of the few treatment types that combines the two into one effective treatment methods. It uses a topical cream (rather than a balding shampoo) and a nutritional supplement that, combined, are the most effective way to treat your hair loss.


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HAMPTON — The town will soon be sending notification to officials in Rye that it will no longer be providing sewer treatment services to that community when the contact expires in four years.
HAMPTON — The town will soon be sending notification to officials in Rye that it will no longer be providing sewer treatment services to that community when the contact expires in four years.
Town Manager Fred Welch said the letter will be sent out as soon as selectmen approve it at their next meeting.
"Rye already knows, but we have to legally give them notice," Welch said.
Voters rejected offering any future contract renewals to Rye at the March 10 election.
The town has been providing sewer treatment to Rye since 1989. According to the contract, Rye pays the town a proportionate share each year of both the use of Hampton's facilities and Hampton's capital costs, based on the number of gallons processed.
Last year, that payment to the town was $93,027.
Hampton selectmen discussed the vote to end ties with Rye during their meeting on Monday, March 23.
"The reality is this (agreement) was a plus for the town," Selectman Rick Griffin said. "It made money for the town of Hampton."
Griffin noted that Rye spent approximately $5 million to establish a Hampton/Rye sewer connection, and now it will be forced to spend millions coming up with another sewer alternative.
Selectman Bill Lally said he also believes voters made a mistake.
"I would understand if it was a sewer capacity issue, but we are only at 60 percent," Lally said. "We are making $60,000 to $100,000 a year in revenue. It's almost like it was done in vengeance."
Selectman Richard Bateman disagreed.
"I don't think it was spiteful," he said.
Bateman said several residents spoke against the contract renewal because they are still without sewer on the west side of town. He said those residents had been promised sewer for years, but the town has never followed through.
"They have been promised they would get sewer and it never happened," Bateman said. "Instead they see it being farmed out to a neighboring community."
Selectmen Richard Nichols said he believes voters may have misunderstood the article. He recommended given them another chance.
"My feeling is we do what we have to do legally, but we should plan on putting forth an article reversing it," Nichols said.
Griffin said that may be the way to go, but if voters turn it down again, that should be the end of it.
"We have to do what the voters say," Griffin said. "For a long time, people have been dancing around and not listening to the voters."

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A Beautiful Life
Sofia Vergara on life beyond the sets of Modern Family
Playing the fiesty, fashionable wife and mother on Modern Family is something Colombian actress Sofia Vergara truly enjoys. Married to a much older Jay Pritchett, her character Gloria is a doting mum. But her difficulty with the English language also lends a lot of humour to the show. The Hot Pursuit star, who's had four Golden Globe Awards nominations for the sitcom, tells us about life beyond Modern Family.
How does it feel to be the highest-paid woman on American TV?
I don't know if it's true, but it sounds amazing.
What do you do to stay in shape?
I am lucky, I have a good figure. For me, it's torture to go to the gym. But now I have accepted this as part of my job. So I have a trainer, Gunnar Peterson, who I go to whenever I feel like it. I also go to pilates and try to do some exercise, at least two or three times a week. For me, it's like a discipline, much like learning my lines.
What about your diet?
That's another reason why I exercise—because I love eating. In the Latin culture, you celebrate with food. You do a funeral with food (laughs). And when you go to the sets every day, they have sandwiches, cakes, everything.
How often do you go to Colombia?
Not as often as I would like to. But I go when there's a wedding or a customary ritual.
Will you like to work there again?
Of course. In Colombia, I worked in TV only for two years. But you know, I'm on Modern Family seven months of the year. Then I am doing movies for the remaining months. I also have my contracts with all the endorsements. So I can't do a soap opera (in Colombia), for instance. That will take me 10 months.
Monday-Friday, 8 pm on Star World and Star World HD
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Skip to comments.Students Vote Gay Couple Homecoming Princes
Posted on 10/28/2007 3:35:36 PM PDT by mngran2
Ladies and gentlemen, introducing the royalty of Davis Senior High School's junior class: Brandon Raphael and his prince, Kiernan Gatewood. For what appears to be the first time in school history, the Davis Senior High student body has elected a gay couple into homecoming royalty. With each boasting a white sash declaring his title as "Prince," the two 16-year-olds rode through the city of Davis on a recent Friday afternoon in the school's annual homecoming parade.
They stood in the back of a pickup truck, arm-in-arm, smiling warmly despite the rain.
"People were so excited for us," Gatewood said of the couple's victory, announced a few weeks ago. "We were a little surprised, but Davis ..."
"Is a liberal town," interrupts his boyfriend of four months, Raphael. "Go 10 miles in any other direction and you'll get some other feeling."
Indeed, the news might surprise few in Davis, a city embraced and, at times, mocked for its liberal leanings.
But students and adults cheering on the boys recognized their election as a meaningful milestone.
Lai-San Seto, advocacy coordinator for the San Francisco-based Gay-Straight Alliance Network, said the Davis Senior High homecoming election is not the first case of gay students bucking tradition.
But it remains far from the norm, Seto said.
And usually by the time she hears about such things, they've become a controversy within their community.
"It's a sign that LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgenderand queer) people are getting recognized everywhere," she said. "LGBTQ are considered vital members of the school community and are able to participate in school events in the same full way that their straight fellow students are able to." Seto applauded the Davis Senior High student body for their acceptance and the school administration for being "open-minded."
In the weeks since officials announced the homecoming court, there's been no public outcry not by campus leaders, not by students and not by the community.
Students said they were encouraged that the election was not an issue for campus administrators. They said they were less surprised that a gay couple would win than they were that officials allowed it to happen.
"I thought the administration would have more to say about it," Raphael said.
Principal Michael Cawley declined to comment on the boys' election, saying only that he hoped to keep the issue "low-key."
Students, however, were eager to talk. They piled atop floats and lined the parade route to show their school spirit, armed with air horns and fistfuls of candy.
Some have been celebrating their friends' landmark victory for days.
"I think it's just such a good thing for our school. Just knowing that the other kids recognize them as a couple and would vote for a gay couple to be prince and prince of homecoming. ... I don't know, I just think it's awesome," said senior Chandler Fox, co-president of the campus Gay-Straight Alliance. "I want people to know about it so maybe it can happen at another school."
Decked out in Davis Senior High's colors of blue and black, sophomore Charlotte ter Haar and two friends agreed that the election was significant because it came straight from the students Raphael and Gatewood won in a write-in ballot election.
Couples could campaign for their class titles king and queen for seniors, prince and prince(ss?) for juniors, etc. but no names appeared on the ballot. Students wrote in their own candidates.
"The students voted for who they wanted to win," ter Haar said.
Parent Lorna Bernard said she was taken aback by the news only because in her day, a gay couple stood to be harassed by their peers, not elected.
But Raphael and Gatewood, she said, are "not just accepted, they're popular popular enough to be elected as homecoming princes."
And that, she said, is "really cool."
As for the boys, they said they campaigned hard in anticipation of the election. But their goal, they said, was not to make a political statement.
"We wanted to be nominated and win," Raphael said.
Added Gatewood: "Just like anybody else."
***As for the boys, they said they campaigned hard in anticipation of the election. But their goal, they said, was not to make a political statement.***
No political statement? Bull
San Francisco at it's best ...
Must they make a mockery of every single tradition that ever was? All this pandering and teaching is nothing less than negligence of the mentally ill.
"Principal Michael Cawley declined to comment on the boys' election, saying only that he hoped to keep the issue "low-key."
Translation: "I'm ashamed of this school."
If only they knew, that for the vast majority of kids who voted for them, they are a joke and are being laughed at behind their backs.
I never quite though of homecoming elections as a 'tradition' but rather a high school popularity contest at best or a 'demonstration' election controlled by school administrators at worse.
And in a day and age when we have had gay governors, gay congressmen and gay senators, I imagine that the nation can survive a gay homecoming couple.
