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From the time I was old enough to brush my own hair, I can remember telling every friend and family member to "sit down so I can give you a makeover". Although I never assumed it would be my future career, I always seemed to have this burning desire to make everyone look as beautiful as possible.
Hair styling was, in a way, my first love. I chose to start my career at only 20 years old, and never looked back. For over a decade I was blessed to have the opportunity to work next to the most talented, passionate and inspirational stylists this city has to offer. During this time I was able to soak up valuable information, attend countless classes, learn trends and techniques, teach classes of my own and have met wonderful people along the way.
Life was moving along and after the birth of my second beautiful little girl, I decided to take some time to do the most important job of all--being a mother. Although being home with my children was fulfilling and enjoyable, I missed sharing my passion with all my other favorite people; MY CLIENTS.
I can not possibly put into words how special it is to me to share life's highs and lows with my clients, the bonds we share are like no other. From kids starting school, graduations, marriages, babies, holidays, triumphs and of course life's most valuable experiences and lessons. I couldn't imagine life without these friendships.
Fast forward to 2016, I was blessed to have the opportunity of opening my own salon and blending my two passions into one. In March, I started my Hair Devotion family. I could NOT be more excited. This community is one I am proud to be a part of. The people I have met are so warm and welcoming and I look forward to meeting many more!
Jenn Sparks
Jenn brings with her over 14 years of experience and a passion for the industry. While Jenn's skill and professionalism speak for themselves, it's her warm smile and positive energy that leave her clients feeling refreshed and uplifted.
Jennifer hasn't forgotten the fundamentals of her profession and while she will blow you away with her special occasion styles and relaxing scalp massages she challenges herself to continue educating herself and her clients on ways to keep their hair looking and feeling vibrant and healthy.
She's the full package.
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Restaurateur Stephen Starr will bring another of his concepts to South Florida when El Vez opens at the W Fort Lauderdale Hotel, joining his Steak 954 at the beachfront resort.
The original El Vez opened in Starr's home base of Philadelphia in 2004. The restaurant, named after the man El Vez, who bills himself as "the Mexican Elvis," serves Mexican-American favorites such as guacamole, tacos, and nachos in a casual, party-like setting. About three years ago, an El Vez outpost opened in New York City's Financial District with a more rustic vibe.
Though the Fort Lauderdale restaurant marks the third El Vez, not much is known about exactly what the space will look like. Starr has been known to open several restaurants under the same name but change decor and menus to better suit the neighborhood in which they reside. A good example is the Continental, a retro concept that changes from martini bar to diner depending upon its location.
What is known is that when El Vez Fort Lauderdale opens in January 2018, it will likely offer a mix of both traditional and nontraditional items, such as the Bazooka limón guacamole, with goat cheese, pistachios, chili flakes, and roasted tomatoes, and the "nacho mama," made with black beans, smoked chili salsa, crema fresca, white cheddar, and Monterey Jack cheese.
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In addition, El Vez will offer an extensive tequila selection, signature cocktails, and a good lineup of margaritas available by the glass or pitcher.
El Vez will join a roster of Starr restaurants in South Florida, including Steak 954, Le Zoo, Makoto, and Upland. Starr's the Continental, a 1960s retro restaurant in Miami Beach, closed this past July.
If Starr is looking to expand his Philadelphia restaurant empire to South Florida, let's hope his next move will be to bring his other Mexican concept, El Rey, to Miami. The Philadelphia-based restaurant offers Mexican cuisine and drinks in a setting that can best be described as "lucha libre meets mom's diner." The restaurant's hidden gem, however, lies in its back alley. The Ranstead Room, located beneath El Rey, is a dark speakeasy that serves Philadelphia's best bespoke cocktails. El Rey diners in the know are escorted through the restaurant's kitchen and down a flight of stairs for après-meal cocktails shaken by the city's best bartenders.
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The Prisma Obex is the Prisma variant of the Obex hand and foot guards featuring enhanced attack speed for lower damage.
This weapon can be sold for 5,000.
The Prisma Obex is potentially sold by Baro Ki'Teer in the Concourse section of the Tenno Relay for 175,000 and 500. Note that Baro Ki'Teer's stock changes with each appearance, and this weapon may not be available on a succeeding appearance.
The weapon can be traded, but only for unranked copies without Forma and Orokin Catalyst installed.
This weapon deals primarily Impact damage.
- High Impact damage – effective against shields.
- Slam Attack has innate Electricity damage – effective against both health and shields.
- Highest Attack Speed of all sparring weapons, and tied with Tipedo and Nami Skyla Prime for the highest attack speed of all melee weapons.
- Stance slot has polarity, matches the Conclave-only Vicious Approach stance.
- Lowest base damage of all sparring weapons.
- Short range.
- Prisma Obex, compared to Obex:
- Lower base damage (52.0 vs. 60.0)
- Higher attack speed (1.33 vs. 1)
- Higher Mastery Rank required (10 vs. 0)
Weapon LoadoutsEdit
- See Category:Prisma Obex Build to see how players mod this weapon.
- See Category:Prisma Obex Guides for guides on how to use this weapon effectively.
- For more general help with weapons, you may wish to browse Category:Weapon Guides.
- Slide attack does not involve spinning, but rather causes the Warframe to perform a handspring, finishing with a kick that knocks down opponents.
- Obex is Latin for "Barrier".
- While meleeing in long succession, the Prisma Obex generates two spheres of energy around that can last about 5 seconds, depending on how long the user attacks. This process also produces flames in each hand.
- Sugatras appear four times when placed on this weapon, one for each hand and foot.
- Using the jump attack to knock down an enemy who is in the midst of attempting to initiate a lockdown has a tendency to cause a lockdown to occur immediately.
- When equipped with the Loki Knave Skin, it doesn't appear at all.
See alsoEdit
- Obex, the original counterpart.
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One does not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes forth from the mouth of God. MT 4: 4
In the hands of God
I went down to the potter's house and there he was, working at the wheel. Whenever the object of clay which he was making turned out badly in his hand, he tried again, making of the clay another object of whatever sort he pleased. Then the word of the LORD came to me: Can I not do to you, house of Israel, as this potter has done? says the LORD. Indeed, like clay in the hand of the potter, so are you in my hand, house of Israel. Jer 18:3-6
The greatest treasure
Again, the Kingdom of heaven is like a merchant searching for fine pearls. When he finds a pearl of great price,
he goes and sells all that he has and buys it. Matthew 13, 45-46
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Since, then, we have the same spirit of faith, according to what is written,I believed, therefore I spoke, we too believe and therefore speak, knowing that the one who raised the Lord Jesus will raise us also with Jesus and place us with you in his presence. Everything indeed is for you, so that the grace bestowed in abundance on more and more people may cause the thanksgiving to overflow for the glory of God. 2 COR 4:7-15


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Tom Shepstone
Shepstone Management Company, Inc.
