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A new home built using insulating concrete forms (ICFs) ended up being the perfect choice for a young family looking for plenty of space in a neighborhood close to downtown Chicago so they could spend less time commuting and more time with their two children.
They turned to Chicago builders Leitim and Mani and architects Wrap Architecture to make their dream home possible.
Because they planned to live there at least 15 years, the couple wanted their home to be energy-efficient and sustainable.
To achieve the couple's goals, the builder made construction elements such as the exterior envelope the top priority and budget consideration. Interior features kitchen cabinets, floor finishes and countertops were designed to be upgraded later as the couples budget permitted.
ICFs were chosen for the home because their thick, continuous thermal insulation and solid concrete reduce air infiltration more than conventional construction. High-performance windows were also added to complete the envelope and maintain good energy efficiency. Additionally, the structural strength of concrete would keep their family safer.
Project architects designed the 4,100-square-foot, four-story home which took 10 months to complete. The exterior walls of each floor were stacked and placed within one-and-a-half weeks by the general contractor, Cian OMahoney, who, until this project, had never used ICFs when building a home. The ICF manufacturer provided onsite training to help speed up the construction process.
Other green and sustainable features in the home included:
- Insulated basement floors with radiant heat, finished by staining and sealing. These decorative concrete floors can provide years of durability and eliminate carpet replacement and landfill.
- A geothermal heating system using nine wells, each running vertically to a depth of 90 feet.
- A solar-heated domestic water system to supplement the geothermal system.
- A green roof made of plants in removable trays. The green roof qualified for a $5,000 grant from the city.
- An exterior finished with fiber cement wall panels. This prefinished rain screen assembly reduces exterior painting and maintenance requirements.
- Low-VOC paints
The stairway, open to all floors, is located along one side of the house, leads from the basement to the roof and is capped with a small penthouse structure with an operable window. The multi-story space functions like a chimney creating a stack effect to draw air up and through the entire home.
The owners anticipate that they wont need to use their air conditioning too much during the summer because they built the home using a combination of the well-insulated ICF walls and the natural ventilation provided by the stairway.
Although the design made energy sense, the owners wanted something tangible to prove it. So, to quantify performance, they hired a home energy rater who reviewed the plans, conducted field inspections during construction and tested and rated the home.
The house achieved a HERS energy rating of 41, which means it will perform 59% better than new homes built to minimum requirements in the prevailing energy code. That represents exceptional efficiency, particularly in a colder climate like Chicago's.
With the home complete and the family moved in, the couple has decided that the improvements they made were worth the extra money they spent.
For more information on the value and benefits of various concrete home building technologies, visit the web pages of the NAHB Concrete Home Building Coalition.


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Bigfoot, Sasquatch, and the Abominable Snowman (the Yeti) - are all supposed to be mammalian creatures of larger than man proportions, furry, powerful, ... but there is still no physical evidence out there to support the claims of their mysterious, shadowy existence.
We do not have a single skeleton or verified piece of fur, or lost teeth, bite marks left behind, droppings, etc.
Many people claim to have seen them. And there are some interesting videos purporting to show them walking or running. It is interesting that we have never found a dead one anywhere. In North America, one would think that they would have to cross freeways once in a while, like deer do while migrating.
Some of the tracks found have proven to be fake, but we should not automatically conclude that all Bigfoot tracks "must" be fraudulent. There are counterfeiters who make fake money. But that does not mean that all money is counterfeit.
For dinosaurs (dragons) we have many skeletons, some long sets of dinosaur tracks preserved in rock, skin imprints, fossilized dinosaur eggs, unfossilized bone marrow, coprolite (fossilized dino droppings/dung) and legends of humans seeing dragons on every continent. But this is not so for the legends of Bigfoot (Sasquatch) creatures. We still have zero physical evidence of their past or present existence.
Hmmm ... let us briefly speculate. It would seem like they'd need powerful senses in order to have evaded man in the modern world for this long, should any of these creatures actually exist. They could not be dumb brutes and they're evidently not aggressive against man. They'd need either incredible vision, powerful hearing, acute smell, or some combination of these as prerequisite, right? (In other words, in this speculation, they would have to always sense humans and man-made machines before we are able to sense or see them.)
We know that certain creatures use radar, like bats and porpoises.
Electric eels and certain other aquatic life find prey using electrical
signals; eels can even stun prey with a powerful electric charge.
It is about 100 volts per foot long; so a 6 foot long eel packs a 600 volt
blow if disturbed! What if these big furry creatures can either see
in infrared or can detect by electric impulses? After all not only
undersea porpoises, but also flying bats, have unique radar capabilities.
Elephants communicate over long distances by ultra-low sound waves that
humans cannot hear. Dogs though can hear much higher frequencies
than man. Many animals seem to know when an earthquake is about to
happen. We only find out after everything starts violently shaking.
Some dogs have been able to predict a person's epileptic attack.
Some creatures are beautifully bioluminescent including fireflies and certain
deep sea fish. A chameleon can opt to change the coloration across
its entire body. Kangaroos have pouches, can hop, and can box; but
would we know any of this if they also had a great fear of man and could
run (or hop) away at great speeds? If sasquach exists they must be
able to find their dead before we do either by smell or by some other means,
following a trail left behind. Maybe they are loyal and look out
for each other, while being afraid of human contact. What if they
bury some foods like squirrels or dogs. Perhaps they bury their droppings
like cats. If electrical, then cars, houses, and all electrical devices
may sound "loud" (emitting magnetic fields?) long before they'd come into
the bigfoot's visual range. So they stay away. A bloodhound
can follow a trail from hours or even days later. What if the yeti
has a sense of smell 10x more powerful than a bloodhound? What if
the sasquach can see in infrared bands of light over distance with precise
focus? Or what if the bigfoot uses electrical impulses similar to
eels? Without some kind of inherent powerful sensory abilities, even
though theoretically possible, these creatures seem to be only fictional.
We still have no physical evidence of their existence.

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Author helps faculty and staff discover talents and better serve students
Jennifer Colosimo - Photo by Sterling Morris
By Steve Eaton
If you want to have a great career and a rewarding life, it's probably not a good idea to wait around for someone else to deliver it to you.