How do they know the couple is gay?
In the early to mid eighties we have a few effeminate boys coming to high school dressed as women. Transvestites. In high school.
In a rural, logging town.
It only took a couple ass-beatings out on the football field to put an end to that crap.
Yes. The homosexual political agenda is obsessive and totalitarian, so they are compelled to destroy every tradition.
That's sad, too.
Yeh...Tell me where they are in ten years. Married, two children. What a farce this is.
You got it right!!
so much for the talk of legalizing same sex sodomy being about consenting ADULTS in PRIVATE.
Public displays of affection by minors sanctioned by the State schools.
The Gay Homecoming couple could only be called gay if they have in fact had sex.
Thus, all Straight Homecoming Couples could only be called straight if they in fact have had sex.
puro has it right. Political agenda "because they can" without regard for the social and moral foundations of this country. Aided and abetted by the ACLU and democrats. Meh.
Why should we have to? These people act like they invented homosexuality, when if fact, all they've done is make it acceptable to shove it in our faces every chance they get.
Homosexuals are sickening people. Why can't they just shut the hell up?
Public displays of affection are mostly, NOT sodomy. Perhaps you can recall what sodomy is and we can all agree it should not be done in public.
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Cupid - god of love, but not the babe pictured by mortals. He cuts a handsome figure with his lithe, supple, muscular body; bronzed skin; and gentle, youthful face wreathed in wild, dirty-blonde hair. His only hair is found on his head and on his pubic area. The rest of his body is smooth and hair-free, giving an almost boyish impression. His snowy wings arch gracefully from his shoulders, bending at a joint above his head and sloping gently toward his feet. Yet, despite his beauty, Cupid longed for something more - a lover. But who could serve as a lover to the god of love? Only the most beautiful of mortals. He picked up his cell phone and dialed.
"Hello?" came the answer.
"Hey, Aphrodite. It's Cupid," said he.
"Oh! Hi, Cupid! What can I do for you?"
"Would you please tell me which mortal is currently most beautiful?"
"You aren't looking to retire are you?!"
"No, I'm looking for a lover."
"Ah! Let's see...It looks like the lucky mortal is Johnathon Fisher, age 19, of New York City."
"Got it! Thanks, Aphrodite!"
Johnathon Fisher did have good looks, but that's about all he had. His intellect was average, and his skills were unremarkable. His personality was his only other asset because he was open-minded, easy-going, and agreeable. He was just starting college, so he was also broke.
Cupid was Johnathon's picture and was smitten. Johnathon had a body as well toned and supple as his, as well as a dashingly handsome face. Johnathon's body was almost as hairless as Cupid's, and his bronze was perfect.
Cupid brushed out his wings carefully and changed his diaper. He sent an assistant to Johnathon's house with a note that said "I have an opportunity for you. Come to the top floor of the Maine Street Office Complex immediately please. - Cupid."
Johnathon figured that "Cupid" was some fashion designer wanting him for a modeling gig, so he didn't hesitate to go.
When he got to the top floor, Johnathon saw the same assistant waiting at another elevator and beckoning to him. The assistant accompanied him in the elevator and hit a button labeled "C." Johnathon stepped out of the elevator into Cupid's office and stared. There stood the god of love in all his beauty.
"Johnathon Fisher," said Cupid, "welcome to Cupid's office!"
Johnathon felt himself strangely attracted to Cupid. He had thought he was straight. Could he be gay or bi? As Cupid turned to get him a chair, Johnathon saw a lump forming in the back of Cupid's diaper. Suddenly he realized that he had a partial erection.
"Now," said Cupid, "I asked you here because I need a lover, and certain rules require that my lover must be the most beautiful mortal alive. Guess what that makes you."
"The most beautiful mortal alive?" ventured Johnathon sheepishly.
"Correct!" said Cupid, "Now we can do this one of two ways: we can get to know each other and come to love each other on your terms, or I can force you to love me with one of my arrows. I prefer the first way, personally."
Johnathon felt overwhelmed.
"May I think about it?" he asked.
"Certainly," replied Cupid, "Here's my number. Call me with your decision."
Johnathon mumbled a flustered thanks and excused himself.
Once Johnathon had left, Cupid's wings drooped as did his facial expression.
"I have to have him, Andrew," he said to his assistant, "I'll give it three days before I shoot him."
Johnathon got home and rested for about an hour before he had to go to work.
"I figure," he thought, "that I can take at least until the day after tomorrow. I bet Cupid will be busy all day tomorrow, it being Valentine's Day and all."
So Johnathon didn't give Cupid another thought...until he got to work.
"Tomorrow's Valentine's Day," announced the restaurant owner, "I want all of the men wearing white wings and diapers. I don't care what else you wear, just so those two items are visible."
Johnathon knew he had a gorgeous body, so he only wore those two items. He had a backpack with spare clothes for after work, and he put a few extra diapers in there. He figured he could save on bathroom time by using the diapers.
While he was waiting tables he wet himself freely. While he was on break, he had to dump a load, so he squatted slightly and pushed. Just as the first part of the load was rushing into his diaper, his best friend walked into the break room and saw the lump forming in the seat of Johnathon's diaper.
"You're using it too?" asked his friend in disbelief.
"Yeah, Jason, it saves me bathroom time."
"What if it starts to smell?"
"Then I change it."
Jason shrugged and left. Johnathon realized that he had an erection growing, so he tried to ignore it. Every time he moved, however, the stickiness of the shit and the squishiness of the pee-soaked diaper made him harder and harder. He went to the bathroom to relieve his throbbing hard-on then changed and went on with his work.
The next day, Johnathon dialed Cupid's number.
"Hello! Cupid?"
"No, this is his assistant Andrew. May I ask who is calling?"
"Johnathon Fisher."
"Oh! Mr. Fisher! Cupid was expecting your call. Will you hold please?"
"Hi, Johnathon!"
"I've decided to give it a go, Cupid."
"Wonderful! I'll send Andrew around with the car at 6:00."
Andrew was punctual. Once Johnathon was in the car, it began to rise
"Please remove your clothes, sir," said Andrew.
"Excuse me?"
"Your clothes. It is customary on Olympus to dine in the nude."
"I see..."
As Johnathon wiggled out of his carefully chosen clothes, the car rose above the cloud line. Andrew pushed a button, and a portal opened in front of the car. Andrew drove through the portal and deposited his passenger in front of the gates of Olympus.
"Name please?" asked the attendant.
"Johnathon Fisher."
"Cupid is waiting for you in the back corner."
"Thank you."
Johnathon approached the god of love sheepishly, aware of a partial erection. Cupid stood to greet him, also naked except for his diaper.
They were both silent for far too long, then Johnathon ventured a question.
"How was Valentine's Day?"
Cupid opened up a bit on that subject, then the conversation took off. By the time dinner was over, neither of them was ready to leave. They stood to leave, however, and there was again an awkward silence. Suddenly, Cupid raised Johnathon's chin and kissed him gently. They paused. Then Johnathon kissed him back, more strongly than Cupid had kissed him. They kissed passionately then, both of their penises standing on end. Gasping, they parted, and Johnathon found Andrew waiting to take him home.
The next day, Johnathon called Jason.
"Hey man, what's up?" came Jason's voice.
"I think I'm bi," Johnathon blurted out.
Silence again. Then:
"How did you come to this conclusion?"
"You won't believe me."
"I went on a date with Cupid, now I can't stop thinking about him."
"You're kidding, right?" said Jason with a laugh.
"No," said Johnathon gravely.
"Are you high?"
"Jason? You aren't too weirded out are you?"
"Did he kiss you?"
"Did you kiss him back?"
"Did you guys...do it?"
"Not yet."
"Shock doesn't even begin to cover what I'm feeling...but okay..."
"Thanks Jason. I knew you'd understand."
"See you later!"
Johnathon hung up. Then he thought of something. He dialed the number Cupid had given him.