Recently, Middlesex County, New Jersey, voted to ban fracking. The action was inconsequential as no one has any desire or reason to drill there anyway. It reveals the stunning hypocrisy and shallowness of urban Northeast politics which, in the end, matters not.
Middlesex County is located a short distance south of Newark, in the heart of the New York metro region. It was home to 809,858 people in 2010, has a population density of over 2,600 persons per square mile and, geographically, is the population center of the most urban state in the nation. There is a shale formation underneath it all, the Newark Formation, but there's no place to put a well pad. Therefore, the action of the County Freeholders to ban fracking was a completely symbolic act, a mere demonstration of intentions for the purpose of soothing very small and politically minds, which all that urban politics amounts to these days. Facts, logic and results play no role; only intentions matter.
Facts have a way of eventually catching up with politics grounded in emotion. Middlesex County politicians probably won't pay any price for their craven action, but reality will intrude in a different way as Middlesex businesses and homeowners vote with their wallets and otherwise act in their own self-interests. Nothing about the freeholders' action has changed the laws of economics or human nature, which is ultimately about enlightened self-interest.
Consider this chart, which plots how Middlesex County homeowners heated their homes at the time of the 2010 Census:
Some 233,395 or 82% of Middlesex's homes were heated with natural gas, even higher than New Jersey as a whole, which is 74% (compared to 49.5% nationwide). Energy Information Administration data indicates 41% New Jersey electricity is also made with natural gas. Altogether, then, we can safely say 87% of Middlesex County's householders rely upon natural gas in one form or another. Finally, given the role of shale gas, the size of the Marcellus Shale play and New Jersey's proximity by pipeline to the Marcellus we also know that's mostly fracked gas going into those homes.
Yet, the Middlesex County Freeholders moved to ban fracking in what everyone admits is nothing but a symbolic action. The debate was nothing less pitiful, as this article from last month demonstrates. Here is some of it (emphasis added):
Pittsburgh had found radioactivity in its drinking water from the fracking industry, he said. Other towns had fracking waste storage tanks explode, contaminating the local community.
Fracking would affect businesses in New Brunswick as well, he said.
"[It's] actually destroying jobs," he said. "It would hurt the development of natural resources such as the cutting-edge solar energy field. It would also hurt tourism, which is really important in northern New Jersey with camping and hiking."
The extractive industry was boom-and-bust, he said. They would initially come in with investment money, but they would leave the community with environmental and economic problems.
Elliot Warren, citizen's outreach director for Environment New Jersey, said Pennsylvania wastes 1.2 billion gallons of water per year because of fracking, he said. The material waste product of fracking has been proven to be radioactive.
Warren's father was almost killed while inspecting a leaking fracking pipeline that exploded.
"These people are more concerned about their pocket than they are about the citizens of the state," he said.
Craig Garcia, a worker for New Labor, an organization that aims to improve worker conditions, said he had talked with other members of his organization and found them concerned about the quality of water in the town.
"Even if this is mostly a symbolic measure, it would send out a good signal to the public," he said.
After the freeholders passed this resolution, Food & Water Watch planned to help pass bans in other communities, the state and the country.
Caral Bellante, a Middlesex County freeholder, said she was definitely against fracking.
"I don't think it's good for the residents of Middlesex County… it appears to be dangerous," she said.
Pretty bad, isn't it? "Fracking waste storage tanks" that somehow explode and contaminate entire communities is perhaps the most infantile suggestion. Every accusation made, in fact, is easily refuted with a few minutes of research. The entire discussion reveals a woefully (and willfully) ignorant group of activists, led by Food & Water Watch and the usual suspects. They essentially bullied the Freeholders into taking the bizarre position the natural gas county Middlesex County residents use in greater proportion than almost anywhere else is somehow "dangerous."
This, of course, is the strategy of Food & Water Watch and other like minded pawns of elitist special interests; pounce on communities with no potential for fracking and get them to take meaningless positions against it to create a wave of opposition. Food & Water Watch is a radical group that opposes nearly everything, including bottled water use and genetically modified crops. It is financed by "more than 25 Big Green foundations" to do this sort of thing all over the country. Among those foundations are the Park Foundation, which gave Food & Water Watch $250,000 in 2013, $290,000 in 2012 and $510,000 in previous years to gin up "local campaigns" against fracking and the like.
Meanwhile, Middlesex County is already served by hundreds of miles of "fracking pipeline" (depicted below) and distribution lines these professional protestors suggest are a threat:
Think I'm kidding about the professional protestors thing? Check out this Craig's List ad:
This is what the Middlesex County Board of Freeholders fell prey to in their mad rush to jump on the NIMBY bandwagon with nary a thought to the incredible hypocrisy of their actions. Still, it's important to keep it all in perspective. This was nothing but a cheap little political stunt of no lasting meaning whatsoever. Why do I say that? Well, check out this post by my Energy In Depth colleague Steve Everley. There are no words (except "Happy Holidays"); just charts that tell the only story that matters. Here is the one for the Marcellus Shale that's keeping those Freeholders warm this winter:
While the Freeholders sat there voting to ban the fracking keeping them warm they might have also considered what it was doing to save them money and clean their air (with multiple double-digit declines in carbon emissions for New Jersey power plants). They know all of this, of course, but they put it out of their minds to appease a vocal minority funded by outside interests, which is how urban politics is done these days, as spineless politicians far removed from the production of the resources on which they depend seemingly vote against their own interests.
The key to understanding this, however, is that they also know the vote doesn't matter. It was pure Northeast political theater and meanwhile CNG stations are being built in Middlesex County to further spread the benefits of fracking. So, Food & Water Watch and the Middlesex County Board of Freeholders can play all the fundraising and political stunts they wish, but Middlesex County will be using more natural gas than ever, all due to fracking. What a country!


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The three-hour debate will take place in the House of Commons on Tuesday (13 March) following Chancellor Philip Hammond's Spring financial statement.
The Government wants to bring in means-testing for funded two-year-old places and set an income-threshold for free school meals. Currently all families receiving universal credit are entitled to free school meals, as part of the transition process to the new benefits system.
For those families that are affected, Labour argues that the income threshold will create a cliff-edge, meaning some parents could be better off either reducing their hours, or not taking additional hours or pay rises, because moving just above the income threshold would leave them hundreds of pounds worse off for each child affected. This directly undermines the Government's stated aim of Universal Credit, to make work pay.
The Children's Society has estimated that over a million children in poverty will not be eligible for free school meals under the Government's plans, but would be if the transitional measures of making all children in families receiving universal credit eligible for free school meals remained in place.
As part of the same measure, the Government is also planning to remove free childcare for two-year-olds from those earning above the threshold.