That was a message Huntsman faculty and staff heard at their annual staff retreat last August and it came from someone who should know. Jennifer Colosimo wrote the book Great Work, Great Career, with some help from coauthor Stephen R. Covey, the Jon M. Huntsman Professor of Leadership. The book is this year's required reading at the Huntsman School of Business, and the principles it taught were the focus of the discussions at the retreat.
"The main idea of this book, Great Work, Great Career, is that you have a unique contribution to make at the intersection between your talents, your passion, your conscience and the need that exists," Ms. Colosimo said.
Those who have the greatest careers are those who make that link between what they know they can offer and what the organization really needs, said Colosimo, who is also the chief operating officer for FranklinCovey.
"Very few people will pay the price to care about what the organization, or the prospective employer, actually needs," she said.
Before the meeting began The Huntsman Post asked Ms. Colosimo for some tips that might help reenergize the career of someone who is already in the workforce. She offered the following advice:
Jennifer Colosimo talks with faculty and staff. - Photo by Steve Eaton
- Take responsibility for your own engagement and making sure people know how you can best contribute.
- You must be able to articulate and write about how your unique talents can help meet the needs of your organization. Don't just say, "I'm really burned out, and I want to do something else." If you don't know who you are and what you want, no one else is going to either.
- As you build your network, be sure to contribute to others and not just view them as people who might be able to help you get ahead. Networking can be done in an effective, ethical, building-a-village sort of way. Social networking and face-to-face networking can be a positive thing, because they can increase your capacity to contribute.
After the event Dr. Covey posted a comment on his Facebook page about the day.
"I am so impressed with their vision for educating their business students to become ethical, principle-centered leaders," Dr. Covey wrote. "What if all business students went into the world with a focus on ethical leadership and a desire to make a lasting contribution?"


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The clash will be the last match for the Pumas before the two games with Ireland on May 26 and June 2 and against Italy on June 9, and is sure to be keenly contested as the majority of the squad ply their trade in France.
Argentina beat Northampton Saints 40-17 and Leicester Tigers 41-21 earlier on this month and Pumas head coach Marcelo Loffreda will use the encounters to fine-tune his team for the upcoming World Cup in France.
Argentina squad to face the French Barbarians on March 3:
Manuel Carizza, Martin Gaitan (Biarritz), Augusto Petrilli (CSBJ Rugby), Horacio Agulla, Hernan Senillosa, Nicolas Fernandez Miranda (Hindu), Felipe Contepomi (Leinster), Martin Durand (Montpellier Herault), Federico Serra (SIC), Lucas Ostiglia (Agen), Lucas Borges, Ignacio Corleto, Juan Martin Hernandez, Agustin Pichot, Rodrigo Roncero (Stade Francais), Patricio Albacete, Omar Hasan (Stade Toulousian), Rimas Alvarez (Perpignan), Manuel Contepomi (Rovigo), Martin Gaitan (Biarritz Olympique Pays Basque), Pablo Henn (Mountauban), Martin Scelzo, Mario Ledesma, Fonzalo Longo (Clermont Auvergne), Alberto Vernet Basualdo (Alumni).


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The consultation process included sixty-six community roundtables, three days of public hearings and comments taken from more than 35 000 submissions.
The National Human Rights Consultation Committee handed its report to the former Attorney-General on 30 September 2009.
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I grew up in southern California when there were more citrus trees than people. The scent of orange and lemon blossoms always gave me joy. Because of the prevalence, most CA honey at that time was orange blossom, and to me, honey should smell just like orange blossom. After all, orange blossoms smell like honey to me!
I use this in my daily facial moisturizing. If I've been inattentive to that routine, then I use it when I notice the need. Recently a dental tool slipped and pierced the skin of my lip, so I used this at least three times a day until my lip healed.
I wouldn't say this is greasy, but I'm not sure how to describe it. Lighter than lotion, on the order of a lip gloss with no colour. I use it sparingly, and if my tongue goes over it before it's sunk in, there's no icky taste.
I first found this in a chain drugstore in LVNV, of all places, when I went to get travel gifts. I squeaked at the cost (more than on this site), but bought a tube, being familiar with Couvent de Minimes products (all of mine are citrus scented--can't imagine why!)
This is my second tube, and won't be the last.
My experience was so much the opposite of Jacki's that I wonder if she might be allergic to some of the ingredients, but then, the mere scent of tea-tree and eucalyptus, as well as peppermint, make me quite ill.
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Smells really pungent and dried my lips!
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My old lip balm is not in the market anymore. So I am in search for my new lip balm. I bought this among other lip balms to try and replace my current one. This had a really weird and pungent smell that was really unbearable. It smelled like rotton oranges. I gave it a chance and used it all day as well as before I went to bed. I woke up with blisters and cuts on the top of my upper lip!!!!! I hate this!! I am currently using NUXE Reve de Miel Lip Moisturizing Stick which is cheaper than this horrible product!
Stay away from this!!
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Risky Business: Fund Backs Filmmaker
When a younger brother of once-highflying hedge-fund manager Alphonse Fletcher Jr. won a screenwriting Oscar in 2010 for the film "Precious," he thanked his siblings, saying they "supported me in every way."
Now a legal battle for control over hedge funds run by Fletcher Asset Management is showing the nature and extent of one sibling's support.
After winning the Oscar, Geoffrey S. Fletcher made his debut as a director. When he needed a place to base operations for his first project, a quirky film about two teenage female assassins, Alphonse Fletcher Jr. stepped up. During a 10-week shoot in 2010, the production staff worked out of the Fletcher firm's Wall Street offices.
One of Fletcher's hedge funds, which manages public pension-fund money, provided more direct financial backing. As of March, the fund indirectly held an investment of $7.7 million in the production company that shot the film, "Violet & Daisy," court filings show. It hasn't worked out, at least so far. The Fletcher investment in the production company showed a $3.7 million unrealized loss as of March, the documents show.
Lawyers not involved with the matter who advise hedge funds say there could be a perception of a conflict of interest if a money manager makes an investment in a family business. The manager also would need to clearly disclose the investment to investors, and show that the "investment is truly in the best interest of the fund," said Steve Nadel, a hedge-fund lawyer.