"Hey, Andrew? Is Cupid available?"
"Yes, please hold."
A pause.
"It's Johnathon. I have a question."
"What do I say if people ask where I was last night? I might find myself in the loony bin if I tell people I was on a date with Cupid."
"Well, the simplest solution would be to tell them it was a date, just not where or with whom."
"I was about to call you. Did you enjoy last night?"
"Are you free next week?"
So it went. Weeks of dates went by and the god and the man fell deeper in love. They even began having their date nights at their homes instead of out. One night, as they lounged on Cupid's couch in traditional Olympian attire, a.k.a. every inch of Johnathon's beautiful body exposed and Cupid naked except for his diaper, Cupid asked Johnathon a question.
"Do you have anything going on tomorrow?"
"No. Why?"
"I want you to sleep with me tonight."
The directness of Cupid's requests no longer surprised Johnathon. He grinned.
Cupid grinned too, kissed him, then pulled him up off the couch toward the bedroom.
"You don't mind working around my diaper?" Cupid asked.
"Well, actually...." began Johnathon.
Cupid's face fell.
"I mean...do you have a spare?" finished Johnathon.
Cupid stared, then he grinned even more with relief.
"I've kinda been trying them on myself," Johnathon answered his stare, "I like the feel of them, and using them makes me hard."
"In that case," said Cupid gleefully, "I certainly have a spare!"
Cupid lovingly powdered Johnathon, paying his penis special attention and probing his ass with a couple of fingers before taping up the diaper around Johnathon's sexy abs. Johnathon sat up quickly and kissed Cupid full on, shoving him to the bed in the process. Slowly, gently, hungrily, Johnathon kissed all the way up and down Cupid's perfectly sculpted body, gently teasing around his nipples, eliciting groans of pleasure from the god of love. Cupid rolled him over, and gingerly began the process of sliding his nine-inch penis up Johnathon's ass. Once be had penetration, he began moving his hips back and forth until he came. At the same time, he had been holding onto Johnathon with one hand while the other gently massaged Johnathon's already stiff penis into a throbbing eight-and-a-half-inch hard-on ready to slide right up Cupid's ass. Once Johnathon came, they fell to kissing and groping and caressing and sucking between wettings and messings for the next hour. Then they fell, with contented sighs onto their pillows and slept in each other's arms. The next morning, they changed each other, then fed each other breakfast. Half of their breakfast consisted of kisses stolen from each other's lips.
"Johnathon," began Cupid, "do you know how I came to need a diaper?"
"It happened when I became Cupid. I was chosen as the most beautiful of mortals at the time. Immortality is something like an organ in that it can be removed. However, wrapped up inside it is a person's ability to control when he pees or shits. I needed a diaper after I became immortal."
"Why couldn't you just cut around it, so to speak?"
"If a mortal's mortality is damaged at all in the process, the mortal would age so quickly he would die within five minutes."
"Oh. So, when a person becomes immortal..."
"He becomes incontinent."
"Do you know why I am telling you this?"
"No. Why?"
"I want to make you immortal."
"I want you to be my lover forever."
"You're sure?"
"I want to love you forever too."
They kissed. Then Cupid laid Johnathon gently onto a table. He sedated Johnathon, and the next thing Johnathon knew, Cupid was standing over him and his diaper was wet. All of a sudden, a warm lump of stickiness emerged into the seat of Johnathon's diaper. He kissed Cupid.
"I trust the surgery was successful, doctor?"
Cupid kissed him.
"It was."
Cupid and Johnathon lived separately for many years after, but Johnathon knew that his lack of aging would attract attention. One day he simply vanished, it seemed. He moved in with Cupid and filled his time working for his lover in the god of love's office. They had regular sex breaks throughout the work day, and after each session, Cupid would caress Johnathon's body, lean in close, and whisper in a sweet, breathy voice:
"I love you."
Then they would kiss, gently, passionately, each making the other want more but holding back after one kiss to keep the expectation for the next time.
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MH370 Operational Search Update—
10 August 2016
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This operational report has been developed to provide regular updates on the progress of the search effort for MH370. Our work will continue to be thorough and methodical, so sometimes weekly progress may seem slow. Please be assured that work is continuing and is aimed at finding MH370 as quickly as possible.
Key developments this week
- Fugro Discovery is conducting search activities. The vessel will depart the search area for the last time on 11 August and transit to Singapore to be readied for its next project, unrelated to the search for MH370.
- Fugro Equator is conducting search operations.
- Dong Hai Jiu 101 arrived in Fremantle on 8 August for a scheduled port visit.
Underwater Search Operations
More than 110,000 square kilometres of the seafloor have been searched so far.
At a meeting of Ministers from Malaysia, Australia and the People's Republic of China held on 22 July 2016, it was agreed that should the aircraft not be located in the current search area, and in the absence of credible new evidence leading to the identification of a specific location of the aircraft, the search would be suspended upon completion of the 120,000 square kilometre search area.
Ministers went to great lengths to explain that this does not mean the termination of the search; should credible new information emerge which can be used to identify the specific location of the aircraft, consideration will be given to determining next steps.
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Fugro Discovery
The search vessel Fugro Discovery will be departing the search area on 11 August 2016, to undertake mandatory scheduled maintenance, bringing to an end its involvement in the search for MH370. The search plan provides for the remaining search area to be completed using the other vessels.
Fugro Discovery was brought from the United Kingdom to Fremantle in 2014 to join the search. After the search crew and equipment were mobilised, and following extensive sea trials and equipment testing, the vessel travelled to thesearch area where it commenced underwater search operations on 23 October 2014.
Since that time, Fugro Discovery has conducted a total of 16 swings. A swing consists of the journey from port to the search area, the time spent conducting search operations, and the journey back to port—generally around 40 days at sea. On each swing there have typically been around 30 personnel on the vessel including the ship's crew and the search operation specialists. A total of 124 people have worked on the vessel; 13 of whom have worked on more than 7 swings.
In addition to the 51,000 square kilometres of the ocean floor searched by Fugro Discovery, the vessel has also travelled around 80,000 kilometres during its 16 transits from port to the search area and return.
Weather conditions are forecast to be poor over the coming days, deteriorating further towards the end of the week. Strong winds and rough seas are expected to impact on search operations.


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Every season there are different beauty trends which women are obsessed about. Some of them are inspiration from the last season and other are new which will last longer than the current one. And since the trends are a few ones, one can choose which ones of them to try and which ones will match their personal style and preferences.
And today we are going to show you which some of the current makeup trends are so you can try the best ones for you. Here they are!
#1 Rosy cheeks
The first of the trends in the list is inspired by the cold weather in the fall. When one goes out when the weather is windy and cold, one's cheeks can turn easily red. And if there is no wind just apply some blush on the apple of your cheeks to make them beautifully pink. Which means that blushes in red hues are the top types of blushes popular this season. The important thing is that you keep the blush natural and not extreme.
#2 Feathery eyelashes
The next trend is about the eyes and more specifically about the lashes. Lashes are often the center of attention of different types of makeup. As you have probably heard, face makeup is not complete if there is no mascara on the lashes. This season long and voluminous lashes are a top trend. You can wear falsies to create this effect. This way even if you do not have any color on your lips, the eyes will draw attention and your face makeup will be strong enough to handle the lack of lip color.
#3 Interrupted eyeliner
Another type of eye makeup that will be quite popular this season is interrupted eyeliner. Eyeliners in general are a popular makeup trend and have been in fashion for a long time, and they are very likely to stay in fashion even longer since this makeup effect makes one's eyes look very attractive.
This season there is a little twist about eyeliners. The trend that is already in fashion is an interrupted eyeliner. If you apply eyeliner, stop halfway through and then continue leaving an unfilled gap of a centimeter or so.
If you find this type of eyeliner too unusual for your taste, you could do another thing instead. Just start applying eyeliner from the center of the eyelids leaving the inner part of your eye infilled. It is a different interpretation of the same trend and it works great as well.