However, the Department for Education has estimated that under the new eligibility criteria around 8,000 more children would take up the two-year-old places once universal credit is fully rolled out, compared to the number currently receiving it.
Labour also intends to challenge the Government on its decision to axe employer childcare vouchers, which are being phased out and replaced with tax-free childcare.
Ministers have been accused of imposing controversial policy decisions through 'statutory instruments', a form of legislation that is fast-tracked through Parliament, often without a vote of the full House of Commons or Lords. Labour has used an obscure parliamentary process known as 'praying against' the regulations to secure the votes in motions relating to Universal Credit, Children and Young Persons and Social Security, which will be debated straight after the Chancellor's statement.
The Democratic Unionist Party's ten MPs usually vote with the Conservative's minority Government.
However, the DUP also opposes the Government's plans to change the eligibility criteria for free school meals, with DUP member Jim Shannon sponsoring an Early Day Motion against the proposals. It has also opposed the abolition of childcare vouchers.
Angela Rayner MP, Labour's shadow education secretary, said, 'The Tories are trying to leave over a million children without access to free school meals and struggling parents without childcare. To add insult to injury, they are trying to sneak this heartless plan through without proper scrutiny from MPs.
'Tory MPs who believe that over a million children in poverty should go without a hot meal at school should be honest with their constituents and actually vote for it.
'But this is a Government with no majority in Parliament, and with opposition to the policy by those that are propping them up, the Tories should take this chance to think again.'
The Government claims that more families will benefit from the changes than under the old system before universal credit.
A Department for Education spokesperson said, 'No child who is currently receiving a free school meal will lose out as a result of this change and it is misleading to suggest otherwise.
'The fact is under our new criteria, we estimate that by 2022 around 50,000 more children will benefit from a free school meal compared to the previous benefits system. It's right that we make sure this support reaches children from the most disadvantaged families.'


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Hi Ken,
I created a Gundam Zeta thread for us I'm going to start Zeta and then post up my initial impressions. And then dive into your highly informative Gundam essays (which i'll be referencing as i go through Zeta).
Ken's Collection of Mini-Essays:
Of ZETA GUNDAM's fifty episodes, Amuro appears in approximately ten of them and actually sees mobile suit combat in about six of those episodes. During ZETA, perhaps to emphasize that he isn't the main character this time around, he does not pilot a Gundam-class mobile suit, but uses (initially) an AEUG RMS-099 Rick Dias type and later, an Earth-atmosphere only variation of the Rick Dias designated MSK-008 Dijeh. It was strange seeing Amuro piloting mobile suits other than a Gundam, especially since the Rick Dias and the Dijeh are mobile suits that have more Zeon-like designs than Federation-type designs.
Amuro is initially reluctant to return to MS piloting in ZETA (he developed a case of space phobia, among other problems), but it didn't take him long to get back into the groove after he overcame his initial anxiety. His battle instincts never left him, and after he got his confidence going again, he was actually better than he was in the original GUNDAM (because of the experience he has by the time of ZETA).
Tomino has made much of the idea that although Camille and Camille's own successor, Judau (Double Zeta's pilot) are more powerful Newtypes than Amuro, neither one of them is likely to defeat Amuro in a fight because they lack his combat talents. Camille and Judau are two extremely gifted Newtypes, but neither one is an especially gifted warrior. Camille and Judau, despite their great Newtype abilities, often get batted around by their enemies in ZETA and DOUBLE ZETA before pulling out a win in the end thanks to the superiority of their MS and their Newtype powers. Amuro was different: not only did he have formidable Newtype abilities and the Gundam, but he was truly a gifted warrior. Amuro fights much more intelligently than Camille and Judau ever do. If Camille and Judau did not have Newtype powers, they probably wouldn't be very good pilots. Amuro, on the other hand, would have been an awesome ace even without Newtype abilities. Although Amuro's Newtype abilities are less than Camille and Judau's (and the gap isn't that big), his talent, skill, and experience more than make up for it. During ZETA, Camille is often awed by Amuro's fighting abilities (and gets annoyed when people compare him to Amuro, even when it's to praise him).
He uses a Rick Dias at first and later, gets a personal mobile suit called the Dijeh. These are fairly ugly-looking, un-Gundam-like mobile suits that have a strong Zeon design influence, but I think they're cool for some variety. They just don't look like very Amuro-like mecha.
So fans always wondered: what *was* Amuro doing during the year of DOUBLE ZETA.
A few years ago, somebody in Japan put together a short CGI film about the DOUBLE ZETA era. A group of kids in a space shuttle were being threatened by a squad of Neo Zeon mobile suits. They looked doomed until a mobile suit that resembled Zeta Gundam streaked onto the scene and systematically eliminated the Zeon assault team.
The new mobile suit was an upgrade on the original Zeta Gundam called the Zeta-Plus. After rescuing the kids, the pilot of the Zeta-Plus came out of the cockpit to see if the children were all right.
Although he is never called by name or shown clearly, the silhouette of the pilot was clearly that of Amuro, and the shield of the Zeta-Plus had the same personal logo that we would see on the Nu Gundam's shield in CHAR'S COUNTERATTACK.
So you make your own conclusions.
The thing is: Camille is using the much more advanced, much more powerful, much faster Zeta Gundam against Amuro's "primitive" RX-78 Gundam, and Amuro *still* holds his own. You get the idea...
This is just a fantasy scenario from the video game, by the way. By the time that Zeta Gundam was deployed, the RX-78 had been destroyed for more than seven years already. The original Gundam was the most powerful mobile suit of its time, but in the era of ZETA, it would have been badly outclassed by the new generation MS.
But if Amuro were at the RX-78's controls, he might very well still pull out a win against the more advanced mecha...just because Amuro was that awesome.
I think GUNDAM has endured among its longtime devotees because of the deeper themes that Tomino introduced in the original series. After the fascination with the mecha has faded, you're still left with the ideas from the story, and how they can be applied in the real world. Like THE BUND, GUNDAM explores the darker side of human nature: nobody is innocent, and nobody is completely good. At the same time, nobody is completely evil either. In GUNDAM, even the villains often seem more like misguided idealists rather than actually evil (especially Char). There are purely evil characters such as Giren Zabi, Kishiria Zabi, Jamitov Haiman (founder/leader of the Titans), and Bosque Om (Jamitov's right-hand man), but many of the villains are kind of ambiguous: they seem to have ideals as well, although they're twisted ideals accomplished through amoral or immoral means.
And like THE BUND, even our heroes sometimes show moments of pettiness and selfishness. They're only human, after all.
For my fanfic, DOUBLE ZETA would have an importance level of 5. The final episode, however, might have an importance of 7.