Joe Meals, a Memphis, Tenn.-based consultant who advised three Louisiana public pension funds on their investments with the Fletcher firm, said the firm "never discussed investments in anything that wasn't a publicly traded company."
"We weren't aware of any investment in the film industry. Period," said Mr. Meals of Consulting Services Group LLC.
Representatives for Mr. Fletcher and his firm didn't respond to requests for comment.
Geoffrey Fletcher declined to comment on the financing of the film through a spokeswoman for Creative Artists Agency, which represents him.
Details of the movie investment became public after a Fletcher fund, Fletcher International Ltd., filed for bankruptcy protection in New York in late June. Fletcher lawyers said in court documents the bankruptcy filing was made in an effort to prevent liquidators appointed by a Cayman Islands court from taking control of the fund.
These liquidators were appointed to wind up another Fletcher hedge fund in April after the three Louisiana public pension funds sought help from the Cayman Islands court when they were unable to cash out their investments and profits. The pension funds had invested $100 million in 2008 based on an unusual offer from Fletcher Asset Management—a minimum 12% annual return.
In a bankruptcy court filing in Manhattan last month, Robin McMahon, a court-appointed Ernst & Young liquidation specialist, said that in the spring BRG Investments LLC held "an investment related to the brother of Alphonse Fletcher Jr." Documents show Fletcher International Ltd. owned BRG Investments.
A spreadsheet filed in the bankruptcy case at the end of March shows a $7.7 million BRG investment in MV Nepenthes LLC. That is the same production company that obtained a permit from New York City to film "Violet & Daisy" in New York in the fall of 2010. The permit lists the address as "48 Wall Street, 5th Fl—FAM," where Fletcher Asset Management is located.
The Louisiana pension fund investments were invested in Fletcher International Ltd. after passing through other Fletcher funds, court records show.
Representatives for the Louisiana public pension funds declined to comment, citing the ongoing litigation.
BRG Investments came into focus in court, after it and other assets were transferred in April to another Fletcher fund, according to court filings. The validity of the transfer now is in dispute in bankruptcy court. It isn't clear from the bankruptcy court filings when BRG Investments first invested in MV Nepenthes.
Geoffrey Fletcher went to Harvard University for his undergraduate studies and then to New York University's film school. He has said in media interviews that he spent years working temporary jobs, looking to get an agent and find some traction into the film business.
He had a breakthrough when his screenplay for "Precious," a movie about an overweight illiterate teenage girl in Harlem, won an Oscar award for best adapted screenplay in 2010.
In "Violet & Daisy," Alexis Bledel and Saoirse Ronan star as playful but very violent killers who eventually meet a target, played by James Gandolfini, who ends up changing their lives.
The movie was shown at the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2011. An online movie poster says it is due out in the fall; no release date in theaters or on DVD has been announced.
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Anti-smoking activists who are driving cigarettes from public places across the country are now targeting private homes — especially those with children.
Their efforts so far have contributed to regulations in three states — Maine, Oklahoma and Vermont — forbidding foster parents from smoking around children. Parental smoking also has become a critical point in some child-custody cases, including ones in Virginia and Maryland.
In a highly publicized Virginia case, a judge barred Caroline County resident Tamara Silvius from smoking around her children as a condition for child visitation.
Mrs. Silvius, a waitress at a truck stop in Doswell, Va., calls herself "highly disappointed" with the court's ruling.
"I'm an adult. Who is anybody to tell me I can't smoke or drink?" she said in an interview yesterday.
An appeals court upheld the ruling, but not before one judge raised questions about the extent to which a court should become involved in parental rights and whether certain behavior is harmful or simply not in a child's best interest.
Mrs. Silvius says she complied with the decision by altering her smoking habits.
"My children know not to come around when I'm on the front porch with my morning coffee, tending to my cows or out in my garden, because I'm having a cigarette," she said.
Still, she thinks this was not a matter for the courts because it was not proven that she posed a risk to her children's health.
"If a child suffers from asthma or some sort of problem, the courts shouldn't even have to be told to [step in]," Mrs. Silvius said. "That should be the parent's better judgment. But my kids aren't sick. If there's no health issue, it isn't the court's place to say someone can't do something that's perfectly legal, just because the other spouse doesn't want them to."
The smoking-at-home issue also sparked debate about whether such rulings will lead courts to become involved in such matters as parents' making poor TV programming choices for their children.
The nonprofit group Action on Smoking and Health is among the most outspoken on stopping parents from smoking around children.
"Children are the most vulnerable and the most defenseless victims of tobacco smoke," Executive Director John F. Banzhaf III said. "They should be entitled to the same protection as adults."
Mr. Banzhaf, also a professor of public interest law at George Washington University, said most complaints are made by nonsmoking ex-spouses, although some are filed by neighbors, relatives and physicians.
Maryland's Department of Human Resources, which provides adoption services, considers smoking a factor in deciding who will receive a child, but guidelines do not specifically address the issue.


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SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (MarketWatch) — Economic forces have come into play, making a wave of mergers and acquisitions a very real possibility in the near future.
First, with corporate bond yields near historical lows, companies have the ability to raise cheap debt to help facilitate deals. Second, as reported in a recent Wall Street Journal article, nonfinancial firms were sitting on $1.93 trillion of cash and other liquid assets as of the end of September. Many large firms have amassed war chests that can be used to supplement organic growth with acquisitions.
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Furthermore, many private-equity funds are holding large sums of cash that were raised prior to the Great Recession, and this money is starting to burn a hole in their pockets.
According to another Wall Street Journal article, buyout firms are holding more than $450 billion in capital that has yet to be committed to new deals, and these firms are most certainly feeling pressure from their investors to put the money to work.
Firms that are speculated to be takeout candidates often trade at premium valuations. Consequently, investing solely in anticipation of a company being taken over is risky business. A more prudent approach may be to identify undervalued companies with attractive fundamentals that represent logical acquisition candidates but are not currently the subject of takeover speculation.