#4 Blue or purple eyeshadow
When it comes to eyeshadow trends this season, you should not be afraid to choose strong and bold colors. Fall and winter are the cold seasons of the year when women can wear dark makeup but this does not mean that they should stick only to earth colors, like brown.
This season blue and purple eyeshadow colors are some of the top eyeshadow trends. Purple in general is a very popular color this season since purple lipsticks are going to be another top trend. You should not be afraid to wear such kinds of colors this season even if you do not consider them your style.
After all experimenting every now and then can be good for your personal style. You can find out that some of the types of makeup that you have avoided all the time actually match your face and suit you perfectly.
#5 Metallic eyes
The next trend this year is considered to be a typical one that matches the weather perfectly. It is metallic eyeshadow colors. There are different metallic colors but as a whole the colors are dark and shiny at the same time. They are perfect for people's favorite smoky eye and are great for a night out in the club.
However, this does not mean that one cannot wear them on a daily basis. One just needs to choose light metallic shades, like copper or beige. Such ones can be perfect for a daily makeup.
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If you wore lipstick in the 90s, or if you have looked at celebrities' pictures from this decade, then you probably remember that brown lips were extremely popular at that time. And women wore not only brown lipsticks but also brown lip liners which they used to over-line their lips.
This season brown lips are back but the good news is that too dark and over-lined lips will not be in fashion. You can try some hazel, caramel, or peanut hues, for example, but you should not forget to take your skin complexion into consideration. Brown lipstick hues match any kind of skin complexion, one just needs to find the best type of hue for them.


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radiator grille.
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- a piece of ground or other space, commonly with ornamental plants, trees, etc., used as a park or other public recreation area: a public garden.
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- garden-variety.
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lead on;
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- to lay out, cultivate, or tend a garden.
gar′den•a•ble, adj.
- to cultivate as a garden.
gar′den•less, adj.
gar′den•like′, adj.
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cit′y•less, adj.
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downtown: I'm going to the City to buy clothes and see a show.
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Jordan Raanan of ESPN writes that "every day that Johnathan Hankins remains unsigned, the odds increase that he returns to the Giants."
As of now, Raanan puts the odds of Hankins re-signing with the Giants at around "50-50" as of now.
New York has reportedly shown interest in retaining Hankins and the market clearly has not played out as he had hoped. Another positive development for the Giants is the fact that they recently picked up $11 million of cap space by locking up DE Jason Pierre-Paul to a long-term contract.
According to Raanan, it's possible that the Giants' previous offer to Hankins — that was declined — could still be on the table.
At this point, a return to the Giants on a one-year contract could make the most sense for Hankins, as it would give him another opportunity to be part of a potentially dominant defensive front before hitting the open market again in 2018.
Ralph Vacchiano of SNY recently reported that NFL teams aren't sure that Hankins on his own is a true impact player. In fact, some have wonder just how good he really is, considering that he played next to Damon Harrison, who dominated in the run game for New York last season.
Before that, Raanan mentioned that sources around the league have said Hankins is asking for more than $10 million per year in a multi-year contract, which is highly unlikely considering where we are in free agency.
Dontari Poe and Bennie Logan both agreed to one-year deals at lower salaries, so it would be tough for a team to justify paying Hankins this much money now that the top end of the defensive tackle market has played out for everyone but him.
Hankins, 24, is a former second-round pick of the Giants back in 2013. He played out the final year of his four-year, $4.03 million rookie contract that included a $1.311 million signing bonus and is now testing the open market as an unrestricted free agent for the first time in his career.
In 2016, Hankins appeared in all 16 games and recorded 44 tackles, three sacks and a forced fumble for the Giants. Pro Football Focus has him rated as the No. 72 interior defender out of 127 qualifying players.
We have him featured in our Top 50 Available Free Agents list.


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After the bathroom was practically gutted, it was time to start putting it back together. Having the floor completely ripped up at least meant it was somewhat easier for the plumber to get to the pipes and sort out the plumbing, some of which was looking a bit dodgy - again, such a wonderful DIY job was done on this bathroom previously...
The bath and frame are positioned.
Bob the builder looking busy building the new laundry cupboard.
Bath in place, it is starting to take shape!
I have walls again!
The shell of the cupboard has been built - slightly smaller than the original so that I could accommodate a bath. The bath is also slightly smaller than standard so that I could still have a laundry cupboard, as there is nowhere else in the house to put a washing machine.
My shiny new vanity - now I have real storage, this will be much better than the plastic drawer set from the Warehouse I've had under the sink for ages.
The bath liner is fitted.
It took me a while to decide on paint colours - I wanted something I liked and that matched the wood detailing, but not something too modern as it isn't in-keeping with the house. In the end I chose a deep purple with an off-white purple for the upper walls. People who know me know how much I like purple, but honestly it was what matched best! (And it was actually my boyfriend who originally picked it).
New floor! It's just vinyl but the wood effect works well in the bathroom and blends well with the real wooden floors I have in the hallway - so much so that when my mum first saw it she thought it was wood.
Really taking shape, not long until it's finished!
The shower is in! Finally I have a shower with good pressure!
Cupboard doors looking very smart.
All finished!
I've had the bathroom finished for a couple of months now, and am still loving it. The shower is so much better and it's nice to have a bath once in a while too, and the whole bathroom feels a lot cleaner and tidier than before, with plenty of storage. It'll be a while before I can afford any more house renovations, so in the meantime it's on to the garden!


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Ruining It for Everyone Else
Musings on philosophy, religion, polyamory and shit that needs to be said.
Monday, November 24, 2014
The Affliction of Getting What You Want
I frequently hear complaints from polyfolk about OKCupid. Women complain that they get too many messages. While the men say that women never reply to theirs. Leaving the first complaint aside, I want to address the latter.
Backing up a little, I activate my OKC account for short periods of time when I just damn feel like it. I deactivate it because I'm not "out" to my family or the godly community where my children go to school and trick-or-treat. But when I do frequent the dating site I average 30-40 messages/day. Or rather, messages from 30-40 different men, some of them send multiple messages. I reply to most, though I did finally put a disclaimer on my profile specifying that I will NOT reply to messages that only say: "Hi," "How are you?" or "You're hot". (Groan.)
That being said, I think the men I respond to are more than a little surprised that I am returning their message. And given the circumstance, they should be. I mean, let's face it, I am hot. I'm usually more than generous with my alternate-identity email, and they will contact me there usually as soon as I give it to them. I find at this point that their enthusiasm dwindles rather quickly. Is this because I'm boring you? Have I taken away the challenge? I'm confused as to why interest suddenly disappears. Maybe it's because now I'm a real person instead of that sexy, unattainable model they had originally imagined me to be? What they thought they wanted turns out not to be what they wanted after all.
But these are not the guys I really want to talk about anyway. There is another type that I have encountered on more than one occasion. This is the guy that actually does want to talk to me via text or whatever. And we'll have a pretty good conversation to the point where I think that I can tell him what I actually think. (Not that I don't always say what I think, but I reserve the nitty-gritty for when I think someone is actually listening to me.) And this will go okay for a few days.
Then suddenly, POOF! They disappear. I mean, they're still there. I can see when they're online. I can see what you're posting on fb. I know you're there. You've just stopped responding. What exactly the fuck is this about? I mean, you're on a dating website. You complain --more than likely-- that women don't respond to your messages. And here you have a beautiful woman who has similar interests that wants to talk to you, but you ignore her? Why bother to be on a dating website at all if you don't even want what you thought you wanted when you finally get it?
True, I could blame myself. I could say that I'm just not that interesting, or I'm deluded about my looks. Or, I'm one of those crazy chicks who digs her talons into a man the second he shows the slightest interest. But I know that's not true. I have people I trust who tell me so.