However, the background from GUNDAM, ZETA, and CHAR'S COUNTERATTACK would be up to 8, 9, and 10. CHAR'S COUNTERATTACK is especially important in setting up the character of Hathaway Noah, who in my fanfic is Minerva Zabi's love interest. The story of how Hathaway and Minerva meet and how they fall in love is deeply entrenched in the subplot of Hathaway Noah in CHAR'S COUNTERATTACK. When you get to CCA, pay attention to this character. He becomes one of the five most important characters in my fanfic.
CHAR'S COUNTERATTACK occurs over the course of a few days in March, U.C. 0093. My fanfic takes place between U.C. 0097 and U.C. 0105.
Amuro's appearance in my fanfic is a flashback only (it occurs in U.C. 0092...a year before the events of CHAR'S COUNTERATTACK). That was the day when a young Col. Alexander Miguel attacked the Quebec Space Colony, killing thousands of Federation citizens and leaving a ten-year old little girl named Jolie Minh an orphan. Jolie would have died that day too if not for the timely intervention of Captain Amuro Ray and his elite Lond Bell task force.
So Amuro's very brief appearance in my fanfic actually occurs five years before the main story occurs. It's a flashback seen from Jolie's point of view.
Similarly, Char Aznable also makes a brief cameo at the very, very (literally) beginning of my fanfic in the year U.C. 0089, when the Archduchy of Zeon is under heavy assault by the AEUG/Federation alliance as seen in the last episode of DOUBLE ZETA. I reveal what was NOT revealed in DOUBLE ZETA: what happened to Duchess Minerva. In DOUBLE ZETA, the AEUG/Federation authorities only found a body double of the Duchess; the real Duchess was never found.
Well, I *found* her.
It turns out that Char reappeared after a year of being MIA at the end of ZETA and his first task was to rescue Duchess Minerva and take her to a place of safety, where she could grow to womanhood and begin her own adventures in a few years.
Amuro was going easy on Gurney at first because Amuro is a pretty humane guy who doesn't like to kill. But Gurney made the mistake of murdering one of Amuro's subordinates in cold-blood.
Needless to say, that really, really pissed Amuro off.
So Amuro just wasted Gurney's entire squad before wasting Gurney himself.
Poor Gurney: he had such potential, but he just HAD to go and piss off Amuro Ray when Amuro was in the cockpit of the Nu Gundam. You just knew Gurney was screwed then...
Amuro fights better when he's completely pissed off. It's like Kiu Fung when he's drunk or Yeung Gor in super-emo Sad Palms mode. Every time the Zeon do something to really piss off Amuro (like kill one of his allies/friends), they are in for a world of pain. I mean: Amuro in normal, calm mode is already a huge threat. When he gets pissed, though, he's pretty much unstoppable.
I pity the fool who pisses Amuro off when he's in the cockpit of a mobile suit.


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Morning routines seem to be all the rage these days. And rightfully so, a solid morning routine can make huge differences in your daily productivity. One of the thought leaders when it comes to morning routines is Hal Elrod. In fact, after reading his book, The Miracle Morning, I started implementing some of Hal's recommendations into my morning schedule. Admittedly, with 4 kids, my morning routines are still a work in progress. :) But, I notice a ton of benefits when I start my days the right way.
So who is this Hal Elrod gent? As I mentioned before, he's the author of The Miracle Morning, which is widely considered one of the most life-changing books ever written. (Yes, it's that good.) In addition to being a highly sought-after keynote speaker, Hal has also authored Taking Life Head On!, which is also a bestseller. Hal's energy is incredibly contagious. Once you read his stuff or listen to his podcast, you'll be hooked.
Hal was kind enough to participate in a recent Joovv AMA. So without further ado, here are Hal's questions to your answers...
I travel pretty frequently for business-related events. But it seems like I'm always lagging. You travel a fair amount, Hal. Can you offer 2-3 suggestions that might help?
For me, the key to keeping up my energy while I'm traveling (I'm on planes and in hotels about 8-12 days/month) is managing what I eat; by ensuring that I eat as much raw, plant-based food as possible. Finding these types of foods on the road can be challenging, so I bring healthy snacks with me. For me, healthy snacks include Kale Chips, Superfood Maple Cashews, Gluten Free Peanut Bars, Eggplant Jerky (which I've only found at http://www.rawfoodsandiego.com), and occasionally the (not-so-plant-based) Organic Grass Fed Beef Bars.
If I opened up your fridge right now, what would I see?
Haha, other than whatever my wife keeps on hand for her and our kids, I pretty much eat the same things everyday! The 3 staples of my diet are 1) a green smoothie; 2) an odd combination of avocados, apples, and seeds (which I'll give you the recipe to in a minute); 3) an Acái Bowl (with Maple Pancake Paleo Granola) for dessert.
The green smoothie consists of (all *organic) unsweetened almond milk, young coconut flesh, 3 handfuls of spinach, extra virgin coconut oil, chia seeds, banana, and frozen berries & mangoes.
The avocados, apples, and seeds recipe is something I eat 1-2 times/day, and here's the recipe: First, I make the dressing, which consists of organic hummus, avocado oil, and Braggs Liquid Aminos (just mixed together with a fork into a creamy dressing. Then, the recipe consists of (1) chopped apple, (1) avocado, (1/4 cup) Sprouted Raw Pumpkin Seeds, and (2 tablespoons) of Hemp Seeds - all mixed together.
Do you get 8 hours of sleep per night?
No, I average 6-7 hours of sleep per night.
What 3 supplements can you not afford to live without?
Dr. Schulze Superfood Plus, Dr. Schulze Intestinal Formula #1, and OptiMind.
I've been trying to implement some of the tips from your your book, The Miracle Morning, but I'm having a hard time with early-morning meditation. Seems like I can't shut of my mind. Any recommendations?
I recommend trying guided meditations , such as using the app Omvana. Also, I'd recommend reading the book, Meditation for Beginners by Yesena Chavan.
Have you used red light therapy? If so, did it work?
I haven't tried red light therapy (since I just discovered it yesterday). I'm very interested in it though.
What is something you enjoy that most people would be surprised to learn?
I am an avid UFC/MMA (Mixed Martial Arts) fan!
What person(s) of influence are you closely following right now?
Pat Flynn, author of Will It Fly? and host of the Smart Passive Income podcast.
What is the one book that you've recommended the most (besides your own)?
Vision to Reality by Honorée Corder.
If you could put a billboard anywhere, what would it say and where would you put it?
"ENJOY EVERY MOMENT" and I'd put it on the busiest freeway in Los Angeles, CA.
(Insert Scott)
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TruckPark is looking for an Account Executive to nurture and grow our most important business relationships. You will produce and align the perfect parking supply with consumer demand; you are a sales/account management hybrid and are one of the key drivers to our company's success. This is a game changing opportunity where you'll have the chance to take on leadership responsibilities, define company best practices, navigate our growth into new markets, and make a real impact that the whole organization will see and feel on a daily basis.