This strategy provides a win-win scenario, regardless of whether an attractive buyout offer surfaces. Here are four companies that fit the mold:
Many investors may recall that in early 2008, Microsoft Corp. MSFT, +1.39% offered $33 a share to buy Yahoo Inc. YHOO, +1.57% but the company eventually rejected the price and Microsoft walked away. However, Yahoo still has a number of attractive assets.
Specifically, Yahoo Search could still be an interesting asset for Microsoft as it tries to compete with Google. Additionally, the company's large investments in Alibaba (1688) of China and Yahoo Japan offer a potential acquirer a way to tap growth of Internet advertising revenues in Asia. These two stakes are carried on the balance sheet at about $3.78 billion, but the market value of the Yahoo Japan investment alone is around $6.6 billion at the current stock price.
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The economy is healing and January is shaping up to be strong, says Hilary Kramer, editor of Game Changer Stocks. Deals will take place immediately, and she picks some stocks that will see double-digit gains.
Despite these positive factors, Yahoo seems to be trading at a very reasonable valuation. The company has an enterprise value of about $19.4 billion. But if $636 million in long-term marketable securities and a conservative $9 billion estimate for the value of the Asian investments are subtracted out, the enterprise value falls to $9.76 billion. Given that the company has generated about $1.399 billion in EBITDA over the last 12 months, the stock is trading at less than 7 times EBITDA.
As such, Yahoo may begin to attract both strategic and private-equity buyers once again.
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In recent years, there has been a lot of consolidation in the global alcoholic-beverages industry. The largest example was InBev's purchase of Anheuser-Busch BUD, -0.24% Given all of the activity, it is not hard to imagine an acquirer being interested in controlling Molson Coors Brewing Co.'s TAP, -0.26% portfolio of beers.
The world-class beers under the Molson Coors umbrella include names such as Coors Light, Blue Moon and Carling. Clearly, at the right price these brands would be a great addition to any product line.


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Then you will come to a hill, Bear-No-False-Witness. Turn right away from it, for it is thickly wooded with bribes and bristling with florins. At all costs, gather no blossoms here, or you will lose your soul.
William Langland – Piers Plowman
Here's a trend to follow. You don't sell wine, you sell deals.
Blowzy bean-counters determine the content and quality of the list. Once upon a time you didn't ask for discount, it was assumed that you were getting the most reasonable price. Now the opening gambit in negotiation - and I use the word in the adversarial sense of two opposing factions sitting across the table from each other intensely bartering - is to demand how much? How much will you give me in free stock, trips, equipment (verre du vin machines, for example) or sweet dosh in good old-fashioned brown envelopes? It is the right of the restaurateur or purchaser to ask without being bound to targets or any particularl loyalty. Business is a de facto auction; the restaurateur can play off wine merchants off against each other with preferential proposals.
Wine merchants (some of them, at any rate) have themselves to blame for playing along with this charade. There are several well-known companies that literally try to buy the business by throwing cash into every proposal. A financially risky strategy compromising margins it also creates false expectations for future arrangements with customers and queers the pitch for the wine trade in general. If you are giving away money, then the product is almost irrelevant. In fact, wine companies become trapped in a vicious circle whereby they have to find brand sponsorship to support the myriad deals and the more business they create the more they need to find. It is a win at all costs strategy, flawed ultimately in the sense that any contract they lose or any bad debt they incur will doubly condemn them precisely because they have put so much money in buying the turnover in the first place.
Strikingly, when the recession began to bite, these aforementioned larger companies made several of their staff redundant. There is something ethically distasteful about wine companies chasing massive growth for the sake of it (rather than growing organically) and sacrificing personnel to achieve their margins.
Here is an example of the shenanigans that go on when contacts are bid for.
A group of three local pub restaurants is currently signed up to a single wine company – the usual penny-pinching discounted prices plus 3% retro as gravy. A fourth site is purchased and the contract comes up for renewal. The incumbent company offers a continuation of the existing generous arrangement, another very large company tenders £5,000 for the full contract of the four sites, and then one of their rivals, a specialist in spirits, minerals and beers trumps that with £7,000. After some haggling the second company reduces their offer to £5,500 whilst the original wine company stumps up £2,000 to keep the wine business in the form of an opening credit note. The contract, by the way, is for one year only.
Who suffers? The honest wine merchants whose business is squeezed by the wine bribery of others, the customer who is being sold a pup, and finally the consumers who have to drink the narrow selection of overmarked-up mediocrity. It is counter-intuitive to sacrifice quality and loyalty on the altar of short-term greed. The restaurants that take their customers for granted are making a big mistake; their motto should not be "cheap as chips" but "better quality chips". And the wine merchants who are driving down quality by sourcing and overly relying on mass-produced bland brands with all their attendant marketing budgets will find that this approach is not financially sustainable in the long term. A further unpleasat prospect emerges from this business battleground, the increasing likelihood that large scale venture-capital wine merchants will attempt to subsume smaller companies in order to take over their portfolio of agencies and clients.
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Romantic trip of a lifetimePosted Sep 11, 2015
Pros: We loved the view and the open air concept. Service was impeccable.
Cons: Our room needed some maintenance. The deck doors would slam open and shut, the shower was a trickle and there was broken glass behind furniture.
Location: Good location, close to biplane and mud baths, 10 min shuttle to sugar beach
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When we mentioned that we would be staying at the ladera resort the immigration officer and the rental car attendant smiled and you could feel the pride the people of st lucia have for this place. The beauty of the view, the uniqueness of the rooms complementing the surrounding nature, the kindness of each and every attendant at ladera and the food (!) making this a place an unforgettable sensual experience of mind and body. We needed a break from our busy regulated lives to reconnect with our spirit and bodies ... Ladera was the right place (complemented by sugar beach and hiking the surrounding nature (and rain forest trails). Recommend a daily budget of about $200 for expenditures
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Can not beat the experiencePosted Aug 19, 2015
One of the best views on the island to go with one of the best experiences we've ever had. Very relaxed setting in gorgeous open air rooms with top notch service. Pool is awesome, food and drinks are also. Only negative might be if you can't stand lizards or can't live without air-conditioning but certainly nothing that crazy.
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Best hotel experience ever!Posted Aug 19, 2015
Pros: Ladera caters to the needs of the open concept. They will give you everything you need to prevent mosquitos from bothering you.I didn't get bitten.