The affliction of getting what you want is: now what do I do with it? To be honest, I don't really understand this problem. I actually think through what will or could happen when I achieve my goals. Sure, it might be new and scary, but I've prepared myself ahead of time for this possibility. I might proceed with caution, but I don't suddenly cut someone off because I'm a big pussy!
Conclusion: Boys, make up your goddamn minds.
Also, every time I run up against this Type, it just makes me that much more thankful for my wonderful, amazing partners.
Posted by Kat Dean at 6:36 AM
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Labels: dating, OKCupid, polyamory, relationships
Monday, December 9, 2013
What Pisses Me Off About the Hunger Games
Now, before you get all psycho-fan-geek on me, I'm as Hunger-Game-crazed as they come. My pre-pub paperback copies of books 1 and 2 are respectfully mutilated. And Mockingjay I listened to on audio book, which concludes with a rare interview with Suzanne Collins. Highly recommended, if you haven't yet ventured into the world of audio books.
Additionally, if you're paying attention at all, I've adopted HG's charmingly clueless protagonist, Katniss, as my alter-ego. There may be some Freudian interpretation to my chosen persona, but let's move on.
There are many reasons I believe Collins' trilogy to be one of the finest pieces of recent literature. But for the sake of not losing every reader to my geeked-out drool session, I'll sum up.
Important themes: challenge the established system, whether it's "good" or "evil"; human connections are messy, but ultimately make life worth living; does the end justify the means?; what you are told should always be run through the filter of what you feel is right or wrong.
It is this outside-the-established-boundaries thinking that makes HG so popular, like so many cherished iconic stories. The audience has an easier time imagining how "things could be different" because it's someone else's reality. It's much easier to see how some other person, culture, way of thinking is flawed than to evaluate your own, from within the bubble.
This is no easy task. In real life, it can be difficult to recognize that you are even confined within a bubble. Oftentimes, breakthroughs require a catalyst. An event that pushes you beyond your limitations, out on the ledge, so to speak. Or sometimes, you realize the small-ness of your world when you come into contact with someone from another culture. And you start to ask yourself: why do I do it this way? Why do I do it at all?
This is no easy task. In real life, it can be difficult to recognize that you are even confined within a bubble. Oftentimes, breakthroughs require a catalyst. An event that pushes you beyond your limitations, out on the ledge, so to speak. Or sometimes, you realize the small-ness of your world when you come into contact with someone from another culture. And you start to ask yourself: why do I do it this way? Why do I do it at all?
The reason is because you didn't know you had a choice. Culture (and oftentimes religion) keeps you within certain restrictions and breaking out of these can mean isolation, rejection, and in mythical contexts, eternal damnation.
Novels like HG help us wake up to our bubbles. Our pre-programmed actions that we run through without realizing it. The structures we use to make our decisions, not realizing there are other structures available, or (wonder of wonders!) that we can make our own!
While I will always have a soft spot for all things Katniss, Collins fails in one very obvious way. She questions the very fabric of society (her's is fictional, but still), but she doesn't question the possibilities of relationships structures. I mean, it's okay if we start talking about equality, peace, (and in the real world) gay marriage, and freedom from religion. But monogamy? This isn't even brought into question. Collins assumes that Katniss will have to choose between Peeta and Gale. Or, at least, that her faux-mance with Peeta means there is no possibility of her being with Gale. A big assumption for a fictional future dystopia.
Oh, Katniss is kissing Peeta on national television? Gale must be sad, jealous. Oh, Gale is sneaking kisses in the woods with Katniss? Because if Snow and the Capitol found out, then it must mean she doesn't really love Peeta. There's no way she could truly love both. (And for Katniss's sake, she doesn't really love either, but realizes she needs both to survive. But that's another story.)
Others have written about the poly/mono implications in HG and more recently Catching Fire. Some have focused on gender issues, and have even made good points.
But what really pisses me off about the HG is the assumption. The assumption of the author. The assumption of the readers. We're thinking progressively here, people ... oh, but not quite that progressively. You couldn't possibly have a love triangle without conflict. I mean, how much would that bring in at the box office?
As long as these assumptions prevail in our entertainment, it will cement the mass populace in their comfortable bubbles.
In Collins's defense, I appreciate her ending where (SPOILER ALERT!!!) Katniss ultimately chooses neither. She is content to allow things to be as they are, as long as no one is getting hurt, which I would argue was her position all along.
If I see one more Team Gale or Team Peeta, I think I'll puke.
If I see one more Team Gale or Team Peeta, I think I'll puke.
Posted by Kat Dean at 7:46 AM
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Labels: concepts, government, love, media, movies, polyamory, relationships
Tuesday, November 19, 2013
Embracing Limitations: Or, What I Learned at Polycon
You don't get to choose your parents, your metamours, or your triggers. Triggers? Those are the people, the situations, the news, the events that cause you to become irrationally angry, jealous, scared. Triggers cause minor or major panic attacks, and often inspire me to lunge for the Xanax.
Some triggers you are aware of. You know when to expect their arrival. When he spends the night at her house; when everyone goes out together on the night I work; getting cut off on the highway; or, mentally calculating the best price on vitamin brands at the grocery while two over-tired children scream at each other, attracting the attention of everyone within a 10 ft. radius. (Not that I've ever experienced that before …)
Then there are the times when triggers sneak up on you. Surprise! It's not okay for you to wear the dress I bought you on a date with him. Surprise! Roses? My stupid crazy ex-boyfriend used to buy me roses! How could you? Surprise! I'm okay with you dating girls but not guys!
Some might call these weaknesses, but instead, I've upgraded their status to "limitations". Limitations are the boundaries (permanent or temporary) within which we can work effectively. Trying to work outside our limitations only brings negative consequences. For example, a food allergy can be a personal limitation. Sure that cake, ice cream, garbage pail full of everything you want to engorge on looks great. But indulging in your personal limitation will only bring undesired consequences. It is the same with relationship limitations.
Working With Limitations
Does this mean it is impossible to move beyond your limitations? Sometimes. There are some limitations you can work on, become better at, adapt strategies for. You can be gentler, more approachable, more intelligible, more knowledgeable. But then there are some limitations you just have to respect.
All my life I have struggled with meeting new people and going to unfamiliar places. When I was younger, my strategy was to avoid them. As you can imagine, I was lonely and eventually my desire to change was stronger than my fear of the unknown. Recently, I was reading about a condition known as Avoidant Personality Disorder. While I do not claim to have said disorder, I do identify with some of its components.
For Avoidants, being in certain social situations, or even just around strangers, or in public at all, causes stress which produces a chemical reaction in the body. Some become paralyzed with fear, anxiety, or even panic to the point where they cannot bring themselves to go to work or the grocery store. There are different degrees of the disorder. And the goal is to work on strategies which allow the individual to perform the necessary tasks despite the chemical imbalance.
I feel this stress even just thinking about new venues and people. Sometimes the chemical reaction begins before I even get there. In many ways, I have been able to overcome some of these obstacles in no small part with the help of TheLordofDarkness.
But even now, in social situations with people I don't know, I can feel the panic rising in my chest. Cognitively, I know there is no reason to panic, but I still feel it. And I know I've reached my limit when strangers (or people I've only just met) infiltrate my personal space bubble. It's more than I am able to handle. This is my limitation and this is the time for me to walk away.
I'm furious with myself of course.
This past weekend, TheLordofDarkness and I attended BeyondThe Love polycon. I observed how easily he navigates through what seems to me an obstacle course ofanxiety. Him and others make friends, new partners, hookups look easy. Fun, even. Damn, them.
Someday, with practice and lots of support from partners and friends, I may be able to work past this limitation. But for now, I know this is my stop and I get off the bus.
Embracing Limits
It's easy to beat myself up over what I can't do. Instead, I consciously choose to see my limitations as the other side of my strengths, the things I love about myself. I am very sensitive and take things way too personally some of the time. It is also my sensitivity that gives me a deep level of empathy for others, especially those I'm close to.