Who we are: TruckPark is one of transportation's hottest tech companies! We're rapidly growing with the mission of bringing the parking industry into the future through technology. Drivers across the nation use the TruckPark mobile app to reserve convenient, affordable parking on-the-go or in advance, and parking companies rely on us to help them reach new customers while optimizing their business. We connect the dots with cutting-edge technology, delivering value to both sides of this exciting, evolving marketplace.
What will you do?
- Analyze and optimize TruckPark's parking supply across multiple major markets.
- Negotiate and build partnerships with both new and existing clients.
- Improve customer acquisition metrics amongst certain brands by collaborating with our marketing team.
- Communicate regularly with existing partners to ensure that operations are constantly running as smoothly as possible.
You are:
- Dynamic. You're able to combine analytical thinking with interpersonal skills to manage and expand high quality partnerships.
- Independent. You not only enjoy, but also thrive in, unstructured environments.
- A closer. You are confident and people like talking with you. You care about helping people get the most out of our services and aren't afraid to ask.
- Naturally curious and innovative. Extremely creative and constantly looking for ways to improve upon things.
- Organized. Your mind is a steel trap. You follow through on your commitments and are incredibly attentive to detail.
- Communicative. You are the point of contact for our parking operators and strive to ensure that every partner is as in love with TruckPark as we are.
- Bachelor's Degree or higher
- 2-3 years of relevant experience in Sales and Account Management
- History of consistent professional growth and advancement
- Track record of using creativity to drive success


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The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat.
Men ought to know that from nothing else but the brain come joys, delights, laughter and sports, and sorrows, griefs despondency, and lamentations. And by this, in an especial manner, we acquire wisdom and knowledge, and see and hear and know what are foul and what are fair, what are bad and what are good, what are sweet and what are unsavory......And by the same organ we become mad and delirious, and fears and terrors assail us... All these things we endure from the brain when it is not healthy... In these ways I am of the opinion that the brain exercises the greatest power in the man. --Hippocrates, On the Sacred Disease (4th century B.C) It is human nature to be curious about how we see and hear; why some things feel good and others hurt; how we move; how we reason, learn, remember, and forget; the nature of anger and madness(Bear, Connors, Paradiso 3). This quote, found in my neuroscience textbook, basically sums up why we study and write about the brain. The brain has!
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We exchanged them for Man of the House, starring Tommy Lee Jones.
But my day was spoilt because I sensed another assault targeted at my fame. As usual, my friend told me to wake up my idea and concentrate on enjoying local food while I still can. So it's back to more phototaking of the delicacies.
Warning: The following photos will cause uncontrollable drooling.
Sirloin steak in wild mushroom sauce from Phin's at Cineleisure.
But even the oh-so-delicious steak could not stop me from feeling that something big and hairy was following me. So I tried even harder to act the shutterbug and took photographs of other food from Baker's Inn.
Passion fruit and strawberry soda. Drink already will become passionate? Heh heh...
Ginger milk pudding. Not for the heaty.
A disgusting Act Cute® photo worthy of Friendster.
I tried! I really did! But I was proven right once again! This was standing right in front of me!
I've got me a stalker! Straight from Don A.Q.'s Planet of the Roaches! Yikes!
*It's not real lah! Just a prop for a Baygon advertisement at bus-stop. I love the advertisements they have at bus-stops when they use this kinda over-the-top props and those they put on the rear ends of buses. But hor, if I helping Baygon with this ad, I won't put a cockroach that looks as healthy as this. And definitely not one that is hugging the Baygon poster (opposite side) because it's like the insecticide has no power. I think it's better to put a shrivelled roach with this caption on the other side: We get them. Even the XL ones.
How? Any advertising company want to employ me? (^-*)


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Hannah Eichelberger
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Hannah Eichelberger serves as Art Director for Family Research Council. She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Graphic Design from Bob Jones University in Greenville, SC and is an alumna of Word of Life Bible Institute.
Prior to joining FRC's Brand Advancement team, Hannah served as graphic design intern for Word of Life Fellowship and worked as a freelance designer in the D.C. area for organizations such as iReach International and Fairswell.
Hannah resides in her hometown of Dale City, Va. where she enjoys oil painting, collecting antique books, and reading. She is an active member of Hatcher's Memorial Baptist Church in Bristow, Va.


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Mon, Nov 4, 2019 4:45 pm
Mike Brown is on to talk about taking Keefer out at the Dubya USA World Vet Nationals. John Anderson comes on to talk about the event and inspiration for it. Tony Alessi shares his experience there and of course lots of discussion about Steve coming out of retirement and how he enjoyed the event. Keefer and Gauldy in studio for what is sure to be an incredible After Dark.
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We've all had that experience of speaking to someone we admire only to be completely blindsided by an offensive remark. Your first thought inevitably is "Did you really just say that?", followed closely by "Why did you have to say that? I really liked you."
This gets even trickier when the people espousing derogatory remarks are your favorite writers. After all, there's no rule that says the writers you like are necessarily good people. Still, finding out your most beloved author is, say, deeply sexist can manifest in how you read their fiction. So read on with caution because these awful quotes might just ruin these 15 authors for you.
You know him as … an American poet who contributed to the Imagism movement in the early 20th century.
But did you know he was also … anti-semitic? Pound believed that Jewish money-lending caused World War I and II. He went on Italian radio to claim "You let in the Jew and the Jew rotted your empire, and you yourselves out-jewed the Jew," and "The big Jew has rotted EVERY nation he has wormed into."
Pound was later imprisoned for treason, only to be found insane and confined to St. Elizabeth's Hospital in New Jersey, where he wrote letters arguing for his tolerance, writing, "I am 'of course' not anti-Semitic." There is "of course" something about air quotes that makes it read like a reluctant apology.
You know him as … late 20th century comedic novelist.
But did you know he was also … a bigot? Amis wrote letters soaked in homosexual and anti-semitic slurs. He referred to homosexuals as "queers," "poofters" and "queens," and called Jewish publishers "filthy lying profiteering bugger-the-author Yids." Keep it classy, Kingsley.
In 1962, the novelist wrote that anti-semitism in all forms must be combated, but three decades later he also wrote, "It's rather like being a Jew, no matter what you do or don't do, you can't help being one." Guess he had a change of heart?
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I could have just stuck some lights along the street and in the buildings and it would have looked really great. But I didn't do that. No, I did way better than that. I found a board that connects to a USB port on your computer and allows you to control each individual light programmatically. The board is called a Phidget LED-64 as each board can control 64 individual lights. I must say that this has been the most fun I have had so far with this entire project. This board is fantastic! So far I have been able to achieve three different effects with these lights and I have just scratched the surface of what is possible using this board.