Location: In front of Ladera, you can choose to watch the only drive-in volcano crater in the caribbean and also experience volcanic mud baths.
The breathtaking view is the best in St. Lucia. We have been hotel hopping for the past 2 weeks, and so far, Ladera has been my favorite. You have to be the type of traveler that wants to try a different type of hotel concept. The open, no front windows/wall concept, has been the best idea I've ever experienced. Sleeping to the noise of the Piton forest is enchanting, and if you wake up on time to watch the sunrise from your bed, you will never forget it. The staff is VERY kind and extremely friendly. Ladera will conveniently provide you with a cell phone for you to use anywhere in the hotel at any time to call the front desk, spa, restaurant etc. The pool is strategically located to give you an amazing view. The restaurant and bar have great food/drinks. I have no complaints about this place.
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Ladera was Heaven on EarthPosted Aug 10, 2015
We just returned from Ladera Resort for our honeymoon from 7/30-8/3. This place was absolutely stunning! I have traveled to several places, and Ladera was, hands-down, one of the most gorgeous places I've ever seen. It was surreal to see for the first time! It is nestled between a perfect view of the two scenic Piton Mountains, and is surrounded by beautiful, lush landscaping and immaculate grounds. We stayed in the Hilltop Dreams room, which had a heated private plunge pool with a swing. We completely enjoyed using this pool nightly. Our comfortable bed was upstairs in a loft-type area surrounded by a mosquito net, which kept the insects out. I am pretty hot-natured and spoiled with my air conditioner at night, but it was nice and breezy every night, which kept it at a comfortable temperature in spite of no AC. Also upstairs was a nice-sized bathroom with a walk-in open shower. Yes, there were small insects in the room, but in my opinion, did not take away from the room. After all, there is an open wall to the room, so bugs are to be expected. I also loved the sounds of frogs, insects, and birds at night. It made the experience that much more authentic. During the day, when we were not out on excursions, we were cooling off in the lovely infinity pool by the bar. The food was excellent, and the entire staff was so friendly and accommodating. Special shout-out to Shawn, our check-in helper! Shawn showed us around, helped with baggage, made our dinner reservations, booked ou
for Everyoneby A verified traveler from Baltimore, MD
Most amazing views!Posted Jul 30, 2015
Our recent stay at Ladera was beyond amazing. The rooms were gorgeous with views that are out of this world. All of the staff there is incredibly friendly and will do anything to make your stay there more enjoyable. I highly recommend this resort. The only downside to staying here is that since it's an open air concept resort there isn't air conditioning in the rooms and the critters outside are pretty loud at night. But it's nothing that the ceiling fan and ear plugs couldn't take care of. Make sure to check out the outdoor hot tubs, they're awesome!
for Everyoneby A verified traveler from alpharetta ga
Great GetawayPosted Jul 24, 2015
To get away from the crowds go to Ladera. The grounds are botanical. The staff is the best I've ever seen. The views are spectacular.
for Couplesby A verified traveler
Remote with a Priceless ViewPosted Jul 23, 2015
Pros: The views. The grounds were so pretty - all the landscaping. Staff was very professional and kind. Our room was large, the infinity pool was awesome.
Cons: Lower dinner prices, better showers (lack of pressure), nicer interior in the Owner's Cottage, better options for dinner, clarity on "free" breakfast.
Location: The hotel offers shuttles to Sugar Beach (private beach), which is great, do the Sulfur springs (bring nose plugs), and climb the Piton.
The welcome staff was really great. We received an ice cold towel and delicious beverage (though the towel was taken back after like 20 seconds). The hotel grounds are just breathtaking. Gorgeous views - absolutely priceless views. We got the Owner's Cottage. My husband loved the infinity pool and view and it made it worthwhile. I would have preferred one of the other rooms because the interior (finished, dark wood - bungalow style) was much better than ours. Our room was dated and felt unclean, though that is more due to the open layout - so bugs fly in a lot. But it's so nice and windy, the weather is not an issue. We did have a very frightening wind storm one night that kept us up. We couldn't get one of the shudder doors to close so we had to leave it open. But the room was so large, we were on the other side, so it was not an issue. All the walls in the living room are shudder doors so you can open everything up. It would be a great room for two couples to share if you were vacationing with friends. The pool was huge, the Owner's Cottage room was huge. The pool was deep but not heated. We moved the patio a little so the mango wouldn't fall on us as we lounged. This room probably has the best view in the whole hotel though. We god the sunset and the straight-on look at the Piton. It was like a panorama view, where the other rooms may cut off on each side. It just wasn't as nice and new on the inside.
for Everyoneby A verified traveler
Breathtaking views!Posted Jul 16, 2015
We came here for our honeymoon. From the moment we stepped onto the resort grounds, we were welcomed by friendly hotel staff who gave us a delicious drink! Then they took us to our room and we were blown away! The view of the pitons in our room was amazing!!! We definitely want to come back here again!
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Wonderful views and relaxing environment!Posted Jul 10, 2015 on Hotels
Excellent hotel and superior service. The folks at Ladrea were terrific, from the housekeeping to the restaurant. The views from my room, which I believe is the smallest one, were breathtaking, and having my own pool to relax at my convenience was wonderful. This is a great place to stay if you are looking to relax, enjoy the open-air setting that St. Lucia provides, and have world-class views of a UNESCO World Heritage site with the Pitons. Will definitely come back here if my travel plans take me to St. Lucia again. Definitely a 5-star hotel!


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Intimate and flexible learning environments within a larger footprint encourage creativity and collaboration, among both teachers and students
The Poudre School District in Fort Collins, Colorado, gave a tough assignment to RB+B Architects: build a 1,800-student high school, taking advantage of an economy of scale, but at the same time design a facility that would allow faculty to provide students with the personalized education more common in smaller schools. District administrators also asked designers to integrate energy efficiency measures in order to significantly reduce utility bills, but without adding to the initial construction cost. Now, three years after the completion of construction, the grades are in and, by all accounts, the architects get an A for Fossil Ridge High School.