It is my sensitivity which causes my relationships with partners and close friends to be deep, meaningful, and life-long partnerships regardless of how the structure of the relationship changes. I love this about myself. I desire and cherish these relationships. And I would never change it.
Punishing myself for not being what others are or what others expect me to be, accomplishes nothing. Forcing myself beyond what I am reasonably comfortable with only makes me miserable.
It is by embracing my limitations, and affirming them as strengths that I create space to grow. Loving and compassionate people inspire us to learn and grow. Negativity and condemnation only cause us to clam up, hide, and give up. Why shouldn't we treat ourselves, our limitations, with kindness?
Posted by Kat Dean at 2:18 PM
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Labels: mental health, polyamory, polycon, relationships, self-actualization
Monday, October 7, 2013
Our Collective Subjective: Or, There's No Such Thing as Objective Truth
From the universe's point of view, we are of no more concern than any other atom, planet or speck of dust. The universe does not distinguish the violent ending of a human life from the snapping of a tulip's stem. There is no Universe or God of Tulips who is going to prevent you from clipping those buds in late spring. Because the universe doesn't care. It is indifferent.
In Secular Wholeness, David Cortesi observes:
This universe regards the murder of one human by another exactly the way it regards an avalanche falling on a human, or a virus infecting one: with sublime indifference. Avalanches fall; viruses infect; mammals prey on one another-- it's what they do.Because the Universe is not a conscious, all-encompassing being--at least there's no indication of this so far--it negates the possibility of an objective reality or truth. As humans, we can only know truth from our own individual and collective perspectives. But as insignificant beings in a vast universe without (so far) other conscious life, there is no objective, fixed and ultimate, truth.
Even if another conscious species were to come along, that species would be subjected to their own collective subjective. Objective reality, or truth, cannot exist because there is no One who can see every view point. There is no One who is omnipotent, though it would be vastly convenient if there were.
Does this negate human morality? Far from it. Cortesi continues:
Now, this absolutely does not mean that we should be indifferent! On the contrary, desiring to be moral, trying to be compassionate, and urging other people to be moral and compassionate are also things that we do quite as naturally and with better outcomes for our own survival.
What it means is that there is no objective morality; there is no right and wrong beyond what humanity ascribes as right and wrong. However, the morality invented by humanity will only be from humanity's subjective viewpoint. Because you are human and I am human, This Means You!, we are accountable to our species' definition of morality. In fact, it is this very collective subjective which creates our morality, a code for living.
Religion will tell you that there is only one right way to to be and do. Which we know to be completely false as religion has failed, and continues to fail, at it's own morality as well as the collective morality.
Additionally, as Cortesi points out, it is the refinement of this collective morality which increases our chances of survival as a species, though not necessarily as individuals. Another excuse to be immoral? Possibly. But consider your probable chances of a happy life if you choose an illegal occupation over a legal one. Consider the quality of your close relationships if you continuously lie and manipulate, instead of treating others with compassion. Yes, bad things do happen to good people, but morality substantially increases your chances of happiness.
What does the subjective collective mean for you? First, it means you cannot view the world in black and white, good and evil. Those are concepts we have created. The same way we have created countless gods, civilizations, and poetry. You will have to look at the evidence and you will have to think. You will have to use all of the tools at your disposal to come up with what you should do, how you should behave, how you can help others. You will have to make the decision.
Second, it means you cannot judge other humans based on an objective moral code. Judging and convicting criminals is part of our society, but the rules by which we pass judgement cannot be set in stone. In every case, it is the betterment of the species that has to be considered, the collective subjective. As we grow and access more knowledge of the physical universe, our understanding of right and wrong changes. Our collective subjective changes.
It is by coming together and facing the indifferent universe united as a species that we will progress.
Posted by Kat Dean at 11:49 AM
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Friday, October 4, 2013
Does the Average 'Sunday Jane' Really Believe This Shit?
My former profession was a female-dominant workforce. I shared a working space with three other women, all Christian, two Catholic. Though we never discussed it, I believe they were aware I did not attend church and was a "nonbeliever". From time to time, I would overhear conversations about various church happenings and promises to pray for this or that personal calamity.
I attended an undergraduate Evangelical college. (Evangelicalism is a branch off of Protestant Christianity which, most distinctively, recognizes the believer's "assurance of faith".) I took many classes on the history of Christianity, the doctrines of the faith, and even entire semesters devoted to single books of the Bible. So I have a heafty understanding of church doctrine. Not necessarily something I'm proud of, but then, you work with what you have. Clergy, pastors, reverends and others like me have a deeper understanding of exactly what is meant (at least according to current century interpretations) by phrases such as "the Word became flesh" (John 1) or "This cup that is poured out for you is the new covenant in my blood" (Luke 22).
Now back to my three co-workers, or even just the average church-goer in general. What happens when you try and bring up these tricky questions with them? Of course they can do little more than repeat doctrine they have been told, if they are even able to do that. But more practically speaking, when you are talking about something as important as the meaning of the universe or the final destination of your "soul", isn't it important to actually know what you believe? Even if you can't explain hundreds of years worth of the Popes' memoirs, shouldn't you have your own basic understanding of your religion?
Why is it that the average church-goer (or adherents of any religion) are satisfied with not knowing what the church actually teaches? Why are Christians embarrassed to talk about the important questions of their faith outside of church?
For the sake of argument, imagine me bringing up any of the following topics with my three pious church ladies:
- The Holy Spirit is God and is all around us. So, you're telling me that God, in spirit form, is right here in the air between my fingers and the keyboard. If I wave my hand over my head, I'm waving my hand through God? If I lay a stink-bomb, will God choke and gag?
- Those who reject Jesus go to hell. You're telling me that as we sit in this meeting discussing our plans for next quarter, all the while I'm (unknowingly) going to spend eternity in hell? How can you just sit there tapping your pencil? Don't you want to save my soul?
- Prayer will bring about divine intercession that otherwise would not have occurred. So, your brother's uncle's sister-in-law is in the hospital and will have life-saving surgery tomorrow and you say you will keep her in your prayers. If you are so convinced this will have such a significant impact, why don't the two of you step outside and pray in the parking lot for this poor doomed lady? Why not? Oh, because you actually know that it's not going to work and you'll look silly in the process ... oh, wait, I'm ruining my own punch line.
Given half a chance, Christians will talk your ear off about the community service their church is involved in. The pious Christian is happy you recount for you Sunday's service as well as who they saw there and the latest gossip. But how often do you hear Christians in the real world talking about exactly what they believe? (And I'm not talking about the loony sandwich board guys. I mean, the soccer moms, PTA presidents, and bus drivers.) Their silence is odd considering how important all this supposedly is.
The first reason: They feel they are uneducated about the finer points of their faith. But even stripping Christianity down to its most basic belief that Jesus died for your sins, the average believer is at a loss to explain exactly what this means. How exactly does the "sin" transfer from one person to another? Once transferred, how does the death of this one individual make the "sin" disappear? Assuming "god" is able to make all this magic happen, wouldn't it be quicker to just hose everyone down like they do with uncooperative asylum initiates. Even the most uneducated Christian needs to understand this most basic doctrine of the faith, enough to talk about it the same way you explain to your children that thunder and lightning are the same thing.
The second reason: They are afraid of criticism. Or, in other words, they are afraid of looking stupid. (I will skip the arguments for martyrdom, knowing that not everyone was born to be a martyr.) Why would someone criticize your beliefs? If they criticize your beliefs, can you present logical arguments to defend your position? Usually, the religious are able to do little more than repeat what they have been told about their religion. They do very little thinking about it for themselves. This is something to be embarrassed about. When Einstein or Newton or Galileo presented their "beliefs", how did they deal with criticism? They presented logical arguments, and continued to speak out. In the end, it turned out that their critics were the ones embarrassed. Why don't Christians (the average ones, not the educated ones) avoid the criticism?