First, a few caveats. The board will drive 64 LEDs yes but all 64 LEDs must use the same input voltage and amperage. The board can output 1.5V, 2.75V, 3.9V or 5.0V at 20, 40, 60 or 80 mA but all lights get the same input power level. You cannot mix 5.0 volt lights with 2.75 volt lights on the same board and expect to get optimal results or even passable results. Second, although there is a "demonstrator" program available for download that will allow you to power the lights, set the voltage, current limit and brightness, to get the best results from this board, you must know how to write code. The code is easy to understand and not difficult at all but you must have access to a compiler to have much fun with this board.
With all that out of the way...
The board is made by Phidgets, Inc. and can be found here. As you can see from the photos below, this is an extremely well built board.
Looking at the right-hand side of the picture, for input power the board will accept either a pair of wires providing 12 volt DC from your own power source or a plug from the included wall wart. Output power to the LEDs comes from the two arrays of plugs on either edge of the board - no soldering! This makes for a very easy to use board that even a beginner like me can use.
Here's the contents of the Phidget LED-64 box. The board, a wall wart and all the needed connector wires to power the LEDs. It's all there, everything you need to get started.
This seemed like the logical way to lay out the wiring needed for this board. I think there are only so many ways one can individually wire 64 LEDs. Each LED has a lead for the anode and a lead for the cathode. The above photo shows that so far, I have wired output to 2 of the 64 available connectors but not yet attached any LED lights. Oh, this is going to take a while.
A couple of days later and I'm making slow progress.
Here all the output leads from the board are attached to connectors. There still are no LEDs connected and the board has yet to be installed in the cabinet under the layout. Each of the 128 leads had to be cut to length, the insulation stripped and the wire ends tinned. It took a bit of time.
Having no more room left on the walls of my cabinet, I elected to let the board hang down from the center of the layout. This is where most of the lights will be anyway, where the scenery is, in the middle of the layout. I tried using hinges to allow the board to be easily accessed from either side and allow the board to be folded up out of the way to reach to components behind it. I'm not so certain this worked out as well as I had hoped. Maybe I just haven't done it correctly. I may need to use a bigger hinge or mount the hinges differently.
Most of the lights will be between those two 1x4 boards that stabilze the layout. That should keep the wiring to a a minimum but it's still going to be a mess.
Oh yeah. That's a mess. That's with only 24 lights wired. This is going to get bad. Granted, trimming the excess wire and placing a few zip ties will help but it'll still be messy I'm afraid.
Lighting Software
This is the database that I created to hold the individual light parameters. Each light has a Key#, some description, 3 locator fields that I plan to use later and 2 brightness values. The field called Brightness is to store the current brightness value. This is the field that would be changed normally. The additional Adjustment value is there should the lamp need a base level adjustment to make it match the other lights. The Sequence field is used to order the lamps for the Chaser effect and the Paired field is used for the Runway effect. With these database values, performing the effects is simply a matter of invoking the correct index and iterating through the database changing the Brightness values to zero for a short while then restoring that value to the value the lamp previously held.
This is what the UI of my program that uses that data to control the lights looks like. I still need to add alot of things to this program but this is a start and it can work the lights. It's a good proof of concept. The top half of the form has properties that apply to the board and all lamps connected to that board. The lower part of the form is meant to show properties that apply to an individual lamp only. This part of the program still needs some work.
Phidgets supplies not only the driver file needed to access the board but also the needed code library files for many popular coding environments. The following code is written in Delphi. For Delphi, just download the appropriate files from Phidgets, unzip them, install the ActiveX component into your Delphi environment, drop the PhidgetLED ActiveX control onto your form, add the Phidget21COM_TLB file to your project and start accessing the API. It's just that easy. Well, in their library file I did move one procedure from Protected to Public but other than that it all worked just like it's supposed to.
Once the hardware is all in place and the board is connected to the computer our program must first "Open" the board and "Attach" to it. This is done with the API call "Open" and then a call to "WaitForAttachment". I put the calls in the OnCreate event handler for the Form like so.
procedure TfmLights.FormCreate(Sender: TObject); begin LEDBoard1.EnableLogging(6,'testlog.txt'); LEDBoard1.Open(-1); LEDBoard1.WaitForAttachment(3000); end;
After the board has Attached, we can start to do things with it. Here I get a few informational items from the board and set some initial parameters in the OnAttach event handler for the board. At the end, we make a call to the SetAllBrightness procedure which turns on the lights. That procedure is shown further below and is also called by the BrightnesTrackBar.OnChange event.
procedure TfmLights.LEDBoard1Attach(Sender: TObject); begin BoardAttachedLabel.Caption := 'Attached'; BoardAttachedLabel.Font.Color := clGreen; BoardNameLabel.Caption := LEDBoard1.DeviceName; BoardVersionLabel.Caption := LEDBoard1.LibraryVersion; NumberLEDsLabel.Caption := IntToSTr(LEDBoard1.NumLEDs); LEDBoard1.CurrentLimit := PHIDGETCOM_LED_CURRENT_LIMIT_60mA; LEDBoard1.Voltage := PHIDGETCOM_LED_VOLTAGE_5_0V; BrightnessTrackBar.Position := LightsTable.FieldByName('Brightness').AsInteger; AllBrightnessTrackBar.Position := LightsTable.FieldByName('Brightness').AsInteger; SetAllBrightness; end;
Here is the code that shows how the program goes about changing the brightness levels of the lamps. Note that I am not storing these new brightness values just yet, these are only temporary changes to the brightness levels of all lamps.
procedure TfmLights.AllBrightnessTrackBarChange(Sender: TObject); begin SetAllBrightness; end; procedure TfmLights.SetAllBrightness; var a: Integer; begin for a := 0 to 63 do LEDBoard1.Set_DiscreteLED(a,AllBrightnessTrackBar.Position); end;
To implement the Chaser Effect, all I have to do is invoke the correct secondary index, move to the first record in the database, set the lamp to zero brightness, wait for a bit, set it back to what it was and then move on to the next record in the database, i.e. lamp. It's dead-easy. If you are thinking this should be done with a Timer or an additional thread, I think you are right. But this works and is easy to understand if anyone reading this is just trying to get things going.
procedure TfmLights.ChaserButtonClick(Sender: TObject); var OldIndexName: String; begin OldIndexName := LightsTable.IndexName; LightsTable.IndexName := 'By Sequence'; while (ChaserButton.Down) do begin LightsTable.First; while (not LightsTable.EOF) do begin if (LightsTable.FieldByName('Connected').AsBoolean) and (ChaserButton.Down) then begin LEDBoard1.Set_DiscreteLED(LightsTable.FieldByName('IndexNumber').AsInteger,0); Sleep(85); LEDBoard1.Set_DiscreteLED(LightsTable.FieldByName('IndexNumber').AsInteger,BrightnessTrackBar.Position); end; LightsTable.Next; Application.ProcessMessages; end; end; ChaserButton.Down := FALSE; LightsTable.IndexName := OldIndexName; LightsTable.First; end;
At the top of this page, I said that this was the most fun I have had yet with this entire project and it's true. The high quality of the board itself, having all the needed kit in the box, software with oodles of examples easy and ready to download and the simple fact that the software just worked, made this part of the project very enjoyable. Add to all that the absolutely crazy things you can achieve with this setup and there you have a bunch of fun. Thanks and a salute to the fine folks at Phidgets for making a great product that is fun to setup and use.