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Social studies teacher Tara Rigby is delighted with how the unusual configuration is working. She reports a strong sense of community among the students. Teachers also benefit, she points out. Instead of being "pigeon-holed in a social studies wing," Rigby works as part of an interdisciplinary team that encourages creativity in teaching. In one example of collaboration, history and literature classes examine the same period in history at the same time.
The photovoltaic panels (top) form a canopy over the main entry and announce the school's environmental agenda. Horizontal shading devices over classroom windows (above) balance the need for views and daylight, and protect against heat gain.Photos: © David Patterson
Rigby is also the faculty sponsor of the school's environmental club. These students are passionate activists, she says, and their focus is their immediate surroundings. Fossil Ridge High School was one of the first schools to receive a Silver rating from the U.S. Green Buildings Council. This Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) designation has become a coveted certification for sustainability.
To qualify, the building must be energy efficient, conserve water, have good indoor air quality, and contain recycled materials. Club members are experts in the building's green features, and they give technical tours to visitors and their fellow students. On a typical tour, the students might explain the daylighting strategy, the east- and west-facing windows canted to the north to reduce solar heat gain, the heat-recovery wheels, or the ice storage system that cools the building while shifting 40 percent of electrical demand to off-peak hours. They might point out the photovoltaic panels at the front entrance, or the xeriscaping that helps to conserve water. During much of the daytime, electric lights are unnecessary, and students and teachers are learning to avoid turning them on as a matter of habit. Rigby reports the club members are thrilled to have this opportunity for direct environmental involvement.
Some of these young enthusiasts may pursue architectural careers. If they do, they'll learn that sustainable design is more complex than a list of features. How components and systems work together with the shape and siting of the building is key. Indeed, it's generally understood that a commitment to LEED must precede any design work. But the owner did not formally adopt LEED guidelines until the architects were well into design development, according to Quinton "Corky" Bradley, RB+B project architect.
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The relatively late decision to pursue LEED certification was not a drawback, however, because the district and the design team had already decided that the building's environmental performance would be a top priority. "We never shifted gears. We had always had our eyes on building the best building we could," Bradley recalls. "First get the exterior envelope right, then specify the best equipment and controls, and never forget it's all about delivering quality education," he advises.
Another Fort Collins high school of the same size, five years older, serves as an energy-consumption benchmark. In a recent five-month winter period, the cost of Fossil Ridge's natural gas and electricity was less than 60 percent that of the older school's. Despite this success, there's room for improvement. Both Rigby and Bradley comment that if they could do it over again, they would simplify the complex lighting system. The daylighting is beautiful, but some teachers have complained that they need more local control to darken rooms for presentations. Otherwise, Rigby wouldn't change a thing. Even the environmental club members who don't become architects, she predicts, will become influential: "The things they learn here will be beneficial when they enter the workforce," she says. "They will provide another voice advocating the importance of green design to their employers and people around them, now that they have seen first-hand what can be accomplished."
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Daylighting is an important aspect of the design of Fossil Ridge, both for its classrooms and its shared spaces, such as the media center (above left) and the commons area (above right).
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Southwest Airlines (NYSE:LUV) scooped up discount airliner AirTran (NYSE:AAI) on Monday in a $1.04 billion acquisition that continues the industry's consolidation movement.
Southwest, which is the largest U.S. carrier by domestic passengers, said the deal values Orlando-based AirTran at about $7.69 a share, which is a 69% premium to the company's share price on Friday.
The transaction calls for AirTran shareholders to receive $3.75 in cash and 0.321 Southwest share for each AirTran share.
"This agreement is great news for our crew members, our shareholders, our customers and the communities we serve. Joining Southwest Airlines will give us opportunities to grow, both professionally as individuals and as a group, in ways that simply would not be possible without this agreement," AirTran CEO Bob Fornaro said in a statement. "I am tremendously proud of the things we have accomplished together and look forward to continuing that great work during this next exciting chapter of our history."
The airlines see the deal creating annual synergies of more than $400 million by 2013 and adding to Southwest's non-GAAP EPS in its first year. Southwest said it sees $300 million to $500 million in acquisition and integration costs.
Southwest and AirTran plan to continue to operate as independent companies. Combined the two airlines serve 106 communities, have 685 all-Boeing (NYSE:BA) aircraft and almost 43,000 employees.
"We believe this deal can benefit all stakeholders through an expansion of low fares for customers, opportunities for employees of both companies and for suppliers and vendors, and favorable returns for shareholders," Southwest CEO Gary Kelly said. "Ultimately, we want to spread low fares farther and look forward to working together with AirTran's crew members to realize the new opportunities we expect to achieve from this deal."
The airlines see the deal closing in the first half of 2011, pending regulatory and shareholder approvals. Commercial and operating integration is tentatively scheduled to begin in 2012.
The AirTran acquisition comes amid a pattern of consolidation in the airline industry. United Airlines parent UAL Corp. (NASDAQ:UAUA) and Continental Airlines (NYSE:CAL) are expected to close their merger that will create the world's largest airline.
Shares of AirTrain surged 60.4% to $7.30 in the wake of the deal. Southwest's stock was up 0.8% to $12.38.


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How to Teach Physics to Your Dogby Chad Orzel
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When physics professor Chad Orzel went to the pound to adopt a dog, he never imagined Emmy. She wasn't just a friendly mutt who needed a home; she was a talking dog with an active interest in what her new owner did for a living and how it could work for her.
Soon Emmy was trying to use the strange ideas of quantum mechanics for the really important things in her life: chasing critters, getting treats, and going for walks. She peppered Chad with questions: Could she use quantum tunneling to get through the neighbor's fence and chase bunnies? What about quantum teleportation to catch squirrels before they climb out of reach? Where are all the universes in which Chad drops steak on the floor? And what about the bunnies made of cheese that ought to be appearing out of nothing in the backyard?
With great humor and clarity, Chad Orzel explains to Emmy, and to human readers, just what quantum mechanics is and how it works — and why, although you can't use it to catch squirrels or eat steak, it's still bizarre, amazing, and important to every dog and human.
Follow along as Chad and Emmy discuss the central elements of quantum theory, from particles that behave like waves and Heisenberg's uncertainty principle to entanglement (spooky action at a distance) and virtual particles. Along the way, they discuss the history of the theory, such as the experiments that discovered that electrons are waves and particles at the same time, and Albert Einstein and Niels Bohr's decades-long debate over what quantum theory really meant (Einstein may have been smarter, but Bohr was right more often).