The answer is that ultimately the every Sunday Jane and Joe know that their religion is hokey. They know they look silly praying outside of church, even though that is what their religion tells them to do. They know that the doctrines about Christ's saving blood don't mean squat. They don't argue with nonbelievers because they know how silly most church doctrines are.
This isn't enough, however, to turn Jane and Joe against the church. This would mean losing their family, friends, support network. Also, they can easily change the subject to the morality the church teaches (which Humanism also teaches) and how the church provides aid to third world countries (which non-religious organizations do also).
Ultimately, average church-goers aren't religious outside the comfort zone of their own church walls because they don't believe it. But they aren't ballsy enough to think for themselves which might actually mean they have to stand up and contradict the religious majority(?).
The first reason: They feel they are uneducated about the finer points of their faith. But even stripping Christianity down to its most basic belief that Jesus died for your sins, the average believer is at a loss to explain exactly what this means. How exactly does the "sin" transfer from one person to another? Once transferred, how does the death of this one individual make the "sin" disappear? Assuming "god" is able to make all this magic happen, wouldn't it be quicker to just hose everyone down like they do with uncooperative asylum initiates. Even the most uneducated Christian needs to understand this most basic doctrine of the faith, enough to talk about it the same way you explain to your children that thunder and lightning are the same thing.
The second reason: They are afraid of criticism. Or, in other words, they are afraid of looking stupid. (I will skip the arguments for martyrdom, knowing that not everyone was born to be a martyr.) Why would someone criticize your beliefs? If they criticize your beliefs, can you present logical arguments to defend your position? Usually, the religious are able to do little more than repeat what they have been told about their religion. They do very little thinking about it for themselves. This is something to be embarrassed about. When Einstein or Newton or Galileo presented their "beliefs", how did they deal with criticism? They presented logical arguments, and continued to speak out. In the end, it turned out that their critics were the ones embarrassed. Why don't Christians (the average ones, not the educated ones) avoid the criticism?
The answer is that ultimately the every Sunday Jane and Joe know that their religion is hokey. They know they look silly praying outside of church, even though that is what their religion tells them to do. They know that the doctrines about Christ's saving blood don't mean squat. They don't argue with nonbelievers because they know how silly most church doctrines are.
This isn't enough, however, to turn Jane and Joe against the church. This would mean losing their family, friends, support network. Also, they can easily change the subject to the morality the church teaches (which Humanism also teaches) and how the church provides aid to third world countries (which non-religious organizations do also).
Ultimately, average church-goers aren't religious outside the comfort zone of their own church walls because they don't believe it. But they aren't ballsy enough to think for themselves which might actually mean they have to stand up and contradict the religious majority(?).
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Tuesday, September 24, 2013
Religious Divisions? Science Unties!
This past weekend my Rev. Mother spoke at ceremony for the departure of a Protestant denomination church from its larger national network of churches. In other words, this particular church didn't agree with the decisions the other "like" churches were making, and so, made the move of countless other religious factions before them. They split.
Shouldn't be surprising considering it's nearly impossible to count even the number of Christian sects. Something like 41,000? Read this if you really want a breakdown. And of course that's just one of the world's Big Six religions.
Even more impressive is this artistic map of the world's religions. Though as I understand it, it's missing several branches of Islam. Is it even possible to list every version of religion? Since it seems no two people
can agree, we could simplify things by listing each religion by each person who believes it. How many people are on the planet right now? *Sigh* See this is why I don't dabble in statistics.
All of this is to say the longer any one religion exists, history tells us, the more divisions it will have because the more charismatic know-it-alls will disagree with each other.
Consider, instead, science. Mathematics has been called a language all its own. Those skilled enough to speak it (regardless of what language they speak at home) can have conversations with each other. There's nothing about mathematics that ever changes. As it grows, it becomes more refined. And as it refines, experts agree more and more as to what is mathematically right and wrong. That is to say, mathematics unites those who understand it.
We see the same pattern in science. As more and more knowledge is gained about our physical world, scientists agree more and more. Of course there will always be disagreements about what is unknown, what has not yet been proven. But consider human knowledge of the planets. Once thought to revolve around our own planet, today scientists have a more accurate understanding of how celestial bodies orbit the sun and are controlled by gravity. In other words, rather than divide, this knowledge unites scientists. They can agree about previously discovered and proved theories, and move on to other mysteries of our universe.
In Sense and Goodness Without God, Richard Carrier observes:
[N]aturalists throughout history, who arrived at their views wholly independently of each other, even in widely differing cultures, have all converged toward the same general conclusions and world pictures, ensuring that our worldview even if always a minority view, will still find more and more uniformity rather than division of views. Yet Christianity a thousand years from now will not be the same Christianity lived today, just as what we have today is not the same as that lived a thousand years ago. In all periods we meet hundreds of sects at fundamental variance with each other. Every other major religion faces the same story.So, this defecting church, pulling away from its like-minded sister churches, will set out on its individual path of "truth". Once again claiming to have the only true knowledge of "god" and what that god wants.
If "god" were actually real, don't you think he would step in a do something about all these disagreements? I mean, he could really clear up a whole bunch of shit by giving us Ten Clearer Commandments which actually tell us something about abortion rights, marriage rights, human sexuality, taxation laws.
I mean, if I were Goddess, I'd want these things cleared up for sure.
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Friday, September 13, 2013
Thoughts on The Game that Detects a Cheating Spouse
I realize I have been ignoring the religion part of this blog lately. And I was all set to give you another installment of My Favorite Bible Stories. Until this story caught my eye.
It's a fictional story about a man who successfully maintains a "respectable" job and family life, while sneaking off with a girlfriend a couple times a year. This cliché continues until the development of an app which detects the brain's instinctual recognition response, something to do with P300. Read more about the P300. In the story, the app is called The Game that Detects a Cheating Spouse.
The point Bruce Kasanoff is making involves easily accessible technology which is able to instantly and accurately tell when you're lying. While there is an obvious connection with relationships and cheating, Kasanoff remarks that such technology concepts could also be applied to situations such as lying at work, or anywhere else you find it easy to be economical with the truth. Kasanoff says, "What will life be like when the truth becomes inescapable?"
Well said.
But I want to take this beyond obvious lies; cheating, stealing, willful deception. Not a human on earth would deny having told at least a few "white lies" in their lifetime. In fact, I would venture to guess, most of us tell white lies several times a day. We lie to keep from hurting someone's feelings, such as That is the world's most god-awful lipstick. A world where you can't successfully lie about your boss's new plaid blazer would be different indeed.
Then there are the lies we tell, the carefully plotted deceptions we construct, to keep others from seeing ourweaknesses, our insecurities. Like when we laugh at a joke because everyone else is laughing, even though we don't really get it. Or, we nod along, even when we have no idea what someone is talking about.
The scarier deceptions come when we're hurt by someone or something, but we can't bring ourselves to talk about it. So we pretend it doesn't exist. This may preserve our feelings for a little while, but it's still lying. And like any lie, you have to keep lying in order to keep it hidden. And keeping anything hidden, never feels good for long.
Even though the story is about cheating, what I'm talking about is self-actualization, fulfilling your mental needs and reaching your full potential. What this story brought to my attention was … how much I don't lie anymore. To anyone, about anything.
It's not just about having open and honest poly relationships. Though that's part of it. I also see how I have finally come to a place where I am comfortable with my weaknesses and my insecurities. I have on occasion taken them out and laid them on the table where anyone who cared could see them. Not for pity, but merely because I had nothing to hide. Here they are! I know they're stupid, childish, petty, maybe even unnecessary. I acknowledge them. I embrace them. And I don't expect anyone but myself to deal with them. Though I'm not above assistance every now and then.