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During the first round of The Great Movie Tournament, please vote for up to six films you would like to move onto the next round. The top six films will be moving on. Keep in mind that the percentage of the vote a given film receives will determine its standing going forward.
The poll will run for seven days. Discussion is greatly encouraged!
The nominees are (please let me know if any video doesn't play for you):
Catch Me If You Can (2002)
Directed by Steven Spielberg
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The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009)
Directed by Terry Gilliam
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Rescue Dawn (2006)
Directed by Werner Herzog
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District 9 (2009)
Directed by Neill Blomkamp
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Ratatouille (2007)
Directed by Brad Bird
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Howl's Moving Castle (2004)
Directed by Hayao Miyazaki
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The Piano Teacher (2001)
Directed by Michael Haneke
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Dawn of the Dead (2004)
Directed by Zack Snyder
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This top selling American rock group of the 70′s is "comin' to your town to help you party it down."
Grand Funk Railroad will be kicking off the New York Experience Stage at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, August 21 at the 2019 Great New York State Fair.
August 21 is opening day and gate admission is only $1 with all music performances being free.
"You've got to make time to see this 'American Band' because they are 'Some Kind of Wonderful.' Let's get all of our classic rock fans 'Closer To Home,' so fly, swim or even use 'Locomotion' if you have to, but just get here because they're coming to our town," said Fair Director Troy Waffner.
Grand Funk Railroad is celebrating a 50 year milestone from their originating in 1969. Their hit song "We're An American Band" has received fame in recent years being used in a General Motors national TV ad campaign and in Disney's animated feature film "The Country Bears." Over their career, Grand Funk has had eight Top 40 hits and two Number One singles. The group has now accumulated 13 gold and 10 platinum records.
At the 2019 New York Experience Stage:
- Aug. 21 - 7 p.m.: Grand Funk Railroad
- Aug. 31 - 7 p.m.: Rick Springfield
And at the 2019 Chevy Court lineup at the New York State Fair:
- Aug. 21 - 8 p.m.: Bad Company
- Aug. 23 - 8 p.m. Lindsey Stirling
- Aug. 25 - 8 p.m.: Dropkick Murphys
- Aug. 26 - 2 p.m.: Herman's Hermits starring Peter Noone
- Aug. 26 - 8 p.m.: Midland
- Aug. 29 - 2 p.m.: Why Don't We
- Aug. 30 - 8 p.m.: Granger Smith
The 2019 New York State Fair runs from Aug. 21 to Sept. 2.


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American Sharks premiere first track off new album
Austin trio American Sharks premiere a new track from their forthcoming album '11:11'. You can check out 'Spare The Rod' below. The album will be available via NYC label The End Records on May 17th.
American Sharks is a three-piece band hailing from Austin, TX. Since the release of their self-titled debut album, American Sharks has toured extensively supporting the likes of GWAR, Clutch, The Sword, Red Fang, Big Business, Corrosion of Conformity and many others. After touring to support their debut album, American Sharks took time off to write and record their self-produced follow up album. With a spring 2019 release date, American Sharks will look to expand on the story they began writing in 2013.


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Later, upon getting into the broader global at approximately age 5, the preliminary draft of the child's tale is edited as a method governing responses to social demanding situations met early in existence together with friendships, education, and relationships with the other intercourse. those "tests" of the youngster's training for social residing "may strengthen the existence script or reason it to be adjusted in optimistic or damaging instructions" (Mitchell 2011). And this fine-tuning of the script shall be extra inspired either in and out of doors the house by way of key reviews selling or discouraging the entire emergence of the child's innate talents. young children are, consequently, born immediately right into a nice situation simply because there's constantly a discrepancy among the probabilities of what they can turn into and what they're accredited to accomplish. This discrepancy might be enormous—some teenagers are born and their strength 168 bankruptcy thirteen is straight away snuffed. different kids might be allowed particularly a variety of improvement. (Steiner 1974, sixty five) hence simply because genetic endowment units one's strength whereas upbringing principally determines the level to which that power is discovered, our percentages are frequently compromised by means of mom and dad who make a decision our destiny lengthy sooner than we will be able to query, counter, or maybe comprehend what they're doing. no less than, such parentally imposed fates whilst negatively restrictive could slash or maybe thoroughly sabotage success of a child's genetic future. And at so much, such dictates undermine even the potential of self-actualization. however the mixture of heredity and setting supplied by way of mom and dad isn't by myself while presenting the root for one's script. different major humans, so much significantly grandparents, may also play an incredible function in how a child's lifestyles will spread. And this can be so no matter if the kid has an important dating with "grandma" and "grandpa" or perhaps whether or not they are alive or now not. evidently, if residing and enjoying a hugely seen and hands-on function within the lifetime of a toddler, the scripting impression of grandparents might be major. notwithstanding, if via demise or distance grandparents don't at once engage with their grandchildren, their injunctions, permissions, attributions, and modeling of ways to behavior lifestyles will nonetheless be transmitted by means of the child's mom and dad as intermediaries in a transgenerational strategy of script passing that has been known as the "family parade" (James 1984). This "parade" don't need to be disagreeable, and it may be confident or maybe comically trivial because the following tale illustrates: A bride served baked ham, and her husband requested why she minimize the ends off. "Well, that's the way in which mom did it," she answered. the subsequent time his better half's mother stopped by way of, he requested her why she minimize the ends off the ham. "That's the way in which my mom did it," she answered. And while Grandma visited, she, too, was once requested why she sliced the ends off. She stated, "That's the single means i may get it into the pan. " (James and Jongeward 1971, 103) yet way more heavily, even if messages are handed without delay or in absentia from grandparents to their grandchildren, in the event that they are growthinhibiting and dysfunctional they could negatively effect generations but to return.


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RVP: "I'm Not Going To Make Any Statements About My Future"
Arsenal striker Robin Van Persie has intensified rumours he may quite the club by refusing to discuss his future.