Don't get caught looking less informed than Emmy. How to Teach Physics to Your Dog will show you the universe that lies beneath everyday reality, in all its randomness, uncertainty, and wonder.
Forget Schrodinger's Cat, says Emmy, quantum physics is all about dogs. And once you see quantum physics explained to a dog, you'll never see the world the same way again.
"What do dog treats and chasing squirrels have to do with quantum mechanics? Much more than you might imagine, as Orzel explains in this fun introduction to modern physics based on a 'series of conversations' with his dog Emmy. Dogs make the perfect sounding board for physics talk, because they 'approach the world with fewer preconceptions than humans, and always expect the unexpected.' Physicist Orzel begins with the basics, explaining how light can be both particle and wave simultaneously — a bit like a dog that can split itself into two to chase a rabbit no matter which direction it runs. A look at Heisenberg's uncertainty principle begins with a hunt for a hypothetical bone. Schrdinger's cat becomes, of course, Schrdinger's dog. Quantum entanglement, quantum teleportation and virtual particles (composed, for example, of bunny-antibunny pairs) are all explained with the author's characteristic lighthearted touch. While Orzel's presentation may be a bit too precious for some, readers who've shied away from popular treatments of physics in the past may find his cheerful discussion a real treat." Publishers Weekly (Copyright Reed Business Information, Inc.)
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Miss California explains her answer (kinda)
First who is Perez to be judging anything? He is about as much of a professional anything as a wet rag. He is a non celeb who got started "stalking" his drag love...Paris Hilton. The Miss America organization used to be well respected. Until being Politically Correct this organization was an annual event that was watched by millions as a family to see what young talented intelligent woman would win her scholarship and represent a worthy cause. Most of the winners went on to be in the public eye for many years. Most winners have been very successful. There were never "losers". The judges were successful previous winners, business people and some celebrity types. Now we have "Parez" who has no respect for himself let alone for the organization that hired him. I was appalled at his disrespect for this young woman's response to an inappropriate question. What happened to the questions regarding childrens education in this country or feeding the hungry or a question that challenged the young lady's "platform"? No wonder this organization is about doomed. Parez may have finished off the public's interest. The P C thing to do would have been to accept everyone's inalienable right to their own opinion. This is what freedom is about. Parez needs to have his bubble popped. He owes all of those watching especially the little girls whose dream may be or have been to be on that stage. What kind of example did he set by his actions or his inappropriate question for these young girls. He is not an icon. He contributes nothing but gossip. Pathetic is the population that relies on his "news" to be the "truth" or serious reporting. By the way, this woman spoke her opinion. One that is felt by many, most of America. She did not degrade the gay community. At this time it would be dangerous for a gay couple to join in anything resembling marriage until ALL aspects of "coverages" are consistent in writing including insurance, divorce, adoption, visitation, financial support and you may think that this is no different than the "NORMAL" marriage. IT IS. It has yet to be determined, even in normal marriages what happens with ex-debt with say the IRS? What happens with family members coming out of the blue at the time of eminent death and what can happen when decisions need to be made by "next of kin". Marriage is a partnership in a business that hopefully will last for a very long time. Parez is single I presume, and does not have an extended education. I am disappointed in the choice to have someone such as him or the other judges criticize this woman for her beliefs. I also think that too many people think to little about to little for too little of time about major issues and then try to argue a point they know not how to make or understand what it means to think outside of their own opinion seeking facts.
How many of us think that the internet may not have been the smartest thing invented? Web cam? Immediate gratification and greed. "MY WAY" is the new ponder and think before you speak.
I think that Miss California has a ton of courage for standing up for what she believes in. Yes, Miss USA is supposed to represent everyone, but she is also supposed to be a role model for younger kids, and to be someone they look up to, and I don't know about you, but I wouldn't want my kid looking up to someone that doesn't have a strong enough back bone to stand up for what THEY feel is right. This is America, and whether your conservative or liberal, everyone is entitled to their own opinion, and therefore if you are going to get mad at Miss California for saying her opinion then you have no room to voice your opinion, so before you jump all over her case for stating her opinion, make sure you aren't be hypocritical. America has become a country full of conservatives AND liberals who are hypocrites,so I think that we should all respect EVERYONES beliefs, morals, and opinions. Whether you agree with her or not, its not your place to criticize her opinion, its hers and you should be thankful that you live in a country where you are free not to have to share her opinion, and as for Perez Hilton, he shouldn't have asked a question if he only wanted to hear one answer.April 23 2009 at 11:31 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply
Who would you want as a role model for your children, Miss California or Perez Hilton? I want to commend Miss California for not being afraid to verbalize her opinion on family values and morals. Something, the movie stars, politicians... anyone in the public eye is shamed to not speak out on their beliefs.
What happen to freedom of speech? Something the gay community and the media continually lobby for? Yes, and what happen to freedom of religion? Which after the show we heard numerous people, for gay and lesbian marriages, condeming people for their religious beliefs. Don't we have the right in this country to follow, live, and speak of our religious values which relate to this topic?
For a harmonious "America" yes we need to be diverse in our thoughts, respect and tolerance of others in their preferences but haven't we earned the rights in this country to express our values and moral as they relate to the family??
"Shame" actually needs to go to the people who plan and implement the pagent for choosing someone of such terrible character to judge such an honorable program. What were they thinking? Like he has the qualifications to judge such a thing. To even have someone as a judge saying the words "Bitch" , referring to someone, anyone as that, and other language he uses. Definitely no class and no place for a person like that representing such a historical, honorable program!!
Miss California, hats off to you. I have a great admiration for you and hope my daughter can come close to what you represent. What you did on that stage is what this country is all about. You are a wonderful role model, something this country continues to lack lately.