Recently, while in the process of making a fool out of myself, someone told me: "I'm not laughing with you, I'm laughing at you." But here's the problem with that. As long as I own my foolishness, as long as I think it's just as foolish as you think it is, as long as I'm laughing too, I cannot be laughed at. When my weaknesses are revealed, intentionally or accidentally, the way I see it, you have only two choices. You can laugh along with me, because I find my stupidity to be endlessly amusing. Or, you can choose not laugh. And neither choice will bother me.
I literally have nothing to lose because I have nothing to hide. Even if I were to lose the people and the things that are important to me, I still have the knowledge that I have nothing to hide. I don't feel the need to lie about my insecurities or blunders to win someone's affections. Such people aren't worth my time anyway. And though my opinions about how others dress, or speak, or conduct themselves might hurt someone's feelings, I am not ashamed of them. I do my best to conceal these truths for their sake. But I have no fear of them being revealed.
|Are you Liar, Liar, pants on fire! ?
All of this freedom, to not have to lie about my opinions, my feelings, my truly most embarrassing moments … all of this I attribute to the secure sensation of absolute happiness I've had of late. I have nothing to fear, and so the world is my playground.
What insecurities are you hiding? What would happen if you revealed them?
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In a healthy product-driven business environment, value is created in the manufacturing process. In fact, the entire value chain lives within the manufacturing (and supply chain) process. Case in point, if you take the of raw materials, conversion (labor utilities, maintenance, etc.), and overhead and total that all up for one unit; then compare that value to the market price for one unit, the difference is the amount of value created. Now some of that value is real and some of it is perceived which is created by dynamics in the market such as scarcity and other factors. For the focus of this post, lets focus on the concept of real value.
For many people (depending on the product), its just more practical to go purchase something than it is to try to produce it themselves. Lets look at a car for example. If everyone had to build their own car from scratch, the road would be a much scarier place. Not everyone has the time, talent, resources, or desire to build their own car – and there's nothing wrong with that. By having auto-makers that we can trust to deliver a quality vehicle at an affordable price gives us all the freedom to focus on the things that we are great at or love to do. In other words, having skilled mechanics / technicians, robust quality assurance, and reliable and scalable manufacturing processes to build our cars for us, they are creating value for our lives. And because of this, we are happily willing to pay them more than the combined cost of raw materials, conversion, and overhead for our car. This is the real value that is created by the manufacturing process.
By creating real value for the end user, the manufacturing process is also creating wealth for the company. One of the most important roles of marketing and sales and some of the other demand-side business functions are to transform the value created in manufacturing into cash.
In the previous post titled: Measuring Plant Performance by the Common Denominator in Business, we discussed the importance of measuring plant performance in terms of cash and then having the tools in place to communicate performance as frequently as possible, if not in real-time, down to the value creators themselves, the shop floor operator. In order to do this, you have to understand the value of finished working capital on a unit by unit basis (or series of value-added steps). This allows you to identify the amount of value created in real time, which can be measured against conversion costs in real time. The difference can be viewed as manufacturing profits. This creates the possibility of allowing the manufacturing executors to understand and share in the success of playing their role in driving wealth into the company. This also lays some of the ground work for a culture of continuous improvement since it enables greater financial incentives for increasing plant profitability, which we'll dive into for our next post. A manufacturing efficiency expert such as those at Manuficient can help you identify the real value being created by your manufacturing processes and help increase plant profitability.
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Talking Points Archives - 2015
Updated: Apr 14, 2016
August 30, 2015
Devotional by Ray Pichette
One: President's Report:
Elder Pichette made a presentation on the "Life Cycle of a Church".
Two: Departmental Report:
There was a report made by our Youth Director, Manny Ojeda. His notes are in the link below.
Three: The Education Quasi-Endowment Fund/Distribution of Interest:
The Executive Committee voted to distribute only the net earnings gained by our Education Quasi
Endowment fund, so we don't lose market value on our investments. This, of course, only applies to
years were we lose principal. The primary reason is we want to protect our principal, and ultimately add to it.
Four: Executive Committee Resignation:
One of our Executive Committee members, Dustan Daniel, is moving to Lincoln, NE. We
acknowledge and appreciate his service to the Illinois Conference and Downers Grove Church, and
pray God will bless him as he transitions.
Five: Membership Report
It was reported that there have been 109 baptisms and 43 professions of faith through July 2015, and
current membership is 13,540.
Six: It was voted to approve the La Grange Brookfield Church mission trip to Guatemala.
Seven: It was voted to ask Jay Ellington to serve on the Illinois Conference Board of Education.
Eight: It was voted to approve Mandy Macomb be the Illinois Conference Area 2 Pathfinder Area Coordinator
Nine: It was voted to hire Elder John Grys to serve as the ministerial director for the Illinois Conference.
Ten: The Executive Committee votes on any calendar changes each time they meet. We will pass
these on as a separate link below for your information.
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Floor pillows are a great way to add seating to any area of your home! There are so many ways to decorate with floor pillows. Shop our favorites, sew your own, or browse our list for inspiration!
The Living Room: Additional Seating
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The head of the Iowa Department of Corrections briefed Gov. Reynolds today on an increase in violent crime in the state that he called shocking.
Statistics from a national survey show that from 2006 through 2016, Iowa was one of only two states in the country where the incidence increased for all four categories of violent crime, including homicide, robbery, rape, and aggravated assault.
At the same time, the recidivism rate is on the rise for perpetrators of violent crime.
"So if you see an increase in crime in the community and an increase in crime of people returned to the community, that tells me that we've got something that we need to do differently, said DOC Director Jerry Bartruff, addressing Governor Reynolds and a panel of budget advisors. "We've got to do something."
Bartruff said methamphetamine abuse over the years of the survey may be one cause for the increase.
"I think there's multiple factors," Bartruff said. "I think that because we're fairly safe in Iowa, that any kind of increase, the percentage looks huge."
Bartfruff described a decrease in violent crime in Iowa's larger towns last year, but an increase in rural communities.
The department implemented a more data-driven approach to reducing recidivism in 2015. Bartruff predicted that would bring crime trends down over the next ten years.
"In 2027 we believe we can see a reduced prison population, we can see recidivism reduced, we can see criminal justice costs lowered, and we can see a safer Iowa," Bartruff said.
In Iowa's correctional system today, there are nearly 8,300 inmates inside Iowa prisons and another 20,000 on probation.


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Brava Fabrics is an apparel ecommerce startup based in Barcelona. All our products are created in Barcelona respecting Fair Trade and carefully manufactured in small productions.
We are a passionate team of young people who strongly believe that things can be different in the fashion industry.
We work at Indiana House, our showroom/office in the heart of Poblenou district in Barcelona.
What's the job about?
We are looking for an IT Software Developer with Project Management skills willing to lead challenging projects in Brava Fabrics.
He/she will take care of developing our e-commerce, creating automations and dashboards in all business areas and helping to organize the company information.
The candidate will be very immersed in advanced marketing online tools and will help us to create automations to optimize our marketing campaigns.
Your role in the company:
- Hold responsibility for project delivery and execution of projects.
- Code, search for tools and implement all solutions.
- Create a development environment: choose the right tools & frameworks,
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- Help us automate all the business process that requires a manual, brainless execution.
- Hold responsibility in webserver performance and uptime ratios.
- Improve our e-commerce adding new features.
- Help the team with issues related to computers: e-mail, preparing computers for new team members, printers, network…
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These are our must:
- Speak English and/or Spanish almost native.
- Computer Science Degree
- Experience in developing websites using: PHP, Javascript, CSS and Mysql.
- Knowledge of developing for CMS. Prestashop will be highly valuated.
We will positively value
- Experience in Online Marketing using any platform.
- Experience using Marketing Online APIs: Google Analytics, Facebook, Google Adwords, Mailchimp.
- Knowledge on how to create a development environment: Github, text editors, debuggers.
- Experience in ERP Systems.
- Experience in business intelligence reporting tools, such as Qlickview or Tableau.
- Position:
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- Company:
- Brava Fabrics
- City:
- Barcelona, Spain
- Salary:
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