The Dutchman, who is now the Arsenal captain following Cesc Fabregas' departure, is out of contract in 2013 and the Gunners are keen to tie him down to a new deal before next summer. Failing to secure Van Persie's long-term future will leave Arsenal in a similar situation to what they found themselves in with Nasri and Clichy, who were both sold to Man City this summer after refusing to extend their stay at the Emirates.
But the future of Van Persie is now critical to Arsene Wenger, and the teams current form has left the Dutchman with concerns over the clubs potential to compete with the top teams, but he does stress he has full faith that the Gunners can turn things around:
"I have every trust in the things we are doing within the club," he said in the Sunday Mirror. "There is only a fine line between winning and losing. Just look at our last match against Spurs. We could have won that game with the chances we had. There is no need to panic for anyone."
However, the striker has made it clear he won't be drawn on his future any time soon and claims nobody can predict the future:
"I am not going to make any statements about my future," he said. "Not now, not for a while. I've been at Arsenal eight years and that is quite extraordinary these days. Which is why I treasure this. What my future will bring, nobody knows.
"I can understand people are curious, but I am just dedicated to everything at Arsenal right now. Since November last year I've played lots of games, scored lots of goals and made assists. Twelve months' non-stop football is doing me well. I feel that I am still growing in form. It is the first time in quite a few years that I can experience that.
"My future is a private matter and, when at some point there could be some news, people will hear it. And I do realise that we have to get things going at Arsenal, but I have full confidence that we are going to do okay."
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What is the big fuss if he says my future is a private matter.If Van persie goes good luck to him, we should thank him for his service and commitments. No one is bigger than Henery in Arsenal history, but Arsenal is still a big club.Life goes on.
Agree. It's just all a storm in a tea cup as far as I'm concerned.
absolutely. if v.persie go. we should thank him for his service..best striker on the world
boring media, no other story eh mate??..
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Plumora.com is a fashtech brand that is worthy of a second glance. Many fashion wearables still leave a lot to be desired, but they are getting better. In my opinion, Plumora is the 'little engine that could', proving that it is possible to create a fashion device that is more of a stylish "this could work" rather than a hasty and clueless "as if".
So what makes the aesthetically pleasing Plumora the brand that is catching the eye of the hard to please fashion industry? In my opinion their light bulb moment came about when they realised that they needed to create a bracelet that happens to be a wearable device, rather than a wearable device trying to pass itself off as a bracelet.
The tech temptations on offer are that Plumora will link the wearers smartphone to the bracelet's device so they can manage their notifications. When Plumora notifies you, it not only does so with a light vibrate but the center stone will also glow discretely . In addition, you can change the color of that part of the device that glows, making it personalized and allowing you to make a color code based on kind of notification you will be receiving. Other fabulous features are, the device allows users to be connected without constantly being glued to their phones. FashNerd is all about #WeWantWireless, so we love that the Plumora device features a wireless charging chip, a rechargeable Li-Po battery and a Triaxial Accelerometer that detects one's personal tap.
Plumora has been created for the Woman About Town, who requires her device to not only be fashionable but to also fit around her lifestyle. Plumora have done this by recognising that different times call for different levels of connectivity, and therefore allowing you to create separate profiles for home, work, travel and other situations, and choose which apps and notifications can send alerts.
Available in either an 18k yellow gold or white gold shade, this high quality product is currently running an Indiegogo campaign, with a goal of $250,000. The Melbourne, Australia and California based company has so far raised 5 percent of their goal, $13,685. The campaign ends on the 16th December.
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One of the ideas that people express quite often is that the human race is thousands or even millions of years old. Another of those ideas is the general theory of evolution, that the human race evolved from primates. Both ideas are ludicrous and the reason is simple mathematics.
If the human race began, or evolved from something else that long ago, there wouldn't be any land left to house us all. If you do the math, you don't have to be religious to understand that humanity is a relatively young species of animal on this Earth.
First, let's make some assumptions. Let's assume the human race doubles in population every 100 years. I'm being conservative, assuming that each parental coupling produces four offspring and nothing else happens. I know both assumptions are wrong, but it's a good way of guessing. After all, aren't scientists guessing at anything that isn't supported by direct observation?
We know, from recent history, that the worldwide population more than doubles every hundred years. It's more than doubled since I was a child and I'm only in my 50s.
Based on my simple calculations with a spreadsheet and assuming the human race doubles in population every 100 years, it would only take 3,300 years for the population to be larger than the current global population (over seven billion).
I don't have a problem with micro evolution, caused by adaptation within a species. I have a real problem with macro evolution, one kind evolving into another (like primates into humans or dogs into cats). It isn't observable and the timetable isn't tenable. According to scientists, that kind of evolution would take millions of years. Again, there wouldn't be enough land to support it.
The only way the human race could be at the population density it's at now is that it's not as old as scientists would have us believe. Something cataclysmic had to have occurred more than 3, 300 years ago to decimate the existing population. Coincidentally, biblical history speaks of a worldwide flood somewhere around 4,000 years ago that wiped out most of the human race.
This is something I refuse to debate anyone about. There are people in both camps – those who believe in an old Earth and those who believe in a new Earth, with a new Earth being about the same age as humanity.
To believe in either age of the Earth, a person has to have faith. That faith is either in a supreme being or the experts of science. You don't need any kind of faith, however, to do some simple math.
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February 23, 2014


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National Disabled Members Conference 2018 was held this year in Brighton, 27th – 29th October.
34 motions were debated and voted on, covering a wide range of topics. Democracy in action.
4 Workshops on Saturday covered:
- Brexit and disabled people's rights
- Bargaining for disability rights in the workplace
- Campaigning against PIP and Universal Credit
- Disabled people standing for political office
Additionally, there was Caucus, Regional, Service Group and Labour Link meetings as well as a briefing for new delegates.
The Conference Social event was held on Sunday evening which included music, a quiz and liquid refreshment.
A raffle was held with proceeds going to 'There for You'.
For anyone interested in attending next year, (Brighton, 2nd – 4th November) the Regional Disabled members Committee holds training in October for any first time delegates, or for anyone who would like a refresher.


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- Steely Dan, "Time out of Mind"
Tonight when I chase the dragon
The water will change to cherry wine
And the silver will turn to gold
Time out of mind
There is an ancient Sufi parable about coffee: "He who tastes, knows; he who tastes not, knows not."
Tuesday, February 4, 2014
Out of Body Experiences
4 comments:
- Jen said...
marijuana vs acid?
just kidding. I have NO knowledge of....acid. :p
I don't mind "out of body", but out of mind...no thanks.
- February 7, 2014 at 11:09 AM
- -FJ said...
Heart attack vs... ???
- February 7, 2014 at 4:27 PM
- Jen said...
Actually, yes.
- February 8, 2014 at 10:28 AM
- Thersites said...
I'd drop the acid... at least there'd be a good chance of coming out the back end of it!
- February 8, 2014 at 2:08 PM
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