I always consider the source. Perez Hilton is a fat dirty looking slob who is a blacksheep even in his own gay community for outing people who do not wish to share their personal preferences. He is a failed actor who steals other peoples celebrity for his own benefit, including copyright infringing. His reports are completely unreliable (Castro) and I can't believe he was even asked to Judge. Carrie is absolutely beautiful and sharp to even have a solid opinion on the subject. It's better than a hypocritical opinion. There should be a challenge to this vote!April 23 2009 at 11:19 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply
Thanks for doing a repost, Andrew, as if we didn't hear you the first time 'round.April 23 2009 at 2:28 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply
I think that was a glitch because I only posted that once. I also think that's happening with some others in this post.April 23 2009 at 11:37 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply
You may have noticed that this isn't the world's best commenting system.April 23 2009 at 11:43 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply
Please......why is Perez Hilton's opinion so important? He's a celebrity hanger-on. What a blowhard!
Thank God Miss California stood her ground---she'll be remembered more for that than winning a crown in a beauty pageant.
Why draw the line at one man/woman marrying one woman/man? Thats so wrong and unnatural. I can handle more than one mate, can't you?April 22 2009 at 7:14 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply
if he did not like her answer he should have never asked the question, she should have won the contest and i applaud her for being honest. everyone has a right to their opinion she should not have been counted out for what she said.most people in this country will agree with her i do too,the stuffy little man who cant take the truth should stuff it up his ass and walk away quietly like the jackass he is.April 22 2009 at 2:32 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply
I would be willing to bet that all the guys that are responding to this that disagreed with her answer "are gay"....It was "her" opinion and "her"belief"...just like you are entitled to "yours".April 22 2009 at 12:17 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply
TVSquad, you need some kind of block against the same people simply posting the same message under different usernames. I was chalking it up to similar mindsets, but using the same paragraph time and time again is not in the spirit of a message board or comment section.April 22 2009 at 11:19 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply


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How to move a task and its related subtasks in iOS
Hi, I'm coming back to ToDoist after a few years and like the improvements I see. One question, is there a way in the iOS app to grab and move a task and all its subtasks in one gesture, similar to the way I can in the browser? I think of this as a key feature.
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Hello Rick,
Unfortunately, that's not possible right now. You can move a parent task in a different way, though, and it will apply to its sub-tasks as well. Tap on the parent task, choose "Edit", select a new project for it and save the change.
We're working on many improvements for the display and handling of tasks and sub-tasks and we hope to address this issue and make the navigation much better in future updates of our app.
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Thank you for that David, most useful. Also, is there a way to force a linefeed using the iOS app, as Ctrl-M will do in the browser?
Right now, that's not possible. The Ctrl+M option on the web is also obsolete and we may not support it in the future.
We encourage using task notes if you need to type a long text into a task and we'll consider adding a line break option to task notes on iOS in future updates.
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"It remains the dream of every life to realise itself, to reach out and lift itself up to greater heights." John O'Donohue
Our lives are a continuum of growth - physical, mental and emotional. It never stops, and we seldom give it any attention. Our external aspect is obvious and we see ourselves as growing up and later growing old but there is so much more beneath the surface. Looking back along the timeline of our lives we can see that each of our phases of development began with a decisive moment, a threshold if you will, beyond which one way of being was left behind as a new ethos replaced it. Often these thresholds are not obvious until they have been crossed and only make sense in retrospection. Becoming aware of these thresholds, and their ever increasing speed as our life seems to get ever more frenetic, takes only a small mental switch; the noticing that subtle signals are precursors to change.
The difficulty is often in embracing the changes; we long for the familiar, the status quo and the comfort zone and yet the very nature of growth means they must be continually breached and left behind. People often linger for far too long in places and spaces, physical and mental, that are far too small for the wonder of the being we are capable of becoming. If the existing space has been a pleasant one it is easy to deny the subtle signals of change and miss the threshold entirely. Conversely those who are in an uncomfortable place fervently wish for a better way of being and are often the first to embrace it when it arrives.
But bidden or not these thresholds, the gate keepers of growth, are inevitable. We may as well get used to them. Sometimes we find ourselves a being of two halves, partly enjoying the adventure yet also fearful of loss of the safety of the known. When this happens the clash is between the smaller, survivalist aspect of ourself that believes that we are separate from the universe, which must be fought at every turn, and the divine component within that only sees inclusion, growth and learning.
Threshold originally described the place where the wheat and chaff were separated at threshing. When our harvest (the experiences we have gained from living) are threshed it makes sense to allow the chaff (the environment that allowed the experiences we had) to stay behind and to cross the threshold to benefit from the wheat (lessons learnt and growth experienced)
Embrace the thresholds; they are an integral part of life's harvest.
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Delusions of reference: Belief that day-to-day events or
experiences refer directly to you; for example, that the people on the
TV set are talking directly to you, that street signs, license plates,
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Delusions of grandeur: Belief that you are able to do things which are beyond normal capacity, such as fly or act as royalty.
Persecutory delusions: Belief that others are trying to hurt you, for
example, by poisoning you or through a conspiracy to cause you harm.
Nihilistic delusions: Belief that you or others do not exist.
Thought broadcasting: Belief that your thoughts can be read by others.
Thought insertion: Belief that others are placing thoughts in your head.
Thought withdrawal: Belief that one's thoughts are being extracted from the mind.
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Incoherent jumble of words (word salad)
Choosing words based on sound, such as rhyming or punning (clang associations)
Making up words which mean something only to the speaker (neologism)
Echoing others' words (echolalia)
Lack of facial expression (affective flattening) or inability , to detect facial cues from others;
Absence or restriction of speech (alogia);
Difficulty initiating goal-directed behavior (avolition/anhedonia)
Inability to experience pleasure and/or maintain social contacts (anhedonia/asociality)
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hey, Tbonetime here. I had a post about a CTF tourny on a the site before QL exited Beta. right now we have about 4 teams signed up for a MIDDLE TIERED CTF tournament that I am hosting.
IF your team is interested, please go to (im not savvy enough to create a tournament website)
and go to the Quaker Oatz tournament thread and post your teams roster.
It will be 5v5, and the map pool will include maps that have been added in the big update.
*I understand that most tournament play is 4v4. This is just for bragging rights, and to make it the most fun possible, I want to give more players a chance to play.*
This is a great opportunity for up and coming clans to get out there and show people what youre made of. I cant see why teams arent taking advantage of this.
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